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28th National Under 9 Open & Girls Chess Championship 2014,Puducherry

Sadhwani RaunakUnder-9 Open Champion

Rakshitta RaviUnder-9 Girls Champion

52nd National Challengers Chess Championship, Dharamshala, Himachal Pradesh

GM Vidit Santosh Gujrathi Winner

From the Editor’s desk

Great players leave their imprint on their favourite sport with their significant contribution to the game. The Serbian Grandmaster Dragoljub Velimirovic who passed away recently was great attacking player who left a lasting legacy in the

Velimirovic attack he fine tuned in the classical Sicilian.He was also an exceptional coach. As a tribute to this master player we present an article along with one of his exciting games in the centre pages of this issue.

India shocked the strong China in the fifth round but the latter pipped India to the team title through a tie break in the Asian Cup of Nations Team event hosted by Iran. India settled for silver in both men and women events while China won gold in both. Report and photos on this international event are also presented in the colour pages.

GM Vidit Santhosh Gujrathi won the 52nd National Challenger Chess Championship held at Dharamshala, Himachal Pradesh.Tamilnadu and Maharashtra boys and girls dominated the Nationals Under-9 Championship held at Puducherry.Sadhwani Raunak of Maharashtra and Rakshitta Ravi of Tamilnadu are the new Champs.The month of May witnessed more than 20 FIDE tournaments with a noticeable upsurge in the tournaments for lower rated players. Reports on the two National events and other FIDE rated events are featured in this issue. IM Manuel Aaron annotates a few selected games from National Team event held at Kanpur.

C.G.S.Narayanan

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28th National Under 9 Open & Girls Championship 2014, PuducherrySadhwani Raunak and Rakshitta Ravi emerge Under 9 Championsby R.R.Vasudevan, Chief Arbiter 1

52nd National Challengers Chess Championship, Dharamshala GM Vidit Santosh Gujrathi wins National Challengerby R.Srivatsan, Chief Arbiter 7

5th KACC FIDE Rated Tournament (below 2200), PuducherryBavan Kumar wins titleby R. Anantharam IA, Chief Arbiter 10

1st “Nalanda Cup” Open FIDE Rated Tournament below 2000, ShimogaSrikanth wins at Shimogaby IA Manjunatha M Chief Arbiter 12

3rd KCM (below 2000) FIDE Chess Tournament,CoimbatoreAadithyaa wins titleby .V.Vijayaraghavan IA, Chief Arbiter 13

NHPC FIDE Rated Tournament for below 1600,New Delhi Pratik Das wins NHPC FIDE Ratedby IA Gopakumar MS, Chief Arbiter 15

7th All India Open fide Rating tournament below 1800, Hyderabad Divesh is the winnerby Promodraj Moree FA, Chief Arbiter 18

5th KCA FIDE Rated Chess Championship below 1800, KottayamS Gopakumar Clinches the titleby M.Ephrame IA, Chief Arbiter 20

1st Excellent International Rating below 1600 Tournament 2014, ErnakulamDijocherian wins titleby Peter Joseph M, Chief Arbiter 21

42nd TN State Fide Rated Women’s Chess Championship 2014. TiruvarurSrija Seshadri winsby L.R.Bhuvanaa Sai IA, Chief Arbiter 27

Desai Pratishthan’s Late Shri Laxmikant V Desai Memorial All India FIDE Rating (below 1600) Tournament 2014, Goa Datta Kambli clinches titleVasanth BH – Chief Arbiter 28

1st Brainium FIDE Rated Tournament for below 1700, New DelhiKashyap wins Brainium FIDE Ratedby M.S.Gopakumar IA , Chief Arbiter 30

Ist BDCA Open FIDE Rated (below 1600) Tournament, BangaloreJagadish P wins titleVasanth BH – Chief Arbiter 32

25th CUSAT International Rating Chess Tournament, CusatRam S Krishnan is championby V.Vijayaraghavan IA, Chief Arbiter 34

Selected Games From National Team Chess, KanpurAnnotated by IM Manuel Aaron 36

Tactics from master games by S.Krishnan 42

Test your endgame by C.G.S. Narayanan 43Masters of the past - 41 44AICF Calendar June 2014 48

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28th National Under 9 Open & Girls Chess Championship 2014,Puducherry..

Sadhwani Raunak and Rakshitta Ravi emerge Under 9 Champions

by R.R.Vasudevan, Chief Arbiter

Sadhwani Raunak (Mah) and Rakshitta Ravi (TN) emerged Under 9 Champions in the 28th National Under 9 Open & Girls Chess Championship 2014 at Arumuga Thirumana Nilayam, Muthialpet, Pondicherry on 28th May, 2014. The tournament was organised by Pondicherry State Chess Association under the auspices of All India Chess Federation.

The national qualifier began on 20th May, 2014 with 170 boys and 114 girls on roll. Nagpur boy Sadhwani came a clear first scoring 9.5 points from 11 rounds, while Rakshitta tied for first with top seed Woman FIDE Master Divya Deshmukh at 10 points. A superior tie-break gave Rakshitta the Under 9 Girls Champion title ahead of Divya.

With 7/7 start Goan boy Mendonca Leon Luke looked like running away with the title. But his 8th round defeat in the hands of top seed FIDE Master Praggnanandhaa halted his dream show. Sadhwani who was at 5.5/7 came up with a spectacular 4/4 score in the home run, emerging a clear champion. He gains 19.6 Elos for his solid show, comprising of nine wins, a draw and a lone defeat in the hands of fellow Maharashtra player Rishah Chandrasekhar Gokhale.Top seed and World Under 8 Champion Praggnanandhaa dropped precious half point in the 3rd and 5th round, before he caught up with the leader Mendonca Leon Luke in the eighth round. A defeat in the hands of eventual champion Sadhwani Raunak in the very next round cost him the title. The Chennai

lad won the final two rounds that fetched him the silver medal on a tie-break ahead of Sai Pranav Siddamshetty of AP.

In the Girls section, it turned out to be a two horse race between top seed WFM Divya Deshmukh of Maharashtra and Rakshitta Ravi of Tamil Nadu. Undefeated Divya scored a hard fought win over Rakshitta in the sixth round, but she conceded two successive draws in the 7th and 8th round helped the TN girl to catch up with Divya. Scoring a whopping 10/11 Rakshitta Ravi and Divya Deshmukh emerged on top of the table, with Rakshitta taking the title on better tie-break. In addition to title, Rakshitta gains 42.6 Elo rating points.

Thus chess power-houses Tamil Nadu and Maharashtra swapped Gold and Silver medals in both the sections. The children fought well on all the rounds despite the stifling heat of the summer. On many an occasion the lower board games went the full distance. The team of Arbiters who facilitated the smooth conduct of the event were : Deputy Chief Arbiter -:IA Muthu Kumar M (5008255), IA Balagunashekaran RK (25018043), IA Ganesh Babu S (5029180), FA Nadaradjane S(25061208), FA Anandh Babu VL(5046351),FA Kathiravan M (5034922), NA Arulmozhi C (25061186),NA Vasudevan S (5002052).

Shri.T.Thyagarajan, Hon’ble Minister for Electricity, was the Chief guest who distributed the prizes on the final day.

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Under-9 Boys:Final ranking

1 Sadhwani Raunak MAH 9½2 Praggnanandhaa R FM TN 93 Sai Pranav Siddamshetty AP 94 Mahitosh Dey ORI 8½5 Mendonca Leon Luke CM GOA 8½6 Abinandhan R TN 87 Arya Bhakta WB 88 Rudranarayan ORI 89 Ruhaan Mahindru MAH 810 Samip Roy WB 811 Bharath Subramaniyam H TN 812 Sreeshwan Maralakshikari AP 813 Shahil Dey ASM 814 Manish Anto Cristiano F TN 7½15 Jubin Jimmy KER 7½16 Jain Kashish Manoj MAH 7½17 Barde Om GOA 7½18 Manthan Kashyap Datta ASM 7½19 Adarsh Tripathi DEL 720 Abhishek A R KER 721 Nikhil Magizhnan CM TN 722 Sriram B TN 723 Komal Srivatsav Sajja KAR 724 Gukesh D TN 725 Gnanasabesan G TN 726 Harshad S TN 727 Aditya Mittal MAH 728 Srihari L R TN 729 Karthik Sai Ch AP 730 Karthikay C KAR 731 Siddhant Gunwant Deore MAH 732 Vallabh Kavi MAH 733 Pranav Anand KAR 734 R Venkata Raghunandan AP 735 Rishabh Anand ORI 736 Gowtham T S TN 737 Siddhanth Lohia MAH 6½38 Namitbir Singh Walia PUN 6½39 Pranesh M TN 6½40 Satvik V TN 6½41 Hriday Dharmesh Sheth MAH 6½42 Dikshant Dash ORI 6½43 Colaso Vernon GOA 6½44 Manav Chopda MAH 6½

45 Rahul Krishna V KER 6½46 Rishi R TN 6½47 Mukherjee Sanchit JHAR 6½48 Kalur Nikhil AP 6½49 Rakesh P V TN 6½50 Pratyay Chowdhury WB 6½51 Evan Sanjoe TN 6½52 Samantaray Aryan Arnav ORI 6½53 V Sumant AP 6½54 Biswal Sumit ORI 6½55 Rishabh C Gokhale MAH 656 Nikam Sudhanshu MAH 657 Utsav Ghosh WB 658 Gavade Atharv MAH 659 Santo Wilbert TN 660 Sharath R Shanbhag GOA 661 Manooneeth B PUD 662 Manish Kumar (2006) ORI 663 Akshath Sinha WB 664 Rahul Krishna V TN 665 Anantha Sai S TN 666 Harsh R Shah TN 667 Aaryan Singh UP 668 Hemanathan C PUD 669 Priyansh Sahu CHA 670 Vishal Sharma BIH 671 Aniruddh Chatterjee WB 672 Samyak L TN 673 Dhrupad Kashyap ASM 674 Aditya Mukerjee CHA 675 Hreeday Desai GUJ 5½76 Sourath Biswas WB 5½77 Shreyan Dutta Roy WB 5½78 Ronitkumar M Padia GUJ 5½79 Pranav Senthil Kumar TN 5½80 Garv Rai DEL 5½81 Jaya Krishna Hariharan TN 5½82 Karthik Muruganantham KAR 5½83 Soham Saha WB 5½84 Marvin Eric Joseph A TN 5½85 Harsh Mangesh Dagare GOA 5½86 Jijo Joy KER 5½87 Shrivastava Kushagra MP 5½88 Agarwal Krishnav GUJ 5½89 Aaryan Shah GUJ 5½90 Arjun Kumar S TN 5½

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5th KACC FIDE Rated Tournament (below 2200), Puducherry

NHPC FIDE Rated Tournament for below 1600,New Delhi

Standing L-R, Shri.Pakkirisamy, Shril. Soundarapandian, Shri. Sivagnanaganesan, Shri. Selvaradjou (all KACC officials), Shri. Bavan Kumar, Winner with Pakkirisamy Memorial Rolling Trophy, Shri.A. Srikanth, Treasurer, KACC, Shri.I. Arokiaraj, President, KACC, Shri. Arulumozhi (KACC official) and J. Ramesh, Secretary, KACC.

Sitting l-r, S. Vasudevan, VP, PSCA, R. Devakumar, Secretary, PSCA, Chief Guest Mr. Gunasekaran, Superintendent of Police, Traffic, Pondicherry, Shri.P. Saravanan, Main Sponsor, Shri.Anantharaman, Chief Arbiter, Shri. Nadarajane, Dy. Arbiter.

First Runner-Up Prasanta Mondal, Winner Pratik Das of West Bengal and Second Runner-Up Sumesh Kabeer of Kerala

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1st “Nalanda Cup” Open FIDE Rated Tournament below 2000,Shimoga

5th KCA FIDE Rated Chess Championship below 1800, Kottayam

Standing:L_R_M_Raju,IM_Stany, G.A,Krishna Udupa,Kishan Gangolli Sitting:Arjun_Adappa_Srikanth_K_Arjun_Kalayan

(L-R) Gopakumar,Winner receiving prize from, Thiruvanchiyoor Radhakrishnan, Hon’ble Minister for Sports, Kerala, M.Ephrame , Chief Arbiter (extreme left) and P.Rajesh, General Secretary All Kerala Association(centre) are also seen

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(contd from Page 2)91 Kriish Mehta MAH 5½92 Rajaram Suriyanarayanan TN 5½93 Isaimaran M PUD 5½94 Tathya Sheth GUJ 5½95 Ksh Aimson MAN 5½96 Srijeet Mullick WB 5½97 Ayush Sharma MP 5½98 Sanjay Srinivasan R TN 5½99 Vignesh N TN 5100 Arjun Sidharth S PUD 5101 Bharath A TN 5102 Gaddipati Anjani Kumar AP 5103 Shravan R TN 5104 Dhritabrata Kundu WB 5105 Ryan Priyank S TN 5106 Jaswanth Simha T AP 5107 Vishnudevanandan R P KER 5108 Jena Aditya Akash Titrha ORI 5109 Sarvadh Sathiaram TN 5110 Abhiram Reddy K AP 5111 Vinay R Jumani TN 5112 Harshwardhan Ravi Gupta MAH 5113 Guru Aribam A Sharma MAN 5114 Samneet Munde PUN 5115 Jain Aryan S MAH 5116 Nawab Mukril Zadeed ASM 5117 Uday Bhaskar Sarmah ASM 5118 Shirodkar Aayush GOA 5119 Anurag Banerjee BIH 5120 Prerak Darvekar MAH 5121 Barik Jagdish ORI 4½122 Anukarssa Dutta WB 4½123 Jairam G TN 4½124 Mihir Godawat HAR 4½125 Jain Divyam MAH 4½126 Jothesh Rajamanickam TN 4½127 Aaditya A PUD 4½128 Aditya Bose WB 4½129 Pranav Raghul A K TN 4½130 Ram Soni HAR 4½131 Dibya Jyoti Sarkar TRI 4½132 Srikrishnan P TN 4½133 Aayush Sheetal MAH 4½134 Harish V PUD 4½135 Vrishva Swaran M KAR 4136 Rajbeer Ahmed TRI 4

137 Thrayambhakesh A PUD 4138 Kailash Rajasekaran PUD 4139 Arjun T PUD 4140 Ayush Bhattacherjee WB 4141 Gowtham Reddy G AP 4142 LSri Karthikeya Durgapras AP 4143 Abdullah M N TN 4144 Hridya Ghosh WB 4145 Kaligotla Sri Harshith PUD 4146 Ishant Kumar JHA 3½147 Pranay Venkatesh AP 3½148 Sanjay Sriram G P TN 3½149 Nikilesh G K KAR 3½150 Kushagra Agrawal HP 3½151 Aditya T N V S AP 3½152 Anoop Rahul V TN 3½153 Sudhanva Susarla AP 3½154 Jaswanth R PUD 3½155 Krishna Prasad S PUD 3½156 Param Shah GUJ 3½157 Sundararaja S D PUD 3½158 Vedang Avinash Kulkarani MAH 3½159 Ramkarthick S V PUD 3160 Navin S PUD 3161 Jagannath S PUD 3162 Snehasish Sinha ASM 2½163 Dharunkumar TN 2164 Bhavesh S TN 2165 Suriya N PUD 2166 D Sai Mano Gupta AP 1½167 Manoj B PUD 1½168 Krishnasanketh Reddi K AP 1169 Jaidambareesh N R TN 1170 Naga Vijaya Keerthi T AP 0

Under-9 Girls:Final standings

1 Rakshitta Ravi TN 102 Divya Deshmukh WFM MAH 103 Bhagyashree Patil MAH 94 Khandelwal Krisha MAH 85 Chinnam Vyshnavi AP 86 Chopdekar Gunjal GOA 7½7 Ayantika Das WB 7½8 Swaroopa E T KER 7½9 Piya Saxena MAH 7½10 Kaamyaa Negi DEL 7½

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11 Mohanty Aditi ORI 7½12 Ananya Arumbakkam KAR 7½13 Alaina J J Pereira GOA 7½14 Mohana R TN 715 Ananya D AP 716 Boramanikar Tanisha S MAH 717 Rishita Sinha ASM 718 Indukuri Gayathri AP 719 Dhyana Patel GUJ 720 Ahalya A TN 721 Sathwika N AP 722 Spandana M Raikar KAR 723 Kriti Mayur Patel MAH 724 Vaishnavi S PUD 725 Yashavishree N TN 726 Mahi Amit Doshi GUJ 6½27 Bhagyashree G Patil KAR 6½28 Dash Adhisha ORI 6½29 Harshavardhini M.S. PUD 6½30 Dhanyatha Corry KAR 6½31 Sanjana Raghunath KAR 6½32 Surana Dhriti Shailendra MAH 6½33 Savitha Shri B TN 6½34 Panda Miracle ORI 6½35 Khaturia Kiyarra MAH 6½36 Agrawal Aanya GUJ 6½37 Tanvi Vasudev Hadkonkar GOA 6½38 Pratyusha Priyadarshini ORI 6½39 Kirtana S P TN 640 Rout Prakruti ORI 641 Chandhana Vivekanandan TN 642 Tina C TN 643 Meenatchi Rajam V TN 644 Konalika Yumnam MAN 645 Akshaya R.S. TN 646 Ishika Mandal WB 647 Charuta J Shetye GOA 648 Naga Vijaya Keerthi T AP 649 Nayak Adishree Anjum ORI 5½50 Annyatoma Das WB 5½51 Alaya Vella D Cruz GOA 5½52 Darsana M S TN 5½53 Varsha Ramesh TN 5½54 Geethika Mahalakshmi J AP 5½55 Kerthana Ms PUD 5½56 Shah Kritee GUJ 5½

57 Barmecha Diya MAH 5½58 Barnita Singha TRI 5½59 Mathuriya Bharathi R S TN 5½60 Nair Devika KER 5½61 Swara Dalvi MAH 5½62 Amulya D AP 5½63 Ishita Kothari CHA 5½64 Venmathi V A TN 5½65 Anjitha Krishnakumar KER 566 Ishwari A Gosavi MAH 567 Sevitha Viju M AP 568 Avanthika F G TN 569 Kagitha Jahnavi AP 570 Shah Vrisha Parag MAH 571 Sanvi Naik Gaonkar GOA 572 Ananya Karunakaran TN 573 Priyadharshini K PUD 574 Cindralla Magdalene PUD 575 Meetu Rochishna Reddy AP 576 Mahasweta S PUD 577 Vishwa Vasanwala GUJ 4½78 Monisha S TN 4½79 Pragati Das WB 4½80 Manushri Deva AP 4½81 Bhathmalakshmi A TN 4½82 Raavya Jain PUN 4½83 Mayuri A Chari GOA 4½84 Shah Viha MAH 4½85 Anchita Sharma ASM 4½86 Oishanee Biswas WB 487 Samya Rishi Gupta MAH 488 Vora Ananya MAH 489 Meghana Naga Padmasri P AP 490 Nungshithoi Ngairangbam MAN 491 Rachita Sabbathi AP 492 Pawar Archi MP 493 Samiksha Bhatia PUN 494 Chakraborty Sucharita JHA 495 Vallari Narewadi HAR 496 Samixa Rani HAR 497 Lavanya Bugde MP 498 Saadhanaa Shri V TN 499 Ashpriha Das WB 4100 Jothi Roshini M TN 3½101 Sachika Tomer GUJ 3½102 Mahalakshmi Manikandan TN 3½

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52nd National Challengers Chess Championship, Dharamshala

GM Vidit Santosh Gujrathi wins National Challenger by R.Srivatsan, Chief Arbiter

The 52nd National Challengers Chess Championship organized by Himachal Pradesh State Chess Association held at Indoor Stadium, Dharamshala, Himachal Pradesh was inaugurated by Paul Rasu,IAS,Deputy Commissioner, Kangra on 9th May 2014.

A total of number of 227 participants including 14 Grandmasters headed by Vidit Santosh Gujrathi, 22 International Masters and One Woman Grand Master participated in this event. The Championship was structured on a thirteen round Swiss system with two rounds on 10th and 13th May with single round on all the remaining days. Due to power problem the double round on fourth day was shifted to the fifth day.

In the first round GM Deepan Chakravarthy was held to a draw against Kevilekho Zumvu of Nagaland.In the second round Grandmasters Shyam Sundar, Abhijit Kunte, Vishnu Prasanna, Saptarishi Roy Chowdhury and R R Laxman were held by their opponents.

The third round also witnessed a spate of draws on top boards. GM Vidit Santosh Gujrathi drew with Ravi Teja, Lalith Babu was held by Arjun Tiwari and M R Venkatesh was held by B. Kumaran.From the fourth round onwards there were lots of ups and downs in this event. From the 10th Round it looked like a strategy to get qualified for

National Premier that on certain games players agreed to a quick draw on top boards and won some games to keep them in the qualification list.

