AICF CHRONICLE

the official magazine of the All India Chess Federation

Volume : 10 Issue : 3 Price Rs. 25 October 2015

29th National U-13 Girls Chess Championship, Gurgaon

Priyanka Nuttaki
Andhra Prasdesh
Girls Champion
National Sub Junior 41st Chess Championship for boys & 32nd National Sub junior
chess championship for girls 2015, Jammu

Inian Aakanksha Hagwane

Tamilnadu Maharashtra
Boys Champion Girls Champion
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Inside….
National Sub Junior 41st Chess Championship for boys & 32nd
National Sub junior chess championship for girls 2015, Jammu
Inian and Aakanksha Hagwane are Champions
by IA Nitin Shenvi,Chief Arbiter 1
29th National U-13 Girls Chess Championship,Gurgaon
Priyanka Nuttaki wins title 7
1st International Open Rapid Chess Tournament,
Pondicherry
Laxman wins Rapid title
by IA Ganesh Babu S,Dy.Chief Arbiter 9
15th Adyar Times FIDE rated open chess Tournament,
Chennai….
Balasubramanian lifts Adyar Times trophy
by IA S.Paul Arokia Raj,Chief Arbiter 10
Late Shri Chandrakant Naik Memorial Rapid Fide Rating
chess Tournament 2015,Goa
Niraj Saripalli wins
by Promodraj Moree,Chief Arbiter 12
4th Keshabananda Das Memorial tournament,
Bubaneshwar...
Swapnil Dhopade is champion
by Suresh Chandra Sahoo, Chief Arbiter 14
RP Constructions All India Fide Rating Chess Tournament
,Vijayawada
Meher Chinna Reddy wins
by Venkata Kumar FA, Chief Arbiter 16
Saharanpur International FIDE Rating All India Open
Ty,Saharanpur
Lokesh wins at Saharanpur
by IA Dharmandra Kumar, Chief Arbiter 19
28th SPIC FIDE Rated Open Chess tournament,
Thoothukudi….
Manigandan wins title
by M.Ephrame IA,Chief Arbiter 22
Fomento All India Fide Rating Chess Tournament 2015, Goa…
Sameer Kathmale wins
FA Arvind Mhamal,Chief Arbiter 28
Selected games from National Women Challenger, Thane
Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron 30
Puzzle of the month by C.G.S.Narayanan 41
Tactics from master games
By S,Krishnan 42
Test your endgame
By C.G.S.Narayanan 43
Masters of the past
Robert Byrne 44
AICF Calendar 48
From the Editor’s desk
Sergey Karjakin, the young Ukranian
Grandmaster, has done justice to
his prodigious talent winning FIDE
World Cup 2015 at Baku beating
Peter Svidler in the final and qualified
for the Candidates to be held in
March 2016.Alexander Grischuk
won the World Blitz Championship and Magnus
Carlsen retained the World Rapid Championship
title he won last year at Dubai.
India’s No.2 Grandmaster Pentyala Harikrishna
continued his good form winning the Poker Stars
Isle of Man International Tournament on tie break.
Russia’s Mikhail Antipov and Nataliya Buksa of
Ukraine won the World Junior Championships
that concluded at Khanty-Mansiyst in Russia last
month. Indian success was not upto expectations
with IM G.Akash finishing 9th in the Open section
and J.Saranya 20th in the Girls section. India
hopefully can do better in the next edition to be
held at Bubaneshwar next year. Reports on these
international events are presented in the centre
pages of this issue.
Due to space constraints, detailed report on
Indian success at the Asian Youth Chess held at
South Korea is held back for the next issue. On
the home front, Senior Arbiter Examination held
early this month at Thoothukudi, Tamilnadu was an
overwhelming success with nearly 120 participants.
Reports on two National events-National Under-17
and National Under-13 Champion ships along with
those FIDE rated tournaments conducted last month
are presented in this issue.IM Manuel annotates
selected games from National Women Challenger
held at Thane. American Grandmaster Robert Byrne
is featured in the ‘Masters of the past series’.
C.G.S.Narayanan
National Sub Junior 41st Chess Championship for boys & 32nd National Sub junior chess
championship for girls 2015, Jammu
Inian and Aakanksha Hagwane are Champions
by IA Nitin Shenvi,Chief Arbiter
Jammu District Chess Association conducted
the 41st National Sub-Junior Open & 32nd
National Sub-Junior Girls Chess Champi-
onship – 2015 at Jalsa Retreat, Domana
(Akhnoor Road), Jammu, which is one of
the superb well furnished air conditioned
party halls, very good seating arrangement
for parents along with lawns surrounded by
greenery. The table height and width was as
per FIDE standards with ample space for each
participant. The good quality chairs were
provided for all participants and parents. The
flooring was covered with Kashmiri carpet
also called “gaaliccha”.
This event was organized by prominent chess
players and key personalities conducting
many chess related activities in the Jammu
and Kashmir State viz. Shri Atul K Gupta,
AICF Joint Secretary and J&K State President,
Shri Taran Vir Singh Vice-President J&K, Shri
Vikas Nanda Co-ordinator, accompanied by
other chess players like, Shri Ashiq Ahmed
Gen Secretary J&K, Dr. A. S. Bhatia Advisor
J&K, etc. The tournament was played from
21st September to 29th September 2015
and conducted in the Swiss League format,
comprising 11 rounds, with two rounds two
days else one round. The time control for the
game was 90 minutes to each player with
an increment of 30 seconds per move from
first move.
Shri Chander Prakash Ganga honourable
cabinet minister J&K state was chief guest
of Inaugural function. Shri Sanjeev Sharma
OSD of Dr. Jitender Singh MOS PMO was
special guest in the opening function along
with all official bearers of J&K and Jammu
district chess association were present for
inaugural function. Chander Prakash Ganga
congratulated all J&K chess association for
conducting this prestigious national event
in J & K.
In this event total 23 states took part namely
J & K (Host), Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Hary-
ana, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, Madhya Pradesh,
Rajasthan, Gujrat, Chandigarh, Chhattisgarh,
Jharkhand, West Bengal, Goa, Karnataka,
Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Odisha, Bihar, Telangana,
Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, and Assam. In
the open section 107 players out of which 81
were rated having rating average 1724 and
the girls’ championship had 77 entries out of
which 58 were rated having rating average
1577, with players coming from nearly all
parts of India. The open championship was
being led by 6 FMs & 3 CMs including twen-
ty-two players above 2000 ELO rating. The
sub-junior girls event had one WIM, 5 WFMs
and 2 WCMs including eleven participants
above 1900 ELO points. This field and the
importance of the event itself (as the winners
would qualify for the World and Asian Cup)
was bound to ensure the best battles on the
board. Iniyan P of Tamil Nadu, with a rating
of 2299 and Vaishali R also from Tamil Nadu
with ELO point 2314 were the top seeds in
the open and girls categories respectively.
In the penultimate round Priyanka Nutakki
defeated Vaishali R became sole leader in girl
section with 8 points followed by Vaishali R,
Aakanksha Hagawane, & Priyanka K with 7½
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points. In open group on second board Kumar
Gaurav drew with one of the overnight leader
Mitrabha Guha and on first board Aradhya
Garg lost with Iniyan P. This resulted in sole
leader for open group none other than Iniyan
P with 8 ½ points followed by Mitrabha Guha
with 8 points.
In final round in the Open category,
Hirthickkesh Pr played against Rajdeep
Sarkar on first board which ended in draw,
while Raja Harshit played against Bharambe
Bhavik C (Mah) on second board and in cru-
cial position, Harshit managed a draw. With
one round to spare, WFM Vaishali R had
made a lead of one point on other competi-
tors and in one way playing for second time
in Jamshedpur retained the title (last time
Champion in Nat U11 Chess Championship,
Jamshedpur) by beating Pandey Shrishti Mah
even though the latter tried to win against her
but her efforts stood less against Vaishali’s
chess experience and expertise. With Con-
tinuous efforts from beginning of this event
Vantika Agrawal won against Ghosh Samrid-
dhaa & managed to become runner-up. In
Open section, Iniyan P proved his seeding by
winning the event followed by Raja Harshit.
Chief guest for PD function was Mr. Abdul
Qayoom (Chief sports officer J&K), while
guest of honour Ranjeet Kalra (Member
BCCI), Javaid Ahmed Shah (Secretary J&K
Sports Council) and Shiv Kumar Sharma
(Joint Secretary J&K Sports council), In prize
distribution function along with above guest
Chief Arbiter Nitin Shenvi, Ashiq Ahmed (Gen
Secy. AJKCA), Mr. Vikas Nanda (coordinator
AJKCA), Atul Kumar (President AJKCA and
Joint Secy. AICF) Raj Kumar (President Kisht-
war distt. chess association), Rajan Sharma
(Div.Sports officer Jammu), Taranvir singh
(Vice President AJKCA) and Dr.A.S.Bhatia
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(Advisor to Organizing commiittee) were
present on dais. Both champions received
Rs. Twenty two thousand and the runners
up Rs. Sixteen thousand each by the hands
of Chief Guest.
The tournament was completed in peaceful
manner and no appeals arose. The Appeals
Committee members consisting of Ms. Varsha
Rani of Jammu & Kashmir, Adv. Thorat of Goa,
Mr. Akhilan of Tamil Nadu, Mr. Pradeep Kumar
of Punjab and Mr. Mahindrikar Ravindra of
Maharashtra as the main members and Mr.
Ajay Agarwal of Delhi & Mr. Satya Prakash of
Haryana as reserve members.
The championship was a real boon for many
players, as many of them gained considerable
ELO rating of 100 or above. Special mention
has to be made of Katlamudi Vinita (TELG) &
Bristy Mukherjee (WB) increased their rating
by 142 and 128 points respectively. Whereas,
Subhash K V (AP) had the distinction of up-
dating his rating by 211 points, a wonderful
achievement indeed. Ithal H L Rajath (KAR)
with 115 points, Mahitosh Dey (ODI) with
106 points & Satabdajit S Baruah (ASSM)
with 102 points.In open section out of 25
unrated participants, 15 participants became
rated players & in the Girl section out of 16
unrated, 5 participants became rated players.
Final ranking: Open
Rk Name Club Pts
1 Iniyan P TN 9
2 Mitrabha Guha FM WB 8½
3 Raghunandan K S FM KAR 8½
4 Nitish Belurkar CM GOA 8½
5 Jayakumaar S TN 8
6 Aradhya Garg DEL 8
7 Srijit Paul WB 8
8 Rathanvel V S CM TN 7½
9 Rakesh Kumar Jena FM ODI 7½
Condt. on page 5
Know your Arbiter V.Kameswaran
Venkatachalam Kameswaran was born on 8th October 1943 at Chennai,Tamil
nadu,.He is a retired Income tax Officer and also served as Sports officer
in that Department.
He underwent an orientation course in coaching at NIS, Patiala. He was
Chief Coach of the Children’s Club Society Mylapore, Chennai fom the year
1991 year onwards training young children below 16 years. Now monitor-
ing “Kameswaran Chess Academy” besides being chief coach of the GSS
Jain Vidyalaya, Vepery.
As Arbiter:
Represented India in the First Asian Technical Chess Conference at Manila, Philippines,1979.
He became International Arbiter in 1980.
He seved as Arbiter in-
World Juniors, Calicut, 1998.
Asian Zonal, Chennai, 1995.
Pentamedia GM, Chennai.
Chess Olympiad, Bled Slovenia, Oct 2002.
Asian Chess (Indl), Cebu,Philippines, 2007.
He was Deputy Chief Arbiter at the World Candidates between Viswanathan Anand (India) Vs
Alexi Dreev (Russia) Chennai,1991.
He was Chief Arbiter
Grandmasters, Tiruchy (BHEL), 1979.
Asian Juniors, Sivakasi, 1980.
International Rating , Coimbatore, 1983.
International Rating , Hyderabad, 1997.
Natl Women “A”, Bangalore, 2005.
FIDE Rated Guruswamy Memorial Palani for more than 15 times.
44th National-B, Ahmedabad , 2006.
World chess Championship for the Blind , Goa, 2006 (latest).
National’A’ for the Blind, Mount Abu, 2008.
Conducted All India Technical Chess Conferences and National Level Arbiters’ Examinations:-.
Bangalore(twice) , Nagpur, Calicut (twice), Kottayam, Sangli, Chennai (Six times), Sivakasi,
(twice).Selected as Chairman, AICF Arbiters’ Council, 1997-2000, 2001-2004, 2005-08.
As a player he has represented Tamilnadu in the National B Championships nine times between
1966 and 1986. He has represented Central Revenue Sports Board and also represented Central
Services Regional Sports Board several times in the All India Civil Services Chess Tournament.
Organized CRSB National Institutional Team Chess Championship at Chennai for eleven years in
succession from 1990 to 2000. At the administrator level he held various posts in the Madras
District Chess Asociation and Tamilnadu State Chess Association.
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Smt. Tara Devi Bagla Memoiral Open FIDE Rated Tournament, New Delhi
Winner T Purushothaman receiving
Winners trophy from IM Atanu Lahiri
in presence of Shri OP Bagla and
Shri. Rajendra Gupta, Social Activists
Runner-up Matta Vinay Kumar
receiving trophy from IM Atanu Lahiri
in presence of Shri OP Bagla and Shri.
Rajendra Gupta, Social Activists
Late Chandrakant Naik Memorial Rapid FIDE Rated Tournament,Goa
Winner Niraj Saripalli receives the
trophy from Subash Faldesai,MLA,
Sanguem Constituency.Also seen are
Kishor Bandekar,Secretary,GCA(on
the left) Ramdas Sawant, Treasurer
GCA and Smt.Meera Naik (partly
seen)
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10 Kumar Gaurav BIH 7½
11 Barath Kalyan M TN 7½
12 Praggnanandhaa R FM TN 7½
13 Hirthickkesh Pr TN 7½
14 Sankalp Gupta MAH 7½
15 Rajdeep Sarkar FM WB 7
16 Harikrishnan.A.Ra TN 7
17 Devansh Ratti MAH 7
18 Aansh Gupta DEL 7
19 Sharang Sanjeev Kapoor CM GUJ 7
20 Mahindrakar Indrajeet MAH 7
21 Saksham Rautela UTT 7
22 Grahesh Y AP 7
23 Neelash Saha WB 6½
24 Anand Nadar FM MAH 6½
25 Saurabh Anand BIH 6½
26 Vijay Shreeram P TN 6½
27 Madkaikar Gaurav S GOA 6½
28 Elancheralathan P TN 6½
29 Raahul V S TN 6½
30 Vardan Nagpal DEL 6½
31 Adhithya S TN 6½
32 Shrutarshi Ray WB 6½
33 Ayush Bhai Mehta MP 6½
34 Singh Nishit MAH 6½
35 Vatsal Singhania JHA 6
36 Rounak Pathak WB 6
37 Manu David Suthandram R TN 6
38 Reetish Padhi KAR 6
39 Sparsh Khandelwal CHT 6
40 Kakkad Jeet GUJ 6
41 Arjun Singh Puri HAR 6
42 Dubey Sanchay UP 6
43 Sai Raj Gopal K AP 6
44 Uttam Prakash Sharma HAR 6
45 Dhananjay CHT 5½
46 Sharma Vivek BIH 5½
47 Saikat Bose WB 5½
48 Soham Kamotra J&K 5½
49 Karan J P KER 5½
50 Subhash K V AP 5½
51 Ranadheer B J S K AP 5½
52 Pavan Teja Medam TEL 5½
53 Sambarta Banerjee WB 5½
54 Jatin S N KAR 5½
55 Jyotirmay Singh PUN 5½
56 Milind Gauns GOA 5½
57 Sankalp Arora UP 5½
58 Sharma Suyash MP 5½
59 Bipra Nath WB 5½
60 Sahoo Sangram Keshari ODI 5½
