AICF CHRONICLE

the official magazine of the All India Chess Federation

Volume : 10 Issue : 12 Price Rs. 25 June 2016

Asian Continental Chess Championships, Tashkent

WGM Bhakti Kulkarni GM S.P. Sethuraman

Women Champion Open Champion

Worlds youngest IM Asian Junior Champion 2016

R. Praggnanandhaa GM Aravindh Chithamabaram

 AICF CHRONICLE June 2016 From the Editors desk
Room No. 70, It was twin triumph at Tashkent as GM
Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, S.P.Sethuraman and WGM Bakthi
Chennai - 600 003.
Ph : 044-65144966 /Telefax : 044-25382121 Kulkarni emerged Asian Continental
E-mail : indianchessfed@gmail.com Champions in the Open and Women
Publisher: V. Hariharan sections. Young Grandmaster
Editor : C.G.S. Narayanan
Arvindh Chithambaram added one
Price: Monthly Rs.25 Annual Rs.300
more feather to his cap winning
cover photo : Chessbase India Asian Junior Open title in New Delhi.
Inside. Chennai churns out champions galore and the latest
9th KIIT International Chess Festival 2016,Bubhanewar. is the child prodigy Praggnanandhaa who is all set to
GM Grachev Boris emerges Elite champion become worlds youngest IM at the age of 10 years and
by Debashis Barua IA, Chief Arbiter 1
9 months completing his third norm at the KIIT Chess
Hatsun Idhayam 2nd SCS Fide Rated
Saravana Krishnan emerges champion festival, Bubaneshwar recently.AICF congratulates this
by IA Prof.R. Anantharam, Chief Arbiter 7 talented boy on this stupendous achievement.
The Heritage Schools Rating Tmt, Kolkata
Mitraba Guha emerges champion
by Debasish Barua, IA, Chief Arbiter 9 In the KIIT Chess Festival held in Bubaneshwar 13
Kalrav FIDE Rating Below 1600 Tmt
Grandmasters and 15 IMs took part in the Elite category
Chourasia Hemant is champion
by Pruthviraj Leuva,Chief Arbiter 11 which was won by GM Grachev Boris.The three
Aditya Birla Mem.6th Jharkhand State categories-Elite, Platinum and Premium drew nearly 670
Fide Rated Championship
Swaraj Palit wins . entries. Reports and final standings on this event along
by Asit Baran Choudhury, IA, Chief Arbiter 13 with other FIDE Rated tournaments held in May 2016 are
Sameer Kathmale wins at Sangli
featured in this issue.
by IA Nitin Shenvi, Chief Arbiter 15
Brilliant Trophy 1st Decade All India Fide Rated Open
Tournament, Gulbarga Eminent chess writer Leonard Barden rated Grandmaster
Vinay Kumar is the Winner
by Promodraj Moree FA, Chief Arbiter 17 Viktor Korchnoi who passed away recently as the greatest
2nd Don Bosco Fide Rated Open Tmt, Irinjilakuda player never to have been world champion. Korchnoi
Syed Anwar Shazuli wins title
was four-time Soviet Champion, a candidate for World
by Peter joseph M ,Chief Arbiter 19
CAK 1st Fide Rating Tmt below 1500 Championships ten times and also won a whopping 21
Komal Srivatsav Sajja is the winner medals representing USSR. He played top class chess
by M. Ephrame IA, Chief Arbiter 21
12th Late Sou Meenatai Shirgaonkar Mem. through his life and his world ranking of 85 at the age of 75
FIDE Rating Women'sTmt Sangli was incredible. With his demise, an epoch of fighting chess
Rucha Pujari wins title
has ended. AICF dips its flag in honour of this veritable
by IA Nitin Shenvi, Chief Arbiter 27
Mineral Open FIDE Rating Tmt Grandmaster.
Himanshu Sharma is champion
by A.C.Joshi IA,Chief Arbiter 30
2nd Pavna All India Fide Rated Tmt,Aligarh C.G.S.Narayanan
Himanshu Sharma retains title
by IA Dharmendra Kumar, Chief Arbiter 32
Selected games from Asian Junior Championships, New
Readers are invited to offer their feedback on
Delhi
Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron 34
the regular features in the AICF Chronicle and
Tactics from master games by S.Krishnan 42 are also invited to send interesting articles,
Test your endgame by C.G.S.Narayanan 43 annotated games and chess anecdotes to the
Masters of the past-Hermann Pilnik 44 Editor at www.indianchessfed@gmail.com or
AICF Calendar 48
cgsnarayanan@hotmail.com.
 9th KIIT International Chess Festival 2016,Bubhanewar.
GM Grachev Boris emerges Elite champion
by Debashis Barua IA, Chief Arbiter
T
he much awaited KIIT International
Chess Festival 2016 was organized
once again in all its grandeur by All
Odisha Chess Association. Over the years
this event, which was sponsored by KIIT,
has become an important event in both
the Indian and International calendars,
where some of the top Grandmasters from
India as well as other countries partici-
pate.
The opening ceremony got underway at
the KIIT Auditorium on May 23, 2016 at
11a.m. where Dr.Achuta Samanta , found-
er KIIT and KISS declared the meet open
as a chief guest on the occasion. Senior
IAS R.Srinivasan was the Guest of Honour.
Also present on the dias were IM Sekhar
Sahoo , President of AOCA and Vice-Pres-
ident of AICF, K.K.Sharma, secretary of
AOCA. At the colorful opening ceremony,
DrAchuta Samanta who had extended all
help and hospitality in bringing this In-
ternational event to Odisha, welcomed all
participants and expressed hope that they
would have a memorable stay in Bhubane-
swar.The tournament was divided into 3
groups- Elite Category for players above
Elo 2000, Platinum Category for players
with Elo1999 and below and Premium for
players with Elo 1550 and below.
Elite Category :-
In the Elite category 13 Grandmasters , 2
Women Grandmasters , 15 International
Masters , 3 Women International Masters
from 8 Federations and 16 states from
India participated making it a very strong
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field of 201 players. Those aspiring for
GM and IM norms were'nt disappointed
as they got enough opportunity to face
Grandmasters and hope for the coveted
GM norms.
In the 4th round, FM Praggnanandhaa
R, National under 11 champion had an
unpset victory over GM GrigoryanKareh H
of Armenia. He shared the lead with five
players at the end of this round. In the 5th
round, FM Praggnanandhaa had a credit-
able draw with GM SandipanChanda. After
the 5th round, GM Grachev Boris and GM
GleizerovEvgeny were the joint leaders. In
the 6th round, GM Grachev Boris beat GM
GleizerovEvgeny and was the sole leader
with 6points. Praggnanandhaa had yet
another creditable draw, this time with
GM Popov Ivan, by which he had good
chance of achieving grandmaster norm.
At the end of the 7th round, GM Grachev
Boris maintained his lead with securing
a draw. In the 8th round he had a draw
again with GM SandipanChanda and in the
penultimate round he beat FM Raghunan-
dan K S and became the sole leader with
8 points.In the second place there were
6 players with 7points.
In the final round, GM Grachev Boris had a
draw with GM Mozharov Mikhail of Russia
and confirmed his place as the champion
of the tournament with 8.5points.He was
richer by Rs. 2,00,000/- and received the
glittering champions trophy.
CM Rathanvel VS had a draw with GM
Popov Ivan and CM Rathanvel VS secured
the IM norm. Both had 7.5points. with
the better tie, GM Popov Ivan gets the
second position, with the prize money of
Rs. 1,00,00/- and the trophy, while CM
Rathanvel VS secures the third position
with Rs. 80,000/- with a trophy.FM Pragg-
nanandhaa had a draw with GM Debasish
Das and got the IM norm and FM Pragg-
nanandhaa thus became the youngest IM
in the world at 10years and 10 months.
FM Raghunandan K S who drew with Ravi
Teja S also got an IM norm.
Platinum Category:-
The tournament was held from May 23
to May 26, 2016 in 9 rounds with 188
players.WFM Divya Deshmukh of Maha-
rashtra top seed in this tournament. Af-
ter the 5th round, Dasharati Sahoo and
Sanjeeban Nayak lead with 5 points. In
the 6th round, Sanjeeban Nayak beat
Dasharati Sahoo and emerge as the sole
leader with 6points. In the 7th round,
Nayak had a draw with Subhasish Barik
of Odisha and maintained his lead with
6.5points. in the 8th round, Nayak had
a draw with Ambarish Sharma of West
Bengal and Pranab Kumar Patra of Odisha
beat SmarakiMohanty. Sanjeeban Nayak
and Pranab Kumar Patra become the joint
leaders with 7points. In the second place,
Ambarish Sharma and Subhasish Barik
stand with 6.5points. at the 9th round,
Pranab Kumar Patra had a draw with San-
jeeban Nayak and Subhasish Barik beat
Ambarish Sharma. Sanjeeban Nayak,Sub-
hasish Barik, Pranab Kumar Patra stand
at 7.5points. in the better tie, Sanjeeban
Nayak secured the first position with Rs.
50,000/- with a trophy,while Subhasish
Barik secured the second position with
Rs.40,000/- with a trophy, and Pranab
Kumar Patra finished third with a prize
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money of Rs. 30,000/- and a trophy. All
the three were from Odisha.
Premium Category:-
The event took place from 27th May to
30th May,2016. There was a total of 288
players in this category. The game was in
9 rounds according to the Swiss League
system. Harsh Srivastav of Gujrat(1547)
top seeded the tournament. In the 9th
round, HimanshuRanjan of Bihar and De-
bata Sarthak of Odisha had a draw. Both
completed with 8points. In the better tie,
Himanshu Ranjan stood first with the prize
money of Rs. 50,000/- and a trophy. De-
bata Sarthak of Odissha stood second with
a cash prize of Rs. 40,000/- and a trophy.
Aditya Ranjan Samal with 7.5points came
third with Rs. 30,000/- and a trophy.
The Prize distribution ceremony was held
on May 30, 2016 at 6.00 p.m. where
DrAchuta Samanta , founder KIIT and
KISS was the Chief Guest while IAS
R.Srinivasan was the Guest of Honour.
Also present were IM SekharSahoo ,
President of AOCA and Vice-President
of AICF, K.K.Sharma, secretary of AOCA
and G.C. Mahapatra, Treasurer of AOCA.
Dr.Achuta Samanta , founder KIIT and
KISS and the visionary behind this mega
event lauded the efforts of AOCA and it's
team led by IM Sekhar Sahoo . And Mr.
K.K.Sharma proposed the vote of thanks.
The players and the guardians were all
pleased for the excellent boarding and A/c
lodging arrangements provided by KIIT.
The tournament was held in two A/c halls
where tea and drinking water were made
available to all.
Final ranking:Elite category
Rk Name Club Pts
1 GM Grachev Boris RUS 8
2 GM Popov Ivan RUS 7
Cond. on p.5
 2nd Pavna All India FIDE Rated Chess Tournament, Aligarh

Brigadier Dr. P.S.Shiwas , Vice- Chancellor , Mangalayatan University , lighting the lamp during
inauguration in presence of (from left) Anand Sadani, Chairman, Sadani Group of Industries , Pallavi
Upadhyay, Principal , D.P.S. , Aligarh , Chandra Mohan Sadani , Hony. Sectretary , DSCA

Standing from left: Vinay Agrawal, Vijay K Pachisiya, IA Dharmendra Kumar, Guest of honour A.K.Raizada,
Hony. Secretary,UPCSA, Navratn Aggrwal,Director, Bikanerwala food pvt.ltd., Chief Guest Vijay Bajaj,
MD,Lockmaster India Pvt.Ltd., IM Himanshu Sharma ( Champion) , Ram kumar Sadani , Director ,
Sadani Steel Pvt. Ltd, and Chandra Mohan Sadani, Hony Secreatry, DCSA .
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Prize winners with officials

Mineral Open FIDE Rating Chess Tournament 2016,Vadodara

Prize winners with officials

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Cond. from p.2
3 CM Rathanvel V S TN 7
4 IM Ghosh Diptayan WB 7
5 GM Rahman Ziaur BAN 7
6 GM Mozharov Mikhail RUS 7
7 GM Amonatov Farrukh TJK 7
8 GM Gagare Shardul MAH 7
9 Sidhant Mohapatra ODI 7
10 GM Gleizerov Evgeny RUS 7
11 FM Raghunandan K S KAR 7
12 FM Praggnanandhaa R TN 7
13 GM Laxman R.R. ICF 7
14 Gusain Himal CHD 7
15 GM Grigoryan Karen H. ARM 7
16 IM Ravi Teja S. RLY 7
17 IM Sharma Dinesh K. UP 7
18 IM Swayams Mishra AI 7
19 IM Krishna Teja N AP 7
20 CM Erigaisi Arjun TEL 7
21 D Bala Chandra Prasad AP 7
22 Arjun Kalyan TN 7
23 IM Kulkarni Vikramaditya RLYs 7
24 GM Sandipan Chanda WB 6
25 Harsha Bharathakoti TELN 6
26 GM Debashis Das ODI 6
27 IM Shyaamnikhil P TN 6
28 FM Rajdeep Sarkar WB 6
29 IM Girish A. Koushik KAR 6
30 IM Ramnath Bhuvanesh.R TN 6
31 Sahoo Utkal Ranjan ODI 6
32 Dhananjay CHHT 6
33 IM Sangma Rahul RLYs 6
34 Lokesh N. TN 6
35 Shailesh Dravid MAH 6
36 Harikrishnan.A.Ra TN 6
37 Sai Vishwesh.C TN 6
38 GM Ziatdinov Raset USA 6
39 Kulkarni Vinayak MAH 6
40 S Jaykumar Shete MAH 6
41 Barath Kalyan M TN 6
42 Prajesh R TN 6
43 Sekar B TN 6
44 GM Ulybin Mikhail RUS 6
45 FM Hamdani Rudin INA 6
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46 Snehal Bhosale MAH 6
47 IM Rajesh V A V TN 6
48 Saravana Krishnan P. TN 6
49 Thanki Hemal Karsanji GUJ 6
50 Deshpande Aniruddha MAH 6
51 Akash Pc Iyer TN 6
52 CM Aronyak Ghosh WB 6
53 Soham Datar MAH 6
54 FM Ahmed Sk. Nasir BAN 6
55 Hirthickkesh Pr TN 6
56 Adhithya S TN 6
57 AGM Sa Kannan TN 6
58 Rakesh Kumar Nayak ODI 6
59 Samal Ansuman ODI 6
60 Ritam Nag WB 6
61 Iniyan P TN 5
62 Muthaiah Al TN 5
63 Sahu Rajendra Kumar ODI 5
64 Srijit Paul WB 5
65 Pruthu Deshpande MAH 5
66 Aradhya Garg DEL 5
67 Gandhi Anish MAH 5
68 FM Harshal Shahi DEL 5
69 Audi Ameya GOA 5
70 Kunal M. TN 5
71 Shelke Sankarsha MAH 5
72 Neelash Saha WB 5
73 FM Islam Kh. Aminul BAN 5
74 Bhatt Jalpan GUJ 5
75 IM Das Sayantan WB 5
76 Debarshi Mukherjee WB 5
77 WGM Swati Ghate MAH 5
78 Vignesh B TN 5
79 Koustav Chatterjee WB 5
80 CM Sadhwani Raunak MAH 5
81 Surendran N TN 5
82 Yogit S TN 5
83 Sankalp Gupta MAH 5
84 Singh Nishit MAH 5
85 Senthil Maran K TN 5
86 Wagh Suyog MAH 5
87 Jayakumaar S TN 5
88 Patil Pratik MAH 5
89 WCM Salonika Saina ODI 5 30 Nayak Sajan Kumar KISS 6
90 IM Murali Krishnan B T RLYs 5
91 FM Matta Vinay Kumar AP 5 Final ranking :Premium below 1550
92 Subhayan Kundu WB 5
93 FM Srinath Rao S.V. MAH 5 1 Himanshu Ranjan BIH 8
94 Ajay Krishna S TN 5 2 Debata Sarthak ODI 8
95 Shah Rishab MAH 5 3 Samal Aditya Ranjan ODI 7
96 CM Gukesh D TN 5 4 Narasimha Raveendra G AP 7
97 Anustoop Biswas WB 5 5 Saketh B AP 7
98 IM Mohota Nisha WB 5 6 Pattnaik Bishal ODI 7
99 FM Purushothaman T AP 5 7 Shriman K TN 7
100 Saurabh Anand BIH 5 8 Garima Gaurav BIH 7
9 Ranjith Kaliyarasan PON 7
Final standings KIIT Platinum 10 Sathya Naarayanan S TN 7
1 Nayak Sanjeeban ODI 7 11 Mohanty Binikesh ODI 7
2 Subhasis Barik ODI 7 12 Routray Priyanka ODI 7
3 Pranab Kumar Patra ODI 7
4 Rakshitta Ravi TN 7
5 Arya Bhakta WB 7 Puzzle of the month
by C.G.S.Narayanan
6 Swain Diptanshu Ranjan ODI 7
7 Ambarish Sharma WB 6 Determine the pieces!
8 Smaraki Mohanty KIIT 6 Andrey Frolkin
9 Mayank Pal DEL 6 Super Problem 9.1.2016
10 Rahul Bharadwaj B TN 6
11 Jishitha D AP 6
12 Koshtu Varaha Prem Sai AP 6
13 Pattnayak Nilsu ODI 6
14 Sudhir Kumar Behera ODI 6
15 M Tulasi Ram Kumar AP 6
16 Sonkalan Bharati WB 6
17 Mishra Srinibas ODI 6
18 Binayak Rath ODI 6
19 Rohan Nag Chowdhury WB 6
20 Subhra Banerjee WB 6
21 Akshit Kumar J AP 6
22 Banerjee Ashutosh CHHT6
23 Vatsal Singhania JHAR 6 Pieces of a particular type are designated
24 Sourath Biswas WB 6 by the same letter. Lower-case letters stand
25 Souradip Deb TRIP 6 for pieces of one side; upper-case letters,
26 Balachandar E TN 6 for pieces of the other side. Determine the
27 Sahoo Ankush ODI 6 position.
28 Bodhisatya Pal WB 6 (solution on page 29)
29 Zia Tahsin Tajwar BAN 6