Till the last round the winner could not be spotted and it was a 11 way tie at the end of the last round. With a better tie break score top seed Grand Master Vidit Santosh Gujrathi of PSPB became the Champion of the 52nd National Challengers Chess Championship 2014.

The top nine players qualified for the National Premier Chess Championship to be held in November this year. This event went on very well without any problem with the co-operation of all the participants.

At the prize distribution function Shri G.S. Bali, Hon’ble Minister for Transport, Technical Education, Food & Civil Supplies, Govt. of Himachal Pradesh was the Chief guest, Shri. Bharat Singh Chauhan, CEO, All India Chess Federation, Subodh Ramol, Dy. Director, Youth Services and Sports, Himachal Pradesh, were the guests of honour and Ajay Verma, Director of General Industries Corporation and President, Himachal Pradesh State Chess Association were the guests who distributed the prizes.The process of making pieces in Chess do something useful (whatever it may be) has received a special name: it is called the attack. The attack is that process by means of which you remove obstructions.

- by Lasker

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Final ranking Rk Name Club Pts1 GM Vidit Santosh Gujrathi PSPB 9½2 GM Grover Sahaj Del 9½3 IM Shyam Nikil P. TN 9½4 GM Sengupta Deep PSPB 9½5 GM Sethuraman S.P. PSPB 9½6 IM Swayams Mishra Odi 9½7 IM Rajesh V A V TN 9½8 GM Lalith Babu M.R. PSPB 9½9 GM Deepan Chakkravarthy J. Rlys 9½10 GM Kunte Abhijit PSPB 9½11 IM Girinath P.D.S. Rlys 9½12 IM Karthikeyan P. Rlys 913 GM Laxman R.R. Rlys 914 GM Shyam Sundar M. TN 915 IM Murali Krishnan B.T. Rlys 916 IM Anurag Mhamal Goa 917 IM Himanshu Sharma Rlys 8½18 IM Karthikeyan Murali TN 8½19 GM Vishnu Prasanna. V TN 8½20 GM Debashis Das Odi 8½21 IM Rathnakaran K. Rlys 8½22 IM Swapnil S. Dhopade Rlys 8½23 IM Nitin S. TN 8½24 S L Narayanan Ker 8½25 IM Konguvel Ponnuswamy PSPB 8½26 Patil Pratik MAH 8½27 Karthik V. Ap AP 8½28 IM Das Sayantan WB 8½29 IM Sangma Rahul Rlys 8½30 Agarwal Brajesh LIC 8½31 CM Prince Bajaj Del 832 Lokesh P. TN 833 Ravi Teja S. AP 834 Siva Mahadevan TN 835 Abhishek A Ker 836 Harsha Bharathakoti AP 837 IM Deshmukh Anup LIC 838 Rohan Ahuja Goa 839 GM Roy Chowdhury Saptarshi Rlys 840 GM Sriram Jha LIC 841 IM Saravanan V. TN 842 WGM Kulkarni Bhakti Goa 843 FM Joshi Pankaj Rlys 844 Anilkumar O.T. Ker 8

45 Debarshi Mukherjee WB 846 Singh Arvinder Preet Pun 847 Bhatt Jalpan Guj 848 Kumaran B TN 7½49 IM Sharma Dinesh K. LIC 7½50 Chakravarthi Reddy M AP 7½51 Aradhya Garg Del 7½52 FM Prasenjit Datta Del 7½53 Saravana Krishnan P. TN 7½54 Tiwari Arjun MP 7½55 Krishna Teja N AP 7½56 Harikrishna. S. R. Ker 7½57 Shreyansh Daklia Cha 7½58 Ajay Krishna S TN 7½59 Navalgund Niranjan TN 7½60 Dhar Rajib Asm 7½61 Rajdeep Sarkar WB 7½62 IM Lahiri Atanu LIC 7½63 Dusthageer Ibrahim M. TN 7½64 Shashikant Kutwal Rlys 7½65 Joshi Govind Ballabh AI 7½66 Arjun K. Ker 7½67 Kulkarni Vinayak KAR 7½68 Dhananjay Cha 7½69 S Mithilesh Kumar Del 7½70 Vasantha Ruba Varman TN 7½71 Sayan Sen WB 7½72 Suresh Kumar T.J. Rlys 7½73 Gurung Rahul Sik 7½74 Adithya S TN 7½75 IM Thejkumar M. S. Rlys 776 IM R Balasubramaniam Rlys 777 FM Ramakrishna J. AP 778 Vipul Subhashi Bih 779 Thanki Hemal Karsanji BSNL 780 Muthaiah Al TN 781 Trailokya Nanda Asm 782 Neelash Saha WB 783 Sammed Jaykumar Shete MAH 784 IM Singh D.P. Rlys 785 Hemant Sharma (del) Delhi 786 Avdhoot Lendhe MAH 787 Manush Shah Guj 788 Gurung Rakesh Sik 789 WCM Tejaswini Sagar MAH 790 Rahul Srivatshav P AP 7

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91 Nayak Rajesh Odi 792 CM Nitish Belurkar Goa 793 Singh Pritam Jha 794 Harsh Mangesh Ghag MAH 795 Rajaryan Kuvelkar Goa 796 Suresh P.K. Ker 797 Roop Saurav Bih 798 Mukund G. Bhatt Guj 799 Sumit Kumar Jha UP 7100 Sushmita Lama Sik 7101 Dev Krishan HP 7102 Prodip Bhuyan Asm 7103 Srinath Rao S.V. Cha 6½104 Kranti Kumar P. AP 6½105 Shailesh Dravid MAH 6½106 Sumit Grover J&K 6½107 Chauhan Ashvinkumar Guj 6½108 Teli Rajendra Raj 6½109 Vijay Kumar Bih 6½110 Pardeep Arora Pun 6½111 Rajeev V.M. Ker 6½112 Aishwin Daniel MP 6½113 Rakesh Kumar Nayak Odi 6½114 Lakshmi Narayanan Mv TN 6½115 Jayakumar P. BSNL 6½116 Kaustav Bhattacharya WB 6½117 Samal Ansuman Odi 6½118 Thakur Sanjeev HP 6½119 Arpan Das WB 6½120 Singh Balwinder Pun 6½121 Upadhayay R. SSCB 6½122 Negi Virender Singh AI 6½123 Kaushik Shubham Har 6½124 Subhayan Kundu WB 6½125 Buxy Rajanikant Cha 6½126 Kevilekho Zumvu Nag 6½127 Gurung Rohit Sik 6½128 Akshay V Halagannavar KAR 6½129 Sudhirsana Singh R.K. Mani 6½130 Chakrabarty Debasis Odi 6131 Swaraj Palit Jha 6132 Gandhi Anish MAH 6133 Ranjan Rakesh Bihar 6134 Debasish Mukherjee WB 6135 Meghna C H Ker 6136 Gajendra Singh LIC 6

137 Srijit Paul WB 6138 Aansh Gupta Del 6139 Vantika Agrawal Del 6140 Diwan Rajesh FSCB 6141 Madhab Sarma Asm 6142 Dupit Tabu AP 6143 Soni Krishan Har 6144 Anchit Vyas MP 6145 Singh Th. Nabachandra Mani 6146 WFM Tarini Goyal Cha 6147 Dupit Tachung AP 6148 Rijied Katrai Meg 6149 Sharma Dushyant Pun 6150 Raj Kumar Chauhan BSNL 5½151 Arun Rathi Har 5½152 Md Jamiruddin SSCB 5½153 Rishabh Nishad UP 5½154 Hage Lasa Nado Ar-P 5½155 Lalnunsanga Miz 5½156 Wairokpam Bheem Singh Mani 5½157 Manan Rai Del 5½158 Barath M Goa 5½159 Lalawmpuia Miz 5½160 Dony K V SSCB 5½161 K Sanjoy Singh Mani 5½162 Smeeru Thakur HP 5½163 Shubham Shukla Pun 5½164 Saksham Dewan Del 5½165 Tamang Thendup Sik 5½166 Tayyeb Asif Mohmamad FSCB 5½167 Thakur Diwan HP 5½168 Hingne Shirish PSCB 5½169 Saksham Rautela Uttarl 5½170 Nobleman Wanniang Meg 5½171 Deepak Ranga Rao Jha 5½172 Melesayi Dawhuo Nag 5173 Vishesh Agrawal Delhi 5174 Silkam Sangma Meg 5175 Tokuho Sumi Nag 5176 Vipin Tiwari BSNL 5177 Pathak Vivek Kumar FSCB 5178 Kughaho Kiho Nag 5179 Rapalli Krishna SSCB 5180 Manjeet Poonia Har 5181 Ayush Bhai Mehta MP 5182 Avinash Chandra Uttar 5

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The 5th King Anand Chess Club FIDE rated tournament was held at Arumuga Kalyana Mandapam, Pondicherry from 8th to 11th May 2014. Two hundred and eighty players fron Pudhucherry, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Kerala Orissa, West Bengal and Andaman & Nicobar participated in the four day nine round Swiss tournament. Former national blitz champion Ram S Krishnan of Tamil Nadu was the top seeded player in the tournament. Second round of the tournament witnessed some upsets, Ram S Krishnan was held to a draw P Yutesh of TN, who has rating difference of more than 500 points and fourth seeded N Vigneshwaran of TN was also forced to split the point with Manu David of same State.Iniyan of Erode defeated R Prajesh of Chennai and J Bavan Kumar of Chennai won against his city mate K. Gopalakrishnan to emerge joint leaders at the end of the fifth round. Iniyan overwhelmed Bavan in sixth round, only to lose against Sai Agni Jeevitesh in the seventh round, who led with 6.5 points at the end of the seventh round. Things turned topsy turvy, when Sai Agni was beaten by Ram S Krishnan and to make matters complicated, Bavan Kumar, R. Praggnanandha, P Elancheralathan and K Gopalakrishnan, all from Chennai won their respective games to collect 7 points each. This led to a five way at the top in the penultimate round, leading to high expectations in the final round.In the exciting summit round, Bavan Kumar and Ram S Krishnan scored fluent wins to tie for the first place, with 8 points each.

5th KACC FIDE Rated Tournament (below 2200), Puducherry...Bavan Kumar wins titleby R. Anantharam IA, Chief Arbiter

Bavan Kumar had a superior tiebreak to win the coveted trophy and first prize cash award of Rs.20000. K. Gopalakrishnan, treasurer of TN State Chess Association topped among the three players who scored 7.5 points, to finish third. The tournament was well organised by King Anand Chess Club. Besides providing lunch for two days, they distributed an incentive of Rs.100/- to those players who defeated higher rated opponents with a difference of more than 200. Sixty one players received this cash incentive from nine rounds – a really good encouraging gesture.Mr. Devakumar, secretary, Pudhucherry State Chess Association inaugurated the tournament on 8th May. Main prizes were distributed by Sri A. Gunasekaran, Superintendent of Police and Mr. P. Saravanan an industrialist and also a main sponsor. The tournament was also a need of the hour, in these days, where we come across mainly “below 1600 or 1800” tournaments. It has really quenched the thirst of higher rated players.

In mathematics, if I find a new approach to a problem, another mathematician might claim that he has a better, more elegant solution. In chess, if anybody claims he is better than I, I can checkmate him.

The combination player thinks forward; he starts from the given position, and tries the forceful moves in his mind.

A chess game, after all, is a fight in which all possible factors must be made use of, and in which a knowledge of the opponent’s good and bad qualities is of the greatest importance.

- by Lasker

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Final standings (firs 90 placings only)Rk Name Club Pts1 Bavankumar J TN 82 Ram S. Krishnan TN 83 Gopalakrishnan K. TN 7½4 Harikrishnan.A.Ra TN 7½5 Aadhityaa M TN 7½6 Sai Agni Jeevitesh J AP 77 Elancheralathan P TN 78 Iniyan P TN 79 Santosh Kashyap Hg KAR 710 Praggnanandhaa R TN 711 Hirthickkesh Pr TN 712 Ankan Roy WB 713 Akash Lal O TN 714 Hemanth Raam TN 6½15 Sai Vishwesh.C TN 6½16 Anjana Krishna S KER 6½17 Ranjith R.K. TN 6½18 Uma Maheswaran P TN 6½19 Yogit S TN 6½20 Hilmi Parveen KER 6½21 Navnitan S V TN 6½22 Subhasis Barik ORI 6½23 Girinath B S TN 6½24 Aarudhra Ganesh TN 6½25 Prathish A TN 6½26 Prajesh R TN 627 Eashwar.M TN 628 Suresh Krishna S PON 629 Mythireyan P TN 630 Marthandan K U KER 631 Priyanka Nutakki AP 632 Subramanian V TN 633 Adethya R TN 634 Sachin Pradeep KER 635 Raahul V S TN 636 Dhanush Bharadwaj KAR 637 Subramanian Pl TN 638 Guru Prakash A. TN 639 Chandar Raju KER 640 Visveshwar A TN 641 Narendiran P PON 642 Ashwin R TN 643 Pranab Kumar Patra ORI 644 Dileep Kumar R TN 6

45 Yutesh P TN 646 Saughanthika As TN 647 Farhaan M PON 648 Lakshmi Krishna Bhushan D AP 649 Aravind K TN 650 Thamizharasan J PON 651 Sanathanan N.R.S. TN 652 Aswin Kumar B S TN 653 Harshavardhan G B TN 654 Abhijith M. KER 655 Vigneshwaran S TN 656 Solomon Rathna Sekaran TN 657 Narendran V TN 5½58 Vignesh B TN 5½59 Shalon Joanne Pais KAR 5½60 Vinodh Kumar B. PON 5½61 Reetish Padhi KAR 5½62 Manu David Suthandram R TN 5½63 Rohit Vassan S TN 5½64 Alan Diviya Raj TN 5½65 Arjun Kalyan TN 5½66 Bhagya Jayesh KER 5½67 Lakshmi Praneetha K AP 5½68 Sunil Dev S PON 5½69 Raman R. PON 5½70 Narendhiran R TN 5½71 Vigneswaran S TN 5½72 Karthick Raja R TN 5½73 Karmukilan S TN 5½74 Dinesh A PON 5½75 Clifford Flair TN 5½76 Abishek A TN 5½77 Bhaskar N S TN 5½78 Sneha G P S TN 5½79 Kasinathan S TN 5½80 Gokul Sathyan TN 5½81 Keerthivasan K TN 5½82 Saranya Y TN 583 Jayakumar S TN 584 Vigneshwaran N. TN 585 Barath Kalyan M TN 586 Aditya S Hariharan TN 587 Mohan Ram Sridhar TN 588 Sharan Sridhar TN 589 Shyam Sundar M TN 590 Anandha Venkatesan TN 5

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1st Nalanda Cup Open FIDE Rated Chess tournament , was organized by Nalanda Chess Academy of Shimoga for all Indian players with FIDE rating below 2000,The four days tournament from 28-4-2014 to1-5-2014 inaugurated by Sri Vipul Bansal, District Commissioner, Shimoga at Sneha Bhavana, Sacred Heart Church, Shimoga. Sri Rohan from Round Table, Sri Rajashekhar, IPS, Superintendent of Police, Nagaland, and Dr Shivayogi,, RMO, Mc gan Hospital Shimoga, graced the occasion as Chief Guests. Sri Bansal , delivering the inaugural speech, said that Sports imparts sportsman spirit to an individual which will help him in his growth in today’s competitive world. Sri Krishna Udupa , Secretary of Nalanda Chess Academy, Shimoga delivered the Vote of thanks.

Players totaling 215 from 8 different States participated. The tournament conducted in Swiss league system consisted of 10 rounds and offered cash pool of Rs. 1, 00,000 as total prize money. Among the players were 107 FIDE Rated, and 40 female players and 62 were from outside Karnataka. Players from Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Goa, Air Force (Delhi), Maharashtra, Nagaland and West Bengal participated in the tournament.

At the end of 7th round Srikanth K of Air forces (Delhi) had full 7points and remained unbeaten and emerged the winner of the 1st NALANDA CUP with 8.5 points out of 10 rounds. Arjun Adappa, Arjun Kalyan, Shreeshan S, Aravind K, Shet Prajwal and Kuldeep Sharma scored 8 points each and

1st “Nalanda Cup” Open FIDE Rated Tournament below 2000,Shimoga

Srikanth wins at Shimogaby IA Manjunatha M Chief Arbiter

based on tie break system, clinched 2nd to 7th place respectively.

Prize Distribution Function was presided over by Mr Srikrishna Udupa of Nalanda Chess Academy. Chief Guests on the Stage were, Stany G A, International master, M Raju, President, Bangalore Dist Chess Association, Kishan Gangolli, International Player who will be representing India in the forthcoming Blind and visually challenged World Chess Championship at Greece.

IM Stany G A and Kishan Gangolli were felicitated for their outstanding achievements in the field of Chess.The team of arbiters included IA Pranesh yadav K, FA Chandrashekar Upadhyaya T V and FA Salim Beig. Salim was an efficient and hard working arbiter whose work deserves mention here. Overall there was no appeal from the players. Final ranking Rk Name Pts1 Srikanth K. 8½2 Arjun Adappa 83 Arjun Kalyan 84 Shreeshan S 85 Aravind K 86 Shet Prajwal P 87 Kuldeep Sharma 88 Mishra R.K. 7½9 Visveshwar A 7½10 Vijay Anand M. 7½11 Nikhil R. Umesh 7½12 Sree Veeramani P 713 Harshita Guddanti 714. Raju M. 715. Sonkalan Bharati 7

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3rd KCM (below 2000) FIDE Chess Tournament,CoimbatoreAadithyaa wins title

by .V.Vijayaraghavan IA, Chief Arbiter

M Aadhithyaa of Tamilnadu won the 3rd KCM (below 2000) FIDE Chess Tournament here at Coimbatore. The 4 day event was held from 1st to 4th May at Kaliyappa Kounder Kalyana Mandapam and attracted around 300 players. P Stanley Samson of TN was top on the starting list with a rating of 1994 followed by Anurag Jaiswal of WB and Balakannamma of TN. K V Ramani with a rating of 1904 was the best bet from Coimbatore.

