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A I C F C H R O N I C L Ethe official magazine of the All India Chess Federation

Commonwealth Chess Championship 2017,New Delhi

GM Nguyen Duc Hoa (Vietnam) Winner

Jyothsna Girls Champion

Raja Rithvik Open Champion

WGM Swathi Ghate Women Champion

GM Abhijeet GuptaOpen Champion

10th Mumbai Mayor’s Cup International Open Tournament 2017

31st National Under-13 Open & Girls Chess Championship 2017,Jalandhar

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G randmaster and former world junior champion Abhijeet Gupta came up with an inspired performance in the final round to crush Aleksander Wohl of Australia and annexed the gold medal in the Commonwealth Chess Championship 2017. The Delhi-based

stretched his total Commonwealth titles to four in the last five years and completed a hat-trick of titles. In 2015, he had won the title in Delhi and had won the 2016 edition at Sri Lanka. Gupta was in his elements in the final round as Wohl found no defense. Playing white, it was a queen pawn game by the Indian and Wohl chose an off-beat system that soon spelt doom. The middle game was one sided as Wohl struggled on all parts of the board and it took just 24 moves for Gupta to wrap the issues.“Every championship or tournament is special but somehow I am able to bring out good chess playing especially the Commonwealth in last few years”, said Gupta after the game. The four times champion pointed out that he played decently right through. “I was better in most of the games I won but I was worse against Tejas (Bakre) especially in the penul-timate round, generally I am satisfied about my play here and hope to take this forward in the next few events”, he said.For the records, Vaibhav Suri won the silver while the bronze medal went to Tejas Bakre. Vaibhav Suri played out a draw with fellow GM Abhijeet Kunte, who finished fourth, while Bakre played well in a difficult position to beat M S Thej Kumar. The Women’s Championship was won by Swati Ghate who got rewarded for some excellent play in the early phase of the event. In the final round Ghate defeated Indian junior champion Kumar Gaurav. The Silver here went to Mary Ann Gomes while last year’s champion Tania Sachdev had to be content with the bronze.

Results final round: Abhijeet Gupta (7.5) beat Aleksandar Wohl (6.5); Abhijit Kunte (6.5) drew with Vaibhav Suri (7); M S Thejkumar (6) lost to Tejas Bakre (7); Erigaisi Arjun (6.5) drew with P Shyaamnikhil (6.5); Shardul Gagare (6) drew with Ziaur Rahman (6); Swapnil S. Dhopade (6) drew with Tania Sachdev (6); Mollah Abdullah Al Rakib (6) drew with C R G Krishna (6); Ankit Rajpara (6) Rishi Sardana (6); Mohammad Nubairshah Shaikh (6) drew with Praveen Thipsay (6); Deepan Chakkravarthy (5.5) drew with Mary Ann Gomes (6)

Earlier…. Defending champion Abhijeet Gupta came roaring back in contention with back-to-back victories in the fourth and fifth round of Commonwealth Chess Championship now under-way here.After a rather easy draw with Nubairshah Sheikh in the third round, Gupta came up with some outstanding performance on the fourth day that had double rounds. In the morning, Grandmaster Niaz Murshed did not prove a match for the wily Indian while the peaceful intentions of GM Ankit Rajpara also received a jolt in the fifth round.

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Abhijeet completes a hat-trick of titlesSwathi Ghate bags Women title

From the Editor’s desk

A t t h e W o r l d Te a m C h e s s Championships at Khanty Mansysik India gave it all but missed out on a podium finish. After nine grueling rounds India finished a creditable fourth both in the Open and the Women's section.GM Shyam Sundar

won the Montcada Open in Spain which witnessed large Indian participation.IM P.Iniyan finished third in this event and also won a GM norm.

For GM Abhijeet Gupta winning Commonwealth chess has already become a habit as he stretched his total Commonwealth titles to five incidentally completing a hat-trick of titles. WGM Swathi Ghate is the new Commonwealth Women Champion. Reports and photographs of these events are featured in the centre pages of this issue

The two popular GM Opens in the AICF calendar, 10th KIIT International Chess fest ival held in Bubaneshwar and the 10th Mumbai Mayor Cup in Mumbai, were organized successfully.GM Nguyen Duc Hoa of Vietnam continued from where he left off at Bubaneshwar GM Open by winning the Mumbai Mayor’s Cup as well. 31st National Under-13 Open & Girls Chess Championships held at Jalandhar Raja Rithvik of Telangana and Jyothsna of Tamilnadu emerged Champions.Reports on these events along with those of FIDE rated tournements held during June 2017.

Selected games from Mumbai Mayor GM Open annotated by IM Manuel Aaron are presented in this issue. GM Georgy Agzamov of Uzbekistan is featured in the ‘Masters of the past series’

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Index….Commonwealth Chess Championship,New DelhiAbhijeet completes a hat-trick of titles 1

10th Mumbai Mayor’s Cup Intl. Open 2017GM Nguyen Duc Hoa emerges Champion by M.Ephrame IA, Chief Arbiter 5

31st National Under-13 Open & Girls Chess Championship 2017,JalandharRaja Rithvik Jyothsna emerge Championsby Debasish Barua,IA,Chief Arbiter 9

Nainital Open Fide Rated,NainitalNazir Wajih is Championby R S Tiwari,IA, Chief Arbiter 13

‘Aditya Birla Memorial’17th Jharkhand State Senior Rating Chess Tournament Anshul Nigam bags titleby Asit Baran Choudhury, IA,Chief Arbiter 15

Chess in Lakecity Summer Cup Fide .Rated Tmnt,UdaipurAnkit Chudasama emerges ChampionBy Prof. R. Anantharam IA, Chief Arbiter 16

1stFIDE Rated Punjab ChampionshipPardeep Arora wins titleby Varun Kumar, Chief Arbiter 18

7th St.Joseph’s International Fide Rating Tournament, ChennaiAl. Muthaiah wins Titleby M.Vijayakumar IA, Chief Arbiter 22

4thTrichy Open Fide Rated Tmt,TrichyHirthickkesh wins titleby R.K.Balagunashekaran IA,Chief Arbiter 28

45th WB State Junior Fide Rating Championship,JalpaiguriKoustuv Kundu and Shyamashree Sarkar win titlesby Asit Baran Choudhury, IA, Chief Arbiter 30

Selected games from Mumbai Mayor Cup

Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron 32

Tactics from master gamesby S.Krishnan 42

Test your endgameby C.G.S.Narayanan 43

Masters of the past

Georgy Agzamov 44

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31st National Under-13 Open & Girls Chess Championship 2017,JalandharGrandmasters Swapnil Dhopade and Vaibhav Suri played out a draw on the top board and these two were joined by Gupta, Aravindh Chithambaram and Tejas Bakre in the lead on 4.5 points out of a possible five.Chithambaram was in his elements as he halted the dream run of K Priyanka while Tejas Bakre played a fine game with black pieces to beat fellow Indian GM Sahaj Grover.

Gupta was up against the Fianchetto variation in the Grunfeld defense and chose a solid setup giving little away to Rajpara. The opening saw repetition of moves in the early phase of the game saw Gupta spurning an unconditional draw offer and the defending champion was in full flow on the queen side to hand Rajpara his first defeat in the event.Chithambar-am went for the Sicilian Dragon as black and was in top shape while Bakre capitalised on some middle game errors from Grover to register his fourth victory.

Among the women players, former Asian champion Bhakti Kulkarni and Swati Ghate re-mained on course for a podium finish with another impressive show after losing fourth round games. Bhakti proved superior to International Master Rishi Sardana of Australia while Ghate outwitted higher rated Erigaisi Arjun. Both Kulkarni and Ghate are leading the women’s section on four points apiece.Grandmaster and defending champion Abhijeet Gupta was the top seed in the Common-wealth Chess Championship which began Leela Ambience and Convention centre, New Delhi.The tournament was inaugurated by Honourable Sports Minister Shri.Vijay Goel.The cham-pionship had over 550 registered players in various categories spanning from under-8 till open. There were 16 Grandmasters and 13 International Masters in the fray apart from five more Woman Grandmasters.

The open section was really strong this time with over 50 titled players out of around 120 participants. The event provided opportunities for the norm seekers from the host country.The women challenge was spearheaded by defending champion Tania Sachdev but she was expected to get stiff resistance from the likes of national champion Padmini Rout.Players from 15 countries including some from South Africa and Kenya registered for the nine-day long events that would decide the medallists of this year’s championship.This was the first time ever that the championships was to be played in 15 different catego-ries. While the Indian players were likely to dominate there was stiff challenge coming from Bangladesh in the open section wherein they have fielded as many as four Grandmasters.The championships carried a total prize fund of Rs. 10 Lacs.

Newly elected AICF Secretary Bharat Singh Chuahan organized this championship in Delhi and every time the event has seen an unprecedented uplift when organised in the national capital. This is the first time ever in India that the championships was held in a certified five star deluxe hotel.

(L-R) Sh Muneesh Thaper, Secretary, Jyothsna L (TN), Champion Girls, JS Chemma, Secretary, JCA,_Bharat S. Chouhan, Secretary, AICF, Divya Deshmukh_(Girls 2nd)

(L-R)JS Cheema, Secretary, JCA Bharat Singh Chouhan, Secretary, AICF,_Raja Rithvik R(Telangana), Champion (Open) Rajinder Sharma_D.Barua, Chief Arbiter

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1stFIDE Rated Punjab Chess Championship 2017, Punjab

10 th Mumbai Mayor’s Cup Internation-al Open Chess Tournament 2017, organized by Venus Chess Acade-

my attracted 203 players in Category A, 334 players in Category B and 569 players in Category C. The tournament offering a total prize amount of Rs.2900000/-(Rupees Twenty nine Lakhs).GM NguyenDuc Hoa of Vietnam emerged as clear champion with 8.5 points, and taken home the winner purse of Rs.300000/-.

Earlier 10th Mumbai Mayor’s Cup Interna-tional Open Chess Tournament 2017, got under way at Mount Litera International School, near UTI Building, Bandra- Kurla Complex, Bandra(East), Mumbai on 4th June 2017. The Mayor of Mumbai City Shri. Vishwanath Mohadishwar inaugurated the event in the presence of Mr. David Udrythe head of the institution, the Mount Litera In-ternational School, AICF treasurer Rabindra Dongre& the organizing Secretary delivered the vote of thanks. Fide Vice President Shri. D V Sundar, AICF CEO Shri. Bharat Singh Chauhan, Shri.Arun Sha of Ankit Germs, Shri.Kirat Bhansali were the guests of honour .

Shri.Jayraj Phatak IAS Ex Municipal Corpo-ration Commissioner Mumbai, distributed the prizes to the winners. Shri.Kamal Preetsingh Member of Mount Litera School and Shri.VGokhale Raghunandan the Dronacharya awardee were felicitated at the event. Shri. Dongre the organizing Secretary and also the treasurer of AICF gave the vote of thanks. The 10th Mumbai Mayor’s cup chess festival conducted in three different groups. The prestigious category ‘A’ tournament with

203 players having 15 GM, 2 WGM,12 IM and 6 WIM in its credit, started on 4th July 2017 at Mount Litera International School, Bandra-Kurla Complex, Bandra east, Mumbai . Players from 12 Federations participated in this tournament. The accelerated pairing was adapted for the first two rounds.GM Amon-atov Farrukh of Tajikistan was on top by seeding. Makhramov Bakhzod from Uzbeki-stan was the only unrated player in this mega event. Manon Reja Neer from Bangladesh having the age of 7 years was the youngest participant in this tournament. Organizer provided very good playing conditions with a live coverage of 40 games for all rounds.

The A Category 10 rounds swiss tourna-ment ended on 11th June in the Mount Literal International School of Bandra – Kurla Complex, Bandra Mumbai. The tour-nament offering a total prize amount of Rs.1100000/-(Rupees eleven Lakhs). the GM NguyenDuc Hoa of Vietnam emerged as the clear champion with 8.5 points,and taken home the winner purse of Rs.300000/-.The GM Amonatov Farrukh of Tajikistanwho stood second with 8 points.

The category ‘B’ tournament conducted for 1999 & below rated players,started on 4th June 2017 with 334 players all over from India,out of them 293 players are Fide rat-ed. The 4 days tournament ended on 7th June. Thiscategory offered a prize fund of Rs.900000/- (Rupees Nine Lakhs). The 20th seeded B Vinoth Kumar of Pondicherry won the title with 8.5 points out of the possible 10.He received a cash prize of Rs. 110000/-

10th Mumbai Mayor’s Cup International Open Chess Tournament 2017

GM Nguyen Duc Hoa of Vietnam emerges ChampionBy M.Ephrame IA, Chief Arbiter

(L-R)Rajinder Sharma,Secretary,Punjab State Chess Association,S.Bikramjit Singh Sandhu, President,Punjab State Chess Association ,Winner Pradeep Arora with trophy,Muneesh Thapar, Vice President,Punjab State Chess Association,Vinod Sharma,Oragnizer

Prize Distribution Function (L-R) Natarajan FA, Mr.Palaniappan,IA, Dy.Chief Arbiter, Iravathama, Sec.Rockfort Chess Academy, Arun & Kannan, Samraats Chess Academy, Mr.RK Balagunashekaran, Hirthickkesh Pr (winner) Jt.Sec.TNSCA ,Mr.Nallusamy, Chairman, Cauvery Engg. College, Mr.Dr.Senthilkumar, Vice Chairman, Cauvery Engg.college. Mr. Selvam, President, Rock Fort Chess Academy, Mr.Sundarrajan, Trichy Dist.Chess Association.

4thTrichy All India Open Fide Rated Chess Tournament,Trichy

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and lifted the winners trophy. Vaibahve Butt of Mumbai became the runner up.The category ‘C’ tournament for players having the Fide ratings 1599 and below at-tracted 569 players all over from India, out of them 387 are Fide rated chess players. The tournament started on 8th June and finished on 11th June. This category also offered a prize fund of Rs.900000/- (Rupees Nine Lakhs). The 37th seeded Ranjith Kalaiyarasan of Pondicherry won the title with 9.5 points out of the possible 10. He received a cash prize of Rs. 145000/- and lifted the winners trophy. K Bhat Siddharth of Delhi became the runner up in five way tie up. He received the cash prize of Rs. 91000/-

The Mount Litera International School has provided beautiful air conditioned spacious playing halls. Players enjoyed the playing hall. We should appreciate the School au-thority for their wonderful support and also to the the school staff who worked with us for the past 8 days.

A very good team of arbiters along with a group of dedicated officials made the tour-naments successful. Finally I must thank Mr. Dongre the Director of Venus Chess Academy , and also AICF for given me the chance to work as a Chief arbiter for this wonderful tournament.

Final ranking-Category A Rk Name Club Pts 1 GM Nguyen Duc Hoa VIE 8½ 2 GM Amonatov Farrukh TJK 8 3 GM Ghosh Diptayan WB 7½ 4 GM Neelotpal Das WB 7½ 5 GM Rahman Ziaur BAN 7½ 6 IM Karthikeyan P. TN 7½ 7 GM Babujian Levon ARM 7½ 8 FM Sai Krishna G V AP 7½

9 GM Tukhaev Adam UKR 7 10 IM Khusenkhojaev Md TJK 7 11 GM Grover Sahaj DEL 7 12 GM Murshed Niaz BAN 7 13 Saravana Krishnan P. TN 7 14 GM Deviatkin Andrei RUS 7 15 GM MAbdullah Al Rakib BAN 7 16 IM Nitin S. TN 7 17 FM Rathanvel V S TN 7 18 Saurabh Anand BIH 7 19 IM Rathnakaran K. KER 7 20 GM Deepan Chakkravarthy J. TN 6½ 21 Mahindrakar Indrajeet MAH 6½ 22 GM Hossain Enamul BAN 6½ 23 IM Das Sayantan WB 6½ 24 Akash Pc Iyer TN 6½ 25 WFM Jishitha D AP 6½ 26 FM Karthik Venkataraman TN 6½ 27 Arvind Shastry KAR 6½ 28 IM Raghunandan K.S KAR 6½ 29 IM Iniyan P TN 6½ 30 FM Sauravh Khherdekar MAH 6½ 31 Ajay Karthikeyan TN 6½ 32 Navalgund Niranjan TN 6½ 33 Moksh Amit Doshi GUJ 6½ 34 WIM Nandhidhaa Pv TN 6½ 35 WGM Kulkarni Bhakti GOA 6½ 36 Pradeep Kumar R A TN 6½ 37 Nayak Rajesh ODI 6½ 38 Jayakumaar S TN 6½ 39 GM Laxman R.R. TN 6½ 40 Yogit S TN 6½ 41 Mithil Ajgaonkar MAH 6 42 Sekar B TN 6 43 Muthaiah Al TN 6 44 FM Nitish Belurkar GOA 6 45 Dileep Kumar R TN 6 46 Raahul V S TN 6 47 Sanjeev Kumar MAH 6 48 CM Raja Rithvik R TEL 6 49 Dahale Atul MAH 6

