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

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Asian Continental Chess Championships, Xingtai, China

33rd VMRDA National Under 13 Open & Girls Chess Championships 2019, Visakhapatnam

National Rapid & Blitz Chess Championships, Jalandhar

GM Karthikeyan Murali GM S.P.SethuramanSilver Bronze

GM Aravindh ChithambaramNational Rapid & Blitz Champion

Velpula Sarayu(Telangana)

Under-13 Girls Champion

FM M.Pranesh(TamilNadu)

Under-13 Open Champion

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The threat posed by the cyclonic storm FANI did not deter 392 players from all over India in reaching Visakhapatinam on time to throw their lot in the 33rd VMRDA national under 13 Open & Girls chess championship organized by Visakha district chess Association from May 4 to 12, 2019. Realising the gravity of the situation due to rescheduling of flights and trains the All India Chess Federation postponed the commencement of first round by three hours to help all the players report for the first round without any hiccup. In all, 245 boys and 147 girls representing 26 states and union territories have entered the fray in this eleven round swiss event which will conclude on May 12. Earlier in a glittering ceremony Shri. K,Bhaskar, I.A.S., District collector, Visakhapatinam formally inaugu-rated the event by moving the king pawn in the chess board.

Curiously both the champions in Open and Girls drew their final round, targeted 9 points from eleven games and tied for the first place. Both emerged as the Champions via first tie break , the direct encounter (In a three way in open and two way tie in girls) way tie . Both champions were richer by Rs.27000/-.

As fortune favours the brave, cyclone FANI spared the port city of Visakhapatinam where 392 courageous children converged for the war of nerves over the 64 squares. It was a blessing in disguise that the FANI effect had lowered the

mercury level in Visakhapatnam with the players enjoying a moderate temperature during the tournament period The playing venue was a centrally located Children Arena in VMRDA Complex owned by the Govern-ment of Andhra Pradesh. It is very hearten-ing to note that the place is ear marked only

33rd VMRDA National Under 13 Open & Girls Chess Championships 2019, Visakhapatnam

Pranesh and Velpula Sarayu are championsby IA S.Paul Arokiaraj, Chief Arbiter

for the children activities. The two fully air conditioned separate halls for Open and Girls were spacious and elite looking. As the entire complex had a centralized air condition even the waiting persons did not feel the outside temperature. The organisers namely VDCA ensured that all the players and the accom-panying persons get food inside the complex itself on the first and last day plus two days when there was double round by arranging delicious lunch for all the people free of cost.

Now coming to the true picture of the games, the cool temperature that was prevailing inside the tournament hall did not deter the players to generate heat and dust over the sixty four squares in all the eleven rounds. In the girls section the Top seed from Tel-angana Velpula Sarayu started her dream run from the fifth round notching up five straight victories. However hot pursuit for the title was halted by Boramanikar Tanisha (Maharashrtra) when she held the top seed to a creditable draw in the sixth round. This helped WCM Kirti Mayur Patel also from Ma-harashtra to catch up the overnight leader with 6.5 points from seven rounds. The battle line was drawn in the eighth round between the top seed Velpula Sarayu and the 17th seed Kirti Mayur Patil. The top seed justi-fied her seeding by trouncing her opponent with a brilliant mating net after trapping the uncastled black’s king. At the beginning of the ninth round Velpula had stretched her sole lead by full point. However she conced-ed two consecutive draws on Round 9 and 10 against her team mate Kheerti Gangta and V.Renganayaki (Karnataka) respectively. Curiously in both games her opponents were maintaining a commanding position. Despite dropping a point from two rounds Sarayu was maintaining a slender half point lead with 8.5 points over her rivals Kirti Mayur Patel and

Inside…33rd VMRDA National U-13 Open & Girls Chess, VisakhapatnamPranesh and Velpula Sarayu are championsby IA S.Paul Arokiaraj, Chief Arbiter 1ARCA State U-15 Boys & Girls FIDE Rated,Udaipur Ujjwal Deep is Championby IA Rajendra Teli, Chief Arbiter 952ndLate Babukaka Shirgaokar Mem.FIDE Rating,Sangli Keval Nirgun Wins the Titleby FA Vivek Sohani, Chief Arbiter 1030th TN U-17 Open & Girls Rated, Nagapattinam Ayushh Ravikumar and Divyabharathi clinch titles by R.Ravikumar IA, Chief Arbiter 12DCA below 1600 FIDE Rated Tournament, New Delhi Aryan Garg wins titleby IA Gopakumar MS, Chief Arbiter 14Family chess Rapid FIDE Rating Tournament, Karur Prasanna wins titleBy N.K.Nandakumar IA , Chief Arbiter 161st Kokan Pratishthan Chashak FIDE Blitz Rating ,Raigad Dhulipalia Bala Chandra Prasad wins title by IA, DI Prem Pandit Chief Arbiter 1715thLate Meenatai Shirgaokar Mem.Women’s Ty,Sangli WFM Cholleti Sahajasri wins title by FA Vivek Sohani, Chief Arbiter 19All India Open FIDE Rated Tournament , BelagaviChakravarthi Reddy wins titleby IA Manjunatha M, Chief Arbiter 211st Unique below 1550 Open Fide Rating Ty, QuepemSatheesh Kumar of Tamilnadu winsby Sanjay Kavlekar IA, Chief Arbiter 27Varadraj Mem.Open Rapid Fide rating ty.,SataraNikhil Dixit Wins Varadraj Memorialby IA Kaviraj Sawant.Chief Arbiter 2931st WB U-9(Open & Girls)Fide Rated Ch’ship,Kolkata Aman Dhanuka and Saparya Ghosh are Championsby Debasish Barua IA, Chief Arbiter 31The 30th CUSAT Intl. Rating Chess Ty., CochinIlamparithy wins Cusat Rating chessby M.S.Ananthakrishnan,Tournament Director 324th IGMSA FIDE Rating Below-1500 Ty.,Hyderabad Siddik Akbar of Tamil Nadu is the Champion by IA Promodraj Moree, Chief Arbite 34Smart Girl FIDE Rated Pondicherry 2019, Puducherry…Nanmalar wins Smart Girl FIDE Ratedby FA J Narayanan, Chief Arbiter 36Selected games from National Under-13,VizagAnnotated by IM Manuel Aaron 37Tactics from master games by S.Krishnan 42Test your endgame by C.G.S.Naraynan 43Masters of the past-100 Jose Capablanca 44AICF Calendar 48

From the Editor’s deskAsian Continental Chess held in China witnessed exceptional performances from Indian Grandmasters. GM Karthikeyan Murali’s fifth round game with a stunning queen sacrifice to outwit Iranian prodigy GM Alireza

Firouzja was the toast of the tournament. Karthikeyan bagged silver and GM S.P.Sethuraman a bronze in the classical format. In addition to the above two, GMs S.L.Narayanan and Abhijeet Gupta also qualified for the World Cup 2019.Nihal Sarin’s gold and S.L.Narayanan’s bronze in the Blitz event were pleasant additions to the medal tally.

From a 13-year old prodigy who won Chennai Open in 2013, GM Aravind Chithambaram has now become National Champion in all formats. His success at the National Senior Championship last December is followed by titles in National Rapid and Blitz he took at jalandhar last month.These are featured in the centre colour pages of this issue. In the National Under-13 Chess Championships held at Visakhapatnam M.Pranesh of Tamilnadu emerged champion in the Open event. Telangana’s Velpula Sarayu, a girl from a village in Warangal, improved upon her silver medal performance in the Under-11 Championship in 2017 to win gold in Visakhapatnam. Reports, final standings and photographs of this event along with those of other FIDE rated events held last month are presented in this issue.

Selected games from the National Under-13 Chess Championships annotated by IM Manuel Aaron are presented elsewhere in this issue.Former World Champion,Jose Capablanca, is featured in the ‘Masters of the past’ series.

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DCA below 1600 FIDE Rated Chess Tournament, New Delhi

All India Open FIDE Rated Chess Tournament 2019, Tripurs

Prize winners with dignitaries

Champion Aryan Garg receiving trophy. Shri. Dhiraj Raghuvanshi, President Uttaranchal Chess Association, Shri. Bharat Singh, Secretary All India Chess Federation, Shri. Uttam Prakash, Provident Fund Commissioner, Shri. Chadha, Senior Advocate Supreme Court and Shri. AK Verma, Secretary, Delhi Chess Association.

the dark horse of the championship Pande Miracle (Orsissa). Velpula continued her drawing spree in the final round too against WCM Wankhade Sanskrt (Maharashtra) to end up with 9 points from eleven rounds with an unbeaten record. Kirti Mayur Patel of Maha-rashtra capitalized the opportunity to tie up for the first place by inflicting a victory over Pande Miracle in the final round. In a two way tie for the title Velpula Sarayu was adjudged as the champion via direct encounter, the first para meter in the tie break system in the indian national championships. The runner up was Kirti Mayur Patel of Maharashtra. Ren-ganayaki of Karnataka who outmaneuvered Yash Jyoti Bir of West Bengal in this round finished third with 8 points in a nine way tie on account of higher buchholtz score.

But it was a different story in the Open cat-egory which witnessed the change of guard for the leadership in the successive rounds. The top seed here FM C.Pranesh of Tamil Nadu faced a shocking defeat at the hands of an underdog Shaik Sumer Arsh of Telangana as early as in the fourth round. With the top seed out of contention, the second seed Pranav and the third seed FM Jubin Jimmy were the joint leaders at the end of the sixth round with full score. On the seventh round in a scintillating game Pranav overpowered his rival Jubin Jimmy to sit pretty on the top with 7 points as a sole leader. Although he enjoyed a full point lead at this point of time he slipped to joint lead when he lost a crucial match against Pranesh in the eighth round. Pranesh back to form did not leave his driver’s seat when he tamed another rival Jubin Jimmy in the ninth round to maintain half a point lead with 8 points over Pranav who dropped half a point against the fourth seed CM Nikhil Magizhnan. In the crucial tenth and the penul-timate Pranesh too settled for a draw against his teammate Nikhil Magizhnan. At the same time Pranav overcame stiff resistance offered by Krishnan Rithvik (Maharashtra) and scored a full point to join Pranesh for the leadership. With the final round in the offing the line up was that Pranesh and Pranav were sharing

the joint lead with 8.5 points followed by four others on 8 points. The top two tables was hassle free with the leaders drawing their final round against their respective opponents to target 9 points. FM Jubin Jimmy who was also a hot contender for the title throughout the championship capitalized this opportunity to outwit Illampariti Another important feat was in Open the top three seeds finished in that order but in Girls only the top seed could justify her seeding.

In a glittering Valedictory function Smt.G.Sri-jana,I.A.S.,Joint Collector, Visakhaptnam Dis-trict felicitated the winners in the presence of Shri. D.V.Sundar, Vice President FIDE , Shri. Bharath Singh Chauhan, Secretary, AICF, APCA and VDCA officials

Final Ranking: Rk. Name Pts. 1 FM Pranesh M 9 2 Pranav V 9 3 FM Jubin Jimmy 9 4 Manish Kumar (2006) 8.5 5 Aditya Varun Gampa 8.5 6 Krishnan Ritvik 8.5 7 Sreekar J S S 8.5 8 CM Nikhil Magizhnan 8 9 Harshad S 8 10 Ilamparthi A R 8 11 Koustuv Dash 8 12 Chilukuri Sai Varshith 8 13 Dhanvij Ansh 8 14 Shreyash Shuvam Patnaik 8 15 Mayank Chakraborty 8 16 Vinay R Jumani 8 17 Shounak Mazumder 8 18 Mohanty Soyamsree 8 19 Prithvvi Singh 7.5 20 Bhavyay Gupta 7.5 21 Bharadia Yash 7.5 22 Madhavan R Munjanattu 7.5 23 Paarth P Salvi 7.5 24 Md Bashiq Imrose 7.5 25 Md Imran 7.5

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All India Open FIDE Rated Chess Tournament 2019, Belagavi

Varadraj Memorial All India Open Rapid Fide rating tournament,Satara

Dr Sashikant Y Kulgod, S G Sambargimath, Chakravarthireddy, Allum Veerabhadrappa,Shri Shri Tontad Siddharam Mahaswamiji, Dr SP Desai,Prasanna Joshi

26 Shah Jeet 7.5 27 Shaik Sumer Arsh 7 28 Aaditya Dhingra 7 29 Jain Adi 7 30 Aditya Bikram Paul 7 31 Parth Kuntal Raval 7 32 Rohith Yadav B R 7 33 Arjun Sidharth S 7 34 Sadbhav Rautela 7 35 Adithya Ramesh 7 36 Sai Raj Gopal K 7 37 Gokula Vishnu R 7 38 AFM Aditya Prasad 7 39 Adireddy Arjun 7 40 Sreehith Reddy R 7 41 Aritrya Pal 7 42 Shrey Nilkant 7 43 Tejes Suresh Kumar 7 44 Tawade Arnav 7 45 Suhaas A 7 46 Sai Nikhil Y 7 47 Shravan Swaminathan 7 48 Pranav K P 7 49 Adalja Vanssh A 7 50 Rachishnu Datta 7 51 Borkhetariya Devarsh M 7 52 Arnav Pradhan 7 53 Vegi Bhavishnu Sai Sivaji 7 54 Sanjay Sriram 6.5 55 Pranay Garg 6.5 56 Panda Hrishikesh 6.5 57 Utkarsh Bhatnagar 6.5 58 Jayakrishna H 6.5 59 Tirth Shresth 6.5 60 Keshav Padmanabhan 6.5 61 Bakrewal Vinamra 6.5 62 Mahajan Ayush 6.5 63 Atharva Tomar 6.5 64 Sushanth Kamabathula 6.5 65 Karthik N 6.5 66 Jeevan Prakash N 6.5 67 Gyana Sai Santhosh M 6.5 68 Saravanan J 6.5

69 Nihad Islam Hazarika 6.5 70 Naveen Joel Chilaka 6.5 71 Saravana Vel R 6.5 72 Soham Nag 6.5 73 Nirnay Garg 6.5 74 Bhuvan Ghanesh A V 6.5 75 Sathi Akshaj Mayank 6.5 76 Adireddy Tarun 6 77 Prabhav Aggarwal 6 78 Sooriya B Y 6 79 Agarwal Mukund H 6 80 Shah Moxit J 6 81 Lanka Sri Karthikeya D 6 82 Swayham P Das 6 83 Gogte Soumil 6 84 Pavan Anand S 6 85 Adharsh D P 6 86 Shah Marmik 6 87 Varshith Nela 6 88 Karunya Shesha Sai Y 6 89 Aakash K P 6 90 Kinkhabwala Hrithik 6 91 Vabesh Kumar Bardhan 6 92 Sanjay Srinivasan R 6 93 Mummana Venkata Ruthvik 6 94 Rupesh Reddy Y 6 95 Simon Jacob 6 96 Bawangade Krish 6 97 Abhiram Vaddi 6 98 Teerthala Abhinav 6 99 Ritobroto Sen 6 100 Talla Nischal 6 101 Akshay Arivu 6 102 Naga Akhil Charan B 6 103 Ishant Kumar 5.5 104 Shashank K 5.5 105 Soyam Laxmidatt D Sabat 5.5 106 Sri Harish J 5.5 107 Arnav Kushwaha 5.5 108 Kodela Keerthi Kanth 5.5 109 Ch. Nanda Sai Vinesh 5.5 110 Hriday Nikshipt Adari 5.5 111 Pritam Panda 5.5

Top three (L –R) Sammed Jayakumar Shette ,Third, Nikhil Dixit (Winner) and Ranveer Mohite , Runner-up with their prizes

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112 ACM Pradyumna Kanukollu 5.5 113 Abhiraj Nag 5.5 114 ACM Srivatsan Karthikeyan 5.5 115 Kandalam Sri Sai S R 5.5 116 Kabir Singh Ahuja 5.5 117 Singh Shivesh 5.5 118 Uddhav Ajay Shenoy 5.5 119 Srinivas Gopal Reddy K 5.5 120 Susidharan J 5.5 121 Himesh Empally 5.5 122 Navin Ganesan S 5.5 123 Felix Moothedath 5.5 124 Debaryo Basu 5.5 125 Redkar Yash 5.5 126 Kanish Kumar R 5.5 127 Gandi Juhee Pranav 5.5 128 Nipun Dangche 5.5 129 Gagan P 5.5 130 Kudakala Sivaram 5.5 131 Sathwik Vemulapalli 5.5 132 Rithwik Gandikota 5.5 133 Doddi Bhaskara Sai Ganesh 5.5 134 Sai Rithvik M M 5.5 135 Sanketh Reddi K R K K 5.5 136 Arhan Chethan Anand 5 137 Venkata Krishna Komanduri 5 138 Adithya Vibhu S 5 139 Bhargava Sai S 5 140 Naga Saketh Manukonda 5 141 Patnana Kishore Rajan 5 142 Sapre Vedang 5 143 Vantakula Sujan Kumar 5 144 Manish Gwra Basumatary 5 145 V Sumant 5 146 Srikar J V 5 147 Himanish Srivatsa A 5 148 K Bharath Bhushan 5 149 Kannuru Ananth Kumar 5 150 Gopala Krishnan M 5 151 Rohith Mukthi Anand 5 152 Sunkara Krishna Prasad 5 153 Arham Anand Shah 5 154 Lokesh P 5