M Vaisnav of Tirupur, Raju Prajesh and Mythireyan of Chennai led the pack with 5 points from 5 rounds. Aadhithyaa drew with Mohan Ram to trail with 4.5 points.Raju became the sole leader at the end of 6th round when Prajesh and Vaisnav drew their individual encounter. Aadhithyaa went on to beat Raju in the crucial 7th round and KV Ramani in the final round. The organisers offered buttermilk, TANG Cool drink etc to lessen the heat. On the 3rd day the venue had to be shifted one day for another function and the organisers quickly dealt with ease and arranged another venue bigger and better just opposite to the Kalyana mandapam. The inauguration and PD function were quiet and simple with members of Kovai Chess Mates and District Officials on the stage. The prizes were distributed by their member parents.Final standings (first 135 placings only)Rk. Name Pts. 1 Aadhityaa M 82 Raju S 7.5

3 Prajesh R 7.54 Vaisnav M 7.55 Vignesh B 7.56 Ramani K.V. 77 Bala Kannamma.P 78 Suresh K. 79 Stanley Samson P. 710 Karthikeyan, J. 711 Ananya Suresh WCM 712 Haricharann D V 713 Jayakumar S 714 Hemanth Raam 715 Akshaya Nandakumar 6.516 Anurag Jaiswal 6.517 Subramanian V 6.518 Narendiran P 6.519 Kumar S. 6.520 Charles J 6.521 Aarudhra Ganesh 6.522 Umashankar A 6.523 Narendran V 6.524 Vinith Kumar I. 6.525 Rohit Vassan S 6.526 Suresh Krishna S 6.527 Subramanian Pl 6.528 Bhaskar N S 6.529 Sachin Pradeep 6.530 Adethya R 6.531 Dhanasekar K. 6.532 Abdul Majeed N. 6.533 Rathish T.J. 6.534 Mythireyan P 635 Hari Pragadish S.B. 636 Chandar Raju 637 Marthandan K U 638 Ram Vishwanathan 639 Gayetri R 640 Dileep Kumar R 641 Meenakshi Sundaram 642 Thamaraiselvi P 643 Divya Lakshmi R 6

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44 Girinath B S 645 Vijay Shreeram P 646 Kamalanathan R 647 Raja Chokkarvel Y 648 Murali. R 649 Harshini A 650 Ananda Subramaniam 651 Athul Krishna S 652 Jasper Jothi P 653 Sathyanarayanan S. 654 Sanjay Snehal M S 655 Prasant N Nayagam 5.556 Madhusoodanan K.R. 5.557 Harivardhini I 5.558 Dharani Sree R 5.559 Jibi Kallingalpadem 5.560 Keerthivasan J 5.561 Vinoth M 5.562 Vishwa Anand V 5.563 Sarveshwaran P 5.564 Muraleedharan P G 5.565 Mani Bharathy 5.566 Dinesh A 5.567 Vel Vishwanathan G M 5.568 Akash S 5.569 Tharanitharr P 5.570 Mohanakrishnan B 5.571 Vishnu Bharani S 5.572 Vishwak S 5.573 Sanathanan N.R.S. 5.574 T Sampath Kumar 5.575 Ramesh Krishnan Ar 5.576 Venkat Subramanian Rm 5.577 Senthamizh Yazhini S 5.578 Suresh Kumar K 5.579 Karthick Narayanan S 5.580 Rama Mohan Rao N 5.581 Nandakumar D 5.582 Sundar Pranesh J S 5.583 Muthu Palaniappan P L 5.584 Aswin Babu J 5.585 Bhaskar.V 5.586 Kavitha P L 5.587 Prem Krishna N 5.588 Gouthaman A M 5.589 Vinesh R 5.5

90 Arvind Ramnath Iyer 5.591 Ritesh Dharmatti 592 Vivek Ramanathan V 593 Mohan Ram S 594 Aswin Kumar B S 595 Jai Aditya D 596 Shaji T. L. 597 Rajasekaran P. 598 Arun M S 599 Balaji M 5100 Shalon Joanne Pais 5101 Kaushika S G 5102 Tejasvi M 5103 Sneha G P S 5104 Karan J P 5105 Harshavardhan S 5106 M David Suthandram 5107 Niranjan Raghu 5108 Suryaa S S 5109 Khazeber R 5110 Dharani Kumar R A 5111 Deepak K 5112 Suseenthiram.R 5113 Alan Diviya Raj 5114 Baskaran Mannar Chetty 5115 Balasubramaniam.P.A 5116 Sethuram S 5117 Hari Prabhu S V 5118 Yashwanth Raj S 5119 Upendra R 5120 Jayanth R P 5121 Praveen R 5122 Arvind Chidambaram 5123 Jinan Jomon 5124 Svatejas Shivakumar 5125 Shankar Ramakrishnan 5126 Naveen Kumar T 5127 Santhosh Kumar G 5128 Vignesh Kasi P L 5129 Subramanian P V 5130 Mani A 4.5131 Sathish Kumar A.B. 4.5132 Navnitan S V 4.5133 Sreehari G 4.5134 Vinayagam M 4.5135 Jayasangar T 4.5

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NHPC FIDE Rated Tournament for below 1600,New DelhiPratik Das wins NHPC FIDE Rated

by IA Gopakumar MS, Chief Arbiter

The NHPC FIDE Rated Chess Tournament for below 1600 rated players was conducted by Pinnacle Chess Academy under the aegis of Delhi Chess Association at Chess Centre, Major Dhyanchand National Stadium, India Gate, New Delhi from 15-18 May 2014.

This National Hydro Electric Power Corporation sponsored event attracted a total number of 463 players including 223 internationally rated players from different parts of India and Nepal. The event which was spread over four days and ten rounds with a time control of 60 minutes and 30 seconds increment from move 1. The total prize fund of the event was Rs. 5,00,000/-.

In a brief opening ceremony on 15th May 2014, Shri. Bharat Singh, CEO,AICF inaugurated this event in presence of Shri. Sarabjit Singh Sabharwal, Founder Naurang Foundation and Shri. AK Verma, Secretary Delhi Chess Association.

The tournament was played under Swiss System and Pandi Durai of Tamilnadu started as top seed. The tournament saw lot of ups and downs in the entire ten rounds. Before the final round, Pratik Das of West Bengal and Loukrakpam Raju Mangang of Delhi were emerged as joint leaders with 8 points. But Das ensured a thrilling end to the tournament as he produced a resounding victory over Mangang to lift the coveted trophy in style with 9 points and

pocketed a cash award of one lakh rupees. Three players namely Prasanta Mondal of West Bengal, Sumesh Kabeer of Kerala and Ali Khan Amir Gulrez of Uttar Pradesh tied for the second spot with eight and half points but better tie break score helped Mondal to finish as first runner-up while Sumesh finished as second runner-up. Gulrez satisfied with fourth spot finish.

Arushi Kotwal of Jammu & Kashmir adjudged as best women player while Shashwat Chakraborty of Chattisgarh, Aryan Ranjan of Delhi, Adarsh Tripathi of Delhi, Bhavik Ahuja of Delhi and Sahir Attri of Delhi finished as best among Under-13, Under-11, Under-9, Under-7 and Under-5 age categories.

Anwar Singh of Punjab became the best unrated player while Mahi Rajawat and Rohit Sharma were adjudged Best Delhi Girl and Best Delhi Unrated player respectively. Modern School Vasant Vihar, New Delhi lifted the best school trophy.

In a befitting closing ceremony Shri. Mukesh Jain IPS, Joint Secretary Ministry of Power along with Shri. J N Maggo, Chief Public Relations, NHPC, Shri. Rajiv Rattan, Vice Chairman IndiaBulls Group and Shri. R S Tiwari, International Arbiter gave away the prizes.

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Final ranking (first 202 placings only) Rk Name Club Pts1 Pratik Das WB 92 Prasanta Mondal WB 8½3 Sumesh Kabeer KER 8½4 Ali Khan Aamir Gulrez UP 8½5 Vaibhav Aggarwal HAR 86 Loukrakpam Raju Mangang DEL 87 Shatrughan Kaushik DEL 88 Siddiqui Mohd.Imran UP 89 Prem Anantha Rajan V. TN 810 Gupta Shailendra DEL 811 Ahirwal Dinesh MP 812 Chulet Mayank L MAH 813 Anwar Singh PUN 7½14 Jaskeerat Singh CHD 7½15 Jitendra Kumar Jawahar BIH 7½16 Joshi Nilesh GUJ 7½17 Souradip Deb TRI 7½18 Kunal Kakumanu Prasad DEL 7½19 Robi Singh Jeron ASM 7½20 Manan Chandok DEL 7½21 Ravindra P AP 7½22 Jayesh T A KER 7½23 Sunil Kumar Sonipat HAR 7½24 Raj Pal Singh R AP 7½25 Paritosh Malvi MP 7½26 Rathore Vikram Singh MP 7½27 Sparsh Bansal DEL 7½28 Stephen Raj A TN 729 Afaq Haider UP 730 Dinesh Bhagat PUN 731 Anshul Mehta PUN 732 Ruthwik K.V.S. DEL 733 Sanchit Anand DEL 734 Varma Vikrant DEL 735 Manish Vatsa DEL 736 Aryan Ranjan DEL 737 Divyanshu Gupta MP 738 Shashwat Chakraborty CHAT 739 Kabir Sachdeva DEL 740 Katiyar Prashant UP 741 Arushi Kotwal J&K 742 Ravi Sharma J&K 743 Heeramon Baruah ASM 744 Rohit Sharma DEL 745 Anil Kumar S KER 746 Prabhsimran Singh PUN 747 Anmol Agarwal AND 748 Herschelle Gupta 749 Singh Vishnu Pratap MP 7

50 Baidurjya Mitra DEL 751 Shrivastava Chitransh MP 6½52 Sarvaliya Niraj GUJ 6½53 Arnav Tiwari DEL 6½54 Kumar Amit UP 6½55 Rishab Tyagi DEL 6½56 Narayan Das ODI 6½57 Sumay Mishra DEL 6½58 Avinash MP 6½59 Nitesh Jain MP 6½60 Adarsh Tripathi DEL 6½61 Madhusudan Sahu ODI 6½62 Rishabh Jain DEL 6½63 Sakshi Pradyumn MP 6½64 Vikrant Jangra HAR 6½65 Anmol Bhagat PUN 6½66 Vardan Nagpal DEL 6½67 Vivek Prakash Mishra MP 6½68 Akhilesh K. Srivastava DEL 6½69 Jagat Singh Rajpoot MP 6½70 Abhinav Chauhan DEL 6½71 Kalbande Mayur MP 6½72 Vibhav Pamecha RAJ 6½73 K. Natarajan TN 6½74 Aadrito Datta WB 6½75 Singh Vinit UP 6½76 Ashok A (pud) PUD 6½77 Mohammad Nishat Qureshi MP 6½78 Manoj Vijay Kumar MP 6½79 Priya Ranjan Das WB 6½80 Deepak Poonia HAR 681 Vineesh P S KER 682 Arjun Singh Puri HAR 683 Manya Bagla DEL 684 Suthar Manish DEL 685 Tanmay Garg DEL 686 Mohd Latif Sheikh Kadir MP 687 Abijit Mistry WB 688 Bhagwat Rohit MAH 689 Sachinder DEL 690 Ganesh Kumar HAR 691 Manish Kumar Sharma DEL 692 Aan Sikka DEL 693 Prithu Gupta DEL 694 Ayush Pandey DEL 695 Aditya Ved Narayan DEL 696 Kalash Gupta DEL 697 Virendra Singh DEL 698 Tushar Arora DEL 699 Jagadeeshwar Yerupula AP 6100 Pujari Ansuman ODI 6

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101 Chandwani Prateek MP 6102 Moni Mohan Singh ASM 6103 Sigdel Krishna Prasad NEP 6104 Maheshwari Prabhav RAJ 6105 Mohanraj S TN 6106 Rajagopalan DEL 6107 Chintamani Joshi MAH 6108 Thakre Ajinkya MAH 6109 Hari P. Nambiar DEL 6110 Soham Kamotra J&K 6111 Sukul Khanna DEL 6112 Shashi Raj Saxena DEL 6113 Chandra Mourya V S DEL 6114 Prakhar Gupta (mp) MP 6115 Siddhant Rao DEL 6116 Yogi Anurag Upadhyay UP 6117 Yadav Bateshwar Singh MP 6118 Arvindh Raj A TN 6119 Gaurav Sharma DEL 6120 Manjot Singh Gill PUN 6121 Rishit Arora DEL 6122 Abhinay Varma RAJ 6123 Dharmpal Khari DEL 6124 Rajendra Pr. Nag WB 6125 Lakshay Nagpal DEL 6126 Shiv Vaidya DEL 6127 Subhash Chopra HAR 5½128 Tanishk Shukla MP 5½129 Prajjwal HAR 5½130 Shanti Lal Yadav CHAT 5½131 Dakshayan Varshney DEL 5½132 Manas Rajawat DEL 5½133 Pinak HAR 5½134 Pranad Rattan Gandhi DEL 5½135 Kakumanu Kautil Prasad DEL 5½136 Abdul Basheer K M KER 5½137 Kashyap Tiwari RAJ 5½138 Thakur Ankur Singh MP 5½139 Eshaan Chandrol MP 5½140 Amit Soni DEL 5½141 Prabhujot Singh PUN 5½142 Gautam Kataria RAJ 5½143 Yashraj Singh Sandhu UP 5½144 Devashish Gupta DEL 5½145 Thomas Nidhin V V KER 5½146 Jitendra Verma MP 5½147 Dhruv Dak RAJ 5½148 Harshit Arya HAR 5½149 Mahi Rajawat DEL 5½150 Pandi Durai P TN 5½151 Pant K N DEL 5½

152 Amit Khanduri DEL 5½153 Rohit Poonia HAR 5½154 Padhan Akshaya Kumar ODI 5½155 Aryaman Bhatia DEL 5½156 Saurabh Jain MP 5½157 Nipun Kundu DEL 5½158 Kriti Lamba HAR 5½159 Dharni V UP 5½160 Arya Ranjan DEL 5½161 Vikas Chandra Bhatt DEL 5½162 Aaryansh Bhartiya DEL 5½163 Mishra Ravi Pratap UP 5½164 S.M. Wais UP 5½165 Upadhyay Ayush MP 5½166 Amit Mehrotra HAR 5167 Archi Agrawal DEL 5168 Zakir Hussain Janab RAJ 5169 Priyadarshi Alok BIH 5170 Tushar Chandra DEL 5171 Jacob Antony KER 5172 Makwana Jaydev Sinh DEL 5173 Kirtvir Singh DEL 5174 Ram Kumar R AP 5175 Sharma Sanjay MAH 5176 Satyam Prakash DEL 5177 Chaudhary Pallav RAJ 5178 Atul Kumar Mehta UTT 5179 Murugan S T TN 5180 Aanya Agarwal DEL 5181 Parth Arora HAR 5182 Abhishek Bansal DEL 5183 Shreyas Puri DEL 5184 Shardool Vikram Gupta DEL 5185 Amogh Rajpal DEL 5186 Jeswani Saransh MAH 5187 Vasu Aggarwal UP 5188 Shaminder Singh PUN 5189 Choubey Saurabh MP 5190 Sambhav Jain DEL 5191 Shirsh DEL 5192 Arnab Bhor DEL 5193 Aniket Arora DEL 5194 Gaurav Patial HP 5195 Tiwari Uddhav MP 5196 Mehak Shah DEL 5197 Keshav Sethi DEL 5198 Gursimar Singh Arneja DEL 5199 Gautam Sharda HAR 5200 Shivansh Bhardwaj RAJ 5201 Gupta Vijay Kumar DEL 5202 Chaitanya Dadhwal DEL 5

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7th All India Open fide Rating tournament below 1800, Hyderabad Divesh is the winner

by Promodraj Moree FA, Chief Arbiter

7th All India Open FIDE Rating chess tournament below 1800 was organized at St jospeh’s Public school, Ramantapur, Hyderabad. The event was organized by Unique Creations jointly with the school. It attracted 221 Players from all over India including major state like Karnataka, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, New Delhi, Gujrath, Kerala, Bihar, Orissa, West Bengal. There were 122 rated players in the event, 99 Unrated players.

The organizers provided free dormitory accommodation for the players at the venue itself. The event had a total cash prize fund of Rs 2.5 Lakhs, with 65 prizes including children’s category prizes. 1st Prize was Rs 40,000. The event took place for 4 days with 9 rounds.

Top seed of the event was Mr Subba Raju, fide arbiter with a rating of 1795. The competition was very tough also considering the fact that many children were contesting over the top boards for the main prizes. 14 year old Master Divesh Brahmecha of Maharashtra with rating of 1759 won the event convincingly by securing 8 points out of 9 rounds. He drew the 6th and 7th round and won the 8th and 9th round to bag the 1st Prize.

In the final round 3 players were in lead with 7 points each after the 8th round. In the final round on the first board Divesh of Maharahsta was playing against Teja Suresh M of Andhra Pradesh. Divesh Defeated Teja with the white pieces to get the first

place. On the 2nd board the 3rd competitor of the title Vishwanath Vivek of AP was fighting against Satya Giri V of Tamil Nadu. If Vishwanath would have won he would have tied for the 1st palce, but the game ended in a draw. And Divesh was the sole leader after 9th round and became the Champion. 2nd prize was won by Tulsi Ram Kumar of Hyderabad, AP and with cash of RS 25,000. Third prize was won by Vishwanath Vivek of AP.The event was more highlighted as for the Prize Distribution well known telugu Actor/Hero Mr T Gopi Chand was the Chief Guest. Guest of Honour was Mr Kanna Reddy, secretary of Andhra Pradesh State chess association. Mr Gopi Chand honoured the prizes to the winners.Two other arbiters who were working with me in this tournament were Salem Beig of Karnataka, Fide arbiter, and Dhana R Ch Johnson, National arbiter of Andhra Pradesh.Final standings (first 107 placings only)Rk Name Club Pts1 Bramhecha Divesh Mah 82 M Tulasi Ram Kumar Hyd 7½3 Vishwanath Vivek AP 7½4 Sahoo Dasharathi Ori 7½5 Sathya Giri V TN 76 Potluri Supreetha AP 77 Teja Suresh M AP 78 Sonkalan Bharati WB 79 Vikram Teja C V AP 6½10 Aditya S S V Hyd 6½11 Bhaskar.V TN 6½12 Menon Padmanand Mah 6½13 Kadav Omkar Mah 6½14 Gupta Rajesh R.S. Mah 6½15 Shiva Pavan Teja Sharma U AP 6½

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16 Shivam Verma Bih 6½17 Karthik.J.C AP 6½18 Muralidharan R. TN 6½19 Satyanarayana M Hyb 6½20 Subba Raju S. Hyb 6½21 Aryan Del 6½22 Sushrutha Reddy Kar 6½23 Srivastava Pratyush Hyb 6½24 Perumallu K. Hyb 6½25 Avi Jaiswal Kar 6½26 Vaibhav Barahate Mah 6½27 Sinha Rajesh Kumar Bih 6½28 Jagadeeshwar Yerupula Hyd 629 Amit Panchal Mah 630 Imran Hussain Dhan 631 Venkataramana P AP 632 Devansh Ratti Mah 633 Gopal Reddy B Hyd 634 Prasanta Mondal WB 635 Venu Gopal Vangala AP 636 Dilan Paul Roy J TN 637 Vishwanath Kannam AP 638 N Madhumitha AP 639 Harshavardhan B AP 640 Priyadarshi Alok Bih 641 Amale Bharat Mah 642 Warude Satyam Mah 643 Krishna D V Hyd 5½44 Diwakar V U Hyd 5½45 Singh Vimlesh Kumar Bih 5½46 Kandi Ravi AP 5½47 Ajinkya Pingale Mah 5½48 Murthy V S N Hyb 5½49 Santhosh Kumar.N TN 5½50 Nitheesh Pothireddy Hyb 5½51 Ankitha Goud Palle Hyd 5½52 Anurag Kuruvada AP 5½53 Jayanth Reddy K 5½54 Bhushan Raghuvir Thumsi Hyd 5½55 Narvekar Pruthviraj Mah 5½56 Totlani Varun GUJ 5½57 Ameya Abhay Shrivastava Mah 5½58 Balaji.S TN 5½59 Poojanjali B AP 5½60 Taide Siddhant Mah 5½61 Gaikwad Vishal Mah 5½

62 Raghava M TN 5½63 Subhash K V AP 5½64 Srinath Bindumadhavan Hyb 5½65 Sravan Kumar G AP 5½66 Sai Siddardha A Hyb 5½67 Ram Prasad S AP 5½68 Mrudul Dehankar 569 Chandi Sachin Mah 570 Ravindra P Hyb 571 Anannya Menkudle Mah 572 Shinde Kunal Mah 573 Murali Mohan Y Hyd 574 Vinay Khobragade Mah 575 Anam Alpesh Laxmikant Mah 576 Vijayakumar.N. TN 577 Kumtakar Deepak Mah 578 Wankhade Sanskruti WCM Mah 579 Midhush Sirigudi AP 580 Abhinav Chandra Kodali AP 581 Shabaaj Sk Hyd 582 Ishwar Ramteke Mah 583 Rajkumar Duvvuri AP 584 Bhaskar V AP 585 Nanditha V Hyb 586 Prateek Atluri AP 587 Sai Naga Samhitha G Hyb 588 Neeraj Anirudh K AP 589 Ruthvik Ponnapalli Hyb 590 Nikith Krisna P AP 591 Ananya D AP 592 Aditya Vardhan AP 593 Lasya Mayukha AP 594 Subodh D Bhagwatkar Mah 595 Jagannathan Govind Mah 596 Swetha Gunturi AP 597 Shirode Jayant Mah 598 Prashanth K Hyb 599 Jashwanth T Hyd 5100 Patil Priyanshu Mah 4½101 Kavya Srishti K Hyd 4½102 Rajagopalan Del 4½103 Gowtham Pollam 4½104 Sarath Chandra K AP 4½105 Kumar Reddy M V AP 4½106 Khandelwal Khushi 4½107 Abhishek Reddy M Hyd 4½

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5th KCA FIDE Rated Chess Championship below 1800, Kottayam

S Gopakumar Clinches the titleby M.Ephrame IA, Chief Arbiter

Top seeded K S Gopakumar from Kerala won the 5th Fide Rated Chess Championship by drawing with K Sathya Prasad of Karnataka in the ninth and final round at Great Hall, CMS College, Kottayam. This draw enabled Gopakumar to take his tally to 8 points lifting the Winner’s trophy and pocketing a cash prize of twenty five thousand rupees. P G Aswin from Kerala, P Venkatramana from Andhrapradesh and K Sathya Prasad from Karnataka scored 7.5 points but better tie break score helped Aswin became the runner up.

Shri. Thiruvanchiyoor Radhakrishnan, Honorable Minister for Sports gave away the prizes. Dr. Roy Sam Daniel Principal, CMS College, Kottayam presided over the meeting and Dr. Varghese Joshua Professor CMS College Kottayam, welcomed the gathering and Shri. Rajesh, the General Secretary All Kerala Chess Association delivered the vote of thanks.