50 GM Ziatdinov Raset USA 6 51 Senthil Maran K TN 6 52 WGM Kiran Manisha Mohanty LIC 6 53 Priyanka K TN 6 54 Anisuzzaman Jewel BAN 6 55 Satkar Chirag MAH 6 56 WFM Tarini Goyal CHA 6 57 Rohnit G Amin MAH 6 58 Bartakke Amardeep S. MAH 6 59 FM Md Fahad Rahman BAN 5½ 60 FM Gajwa Ankit MP 5½ 61 CM Aditya Mittal MAH 5½ 62 Shrutarshi Ray WB 5½ 63 WCM Mrudul Dehankar MAH 5½ 64 Badrinath S. PON 5½ 65 Shelke Sankarsha MAH 5½ 66 Pranav Anand KAR 5½ 67 ASharadchandra Dalvi MAH 5½ 68 Pranav Shetty MAH 5½ 69 WCM Chandreyee Hajra WB 5½ 70 IM Krishna Teja N AP 5½ 71 WIM Chitlange Sakshi MAH 5½ 72 Dixit Nikhil MAH 5½ 73 Pranavananda V AP 5½ 74 Wagh Suyog MAH 5½ 75 Meruga Shanmukha USA 5½ 76 WIM Mahalakshmi M TN 5½ 77 Vijay Anand M. TN 5½ 78 Kamdar Udit GUJ 5½ 79 Vrandesh Parekh GUJ 5½ 80 Kothari Swapnil MAH 5½ 81 WFM Patil Mitali Madhukar MAH 5½ 82 Harshavardhan G B TN 5½ 83 CM Karthik Kumar P TEL 5 84 Aaryan Varshney DEL 5 85 Chittal Sairaj MAH 5 86 FM Ramakrishna J. AB 5 87 CM Lama Himal NEP 5 88 WFM Salonika Saina ODI 5 89 IM Singh D.P. TN 5 90 AIM Tarun Kanyamarala AP 5

91 Shubham Lakudkar MAH 5 92 CM Nikhil Magizhnan TN 5 93 Parthasarathy R KAR 5 94 WIM Thipsay Bagyashree MAH 5 95 Eesha Ajay Sarda MAH 5 96 Jaeel Atharva MAH 5 97 Mohith R TN 5 98 Viswanath Sandilya B. AP 5 99 WCM Isha Sharma KAR 5 100 Samant Aditya S MAH 5 101 Pankaj Sindhu HAR 5 102 WIM Gokhale Anupama MAH 5 103 Deota Snehil S KAR 5 104 Kumar Gaurav BIH 5 105 Aditya Guhagarkar MAH 5 106 Kanishk S K TN 5 107 Aan Sikka DEL 5 108 Phuyal Aashish NEP 5 109 Aditya P Melani GUJ 5 110 AGM Krishnater Kushager MAH 4½ 111 FM Anand Nadar MAH 4½ 112 Shetye Siddhali MAH 4½ 113 Sreeshwan M TEL 4½ 114 Polakhare Aryan MAH 4½ 115 Barath Kalyan M TN 4½ 116 Yash Dhoke MAH 4½ 117 AIM Trisha Kanyamarala AP 4½ 118 Avdhoot Lendhe MAH 4½ 119 Srihari L PON 4½ 120 Gaikwad Siddhant MAH 4½ 121 Raghav Srivathsav V AP 4½ 122 Shanmukha Teja P AP 4½ 123 WFM Lakshmi C TN 4½ 124 Kabir Md Sherajul BAN 4½ 125 Kadam Nikhil MAH 4½ 126 Patil Ketan MAH 4½ 127 Ghelani Dhairya MAH 4½ 128 Hrishikesh Chavan MAH 4½ 129 CM Mullick Raahil MAH 4½ 130 AFM Choubey Saurabh MP 4½ 131 Md. Jamal Uddin BAN 4½

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132 Rohit S TN 4½ 133 Joglekar Abhijit MAH 4½ 134 Adarsh Tripathi DEL 4 135 IM Sangma Rahul DEL 4 136 FM Rahman Syed M BAN 4 137 Sai Krishna S. AP 4 138 Mohite Ranveer MAH 4 139 Saranya Y TN 4 140 Samdani Sahil Sagar GUJ 4 141 Manush Shah GUJ 4 142 Vishwanath Prasad AP 4 143 Shubham DEL 4 144 Singh Neha BIH 4 145 Sarvesh Kumar A TN 4 146 Akshay Anand PUN 4 147 WIM Ranasinghe S D SRI 4 148 Nagare Akhilesh MAH 4 149 Patil Harshal MAH 4 150 Malla Nooka Raju AP 4 151 Zia Tahsin Tajwar BAN 4 152 Harsh Suresh TN 4 153 Mezanur Rahman BAN 4 154 Thrish Karthik TN 4 155 Jain Kashish Manoj MAH 4 156 Karthik Sai Ch AP 4 157 Arvind Ramnath Iyer KAR 4 158 Chandratreya Prachiti MAH 4 159 Morvekar Kedar MAH 3½ 160 Karthik Gopal G AP 3½ 161 Patil Priyanshu MAH 3½ 162 Srimathi R TN 3½ 163 Shah Jeet MAH 3½ 164 CM Shahil Dey ASS 3½ 165 Manon Reja Neer BAN 3½ Final ranking:Category B Rk Name Club Pts 1 Vinodh Kumar B. PON 8½ 2 Vaibhav Bhat MAH 8 3 Chittari Abhishek Varma MAH 8 4 Vaibhav Jayant Raut MAH 8 5 Shiva Pavan Teja Sharma U AP 8

6 Sourav Sahoo MAH 8 7 Aravind K TN 8 8 Gaurav Rajesh Zagade MAH 8 9 Aravindaswami T TN 8 10 Deshpande Abhishek GUJ 8 11 Joshi Abhijeet M MAH 7½ 12 Dilip Das WB 7½ 13 Dere Pushkar MAH 7½

14 Varun Bhatt MAH 7½

15 Tajane Ganesh MAH 7½

16 Sri Sai Baswanth P AP 7½

17 Singh Soram Rahul ASM 7

18 Kumthekar Shubham MAH 7

19 Pawar Rahul MAH 7

20 Mota Pankit MAH 7

21 Niranjan Mocharla AP 7

22 Sahil Dhawan HAR 7

23 Pranesh M TN 7

24 Kadav Omkar MAH 7

25 Gowtham K K TN 7

26 Vignesh Kasi P L TN 7

27 Cheniram Pegu ASM 7

28 Souradip Deb TRI 7

29 Rohan Bharat Joshi MAH 7

30 Sikka Sumit MP 7

31 Rawal Shailesh GUJ 7 32 Sai Kiran Y AP 7 33 Kochrekar Vishwesh MAH 7 34 Dhanush Ragav TN 7 35 Balaga Ravi Kumar AP 7 36 Dinesh Rajan M TN 7 37 Nirgun Keval MAH 7 38 Abijit Mistry WB 7 39 Amarasinghe A A C B SRI 7 40 Dhoot Vinit MAH 6½ 41 Shejwalkar Saurabha MAH 6½ 42 Srinath K MAH 6½ 43 Kadam Om Manish MAH 6½

44 Gupta Rajesh R.S. MAH 6½ 45 Aswin.P.G KER 6½ 46 Rathi Dhanashree MAH 6½ 47 Verma Rahul MAH 6½ 48 Sivasubramanian R MAH 6½ 49 Ravi Kumar K AP 6½

50 Sudarshan Bhat KAR 6½

51 Gadekar Sagar MAH 6½

52 Gurumukhani Mohit J GUJ 6½

53 Deepak Rai DEL 6½

54 Saurav Agarwal DEL 6½

55 Souhardo Basak WB 6½

56 Nair Sanjeev MAH 6½

57 Shiek Fayaz AP 6½

58 Narayan Joshi RAJ 6½

59 Mishra Sanjeev MAH 6½

60 Batham Avinash MP 6½

Final ranking:Category C

Rk Name Club Pts

1 Ranjith Kalaiyarasan PON 9½

2 Bhat Siddharth K DEL 8½

3 Parekh Vishrut GUJ 8½

4 Nandu Amar MAH 8½

5 Redij Aniket MAH 8½

6 Vishwanath Kannam AP 8½

7 Atri Chattopadhyay WB 8

8 Chudasama Ankit GUJ 8 9 Subhash Kumar M TEL 8 10 Phatak Aanjaneya MAH 8 11 Nitish Bhat KAR 8 12 Aanandha Kumar M S TN 7½ 13 Joshi Tejas MAH 7½ 14 Wairagade Khush MAH 7½ 15 Ananmay Sharma GUJ 7½ 16 Kohli Pranav MAH 7½ 17 Ved Shubham MAH 7½ 18 Bhanushali Kunj MAH 7½ 19 Garv Rai DEL 7½

20 Hirani Raj MAH 7½ 21 Meet Puri MAH 7½ 22 Bhagwat Heramb MAH 7½ 23 Gaikwad Vishal MAH 7½ 24 Naik Amit MAH 7½ 25 Sangvikar Rahul MAH 7½ 26 Shelke Omkar MAH 7½ 27 Sugunesh Babu KER 7½ 28 Jayesh T A KER 7½ 29 Akshit Jha DEL 7½ 30 Mishra Sanjeev MAH 7½ 31 Das Jitendra Kumar ODI 7½ 32 Praveen Kumar G PON 7½ 33 Qadri Zakir MAH 7½ 34 Potawad Anirudhha MAH 7½ 35 Jagan V TN 7½ 36 B Chidambaram.C TN 7 37 Basant N MAH 7 38 Gupta Sandeep Kumar MAH 7 39 Lokendra Rohit MP 7 40 Arora Honi RAJ 7 41 Ulaganathan G TN 7 42 Badoni Nitin MAH 7 43 Bartakke Aditya MAH 7 44 Zala Akshar GUJ 7 45 Mahale Tanmay MAH 7 46 Gengaje Pratik MAH 7 47 Shinde Rujul MAH 7 48 Korde Kedar MAH 7 49 Malik Rajat UP 7 50 Deshpande Jatin N MAH 7 51 Dharia Vishal MAH 7 52 Shenoy Siddharth MAH 7 53 Gupta Tanish UP 7 54 Shendre Prajapal MAH 7 55 Prasath K R TN 7 56 Hadkar Sanman MAH 7 57 Shreyas Ghadi MAH 7 58 Deshmukh Varun MAH 7 59 Mahajan Akash MAH 7 60 Shivika Rohilla DEL 7

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T he 31st National Under – 13 Open & Girls Chess Championships were held at Cambridge International School For

Girls Urban Estate Phase-II, Jalandhar, Pun-jab from 21st June to 29th June 2017.

The Managers’ meeting for both the events was held on 21th June 2017 at Cambridge International School, Jalandhar on 12pm. It was decided that the latest Swiss rules will be followed.

The Inaguration function was held at Cam-bridge International School on 21th June , 2017. At 01:00 P.M. The Programme was inaugurated by Sh. Sudarshan Kumar Sec-retary, Himachal Pradesh Chess Association by making the customary first move in the presence of Sh. Rajinder Sharma Secretary, Punjab State Chess Association, Sh. Muneesh Thapar Secretary Jalandhar Chess Associ-ation and Sh. Dr. J.S. Cheema , President Jalandhar Chess Association.

The number of participants in Open section was 167 including 136 Fide rated players. The number of participants in girls section was 110 including 76 Fide rated players. There were 11 rounds of play in both sections..The playing venue was excellent with good and comfortable table and seating arrange-ments, sufficient lighting, all necessary amenities like pure drinking water, sufficient toilets etc.During the playing session, the Organizers provided refreshments to all players. There was no major dispute/protest regarding the conduct of the tournament

In the 7th round in the Open section Kusha-gra Mohan (5.5) of Tel defeated Sreeshwan Maralakshikari (5) of Tel and he became the sole leader with 6.5 points . Mehta Naitik (5) of Guj defeated Rathneesh (5) of TN and second place with 6 points. In the girls section the Leader WFM Divya Deshmukh (5.5) of Mah beat Ananya Rishi Gupta ( 5) of Mah and sole lead with 6.5 points. board no 2 WCM Mrudul Dehankar (5) of Mah drew with Jyothsna L (5.5) of TN. and board no 3 Savitha B (5) of TN beat WCM Dhyana Patal (5) of Guj and Two players in second place with 6 points.

In the 8th round the leader Kushagra Mohan (6.5) of Tel defeated Mehta Naitik (6)of Guj and maintain his lead with 7.5 points. and 4 players in second place with 6.5 points. 1) CM Rohith Krishna S 2) CM Raja Rithvik R 3) Arnav Tiwari & 4) Srihari L R

In the girls section board no 1. Bristy Muk-herjee(5.5) of WB drew with WFM Divya Deshmukh (6.5)of Mah. And board no 2 WCM Jyothsna L ( 6 ) of TN beat Savitha B (6 ) join lead with 7 points and WCM Mrudul De-hankar (5.5) of Mah beat Sahithya G (6) of Tel and Mrudula with 6.5 points in second spot.

In the 9th Round the leader CM Kushagra Mohan (7.5) of Tel defeated CM Rohith Kr-ishna(6.5) of TN and in the second board CM Raja Rithvik (6.5) of Tel beat Arnav Tiwari (6.5) of Delhi and in third board Srihari L R (6.5) of TN drew with Shyam Prasad Reddy (6) of AP. CM Kushagra Mohan become sole leader with 8.5 points and CM Raja Rithvik with 7.5 points in second spot.

In the girls section WFM Divya Deshmukh (7) drew with Nityata Jain (6) Of MP and second boars WCM Jyothsna L (7) of TN beat Abhirami Madabushi (6) of AP and WCM Jyothsna L of TN sole lead with 8 points and Divya Desmukh of Mah. with 7.5 points in second spot

In the 10th Round Board No. 1 CM Raja Rithvik R (7.5) of Tel defeated CM Kushagra Mohan (8.5) of Tel. Board No. 2 Sreeshwan Maralakshikari (7) of Tel drew with Srihari L R (7) of TN. Board no 4 Arnav Tiwari (6.5) of Delhi beat Pranesh M (6.5) of TN.And board no. 5th Mehta Naitik R (6.5) of Guj beat Samip Roy (6.5) of WB. Board no 7th . Samant Aditya beat (6.5) beat Daaewik Wadhawan (6.5) of Delhi.And board no 8th Soham Kamotra (6.5) of J & K beat Baner-jee Ashutosh (6.5) of Chhattisgarh. After 10 Round Two joint Leader CM Raja Rithvik R (8.5) of Tel defeated CM Kushagra Mohan (8.5).And Second Spot (7.5) six Players.

In Girls Section Board No. 1 WCM Jyothsna L (8) of TN beat Ananya Rishi Gupta (6.5) of Mah and maintain sole lead. WFM Divya Deshmukh ( 7.5) of Mah beat Routry Priyanka (6.5) of Odisha. WCM Divya Deshmukhof sec-ond spot and board no 3. Mrudul Dehankar (7) of Mah beat Tanvi Vasudev Hadkonkar (6.5) of Goa. Mrudul Dehankar of tird Spot.

In the final round In the Open section board no. 1) CM Raja Rithvik R ( 8.5) of Tel. draw with Mehta Naitik R ( 7.5 ) of Guj. Board no. 2) Samant Aditya S ( 7.5 ) of Mah. beat CM Kushagra Mohan ( 8.5 ) of Tel. board no. 3) Sreeshwan M (7.5) of Tel. draw with Arnav Tiwari ( 7.5 )of Del. and board no.4) Srihari L R ( 7.5 0 of TN beat Soham Kamotra ( 7.5 )of J&K. In open section CM Raja Rithvik R of Telangana was Champion with 9 points

and in the second position was CM Kushagra Mohan of Tel. 8.5 pts. with better tie. Third position Srihari L R of TN 8.5 pts and fourth position Samant Aditya S of Mah. with 8.5 pts.Girls section board no. 1) WCM Jyothsna L ( 9) of TN beat Jain Nityata ( 7.5 ) of MP and WCM Jyothsna L become Champion with 10 pts. Boars no. 2) WFM Divya Deshmukh ( 8.5 ) of Mah. beat Mehendi Sil ( 7.5 ) of West Bengal and WFM Divya Deshmukh of Mah. 2nd position with 9.5 pts. Board no. 3) WCM Mrudul Dehankar ( 8 ) of Mah. defeat-ed Mishra Riya ( 7.5 ) of UP. WCM Mrudul Dehankar of Mah. 3rd position.

In the Prize Distribution function Dr. J.S.Cheema President of JCA presided over the function in the presence of Chief Guest Mr. Bharat Singh Chauhan, Secretary AICF and other distinguished guests.The organizers, officials, arbiters and volunteers worked wholeheartedly and sincerely to make the tournament successful. The players and guardians also extended full co-operation which attributed to the smooth running of the tournament. In my opinion, both the events were very successful.