155 Burugupalli Jai Pranav Sri R 5 156 Raman Siddhardh B 5 157 Haritosh Jatin S 5 158 Lanka Marthanda Kumar 5 159 Dhiyaneshwaran V 5 160 Sanjay Pradnesh G 5 161 Vihaan Chowdhary N 5 162 Rewansh Vaidya 4.5 163 Gade Vishal 4.5 164 Dhanush Netha 4.5 165 Sai Akshar Tadimeti 4.5 166 Aruni Agrawal 4.5 167 ACM Sriram Venkatesan 4.5 168 Hakesh K 4.5 169 Siva Shyam Kumar A 4.5 170 Tummala Somanadh 4.5 171 Vittanala Shanmuk Saish 4.5 172 Karthikeyan Sakthivel 4.5 173 Dhruva Kumar D 4.5 174 Sri Akhil Prasad 4.5 175 Adidam Sampath Karthik 4.5 176 Hrishith R 4.5 177 Kandimalla Praneeth C 4.5 178 Varma G Y C 4.5 179 Vivek Tribhuvan Ramam D 4.5 180 Sumanth P 4.5 181 Chitti Phani Bhushan K Y S M 4.5 182 Soma Shankara Sharma B 4.5 183 Podilapu Rudrama Naidu 4.5 184 Keerthan Reddy Anubotula 4.5 185 Naman S Vora 4.5 186 Jeswanth Sai Niketh C H 4.5 187 Surada Yashaswi Satya G 4.5 188 Villuri Palgun 4.5 189 Venkatesh K 4 190 Ayush Saha 4 191 Lakshman Manchala 4 192 Vishnu Komanduri 4 193 Naga Sai Sarthak Karanam 4 194 Sai Charan Aditya M 4 195 Peela Vishnu Vardhan 4 196 Jaswanth Sai Vemuru 4 197 Challa Saharsha 4

198 Karanam Vishwas 4 199 Sreyanth Y 4 200 M Dhanush Srinivas Tej 4

Final Ranking:Girls Rk. Name 1 Velpula Sarayu 9 2 WCM Kriti Mayur Patel 9 3 AIM Renganayaki V 8 4 Boramanikar Tanisha S 8 5 Kheerthi Ganta 8 6 Panda Miracle 8 7 WCM Wankhade Sanskruti 8 8 Meenatchi Rajam V 8 9 Akshaya Rajaraman 8 10 Barik Bijayalaxmi 8 11 WCM Patel Riddhi R 8 12 Yash Jyoti Bir 7.5 13 Rout Yashita 7.5 14 Ratnapriya K 7.5 15 Agrawal Aanya 7.5 16 Swara Lakshmi S Nair 7.5 17 Shah Kritee 7.5 18 Anushka Gupta 7 19 Yashavishree N 7 20 Cera Dagaria 7 21 Tejaswini G 7 22 Jena Suhana 7 23 Ananya Arumbakkam 7 24 Prasiddhi Bhat 7 25 Mahi Amit Doshi 7 26 Dolisiyas Dash 7 27 Mythri Maddisetty 7 28 Tejaswi R 7 29 Adreeja Sinha 7 30 Anupam M Sreekumar 7 31 Adra P 6.5 32 Jahnavi Sri Lalita Mareddy 6.5 33 Harshavardhini M.S. 6.5 34 Mohitha V 6.5 35 Sri Anjana Sarvani M 6.5 36 Hemakshi Chauhan 6.5 37 Sai Mahati A 6.5

38 Sanikommu Manasvi 6.5 39 Vedika Agarwal 6.5 40 Sritama Sen 6.5 41 Tanisha Chatterjee 6.5 42 Sarvani Cheedella 6.5 43 Aakanksha Patel 6.5 44 Nishanthini U 6.5 45 Rajanya Datta 6.5 46 Nethra Chandupatla 6.5 47 Sanvi Naik Gaonkar 6.5 48 Smriti Prabhuraj 6.5 49 Anya Seth Syed 6 50 Amrutha Varshini Damisetty 6 51 Kashthuri Bhai R 6 52 Behera Snehayukta 6 53 Arushi Srichandan 6 54 Sri Vidya Sambhavi R 6 55 Yachna Singh 6 56 Aarna Chugh 6 57 Winee Thengal 6 58 Varshini M 6 59 Kanishka S 6 60 Shreshtha Surai 6 61 Pasapula Teja Sree 6 62 Vedalatha P 6 63 Shaik Julekha Bahaar 6 64 Mishra Anjali 6 65 Kudakala Venkata D 6 66 Chopra Syna 6 67 Bhillva Nilaya K E K 6 68 Korukonda Rashmi 6 69 Nungshithoi Ngairangbam 5.5 70 Narahari Geethika Hasini 5.5 71 Prakash Vaishnavi 5.5 72 Dharini R 5.5 73 Daranya S 5.5 74 Anishka Pandey 5.5 75 Mishthy Khatwa 5.5 76 Jethwani Himani 5.5 77 Aarushi Srivastava 5.5 78 Bhavishya Anubotula 5.5 79 Rachita Sabbathi 5.5 80 Joshita Neelam 5.5

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81 Hasini Kamabathula 5.5 82 Bonthula Roshini Sarayu 5 83 Dhruthi Sriprada M 5 84 Adrika Mishra 5 85 Dhrithi Murgod 5 86 Errabelli Pranavi 5 87 Kadambinee Ghadai 5 88 Sri Rashmika M 5 89 Bhavana N 5 90 Eshanvi Satya Sai Ganta 5 91 Gauri Saraswat 5 92 Korukonda Rishitha 5 93 Shreya Meenakshi 5 94 Konalika Yumnam 5 95 Pedapudi Jaya Hari Chandana 5 96 Swathi A 5 97 Shah Jiya 5 98 Gade Sharanya 5 99 Amulya Bhagavatula 5 100 Amrutha Bhagavatula 4.5 101 Sevitha Viju M 4.5 102 Nithya Sree Addagalla 4.5 103 Samhitha Thantarapalli 4.5 104 Pate Prerana 4.5 105 Garneni Meghasamhitha 4.5 106 Kolagatla Alana Meenakshi 4.5 107 Shah Pari Sachin 4.5 108 Deesha Mishra 4.5 109 Neelanjana Dey 4.5 110 Pritilakshmi Kashyap 4.5 111 M Surya Gayathri Sri Saranya 4.5 112 Jyothi Jeevani Kollipara 4.5 113 Shreya S Pillai 4 114 Naveena Sriram 4 115 Tanishka Tripathi 4 116 Paladugu Yoga Harishini 4 117 Kumari Prasad Jagriti 4 118 Sloka Yukti I 4 119 Naga Unnathi Manukonda 4 120 Krutika Kalicharan Shirodkar 4 121 Lalam Akshaya 4 122 Mahadev Rushita Haju 4 123 Sathi Sahitya Lahari 4 124 Datti Dharmika 4 125 Krishna Amitha B 4

The Chess in Lakecity organised its ARCA State Under 15 Boys & Girls FIDE Rated Chess Tournament at the beautiful Udaipur city from 17-19 May 2019 . 139 players from ten districts including 40 Fide Rated Players from Lakecity, Jaipur, Jodhpur,Bhilwara, Ja-lore, Chittorgarh Rajasamand , Jhalawar,Kota and Ajmer participated in the three days eight round event. The time format of the tournament was 60 minutes + 30 seconds increment for each move to each player.

13 year old Honi Arora of Jaipur was the top seeded player of the tournament. Ujjw-al Deep of Jaipur bagged the title and Raj kumawat From Lakecity won the second place while Arun Kataria stood third. Ujjaw-al received Rs.11111/- Trophy and Raj Re-ceived Rs.9000/- trophy . And Arun Won Rs. 7000/- and trophy.The tournament was well organised by the Lakecity at Maa karma Sahu Dham in an air conditioned hall.

Final ranking Rk Name Pts 1 Ujjwal Deep 7 2 Raj Kumawat 7 3 Arun Kataria 7 4 Yajat Vyas 6½ 5 Arora Honi 6½ 6 Raj Kapoor 6 7 Garg Shivam 6 8 Vrashank Chouhan 6 9 Aniruddh Khandelwal 6 10 Aayush Bhojak 6 11 Yashasvi Gupta 6 12 Elakshi Srivastava 6 13 Himanshu Trivedi 6 14 Dakshita Kumawat 6

ARCA State Under 15 Boys & Girls FIDE Rated Tournament,Udaipur

Ujjwal Deep is Championby IA Rajendra Teli, Chief Arbiter

15 Tanisha Bhagchandani 6 16 Khushi Mishra 5½ 17 Ashmil Saxena 5½ 18 Pranay Chordia 5½ 19 Aashi Upadhyay 5½ 20 Yatee Kothari 5½ 21 Madhav Ajmera 5½ 22 Aditya Kumar Bhagora 5 23 Chinmay Jain 5 24 Jain Saumya 5 25 Rishabh Jaju 5 26 Rudradaman Mertia 5 27 Tanmay Nalwaya 5 28 Sameer Verma 5 29 Yuktartha 5 30 Kavyansh Bagdi 5 31 Kushagra Singh Deora 5 32 Samrath Singh Chhabra 5 33 Tushar Damor 5 34 Dhruv Kalani 5 35 Hinger Swapnil 5 36 Ankur Agarwal 5 37 Charvi Patidar 5 38 Jeetan Patel 5 39 Yashneil Maharia 5 40 Deopurkar Atharv Hemant 5 41 Bhuvanshu Bhatnagar 5 42 Bheshmaan sangwan 5 43 Doshi Diya 5 44 Akshay Pratap Singh 5 45 Prakhar Chaplot 5 46 Gargi Khatri 5 47 Prakhar Maheswari 4½ 48 Hitkaran Singh Rathore 4½ 49 Abhinav Shrimali 4½ 50 Kazmi Daanish Sheen 4½ 51 Ritik Shukla 4½ 52 Hardik Dak 4½ 53 Rajshree Lath 4½ 54 Padmakshi Singh Solanki 4½ 55 Saatwik Jajoo 4

A minor change in the placing of the pieces

N.Elkies3 HM, czerniak Mem 1987

White to play and winThe striking simplicity of the above study is misleading. In fact the utmost accu-racy is required here from both sides. It is possible to predict with certainty that the black knight will be sacrificed for the white h-pawn.The Black king will then move quickly over to the remaining pawns. White will play c4-c5 in an attempt to promote one of his pawns.A race will develop in which white will promote when black’s c-pawn reaches the seventh rank.The result seems to be a theoretical draw.

Lets try: 1.Kg7 Nxh6 2.Kxh6 Ke3 3.c5 bxc5 4.b6 c4 5.b7 c3 6.b8Q c2 7.Kg5 Kd2! (not 7….c1Q?? 8.Qf4+) indeed, a draw. White though, has another possi-bility on the first move.1.h7 Nf6+ 2.Kg7 Nxh7 3.Kxh7 Ke3 4.c5 bxc5 5.b6 c4 6.b7 c3 7.b8Q c2 We have reached the same position but instead of the WK being on h6 it is now on h7.It takes a really over-flowing dose of imagination to grasp from the diagram position the significance of the difference: 8.Qh2!! c1Q 9.Qh6+ and wins.Note that 8…Kd3 8.Qh6 Ke2 10.Qc1 leads to the same result.From’Creative chess’ by Amatzia Avni

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The Tournament was organized by Nutan Buddhibal Mandal, one of the oldest organiz-ers in India where 226 players played in this event with Anish Gandhi of Kolhapur(MAH) as top seed with ELO 2198 rating. IM Ramana-than Balasubramaniam of Railways, Raghav Srivathsav of Telangana, Kiran Pandit rao of Customs & CGST, RaoMalleshwara of Andhra Pradesh &NagareAkhilesh of Maharashtra were amongst few highly rated players who tried their best on top boards to clinch the title.Tournament was inaugurated by Shantikant Kanthe, Chairman Latthe education Society, a well known educational institute in this area along with Mr.Chidambar Kotibhaskar, Mr. Ramesh Charhate, Dr.Ulhas Mali and Tournament director Mr.Chintamani Limaye by lamp lighting ceremony followed by in-augural move over chess board. A players meet was conducted by Chief Arbiter where Tournament rules were discussed with all the players and parents to make them familiar with recent upgradations in rules and special regulations related to tournament.

151 Rated Players Participated in this event while 31 Players out of total 75 Unrated players managed to secure rating Perfor-mance above 1000 and they are eligible for FIDE Rating in Standard Chess in June 2019 Rating List. The tournament also witnessed a noticeable participation from 36 Female Players amongst total of 226 Players from 9 States viz. MAH, GUJ, GOA, KAR, RAJ, AP, GUJ, MP, TEL, TN.A well ventilated hall with proper lighting arrangements was provided by organizers with excellent playing condi-tions for players.

52ndLate Babukaka Shirgaokar Mem.FIDE Rating Tournament,Sangli

Keval Nirgun Wins the Titleby FA Vivek Sohani, Chief Arbiter

Keval Nirgun from Pune(MAH) won 52nd Late Babukaka Shirgaokar Memorial Open FIDE rating Chess Tournament 2019 held at Sangli (MAH). Keval in outstanding run at the tour-nament, outplayed all his eight opponents in first eight Rounds of the event. Gaining a clear one point lead, he settled on draws in penultimate and last rounds against Gopal Rathod of Thane (MAH) &Akhilesh Nagare of Nashik (MAH).

Top Seeded Anish Gandhi from Kolhapur (MAH) managed to secure Second Position with a spectacular win over Board No. 2 against Gopal Rathod while Raghav Srivast-hav of Telangana held IM Ramanathan Balas-ubramaniam of Railways to a draw on Board No. 3. Anjaneya Phatak from Pune (MAH) had a magnificent event where he scored 8 points out of best possible 10 and bagged a huge rating gain of 100 ELO Points.

Total Cash Prizes worth Rs. 2,00,000/- were distributed by the hands of Mr.Ramakant Malu, Founder and Director-Samruddhi Plas-tics Group, Nagnath Halkude (Aryan's Enter-prises),Chandrakant Limaye (Tournament Director) and Chidambar Kotibhaskar (Vice President - NBM), Mrs.SmitaKelkar, Treasurer - NBM & Chief Arbiter FA Vivek Sohani.

Little Champ Sani Deshpande from Aurang-abad (MAH) gained a maximum 171 ELO points and secured 3rd Place in ELO 1000 - 1300 Category.