Earlier, the 5th Fide International Chess Tournament below 1800 got underway at Great Hall, CMS College Kottayam from 1st May 2014. The event attracted 121 Fide rated Chess players in action in a field of 213 players from 9 States and an Union territory Pondicherry. All the boards were played with Chess Clocks. K S Kopakumar from Kerala , was the top seeded in this nine round Swiss system tournament. The total prize fund of the event was Rupees One Lakh thirty seven thousand, out of which, Rs. 25 thousand was reserved for the winner. Shri.M P Santhosh Kumar , Municipal Chairman, Kottayam , inaugurated the event by making the customary first move in the presence of Shri. Abraham Itticheria the president Kottayam Public Library, Dr. Roy Sam Daniel Principal, CMS College, Kottayam presided over the meeting. Dr. Varghese Joshua Professor CMS College Kottayam delivered the vote of thanks.At the end of round six the top seeded K S Gopakumar and the thirtieth seeded Shince Sebastian from Kerala were lead with 6 points. The much awaited results came in the 7th round that Shince Sebastian lost in the hands of the top seeded Gopakumar which helped Gopa to lead with one point ahead of the nearest rivals. Gopa drew with P G Aswin in the 8th round and continued the lead with 7.5 points at the end of round eight. In the final round K S Gopakumar drew with Sathiya Prasad from Karnataka and won the championship with 8 points. Three players shared the second pot with 7.5 points but better tie break score helped P G Aswin become the Runner up.

Final placing: (First 20 placings only)1.Gopakumar K S (Ker) 8; 2.Aswin.P.G (Ker) 7½; 3. Venkataramana P (AP) 7½; 4.Sathya Prasad K.(Kar)7½; 5. Shince Sebastian(Ker)7; 6.Shakthi Vishal J (TN)7; 7.Sonumon P S(Ker) 7; 8.Gupta Rajesh R.S (Mah)7; 9.Muralidharan R.(TN) 7 10. Joseph T K(Ker)7; 11.Arijith M(Ker)6½; 12.Yashaskara Jois K.R (Kar) 6½; 13.Sanil S (Ker) 6½; 14.Anwar N K (Ker) 6½; 15.Vijayakumar.N(TN)6½; 16.Ajith Kumar PN(Ker) 6½; 17.Sathya Giri V(TN)6½; 18.Sanjay SPillai (Ker) 6½; 19.Muthukumar C P(TN) 6½; 20.Balaguru T(Pud)6½;

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1st Excellent International Rating below 1600 Tournament 2014, ErnakulamDijocherian wins title

by Peter Joseph M, Chief Arbiter

The 1STedition of 1 st Excellent international Rating below 1600 chess tournament jointly organized by Excellent chess education Centre and Chess Association Ernakulam.Was held at St. Joseph’s public School, South Kalamassery from 9th May to 11th May 2014.

A total number of 298 players which included 160 rated players from across India participated in this 9 round tournament. the Tournament played under FIDE’s Swiss Rules. Pandidurai from Tamilnadu with a rating of 1596 started as the top seed for this Rs. 1,50,000 Rs prize money event.In a colourful opening ceremony, Sri. Benny Behanan, MLA, inaugurated the event by making the customary first move. Sri Latheef P M, chief organizer welcomed the gathering and Sri. Kannan M, president chess association Ernakulam presided over the function.

Sri.Dijocherian from Alappuzha, Kerala won the tournament by scoring 8.5 out of 9 rounds and lifted the Winner’s trophy and pocketed a cash prize of Rs. 21,000/-. Sri.Santhosh V R and Sri Abhilash G were the second and third spot respectively with 7.5 points Sri.Dr. Baby PK,Director, Youth Welfare Department, CUSAT and ,Sri Muraleedharan, M B former state champion gave away the prizes. Shri.Plaito V Williams,Ernakulam district secretary,were present in the function.

There was a sudden change in the climate and heavy rain fall caused slight delay in

starting of tournament. And the organisers were compelled to postpone one round to the next day with consent of Mr. Hariharan, Hon’ble general Secretary of AICF. The officials of AICF helped our tournament with their timely guidance.

1st Excellent FIDE RatedFinal standings: (first 125 placings only)Rk Name Pts1 Dijo Cherian 8½2 Santhosh V R 7½3 Abhilash G 7½4 Sooraj M R 7½5 Nagaraj Naik 7½6 Kishore Dev S. 7½7 Sasikumar.S 78 Muthukrishnan S 79 Dharani Kumar M S 710 Arun R 711 Ravindran Nair P V 712 Joseph S A 713 Shreyas M 714 Ram Kumar G M 715 Naveen Giri 716 Tharayil Sudhir 6½17 Abhinav Chakrapani Santhalaya 6½18 Melvin Thomas Varghese 6½19 Ramakrishnan V 6½20 Muhammed Reja C 6½21 Suresh G Menon 6½22 Raghu U V 6½23 Shanoj T Syed Alavi 6½24 Muhammed Shah 6½25 Harikrishnan A (kottayam) 6½26 Varadharajan I. 6½27 Hassan Kunju V M 6½28 Arjun T 6½29 Sajeev K K 6½30 Sivagnanam S 6½31 Nivetta T 6

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32 Jayesh T A 633 Binu K P 634 Rajkumar B 635 Sudheesh Kumar 636 Yashwanth Babu P 637 Shibu M P 638 Madhu K R 639 Subalakshmi M S 640 Ajayan K V 641 Xavier Joseph 642 Mogan Raj S 643 Gowri Shankar A 644 Thulaseedharan K 645 Suhas Reddy M 646 Jayanthakumar A P 647 Sanil S 648 Saji T. 649 Mathivanan S 650 Abhishek Babu 651 Vishnu Bipin 652 Abdul Raheem K A 653 Adarsh P.B 654 Muthu Rakesh Babu 655 Ismail P 656 Senny P 657 Steve Jero Nelson P 658 Kevin Jacob Stanly 659 Karthikeyan G 661 Ayushh Ravikumar 662 Gabriel B M 5½63 Rathneesh R 5½64 Harikrishnan Samyuktha 5½65 Sivadas T N 5½66 Ramesh R 5½67 Bright Lee M Sunilkumar 5½68 Bino Sebastian 5½69 Vishnu Prakash 5½60 Vignesh R 670 Nijai Giri 5½71 Syam Peter 5½72 Sarath Peter 5½73 Sreelakshmi M Sunilkumar 5½74 Dhanush Ragav 5½75 Deepak Kumar R 5½76 Eldho Skaria 5½77 SIBU M P 5½78 Atal Krishnan 5½

79 Sivant M 5½80 Arputha Jasmine B A 5½81 Joseph P Kuriype 5½82 Sumesh Kabeer 583 Manilal K.R 584 Raghuraj V.N. 585 Nandha Kumar K 586 Dhivyashree J 587 Hari Suresh 588 Syam Hari H V 589 Harikrishnan A 590 Sidharth Menon S 591 Dhanusha S 592 Paulson Frenchy 593 Praveen Lawrence 594 Annie Gladys A 595 Fathima Abdeen 596 Morisha A 597 Rajeeb K K 598 Adwait Meethal 599 Joshua Anto A 5100 Sudhir Vanarase 5101 Sarath M Salim 5102 Sivaprakash N 5103 Pavithra M 5104 Anwin Jojo 5105 Kabhilan S 5106 Balamurugavel P 5107 Tejas Sony Mevada 5108 Madhavan G 5109 Deepu N Prathapan 5110 Vijayaraghavan G 5111 Sulaiman T.A 5112 Benu Varghese Benjamin 5113 Ramachandran Nair G 5114 Vivek Prasannakumar 5115 Bestin K J 5116 Gautham P 5117 Varun Krishna 5118 Sabu Joseph 5119 Antony Kings As 5120 Goutham Krishna M 5121 Sreegovind Ganesh 5122 DaltonGriffinSamEmmanuel 5123 Vikas V 5124 Tajmeera S Thufail 5125 Keerthana Maran T 5

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Asian Cup of Nations Team event,IranChina pips India on tie-break for title

by Arvind Aaron

S.P. Sethuraman is lifted on the podium by Krishnan Sasikiran and Negi Parimarjan (right) with 2nd place Indian team, from left, R.B. Ramesh, Lalith Babu and B. Adhiban.

China and India tied for first place in the Asian Nations Cup that concluded at Iran on May 29, 2014. In the tie-break, China won the title having scored more regular game points which counted for tie-break. In match points, India and China tallied 16 points. India remained the only undefeated team. China lost to India and defeated all other teams.

India had the satisfaction of defeating champions China 2.5-1.5 in the mutual encounter. In the previous edition, India and China made 2-2 with blood on all four boards with all whites winning! India were held to 2-2draws by Iran-A and Vietnam. Indian scorers: Sethuraman 5.5/8; Adhiban 4/7; Sasikiran 6/7; Negi 6/7; Lalith Babu 5.5/7. Final placings: 1-2. Chinna, India 16 each; 3 Vietnam 14; 4 Kazakhstan 12; 5 Iran-A 11; 6 Iran-B 9; 7-8. Jordan, Sri Lanka 5 each; 9 Iraq 2; 10 Oman 0.

In the seventh roundChinese men catch up IndiaIndia slipped in round seven with a 2-2 draw against Iran-A allowing China to play catch up in the standings in the Asian Nations Cup being played in Iran.

All the four Indians were higher rated than their Iranian counterparts. The all Grand Master team of hosts Iran held India to draws in their white boards. In India’s white boards, Negi

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won on board four while Adhiban suffered a defeat to Elshan Moradiabadi in board No.2.China swept Iran 4-0 to catch up with India in the points table with 12 points from seven rounds. Two rounds remain to be played. China plays Iran-B and India take on Jordan in the next round.China has the better tie-break score. They have to play Iran-A and Iran-B while India plays Jordan and Sri Lanka in the last two games.

In the fifth roundIndia Shocks China 2.5-1.5India defeated China 2.5-1.5 in the fifth round to lead the Asian Cup of Nations team event under standard time control at Tabriz, Iran on May 25.

Krishnan Sasikiran, our mainstay in team events, played the key role in India’s victory. On board two, he defeated the world junior champion Yu Yangyi with the white pieces after Sethuraman (board 1), Negi (board 3) and Lalith Babu (board 4) had drawn their games.

India had rested B Adhiban who is registered to play board 2. Sasikiran who had been registered for board three played on board two and won.India leads with 11 points after six rounds with a draw against Vietnam and wins against all other nations. China with a stronger team in Elo were in second place with ten points.

In the women’s competition, China leads with four wins and India is in second place with three wins and a defeat to China. It is a six team race and one rounds remain to be played.Indian scorers: D Harika 3.5/4, Tania Sachdev 2/4, Eesha Karavade 1.5/3, Mary Ann Gomes 2/3 and Padmini Rout 2/2.

China wins Women’s title

Indian women’s team, from left, captain K. Murugan,Tania Sachdev, Harika Dronavalli, Mary Ann Gomes, Eesha Karavade and Padmini Rout.

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The Indian women won gold in the blitz tournament. In the women’s section too, India were held to a draw by Iran ‘A’ by 2-2. Like in the men, all our women were higher rated than their Iranian counterparts. Tania Sachdev beat Atousha Pourkashiyan while Eesha Karavade lost on board two to Mitra Hejazipour. Mary Ann and Padmini Rout only made draws draws on the lower boards.

China retained the title with maximum five wins in a six player all-play-all event. India won the silver medal having lost to China, drawn Iran-A and beating the rest. India totalled seven points. Iran-A won bronze medal.

Dragoljub Velimirovic, master of attacking chess

He was noted for his attacking style and possessed a great gift for visualizing sacrificial possibilities. Whilst spectacular chess made him popular with onlookers, each game required a great effort and this handicapped his quest for international success.

The great Serbian attacking grandmaster Dragoljub Velimirović sadly passed away on the 22nd of May 2014, aged 72. He became an International Master in 1972 and a grandmaster in 1973. He represented Yugoslavia in no less than six Olympiads, and he was three times Yugoslav Champion. It was Velimirovic’s spectacular attacking style that endeared him to chess fans all over the world. He made significant contributions to chess theory in black opening systems such as the Benoni and the

Sicilian. Of course his most famous contribution to theory is the Velimirovic Attack in the Sozin Variation of the Classical Sicilian (1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 Nc6 6.Bc4 e6 7.Be3 Be7 8.Qe2 intending 9.0-0-0). It was Velimirovic who worked out all the early fine details of this violent attacking continuation.Dragoljub Velimirović was born in Valjevo, Yugoslavia on 12 May 1942. He was introduced to chess at the age of seven by his mother Jovanka Velimirovic (1910–1972), who was one of Yugoslavia’s leading women chess players before World War II. He lived in Belgrade from 1960.

FIDE awarded him the International Master title in 1972 and Grandmaster title in 1973. He won the Yugoslav Chess Championship three times, in Vrnjacka Banja 1970 (with Milan Vukic), in Novi Sad 1975 (outright) and in Nikšic/Belgrade 1997 (also outright).

Velimirovic was selected for the Yugoslav national team many times, one of the earliest occasions being for the USSR vs Yugoslavia match at Ohrid 1972, during which he notably defeated Rafael Vaganian in the first round. At the European Team Championship between 1970 and 1977 he excelled, winning a number of silver and bronze medals, both for individual and team performances. At the Chess Olympiad in Nice 1974, he took two silver medals (one team, one individual). A further silver medal followed from his participation

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at the World Team championship in Lucerne 1989. Several of his games will always be collected in chess anthologies of great games.

In World championship cycles, he was the winner of Zonal tournaments in Praia da Rocha 1978 and Budva 1981. He participated at three Interzonal tournaments in Rio de Janeiro 1979, Moscow 1982 and in Szirák 1987, but was never able to qualify for the Candidates phase. His early tournament results included Skopje 1971 (2nd=, behind Lev Polugaevsky, equal with Albin Planinc), Vrnjacka Banja 1973 (1st),[3] Novi Sad 1976 (2nd, behind Jan Smejkal, ahead of Vlastimil Hort and Svetozar Gligoric) and Albufeira 1978 (1st, ahead of Ljubomir Ljubojevic). He sustained the effort into the 1980s and early 90s, adding further victories at Titograd 1984, Vršac 1987 and Niksic 1994.Dragoljub Velimirović died on May 22, 2014, at the age of 72 in Belgrade after a prolonged illness. He was survived by his wife. There was a ceremony in Velimirovic’s honour on May 26, 2014 at the Chess Association of Serbia, followed by his cremation and funeral at the New Cemetery in Belgrade.

The grandmaster will forever be remembered thanks to the opening bearing his name, the Velimirović Attack, a variation in the Sicilian where White castles queenside with aggressive intentions. The namesake opening befitted his overall style. Here it is in action:Dragoljub Velimirovic vs. Jovan Sofrevski YUG-ch | Titograd | Round 7 | 1965 | ECO: B89 | 1-0

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 e6 5.Nc3 d6 6.Be3

Nf6 7.Bc4 Be7 8.Qe2 a6 9.0–0–0 Qc7 10.Bb3 Na5 11.g4

b5 12.g5 Nxb3+ 13.axb3 Nd7 14.Nf5 (See diagram)

exf5 15.Nd5 Qd8 16.exf5 0–0 17.f6 gxf6 18.Bd4 Ne5

19.gxf6 Bxf6 20.Rhg1+ Bg7 21.Bxe5 dxe5 22.Qxe5 f6

23.Ne7+ Kf7 24.Qh5+

Courtesy: innovative chess World and fide.com

The grandmaster will forever be remembered thanks to the opening bearing his name, the Velimirović Attack, a variation in the Sicilian where White castles queenside with aggressive intentions. The namesake opening befitted his overall style. Here it is in action: Dragoljub Velimirovic vs. Jovan Sofrevski YUG-ch | Titograd | Round 7 | 1965 | ECO: B89 | 1-0 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 e6 5.Nc3 d6 6.Be3 Nf6 7.Bc4 Be7 8.Qe2 a6 9.0–0–0 Qc7 10.Bb3 Na5 11.g4 b5 12.g5 Nxb3+ 13.axb3 Nd7 14.Nf5

exf5 15.Nd5 Qd8 16.exf5 0–0 17.f6 gxf6 18.Bd4

Ne5 19.gxf6 Bxf6 20.Rhg1+ Bg7 21.Bxe5 dxe5 22.Qxe5 f6 23.Ne7+ Kf7 24.Qh5+

Lasker, the mathematician

In 1895 Lasker published two mathematical articles in Nature. On the advice of David Hilbert he registered for doctoral studies at Erlangen during 1900–02. In 1901 he presented his doctoral thesis Über Reihen auf der Convergenzgrenze (“On Series at Convergence Boundaries”) at Erlangen and in the same year it was published by the Royal Society. He was awarded a doctorate in mathematics in 1902. His most significant mathematical article, in 1905, published a theorem of which Emmy Noether developed a more generalized form, which is now regarded as of fundamental importance to modern algebra and algebraic geometry.

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42nd TN State Fide Rated Women’s Chess Championship 2014. TiruvarurSrija Seshadri wins

by L.R.Bhuvanaa Sai IA, Chief Arbiter

Third Seeded player WFM Srija Seshadri from NLC Won the 42nd TN State Fide Rated Women’s Chess Championship conducted from 7th to 11th May 2014. The championship was inaugurated by Mrs. Mercy Regina, District Sports Officer with white pieces against A. Harshini of Tiruvarur district player in the presence of Rtn.S.Ravichandran, Municipal Chairman Tiruvarur, Lions.C.Balamurugan,Director,CA Honda, Rtn.J.kanagaraj,founder SVT Group, Sri.V.Hariharan,General Secretary, TNSCA, Secretary AICF and Rtn.R.K. Balagunasekaran, Secretary, Tiruvarur District Chess Association, Jt.Secretary, TNSCA at Sri Jaya Bhuvaneswari Thirumana Mandapam on 7th May 2014 in a grand manner. 89 Players participated from 16 districts and a special unit (NLC). It was interesting to note that 16 players were from host district (Tiruvarur) and 56 players were rated players.

WFM R.Vaishali, WFM Srija Sehsadri, Akshaya Nandakumar and V. Varshini shared the lead with 4.5 points at the end of 5th round. In the next round Akshaya and Varshini were the losers, Vaishali and Srija jointly were in lead with 5.5 points.

NLC WFM and Chennai WFM played with White and black pieces respectively in 7th round. They played Sicilian Najdorf variation, till 38th move there was equal position but Vaishali made a blunder with Qf8 on 39th move. This move helped Srija to win and took the sole lead with 6.5 points and maintained the lead after the penultimate round also. She needed a draw to clinch the championship, but she beat CMN Sunyuktha in 29 moves and won 42nd TN State Fide Rated Women’s Chess Championship with 8.5 points. She received Rs.9000 cash prize with Paruben Manilal Mehta Trophy. V.Varshini, R.Divya Lakshmi, S.Harini and P. Thamarai Selvi of Chennai finished 2nd to 5th place respectively.

Shri K S S Thyagapari, President, Veludaiyar kalvi Kuzhumam distributed the prizes to the winners in the presence of Rtn.B. Balaji Venkatraman, president, organizing committee, and Rtn.N.Muralidharan. Rtn.R.K. Balagunasekaran, Secretary, TDCA, Jt.Secretary, TNSCA delivered vote of thanks. The organizers provided free lunch to all the players, parents and managers. The tournament concluded in a grand manner.

Final ranking: (first 25 placings only)Rk Name Club Pts1 Srija Seshadri NLC 8½2 Varshini V CHE 7½3 Divya Lakshmi R CHE 74 Harini S. CHE 75 Thamaraiselvi P CHE 6½6 Vaishali R CHE 67 Akshaya Nandakumar CBE 68 Sunyuktha C M N KAN 69 Sangeetha P TRY 610 Neela S MDU 611 Bala Kannamma.P CHE 612 Visalatchi R VNR 613 Rohini G CHE 614 Akshita D CHE 615 Bhuvaneshwari.R TRY 616 Kavitha P L SLM 5½17 Thirtha Kanth.M CUD 5½18 Poojakanth M. CUD 5½19 Hema Priya N CHE 5½20 Abirami S MDU 5½21 Jasper Jothi P CBE 5½22 Harivardhini I TVLR 5½23 Harshini A TRR 5½24 Dakshinya T R S TPR 5½25 Rindhiya V CHE 5½

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Desai Pratishthan’s Late Shri Laxmikant V Desai Memorial All India FIDE Rating (below 1600) Chess Tournament was oraganised by Ponda Taluka Chess Association at Wagle High School, Mangeshi, Goa from 9-11th May 2014. The tournament was inaugurated at the hands of Rajendra Desai, Trustee of Desai Pratishthan by lighting the lamp and by also making the inaugural move on the chess board. Mr. Kishor Bandekar, Secretary, Goa Chess Association, Mr. Satyawan Harmalkar, Jt. Secretary, Goa Chess Association, Mr Sagar Sakordekar, President, Ponda Taluka Chess Association, Mr. Amogh Namshiker, Secretary, Ponda Taluka Chess Association, Mr Avdhut Kamat, Vice-chairman, Manguirish Vidyadini Saunstha, Mr. Sanjay Kavlekar, SAG coach and Mrs Mitasha Aigal, Headmistress, Wagle High School.