61 Madhavan G GOA 5½
62 Sadhu S Adithya TN 5
63 Jyothir R KER 5
64 Anshul Mehta PUN 5
65 Bhawesh Pandiyar RAJ 5
66 Prateek Atluri TEL 5
67 Yaksh Chopra J&K 5
68 Nabayan Das ASM 5
69 Ishaan Singh Mendiratta CHD 5
70 Imtiaz Ahmad Shah J&K 5
71 Mehta Jwalin GUJ 4½
72 Ishan Gupta JHA 4½
73 Lakshit Rana HP 4½
74 Meghanshram B V TEL 4½
75 Vinayak Thevar GOA 4½
76 Raghav Bhalla PUN 4½
77 Aakashdeep Singh J&K 4½
78 Mukherjee Sanchit JHA 4½
79 Rachit kansal PUN 4½
80 Babel Harshit RAJ 4½
81 Sharma Vedanta RAJ 4½
82 Singh Angad J&K 4½
83 Akash Pritam BIH 4½
84 Jatin Sharma HP 4
85 Sonawane Harsh GOA 4
86 Ritik kansal PUN 4
87 Gujral Jaiveer Singh J&K 4
88 Vansh Mahajan J&K 4
89 Sadbhav Rautela UTT 4
90 Aditya Sood HP 4
91 Jain Divay J&K 4
92 Harshit Gupta J&K 3½
93 Yadav Saksham HP 3½
94 Gupta Divyam J&K 3½
95 Jain Daksh RAJ 3½
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96 Manik Shah J&K 3½
97 Mehta Naitik R GUJ 3
98 Ayush Gupta J&K 3
99 Superb Jain J&K 3
100 Ritvik Nanda J&K 2½
101 Aryan Nanda J&K 2½
102 Bhanu Pratap Sharma J&K 2½
103 Varshil Yagnik GUJ 1½
104 Faizan Shabir J&K 1½
105 Hardik Pajiala HP 1
106 Wani Zaid Hilai J&K 1
107 Syed Rozal Sajjad J&K 1
Final standings:Girls
1 Aakanksha Hagawane MAH 8½
2 Vaishali R WFM TN 8½
3 Priyanka K TN 8½
4 Ghosh Samriddhaa WB 8
5 Priyanka Nutakki AP 8
6 Vantika Agrawal DEL 8
7 Chitlange Sakshi WIM MAH 7½
8 Ananya Suresh WCM KAR 7½
9 Tejaswini Sagar WFM GUJ 7½
10 Pandey Srishti MAH 7
11 Arpita Mukherjee WFM WB 7
12 Harshita Guddanti AP 7
13 Sunyuktha C M N TN 7
14 Sneha G P S TN 7
15 Bhanot Stuti HAR 6½
16 Isha Sharma WCM KAR 6½
17 Harshini A TN 6½
18 Makhija Aashna MAH 6½
19 Hilmi Parveen WFM KER 6½
20 Prabhugaonkar A Aman GOA 6½
21 Abirama Srinithi G TN 6½
22 Surana Khushi Shailendra MAH 6½
23 Jasper Jothi P TN 6½
24 Srimathi R TN 6½
25 B Mounika Akshaya WFM AP 6½
26 Rathi Dhanashree MAH 6½
27 Toshali V AP 6
28 Neela S TN 6
29 Garima Gaurav BIH 6
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30 Meenal Gupta J&K 6
31 Archi Agrawal DEL 6
32 Pousumi Maity WB 6
33 Shanya Mishra UP 6
34 Megha Mondal WB 5½
35 Kavisha S Shah GUJ 5½
36 Bidisha Roy JHAR 5½
37 Thorat Aishwarya GOA 5½
38 Sudipa Haldar WB 5½
39 Arushi Kotwal J&K 5½
40 Tishrota Chakraborty WB 5½
41 Mudaliar Nandini GUJ 5½
42 Nivetta T TN 5½
43 Jinal Yagnik GUJ 5½
44 Tanya Pandey MAH 5
45 Anannya Menkudle MAH 5
46 Nizami Sada BIH 5
47 Palorkar Riddhi MAH 5
48 Akshatha Raju KAR 5
49 Arushi Gupta PUN 5
50 Meenakshi Mehra PUN 5
51 Gaayathri S GOA 5
52 Lavanya Jain PUN 5
53 Sagar Siya GUJ 5
54 Sarah Gayle Fernandes GOA 4½
55 Pranjali Sharma HP 4½
56 Laasya Priya P TEL 4½
57 Arya Usha BIH 4
58 Avni Gupta J&K 4
59 Gujja Dheekshitha TELG 4
60 Chahat HP 4
61 Sushma Reddy B TELG 4
62 Jasleen Kaur CHAN 4
63 Abha Kumari BIH 4
64 Sanjukta S Sobani J&K 4
65 Priyanka Sharma J&K 4
66 Savi Julka PUN 3½
67 Shriya Singh HP 3½
68 Aastha Verma HP 3
69 Gujja Vaishnavi TELG 3
70 Mehroz Sajjad J&K 2½
29th National U-13 Girls Chess Championship,Gurgaon
Priyanka Nuttaki wins title
29th National U-13 Open & Girls Chess
Championship started on 30th August 2015
and concluded on 7th Sep 2015 at the mul-
tipurpose hall Govt Girls College Near sec 14
Mehrauli road, Gurgaon, Haryana.
Dr Rakesh Gupta IAS Additional Principle
Secretary to CM Haryana inaugurated the
championships in presence of Shri T L Sathy-
aprakash IAS DC Gurgaon, Shri Vinay Prat-
hap Singh IAS ADC Gurgaon, Sri Anil Kumar
Parnami President DCA Gurgaon, Shri Raju
verma President HCA, Mr Naresh Sharma
welcomed the gathering followed by dinner
for all the guests.
The tournament was played by around 290
players from all over the country. The 9 day,
11 rounds event is a qualifier for the World
& Asian Chess Championships. The event
carried a prize fund of Rs.1,75,000/- and
the winner of each section got Rs.87,500/-
among the top 18 prizes.
Defending under-13 Champion Iniyan P of
TN led the pack with an ELO of 2214 fol-
lowed by Saurabh Anand of BIH with an ELO
of 2156. In the corresponding girls section
former Under 10 World Champion Priyanak
Nuttakki of AP gets the top billing with an
ELO of 2073. Out of 193 participants in the
open section 139 are internationally rated
among them three were CM Title holders
and 105 participants in the girls section, 74
are internationally rated including 3WFM
and WCM.
In the girls section Priyankka Nuttaki of AP
was all the way leading throughout and went
undefeated to clinch the title with 10 points
conceding only 2 draws. Mishra Anwesha
of ODI and Vantika Agarwal of DEL socred
9points on tie break secured 2and 3rd place
respectively.
The prize distribution function was graced
by Chief Guest Mr. T.L.Satyaprakash, IAS,
Deputy Commissioner, on last day Deputy
Commissioner of Gurgaon arranged a nice
lunch for players and parents
Guests of Honor were Col. D.K.Segan., Mr.
Sharad Goel, Mr. Pradeep Gupta, Mr. Raju
Verma, Mr. Anil Parnami, Mr. Naresh Sharma,
Mr. Rajpal Chauhan, Mr. Sanjay Sharma, Mr.
Kalyan Singh
Final standings:Under-13 Girls
Rk Name Club Pts
1 Priyanka Nutakki AP 10
2 Mishra Anwesha ODI 9
3 Vantika Agrawal DEL 9
4 Bommini MAkshaya WFM AP 8
5 Sanskriti Goyal UP 8
6 Lakshmi C WFM TN 7½
7 Salonika Saina WCM ODI 7½
8 Shah Rutvi GUJ 7½
9 Srimathi R TN 7½
10 Meenal Gupta J&K 7½
11 Sudipa Haldar WB 7
12 Tanya Pandey MAH 7
13 Khandelwal Khushi MAH 7
14 Makhija Aashna MAH 7
15 Pracheta Agarwal JHA 7
16 Rajashree Rajeev KER 7
17 Riddhi Zantye Goa 7
18 Ghosh Samriddhaa WB 7
19 Manya Bagla DEL 7
20 Kaur Palkin DEL 7
21 Mishra Anisha ODI 7
22 Iyengar Sharanya WCM KAR 7
23 Jishitha D AP 7
24 Jain Nityata MP 7
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25 Tejasvi M TN 6½
26 Pagay Shalaka MAH 6½
27 Chinnam Vyshnavi WCM AP 6½
28 Prachi Bharti KAR 6½
29 Rakshitta Ravi TN 6½
30 Sahithya G TEL 6½
31 Shyamashree Sarkar WB 6
32 Shreya S Mohanty WCM ODI 6
33 Parakh Niyati CHT 6
34 Tanishka Kotia WCM HAR 6
35 Chetana D TEL 6
36 Indulekha K S TN 6
37 Alekhya B AP 6
38 M Padma Pratibha TN 6
39 Kritika Pal DEL 6
40 Arputha Jasmine B A TN 6
41 Anannya Menkudle MAH 6
42 Yuti Mayur Patel MAH 6
43 Diya Chowdhury WB 6
44 Diya James KAR 6
45 Srimozhi S TN 6
46 Laheri Nitya GUJ 6
47 Nanditha V TEL 5½
48 Bidisha Roy JHA 5½
49 Neha Srinibash D TN 5½
50 Tanvi V Hadkonkar Goa 5½
51 Bhavi Bhansali CHT 5½
52 Shanya Mishra UP 5½
53 Aanya Agarwal DEL 5½
54 Garima Gaurav BIH 5½
55 Ishika Arora HAR 5½
56 Kannan Hemavati MAH 5½
57 Aditi Bajaj MP 5½
58 Amisha Arunjay Kumar Goa 5
59 Kalyani B AP 5
60 Ashitha C C KER 5
61 Kriti Mayur Patel MAH 5
62 Arya Ranjan DEL 5
63 Racha Sobhita AP 5
64 Aneri Ketan Kanjar GUJ 5
65 Ojasi Gopikrishna KAR 5
66 Shah Vrushti GUJ 5
67 Harini R RAJ 5
68 Florisha Basumatari ASM 5
69 Prakriti Singh JHAR 5
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70 Varshitha V TEL 5
71 Ria Dhamija HAR 5
72 Anshika Thapliyal UP 5
73 Garapati Sai Rishitha AP 4½
74 Vavri PUN 4½
75 Khandelwal Krisha MAH 4½
76 Mistry Tinaz Dinkoo GUJ 4½
77 Anishka Vikram DEL 4½
78 Riddhika Kotia HAR 4½
79 Nibha Kumari BIH 4½
80 Avni Gupta J&K 4½
81 Saanya Mahesh DEL 4
82 Rajpurkar Sakshi MAH 4
83 Arpita Gupta (2002) HAR 4
84 Atushree Das JHA 4
85 Siva Sai Sugandhi Ch AP 4
86 Srivastav Trisha GUJ 4
87 Prizam Deep Kaur HP 4
88 Savri PUN 4
89 Japnit Kaur DEL 4
90 Shreetu Bhavikbhai Nandi GUJ 4
91 Aarushi Mittal CHD 4
92 Madhu Mitha S TN 4
93 Jain Dishee RAJ 3½
94 Shriya Singh HP 3½
95 Saini Mitali CHD 3½
96 Dia Aneja HAR 3
97 Saumya Tyagi UP 3
98 Shreya Chawla HAR 2½
99 Radhika Singh UTK 2
100 Ananya Kumar HAR 0
101 Advika Singh HAR 0
102 Arnav Bharti UP 0
103 Ch Chrisennoch ODI 0
104 Jaishree Sriram HAR 0
105 Yashika Singh RAJ 0
106 Parina Mishra Delhi 0
All India Chess Federation has initiated action
against two Bengal players on charges of match
fixing on the top board. Hence the report and
final standings on the Open section of National
Under-13 Championship is being withheld till a
final decision is taken on the issue.
1st International Open Rapid Chess Tournament, Pondicherry
Laxman wins Rapid title
by IA Ganesh Babu S,Dy.Chief Arbiter
Grand Master R R Laxman of ICF won the 1st
International Open Rapid Chess Tournament
organized by Bishop Academy of Chess. The
2 day event from August 29 to August 30
was held at Arumuga Kalyana Mandapam,
Pondicherry.
The Prize fund of Rs.1, 00,000 was split into
30 Main Prizes & 33 Special Prizes & the
winner gets Rs.15, 000.The Event attracted
231 players from 10 states, out of which
107 players were internationally rated
players.
At the end of sixth round IM S Nitin of
Southern Railways lead the tournament with
full six points. In the Seventh round Nitin
held to a draw by IM Shyam Nikhil of TN,
while in the second board Laxman won the
against IM P Karthikeyan of ICF to share
the lead with Nitin.
Laxman took the lead, when he won over
the joint leader Nitin with 7.5 points at the
end of eighth round. Laxman continued the
lead in the next round by winning his game
against Purushothaman of AP. In the second
spot Shyam Nikhil with 8.0 points won the
game against S S Manigandan of TN.
In the final round clash between Laxman
and Shyam Nikhil, Laxman won the title by
signing a peace treaty with Shyam Nikhil.
Laxman won the event and won the Cash
Prize of Rs.15,000.
Prizes were distributed by Panner Selvam,
Minister. Dignitaries present on the dais
were R K Balagunashekaran, Chief Arbiter,
Vinoth Kumar, Tournament Director and
Nadaradjane, Secretary, Bishop Academy
of Chess. Balaguru, President Bishop
Academy of Chess delivered the vote of
thanks.
Final ranking
Rk Name Pts
1 GM Laxman R.R. 9
2 IM Shyaamnikhil P 8½
3 IM Nitin S. 8
4 IM Karthikeyan P. 8
5 Purushothaman T 8
6 IM Vijayalakshmi S 8
7 Venkat Sundaram 8
8 IM R Balasubramaniam 8
9 Manigandan S S 7½
10 Ganesh R 7½
11 Ram S. Krishnan 7½
12 Sa Kannan 7½
13 WGM Meenakshi S 7½
14 Dhinesh Kumar G 7½
15 Sangeetha P 7½
16 Gowtham K K 7
17 Raja Chokkarvel Y 7
18 Sriram B 7
19 Raman R. 7
20 Vivek Ramanathan V 7
21 Farhaan M 7
22 Nitin M Pai 7
23 Girinath B S 7
24 Poojakanth M. 6½
25 Mani Bharathy 6½
26 George Daniel 6½
27 Gowri Shankar A 6½
28 Sami M A 6½
29 Muthu Palaniappan P L 6½
30 Aadhisan Balakrishnan 6½
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 15th Adyar Times FIDE rated open chess Tournament,Chennai….
Balasubramanian lifts Adyar Times trophy
by IA S.Paul Arokia Raj,Chief Arbiter
IM R.Balasubramanian of ICF,Chennai
emerged as the champion with 8 out of 9 in
the 15th Adyar Times FIDE rated open chess
Tournament organized by the Tamil Nadu
State Chess Association at Dr.MGR Janaki
College of Arts and Science for Women,
Chennai from September 23 to 27,2015.
He carried home winner’s purse of Rupees
Twenty Five Thousand.In a two way tie for
the runner up spot IM C.Praveen Kumar also
from ICF finished second with 7.5 points and
relegated P.Saravana Krishnan of Karur Vysya
Bank to the third spot.R.Balasubramanian is
winning this prestigious title for the third
time.Earlier he has won the title way back
in the year 2002 and 2005.
Sponsored by Adyar Times,a neighbourhood
newspaper this FIDE rated open finds a
permenant place in the annual calendar of
Tamil Nadu State chess Association.
Final standings: 36 Raj Kamal S 5½
Rk Name Pts
1 R Balasubramaniam IM 8
2 Praveen Kumar C IM 7½
3 Saravana Krishnan P. 7½
4 Ashwath R. 7
5 Muthaiah Al 7
6 Harihara Sudan M 7
7 Hari Madhavan N B 7
8 Singh D.P IM 7
9 Phoobalan P. 6½
10 Sa Kannan 6½
11 Vignesh B 6½
12 Santoshkashyap Hg 6½
13 Bala Kannamma.P 6½
14 Prasannaa.S 6½
15 Siddharth Sabharishankar 6½
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16 Kumar S. 6½
17 Arun J 6½
18 Vasantha Ruba Varman 6½
19 Prakashram R 6½
20 Nitin Shankar Madhu 6½
21 Pranav V 6½
22 Lakshmi C WFM 6½
23 Ajay Karthikeyan 6½
24 Sivakumar C. 6
25 Vijay Anand M. 6
26 Badrinath S. 6
27 Subramanian V 6
28 Bharath Subramaniyam H 6
29 Ayushh Ravikumar 6
30 Vivek Ramanathan V 6
31 Dharani Kumar M S 6
32 Yutesh P 6
33 Srihari L R 6
34 Dev Shah CM 6
35 Rohit Vassan S 5½
37 Upendra R 5½
38 Arjun C Krishnamachari 5½
39 Sanjay D G 5½
40 Alan Diviya Raj 5½
41 Saranya Y 5½
42 Shyam Kumar M 5½
43 Pranav Anand 5½
44 Venkatesh K 5½
45 Nikhil Magizhnan CM 5½
46 Sathyanarayanan V 5½
47 Sarvadh Sathiaram 5½
48 George Daniel 5½
49 Samyuktha B S 5½
50 Dinesh Kumar Jaganathan 5½
51 Atul Srivatsa 5½
52 Rohit S 5½
29th National U-13 Open & Girls Chess
Championship started on 30th August 2015
and concluded on 7th Sep 2015 at the mul-
tipurpose hall Govt Girls College Near sec 14
Mehrauli road, Gurgaon, Haryana.
Dr Rakesh Gupta IAS Additional Principle
Secretary to CM Haryana inaugurated the
championships in presence of Shri T L Sathy-
aprakash IAS DC Gurgaon, Shri Vinay Prat-
hap Singh IAS ADC Gurgaon, Sri Anil Kumar
Parnami President DCA Gurgaon, Shri Raju
verma President HCA, Mr Naresh Sharma
welcomed the gathering followed by dinner
for all the guests.
The tournament was played by around 290
players from all over the country. The 9 day,
11 rounds event is a qualifier for the World
& Asian Chess Championships. The event
carried a prize fund of Rs.1,75,000/- and
the winner of each section got Rs.87,500/-
among the top 18 prizes.
Defending under-13 Champion Iniyan P of
TN led the pack with an ELO of 2214 fol-
lowed by Saurabh Anand of BIH with an ELO
of 2156. In the corresponding girls section
former Under 10 World Champion Priyanak
Nuttakki of AP gets the top billing with an ELO
of 2073. Out of 193 participants in the open
section 139 are internationally rated among
them three were CM Title holders and 105
participants in the girls section, 74 are inter-
nationally rated including 3WFM and WCM.
In the open section after 7th round 11th
seeded Bharambe Bhavik C of MAH was
so lead leaving behind including defend-
ing champion, In the eighth round Saurabh
Anand holdup the sole leader by drawing, in
the 9th round on top board Bharame Bhavik
lost to Rahul Srivatshav of TEL, on the second
board Panda Sambit of ODI lost to Neelash
Saha of WB with this full point made Neelash
as a sole leader with halfpoint. In 10th round
Neelash Saha of WB maintains the advantage
& had easy win against Rahul Srivatshav of
TEL. In the final round on top board Neelash
Saha of WB had walkover his state mate
CM Aronyak Ghosh forfeited his point due
to Illness. On the second board Defending
champion and top seed Iniyan P of T N lost
to Bharambe Bhavik C of MAH.
Neelash Saha Scored 10 points out of 11
rounds and clinched 29th National U-13 Cha-