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 Hatsun Idhayam 2nd SCS Fide Rated Chess Tournament
Saravana Krishnan emerges champion
IA Prof.R. Anantharam, Chief Arbiter
T
he Hatsun Idhayam 2nd SCS Fide
Rated chess tournament, organised by
Sivakasi Chess Sparklers received 527
entries, a record for Open rated tournaments
in the recent past. The tournament offering
a total prize of Rs.4,50,000/- (Rs. four lakh
fifty thousand only) attracted grandmaster
RR Laxman of ICF and five international mas-
ters. The nine round Swiss tournament had
a time control of 90 minutes to each player,
with an increment of 30 minutes. Players
hailed mainly from Tamil Nadu, apart from all
South Indian states Karnataka, Kerala, A.P.,
Pudhucherry and Telangana.
Earlier rounds did not produce any hiccups,
except the draw between former World Un-
der 16 Olympiad gold medallist GiremanJa of
Coimbatore and Kamalanathan of Tamil Nadu
in the third round. IM VAV Rajesh of Chennai
had to split the point with his city mate Pras-
anth N Nayagam in the fourth round. Former
state champion Navalgund Niranjan was also
subdued by young LR Sri Hari in this round.
International arbiter S. Ganesh Babu of Ma-
durai held the top seed GM Laxman in fifth
round, paving way for nine players, including
four international masters and a fide master
to share the lead with five points each.
Of the top six boards, only P. Saravana
Krishnan of Karur Vysya Bank defeated
IM R. Balasubramanian of ICF to emerge
sole leader with six points and nine players
trailed the leader by half a point. Saravana
continued his winning spree with a win over
IM M Nitin of Southern Railways to make it
seven wins in a row. IM BT Muralikrishnan
of Southern Railways, FM P. Maheswaran of
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Indian Posts, Ram S Krishnan of BSNL were
closely behind him. At the end of the eighth
round, Saravana managed to cling on to the
lead with a draw against BT Murali Krishnan
and the second board game between Ram
and Maheswaran also ended without any
decisive result. GM RR Laxman, Manu David
Suthandram and N Lokesh, both from Tamil
Nadu joined the players on second spot with
wins over IM RamnathBhuvanesh and B Se-
kar respectively.
At the advent of ninth round, seven players
on top four boards had chances to win the
title. Ram S Krishnan shocked RR Laxman
and Saravana Krishnan drew with Lokesh to
tie for the first place with 8 points each. When
tiebreaks were applied, Saravana Krishnan
had a better score to clinch the title in his fa-
vour and Ram secured second place. IM Nitin
and five others scored 7.5 points and Nitin
was declared third, followed by international
arbiter S Ganesh Babu of Madurai. Saravana
Krishnan bagged a cash prize of Rs.70,000/-
and Ram received Rs.50,000. More than 200
prizes were distributed in the form of cash
prizes and trophies.
Sri.C. Yogendran, President of SIPT Poly-
technic inaugurated the tournament in the
presence of Sri. Balasubramanian, former
Correspondent of the college. On the final
day, Sri. VR Muthu, CEO of Idhayam group
of companies delivered an inspiring speech,
before distributing the prizes. Mr. T.D. Rajen-
dran, main sponsor of the Polytechnic, who
recently won five gold medals and a silver
medal in an international athletic meet for
veterans in Singapore was felicitated.
Attractive features of the tournament were 31 Raahul V S 6
that parents were entertained with fun 32 Vijay Shreeram P 6
games, a practice chess tournament etc. 33 Abhinessh S 6
Sumptuous food at a nominal cost was pro- 34 Harshavardhan G B 6
vided to players and parents. The organ- 35 Sai Balaji E 6
isers, Sivakasi Chess Sparklers have to be 36 Prajesh R 6
appreciated for their non=profit approach 37 Alan Diviya Raj 6
and involvement for the success of the tour- 38 Manigandan S S 6
nament. Three players who predicted the 39 Shyam Sundar M 6
correct champion, before the beginning of 40 Umashankar A 6
final round were awarded with books. 41 Sriram B 6
Final ranking 42 Arivu Selvan A S 6
Rk Name Pts 43 Godson Merlin E 6
1 Saravana Krishnan P. 8 44 Barath Kalyan M 6
2 Ram S. Krishnan 8 45 Aswin Kumar B S 6
3 IM Nitin S. 7 46 Arunachalam Shivaa T V 6
4 Ganesh Babu S 7 47 Dileep Kumar R 6
5 Manu David Suthandram 7 48 Peter Anand A 6
6 FM Maheswaran P. 7 49 Sibi Visal R 6
7 IM Murali Krishnan B T 7 50 IM R. Balasubramaniam 6
8 Lokesh N. 7 51 Uma Maheswaran P 6
9 Paramasivam M. 7 52 Thanga Manickam M 6
10 Vignesh Kasi PL 7 53 Dhanasekar K. 6
11 Kumar S. 7 54 Krishna K R 6
12 IM Ramnath Bhuvanesh.R 7 55 Kishore Kumar
13 GM Laxman R.R. 7 Jaganathan 6
14 Gireman Ja 7 56 Siddharth Sabharishankar 6
15 Prasannaa.S 7 57 Gokul S 6
16 Yuvan Bharathi K S 7 58 Unnikrishnan M A 6
17 Navalgund Niranjan 7 59 Ruban Sanjay M 6
18 Sekar B 7 60 Amith A 6
19 Badrinath S. 7 61 Santhosh Kumar G 6
20 Senthil Kumaran T.H. 7 62 Merithraj M 6
21 Anilkumar O.T. 7 63 Suriya S V 6
22 Prakashram R 7 64 Shriman K 6
23 Vaisnav M 7 65 Nayanikaa Muralidharan 6
24 Prathish A 7 66 Sheik Saleem D 6
25 Chandar Raju 7 67 Yutesh P 6
26 Surendran N 7 68 Sathya Giri V 6
27 IM Rajesh V A V 7 69 Srihari L R 6
28 Shakthi Vishal J 7 70 Dhanush Ragav 6
29 Mohamed Anees M 6 71 Prasath K R 6
30 Ram Kumar G M 6 72 Subash Mathivanan 6

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 The Heritage Schools Rating Chess Tournament2016, Kolkata
Mitraba Guha emerges champion
by Debasish Barua, IA, Chief Arbiter
T
he Heritage Schools Fide Rating Chess
Tournament 2016 organised by The
Heritage School in association with
Bengal Chess Association has been held
at The Heritage School, Kolkata from 14th
to 18th May 2016. Total 276 participants
where 155 were Fide Rated have come from
different schools in India. In the inaugu-
ral ceremony IM Atanu Lahiri, Beni Gopal
Mundhra, Tournament Secretary , Amar Roy,
Org. Secretary were present.
The Tournament was played under 9 rounds
swiss league system. The venue was air con-
ditioned and well decorated with sufficient
toilet facilities. The organizer were provided
foods to all participants with free of cost.
Even they provide transport facilities to all the
players/officials from nearest bus stoppage
to venue. In the last round Mitrabha beat
Neelash Saha on the 2nd Board where Srijit
Paul drew with Aditya Basu on 1st board.
At the end of final round games Mitrabha
Guha(8) of South Point School bagged the
Championship Trophy and richer by Rs.
25000/- . Srijit Paul (7.5) of DPS, North
Kolakta and Soham Das (7.5) of Oxford High
School placed second and & third respectively
by better tie-break score and richer by Rs.
20000/- & Rs. 15000/-. All the Deputy Arbi-
ters worked very well to ensure no dispute
arose during the whole tournament. FA Norm
Certificate was given to Santanu Lahiri.
In the prize distribution ceremony GM Surya
Sekhar Ganguly, WGM Padmini Rout gave
away the prizes to all prize winners. Finally
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IM Atanu Lahiri, Secretary, Bengal Chess
Association proposed the vote of thanks.
Final ranking
Rk Name Pts
1 Mitrabha Guha 8
2 Srijit Paul 7
3 Soham Das 7
4 Aditya Basu 7
5 Ghosh Samriddhaa 7
6 Ambarish Sharma 7
7 Aronyak Ghosh 7
8 Kaustuv Kundu 7
9 Suvradeepta Das 7
10 Shrutarshi Ray 7
11 Sayan Banik 7
12 Koustav Chatterjee 6
13 Neelash Saha 6
14 Gukesh D 6
15 Utsab Chatterjee 6
16 Avijaan Roy Choudhury 6
17 Sonkalan Bharati 6
18 Shuban Saha 6
19 Anustoop Biswas 6
20 Sonal Mandhana 6
21 Sambarta Banerjee 6
22 Arijit Mukherjee 6
23 Rounak Pathak 6
24 Sanket Chakravarty 6
25 Adrian Sajjan 6
26 Aneek Das 6
27 Sayantan Mukherjee 6
28 Arpita Mukherjee 6
29 Soumma Chakraborty 6
30 Souhardo Basak 6
31 Sourath Biswas 6
32 Bristy Mukherjee 6
33 Dipanjan Chowdhury 6 76 Basu Utkarsh 5
34 Ayush Jha 6 77 Tejash Jain 5
35 Shuvam Roy 6 78 Mayank Chandak 5
36 Rupam Mukherjee 6 79 Ruchir Sengupta 5
37 Soumyajit Das 6 80 Ariya Roy 5
38 Soumyajit Das (jr) 6 81 Aakash Poddar 5
39 Aviroop Bhattacharya 6 82 Atri Chattopadhyay 5
40 Sahoo Ankita 6 83 Ankan Saha 5
41 Saikat Saha 6 84 Shreyan Chakraborty 5
42 Debarghya Samanta 6 85 Bihan Chowdhuri 5
43 Aritra Ganguly 6 86 Dhritabrata Kundu 5
44 Soham Pal 6 87 Pranjal Sarkar 5
45 Swapnil Sen 6 88 Abhirup Das 5
46 Debargha Basu 6 89 Nishant Mohapatra 5
47 Arkish Chakraborty 6 90 Rupankar Kundu 5
48 Soham Dey 6 91 Sandipan Paul 5
49 Bipra Nath 6 92 Pran Govinda Parashar 5
50 Rajarshi Dutta 5 93 Aritrya Pal 5
51 Pratyay Chowdhury 5 94 Aayush Bhattacherjee 5
52 Sudipa Haldar 5 95 Aditya Chatterjee 5
53 Subhadip Seth 5 96 Sayanton Mazumder 5
54 Arghadeep Das 5 97 Das Annika 5
55 Asmita Das 5 98 Sneha Baidya 5
56 Ritwick Pal 5 99 Harshavardhan Roy 5
57 Aniruddh Chatterjee 5 100 Saanvi Khanna 5
58 Aadrito Datta 5 101 Saurya Sircar 5
59 Subhabrata Roy 5 102 Aryan Bandyopadhyay 5
60 Tuhin Saha 5 103 Sayan Sarkar 5
61 Ananya Bothra 5 104 Sharma Harsh 5
62 Agrawal Rishab 5 105 Pramit Chanda 5
63 Aarohon Bharadwaj 5 106 Srijeet Mullick 5
64 Arunava Bhattacharjee 5
65 Arindam Mitra 5 Combinations have always been the most
66 Raghuraj Pratap Singh 5 intriguing aspect of Chess. The masters
67 Romok Bhattacharjee 5 look for them, the public applauds them,
68 Akshath Sinha 5 the criticspraise them. It is because com-
69 Ayan Pal 5 binations are possible that Chess is more
70 Bhagat Kush 5 than a lifeless mathematical exercise.
71 Syamantak Porel 5 They are the poetry of the game; they
72 Aditya Bikram Paul 5
are to Chess what melody is to music.
73 Tanish Poddar 5
They represent the triumph of mind over
matter
74 Shubham Chandak 5
- Reuben Fine
75 Sanika Sengupta 5