Final ranking:Open Rk Name St Pts 1 CM Raja Rithvik R Tel 9 2 CM Kushagra Mohan Tel 8½ 3 AGM Srihari L R TN 8½ 4 Samant Aditya S Mah 8½ 5 Arnav Tiwari Del 8 6 Mehta Naitik R Guj 8 7 S Maralakshikari Tel 8 8 Shyam Prasad Reddy K AP 8 9 Aryan Abhijeet Shah Mah 8 10 Saksham Rautela Utt 8 11 Aaryan Varshney Del 7½ 12 Soham Kamotra J&K 7½

31st National Under-13 Open & Girls Chess Championship 2017,JalandharRaja Rithvik and Jyothsna emerge Champions

by Debasish Barua,IA,Chief Arbiter

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13 Arya Bhakta WB 7½ 14 CM Rohith Krishna S TN 7½ 15 Daaevik Wadhawan Del 7½ 16 Samip Roy WB 7½ 17 Vrandesh Parekh Guj 7½ 18 Soham Saha WB 7½ 19 Saypuri Srithan Tel 7½ 20 AGM Rathneesh R TN 7 21 Barde Om Goa 7 22 Dhrupad Kashyap Asm 7 23 Samal Aditya Ranjan Odi 7 24 Jain Kashish Manoj Mah 7 25 Manish Kumar (2006) Odi 7 26 Mahitosh Dey Odi 7 27 Keshav Kothari Kar 7 28 Panda Sambit Odi 7 29 Sanket Chakravarty WB 7 30 Esshan Wadhawan Del 7 31 Namitbir Singh Walia Pun 7 32 Jaeel Atharva Mah 7 33 Shah Jeet Mah 7 34 Pranesh M TN 6½ 35 Hiren K G TN 6½ 36 AIM Pati Spandan Tel 6½ 37 AIM Kalur Nikhil Tel 6½ 38 Sourath Biswas WB 6½ 39 Krishna Raaju J TN 6½ 40 Ranadheer B J S K AP 6½ 41 Karthik Sai Ch Tel 6½ 42 Samdani Sahil Sagar Guj 6½ 43 Abinandhan R TN 6½ 44 Aviral Jaiswal UP 6½ 45 Panwar Krish Navratan Guj 6½ 46 Vallabh Kavi Mah 6½ 47 Manish Anto Cristiano TN 6 48 Abhinessh S TN 6 49 Ruban Sanjay M TN 6 50 Debata Sarthak Odi 6 51 Anirudh Jain Del 6 52 Tanmay Chopra Del 6 53 Banerjee Ashutosh Cha 6

54 Mhatre Rahat Rahul Mah 6 55 Rohnit G Amin Mah 6 56 Bhavesh Mahajan Pun 6 57 Rahul K Viswanathan WB 6 58 Srikrishnan P TN 6 59 CM Tanmay Jain Pun 6 60 Bharadia Madhav Raj 6 61 Mahendra Teja Mekala AP 6 62 Aman Sharma Del 6 63 AFM Bhavik Ahuja Del 6 64 Shintre Neel Mah 6 65 Anadkat Kartavya Guj 6 66 Kale Harshal V Mah 6 67 Vishalraam C S TN 6 68 Konatham Snehil AP 6 69 Arun Kataria Raj 6 70 Panchal Soham Guj 6 71 Pasricha Jayan Pun 6 72 Avinash Ramesh TN 6 73 Bhattacharyya Soham WB 6 74 Ashvin Sharma Asm 6 75 Ayush Sharma MP 5½ 76 Chilukuri Sai Varshith Tel 5½ 77 AFM Kaushik G Iyer Kar 5½ 78 Manthan Kashyap D Asm 5½ 79 Nikam Sudhanshu Mah 5½ 80 Mahek J Hinhoriya Mah 5½ 81 Darsh Kansal MP 5½ 82 Gupta Anshurup Kar 5½ 83 Dadwani Sahil MP 5½ 84 Ishan Sanjay Pagi Goa 5½ 85 Arora Honi Raj 5½ 86 Tejas Cavale Kar 5½ 87 Siddhant Nath Jha Har 5½ 88 Jai Mehtani Har 5½ 89 Priyansh Sahu Cha 5½ 90 Rishi Sanotra Pun 5½ 91 Manikya Negi UP 5½ 92 Parikh Pratham Guj 5½ 93 Lanka Sri Karthikeya Ds AP 5½

94 Singh Ojasva MP 5½ 95 Mihir Godawat Har 5½ 96 Gupta Tanish UP 5½ 97 Aditya Mukherjee Cha 5½ 98 Patel Suyogkumar M Guj 5½ 99 Patel Maharshi Guj 5 100 Zala Akshar Guj 5 101 Rakshith Srinivasan Kar 5 102 Piyush Kumar Bih 5 103 Avathanshu Bhat Mah 5 104 Goel Pratyaksh Chd 5 105 Krishna Bajaj Har 5 106 Adalja Vanssh A Guj 5 107 Rupesh B Ramchandra Bih 5 108 Aryan Anand Kar 5 109 Vraj N Shah Guj 5 110 Rishabh Singh Asm 5 111 Dhineshwar R S Pon 5 112 Vibhaan Har 5 113 Adalja Samarth Guj 5 114 Mayukh Abhigyan Das Asm 5 115 Manthan Arora Pun 5 116 Kushagra Agrawal Har 5 117 Singla Utsav Pun 5 118 Shishir Lamba Chd 5 119 Shirodkar Aayush Goa 5 120 Ayaan Sabharwal Pun 5 121 Harshit Amarnani UP 4½ 122 Dev Raj Bih 4½ 123 Vidit Jain Pun 4½ 124 Sahu Om Aditya Cha 4½ 125 Aditya Jain Pun 4½ 126 Sadbhav Rautela Utt 4½ 127 Anhat Singh Chd 4½ 128 Patel Jaymin J Guj 4½ 129 Ayushpreet Singh Pun 4½ 130 Durvish Khurana Pun 4½ 131 Yugraj Pun 4½ 132 Parmarth Pun 4½ 133 Divyam Puri Pun 4½ 134 Singh Dimpalvir Pun 4½

135 Agrim Jain Pun 4½ 136 Devansh Ajay Sarda Mah 4½ 137 Shabd Gupta Pun 4½ 138 Dhairya Aggarwal Pun 4½ 139 Herald K A TN 4 140 Amish Sood HP 4 141 Rishav Sarkar Asm 4 142 Suvibhu Sharma Pun 4 143 Shaurya Chopra Chd 4 144 Ronak Mahajan Pun 4 145 Tirth Shresth Jha 4 146 Nikunj Aggarwal Pun 4 147 Archit Sehgal Pun 4 148 Wadhwa Rehan Pun 4 149 Kartik Juneja Pun 4 150 Makul Singal Pun 3½ 151 Mukul Rana Pun 3½ 152 Shiv Jindal Pun 3½ 153 Utkrisht Tuli Pun 3½ 154 Rehaan Arora Pun 3½ 155 Aggarwal Aayush Pun 3½ 156 Ishaan Narang Chd 3½ 157 Prabhpreet Singh L Pun 3½ 158 Gunjit Singh Pun 3½ 159 Mahajan Samin Pun 3½ 160 Om Arya Pun 3½ 161 Zorawar Singh Pun 3 162 Aditya Garg HP 3 163 Utkarsh Aggarwal Pun 3 164 Neil Nanak Singh Pun 3 165 Shreyas Arora Pun 2½ 166 Krishna Jindal Pun 2 167 Aabid Sheeraz J&K 1½ Final ranking:Girls Rk Name St Pts 1 WCM Jyothsna L TN 10 2 WFM Divya Deshmukh Mah 9½ 3 WCM Mrudul Dehankar Mah 9 4 Rindhiya V TN 8 5 Bristy Mukherjee WB 7½ 6 Jain Nityata MP 7½

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7 Mehendi Sil WB 7½ 8 Mishra Riya UP 7½ 9 Tanvi Vasudev H Goa 7½ 10 Nayanikaa Muralidharan TN 7½ 11 Eesha Ajay Sarda Mah 7½ 12 Savitha Shri B TN 7 13 Routray Priyanka Odi 7 14 WCM Chopdekar Gunjal Goa 7 15 Arushi Kotwal J&K 7 16 Adane Narayani Mah 7 17 Aanya Agarwal Del 7 18 Sai Divya M AP 7 19 Samyukta Banthia Mah 7 20 Swara Hetal Shah Guj 7 21 Ananya Rishi Gupta Mah 6½ 22 Abhirami Madabushi AP 6½ 23 WCM Dhyana Patel Guj 6½ 24 Garima Gaurav Bih 6½ 25 Bhagyashree Patil Mah 6½ 26 Sathwika N AP 6½ 27 Divyabharathi M TN 6½ 28 Navya Tayal Har 6½ 29 David Avril R Mah 6½ 30 Bhushita Ahuja Del 6½ 31 AIM Vysetty Sahithi Tel 6½ 32 Shah Jiya Mah 6½ 33 Juhi Bajaj Har 6½ 34 AIM Sahithya G Tel 6 35 Cera Dagaria MP 6 36 Deepthi Lakshmi K Kar 6 37 Shreetu Bhavikbhai N Guj 6 38 Yashasvi Gupta Raj 6 39 Vijayasubhasri S TN 6 40 Charishma Yadav Palla AP 6 41 Tanisha A R Som Asm 6 42 Ishvi Aggarwal Har 6 43 Kaamyaa Negi Del 6 44 Shah Kritee Guj 6 45 Aditi Mukherjee Cht 6 46 Tiya Setia Pun 6 47 Shreya Das Bih 6

48 Anahita Verma Pun 6 49 Parikh Urvi Guj 5½ 50 Sreenidhi C V Ker 5½ 51 Manodhya Prakrati MP 5½ 52 Velpula Sarayu Tel 5½53 Sinthia Sarkar WB 5½ 54 Shivika Rohilla Del 5½ 55 Mistry Tinaz Dinkoo Guj 5½ 56 Yashika Singh Raj 5½ 57 Kapadia Hrishita Mah 5½ 58 Varshini M AP 5½ 59 Paridhi Shrivastava MP 5½ 60 Adreeja Sinha Asm 5½ 61 Yamijala Koulini Jha 5½ 62 Nitya Singhania Pun 5½ 63 Sharanya Vinayak A Mah 5 64 Pranitha S R Kar 5 65 Praneeta Tanwar Har 5 66 Swetha Sree Lanka AP 5 67 Nimorika Sekhari Del 5 68 Sivasri S TN 5 69 Kaushika Kumari Jha 5 70 Arunika Ghosh Tri 5 71 Yukti Goswami Kar 5 72 Viswanathan Pavithra TN 5 73 Vanshika Sachdeva Raj 5 74 Yashika Bansal Pun 5 75 Rabhya Chhabra Pun 5 76 Mannat Aggarwal Pun 5 77 Jesica Del 4½ 78 Anchita Sharma Asm 4½ 79 AFM Advaita Sharma K Tel 4½ 80 Kannan Jain Pun 4½ 81 Tvisha Mangesh Shah Mah 4½ 82 Tushita Chopra Pun 4½ 83 Kapadia Prisha Mah 4½ 84 Gunjan Kanda Pun 4½ 85 Aggarwal Anushka Pun 4½ 86 Pearl Pun 4½ 87 Manmeet Kaur Pun 4½ 88 Bhavya Rai Pun 4½

T he Nainital open fide rated chess tour-namen-2017 held at The Zoom Land, Nainital from 20th to 25th May 2017.A

total number of 144 players which included 100 rated players from across India partici-pated in this nine round event played under FIDE’s Swiss Rules with a time control of 90 minutes each with increment of 30 second from move 1. Mr. Nasir Wajih of Rly. Delhi with a rating of 2185 started as the top seed for this Rs.2,00,000 prize money tourna-ment.

Shri. S N Babul Kar, Adv. General of UTT & Syyed Nadeem “Moon” President of High Court Bar Association inaugurated the event on 20th June 2017 by making the customary first move in presence of Mr R S Tiwari, IA Mr D K Joshi Patron NDCA Mr. I D Tewari, Sec. NDCA, IA Raj Kumar & Kavita Patel.

The tournament saw the surge of famous player of Railways Mr Nasir Wajih as he re-corded eight point from possible nine rounds and pocketed a cash prize of Rs. 41,000/- along with coveted trophy. While Two play-ers with seven and half points tied for the second spot but better buchholz tie break score helped Ajay Kr Rai of Delhi finished as runner-up while Sudhir Kr Sinha of Bihar finished third. Himanshu Moudgil of Delhi satisfied with fourth.

D S Negi of Delhi secured First position, while Bhandari Jitendra Singh of Delhi secured second position, in best below 1600-2000 category. Sharma Vaibhav of Delhi caught first position while Singh Ambesh Pratap of Delhi satisfied with second position, Best

below 1400-1599 category. Ravi Mathur of UP secured first position , while Joshi J C of Delhi secured second position in best unrated category, Chetan Sharma & Hemant Kr Pan-dey of UTT got first & second position in best UTT male player, Ayushi Kandpal of UTT got first prize in best UTT female player, Neeraj Sah & Mohhamad Wasim got first & second in best nainital male players Dinesh Sinha of UP received prize of veteran category. Best School Trophy first position Hold by Presidium Indipuram 2nd Sunbeam Suncity Varanasi, 3rd DPS Varanasi. Also all players get gift hamper from Mohini Tea. There was no pro-test & players showed great sportsmanship.

The highlight of the tournament was the se-rene environment surrounding the hall on the bank of nainital lake nestled in the mountain peaks of Himalyas. The players were unani-mous in praise of hill station of Nainital & the organization of the tournament under the NDCA & Chess Association of UTT.

Chief Guest Sanjeev Arya MLA NTL, Guest of Honour Adv Vijay Bhatt, Mrs Shanti Meh-ra,Ex. State Minister, Rajeev Lochan Sah Journalist, Mr D K Joshi, Patron NDCA, Mr I D tewari sec NDCA, IA Raj Kumar & Kavita Patel jointly distributed prizes among winners in a befitting closing ceremony.Final ranking Rk Name Pts 1 Wajih Nassir 8 2 Ajay Kumar Rai 7½ 3 Sinha Sudhir Kumar 7½ 4 Himanshu Moudgil 7 5 Anil Shivpuri 7

Nainital Open Fide Rated Chess Tournament 2017, NainitalNazir Wajih is Championby R S Tiwari,IA, Chief Arbiter

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6 Soni Krishan 7 7 Jatinder Kapoor 6½ 8 Rishabh Nishad 6½ 9 A K Kalshyan 6½ 10 Mohd. Arshi Khan 6½ 11 Deepak Rai 6½ 12 Shami Vipin K. 6½ 13 Garv Rai 6½ 14 Sanjay Sharma 6½ 15 Rawat Abhishek 6½ 16 Mohammad Zubar 6½ 17 Katiyar Prashant 6 18 Rawat R.S. 6 19 Kartikey Verma 6 20 Suryakant Verma 6 21 Sharma Vaibhav 6 22 Singh Ambesh Pratap 6 23 Chetan Sharma 6 24 Dinesh Sinha 6 25 Levanshu Khullar 6 26 Negi D.S. 5½ 27 Ashfaq Ahmad 5½ 28 IM Wazeer Ahmad Khan 5½ 29 Kunal Kanchan 5½ 30 Sharma Avinash 5½ 31 Sandeep Kumar 5½ 32 Bhavnesh Taneja 5½ 33 Hariom Solanki 5½ 34 Raj Prakhar 5½ 35 Aditya Vaidya 5½ 36 Bhandari Jitendra S 5½ 37 Satvik Sharma 5½ 38 Hemant Kumar Pande 5 39 WFM Tanishka Kotia 5 40 Mohan Virwani 5 41 Biswas M B 5 42 Malik Rajat 5 43 Rajesh Kumar Sharma 5 44 Cyrus Chhikara 5 45 Parth Arora 5 46 Ved Prakash 5

47 Neeraj Sah 5 48 Arnab Kumar Mullick 5 49 Chirag Tayal 5 50 Rakesh Khugsal 5 51 Anshul Bathla 5 52 Kushagra Sharma 5 53 Kabir Anand 5 54 Yogesh Sharma 5 55 Raghuraman V 5

17 th Jharkhand State Senior Fide Rated Chess Championship 2017 held at Sarala Birala School Audi-

torium, Ranchi Jharkhand from 1st to 4th June 2017 Organized by All Jharkhand Chess Association. Total Participant was 115 including 67 players rated. They have come from different remote districts of Jharkhand. The tournament was inaugurated by Mrs. Richa Sanchita, Exe. President, AJCA. Mr. S.K. Sinha, Secretary, BDCA, Mr. Himangshu B. Chakraborty, Jt. Secretary, AJCA & Mr. Pritam Singh, CEO, AJCA, were also present.

The Tournament Hall was air conditioned, spacious with sufficient toilet facilities. The Organizers provided breakfast, lunch, & din-ner to all participants at very minimum cost.

At the end of final round games Anshul Nigam (7) bagged the Championship title with Cash Rs. 10000/- . Priyanka Kumar (7) & Alka Das (6.5) secured second & third place and bagged Rs. 8000/- & Rs. 6000/- respectively with better tie-break. In the Prize Distribution ceremony Mr. Ram Kumar Pahan, MLA, Mr. Bhor singh Yadav, SDM, Ranchi, Mr. Pradip Kumar Verma, President, AJCA, & Mr. Pritam Singh, CEO, AJCA were present and distrib-uted the prizes to all prize winners. All Asstt. Arbiters did their job very well till last round games. NA Deepak Kumar and NA Prabhat Ranjan Kumar get FA Norm Certificate from this tournament.CATEGORY PRIZE LIST age group U25 Rk Name Pts 1 Anshul Nigam 7 2 Priyanka Kumari 7

‘Aditya Birla Memorial’17th Jharkhand State Senior Rating Chess Tournament 2017

Anshul Nigam bags titleAsit Baran Choudhury, IA,Chief Arbiter

4 Nishant Kumar 6½ 5 Sandil Nirmal Chandra 6½ 7 Kumar Utkarsh 6 8 Shubham Srivastava 6 9 Ankit Kumar Singh 6 11 Kumar Sanu 5½ 12 Basant Khandelwal 5½ 13 Ashish Kumar Singh 5½ 15 Pracheta Agarwal 5½ 16 Saikat Dutta 5½ 17 Aman Choubey 5½ 19 Shaswata Paul 5½ 20 Prem Kumar 5½ 21 Mukherjee Sanchit 5 22 Ishant Kumar 5 23 Raja Bose 5 25 Lokesh Kumar 5 27 Milan Kumar 5

rating between 1001 and 1200 Rank Name Pts 1 Prem Kumar 5½ 2 Sunil Kumar Singh 5

rating between 1201 and 1400 Rank Name Pts 1 Shaswata Paul 5½ 2 Ishant Kumar 5

rating between 1401 and 1600 Rank Name Pts 1 Aman Choubey 5½ 2 Mukherjee Sanchit 5

rating between 1601 and 1800 Rank Name Pts 1 Kumar Sanu 5½ 2 Manideep Mukhi 5

Puzzle of the monthby C.G.S.Narayanan

The retro this month is from one of the finest books ever written on retroana-lytical problems’The chess mysteries of Sherlock Holmes’ with lucid narratives by its author Raymond Smullyan, an American mathematician, a concert pianist, logi-cian and philosopher.In the puzzle below it is black’s turn to move.The question is whether he can castle or not. Solution on page

Raymond SmullyanThe Chess Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes

1979

Black to moveCan black castle?