The Chief Guest Mr. Rajendra Desai speaking appreciated the efforts of Ponda Taluka Chess Association for organizing the tournament and said that Desai Pratishthan will conduct this tournament every year. Kishor Bandekar congratulated the organizers for professionally organizing the event.The tournament attracted 245 entries and players from Karnataka,

Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Daman took part out of which 75 were rated players. The seeded players who took part in the tournament were Datta Kambli (Goa-1582), WCM Krystal Fernandes (Goa -1566), Riddhi

Desai Pratishthan’s Late Shri Laxmikant V Desai Memorial All India FIDE Rating (below 1600) Tournament 2014, Goa

Datta Kambli clinches titleVasanth BH – Chief Arbiter

Zantye (Goa - 1550), Chogre Mangesh (MAH - 1526)

Tournament was conducted in spacious hall. The organizer provided Coffee/Tea and biscuits for all the player for all three days. Top seeded Datta Kambli of Goa scored 8 points and won the tournament Om Barde of Goa, Telang Mrinal of Goa and Vinoth Kumar of Tamilnadu scored seven and half points each, based on better tie break score, they are placed 2nd to 4th respectively.

The prizes to the winners were given away by the Chief guest of the prize distribution function, Mr Arun Desai, Director of Transport, Govt. of Goa. Mr Vinay Tendulkar President, Goa Chess Association, Mr Kishor Bandekar , Secretary, Goa Chess Association, Mr Sagar Sakordekar, President, Ponda Taluka Chess Association, Amogh Namshiker, Secretary, Ponda Taluka Chess Association, Damodar Naik, Sarpanch, VPK Panchayat were present on the occasion.Final ranking (first 94 placings only) 1 Kambli Datta 82 Barde Om 7½3 Telang Mrinal 7½4 Vinoth Kumar M 7½5 Chulet Mayank L 76 Mendonca Leon Luke 77 Riddhi Zantye 78 Parsekar Anirudh 79 Sudhakar Patgar 710 Kabil S 7

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11 Raghuvendra J Gupta 712 Sahil Shetty 6½13 Thorat Aishwarya 6½14 Dias Aston 6½15 Vaskar Rajat Raghoba 6½16 Chorge Mangesh 6½17 Ridikesh Dilip Vernekar 6½18 Khandeparkar Mohit 6½19 Urvi Bandekar 6½20 Shaunak V.S.Kuncolienkar 6½21 Wagle Aakash Abhay 6½22 Bodke Sharmad S 6½23 Jha Kishor 6½24 Aravindh S 6½25 Anish Prabhudessai 6½26 Vikram Mishra 627 Nageshkar Sohan S 628 Saish Ulhas Fondekar 629 Chopdekar Gunjal 630 Gourav Barik 631 Sachin V Sawant 632 Meet Puri 633 Siddhesh Datta Pednekar 634 Ashesh Keni 635 Bhimappa Harijan 636 Chodankar Akash 637 Fernandes Krystal 638 Audi Saiesh 639 Aryan Shamrao Raikar 640 Sunad Govekar 641 Sachin Kakodkar 642 Anandakrishnan R 643 Fuzail Saudagar 644 Siva Bala Sankar Manimaran 645 Bir Yogesh Pai 646 Swera Ana Braganca 5½47 Bhobe Harsh 5½48 Datta Bhika Naik 5½49 Advait Rajiv Dhawalikar 5½50 Fadte Rudresh 5½51 Thorat Sanjay 5½52 Akhilesh Akshay Nigalye 5½

53 Pranav Prakash Naik 5½54 Ian Savio Rodrigues 5½55 Sarvam Sandesh Naik 5½56 Sanjeev G Hammannavar 5½57 Ritwik Vasudev Bilgi 5½58 Siddhesh Milind Marathe 5½59 Prem Kumar S 5½60 Mangesh Sagar Sakordekar 5½61 Arun Harishankar Tripathi 5½62 Khan Faiziya 5½63 Sahil Dayanand Desai 5½64 Bhargava Rajesh Bhatkurse 5½65 Aditya A Chodankar 5½66 Eeshan Gad 5½67 Shetty Ashray 5½68 Raikar Aman Umakant 5½69 Ruthik Shanbhag 5½70 Kuncolienkar Shivank 571 Bhobe Ved 572 Pranav Subrahmanya Hedge 573 Anand Kurtiker 574 Milind Gauns 575 Tanvi Vasudev Hadkonkar 576 Vaibhav N Tarkar Pednekar 577 Harrop Singh Goindi 578 Morajkar Navin 579 Dalal Ambar Abhay 580 Thivagar T 581 Shirodkar Aayush 582 Sawant Vignesh 583 Naik Shvesh S 584 Sarvesh Sahadev Rao 585 Naik Atharv 586 Pratik S Borkar 587 Naik Shirodkar Prajay 588 Trish Velan Dcruz 589 Reagan Aaron Rodrigues 590 Kenkare S H 591 Sahakari Virendra 592 Shivashankaran R 593 Ghosarwadkar Pushparaj 594 Pai Vishwesh 5

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The 1st Brainium FIDE Rated Chess Tournament for below 1700 rated players was conducted by Brainium Chess Academy under the aegis of Delhi Chess Association at Chess Centre, Major Dhyanchand National Stadium, India Gate, New Delhi from 19-22 May 2014.

This event attracted a total number of 319 players including 232 internationally rated players from different parts of India and Nepal. The event which was spread over four days and ten rounds with a time control of 60 minutes and 30 seconds increment from move 1. The total prize fund of the event was Rs. 7,00,000/- with special prizes of lap tops and tablets.

In a colourful opening ceremony on 19th May 2014, Shri. Sabir Ali, Founder, Right Step NGO, inaugurated this event by making customary first move against Delhi’s budding talent Master Aryan Chopra in presence of Shri. Sultan Salauddin, Chairman Organising Committee and Smt. Renu Goel, Social Activist.The tournament was played under Swiss System and Delhi youngster Prachet Sharma started as top seed.

The tournament saw the leaders table changing every round.At the end of ninth and penultimate round, three players namely Kuldeep Kashyap of Delhi, Srinibas Mishra of Odisha and Kunal Kant Saxena of Madhya Pradesh were in joint lead with eight points.The intense encounters in the final round changed the entire

1st Brainium FIDE Rated Tournament for below 1700, New DelhiKashyap wins Brainium FIDE Rated

by M.S.Gopakumar IA , Chief Arbiter

complexion of the event as Kashyap defeated Mishra in a well fought battle to emerge as Winner with nine points to lift the coveted champion’s trophy along with Rs. 1 lakh prize money. Meanwhile other joint leader, Saxena suffered a heart breaking defeat at the hands of Vivek Patel of Maharahtra. The crucial victory enabled Vivek Patel to finish as first runner up with eight and half points. A nine way tie to the second runner-up spot resolved by Buchholz tie break score and better tie break score helped Vaibhav Barahate to finish as third.

Palkin Kaur of Delhi was adjudged as best woman player while Eshan Lawaniya of Uttar Pradesh, Krishnater Kushager of Maharashtra, Alok Sinha of Delhi and Veer Kadakia of Maharashtra finished as best among Under-15, Under-13, Under-11 and Under-9, age categories.Siddiqui Mohd Imran of Uttar Pradesh was the best unrated player while Rohan Gupta and Stuti Dewan were adjudged the Best Delhi Player and Best Delhi Girl player respectively.The elo category laptops were bagged by Krishnater Kushager of Maharashtra, Aan Sikka of Delhi and Siddiqui Mohd Imran of Uttar Pradesh. In a befitting closing ceremony Shri. Bharat Singh, CEO All India Chess Federation gave away the prizes in presence of Shri. Sabir Ali, Founder Right Step NGO; Shri. AK Verma, Secretary Delhi Chess Association, Shri. Sultan Salauddin, Chairman Organising Committee and Shri. M S Din, Organizing Secretary.

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Final ranking(first 90 placings only) Rk Name Club Pts1 Kuldeep Kashyap DEL 92 Patel Vivek GUJ 8½3 Vaibhav Barahate MAH 84 Singh Vimlesh Kumar BIH 85 Saxena Kunal Kant MP 86 Imtiaz Ali PUN 87 Mishra Srinibas ODI 88 Lawaniya Eshan UP 89 Sharma Vibhav HAR 810 Debashis Majumder(irs) WB 811 Sahil Dhawan HAR 7½12 Krishnater Kushager MAH 7½13 Rohan Gupta DEL 7½14 Yashraj Purohit RAJ 7½15 Kuldeep Sharma DEL 7½16 Shashwat Chakraborty CHAT 7½17 Manoj Vijay Kumar MP 7½18 Siddiqui Mohd.Imran UP 719 Shami Vipin K. UP 720 Suraj Jaiswal MAH 721 Kaur Palkin DEL 722 Arun Wahi DEL 723 Sudarshan Mitra WB 724 Pvs Aravind AP 725 Prachet Sharma DEL 726 Parvej Alam Ansari GUJ 727 Alok Sinha DEL 728 Shatrughan Kaushik UP 729 Stuti Dewan DEL 730 Harminder Singh DEL 731 Rahim Lakhani GUJ 732 Satyajit Sarkar WB 733 Rathi Yashvardhan MAH 734 Sarbajit Chowdhury DEL 735 Deori Hiranjit ASM 736 Raj Kumar DEL 737 Aan Sikka DEL 738 Sujay Debnath WB 739 Mangal Kashinath MAH 740 Shivam Verma BIH 741 Deba Dutta ASM 742 Saveson K DEL 6½43 Deepak Singh DEL 6½44 Balaguru T PUD 6½

45 Waghela Dhairya Pankaj MAH 6½46 Shankar Kuldeep UP 6½47 Sachinder DEL 6½48 Dhruvik Shah GUJ 6½49 Dinesh Sinha UP 6½50 Bhanot Stuti HAR 6½51 Dave Shiv Shankar RAJ 6½52 Robi Singh Jeron ASM 6½53 Arnav Tiwari DEL 6½54 Hariom Solanki UP 6½55 Anwar Singh PUN 6½56 Souradip Deb TRI 6½57 Ashitosh Kumar PUN 6½58 Aneek Das WB 6½59 Prasannakumar Nayak ODI 6½60 Jagdeep Singh Sudan DEL 6½61 Sinha Shivam CHAT 6½62 Chourasia Nitin MP 6½63 Kakumanu Kautil Prasad DEL 664 Siva Kumar Badireddy AP 665 Md. Furqan Khan DEL 666 Sikka Sumit MP 667 Sparsh Bansal DEL 668 Ravindra P AP 669 Kunal Kakumanu Prasad DEL 670 Abijit Mistry WB 671 Puneet Manchanda HAR 672 Tathagat Pal DEL 673 Jashanpreet PUN 674 Sumesh Kabeer KER 675 Ahirwal Dinesh MP 676 Vaishant Kumar Gangwani HAR 677 Mishra Om ODI 678 Bidisha Roy JHAR 679 M Tulasi Ram Kumar AP 680 Venkat Reddy S AP 681 Anirban Basu WB 682 Sarkar Arna WB 683 Manish Kumar BIH 684 Prithu Gupta DEL 685 Prajapati Ketan GUJ 686 Ram Singh Parihar HAR 687 Ravi Sharma J & K 688 Vardan Nagpal DEL 689 Ishwar Ramteke MAH 690 Mukund Khanna UP 6

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Ist BDCA Open FIDE Rated (below 1600) Tournament, BangaloreJagadish P wins title

Vasanth BH – Chief Arbiter

Ist BDCA FIDE Rated Chess Tournament for below 1600 rated players was held at Dr Marigowda Hall, Lalbagh Botanical Garden, K H Road, Bangalore from 16 – 18th May 2014. A total of 357 players which includes 65 rated players from different parts of country participated. The event was spread over three days and nine rounds with a time control of one hour and thirty second increment from move 1.In a simple opening ceremony function of 16th May 2014, Mr Sydney Lewis welcomed the players and the round started on scheduled time at 10.00 am.The tournament saw lots of ups and downs in the entire nine rounds. Jagadish P, a fifth standard student of Bethany High School, Koramangala, Bangalore, clinched the title scoring eight and half points. Karthik Shetty of Bangalore scored eight points and became the runner up. While three players with seven and half points tied for the third spot, better tie break score helped Thirunarayana Sampath Kumar to finish as second runner-up. Reethis Padhi and Unrated Kanishka Basu of Karnataka finished fourth and fifth respectively.Prerana of Bangalore and Krishna Murthy of Mysore were adjudged as best female player and

veteran player, while Arun M S, Mohammed Anees both from Tamilnadu, Komal Srivatav Sajja and Pranav Anand both from Karnataka won the best prize in Under-15, Under-13, Under-10 and Under-8 Boys and Deepika M C, Diya James, Kushi M Hombal

and Bhagyashree G Patil won the same prize from girls category.Mr Vinay Kurth Koti, Vice President of United Karnataka Chess Association, R Hanumatha, Vice President UKCA along with Durgesh K, Sanjay N and Sydney Lewis gave away the prizes to the winners.Final rankings (first 123 placings only)1 Jagadish P 8½2 Karthik Shetty 83 Thirunarayanan Sampath Kumar 7½4 Reetish Padhi 7½5 Kanishka Basu 7½6 Chaithanya Ganesh 77 Dheekshith Kumar R 78 Jha Kishor 79 Rahul Bharadwaj B 710 Santhosh V R 711 Abid Ali Mujawar 712 Bhavik Dave 713 Ajay R 714 Swarnamala B 715 Tejas S Iyer 716 Ankit Payal 6½17 Sai Ganesh S 6½18 Nagaraj Naik 6½19 Aswat Narayanan R 6½20 Sudarshan Bhat 6½21 Oke Aditya 6½22 Avi Jaiswal 6½23 Koushik Sarun Reddy Y 6½24 Muthukrishnan S 6½25 Gangadhar T 6½26 Merithraj M 6½27 Vani S Indrali 6½28 Nitin R 6½29 Chandan A 6½30 Hirthik Rajan B P 6½31 Prajwalesh 6½

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32 Shabreen T Khanam 6½33 Raja V 6½34 Shakthi P 6½35 Bino Sebastian 6½36 Ramesh R 6½37 Manjunath D Naik 6½38 Sai R. Arulmurugan 6½39 Venkatesh Upadyaya Tv 6½40 Sheshashayan M V 6½41 Prabhuraj Prabhakaran 642 K R Bhat 643 Arun M S 644 Benny P C 645 Siddharth Murali 646 Mohamed Anees M 647 Naveen H J 648 Ranganatha B S 649 Venkatesh K 650 Rohan Jaggi 651 Deepika M C 652 Rahul Raaj A 653 Deepak Kumar R 654 Krishna Murthy 655 Navaneetha Krishna 656 Mahendar B 657 Anish Prabhudessai 658 Ravi Prasad S N 659 Ithal H L Rajath 660 Praveen L 661 Dhivyashree J 662 Akash Reghunathan 663 Kishore Dev S. 664 Shyama Krishna S 665 Ritu A Toshniwal 666 Muniraju Narayanappa 667 Komal Srivatsav Sajja 5½68 Pranav M Bhat 5½69 Chaithanya Shyam D 5½70 Vijay Raghav J S 5½71 Chidanand A 5½72 Amarnath G 5½73 Chitranjan Chetkar 5½74 Pranav Anand 5½75 Jose P C 5½76 Srikanta Bhatta 5½77 Svatejas Shivakumar 5½

78 Akkilesh P 5½79 Ismail P 5½80 Dinakaran Vijayan 5½81 Preetham Gangadhar 5½82 Shaunak Geetprasad 5½83 Vineeth C Johnson 5½84 Satwik M Hegde 5½85 Raghavendra G 5½86 Harishankar S 5½87 Dhanush Ravi 5½88 Gokulnath V 5½89 Sandeep Subraman Raghav 5½90 Banthiya Rishabh 5½91 Tarun Simon P 5½92 Arifulla T Abdul Hameed 5½93 Varanasi Rama Sai Srikar 5½94 Ramakrishnan V 5½95 Nuthan B S 5½96 Rai Shashidhar 5½97 Manika Kesavan 5½98 Rajat Dhruva Ravindra 5½99 Aryan Jain Karnataka 5½100 Aravindakshan Su 5½101 Siddharth Yedlapati 5½102 Karthikay C 5103 Anup Mahesh Ganjal 5104 Prajeet Singh Rawat 5105 Sharath V Shetty 5106 Pranav Kumar 5107 Diya James 5108 Ashwin Rao M A 5109 Hemanth Kumar Mandala 5110 Peter M Jose 5111 Tanav Sudharshan 5112 Shijo J Joy 5113 Aadith R 5114 Sishir B 5115 Adithya J 5116 Baligar Dr Vishwanath 5117 Shyam Mohan 5118 Adya Singh 5119 Prachi Bharti 5120 Abhinav Bhatt 5121 Neeraja J 5122 Suveer Kumar R K 5123 Arun Lobo 5

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25th CUSAT International Rating Chess Tournament,Cusat…..Ram S Krishnan is champion

by V.Vijayaraghavan IA, Chief Arbiter

The 25th Cusat International Rating Chess Tournament, jointly organized by the Department of Youth Welfare, Cusat; Department of Physical Education, Cusat; Ernakulam District Chess Association, Cochin University Union and Cusat Chess Club held at air conditioned halls of the software block, School of Engineering, CUSAT 16.05.2014 to 20.05.2014. Top Players like World U-10 blitz champion Nihal Sarin, Ram S Krishnan, Phoobalan P and Kunal M participated in the five day-long event. A total of 257, including 194 FIDE rated players from different parts of the country participated in the event.

Shri. Jacob Punnoose IPS, former state Police Chief and present CEO, 35th National Games Secretariat inaugurated the tournament at 10.30 am at the Software block, SoE on 16th May. Sri. Sunny P Jose, Chairman, Organising committee and Member of Syndicate presided over the function. Dr. K Sajan, Member Syndicate and Professor in charge of Registrar welcomed the gathering and Sri Palito Willaim, Secretary, Chess Association Ernakulum proposed vote of thanks. Dr. G Madhu, Member Syndicate, Dr. P.K Baby, Director, Department of Youth Welfare, Shri. Rasheed, Joint Secretary, Kerala State Chess Association, Sri. PVN Namboothirippad, Veteran chess player were also present in the function. Sri. V.Vijayaraghavan, international arbiter was the chief arbiter and Sri. Dakshinamurthi, Sri. Venugopalan A.P, Sri. K.A Unus and P.S Ameer were the deputy arbiters.

Thirty main cash awards and seventy one category prizes worth Rs.3,01,250 were given to the winners. Cochin University of Science and Technology was the major promoter. Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL) and State Bank of Travancore financially supported the event.

Mr. Ram S Krishnan, from Tamilnadu won the 25th CUSAT International Rating Chess Championship with 9 points out of 10 rounds. Mr. Phoopalan. P from Integrated Coach Factory was the first runner up with 8.5 points. Mr.Maheswaran P from Posts and Telegraph, Mr. Kunal M from Tamilnadu and Mr. Chandan Raju from Kerala were the Second runners up with 8 points each. Survar Subair fromKerala declared as the best unrated player with 6.5 points. Mr. Marthandan K.U from Tamilnadu was the best player in the category below 1800 with 7.5 points and Mr. Shibin K Benny from Kerala was the best player below 1500 category with 6 points. Master Tanun V Karanth from Taminadu was the champion under -14 with 6.5 points. Master Nihal Sarin from Kerala was the champion in under -11 with 6.5 points. Master Pankaj Bhat from Karnataka was the champion in under-8 category with 4.5 points.

The valedictory section of the Tournament held at 6 pm on 20th May 2014 at software block, School of Engineering CUSAT. Sri.V.K Ibrahim Kunju, Hon’ble Minister for Public Works distributed prizes and certificates to the champions. Dr. K Paulose Jacob,

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Pro-Vice Chancellor in charge of Vice Chancellor presided over the function. Mr. V. Vijayaraghavan, International Arbiter presented arbiters report. Dr. K Sajan, Professor in charge of Registrar and Member of Syndicate, Shri. Nedumudi Harikumar, Member Syndicate, Shri. M. Kannan, President, Ernakulam District Chess Association were also present in the function. Dr. P.K Baby, Director, Department of Youth Welfare welcomed the gathering and Mr. V.P Binu, Secretary, CUSAT Chess Club proposed the vote of thanks.