Arbiter's Team Consisted of FA Deepak Vay-chal as Deputy Chief Arbiter along with FA

MilindNaik, FA JayshreePatil, SNAPranav-Tangsale as Assistant Arbiters. Final ranking Rank Name Pts 1 Nirgun Keval 9 2 Gandhi Anish 8½ 3 Nagare Akhilesh 8 4 Phatak Aanjaneya 8 5 IM R Balasubramaniam 8 6 Bhosale Shriraj 7½ 7 Rao J. Malleswara 7½ 8 Gopal Rathod 7½ 9 Mishra Sanjeev 7½ 10 Shreyas Ghadi 7½ 11 Raghav Srivathsav V 7½ 12 Hitesh S. Jariya 7 13 AGM Kiran Panditrao 7 14 Boramanikar Tanisha S 7 15 Bhagwat Heramb 7 16 Bharsakale Rahul 7 17 Rawal Shailesh 7 18 Shriya R Revankar 7 19 Pise Prashant 7 20 Apte Dhaivat 7 21 Hend Pravin 7 22 Shah Vishwa 7 23 Dhoot Vinit 7 24 Mohitha V 7 25 Mahajan Ayush 6½ 26 Patil Rohit R 6½ 27 Inamdar Sameer 6½ 28 Rajput Gayatri 6½ 29 Patil Pranav Prafulla 6½ 30 Khasbardar Soham 6½ 31 Dandawate Abhishek 6½ 32 Joshi Nikhil 6½ 33 Sani Deshpande 6½ 34 Dheeraj Dubey 6½ 35 Yogesh Bharat Mahamuni 6½ 36 Pawar Sohum 6½ 37 Patil Harshal U 6½ 38 Athalye Varad 6½ 39 Naik B S 6½ 40 Mayekar Ayush 6½ 41 Golvankar Dilip K 6½ 42 Kher Akshay 6½

43 Aditya Savalkar 6 44 Bapat Aniket 6 45 Borse Vaibhav 6 46 Kunnekar Vanshri 6 47 Kadam Samarth Sachin 6 48 Jagadale Ishwari 6 49 Tikam Aradhya 6 50 Bhatawdekar Ved 6 51 Purkar Shreyas 6 52 Khairmode Aditya 6 53 Patil Sarang 6 54 Walde Harshal 6 55 Nikam Sudhanshu 6 56 AFM Kumtakar Deepak 6 57 Mhetre Prem 6 58 Muthu Rahul 6 59 AIM Kulkarni Rakesh 6 60 Walimbe Jitendra 6 61 AIM Shardul Manojkumar Tapase 6 62 Mahat Nihal 6 63 Dandekar Amey 6 64 Malani Shubham 6 65 Harne Chinmay 6 66 Borate Tanvi 6 67 Pradeep Pandya 6 68 Sirsathe Prem 6 69 Joshi Swarup 6 70 Kate Harshita 6 71 Chothe Sadanand 6 72 Tamboli Sohel 5½ 73 Savdekar Akshay 5½ 74 Walekar Parth 5½ 75 Nair Sharath 5½ 76 Walde Varad 5½ 77 Shreyas Ravindra Patil 5½ 78 ACM Rathi Anay Anup 5½ 79 Magdum Mayuresh 5½ 80 Pardeshi Gayatri 5½ 81 Shinde Swapnil 5½ 82 Pandharpure Yash 5½ 83 Atharv Pandharpure 5½ 84 Rane Yash 5½ 85 Shinde Om 5½ 86 Chalke Soham 5½ 87 Shantanu Sachin Kotekar 5½ 88 Deodhar Mudit 5½ 89 Gogate Shirish 5½

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30th TN State Under-17 Open & Girls FIDE Rated Championship,Nagapattinam

Ayushh Ravikumar and Divyabharathi clinch titlesby R.Ravikumar IA, Chief Arbiter

The Championship was organized by Nagap-attinam District Chess Association on behalf of All India Chess Federation & Tamil Nadu State Chess Association from 20th to 24th May 2019 at EGS Pillay Engineering College, Nagapattinam.

Chief Guests of the function were Shri.Man-ishi Krishna/DGM, F&A (ONGC, Karaikal); Shri B. Siva, District Sports & Youth Welfare Officer, Nagapattinam; Alhaj. Kazi. S Shai-kHassan Sahib/NagoreDurgha Hereditary Trustee; Shri S. Shankar Ganesh/Trustee Member, EGS Pillay Group of Institutions inaugurated the event.

Overall 243 players were participated, among them 75 Girls and 168 Boys contenstant. There was a two-way tie between Ayush and Arunachalam Shiva with 7.5 points in the open section.But Ayush Ravikumar of Chen-nai beat Arunachalam Shiva in the earlier round and got the title in the open section received the cash award of Rs.4000 & trophy.In the Girls section there is a tie among five players with 7 points. But the better buccholz favoured Divyabharati M of Chennai to get the title and cash award of Rs.4000 and trophy

The Championship was very well organized by Nagapattinam District chess Association.Each and every day, breakfast, lunch and healthy food like, Nungu, cucumber,Veg.kanji (specially brought from Nagore Dharga), ba-nana, etc., were supplied free of cost to the players by the Organizers. The Organizers also gave steel plates(to avoid plastics) and T-shirts to all the players freely. The Organ-izers also provided many magazine books &

newspapers in the parents waiting area.

Also the organizers arranged holy trips to Velankanni Church and Korakka Siddhar Peetam for 170 members of players & par-ents were provided with dinner.Overall the players, parents & arbiters enjoyed a lot in this Championship.

In the Prize Distribution function, Chief Guests Shri S Arul Prakasam/Managing Trustee &Shri B Siva/District Sports & Youth Welfare Officer, Nagapattinam gave away the prizes to the winners.The Organizers did a wonderful job and conducted the event successfully.

I really thank the College Management, Shri R K Balagunasekaran, Joint Secretary TNSCA; Retired Major Dr.V Govindarajalu,President, NDCA;Shri S P Akilan, Secretary, NDCA, and Shri B Sundar Raj, Joint Secretary,NDCA, Chairman Organizing Committee who helped conduct the event in a smooth manner.

Final ranking Rk Name Pts 1 Ayushh Ravikumar 7½ 2 Arunachalam Shivaa T V 7½ 3 Genish Prakash J 7 4 Yutesh P 7 5 Suganthan S 7 6 Nawin J J 7 7 Nidheshpa S 7 8 Aravinth Shanmugam S 7 9 Jayachandra Srinivas V 6½ 10 Gugan G 6½ 11 Dinesh Kumar Jaganathan 6½ 12 Shree Ganesh M Annamalai 6½ 13 Ayyappan P Santhana Prabu 6½ 14 Kanishk S K 6½

15 Kishore Kumar Jaganathan 6½ 16 Tarun V 6½ 17 Antony Jesumarian Leslie 6½ 18 Sibi Visal R 6 19 Rathina Sabapathi A 6 20 Abishek A 6 21 Mohamed Anees M 6 22 Shyam Kumar M 6 23 Anup Shankar R 6 24 Hiren K G 6 25 Ragesh Sarma.M 6 26 Bargava Narasimhan S 6 27 Arivu Selvan A S 6 28 Ram Kumar G M 6 29 Manikandan Rangan 6 30 Vignesh B 5½ 31 Sai Prasath A S 5½ 32 Dinesh Rajan M 5½ 33 Kabhilan S 5½ 34 Mrithyunjay Mahadevan 5½ 35 Manikanda Prabhu B V 5½ 36 Avinash Ramesh 5½ 37 Rohith S 5½ 38 Mukhesh C 5½ 39 Vishal Choudary B 5½ 40 Srihari Satheeswaran 5½ 41 Senguttuvan K P 5½ 42 Sivashankar M 5½ 43 Sai H Sai Jagadeesan 5½ 44 Anantha Sai S 5½ 45 Mathavan T 5½ 46 Yashwant Annamalai 5½ 47 Jeyanth R 5½ 48 Alagappan S 5½ 49 Deepak Raj R 5½ 50 Praveen K B 5½

Final ranking:Girls Rank Name Pts 1 Divyabharathi Masanam 7 2 Annapurni S 7 3 Poorna Sri M.K 7 4 Vijayasubhasri S 7 5 Tejaswi R 7 6 Shrija K M 6

7 Srimozhi S 6 8 Arputha Jasmine B A 6 9 Benasir M 6 10 Kiruthika B 6 11 Femil Chelladurai 6 12 Akshaya Rajaraman 6 13 Rebecca Jesumarian 6 14 Achaya Vijayan 6 15 Kirtana S P 6 16 Harsha R 6 17 Harshini B 5½ 18 Leaha B 5½ 19 Meenatchi Rajam V 5½ 20 Porkalaivani N 5½ 21 Tejaswini G 5½ 22 Tina C 5 23 Sandhya S 5 24 Sasvatha A 5 25 Ahalya A 5 26 Padmini S 5 27 Yashavishree N 5 28 Cuba Punitha Vilvam 5 29 Sanju Shree Murali 5 30 Abinaya H 5 31 Elakiya Settu 5 32 Rakshitha P 4½ 33 Genita Gladys A 4½ 34 Kapila R 4½ 35 Kamali B 4½ 36 M Padma Pratibha 4½ 37 Riya Shannon S 4½ 38 Monisha S 4½ 39 Roshini S 4½ 40 Stepheena S 4½ 41 Thrisha A 4½ 42 Harsha Y 4½ 43 Akshaya Balamurugan 4½ 44 Sandhiya Sri K 4½ 45 Trisha B 4 46 Swethitha C 4 47 Swapna C N 4 48 Sathya Priya K 4 49 Sherlina S 4 50 Keerthana Venkatesan 4

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The Delhi Chess Association FIDE Rated Chess Tournament for Below 1600 rated play-ers was held at Hotel Caspia, Shalimarbagh, New Delhi from 18-20 May 2019.

A total number of 693 players which includes 485 International rated players from Turkey, Canada, USA, Sri Lanka, Nepal and different parts of India participated in the event which were spread over 3 days with a time control of 60 minutes and 30 seconds increment from move 1. The total prize fund of the event was Rs. 18,00,000.

The Tournament was played under Swiss System with nine rounds and had 9 year old Madhya Pradesh player Lakshyesh Mohan Gupta with 1599 as top seed. All India Chess Federation Secretary Shri. Bharat Singh Chauhan inaugurated the event by making the customary first move against senior In-ternational Arbiter Shri. RS Tiwari.

The tournament progressed on expected lines with lot of twists and turns. At the end of eighth and penultimate round, Delhi youngster Aryan Garg took the sole lead with perfect score and enjoyed one point lead over nearest contenders before the final round. In the final round he not took any chances and signed the peace treaty with Aniket Ahirwar of Madhya Pradesh early to the game to finish at top with unassailable 8.5 points to take home one lakh rupees and winner’s trophy. A two way tie for the second position between Sanjib Mali of West Bengal and Sailesh R of Tamilnadu was resolved by Buchholz tie break score. Better tie break score helped

DCA below 1600 FIDE Rated Chess Tournament, New Delhi

Aryan Garg wins titleby IA Gopakumar MS, Chief Arbiter

Sanjib to finish at second position to secure Rs. 70000/- as cash award while more de-lightful outcome was awaited for Sailesh as he finished at top of 1399 Below rating cate-gory to fetch Rs. 80000/- as cash prize. The category prize of Sailesh R helped his state mate Gopikrishnan S to finish at third in the main prize list.

Saanya Mahesh of Delhi adjudged as best female player while Fenil Piyush Shah of Maharasthra become best among unrat-ed players. Aditya Pratap Singh of Uttar Pradesh, Harshiel Sehgal of Delhi and Rosh Jain of Delhi finished best among Under-15, Under-12 and Under-9 age categories respec-tively. Pushkar Mehta and Khuanna Kapoor become Best Delhi player and Best Delhi girl player respectively. Lalpekliana T of Mizoram and Murarilal Kori of Madhya Pradesh secured best players prizes in Divyang and Below Poverty Line categories respectively. In the closing ceremony, Shri. Uttam Praksh, Commissioner Provident Fund; Shri. Bharat Singh Chauhan, Secretary AlCF; Shri. Chadha, Senior Advocate of Supreme Court of India; Shri. Dhiraj Raghuvanshi, President Uttaranchal Chess Association and Shri. AK Verma, Hony Secretary Delhi Chess Associa-tion gave away the cash prizes and trophies to the winners.

Final ranking Rank Name Pts 1 Aryan Garg 8½ 2 Sanjib Mali 8 3 Sailesh R 8 4 Gopikrishnan S 7½ 5 Rakesh Bhatti 7½

6 Vatsal Makol 7½ 7 Ahirwar Aniket 7½ 8 Tushar Banerjee 7½ 9 Sachinder 7½ 10 Utkarsh Gupta 7½ 11 Vishwanath Kannam 7½ 12 Manikya Negi 7½ 13 ChetanPratapS Rathor 7½ 14 Tripathi Skand 7½ 15 Vinod Verma 7 16 Sumesh Kabeer 7 17 Abhinav Dubey 7 18 Kalbande Mayur 7 19 Spandan Srivastava 7 20 Arshin Sikka 7 21 Subhash Kumar M 7 22 Ojasvi Khattar 7 23 Neeraj Kumar 7 24 Sheth Shemal Ketan 7 25 Geetesh Mishra 7 26 Abhinav Raj 7 27 Dharmaveer Singh 7 28 Vangala Prashanth 7 29 Amit Dhoundiyal 7 30 Bala Ganeshan 7 31 Kesavan G 7 32 Jojo P John 7 33 Poornima Gupta 7 34 Soni Deepak R 7 35 Suhaib Ahmad 6½ 36 Aditya Rawat 6½ 37 Arbaz Shekh 6½ 38 Mrityunjay Kumar 6½ 39 Satyam Prakash 6½ 40 Shah Fenil Piyush 6½ 41 Shaoni Mukherjee 6½ 42 Jagan V 6½ 43 Gupta Nikunj 6½ 44 Subhabrata Roy 6½ 45 Deepender Sangwan 6½ 46 Arshpreet Singh 6½ 47 Vijendra Victor 6½ 48 Bajpai Anil 6½ 49 Armaan Sinha 6½ 50 S. Jeevanandam 6½ 51 Rajendra Singh 6½ 52 Harprab Singh Johar 6½

53 Pushkar Mehta 6½ 54 Mahendar B 6½ 55 Ratnesh Singh 6½ 56 Lalpekliana T 6½ 57 Kapil Panwar 6½ 58 Rajat Yadav 6½ 59 Nishchay Arora 6½ 60 Vatsal Shah 6½ 61 Sanse Niraj 6½ 62 Aditya Pratap Singh 6½ 63 Parthaprotim Gogoi 6½ 64 Arbind Kumar Singh 6½ 65 Archisman Patra 6½

Puzzle of the month by C.G.S.Narayanan

In the proof game below solver has to ar-rive at the diagram position in four moves from the initial game array position

Tibor OrnbanDie Sc hwalbe 1976

PG 4.0 movesThe above position can be arrived at in just three moves from the initial game array. But the stipulation requires that the same position has to be reached in four moves! How?

(solution on page 48)

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1st Kokan Pratishthan Chashak All India Open FIDE Blitz Rating Tournament, Raigad

Dhulipalia Bala Chandra Prasad wins titleby IA, DI Prem Pandit Chief Arbiter

1st Kokan Pratishthan Chashak All India Open FIDE Blitz Rating Chess Tournament 2019 was organized by Kokan Pratishthan at K. A. Bhantia high school, near railway station, New Panvel, Raigad,Maharashtra. The tournament was held on 26th May 2019 in the air conditioned Hall.

The tournament was played under the Swiss League Format. All the FIDE rules applicable were followed. All nine rounds were conduct-ed in a day 26th May 2019. 1st round was started at 01:00 PM and the last day round was at 05:00 PM.

As per information given to parents reporting time was 12:00 PM. All players list was dis-played on notice board for claims of any omis-sion of entry or correction in date of birth, fide id, etc.. Players meeting was conducted at 12:30 PM and an appeals Committee was formed thereafter. Time schedule for every round was put up on notice board and up-dated on chess-results.com. The first round commenced at 01:30 PM

There were 185 players in which 118 players were rated, which included four International Masters, two FIDE Masters and one Candi-date Master out of which International Master Sadhwani Raunak with Rating of 2432 from Nagpur, was the top seed.

For the opening ceremony Mr. Manojkumar Shinde, Hon. President of RDCC & Sport As-sociation Raigad; Mr. Rajendra Konde, Hon. Treasurer AMCA & Chairman Tournaments & Observer Committee of AMCA; Mr. Dilip Naik, Hon. President of Kokan Pratishthan; Mr.

Sameer Paranjape, Tournament Director; Mr. Chandrashekhar N. Patil, Secretary of Panvel Chess Association; IA, DI Mr. Prem Pandit, Chief Arbiter were present on the dais.For the Closing ceremony Mr. Sanjay Kedge, Hon. President of AMCA; Mr. Rajendra Konde, Hon. Treasurer of AMCA; Mr. Chandrashekhar N. Patil, Secretary of Panvel Chess Associ-ation; Mr. Sameer Paranjape, Tournament Director; Mr. Dilip Naik, Hon. President of Kokan Pratishthan; IA, DI Mr. Prem Pandit, Chief Arbiter; were present on the dais.

Deputy Chief Arbiter FA Pavan Rathi, IA Dilip-kumar Tribhovandas Rawal, IA Vinita Shrotri, FA Rahul Joshi & SNA Shraddha Vinchwekar worked as Assistant Arbiters. Without their support it was not possible to conduct the tournament smoothly. Miss Shraddha Vinch-wekar got FA1 norm certificate. I also thank for the immense support of FIDE, AICF, AMCA & Panvel Chess Association.All credit goes to both AMCA & RAIGAD Chess Association for the smooth conduct of the tournament.

Final ranking:Rk Name Pts1 IM D Bala Chandra Prasad 8½2 FM Wagh Suyog 83 Bharat Kumar Reddy Poluri 84 FM Anand Nadar 7½5 IM Mohammad Nubairshah Shaikh 76 Bhambure Shantanu 77 Vikas R Sharma 78 Swaraj Palit 79 Panesar Vedant 710 Shegaonkar Akshay 711 Krishnan Ritvik 712 Balkishan A. 6½13 Boricha Ketan 6½

Family Chess Rapid FIDE rating chess tour-nament attracted 380 Players from Tamil-nadu, AP, Kerala, Karnataka and Jharkhand. This one day FIDE Rated event was held on 1st May 2019 at Shri Vijayalakshmi Vidhya-layaa International School (ICSE Affiliated) MGR Nagar, South Gandhigramam, Karur - 639004. The top Seed International Master S.Nitin scored 6 points and finished 9th place. 7th seeded Master S.Prasannaa won the title with 7 / 7 and third seeded Syeed Anwar won the 2nd prize.