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 Kalrav FIDE Rating Below 1600 Chess Tournament - 2016
Chourasia Hemant is champion
by Pruthviraj Leuva,Chief Arbiter
T
he Kalrav FIDE Rating Below 1600
Chess Tournament - 2016 is being held
from 5thto 8th May at Hotel Surya,
Station Road , Vadodara, Gujarat by Gujarat
State Chess Association Kalrav Group and
Mineral Chess Academy.The tournament
attracted total number of 222 entries all
over state of India, major part of entries
by Gujarat, followed by Maharashtra and
Tamilnadu,in. The total number of fide Rat-
ed players of the event is 152 players which
compiles of33 female participants.
The event is been conducted by 9 Rounds
Swiss league system, with the time control
of 60 min plus 30 sec increment from move
No.1, everyday 3 rounds.( Except 1 in first
& 2 in Last Day)The Total prize money
of the event is Rs.4,00,000/-(FourLakhs
) with First Prize of Rs.40,000/-(Rupees
Forty Thousand ) for the winner of the
event.The talented young players from all
over India participated to snatch the total
prize money of Rs.4,00,000/- .Hard fought
victories and some interesting draws were
witnessed in the tournament. At the end
of the ninth round Mr. Chourasiya Hemant
became the champion of this tournament
with cash prize of Rs.40,000/- and the
Runner Up of the event is Mr. Gohil Vishal
of Mineral chess Academywith the cash
prize of Rs.30,000/-.given by Chief Guest-
Shri A.C.JOSHI, President-Sunil Manohar&
CEO-Pruthviraj.
This is the 6th Tournament in a row by the
Mineral Chess Academy. Kudos to Bhave-
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shPatel,(Hon.Secretary-GSCA), Pruthivira
jLeuva Anil Pandya(Kalrav Group) and his
team for their dedicated efforts. The Kalrav
group and Mineral chess Academy has done
a wonderful work to fulfill all requirement
by providing a fully Air-conditioned Tour-
nament hall and a Free A/c Dormitory
Accommodation. The Lunch and Dinner
during Tournament was also arranged at
subsidized rates for all in the same hotel.
The Team of Arbiters were always on their
feet to take care of the technical problems.
Not a single dispute arose during the tour-
nament.
Final standings:
Rk Name Pts
1 Chourasiya Hemant 8
2 Gohil Vishal 8
3 Kamdar Umang 7
4 Kushal Kaushik Karelia 7
5 Dhanesha Jignesh 7
6 Bhuta Hriday 7
7 Trivedi Jindal 7
8 Patil Harshal 7
9 Amar Jyoti Kakoty 7
10 Borse Vaibhav 7
11 Mhatre Rahat Rahul 7
12 Chudasama Ankit 6
13 Krishna Prabhakar 6
14 Jha Kishor 6
15 Vishal Vala 6
16 Lakhotiya Om 6
17 Gouravkumar N 6
18 Sadhu Bhagyesh 6
19 Zakir Hussain Janab 6
20 Yajnik Pranav 6
21 Jadav Jayesh 6
22 Raval Dilipkumar T 6
23 Sarvaliya Niraj 6
24 Meet Puri 6
25 Totlani Varun 6
26 Joshi Deep 6
27 Dabhi Geet H 6
28 Krishna Malay 6
29 Vikram Mishra 6
30 Pandya Vandan Y 6
31 Ananmay Sharma 6
32 Sachin Kumar 6
33 Pandya Anilkumar M 6
34 Jain Adi 6
35 Aditya P Melani 6
36 Gohel Samarth Paras 6
37 Tiwari Gaurav 6
38 Panchal Parth 5
39 Sarthak Singh Parihar 5
40 Rajendra Gohil 5
41 Sanghavi Niraj 5
42 Dharamvir Ram 5
43 Rohan Nayan Shah 5
44 Parmar Jay 5
45 Varshil Yagnik 5
46 Savitha Shri B 5
47 Raval Mayur 5
48 Yatharth Joshi 5
49 Parikh Vivek Tarak 5
50 Panarwala Abdul K 5
51 Nanal Arnav 5
52 Goswami Sagargiri 5
53 Suryavanshi Brijesh M 5
54 Aghera Nayan 5
55 Shah Deep Ashokbhai 5
56 Dr. Amitkumar Patel 5
57 Damani Malay 5
58 Pandya Jayesh M 5
59 Bokade Chinmay 5
60 Chandrani Shlok 5
61 Rawal Ketankumar 5
62 Modi Bhavesh J 5
63 Mahi Amit Doshi 5
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64 Jinal Yagnik 5
65 Deshpande Omkar 5
66 Sairaj Dilip Vernekar 5
67 Kapadia Harshad 5
68 Madhani Shilpee 5
69 Desai Hreeday 5
70 Rathod Harish Kumar 5
71 Laheri Nitya 5
72 Dabhi Sangeet H 5
73 Sharma Sachin 5
74 Parikh Pratham 5
75 Parekh Vishrut 5
76 Sangoi Hriday 5
77 Priyanka Bhatt 5
78 Bhatt Mit H 5
79 Panwar Krish N 5
80 Sharma Harsh Yogesh 5
81 Trivedi Pranshu Harit 5
82 Bagul Ravindra 5
83 Dhruvin Sajnani 5
84 Surana Aayush 5
85 Patil Aditi G 5
86 Sesha Giri Rao S.R. 5
87 Wadia Kiran 5
88 Ridikesh Dilip V 5
89 Harsh Trivedi 5
90 Devesh Anand Naik 5
91 Patel Maurya K 5
92 Dhruv G Kulkarni 4
93 Gupta Eshaan 4
94 Choksi Ashish 4
95 Trivedi Chintan Digant 4
96 Ravi K Purohit 4
97 Kiyarra Sunil Khaturia 4
98 Cyrus Chhikara 4
99 Yogi Anurag Upadhyay 4
100 Gala H D 4
101 Thakkar Vishal 4
102 Karan Shah 4
103 Makwana Devam 4
104 Mehta Rutvij 4
105 Gupta Anshurup 4
 Aditya Birla Memorial 16th Jharkhand State Fide Rated Chess Championship
Swaraj Palit wins
Asit Baran Choudhury, IA, Chief Arbiter
A
ditya Birla Memorial 16th Jharkhand
State Fide Rated Chess Champion-
ship 2016 held at Sarala Birla School
Auditorium, Mahilong, Ranchi, Jharkhand
from 15th to 18th May 2016 organized by
All Jharkhand Chess Association. Total Par-
ticipant was 109 including 58 players rat-
ed. They have come from different remote
districts of Jharkhand. The tournament was
inaugurated by President of AJCA Pradip Ku-
mar Varma and welcome to all participants.
The Tournament Hall was Full Air-condi-
tioned, spacious and sufficient toilet facilities.
The Organiser provided breakfast, lunch, &
dinner to all participants at very minimum
cost.It may be mentioned here that one
player Advay Kumar excluded from the tour-
nament in the first round as he suppressed
his fide id. which he got from USA (USCF) in
2014. During enquiry his mother confessed
and the matter was brought to AICF notice
through mail.
At the end of final round games Swaraj Palit
of Ranchi District scored 7.5 bagged the
Championship Title with Cash Rs. 10000/-
with better tie break . Pritam Singh(7.5 pts)
and Vatsal Singhania(7 pts) secured second
& third place and got Rs. 8000/- & Rs. 6000/-
respectively. All the Asstt. Arbiters did their
job very well till last round games. No single
dispute occurred during the game in the
tournament .
Final ranking
Rk Name Pts
1 Swaraj Palit 7
2 Singh Pritam 7
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3 Vatsal Singhania 7
4 Saikat Dutta 7
5 Sandil Nirmal Chandra 7
6 Sudhakar Prem Dutt 7
7 Anshul Nigam 6
8 Priyanka Kumari 6
9 Saurabh Mandal 6
10 Aayush Agarwal 6
11 Kumar Utkarsh 6
12 Manish Sharma 6
13 Kamal Kishore Debnath 6
14 Manideep Mukhi 6
15 Raja Bose 6
16 Atul Bihari Sharan 6
17 Ishant Kumar 6
18 Kundu Uttam 6
19 Biranchi Kumar Sinha 6
20 Bhupesh Balmuchu 6
21 Kumar Aswini 6
22 Alka Das 5
23 Lokesh Kumar 5
24 Ishan Gupta 5
25 Basant Khandelwal 5
26 Deepak Lal Saha 5
27 Sharma Prahlad 5
28 Prem Kumar 5
29 Mukherjee Sanchit 5
30 Bidisha Roy 5
31 Ankit Kumar Singh 5
32 Pracheta Agarwal 5
33 Vatsal Nagelia 5
34 Manisha Masi 5
35 Vikash Kumar Mehta 5
36 Hritik Verma 5
37 Umesh Sona Tanty 5
38 Binod Kumar Saw 5
39 Biplab Chandra Dalal 5
40 Milan Kumar 5
41 Sunil Kumar Singh 5
42 Mukherjee Archit 5
43 Deobrat Singh 5
44 Dash Anannya 5
45 Ankush Kumar Singh 5
46 Ajay Kumar 5
47 Ram Krishna 5
48 Sahu Aniruddha Kumar 5
49 Akankhya Dash 4
50 Aman Choubey 4
51 Shaswata Paul 4
52 Kumar Amit 4
53 Purushottam Saraff 4
54 Shreya 4
55 Manmohan Jha 4
56 Kanhaiya Pandey 4
57 Agarwal Priyashi 4
58 Bhavesh Kumar Gupta 4
59 Arvind Kumar Verma 4
60 Suyash Patel 4
61 Mrityunjay Choudhary 4
62 Prabhat Ranjan Kumar 4
63 Prasad Babu Lal 4
64 Samarjit Pramanik 4
65 Suraj Das 4
66 Simran 4
67 Krishna Kumar Saw 4
68 Rahul Mukhi (jhar) 4
69 Kunal Choudhary 4
70 Sudarshan Tiwari 4
71 Aastha Rani Bhuyan 4
72 Om Narayan Bhuyan 4
73 Chakraborty Sucharita 4
74 Hembrom Baby 4
75 Bacchu Singh 4
76 Priyesh Gupta 4
77 Shubham Singh 4
78 Archit Mittal 4
79 Abhishek Kumar 4
80 Sandeep Singh 3
81 Rishav Kumar 3
82 Barnwal Dhriti 3
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83 Sneha Verma 3
84 Vishal Kumar Minz 3
85 Arpit Khirwal 3
86 Sayam Chakraborty 3
87 Harsh Raj Pandey 3
88 Shashank Raj 3
89 Soren Nikhil 3
90 Aryaman V Verma 3
91 Riddhi Jain 3
92 Aarav Sinha 3
93 Chelsea Mittal 3
94 Pranav Kumar Pandey 3
95 Pragati Pandey 3
96 Roshan Linda 3
97 Gajadhar Singh 2
98 Aditya Jhunjhunwala 2
99 Prerna Pandey 2
100 Rupa Rani 2
101 Armaan Sinha 2
102 Aayush Raj 2
103 Soren Palton 2
104 Tushar Singh 2
105 Tirth Shresth 1
106 Satish Kumar 1
107 Pranjal Kumar 1
108 Advay Kumar 0
109 Rajiv Ranjan Srivastava 0
In order to improve your game, you must
study the endgame before everything
else, for whereas the endings can be
studied and mastered by themselves, the
middle game and the opening must be
studied in relation to the endgame
- Jose Raul Capablanca
It is the aim of the modern school, not
to treat every position according to one
general law, but according to the princi-
ple inherent in the position
- Richard Reti
 49th Late Shri Babukaka Shirgaokar Mem. Open FIDE Rating Tournament,Sangli
Sameer Kathmale wins at Sangli
by IA Nitin Shenvi, Chief Arbiter
N
utan Buddhibal Mandal, Sangli con-
ducted the 49th Late Shri Babukaka
Shirgaokar Memorial Open FIDE Rat-
ing Chess Tournament at Bapat Bal Shikshan
Mandir, Sangli, Maharashtra, which is one
of the oldest organizer in India from 1941
conducting 49th FIDE rating event in the
chess festival in Month of May. This event
was organized by prominent chess players,
key personalities (businessmen and indus-
trialist) in Sangli, Maharashtra namely Mr.
Rajabhau Shirgaokar President NBM, Mr. Er.
Chidambar Kotibhaskar Vice President NBM,
Mr. Ar. Pramod Chougule Vice President NBM,
Mr. Dr. Ulhas Mali Working President NBM,
Mr. Chintamani Limaye Secretary NBM, Mrs.
Smita Kelkar Treasurer NBM, Mrs. Seema
Kathmale, Mr. Girish Chitale, accompanied
by other chess players and chess lovers like
Mr. Vijay Apte, Mr. Kumar Mane, Mr. Deepak
Vaychal, Mrs. Madhuri Apte, etc. The event
was organized and played from 6th to 11th
May, 2016 and conducted in the Swiss League
format, comprising 09 rounds, with two
rounds only on three days else single round.
The time control for the game was 90 min-
utes to each player with an increment of 30
seconds per move from first move.
Shri Mahesh Zanwar one of the progressive
Businessmen was the Chief Guest of this
event. Along with him, Shri Satyanarayan
Zanwar, Mrs. Uma Zanwar, Shri Chidambar
Kotibhaskar, Chintamani Limaye, Shri Ulhas
Mali, Mrs. Smita Kelkar, Shri Vijay Apte, &
Shri Kumar Mane were the dignitaries on dais
of the inaugural function. The event was inau-
gurated by Mahesh Zanwar. The ceremonial
chess match was played between Uma Zan-
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war & Mahesh Zanwar. Some of the important
players namely IM Sameer Kathmale & FM
Sauravh Khherdekar of Railway, WFM Rucha
Pujari of Mah, WCM Chopdekar Gunjal of
Goa, Jyoti Prakash Sharma & Prasad Govind
of Rajsthan etc. took part in this event. In
this event 180 players out of which 127 were
rated having rating average of rated play-
ers 1419, with players coming from nearly
all parts of India (Tamil Nadu, Karnataka,
Goa, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Gujrat,
Rajsthan, Madhya Pradesh, Dadar & Daman
etc.). The championship was being led by an
IM, one each FM, WFM & WCM including 14
players above 1800 rating. IM Sameer Kath-
male of Sangli, with a rating of 2345 was the
top seed in this event.
At the end of fifth round IM Sameer Kathmale
of Railway and Shubham Kumthekar of Mum-
baiSub scored 5 points defeating their rivals
and became joint leader of this event. They
were closely followed by a margin of points
by seven players. In 6th round, on 1st board
Sameer scored six points won against fort-
night joint leader Shubham Kumthekar and
became sole leader. He was nearly followed
by Soham Datar scored 5 points.
At the end of seventh round Sameer won
against Soham increased his overall lead by
one point scored 7 points. He is followed by
five players namely Sauravh Khherdekar, Ru-
cha Pujari, Omkar Kadav, Shubham Kumthek-
ar & Ranveer Mohite scored six points each.
In the penultimate round Sameer scored 7
points drew with Sauravh with 6 points.
Omkar scored 7 points played marvelous
game on 2nd board and forced Rucha to ac-
cept defeat after lengthy game.
In final round Sameer scored 8 points drew
with Omkar with 7 points. Rucha escaped
with draw against Suyog Wagh resulting in
four plauers having 7 points namely, Rucha
Pujari, Sameer Kathmale, Soham Datar and
Barath M. Tie breaker decided the champion
of this event.The champion Sameer Kathmale
received Rs. Fifty thousand and the runner
up Omkar Kadav Rs. Twenty six thousand.
In this event out of 53 unrated participants,
35 participants became rated players.The
tournament was completed in peaceful man-
ner and no appeal arose. The championship
was a real bonus for many players, as many
of them gained considerable ELO rating of 70
or above. Special mention has to be made
of Neha, Vinayak Mulye of Ratnagiri, Said
Mahesh, Kher Siddharth, Anchal Rastogi and
Pagay Shail of Nagpur increased their rating
by 86, 77, 76, 75, 74 & 71 respectively.
The prize distribution function was chaired
by Dr. Santosh Kakade, Dr. Prasad Kelkar, Dr.
Kathmale along with Mrs. Kelkar, Mrs. Kath-
male, Mr. Apte, Mr. Limaye, & Dr. Mali along
with Chief Arbiter IA Nitin Shenvi.
Final Ranking List
1 IM Kathmale Sameer 8
2 FM Sauravh Khherdekar 7
3 Kadav Omkar 7
4 Mohite Ranveer 7
5 WFM Pujari Rucha 7
6 Patil Jitendra 7
7 Anchal Rastogi 7
8 Mulay Pratik 6
9 Kumthekar Shubham 6
10 Gadhiya Hrithvik 6
11 Shreyash A Kulkarni 6
12 Sahasrabudhe Uday 6
13 Soham Datar 6
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14 Aryan Abhijeet Shah 6
15 Dixit Nikhil 6
16 Bhosale Shruti 6
17 Mahajan Snehal 6
18 Aakash S Dalvi 6
19 Balwan Tejas 6
20 Shantharam K 6
21 Pendsey Muktanand 6
22 Mahindrakar Indrajeet 6
23 Utkarsh Lomate 6
24 Nikam Ravindra 6
25 Pogul Yuvraj 6
26 Giri Abhishek 6
27 Pagay Shail 6
28 WCM Chopdekar Gunjal 6
29 Walvekar Praveen 6
30 Aditya S Hariharan 6
31 Bhagwat Heramb 6
32 Pradeep Pandya 6
33 Malpani Ashish 6
34 Bhosale Shriraj 5
35 Mulla Nihalahamad 5
36 Tanvi V Hadkonkar 5
37 Nargundkar Ravindra 5
38 Siddhant Gunwant D 5
39 Kher Akshay 5
40 C Bhalchandra 5
41 Omkar Paldhe 5
42 Mithil Anande P 5
43 Patil Pranav Prafulla 5
44 Rane Parnavi 5
45 Bhagyashree Patil 5
46 Soni Deepak R 5
47 Apte Dhaivat 5
48 Nirgun Keval 5
49 Naik B S 5
50 Narvekar Pruthviraj 5
Thats what Chess is all about. One day
you give your opponent a lesson, the
next day he gives you one
- Bobby Fischer
 Brilliant Trophy 1st Decade All India Fide Rated Open Tournament 2016, Gulbarga
Vinay Kumar is the Winner
Promodraj Moree FA, Chief Arbiter
T
his was first tournament after the for-
mation of the Telangana State Chess
Association. The tournament was or-
ganized in for 6 days with 10 rounds, with
one round on 1st and final day and other
days 2 rounds each. This was 3rd rating
chess tournament organized by Brilliant
chess Academy at Brilliant Grammar School,
Dilsukh Nagar, Gulbarga. The event attract-
ed 225 Players from all over India Including
major states like Telangana, Maharashtra,
Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Karnataka and An-
drapradesh and Goa 125 Fide rated players
participated in this tournament, with 6 titled
players, Including an Arena GM. Top seed
of the event was Mr Varun V of Telengana.
The event was inaugurated on 8th May by
Shri Kasir eddy Narayana reddy, MLC, Sri
A. Narasimha Reddy, Vice-president All In-
dia Chess Federation & President, Telangana
State Chess Association.
More than 35 players are getting partial or
completing their rating performance in this
event. Three players completed their rating
by playing 9 and 10 rated players each in this
tournament itself.
FIDE Master M. Vinay Kumar of Andhra Bank
and Srinath Rao S.V of Maharastra tied for
first place with 8.5 points out of 10 rounds, in
tie-break FM M Vinay kumar won the event,
Srinath Rao got second place; V. Varun & J
Malleswara rao got third and fourth place with
8 points each.
In the prize distribution ceremony which
took place on 13th May 2016 the following
dignitaries were present. Chief Guest Dr.K.V
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Ramanachary, IAS Advisor - Culture, Tour-
ism, Endowments, Youth and Media affairs
Government of Telangana with Prize win-
ners. President of the function Sri Kasireddy
Narayana Reddy, MLC, Guests of Honor Dr.
Ganta Jalandhar Reddy - President Telangana
Basha Samskriti Mandali; Sri. Ch. Raghuram
Retd. Joint Secretary. distributed the prizes
to the winners.
Final standings:
Rk Name Pts
1 Matta Vinay Kumar FM 8
2 Srinath Rao S.V. FM 8
3 Varun V 8
4 Rao J. Malleswara 8
5 Ramakrishna J. FM 7
6 Balkishan A. 7
7 Karthik K Pradeep CM 7
8 Ankitha Goud Palle 7
9 Prateek Srivastava 7
10 Aditya S S V 7
11 Ranadheer B J S K 7
12 Karthik J C 7
13 Bharat Kumar Reddy P 7
14 Satyanarayana P. 7
15 Sri Sai Baswanth P 7
16 Akshit Kumar J 7
17 Rajendra G 7
18 Srivastava Pratyush 7
19 Kandi Ravi 7
20 Shashwat Chakraborty 7
21 Jishitha D 7
22 Kanishk S K 7
23 Harisurya Bharadwaj G 7
24 Shanmukha Teja P 7
25 Sai Kiran Y 7
26 Rama Mohan Rao N 7
27 Tarun Kanyamarala 6 70 Rajesh Ramachandran R 6
28 Cholleti Sahajasri 6 71 Udaybhaskar Shastri K 6
29 Nikhil M 6 72 Adupa Sneha Shree 6
30 Thirumurugan R 6 73 Sibi S Einstein Reddy 5
31 Deepak Kumar R 6 74 Sharan R S 5
32 Bipin Raj S 6 75 Chetana D 5
33 Murali Mohan Y 6 76 A Aashish Reddy 5
34 Aravind P V S 6 77 Prasad J R C 5
35 M Tulasi Ram Kumar 6 78 G Sravan Kumar AIM 5
36 Srinivas Bangarapu 6 79 Manaswini M 5
37 Sarath Chandra K 6 80 Meghanshram B V 5
38 Khan S 6 81 Bolisetty Lochana 5
39 Sahithya G 6 82 Sangam Siddharth 5
40 Srujan Keerthan Solletti 6 83 Bharadwaja T 5
41 Prateek Atluri 6 84 Sri Ram T 5
42 P Audietya Aazadh 6 85 Rohith Yadav B R 5
43 Vasistha Ramana RaoK V 6 86 Sevitha Viju M 5
44 Jayanth R 6 87 Sai Nithin Allenki 5
45 Kalur Nikhil 6 88 Aaromal R S 5
46 Sreekar J S S 6 89 Krishnasanketh Reddi K 5
47 Nitheesh Pothireddy 6 90 Suryaprakash Reddy A 5
48 Anurag Kuruvada 6 91 Shiva Sai Boddu 5
49 Abdul Azeez S.K. 6 92 Farmana Raza 5
50 Krishna Balaji 6 93 Saikrishna Acthutuni 5
51 Trisha Kanyamarala 6 94 Aditya Varun Gampa 5
52 Velpula Sarayu 6 95 Geereddy Saketh Reddy 5
53 Sishir B 6 96 Lanka Sri Karthikeya D 5
54 Neeraj Anirudh K 6 97 Rithvik Raja M 5
55 Subbarao T V 6 98 Lalit Vishnu Vardhan R 5
56 Chilukuri Sai Varshith 6 99 Nikhil A Talagadadeevi 5
57 Pavan Kumar Posa 6 100 Sai Mahati A 5
58 Chinthakayala Nagaraju 6 101 Ramachandra Reddy T 5
59 Goguloth Malsur 6 102 Kapil Surya P 5
60 Saypuri Srithan 6 103 Bhuvanchand Chowdary 5
61 Vyahruth A S R P 6 104 Raja Sree Virinchi Vadali 5
62 Pati Spandan 6 105 B Kishan 5
63 Mihir Chandra, Loke 6 106 Karyasheel P 5
64 R Venkata Raghunandan 6 107 Vadlakonda Rahul 5
65 Vysetty Sahithi 6 108 Kheerthi Ganta 5
66 Karthikeya Kasyap ACM 6 109 Rithesh Kusuma 5
67 A Sowmyanatha Reddy 6 110 Srivatsa Ananth K 5
68 Kamleshwar Rao N 6 111 Pranav Mahaadev 5
69 Sri Chandana G 6 112 Suraj Patnasetty 5