Solution On page 48

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T he Chess in Lakecity club organised its Summer Cup fide rated tournament (below 1600 category) at the beautiful

Udaipur city from 13th to 15th June 2017. More than 475 players from Rajasthan, MP, Delhi, Punjab, UP, Haryana, Gujarat, Maha-rashtra, Bihar, Tamil Nadu, AP, Karnataka, Assam, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Karnataka and West Bengal besides Singapore partic-ipated in the three days nine round event. The time format of the tournament was 30 minutes + 30 seconds increment for each move to each player.

Fifteen year old Dhruv Dak of the host club Lakecity was the top seeded player of the tournament with a rating of 1594, followed by Arun Kumar of Punjab. The second round saw the tumbling of the top seed at the hands of Suryavanshi BL and fifth seed Gaha Narayan of UP was held to a draw by young Deepak Kataria of Rajasthan. Young players had no respect for (higher rated) seniors and there were upset galore in each and every round. Sixteen players led with four points each at the end of the fourth round.

The lead was narrowed down to four players after five rounds – Arun Kumar, Ankit Chu-dasama of Gujarat, Gaurav Jain of Rajasthan and Shrivstav Hritik of MP. In the sixth round, Ankit accounted for Arun and Gaurav beat Hritik, to share the lead with full 6 points. Four new players were trailing the leaders by half point. Ankit defeated Gaurav and was the only player to register seven wins in a row. Sheth Shemal Ketan of Gujarat prevailed over Arun Kumar to move into sole second spot with 6.5 points. Sixteen players were on the

third position after the completion of seven rounds. In the penultimate round, Ankit Chudasama continued his relentless march to record one more win to score 8/8. Seven players - Babel T Divyanshu and Norman Porwal of Rajasthan, Hritik Shrivatsav and Eshaan Chandrol of MP, Amar Joyti Kakoti of Assam, Jitendra Mahale of Maharashtra and Tarun Kumar Singh of UP were behind him by one full point.

Chudasama Ankit suffered his first loss in the tournament at the hands of fifteen year old Babel. Eshaan, Tarun Kumar and Naman also scored victories to tie with Ankit and Babel for the top honours with 8 points each. Tie-breaks favoured Ankit Chudasama to bag the title and Babel won the second place. Ankit received Rs.30000/- and Babel Rs.20000/-. Sri. Chandra Singh Kotari, Mayor of Udai-pur City was the chief guest for the final day function. Sri. Pramod Ji Samar and Sri. Sanchal Agarwal were the guests of honour. The tournament was well organised by the Lakecity Club in an air conditioned hall and quality food was provided at an affordable rate. Final ranking Rk Name Pts 1 Chudasama Ankit 8 2 Babel T Divyanshu 8 3 Mahale Jitendra 8 4 Naman Porwal 8 5 Eshaan Chandrol 8 6 Raj Prakhar 7½ 7 Bhat Siddharth K 7½ 8 Utkarsh Agrawal 7½ 9 Dinesh Pathak 7½

10 Shrivastav Hritik 7 11 Amar Jyoti Kakoty 7 12 Vishal Vala 7 13 Tohin Kumar Halder 7 14 Gaurav Jain 7 15 Kapil Sharma 7 16 Srivastav Harsh 7 17 Sharma Harsh Yogesh 7 18 Badoni Nitin 7 19 Pawar Harshit 7 20 Bhawesh Pandiyar 7 21 Rohit Parmar 7 22 Singh Tarun Kumar 7 23 Vaishant Kumar Gangwani 7 24 Sujeet Kumar Chaudhary 7 25 Suhaib Ahmad 7 26 Vijendra Kumar 7 27 Sheth Shemal Ketan 6½ 28 Barsaiya Aryan 6½ 29 Karthik Sorikh 6½ 30 Swayam Gupta 6½ 31 Arun Kumar 6½ 32 Udit Gupta 6½ 33 Imran Hussain 6½ 34 Devansh Singh 6½ 35 Depender Sangwan 6½ 36 Bardoliwala Nirmal 6½ 37 Rakesh Bhatti 6½ 38 Maheshwari Prabhav 6½ 39 Arun Kataria 6½ 40 Sharma Vaibhav 6½ 41 Vijay Jhanwar 6½ 42 Ashok Kumar Shukla 6½ 43 Saurabh Jain 6½ 44 Gautam Kataria 6½ 45 Pandya Anilkumar M 6½ 46 Tekwani Jay Anilbhai 6½ 47 Mishra Ashish 6½ 48 Rishi Kumar Pandey 6½ 49 Nitin Kumar Pandey 6½ 50 Kiaan Agrawal 6½

51 Arbaz Shekh 6½ 52 Narayan Joshi 6½ 53 Polavaram Harsha 6 54 Raval Mayur 6 55 Nilesh Baldaniya 6 56 Patil Aditi G 6 57 Yogesh Sharma 6 58 Walde Harshal 6 59 Chauhan Narayan 6 60 Gupte Aradhya 6 61 Harsh Singh Senger 6 62 Rajagopalan 6 63 Senger Dharmender Singh 6 64 Vivek Kumar Singh Nanhe 6 65 Suryavanshi B L 6 66 Monika Sahu 6 67 Akshita Jain 6 68 Sharma Kunal 6 69 Sahu M L 6 70 Shashi Raj Saxena 6 71 Chhabra Kunal 6 72 Kanjar Kirtan Ketanbhai 6 73 Parth Arora 6 74 Sahani Ram Prasad 6 75 Dheeraj Nihalani 6 76 Mohd. Arshi Khan 6 77 Sanghavi Manoj 6 78 Yadav Bateshwar Singh 6 79 Srivastav Trisha 6 80 Chandwani Prateek 6 81 Vraj Kayasth 6 82 Gourav Nigam 6 83 Rajkotia Shyam P 6 84 Jani Kushal R 6 85 Varun Gera 6 86 Nimit Jain 6 87 Ujjwal Deep 6 88 Harvinder Singh 6 89 Aarush Gupta 5½ 90 Abhishek Kumar Mishra 5½ 91 Gaha Narayan 5½

Chess in Lakecity Summer Cup FIDE Rated Tournament,UdaipurAnkit Chudasama emerges Champion

Prof. R. Anantharam IA, Chief Arbiter

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T he 1rdFIDE Rated Punjab Chess Championship -2017 was held at the Cambridge International School, Kot-

kapura Bye Pass Moga (Punjab) from 08th to 11thJune 2017.

A total number of 161 Players which include 59 rated players from 14 Different Districts of Punjab participated in this 09 round event played under FIDE’s Swiss Rules with a time control of 60 minutes each with increment of 30 second from move 1. Mr.Arvinder Preet Singh of Ludhianawith a rating of 2108 start-ed as the top seed for this Championship.With Rs.23,900 Prize money of the tournament.

Sh. Maheshinder Singh EX- MLA Chief Guest (inaugurated the event on 08th June 2017 by making the customary first move in presence of Advocate RajanAggarwal, Mr.RaviPandit (EX-Director of Central Co-Operative Bank Moga) Mr.Vinod Sharma (Distt Secretary-Mo-ga)& Chief Arbiter FA Varun Kumar.

The tournament saw the surge of Amritsar Champion Mr.Pardeep Arora as he recorded eight points from nine rounds and pocketed a cash prize of Rs. 4,000/- along with cov-eted trophy.

While AGM Shubham Shukla from Ludhiana with seven and half points secured the sec-ond postion. Better Buchholz tie break score helped Ashwani Kumar Grover FromMoga finished at Third Position.While Arvinder Preet Singh from Ludhiana finished with fourth.They All are selected for 55th National Chal-lenger 2017 at Gujarat From 13th to 23rd August, 2017.

Priyanka From Ludhiana finished as best In women category, Bhaveshmahajan From Am-ritsar was best player In U-11 Open, Dhirain Vij From Jalandhar was best player In U-15 Open, Shubham Bhardwaj From Ferozpur-was best player In U-19 Open, Tejinder Pal Singh Gill. From Ferozpur became the Best Unrated pPlayer in the championship,Utsav Singla was best player In U-15 Open of Moga District Prize,AbhaevPratap Singh Sodhi From Moga was best player In U-19 Open Moga District Prize

Chief Guest Dr.Harjot Kamal (MLA Moga Court) Guest of Honor Dr. Iqbal Singh (MD of Cambridge International School Moga),-Satwinder Kaur (Principal Cambridge Inter-national School ),S. Bikramjit Singh Sandhu (President of Punjab State Chess Association) Rajinder Sharma (Secretary of Punjab State Chess Association)Vinod Sharma, FA Varun Kumar,NA Anuj Shingari jointly distributed prizes among winners in a befitting closing ceremony. Final ranking Rk Name Pts 1 Pardeep Arora 8 2 Shubham Shukla 7½ 3 Ashwani Kumar Grover 7 4 Singh Arvinder Preet 7 5 Sharma Pankaj 7 6 Love Jindal 7 7 Amanpreet Singh 7 8 Sukhjeet Singh Sivia 7 9 Gill Tejinder Pal Singh 7 10 Singh Tejinder 7 11 Singh Jagpreet 6½

12 Joshi Gagan Deep 6½ 13 Chetan Bansal 6½ 14 Arjun Veer Singh 6½ 15 Shubham Bhardwaj 6½ 16 Marwaha Surinder 6½ 17 Love Verma 6½ 18 Dhirain Vij 6 19 Jatinder Singh 6 20 Pankaj Arora 6 21 Ishaan Bansal 6 22 Bhavesh Mahajan 6 23 Singla Utsav 6 24 Yudhveer Singh 6 25 Ramandeep Singh Gill 6 26 Singh Himmat 6 27 Bipin Dhingra 6 28 Harshit Dhingra 6 29 Adarsh Bhanot 6 30 Priyanka Vashisht 6 31 Rajan Dhiman 5½ 32 Aditya Jain 5½ 33 Sharma Radhey Mohan 5½ 34 Manthan Arora 5½ 35 Shobhit Dhingra 5½ 36 Ayaan Sabharwal 5½ 37 Raghav Bansal 5½ 38 Singh Harsimranjeet 5½ 39 Arjun Bhaskar 5½ 40 Rishabh Chawla 5½ 41 Devang Singla 5½ 42 Kapoor Divye 5½ 43 Rohit Kumar 5 44 Tiya Setia 5 45 Rakesh Gupta 5 46 Lohia Rajat 5 47 Malika Handa 5 48 Samneet Munde 5 49 Durvish Khurana 5 50 Chandan Kapahi 5 51 Parmarth 2007 5 52 Jindal Paarth 5

53 Mittal Tanmay 5 54 Jindal Panshul 5 55 Singh Ayushpreet 5 56 Abhishek Bhargav 5 57 Rachit Kansal 5 58 Divedi Chetan 5 59 Amit Singh 5 60 Kirti Kumar 5 61 Kansal Rajeev 5 62 Arun Kumar 5 63 Singla Manav 5 64 Ravinder Singh 5 65 Savi Julka 5 66 Kishore Nand 5 67 Singh Sukhdeep 5 68 Davinder Singh 5 69 Aastha Kapoor 5 70 Goyal Saksham 5 71 Kaur Parminder 5 72 Datta Vani 5 73 Bharat Khanna 5 74 Laksh Bansal 4½ 75 Dhaliwal Tanish 4½ 76 Bir Singh Raminder 4½ 77 Akul Goel 4½ 78 Divyam Puri 4½ 79 Singh Amritpal(1998) 4½ 80 Abhaev Pratap Singh Sodhi 4½ 81 Gupta Deepit 4½ 82 Gupta Prajwal 4½ 83 Neelam Bansal 4½ 84 Arora Nitish 4 85 Paramraj Singh 4 86 Paras Narang 4 87 Talwar Chander Shekhar 4 88 Bajaj Rahul 4 89 Singh Rajinder 4 90 Chehal Nikhil 4 91 Harmanpreet Singh Sandhu 4 92 Mehak Khurana 4

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S t.Joseph’s College Sponsored 7th St. Joseph’s International Fide Rating Chess Tournament was organized by Mount

Chess Academy at St. Joseph’s college of En-gineering, Old Mamallapuram Road, Jeppiaar Nagar, Chennai- 119, from 24th to 29thJune 2017.

This event had attracted 548 players from 13 states which includes 375 Fide rated players took part in the 9 rounds Swiss tournament. The total prize fund was Rs. 2, 00,000/- and prizes were given to the top fifty players and five prizes each in the 8 categories. The En-tire prize money was sponsored by St. Joseph Group of Institutions, Chennai

This event was inaugurated by Dr.B.Babu Manoharan, Managing Director, St.Joseph’s group of educations on 24th June 2017 at 3.00P.M and he welcomed all players for the 7th Annual chess event and assured to host this International fide rated event every year. The first round started at 3.30 P.M on 24th June2017.

At the end of the 5th Round 4 players includ-ing top seeded Tarunkanth, Muthaiah, Joy Lazer and Vinothkumar of Pondy were lead-ing with 5points each. Bunch of 14players were trailing the leaders with 4.5points each.

At the end of the sixth round Muthaiah and Joy Lazer defeated overnight leaders Tarun Kanth and Vinothkumar respectively and jumped in to lead with 6points each.AGM Vignesh,Vikramjit Singh and Roshan were closely following the leaders with 5.5points each.

In the seventh round overnight leaders held to draw in a well fought game.Veteran Joy Lazer utilized his experience and hold higher seeded Muthaiah.Vikramjit singh outwitted young Vinesh and joined the leaders with 6.5points.11players FM Karthik Vekatara-man, Hemantraam, Ram S Krishnan, Vijay Sreeram, Vaisnav, Selvamurugan, Vignesh, Balakannama, Tarunkanth, Alan Divya raj and Vinodkumar were half point behind the leaders with 6points each.In the penultimate round Al.Muthaiah and Joy Lazer jointly lead with 7.5ponts each. Muthai-ah showed his skill and defeated well experi-enced Vikram Jit Singh of Manipur. Joy lazer outplayed unfancied Vaisnav in one sided battle. Three players Ram S Krishnan,Karthik Venkatraman and Hemant Raam on second spot with 7points each.

In the final and 9th round on the top table AL.Muthaiah employed Caro-Kann against top seeded Fide Master Karthik Venkatara-man and forced opponent to split point in 33moves.On the second board veteran player Joy Lazer was held to a draw by young He-mant Raam in the Tarrash defence, Queens gambit in 24moves.On the third board IM norm holder Ram s Krishnan crushed S.Pras-anna of Tamilnadu in 40moves.Ram S Kr-ishnan opted centre counter gambit against Prasanna and went on to complicate middle game and checkmated the opponent. Seven players FM Karthik Venkataraman,-Vikramjit ingh,Hemant Raam, Alan Divya Raj, BalaKannamma, Anilkumar and Akil were scored 7.5points each and they finished

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World Team Chess Championships 2017, Khanty Mansiysk,Russia

Indian men and women finish fourth

The Indian men and women missed out on the podium by a whisker as they finished fourth in both the categories at the World Team Chess Championships.The last round went well for both Indian men and women as they scored fine victories over Norway and Azerbaijan respectively.However, the men lost the penultimate round against Russia by 1.5-2.5 that cost them a medal.

The crucial match with Russia that changed Indian fortunesd

The women were quite lucky to win the penultimate round against Vietnam as both D Hari-ka and Tania Sachdev fought back from nearly lost positions to save the day for their side.

Though Harika took a rest against Azerbaijan, it did not deter the Indian women from win-ning comprehensively for a fourth place finish. This was a repeat of their performance in the previous edition of the championship held in China in 2015.

China won the championship in the open section with 16 points while Russia finished second on 15 points. Poland snatched the bronze on 12 points, a point clear of the Indian men.The Indian men had also finished fourth in the last Chess Olympiad held in Azerbaijan in 2016.

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The Chinese were clinical in the last round as they scored a 2.5-1.5 victory over Poland, thanks to a fine victory by Li Chao on the fourth board. The Russians were ferocious as they handed out a 4-0 defeat to the United States.For India, Grandmaster B Adhiban yet again shone and scored a fine victory with white pieces against Johan Soloman while National champion Murali Karthikeyan proved too strong for Frode Elsness.On the other boards Vidit Gujarathi played out a draw against Aryan Tari while Krishnan Sasikiran signed peace with Lars Oskar Hauge.In the women's section, the Russians proved their supremacy over Ukraine defeating their neighbours 3-1.