I thank the organizers and TNSCA for the appointed me as an Chief Arbiter to conduct the one day Rapid event.We have used chess clocks for all the boards and the time format is 20Min + 5 sec inc from move one. Please note there was no protest received in this event regarding decision of the arbiters.Final ranking: Rk Name Pts 1 Prasannaa.S 7 2 Syed Anwar Shazuli 6½ 3 Gunasekaran K. 6½ 4 Vigneshwaran N. 6½ 5 Sekar B 6 6 Senthil Maran K 6 7 Uma Maheswaran P 6 8 Sibi Visal R 6 9 IM Nitin S. 6 10 Barath Kalyan M 6 11 FM Vinoth Kumar M. 6 12 Manigandan S S 6 13 Dhanush Ragav N S 6 14 FM Pranesh M 5½ 15 Aswin Kumar B S 5½ 16 Ganesh R 5½ 17 R Shanmugasundaram 5½ 18 Manoj B 5½

19 Dusthageer Ibrahim M. 5½ 20 Surendran N 5½ 21 Rahul Bharadwaj B 5½ 22 Raman D 5½ 23 WFM Saranya J 5½ 24 Gowtham K K 5½ 25 Thanga Manickam M 5½ 26 Alaguraja M.A. 5½ 27 Arun Prasath P 5½ 28 Arul Anandh S P K 5½ 29 Ragesh Sarma.M 5½ 30 Selvamurugan B 5 31 Aswath S 5 32 Balaji P 5 33 AGM Yuvan Bharathi K S 5 34 Murali. R 5 35 Dinesh Rajan M 5 36 Arunkumar K S 5 37 Thirunaga Sundaram S 5 38 Vinoth M 5 39 Srinadh Madhavarapu 5 40 AravinthShanmugam S 5 41 V Babu Sundaresan 5 42 Arnav Maheshwari 5 43 Nandha Kumar K 5 44 Kannan R 5 45 Ganesh Babu S 5 46 Ganesha Moorthy D 5 47 Vel Vishwanathan G M 5 48 Mugunth R B 5 49 Surya Thangavel 5 50 Sai Kiran G V 5 51 Sathyaraj G 5 52 Sathya Giri V 5 53 Vikash K S 5 54 Rutherford S 5 55 Yaseen Sherif H 5 56 Gouthaman A M 5 57 SureshKumar S 5 58 AFM Suriya S V 5 59 Manikanda Prabhu B V 5 60 Badrinarayanan N 5

Family chess Rapid FIDE Rating chess Tournament, Karur

Prasanna wins titleBy N.K.Nandakumar IA , Chief Arbiter

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14 Gaurav Rajesh Zagade 6½15 Sawant Akshay 6½16 AGM Kiran Panditrao 6½17 Snehal Bhosale 6½18 Shreyas Ghadi 6½19 Bhoir Paras Dilip 6½20 Trivedi Gaurav V 6½21 Shejal Sahil Sanjay 622 Nishant Deoram Wanjari 623 Balkawade Sai 624 Jagesia Daksh 625 Prathamesh Santosh Gawade 626 Mishra Sanjeev 627 Waghmare Sagar 628 Lund Rachit 629 Darsh Shetty 630 Dhumal Amit 631 Iyer Aarav 632 Bagwe Gaurang 633 Jail Digambar 634 Adhikari Tanvi 635 Godse Anish 636 Boricha Yohan 637 ACM Pandit Harsh 638 Shah Devarsh 639 Gawande Vishal 5½40 Hapse Shreyas 5½41 Kadam Rishi R 5½42 Anil Sandanshi 5½43 Dalal Prathmesh 5½44 AIM Markanday Amol 5½45 Deshmukh Vinayak 5½46 Chakradeo Shriram Vinit 5½47 Chopra Syna 5½48 Rahul Lamba 549 Niwate Jairaj Kishor 550 Saparia Jeel Bharat 551 AFM Nagarkatte Vedant 552 Raman Trikazhipuram 553 Sandip Ram Sawant 554 Sawant Ravi 555 Koyande Sahil 556 Balkawade Om 557 AFM Mota Khant 558 Venkatraman Satyamurthy 559 Soni Atharv 560 Shetti Ameya 5

61 Satyabhan Soni 562 Pawar Sohum 563 Kshitij Dutta 564 Kakade Neil 565 Anaidaa Santosh 566 Tikam Aradhya 567 Patel Suyash 568 Nair Sreevaishnav 569 Naitik Y 570 Sudhakar 571 Aliporewala Priyank 572 Pawar Sagar 573 Pawar Gaurav 574 Chandak Anmol 575 Mayuresh Redkar 576 AFM Dey Jeet 577 Maind Aaditya 578 Jagdhane Sushant 579 Dabhade Arnav 580 Bhavsar Krishnom 581 Om Nilesh Deorukhakar 582 Mohite Ramesh 583 Sriram S N 584 Karambelkar Makarand 4½85 Sawant Hirak Manohar 4½86 Patkar Samarth 4½87 Yash Satish Parab 4½88 Gupta Rajesh R.S. 4½89 Prathmesh M Dhapate 4½90 Parkar Mayuresh 4½91 Harsh Satish Parab 4½92 ACM Varadkar Neel 4½93 Apurv Wakchaure 494 Greeshma Anand Dhumal 495 Ganesh Babu .R.K 496 Shrey Nilkant 497 Chivukula Chandrasekar 498 Shah Dev Mehul 499 Chandi Sachin 4100 Thakur Abhishek 4101 Aditya Saxena 4102 Bhatia Daksh 4103 Bhatia Kiran 4104 Swaroop Vinod Gilbile 4105 Parte Shravan 4106 Karve Sarthak Mandar 4107 Pratik Shirke 4

15th Late Meenatai Shirgaokar Memorial Women’s Tournament,Sangli

WFM Cholleti Sahajasri wins titleby FA Vivek Sohani, Chief Arbiter

tions for players.

WFM Cholleti Sahajasri(TEL) with straight win in first 5 games, played with a safe ap-proach to maintain her lead in tournament with draws in Sixth and Seventh Rounds. Sahajsri demolished a very low rated Riya Marathe of Maharashtra and Secured her title with an easy win over at the top board in the final round. In spite of having five consecutive wins in the first five games and a good position against Sahajsri in Round- 6 Vishwa didn’t take any risk against 600 ELO higher opponent and agreed for a draw in mere 18 moves. Vishwa Managed to win her last round and confirmed her Runner-up po-sition. Vrushali Deodhar(MAH) & Dhanashree Rathi(MAH) also won their respective games on Board 3 & 4 to secure Third and Fourth Position in Standings.

Sani Deshpande of Maharashtra Continuing her great run, Bagged a huge rating gain of 108 ELO Points while Devanshi Solanki gave her best to get highest performance rating of 1273 amongst all Unrated Players.Total Cash Prizes & Trophies worth Rs. 1,00,000/- were distributed by the hands of Mrs. Mousami Barde, Deputy Commissioner Sangli-Miraj Municipal Corporation, Mr. Chin-tamani Limaye, Tournament Director & Mrs. Smita Kelkar Treasurer, NBM.

Arbiter’s Team Consisted of FA Deepak Vay-chal as Deputy Chief Arbiter along with FA Jayshree Patil, SNA Shardul Tapase as Assis-tant Arbiters.

The Tournament was organized by Nutan Buddhibal Mandal, one of the oldest Organiz-ers in India, where 125 female Players played in this event with WFM Cholleti Sahajasri (TEL), Deodhar Vrushali Umesh(MAH), Rathi Dhanashree(MAH), WCM Chopdekar Gunjal (GOA), Shah Vishwawere amongst few high-ly rated players who tried their best on top boards to clinch the title.

This is a Special FIDE Rating Event only for Women Players which is conducted for the past 15 years and that too without charging a single rupee towards entry Fee and accomo-dation by NBM to encourage women players to continue their passion towards this sport. Tournament was inaugurated by Dr. Anushree Choudhari a well known anaesthetist and former Chess player along with Tournament director Mr. Chintamani Limaye, Mrs. Smita Kelkar by Lamp lighting ceremony followed by inaugural move over chess board. A Players meet was conducted by Chief Arbiter where Tournament rules were discussed with all the players and parents to make them familiar with recent upgradations in rules and special regulations related to tournament.

58 Rated Players Participated in this event while 28 Players out of total 67 Unrated play-ers managed to secure rating Performance above 1000 and they are eligible for FIDE Rating in Standard Chess in June 2019 Rating List. Also Tournament witnessed a noticeable participation from 6 States viz. MAH, GUJ, GOA, KAR, AP, TEL.A well ventilated hall with proper lighting arrangements was provided by organizers with excellent playing condi-

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Final standings:Rk Name Pts 1 Cholleti Sahajasri WFM 7 2 Shah Vishwa 7 3 Deodhar Vrushali Umesh 6½ 4 Rathi Dhanashree 6½ 5 Chopdekar Gunjal WCM 6 6 Rajput Gayatri 6 7 Upase Riddhi 6 8 Riya Narendra Marathe 6 9 Asmita Avijit Ray 6 10 Gotmare Mrinmayi 6 11 Sani Deshpande 6 12 Yadnya Rahul Chaudhari 5½ 13 Pardeshi Gayatri 5½ 14 Bhosale Shruti 5½ 15 Naik Sayuri 5½ 16 Khairmode Dhanashree 5½ 17 Naik Snehal 5½ 18 Kunnekar Vanshri 5½ 19 Jagadale Ishwari 5½ 20 Katkar Sai Arya 5½ 21 Patil Disha 5½ 22 Patil Divya 5 23 Dey Keya D 5 24 Tanvi Vasudev Hadkonkar 5 25 Kirti Milind Suryarao 5 26 Undale Shravni 5 27 Dhore Disha 5 28 Alka Narayan Wagh 5 29 Pawar Prerana 5 30 Shreya G Hipparagi 5 31 Sawant Sanskruti 5 32 Mahajan Mokshada D 5 33 Patil Anushka 5 34 Divya Sri M 5 35 Mhetre Shravani 5 36 Dhanawade Kirti 5 37 Mahat Jiya 5 38 Kulkarni Samruddhi 5 39 Dakare Rucha 4½ 40 Devanshi Solanki 4½ 41 Thanekar Manasi 4½ 42 Charuta J Shetye 4½

43 Yadav Pallavi 4½ 44 Parmar Krivya 4½ 45 Shaikh Inas 4½ 46 Chavan Dakshayani Tushar 4½ 47 Sapre Purva 4½ 48 Borate Tanvi 4½ 49 Jangam Rajpriya 4½ 50 Pendhari Ayuti 4½ 51 Hatvalne Swarali 4½ 52 Dhanawade Prajakta 4½ 53 Kothe Swarali 4 54 Kate Harshita 4 55 Nakshi Vasnawala 4 56 Dey Madhabi 4 57 Shah Anila Kishorekumar 4 58 Asudani Ruhani Raj 4 59 Shah Isha 4 60 Gotmare Mrigaya 4 61 Bhakti Rajai 4 62 Srushti D Kulkarni 4 63 Mali Riya 4 64 Jadhav Chaitrali 4 65 Kimaya Ghadge 4 66 Srushti G Hipparagi 4 67 Upadhye Shruti Bahubali 4 68 Asmi Sachin Laddha 4 69 Harale Priti 4 70 Shaikh Jiya 4 71 Mohitha V 3½ 72 Toraskar Archita 3½ 73 Rathi Tanishka 3½ 74 Shreya Umesh Daingade 3½ 75 Jarag Rajnandini 3½ 76 Kulkarni Manorama 3½ 77 Lokhande Shobha 3½ 78 Kadam Shraddha 3½ 79 Kulkarni Kirti 3½ 80 Bhere Krutika 3½ 81 Walvekar Vaishnavi 3½ 82 Wankhede Mridini 3½ 83 Bhadgave Rachna 3½ 84 Yadav Mrunal 3½ 85 Srushti Sapkal 3½

All India Open FIDE Rated Chess Tournament 2019, Belagavi

Chakravarthi Reddy wins titleby Chief Arbiter IA Manjunatha M

All India open fide rated tournament was organized by Lions club of Belgaum Midtown Belgaum, in association with Belgaum district Chess Association. The five days tournament from 01-05-2019 to 05-05-2019 attracted 168 entries, including International masters IM Chakravarthi Reddy M (Tel) 2401, IM Ra-manathan Balasubramaniam of TN 2193, out of them 98 players were FIDE Rated, Gitesh Ram Sagekar 6year old was the youngest player. Subramanian T V of TN was senior most born in the year 1934. Players from 8 states participated in this event. Tournament was conducted in a 9 round Swiss league, the event carried a prize pool of 3 Lakhs rupees in total. Organiser provided afternoon lunch for all participants and parents all the days.

This event was inaugurated by Dr Siddar-amappa ITTI principal SGBIT Belgaum by moving the pawn, on 5th may 2019 at SG Balekundri Institute, Prabhudeva Hall. Guest of honor was Lion Anil Deshpande regional chairman lions club and dignitaries present on the dais Lion Vidyadhar Veergowdar chairman, Shri PK Kulkarni founder member BDCA, Shri Prasanna Joshi president BDCA, Shri B R Kulkarni tournament director, Lion Ravindra Chougle, Lion Dr SP Desai, Presi-dent,Lions club.

IM Chakravarthi Reddy M top seeded player of the event played very nice game won 6 matches without much difficulty and lead the race. In seventh round he faced Sharan Rao of Kar and settled for draw. Eighth round he defeated Vinayak Kulkarni of Kar. In the ninth and final round Chakravarthi fought against

IM R Balasubramaniam and lost his only game. He was tied along with IM R Balasu-bramaniam and Gandhi Anish for first place with 7.5points & clinched All India Open FIDE Rating tournament 2019 Belagavi Trophy on better tie break. Prize Distribution Function was presided over by Shri Shri Dr Tontad Siddharam Mahaswa-miji, Chief Guests Shri S G Sambargimath chairman governing council SGBIT Belagavi, Guest of Honour Shri Dignitaries Allum Veer-abhadrappa MLC, MJF Lion Monica Sawant,Dr Sashikant Y Kulgod. awarded prizes to win-ners.

Deputy Chief Arbiter FA Ravikiran D J worked hard to conduct this event very smoothly without any appeal.I would like to thank AICF, UKCA, BDCA and Lions Club of Belgaum and support to conduct this event successfully.midtown, Belgaum for giving me opportunity

Main prizes Rk Name Pts 1 Chakravarthi Reddy M 7½ 2 R Balasubramaniam 7½ 3 Gandhi Anish 7½ 4 Sharan Rao 7 5 Parthasarathy R 7 6 Sudarshan Bhat 7 7 Likhit Chilukuri 7 8 Kulkarni Vinayak 7 9 Dhanush Ram M 6½ 10 Chopdekar Gunjal 6½ 11 Siddhesh Milind Marathe 6½ 12 Parsekar Anirudh 6 13 Tanvi Vasudev Hadkonkar 6 14 Aryan Shamrao Raikar 6

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15 Devi Das Suresh Pai 6 16 Bhandari Nilesh 6 17 Narayan Iyengar 6 18 Rajath Gururaj 6 19 Poornesh C Mogaveera 6 20 Niranjan Rajeev 6 21 Abhay B Bhandarkar 6 22 Swayam Naik 5½ 23 Nihal N Shetty 5½ 24 Dasari Dattatreya Rao 5½ 25 Abhishek I Ganiger 5½ 26 Prajwal M Joshi 5½ 27 Nagaraj A Patil 5½ 28 Gopal Aravamuthan Iyengar 5½ 29 Khan Raees Ahmed 5½ 30 Shaikh Inas 5 Category prizes Below_1801 Serial No Name Pts 1 Bachikar Girish 7 2 Vivekananda L 6½ 3 Colaco Reuben 6½ 4 Mokashi Rohit 6

Below_1601 Serial No Name Pts 1 Shriya R Revankar 6½ 2 Sairaj Dilip Vernekar 6½ 3 Shirodkar Aayush 6½ 4 Pednekar Ayush 6 5 Abhinav Bhatt 5½

Below_1301 Serial No Name Pts 1 Kulkarni Vaibhav 6 2 Raghavendra Bhandarkar B 6 3 Aryam Bhowmik 6 4 Karthik P 6 5 Dessai Purush Rajkaran 5½

Un-Rated Serial No Name Pts 1 Shreyas K Patil 5 2 Shriya Patil 5 3 Arkojyoti Banerjee 4½ 4 Sai Dheeraj Vadlamudi 4½

5 Shradha S Rai 4½

Senior 55 Serial No Name Pts Bhave Ravi 6

Women Serial No Name Pts Shruti Munnoli 4

Kar_ Bel Serial No Name Pts Sumedh S Parvatikar 5½

U08 Serial No Name Pts 1 Prathamesh S D 4 2 Anirudh Dattatreyarao D 3

U10 Serial No Name Pts 1 Amogh Reddy R 5 2 Shamanth B Shetty 4

U12 Serial No Name Pts 1 Shrish S Amin 5 2 Mahat Hadin 5

U14 Serial No Name Pts 1 Shirish Jayaprakash 5 2 Nishanth Dsouza 5

F08 Serial No Name Pts 1 Rudra Rajeev 4½

F10 Serial No Name Pts 1 Jagadale Ishwari 5 2 Pushti Harshad Bhonsle 4

F12 Serial No Name Pts 1 Anoushka Bhatt 4½ 2 Disha U A 4½

F14 Serial No Name Pts 1 Hemadri Sathish 5 2 Saukhya Savant 5

Asian Continental Chess Championships, China

Karthikeyan Murali , Sethuraman win Silver and BronzeNihal wins Asian blitz

A report by GM Srinath Narayanan

Asian Continental Chess Championship was held at Xingtai, China from 06 to 16 June,2019.For-mer Asian Champion GM Sethuraman played a seamless event for the first 8 rounds and looked set to add another Asian Championship to his belt. However, winning in sports require more than just playing well and more often than not, in the end it all comes down to who plays better

in the final moment. GM Le Quang of Vietnam managed to breach Se-thuraman’s Berlin wall to win the Asian Championship 2019. Despite a disappointing finish, Sethuraman won the Bronze medal and sealed his qualification spot to the World Cup.