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 2nd Don Bosco Fide Rated Open Chess Tournament 2016, Irinjilakuda
Syed Anwar Shazuli wins title
by Peter joseph M ,Chief Arbiter
T
he second edition of Don Bosco Fide
Rated Open Chess Tournament was
inaugurated by Fr. Varghese Edathi-
chira, Principal, Don Bosco ICSE Institutions
here at Irinjalakuda. The tournament were
conducted jointly by Thrissur Chess Academy
and Don Bosco Youth Centre. Sri. T J Suresh-
kumar, Treasurer, Chess Association Kerala,
Sri TMS Namboothiripad, Patron, Chess Asso-
ciation Thrissur, Sri Jayamohan.M, President,
Thrissur Chess Academy, Sri. Radhakrishnan,
Secretary, Thrissur Chess Academy, Sri. Peter
Joseph,Secretary, Chess Association Thrissur
were attended the inaugural ceremony. Fr.
Francis Ponnath welcomed the players and
guests and Sri. Alex Suresh delvered the
word of thanks.
Inter National Master Sri. Praveenkumar of
ICF 2254 was the top seed and 175 players
were participated in the six day event. The
rain in second day evening heals the heat
in summer and bring a cool atmosphere. As
usual many upsets happens through out the
event. In the penultimate round four players
lead with 7.5 points and equally strong for
the title.
In the final round Syed Anwar Shazuli from
ICF chennai beat top seed and his fellow ICF
player IM Praveen Kumar C to lift the title
with 30,000/- ruppees and trophy. Phoobalan
from ICF ,M B Muraleedharan from Kerala
And Sri. Gavi Siddayah from Banglore were
the second,third and fourth places respec-
tively. Master Goutham Sakthivel TN and
Master Vivek P Thomas from Kerala are won
the below 1500 and below 1300 category
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respectively. All players are participated in
this 6 day event in a great manner and the
true spirit of chess.
AICF Joint Secretary. Sri P Venugopal, Fr,
Martin, Prof. Arunan, and many diginitaries
were visited the tournament hall in various
days. Rev. Fr. Thomas poovelikkal, Rector,
Don bosco Institutions, Sri. T J Sureshku-
mar, Treasurer, Chess Association Kerala, Fr.
Varghese Edathichira, Principal, ICSE school,
Sri. Jayamohan.M., President, Thrissur chess
Academy, Sri. Peter Joseph, Secretary, Chess
Association Thrissur were presented in the
prize distribution function. I extending my
thanks to almighty for the success of the
tournament. I take this opportunity to thank
All India Chess Federation,Chess association
of Kerala and Chess Association Thrissur for
the unconditional support, I remember the
advices of Sri. Hariharan, Secretary,AICF,
Sri. Rajesh, Secretary CAK, and Sri. T J
Sureshkumar, Treasurer, Chess Association
Kerala, for the success of the tournament.
My special thanks to the Don Bosco Youth
centre director Fr. Francis Ponnath, Bro.
Jithin, volunteer captian master Alex Suresh,
and other members of youth centre made
excellent arrangements.
Final standings:
Rk Name Pts
1 Syed Anwar Shazuli 8
2 Phoobalan P. 8
3 Muralidharan M.B FM 8
4 Gavi Siddayya 8
5 Praveen Kumar C IM 7
6 Augustin A 7
7 Joy Antony 7
8 Sooraj M R 7 51 Safar Hussain 6
9 Joy Lazar M.A. 7 52 Antony Simethy 6
10 Xavier P P 7 53 Adwait Meethal 6
11 Nithin Babu 7 54 Rockson S parayil 6
12 Shreyas M 7 55 Prem Krishna N 6
13 Martin Samuel 7 56 Anfas Muhammed 6
14 Vivek P Thomas 7 57 Pathrose C.T 6
15 Gowtham Sakthivel 7 58 Avin T Sabu 6
16 Vinay Thomas Abraham 7 59 Unnikrishnan T 6
17 Sushrutha Reddy AIM 7 60 Mukhesh C 5
18 Ajeesh Antony 7 61 Varun Agrawal 5
19 Rajashree Rajeev 7 62 John Paul P J 5
20 Benjamin Varghees Issac 7 63 Sajeev Pattath 5
21 Sai Prasath A S 7 64 Abhinav Bhatt 5
22 Abdulkhader A. 6 65 Thankachan K M 5
23 Harilal.P.P 6 66 Raju O A 5
24 Unas K.A. 6 67 Ashish Thomas Alex 5
25 Nijai Giri 6 68 Deepak K S 5
26 Aswin.P.G 6 69 Prabhu R V 5
27 Karan J P 6 70 Francis N. P. 5
28 Alex C Joy 6 71 Jaseel Badar 5
29 Satheesh A S 6 72 Gopal N Dinesh 5
30 Raghavendra G 6 73 Priyesh M J 5
31 Ananthapadmanabh D V 6 74 Ranjith P B 5
32 Rejith Babu C 6 75 Kutty T P C 5
33 Amal Roozi 6 76 Pratyush R 5
34 Hari Suresh 6 77 Raghuraj V.N. 5
35 Bright Lee M Sunilkumar 6 78 Sreyas Payyappat 5
36 Sumesh Kabeer 6 79 Ethan V Johnson 5
37 Madhavan G 6 80 Sirdhiraj M 5
38 Jinan Jomon 6 81 Arjun Manoj R 5
39 Radhakrishnan.K.S 6 82 Abel Saju Chazhoor 5
40 Abhishek S 6 83 Manuel M S 5
41 Mohammed Salih Pk 6 84 Rachana 5
42 Rahul J Akkara 6 85 Nandakumar Menon 5
43 Hari K Mohanan 6 86 Sreevatsa 5
44 Santhosh P.V. 6 87 Naveen Giri 5
45 Jos Paul Davis 6 88 Ambareesh R 5
46 Mansoor C M 6 89 Adithya Narayanan 5
47 Sudharsan Gurukrishnan 6 90 Rajath Rajesh 5
48 Adarsh Narayanan 6 91 Lakshmanan K A 5
49 Vinod K Kuttappan 6 92 Anton Rajeev 5
50 Anirudh B S 6 93 Jolly V P 5

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 Chess Association Kottayam 1st Fide Rating Tournament below 1500
Komal Srivatsav Sajja is the winner
by M. Ephrame IA, Chief Arbiter
C
hess Association Kottayam organized
its 1st Fide Rating Chess Tournament
below 1500 at Benjamin Baily hall,
Kottayam, a spacious and beautiful hall at the
heart of the city. The tournament attracted a
record number of entries of 522, out of which
367 players are FIDE rated chess players.
The tournament was held from 6th May
2016 to 8th May 2016, offering a prize mon-
ey of Rs,2,00,000/-. Sai Balaji from Tamil-
nadu was the top seeded. Due to derailment
of Chennai train many players from Chennai
didnot turn up. However the experienced
organizer, Mr. R. Rajesh did wonderful effort
and started the tournament on time.
Earlier the tournament was inaugurated by
former world under 18 Girls Chess Champi-
on, WGM Arthi Ramaswamy from Chennai.
She attracted the crowed in her inaugural
speech by giving her experiences.
The top seeded Sai Balaji went down to K C
Devanand of Kerala in round 2 was the major
upset. Gopinath Parthasarathy from Tamil-
nadu, Komal Srivatsav Sajja from Karnataka
and Sanghavi Manaoj from Gujarat are the
three leaders with 6 points at the end of
round 6. on round 7 Gopinath and Komal en-
counter ended in a draw where as Sanghavi
lost in the hands of second seeded Aswin P
R from Tamilnadu. Aswin, Jyothir from Kerala
and Arputha Jasmine from Tamilnadu joined
with Gopinath and Komal with 6.5points.
Aswin, Komal and Gopinath won their games
in round 8 and lead the tournament with 7.5
points at the end of the penultimate round.
In the final round Aswin lost to Komal, where
as Gopinath drew his game against Sanga-
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vi. 11 years old boy Komal Srivatsav Sajja
from Karnataka collected 8.5 points from 9
rounds and won the title. He lifted the win-
ner's trophy and also received Rs.30000/- as
cash prize.
Three players scored 8 points, Wanehswar
Rao from Telungana, Shashank Butt from
Karnataka and Gopinath Parthasarathy from
Tamilnadu tied for the second prize but
better tiebreak helped Waneshwar Rao
became the runner up and Waneshwar Rao
received Rs.20000/-.
Dr. Roy Sam Daniel Principal of CMS col-
lege & Shri. A N Kunhi Moideen President
of Chess Association Kerala gave the prizes
to the winners and WGM Arthi Ramaswamy
felicitated as the guest of honour. The Chess
association Kerala General Secretary, Mr. R.
Rajesh presided over the meeting.
Final ranking
Rk Name Pts
1 Komal Srivatsav Sajja 8
2 Vaneshwar Rao K.V. 8
3 Shashank Bhat G S 8
4 Gopinath Parthasarathy 8
5 Arputha Jasmine B A 7
6 Aswin P R 7
7 Mubeen Yaseen Khan 7
8 Jyothir R 7
9 Sanghavi Manoj 7
10 Srivatsan Sekar 7
11 Sudheer M K 7
12 Naushad Vavachan 7
13 Rahul Krishna V 7
14 Senguttuvan K P 7
15 Shane V Jose 7
16 Benny Thomas 7 59 Mischel Capriatie B 6
17 Aishwarya Natarajan 7 60 Mahendar B 6
18 Amal Roozi 7 61 Alwin Biby 6
19 Roshan Hari 7 62 Arun S 6
20 Mugunth R B 7 63 Genita Gladys A 6
21 Nawin J J 7 64 Sudheesh M A 6
22 Vengatesan B 7 65 Mohammed Sudheer P P 6
23 Vishal Raja 7 66 Muthukumar Thangapandian 6
24 Lakshmi Raja Perumal K 7 67 Gobi Krishnaan S 6
25 Chirag Mudraje 7 68 Sathiraj S 6
26 Habibur Rahman 7 69 Ebin Benny 6
27 Suresh Kumar M C 6 70 Kumar T V 6
28 Nithish Muthukumaran 6 71 Seth Sitaram 6
29 Sachjith M 6 72 Gowri Karthikeyan 6
30 Manojan Ravi 6 73 Sathya Naarayanan S 6
31 Avinash Hari 6 74 Sathwika N 6
32 Rakshith Ashok Kumar 6 75 Harikrishnan S B 6
33 Hariharan S 6 76 Sundararajan D S 6
34 Varun Suresh Roshan 6 77 R Venkatasubramani 6
35 Abdul Basheer K M 6 78 Srijan J 6
36 Harish Babu K S 6 79 Bolla Deepak 6
37 Colaco Reuben 6 80 Harish B Menon 6
38 Sudeep S 6 81 Krishnadev S Nair 6
39 Darsan T I 6 82 Thanga Manickam M 6
40 Aravind Suresh 6 83 Gopinath P 6
41 Sai Balaji E 6 84 Senthil Kumar K 6
42 Sasikumar.S 6 85 Shashank S L 6
43 Geetha Krishnan S 6 86 Andrew Veda W Solomon 6
44 Tarun Thiyagarajan 6 87 Alex C Joy 6
45 Adithya E S 6 88 Shreyas P Vijay 6
46 Harsh Suresh 6 89 Pavithra M 6
47 Krishnamurthy T D 6 90 Tamizhanban N 6
48 Surya Prakash J 6 91 Abel Saju Chazhoor 6
49 Suresh Kumar Saravanan 6 92 Raghavendra G 6
50 Aji Kumar A 6 93 Karthikeyan G 6
51 Vel Murugan B 6 94 Vivian Akshay J 6
52 Svatejas Shivakumar 6
53 Shiva Chethan Halamane 6 Half the variations which are calculated in
54 Syam Hari H V 6 a tournament game turn out to be com-
55 Varun Sudarshan 6 pletely superfluous. Unfortunately, no one
56 Praveen B L 6 knows in advance which half
57 Dharshan Venkatachalam 6 - Jan Tinman
58 Prakash C K 6

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 Viktor Korchnoi Passes Away
by Arvind Aaron
Viktor Korchnoi, known more as a
Soviet defector who played in two World
Championship matches of 1978 and 1981
has passed away aged 85.

Born March 23, 1931 at St Petersburg

(then known as Leningrad) in Russia died
on June 6, 2016 at Wohlen, Switzerland.
He is survived by his wife and son Igor.
Korchnoi was one of the strongest
chess players who never won the world
chess title. The 1974 Candidates Finals
against Karpov became a title match as
Fischer refused to play the 1975 match. Korchnoi defected from the Soviet Union in 1976 while
playing in a tournament in the Netherlands.

When he faced Anatoly Karpov, age was against him. He was 20 years older and lost the
three matches by narrow margins. The 1981 margin (6-2 for Karpov) at Merano in Switzerland
was the biggest Karpov could achieve. To come through the Candidates Cycle more than three
times is already a big achievement.
In the next cycle, Korchnoi beat Kasparov in the very first game with black pieces in the
Candidates Semifinals at London 1983 but lost the match overall and his opponent went on to
unseat Karpov.

Korchnoi played two training matches against friend David Bronstein in 1970 that was re-
vealed in the book Secret Notes of Bronstein in 2007. Korchnoi also was close with Karpov and
played such a match in 1971.

Here are the individual decisive career scores of Korchnoi (draws not counting) against world
champions:Korchnoi beat Mikhail Tal 13-4;Korchnoi beat Tigran Petrosian 12-10;Korchnoi beat
Magnus Carlsen 1-0;Korchnoi drew Mikhail Botvinnik 1-1;Korchnoi drew Robert James Fischer
2-2;Korchnoi lost to Anand 0-8;Korchnoi lost to Kramnik 0-6;Korchnoi lost to Kasparov 1-16;Ko-
rchnoi lost to Vassily Smyslov 3-5;Korchnoi lost to Anatoly Karpov 14-31

Korchnoi was active even playing a veteran match against Uhlmann two years ago from a
wheel chair. His peak rating was 2695. During early years of his defection, Soviet players avoided
events in which he played. Korchnois high rating was at risk and FIDE under its morally right
President Max Euwe brought special laws to protect it. Under this, Korchnoi would not lose
rating if he won a tournament clearly.
One of the worlds most interesting player is gone. Korchnoi was outspoken. He suffered
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the most from the USSR Chess Federation post defection. When he defected, they did not let
his wife and son to join him. When he found another partner in Petra, then they let them go!

Korchnoi won six team gold medals in the Chess Olympiad for the USSR in 1960, 1966, 1968,
1970, 1972 and 1974. He also won individual gold medals twice and individual bronze medals
thrice. Later, he also played the Chess Olympiad for Switzerland.Korchnoi had been the World
Senior Champion of 2006. He has played in the Goodricke Open, Kolkata in 2000.Korchnoi won
the very tough Soviet Championship five times in 1960, 1962, 1964, 1965 and 1970. He has
won almost every tournament in the West. The chess world has lost a great competitor.