pionship -2015,Bharambe Bhavik C Scored
9.5points and secured 2nd place.
In the corresponding girls section Priyankka
Nuttaki of AP was all the way leading through-
out and went undefeated to clinch the title
with 10 points conceding only 2 draws. Mishra
Anwesha of ODI and Vantika Agarwal of DEL
socred 9points on tie break secured 2and 3rd
place respectively.
The prize distribution function was graced
by Chief Guest Mr. T.L.Satyaprakash, IAS,
Deputy Commissioner, on last day Deputy
Commissioner of Gurgaon arranged a nice
lunch for players and parents
Guests of Honor : Col. D.K.Segan., Mr. Sharad
Goel, Mr. Pradeep Gupta, Mr. Raju Verma, Mr.
Anil Parnami, Mr. Naresh Sharma, Mr. Rajpal
Chauhan, Mr. Sanjay Sharma, Mr. Kalyan
Singh
Final standings:Open
Rk. Name Club Pts.
1 Neelash Saha WB 10
2 Bharambe Bhavik C MAH 9.5
3 Iniyan P TN 8.5
4 Aansh Gupta DEL 8.5
5 Rahul Srivatshav P TEL 8
6 Saurabh Anand BIH 8
7 Erigaisi Arjun TEL 8
8 Aronyak Ghosh CM WB 8
9 Panda Sambit ODI 8
10 Ayush Bhai Mehta MP 8
11 Krishnater Kushager MAH 8
12 Vardan Nagpal DELi 7.5
13 Harisurya Bharadwaj G AP 7.5
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 Late Shri Chandrakant Naik Memorial Rapid Fide Rating chess Tournament 2015,Goa
Niraj Saripalli wins
by Promodraj Moree,Chief Arbiter
Late Shri Chandrakant Naik Memorial Rapid
Fide Rating chess Tournament 2015,Goa was
organized in for 2 days with 9 rounds, 1st day
4 rounds, 2nd day 5 round. This was first
Rapid rating chess tournament organized
by Quepem Taluk Chess Association at
Churcherem , Goa under the name of Late
Shri Chandrakant Naik. The event attracted
176 Players from all over Goa. 67 Fide rated
players participated in this tournament.
For the inauguration of the event, Mr
Nilesh Cabral, MLA Curcheram constituency
was the chief guest and also Mr Vinay
Tendulkar, GCA President and Bharatiya
Janata Party President of Goa State, Mr
Kishore Bhandekar Joint Secretary of
AICF, Subash Naik President QTCA, Sanjay
Kavlekar, Tournament Director and Secretary
QTCA were present. The event started as
per schedule at 1. 00 pm on 3rd Oct.
In the prize Distribution Mr Subash Faldesai,
MLA Sanguem Constituency was the chief
guest, Mr Kishore Bhandekar, Mr Ramdas
Sawant GCA Tresurer and Smt Meera Naik
were present as guests and they distributed
the prizes to the winners
The organizers took good care of the all the
things related to event very well and also
provided Free lunch to all the participants.
Many players earned their new rating in this
event.
I thank AICF, Mr Sanjay Kavlekar and QTCA
Executive committee for providing me an
opportunity to be chief Arbiter for the event .
Final ranking 79 Sonawane Harsh 4½
Rk Name Pts
1 Niraj Saripalli 8½
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39 Abhijit Datta Prabhu 6 82 Varun R Shastry 4½
40 Tanvi Vasudev Hadkonkar 5½ 83 Ayush Nagarsekar 4½
41 Paarth P Salvi 5½ 84 Naik Tejas 4½
42 Aniket Datta Prabhu 5½ 85 Swayam Kamat Bambolkar 4½
43 Sanat Borkar 5½ 86 Raikar Shet M Shlok 4½
44 Urvi Bandekar 5½ 87 Aadya Yatin Gaitonde 4½
2 Riddhi Zantye 7½
45 Naik Nivesh Manoj 5½ 88 Afnan Saiyed 4½
3 Thorat Sanjay 7½
46 Soham Naik 5½ 89 Neha R Naik 4½
4 Audi Ameya 7½
47 Sachin Kakodkar 5½ 90 Prathamesh P Desai 4½
5 Cruz Wilson 7½
48 Borkar Shubh 5½ 91 Prabhugaonkar Advika 4½
6 Nandhini Saripalli 7
49 Pradnya Sachin Kakodkar 5½ 92 Sainee N F Dessai 4½
7 Madhavan G 7
50 Soham Anil Dhuri 5½ 93 Shivam Kapdi 4½
8 Parsekar Anirudh 7
51 Sangaokar Yogiraj 5 94 Caesarius Mario Vaz 4½
9 Siddhesh Datta Pednekar 7
52 Prashant Salvi 5 95 Chaitanya M. Naik 4½
10 Ian Savio Rodrigues 6½
53 Kaushal M Naik 5 96 Sarvad V S Amonkar 4½
11 Kambli Datta 6½
54 Ruturaj Yogesh Desai 5 97 Dessai F Aryavrat 4
12 Thorat Aishwarya 6½
55 Kakodkar Love 5 98 Raj Borkar 4
13 Sahil Shetty 6½
56 Netra P Savaikar 5 99 Shivam Raikar 4
14 Morajkar Navin 6½
57 Yash Manoj Upadhye 5 100 Cyrus Gomes 4
15 Milind Gauns 6½
58 Sairth Sitaram Shirodkar 5 101 Anurag Ajay Chari 4
16 Eesh Prabhudesai 6½
59 Sairaj Dilip Vernekar 5 102 Dhanavi Ulhas Fondekar 4
17 Ridikesh Dilip Vernekar 6
60 Joshi Chinmay 5 103 Blydon D Souza 4
18 Porob Vraj 6
61 Calantha Gomes 5 104 Asfiya Lashkarwale 4
19 Sudhakar Patgar 6
62 Aditya Sawant 5 105 Karun Raikar 4
20 Aryan Shamrao Raikar 6
63 Sahil Dayanand Desai 5 106 Om Prabhu 4
21 Kavish Gharse 6
64 Nischal Parulekar 5 107 Vas Bryan 4
22 Bir Yogesh Pai 6
65 Sania Salvi 5 108 Shubham Laad 4
23 Harsh Mangesh Dagare 6
66 Sanad Talavalikar 5 109 Niraj Y Naik 4
24 Audi Saiesh 6
67 Samarth P Nasnodkar 5 110 C Shyam Satardekar 4
25 Yash Paul 6
68 Nehal Kudchadkar 5 111 Om Kudchadkar 4
26 Dalal Ambar Abhay 6
69 Mayuri A Chari 5 112 Trayangdatt Vithal Naik 4
27 Colaco Reuben 6
70 Harsh Sawant 5 113 Bhargavi Joshi 4
28 Rutik Rohidas Gaude 6
71 Shriyash Madgaonkar 5 114 Ohmkar Naik 4
29 Pai Sunay Pundalik 6
72 Kunal B Bandolkar 5 115 Dessai F Sharv 4
30 Colaco Vernon Jesus 6
73 Prabhu Sahil Sudheer 5 116 E Valenius Coutinho 4
31 Prabhu Yash 6
74 Parsekar Aditya 5 117 Bunnyfred V.R. D 4
32 Saish Ulhas Fondekar 6
75 Sanjeev Akash 5 118 Sanil Naik 4
33 Parab Sneh 6
76 Thanishq Kavlekar 5 119 Pallav D Naik 4
34 Devesh Anand Naik 6
77 Vibhuti S Dessai 5 120 Yash Kishore Naik 4
35 Swayam Naik 6
78 Shreyash Naik 5 121 Nikita K. Kamath 4
36 Bharadwaj Rahul 6
122 Raut Dessai Vedank Mahadev 4
37 Kakodkar Joy 6
80 Jugan Sales Rodrigues 4½ 123 Tanishka Shet Raikar 4
38 Pai Vithal 6
81 Chand Khan 4½ 124 Tejal Sunil Lotlikar 4
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 4th Keshabananda Das Memorial tournament, Bubaneshwar...
Swapnil Dhopade is champion
by Suresh Chandra Sahoo, Chief Arbiter
The exciting 4th Keshabananda Das Memorial
tournament has come to an end. Overall the
tournament was incredibly hard fought,
with battles, blunders, deep preparations,
complete opening surprises and basically
everything that fuels a fantastic event. IM
Swapnil S. Dhopade (Perfect winner to grab
the title) is without a doubt the deserved
winner.
The total prize fund for the event was `
5,25,000/- (Rupees Five lacs twenty five
thousand only) attracts only 109 participants
from 14 States (Andhra Pradesh-3, Bihar-1,
Chandigarh-1, Delhi-1, Goa- 1, Gujarat-1,
Haryana-1, Karnataka-5, Maharshtra-12, MP-
1, Odisha-24, Telengana-5, Tamilnadu-14,
WB-20) and 05 Special units (Andhra Bank
– 2, DASCB – 2, Income-Tax- 1, KIIT – 4,
LIC – 2) with the average ELO 1908, two
Grandmasters, one Women Grandmaster,
15 International Masters, 5 FIDE Masters,
1 Women FIDE Master, 4 Candidate Master
& 1 Women Candidate Master with total 10
Women have participated in the tournament.
IM Swapnil S. Dhopade, 2483 of Railways
was the top seed.
I take this Opportunity to thank the
Khordha District Chess Association and All
Odisha Chess Association for making such
tournament a Grand success, which will
go a long way in creating awareness and
popularising Chess in our Nation & for giving
another chance to all top ranking players to
show off their talents.
Mahindra & Mahindra (Rise) & Shriram
Capital Limited sponsored the major part of
the tournament. Odisha Mining Corporation
Ltd. came forward as associated sponsor for
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making the tournament a successful one.
Opening Ceremony held at 10:30 hrs on dt.
11.sep.15 Chief Guest : Sj. Sanjay Kumar
Das Burma, Minster of State (Independent
Charge), Food supply & consumer welfare,
Employment & Technical Education & Training,
other honoured guests were Sri Debasis
Mekap, Vice President, Khordha District Chess
Association, Sri G.C. Mohapatra, Executive
Member, All Odisha Chess Association & Sri
Subhasis Patnaik, Secretary, Khordha District
Chess Association cum Executive Member All
Odisha Chess Association.
IM Swapnil Dhopade, Railways (Top seed
– Current National Challenger Champion))
emerged champion by a draw with IM
Narayanan Srinath, TN (2nd seed – 3rd
Keshabananda Champion) in the 10th Round
(FINAL) and finished with 8.5 points (1 points
lead) to took away the top prize of 1.5 Lac.
IM S Nitin, Railways with 7.5 points drew with
GM R.R. Laxman in board no.2 and placed
1st runner-up with 1 Lac and IM Narayanan
Srinath, TN became 2nd runner-up position
with 50 thousand in the tournament.
It was really a tough battle for all the
participants. Throughout the tournament top
10 boards game was live at https://monroi.
com/watch/?tnm_id=1841
Many upsets started from the 2nd Round
onwards. In round 5, IM Anurag Mhamal,
2396, Goa beat IM Sayantan Das, 2430, WB,
IM Shyamnikhil P, 2427, TN lost from Kaustuv
Kundu, 2203, WB FM Mitrabha Guha,2124,
WB lost from Arjun Adappa, 1849, KAR
Pranav V, 1698, TN beat Mohammad Ashraf,
2167, KIIT.
In round six, GM Saptarshi Roy Chowdhury,
2361, Railways lost to Muthaiah AI, 2206, TN
FM Soumyaranjan Mishra, 2197, Odisha beat
Utkal Ranjan Sahoo, 2276, KIIT Karthick
V Ap, 2266, AP lost from Srinath Rao SV,
2135, Maharashtra, IM Mithrakanth Poorna
Shrama, 2279, TN lost from Snehal Bhosale,
2084, Maharashtra Ansuman Samal, 1923,
Odisha beat IM D.P. Singh, 2192, Railways
Manishkumar, 1573, Odisha beat Sambit
Panda,1797, Odisha.In round eight, IM
Anurag Mhamal, 2396, Goa lost from
Muthaiah AI, 2206, TN Karthick V Ap., 2266,
AP beat Kunal M., 2350, TN Kishan Gangoli,
2003, Karnataka beat Arpan Das,2249, IM
Mithrakanth Poorna Shrma,2279, TN lost
from WFM Arpita Mukherjee, 1916, WB IM
D.P. Singh, 2192, Railways lost from Sabjeev
Nair, 1878, Maharashtra
Out of 03 unrated players 2 players will get
the Rating in the month of October. Three
players CM Mullick Raahil, 1288, Maharashtra
; Arjun Adappa, 1849, Karnataka and
Muthaiah Al, 2206, Tamilnadu increased their
rating by 124, 108 & 82 respectively.
In the valedictory ceremony the Chief guest
was Sj. Sudhanshu Bhusan Mishra, IAS
(Retd.) former Chief Secretary, Govt. of
Odisha. Other dignitaries who graced the
occasion on the last day were Sri Vivek
Ku. Tibarewal, Hony. Secy. , All Odisha
Chess Association,Sri Ranjan Mohanty, Vice
President, All Odisha Chess Association
& Subhasis Patnaik, Secretary, Khordha
District Chess Association – cum – Executive
Member, All Odisha Chess Association. The
Press and Media covered the event very well.
Without any dispute the tournament ended
successfully.
The Chief Arbiter of the tournament was
International Arbiter Suresh Chandra Sahoo
ably assisted by FA Anandh Babu VL,
Tamilnadu (monroi), FA Arghya Arpan Parida
& Bhabesh Mohanty of Odisha.
Final standings:
Rk Name Club Pts
1 Swapnil S. Dhopade IM RLY 8½
2 Nitin S. IM RLY 7½
3 Narayanan Srinath IM TN 7½
4 Gusain Himal CHA 7½
5 Muthaiah Al TN 7
6 Laxman R.R. GM ICF 7
7 Sahoo Utkal Ranjan KIIT 7
8 Krishna C R G IM AP 7
9 Sammed Jaykumar Shete MAH 7
10 Sangma Rahul IM RLY 7
11 Ravi Teja S. IM RLY 6½
12 Anurag Mhamal IM GOA 6½
13 Rajesh V A V IM TN 6½
14 Kunal M. TN 6½
15 Roy Chowdhury SaptarshiGM RLY 6½
16 Shyaamnikhil P IM TN 6½
17 Matta Vinay Kumar FM AB 6½
18 Chakravarthi Reddy M IM TEL 6½
19 Hemant Sharma (del) DEL 6½
20 Deshpande Aniruddha MAH 6½
21 Srinath Rao S.V. MAH 6
22 Karthik V. Ap AP 6
23 Deshmukh Anup IM LIC 6
24 DBala Chandra Prasad AP 6
25 Santu Mondal ITA 6
26 Debarshi Mukherjee WB 6
27 Das Sayantan IM WB 6
28 Rakesh Kumar Jena FM ODI 6
29 Snehal Bhosale MAH 6
30 Kishan Gangolli KAR 6
31 Mishra Soumyaranjan FM ODI 5½
32 Kiran M Mohanty WGM LIC 5½
33 Kaustuv Kundu WB 5½
34 Lakshmi Narayanan M V TN 5½
35 Rakesh Kumar Nayak ODI 5½
36 Senthil Maran K TN 5½
37 Mitrabha Guha FM WB 5½
38 Sahu Rajendra Kumar ODI 5½
39 Bose Sayan WB 5½
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 RP Constructions All India Fide Rating Chess Tournament ,Vijayawada
Meher Chinna Reddy wins
by Venkata Kumar FA, Chief Arbiter
Top seed Meher Chinna Reddy of Andhra
Pradesh become champion of RP Constru
ctions All India Fide Rating Chess Tournament
concluded on 27th September2015 at
Krishna District Industrial and Agricultural
Exhibition Society Hall, Jawahar Auto
Nagar, Vijayawada. He scored 7. points
from 8. He tied with T Purushothaman
also from A P. With lesser buch holz score
Purushothaman placed second. S V Srinadh
Rao of Maharashra got 3rd with 6.5 points
Winner Meher Chinna Reddy got prize
money of Rs. 25,000/- and Runner Up
Purushothaman got Rs. 15,000/- . 3rd placed
S V Srinadh Rao got 12,000/- .Total 1.5 lakh
prize money is distributed among 44 players.
The event attracted 208 participants from
Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Maharashtra,
Tamilnadu, West Bengal, Airforce, Andhra
Bank and LIC Departments.
Tournament was Inaugurated by Chief Guest
Sri Devineni Uma Maheswara Rao, Hon
Minister for Irrigation Govt. of AP by playing
first move. Sri YD Ramarao, President APCA
presided over the function. Mr Devaram
Srihari, Secretary APCA also present.
In the valedictory function Chief Guest Sri. G
V Ramarao, Krishna Industrial & Agricultural
Exhibition Society distributed the prizes.
P.V.Nageswar Rao President, Krishna Dist
Chess Assn, preside over the Function. Sri
Devaram Srihar, Secretary APCA and FA
Venkata Kumar G, Chief Arbiter were also
present.
FA Venkat Kumar G was the Chief Arbiter
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and FA Vappangi Srikanth was deputy arbiter
for the event.
Final standings:
Rk Name Pts
1 Mehar Chinna Reddy CH FM 7
2 Purushothaman T 7
3 Srinath Rao S.V. 6½
4 Lakshmanrao D. 6½
5 Srikanth K. 6½
6 Teja Suresh M 6½
7 Gopal K.N CM 6½
8 Aditya S S V 6½
9 Ramakrishna J FM 6
10 Rao J. Malleswara 6
11 Nitheesh Pothireddy 6
12 Pvs Aravind 6
13 Hinduja Reddy 6
14 Sandhya G 6
15 Cheela Naga Sampath 6
16 Ravindra Raju 6
17 Shiva Pavan Teja Sharma U 6
18 Ravi Kumar K 6
19 Shiva Suri 6
20 Sai Kiran Y 6
21 Gowtham T. 6
22 Sharan R S 6
23 Sreeshwan Maralakshikari 6
24 Potluri Supreetha WFM 5½
25 Subba Raju S. 5½
26 Sambamurthy P. 5½
27 Subba Rao P Venkata 5½
28 Shyam Prasad Reddy K 5½
29 Kandari Sasidar Kartheek 5½
30 Chandran T. 5½
31 Akavaram Aashish Reddy 5½
32 Srinivasulu V 5½
33 Sanghai Dhruv 5½
34 Praneeth R 5½
35 Bharath Bhushan Reddy N 5½
36 Sri Sai Harsha Kuralla 5½
37 Gatram Sravan Kumar 5½
38 Sri Sai Baswanth P 5
39 Suryanaraya Swamy Mopuri 5
40 Shah Bhaven Jay 5
41 Jishitha D 5
42 Niharika Ch 5
43 Sriram Udhayakumar 5
44 Kalur Nikhil 5
45 Digvijay Sunil 5
46 Shah Rishab 5
47 Jaisingh Anugraha 5
48 Ismail S K 5
49 Jayanth Reddy K 5
50 Sarath Chandra K 5
51 Chalapathi Rao M 5
52 Nagasri Saikanth 5
53 Swathi Y 5
54 Suresh Bondalapati 5
55 Purushotham Reddy C 5
56 Rama Mohan Rao N 5