The Indian women's team: From left to Right - Three times National Champion Padmini Rout, First WGM of India S. Vijayalakshmi, one of the best women players India has ever produced D. Harika, opening expert Eesha Karavade, and one of the most famous faces of Indian chess Tania Sachdev.

The Russian team won gold with 16 points, while the Chinese bagged silver with 13 points.It was a three-way tie for the third spot with Georgia, India and Ukraine and as the tie was resolved, the Georgians came out on third spot, thanks to 1.5 game points more than India. Ukraine finished fifth.

Results after Round 9 open: Norway (2) lost to India (11) 1-3 (Aryan Tari drew with Vidit Gujarathi; B Adhiban beat Johan Soloman; Frode Elsness lost to Murali Karthikeyan; Krishnan Sasikiran drew with Lars Oskar Hauge); Ukraine (6) beat Egypt (0) 2.5-1.5; Turkey (10) lost to Belarus (8); Russia (15) beat USA (8) 4-0; China (16) beat Poland (12) 2.5 -1.5.Women: Azerbaijan (5) lost to India (12) 1-3 (Gunay Mammadzada beat Tania Sach-dev; Eesha Karavade beat Gulnar Mammadova; Ulviyya Fataliyeva lost to Padmini Rout; S Vijayalakshmi beat Khanim Balajayeva); Russia (16) beat Ukraine (12) 3-1; Vietnam (5) lost to Poland (9); Georgia (12) beat USA (6) 3-1; China (13) beat Egypt (0) 3-1. Photos:courtesy chessbase india

Shyam Sundar Wins Title Maiden GM Norm For Iniyan

By Arvind Aaron

Teenaged and Erode’s only International Mas-ter P Iniyan started as seed 19 and finished third and on course completed his maiden Grand Master norm at Montcada Open held near Barcelona, Spain on July 3, 2017.

Trained by International Master norm holder K Visweswaran of Chennai, Iniyan, born 2002, completed his nine game GM norm in the Barcelona Region of Spain.Iniyan faced four GMs, and scored 2.5/4 beat-ing top seed GM Evgeny Vorobiov of Russia. and the second seed GM Fernando Peralta of Argentina. He drew GM Shyam Sundar (Chennai) and lost to GM Burmakin (Rus). Iniyan gains 27.4 Elo for his 6.5/9. He played at a stunning 2615, his career best result. Iniyan is sponsored by “Olirum Erodu Foundation” , his school “The Indian Public School Erode”.

In the final round, Iniyan needed a draw for the norm while his opponent needed a win for his norm. Many Indians thought Iniyan was losing but he managed to pull back and draw for his maiden norm. He will need two more norms to complete the title requirement. Sig-nificantly, he became an International Master only this year.Grand Master M Shyam Sundar of Chennai started as fourth seed and won the event re-maining undefeated on 7/9. He shared the first place with Russian Grand Master Vladimir Burmakin. The players drew their mutual encounter. Iniyan was third on tie-break with 6.5 points. Former Indian champion P Konguvel finished ninth, further below on six points.

The event attracted 109 players. Hosts, Spain with 42 players had more numbers than the large number of 30 Indians. However, Indians took two thirds of the podium in this 19-nation event. This event had 10 Grand Masters, 15 International Masters and 64 titled players.

Untitled B.C.P. Prasad, 21-year old, impressed with 6/9 and played at 2471 Elo, good for the International Master norm. Prasad gained 30.80 Elo.Leading Indian rating gainers: Anuj Shrivatri (+116.80), Vardan Nagpal (+101.60), Jijo Joy (+98.80), Avdhoot Lendhe (+98.40), Sapale Saloni (+83.20), M.L. Abhilash Reddy (+53.60).Final placings (top 10): 1-2. GM M Shyam Sundar, GM Vladimir Burmakin (Rus) 7/9 each; 3-8. IM P Iniyan, IM Asis Gargatagli (Esp), GM Evgeny Vorobiov (Rus), IM Miguel Santos (Esp), GM Cristobal Henriquez (Chi), IM Kevel Olivia (Cub) 6.5 each; 9-10. IM P Konguvel, FM Dmitriy Volkov (USA) and others 6 each.

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fourth to tenth respectively on tie break.Shri T.Muthu,Arjuna Awardee, Weight lifter and Dr B.Babu Manoharan, Chairman & Man-aging Director, St.Joseph’s Group of Institu-tions distributed the prizes to the winners.I thank all my fellow Arbiters for their ded-icated team who helped in organized this event very well without any dispute. My sincere thanks to AICF, TNSCA & KDCA and V.Ravichandran, Secretary, Mount Chess Academy for the successful conduct of this Annual event.Final ranking Rk Name Pts 1 Muthaiah Al 8 2 Joy Lazar M.A. 8 3 Ram S. Krishnan 8 4 Karthik Venkataraman 7½ 5 Singh S. Vikramjit 7½ 6 Hemanth Raam 7½ 7 Alan Diviya Raj 7½ 8 Bala Kannamma P 7½ 9 Anilkumar O.T. 7½ 10 Akil A S J 7½ 11 Aravindaswami T 7 12 Roshan S 7 13 Shakthi Vishal J 7 14 Vignesh B 7 15 Manu David Suthandram R 7 16 Thamaraiselvi P 7 17 Kanishk S K 7 18 Chaitanya Sairam Mogili 7 19 Anup Shankar R 7 20 Anandha Venkatesan 7 21 Watson Solomon Nathaniel 7 22 Vinodh Kumar B. 6½ 23 Tarun V Kanth 6½ 24 Vaisnav M 6½ 25 Bipin Raj S 6½ 26 Sudharsan Gurukrishnan 6½ 27 Prasannaa.S 6½

28 Selvamurugan B 6½ 29 Gowtham K K 6½ 30 Vijay Shreeram P 6½ 31 Ayushh Ravikumar 6½ 32 Vigneshwaran S 6½ 33 Jayachandra Srinivas V 6½ 34 Sanjay D G 6½ 35 Eshwanth Dev Kumar J 6½ 36 Mohan Ram Sridhar 6½ 37 Abishek A 6½ 38 Godson Merlin E 6½ 39 Nikhil M 6½ 40 Aswin Kumar B S 6½ 41 Kishore Kumar Jaganathan 6½ 42 Yuvan Bharathi K S 6½ 43 Subash Mathivanan 6½ 44 Badavath Anand 6½ 45 Singaram P.L. 6½ 46 Thamizharasan J 6½ 47 Kabhilan S 6½ 48 Rohit Vassan S 6½ 49 Nandha Visakan 6½ 50 Anurag Jaiswal 6½ 51 Shvetha V 6½ 52 Ranjith R.K. 6½ 53 Aasha C R 6½ 54 Subash Sanker D M 6½ 55 Shyam Kumar M 6½ 56 Gugan G 6½ 57 Akash Lal O 6½ 58 Kannan.V 6½ 59 Raj Kamal S 6½ 60 Shaktivel Selvaraj 6½ 61 Arun R 6½ 62 Vignesh N 6 63 Harsh Suresh 6 64 Bhaskar Teja K V 6 65 Gokulraj K 6 66 Subham Saha 6 67 Aravind Matthews A C T 6 68 Sivakumar C. 6

Wesley So Beats Anand for Leon titleWesley So, formerly of the Philippines beat many time champion Viswanathan Anand by 3.5-2.5 to win the City of Leon Chess Tournament in northern Spain on July 10.Wesley So has great amount of respect for Vishy Anand. He has said this openly in the past that he has learnt a lot from the five-time World Champion and his games. That's why the youth versus experience battle between So and Anand in the finals of the 30th Leon Masters 2017 was looked forward to with great interest by chess fans all over the world. The rapid section of four games ended with a 2-2 tie. However, Wesley managed to win the match by scoring a win in the blitz. In his first appearance at the Leon Masters, Wesley So goes back home with the winner's trophy!Wesley So, living in the USA with a huge scholarship won the fifth game and drew the rest

for the title. In the all decisive game, So won a crucial pawn and Anand resigned early by move 23.In the earlier rounds, Anand beat 20-year old Spainish IM Jaime Santos by coming from behind. In the other semifinals, So beat Duda Jan-Krzysztof of Poland.World No.2 Wesley So (born Oct 9, 1993) won the event representing the United States. Anand, 47, has won the Torneo de Magistral most number of times. In 2016, Anand had beaten Chinese prodigy Wei Yi for his ninth title.

P.R.Venketrama Raja elected as President of All India Chess FederationShri.P.R.Venketrama Raja was unanimously re-elected as President of the All India Chess Federation for the term 2017 - 2020 during the Annual General Body Meeting held at Chennai on 25.6.2017.

The list of other office bearers elected unopposed is given below:

Hon.Secretary Mr.Bharat Singh Chauhan DelhiTreasurer Mr.Kishor M.Bandekar GoaVice Presidents Mr.D.V.Sundar Tamilnadu

Mr.A.Bhakthavatchalam PondicherryMr.A.Narasimha Reddy TelanganaMr.Sekhar Chandra Sahu OrissaMr.G.Bhasker AndamanMr.Manoj Itkelwar Maharashtra

Joint Secretaries Mr.R.Hanumantha KaranatakaMr.Kapil Saxena Madhya PradeshMr.Atanu Lahiri BengalMr.Th.B.Singh MeghalayaMr.Naresh Sharma HaryanaMr.Bhavesh Patel Gujarat

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H irthickkesh PR of Neyveli, Tamilnadu became the champion of 4thTrichy All India Open Fide Rated Chess Tourna-

ment, with 7/8 points on better tie-break. Mr .PR. Hirthickkesh, 1st Prize, Mr. S.S. Manikandan, 2nd Prize, Mr. N. Surendran, 3rd Prize, Mr. S.P.K .Arul Anandh, 4t Prize all form Tamilnadu, were tied for the 1st Place with 7/8 points but on better tie-break Hirthickkesh became the Champion of this Tournament, which was held from 23rd to 26th June 2017 at Cauvery College of Engi-neering & Technology, Trichy.

The event was inaugurated by Dr.Mrs. RameswariNallusamy, Founder & Trustee, Cauvery Engg.College with Mr. Yogit of Chennai, the top seed of this event, on 23rd June at 10.00 AM, Mr.N.Nallusamy Chair-man, Cauvery Engg.College, Ex.Minister, Governmant of Tamilnadu Presides over the Inaugural Function. The Guests were Mr. Dr. N. Senthikumar, Vice Chairman, Dr. N. Arun-kumar, Secretary, Cauvery Engg.College, Mr. MV Hariharan, Divisional Manager, Canara Bank, Mr.N.Kannan, Andavar Water, Trichy, R.K. Balagunashekaran, Joint Secretary TN-SCA, T.Sundarrajan, Secretary,Trichy District Chess Association

This event was organized by Rockfort Chess Academy & Saamrats Chess Academy, Total 401 Players (246 rated players, 155 unrated players) from 6 States participated in this event. Mr. S.Yogit of Tamilnadu was the top seed of this event. The youngest player was six Year old girl and the oldest was aged seventy.

On 29th evening at 6.30 Pm the Prize Dis-tribution function was held, the Chief Guests are Mr.N.Nallusamy Chairman, Cauvery Engg.College, Ex.Minister, Governmant of Tamil-nadu Mr. Dr. N. Senthikumar, Vice Chair-man, Cauvery Engg.College, All the above Guests distributed 136 Prizes in total, in the presence of Mr.T.Sundarrajan, Secretary, Trichy District Chess Association &Mr.R.K. Balagunashekaran IA, Chief Arbiter of this Event and Jt.Sec.,TNSCA, Mr.R.Selvam, Presedient, Rockfort Chess Academy, Mr.PL.Kannan, Jt.Sec., Saamrats Chess Academy. Mr.M.Iravatham of Rockfort Chess Academy Welcomes the gathering.The total Prize Money of the Event is Rs. 2,00,000/- , The Organisers also gave ad-ditional special prize to all Under-7 Players.

The Tournament was conducted smoothly without any protest in a well-organized man-ner and for this I have to thank the Cauvery College of Engineering & Technology Manage-ment, AO, PD & all other Staff members for providing Venue, food at concessional rates and good accommodation to players. I must also thank all the Players, Parents, Coaches, Other District Officials and fellow Arbiters for their Kind Co-operation to conduct the event successfully. I must thank AICF, TNSCA & TDCA for giving me the chance to work as a Chief Arbiter in this wonderful Chess Tour-nament.Final ranking Rk Name Pts 1 Hirthickkesh Pr 7 2 Manigandan S S 7 3 Surendran N 7 4 Arul Anandh S P K 7

5 Sanjay Thiruvengadam 6½ 6 Barath Kalyan M 6½ 7 Kamalanathan R 6½ 8 Sathya Giri V 6½ 9 Harshad S 6½ 10 Kumar S. 6½ 11 Dhanasekar K. 6½ 12 Alaguraja M.A. 6 13 Shyam Sundar M 6 14 Vaibhav Singh Verma 6 15 Abhijith M 6 16 Mohith R 6 17 Rajasekaran P. 6 18 Shanmugasundaram G. 6 19 Aswin Babu J 6 20 Kiruthika B 6 21 Nirmal L 6 22 Vaisalie K 6 23 Gokul S 6 24 Balaji P 6 25 Kumaresh A 6 26 Govindarajan Suganthi 6 27 Arut Prakasha Yarish S 6 28 Shri Bharath B 6 29 Shanjay K Sathiskumar 6 30 Sivasubramanian Manoj 6 31 Priya Varshini T 6 32 Sriram B 6 33 Saravanan A 6 34 Ragesh Sarma.M 6 35 Sreenivasan N 6 36 Anselm Flavian Paul 6 37 Sathyanarayanan S. 5½ 38 Balaguru B 5½ 39 Siva A C 5½ 40 Suganthan S 5½ 41 Mukhesh C 5½ 42 Devaraja G 5½ 43 Nitin M Pai 5½ 44 Vinay R Jumani 5½ 45 Sreejith V S 5½

46 Preejesh S B 5½ 47 Raghavendra G 5½ 48 Mano Godwin Gunasekaran 5½ 49 Punit Easwar S 5½ 50 Thoufeeq S 5½ 51 Aravinth Shanmugam S 5½ 52 R Venkatasubramani 5½ 53 Srimozhi S 5½ 54 Sangeetha P 5½ 55 Muthu Paramaguru M 5½ 56 Kanish Vikraman Adithan B 5½ 57 Iniyan Sivakumar 5½ 58 Gopinath P 5½ 59 Balu P 5½ 60 Manikanda Prabhu B V 5½ 61 Shreevathsan B S 5½ 62 Saravanan R 5½ 63 Aadarsh Sridharan 5½ 64 Nikhil K 5½ 65 Kharunya C.S. 5½ 66 Keerthivasan P 5½ 67 Kamarajan B 5½ 68 Gayathri M 5 69 Abhinav Bhatt 5 70 Chandra Sekharan A P 5 71 Ram Kailash Pl 5 72 Sharan Krishnan 5 73 Kumaran Sachidhanandam 5 74 Aakash G 5 75 Soundariya Lakshmi G 5 76 Bargava Narasimhan S 5 77 Leaha B 5 78 Mohana Praba R B 5 79 Sivasubramanian S 5 80 Prawin K 5 81 Sivaa G M 5 82 Adithya A Chullikkad 5 83 Subash R 5 84 Balakowshi D S 5 85 Aswath S 5

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The 45th State Junior (Boys & Girls) Fide Rated Chess Championship 2017 organized by Jalpaiguri District Chess

Association under auspices of Bengal Chess Association, was held at ‘Town Hall Audito-rium, Jalpaiguri, West Bengal, from 24th to 27th June 2017 with 143 players (119 in Boys section and 24 in Girls section). In the inauguration ceremony IM Atanu Lahiri, Sec-retary, BCA ,Mr. Nantu Paul, Secretary, Dar-jeeling District Chess Association, Mr. Anand Rai, Secretary, Jalpaiguri District Chess Association, Chief Arbiter of the tournament Mr. Asit Baran Choudhury, I.A. were present.

The tournament was played in 8 round Swiss league format. DGT chess clocks were pro-vided to all the chess boards in both Boys and Girls section. All the Arbiters & volun-teers performed their duties sincerely and satisfactorily.

At the end of the final round Koustuv Kundu (7.5) clinched the Championship title in Boys Section, Rounak Pathak (6.5) & Pritam Bhat-tacharya (6.5) placed 2nd & 3rd respectively on better tie break). In the Girls Section local girl Shyamashree Sarkar(6) placed 1st position on better tie break. 1st Runner up Shinjini Sengupta(6) & Sudipa Halder(5) on 3rd spot

In the Prize distribution ceremony, prizes were distributed by Swami Shibpremanan-da, Pride of Northbengal Padmasree Karimul Haque.The organizers were very active dur-ing the whole tournament. They provided food, tea & snacks to all the participant & guardians at very cheap cost.