Asian Continental Chess Championships,Tashkent..

Sethuraman, Bhakti win Asian Championships
By Arvind Aaron

India won the two titles on stake in the Asian Individual

Chess Championships that concluded in Tashkent on June 3,
2016. Both S.P. Sethuraman of Chennai and Bhakti Kulkarni of
Goa scored identical 7/9 scores to win by a half point margin.
Sethuraman, 23, lost to top seed Le Quang Liem (Vie),
drew Aravindh, Gao Rui and beat the rest of the six players.
His victims included third seed Wei Yi. Importantly, he won
the last three rounds in a row. The top finishers will qualify
for the World Chess Cup in 2017 at Batumi in Georgia. Se-
thuraman gains around 13.60 Elo and should be in the World Top 100 ratings in July.

Fifteenth seed Bhakti Kulkarni, 24, remained undefeated and won the womens event. Bhakti
gains 50.20 Elo from this single event. She was the lowest rated of the five Indians but sur-
prised everyone by winning. In the fourth round, she recorded a win over top seed IM Sarasadat
Khademalsharieh (Iran). The top finishers will qualify for the World Womens championship.

Players from 19 nations in men and 15 in women took part in this event that was organised
by the Uzbekistan Chess Federation.
Final placings (top and Indians): 1 GM S.P. Sethuraman (Ind) 7/9; 2-9. GM Le Quang Liem
(Vie), GM Wei Yi (Chn), GM Murtas Kazhgaleyev (Kaz), GM Deep Sengupta (Ind), GM Lu Shanglei
(Chn), GM Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son (Vie), GM Surya S Ganguly (Ind), GM Batchuluun Tsegmed
(Mgl) 6.5 each; 11 GM B Adhiban 6; 15 GM Karthikeyan Murali 5.5; 17 GM Vidit Gujrathi 5.5;
18 GM Aravindh Chithambaram 5.5; 23 GM Rustam Kasimdzhanov (Uzb) 5.5; 29 GM M.R. Lalith
Babu 5; 30 GM Abhijeet Gupta 591 players.

Final placings (top and Indians): 1 WGM Bhakti Kulkarni (Ind) 7/9; 2-3. WGM Dinara Sadu-
akassova (Kaz) WGM Soumya Swaminathan (Ind) 6.5 each; 4-6. WGM Nguyen Thi Mai Hung
(Vie), WGM Hoang Thi Bao Tram (Vie), WIM Vo Thi Kim Phung (Vie) 6 each; 10 WIM B Pratyusha
5; 15 IM Padmini Rout 5; 17 WGM Mary Ann Gomes 4.5; 20 WIM R Vaishali 4.535 players.

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 Asian Junior Open and Girls Championship,New Delhi.
Aravindh and Uurtsaikh are Asian Junior Champs
By Gopakumar
Asian Junior Open & Girls Chess Cham-
pionships-2016 got off to a rousing start
here at Hotel Park Plaza on Tuesday. 103
players from 12 different countries are par-
ticipating in this nine day long prestigious
championship, which have three formats of
Rapid, Standard and Blitz events. In the girls
Rapid event, Tamilnadu youngster R Vaishali
won the yellow metal with a perfect score
of 9 points while Iranian International Mas-
ter Masoud Mosadeghpur finished first with
8 points. Indian Grandmasters Aravindh
Chithamabaram and S L Narayanan finished as first runner up and second runner up respec-
tively in open section while Uuriintuya Uurtasaikh of Mongolia won Silver and Bala Kannamma
of India finished third in girls category.

Earlier in a befitting opening ceremony, Asian Chess Federation Deputy President Shri. Bharat
Singh inaugurated the championship by lighting the lamp and making the customary first move
in presence of Shri. Jaidev Dutta, General Manager host Hotel Park Plaza and Shri. AK Verma,
Secretary Delhi Chess Association.

In a colourful closing ceremony, Shri. Manish Sisodia, Deputy Chief Minister of Government
of Delhi gave away the prizes in presence of Shri. Hisham Al Taher, General Secretary Asian
Chess Federation; Shri. Bharat Singh, Deputy President Asian Chess Federation; Group Captain
J Rajendra, Deputy Judge Advocate General Indian Air Force; Shri. Luxman Wijesuriya, General
Secretary Chess Federation of Sri Lanka; Shri. Narayan Das Gamal, Vice President Nepal Chess
Association and Shri. AK Verma, Secretary Delhi Chess Association.

Grandmaster Aravindh Chithambaram of India and Uurinntuya Uurtsaikh of Mongolia became

Champions in the Asian Junior Open and Girls Championship which concluded at Park Plaza in
New Delhi.

In a pulsating final round, overnight sole leader Grandmaster S L Narayanan drew with Inter-
national Master Mousavi Seyed Khalil and this result helped Aravindh to catch up with Narayanan
after defeating Nima Javanbakht of Iran. Both players tied at seven points but direct encounter
tie break helped Aravindh to clinch the title while Naryanan satisfied with runner-up position.
Harsha Bharathakoti completed the all Indian podium finish after defeating International Master
Mosadeghpour Masoud of Iran in final round.

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 Meanwhile the girls section had more dramas as Mongolian girl Uurinntuya Uurtsaikh pro-
duced an emphatic victory over top seed Vaishali to lift the winners trophy while Nandhidhaa
V finished as runner up after defeating overnight joint leader K Priyanka. R Vaishali not found
a place in the podium as Ivana Maria Furtado won the bronze medal by securing final round
victory over Bala Kannamma P.

In the Asian Junior Blitz Championship, S L Naryanan won the gold medal while Arjun Kalyan
and Aravindh Chithambaram secured Silver and Bronze medals respectively. R Vaishali secured
the yellow metal in girls category while Varshini finished second and Bala Kannamma won the
Bronze medal.

In a colourful closing ceremony, Shri. Manish Sisodia, Deputy Chief Minister of Government
of Delhi gave away the prizes in presence of Shri. Hisham Al Taher, General Secretary Asian
Chess Federation; Shri. Bharat Singh, Deputy President Asian Chess Federation; Group Captain
J Rajendra, Deputy Judge Advocate General Indian Air Force; Shri. Luxman Wijesuriya, General
Secretary Chess Federation of Sri Lanka; Shri. Narayan Das Gamal, Vice President Nepal Chess
Association and Shri. AK Verma, Secretary Delhi Chess Association.
Praggnanandhaa set to become worlds youngest IM!
W, besides his share of youth medals, is in the
process of rewriting history books.Praggnanandhaa
equalled his sister Vaishalis gold medals by winning
the World under 8 boys in 2013 and the under 10
boys in 2015. By February 2016, at the age of ten
years and seven months, he was already rated 2301.
Then began a fairytale period as he reeled off norm
performances one after another. He made a trip to the
French city of Cannes in late February to play his first
grandmaster open outside India. Praggnanandhaa
played excellent chess in the tournament, made his
maiden IM norm despite losing the last round.

In the strong open tournament in Moscow Aeroflot B Open after three rounds, Praggu's
score read just 0.5/3 but he just came back stronger, picking pace to score 3.5 points in the
next four rounds, including a win against GM Levon Babujian (2491) of Armenia and Karachenko
Boris in the last round to clinch his second IM-norm. And he did just that after his opponent,
Karachenko Boris erroneously picked the c5 pawn with his knight.

The ten year-old from Chennai completed his third and final IM norm after beating a Grand-
master and drawing with two others at the KIIT international Chess Festival in Bubaneshwar.In
comparison Judit Polgar was the youngest IM till date did it only at 11-plus. Praggnanandhaa
at 10 years and 10 months has thus become the youngest IM in the history of chess.

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 12th Late Sou Meenatai Shirgaonkar Memorial International FIDE Rating
Women's Chess Tournament Sangli, May 2016
Rucha Pujari wins title
by IA Nitin Shenvi, Chief Arbiter
T
he 12th Late Sou Meenatai Shirgaon-
kar Memorial International FIDE Rating
Women's Chess Tournament was suc-
cessively organized by Nutan Buddhibal Man-
dal, Sangli. This event is special, because it
encourages Women players by giving entries
without entry fee as well as free accommoda-
tion provided. This event is unique in India.
The event took place at Bapat Bal Shikshan
Mandir, Sangli, Maharashtra. The path shown
by Late Shri Bhausaheb Padsalgikar to moti-
vate parents and female players is now taken
over by present members and office bearers.
He had aimed to give full one month chess
events in Sangli, and it is still continued. One
way we can surely say that for Chess Sangli
is a Pandhari.
The driving force behind new changes in
conducting chess tournament is the effort
taken by Shri Rajabhau Shirgaonkar, Presi-
dent NBM. The other key personalities behind
this event were Mr. Chintamani Limaye, Mr.
Girish Chitale, Mr. Pramod Chougule, Mr.
Chidambar Kotibhaskar, Dr. Ulhas Mali, Mrs.
Smita Kelkar, Mrs. Seema Kathmale, Mr. Vijay
Apte, Mr. Kumar Mane, Mrs. Madhuri Apte,
Mr. Deepak Vaychal, etc. The event was or-
ganized and played from 1st to 5th May, 2016
and conducted in the Swiss League format,
comprising 09 rounds, with one round on
last day else double rounds. The time control
for the game was 90 minutes to each player
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with an increment of 30 seconds per move
from first move.
Mrs. Jayashreetai Madanrao Patil was the
Chief Guest of inaugural function and by
profession architect. Along with her Mr. Chin-
tamani Limaye Sec, NBM, Mrs. Smita Kelkar
Madam, Treasurer NBM Dr. Ulhas Mali and
Shri Pramod Chougule Vice President NBM
were the dignitaries on dais of the inaugural
function. The event was inaugurated by Ms
Jayashreetai Patil with lightening of devotion-
al lamp and ceremonial match between Ms
Jayashreetai Patil and Ms Smita Kelkar was
played. Introduction of the Chief Guest was
done by Dr. Ulhas Mali. The aim and motto
of this event was explained by Chintamani
Limaye to gathering.
Ms. Patil talked about the history of NBM and
the way NBM is taking effort to encourage
Women in chess of field at the same time
given best wishes to participants and parents
for participating in this event. Some of the
important players who took part were-WFM
Rucha Pujari Kolhapur, WCM Gunjal Chop-
dekar of Goa, WCM Sanskruti Wankhade of
Mumbai, Ms Rutuja Bakshi of Aurangabad,
Ms Vrushali Deodhar of Mumbai suburban,
Ms. Khushi Surana of Solapur, Ms Riya Lahoti
of Satara, Meenakshi Bhoite of Pune, Bhag-
yashree Patil of Jalgaon, Krishnaa Jahagirdar
Sudhakar of TN, Ms. Gayatri Rajput of Sangli,
Ms. Narayani Adane of Nagpur, Ms. Alaina
Vincent of Mumbai, etc. In this event 63
players out of 137 were rated having rating
average of rated players 1251, with players
coming from nearly all parts of Maharashtra
(Mubai suburban, Buldhana, Aurangabad,
Solapur Nagpur, Jalgaon, Thane, Palghar,
Satara, Sangli, Kolhapur, Pune), Karnataka,
Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Goa, Telangana,
Gujrat. The championship was being led by
one WFM and two WCM including 5 players
above 1600 ELO rating. WFM Rucha Pujari of
Kolhapur, with a rating of 2152 was the top
seed in this event.
At the end of fifth round Rucha Pujari and
Rutuja Bakshi became joint leader of this
event won against their opponents and
scored 5 points each followed by them Gunjal
Chopdekar, Isha Koli, and Sanskruti Mahajan
scored 4 points each.
In 6th round, on 1st board Rucha Pujari
won against joint leader Rutuja Bakshi and
became sole leader of this event. Followed
by her there are nine participants scored by
5 points.
At the end of seventh round unrated Raul
Devika of Mumbai drew with rated Krishnaa
Jahagirdar Sudhakar of TN. Lower rated
Kapadia Hrishita of Mumbai Suburban won
against Gouri Karamarkar of Sangli. Rucha
Pujari scoring 7 points convincingly won
against Bhagyashree Patil of Jalgaon and
difference between top and others increased.
She is followed by four players namely Shruti
Bhosale of Kolhapur, Bakshi Rutuja, Narayani
Adane & Vrushali Deodhar scored 6 points
each.
In the penultimate round top seed Rucha
Pujari, Rutuja Bakshi and Vrushali Deodhar
managed to win their respective games and
now Rucha lead with8 points closely followed
by Rutuja Bakshi and Vrushali Deodhar with
7 points.
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In final round top two boards drew. Rucha
drew with Vrushali while Rutuja drew with
Khushi. The champion Rucha Pujari received
Rs. Seventeen thousand and the runner up
Rutuja Bakshi Rs. twelve thousand. The
rated players who got more than 100 ELO
rating points namely Samruddhi Kulkarni of
Kolhapur with 123 ELO points & Isha Koli of
Satara with 115 ELO points.
In this event out of 72 unrated participants,
only some of them managed to cross 1000
ELO points line. The tournament was com-
pleted in peaceful manner and no appeal
arose.
The prize distribution function chaired by Mrs.
Chandana Shekhar Gaikwad wife Collector
Mr. Shekhar Gaikwad of Sangli, Mother of
Architect Shri Pramod Chougule Mrs. He-
matai, Mrs. Laxmitai Shirgaokar Daughter
in Law of Shri Rajabhau Shirgaonkar Presi-
dent NBM and Treasurer, Saraswat Bramhan
Mahila Mandal Kolhapur as well as Director
SB Resellers Kolhapur and sponsorer for
National Women Premier in Diwali 2014,
Mrs. Shraddha Shirgaokar expert in many
arts and skills, Mrs. Kanchan Pagay wife of
Shri Dilip Pagay Hon. Secretary, MCA, Mrs.
Smita Kelkar, Treasurer NBM, Mr. Chintam-
ani Limaye Secretary, NBM, Mr. Chidambar
Kotibhaskar, Vice President, NBM, Dr. Ulhas
Mali Working President, NBM and Shri Nitin
Shenvi Chief Arbiter were on dais.
Final Ranking List
Rk Name Pts
1 Pujari Rucha 8
2 Bakshi Rutuja 7
3 Deodhar Vrushali Umesh 7
4 Bhagyashree Patil 7
5 Adane Narayani 7
6 Vincent Alaina 7
7 Surana Khushi Shailendra 7
8 Mahajan Sanskruti 6
9 Chandratreya Prachiti 6
10 Ghadge Mrunalini 6
11 Lahoti Riya 6
12 Chopdekar Gunjal 6
13 Bhosale Shruti 6
14 Naik Snehal 6
15 Koli Esha 6
16 Wankhade Sanskruti 6
17 Tanvi Vasudev Hadkonkar 6
18 Kulkarni Samruddhi 6
19 Krishnaa Jahagirdar Sudhakar 6
20 Neha Vinayak Mulye 6
21 Rajput Gayatri 6
22 Kamarkar Gouri 6
23 Kunnekar Vanshri 6
24 Kruti G 6
25 Upase Riddhi 5
26 Pardeshi Gayatri 5
27 Adhawade Tanvi 5
28 Khushi M Hombal 5
29 Upalavikar Pornima 5
30 Dicholkar Diti 5
31 Dhuri Khushi 5
32 Tanuja Sudhakar Babu 5
33 Keerthi Bandlamudi 5
34 Gotmare Mrinmayi 5
35 Bhoite Meenakshi 5
36 Kapadia Hrishita 5
37 Khandagale Yashkirti 5
38 Joshi Siya 5
39 Deshmukh Gargi 5
40 Patil Sanskruti 5
41 Hetvi Pethad 5
42 Bondage Vaishnavi 5
43 Abhyankar Aishwarya 5
44 Patil Shreya C 5
45 Mohitha V 5
46 Rawal Madhura 5
47 Shraddha Somanath 5
48 Raul Devika 5
49 Naroji Sanskriti 5
50 Sharanya Vinayak Adane 5
51 Bondage Mayuri 5
52 Riya Narendra Marathe 5
53 Naik Sayuri 5
54 Chougule Samiksha 5
55 Choudki Khushi 5
56 Palakodeti Bhanumati 5
57 Nikam Akansha 5
58 Ghosarwadkar Vaishnavi 5
59 Patki Varudhini Sadananda 4
60 Mahajan Mokshada D 4
61 Bedwal Dhanashree 4
62 Patil Vaishnavi 4
63 Vaval Aaditi 4
64 Prabhu Trupti 4
65 Joshi Chaitali 4
66 Salunkhe Samruddha 4
67 Birajdar Anjali 4
68 Dhrithi Murgod 4
69 Patil Aarohee Bhaksar 4
70 Rekha Gudsoorkar 4
71 Dakshayani Tushar Chavan 4
72 Kulkarni Diksha 4
73 Vaibhavi Murali 4
74 Ranka Srushti 4
75 Patil Anushka 4
Solution to Puzzle of the month
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 Mineral Open FIDE Rating Chess Tournament - 2016
Himanshu Sharma is champion
by A.C.Joshi IA,Chief Arbiter
I
n the Sanskar city Vadodara, the Miner-
al Open FIDE Rating Chess Tournament
- 2016 was held from 1st to 5th May
atHotel Surya, Station Road , Vadodara, Gu-
jarat by Gujarat State Chess Association and
Mineral Chess Academy .
The tournament attracted total number of
152 entries all over state of India, major part
of entries by Gujarat, followed by Mahar-
ashtra and Tamilnadu,in. The total number
of International fide Rated players of the
event is 136 players which compiles of 1
GM, 3 IM .1 CM and25 female participants.
The event is been conducted by 9 Rounds
Swiss league system, with the time control
of 90 min plus 30 sec increment from move
No.1, everyday 2 rounds.( Except Last Day)
The total prize money of the event was
Rs.5,00,000/-(Five Lakhs ) with First Prize
of Rs.50,000/-(Rupees Fifty Thousand )
for the winner of the event. Many talented
young players from all over the country
participated to win the coveted prizes
.Hard fought victories and some draws
were witnessed duing the tournament.
At the end of the final round the ultimate
winner was Mr. HimansuShema of Railways
winning the cash prize of Rs.50,000/- and
the Runner Up of the event was Mr. Atul
Dahade of Maharashtra with the cash prize
of Rs.40,000/-.
This is the sixth tournament in a row by the
Mineral Chess Academy. Kudos to Bhavesh
Patel (Hon.Secretary-GSCA), PruthivirajLeu-
va and his team for their dedicated efforts.
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The Kalrav group and Mineral chess Acade-
my has done a wonderful work to fulfill all
requirement by providing a fully Air-con-
ditioned Tournament hall and a Free A/c
Dormitory Accommodation. The Lunch and
Dinner during Tournament was also arranged
at subsidised with a very discounted rate for
all in the same hotel. The team of Arbiters
headed by A.C.Joshi was efficient and took
care of the technical problems. Thanks to all
players for raising not even a single protest.
Final rankings:
Rk Name Pts
1 Himanshu Sharma IM 8
2 Dahale Atul 7
3 Ravi Teja S. IM 7
4 Laxman R.R GM 7
5 Sinha Santosh Kumar 6
6 Pradeep Kumar R A 6
7 Audi Ameya 6
8 Jay Kundaliya 6
9 Pruthu Deshpande 6
10 Doshi Moksh Amitbhai 6
11 Mraduhas Tripathi 6
12 Kulkarni Vikramaditya IM 6
13 Gukesh D CM 6
14 Maulik Raval 6
15 Vijay Anand M. 6
16 Dave Kantilal 6
17 Jeet Jain 6
18 Kamdar Udit 6
19 Vakil Akhtara 6
20 Joshi Abhijeet 6
21 Ashutosh Kumar 6
22 Panesar Vedant 6
23 Sanjeet Manohar 6
24 Varun Bhatt 6 67 Patel Vivek 4
25 Bhatt Jalpan 6 68 Nitul Khare 4
26 Manish Anto Cristiano F 6 69 Samdani Sahil Sagar 4
27 Phadke Sohan 6 70 Dhyana Patel 4
28 Saranya Y 6 71 Kavisha S Shah 4
29 Avdhoot Lendhe 5 72 Chandan Palash N 4
30 Rawal Shailesh 5 73 Anadkat Kartavya 4
31 Bhogal Rupesh 5 74 Sachin Kumar 4
32 Aditya Guhagarkar 5 75 Bandekar Aditya 4
33 Chauhan Ashvinkumar 5 76 Ghelani Dhairya 4
34 Dhruvik Shah 5 77 Kumtakar Deepak AFM 4
35 Joy Pankaj Shah 5 78 Jaisingh Anugraha 4
36 Shah Rishab 5 79 Audi Saiesh 4
37 Deepak Kumar R 5 80 Menon Padmanand 4
38 Sparsh Khandelwal 5 81 Aditya P Melani 4
39 Mehta Naitik R 5 82 Bokade Chinmay 4
40 Polakhare Aryan 5 83 Krishna Malay 4
41 Kamdar Aparva 5 84 Ananmay Sharma 4
42 Dere Pushkar 5 85 Neel Thomas 4
43 Madhavan G 5 86 Lasani H Kothari 4
44 Chandrajeet Singh Rajawat 5 87 Doshi Krut Devang Kumar 4
45 Dhanesha Jignesh 5 88 Kushal Kaushik Karelia 4
46 Vikram Mukhija 5 89 Totlani Varun 4
47 Parikh Kairav 5 90 Raninga Aditya Himanshu 4
48 Abid Ali Mujawar 5 91 Raj D Vyas 4
49 Vedant P Kumbakonam 5 92 Anmol Sharma 4
50 Samant Aditya S 5 93 S Brijesh Mohan 4
51 Trivedi Rushang 5 94 Gupta Shllok 4
52 Ansh M Shah 5 95 Dhruv G Kulkarni 4
53 Shah Rutvi 5 96 Bhuta Hriday 4
54 Samir Dilipkumar Desai 5 97 Narendran Gouthaman 4
55 Srivastav Harsh 5 98 Shah Nihar 4
56 Shourya Jain 5 99 Priyanshu Baid 4
57 Mumukshu Mittal 5 100 Panchal Tisha N 4
58 Prajapati Ketan 5 101 Doshi Aakash 4
59 Vrandesh Parekh 5 102 Sanjit Dutta 4
60 Chavda Suresh 5 103 Ajinkya Pingale 3
61 Kulkarni Saurabh P 5 104 Karthik Jagannath 3
62 Mhatre Rahat Rahul 5 105 Thrish Karthik 3
63 Raval Niraj 4 106 Kadakia Veer 3
64 Mayank Pal 4 107 Bhatt Palak K 3
65 Dave Sneh 4 108 Subodh Kumar Singh 3
66 Kanishk S K 4 109 Priyanka Bhatt 3