57 Sreevijay Sunil 5
58 Raivath Mallela 5
59 Akhil B V S 5
60 Naga Chaitanya 5
61 Diyi Suryanarayana 5
62 Lakshmi Sahithi Akunuri 5
63 Kavya Srishti K 4½
64 Vara Prasad Ryali 4½
65 Rehaman Kotte 4½
66 Sudheesh Karri 4½
67 Priyanka S 4½
68 Nikhil Babu Boya 4½
69 Ishwar Ramteke 4½
70 Rama Rao T V 4½
71 Vangala Shanti Bhushan 4½
72 Harisurya Bharadwaj G 4½
73 Chanakya V B S L 4½
74 Shaik Pharuk 4½
75 Konatham Snehil 4½
76 Gaddipati Anjani Kumar 4½
77 Vangala Shashi Bhushan 4½
78 Akira Sowmyanatha Reddy 4½
79 Bolisetty Lochana 4½
80 Diyan Kubadia 4½
81 Sridhar N 4½
82 Lasya Mayukha N 4½
83 Chinnam Vyshnavi WCM 4½
84 Subba Reddy K 4½
85 Sreenivasulu P V 4½
86 Sibi Srinivas Eistein Reddy 4½
87 Abhinav Chandra Kodali 4½
88 Pranay Venkatesh 4½
89 Prraneeth Vuppala 4
90 Abhijith Cheettrala 4
91 Vinodbabu Medidi 4
92 Sri Ram T 4
93 Vamsi Krishna Suram 4
94 Rajkumar Duvvuri 4
95 Tarun Vankadaru 4
96 Radhika Devi Chavali 4
97 Jyothi Kiran P 4
98 Sri Harsha M.M.S.V. 4
99 Surya Raghava I 4
100 Advait Bagri 4
101 Srinadh Madhavarapu 4
102 Bharghav K 4
103 Sathwika N 4
104 Rohit Yarakala 4
105 Gopika Naga Sahithi N 4
106 Lanka Sri Karthikeya D 4
107 Bala Krishna Gummala 4
108 Siva Rama Rao P 4
109 Sruthi Soora 4
110 Charumati K 4
111 Saketh Kumar Reddy C 4
112 Divya Shree P 4
113 Aditya Reddy Velagala 4
114 Renuka Kumari B 4
115 Dutt B.S. 4
116 Syed Tarannum 4
117 Duvvuri S Subrahmanyam 4
118 Perli Rashmi 4
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119 Shaik Sumer Arsh 4
120 Manikanta Reddy J 4
121 Aditya S Hariharan 3½
122 Sai Suhash K V K 3½
123 Shourya Jain 3½
124 Pavan Kumar Mathamsetty 3½
125 Adithya Krishna Sai Ch 3½
126 Avaneesh Gupta DCS 3½
127 Siva Chowdeswar N 3½
128 Viswas Dinesh 3½
129 Swetha Sree Lanka 3½
130 Yuva Teja P 3½
131 Bhuvanchand Chowdary K 3½
132 Venkata Ramana Maradana 3½
133 Ram Prasad S 3½
134 Chilukuri Sai Varshith 3½
135 Anjishnu Mondal 3½
136 Dharmik Banka 3½
137 Amrutavalli P D S 3½
138 Uday Kiran Kumar P 3½
139 Gopi Krishna Inti 3½
140 Teja R 3½
141 Viswa Vibhu V 3½
142 John Wesley Ganji 3½
143 Gowtham Reddy G 3½
144 M Lakshmi Bharath Chandra 3½
145 Kirthi Shreya K 3
146 Chilukuri Sai Maneendhra 3
147 Sevitha Viju M 3
148 Preetham Pidapa 3
149 Mallikarjuna G 3
150 Abhiram Mopuri 3
151 Vora Arjun 3
152 Gayithri N R 3
153 Dheeraj T 3
154 Tanish Sai Kavuru 3
155 Harshita Koppolu 3
156 Venkata Sai Teja T 3
157 Venkata Sai Tushar 3
158 Hasita Narikimilli 3
159 Bhagat Kush 3
160 Venkata Ashish Potluri 3
161 Nagaraju G 3
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162 Syamala Rao Gottapu 3
163 Jyothiraditya N 3
164 Abhiram Reddy K 3
165 Vedalatha P 3
166 Sara Gupta 3
167 Jahnavi Mathe 3
168 Dhanvin P T L N V 3
169 Mounika Yedla 3
170 Ram Narasimha Tarun V 3
171 Jahnavi Sri Lalita Mareddy 3
172 Venkateswara Rao Ramaraju 3
173 Nithin Kumar Yedla 3
174 Siva Sai Sugandhi Ch 2½
175 Sohith Podile 2½
176 Jagruthi K 2½
177 Vaishnavi PV 2½
178 Sai Raghava Pulijala 2½
179 Shaik Julekha Bahaar 2½
180 Rithin Ravela 2½
181 Omesh M 2
182 Suguna Ch 2
183 Rithesh Kusuma 2
184 Lokesh I 2
185 Rishi Preetham G 2
186 Suhitha Narikimilli 2
187 Rahul P 2
188 Rolla Ruthwik 2
189 Sumana Sri Ch 2
190 Vennela D 2
191 Charan Teja P 2
192 Yuvaraj Vittal 2
193 Yogyatha A 2
194 Akash Nagineni 2
195 Sanjay Gupta MSNV 2
196 Pravallika P 2
197 Gana Teja M 2
198 Tejasree M 2
199 Tanishka Jain 1½
200 Nizamuddin Sk 1
201 Krishna Prasad A 1
202 Madhu Karthik Ch 1
203 Rupa Krishna M 1
Saharanpur International FIDE Rating All India Open Ty,Saharanpur
Lokesh wins at Saharanpur
by IA Dharmandra Kumar, Chief Arbiter
Saharanpur International Rating All India
Open Chess Tournament 2015 was Organized
by Saharanpur District Chess Association
from September 09th to 13th , 2015.
Saharanpur is a city and a Municipal
Corporation in the state of Uttar Pradesh
in northern India. It is the administr ative
headquarters of Saharanpur District and the
Saharanpur Division. City is Situated close
to the borders of Haryana and Uttrakhand
states, the city is surrounded by a fertile
agricultural region that produces plentiful
grains and fruits. Saharanpur is known for its
wood carving cottage industry as well as a
thriving market for local agricultural produce,
including basmati rice and mangoes. A
variety of industrial enterprises are located
here including textiles, sugar, paper and
cigarette factories. Rajinish Goel was the
Organizing Secretary of the event.
Accommodation was provided to all the
players , managers and parents free
of charge at Aggarwal Dharmashala ,
Gaushala Road , Saharanpur . Food was
available in stadium premises on payment
basis. Tournament was held in two halls.
There were separate toilets for ladies and
gents in tournament hall .In all , playing
condition was good and comfortable for
all the players .During the rounds tea
was provided to all including parents and
spectators . Drinking water was available
all the time in and out of the tournament
hall.
464 players from all over India and two
other foreign federation were participated
in this mega event. 278 out of 464 were
rated players including 2 IM , 1FM , 1WFM
and 1 CM .
Tournament was formally inaugurated by
Chief Guest Mr. Ramkaran Arya (State
Minister, Sports & Youth Affairs of UP
Government) declared the tournament open
while Mr. Sanjay Garg (Ex. State Minister of
UP Government) presided over the function.
Other dignitaries present on the dais were
.A.K.Raizada , Hony. Secretary, UPCSA , Mr.
Rajnish Goel ,Orgnising Secretary, Mr. Amit
Kumar Rai ,Secretary, SDCSA, Deepak Saigal
and IA Dharmendra Kumar (Chief Arbiter) .
Soon after the inaugural ceremony ,there
was a technical meeting to discuss & confirm
the regulation for the event and to form the
appeals committee amongst the players.
Meeting was presided by IA Dharmendra
Kumar, Chief Arbiter , in presence of
A.K.Raizada , Hony. Secretary ,UPCSA and
Rajnish Goel , Org. Secretary.
4th seed N.Lokesh of Tamilnadu , fide rating
2198 won the tournament with 8 points He
left behind 4 masters to clinch the title . With
better tie-break , Lokesh stood first while IM
Dinesh K. Sharma finished 2nd spot. Arvinder
Preet Singh of Punjab and Ankan Roy of West
Bengal placed 3rd and 4th respectively .
Chief Guest Dr. Ashok Kumar Raghav,
DIG Police, Saharanpur Range distributed
cash prizes worth Rs. six lacs along with
Trophies and medals to all the winners
during felicitation ceremony held on 13th
of September while Mr. Snjay Garg (Ex.
State Minister of UP Government) presided
over the function, where as other dignitaries
present dignitaries present on the dais were
.A.K.Raizada , Hony. Secretary, UPCSA , Mr.
Rajnish Goel ,Orgnising Secretary, Mr. Amit
Kumar Rai ,Secretary, SDCSA, Deepak Saigal
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and IA Dharmendra Kumar (Chief Arbiter) .
The eight member Arbiter team was efficient
and conducted the tournament smoothly
without any protest and disturbance. All the
arbiters were having license from FIDE as
arbiter. I was ably assisted by Dy. Chief IA
Umesh K.C. , FA A.K.Raizada , FA Yashpal
Arora , FA Rajendra Teli , NA Deepak Saigal ,
NA Kavita Patel and NA Neeraj Sharma. Iam
thankful to them for their co-operation and
understanding .
Team of organizers lead by Sanjay Garg ,
Ex. Minister , Govt. of UP ,and Rajnish Goel ,
Org. Secretary , put in their best efforts to
make good arrangement for all the players
and accompanying persons . However , In
my opinion , they should try to improve the
organization next time.
Final standings
Rk Name Club
Pts
1 Lokesh N. TN 8
2 Sharma Dinesh K IM UP 8
3 Singh Arvinder Preet PUN 8
4 Ankan Roy WB 8
5 Himanshu Sharma IM RLY 7½
6 Surendran N TN 7½
7 Athul Krishna S KER 7½
8 Govind Kumar UP 7½
9 Sharma Avinash UP 7
10 Prince Bajaj CM DEL 7
11 Deepak Katiyar DEL 7
12 Sumit Grover JK 7
13 Anchit Vyas MP 7
14 Srija Seshadri WFM TN 7
15 Purushothaman T AP 7
16 Rishabh Nishad UP 7
17 Pawan Bathm UP 7
18 Raahul V S TN 7
19 Nishant Malhotra DEL 7
20 Lawaniya Eshan UP 7
21 Kapil Dadhich RAJ 7
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22 Saksham Rautela UTK 7
23 Ajinkya Pingale MAH 7
24 Gaurav Sharma UP 7
25 Dilip Das WB 7
26 Rathore M Singh RAJ 7
27 Ahmed Feroz 7
28 Avijit Das WB 6½
29 Shuban Saha WB 6½
30 Verma Ashu UP 6½
31 Dave Kantilal RAJ 6½
32 Gupta Alok Kumar UP 6½
33 Kaushik Shubham HAR 6½
34 Mishra Uttam CHG 6½
35 Shrestha Bilam Lal FM 6½
36 Chaudhary Sushil 6½
37 Arijith M KER 6½
38 Pukhraj Singh PUN 6½
39 Sudhakar RAJ 6½
40 Anuj Shrivatri MP 6½
41 Rajveer Singh R UP 6½
42 Himanshu Agarwal UP 6½
43 Mulay Pratik MAH 6
44 Verma H.S. DEL 6
45 Rahul Ubadhyay UP 6
46 Shashi Prakash UP 6
47 Subba Raju S. TEL 6
48 Ambesh UP 6
49 Ved Prakash BIH 6
50 Vikash Nishad UP 6
51 M Tulasi Ram Kumar TEL 6
52 Kumtakar Deepak MAH 6
53 Shrestha Janardan 6
54 Shah Gulab UP 6
55 Mayank Pandey UP 6
56 Krishna Prasad BIH 6
57 Gajendra Singh UP 6
58 Pathak Vivek Kumar MP 6
59 Singh Vimlesh Kumar BIH 6
60 Ravishankar UP 6
61 Dubey Sanchay UP 6
62 Katiyar Prashant UP 6
63 Dileep Tripathi UP 6
64 Barun Paul WB 6
65 Varma Vikrant HAR 6
66 Raghav Srivathsav V TEL 6
67 Pallab Bala WB 6
68 Mathew Sunny UP 6
69 Ramgopal Chaurasiya MP 6
70 Ashutosh Kumar BIH 6
71 Chakravarthy M S R K AP 6
72 Prasannakumar Nayak ORI 6
73 Dhanush Ragav TN 6
74 Singh Suman Kumar BIH 6
75 Menon Padmanand MAH 6
76 Batham Avinash MP 6
77 Ravi Kumar Gautam UP 6
78 Goswami Varunkant UP 6
79 Khan Md. Raisudin UP 6
80 Kapil Kumar Khare UP 6
81 Singh Dharmendra Kr UP 6
82 Mahendra Lakhyani RAJ 6
83 Koradia G V GUJ 6
84 Raul Sumit MAH 6
85 Vaidya Kaiwalya MAH 6
86 Sankalp Arora UP 6
87 Ayan Banerjee WB 6
88 G Pratap Singh UP 6
89 Rajan Sood UTK 6
90 Binod Kumar Saw JHR 6
91 Karunanayake Mayuri 6
92 Azmat Ali UP 6
93 Ashish Kumar Singh UP 6
94 Tayyeb Asif Md MP 6
95 Dharmaveer Singh UP 6
96 Vicky HAR 6
97 Siddiqui Md. Sabir UP 6
98 Amitabh Chourasia MAH 5½
99 Sahil Dhawan HAR 5½
100 Haribabu Sharma UP 5½
101 Wazeer Ahmad Khan UP 5½
102 Diwan Rajesh MP 5½
103 Dishant Jain UP 5½
104 Shubham Shukla PUN 5½
105 Dinesh Sinha UP 5½
106 Kunal Kanchan UP 5½
107 Manjeet Singh UP 5½
108 Aasha.C R. TN 5½
109 Dhruv Dak RAJ 5½
110 Chauhan Atul UP 5½
111 Raghav Bansal PUN 5½
112 Kapadi Yash MAH 5½
113 Kariya Mohak GUJ 5½
114 Madhav Mahere UP 5½
115 Arjun Veer Singh MAH 5½
116 Swapnil Lingayat MAH 5½
117 Sunil Kumar UP 5½
118 Mayank Pal DEL 5½
119 Mallikarjuna Rao B AP 5½
120 Shreya Rajendra UP 5½
121 Rahan Md. UP 5½
122 Saini Ashutosh UP 5½
123 Dinesh Kumar PUN 5½
124 Tete Sandeep Barnad UP 5½
125 Manash Bala WB 5½
126 Priti UP 5½
127 Priye Bikram 5½
128 Sukhwinder Singh PUN 5½
129 Jaspreet Singh PUN 5
130 Satinder Sharma HAR 5
131 Awasthi Balgovind UP 5
132 Tiwari Aradhana UP 5
133 Gupta Sandeep K. UP 5
134 M Parshad Verma HAR 5
135 Anil Shivpuri DEL 5
136 Arun Kataria RAJ 5
Nimzowitsch supplemented many of
the earlier simplistic assumptions about
chess strategy by enunciating in his turn
a further number of general concepts of
defensive play aimed at achieving one's
own goals by preventing realization
of the opponent's plans. Notable in
his "system" were concepts such as
overprotection of pieces and pawns
under attack, control of the center by
pieces instead of pawns, blockading of
opposing pieces (notably the passed
pawns) and prophylaxis. He was also
a leading exponent of the fianchetto
development of bishops.
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 28th SPIC FIDE Rated Open Chess tournament, Thoothukudi….
Manigandan wins title
by M.Ephrame IA,Chief Arbiter
Third seeded S S Manigandan of Madurai won
the title in 28th SPIC FIDE Rated Open Chess
tournament at Spic Nagar Thoothukudi,
he collected 8point in nine rounds and won
the Winner’s trophy and pocketing a cash
prize of Thirty thousand Rupees. Along
with Manigandan Joy Lazar from Kerala also
collected 8 points but better tie break score
helped Manigandan won the title. Vadivel of
Thoothukudy became the champion in Non
medalist section with 8.5 points.
The chief guest of the function Shri. Jawahar
Kennedy, Asst. Engineer TWAD Board tax
gave away the prizes Mr. S R Ramakrishnan,
WTD and the president of Thoothukudi
District Chess Association presided over the
meeting. Nine times National Champion
Arjuna awardee, India's first International
Master Mr. Manuel Aaron felicitated the
f u n c t i o n , G o p a l a k r i s h n a n S e c r e t a r y,
Thoothukudi District Chess Association
welcomed the gathering and Mr. Bhaskar
Velayutham Secretary, Spic Nagar Multi
Activity Club(SMAC) proposed the vote of
thanks.
Earlier, the 28th SPIC FIDE Rated Open
Chess tournament got underway at Spic
Community Hall, Spic Nagar,Thuthukudi
from 26th September 2015. The event
attracted 261 players in Medalist section out
of which 168 players are Fide rated. Players
from Assam, Gujarat, Kerala, Maharastra,
Pondicherry and Tamilnadu participated. In
Non-Medalist section there were 240 players.
Spic is the only organization in Tamilnadu
which is conducting chess tournament for
Non- medalist players regularly. The previous
medal winners will not be allowed in this
section and also the rated players are also
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not allowed to participate in this tournament.
Ram S Krishnan of BSNL is the top seeded.
The total prize fund of the event was One
Lakh forty eight thousand and five hundred in
medalist section, out of which, Rs. 30000/-
was reserved to the winner. The total prize
fund for Non medalist was Rs.23100/-
The tournament was declared open by
Assistant Commissioner, Commercial Tax,
Sivakasi Thiru. R Masilamony. In his inaugural
speech he pointed out that chess players
have very good memory power and the game
itself will sharpen the brain.
In round 3 The 11 years old boy Ruban
Sanjay from Sivakasi shocked the former
deaf & dump National Champion Alaguraja
from Madurai in Sicilian defense. 13 years old
Genish Prakash from Kanyakumari District
made an upset win against the 8th seeded
Uma Maheswaran of Madurai. In round four
Joy Lazar of Kerala beat the second seeded
J Nishvin of Kanyakumari and lead the event
with 5 points along with Ram S Krishnan, S
S Manigandan of Madurai and Aadhityaa of
Kanch District. young Aadhityaa's win against
the top seeded Ram in round six made him
sole lead, as the encounter between Joy
Lazar and S S Manigandan ended in a draw.
Manigandan beat the previous round leader
Aadhityaa in round seven where as the local