Final standings (first 76 placings only)Rk. Name Pts. 1 Ram S. Krishnan 92 Phoobalan P. 8.53 Maheswaran P. FM 84 Kunal M. 85 Chandar Raju 86 Mohammed Dilshad 7.57 Arjun Satheesh 7.58 Marthandan K U 7.59 Prakashram R 7.510 Iniyan P 7.511 Sai Vishwesh.C 7.512 Joshi Abhijeet 7.513 Syed Anwar Shazuli 714 Jagadeesh A.K. 715 Amir Asim 716 Shet Prajwal P 717 Visveshwar A 718 Arjun Adappa 719 Manu M 720 Karmukilan S 721 Akash R 722 Arun Kumar K.G 723 Wajih Nassir 724 Ajeesh Antony 725 Prasant N Nayagam 726 Mohanan U.C. 727 Dileep Kumar R 728 A K Kalshyan 729 Tulsi M 730 Bavankumar 6.5

31 Madhusoodanan K.R. 6.532 Varma Shabdhik 6.533 Balaji M 6.534 Raahul V S 6.535 Subramanian Pl 6.536 Sharma Shashi Pal 6.537 Nihal Sarin 6.538 Ashish Madhusoodhanan 6.539 Martin Samuel 6.540 Tarun V Kanth 6.541 Survar Subair 6.542 Alan Diviya Raj 6.543 Mohanan C S 6.544 Yashaskara Jois K.R 6.545 Shakthi Vishal J 6.546 Narendiran P 6.547 Badrinath S. 6.548 Ananya Suresh WCM 6.549 Vincent Dave 6.550 Athul Krishna S 651 Lakshmanan K A 652 Advaith S.B 653 Rajith V. 654 Sachin Pradeep 655 Arjun Kalyan 656 Shibin K Benny 657 Nikhilesh M Holla 658 Suhail Rasheed 659 Yutesh P 660 Rejith Babu C 661 Saughanthika As 662 Johnson O Abraham 663 Prem Krishna N 664 Dharani Kumar M S 665 Sreekumar Sm 666 Muralidharan R. 667 Sreedharan.E 668 Dharani Sree R 669 Raveendran C.R. 670 Abhiram C Nath 671 Abdul Majeed N. 672 Arijith M 673 Binu K P 674 Athul Jyothish A 675 Harikrishnan A 676 Naveen Giri 6

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Selected Games From National Team Chess, KanpurAnnotated by IM Manuel AaronSatyapragyan,S (Air India) (2394) Lalith Babu,M.R (Petroleum) (2579) [B12]1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.e5 Bf5 4.h4 h6 5.g4 Bd7 6.h5 e6 7.f4 c5 8.c3 Qb6 9.Nf3 Nc6 Diagram #

10.Kf2 [Another interesting continuation is: 10.Rh2 ( Further on in the game, it will become clear that white has some issues in completing his development. 10 Rh2 frees the Bishop on c1 from the need to guard b2, and also presents an option of going Rc2 later to double rooks on the c file.) 10...Rc8 11.Be3 cxd4 12.cxd4 Na5 13.Rc2= and white has no development problems and has possible pawn thrusts on the wing as shown by Navara-Shimanov 2010 1–0] 10...f6 [This immediate challenge to the white king is a new idea here. 10...0–0–0 11.Kg3 Kb8 12.Rh2 a6 13.Be3 Rc8² has been tried here.] 11.Kg3 Nge7 12.Na3 a6 13.Nc2 Qc7 Since white has a poor king position, the centre is now the best place for black to break through. He is going to strike after careful preparation. 14.Be3 Rg8!? [This is to be ready to open up the king-side where the white king has been nervously developed.

It also declares that black is going to castle long. 14...cxd4 15.cxd4 f5 would have given a miniscule advantage for black.] 15.Kf2= White takes his king away from the b8-h2 diagonal where the black queen is active and the g-file where Black’s Rg8 is a potential menace. 15...0–0–0 [If 15...g5 16.hxg6 cxd4 17.cxd4 Nxg6=] 16.b4! The natural move to start his own counter against the threatened black build-up. 16...g5 The time has come for the big thrust 17.exf6 [If 17.hxg6 fxe5 18.dxe5 Nxg6 19.bxc5 Be7 20.Bd3 Rdf8 21.Bxg6 Rxg6 22.Nb4 Rxg4³ slightly better for black, but very diificult to play from the white side; or if, 17.fxg5 fxe5 18.gxh6 Rxg4 19.h7 Bg7 It is advantage to black once again, black’s strong center combined with whites precarious king make life very tough for white.] 17...gxf4 18.Bd2 e5!? ! Black goes all out, sacking a piece to open fire against the white king. 19.fxe7 Bxe7 20.dxe5 Nxe5 21.Nxe5 Qxe5

Diagram # 22.Qf3 [More natural was the attempt to try to trade queens to nullify the attack by 22.Qe2 Qf6 23.Re1 Bd6 24.Qf3 Rxg4 25.Bh3 Rg3 26.Bxd7+ Rxd7 27.Re8+ Kc7 28.Qxd5 Re3 Advantage black] 22...Bxg4 23.Bh3 Qf5 [If 23...Qxh5 24.Bxg4+ Qxg4 25.Qxg4+ Rxg4 26.Rxh6 Rdg8 27.Ne1] 24.bxc5 [24.Qxf4? Bh4+ black

Selected games from National Team Chess, Kanpur

Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron

Satyapragyan,S (Air India) (2394) Lalith Babu,M.R (Petroleum) (2579) [B12]

1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.e5 Bf5 4.h4 h6 5.g4 Bd7 6.h5 e6 7.f4 c5 8.c3 Qb6 9.Nf3 Nc6 Diagram #

10.Kf2 [Another interesting continuation is: 10.Rh2 ( Further on in the game, it will become clear that white has some issues in completing his development. 10 Rh2 frees the Bishop on c1 from the need to guard b2, and also presents an option of going Rc2 later to double rooks on the c file.) 10...Rc8 11.Be3 cxd4 12.cxd4 Na5 13.Rc2= and white has no development problems and has possible pawn thrusts on the wing as shown by Navara-Shimanov 2010 1–0] 10...f6 [This immediate challenge to the white king is a new idea here. 10...0–0–0 11.Kg3 Kb8 12.Rh2 a6 13.Be3 Rc8² has been tried here.] 11.Kg3 Nge7 12.Na3 a6 13.Nc2 Qc7 Since white has a poor king position, the centre is now the best place for black to break through. He is going to strike after careful preparation. 14.Be3 Rg8!? [This is to

be ready to open up the king-side where the white king has been nervously developed. It also declares that black is going to castle long. 14...cxd4 15.cxd4 f5 would have given a miniscule advantage for black.] 15.Kf2= White takes his king away from the b8-h2 diagonal where the black queen is active and the g-file where Black's Rg8 is a potential menace. 15...0–0–0 [If 15...g5 16.hxg6 cxd4 17.cxd4 Nxg6=] 16.b4! The natural move to start his own counter against the threatened black build-up. 16...g5 The time has come for the big thrust 17.exf6 [If 17.hxg6 fxe5 18.dxe5 Nxg6 19.bxc5 Be7 20.Bd3 Rdf8 21.Bxg6 Rxg6 22.Nb4 Rxg4³ slightly better for black, but very diificult to play from the white side; or if, 17.fxg5 fxe5 18.gxh6 Rxg4 19.h7 Bg7 It is advantage to black once again, black's strong center combined with whites precarious king make life very tough for white.] 17...gxf4 18.Bd2 e5!? ! Black goes all out, sacking a piece to open fire against the white king. 19.fxe7 Bxe7 20.dxe5 Nxe5 21.Nxe5 Qxe5

Diagram # 22.Qf3 [More natural was the attempt to try to trade queens to nullify the attack by 22.Qe2 Qf6 23.Re1 Bd6 24.Qf3 Rxg4 25.Bh3 Rg3 26.Bxd7+ Rxd7 27.Re8+ Kc7 28.Qxd5 Re3 Advantage black] 22...Bxg4

Selected games from National Team Chess, Kanpur

Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron

Satyapragyan,S (Air India) (2394) Lalith Babu,M.R (Petroleum) (2579) [B12]

1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.e5 Bf5 4.h4 h6 5.g4 Bd7 6.h5 e6 7.f4 c5 8.c3 Qb6 9.Nf3 Nc6 Diagram #

10.Kf2 [Another interesting continuation is: 10.Rh2 ( Further on in the game, it will become clear that white has some issues in completing his development. 10 Rh2 frees the Bishop on c1 from the need to guard b2, and also presents an option of going Rc2 later to double rooks on the c file.) 10...Rc8 11.Be3 cxd4 12.cxd4 Na5 13.Rc2= and white has no development problems and has possible pawn thrusts on the wing as shown by Navara-Shimanov 2010 1–0] 10...f6 [This immediate challenge to the white king is a new idea here. 10...0–0–0 11.Kg3 Kb8 12.Rh2 a6 13.Be3 Rc8² has been tried here.] 11.Kg3 Nge7 12.Na3 a6 13.Nc2 Qc7 Since white has a poor king position, the centre is now the best place for black to break through. He is going to strike after careful preparation. 14.Be3 Rg8!? [This is to

be ready to open up the king-side where the white king has been nervously developed. It also declares that black is going to castle long. 14...cxd4 15.cxd4 f5 would have given a miniscule advantage for black.] 15.Kf2= White takes his king away from the b8-h2 diagonal where the black queen is active and the g-file where Black's Rg8 is a potential menace. 15...0–0–0 [If 15...g5 16.hxg6 cxd4 17.cxd4 Nxg6=] 16.b4! The natural move to start his own counter against the threatened black build-up. 16...g5 The time has come for the big thrust 17.exf6 [If 17.hxg6 fxe5 18.dxe5 Nxg6 19.bxc5 Be7 20.Bd3 Rdf8 21.Bxg6 Rxg6 22.Nb4 Rxg4³ slightly better for black, but very diificult to play from the white side; or if, 17.fxg5 fxe5 18.gxh6 Rxg4 19.h7 Bg7 It is advantage to black once again, black's strong center combined with whites precarious king make life very tough for white.] 17...gxf4 18.Bd2 e5!? ! Black goes all out, sacking a piece to open fire against the white king. 19.fxe7 Bxe7 20.dxe5 Nxe5 21.Nxe5 Qxe5

Diagram # 22.Qf3 [More natural was the attempt to try to trade queens to nullify the attack by 22.Qe2 Qf6 23.Re1 Bd6 24.Qf3 Rxg4 25.Bh3 Rg3 26.Bxd7+ Rxd7 27.Re8+ Kc7 28.Qxd5 Re3 Advantage black] 22...Bxg4

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23.Bh3 Qf5 [If 23...Qxh5 24.Bxg4+ Qxg4 25.Qxg4+ Rxg4 26.Rxh6 Rdg8 27.Ne1] 24.bxc5 [24.Qxf4? Bh4+ black mates in four.] 24...Qxc2 25.Bxg4+ Kb8 26.Qxf4+ Bd6! 27.Rac1 Bxf4 [Not 27...Qxc1? 28.Bxc1 Bxf4 29.Bxf4+ and white wins.] 28.Rxc2 Bxd2 [If 28...Rxg4? 29.Kf3! and black is in trouble.] 29.Bf3 White has made it alright in the end, achieving an opposite colour bishop endgame; his best option for drawing is keeping the bishops. 29...Bf4 30.c4? [A blunder allowing black to force white into a lost position. Its not a good idea to open the position like this when the king is in the open. Better was: 30.Re2 so that he could get his king to the c2 square when chased by black.] 30...Bg3+ 31.Ke2 Rge8+ 32.Kd3? [Better was: 32.Kf1 dxc4 33.Kg2 Be5µ] 32...dxc4+ 33.Kxc4

Diagram # 33...b5+! [33...b5+ 34.Kb4 (or 34.cxb6 Rc8+ 35.Kb3 Re3+–+) 34...Re3 35.Rc3 Rd4+ 36.Kb3 Rdd3 Black wins a bishop.] 0–1Shetty,Rahul (2221) Sengupta,Deep (2538) [D30]

1.d4 d5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.c4 e6 4.g3 c6 5.Qc2 dxc4 6.Qxc4 b5 7.Qc2 Bb7 8.Bg2 Nbd7 9.0–0 c5 Eliminating the c6 weakness before white can take

advantage of it. 10.dxc5 Bxc5 11.Nbd2 Rc8 Black wisely chose to harass whites queen before castling. Now whites queen has to run away somewhere and black still has plenty of time to castle. 12.Qd3 a6 [Also possible was: 12...Qb6 13.Nb3 Be4 14.Qd1 0–0 with slight advantage to black as he has both open files and ideally placed pieces whereas whites development is lacking and his queen may once again come under fire after moving many times.] 13.e4

Diagram # 13...h6?! [Not necessary, black should continue with his development and not be worried about the knight or bishop coming to g5. For example, if 13...0–0 14.e5 Ng4 15.Ng5 (Or 15.h3 Nxf2 16.Rxf2 Qb6 17.Qe2 Rfd8µ) 15...Qxg5 16.Bxb7 Qh5 17.h4 Nxf2–+] 14.e5 Nd5 15.Ne4 Be7 16.Bd2 0–0 17.a4 b4 18.a5 This is to prevent black from playing ....a6-a5 permanently supporting his b4 pawn. 18...Nc5 19.Nxc5 Rxc5 20.Nd4 Qb8 [If20...Rxa5?! 21.Bxh6! gxh6 22.Nxe6! Rxa1 23.Rxa1 fxe6 24.Qg6+ Draw. White can carry on with Be4 but it leads to an unclear endgame.] 21.Rfe1 Rd8 22.Qf3 Rc4 23.Nb3

23.Bh3 Qf5 [If 23...Qxh5 24.Bxg4+ Qxg4 25.Qxg4+ Rxg4 26.Rxh6 Rdg8 27.Ne1] 24.bxc5 [24.Qxf4? Bh4+ black mates in four.] 24...Qxc2 25.Bxg4+ Kb8 26.Qxf4+ Bd6! 27.Rac1 Bxf4 [Not 27...Qxc1? 28.Bxc1 Bxf4 29.Bxf4+ and white wins.] 28.Rxc2 Bxd2 [If 28...Rxg4? 29.Kf3! and black is in trouble.] 29.Bf3 White has made it alright in the end, achieving an opposite colour bishop endgame; his best option for drawing is keeping the bishops. 29...Bf4 30.c4? [A blunder allowing black to force white into a lost position. Its not a good idea to open the position like this when the king is in the open. Better was: 30.Re2 so that he could get his king to the c2 square when chased by black.] 30...Bg3+ 31.Ke2 Rge8+ 32.Kd3? [Better was: 32.Kf1 dxc4 33.Kg2 Be5µ] 32...dxc4+ 33.Kxc4

Diagram # 33...b5+! [33...b5+ 34.Kb4 (or 34.cxb6 Rc8+ 35.Kb3 Re3+–+) 34...Re3 35.Rc3 Rd4+ 36.Kb3 Rdd3 Black wins a bishop.] 0–1Shetty,Rahul (2221) Sengupta,Deep (2538) [D30]

1.d4 d5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.c4 e6 4.g3 c6 5.Qc2 dxc4 6.Qxc4 b5 7.Qc2 Bb7 8.Bg2 Nbd7 9.0–0 c5 Eliminating the c6 weakness before white can take

advantage of it. 10.dxc5 Bxc5 11.Nbd2 Rc8 Black wisely chose to harass whites queen before castling. Now whites queen has to run away somewhere and black still has plenty of time to castle. 12.Qd3 a6 [Also possible was: 12...Qb6 13.Nb3 Be4 14.Qd1 0–0 with slight advantage to black as he has both open files and ideally placed pieces whereas whites development is lacking and his queen may once again come under fire after moving many times.] 13.e4

Diagram # 13...h6?! [Not necessary, black should continue with his development and not be worried about the knight or bishop coming to g5. For example, if 13...0–0 14.e5 Ng4 15.Ng5 (Or 15.h3 Nxf2 16.Rxf2 Qb6 17.Qe2 Rfd8µ) 15...Qxg5 16.Bxb7 Qh5 17.h4 Nxf2–+] 14.e5 Nd5 15.Ne4 Be7 16.Bd2 0–0 17.a4 b4 18.a5 This is to prevent black from playing ....a6-a5 permanently supporting his b4 pawn. 18...Nc5 19.Nxc5 Rxc5 20.Nd4 Qb8 [If20...Rxa5?! 21.Bxh6! gxh6 22.Nxe6! Rxa1 23.Rxa1 fxe6 24.Qg6+ Draw. White can carry on with Be4 but it leads to an unclear endgame.] 21.Rfe1 Rd8 22.Qf3 Rc4 23.Nb3

mates in four.] 24...Qxc2 25.Bxg4+ Kb8 26.Qxf4+ Bd6! 27.Rac1 Bxf4 [Not 27...Qxc1? 28.Bxc1 Bxf4 29.Bxf4+ and white wins.] 28.Rxc2 Bxd2 [If 28...Rxg4? 29.Kf3! and black is in trouble.] 29.Bf3 White has made it alright in the end, achieving an opposite colour bishop endgame; his best option for drawing is keeping the bishops. 29...Bf4 30.c4? [A blunder allowing black to force white into a lost position. Its not a good idea to open the position like this when the king is in the open. Better was: 30.Re2 so that he could get his king to the c2 square when chased by black.] 30...Bg3+ 31.Ke2 Rge8+ 32.Kd3? [Better was: 32.Kf1 dxc4 33.Kg2 Be5µ] 32...dxc4+ 33.Kxc4

Diagram # 33...b5+! [33...b5+ 34.Kb4 (or 34.cxb6 Rc8+ 35.Kb3 Re3+–+) 34...Re3 35.Rc3 Rd4+ 36.Kb3 Rdd3 Black wins a bishop.] 0–1Shetty,Rahul (2221) Sengupta,Deep (2538) [D30]

1.d4 d5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.c4 e6 4.g3 c6 5.Qc2 dxc4 6.Qxc4 b5 7.Qc2 Bb7 8.Bg2 Nbd7 9.0–0 c5 Eliminating the c6 weakness before white can take advantage of it. 10.dxc5 Bxc5 11.Nbd2 Rc8 Black wisely chose to harass whites queen before castling. Now whites queen has to run away

somewhere and black still has plenty of time to castle. 12.Qd3 a6 [Also possible was: 12...Qb6 13.Nb3 Be4 14.Qd1 0–0 with slight advantage to black as he has both open files and ideally placed pieces whereas whites development is lacking and his queen may once again come under fire after moving many times.] 13.e4

Diagram # 13...h6?! [Not necessary, black should continue with his development and not be worried about the knight or bishop coming to g5. For example, if 13...0–0 14.e5 Ng4 15.Ng5 (Or 15.h3 Nxf2 16.Rxf2 Qb6 17.Qe2 Rfd8µ) 15...Qxg5 16.Bxb7 Qh5 17.h4 Nxf2–+] 14.e5 Nd5 15.Ne4 Be7 16.Bd2 0–0 17.a4 b4 18.a5 This is to prevent black from playing ....a6-a5 permanently supporting his b4 pawn. 18...Nc5 19.Nxc5 Rxc5 20.Nd4 Qb8 [If 20...Rxa5?! 21.Bxh6! gxh6 22.Nxe6! Rxa1 23.Rxa1 fxe6 24.Qg6+ Draw. White can carry on with Be4 but it leads to an unclear endgame.] 21.Rfe1 Rd8 22.Qf3 Rc4 23.Nb3

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Do not permit yourself to fall in love with the end-game play to the exclusion of entire games. It is well to have the whole story of how it happened; the complete play, not the denouement only. Do not embrace the rag-time and vaudeville of chess.