Final ranking: Boys Rk Name Pts 1 Kaustuv Kundu 7½ 2 Rounak Pathak 6½ 3 Pritam Bhattacharya 6½ 4 Utsab Chatterjee 6 5 Sambarta Banerjee 6 6 Neelash Saha 6 7 Ganguly Ritabroto 6 8 Praloy Sahoo 6 9 Sarbojit Paul 6 10 Anustoop Biswas 5½ 11 Souhardo Basak 5½ 12 Ritwick Pal 5½ 13 Shrutarshi Ray 5½ 14 Sounak De (1) 5½ 15 Soham Dey 5½ 16 Aviroop Bhattacharya 5½ 17 Krish Kedia 5½ 18 Hrithik Chatterjee 5½ 19 Aritra Ganguly 5½ 20 Subhrajyoti Sarkar 5½ 21 Bipra Nath 5½ 22 Prabuddha Sarkar 5 23 Dhritabrata Kundu 5 24 Sayantan Das 5 25 Rajarshi Mandal 5 26 Tarafder Arghadeep 5 27 Debanjan Ghosh 5 28 Saayan Dutta 5 29 Soumyadip Deb 5 30 Akshit Bose 5 31 Sayan Sarkar 5 32 Anjishnu Mondal 5 33 Aahwan Paul 5 34 Subhrajit Saha 5

35 Aditya Datta 5 36 Saptorshi Gupta 4½ 37 Sougata Singha 4½ 38 Arman Siddique 4½ 39 Anutosh Mukherjee 4½ 40 Rounak Guha Roy 4½ 41 Debaprabho Gorai 4½ 42 Soham Roy 4½ 43 Agrawal Rishab 4½ 44 Subhadeep Das Burman 4½ 45 Mouhurtik Ray 4½ 46 Nairwit Roy 4½ 47 Yudhajit Saha 4½ 48 Samyak Dharewa 4½ 49 Shourya Roy 4½ 50 Srinjoy Sarkar 4 51 Sourjya Mukherjee 4 52 Sayan Biswas 4 53 Diptam Roy 4 54 Jit Modak 4 55 Manish Mandal 4 56 Arkaprava Das 4 57 Arrya Das 4 58 Subhankar Kar 4 59 Sugato Chakraborty 4 60 Avigyan Ghosh 4 61 Srijit Saha 4 62 Zeeshanur Rahaman 4 63 Dhrubajyoti Barman 4 64 Ishan Ghosh (siliguri) 4 65 Buddhadipta Ghosh 4 66 Priyangshu Karmakar 4 67 Soumya Ranjan Sarkar 4 68 Arion Singha 4 69 Deboushnik De 4 70 Ariya Roy 4 71 Soumyadeep Raha 4 72 Tanishq Majumder 4 73 Sourav Saha 4 74 Soumajit Singha 4 75 Rajdeep Dutta 3½

76 Kingsuk Dey Sarkar 3½ 77 Sagar Das 3½ 78 Raj Ghosh 3½ 79 Aranya Lala 3½ 80 Snigdharup Bagchi 3½ 81 Abhirup Das 3½ 82 Aditya Pan 3 83 Subham Chaudhuri 3 84 Pramit Sarkar 3 85 Rounak Malakar 3 86 Nabarka Das 3 87 Saptak Chakraborty 3 88 Kritartha Barman 3 89 Samadarshi Pramanik 3 90 Kingshuk Roy 3 91 Biraj Paul 3 92 Devraj Chakraborty 3 93 Aritra Roy Prodhan 3 94 Nilarnab Barman 3 95 Saraswat Roy 3 Final ranking:Girls Rk Name Pts1 Shyamashree Sarkar 62 Shinjini Sengupta 63 Sudipa Haldar 54 Prateeti Gorai 55 Diya Chowdhury 56 Anushka Gupta 47 Kriti Mundhra 48 Rupkatha Malakar 49 Srijana Bhowmik 410 Manidipa Roy 3½11 Shaoni Mukherjee 3½12 Trisha Bhattacharyya 3½13 Priya Mondal 3½14 Shiny Ghosh 3½15 Shinjini Biswas 316 Raina Das Gupta 317 Shreyashi Mukherjee 318 Debadrita Dutta 319 Sumedha Das 3

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Selected games from 10th Mumbai Mayor GM OpenAnnotated by IM Manuel Aaron

Hossain,Enamul (Ban) (2464) Ra-ja,Rithvik R (2155) [B50]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.c3 Nf6 4.Be2 g6 5.0–0 Bg7 6.Re1 0–0 7.Bf1 Nc6 8.h3 e5 9.a3 d5 10.exd5 Nxd5 11.Bb5 Nde7 12.d3 h6 13.Be3 b6 14.b4 cxb4 15.axb4 Bb7 16.Ra2 a6 17.Ba4 Nd5 18.Bc1 b5 19.Bb3 Kh7 20.Rae2 f5 21.Bd2 Rc8 22.c4? [White has allowed black to develop aggressively. Now he must try to equalise the position by solving the problem of his backward c- and d-pawns. 22.Na3 Nc7 23.Qc2 Qd7 24.Nb1 Rfd8 25.Qa2!? Qxd3 26.Bg5! e4 (26...hxg5 27.Nxg5+ Kh6 28.Nf7+ Kh7 29.Rd2+-) 27.Bxd8 (27.Rd2 Qxd2 28.Nbxd2 Rd3 29.Be6 Rf8 30.Bf4 exf3 31.Bxc7 Bxc3 32.Qb3 Nd4 33.Bg8+ Rxg8 34.Re7+ Rg7 35.Rxg7+ Kxg7 36.Be5+ Kf8 37.Bxd4+-) 27...Qxd8= 28.Rd2 Qe7 29.Kh1=] 22.. .bxc4 23.Bxc4 Nb6 24.Be6 Rc7 25.Be3 Nd5 26.Qb3 Ncxb4 27.Bd2?

Diagram # [Better was: 27.Bxd5 Nxd5

28.Bd2 Nf4 29.Bxf4 exf4 30.Nbd2 Qd5 31.Qb6 Qc5 32.Qxc5 Rxc5 33.Re7 Bd5µ] 27...Nxd3 A nasty surprise which takes advantage of the awkwardly huddled white forces. 28.Qxd3 e4 29.Qb3 exf3 30.gxf3

Diagram # 30...Qa8?! [This is a Nimzow-itschian move! Probably, black has been looking up games by Nimzowitsch who liked to place his queen on a1 with the white pieces and attack the centre. Here, this idea was not necessary. He could gain an advantage by continuing nor-mally: 30...Re8 31.h4!? (for 32 h5) 31...Rxe6 32.Rxe6 Qxh4 33.Rc1 Rd7 34.Rc4 Qh3–+ Black's pieces are all well posted and bristling with threats. One idea would be for his Nd5 to vacate that square so that Bxf3 is possible. White's main draw-back is his Nb1 which is not contributing to his defence.] 31.Na3 [White's position is so bad that it is difficult to suggest a better move. For example, if: 31.Ba5 Rc5 32.Qa3 Rxa5 33.Qxa5 Nf4 34.Rd2 Re8–+] 31...Rb8 32.Nc4 Bc6 33.Qd3 (white wants to be in touch with his weak f3 pawn.) 33...Rd8! 34.Ba5 [Perhaps a little better was 34.Bxd5 Bxd5 35.Nb6 Qc6 36.Nxd5 Rxd5 37.Qa3 Rcd7 38.Re6 Qc4–+ Black will welcome entering a pawn up, rook and bishop endgame.] 34...Nf4 35.Qc2 Diagram #

35...Ba4!! This vacates the long white diag-onal for his 'Nimzowitsch' queen to capture on f3 and mate on g2. 36.Bxc7 [White's position has become hopeless. If 36.Qxa4 Qxf3 (the mate on g2 cannot be averted.) 37.Ne3 Nxh3+ 38.Kh2 Be5+] 36...Bxc2 37.Bxf4 Bd3? [Best was the obvious: 37...Qxf3 38.Rxc2 Qxf4 39.Ra2 Bc3 40.Re3 Rd1+ 41.Kg2 Bd4 42.Rf3 Qc1!] 38.Re3 Rd4 39.Nb6 Qb7 40.Be5? Bxe5 41.Rxe5 Qxb6 42.Bd5 h5! 43.Re7+ Kh6 44.Bf7 Bc4 This makes absolutely sure that white does not get to play R1e6. 0–1Laxman,R.R (2421) Chitlange,Sak-shi (2096) [E17]When Sakshi Chitlange won the World Women's Amateur Championship (open to players rated Under 2300) in Singapore, 2014, she was automatically made a Wom-an International Master. Born in 2000, she was only 14 at that time. Now at 17, she is half the age of the Tamil Nadu Grandmaster R.R.Laxman who was himself a child prodigy. This instructive and impressive game demon-strates the enormous chess strength of Sakshi Chitlange. 1.Nf3 Nf6 2.b3 e6 3.Bb2 b6 4.g3 Bb7 5.Bg2 Be7 6.0–0 0–0 7.c4 d5 8.cxd5 exd5 9.d4 Nbd7 10.Nc3 Re8 11.e3 Ne4 12.Rc1 Ndf6 13.Nd2 Nxc3 14.Rxc3 Bb4 15.Rc2? [15.Rc1 gave black only a negligible advantage.] 15...Ba6 16.Re1 Bd3 17.Rc1 Ne4! 18.Nxe4 Bxe4 [Better was: 18...dxe4 19.Bc3 Ba3 20.Ra1 Qd6 and black has a promising advantage.]

19.Re2 Bxg2 20.Kxg2 Bd6 21.Rec2 Qg5 22.Qf3 Re4 Black has the freer posi-tion. 23.Rxc7?

[Probably, white under-estimated his 17-year old WIM opponent. Better was 23.b4 a6 24.Rc6 f5 25.a4 Rf8 26.Kh1 making black's plan of f5-f4 very difficult.] 23...Bxc7 24.Rxc7 Qg6 25.Ba3 f5 26.Qe2 [This plans to attack the d5 pawn with Qb5. After 26.Rd7 Qe6 27.Rd6 Qf7µ Black not only has a rook for bishop and pawn but also a very firm control over the centre.] 26...a6!? [Black can brilliantly win with: 26...f4! 27.Qb5 Rd8 28.exf4 Rxf4 29.Be7 a6! 30.Qxa6 Re8 31.Bb4 Qg4 32.Qb5 Qf3+ 33.Kh3 Qe4! (This not only defends her Re8, but also threatens a deadly, and surprising, mate in two with 34...Rh4+!! 35 gxh4 Qf3#!!) 34.Rc3 Qf5+ 35.Kg2 Rxf2+ mates.] 27.Qc2 Re6 [27...Ree8!³] 28.Bb4 Diagram # [White should have tried: 28.Rd7!? which would have pre-sented both sides with attractive ways of both winning and losing! 28...Rc6 29.Qe2 f4! 30.exf4 (30.Rxd5? Rc2 31.Qf3 fxe3 32.Rd6 Qe8 33.Qd5+ Kh8 34.Re6 Rxf2+ 35.Kh3 Qc8 36.Qe5 Rf6 37.d5 Rh6+ 38.Kg4 Rxh2–+) 30...Rc2 31.Qf3 (31.Qe5? Qe4+ 32.Kh3 Qxe5 33.fxe5 Rxa2 34.Be7 Rxf2 35.Rxd5 Rf3 36.Rd7 (Protecting the b-pawn would allow black to take the initiative on the queen-side: 36.b4? a5 37.bxa5 bxa5 38.Kg4 Re3 39.Kf4 Re2 40.Rc5 a4µ) 36...Rxb3 37.d5 Re3 38.e6 Re5 (38...b5? 39.Bc5!± Re4 40.e7 Re8 41.d6+-) 39.Ba3

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Re8 40.Bb2 Rg5=) 31...Qe4 32.Rxd5 Qxf3+ 33.Kxf3 Rxa2 34.Bd6 Rd8!]

28...Rae8 29.Qd3 Qg4 30.h3 [If 30.Qxa6 f4! 31.exf4 Rh6 32.h4 Rxh4 33.Re7 Qh3+ 34.Kf3 Rxe7 35.Bxe7 Qh1+! 36.Ke2 Qe4+ 37.Kd2 Qxd4+ 38.Ke2 Qe4+ 39.Kd2 Rh6³ Now, it is easier than before for black to attack the white king which has been smoked out of its castled position.] 30...Qe4+ 31.Qxe4 fxe4 32.Rd7 Rc8 Black prepares to invade the white po-sition through ...Rc2. 33.Bd6 Rf6 34.Be5 Rf7 35.Rxd5 Rc2 36.Bf4 Rxa2 37.g4 Rb2 38.b4 h6 39.Rd8+ Rf8 40.Rd7 Rf7 41.Rd8+ Kh7 42.Ra8 Rxb4 43.Rxa6 Rb7! The rook belongs behind the passed pawn is a general endgame rule which should not be forgotten. 44.d5 [To be considered here was: 44.f3 exf3+ 45.Kxf3 b5 46.Ra1 Ra4³] 44...Rb5 45.Ra4 Rxd5 46.Rxe4 b5 47.Rb4 Rc5 48.Kf3 Kg6 49.h4 Kf6 50.g5+ hxg5 51.Bxg5+ Ke6 52.Ke4

Diagram # 52...Rd7! [Excellent strategy!

Black prevents the white king from crossing over to the queen-side to prevent her b-pawn from queening. Premature would be: 52...Rc4+?! 53.Rxc4 bxc4 54.Kd4 Rc7 55.e4 c3 56.h5 c2 57.Bc1 Rc8 58.Kd3 and black will find it very difficult to win.] 53.Kf3 Kd5 54.Rb2 [If 54.Rd4+ Kc6 55.Re4 Rb7 56.Rb4 Rc2 57.Bf4 Kc5 and black is ready to victori-ously push her b-pawn without any further hin-drance.] 54...Kc4 Further play is easy to un-derstand. 55.Ke2 b4 56.Rc2+ Kb5 57.Rb2 Ka4 58.Ra2+ Kb3 59.Ra8 Kc2 60.Ra2+ Kb1 61.Ra4 b3 62.e4 b2 63.Be3 Rc2+ 64.Ke1 Rc6 65.Bd4 Kc2 66.Bxb2 Kxb2 67.Ke2 Kb3 68.Ra5 Rf7 69.Rg5 Rc2+ 70.Ke3 Rcxf2 71.Rxg7 Rxg7 72.Kxf2 Rg4! 73.Ke3 Kc4! The h-pawn can wait as it cannot get away. First, black frustrates white by not allowing him any play. 74.h5 Rh4 0–1Karthik,Venkataraman (2317) Pri-yanka,K (2067) [B01]1.e4 d5 2.Nc3 dxe4 3.Nxe4 Qd5 4.Nc3 Qa5 5.d4 Nf6 6.Nf3 Bf5 7.Bc4 c6 8.Bd2 e6 9.Nd5 Qd8 10.Nxf6+ gxf6 [10...Qxf6 11.Bc3=] 11.Qe2 This is a well-known pawn offer in the Centre Counter Defence which is known in Europe as the Scandinavian Defence. For the pawn, white gets a lot of attacking chances. 11...Bxc2 One has to live dangerously after grabbing the pawn and lagging behind in development. But the lure of a pawn is always very tempting! 12.0–0 Be7 13.Rfe1 Bg6

14.Bxe6!?N [This launches the game into extreme complications. 14.Bc3 has been tried here earlier in M.Raeber vs H.Hugo in the Canarias in 2004. White won in 28 violent moves!] 14...fxe6 15.Qxe6 Qd7?! [The best defence for black is: 15...Rf8 16.Bb4 Rf7 17.Re3 Na6 18.Bxe7 (18.Ba3 Kf8–+) 18...Rxe7 19.Qg8+ Kd7 20.Rxe7+ Kxe7 (20...Qxe7? 21.Qxa8+-) 21.Qg7+ Kd6 22.Qxb7 Nc7 23.Qb4+ Kd7 24.Re1 Rb8µ] 16.Qxf6 Rf8 17.Qg7 Rf7 18.Qg8+ Rf8 So far, black has done well to survive, putting up a dogged resistance. White has a slight advan-tage as he has two pawns for his sacrificed bishop. However, Black is uncomfortable as her king is caught in the centre and her queen-side yet to be developed. 19.Qb3! Kd8? Diagram # [This immediately loses to a short brilliant attack. Somewhat better was: 19...Bf7 20.Qc3 Rg8 (20...Bd5 21.Bg5 Rf7 22.Ne5+-) 21.Bg5 Rxg5 22.Nxg5 Bd5 23.Qe3 Kd8 24.Nxh7 Qd6±

White's rook and three pawns are not nec-essarily superior to black's two bishops but Black's real problem is her uncastled king and her non-performing rook on a8.]20.Rxe7!! Kxe7 [20...Qxe7?? 21.Bg5+-] 21.Bg5+! Kd6 22.Qb4+ Kc7 23.Qxf8 Qe8 [If 23...b6 24.Re1 for 25 Re7 wins.] 24.Qf4+ Kc8 [More stub-born but still losing was: 24...Kb6 25.Qd6 Na6 26.Ne5+-] 25.Re1! White throws all

his resources into the attack to clinch the game effortlessly. 25...Qf7 26.Qd6! In such a situation, with two extra pawns, a beginner would tend to exchange off queens and simplify. But a good player would try to find the quickest way to execute mate. Now the threat is 27 Qd8# 26...Nd7

27.Bf4! [The game has a beautiful finish after: 27.Bf4 Nb6 28.Re8+!! Qxe8 29.Qc7#] 1–0Neelotpal,Das (2438) Singh,Neha (1922) [E60]So far, black has played well to hold the Grandmaster to equality. But now she errs, though the error is difficult to spot. But the Grandmaster saw further.