star Shakthi lost to Joy Lazar in the same
round. Mani and joy are the leader with 6.5
points at the end of round seven. Mani &
Joy did not take any risk in the eighth round
and settled draw against their opponent and
maintained the lead with seven points, where
as Vinodh Kumar of Pondicherry joined the
leader after won against Selvamurugan at
Contd. on p.27
Arbiter Examination Senior, 2015 Thoothukudi
Report by IA R.Anantharam
Senior Arbiter title has acquired great significance to the
untitled arbiters in India, as it is the minimum pre requisite
to officiate in fide rated tournaments. While FIDE arbiter title
will be awarded to those who pass in the FA examination
and they need three norms from fide rated or international
tournaments. Senior Arbiter title is of national importance.
Tamil Nadu State Chess Association and Thoothukudi District
Chess Association organized the Senior Arbiter examination
on behalf of All India Chess Federation at Thoothukudi
on Thursday 24th October 2015. The event attracted an overwhelming response from 119
participants, mostly from Tamil Nadu, with a few participants from Assam, Karnataka, Kerala
and Pondicherry. Sri.V. Hariharan, Secretary, All India Chess Federation and Gen. Secretary,
Tamil Nadu State Chess Association was the chief guest for the inauguration, in the presence
of Sri. M. Ephrame, Joint Secretary, TN State Chess Association.
The examination in the afternoon was preceded by a doubt
clearing session in the morning and the resource person
was Prof.R. Anantharam, Chairman, Arbiters’ Commission,
All India Chess Federation. Finer points in Laws of Chess
were elaborately discussed, besides the salient features of
rating and pairing regulations. The lecture was held at the
air conditioned hall of Indian Chamber of Commerce and
the session was lively, as the participants were enthusiastic
by bombarding questions to the resource person.
As there was an unexpected rise in the number of participants had arranged one more nearby
air conditioned hall for the smooth conduct of the examination. Duration of the examination was
2 hours and 30 minutes, with 49 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer type and 5 true/
false, totaling to 50 marks. After the exam, the participants were patient and eager to know
the correct answers. Thoothukudi District Chess Association, especially Mrs. Karpagavalli and
Secretary Mr. Gopalakrishnan left no stone unturned in organizing the event successfully.
FIDE World Cup 2015,Baku
Sergey Karjakin wins FIDE World Cup 2015
Sergey Karjakin and Peter Svidler returned today to the playing hall at the Fairmont Flame
Towers in Baku to finally decide the FIDE World Cup winner in quick-play tie-breaks. After the
games with the classical time control the result was even 2-2.
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 The qualifiers for the Candidates:Sergey
Karjakin( Winner) and Peter Svidler
In the first set of the rapid games Karjakin
prepared a surprise with the white pieces but
Svidler reacted well and achieved good position.
At some point black was even slightly better.
Being under the severe time pressure black lost
a pawn, but still managed to reach an ending
with opposite-colored bishops. Black set the
blockade and white tried to walk the king across
the entire board in order to press the enemy
pawns from behind.
Playing quickly in order to gain time from the increment Svidler missed an excellent opportunity
to push 68...g5, which apparently was sufficient for a draw.White prepared his own breakthrough
80.d5+ and proceeded to advance the passed e-pawn to finally clinch a victory.
In the return game Svidler employed the King's Indian Attack, but unlike the classical match,
he pushed the pawn 9.e5 instead of trading on d5.
White started piling pieces towards the opponent's king, but then he shifted the focus to combat
black's queenside counterplay and win a pawn in the process.
Black was able to take the pawn back while trading a bunch of pieces in the process, but white
emerged with a dominant centralized knighAfter black allowed the trade of the queens, Svidler
reached the back rank and started exerting strong pressure. Black position collapsed and the
score was leveled once again.
In the next set of the rapid games with faster time control the players got a Benoni setup on
the board, which according to the tournament commentators is not in their opening repertoires.
Svidler, playing black, got the better of it and proceeded to win the game in convincing fashion.
In the return game Svidler once again avoided the Naidorf Sicilian and went for the Maroczy
setup. But he mixed the plans, lost a pawn early on and Karjakin used the opportunity to strike
back.
In the blitz time control we had it all: great opening preparation, wonderful tactical shots and,
inevitably, blunders. Karjakin won both blitz games and emerged winner of the 2015 FIDE World Cup!
The total net prize fund of the 2015 FIDE World Chess Cup was 1,6 million USD. In addition, the
tournament awarded two places in the 2016 Candidates Tournament, part of the FIDE World
Championship cycle.
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Pentyala Harikrishna wins Isle of man Tourney
India No 2 Pentala Harikrishna continued his rich vein of form, winning the
PokerStars Isle of Man International Chess Tournament on 11th October 2015.
Remaining undefeated, Harikrishna won his second title of the year with a
hard-fought draw against former World Championship Challenger Nigel Short in
the ninth round. There was a three-way tie for first spot between Harikrishna,
Laurent Fressinet and Gabriel Sargissian (all seven points) but the India No
2’s better tie-break helped him triumph in one of the strongest Opens. French
champion Fressinet and Armenia’s No 2 took the second and third spots.
The way Harikrishna has been progressing in the last one year, it won’t be long before he breaks
into the top 15. He is currently ranked 20th with a rating of 2737. Going into the Isle of Man
event as second seed, Harikrishna got off to a good start, securing four points in five games.
Victory over Arkadi Naiditsch in the seventh round from a complicated position gave him the
lead. Two draws in the last two rounds showed his growing stature at the international level.
Indian GM Sundararajan Kidambi had a good tournament, gaining 16.3 rating points, and
finishing in 27th place with 5.5 points. He called Harikrishna’s effort a “clinical victory”.
Another GM from India, Swayams Mishra (6), who had the satisfaction of defeating Dutch
legend Jan Timman in the final round, ended 16th, besides increasing his rating by 20.6
points. Harikrishna’s talent was first noticed when he won the World U-10 crown in 1996. By
becoming the second Indian to win the World Junior title in 2004 after Viswanathan Anand,
he showed his growth as a player. His progress was not meteoric but steady. Harikrishna
showed he can compete at the highest level performing creditably in the Tata Steel Chess
in 2013 and 2014.
Antipov, Buksa Win World Junior In Russia
by Arvind Aaron
Russia’s Mikhail Antipov and Nataliya Buksa of Ukraine won the World Junior Chess
Championships that concluded at Khanty-Mansiyst in Russia on Sep 15, 2015.Top seeds
rarely win in Swiss format contests. Antipov scored a final round win to catch up with the
event leader and top seed Duda Jan-Krzysztof of Poland on 10/13 and win the title on tie-
break score.Antipov and Duda scored 10 points apiece and the tie-break decided the title.
German GM Bluebaum won the bronze medal with nine points, one clear point below.
Asia did not get much. Zhansaya Abdumalik of Kazakhstan who was leading the girls section
won a bronze medal on lower tie-break score.Woman Grand Masters fared poorly among
Girls. Seed 23, Nataliya Buksa, only an WFM gathered steam and overtook Zhansaya to win the
World Junior Girls title by a clear half point margin. Drawn games became the order of the day
in the lead boards of girls. India’s IM G.Akash finished 9th in the Open section and J.Saranya
finished 20th in the Girls section.India can hope to get better results in 2016 when this event
will be held in Bhubaneswar, in the east coast of India next year.
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 Contd. from p.22
Alexander Grischuk is World Blitz Champion the end of the penultimate round. In the
Alexander Grischuk from Russia emerged winner last round both Manigandan and Joy Lazar
of the 2015 FIDE World Blitz Chess Championship won their game against Vinothkumar and
after concluding the event with 15,5/21 points, Muthuhareeswaran respectively and tied
half a point ahead of the nearest followers. for the first prize with 8 points. But better
Grischuk started the day with a loss to Teimour tie break score helped Manigandan won the
Radjabov, but then he switched gear and had a tournament. In non medalist section, Vadivel
of Thoothukudi collected 8.5 points and
furious finish of 8 points from nine last rounds.
become the champion.
This is Grischuk's third World Blitz title, but he Final ranking: 42 Jayashri K K 6
said this one was the most difficult to win, due to Rk Name Pts
a very strong field and more demanding Swiss tournament system. 1 Manigandan S S 8
On the shared second place are Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and Vladimir Kramnik with 15 points 2 Joy Lazar M.A. 8
each. After breaking the tie Vachier-Lagrave is awarded with the silver medal, while Kramnik 3 Aadhityaa M 7½
claimed the bronze. 4 Ram S. Krishnan 7½
5 Nishvin J 7
The overnight leader Vachier-Lagrave had a major setback near the end of the tournament when 6 Vinodh Kumar B. 7
he lost two consecutive games. However, the last round win against Rustam Kasimdzhanov took 7 Girinath B S 7
him to the podium. Kramnik was very pleased with his result, having in mind that he planned
8 Selvamurugan B 7
to skip the Blitz Championship and rest before the European Club Cup.
9 Rajasekaran P. 7
10 Ravi Shankar A. 7
World Rapid Championship Magnus Carlsen wins FIDE 11 Dave Sneh 7
12 Natarajan M 7
Magnus Carlsen convincingly won the 2015 FIDE World
13 Francis N. P. 6½
Rapid Chess Championship by concluding the event with
14 Shakthi Vishal J 6½
11,5/15 points, a full point ahead of the nearest followers.
15 Aswin Kumar B S 6½
Carlsen retained the title that he won in in 2014 in Dubai,
16 Prasant N Nayagam 6½
UAE.
17 Uma Maheswaran P 6½
18 Kamalanathan R 6½
In the final third day of competition Carlsen started with
19 Ruban Sanjay M 6½
two wins, against Zhigalko and Ivanchuk respectively,
20 Rajeev V M 6½
to secure a firm lead ahead of the rest of the field. With
21 Sathish Chandra G 6½
three draws in the final rounds he maintained the gap and brought the trophy home.
22 Muthu Hareeswaran S 6½
On the shared second place are Ian Nepomniachtchi, Teimour Radjabov and Leinier Dominguez
with 10,5 points each. After breaking the tie Nepomniachtchi is awarded with the silver medal, 23 Balasankar M 6½
while Radjabov claimed the bronze. 24 Charan N 6½
In the final press conference Magnus Carlsen said: "It is important not to let the results affect you 25 Arivu Selvan A S 6½
too much and you shouldn't be afraid of draws when you play in a tournament of 15 rounds.", 26 Dheekshith Kumar R 6
and added, "There were many games which could have gone either way for me, but I always 27 Arun Kumar P 6
had a little more time and a little bit of control of position." 28 Dharmaraj P. 6
The 2015 FIDE World Rapid Chess Championship was held from 10-12th October at the Bolle 29 Rajashakkthivel K K 6
Meierei in Berlin, Germany, with 158 world's top players competing for the prestigious title and 30 Arun R U 6
200,000 USD prize fund. 31 Bharkavi S 6
photos & Report courtesy:fide.com 32 Narayanan P 6
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33 Aravinth Shanmugam S 6
34 Muthu Rakesh Babu 6
35 Roshan R 6
36 Abirami S 6
37 Sanjay Sreekandan 6
38 Virgil Jebas J 6
39 Suryaa S S 6
40 Achuthan K 6
41 Senbabu M B 6
43 A Noah Fernando S 6
44 Dhanusha S 6
45 L Ishwaryaa 6
46 Hari Varshan S R 6
47 Ebnesar Anto A 6
48 Gayathri M 6
49 Jai Priya K 6
50 Achaya Vijayan 6
51 Genish Prakash J 5½
52 Godson Merlin E 5½
53 Nithin A V 5½
54 Suganthan S 5½
55 Subbhu Karthick S M 5½
56 Sibi Visal R 5½
57 Meyyappan M 5½
58 Richis Jesvanth Julius 5½
59 Mithesh M 5½
60 Selvaraj Yesudasan V 5½
61 Iniyan S 5½
62 Aadhisan Balakrishnan 5½
63 Harikrishna R 5½
64 Ajithkumar Murugan 5½
65 Sriram S 5½
66 P Samuthura Pandi 5½
67 Devadharshini C 5½
68 Vivekanandhan S 5½
69 Sangeethaa S 5½
70 Ram Kumar G M 5
71 Karunakaran M 5
72 Santhosh Kumar G 5
73 Kalidass C. 5
74 Lenin A G 5
75 Shanjay Krishnaa S 5
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 Fomento All India Fide Rating Chess Tournament 2015, Goa…
Sameer Kathmale wins
FA Arvind Mhamal,Chief Arbiter
It gives me immense pleasure in presenting
this report of Fomento All India Fide Rat-
ing Chess Championship 2015 organized by
Rudreshwar Panaji under the aegis of Goa
Chess Association , Tiswadi Taluka Chess
Association and All India Chess Federation.
The tournament was held from 29th Aug to
2nd Sept 2015 at the Institute Menenzes
Braganza Hall Panaji Goa. A total of 221
participants took part in this tournament
which included 2 IM’s 2 FM’s 1 CM and 2
WCM’s .I would like to congratulate the or-
ganizers for providing AC Hall to play and
successfully conducting this tournament.
Organizers provided tea , snacks and wa-
ter to the players and parents during the
rounds.
There were altogether 25 main prizes,
apart from category prizes from U-7 to
U-15 Boys. Total prize fund was Rs 2 lakhs.
IM Sameer Katmale of Railways won the
championship. He scored 8 points out of 9
rounds. FM Sauravh Khardekar of Railways
stood 2nd with the score of 7.5 points while
Raghav Srivatsav of Telangana finished 3rd
with 7.5 points.
The conduct of all the players remained
excellent throughout the tournament and
there was no dispute or any protest. Shri
Uday Balikar, Ex Principal, Damodar High-
er Secondary & representative,Fomento
group of companies, Kishor Bandek-
a r S s e c r e t a r y, G C A . A r v i n d M h a m a l ,
Chief Arbiter, Shri. Deepak Amonker
President,Rudreshwar Panaji, Shri. Satish
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26 Mendonca Leon Luke 6 70 Abhay V Nadgouda 5
27 Trivedi Karan R 6 71 Singh Kartik Kumar 5
28 Patil Samiksha 6 72 Sahil Dayanand Desai 5