GM Murali Karthikeyan overcame back to back defeats to score a fine victory over GM Parham Maghsodloo of Iran in the final round to finish second. Although he didn’t win the tournament, the brilliant Qxc3+ against Iranian wunderkid GM Alireza Firouzja headlined the tournament and was definitely the game of the tournament, and perhaps even the game of the year or more.

GM S.L.Narayanan won an important game against the tournament’s top seed GM Vidit Santosh Gujrathi. He then sealed his world cup qualification spot with a draw against GM Rinat Jumabayev of Kazakhstan. He finished 4th in the Classical event and finished very strongly in the blitz event to win the last six games, win a bronze medal and cap off a

succesful event. GM Abhijeet Gupta was the 4th Indian to qualify for a world cup with a well calculated quick draw against Chinese National Champion GM Lu Shanglei. Young GM Nihal Sarin had half point too less for world cup qualification and finished in the 11th place, but played powerfully to win the blitz event. After a solid and smooth start with 3 points out of 4 games, he took off to win the last 5 games with crucial wins over fellow prodigies GM Praggnanandhaa and GM Alireza, among other strong GMs as well. This brought India’s overall medal tally apart from the 4 qualification spots to the world cup. Karthikeyan Murali , Sethuraman, S.L.Narayanan and Abhijeet Gupta qualified for the World Cup 2019.

GM Murali KarthikeyanGM Sethuraman

GM S.L.Narayana

GM Nihal Sarin

GM Abhijeet Gupta

GM Vidit Santosh Gujrathi.

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WomenWGM Vaishali was India’s best performer in both the Classical and blitz with strong finishes in both the sections. She finished 5th in the classical section and 6th in the blitz respective-ly. WGM Bhakti was India’s best hope and contender for most of the tournament. She was leading halfway through the tournament, but like GM Karthikeyan in the open, Bhakti also lost the crucial rounds 7 and 8. In the end she had to settle for a disappointing 7th place. However, she can take the solace in the fact that soon she will be addressed as IM Bhakti Kulkarni, as she completed the rating requirements by crossing 2400 in the live ratings.

The game of the tournament!Firouzja,Alireza (2682) - Karthikeyan,-Murali (2593) [E90]Asian Championship Playchess (5.1), 11.06.2019[Kidambi, Sundararajan]1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.h3 0–0 6.Be3 c5 7.Nf3 Qa5 8.Nd2 cxd4 9.Nb3 Qxc3+!

Position after 9.Nb3A purely positional sacrifice of the Queen after 21 minutes of thought. From this I infer that this was an improvisation over the board. The exclamation mark is for the courage and imagination. I do not know or even care about the objective assesment of the position, but from the practical player's point of view it is quite hard for White to deal with this over the board. First White has to overcome the psycological shock of having to deal with the very rare Queen sacrifice for a couple of minor pieces. And secondly it is not at all easy to defend with

keeps increasing his control of and utilizing the weakened dark squares in the opponent's camp. 15.Kc2 Nc6 16.h4 Bf4 f4 square becomes a safe haven for Black's minor pieces.

(Position after 16..Bf4)

17.Qd1 Ne5! Note that Black's pieces are protecting each other, and his pawn structure is intact which is also protecting one another. White's pieces and especially his Queen is help-less without any targets to attack. On the other hand Black mops up the weak pawns (c4,f3) and relentlessly moves forward. 18.Nc1 Bd7 19.a4 Rac8 20.Ne2 Bh6 21.g5 Bg7 22.Bh3 Nxf3 23.Qd3 Ne5 24.Qxe3 Nxc4 25.Qf2 [If 25.Qxa7 Bc6 (25...Nc5 is possible but not necessary 26.Bxd7 Ra8 27.Qxa8 Rxa8 28.Bb5) 26.Ng3 Ra8 27.Qf2 Bxa4+ White's position collapses.] 25...Rc5 26.Rhb1 Bc6 27.Bg2 f5! [Opening up the f-file and acti-vating the only dormant piece on f8 means that its curtains for White.]

(Position after 27….f5)

the Queen (It is a great attacking piece, but not as good as a defender as the pieces with lesser value will constantly harass it). And finally there is this over estimation of the position in the lines of "White should be winning, I should be able to punish my op-ponent for this travesty etc."10.bxc3 dxe3 11.f3 Ambitious, but a bit risky too. White wants to keep his pawn structure intact and hopes to encircle the e3–pawn in the long run. Alas this does not happen in the game, and the pawn on e3 turns out to be a thorn in White's flesh. [11.Qc2 exf2+ 12.Kxf2 Nc6 Black has two minor pieces and a pawn for the sacrificed Queen. But more importantly, White's weak pawn strucure, and a slightly weakened King and the lack of control of dark squares from White's viewpoint give Black a positional compensation for the Queen.

11...Nh5! [It is important to note that White's pawn being placed on h3 is a key aspect of Black's sacrifice. If the pawn were on h2, White would have been able to play g2–g3 and neutralise all Black's activity. But, because of this little detail, Black now pursues the weakened f4 square with full vigour!12.Qc1 Bh6 13.g4 Nf4 14.Kd1 Ne6 With the exception of the pawn on c3, all other White's pawns stand on light squares. Coupled with the fact that White misses his dark squared Bishop clearly underline his helplessness on the dark squares. From here on Black simply

28.gxf6 Bxf6 [28...Rxf6 29.Qg3 Bh6!? All Black's pieces are effectively placed and pose a dominating position!]

29.Rf1 Bxc3 [Perhaps even simpler was 29...Bg7!? 30.Qg1 Rxf1 Any capture on f1 leads to material losses. Quite ge-ometric! 31.Bxf1 (31.Rxf1 Bxa4+) 31...Bxe4+]

30.Qxc5 Nxc5 31.Rxf8+ Kxf8 32.Kxc3 Ne5–+ [The position has transformed into one where Black is an exchange down but has three pawns in return. But more than the material distribution, White's problem lies in the fact that his remaining isolat-ed pawns are also very weak and Black's pawns are connected and well protected by his pieces. So Black is slowly but surely winning!]

33.a5 Nxe4+ 34.Bxe4 Bxe4 35.Nd4 Bd5 36.Nb5 a6 37.Nc7 Bc6 38.Rf1+ Kg7 39.Ne6+ Kh6 40.Rf8 Kh5 41.Rh8 h6 42.Rh7 Kxh4 43.Rxh6+ Kg4 44.Nd4 Kg5 45.Rh2 Bd5 46.Re2 Kf4 47.Rf2+ Nf3 48.Re2 e5 49.Nc2 Be4 50.Ne3 d5 51.Kb4 Nd4 52.Re1 Kf3

A wonderfully played game. A picture of positional domination! 0–1

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24-year-old Satheesh Kumar G frpm Tamil-nadu who was forty fifthseed registered eight wins from nine rounds to take lead by ½ pointfrom others.He saved his best for the last to clinch the 1st Uniquebelow 1550 All India open FIDE rating Chess Tournament 2019 after hestunned AFM Kuncolienkar Shivank (1446) of Goa in the decisive roundwith white pieces on the second board.

It was indeed a lucky day for Satheesh Kumar G. as after Prajwal K M(1407) [runner up] of Karnataka and Paulson Frenchy(1498) [3rd place]of Kerala who were also jointly leading till the penultimate round decided for peace and drew meekly on the top board. Kanishka Basu (1509) of Karnataka beat Somdeb Ma-zumdar (1274) of West Bengal to finish 4th and Tushar Banerjee(1549) of West Bengal beat ShelkeOmkar (1462) to finish 5th ac-cordingly, Whereas Goa playersAryan Raikar beat Vengala Prashanth(1398) of Andhra Pradesh to finish 6th ,Kuncolien-kar Shivank secured 7th position , Ayush Pednekar defeated Audi Saish (1356) of Goa to settle on 8th position and Kakodkar Joy of Goa chess Association finished on 10thposition. Total 257 players participated from differentstates of india out of which 140 players were fide rated.

The tournament ended peacefully under the guidance of Chief arbiter FA. Sanjay Kavlekar, Deputy chief FA Swapnil Honble, Deputy ar-biter FA. GautamTari, asst. arbiter Nandhini Saripalli.The tournament was organized by Unique Chess academy and Quepem Chess association recognized by Goa chess associ-ation and All India Chess federation in

the auditorium hall of Quepem government college Quepem Goa, from 7th May to 9th May 2019. The prizes were distributed at the hands of Shree Deepak Pawaskar Honoura-ble Minister for PWD Goa State in Presence of Shree Kishor Bandekar GCA Secretary and Treasurer of ALL India Chess Federation, Chief Arbiter Shri Sanjay Kavlekar, President Unique Chess Academy SMT. RasikaKavlekar, executive Meber QTCA ShriAmrutNaik. MRS.RASIKA Kavlekar welcomed the gathering and ShriAmrut Naik proposed the vote of thanks, Shri Sharendra Naik compared the function.

Final standings :Main Rk Name Pts 1 Satheesh Kumar G 8 2 Prajwal K M 7½ 3 Paulson Frenchy 7½ 4 Kanishka Basu 7½ 5 Tushar Banerjee 7½ 6 Aryan Shamrao Raikar 7 7 Kuncolienkar Shivank 7 8 Pednekar Ayush 7 9 Kakodkar Joy 7 10 Abhishek I Ganiger 7 11 Lad Mandar Pradip 7 12 Chorge Mangesh 7 13 Somdeb Mazumder 6½ 14 Shelke Omkar 6½ 15 Pratik S Borkar 6½ 16 Vivaan Sunil Ballikar 6½ 17 Aditya Tiwari 6½ 18 Amuthan R 6½ 19 Geetesh Mishra 6½ 20 Vangala Prashanth 6 21 Kholia Kishan 6 22 Thakkar Jatan 6 23 Khandelwal Naman 6 24 Mahajan Vivek 6

1st Unique below 1550 Open Fide Rating Tournament , Quepem, Goa

Satheesh Kumar of Tamilnadu winsby Sanjay Kavlekar IA, Chief Arbiter

GM Aravindh Chithambaram wins National Rapid & Blitz

National Rapid & Blitz Chess Championship-2019 was organized by Jalandhar Chess As-sociation under the aegis of Punjab State Chess Association & All India Chess Federation. It was held from 25 to 27 May at Lovely Professional University, Jalandhar.

More than 100 players from across 23 states competed for the coveted titles. Partic-ipants included 7 Grand Masters; 3 Woman Grand Masters; 11 International Master; 1 Woman International Master; 6 FIDE Masters. In both Rapid and Blitz competitions of the event, 11 rounds for each were played.

GM Aravindh Chithambaram became the first Indian player to hold national titles in all three formats simultaneously. Aravindh- the reigning National Open Senior Champion (in Classical format)- scored 10.5 points from 11 rounds to clinch the Rapid title. Followed by an impressive score of 10/11 points to clinch the Blitz championship.

GM Visakh NR with 9 points, GM Laxman RR with remained at second, and third in Rapid respectively. Similarly, in Blitz, GM R.R.Laxman stood second while WGM Bhakti Kulkarni bagged third place. The reigning National Women’s Champion Bhakti (Classical format) defeated India’s latest GM Swayams Mishra, IM Rahul Shetty, WGM Meenakshi, WGM Swati Ghate before drawing with champion Aravindh in the final round of Blitz Championship.

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U06 Rk Name 1 Aarav Ritesh Prabhu Gaonkar 4 U07 Rk Name 1 Aansh Nandan Nerurkar 5 2 Sairaj Narvenkar 5 3 Aarav Manche 4½ U09 Rk Name 1 Desai Dhruv Manjunath 5 2 Atharva Sawal 4½ 3 Pagi Sarvang 4 U11 Rk Name 1 Ali Amanat 5½ 2 Atharv Sawant Dessai 5 3 Skandhaj Kotha 5 U13 Rk Name 1 Nagvekar Sairudra 5½ 2 Jugan Sales Rodrigues 5½ 3 Ved Narvekar 5 U15 Rk Name 1 Dessai Purush Rajkaran 6 2 Parab Rishikesh 5 3 Tanishq Kavlekar 5 F06 Rk Name 1 Diya Digamber Sawal 3 2 Jensina Sequeira 3 3 Pednekar Shreesha 2 F07 Rk Name 1 Shreyashi Suraj Fal Dessai 3 2 Lyia Marysil Silveira 2½ 3 Caroline Ivone Viegas 2½ F09 Rk Name 1 Shriya Patil 5 2 Sequeira Jennica 4 3 Sayyed Maizah 4 F11 Rk Name 1 Srilaxmi Kamat 5 2 Shourya Suraj Pednekar 4½ 3 Sayyed Mahdiya 4½

Varadraj Memorial All India Open Rapid Fide rating chess tournament, was held from 30th May 2019 to 31st May 2019, at Chhatrapati Shahu Stadium, Satara, This is the 1st All India level Open Rapid rating event in Satara, Maharashtra by Varadraj Memorial group. Sa-tara District Chess Association and Varadraj Memorial Trust organized the event jointly. The tournament attracted a total of 205 play-ers from all over the India. There were in all 95 international fide rated players among the participants, which included 1 International Master and 1 FIDE Master.

After 2 days with 9 rounds of fighting chess at Open Rapid Fide rating chess tournament, which concluded at Chhatrapati Shahu Sta-dium, Satara, FM Nikhil Dixit of Maharashtra won the tournament with 8 points out of possible 9. At the end of 6th round 4 shared the lead with 5 points score i.e. Sammed Jaykumar Shete of MAH, Swaraj Palit of JHA, Anish Gandhi of MAH and FM Nikhil Dixit of MAH. Swaraj Palit lost his 6th round game to Sammed Jaykumar Shete and Anish Gandhi lost to FM Nikhil Dixit. With a draw in 7th round FM Nikhil Dixit and Sammed Jaykumar Shete took the joint lead with 6 ½ pts. After the completion of round 8, total 4 players were on joint lead with 7 points together i.e. FM Nikhil Dixit of MHA, Ranveer Mohite of MAH, Shreyas Ghadi of MAH and Arvind Iyer of MHA. At the end of penultimate round 2 shared the joint lead namely FM Nikhil Dixit and Ranveer Mohite with 8 points. Ranveer Mohite won his penultimate round game against Arvind Iyer and became the runner up in the event. Sammed Jaykumar Shete

won against Snehal Bhosale to reach 3rd position in the final standing. Winner FM Nikhil Dixit won against the Shreyas Gadi and clinched the title with better buchholz.

The prizes were distributed at the hands of Shri. Kiran Saymote CEO ZP Satara, The other dignitaries present were Shri. Rajendra Konde Treasurer AMCA, Shri. Sanjay Shinde Corporater Satara, Shri Jayant Uthale Presi-dent Satara District Chess Association, Shri. Vishal Kanase Founder, Varadraj Memorial Foundation, Satara, Shri. Prashant Shingate President Varadraj Foundation, Satara, and IA Kaviraj Sawant Chief Arbiter.

The team of Arbiters was headed by Chief Arbiter IA Kaviraj Sawant and he was ably assisted by SNA Pranav Tangsale, Dy. Chief Arbiter, FA Chinmay Naik, SNA Shardul Ta-pase. Mr. Rajendra Khonde Chairman AMCA Tournament and Observer Committee was the observer for the said event.