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 2nd Pavna All India Fide Rated Chess Tournament,Aligarh
Himanshu Sharma retains title
IA Dharmendra Kumar, Chief Arbiter
2
nd edition of Pavna Fide Rating Chess
Tournament was formally inaugurated
by Brigadier Dr. P.S.Shiwas , Vice-
Chancellor , Mangalayatan University .Other
dignitaries present on the function were Rajiv
Agrwal, well known industrialist of the city as
well as country , Anand Sadani , Chairman,
Sadani Group of Industries , Pallavi Upadhyay,
Principal, D.P.S. , Aligarh , Chandra Mohan
Sadani , Hony. Sectretary , DSCA , Vijay Kumar
Pachisia , Treasurer, DCSA and IA Dharmendra
Kumar, Chief Arbiter .All the dignitaries lit
the traditional lamp and delivered their good
wishes to all the participants . Chief guest
cut the ribbon and declared the event open.
This year 155 players from various state in-
cluding 86 fide rated players has participat-
ed in 2nd Pavna All India Fide Rated Chess
Tournament held Aligarh from 17 to 22 May ,
2016. Tournament was organized by District
Chess Sports Association , Aligarh in associ-
ation with D.P.S. , Aligarh . Tournament was
supported by Pavna Group of Industries and
some other business houses and individuals
of city. Organizing committee was lead by
Chandra Mohan Sadani , Hony. Secreatry ,
D.S.C.A.
Month of May is usually hot but since
tournament hall was airconditioned it was
comfortable to all the participants . All the
players were staying in the same premises
of Mangalayatan , just in front of tournament
hall. Everyone was happy to be there as part
of this organization. 2nd edition of Pavna
rating tournament was won by IM Himnashu
Sharma who scored 8 point out of possible 9
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round . He drew 2 and won 7 game in his
way to retain title. Joydeep Dutta of West
Bengal finished 2nd place while 3rd place
went to Gajendra Singh of UP.
In a coulorful prize distribution function ,
chief guest Vijay Bajaj , MD, LockMaster India
Pvt. Ltd. has gave away the prizes amongst
the prize winners in the gracious presence
of Ram kumar Sadani , Director , Sadani
Steel Pvt. Ltd ,Navratn Aggrawal ,Director,
Bikanerwala food Pvt. Ltd., Shri A.K.Raizada,
Hony. Secretary, UPCSA and Chandra Mohan
Sadani, Hony Secreatry, DCSA.Munesh Jain
, Vice-president of DCSA , Aligarh welcomed
the guest , Chief Arbiter Dharmendra Kumar
delivered the tournament report and Vijay
Kumar Pachisia , Treasurer , DCSA delivered
the vote of thanks.
Final ranking
Rk Name Pts
1 IM Himanshu Sharma 8
2 FM Dutta Joydeep 7
3 Gajendra Singh 7
4 Deepak Katiyar 7
5 Dubey Sanchay 7
6 Jaspreet Singh 7
7 IM Sharma Dinesh K. 7
8 Katiyar Prashant 7
9 Anuj Shrivatri 6
10 Lawaniya Eshan 6
11 Aditya S Hariharan 6
12 Deepak
Kumar R 6
13 Deepak Rai 6
14 Aaryan Varshney 6
15 Diwan Rajesh 6
16 Tarun Kanyamarala 6
17 Himanshu Agarwal 6
18 Nakul Chaudhary 6
19 Tiwari O P 6
20 Yogi Anurag Upadhyay 6
21 Devansh Singh 6
22 Medha Chauhan 6
23 Rajesh Kumar Sharma 6
24 Asif Md Tayyeb 6
25 Raghav H S 6
26 Rishi Kumar Pandey 6
27 Sahithya G 6
28 Sushant Manuja 6
29 Sawyan Baran De 6
30 Kanishk S K 6
31 Rajesh Kumar Nath 5
32 Trisha Kanyamarala 5
33 Ashvani Saini 5
34 Om Chauhan 5
35 Deota Snehil S 5
36 Dhruv Dak 5
37 Kapil Dadhich 5
38 Shweta Priyadarshini 5
39 Hamendra Singh M 5
40 Bharadia Madhav 5
41 Vicky Jha 5
42 Himanshu Prakash 5
43 Garv Rai 5
44 Adithya Vishveshwaran 5
45 Thirumurugan R 5
46 Paras Vats 5
47 Arbaz Khan. 5
48 Gautam Kataria 5
49 Saini Ashutosh 5
50 Abhishek K Mishra 5
51 Rishabh Nishad 5
52 Rajat Pratap Singh 5
53 Varshney Roopak 5
54 Awasthi Balgovind 5
55 Arpit Rastogi 5
56 Bharadia Yash 5
57 Chauhan Narayan 5
58 Arunesh Narain Gaur 5
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59 Arun Kumar Saxena 5
60 Kartikey Sharma 5
61 Choubey Saurabh 5
62 Bhawesh Pandiyar 5
63 Monika Sahu 5
64 Shamim Ahmad 5
65 Chechani Devansh 5
66 Ruchin Yadav 5
67 Ayush Lodha 5
68 Chhabra Kunal 5
69 Priyanka Bhatt 5
70 Aswin Biju 5
71 Munna Das Bairagi 5
72 Mishra Jayesh 4
73 Gupta Tanish 4
74 Saxena Anshul 4
75 Akhil Chaudhury 4
76 Asthana B.S. 4
77 Syed M Hussain Jafry 4
78 Prashant Salunke 4
79 Yashraj Singh Sandhu 4
80 Shrivatri Animesh 4
81 Parul Rathore 4
82 Chinmay Jain 4
83 Kaustubh Shukla 4
84 Uddin Imran 4
85 Tushar Chaudhary 4
86 Ajay Kumartripathi 4
87 Mayank Jain 4
88 Kranti Kumar Gupta 4
89 Deepak Atnere 4
90 Akshanshu Sharma 4
91 Mohd Faisal Azeem 4
92 Ramesh Kumar Sonker 4
93 Dipika Sahu 4
94 Aman Kumar 4
95 Lakshya Paurush 4
96 Ishika Garg 4
97 Maheshwari Pallavi 4
98 Sharma Aarav 4
99 Maulik Gupta 4
100 Himanshu Jha 4
Selected games from Asian Junior
New Delhi
Annnotated by IM Manuel Aaron
Hamedi Nia,Vesal (Iran) Nandhidhaa,Pv
[D56]
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 d5 4.Bg5 Be7
5.e3 h6 6.Bh4 00 7.Nf3 Ne4 8.Bxe7
Qxe7 9.Nxe4 dxe4 10.Nd2 e5 11.d5
Bf5 12.Be2 Qg5 13.g4 [This is new
and permanently gives up his possibil-
ity of castling on the king-side. A 1991
game between Alan Wortham and Nikki
Kitaura played in the Japan Ch, in Tokyo
went: 13.g3 Na6 14.00 Nc5 15.Rc1 Nd3
16.Bxd3 exd3 17.e4 Bh3 18.Re1 f5 19.Nf3
Qf6 20.Nd2 f4 21.f3 fxg3 22.hxg3 10
33]13...Bh7 14.h4 Qe7 15.Qc2 Na6
16.000 [The chances are equal.]
16...c6 [The natural way to direct her at-
tack against White's castled position.]17.
dxc6 bxc6 18.Kb1 Rab8 19.Nb3
[The best attempt at getting counter
play is: 19.g5 h5 (dangerous would be
19...hxg5? 20.hxg5 Rfd8 21.Rh4)
20.Nb3= (20.Bxh5 Not 20...Nb4 21.Qc3
Nd3 threatening both b2 and f2.)
20...Nb4 21.Qc3 Nd3 22.Rhf1=]19...
Nb4 20.Qc3 Nd3 21.Rh2 a5 22.Rd2
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[If 22.Bxd3 Rxb3! 23.Qxb3 exd3 24.f4
Qc5 25.f5 e4 26.Re1 Qe5 27.Rg2 Rb8
28.Qa3]22...a4 23.Nc1 Ne1 [White's forc-
es are getting into a muddle.]24.Rd1 Nf3
25.Rh3 Nxh4 26.Rdh1?
This needlessly takes the rook away
from the only open file on the board to
the edge of the board. The natural move
here was to move the king out of the
potential attack down the b-file and the
a1h7 diagonal with: 26.Ka1]26...Nf3
27.Ka1 Rfd8 28.Rd1 Qe6?! [Also to
be considered was: 28...Rxd1 29.Bxd1
Qd7 30.Bxa4 Qxg4 31.Rh1 Qg2 32.Rd1
Qxf2 33.Bxc6 Bf5]29.Rg3 [If 29.Rxd8+
Rxd8 30.Qa5 Rb8 31.Qa7 Rf8 32.Qxa4
Qxg4 33.Rg3 Qh4 Black has a winning
a d va n t a g e . ] 2 9 . . . R x d 1 3 0 . B x d 1 a 3 !
31.bxa3 [31.Qxa3 Qxc4 32.Qc3 Qf1
33.Bxf3 e x f 3 3 4 . g 5 h 5 3 5 . Q d 2 B e 4
36.b3 Rb5! Black is threatening 37...
R d 5 3 8 Qb2 Rd1 winning.]31...Qd6
32.Bc2 Qf6 [The black queen is going
to invade white's king-side.]33.Nb3
Qh4 34.Bb1 Qh1 35.Qc2 Bg6 36.a4
Qf1 37.a5 Nd4! [Diagram #]38.Nxd4
[After 38.Qb2 Nxb3+ (Black could lose
a lot of her advantage by: 38...Ne2?!
39.Nd2! Rxb2 40.Nxf1 Rb4 41.Rh3 Rxc4
42.Rh1 Ra4) 39.axb3 Qe1! the a5 pawn
is lost.