29 Shah Rishab 6 73 Urvi Bandekar 5
30 Shah Bhaven Jay 6 74 Karra Abhinav 5
31 Dutta Debarghya 6 75 Shah Hard Nikeshkumar 5
Narvekar, Secretary Rudreshwarpanaji.
32 Jaisingh Anugraha 6 76 Bhonsale Gayatri Harshad 5
Sangam Chodankar, Sports Secretary Ru-
33 Samant Aditya S 6 77 Aayush Prabhu 5
dreshwar Panaji were the dignitaries.
34 Advait Rajiv Dhawalikar 6 78 Eeshan Gad 5
35 Aryan Shamrao Raikar 6 79 Patni Adeesh 5
At the closing ceremony Shri Vinay Ten-
36 Ankit Dalal 6 80 Anurag Sandesh Adwalpalkar 5
dulkar ( President GCA) was the Chief Guest
37 Barde Om 6 81 Ishan Sanjay Pagi 5
and gave away the prizes in the presence
38 V Chandrasekaran 6 82 Bhavsar Rachay 5
of MrAkashTimblo, Mr Sanjay Harmalkar,
39 Bhobe Harsh 6 83 Siddhesh Datta Pednekar 5
DrAshwini Kumar, DipakAmonkar, Arvind-
40 Swera Ana Braganca 6 84 Harsh Mangesh Dagare 5
Mhamal, TanayKaisary, DnyaneshwarNaik
41 Amogh S Namshiker 6 85 Mahajan Ayush 5
, SatishNarvekar, and other office bearers
42 Ananya Rishi Gupta 6 86 Prajwal M Joshi 5
of RudreshwarPanaji.
43 Raheja Rohan 6 87 Pratik S Borkar 5
Final ranking:
44 Akhilesh Akshay Nigalye 5½ 88 Pednekar Sagar 5
Rk Name Pts
45 Bodke Sharmad S 5½ 89 Vikram Natraj S 5
1 Kathmale Sameer 8
46 Meet Puri 5½ 90 Aadya Yatin Gaitonde 5
2 Sauravh Khherdekar 7½
47 Chopdekar Gunjal 5½ 91 Devesh Anand Naik 5
3 Raghav Srivathsav V 7½
48 Thorat Aishwarya 5½ 92 Ayush Sanjeev Naik 5
4 Barath M 7½
49 Sahil Shetty 5½ 93 Sonawane Harsh 5
5 Sahil Tickoo 7½
50 Bhuta Hriday 5½ 94 Varun R Shastry 5
6 Dutta Joydeep 7
51 Mohan Ram E 5½ 95 Anurag Ajay Chari 5
7 Saranya Y 7
52 Shirodkar Aayush 5½ 96 Prashant Salvi 5
8 Falgun D Purohit 7
53 Thorat Sanjay 5½ 97 Shah Yesha 4½
9 Akshay V Halagannavar 7
54 Naik Snehal 5½ 98 Kuncolienkar Shivank 4½
10 Himanshu Sharma 6½
55 Gaude Sachin 5½ 99 Kavish Gharse 4½
11 Chandar Raju 6½
56 Shah Simit 5½ 100 Utsav Divecha 4½
12 Audi Ameya 6½
57 Jaeel Atharva 5½ 101 Sharath R Shanbhag 4½
13 Stanley Samson P. 6½
58 Das Annika 5½ 102 Alaina J J Pereira 4½
14 Dave Sneh 6½
59 Dwivedi Umang 5½ 103 Kaushik M Khedekar 4½
15 Viswanath Sandilya B. 6½
60 Colaco Vernon Jesus 5½ 104 Bang Atharva 4½
16 Kadav Omkar 6½
61 Morajkar Navin 5½ 105 Bharadwaj Rahul 4½
17 Cruz Wilson 6½
62 Gaayathri S 5½ 106 Sarvam Sandesh Naik 4½
18 Prabhugaonkar A Aman 6½
63 Sharma Harsh Yogesh 5½ 107 Balaji D 4½
19 Kochrekar Vishwesh 6
64 Nandhini Saripalli 5 108 Naroji Sanskriti 4½
20 Gajengi Rajababu 6 109 Shlok Dhulapkar 4½
65 Sachin Kakodkar 5
21 Jeel Shah 6 110 Gangawane Vaibhav 4½
66 Prabhu Yash 5
22 Dias Aston 6 111 Gaude Sumesh 4½
67 Siddhesh Milind Marathe 5
23 Vijay Anand M. 6 112 Arun Kumar.B 4½
68 Madhavan G 5 113 Kakodkar Love 4½
24 Sawant Tatvesh Ramdas 6
69 Bajaj Anandamayi 5 114 Sanjeev Akash 4½
25 Madkaikar Gaurav S 6
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Selected games from National
Women Challenger, Thane
Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron
Priyanka,Nutakki (2043)
Salonika,Saina (1703) [E74]
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.Be2
0–0 6.Bg5 c5 7.d5 h6 8.Be3 a6 9.Qd2 Kh7
10.f3 Qc7 [An interesting idea was tried in
M.Mueller, 2355, vs M. Hellwig, 1992: 10...
e6 11.g4 exd5 12.exd5 Qa5 13.h4 Re8 14.g5
Nh5 15.gxh6 Bf6 16.0–0–0 Bf5 17.Bd3 Bxd3
18.Qxd3 Nd7 Black eventually won.] 11.g4
e5 12.g5 [12.dxe6 Bxe6 13.0–0–0 Ne8
14.Nd5 Bxd5 15.cxd5 Nd7 16.g5 c4 17.Qc2
Rc8 18.Nh3 h5 19.Kb1 b5 20.Rc1 Qa5= with
equal chances.] 12...hxg5 13.h4!? gxh4
14.Rxh4+ Kg8 15.Nh3 [It was too early to
commit this knight to h3. Best was to castle
long: 15.0–0–0 when white has the option
of 16 f4 as well.] 15...Bxh3
Diagram # [15...Nh5?! would only add
fuel to white's fire: 16.0–0–0 b5 17.Rg1
b4 18.Nd1 b3 19.a3 Bxh3 20.Rxh3 Nf4
21.Bxf4 exf4 22.Qxf4 Qe7±] 16.Rxh3 Nh5
17.0–0–0± Nd7 18.Rg1 [Better was: 18.Bh6
Ndf6 19.Qg5 Nh7 20.Qe3 N7f6 21.Rdh1
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Rfb8 22.Qg5 Nh7 23.Qd2 N7f6²] 18...Ndf6
19.Nd1 [White plans to transfer her knight
to the king-side through a slow manoeuvre
which is taken advantage of by black. Better
was: 19.Bh6² ] 19...Rfb8! 20.Nf2 b5 21.Ng4
Nxg4 22.Rxg4
Diagram # 22...Nf4! This is a typical
manoeuvre by black in the Kings Indian
Defence. It turns out to be a winning ma-
noeuvre! She gives back her extra pawn to
give life to her dark square bishop which
plays a great role in the attack. 23.Bxf4
[White's only alternative was: 23.Rh1³ ]
23...exf4 24.b3 a5! Threatening ...a4 and
the complete destruction of white's queen-
side. 25.cxb5 a4! 26.Bc4 axb3 27.Bxb3 [27.
axb3?? Ra1+ 28.Kc2 Ra2+ wins the queen.]
27...c4! [27...Rxb5! was even more power-
ful.] 28.Qc2 Diagram #
Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron
28...cxb3!! 29.axb3 [29.Qxc7 bxa2! and If 19...Rg5 20.Rad1 Rd8 21.f4 Rxe5
black's a-pawn queens come what may!]
29...Ra1+ 30.Kd2 Qa5+! 31.Kd3 Qxb5+
32.Qc4 [If 32.Kd2 Qb4+ 33.Ke2 Qe1+
34.Kd3 Qe3+ 35.Kc4 Qd4#] 32...Qxb3+!
33.Qxb3 Rxb3+ [33...Rxb3+ 34.Kc4 Rab1!
and ....Rc3# could only be temporarily
prevented by meaningless sacrifices.(or,
34...Rc3+ 35.Kb4 Rb1+ 36.Ka4 Rc8 mat-
ing.) ] 0–1
Sachdev,Tania (2413)
Vaishali,R (2276) [A57]
(Position after 19.Ne5)
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 c5 3.d5 b5 4.cxb5 a6 5.e3 e6 22.fxe5 dxe3 23.Qb2 Rd2 24.Rxd2 exd2
6.Nc3 exd5 7.Nxd5 Bb7 8.Nxf6+ Qxf6 9.Nf3 25.Qc3±; black's best choice seems to be:
Be7 10.Be2 0–0 11.bxa6 Nxa6 12.Bd2 d5 19...Re4 20.Bf3 Rxe5 21.Bxe5 Bxf3 22.gxf3
[A 1973 game between Portisch and Cio- Qg6+ 23.Bg3 h5 24.Kh1 Qf5=] 20.hxg3
caltea went: 12...Qe6 13.0–0 Nc7 14.a3 Ng5 21.Nf3 Rd8 22.Nxg5 Bxg5 23.Rad1
Be4 15.b4 Bf6 16.Rc1 Rxa3 17.Rxc5²] Re8 [Black shifts her focus to the pinned e3
13.Bc3 Qh6 14.0–0 Nc7?! [The immediate pawn. If 23...dxe3?? 24.Qxd8+] 24.Qc2+-
14...Bd6 pointing the bishop at white's dxe3? Diagram
c a s t l e d p o s i t i o n wa s b e s t . ] 1 5 . Q d 2
Ra4?! [Such early rook manoeuvres in
the middle-game have been seen at
World Championship matches - Kasparov
against Karpov in Leningrad 1986 and
Carlsen against Anand in Chennai 2013.
Both times the manoeuvres escaped
unscathed though technically they are
considered unsound. But here black did
not escape the consequences. 15...Bd6
would have limited white to only a mini-
mal advantage.] 16.b3 Rg4 [Black persists
in her high risk manoeuvre. She still had
time to get back to normal chess with: 25.Qxc5? [White could win without any
16...Ra7 ] 17.Be5 Ne6 18.Bg3 [As black problem after: 25.f4! Be7 26.Bc4 Qc6
is threatening d5-d4 taking advantage of 27.Rfe1 Bf6 28.Bd5+-] 25...exf2+ 26.Rxf2
the unprotected queen on d2, it was best Be3 27.Qf5 Bxf2+ 28.Qxf2 Be4? [Better
for black to complete her development with: was: 28...Ba6 29.Bf3 Bc8 and white no
18.Rfd1 ] 18...d4 19.Ne5! Diagram # 19... longer has the winning advantage that
Rxg3 [Panic or a belief that she is winning? she had earlier.] 29.Bc4! Bg6 30.Qc5 [30.
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Qf4 Qxf4 31.gxf4 Kf8 32.a4 and white is
winning.] 30...Bh5 31.Rf1 Rf8 32.a4 Qg6?
Diagram #
[This loses instantly, but the best defence
also loses: 32...Bg6 33.a5 Qd2 34.a6
Qd7 35.Bd5 Rc8 36.Qd4+-] 33.Rxf7 Qxf7
[If 33...Rxf7?? 34.Qc8# Black resigned
without waiting for 34 Qxh5! after which
she will be a rook down.] 1–0
Bhakti,Kulkarni (2256)
Rucha,Pujari (2156) [D10]
1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.cxd5 cxd5 4.Bf4 Nc6
5.Nc3 Nf6 6.e3 Bf5 7.Qb3 Na5 8.Qa4+
Bd7 9.Bb5 e6 10.Bxd7+ Nxd7 11.Nf3 a6
12.0–0 b5 13.Qd1 Rc8 14.a4 b4 15.Ne2
Be7 16.Qd3 Qb6 17.Rfc1 [D.Moldovan
(2409) - H.Hamdouchi (2559), in 2005
went: 17.Rac1 0–0 18.b3 Qb7 19.Qb1 h6
20.Nd2= The game was drawn.] 17...0–0
18.b3 Qb7 [18...Bd6! challenging the Bf4
was equal.] 19.Nd2 Rxc1+ 20.Rxc1 Rc8
21.Rxc8+ Qxc8 22.f3 Qc6 23.e4 dxe4 [It
was best to leave the centre alone and
relocate her knight on a5 as it will become
a liability there: 23...Nb7= ] 24.fxe4 Dia-
gram # 24...e5?! this is a thrust that is
good in normal situations, but not with a
pawn hanging on a6.
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25.dxe5 Qc5+?! [¹25...Nc5 26.Qd5 Qxd5
27.exd5 Naxb3 28.Nxb3 Nxb3=] 26.Kh1
Nxe5 27.Qxa6 Ng4 [This is unwise as the
knight is bound to be kicked away with h2-
h3 leaving white with the advantage. ¹27...
Ng6 28.g3 (28.Bg3 Qe3=) 28...Nxf4 29.gxf4
Qe3=] 28.h3 Nf2+ 29.Kh2± h5 30.Ng3 Dia-
gram #
30...h4?! [¹30...g6 denying the white
knight a post on f5.] 31.Nf5 Bf6 32.Be3
Qe5+ 33.Kg1 Nd1 [33...Nxe4?? 34.Qa8+
Kh7 35.Qxe4+-] 34.Bd4 Qf4 35.Bxf6
Qf2+ 36.Kh1 Qxd2 37.Bxg7! Nf2+ [The
alternative would lead to a straight mate:
37...Qe1+ 38.Kh2 Nf2 39.Qc8+ Kh7
40.Qh8+ Kg6 41.Qh6#] 38.Kh2 Qf4+
39.Kg1 Diagram #
39...Kh7 [Destroying the pawn which sup-
ports the Nf5 makes no difference either! 39...
Qxe4 40.Qc8+ Kh7 41.Qh8+ Kg6 42.Qh6+
Kxf5 43.Qf6#] 40.Qc8 Kg6 41.Ne7+ Kxg7
42.Qg8+ Kh6 [42...Kf6 43.Nd5+ forks king
and queen.] 43.Nf5+ Kh5 44.Qh7+ If 44...
Kg5 45 Qh6# 1–0
Soumya,Swaminathan (2363)
Vaishali,R (2276) [C45]
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 exd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6
5.Nxc6 bxc6 6.e5 Qe7 7.Qe2 Nd5 8.c4
Nb6 9.Nc3 Bb7 10.Bf4 0–0–0 11.0–0–0
g5 12.Bg3 Bg7 13.Re1 [P.Rewitz (2285) vs
D.Pedersen (2230) 1994 went: 13.h4 Rde8
14.hxg5 Qxg5+ 15.Rd2 Bxe5 16.Rh5 Bxg3
17.Rxg5 Rxe2 18.Nxe2 Bxf2 19.Rd3 Nxc4
Black has a clear advantage as he has three
pawns for the sacrificed exchange. He went
on to win.] 13...Rde8 14.Qe3 Diagram #
14...Qe6 [An interesting alternative is: 14...
Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron
f5 15.f4 gxf4 16.Bxf4 c5 17.Bd3 Bxg2 18.Rhg1
Bc6 19.Qh3 Rhf8 20.Qxh7 Bxe5 21.Qxe7
Bxf4+ 22.Kc2 Rxe7 23.Rxe7 Bxh2 24.Rgg7
Kb7 25.Ref7] 15.Bd3! h5 [Black should not
open up her position for the white pieces to
pour in. For example, if 15...Nxc4? 16.Qxa7
c5 (16...Nxe5?? 17.Ba6 Bxa6 18.Qa8#)
17.f3 h5 18.Nb5!? Nxe5 19.Qa5 Qb6
20.Qxb6 cxb6 21.Nd6+±] 16.Ne4
Diagram # 16...g4?! [Perhaps better was:
16...Bh6 17.Nxg5 Nxc4 18.Nxe6 Nxe3
19.fxe3 fxe6 20.Bg6 Ref8 21.Bxh5 c5
22.Rhg1 Bxe3+ 23.Rxe3 Rxh5 and white is
only slightly better.] 17.Nc5 Qe7 18.Bf4 f6?
[18...Kb8 was a good, safe move, throwing
the onus of taking advantage on white.]
19.exf6?! [Stronger was: 19.e6! d5 (or 19...
d6 20.Nxb7 Kxb7 21.h3±) 20.Qd4 dxc4
21.Bf5 Kb8± White has a crushing posi-
tion.] 19...Bxf6 20.Qxe7 Rxe7 21.Rxe7 Bxe7
22.Nxb7 Kxb7 23.h3! Diagram #
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Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron
White has a majority of pawns on the king-
side and she correctly initiates action there.
23...Bc5? [This practically loses the game. A
good counter-attacking possibility which of-
fered chances for black was: 23...Rf8 24.Be3
d5 25.hxg4 hxg4 26.Rh7 dxc4 27.Be2 Nd5
28.Bxg4 Nxe3 29.fxe3 Rf1+ 30.Bd1 Bg5
31.Rh3 Bf6²; Another major alternative was:
23...Rg8 24.hxg4 hxg4 25.Rh5 d5 26.cxd5
cxd5 27.Rh7 Nc8 28.Bf5 Rf8 29.Bxc8+ Kxc8
30.g3 Bd6 31.Bxd6 cxd6 32.Rxa7 Rxf2 and
again, white has only a minimal advan-
tage.] 24.hxg4 Rf8 25.Bh6! Rxf2 26.gxh5
Rxg2 27.Bd2 Bd4 28.b3?! [After this tame
defence, white has to work some more to
win. She should boldly take the short cut
to victory by playing 28.h6! probably she
feared, unnecessarily, the tactic 28...Bxb2+
29.Kxb2! Rxd2+ 30.Kc3 Rf2 31.h7 and black
must give up her rook to stop the pawn from
queening.] 28...d5 29.h6 dxc4 30.bxc4 Nd7
31.h7 Bh8 Now white's problem is how to
prod the black bishop out of the h8 corner.
Thanks to her 28th move, she cannot play
Bc3. 32.Kc2 Nc5? [This loses quickly. How-
ever, if 32...Kb6 33.Be4 Rg3 preventing
Bc3. 34.Bf5 Nf6 35.Rb1+ Kc5 36.Rb8+-]
33.Rb1+! Ka6 34.Bf5! The focus has sud-
denly changed from queening the h-pawn
to mating the king with Bc8! 1–0
Vaishali,R (2276)
Michelle Catherina,P (2220) [A07]
1.Nf3 d5 2.g3 Bg4 3.Bg2 Nd7 4.d4 Ngf6
5.Ne5 Bf5 6.c4 e6 7.Nc3 c6 8.0–0 Bd6
9.Bf4 Qb8 [This is an improvement over a
little known 2003 game which went: 9...
Qc7 10.cxd5 exd5 11.Rc1 Bxe5 12.dxe5
Nxe5 13.Qd4 Nfd7 14.Nxd5 Qd6 15.e4 Bg6
16.Bxe5 Nxe5 and white won.] 10.cxd5
exd5 11.Qb3 Nxe5 [Sometimes the urge
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to immediately engage the opponent in
mid board is very overpowering. After this
premature skirmish, black is always on
the back foot, trying to equalise by getting
back her pawn. Best here was to complete
development by castling: 11...0–0 12.Nxd7
Bxd7 13.Bxd6 Qxd6 14.Qxb7 Rfb8 15.Qa6
Rxb2 16.Rab1 Qb4=] 12.dxe5 Bxe5 13.Bxe5
Qxe5 14.Qxb7 0–0 15.Qxc6 Rac8 16.Qb5!
White attacks the d5 pawn to stay one
jump ahead of black. 16...Rb8 17.Qa5 Rxb2
18.Rad1 [Better 18.Nxd5 Nxd5 19.Bxd5!
Rxe2 20.Rae1!] 18...Be6? Diagram #
[This tame move allows white to vigor-
ously add heat to the conflict in the centre.
Somewhat better was the complicated
aggressive defence: 18...Bg4 19.h3 Bxe2
20.Rfe1 Rc2 21.Nxd5 Nxd5 22.Rxd5 Qf6
23.Qxa7 Bc4 24.Ra5 and white has man-
aged to cling to her extra pawn.] 19.e4
Qh5 With this move, black surrenders her
d5 pawn, but hopes to stir up complica-
tions in white's castled position. 20.exd5
Bh3 21.Qa3 [better was: 21.Rb1 Bxg2
22.Kxg2 Rd2 23.Rbd1 Rc2 24.h3²] 21...
Rfb8?! [Equalising was: 21...Rc2 22.Qb3
Bxg2 23.Kxg2 Qf5 24.h3 Rc8= Black has
enough counter-play for her pawn minus.]
22.Rfe1 [22.Qxa7! winning a second pawn
would have sealed black's fate.] 22...h6
23.Ne4! Nxe4 24.Bxe4 Bg4 25.Rd3 Qg5?
[¹25...Bf5 26.Bf3 Qg6 27.Rde3 Qb6±]
26.Qxa7!+- Qf6 27.d6 Rb1 28.Rxb1 Rxb1+
29.Kg2 Diagram #
29...Bh3+! [An ingenious attempt to turn
the tables on her redoubtable adversary!
Blocking white's mating set up is not that
easy. If 29...g6? 30.d7!] 30.Kxh3 Qe6+!
31.Kg2 Qxe4+ 32.Rf3 Diagram #32...Qe1?
[It is just possible that black overlooked that
white's 32 Rf3, besides defending against
the check also helped white in attacking f7.
After this weak move Black loses by force.
Surprisingly she could now either win or gain
the upper hand with: 32...Qc4!! Defending
f7 and threatening 33...Qf1# 33.Qa8+ Kh7
34.Kh3 (White gets better
defensive resources with 34.g4 f5! 35.Rb3
Qxg4+ 36.Rg3 Qd1³) 34...Qf1+ 35.Kg4 (35.
Kh4 g5+ 36.Kg4 Qc4+ 37.Kh5 Rh1 38.h4
Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron
Qxh4+! 39.gxh4 Rxh4#) 35...Rb4+! 36.Rf4
(36.Kf5? Qb5+) 36...h5+ 37.Kh4 (37.Kxh5
Qh3+ 38.Kg5 f6+) 37...Rb5! 38.Qd8 (after
38.Qe4+ Kh6 and g7-g5+ will win.) 38...
g5+–+] 33.Qxf7++- Kh8 34.Qf8+ Kh7
35.Qf5+ Kh8 36.Qc8+ Kh7 37.Qc2+ Kg8
38.Qc4+ Kh7 39.Qd3+ Kg8 40.d7 Qg1+
41.Kh3 1–0
Ivana Maria,Furtado (2236)