Final standings:Rk Name Pts 1 FM Dixit Nikhil 8 2 Mohite Ranveer 8 3 Sammed Jaykumar Shete 7½ 4 Nikam Ravindra 7½ 5 Shubham Lakudkar 7½ 6 Gandhi Anish 7 7 Shreyas Ghadi 7 8 Gokhale R Chandrashekhar 7 9 Soni Deepak R 7 10 Iyer Arvind 7 11 Joshi Tejas 7 12 Patil Harshal U 7

Varadraj Memorial All India Open Rapid Fide rating tournament, Satara

Nikhil Dixit Wins Varadraj Memorialby IA Kaviraj Sawant.Chief Arbiter

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55 Sachin Mohite 5½ 56 Ghamande Kaustubh 5 57 Mane Pramod 5 58 Kulkarni Chinmay A 5 59 Pandharpure Yash 5 60 Nayak Gyananjay 5 61 Pawar Yashwant 5 62 Patil Omkar U 5 63 Narandekar Rajat 5 64 Singh Anshu 5 65 Koli Isha 5 66 Tanmay Raghunath Pawar 5 67 Patil Akshaj 5 68 Shingate Ayush 5 69 Patil Vishwanil 5 70 Mhetre Prem 5 71 Wagh Ayush 5 72 Jani Harsh 5 73 Vishal Rajesh Shah 5 74 Bhosale Suresh Shankar 5 75 Sonar Suraj Rajendra 5 76 Shah Param J 5 77 Asanare Anish Harshad 5 78 Sandip Ram Sawant 5 79 Sawant Sarvesh 5 80 Jadhav Pratik 5 81 Kulkarni Arnav Ankur 5 82 Shaikh Inas 5 83 Yadav Chandrakant 5 84 Varad Phalke 5 85 Rakesh Ishwar Patil 5 86 Atharv Pandharpure 5 87 Jadhav Vinay 5 88 Sakhare Keyur 5 89 Shreyash Gursale 5 90 Khushalchand Dipak Hole 5 91 Shah Neel Prakash 5 92 Apurv Shekhar Desmukh 5 93 Mehafuj Bashir Pathan 5 94 Bagul Aditya 5 95 Abhijit Pandharpure 5 96 Sreerama Maruthy Mayur G 5

31st WB State Rapid Fide Rating Chess Championship 2019 was held at Vrindaban Banquet Hall, 26, Hindustan Park, Gariahat, Kolkata, WB from 25th to 27th May 2019or-ganized by Calcutta Chess Academy, Kol-kata. The tournament was inaugurated by Mr. Swapan Bakshi, President, and IM Atanu Lahiri, Secretary, BCA, Debasish Barua, Chief Arbiter were also present in the inaugu-ration ceremony. Total 256 players(both open & Girls)played including 22 who were fide rated. Everyone came from different districts of West Bengal. The hall was air-conditioned and spacious with sufficient toilet facilities.

The organizers provided snacks/lunch packet to all the participants free of cost. In the boys section, the game took place in 8 rounds. 4 players scored 7 points each. Out of the better tie, Aman Dhanuka emerged champion, Hrishikesh Kumar Banik came second, Mridul Dharewa bagged the third position while Mainak Naskar came fourth.

In the girls section, Saparya Ghosh scored 6.5 points out of 7 which made her the champion even before the 7th round. Sec-ond position was taken by Vipasnana Lama, the Jalpaiguri girl, scoring 5.5 points out of 7.Prize distribution saw Atanu Lahiri, Sec-retary, Bengal Chess Association and Joint Secretary of All India Chess Federation, as the Chief Guest.

Final Ranking:OpenRk Name Pts 1 Dhanuka Aman 7

31st WB State U-9(Open & Girls)Fide Rated Championship 2019

Aman Dhanuka and Saparya Ghosh are Championsby Debasish Barua IA, Chief Arbiter

2 Banik Hrishikesh Kumar 7 3 Mudil Dharewa 7 4 Mainak Naskar 7 5 Shreeyash Kejriwal 6½ 6 Archisman Patra 6½ 7 Soumick Bandopadhyay 6½ 8 Saptarshi Talukdar 6½ 9 Yug Desai 6 10 Srijit Sardar 6 11 Rangeet Majumdar 6 12 Daiwik Jain 6 13 Aayushman Jha 6 14 Wriddhish Chakraborty 6 15 Mayanka Paul 6 16 Ojash Jain 6 17 Diproneel Barman 6 18 Subid Pal 6 19 Inoday Mitra 6 20 Aditya Kayet 5½

Final ranking (Girls) Rk Name Pts 1 Saparya Ghosh 6½ 2 Vipassana Lama 5½ 3 Arhashirsha Biswas 5½ 4 Ishani Chattopadhyay 5½ 5 Suneli Bera 5½ 6 Sahana Chakraborty 5½ 7 Kashvi Chitlangia 5 8 Kanyoka Banerjee 5 9 Anindita Bhowmick 5 10 Swastika Ghosh 5 11 Mrigakshi Mazumder 5 12 Daksha Rudra 4½

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The 30th CUSAT International Rating Chess Tournament, Cochin

Ilamparithy wins Cusat Rating chessby M.S.Ananthakrishnan, Tournament Director Cusat Chess

The 30th CUSAT International Rating Chess Tournament was conducted under the joint auspices of Department of Physical Education and CUSAT Chess Club during 19th-22nd May 2019. The CUSAT Seminar Complex air conditioned was the Tournament Venue. There were 350 participants from 9 states. The time control was the regular standard format of 90 minutes to each player with an increment of 30 seconds per move. It was conducted in an eight round Swiss system. The Organizing Committee offered lunch at free of cost to all the participants.

A battery of 8 Arbiters headed by Prof.Anan-tharam Rathinam as Chief Arbiter conduct-ed the event in a befitting manner leaving no room for any complaints from partici-pants.All players were provided free lunch .Mr.A.L.Muthaiah International Master had the privilege of being top seeded followed by Senthil Maran of Tamil Nadu the former CUSAT Champion.Master Ilamparithy, 10 year old boy of Chennai had the honour of winning the title and bagged Rs.25000/- Cash Award scoring 7.5 points from 8 rounds. It is his maiden FIDE Rated Tournament title. Ilamparthy is the youngest CUSAT Champion.In the Opening round second seed, Senthil Maran was totally shocked and had to split the point with Arjun.P.R of Kerala a low rated player . At the end of fifth round the number of players with 5 points reduced to five-

International Master A.L.Muthaiah, former national Blitz Champion Ram S Krishnan Kerala State Champion O.T.Anilkumar,B.Sel-vamurugan of Madurai and B.Manoj of Tamil

Nadu. Muthaiah alone could continue his win-ning spree upto sixth round. In the seventh round Ram S Krishnan unleashed a series of sacrifices to outwit the International Master in 31 moves, while young Ilamparthi defeated Senthil Maran with a beautiful finish . In the pulsating finish of final round Ilamparthy got the better of Ram S Krishnan and won the the title with 7.5 points.The event was successfully conducted with co-operation of All India Chess Federation and Chess Association Kerala. M/s ORION ,US TECHNOLOGIES and M/s CALPIN were co-sponsors of the event.On 19th May the tournament was inaugurat-ed by Dr.K.N.Madhusoodanan Vice-Chancel-lor CUSAT the august presence of Dr.Ajitha the Registrar CUSAT ,Dr.K.R.Ajith Mohan Head Deparment of Physical Education and Organizing Secretary and Mr.R.Rajesh the Secretary Chess Association Kerala .Dr.Sasi-gopalan Syndicate Member and the Chair-man of the Organizing Committee welcomed the gathering while Dr,A,M,Unni General Con-vener conveyed vote of thanks. On 22nd May 2019 the prizes to the winners were given away by Dr.P.G.Sankaran Pro-Vice-Chancellor CUSAT in the august presence of Dr.Sasi-gopalan, Prof.Anantharam,Dr.Ajith Mohan, Dr.A.M.Unni ,Mr.Anson Antony, SajuManjaly, A.S.Sinesh and Mr.M.S.Ananthakrishnan.

Final standings:Rk. Name Pts. 1 Ilamparthi A R 7.52 Muthaiah Al IM 73 Abhinav Chakrapani S 74 Selvamurugan B 6.5

5 Ram S. Krishnan 6.56 Akhilan E M 6.57 Madhavan R Munjanattu 6.58 Manigandan S S 6.59 Madhusoodanan K.R. 6.510 Sooraj M R 6.511 Ananthapadmanabh D V 6.512 Sanjay S Pillai 6.513 Manoj B 614 Dhanasekar K. 615 Senthil Maran K 616 Anilkumar O.T. 617 Aswath S 618 Vijay Anand M. 619 Balachandar E 620 Sharsha Backer 621 Anandha Venkatesan 622 Raju O A 623 Vinoth M 624 Nandha Kumar K 625 Gabriel B M 626 Eldho Skaria 627 Mansoor C M 628 Rahul Krishna V 629 Bharkavi S 630 Adarsh P.B 631 Subramanian V 5.532 Gnanasekar .G 5.533 Gowtham K K 5.534 Arul Anandh S P K 5.535 Sidharth P G 5.536 Gokul S 5.537 Rejith Babu C 5.538 Alex C Joy 5.539 Jaidambareesh N R 5.540 Abhijith U 5.541 Felix Moothedath 5.542 Badrinarayanan N 5.543 Deepak K S 5.544 Lakshmanan K A 5.545 Sidharth Balaji Sridharan 5.546 Ashwin Sairam 5.547 Rahan Ramesh 5.5

48 Swara Lakshmi S Nair 5.549 Bright Lee M Sunilkumar 5.550 Ranjith Anand 5.551 Gagan Bharadwaj K 5.552 Roshan Hari 5.553 Aashish Niranjan B 5.554 Prabhu R V 5.555 Muthu Rakesh Babu 5.556 Swaroopa E T 5.557 Hrishikesh A J 5.558 Vivek V Nambiar 5.559 Dharani Srinivas K B 5.560 Abi A 561 Maheshchandran R 562 Jayasangar T 563 Pranav Shridhar 564 Nithyan S 565 Karthik Raj 566 Avinash Hari 567 Raghu U V 568 John Veny Akkarakaran 569 Jolly V P 570 Dhanasekaran Suresh R. 571 John Paul 572 Ebin Benny 573 Arjun Vasudevan 574 Siva A C 575 Muralishankar J T 576 Anjitha Krishnakumar 577 Sasikumar.S 578 Sidharth K 579 Goutham D 580 Ganesh Aravind N 581 Unnikrishnan S 582 Aaryan Vinod 583 Varun Muralidharan 584 Narayan Iyengar 585 Aadithya Pradeep 586 Nawin M S 587 Mishail Rashid 588 G Aravamuthan Iyengar 589 Pournami S 590 Sidharth Rajeev 5

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4th IGMSA Open FIDE Rating Below 1500 chess tournament was conducted by Indian Grand Master Sports Academy for 3 days from 20th to 22nd May 2019. The event attracted 403 entries from all over India including major states like Karnataka, Maha-rastra, Madhya Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Hariya-na, Bihar, Chattisgadh, Orissa, West Bengal, Telangana and two foreign federation players. 218 FIDE rated players participated in the event.The event was inaugurated by Chief Guest Major K A Shiva Prasad, Vice President, Telangana State Chess Association and Prof. P Kameshwara Rao, Organizer- IGMSA.

The event was conducted at Oasis School, Raidurg, Sheik Pet, Hyderabad. The venue was in center of city and well ventilated and the organizer took good care during the event. Siddik Akbar of Tamilnadu won 4th IGMSA Below 1500 Fide Rating Chess Tournament. In the final round he drew with Varshith Nela (TEL). Total five players tied for 1st prize with 8 points each after 9 rounds. After Tie break scores Nagasri Saikanth (AP) was the runner up. S Krishna Murthy of Tamilnadu got 3rd place. Winner Siddik Akbar got winner trophy and cash prize of Rs. 50,000/- and Runner up Nagasri Sai-kanth got 35,000/- and 3rd placed Krishna Murthy took Rs. 30,000/-. Total Rs. 6 lakh distributed among 70 prize winners.

In the glittering prize distribution ceremo-ny Chief Guest Sri Jaya Prakash, CEO of Chezz64.com gave away the trophies and cash prizes to the winners. K S Prasad –Secretary ,Telangana State Chess Associa-

tion (TSCA) , Major K A Shiva Prasad - Vice President of TSCA ; Prof. P Kameswar Rao, Organizing Secretary of the tournament (IGMSA) and International Arbiter Promodraj Moree – Chief Arbiter of the tournament also graced the occasion.

I thank IGMSA and the tournament director Mr Kameshwar Rao for providing me the op-portunity to be Chief Arbiter for this event. Also I thank the Deputy Arbiter FA Subba Raju S ,FA GV Kumar, and Assistant arbiters who worked along with me to make the event the grand success.

Final ranking: Rk Name Pts1 Siddik Akbar 82 Nagasri Saikanth 83 Krishnamurthy S 84 Varshith Nela 85 Anil M 86 Mano Ranjith J 7½7 Avhad Prajwal 7½8 Setumadhav Yellumahanthi 7½9 Prem Anantha Rajan V. 7½10 Hemanth Eswar G 7½11 Dinesh Babu G S 712 Sanjeewan Singh Sardar 713 Patil Abhishek 714 Srikanth Myakala 715 Satyanarayana Raju D S 716 Tyagi Raghubar Dayal 717 Yashodarshan Kalmanoor 718 Srihari K R 719 Logesh V 720 Gyaneshwar B 721 Meet Puri 6½22 P Venkata Satyanarayana 6½23 Shivaiah Kopparthy 6½

4th IGMSA Open FIDE Rating Below-1500 Chess Tournament 2019, Hyderabad

Siddik Akbar of Tamil Nadu is the Champion by IA Promodraj Moree, Chief Arbiter

24 Shailesh Bhate 6½25 Sami M A 6½26 Prasanth K V 6½27 Akavaram Aashish Reddy 6½28 Anand Babu P 6½29 Vysetty Sahithi 6½30 Ajitesh G 6½31 Surya Alakanti 6½32 Sreekanth Thimmugari 6½33 Chincholkar Aditya 6½34 Bharath Raj K 6½35 Munna Das Bairagi 6½36 Jagesia Daksh 6½37 Rathish R 6½38 Patil Shravani Arun 6½39 Amitesh Kumar Sinha 6½40 Naresh Nidigonda 6½41 Gopinath P 642 Gote Kaustubh 643 Mir Maahir Ali 644 Sheetal Sonwane 645 Arunkumar K S 646 Abishek K 647 Sayam Vishvesh 648 Rishi R 649 Adhvaith Kodam 650 Santosh Pal 651 Sreenandan Babu J 652 Bharathraj S 653 Thatavarthy Siva Suhas 654 Prajwal K M 655 Ravi Krishna G 656 Vamsi Krishna A 657 Gopichand K 658 Harini Narahari 659 Pavan Kumar Posa 660 Karthikeyan G 661 Raghava Madhavan 662 Aragonda Mohan 663 Arunachalam S 664 Uday Kiran Kumar P 665 Vegi Bhavishnu Sai Sivaji 666 Teerthala Abhinav 667 Dhanush Reddy A 668 Bhargava Sai S 669 Srikanth T J V K 670 Balaji S 6

71 Sachin Pai 672 Atharva Shirish Kawthale 673 Khandrika Aahlad Karthik 674 Rajini K 675 P. Suresh Babu 676 Pasapula Teja Sree 677 Gokul D 678 Chaitanya Kumar M 5½79 Chidvilash Sai Surapaneni 5½80 Shruthik Sarvagni P 5½81 Vihith Advyith Reddy M 5½82 Joshi Sunil 5½83 Balakrishna Kavatrapu 5½84 A Kovidh Kushal Reddy 5½85 Pavan N 5½86 Bharathakoti Sneha 5½87 Jaffar Vali S 5½88 Vittanala Shanmuk Saish 5½89 Sankaranarayanan B 5½90 Venkata Krishna K 5½91 Tendulkar Kruttika 5½92 M Anantha Yatin Sharma 5½93 Vishwa Teja B 5½94 Sanchith Sundararam K 5½95 Triddev Reddy K 5½96 Ilanchezhiyan M 5½97 Ch. Nanda Sai Vinesh 5½98 Narahari Geethika Hasini 5½99 Dhirendra Kumar Das 5½100 Pidaparthi Suryaprabhath 5½101 Manoj Reddy Maram 5½102 Chanduri Varshith 5½103 Narasimha Prasad S 5½104 Srivatsa Ananth Kothagundla 5½105 Thiyagarajan T 5½106 Vadlakonda Rahul 5½107 Srivardhan Reddy D 5½108 Mathiyazhagan M 5½109 Saisarath K 5½110 Himanshu Agarwal 5½111 Advay Koganti 5½112 Kumar T V 5½113 Sai Teja Sollate 5½114 Bani Kanta Nath 5½115 Aaryan Sharma 5½116 Rahul Mayur Sharma 5½117 Rachita Sabbathi 5½

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Smart Girl FIDE Rated – Pondicherry 2019 was a 9-round Swiss tournament. Open for female players only with trophies for top 10 places. It was held from 22 to 26 May at Aru-muga Thirumana Mandapam, Pondicherry. Players received 90 minutes for the entire game, plus a 30-second increment starting from move one.