32...e4? [Leading to equality was: 32...Rxa4 33.Rxa4 e4] 33.Rxa8! Rxa8 34.Bxg7 Kxg7 35.Rxa8 Qxa8 36.Bxe4! This is what Black had not foreseen when she played32...e4? 36...Qb7 [36...dxe4

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37.Qxd7+-] 37.Qd4+ f6 38.Bd3± Nf8 39.h4 Ne6 40.Qc3 Kf7

41.Be2 [Played with great caution. He could play on both wings and bring black into a big crisis]41...Nc7 42.Qa3 Kg7 43.Qa5 Ne6 Black appears to have a solid defensive po-sition. 44.Bg4 [44.Qb6! Qd7 45.b5 cxb5 46.Bxb5 Qe7 47.c6 Nc7 48.Kf1+-] 44...f5 [44...Nf8? 45.Qb6!+-] 45.Be2 Kf7 46.h5 [After 46.Ba6 Qd7 47.b5 cxb5 48.Bxb5 Qc7 49.Qxc7+ Nxc7 50.Bc6± white will have some technical problems in converting his extra pawn to a win.] 46...g5 47.Bd3 Kf6 48.Qa1+ d4 49.Qb2 [Also winning was: 49.exd4 Qxb4 50.Qa8 Qxd4 51.Qh8+ Ke7 52.Qxh7+ Ke8 53.Qg6+ Ke7 54.Bxf5+-] 49...Qd7 50.Bc4 Ng7 51.exd4 Nxh5 52.d5+ Kg6 Diagram #

53.Qe5! In most endgames where queens figure, it would be advisable to station the

queen in the centre where its power is at its most awful. 53...cxd5 54.Qxd5 Qa4 55.Qe6+ White perceives that it would be more prof-itable to attack the King and its ill-placed knight, than to push his passed pawns to victory. 55...Kg7 56.Qe7+ Kh6 57.Qf8+ Ng7 [57...Kg6?? 58.Bf7+ Kf6 59.Bb3+ wins the queen.] 58.Qf6+ Kh5 59.Be2+ [59.g4+!! will check-mate in five moves. Check this out yourself!] 59...g4 60.Qf7+ Kh6 61.Qf6+ Kh5 62.Bc4 Threat 63 Bf7# 1–0

Deviatkin,Andrei (Rus) (2481) Amon-atov,Farrukh (Tjk) (2635) 1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 g6 3.Bg5 Bg7 4.Nbd2 0–0 5.c3 d5 6.e3 Nbd7 7.Be2 Re8 8.0–0 h6 9.Bh4 e5 [M.Bezold 2490 vs O.Cvitan 2570, Makarska, 1997 went: 9...c6 10.Rc1 e5 11.Nb3 exd4 12.cxd4 ...and drawn on the 15th move.] 10.h3 c5 11.Bg3 [The bishop was pinning the Nf6 and it was best to leave it on h4 and play: 11.dxc5 Nxc5 12.b4 Ncd7 13.c4 dxc4 14.Nxc4=] 11...exd4 12.exd4 Ne4 13.Bf4 Qb6! 14.Rb1 Ndf6 15.dxc5 Nxc5 16.Nd4 Bd7 17.N2f3 [17.Be3 for a veiled attack on the Qb6 or,; 17.Re1 were better.] 17...Nfe4 18.Be3

18...Ng3! The start of black's stunning moves. 19.Re1 Rxe3! A stunning but risky follow-up! 20.fxe3 Re8 21.Bd3± h5 22.b4 Nce4 23.Qc2 g5 24.Bxe4 Nxe4² For his rook and knight, black has two bishops and aggressively posted pieces. To add to

white's woes, he has a backward pawn on e3 which soon becomes a target. 25.Nd2 g4!? The critical point of the game. Depending on what white does now, he would either go up or go down. 26.hxg4?!

[White chooses the wrong way. It was best to exchange off the dominating black knight on e4: 26.Nxe4! Rxe4 27.hxg4 hxg4 28.Qf2 Qh6 29.g3 Be5 30.Rbd1 Qh3 31.Ne2 Bc6 32.Rf1 f6²] 26...Nxc3!! 27.Qxc3 Rxe3!! The white position collapses with this second thunderbolt in a row. 28.Qxe3 [If 28.Rxe3 Bxd4 29.Kh1 Bxc3 30.Rxc3 hxg4 31.Nf1 Bf5 32.Rd1 Be4–+] 28...Bxd4 29.Nf1 hxg4! The white queen can be captured leisurely, there is no hurry! 30.a3 Bxe3+ 31.Nxe3 d4! 32.Nc4 Qh6 33.Ne5 [33.Rb3? Be6–+] 33...g3 34.Nf3 [If 34.Nxd7 d3! the key move in the attack, which closes the escape route of the white king via e2. 35.Nf6+ Qxf6 36.Rec1 Qd4+ 37.Kh1 Qh4+ 38.Kg1 Qh2+ 39.Kf1 Qh1#] 34...Bc6 35.Rb2

Diagram # 35...d3! [35...d3 36.Rb3 (36.Rd1 Qe3+–+; 36.b5 Bxf3 37.gxf3 d2! fol-lowed by 38...Qh2+ ] 0–1

M a h i n d r a k a r , I n d r a j e e t ( 1 9 7 7 ) Nguyen,Duc Hoa(Vie) (2477) Indrajeet Mahindrakar, 17, is one of the many untitled Indian teenagers who are becoming terrors to visiting grandmasters in Interna-tional Tournaments in India. Nguyen duc Hoa, 28, became an IM in 2011 and a GM in 2014. Currently, he is ranked 4th in Vietnam. 1.e4 c5 2.c3 Nf6 3.e5 Nd5 4.g3 d6 5.exd6 e6 6.Bg2 Bxd6 7.Nf3 0–0 8.0–0 Nc6 9.d4 cxd4 10.Nxd4 Bd7 11.Nf3 [Z.Bogut 2454 vs A.Kovacevic, BIH Ch., Vogosca, 2007, went: 11.c4 Nde7 12.Nc3 Be5 13.Be3 Qc8 14.Rc1 Drawn on the 89th move.] 11...Qc7 12.Nbd2 Ne5 13.Nxe5 Bxe5 14.Qe2 Bc6 15.Re1 Bd6 16.Ne4 Be7 17.c4 Nb6 18.b3 [Playing into black's hands would be: 18.Bf4 e5!] 18...Rae8 When a player makes such a move, leaving his other rook on f8 with-out any options, one can guess black's strategy - he is going to push ....f5, ....e5. 19.Bb2 e5 20.Rad1 f5 21.Nc3 e4 22.Bc1 [It is understood that the bish-op plans to get to f4 attacking the black queen. Instead of this 'undeveloping' move, he should have tried either 22.Qe3 ; or 22.a3 ] 22...Qe5 23.Qc2 Bb4 24.Bb2 This return of the bishop to b2 is a kind of morale booster for black. 24...Qe7 25.Qc1 Bc5 26.a3 a5 27.Re2 Rd8 Diagram # 28.Rde1!? [This second with-drawal of a white piece would would be a loss of face for White, but he is playing what is required on the board and is not looking for public adulation. Most players would go for 28.Rxd8? Rxd8 29.g4 e3 30.fxe3 Rd3 31.Bxc6 bxc6 32.Qc2 Rxe3 33.Kg2 fxg4µ] 28...h5 [This move is to

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(Position after 27…Rd8)the game and to squash whatever dreams white may have of busting white's centre with g3-g4. Maybe he also plans h5-h4 in some variations? But it does not aid in his overall plan of crushing white in the cen-tre. 28...Rd3 was to be considered here.] 29.Na2 White quietly prepares his own in-genious counter attack which black has no inkling off! 29...Rd3?! [This is a wee bit late. He could keep his advantage with dy-namic play: 29...e3! 30.fxe3 Bxg2 31.Kxg2 Qe4+ 32.Kg1 f4] 30.b4! The start of white's counter-attack. 30...axb4 31.axb4 Bxb4 32.Nxb4 Qxb4 Diagram #

33.Bxg7!! this guarantees white a draw by perpetual check. 33...Rf7? [Probably this bishop offer stunned the Vietnamese and

turned his world upside down. Till now, he had probably anticipated an easy and early victory over Mahindrakar, and a nice dinner in a cozy restaurant. He could draw easily by accepting the bishop, but he wants more! Which grandmaster would agree to a draw with an untitled teen-ager! If 33...Kxg7 34.Qg5+ Kf7 (34...Kh7 35.Qxh5+ Kg7 36.Qg5+ Kh7 is a quiet draw.) 35.Qxf5+ Ke8 36.Qxh5+ Kd8 37.Bxe4 Bxe4 38.Rxe4 Nd7 39.Re8+ Rxe8 40.Rxe8+ Kc7 41.Qh4 with chances for both sides.] 34.Be5! This bishop plays a great role in white's victory. 34...Nxc4 35.Qg5+ Kf8 36.Qh6+ Ke7 37.Bf4² White enjoys attacking play and plays powerful moves targetting the king. 37...Kd7 38.Qxh5 Qe7 39.Bh3 Qf6 Unfortunately, black has to defend his once mighty position with such moves. 40.Rc2 Nb6 41.Bg5 Qe6 42.Qh8 (This threatens 43 Qd8#) 42...Qe8

Diagram # 43.Qb2! This queen flies from flank to flank, threatening the black forces with different threats. 43...Nd5 44.Bf1 Qg8 45.h4 f4? Diagram # [Black gambles, trying to startle white into errors. But it only speeds up his end. Better though still losing would be: 45...Qg7 46.Bxd3 exd3 47.Qxg7 Rxg7 48.Rb2+-] 46.Qe5! Ne7 [If 46...Re7 47.Bxe7 Rxg3+ 48.fxg3 Qxg3+ 49.Rg2 Qxe1 50.Qd6+ Ke8 51.Rg8+ mates. 51...

Kf7 52.Rf8+ Kg7 53.Qe5+ Kg6 54.h5+ Kh7 55.Qh8#; or if 46...fxg3 47.Bh3+ mates.] 47.Bxd3 exd3 48.Rc3 Qg6 49.Qd4+ Nd5 50.Rxd3 fxg3 51.Qg4+ Kc7 52.Qxg3+! Kc8 53.Qg4+ Rd7 [If now 53...Kc7 54.Bd8+ Kxd8 55.Qxg6+-] 54.Ra3 b6 55.Qe6 [Stronger was: 55.h5 Qf7 56.h6 Kb7 57.Rea1+-] 55...Qxe6 56.Rxe6 Kb7 57.Re8 b5 58.Rd8 Exchange everything! Perhaps this is white's first GM scalp and he wants to make sure there are no hiccups! 58...Rg7 59.Rd3 Nc7 60.Re3 Rg6 61.Kh2 Kb6 62.f4 Bd5 63.h5 Rc6 64.h6 Rc2+ 65.Kg3 Rg2+ 66.Kh4 Be6 67.Rd6+! Kc5 68.Rdxe6 Nxe6 69.Rxe6 b4 70.Kh3 1–0

Gokhale,Anupama (2047) Mahalaksh-mi,M (2180) [A47]Anupama Abhyankar startled the chess world by winning the male-dominated Maharashtra Championship in 1988. In 1985 she became a WIM by winning the inaugural Asian Jun-ior Girls Championship in Adelaide. She got the Padmashri and Arjuna Awards in 1987 and 1990. She won the National Women's Championship five times. She is married to the famous coach, Raghunandan Gokhale. On the other hand, M.Mahalakshmi who is 19 now, was not even born when Anupama was ruling Indian women's chess with all her glory. Mahalakshmi's best result is winning the World U–14 Girls Championship in 2012. Hailing from a very humble background, the only national title she has won is the National U-7 Girls in 2005. But in recent years she has been performing consistently well. 1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 e6 3.Bf4 b6 4.e3 Bb7 5.Bd3 c5 6.c3 cxd4 7.cxd4 Be7 8.h3 0–0 9.0–0 Ne4 [B.McCarthy 2245 vs T.Tolnai 2500, New York Open, 1993, went: 9...Nc6 10.Nc3 Rc8 11.Bh2 a6 12.e4 d5 13.e5 Nd7 Black won on move 41.] 10.Nc3 Nxc3 11.bxc3 d5 [To be considered here were both 11...d6 ; and

11...f5 ] 12.Ne5 [Better was: 12.Qb1 h6 13.Rc1 Ba3 14.Rc2 Qe7 15.c4 Ba6 16.Ne5²] 12...Nd7 13.Rc1 Rc8 14.Qe2 Nxe5 15.dxe5? [Better was: 15.Bxe5! Bd6 16.Bxd6 Qxd6 17.Rc2 Rc7=] 15...Rc7?! [Better 15...Rc5] 16.Qg4 Re8 17.Bb5 Bc6 18.Bd3= It is equal but with an edge for black. 18...Qa8 The influence of Nimzowitsch still prevails in our country! 19.h4 Rec8 20.Bh6 Bf8 21.h5 Kh8 22.Bg5 h6 23.Bh4 Bb7! The c3 pawn falls, but white thinks she can save it! 24.Qd4?? [Better was: 24.Rfd1] 24...Rc4!!–+ 25.Bxc4 Rxc4 26.Qd3 Rxh4 27.f4 d4 28.Qe2 d3! 29.Qd2 Rg4 30.Rf2 Be7 The bishop is headed for h4 attacking the Rf2.31.Qb2 Bxg2[White prepares for the knock out combination, though she is aware of the quick win with: 31...Ba3!! 32.Qd2 Bxc1 33.Qxc1 Bxg2] 32.Rxg2 Ba3!! 0–1

Sai,Krishna G V (2339) Deepan,Chak-kravarthy J (2480) [B42]One of the many mysteries of the chess world is why 21–year old FIDE Master G. V.Sai Kr-ishna of Andhra is still only an FM. After his winning the National Under-9 and Under–15 championships and his many superb victories over famous players one expected greater deeds from this great 'thinker'. In this thrilling game he defeats the 30–year old Tamil Nadu GM who has himself come close to winning the prestigious Indian Championship a few times, but never did! 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 a6 5.Bd3 Bc5 6.Nb3 Be7 7.0–0 d6 8.f4 Nd7 9.Qe1 Ngf6 10.Nc3 Qc7 11.a4 b6 12.Qg3 [E.Raaste 2328 vs S. Nyysti 2284, Finland, 2001 went: 12.Bd2 Bb7 13.Qg3 h5 14.Rae1 h4 15.Qf3 g5 16.fxg5 Ne5 17.Qe2 Nfd7 18.h3 Qd8 19.Be3 Bxg5 20.Bd4 white won on the 53rd move.] 12...g6 13.e5 dxe5 14.fxe5 Nh5 [If 14...Qxe5 15.Bf4 Qh5 16.a5! b5 17.Be2 Qf5 18.Bh6! (18.Bf3 Nh5 19.Qe1 Ra7 20.Be3 Rc7 21.Nd4+-) 18...

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16.Bh6? [Better was to take the proffered rook and dare black's minor pieces and queen! 16.Qxa8 Bb7 17.Qa7 Ra8 18.Qxb7 Qxb7 19.Be4 Qc8 20.Bxa8 Qxa8 21.Be3=] 16...Nxe5 17.Qe2 [17.Qxa8? Bb7³] 17...Nxd3 18.cxd3 Bd6! 19.g4 Ng7 20.Rac1 Qd8! A deeply thought out strategical move by black! He threatens ...Qh4 and ....Bb7 to take advantage of white's 'airy' castled king-side with his two bishops. 21.g5 Bb7 22.Ne4 Be7 23.Nf6+ Bxf6 24.gxf6= Nf5 25.Bxf8 Qxf8 26.Rc7 Bd5 27.Nd2 Qd6 Threat 28....Ng3!! winning. 28.Rfc1 h5 29.Ne4 Bxe4 [The white knight can be very troublesome. If 29...Qe5?? 30.Rc8+ Kh7 31.Ng5+ wins the queen.] 30.Qxe4! Rf8 31.R1c3 a5? [Slightly better was: 31...Nd4 32.Re7 e5!? 33.Kg2²] 32.Rc8 Rxc8 33.Rxc8+ Kh7 Diagram #

34.d4!? White plans to deflect the knight from the defence of f7 so that he can win by capturing f7 with check. But he might have overlooked the damage that the deflected knight can do from d4! 34...Nxd4 35.Qb7 Qf4 36.Qxf7+ Kh6 37.Rc3 Ne2+ 38.Kg2 Qe4+ 39.Kf2 Nf4 40.h4!