Mohota,Nisha (2277) [A41]
1.d4 d6 2.e4 g6 3.Be3 Bg7 4.Qd2 a6 5.f3 Nd7
6.Nc3 c6 7.h4 h6?! [L. Kubacsny (2382) vs
Z.Szabo 1999 was drawn after: 7...h5 8.Nh3
b5 9.Nf2 Nb6=] 8.h5! g5 9.f4?! [This is all out
war! A more positional way of playing was:
9.Nge2 b5 10.Ng3 Nb6 11.0–0–0 Rb8 12.b3]
9...gxf4 10.Bxf4 c5! 11.dxc5 [After 11.d5 b5
12.Nf3 Qa5 black has a comfortable posi-
tion.] 11...Nxc5 12.e5 Qb6 [Black can seize
the advantage with: 12...Ne6! 13.Bg3 Bxe5
14.Bxe5 dxe5 15.Qxd8+ Nxd8 16.Nd5 Rb8!µ]
13.0–0–0 Be6 14.Nd5 [14.exd6 0–0–0 15.Qe1
exd6=] 14...Bxd5 15.Qxd5 Rd8 [¹15...Ne6!
16.Bh2 dxe5 17.Qd7+ Kf8 18.Qa4 e4 19.c3
Nf6³] 16.Rh3 dxe5! Diagram # [If 16...e6
17.Qc4 Bxe5 18.Bxe5 dxe5 19.Rxd8+ Kxd8
20.Rc3 Nd7 21.Qc8+ Ke7 22.Nh3 e4 23.Be2
Qa5 24.a3 Qe5=
However white seems to have a strangle-
hold over the eighth rank with the black Rg8
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and Ng8 unable to devlop. The moment white
captures Qxb7, then comes Ngf6=] 17.Qxd8+
Qxd8 18.Rxd8+ Kxd8 19.Be3 Nd7 20.Rg3! Bf6
[After this move, where can his Ng8 be devel-
oped? The strange, 'undeveloping' move 20...
Bf8! reserving the f6 square for his Ng8 would
have given black an advantage.] 21.Bd2 e6 This
provides the much needed square for her Ng8 to
enter the game. But the knight never got there!
22.Ba5+ Kc8 23.Nh3 e4? [23...Ne7!] 24.Rg4
Diagram # 24...Bg5+? After this unfortunate
move giving up her extra pawn for no appar-
ent reason, black, instead of capitalising on
her extra pawn, suddenly finds herself de-
fending an undefendable position! 25.Nxg5
hxg5 26.Rxg5 f5 [After 26...Ne7! 27.g4 Rh7
white is only slightly better.] 27.Bc4! This
is a winning move. 27...Ngf6 [If 27...Nf8
28.Bc3! Nh7 29.Bxe6+ and 30 Rxg8 wins.]
28.Bxe6 f4 29.Rf5! Kb8
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Diagram # 30.Bc3! [After 30.Bc3 Rh6
31.Rxf4 Nxh5 32.Bxd7! Nxf4 33.Be5++- The
awesome power of the two bishops!] 1–0
Pujari,R (2156)
Pratyusha,B (2244) [D10]
1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.cxd5 cxd5 4.Nc3 Nf6
5.Bf4 Nc6 6.e3 Bf5 7.Qb3 Na5 8.Qa4+ Bd7
9.Bb5 Nc6 10.Qd1 e6 11.h3 a6 12.Bd3 b5
13.Nge2 Na5 14.b3 Ba3 15.Qd2 Qe7 16.0–0
Qb4 17.Rad1 Rc8 18.f3 Bc6 19.Nb1 Qxd2
20.Rxd2 Bb4 21.Rc2 0–0 22.Rfc1 Bb7 23.Kf2
Rxc2 24.Rxc2 Rc8 25.Rxc8+ Bxc8 26.Bc7
Nc6 27.a3 Be7 28.e4 Kf8 29.Ke3 Ke8 30.g4
Kd7 31.Bb6 h6 32.e5! Diagram # So far the
game has been either dead level or very
slightly better for white. Only after this pawn
thrust does white have a durable but slight
advantage as she controls more board room.
From now onward the
more experienced player with the white piec-
es gradually turns the position into a win-
ning one. 32...Ne8 33.b4! Slowly, white gets
more space while black gets less and less!
33...g5 [A better way to challenge white's
growing ascendancy in space was: 33...f6
34.f4 g5 35.f5 Ng7 36.exf6 Bxf6 37.Nbc3
Ne7 38.fxe6+ Nxe6 39.a4 bxa4 40.Nxa4 Kc6
41.Bc5²] 34.f4 (intending 35 f5) 34...gxf4+
35.Nxf4 Bg5?! [This is not such a great idea
as the sequel would show. Better was to ad-
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dress the space problem head on with: 35... 51.Be3 b4 52.Bg6! Ke7 53.h5 Kf8 54.h6 Bb7
f6 36.Ng6 fxe5 37.Nxe5+ Nxe5 38.dxe5 Kc6 55.Kc5! b3 56.Kb6 d4 57.Bxd4 Bf3 58.a6 b2
39.Bd4 Nc7 40.Kf3 Na8 41.Be3 Bg5 42.h4 59.a7
Bxh4 43.Bxh6 Nb6 44.g5 but the woes of
lack of space continue.] 36.Nd2 f6 37.Nf3
fxe5 38.dxe5 Bb7 39.h4 Be7 40.Bg6 Ng7
41.Bf7 [Though this keeps black's knight
pinned to the defence of her e6. it is not as
effective as 41.Nd3 a5 42.bxa5 Bxa3 43.h5
(threatening the winning 44 g5! But such
small inaccuracies do not harm white's pros-
pects as she has such a tremendous space
advantage.)] 41...a5?! Diagram # [Kept
under restraint for long in a cramped game,
black lashes out on the queen-side. But this White's plan is to play Kb6-c7-b8 and then
only aggravates her woes. She had an in- push a7-a8=Q winning. 1–0
teresting bishop sacrifice which would have
given her two pawns and some play: 41... Swathi Ghate (2279)
Bxh4!? 42.Nxh4 Nxe5 43.Bd4! Nc4+ 44.Kd3 G.Lasya (1955) [B23]
e5 45.Ba1 d4 46.Bxd4 exd4 47.Bxc4 bxc4+ 1.e4 c5 2.Nc3 Nc6 3.Nge2 d6 4.g3 g6 5.Bg2
48.Kxc4 and white will have to work long Bg7 6.0–0 e6 7.d3 Nge7 8.Be3 Nd4 9.Qd2
and hard to make her extra pawn count.] 0–0 10.Nd1 Rb8 11.Nc1 b5 12.c3 Ndc6
13.d4 cxd4 14.cxd4 d5 15.e5 Nf5 16.Nc3
Bd7 [Black should attack the apex of white's
pawn chain: 16...f6 17.f4 b4 18.N3e2 Nxe3
19.Qxe3 Na5 20.b3 Ba6³ Black has the freer
game and no problems.] 17.N3e2 b4 18.Bg5
[This only encourages black to play what she
intends to do, attack the e5 pawn. Better
was to restrain black by moving: 18.Bf4 ]
18...f6 19.exf6 Bxf6 20.Bxf6 Qxf6= 21.Nb3
42.bxa5 Bxa3 43.Nd3± Ba8 Bracing against
Nc5+ and not wishing to exchange her dark
square bishop for a knight. 44.Nd4 Nxd4
45.Kxd4 Be7 46.Nc5+ Bxc5+ 47.Bxc5 h5
48.Bf8! [This squashes black's dreams of
drawing with opposite colour bishops in this
ending. Even that would show that white still
wins: 48.Bxh5 Nxh5 49.gxh5 Ke8 50.a6 Kf7
51.Bb4+-] 48...hxg4 49.Bxg7 g3 50.Bh6! g2
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Diagram # 21...Rf7 [The bishop is sort
of vulnerable on d7. It could be re-lo-
cated to a6 when necessary by moving
it to 21...Bc8 22.Rac1 Rb6 23.Rfd1 Nd6
24.Nf4 g5 25.Nh3 h6=] 22.Rad1 Nd8
23.Nf4 g5 24.Nd3
Bb5 [With his g5 hanging black cannot con-
tinue: 24...Nxd4 25.Nxd4 Qxd4 26.Qxg5+
Rg7 27.Qh5²] 25.Rfe1 Bxd3 26.Qxd3 Nc6
27.Bh3 Ng7 [This withdrawal was not
necessary. 27...Rc8 28.Rc1 Rff8 29.f4
gxf4 30.Bxf5 Qxf5 31.Qxf5 exf5 32.gxf4
a5=] 28.Qe3 Re8 29.Rc1 Ne7? [The sec-
ond knight also goes back. Unnecessarily!
¹29...e5 30.Qd2 e4 31.Rc5 Rd8=] 30.Rc2
Nef5 31.Qd2 a5 32.Re5
32...Qg6 [If 32...a4?! 33.Nc5 Qg6
34.Bxf5 Rxf5 35.Re1 b3 36.axb3 axb3
37.Nxb3 e5 38.dxe5 Rfxe5 39.Rxe5 Rxe5
40.Nd4± White is nearly winning.] 33.Rc6
g4 34.Bf1! Ne7 35.Bd3 Qf6 Black's queen-
side pawns are a liabiliy and black finds it
difficult to defend them. 36.Rc2?! [¹36.Ra6±
and black's queen-side pawns collapse.]
36...a4 37.Nc1 [37.Nc5 was more aggres-
sive.] 37...Ng6 38.Bxg6 Qxg6 39.Rg5 Qe4
40.Re5 Qg6 41.Nd3 b3 [It is not possible to
defend her b4 pawn: 41...Rb8 42.Nxb4 h6
(42...Rxb4?? 43.Rc8+ Rf8 44.Rxf8+ Kxf8
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45.Qxb4+ wins.) 43.Re1±] 42.axb3 axb3
43.Rc1 [More stubborn was: 43.Rc3 Rb7
44.Rg5 Qh6 45.Qf4 Rf7 46.Qxg4 White's
domination is total.] 43...Ref8 44.Nf4 Qh6
45.Rc6 Ra7 46.Qd1 Rxf4 47.gxf4 Qxf4
48.Qxb3! White's counter-attack cannot be
stopped. 48...Qxd4 49.Qb8+! Kf7 50.Rc3
Re7 Diagram
White has the equivalent of a rook for knight
and pawn. She has the advantage, but victory
is far, far away. Perhaps black overstepped the
time limit after this plucky fight. 1–0]
Gomes,Mary Ann (2353)
Mohanty,Kiran Monisha (2146)
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.Bb5+ Nd7 4.0–0 Ngf6
5.Re1 a6 6.Bd3 e5 7.a4 b6 8.c3 This is a new
idea in this position. White wants to pull back
her Bd3 to c2 and then play d2-d4. 8...g6
9.Bc2 Bg7 10.d4 0–0 11.Na3 Bb7 12.d5 b5
[Black's pawn configuration indicates that
the thrust f7-f5 is in order. In the game this
move never happens. We give the variation
that could have been tried in this respect:
12...Ne8 13.Bg5 f6 14.Bd2 Qe7 15.c4 f5
with many opportunities and resources for
black.] 13.Be3 By moving her bishop to e3,
white protects her Ra1 with her queen. She
is threrefore threatening 14 axb5 winning
a pawn. Black's reply is forced. 13...bxa4
14.Nc4 Nb6
Diagram # 15.Nfd2 [If 15.Na5 Bc8! 16.Bc1
(This preliminary move is necessary for white
as she intends playing Nfd2 but fears black's
Nfg4 capturing her good, dark square bishop
on e3.) 16...Bd7 17.Nd2 Bb5 18.c4 Bd7 and
black's a4 pawn will cause trouble for white.]
15...a5 [If 15...Bc8 16.h3 (This prevents ....
Ng4 targeting her Be3.) 16...Nxc4 17.Nxc4
Qc7 18.Rxa4 Bd7²] 16.Nxb6 Qxb6 17.Rxa4
Qc7 [Picking the b2 pawn was extremely
risky: 17...Qxb2? 18.Nc4 Qb5 (18...Qxc3
19.Bd2 Qd4 20.Qc1! and the threat of 21 Nb6
wins the queen.) 19.Nxd6 Qb6 (or 19...Qa6
20.Bxc5+-) 20.Nc4 Qc7 21.Qa1+-] 18.f3 Nd7
19.Qe2 The quickest way to get her Re1 into
play on the queen-side! 19...Ba6 20.c4 Rfb8
Black sees white's backward pawn on b2 and
plans to exchange it for her a5 pawn which
will soon be under threat. So she forgets about
king-side operations by f7-f5 and swings her
rook to the queen-side. 21.b3 Rb4 Diagram
Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron
[For white, the b4 square is weak. But black
need not 'occupy' that square unless she gains
some advantage. Controlling the b4 square in-
stead of occupying it was important. Curiously,
the rook never leaves b4 alive. The b4 square
is black's Waterloo in this game. Therefore
21...Bc8 came into serious consideration.]
22.Rea1 Bb7 23.R4a3! The black rook is
trapped on b4. 23...Nb6 [Black is hoping to
generate enough play by a5-a4. Best was:
23...Bc8 to keep an exit file for the troubled
Rb4. Now the rook is doomed on b4.] 24.Bd1
Bf6 A waiting move, hoping for a blunder from
white in the next move. 25.Nb1 [Not 25.Rxa5?
Rxa5 26.Rxa5 Nxd5! and black has not only
got back her pawn, but also has a slightly bet-
ter position.] 25...a4 There was no other way
of saving the pawn. 26.Bd2 Just in time, the
rook on b4 is attacked. 26...Ba6 27.Nc3 [If
27.Bxb4 cxb4 28.Rxa4 (28.R3a2 Bg5 29.Nd2
Qc5+ 30.Kh1 a3²) 28...Nxa4 29.Rxa4 Bd8
30.Kf1±] 27...axb3 28.Nb5! Bxb5 29.Rxa8+
Nxa8 30.Rxa8+ Kg7 31.Bxb4 cxb4 32.Bxb3
Diagram # [32.cxb5? Qc1!! (with the winning
threat of 33...b2) 33.Kf2 b2! 34.Bc2 Bh4+!
35.g3 Qh1 36.gxh4 Qxh2+ 37.Ke3 Qf4+
38.Kf2 (38.Kd3? Qc1 (the new threat is 39...
b1=Q! 40 Bxb1 Qc3#!) 39.Rc8 b3! 40.Bb1
Qxb1+ 41.Kd2 Qa2!!) 38...Qh2+ 39.Ke1
Qg1+ 40.Qf1 Qe3+ 41.Qe2 Qg1+ 42.Qf1 (not
42.Kd2? Qc1+ 43.Kd3 b1Q 44.Bxb1 Qc3#!)
42...Qe3+ 43.Qe2 Qg1+ draw.]
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32...Bd7 33.Qe3 The smoke has cleared
and white has emerged a clear exchange
up and in a winning position. 33...Bd8
34.Kf1 Kf6? [White is going to play 35 Qa7
exchanging queens and winning with the
advantage of the exchange. Perhaps best
was to play 34...h6 and wait for white to
reveal her hand. If white does not attack,
she should shift her king beween the two
squares - g7 and h7 - and wait. The move
played (34...Kf6) throws away the game
immediately.] 35.Qh6! The h7 pawn is
defenceless. 1–0
Michelle Catherina,P (2220)
Rucha,Pujari (2156) [C77]
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.d3
d6 6.c3 g6 7.0–0 Bg7 8.Re1 0–0 9.Nbd2 b5
10.Bc2 Bb7 11.a4 Re8 12.b4 Qd7 13.Nb3
h6 [A new strategy allowing the exchange
of rooks along the a-file. 13...Rab8 14.h3
Nh5 15.Bd2² happened in R.B.Ramesh
(2490) vs S.Kidambi in 2006. The game
was drawn.] 14.h3 Nh7 [After 14...Nh5
15.Bd2 Kh7 16.axb5 axb5 17.Rxa8 Bxa8
18.d4 exd4 19.cxd4 Nd8 white continues
to be slightly better.] 15.Bd2 f5 16.Nh4
16...f4?! [Optimistically, but unwisely, black
seeks adventure and complications. Bet-
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ter was: 16...Nf8 17.exf5 g5 18.Nf3 Qxf5
19.axb5 axb5 20.Rxa8 Bxa8 21.Nbd4 Nxd4
22.Nxd4 Qd7 would leave white with only a
minimal advantage.] 17.Nxg6 In all likeli-
hood, black had dreams of trapping this
knight. But deep in black's castled position,
the knight makes black's defence very dif-
ficult. Eventually, the knight dies, but be-
fore that it exacts a heavy toll on the black
forces. 17...Bf6 Black now controls the white
knight's only escape square, h4. 18.d4!±
With this move the white forces burst into
action. 18...Qg7 19.dxe5 dxe5 20.Qh5 Bg5
Vacating f6 for her knight so that when the
white queen retreats the Ng6 is captured.
But this is too slow. 21.Nc5!
Diagram # This is a winning counter-at-
tack. The main threat is 22 Bb3+ mating.
Simultaneously the Bb7 is under attack.
21...Nf6 22.Qd1 [A shade better was:
22.Qf3 Rad8 23.Bb3+ Kh7 24.Bxf4 exf4
25.Nxb7 Qxg6 26.Nxd8 Nxd8 27.axb5 axb5
28.e5 Nd7 29.Qd5+-] 22...Nd8 23.Nxf4?!
[This throws away much of her advantage.
Best was to play 23.h4 Qxg6 24.hxg5 Qxg5
25.axb5 axb5 26.Qe2 Rxa1 27.Rxa1 Bc6
28.Ra7 Re7 29.Qd3±] 23...Bxf4? [Better
was: 23...exf4 24.Bb3+ Kh8 25.e5 Ng8
26.Qh5 Qe7 27.Nxb7 Nxb7 28.Bd5±]
24.Bxf4 exf4 25.Nxb7 Nxb7 26.e5! This
pawn thrust wins the game. It advances
down the centre throwing the black forces
into confusion. compare the two kings.
While the white king is safe, the black king
does not have pawn cover to shield him.
26...Nd7 27.Qd5+ With this double attack
white regains her sacrificed piece. 27...Kh8
28.e6! This is stronger than the immedi-
ate capture of the Nb7. 28...Qxc3 29.Bg6
[Winning immediately was: 29.Qh5! Qxc2
(or 29...Qg7 30.exd7+-) 30.exd7] 29...
Rg8 30.exd7 Nd6 31.Bf7 [Stronger was
bringing all of her forces into the at-
tack: 31.Rac1 Qg7 32.Rxc7 Qxg6 33.Re6
Qg7 34.d8Q!+-] 31...Nxf7 32.Qxf7 Raf8
33.Qh5! Qg7 34.Qe5 Rf6 By unpinning her
queen, black renews the threat of mate
on g2. 35.Qd5 Rd6 [If 35...f3 36.g3 Rd6
37.Qxf3 Qxd7 38.axb5 axb5 39.Ra7 Rg7
40.Rc1 Rf7 41.Qc3++-] 36.Qe4 Rg6
Diagram # [White gets a clear advantage
after: 36...Rxd7 37.axb5 axb5 38.Ra8 Rf7
39.Rxg8+ Qxg8 40.Qe5+±] 37.Rad1 As
g2 is beyond saving, white accepts some
inconvenience and allows black a little bit
of fun. 37...Rxg2+ 38.Kh1! f3 [With this
move black threatens 39...Rh2+ and mate
on g2. However, if 38...Rxf2 39.Rg1 Rd2
40.Rde1+-] 39.Qxf3 Kh7 40.d8Q simplest!
1–0
Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron
Puzzle of the month
by C.G.S.Narayanan
This month’s puzzle is a rertractor in
which the solver has to find the moves
retracted last both by white and black and
after retraction also spot the black move
which helps white to mate in one move.
Dr. Julio Sunyer
The Chess Amateur, 1923
White and Black retract one move each
and thereafter black helps white to mate
the black king in one.
(solution on page 48)
Grandmaster (GM) Raymond Keene
writes that Nimzowitsch "was one of the
world's leading grandmasters for a period
extending over a quarter of a century, and
for some of that time he was the obvious
challenger for the world championship.
... [He was also] a great and profound
chess thinker second only to Steinitz, and
his works – Die Blockade,My System and
Chess Praxis – established his reputation
as one of the father figures of modern
chess."
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 Tactics from master games Test your endgame
S.Krishnan by C.G.S.Narayanan