Nanmalar A. of Tamil Nadu became champion with 8.5 points after winning her final round game with Daranya S of Pondicherry. Second place was bagged by top-seeded Subhiksha E, also from Tamil Nadu, with 6.5 points and the third position was secured by Rakghitha S M R with 6.5 points.A total of 74 players participated in the tournament and 17 players were FIDE rated.

Chief guest R. Sridharan, Deputy Commis-sioner of Income Tax, Puducherry gave away the prizes to all the winners.Final standings: Rk Name Pts 1 Nanmalar A 8½ 2 Subhiksha E 6½ 3 Rakghitha S M R 6½ 4 Priyadharshni S 6½ 5 Shreya Meenakshi 6½ 6 Harini M C 6½ 7 Daranya S 6 8 Kanishka S 6 9 Kashthuri Bhai R 6 10 Jeevika S 6 11 Dhaaniya T 6 12 Akshaya M 6 13 Harshini S 6 14 Rupashri S 6 15 Yogavarthanee R 6

16 Geethanjali S 6 17 Manickammal D 5½ 18 Nehaa B 5½ 19 Priyadharshini Karpagakumar 5½ 20 Varshaa M 5½ 21 Bhathmalakshmi A 5 22 Hema Priya M 5 23 Kamalini Haradhana Nimban K 5 24 Sruthi R 5 25 Saralvarsha M 5 26 Amritha Varshini A 5 27 Mahalakshya H N 5 28 Seermathi K 5 29 Divya Lakshmi S 5 30 Poonguzhali N 4½ 31 Sowmiya A 4½ 32 Kirushika Sri S 4½ 33 Sangamithraa K 4½ 34 Krishnapriya R 4½ 35 Dheeptha B 4½ 36 Mohana Priya Y 4½ 37 Shresta D R 4½ 38 Hiradhini L 4½ 39 Vishali S 4½ 40 Sri Harsedha K 4½ 41 Tarunika G 4½ 42 Girubanathi C 4 43 Nirmala K V 4 44 Kavimanjari L 4 45 Vaishnavi B 4 46 Shanmuga Priya M 4 47 Akshaya N 4 48 Avanthikaa K M 4 49 Iniyamathy V 4 50 Swathi 4 51 Puviya sureshkumar 4 52 Bala Soundari S 3½ 53 Preethi P 3½ 54 Sudiksha S 3½ 55 Himani J 3½ 56 Harithra Karpagakumar 3½

Smart Girl FIDE Rated Pondicherry 2019, Puducherry…

Nanmalar wins Smart Girl FIDE Ratedby FA J Narayanan, Chief Arbiter

Selected games from National Under-13 Championships, Vizag

Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron

Ilamparthi,A R. (TN) (2074) Jubin,-Jimmy (KE) (2214) [A01]

1.b3 e5 2.Bb2 Nc6 3.e3 d5 4.Bb5 Bd6 5.Nf3 Bg4 6.h3 Bxf3 7.Qxf3 Nge7 8.c4 0–0 9.cxd5 Nb4 10.Na3 a6 11.Be2 f5 12.d3 b5 13.0–0 Nexd5 14.Rfc1? [#]

[White does not realise the danger in which his queen is on f3. He had a nice al-ternative: 14.Nxb5 axb5 15.a3 c6 16.axb4 Rxa1 17.Rxa1 Nxb4=] 14...Qh4! Black threatens 15....e4!! 16 de4 fe4 destroy-ing f2. 15.g3 [If 15.Rf1 c6 16.Rac1 Qe7! (threatening ....e4 with greater vigour.) 17.Nb1 Nxa2 18.Rxc6 Ndb4 19.Rb6 e4 20.dxe4 Bc5!µ This rook is trapped.] 15...Qxh3 16.Bf1 Qh6 17.Nc2 Qe6 [Stronger was: 17...Rae8 18.Nxb4 Nxb4 19.a3 e4 20.Qg2 Nd5 21.Rc6 Nxe3 22.fxe3 Qxe3+ 23.Qf2 Qg5µ] 18.Bg2 Rae8³ 19.Qe2 Nxc2 20.Rxc2 Qf7? [20...Re7 for 21....Ref7, doubling on the f-file was a strong plan.] 21.a3? [Better was 21.e4 Nb4 22.Rc3 f4] 21...Nf6 22.b4 Qg6 23.e4!= fxe4 24.dxe4 Ng4 [#]

25.Qd3?? [Leaving the black knight on g4 is a strategic mistake as the knight threatens not only f2 but aids his queen to attack his h2 via h4. Best was: 25.Bf3 h5 26.Rf1=] 25...Qh5–+ 26.Bf3 Qh2+ 27.Kf1 h5! 28.Qb3+ Kh8 29.a4? Rf6 30.Rd1 bxa4 31.Qc3 [#]

[Forced, for if 31.Qxa4 Rxf3!! 32.Qxe8+ Kh7! and black cannot defend his key f2 square from disaster!] 31...Bxb4! 32.Qxb4 [If 32.Qd3 Ref8 wins along the f-file.] 32...Rxf3 33.Qd2 Qh1+ 34.Ke2 Rxf2+ 35.Kd3 Qf3+ 36.Kc4 Qb3+ 37.Kc5 Qb5# 0–1

Meenatchi,Rajam V (TN) (1714) Jena,Suhana (OD) (1354)Meenatchi Rajam from Tamil Nadu was the second seed in this event. She was

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in poor form to finish only 8th and lost 72.4 Elo. Suhana Jena of Odisha clever-ly seized her chances in this game. She was the 27th seed but finished 22nd and gained 80.8 Elo.

27.Ne7+? [This is a faulty combination which overlooks black's brilliant resource just two moves later. Better was: 27.Nd4 Qg6 28.Qg3 Qxg3 29.hxg3] 27...Rxe7! 28.Rd4 [White sees too late that her in-tended 'winning' move lost her queen in a discovered attack: 28.Qxe7?? Qxe3+! 29.Kh1 (or 29. Kf1 makes no difference) 29...Bxg2+! 30.Kxg2 Qxe7 wins the queen.] 28...Qe6 29.Qf4 Bg6 30.Rd8+ Kh7 31.Kf2 Qf5 32.Qxf5 Bxf5 0–1

Pranesh,M (FM TN) (2333) Adired-dy,Tarun (TL) (1738) [B81]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.h3 e6 7.g4 Be7 8.Bg2 Nfd7 9.0–0 Nc6 10.Nce2 0–0 11.b3N Nde5 12.Be3 Qc7 13.c4 Rd8 14.f4 Nxd4 [14...Ng6=] 15.Nxd4 Nc6 16.Qe2 Bf6 17.Nxc6 bxc6 18.Rad1 White's strat-egy involves his expansion on the king-side and hindrance of black's queen-side development. 18...Be7 19.g5 e5 20.Qf2 Target: f7. 20...Rf8 21.f5 f6 22.g6 h6± 23.b4 [#]

23...Bb7 24.Bb6 Qb8 25.c5+- a5 26.cxd6 [Much stronger was: 26.bxa5! Ba6 27.Rfe1+- dxc5 28.Rd7 Re8 29.Red1 Qc8 30.Qc2 c4 31.Rc7! Bc5+ 32.Kh2 Qb8 33.Rdd7!+-] 26...Bxd6 27.bxa5 Ba6 28.Rfe1 Bb4 29.Re3 Bb5 30.Rb3 [30.a4! Bxa4 31.Rb1 (or 31.Qa2+ Kh8 32.Qxa4 Qxb6 33.axb6 Rxa4 34.Rb3 Kg8 35.Rd7 Bc5+ 36.Kh2 Rd4 37.Rc7+-) 31...c5 32.Qa2+ Kh8 33.Qxa4+-] 30...Bxa5 31.Bxa5 Rxa5 (Threat 32....Qa7 ex-changing queens.) 32.Kh2 [#]

32...Qa8? [He could draw with: 32...Qa7! 33.Qxa7 Rxa7 34.Rb2= Rfa8 35.Kg1 Kf8 36.Bf1 Bxf1 37.Kxf1=] 33.Rb2 Qa7 Now he is late! 34.Qd2= Ra3 35.Qd6 Qe3 36.Rbd2!! Suddenly when black seems

to have equalised, white comes up with a good mating idea. The threat now is 37. Qxf8+!! Kxf8 38. Rd8+ Ke7 39. R1d7# 36...Raa8 37.Qe6+ Kh8 38.Rd7! Now the threat is 39. Rxg7!! Kxg7 40. Qe7+ mating. 38...Rg8 39.Kh1 Qe2 Now the threatened 40. Qxf6 does not work be-cause of 40...Qxd1+ 41. Rxd1 gxf6 wins for black. 40.R7d2 Qc4 41.Qe7 Rxa2?? [There was no need to panic and play desperately. He could still draw with: 41...c5! 42.Rd5 Bc6! 43.Rd8 (43.Rxc5? Qe2!! 44.Rg1 Bxe4–+) 43...Raxd8 44.Rxd8 Qc1+! 45.Kh2 Qf4+= Draw by perpetual check.] 42.Rd8 Ra8

[#] [Now too late is: 42...c5 43.Rxg8+ Qxg8 44.Rd8 Bc4 45.Rxg8+ Bxg8 46.Qxc5+-] 43.Qxg7+!! Kxg7 44.R1d7+ Qf7 45.Rxf7+ Kh8 46.Rh7#!! 1–0

Anushka,Gupta (WB) (1456) Velpu-la,Sarayu (TL) (1768) [B20]

1.e4 c5 2.Ne2 g6 3.g3 Bg7 4.Bg2 Nc6 5.c3 e5 6.0–0 Nge7 7.f4 d6 8.d3 0–0 9.Be3 f5 10.Na3 Be6 11.Nc2N General-ly, this knight looks for an opportunity to enter the game aggressively through c4, not c2. As this knight has currently noth-ing important to do from c2, it was best to leave it on a3, so that black fears that

it could harrass her by suddenly getting to b5 or c4. A little bit of psychology helps in chess! 11...fxe4 12.dxe4 b6 [#]

[Leading to incredible and unfathomable complications was 12...Qb6! 13.Qxd6 (risk-free was: 13.Bc1 Rad8 14.Ne3=) 13...Bc4 14.Rf2 Rad8 15.Qxc5 Qxc5 16.Bxc5 Rd2 17.Bf1 Rxc2 18.Nd4 Bxf1 19.Nxc6 Nxc6 20.Rxc2 Bd3 21.Rd2 Bxe4 22.Bxf8 Bxf8± This analysis is by no means exhaustive. The reader would do well to analyse the various alternatives and gain rich experience in the art of calculation over the board.] 13.Qd2 Qc7 14.Rfd1 [After this move, the other rook has no good square to go to. Therefore better was 14.b3 preparing for the nat-ural Rad1 which she plays three moves later anyway.] 14...Rad8! 15.Qe1 Bf7? [She can dispense with this preliminary move and straightaway play 15...d5!µ or 15....Rd7 with advantage.] 16.fxe5 dxe5 17.b3 Be6 18.Bg5 h6! [If 18...c4 19.Ne3 cxb3 20.Rxd8 Nxd8 (better 20...Qxd8 ) 21.axb3 Bxb3 22.c4!µ this bishop is trapped because of 22...Bxc4 23.Nxc4 Qxc4 24.Bxe7+-] 19.Be3 [Better was: 19.Rxd8 Rxd8 20.Bd2 Qd7 21.Rd1 c4 22.b4³] 19...Bg4 20.Bf2 Bf3 21.Ne3 Bxg2 22.Kxg2 [#]

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22...Nc8! From e7, this knight goes no-where. Therefore black re-locates this knight to play a major role in the dem-olition of white. 23.Rxd8 Nxd8 24.Qd2 Qf7 25.Qd5 Ne6! With a bonanza waiting for her queen on f2 and f3, black will not think of exchanging queens. 26.Rf1 Ne7 27.Qc4 [#]

27...b5!! The sole purpose of this move is to divert the queen away from the c4-g8 diagonal so that her queen and knight are free from the pin along the diagonal. If 28.Qxb5 [or 28.Qd3 Qf3+ 29.Kg1 Ng5!! 30.h4 Nh3+ 31.Kh2 Nxf2–+] 28...Qf3+ 29.Kg1 [29.Kh3?? Ng5+ 30.Kh4 Qh5#] 29...Ng5 (threat 30....Nh3#) 30.Qd7 Nf5!! Blocks the white queen's access to h3 and renews the mate threat. 31.Qd5+ Kh7 [After 31...Kh7 32.h4 Nxe3 33.Bx-

e3Qxf1+34.Kh2Nf3#] 0–1Kriti,Mayur Patel (MH) (1449) Yas-havishree,N (TN) (1422) [B21]Yashavishree Neelakannan was the Na-tional U-7 Girls Champion in 2014. She shows her calibre in the first 30 moves of this game, reaching a winning position. But six moves after that, she is struggling to save her game as she overlooked a pin! Kriti from Maharashtra came from behind in this game to prove her grit. In the championship too, she came from be-hind to tie for first with champion Velpula Sarayu, one point ahead of a large bunch of nine players. With two rounds to go, Sarayu was leading by a point. But while Kriti won her last two games, Sarayu only drew both. This game is very interesting and entertaining. Enjoy and learn from it! 1.e4 c5 2.d4 cxd4 3.c3 dxc3 4.Nxc3 d6 5.Nf3 Nc6 6.Bc4 e6 7.0–0 Nf6 8.Qe2 Be7 9.Rd1 e5 10.h3 a6 11.Be3 0–0 12.Rac1 Bd7 13.Qd2? [13.a3 is usual here.] 13...Be6 14.Be2 h6= but with an edge for black. 15.Qc2 Rc8 16.Qb1 Qa5 17.Bd2 Qc7 18.Be3 Qb8 19.b4 Rfd8 20.Bb6 Rf8 21.a4 Nd7 22.Be3 a5! 23.b5 Nb4 24.Qb2 Nc5 25.Ra1? [As the knight on c5 is becoming very threatening, it was best to exchange it off with 25.Bxc5 dxc5 26.Nd5 Bxd5 27.exd5 e4 28.Nd2 Bg5] 25...Nxe4!! [#]

A deep sacrifice which must have taken white by surprise. 26.Nxe4 Rc2! 27.Qb1 Rxe2 28.Ned2 White closes this rook's exit and hopes to trap it. But having lost two pawns already, she cannot gain much even by winning the exchange. 28...d5 29.Kf1 Rxd2? [#] [With the white king now on f1 instead of g1, the dynamics of the position has changed and white could win with: 29...Rxe3! 30.fxe3 e4! 31.Nxe4 31...dxe4 32.Qxe4 Re8!–+.]

30.Bxd2 d4? [Black is still winning but she has to find the right continuation: 30...e4! this allows her queen to get to h2 and win. 31.Nd4 Qh2 32.Bxb4 axb4 She does not recapture with her bishop as she wants that bishop at h4, to intensify her attack against the white king. 33.Qb3 Bh4 34.Qe3 Qh1+ 35.Ke2 Qxg2 36.Rh1 Qg6–+ For white's rook and knight, black has two bishops and three pawns, a great material advantage accentuated by white's wan-dering king which has no safe haven.] 31.Qe4 Bd6 32.Kg1 White must have worried sick about her wandering king and one can understand her decision to pull it back into her castled position at the first chance. 32...f5 33.Qe2? [This adds fuel to black's dwindling fire. Better was 33.Qb1 Qa7 34.Bxb4 axb4 35.Qb2–+] 33...b6?? [#] [This does not have much

point, and blunders away her key pawn. One must strike when it is hot. Black could win with: 33...d3! 34.Qe3 e4 35.Nd4 Bd5 36.Bc3 Be5 37.Qd2 Rc8–+]

34.Nxd4! Black has missed the pin of her e5 pawn! The pin is the most basic tac-tical motif in chess. 34...Bd5? [Stunned by white's plunder of her d4 pawn, black makes another mistake, losing yet another pawn! She should try the lesser evil: 34...exd4 35.Qxe6+ Kh7 36.Rac1 Nd3 37.Rc6 Rf6±] 35.Bxb4! Bxb4 36.Nxf5! 36...Be6 37.Ne3 Rc8 [The time for challeng-ing open files is gone! Every exchange of a piece would now take white closer to vic-tory. Better was: 37...Bc5 ] 38.Rac1 Rd8 39.Rxd8+ Qxd8 40.Rc6 Bb3 41.Qb2! [#] A double attack that should win the e5 pawn, but in reality wins more!! 41...Bxa4 42.Qa2+! Again, a double attack. But now the target is the bishop, not a pawn! 42...Kh8 43.Qxa4+- Bc5 44.Qc2 Qd7 A rook down for a pawn, black car-ries on, hoping for a miracle which does not occur. 45.Nc4 Qb7 46.Nxe5 Qb8 47.Nd7 Qb7 48.Nxc5 bxc5 49.Rxc5 a4 50.Rc8+ Qxc8 51.Qxc8+ Kh7 52.Qc2+ Kh8 53.b6 a3 54.b7 g6 55.b8Q+ Kg7 56.Qe5+ Kf7 57.Qcc7+ Kg8 58.Qeg7# 1–0

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Tactics from master games by S.Krishnan

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

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

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

(solutions on p.47)

Test your endgame by C.G.S.Narayanan

Adolf Herberg 1955 Dr.Jindrich Fritz 1951

1. 2. Bondarenko 1947 Dr.Jindrich Fritz 1947

3. 4.