Diagram # 40...Qg2+? [Black could win with Qe2!+, the vital difference between the two checks being that black is un-able to grab the h4 pawn with check after he gives 40...Qg2+? The capture of the h4 pawn releases the black king from the white queen's mate threat on g7 as the king could escape to g5. Therefore black could win with: 40...Qe2+! 41.Kg3 Qg4+ 42.Kf2 Qxh4+ 43.Ke3 Kg5! and black's queen and knight would combine for a victorious attack.] 41.Ke3 Nd5+ 42.Kd4 Qg4+ 43.Ke5 Qf5+ [If now 43...Qxh4 44.Qg7+ Kg5 45.f7 Qf4+ 46.Kxe6 Qf5+ 47.Kd6+-] 44.Kd6 (Now the threat of 45 Qg7# calls for giving up more material.) 44...Qf4+ 45.Kxe6 Qf5+ 46.Kd6 Qxf6+ Forced move. 47.Qxf6 Nxf6 48.Rb3! 1–0

Raghunandan,Kaumandur Srihari (2410) - Amonatov,Farrukh (Tjk) (2635) [E94]

Karnataka's K.S.Raghunandan (16) is among the young crop of ambitious Indian IMs one sees frequenting most Interna-tional Opens in the country. The 30–year old Tajik GM, Farrukh Amonatov is a strong GM with an attractive, attacking style of play. 1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 g6 3.c4 Bg7 4.Nc3 0–0 5.e4 d6 6.Be2 Nbd7 7.0–0 e5 8.Be3 Ng4 9.Bg5 f6 10.Bc1 c6 11.Qc2 Qe7 12.Rd1 exd4 [12...f5 was unsuccessfully tried in Tom Wiley vs P.Hanko in Bled, 1999: 13.h3 Nh6 14.Bg5 Qe8 15.exf5 gxf5 16.d5 c5 17.Nb5 Qg6 18.Be7 Rf7 19.Nh4! 1–0] 13.Nxd4 f5 14.g3 Nc5 15.exf5 gxf5 16.h3= Diagram #

16...Nxf2?! [16...Ne5 or 16...Nf6 would have kept the balance. But the Tajik-istan GM wants adventure and excite-ment!] 17.Kxf2 f4!? After investing a knight in an attack, black has to go full throttle or be drowned. 18.Bxf4 Rxf4+! 19.gxf4 Qh4+ 20.Kg1 [With an extra rook, white has only a very slight advantage as his king is bereft of cover. Here instead of passively going back to g1, he should boldly try to escape to the queen-side with: 20.Ke3 Bxh3 21.Rg1 Rf8 22.Nf3 Qxf4+ 23.Kf2 Qh2+ 24.Ke3 Qf4+=] 20...Qg3+ 21.Kh1 Qxh3+

22.Kg1

Diagram # 22...Bxd4+! 23.Rxd4 Qe3+ 24.Kh1 Qxd4 We must take stock of the position now. Black has an extra pawn but lags in development though his bishop is ready to enter the game. However, both kings lack shelter, the black king having just one pawn to hide behind while the white king has none. Black's chances are better. 25.Rg1+ Kh8 26.b4 Diagram # [A better plan was: 26.Rg5 Qxf4 27.Rh5 Qf7µ] 26...Qxf4!! 27.bxc5 [After this capture, five forceful moves force white's resignation. A slower defeat followed: 27.Bf1 Bf5 28.Qh2 Qf3+ 29.Qg2 Qxc3 30.bxc5 dxc5–+] 27..Qh4+! 28.Kg2 Bh3+! 29.Kf3 Rf8+ 30.Ke3 Qf4+31.Kd3 Bf5+0–1

(Position after 26.b4)

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Tactics from master games by S.Krishnan

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

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

5 6 White to play and win White to play and win

(solutions on p.47)

Test your endgame by C.G.S.Narayanan

Pogosjanc 1964 Bron & Kuznecov 1964

1. 2. Dr.Jindrich Fritz 1962 Kalandadze & Neidze 1963

3. 4. Koroljkov 1964 Perkonoja 1963

5. 6.

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

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Chess in Lakecity Summer Cup FIDE Rated Tournament,Udaipur

Aditya Birla 17th Jharkand Senior State Chess Tournament

Champion Ankit receives the prize from IA Prof. R. Anantharam, Sri. Pramod Samar and Sri Sanchal Agarwal

(L-R) Dipak Kumar, Richa Sanchita, Executive-President, Ram Kumar Pahan, MLA RDCA Anshul Nigam, Champion, Pradip Verma, President AJCA

Masters of the past-78 Georgy Agzamov

Georgy Tadzhikanovich Agzamov (1954-1986) was the first Uzbeki-stan Grandmaster (thus, the first Asian grandmaster). He was born in Almalyk in the province of Tashkent of central Uzbekistan, into a family of medical doctors on September 6, 1954. In 1966, at the age of 12, he was the chess champion of his town. In 1971, he took 2nd place in the USSR Junior Championship, held in Riga. In 1973, he played in his first Uzbekistan championship. He took 1st place in the Uzbekistani Chess Championship in 1976 and 1981. In 1982, he was awarded the International Master title. In 1984, he was awarded the Grandmaster title.

His highest Elo rating was 2590 on the January 1, 1985 FIDE rating list. Chessmetrics has him rated #8 in the world in 1984 with a 2728 rating. His best individual performance was Sochi, 1984, with

a performance rating of 2761. He won Belgrade 1982, Vrsac 1983, Sochi 1984 (defeating Tal and scoring +7=7-0), Tashkent 1984, and Calcutta June 1986 (the strongest chess tournament ever held in India up to that time – Niaz Murshed took 2nd and Anand took 3rd place).

In 1980, he played in the Championship of the USSR (1 League) in Tashkent. He took 11th-12th place (won by Beliavsky). In 1981, he took 1st place in the semifinal of the USSR championship, held in Cheliabinsk. He played in the 49th USSR championship at Frunze in 1981 and tied for 6th-7th place (won by Kasparov and Psakhis). In 1982, he tied for 3rd-5th in the semifinal USSR championship, held in Pavlodar (won by Azmaipar-ashvili). In 1982, he took 2nd in the 50th USSR Championship (1 League), held in Telavi (won by Vaganian). He played in the 50th USSR championship at Moscow in 1983 (won by Karpov), and tied for 10th-13th place. In 1984, he took 1st place in the USSR Cham-pionship (1 League), held in Tashkent. His rating was 2570. He played in the 52nd USSR championship at Riga in 1985 and tied for 7th-8th place (won by Gavrikov, M Gurevich, and Chernin). The Agzamov variation in the Alekhine is 1.e4 Nf6 2.e5 Nd5 3.d4 d6 4.Nf3 Bg4 5.Be2 c6.

At the age of 32, just in the heyday of his glory, Georgy died on August 27, 1986 in a mountaineering accident in Cremia. Agzamov studied English and literature at the univ-eristy. A memoriam in Russian appeared in Chess Informant 42.

The Agzamov Memorial took place in March 2007 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. It was the first international tournament to commemorate Georgy Agzamov – the first ever Uzbek, and arguably the first Asian Grandmaster. Not only was he a very strong player, nicknamed “the nightmare of top GMs” in the Soviet Union, he also did a lot to promote chess in his native Uzbekistan and beyond, in such remote locations as Cuba, United Arab Emirates, India and many other countries where he worked or volunteered as a chess coach and tournament organizer. Tied for 1st place were GM Leonid Yurtaev, GM Marat Dzhumaev, and IM Sergey Kayumov.The 2008 Agzamov Memorial had 73 players from 9 countries. Ties for 1st place were Farrukh Amonatov, Anton Filippov, and Vitaly Tseshkovsky. The 2009 Agzamov Memorial was won by GM Vitaly Tseshkovsky, age 64.

Courtesy:Chess.com

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Nainital Open Fide Rated Chess Tournament 2017, Nainital

7th St.Joseph’s International Fide Rating Chess Tournament, Chennai

Vijay Bhatt, Guest of Honour, Chief Guest Sanjeev Arya MLA, Sudhir Kr Sinha (Third place) Mrs.Shanti Mehra, Ex Cabinet Minister, Ajay Kr Rai (Runner-up) I D Yewari, Secretary NDCA,Rajiv Lochan Sah, Champion Nassir Wajih,Wariyal, ED Mohini Tea and others

Solutions to ‘Tactics from master games’ on page 421.Shimanov,Aleksandr (2642) Stu-kopin,Andrey (2586) [E10]Saint Louis USA (6.3), 20.05.2017White to play. 51.e6+! Kxd6 52.e7! Nxe7 [52...Nxh4+ 53.Kh3 g2 54.Kh2 Wins] 53.Rb4! Nd5 [53...Nd3 54.Rd4++-; 53...Nd1 54.Rd4++-] 54.Rxb2 Nxf4+ 55.Kxg3 Ke5 56.Kf3 Nd5 57.Rg2 Nf6 58.Rg5+ Ke6 59.Ra5 White King gets access to g5 and wins 1–02.Shyam,Sundar M (2535) Faizra-khmanov,Ramil (2439) 39th Nezhmetdi-nov Mem Kazan RUS (8.7), 07.06.2017White to play. 21.Qb3+ Kg7 22.Bc5! 23.Ne6++- is simple (More enterprising is 23.Qf7+ Kh6 24.Qxh7+ Kxg5 25.g3 fxe4 (25...Kg4 26.Kg2 fxe4 27.Qxg6+ Bg5 28.h3#; 25...Rh8 26.h4+ Kg4 27.Qxg6+ Kf3 28.Qxf5+ Ke2 29.Qg4#) 26.h4+ Kg4 27.Qxg6+ Kf3 28.Qf5+) ] 1–03.Iljiushenok,Ilia (2489) Andriasian,Za-ven (2622) [B07]18th ch-EUR Indiv 2017 Minsk BLR (7.60), 06.06.2017 Whitetoplay56.Qa1! Bxa2 57.Rxc8+ Kxc8 58.Qh8+ Kd7 59.Qg7+ Ke8 [59...Kc8 60.Qf8+ Kd7 61.Qf7+ Kc8 62.Qe8+ Wins] 60.Qf8+ 1–04.Das,Say (2396) - Rahman,Zia (2526) [B06]10th KIIT Elite Open 2017 Bhubaneswar IND (6.1), 29.05.2017Black to play 16...Bh6! 17.Qxh6 [17.Qf2 Qb4–+] 17...Qxd4+ 18.Kh1 Nxe5! 19.Bxg6?! [19.Qg5 Nxd3 20.cxd3 Qxa4µ] 19...Nxg6 20.Nc3 Qf2 21.h3 Qxc2 22.Qe3 e5–+ 0–15.Jimenez Fraga,P (2432) Lorenzana,W (2330) [A49]Guillermo Garcia Premier 21.05.2017White to play. 24.Rc8! [24.Rc8 Rxc8 (24...Bxc8

25.Qxe8++-) 25.Qxe6+ Kf8 26.Rxc8++-; Equally good is 24.Qxe6+! Rxe6 25.Bd5 Kf8 (25...Rc6 26.Bxe6+ Kf8 27.Rxc6 bxc6 28.Rxc6 Qb7 29.Rxd6 Ke8 30.Bd5 Qc8 31.Bxa8 Wins; 25...Qe8 26.Rc8) 26.Bxe6 Rc6 27.Rxc6 bxc6 28.Rxc6+-] 1–06.Kunin,Vitaly (2551) - Sjugirov,Sanan (2654) [E12]18th ch-EUR Indiv (9.35),08.06.2017White to play. 27.Nf6+! Kf8 [27...gxf6 28.exf6 Red7 29.Qh6 Wins] 28.R3d2 Qa6 [28...Qc4 29.d5 gxf6 a) 29...exd5 30.Rxd5 gxf6 (30...Rc8 31.Rd8+ Re8 32.Nxe8+-) 31.Qh6+ Kg8 32.Rd8+ Wins; b) 29...Rc5 30.d6 Rb7 (30...Re8 31.Nxe8 Kxe8 32.d7++-) 31.d7 Rxd7 Wins; 30.Qh6+ Ke8 31.d6+-] 29.d5 1-0Solutions to ‘Test your endgame’ on page 431.Pogosjanc 19641.Qf7 Qh8+ 2.Kxh8 a1Q+ 3.Kg8 Qh8+ 4.Kxh8 Ng6+ 5.Kg8 Be6 6.Ng5 Bxf7+ 7.Nxf7 mate2.Bron & Kuznecov 19641.Bc3+ Kd6 2.Ra5 Rh2 3.h6 Bc1 4.Bg7 Bxh6 5.Bxh6 Rh5 6.Ra6+ Kd7 7.d6 Rh4 8.Rb6 Ke6 9.Kg8 Rg4+ 10.Kf8 Rd4 11.Bf4 Rxf4 12.Ke8 Rd4 13.d7+ Ke5 14.Rb5+ Ke4 15.Rb4 wins3.Jindrich Fritz 19621.Nd4+ Kf6 2.Nd7+ Ke7 3.Rxa3 Nc7+ 4.Kc5 Rxd4 5.Re3+ Ne6+ 6.Rxe6+ Kxd7 7.Bh3 wins4.Kalandadze & Neidze 19631.c6 Be5 2.gxh7 f2 3.h8Q Bxh8 4.c7 f1Q 5.c8Q+ Kg7 6.Qc3+ Kg6 7.Qc2+ Kg7 8.Qh7+ Kf8 9.Qh6+ Ke7 10.Qg5+ Kf8 11.Qd8+ Kg7 12.f8Q+ Qxf8 13.Qg5 mate5.Koroljkov 19641.Rf5+ Kxg4 2.Rf1 exf1Q+ 3.Bxf1 d5 4.Be2+ Kf5 5.b6 a3 6.Bd3+ Ke6 7.b7 a2 8.b8Q a1Q 9.Qb6+ Ke5 10.Qc7+ Ke6 11.Qe7 mate6.Perkonoja1.Rg3+ Kh4 2.Rxa8 Be5+ 3.Kg6 Rg7+ 4.Kf5 Rg5+ 5.Ke4 Bxg3 6.Rh8+ Kxg4 7.h3 mate

(L-R) M.Vijayakumar (Chief Arbiter), Ravichandran V,Organizing Secretary,Sri T.Muthu,Arjuna Awardee (Weightlifting) Winner Muthaiah and Dr.B.Babu Manoharan, Managing Director ,St.Joseph’s group & Principal, St.Joseph’s College

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10th Mumbai Mayor’s Cup International Open Chess Tournament

(L-R) M Ephrame ( Chief Arbiter), Ravindra Dongre ( organizing Secretary) Jayraj Phatak IAS, Ex Municipal Corporation Commissioner Mumbai (Chief Guest) Gokhale, Raghunandan V (Dronacharya Awadee)Kamal Preetsingh (Member of Zee learn)

The Mayor of Mumbai Shri.Vishwanath inaugurating the 10th Mumbai Mayor’s Cup in the presence of D.V. Sundar ,Vice President FIDE, and Bharat Singh Chouhan, Secretary, AICF

Solution to puzzle of the month on page 16: Given it’s Black to move in the diagram position, is it legal for that player to castle? To answer this, we try to determine what occurred in the last few moves. White made the last move and it was Pa3, and just before that Black must have made a cap-ture, because otherwise White would have no free unit with which to make a further retraction. The captured piece was one of the knights, since the only other missing white units are the rooks which couldn’t have escaped from the first rank. This white knight wasn’t captured by any of the pawns (none of which has a legal diagonal retraction), so it was captured by one of the four black pieces on the top rank. The a8-rook couldn’t have made this capture, however, because the uncaptured white knight on a8 would have no possible prior move. Likewise, if it were the c8-bishop which had captured the knight, then the latter on c8 could only have just come from the empty square d6, but such a retraction would be impossible because it implies that Black was in check by the knight on d6 while it was White’s turn to play. Therefore only the black king or the h8-rook could have captured the knight, which had come from d6 (to e8) or g6/f7 (to h8). That proves Black had previously moved the king or the h8-rook in the game, and now cannot castle.

AICF Calendar July 20171st Champions FIDE Rating 2017 Salem Jul-27 to Jul-301st ICA- MCA FIDE Rating chess for below 1600 Dindigul Jul-29 to Jul-31National Rapid & Blitz 2017 Kolkata Aug-01 to Aug-04Western Asian Youth 2017 Aug-01 to Aug-07Maharashtra State Open 2017 East, Mumbai Aug-02 to Aug-0610th Modern School FIDE Rated for school, Chennai Aug-03 to Aug-083rd Kamaraj Memorial FIDE Rated open Karur Aug-03 to Aug-061st Nithim All India Open FIDE rated Hyderabad Aug-03 to Aug-084th Kamaraj Memorial FIDE Rated below 1500 Karur Aug-04 to Aug-06Chess Mine Rapid Open 2017 Bangalore Aug-05 to Aug-0618th National Cities Team Championship 2017 Raghunathpur Aug-06 to Aug-102nd Badal Bhattacharjee Memorial All India FIDE Rating Siliguri Aug-06 to Aug-11Chess Mine Blitz Open 2017 Bangalore Aug-07 to Aug-072nd Telangana All India below 1600 Khammam Aug-10 to Aug-15Chess Beacon 1st Open FIDE Rated tmt Jaipur Aug-12 to Aug-16Athens of the East 1st FIDE Rating Madurai Aug-12 to Aug-151st Sri Raghavenndra Open FIDE rated open Chennai Aug-12 to Aug-151st GDCA Open FIDE Rating Rapid open Gulbarga Aug-12 to Aug-13Maharashtra State Under 15 Open & Girls selection Akola Aug-12 to Aug-1655th National Challenger 2017 Gujarat Aug-13 to Aug-232nd vithabai memorial Maharashtra State Open FIDE Rated tmt Pune Aug-17 to Aug-20World Cadet U 8,10,12 Aug-21 to Aug-31

Commonwealth Chess Championships 2017, New Delhi

Shri.Vijay Goel, Hon’ble Minister for Sports, lighting the lamp. Bharat Singh Chouhan, Secretary,AICF and D.V.Sundar, Vice President, FIDE look on.

The top three finishers: (L-R) Abhijeet Gupta (Gold), Vaibhav Suri (Runner-up) Abhijeet Gupta (Champion) and Tejas Bakre (Third place)

Swati Ghate (Champion) flanked by Mary Ann Gomes (left) Runner-up and Tania Sachdev (right) Third place