Hugh Blandford 1949 Frantisek Prokop 1951

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

Andre Cheron 1952 Marcel Dore 1955

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

Federov 1947 Ladislav Prokes 1947

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

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Masters of the past-57 Robert Byrne RP Constructions All India Fide Rating Tournament ,Vijayawada
Robert Eugene Byrne (April 20, 1928 – April 12, 2013) was an Ameri-
can chess Grandmaster and chess author. He won the U.S. Cham-
pionship in 1972, and was a World Chess Championship Candidate
in 1974. Byrne represented the United States nine times in Chess
Olympiads from 1952 to 1976 and won seven medals. He was the
chess columnist from 1972 to 2006 for the New York Times, which
ran his final column (a recounting of his 1952 victory over David
Bronstein) on November 12, 2006. Byrne worked as a university
professor for many years, before becoming a chess professional in
the early 1970s.

Robert Byrne's first Master event was Ventnor City 1945, where he
scored a respectable 4/9 to place 8th; the winner was Weaver Adams.
He tied 1st–2nd in the Premier Reserves section at the U.S. Open
Chess Championship, Pittsburgh 1946. he represented the U.S. in
a 1950 radio match against Yugoslavia. In the Maurice Wertheim Memorial, New York 1951,
Robert Byrne scored 6/11 for a tied 6–7th place; this was a Grandmaster round-robin with 6
of the world's top 36 players, and it was won by Samuel Reshevsky. (L-R) Chief Guest Sri Devineni Uma Maheswara Rao, Hon Minister for Irrigation Govt. of AP by playing first move. Sri YD
Ramarao, President APCA presided over the function. Mr Devaram Srihari, Secretary APCA and participating kids.
Byrne became an International Master based on his results at the 1952 Chess Olympiad at
Helsinki (bronze medal on third board). In that same year he graduated from Yale University.
He went on to become a professor of philosophy at Indiana University, and his academic career
left him little time for chess. He did represent the U.S. in team matches against the Soviet
Union at New York 1954.

Byrne achieved his career highlight of third place at the Leningrad Interzonal in 1973, with
12½/17, which made him only the fourth American (after Samuel Reshevsky, Bobby Fischer,
and Pal Benko) to qualify for the Candidates Tournament (part of the world chess champion-
ship process).

When he became the columnist for the Times in 1972, he became less active as a player. He has
also been a frequent contributor to Chess Life magazine, the publication of the United States
Chess Federation. He has chaired USCF's committee on masters' affairs and been one of its
vice presidents. Byrne was inducted into the U.S. Chess Hall of Fame in 1994.

He made original contributions in several opening systems. He was the first to play 6.Be3 against
the Najdorf Variation of the Sicilian Defense (1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6
6.Be3); this system has been named for him and has been very popular since the mid-1980s.
He developed the Byrne Variation against the King's Indian Defense in the Saemisch Variation,
with a quick queenside expansion by Black. Byrne played competitively until age 74 in 2002
and he retired from writing his chess column at age 78.Byrne died in 2013 at his home in Os-
(L-R) D Srihari,Secretary APCA, T Purushothaman (second prize),Cheif Guest Sri. G V Ramarao, Krishna Industrial &
sining, New York from Parkinson’s disease. Aagricultural Exhibition Society , Meher Chinna Reddy( Winner), Sri PV Nageswarao President, The krishna Dist Chess Assn ,
Courtesy:Wikepedia
S V Srinath Rao(3rd Prize), FA Venkata Kumar G, Chief Arbiter.

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 4th Keshabananda Das Memorial tournament, Bubaneshwar...
Sri Debasis Mekap, Vice President,
KDCA; Chief Guest - Sj. Sanjay Kumar Das
Burma, Minster of State (Independent
Charge), Food supply & consumer welfare,
Employment & Technical Education &
Training; Subhasis Patnaik, Secy, KDCA; G.C.
Mohapatra, Executive Member, AOCA
Players in action 3. Shishkin,Va UKR (2513)
Champion IM Swapnil S Dhopade of
Railways receiving trophy from Chief
Guest
46
Solution to ‘Tactics from master games’ on
page 42
1. Starostits,I (2443)
Gaydym,Michail (2327) [D31]
Albena BUL Albena BUL (7.22), 23.06.2015
Black to play 40...Rc3+! 41.Kb1 41...Ra1+ 42.Kxa1
[42.Kb2 Rcc1#] 42...Rc1+ 43.Ka2 Ra1# 0–1
2. Strebkovs,A (2358)
Onturk,Senan Utku (1919) [D91]
23rd Troya Open 2015 Canakkale TUR (9.8),
15.08.2015
Position after 18th move. Diagram [#] White to play.
19.Nxf7! Bd5 [19...Qe7 20.Bc4+- b5?! 21.Qxb5
Rxf7 22.Rb1 Rb8 (22...Bc8 23.Bxf7+ Qxf7 24.Qc6)
23.Qb3+- idea 24.Rfc1. Black shall succumb to
multiple pins in due course. 23...Bf8 24.Rfc1 Bd5;
19...Rxf7 20.Bc4+-] 20.Nxd8 Bxb3 21.axb3 Rfxd8
22.Rc7+- 1–0
Mielczarski,M (2145) [D43] Kb5 10.Rb7+ wins
26th Jozef Kochan Mem Koszalin POL (2.1),
18.08.2015
White to play. 30.Rf7! [30.Rf7 Rxf7 31.Rxf7 Kxf7
32.Qxh7+ Kf8 33.Qh8+ Kf7 34.Nh6#] 1–0
4. Czebe,Attila (2439)
Gupta,Abhijeet (2619) [A05]
22nd Abu Dhabi Chess Festival Masters Abu Dhabi
(2.14), 24.08.2015
Black to play. 30...Neg4! 31.fxg4 [31.Bd4 Nxd5
32.Qd3 Qxd3 33.Rxd3 Bxd4 34.Rfd2 (34.fxg4
Bxf2 35.Rxd5 (35.Kxf2 hxg4! 36.Rd2 Nc3–+) 35...
hxg4! 36.Rd2 Be3 37.Rc2 Bxg5–+) 34...Re2+
35.Rxe2 (35.Kh3 Nf2+–+; 35.Kf1 Nh2#) 35...
Rxe2+ 36.Kf1 Rf2+ 37.Ke1 Bc3+ 38.Kd1 Nge3+
39.Kc1 Rf1+ Wins; 31.Bxf6 Nxf2 32.Bxe7 Nxd1–+]
31...Nxg4 [%cal Ge7e2] 32.Bxg7 [32.Kg1 Nxf2
33.Qxf2 Bxa1 34.Rxa1 Qxd5–+] 32...Re2 0–1
5. Arenas,D (2439)
Bachmann,Ax (2623) [C86]
17th Sants Open 2015 Barcelona ESP (6.6), 26.08.2015
White to play. 22.Nfxg7! Nxg7 [22...Bc8 23.Nxe8
Rxe8 24.Nf6++-; 22...Bd6 23.Nxe8+-] 23.Nf6+ Kg6
[After 23...Kh8 24.Bxh6 Idea Qg3-Qh4.] 24.Qg3+
[24.Qg3+ Kxf6 25.Qh4+ Kg6 26.Qxh6#] 1–0
6. Kunin,V (2571)
Ivanov,Sergey1 (2565) [D45]
30th Schwarzacher Open Schwarzach AUT (8.5),
28.08.2015
Black to play. 20...Nf4! 21.Bxf4 [21.Qc2 Rb6 22.b3
Nxc3+ 23.Bxc3 Rbc6–+] 21...Rxc3 22.Qd2 [22.
bxc3 Qb6+ Wins] 22...Rb6 23.b3 Bf5+ [Also 23...
Rcxb3+! 24.axb3 Rxb3+ 25.Kc1 (25.Ka2 Qb6)
25...Qb6–+ Wins] 24.Ka1 Rc2 25.Qe1 Re6 26.Be5
Nc3 27.Rd2 Qa5 28.Rxc2 Bxc2 29.a4 Qb4 30.Qc1
Qxb3 0–1
Solutions to ‘Test your endgame’ on page 43
1. Hugh Blandford 1949
1.Bd4+ Ka8 2.c4 Nd2 3.c5 Nb3 4.c6 Na5 5.c7
Nc6 6.c8R+ Nb8+ 7.Kd6 Kb7 8.Rc7+ Ka6 9.Ra7+
2.Prokop 1951
1.Kc7 Bd4 2.Ne4 Kb3 3.Nd6 Bc5 4.Nc8 Bf2
5.Kd7; 1…Be3 2.Ne2 Bc5 3.Nc1+ Ka3 4.Nd3 Bg1
5.Ne5
3.Andre Cheron 1952
1.Ka6 Ke2 2.Bb5+ Kf2 3.Bb6+ Kf3 4.Be8 d1Q
5.Bh5+ wins
4.Marcel Dore 1955
1.f6 Kg6 2.Ke5 Kf7 3.Kd5 Ne6 4.Kc6 Nd4+ 5.Kb6
Nf5 6.Kc5
5.Federov 1947
1.Bc5 f2 2.Bb4 f1N 3.Ne4+ Nd2 4.Kd3 Kd1
5.Nc3+ Ke1 6.Nxe2 Kd1 7.Nc3+ Ke1 8.Nd5 Kd1
9.Ne3+ wins
6.Prokes 1947
1.Kf5 Bg1 2.d6 Bc5 3.d7 Bb6 4.Ke6 Bd8 5.Kf7 Kg5
6.e6 Kf5 7.Ke8 Ba5 8.Kxe7 Ke5 9.Kf7 Kd6 10.e7
wins
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AICF Calendar October 2015
11th Telangana FIDE Rating below 1600 Oct 23 to Oct 25 Hyderabad Fomento All India Fide Rating Chess Tournament 2015, Goa…
World Youth and Cadets Championships Oct 24 to Nov 05 Greece
42nd National Women Premier Ch,ship Nov 12 to Nov 22 Kolkata
National Premier Nov 14 to Nov 28 Tamilnadu
2nd Indiana All India FIDE Rating Nov 14 to Nov 18 Nagpur
National Amateur Ch,ship Nov 15 to Nov 20 Delhi
Chess Club Live Open Fide Rated Nov 18 to Nov 22 Vadodara
All India Open Rapid FIDE Rating Nov 21 to Nov 22 New Delhi
1st Silicon City Inter-School FIDE Rating Rapid Nov 21 to Nov 22 Bangalore
All India Open Blitz FIDE rating Nov 22 to Nov 22 Delhi
Late R.B. Sapre Memorial FIDE Rating open Rapid Nov 28 to Nov 29 Ratnagiri
Late S.N.Shrivatsava and Smt.Kalavatidevi Mem.
Maharashtra State Open FIDE rating Dec 08 to Dec15 Nagpur
5th JRD Tata All India FIDE Rating Dec 09 to Dec 15 Jamshedpur
5th BBSR All India FIDE Rating for Girls and Women Dec 10 to Dec 15 Bubhaneswar
Chess for Youth Dec 17 to Dec20 Kolkata
2nd MCA FIDE Rated Bengal Junior Open Dec 20 to Dec 23 Hooghly
8th AIM All India FIDE Rated below 1800 Dec 24 to Dec 27 Namakkal L-R) ArvindMhamal , DipakAmonkar ( President Rudreshwar Panaji), FM Saurav Khardekar ( Runners Up) , Sanjay Harmalkar,
3rd Arvind Durga Open FIDE Rating Dec 24 to Dec 27 Chennai Shri Vinay Tendulkar (President GCA & BJP Goa) , IM Sameer Katmale ( Winner) , MrAkashTimblo, RaghavSrivatsav
Manipal University 1st Open FIDE rating Dec 26 to Dec 30 Manipal ( 3rd place) , Dr. Ashwini Kumar, TanayKaisary, DnyaneshwarNaik( Tournament Director) and SatishNarvekar ( Secretary
National “B”Ch,ship for the Blind Dec 26 to Dec 30 Manipal RudreshwarPanaji)
KCA 10th FIDE rating below 1500 Dec 26 to Dec 28 Kottayam
Karur Open FIDE Rated Dec 28 to Dec 31 Karur,TN
5th WBCWS FIDE Rated oprn 2015 Dec 29 to Jan 02 Kolkata 15th Adyar Times FIDE rated open chess Tournament, Chennai….
1st MCA Rating Chess Tournament below 1600 Jan 01 to Jan 03 Chennai
8th KCM FIDE Rated below 1600 Jan 01 to Jan 03 Coimbatore
1st Chitkara International School All India Open FIDE rating Jan 02 to Jan 06 Chandigarh
1st Chitkara International FIDE rating below 1600 Jan 02 to Jan 06 Chandigarh
1st Lions District 322F FIDE Rated Open Jan 04 to Jan 08 Siliguri
14th Delhi International Open2016 Category A, B and C Jan 09 to Jan 16 New Delhi
16th North East Chess Championship 2015 Jan 18 to Jan 23 Mizoram
8th Chennai Open Grandmaster Chess Tournament 2016 Jan 18 to Jan 25 Chennai

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Solution to puzzle of the month on page 41 : Black played Rh8xQh5 and white captured Winner IM Balasubramanian (ICF) receiving the trophy from the Chief Guest Shri.A.D.Ranjan, Editor and
Kg6xRh5.So with at BRh8, WQ at h5 and WK at g6 now black helps by castling and white mates publisher of Adyar Times.Other from left to right are: IA R. Balagunasekaran, Paul Arokia Raj, Chief Arbiter,
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 29th National U-13 Girls Chess Championship, Gurgaon

(L-R) Mr.Anil Parnami, Priyanka Nuttaki (Champion) , Col. D.K.Segan, Mr. T.L.Satyaprakash, IAS, Deputy
Commissioner, Mr. Raju Verma, Mr. Naresh Sharma

National Sub Junior 41st Chess Championship for boys &

32nd National Sub junior chess championship for girls 2015, Jammu

Prize-winners (L-R) Priyanka K WFM Vaishali R (TN) Priyanka K (TN) Aakanksha Hagawane(MAH)
(TN) Iniyan P (TN) Mitrabha Guha (WB) Raghunandan K.S (Karnataka) with dignitaries