(Position after 37.Nd4)
38...exd4+ [The Bb1 is fatally pinned while
her rook is hopelessly out of play on g3.]39.
a6 d3 40.a7 [If 40.Qb3 Rxb3 41.axb3 d2
42.a7 d1Q 43.a8Q+ Kh7 44.Qa2 Qfe1 45.Qb2
Qd8! mates.]40...dxc2! 41.axb8Q+ Kh7
42.Qb2 c1Q! 01
Uuriintuya,Uurtsaikh (Mgl)
Priyanka,Nutakki [C04]
1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nd2 Nc6 4.Ngf3 Nf6
5.e5 Nd7 6.Be2 f6 7.exf6 Qxf6 8.Nf1 Bd6
9.Ne3 00 10.00 Qf7 11.c4 Nf6 12.c5
Bf4 13.Bb5 [Nunn (2600) vs Landenbergue
(2385) Nuremberg Rapid,1990, went: 13.g3
Bh6 14.a3 Bd7 15.b4 a6 16.Qb3 Be8 17.Ng2
Bxc1 18.Raxc1 Ne4 19.Qe3 Qf5 20.Nfh4 Qf6
21.f3 Nxg3 10 41]
13...Ne4 [13...Bd7 might have been a little
better.]14.Nc2 Qh5
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Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron
Again black must try to complete her devel-
opment with: 14...Bd7 denying white a clear
advantage. This was black's last chance
to develop her bishop. Black's misery
and cause of d e f e a t i n t h i s g a m e i s
this passive bishop.]15.Bxf4! Rxf4
16.Bxc6! bxc6 17.Nb4 Bb7 [Worse
was: 17...Bd7 18.Ne5 Qe8 19.f3 Ng5
20.Qd2+]18.Ne5 Qg5!
White is not anxious to trade her strong
knight for t he dummy bis hop and a
doubled c-pawn. Just the threat of
capturing the c6 pawn is much strong-
er than actually winning it.][Black is
looking for some tactical counter-play.
Best in the circumstances was to
echange off queens and seek salvation
in the endgame with 18...Qxd1 19.Raxd1
Nxc5 20.g3 Re4 21.Nbxc6 Bxc6 22.Nxc6
Nb7]19.Nbd3! [Diagram #
White is not anxious to trade her strong
knight for the dummy bishop and a dou-
bled c-pawn. Just the threat of capturing
the c6 pawn is much stronger than actual-
ly winning it.]19...Rf5 20.Qc1 Qh4 [Black
threatens 21....Ba6!]21.f3 Ng5 22.Qe3
Qh6 [The attempt to challenge the strong
Ne5 fails: 22...Nf7 23.Nxf7 Rxf7 24.Rf2
Raf8 25.Re1 Rf6 26.Ne5+ Black is totally
paralysed.]
Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron
(Position after 19,Nbd3)
23.Rae1 Re8 [We all love pawns! Black's
best was to activate her defending bishop by
sacrificing her doubled c-pawn with: 23...
Ba6 24.Nxc6 Rf6 25.Nce5 Qh4 26.g3 Qh5
though white is still on top.]24.Ng4 Qh5
25.Nf4 Qf7 26.Ne5 Qf8 27.Nfd3! [The
threat is to drive away the Rf5 by g2g4
and capture the knight.]27...h6 28.h4!
Nf7? [As the black forces are huddled to-
gether on the top right hand corner of the
board black's end is imminent. It was better
to lose the exchange as shown here than to
get her queen mated as in the game! 28...
Nh7 29.g4 Rf6 30.Nd7+]
29.Ng6
[Diagram # The queen is mated!]
29...Bc8 10
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Arjun,Kalyan Aravindh,
Chithambaram Vr [B90]
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6
5.Nc3 a6 6.Be3 Ng4 [Dzindzichashvili
(2500) vs Rashkovksy (2430) USSR Ch,
Baku, 1972 went: 6...e5 7.Nb3 Be7 8.Qd2
Be6 9.f3 00 10.000 Nbd7 11.g4 b5
12.a3 Nb6 13.g5 Nh5 14.Nd5 Bxd5 15.exd5
Rc8 16.Na5 Nxd5 17.Qxd5 Qxa5 18.Bd3 g6
19.Kb1 Qc7 20.Be4 and 10 47]7.Bc1 Nf6
8.Be3 [a draw
with a grandmaster is ok for white. But black
wants more!]8...e5 9.Nb3 Be7 10.f3 Be6
11.Qd2 Nbd7 12.g4 00 13.000= [The
game is equal but with both players having
castled on opposite sides, an exciting mid-
dle-game is in the offing.]13...b5 14.Rg1?
[The cause of white's downfall is this move.
While other useful moves were available, it
was premature to place the rook on g1. It is
not clear now whether this rook was best on
g1 or left alone on h1. As played, this unfor-
tunate placement of the rook is the basis of
black's combination on move 21. Better was
either 14.Kb1 or launch his attack immedi-
ately with 14 g5.]14...b4 15.Nd5= [15.Na4
Qb8 16.g5 Nh5=]
15...Bxd5 16.exd5 Nb6 17.Na5 [There is
some similarity between this game and the
1972 USSR Chp game quoted above.]21...
Qa7!

22.Bd3 [The game becomes explosive and
has a short life after white captures d6:
22.Qxd6 Nc8 23.Qc6 (23.Qxe5 Qxg1+)
23...Qe3+! 24.Kb1 Na7! and the Rg1 is
lost.]22...d5! 23.g5 Rfc8 [Combining
defence with attack. It also vacates the f8
square for his knight in the event he has to
defend h7 against white's queen and rook
battery on the h-file.]24.Qh4 g6 25.Rg3
Nd7 26.Re1 [If 26.Rh3 Nf8 27.Re1 Re8
28.c3 Rab8 Black has the upperhand as he
has brought white's assault on the king-
side to nought and is himself massing his
forces on white's castled position.]26...Nc5
27.Bf1 [You will soon see that 27.f4 and
27 Be2 were better options.]27...Nb3+!!
28.Kd1 [If 28.axb3 Qf2! 29.Re2 Qxf1+
30.Kd2 Rxc2+ 31.Kxc2 Qxe2+ 32.Kb1
Rb8 33.Ka2 Qc2 34.Qa4 Qxh2!+]28...
Qf2 29.Be2 [29.cxb3?? Qc2#]29...Rc4!!
30.Rg4 [The only move. If 30.Bxc4??
Qd2#]30...Qxh4! 31.Rxh4 Rxh4 32.axb3
Rxh2 33.Bd3 Re8 34.Bxa6 [Diagram #]
[Already an exchange and a pawn down,
white desperately needs to complicate
the game and recover some of the looted
material. However, he should go about it
with patience taking his king to b1 avoid-
ing invasion along the a-file. He may try:
34.Kc1]
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Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron
34...Ra8! 35.Be2 [The only move to avoid
mate in one by 35.. .Ra1.]35...Ra1+ 36.Kd2
Rxe1 37.Kxe1 Kf8! [Excellent judgment!
Black perceives that white's only counter-play
will be his queen-side pawns. So he hurries
his king there leaving alone white's g5 which
could be consumed whenever he wanted!]
38.c4 Ke7! 39.c5 Kd7 40.Bb5+ Kd8
[White could have been a bit more generous
and allowed black some hopes and harmless
fun with: 40...Kc7 41.Be8 Rxb2! 42.Bxf7 Kc6
43.Bg8 Rxb3 44.Bxh7 Rxf3 45.Bxg6 Rg3+]
41.Be2 Kc7 01
Divya,Lakshmi R
Sanskriti,Goyal [C11]
1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.e5 Nfd7 5.f4
c5 6.Nf3 Nc6 7.Be3 cxd4 8.Nxd4 Bc5
9.Qd2 00 10.000 Nxd4 11.Bxd4 a6
12.g4 b5 [Brendan Purcell (1836) vs Peter
Sherwood (1711) San Francisco, 2005 went:
12...Bxd4 13.Qxd4 f6 14.Nxd5 fxe5 15.fxe5
Qg5+ 16.Qe3 Qxe3+ 17.Nxe3 Nxe5 18.Bg2
Rf2 19.Rhf1 Rxf1 20.Rxf1 Rb8 21.h3 Bd7
22.Rd1 Kf8 and 10 49]13.f5 b4 14.Ne2
Qc7 15.Bxc5 Qxc5 16.f6?! [Diagram #
White gambits a pawn for a dubious attack.
She didnt like 16 Qf4 as black would reply
16...f6!]16...Nxe5 17.fxg7 Kxg7 18.Qg5+
Ng6 19.Ng3 Qe7 [Best was: 19...f6
20.Nh5+ Kh8 21.Qh6 (21.Nxf6? Qe7+)
Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron
21...Rf7 22.Bd3 Qf8]
(Position after 16.f6)
20.Nh5+ Kh8 21.Qh6 Rg8 22.Bd3= e5
23.Rhf1 Be6 24.Bf5 [Black has sufficient
resources to resist the attack after: 24.Nf6
Rg7 25.Bxg6 fxg6 26.Nxd5 Qb7 27.Ne3]24...
Rac8 [With both players attacking and coun-
ter-attacking, the game has been level.]
25.Kb1 Rc6 26.Rf3 Bxf5 27.gxf5 Nh4?
[So far black has defended against white's at-
tack skilfully. Now she allows white excellent
play. She could be on the winning road with:
27...Qc5! (threatening mate, supporting her
Rc6 rook and unpinning her Ng6) 28.Qd2 Ne7
29.f6 e4 30.Rf4 Ng6 31.Rf5 Rd8]
28.Qxc6 Nxf3 29.Qxd5 [With the capture
of this key central pawn, black's heart has
been wounded and her advantage almost
gone.]29...Nd4 30.f6 Qc7 [If 30...Qe6
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31.Qxe6 Nxe6 32.a3 bxa3 33.bxa3=]31.Qe4
Rc8 32.Rd2 Qc4 33.Ng3 b3? [Diagram
[This is based on a miscalculation. She
could still enjoy an advantage with: 33...a5
34.Rd1 Qe6 35.Ne2 Nxe2 36.Qxe2 Qxf6]34.
axb3 Nxb3 35.Rd7! [White does not have
to capture the black queen. Of course, if
35.Qxc4 Nxd2+ 36.Kc1 Nxc4]35...Qe6
[White gets a clear advantage after: 35...Nd4
36.Re7 h6 37.Rxe5]36.Qb7 Rf8 37.Qb4!
Re8 [If 37...Rg8 38.Rd6! and the Nb3 is
lost.]38.Rd6! Qg4 [The game ended in this
blunder after a tense battle. But black was
anyway lost, for if: 38...Qh3 39.Qxb3 Rf8
40.Qxf7!!+] 10
Rajdeep,Sarkar Mosadeghpour,
Masoud (Iran) [D02]
1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 g6 3.Nbd2 d5 4.e3 Bg7
5.b4 00 6.c4 a5 7.b5 dxc4 [Tejas Bakre
(2484) vs Ruslan Yandarbiev (2404) in Aer-
oflot Op, Moscow 2004 went: 7...c5 8.Bb2
Nbd7 9.Be2 a4 10.Rc1 cxd4 11.Bxd4 Re8
12.cxd5 Nxd5 13.Nc4 N7f6 14.00 Bd7
and 34 drawn.]8.Bxc4 a4 9.Ba3 Nbd7
10.00 Nb6 11.Bd3 Bd7 12.Qc2 [White
has been developing his pieces logically,
without any turbulance. He controls great-
er board space.]12...Nfd5 13.Rfc1 Rc8
14.Qb2! [As a matter of abundant caution,
white moves his queen away from the c-file

where black has just posted his rook.]14...
c6 15.Rc5 cxb5 16.Bxb5 Bxb5 17.Qxb5
Rxc5 18.Bxc5
White threatens 19 e4 undermining the
Nb6.]18...Qe8 19.Rb1! [The pressure that
white brings along the b-file, especially on
the knight on b6 and the b7pawn below it,
is turning the game in white's favour.]19...
Nd7 20.Qc4! [White cannot win a pawn with:
20.Qxb7? Nc3 21.Rb4 Nxc5 22.dxc5
Nxa2 23.Rc4 Qa8 24.c6 Nc3]20...Nxc5
21.Qxd5! Ne6 22.Qxb7+ Qc8? [Having lost
a pawn and still in a hopeless position, black
boldly tosses a second pawn in the hope
of getting some counter-play!]23.Qxc8?!
[White declines the second pawn as he looks
for a safe, tension free victory. He could cap-
ture the second pawn without giving black
any counter-play: 23.Qxe7! Qc2 24.a3 Rc8
25.Rb7 black has nothing to show for being
two pawns down.]23...Rxc8 24.Rb4!
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After winning a pawn and exchanging off
queens, white does not go easy on his op-
ponent. Now the pressure is on the a4
pawn.]24...Ra8 25.Nc4 Nc7 26.Nb6 Rb8
27.a3! e6 28.Nxa4 Ra8 [Thus, black gets
back one of his two pawns, but it leads
to other advantages for white.]29.Nc5
[This gives back the second pawn with-
out a fight. But it is stronger than 29.g4
Nd5 30.Rc4 Bf8 31.g5 Kg7 and black is
ready to capture a3.]29...Rxa3 30.Rb8+
Bf8 31.g3 Ra8 32.Rb7! [White is aware
that an extra pawn in an ending is not
always a winning advantage and plays
for more complications and an easier win.
He has f7 as a potential target.]32...
Rc8 [32...Na6 would lead to a much
worse game: 33.Ne4! Bg7 34.Nfg5 f5
35.Nxe6 Bxd4 36.N4g5!+ Black's po-
sition is in ruins.]33.Ne5 Bxc5 34.dxc5
Nd5 35.e4 [35.c6 also wins: 35...f6
36.Nd7 Rxc6 37.e4 Ne7 38.Nxf6+ Kg7
39.Nxh7!+]35...Nc3 36.c6 Nxe4 37.c7
Nd6 38.Rb6! Nf5 39.Rb8 Ne7 [39...
Nd6?? 40.Nc4!+]
40.Nc6! Kg7 [Black escapes the pin
along the first rank by sacrificing his
knight.]41.Nxe7 Rxc7 42.Nc8 Kf6?!
[Diagram # Black has a pawn for white's
knight. His strategy to draw would be to
exchange off his four pawns for white's
three pawns so that the resultant R+N
versus R endgame is drawn. One idea
would be to leave the king on g7 in the
middle of his pawns, keep his rook along
the 2nd rank guarding f7 and maybe move
only one pawn, his g pawn to g5 and wait
for the white pawns' assault. Here, the
Iranian plays 'actively' and makes white's
task easier. White's winning strategy would
be to chip away at the black position with
mating threats whenever possible and col-
lecting pawns.]
Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron
43.Nd6! Ke5? [43...Ke7 or ...Ra7 would not
lose so quickly.]44.Ne8! [An excellent move
preventing the black king from getting back
into g7. Now he threatens 45 Rb5+ driving
the king further into the middle of the
board.]44...Rc5? [This natural move to
guard against Rc5+ is unsound and loses
a pawn. Best was to keep his rook along
the second rank, guarding his f7 pawn.
44...Ra7]45.f4+ Ke4? [A more stubborn
move which would also lose is: 45...Kd4
46.Nf6 h6 47.Rd8+ (White could also
win with 47.Rb7 and 47 Rb4+. Check
this out yourself and be personally ben-
efited!) 47...Ke3 48.Ng4+ Ke4 (if 48...
Kf3 49.Ne5+ Ke3 50.Nxf7 Rc1+ 51.Kg2
Rc2+ 52.Kh3) 49.Nxh6 Kf3 50.Rd3+ Ke2
51.Rb3+]46.Nf6+ Kf5 47.Nxh7 Kg4
48.Nf6+ Kf5 [After 48...Kf3 49.Rb3+
Ke2 50.Kg2 white's win is certain.]49.
Nd7 Rd5 50.Ne5 g5! [Black is doing his
best to complicate the gameand survive.]
[If 50...f6 51.Nf3 Ke4 52.Kf2 Ra5 53.g4!?
(a concealed, natural trap!) 53...Ra2+
(53...Kxf4?? 54.Rb4#) 54.Kg3 and white
should win easily.]51.Nxf7 gxf4 5f4 Kxf4
53.Rb4+! Kf3 54.Rb3+ Kf4 55.Rg3
e5 56.Ng5 Rd1+ [If 56...e4 57.Nh3+
Ke5 58.Rg5+ Kd4 59.Rxd5+ Kxd5 and
white wins comfortably.]57.Kg2 Rd2+
58.Kh3 e4 59.Ne6+ Ke5 60.Nc5 Kf4
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61.Ne6+ [61.Rg8 e3 62.Rf8+ Ke5 63.Re8+
Kf4 64.Ne6+ Kf3 65.Rf8+ Ke4 66.Kg3 e2
67.Ng5+ Kd3 68.Nf3+]61...Ke5 62.Nf8
Kd4 63.Ng6 e3 64.Rg4+! Kc3 65.Re4
[Remember that a rook always belongs be-
hind the passed pawn.]65...Kd3 66.Re8 Rf2
67.Kg3 Rf1 68.Ne5+ Ke2 69.Ng4 Rg1+
70.Kf4 Rf1+ 71.Kg5 [White's h pawn is
ready to role. He plans to sacrifice his knight
for the e3 pawn.]10
Selected game from National Women Team
Championships, Bubaneshwar
Annotated by IN Manuel Aaron
Aparajita,Gochhikar (1769)
Srija,Seshadri (2145) [A00]
( Position after 27..... Bb8)
28.Bb3? [White misses the winning var-
iation: 28.Be4! Be5 29.Bxb7 Nc5 (29...
Bxc3 30.Bf3! and black cannot stop b6-b7-
b8=Q.) 30.Bc6 Nxd7 31.b7 Kf8 32.Rxd7
Rxd7 33.Bxd7 Ke7 34.Bc6 Kd8 35.Bd5
Kc7 36.c4 Though there are opposite
colour bishop endings on the board, the
black king is tied to the defence of the b8
square while the white king can move up
and attack the black pawns. at will.] 28...
Kg7 29.Rd5 Rc8 30.c4 Re8 [Now black
is threatening 31....Nc5 and mate by 32
Re1# If 30...Rd8 31.Bd1 Rc8 32.Kf1+- The
;black rook must stay on the first rank,