- by Lasker

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Diagram # 23...Bf8 [After 23...Rdc8 24.Qd3 Rc2 25.Rab1 Black can't really do anything with the open file. He needs to find another plan.; Or 23...Rd7 24.Qh5 Nc7 25.Bxb7 Qxb7 26.Be3 Rc2 and black is still better.] 24.Qe2 Not a good move, allowing black to infiltrate whites camp. Challenging the c file would have been a better way to go. 24...Rc2 25.Rab1 Ne7 26.Bxb7 Qxb7 27.Rec1 Rxc1+ 28.Rxc1 Qd5 29.Qc4 Ng6

Diagram # It is very confounding why the game was finished here. White can play Qxd5 and have an equal or slightly worse but certainly holdable endgame. In all likelihood white lost on time. 0–1

Akash Pc,Iyer (2267) Ratnakaran,K (2392) [A74]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 c5 3.d5 e6 4.Nc3 exd5 5.cxd5 d6 6.Nf3 g6 7.Nd2 a6 8.a4 Nbd7 9.e4 Bg7 10.Be2 0–0 11.0–0 Rb8 12.Nc4 Nb6 13.Na3 Bd7 14.a5 Nc8 15.Nc4 Diagram #

15...Re8 [15...Bb5 16.f3 Nh5 17.Be3 f5 18.Qd2 f4 19.Bf2 g5± had been tried in Frade Marque. vs Pasquier in 2002] 16.Bd3 Bb5 17.Qb3 Bxc4 18.Qxc4 b5 19.axb6 Nxb6 20.Qa2 c4 21.Bc2 Ng4 22.h3 Ne5 23.Be3 Nbd7 black is ready to exchange his a6 pawn for white's b2. 24.Rfd1

Diagram # [A very complicatged position emerges after 24.f4 Nd3 25.Bxd3 cxd3 26.Qxa6 Rxb2 27.Qxd3 Rb4 28.Ra6 Qe7 29.Bf2 Rb3 30.e5 dxe5 31.Qc2 Qb4 32.Na2 Qb5 33.Ra7 Nf6 34.d6=] 24...g5 to prevent f2-f4 and secure the knight's position on e5. 25.f3 [25.Rdb1 Ra8 26.Bd1] 25...h5

Diagram # 23...Bf8 [After 23...Rdc8 24.Qd3 Rc2 25.Rab1 Black can't really do anything with the open file. He needs to find another plan.; Or 23...Rd7 24.Qh5 Nc7 25.Bxb7 Qxb7 26.Be3 Rc2 and black is still better.] 24.Qe2 Not a good move, allowing black to infiltrate whites camp. Challenging the c file would have been a better way to go. 24...Rc2 25.Rab1 Ne7 26.Bxb7 Qxb7 27.Rec1 Rxc1+ 28.Rxc1 Qd5 29.Qc4 Ng6

Diagram # It is very confounding why the game was finished here. White can play Qxd5 and have an equal or slightly worse but certainly holdable endgame. In all likelihood white lost on time. 0–1

Akash Pc,Iyer (2267) Ratnakaran,K (2392) [A74]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 c5 3.d5 e6 4.Nc3 exd5 5.cxd5 d6 6.Nf3 g6 7.Nd2 a6 8.a4 Nbd7 9.e4 Bg7 10.Be2 0–0 11.0–0 Rb8 12.Nc4 Nb6 13.Na3 Bd7 14.a5 Nc8 15.Nc4 Diagram #

15...Re8 [15...Bb5 16.f3 Nh5 17.Be3 f5 18.Qd2 f4 19.Bf2 g5± had been tried in Frade Marque. vs Pasquier in 2002] 16.Bd3 Bb5 17.Qb3 Bxc4 18.Qxc4 b5 19.axb6 Nxb6 20.Qa2 c4 21.Bc2 Ng4 22.h3 Ne5 23.Be3 Nbd7 black is ready to exchange his a6 pawn for white's b2. 24.Rfd1

Diagram # [A very complicatged position emerges after 24.f4 Nd3 25.Bxd3 cxd3 26.Qxa6 Rxb2 27.Qxd3 Rb4 28.Ra6 Qe7 29.Bf2 Rb3 30.e5 dxe5 31.Qc2 Qb4 32.Na2 Qb5 33.Ra7 Nf6 34.d6=] 24...g5 to prevent f2-f4 and secure the knight's position on e5. 25.f3 [25.Rdb1 Ra8 26.Bd1] 25...h5

Diagram # 23...Bf8 [After 23...Rdc8 24.Qd3 Rc2 25.Rab1 Black can't really do anything with the open file. He needs to find another plan.; Or 23...Rd7 24.Qh5 Nc7 25.Bxb7 Qxb7 26.Be3 Rc2 and black is still better.] 24.Qe2 Not a good move, allowing black to infiltrate whites camp. Challenging the c file would have been a better way to go. 24...Rc2 25.Rab1 Ne7 26.Bxb7 Qxb7 27.Rec1 Rxc1+ 28.Rxc1 Qd5 29.Qc4 Ng6

Diagram # It is very confounding why the game was finished here. White can play Qxd5 and have an equal or slightly worse but certainly holdable endgame. In all likelihood white lost on time. 0–1

Akash Pc,Iyer (2267) Ratnakaran,K (2392) [A74]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 c5 3.d5 e6 4.Nc3 exd5 5.cxd5 d6 6.Nf3 g6 7.Nd2 a6 8.a4 Nbd7 9.e4 Bg7 10.Be2 0–0 11.0–0 Rb8 12.Nc4 Nb6 13.Na3 Bd7 14.a5 Nc8 15.Nc4 Diagram #

15...Re8 [15...Bb5 16.f3 Nh5 17.Be3 f5 18.Qd2 f4 19.Bf2 g5± had been tried in Frade Marque. vs Pasquier in 2002] 16.Bd3 Bb5 17.Qb3 Bxc4 18.Qxc4 b5 19.axb6 Nxb6 20.Qa2 c4 21.Bc2 Ng4 22.h3 Ne5 23.Be3 Nbd7 black is ready to exchange his a6 pawn for white's b2. 24.Rfd1

Diagram # [A very complicatged position emerges after 24.f4 Nd3 25.Bxd3 cxd3 26.Qxa6 Rxb2 27.Qxd3 Rb4 28.Ra6 Qe7 29.Bf2 Rb3 30.e5 dxe5 31.Qc2 Qb4 32.Na2 Qb5 33.Ra7 Nf6 34.d6=] 24...g5 to prevent f2-f4 and secure the knight's position on e5. 25.f3 [25.Rdb1 Ra8 26.Bd1] 25...h5

Diagram # 23...Bf8 [After 23...Rdc8 24.Qd3 Rc2 25.Rab1 Black can't really do anything with the open file. He needs to find another plan.; Or 23...Rd7 24.Qh5 Nc7 25.Bxb7 Qxb7 26.Be3 Rc2 and black is still better.] 24.Qe2 Not a good move, allowing black to infiltrate whites camp. Challenging the c file would have been a better way to go. 24...Rc2 25.Rab1 Ne7 26.Bxb7 Qxb7 27.Rec1 Rxc1+ 28.Rxc1 Qd5 29.Qc4 Ng6

Diagram # It is very confounding why the game was finished here. White can play Qxd5 and have an equal or slightly worse but certainly holdable endgame. In all likelihood white lost on time. 0–1

Akash Pc,Iyer (2267) Ratnakaran,K (2392) [A74]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 c5 3.d5 e6 4.Nc3 exd5 5.cxd5 d6 6.Nf3 g6 7.Nd2 a6 8.a4 Nbd7 9.e4 Bg7 10.Be2 0–0 11.0–0 Rb8 12.Nc4 Nb6 13.Na3 Bd7 14.a5 Nc8 15.Nc4 Diagram #

15...Re8 [15...Bb5 16.f3 Nh5 17.Be3 f5 18.Qd2 f4 19.Bf2 g5± had been tried in Frade Marque. vs Pasquier in 2002] 16.Bd3 Bb5 17.Qb3 Bxc4 18.Qxc4 b5 19.axb6 Nxb6 20.Qa2 c4 21.Bc2 Ng4 22.h3 Ne5 23.Be3 Nbd7 black is ready to exchange his a6 pawn for white's b2. 24.Rfd1

Diagram # [A very complicatged position emerges after 24.f4 Nd3 25.Bxd3 cxd3 26.Qxa6 Rxb2 27.Qxd3 Rb4 28.Ra6 Qe7 29.Bf2 Rb3 30.e5 dxe5 31.Qc2 Qb4 32.Na2 Qb5 33.Ra7 Nf6 34.d6=] 24...g5 to prevent f2-f4 and secure the knight's position on e5. 25.f3 [25.Rdb1 Ra8 26.Bd1] 25...h5

Diagram # 23...Bf8 [After 23...Rdc8 24.Qd3 Rc2 25.Rab1 Black can’t really do anything with the open file. He needs to find another plan.; Or 23...Rd7 24.Qh5 Nc7 25.Bxb7 Qxb7 26.Be3 Rc2 and black is still better.] 24.Qe2 Not a good move, allowing black to infiltrate whites camp. Challenging the c file would have been a better way to go. 24...Rc2 25.Rab1 Ne7 26.Bxb7 Qxb7 27.Rec1 Rxc1+ 28.Rxc1 Qd5 29.Qc4 Ng6

Diagram # It is very confounding why the game was finished here. White can play Qxd5 and have an equal or slightly worse but certainly holdable endgame. In all likelihood white lost on time. 0–1

Akash Pc,Iyer (2267) Ratnakaran,K (2392) [A74]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 c5 3.d5 e6 4.Nc3 exd5 5.cxd5 d6 6.Nf3 g6 7.Nd2 a6 8.a4 Nbd7 9.e4 Bg7 10.Be2 0–0 11.0–0 Rb8 12.Nc4 Nb6 13.Na3 Bd7 14.a5 Nc8 15.Nc4 Diagram #

15...Re8 [15...Bb5 16.f3 Nh5 17.Be3 f5 18.Qd2 f4 19.Bf2 g5± had been tried in Frade Marque. vs Pasquier in 2002] 16.Bd3 Bb5 17.Qb3 Bxc4 18.Qxc4 b5 19.axb6 Nxb6 20.Qa2 c4 21.Bc2 Ng4 22.h3 Ne5 23.Be3 Nbd7 black is ready to exchange his a6 pawn for white’s b2. 24.Rfd1

Diagram # [A very complicatged position emerges after 24.f4 Nd3 25.Bxd3 cxd3 26.Qxa6 Rxb2 27.Qxd3 Rb4 28.Ra6 Qe7 29.Bf2 Rb3 30.e5 dxe5 31.Qc2 Qb4 32.Na2 Qb5 33.Ra7 Nf6 34.d6=] 24...g5 to prevent f2-f4 and secure the knight’s position on e5. 25.f3 [25.Rdb1 Ra8 26.Bd1] 25...h5

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26.Rd2 [Much better was to be aggressive with: 26.Qxa6 Rxb2 27.Ra2²] 26...g4 27.hxg4 hxg4 28.f4 Bh6 29.Nd1 [29.Re2 Nd3 30.Bxd3 cxd3 31.Ree1] 29...Qh4! After this, black clearly has the upperhand. 30.Re2 g3!µ 31.fxe5 Nxe5! 32.Nf2

Diagram # [There is no other move. If 32.Bxh6?? Qh2+ 33.Kf1 Qh1#] 32...Nf3+!! 33.Kf1 [33.gxf3 Qh2+ 34.Kf1 g2+ 35.Ke1 Bxe3!] 33...Qh2 the threat is 34...Qg1# 0–1

Deshmukh,Anup (2234) Sethuraman,S.P (2574) [A34]

1.c4 Nf6 2.Nc3 c5 3.Nf3 d5 4.cxd5 Nxd5 5.e4 Nb4 6.Bc4 Nd3+ 7.Ke2 Nf4+ 8.Kf1 Nd3 [8...Ne6 leading to a firm grip over the semi-open d-file has been popular here.] 9.Qb3 e6 10.Qb5+ Bd7! The start of some very exciting play. White hopes to punish the black knight on d3. But it turns out to be a poisoned knight! 11.Qxb7 Nc6! Black has seen far, very far into the position. 12.Bxd3 Rb8 13.Qa6 Nb4 14.Qc4 All these moves are forced, but now comes an ingenius tactical twist.

26.Rd2 [Much better was to be aggressive with: 26.Qxa6 Rxb2 27.Ra2²] 26...g4 27.hxg4 hxg4 28.f4 Bh6 29.Nd1 [29.Re2 Nd3 30.Bxd3 cxd3 31.Ree1] 29...Qh4! After this, black clearly has the upperhand. 30.Re2 g3!µ 31.fxe5 Nxe5! 32.Nf2

Diagram # [There is no other move. If 32.Bxh6?? Qh2+ 33.Kf1 Qh1#] 32...Nf3+!! 33.Kf1 [33.gxf3 Qh2+ 34.Kf1 g2+ 35.Ke1 Bxe3!] 33...Qh2 the threat is 34...Qg1# 0–1

Deshmukh,Anup (2234) Sethuraman,S.P (2574) [A34]

1.c4 Nf6 2.Nc3 c5 3.Nf3 d5 4.cxd5 Nxd5 5.e4 Nb4 6.Bc4 Nd3+ 7.Ke2 Nf4+ 8.Kf1 Nd3 [8...Ne6 leading to a firm grip over the semi-open d-file has been popular here.] 9.Qb3 e6 10.Qb5+ Bd7! The start of some very exciting play. White hopes to punish the black knight on d3. But it turns out to be a poisoned knight! 11.Qxb7 Nc6! Black has seen far, very far into the position. 12.Bxd3 Rb8 13.Qa6 Nb4 14.Qc4 All these moves are forced, but now comes an ingenius tactical twist.

14...Nxd3! 15.Kg1 [Too late, white realises that after 15.Qxd3? Bb5!! his queen is lost and the second black knight now becomes a permanent resident of d3.] 15...Bc6 16.h4 For his sacrificed pawn, black has a stranglehold over the white position. With h2-h4, white provides an escape square for his wandering king and a chance to bring his Rh1 into play via h3. 16...Rb4 17.Qa6 Bb7! [This is clearly better for black than: 17...Qd7 18.a3 Rb6 19.Qc4 Be7] 18.Qxa7 c4! vacating the c5 square and threatening the dangerous 19....Bc5! 19.Na4? [White has two extra pawns but his position is in a mess with thrree of his pieces lying in their original squares without any prospects of seeing action. His best was to bring his wandering queen back to the centre with: 19.Qd4 Qc7 20.a3 Rb3 21.h5 when black has only a small advantage. In this position, white's only cheer is that black faces the problem of developing his own black square bishop as the white queen eyes g7. In addition, white threatens h5-h6. But it is difficult for a player who has been continuously harassed from the 6th move, to see the silver lining in the cloud.]

26.Rd2 [Much better was to be aggressive with: 26.Qxa6 Rxb2 27.Ra2²] 26...g4 27.hxg4 hxg4 28.f4 Bh6 29.Nd1 [29.Re2 Nd3 30.Bxd3 cxd3 31.Ree1] 29...Qh4! After this, black clearly has the upperhand. 30.Re2 g3!µ 31.fxe5 Nxe5! 32.Nf2

Diagram # [There is no other move. If 32.Bxh6?? Qh2+ 33.Kf1 Qh1#] 32...Nf3+!! 33.Kf1 [33.gxf3 Qh2+ 34.Kf1 g2+ 35.Ke1 Bxe3!] 33...Qh2 the threat is 34...Qg1# 0–1

Deshmukh,Anup (2234) Sethuraman,S.P (2574) [A34]

1.c4 Nf6 2.Nc3 c5 3.Nf3 d5 4.cxd5 Nxd5 5.e4 Nb4 6.Bc4 Nd3+ 7.Ke2 Nf4+ 8.Kf1 Nd3 [8...Ne6 leading to a firm grip over the semi-open d-file has been popular here.] 9.Qb3 e6 10.Qb5+ Bd7! The start of some very exciting play. White hopes to punish the black knight on d3. But it turns out to be a poisoned knight! 11.Qxb7 Nc6! Black has seen far, very far into the position. 12.Bxd3 Rb8 13.Qa6 Nb4 14.Qc4 All these moves are forced, but now comes an ingenius tactical twist.

14...Nxd3! 15.Kg1 [Too late, white realises that after 15.Qxd3? Bb5!! his queen is lost and the second black knight now becomes a permanent resident of d3.] 15...Bc6 16.h4 For his sacrificed pawn, black has a stranglehold over the white position. With h2-h4, white provides an escape square for his wandering king and a chance to bring his Rh1 into play via h3. 16...Rb4 17.Qa6 Bb7! [This is clearly better for black than: 17...Qd7 18.a3 Rb6 19.Qc4 Be7] 18.Qxa7 c4! vacating the c5 square and threatening the dangerous 19....Bc5! 19.Na4? [White has two extra pawns but his position is in a mess with thrree of his pieces lying in their original squares without any prospects of seeing action. His best was to bring his wandering queen back to the centre with: 19.Qd4 Qc7 20.a3 Rb3 21.h5 when black has only a small advantage. In this position, white's only cheer is that black faces the problem of developing his own black square bishop as the white queen eyes g7. In addition, white threatens h5-h6. But it is difficult for a player who has been continuously harassed from the 6th move, to see the silver lining in the cloud.]

14...Nxd3! 15.Kg1 [Too late, white realises that after 15.Qxd3? Bb5!! his queen is lost and the second black knight now becomes a permanent resident of d3.] 15...Bc6 16.h4 For his sacrificed pawn, black has a stranglehold over the white position. With h2-h4, white provides an escape square for his wandering king and a chance to bring his Rh1 into play via h3. 16...Rb4 17.Qa6 Bb7! [This is clearly better for black than: 17...Qd7 18.a3 Rb6 19.Qc4 Be7] 18.Qxa7 c4! vacating the c5 square and threatening the dangerous 19....Bc5! 19.Na4? [White has two extra pawns but his position is in a mess with thrree of his pieces lying in their original squares without any prospects of seeing action. His best was to bring his wandering queen back to the centre with: 19.Qd4 Qc7 20.a3 Rb3 21.h5 when black has only a small advantage. In this position, white’s only cheer is that black faces the problem of developing his own black square bishop as the white queen eyes g7. In addition, white threatens h5-h6. But it is difficult for a player who has been continuously harassed from the 6th move, to see the silver lining in the cloud.]

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19...Bc6–+ Now the Na4 has become a target and white responds with a counter-attack which is brilliantly refuted. 20.Ng5 [This is his last resort to save the game. If 20.Nc3 Bc5 21.Qa6 Qc7 and if now 22.Nd1 to defend f2, then 22...Ra4 traps the tired white queen.] 20...Qf6! Black brings his queen into the attack as the white queen cannot check on a8 or b8. 21.e5 Qf5 22.Rh3 Rxa4! 23.Qb6 Kd7!! An amazing move for those of us who have been taught from childhood that the king should not step out into the war zone in a middle-game and that he is a fighting piece only in the endgame. With this move, defending the Bc6, black threatens 24...Bc5 trapping the queen. It is like in a game of Kabaddi where the raider is trapped behind enemy lines! 24.Rf3 Qxf3!! Diagram

If 25 Nxf3 Bc5 wins the queen back with a rook as a bonus. 0–1

Sharma,Dinesh K (2386) Anilkumar,O.T (2126) [B06]

1.e4 g6 2.d4 Bg7 3.Nc3 c6 4.Bc4 Na6 5.Qf3 f6?!± This is very much like the Gandhi Defence that I used to play in the Seventies, playing absolutely passively, moving all the king-side pawns only one square. Usual here is 5... e6. 6.Nge2 b5 7.Bb3 Nc7 8.e5 a5 9.a3 Nh6 Like the first knight which went to a6, the second knight now goes to h6 as in my Gandhi Defence. 10.h4 Rf8 11.exf6 Rxf6 12.Qd3 d5 13.Bg5 Rf8 14.h5 Bf5= After the queer moves with his knights, black has eventually got equality! 15.Qd2 Nf7 16.Bf4 e5! Amazingly, black fights for the initiative! 17.dxe5 Bxe5 18.Bxe5 Nxe5 19.Nd4 Qf6 20.f4? Ng4?! [Both players have overlooked the interference tactic whereby black gets an excellent game: 20...Nd3+! 21.cxd3 Qxd4 22.0–0–0] 21.Nxc6? [White embarks on an adventure whose consequences are favourable to black. Better was: 21.0–0–0 b4 22.Rde1+ Kf7 23.axb4 axb4 24.Na2 Kg8 25.Kb1 c5 26.Nxf5 gxf5 27.Bxd5+ Nxd5 28.Qxd5+ Qf7!=] 21...Qxc6 22.Nxd5 a4! In the ensuing complications it is good for black to have the white bishop on a2 instead of in b3 where it would defend mate on c2. 23.Ba2 (See diagram)23...Rf7?! [Black misses an easy win with: 23...Qe6+ 24.Kf1 (24.Kd1 Nxd5 25.Bxd5 Ne3+ wins.; 24.Qe2 Qxe2+ 25.Kxe2 Nxd5 26.Bxd5 0–0–0 27.Bc6 Bxc2–+) 24...Nxd5 25.Re1 Nde3+ 26.Kg1 Qxa2 and black is winning without any problem.] 24.0–0–0 0–0–0= 25.Ne7+ Rxe7 26.Qxd8+ Kb7 27.Bd5

19...Bc6–+ Now the Na4 has become a target and white responds with a counter-attack which is brilliantly refuted. 20.Ng5 [This is his last resort to save the game. If 20.Nc3 Bc5 21.Qa6 Qc7 and if now 22.Nd1 to defend f2, then 22...Ra4 traps the tired white queen.] 20...Qf6! Black brings his queen into the attack as the white queen cannot check on a8 or b8. 21.e5 Qf5 22.Rh3 Rxa4! 23.Qb6 Kd7!! An amazing move for those of us who have been taught from childhood that the king should not step out into the war zone in a middle-game and that he is a fighting piece only in the endgame. With this move, defending the Bc6, black threatens 24...Bc5 trapping the queen. It is like in a game of Kabaddi where the raider is trapped behind enemy lines! 24.Rf3 Qxf3!! Diagram