Gurvic 1954 Julius Gunst 1951

5. 6.

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

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ARCA State Under 15 Boys & Girls FIDE Rated Tournament,Udaipur

Smart Girl FIDE Rated Pondicherry 2019, Puducherry

Back row:(L-R) Mr, C Arulmozhi, Na & EC Member, Mr. S Nadaradjane, IA & EC Member, Mr. R Devakumar, Vice President,PSCA, Chief Guest R Sridharan, Deputy Commercial Tax Officer, Pondicherry, Mr. G Sankar, Secretary, PSCA .Mr. J Ramesh, Treasurer, PSCA, Mr, A Sivagnanaganesan, EC Member, Mr. J Narayanan, FA & Chief Arbiter Mr, V Venugopal, NA.Front row:Prize winners:Miss S Daranya(Pud)) Miss Jeevika(Pud) Miss R KashthuriBai(And) Miss Shreya Meenakshi(Pud), Miss A Nanmalar(TN), Champion. Miss Rakghitha SMR(TN) Miss MC Harini(TN) Miss S Priyadharshini(Pud)

Prize winners with dignitaries.Guest left to right Mukesh Mandloi, Shri Verma ji , Branch Manager LIC, Rajeev Bhardwaj, President CIL, Advocate Manish Mogra, Kamlesh Choudhary, Dr.om Sahu and IA Rajendra Teli, Chief Arbiter

Masters of the past-100 Jose Capablanca

José Raúl Capablanca (Havana, Cuba, 19 November 1888 – New York, 8 March 1942) was a Cuban chess player who was World Chess Champion from 1921 to 1927.Capablanca was a child prodigy with an astonishing natural talent for the game. He grew up into a cultured and charming man, whom the Cuban government made its roving ambassador-at-large. He was a media celebrity and probably the Cuban best-known to the rest of the world.

José Raúl Capablanca was the second surviving son of an army officer learned the rules of the game at the age of four by watching his father play. He was particularly dominant in rapid chess, winning a tournament ahead of the reigning World

Chess Champion, Emanuel Lasker, in 1906. San Sebastian tournament of 1911 was "one of the strongest five tournaments held up to that time", as all the world's leading players competed except the World Champion, Lasker, who was inactive in serious play at the time. Capablanca won brilliantly against Bernstein in the very first round, and more simply against Nimzowitsch. He astounded the chess world by taking first place, with a score of six wins, one loss and seven draws, ahead of Akiba Rubinstein, Milan Vidmar, Frank Marshall, Carl Schlechter and Siegbert Tarrasch. His loss, against Rubinstein, was one of the most brilliant achievements of the latter's career.Capablanca was now recognized as a serious contender for the world championship.

In January 1920, Emanuel Lasker and Capablanca signed an agreement to play a World Championship match in 1921. The match was played in March–April 1921; Lasker resigned it after just fourteen games, having lost four games and won none. Vladimir Kramnik thought that Lasker played quite well and the match was an "even and fascinating fight" until Lasker blundered in the last game. Kramnik's explanation was that Capablanca was twenty years younger, a slightly stronger player, and had more recent competitive practice.

Since Capablanca had won the New York 1927 tournament overwhelmingly, and had never lost a game to Alekhine, he was regarded by most pundits as the clear favorite in their 1927 World Chess Championship match. However, Alekhine won the match, played at Buenos Aires, by 6 wins, 3 losses, and 25 draws – the longest World Championship match until the World Chess Championship 1984–85 between Anatoly Karpov and Garry Kasparov. Alekh-ine's victory surprised almost the entire chess world.

Capablanca finished fourth, one point behind the joint winners at Moscow in 1935.During these triumphs Capablanca began to experience debilitating symptoms of hypertension. and could only finish seventh of the eight players at the 1938 AVRO tournament, an élite contest designed to select a challenger for Alekhine's world title. Capablanca's high blood pressure was not correctly diagnosed and treated until after the AVRO tournament, and caused him to lose his train of thought towards the end of playing sessions.

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4th IGMSA Open FIDE Rating Below-1500 Chess Tournament 2019, Hyderabad

30th Cusat International Rating Chess Tournament, Cochin

Left to Right : K S Prasad, Secretary, Telangana state Chess Association, Major K A Shivaprasad, Vice President, TSCA, Sri Jaya Prakash, CEO of Chezz64.com, Prof. P Kameswar Rao, Organizing Secretary of the tournament (IGMSA) and IA Promodraj Moree, Chief Arbiter.Prize winners with trophy(L-R)3rd prize winner Krishna Murthy (TN), 1st Prize winner Siddik Akbar of (TN), 2nd Prize winner Nagasri Saikanth (AP)

IM Muthaiah AL, R Ilamparithi and Abhinav Chakrapani with dignitaries

Solutions to ‘Tactics from master games’ on page 421. Franco Valencia,B (2159) Rodriguez Vila,A (2480) [A40]Cartagena COL Cartagena COL (1.8), 22.04.2019Black to play. 20...Rxe3! 21.fxe3 Qxe3+ 22.Kh1 [22.Rf2 Ng4 23.Qf1 (23.Qe1 Qxd3) 23...Nxf2 24.Qxf2 Qxd3+-] 22...Qh3! 23.Be4 [23.Rg1 Ng4 Wins; 23.Rf2 Ng4] 23...Nxe4! 24.Qd1[24.gxh3,Nf2+25.Kg1Nxh3#;24.Qd1 Ng3+ 25.Kg1 Qxg2#] 0–12.Ranaivoharisoa,A(2203) Paiva,Donal-do (2204) [B23]Zone 4.3 2019 Antananarivo MAD (5.7), 01.05.2019White to play 27.Qf4! f5 [27...Be8 28.Nc6! Rdc8 (28...Bxc6 29.Qxf7#; 28...Qxc6 29.Qxe5 dxe5 30.Rh8+ Kg7 31.R1h7#) 29.Rh8+! Bxh8 30.Ne7+ Kf8 31.Nxg6+ Kg8 32.Rxh8+ Kg7 33.Qf6#; 27...Rf8 28.Rh8+ (28.Qh4+-) 28...Bxh8 29.Qh2 Wins] 28.gxf6 [28.gxf6 Bxd4 (28...Bxf6 29.Qxf6 Wins) 29.Rg7+ Kf8 30.Rh8#] 1–03. Fernandez,Fr (2268)Perez Feliz,Josue Enrique (1914) ch-DOM 2019 Santo Domingo DOM (1.6), 26.04.2019White to play. 26.Rxh7! d4 [26...Kxh7 27.Qh3+ Kg8 28.Nxg6 fxg6 29.Bxg6 Wins] 27.Qh3 Qg5 [27...f5 28.Nxg6+-] 28.Rh8+ Nxh8 29.Qh7# 1–04. Aoshima,Mirai (2313) - Nanjo,R (2324) [D46]52nd ch-JPN 2019 Tokyo JPN (8.1), 02.05.2019White to play 27.Ne5! [Also 27.Ng5!+- Rf8 a) 27...fxg5 28.Qxg5+ Kf8 (28...Ke8 29.Rxd8+ Wins) 29.Rxd8+ Rxd8 30.Rxd8#; b) 27...Rxd4 28.Qxf7+ Kd6 29.Rxd4+ Kc6 30.Qxe6+ Kc7 31.Rd7+ Wins; 28.Nxe6 Bxd4 (28...fxe6 29.Rd7+ Qxd7 30.Qh7+; 28...Kxe6 29.Re1+ Wins) 29.Nxd4 Ke8 (29...Rad8 30.Nf5+ Ke6 (30...Ke8 31.Qe2+) 31.Ng7+ Ke7 32.Qe2+ Wins) 30.Qe2+ Qe7 31.Qf3] 27...Ke8 [27...Bxd4 28.Qxf7+ Kd6 29.c5+! Kxe5 30.Qxb7+-; 27...Rxd4 28.Qxf7+ Kd6 29.Rxd4+; 27...

fxe5 28.Rxd8 Rxd8 29.Qh4+ f6 30.Qh7+ Ke8 31.Qg8+ Bf8 32.Rxd8+ Kxd8 33.Qxf8+ Kd7 34.Qf7+ Kc6 35.Qxb7+ Kxb7 36.h4 Wins] 28.Rxd8+ Rxd8 29.Qh8+ [29.Qh8+ Bf8 30.Rxd8+ Kxd8 31.Qxf8+ Kc7 32.Qxf7+ Kb8 33.Qxb7+ Kxb7 34.h4 Wins] 1–05. Ismagambetov,An (2545) - Sasikiran,K (2678) [C84]12th World Teams 2019 Astana KAZ (6.2), 11.03.2019Black to play. 42...Nh4! 43.gxh4 [43.Ne1 Rxe1 44.gxh4 Re4 45.Qc2 (45.Qxd5 Rg4+–+) 45...f5–+] 43...Qxh3 44.f4 [44.Nf4 Nxf4 45.Bxf4 Rxf4 46.Qc2+ f5–+] 44...Qg3+ 45.Kh1 Ne3 46.Bxe3 Rxe3 47.Ne1 [47.Qd5 Qh3+ 48.Kg1 Rg3+ 49.Kf2 Qh2+ 50.Ke1 Re3+ 51.Kd1 Rxd3+ 52.Kc1 Rc3+ 53.Kb1 Qc2+ Wins] 47...Qh3+ 48.Kg1 Rg3+ 49.Kf2 Qh2+ 50.Ng2 Qxg2+ 51.Ke1 Qb2 0–16. Postny,Evgeny (2619) - Beliavsky,Al-exander G (2526) [D37]20th ch-EUR Indiv 2019 Skopje MKD (7.37), 25.03.2019White to play. 51.Nc8! [51.Nc8 Nxc8 (51...Kf8 52.Nxe7 Kxe7 53.Qxc6+-; 51...Bxf3 52.Nxe7++-) 52.Qxc6 Ne7 53.Qe8++-] 1–0Solutions to ‘Test your endgame’ on page 431.Adolf Herberg 19551.Rf7 Rd4 2.Rh1+ Kg8 3.Rhh7 Rh4 4.Rhg7+ Kh8 5.Rg5 Rd4 6.Rf8+ Rxf8 7.Kxd4 Rd8 8.Rd5 wins2.Dr.Jindrich Fritz 19551.Rd1+ Kc8 2.Kf7 Nc7 3.Rd8+ Kxd8 4.cxb7 Nd7 5.e7# 3.Bondarenko 19471.a7 Kb7 2.Kd1 Ka8 3.Kc1 Kb7 4.Kb1 Ka8 5.Ka1 Kb7 6.Qb1+ wins4.Dr.Jindrich Fritz, 19471.Rh8 Kd7 2.Rh7+ Kc8 3.Rxa7 Nc7 4.Ndc4 Kb8 5.Rb7+ Nxb7 6.Nc6+ followed by mate5.Gurvic 19481.Nf5 Ng3 2.Rxh4 Ng4 3.Nd4 Kxh4 4.Nf3+ Kh5 5.Kg7 Ne2 6.Kh7 wins6.Julius Gunst 19511.Nc1+ Kb1 2.Bg7 Ne3+ 3.Nxe3 Bxe3 4.Ne2 followed by 5.Nc3

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15th Late Meenatai Shirgaokar Memorial Women’s Tournament, Sangli

52nd Late Babukaka Shirgaokar Mem.FIDE Rating Tournament,Sangli

WFM Cholleti Sahajasri of Telengana receiving Winner’s Trophy at the hands of Mrs. Smita Kelkar, Mrs. Mrs. Mousami Barde, Deputy Commissioner, Tournament Director Chintamani Limaye, Kumar Mane, Chief Arbiter Vivek Sohani are also seen from left to right.

Top 3 Prize Winners (Left to Right) Anish Gandhi (Runner Up), Keval Nirgun (Winner), Akhilesh Nagare (2nd Runner Up)

AICF Calendar June 2019UP State U-9 FIDE RatedChampionship 27 Jun - 29 Jun Pilkhuwa All Maharashtra Under 9 Open & Girls Ch’ships 28 Jun - 30 Jun East,Mumbai 13th Chess Mate Inter School FIDE Rating team 28 Jun - 29 Jun Kolkata National Under-17 Boys & Girls Ch’hip 29 Jun - 07 Jul Ernakulam CommonwealthChampionship 30 Jun - 07 Jul New Delhi Al India Open FIDE Rated Chess tmt 03 Jul - 07 Jul Joysagar All India Open Rapid FIDE Rating 06 Jul - 07 Jul Trichy All India Open Blitz FIDE Rating 07 Jul - 07 Jul Trichy Amdar Chashak All India Open FIDE rating 09 Jul - 13 Jul Nagpur National Sub Junior boys & girls championship 09 Jul - 17 Jul Thiruchengode 3rd FIDE Rating Tournament 09 Jul - 14 Jul Guwahati National Women Senior championship 19 Jul - 27 Jul Karaikudi, 6th Kurukshetra Open FIDE Rating 19 Jul - 24 Jul Dibrugarh FIDE Rated Tournament ,Pondicherry 24 Jul - 28 Jul Puducherry Below 1600 FIDE Rating Tournament 26 Jul - 28 Jul Nagpur Crown Sports Trust Open FIDE rating 27 Jul - 31 Jul Bathindi Smart Girl All India FIDE Rating 27 Jul - 31 Jul Guwahati National youth U-25 Championship 01 Aug - 07 Aug Jammu 12th Modern School FIDE Rating for children 02 Aug – 04 Aug Chennai AICF Women Round Robin at Gujarat 03 Aug - 11 Aug Ahmedabad National Under- 09 Boys & Girls championship 03 Aug - 11 Aug Ahmedabad ANCA Open Chess FIDE Rating 05 Aug - 09 Aug Port Blair 1st Banke Bihari Brij Chess Cup U.P.State Open 07 Aug - 10 Aug Mathura Smart Girl Queen’s FIDE Rating 09 Aug - 13Aug Udaipur Athens of the East 1st Intl. GM open Cat A / B / C 10 Aug - 17 Aug …… 2nd RCPA All India Open FIDE Rating 13 Aug - 18 Aug Rajkot Project Smart Girls All India Women FIDE Rating 14 Aug - 18 Aug Raipur Tetrasoft Hyderabad Marriott Grandmaster Chess 20 Aug - 27 Aug Hyderabad World Cadet Chess Championship 2019 at China 20 Aug - 02 Sep Shandong National Amateur Championship 20 Aug - 25 Aug Bhopal National Junior & Sub-Junior Coaching Camp 20 Aug - 31 Aug Delhi Men & Women Coaching Camp 20 Aug - 31 Aug Delhi ARCA State Under 19 Boys and Girls FIDE Rated 23 Aug - 25 Aug Udaipur Western Asia Youth and Junior Rapid Ch’ship 05 Sep - 05 Sep Delhi

Solution to ‘Puzzle of the month’on page 15 : 1.e4 e6 2.Bb5 Ke7 3.Bxd7 c6 4.Be8 Kxe8

33rd VMRDA National Under 13 Open & Girls Chess Championships 2019, Visakhapatnam

(L-R) S.Paul Arokia Raj, Chief Arbiter, Y.D.Rama Rao, ex President Y.D.Rama Rao, Bharat Singh, Hon.Secretary, AICF, Velpula Sarayu, National Under 13 Girls Champion, D.V.Sundar, Hon.Vice-President, FIDE, Anand Reddy , Tournament Director, Smt.G.Srijana,I.A.S.,Joint Collector, Visakhaptnam District ,A.Srinivasa Rao, Secretary VMRDA

(L-R) S.Paul Arokia Raj, Chief Arbiter, Y.D.Rama Rao, ex President Y.D.Rama Rao, Bharat Singh, Hon.Secretary, AICF, D.V.Sundar, Hon.Vice-President, FIDE,Anand Reddy, Tournament Director (partly seen) , M.Pranesh, National Under-13 Open Champion, A.Srinivasa Rao, Secretary VMRDA