guarding his jailed bishoip.] 31.Kf1 f3
[Black's biggest problem is that her bishop
is confined to b8 and cannot move to any
square without being captured. If 31...g4
32.Bd1! g3 33.h4! Rc8 (33...Nf8 34.Nc5
Be5 35.Bf3 Bc3 36.Ne4 Bb4 37.fxg3
fxg3 38.Nxg3 Re6 39.Rb5 Nd7 40.Bg4!
Re1+ 41.Kf2 Ne5 42.Bf5 Nxc4 43.Rxb4!)
34.Be2 Nd8 35.Rxa5 Bd6 36.Ra7 Bb4
37.a5 Nc6 38.a6?! Nxa7 (38...bxa6
39.Rc7!) 39.bxa7 bxa6 40.Nb6+] 32.g3
g4 33.Nxb8? [With this hasty move, white
converts her position from a winning one
to an advantageous one. White inexplica-
bly trades her dominating knight for the
caged bishop to enable black to heave
many sighs of relief. Better was: 33.Bc2
Rc8 34.Bd3 Ng5 35.Rd4 Rd8 36.Bf5 h5
37.Rd5 Ne6 38.h3 with a near winning
advantage.] 33...Rxb8 34.Rxa5 Nd4 #
White has won a pawn. But the black rook
no longer has to support a pickled bishop on
b8 and her knight is skipping around with a
song in its heart. One can sense the tide is
turning. 35.Ba2? [35.Bd1 Rc8 36.Ke1 Rc6
(36...Rxc4 37.Ra7 Ne6 38.Rxb7) 37.Rd5
Rxc4 38.Rd7 Nc2+ 39.Kd2 Rd4+ 40.Rxd4
Nxd4] 35...Re8! 36.Rd5 Nc2 37.Rd1
Nb4 38.Bb3? [This gives opportunities for
black to survive and even seize the advan-
tage. A complicated and instructive varia-
tion leading to a draw would be: 38.Bb1 h5
39.Rd7 Re2! 40.Rxb7 (40.a5 Rb2 41.Be4
Na6! 42.Rxb7 Ra2 43.Ke1 Re2+ 44.Kd1
Rxe4 45.Ra7 Nc5 46.b7 Rd4+ 47.Ke1 Rd8
48.a6 Nd3+ 49.Kd2 Nxf2+ 50.Kc2 Ne4
51.Ra8 Rd2+ 52.Kb3 f2! 53.b8Q (Not
53.Rg8+? Kf6 54.b8Q f1Q+) 53...Nc5+
54.Ka3 Rd3+ 55.Ka2 Rd2+ 56.Ka3 Rd3+
draw by repetition.) 40...Rb2 41.Bf5
Kf6! 42.Bh7 Kg7! draw by repetition.
For if 43.Be4 Ra2 44.Ke1 Re2+ 45.Kd1
Rxe4 46.Rd7 Rxc4 47.b7 Na6=] 38...Re2
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39.a5 [White is concerned about ...Rb2,
eating the bishop alive. So she provides
an escape square for her bishop at a4. If
39.Rd4 h5 40.c5 Rb2 41.Bd1 Rb1 42.h3
Kf6 43.hxg4 hxg4 44.Kg1 Ke5 45.Rd2]
39...Rb2 40.Ba4 Ra2 41.Bb3?
[This is too, too passive and loses. Better
was to try to shatter black's pawn phalanx
which is keeping her king a prisoner on
the first rank with: 41.Bd7 Nd3! (41...
h5 42.Bf5! Rxa5 43.Be4 and the ending
is well balanced.) 42.Bxg4 Rxf2+ (42...
Nxf2 43.Rd4 Nxg4 44.Rxg4+) 43.Kg1
Rg2+ 44.Kf1 Rf2+ perpetual check
draw.] 41...Ra3 42.Rb1 Rxa5 Thus
black has got back her lost pawn and
is keeping the upper hand in this end-
ing. 43.Bd1 Nc6 44.Rb5? [This makes
black's task easier. Stronger resistance,
though futile, was offered by: 44.h3 f5
45.Ke1 Ne5 46.hxg4 fxg4 47.Bb3 Nd3+
48.Kf1 Nc5 49.Bc2 Ra2 50.Bf5 h5 51.Ke1
Kf6 52.Rb5 (52.Bh7 Ra4 53.Bg8 Ne4
54.Bd5 Nc3 55.Rc1 Nxd5 56.cxd5 Ke5
57.Rc7 Ra1+ 58.Kd2 h4!+) 52...Kxf5
53.Rxc5+ Ke4 54.Rxh5 Re2+ 55.Kd1
(55.Kf1 Rb2+) 55...Rxf2 56.Rh7 Rf1+
57.Kd2 Rg1!+] 44...Ra1 45.Ke1 Rc1
46.c5 Nd4 47.Kd2?? [If 47.Ra5 Ne6]
47...Rxd1+ 01
 Tactics from master games
by S.Krishnan

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

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

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

(solutions on p. 47 )

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 Test your endgame
by C.G.S.Narayanan

Gurgenidze& Neidze 1973 Bondarenko&Kuznecov1973

1. 2.

Dr.Jindrich Fritz 1973 C.M.Bent 1973

3. 4.

Gurgenidze 1971 Neidze 1973

5. 6.

White to play and win in all the six endings above

(Solution on page )
(Solutions on page 47)

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Masters of the past-65 Hermann Pilnik

Hermann Pilnik (8 January 1914, Stuttgart, Germany 12

November 1981, Caracas, Venezuela) was a German Argen-
tine chess Grandmaster. In 1929, he won the championship
of Stuttgart. Pilnik emigrated from Germany to Argentina in
1930. He first drew attention when he came in third (behind
Alekhine and Najdorf) in a speed tournament in Buenos
Aires in 1939. And, in the intervening years he improved
greatly so that by the mid-1950s he was one of the ranking
players in the world as evidenced by his qualifying for the
Candidates Tournament in 1956.

He won the Argentine Championships in 1942, 1945 and 1958. Pilnik began his inter-
national career in 1942, when he tied for 10-11th in New York, and tied for 2nd-3rd
in Mar del Plata. In 1944, he tied for 1st with Miguel Najdorf in Mar del Plata. In July/
August 1945, he took 3rd at the Hollywood Pan-American Tournament in Los Angeles.
The event was won by Samuel Reshevsky. In 1951, he won in Beverwijk. In 1951/52,
he won in Vienna. In 1952, he won in Belgrade. In 1954, he won in Stuttgart.

He played for Argentina in five Chess Olympiads. In 1950, he won individual gold medal
playing at first reserve board (+6 1 =3) and team silver medal at the 9th Chess Ol-
ympiad in Dubrovnik. In 1952, he won team silver medal playing at fourth board (+6
1 =7) at the 10th Chess Olympiad in Helsinki. In 1954, he won team silver medal
playing at fourth board (+3 2 =2) at the 11th Chess Olympiad in Amsterdam. In
1956, he played at fourth board (+7 3 =3) at the 12th Chess Olympiad in Moscow.
In 1958, he won team bronze medal playing at first board (+5 2 =8) at the 13th
Chess Olympiad in Munich.

He was awarded the IM title in 1950 and the GM title in 1952.

Pilnik finished 10th (last place) at the Candidates Tournament at Amsterdam 1956 where
he scored +1 -9 =8. His lone win was against Szabo who tied for third and he scored
a draw and a loss against all the other players. The tournament was won by Smyslov.

Chessmetrics assigned him his highest rating of 2670 in 1945. After FIDE ratings began
to be published, Pilnik's rating hovered around the mid-2400s which put him about a
hundred points below the world's best in those days.
Pilnik eventually moved to Venezuela where he taught chess at the Caracas Military
Academy. He passed away on November 12, 1981 at the age of 67 in Caracas.
Herman Pilnik - Miguel Najdorf [B15]
Mar del Plata Mar del Plata (13), 1942
1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 dxe4 4.Nxe4 Nf6 5.Nxf6+ exf6 6.c3 Bd6 7.Bd3 00 8.Qh5 g6
9.Qh4 c5 10.Ne2 Nc6 11.Bh6 f5 12.Bg5 Qb6 13.00 cxd4 14.cxd4 Re8 15.Bc4 h5
16.Rae1 Re4 17.Nf4 Qxd4 18.Rxe4 fxe4 19.Nxh5 gxh5 20.Bf6 Qc5 21.Rd1 Kf8 22.b4
Nxb4 23.Qg3 Bg4 24.Rxd6 Nd3 25.Bxd3 Qc1+ 26.Bf1 Rc8 27.h3 Qxf1+ 28.Kh2 Qc1
29.hxg4 hxg4 30.Qxg4 Qh6+ 31.Kg3 Rc3+ 32.f3 10
Courtesy: Wikipedia

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 Brilliant Trophy 1st Decade All India Fide Rated Open Tournament, Gulbarga

Rapid event
Brilliant Trophy 1st Decade All India FIDE
Rated Rapid Chess Tournament was
conducted from14th May-15th May 2016 at
Brilliant Grammar high school, Dilsukhnagar,
Hyderabad.

Open event
The event was inaugurated by Sri Kasireddy
Narayana Reddy, MLC & Correspondent - Brilliant
Grammar high schools. Sri A. Narasimha
Reddy, Vice-President All India Chess Federation
& President Telangana State Chess Association
presided over the function. Dr. K Kanna reddy,
secretary Hyderabad district chess association
also sen in the picture.

Closing cermony: Chief Guest Dr.K V

Ramanachari, IAS - Advisor - Culture,
Edowments, Tourism, Youth and Media
affairs - Telangana State Government gave
away the prizes, Sri Kasireddy Narayana
reddy, MLC & Correspondent - Brilliant
Grammar high schools presided over the
function. Dr. K Kanna reddy, secretary
Hyderabad district chess association also
sen in the picture. Matta Vinay kumar of
Andhra Bank (in the center) won the event,
S.V Srinatha rao of Maharastra (Left side)
got second place and V Varun of Hyderabad
(Right side) got third place.

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 12th Late Sou Meenatai Shirgaonkar Memorial International FIDE Rating Women's
Chess Tournament, Sangli

In photograph from Left to right: Mrs. Seema Kathmale, Mrs. Kanchan Pagay, Mrs. Laxmitai Shirgaokar, Mrs.
Hematai Chougule, Mrs. Shraddha Shirgaokar, Mrs. Smita Kelkar, Ms. Rucha Pujari (Champion receiving prize), Mr.
Chintamani Limaye, Mr. Chidambar Kotibhaskar and Shri Nitin Shenvi.

49th Late Shri Babukaka Shirgaokar Mem. FIDE Rating Tmt,Sangli

Champion Sameer Kathmale received trophy by the hands of Dr. Santosh Kakade, Dr. Prasad Kelkar, Dr. Kathmale.
From Left to Right: Mrs. Kathmale, Mr. Nitin Shenvi, Dr. Kathmale, Dr. Prasad Kelkar, Dr. Santosh Kakade, Dr. Ulhas
Mali, Mr. Chintamani Limaye and Mrs. Kelkar.
46

Solutions to Tactics from master games on
p. 42
1.Paveto,K-Lagar,Valentin Alejo
Mar del Plata ARG Mar del Plata ARG
White to play. 16.Bb5+! axb5 [16...Bc6
17.Bxc6+ Qxc6 18.exf6 fxe6 (18...cxb2+
19.Kb1+-) 19.Qxe6+ Kd8 20.fxg7+-; 16...
Qxb5 17.Nc7++-] 17.exf6 cxb2+ [17...
Rxa2 18.Nc5+ Be7 19.Qd7+ Kf8 20.fxe7+
Kg8 21.e8Q+ Wins; 17...Bc8 18.Nxf8+ Kxf8
19.fxg7+ Kxg7 20.Qxc3+ Kh7 (20...Kg8
21.Re8+) 21.Qf6 Ra7 22.Rxd6+-] 18.Kb1 fxe6
19.Qxe6+ [19.Qxe6+ Kd8 20.fxg7+-] 10
2.Movsesian,S-Saltaev,M
Bundesliga 201516 Muelheim GER
(14.7), 23.04.2016
White to play. 19.Rb8+! [19.Rb8+ Rxb8
(19...Kd7 20.Qb7#) 20.Qxb8+ Bxb8 (20...
Kd7 21.Qb7+ Ke8 22.Qc8#) 21.Rd8#] 10
3.Jorgensen,D-Andersen,So
Copenhagen CC 2016 Ballerup DEN
White to play. 25.Rxd6! [25.Bxf7 Qxf7 (25...
Bf8 26.Bxe8 Bxh6 27.f7+ Bg7 28.Bxg7+ Kxg7
29.Rd7 Qxd7 30.fxg8Q+ Kxg8 31.Bxd7+-)
26.Rxd6+- Also wins] 25...Qxd6 26.Qg7+
Rxg7 27.fxg7+ [27.fxg7+ Kg8 28.Bxf7#]
10
4.Piorun,K-Boensch,U
Bundesliga 201516 Dresden GER
White to play. 27.Bxb6! Rxb6 [27...Qb7
28.Na5! Qxb6 29.Bd5+ Be6 30.Bxe6+ Rxe6
31.Qf7+ Kh7 32.Rf3 g5 33.Qxe6 g4 34.Rf5
g6 35.Rf7+ Kh6 36.Qxg4+-; 27...Qxb6
28.Bd5+ Be6 29.Bxe6+ Rxe6 30.Qf7+ Kh7
31.Rf3+-] 28.Bd5+ Be6 29.Bxe6+ Rxe6
30.Qxf8+ Kh7 31.Rf7 10
5.Maiwald,JU-Mista,A
Bundesliga 201516 Dresden GER
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Black to play 30...Nf3+! [Also winning is
30...Rh1+ 31.Nxh1 Nf3+ 32.gxf3 (32.Kf1
Rxh1+ 33.Ke2 Rxe1+ 34.Kd3 Ne5+ 35.Kc2
Nxc6+) 32...Qh2+ 33.Kf1 gxf3 34.Ng3
Qh1+ 35.Nxh1 Rxh1#] 31.gxf3 [31.Kf1 Rh1+
32.Nxh1 (32.Ke2 Rxe1+ 33.Kd3 Rxe3++)
32...Rxh1++] 31...Rh1+ [31...Rh1+
32.Nxh1 (32.Kg2 R8h2#) 32...Qh2++] 01
6.Umarov,Rakhman - Kazhgaleyev,M
10th Agzamov Mem 2016 Tashkent
Black to play. 39...Rxf5! 40.exf5 [40.Qb3+
c4! 41.Qxc4+ (41.Qa4 Rf6 42.Qxa7+ Ke6+)
41...Ne6++] 40...Rxh3 [%csl Rg3][40...
Rxh3 41.Qg1 (41.Qxg5 Rh1+ 42.Kf2 Nh3+
+) 41...Rxa3 Black threatens 42... Ra1+.The
queen has no safe place to hide. 42.Kf2 (42.
Qf2 Ra1++) 42...Nh3++] 01
Solutions to Test your endgame on p.43
1.Guegenidze and Neidze 1973
1.Nc1+ Kc4 2.Na3+ Kc3 3.Rxa2 Ra4,Rd1
4.Rxa1 Kb2 5.Rb1+, Ra2+ KxN 6.Rb3, Rc2
wins
2.Bondarenko and Kuznecov 1972
1.Nb7 g1Q 2.Kxg1 Kg3 3.d8N h2+ 4.Kh1
Kg4 5.g6 Kh3 6.g7 h4 7.g8B wins
3.Dr.Jindrich Fritz 1973
1.Kd4 Nd2 2.Rd1 Nf3+ 3.Ke3 Kxg6 4.Bc2+
Kh5 5.Be4 Kg4 6.BxN BxB 7.Rg1+ wins
4.C.M.Bent 1973
1.Bf5 Bd8 2.Nd5+ Kf3 3.Nd4+ Kg3 4.Nc6
Nf7 5.Be6 Ng5 6.Bg8 wins
5.Gurgenidze 1973
1.Kf7 h2 2.g7 h1Q 3.g8N+ Kh5 4.Nf6+
Kh4 5.Be1+ Kh3 6.Nf4+ Kh2 7.Ng4+ Kg1
8.Bf2 mate
6. Neidze 1973
1.Qf2+ Ke6 2.Qxg2 Qe5+ 3.Kd3 Qxc5
4.Qg6+ Ke5 5.Qg5+ Kd6 6.Qf6# (4Ke7
5.Qg7+ Ke6 6.Bd7+ Kd6 7.Qf8+ Kd5 8.Qf5
Kd6 9.Qe6#
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AICF CHRONICLE
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JUNE 2016
 9th KIIT International Chess Festival 2016,Bubhanewar.

Prize winners-Premium group

Hatsun Idhayam 2nd SCS Fide Rated Chess Tournament,Sivakasi

Champion Saravana Krishnan: P Saravana Krishnan receives the winner's purse and trophy from Sri. VR Muthu,
CEO, Idhayam Group of Companies.
(L-R) IA V. VIjayaraghavan, Jt. Secretary, TNSCA, IA R. Anantharam, Chief Arbiter, C. Yogendran, President, SIPT
Polytechnic, A.Balasubramanian, former Correspondent, SIPT Polytechnic, TD Rajendran winner of five gold
medals in recent Asian Masters Athletic Championships in Singapore, IA M. Ephrame, Joint Secretary, TNSCA,
SMK Kumar, Secretary, SIvakasi Chess Sparklers, SR Rajan, President, VDCA and ACG Ganesh, Joint Secretary, SCS.

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 9th KIIT International Chess Festival 2016,Bubhanewar.

Prize winners-Elite Group

L-R(Popov Ivan(Rus)_2nd,Grachev Boris(Rus)_Champion,Rathanvel V S(TN)_3rd, Achyuta
Samanta,_KIIT President

Prize winners-Platinum group

(L-R) Subasis Barik(3rd), Sanjeeban Nayak(champion), Pranab Patra(2nd), Back Sekhar
Chandra Sahoo, President AOCA, Dr. Achyut Samanta, Founder KIIT & KiiS