If 25 Nxf3 Bc5 wins the queen back with a rook as a bonus. 0–1

Sharma,Dinesh K (2386) Anilkumar,O.T (2126) [B06]

1.e4 g6 2.d4 Bg7 3.Nc3 c6 4.Bc4 Na6 5.Qf3 f6?!± This is very much like the Gandhi Defence that I used to play in the Seventies, playing absolutely passively, moving all the king-side pawns only one square. Usual here is 5... e6. 6.Nge2 b5 7.Bb3 Nc7 8.e5 a5 9.a3 Nh6 Like the first knight which went to a6, the second knight now goes to h6 as in my Gandhi Defence. 10.h4 Rf8 11.exf6 Rxf6 12.Qd3 d5 13.Bg5 Rf8 14.h5 Bf5= After the queer moves with his knights, black has eventually got equality! 15.Qd2 Nf7 16.Bf4 e5! Amazingly, black fights for the initiative! 17.dxe5 Bxe5 18.Bxe5 Nxe5 19.Nd4 Qf6 20.f4? Ng4?! [Both players have overlooked the interference tactic whereby black gets an excellent game: 20...Nd3+! 21.cxd3 Qxd4 22.0–0–0] 21.Nxc6? [White embarks on an adventure whose consequences are favourable to black. Better was: 21.0–0–0 b4 22.Rde1+ Kf7 23.axb4 axb4 24.Na2 Kg8 25.Kb1 c5 26.Nxf5 gxf5 27.Bxd5+ Nxd5 28.Qxd5+ Qf7!=] 21...Qxc6 22.Nxd5 a4! In the ensuing complications it is good for black to have the white bishop on a2 instead of in b3 where it would defend mate on c2. 23.Ba2 (See diagram)23...Rf7?! [Black misses an easy win with: 23...Qe6+ 24.Kf1 (24.Kd1 Nxd5 25.Bxd5 Ne3+ wins.; 24.Qe2 Qxe2+ 25.Kxe2 Nxd5 26.Bxd5 0–0–0 27.Bc6 Bxc2–+) 24...Nxd5 25.Re1 Nde3+ 26.Kg1 Qxa2 and black is winning without any problem.] 24.0–0–0 0–0–0= 25.Ne7+ Rxe7 26.Qxd8+ Kb7 27.Bd5

19...Bc6–+ Now the Na4 has become a target and white responds with a counter-attack which is brilliantly refuted. 20.Ng5 [This is his last resort to save the game. If 20.Nc3 Bc5 21.Qa6 Qc7 and if now 22.Nd1 to defend f2, then 22...Ra4 traps the tired white queen.] 20...Qf6! Black brings his queen into the attack as the white queen cannot check on a8 or b8. 21.e5 Qf5 22.Rh3 Rxa4! 23.Qb6 Kd7!! An amazing move for those of us who have been taught from childhood that the king should not step out into the war zone in a middle-game and that he is a fighting piece only in the endgame. With this move, defending the Bc6, black threatens 24...Bc5 trapping the queen. It is like in a game of Kabaddi where the raider is trapped behind enemy lines! 24.Rf3 Qxf3!! Diagram

If 25 Nxf3 Bc5 wins the queen back with a rook as a bonus. 0–1

Sharma,Dinesh K (2386) Anilkumar,O.T (2126) [B06]

1.e4 g6 2.d4 Bg7 3.Nc3 c6 4.Bc4 Na6 5.Qf3 f6?!± This is very much like the Gandhi Defence that I used to play in the Seventies, playing absolutely passively, moving all the king-side pawns only one square. Usual here is 5... e6. 6.Nge2 b5 7.Bb3 Nc7 8.e5 a5 9.a3 Nh6 Like the first knight which went to a6, the second knight now goes to h6 as in my Gandhi Defence. 10.h4 Rf8 11.exf6 Rxf6 12.Qd3 d5 13.Bg5 Rf8 14.h5 Bf5= After the queer moves with his knights, black has eventually got equality! 15.Qd2 Nf7 16.Bf4 e5! Amazingly, black fights for the initiative! 17.dxe5 Bxe5 18.Bxe5 Nxe5 19.Nd4 Qf6 20.f4? Ng4?! [Both players have overlooked the interference tactic whereby black gets an excellent game: 20...Nd3+! 21.cxd3 Qxd4 22.0–0–0] 21.Nxc6? [White embarks on an adventure whose consequences are favourable to black. Better was: 21.0–0–0 b4 22.Rde1+ Kf7 23.axb4 axb4 24.Na2 Kg8 25.Kb1 c5 26.Nxf5 gxf5 27.Bxd5+ Nxd5 28.Qxd5+ Qf7!=] 21...Qxc6 22.Nxd5 a4! In the ensuing complications it is good for black to have the white bishop on a2 instead of in b3 where it would defend mate on c2. 23.Ba2 (See diagram) 23...Rf7?! [Black misses an easy win with: 23...Qe6+ 24.Kf1 (24.Kd1 Nxd5 25.Bxd5 Ne3+ wins.; 24.Qe2 Qxe2+ 25.Kxe2 Nxd5 26.Bxd5 0–0–0 27.Bc6 Bxc2–+) 24...Nxd5 25.Re1 Nde3+ 26.Kg1 Qxa2 and black is winning without any problem.] 24.0–0–0 0–0–0= 25.Ne7+ Rxe7 26.Qxd8+ Kb7 27.Bd5

Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron

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(Position after 23.Ba2)

White has to block the threatened mate on c2. 27...Nxd5 28.Qxd5 Re2 [Stronger was: 28...Ne3 29.Qxc6+ Kxc6 30.Rd2 Nc4 31.Rf2 gxh5! 32.b3 Nxa3 33.Rxh5 Bxc2 34.Rxc2+ Nxc2 35.Kxc2 a3!µ] 29.Qxc6+ Kxc6 30.Rd2 Re4 31.hxg6 hxg6= 32.g3

Diagram # 32...Re3! With this move, black forces the white rook to passively defend the g-pawn from g1. 33.Rg1 Kc5 34.Rdd1 Rf3 35.Rd2 Ne3 36.Re2 Bg4 37.Rd2 [37.Ree1 was worth considering. In such positions the player with the greater skill, experience and determination would win.] 37...Bf5 38.Re2 Kd4 39.Rd2+ Kc4 40.Re2 Diagram # 40...Nxc2! Astonishingly, black gives up his knight and bishop for rook and pawn to reach a rook ending, a pawn

down! He has reckoned that his advanced king position and rook on the 7th rank to be worth more than a pawn.

(Position after 40.Re2)

41.g4? [This leads to some entertaining horse play from black. If 41.Rxc2+ Bxc2 42.Kxc2 Rf2+ 43.Kc1 Kb3–+] 41...Nd4! 42.Rh2 Be4 43.f5 gxf5 44.gxf5 Nb3+ 45.Kd1 Rd3+ 46.Ke1 [If 46.Ke2 Nd4+ 47.Kf2 Rd2+ 48.Kg3 Rxh2 49.Kxh2 Nf3+ black wins.] 46...Nd4 47.Rg4 Nf3+ 48.Ke2 Kd4!! 49.Rf2 [If the Rh1 tries to run away: 49.Rh8 Rd2+ 50.Kf1 Ke3 mates.] 49...Rd2+ 50.Kf1 Rd1+ 51.Kg2 Ne5+ 52.Rxe4+ Kxe4 53.f6 Rd8 0–1

(Position after 23.Ba2)

White has to block the threatened mate on c2. 27...Nxd5 28.Qxd5 Re2 [Stronger was: 28...Ne3 29.Qxc6+ Kxc6 30.Rd2 Nc4 31.Rf2 gxh5! 32.b3 Nxa3 33.Rxh5 Bxc2 34.Rxc2+ Nxc2 35.Kxc2 a3!µ] 29.Qxc6+ Kxc6 30.Rd2 Re4 31.hxg6 hxg6= 32.g3

Diagram # 32...Re3! With this move, black forces the white rook to passively defend the g-pawn from g1. 33.Rg1 Kc5 34.Rdd1 Rf3 35.Rd2 Ne3 36.Re2 Bg4 37.Rd2 [37.Ree1 was worth considering. In such positions the player with the greater skill, experience and determination would win.] 37...Bf5 38.Re2 Kd4 39.Rd2+ Kc4 40.Re2 Diagram # 40...Nxc2! Astonishingly, black gives up his knight and bishop for rook and pawn to reach a rook ending, a pawn

down! He has reckoned that his advanced king position and rook on the 7th rank to be worth more than a pawn.

(Position after 40.Re2)

41.g4? [This leads to some entertaining horse play from black. If 41.Rxc2+ Bxc2 42.Kxc2 Rf2+ 43.Kc1 Kb3–+] 41...Nd4! 42.Rh2 Be4 43.f5 gxf5 44.gxf5 Nb3+ 45.Kd1 Rd3+ 46.Ke1 [If 46.Ke2 Nd4+ 47.Kf2 Rd2+ 48.Kg3 Rxh2 49.Kxh2 Nf3+ black wins.] 46...Nd4 47.Rg4 Nf3+ 48.Ke2 Kd4!! 49.Rf2 [If the Rh1 tries to run away: 49.Rh8 Rd2+ 50.Kf1 Ke3 mates.] 49...Rd2+ 50.Kf1 Rd1+ 51.Kg2 Ne5+ 52.Rxe4+ Kxe4 53.f6 Rd8 0–1

(Position after 23.Ba2)

White has to block the threatened mate on c2. 27...Nxd5 28.Qxd5 Re2 [Stronger was: 28...Ne3 29.Qxc6+ Kxc6 30.Rd2 Nc4 31.Rf2 gxh5! 32.b3 Nxa3 33.Rxh5 Bxc2 34.Rxc2+ Nxc2 35.Kxc2 a3!µ] 29.Qxc6+ Kxc6 30.Rd2 Re4 31.hxg6 hxg6= 32.g3

Diagram # 32...Re3! With this move, black forces the white rook to passively defend the g-pawn from g1. 33.Rg1 Kc5 34.Rdd1 Rf3 35.Rd2 Ne3 36.Re2 Bg4 37.Rd2 [37.Ree1 was worth considering. In such positions the player with the greater skill, experience and determination would win.] 37...Bf5 38.Re2 Kd4 39.Rd2+ Kc4 40.Re2 Diagram # 40...Nxc2! Astonishingly, black gives up his knight and bishop for rook and pawn to reach a rook ending, a pawn

down! He has reckoned that his advanced king position and rook on the 7th rank to be worth more than a pawn.

(Position after 40.Re2)

41.g4? [This leads to some entertaining horse play from black. If 41.Rxc2+ Bxc2 42.Kxc2 Rf2+ 43.Kc1 Kb3–+] 41...Nd4! 42.Rh2 Be4 43.f5 gxf5 44.gxf5 Nb3+ 45.Kd1 Rd3+ 46.Ke1 [If 46.Ke2 Nd4+ 47.Kf2 Rd2+ 48.Kg3 Rxh2 49.Kxh2 Nf3+ black wins.] 46...Nd4 47.Rg4 Nf3+ 48.Ke2 Kd4!! 49.Rf2 [If the Rh1 tries to run away: 49.Rh8 Rd2+ 50.Kf1 Ke3 mates.] 49...Rd2+ 50.Kf1 Rd1+ 51.Kg2 Ne5+ 52.Rxe4+ Kxe4 53.f6 Rd8 0–1

(Position after 23.Ba2)White has to block the threatened mate on c2. 27...Nxd5 28.Qxd5 Re2 [Stronger was: 28...Ne3 29.Qxc6+ Kxc6 30.Rd2 Nc4 31.Rf2 gxh5! 32.b3 Nxa3 33.Rxh5 Bxc2 34.Rxc2+ Nxc2 35.Kxc2 a3!µ] 29.Qxc6+ Kxc6 30.Rd2 Re4 31.hxg6 hxg6= 32.g3

Diagram # 32...Re3! With this move, black forces the white rook to passively defend the g-pawn from g1. 33.Rg1 Kc5 34.Rdd1 Rf3 35.Rd2 Ne3 36.Re2 Bg4 37.Rd2 [37.Ree1 was worth considering. In such positions the player with the greater skill, experience and determination would win.] 37...Bf5 38.Re2 Kd4 39.Rd2+ Kc4 40.Re2 Diagram # 40...Nxc2! Astonishingly, black gives up his knight and bishop for rook and pawn to reach a rook ending, a pawn down! He has reckoned that his advanced king position and rook on the 7th rank to be worth more than a pawn.

(Position after 40.Re2)41.g4? [This leads to some entertaining horse play from black. If 41.Rxc2+ Bxc2 42.Kxc2 Rf2+ 43.Kc1 Kb3–+] 41...Nd4! 42.Rh2 Be4 43.f5 gxf5 44.gxf5 Nb3+ 45.Kd1 Rd3+ 46.Ke1 [If 46.Ke2 Nd4+ 47.Kf2 Rd2+ 48.Kg3 Rxh2 49.Kxh2 Nf3+ black wins.] 46...Nd4 47.Rg4 Nf3+ 48.Ke2 Kd4!! 49.Rf2 [If the Rh1 tries to run away: 49.Rh8 Rd2+ 50.Kf1 Ke3 mates.] 49...Rd2+ 50.Kf1 Rd1+ 51.Kg2 Ne5+ 52.Rxe4+ Kxe4 53.f6 Rd8 0–1

Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron

Puzzle of the monthby C.G.S.Narayanan

In the above position white takes back his last move and then mates in one.

(Solution on page 48)

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

In the above position white takes back his last move and then mates in one.

(Solution on page 48)

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Tactics from master games by S.Krishnan

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

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

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

(Solutions on page )

Tactics from master games by S.Krishnan

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

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

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

(Solutions on page )

Tactics from master games by S.Krishnan

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

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

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

(Solutions on page ) (solution on page 47)

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(solutions on page 47)

Test your endgame by C.G.S.Narayanan

H.Rinck 1935 L.Prokes 1944

1 2

Y.Brenyov 1931 A.Havasi 1924

3 4

Y.Gruengard 1945 H.Rinck 1903

5 6

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

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Masters of the past-41 Svetozar Gligorić

Svetozar Gligorić (2 February 1923 – 14 August 2012) was Serbian and Yugoslavian chess Grandmaster. He won the championship of Yugoslavia a record twelve times, and is considered the best player ever from Serbia. In 1958 he was declared the best athlete of Yugoslavia.

In the 1950s and 1960s Gligorić was one of the top players in the world.Gligorić was born in Belgrade to a poor family.His first tournament success came in 1938 when he won the Belgrade Chess Club championship. He continued to progress as a player and was awarded the International Master (IM) title in 1950 and the Grandmaster (GM) title in 1951, eventually

making the transition to full-time chess professional. He continued active tournament play well into his sixties.

Gligorić was one of the most successful tournament players of the mid-20th century, with a number of tournament victories to his credit, but was less successful in competing for the World Chess Championship.He represented his native Yugoslavia with great success in fifteen Chess Olympiads from 1950 to 1982.

Although he compiled a superb tournament record, it is perhaps as an openings theorist and commentator that Gligorić will be best remembered. He made enormous contributions to the theory and practice of the King’s Indian Defense, Ruy Lopez and Nimzo-Indian Defense, among others, and particularly with the King’s Indian, translated his theoretical contributions into several spectacular victories with both colours (including the sample game below). Theoretically significant variations in the King’s Indian and Ruy Lopez arenamed for him. His battles with Bobby Fischer in the King’s Indian and Sicilian Defense (particularly the Najdorf Variation, a long-time Fischer specialty) often worked out in his favor.

He was a regular columnist for Chess Review and Chess Life magazines for many years, his “Game of the Month” column often amounting to a complete tutorial in the opening used in the feature game as well as a set of comprehensive game annotations. He wrote a number of chess books in several languages. One of the most notable was Fischer v Spassky: The Chess Match of the Century, a detailed account of their epic struggle for the world title in Reykjavík in 1972. He also contributed regularly to the Chess Informantsemi-annual (more recently, thrice-yearly) compilation of the world’s most important chess games.

Gligorić was the first person to inflict a defeat on Petrosian after he won the world title from Mikhail Botvinnik in 1963. On August 14, 2012, Svetozar Gligorić died from a stroke at 89 years of age in Belgrade. Courtesy : Wikepedia

Masters of the past-41 Svetozar Gligorić

Svetozar Gligorić (2 February 1923 – 14 August 2012) was Serbian and Yugoslavian chess Grandmaster. He won the championship of Yugoslavia a record twelve times, and is considered the best player ever from Serbia. In 1958 he was declared the best athlete of Yugoslavia.

In the 1950s and 1960s Gligorić was one of the top players in the world.Gligorić was born in Belgrade to a poor family.His first tournament success came in 1938 when he won the Belgrade Chess Club championship. He continued to progress as a player and was awarded the International Master (IM) title in 1950 and the Grandmaster (GM) title in 1951, eventually making the transition to full-time chess professional. He continued active tournament play well into his sixties.

Gligorić was one of the most successful tournament players of the mid-20th century, with a number of tournament victories to his credit, but was less successful in competing for the World Chess Championship.He represented his native Yugoslavia with great success in fifteen Chess Olympiads from 1950 to 1982.

Although he compiled a superb tournament record, it is perhaps as an openings theorist and commentator that Gligorić will be best remembered. He made enormous contributions to the theory and practice of the King's Indian Defense, Ruy Lopez and Nimzo-Indian Defense, among others, and particularly with the King's Indian, translated his theoretical contributions into several spectacular victories with both colours (including the sample game below). Theoretically significant variations in the King's Indian and Ruy Lopez arenamed for him. His battles with Bobby Fischer in the King's Indian and Sicilian Defense (particularly the Najdorf Variation, a long-time Fischer specialty) often worked out in his favor.

He was a regular columnist for Chess Review and Chess Life magazines for many years, his "Game of the Month" column often amounting to a complete tutorial in the opening used in the feature game as well as a set of comprehensive game annotations. He wrote a number of chess books in several languages. One of the most notable was Fischer v Spassky: The Chess Match of the Century, a detailed account of their epic struggle for the world title in Reykjavík in 1972. He also

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Ist BDCA Open FIDE Rated (below 1600) Tournament, Bangalore

Aditya Birla Memorial 14th Jharkhand State Senior FIDE Rating Championship

(L-R) Durgesh K, Vinay KurtKoti (awarding the prize), Hanumantha, Vice President,UKCA, Jagadish P, Winner (receiving the trophy), N.Sanjay and Sydney Lewis

Standing(L-R) Neeraj Kr. Misra, Deepak Kumar, Swaraj Palit(Runner up),Pritam Singh(Champion),Manish Sharma (third), Sitting(L-R) G.S. Sethi, Aditya Swarup, Pradip Varma, President AJCA, Dhananjay Kumar

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Desai Pratishthan’s Late Shri Laxmikant V Desai Memorial All India FIDE Rating (below 1600) Tournament 2014, Goa

25th CUSAT International Rating Tournament,Cusat

Standing L- R Mr Kishor Bandekar, Damodar Naik, Arun Desai, Vinay Tendulkar, Sagar Sakordekar, Amogh Namshiker, Datta Kambli (receiving the prize)

Ram S Krishnan receiving champion’s trophy from the Hon’ble Minister in the presence of Shri. Nedumudi Harikumar, Dr. A Sajan, Shri. Binu V.P, Dr. P.K Baby, Dr. Paulose Jacob, Shri. A Ananthakrishnan and Shri. V Vijayaraghavan.

Datta Kambli and Rajendra Desai (playing white), Standing L-R Sanjay Kavlekar, Kishor Bandekar, Sagar Sakordekar, Amogh Namshiker, Avdhut Kamat and Vasanth BH

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Solutions to ‘Tactics from master games’ on page 42

1.Jones,G (2651)De Verdier,M (2337) [C03]Cork IRL Cork IRL (3.1), 30.03.2014 Position after 28th move. White to play 29.Rxd7! [Also 29.Nf6! Nxf6 (29...gxf6 30.gxf6) 30.exf6 30...Kg8 31.Qh5+-] 29...Qxd7 30.Nf6 gxf6 31.gxf6 Mate cannot be avoided 1–0

2.Shirov,Alexei (2702)Zhu,Chen (2461) [C02]V Chebanenko Rapid Open 2014 Chisinau MDA (7.2), 02.04.2014 18.Nxg5! Bxg5 [18...Bxd1 19.Bxh7#; 18...Nf7 19.Bxh7+ Kh8 20.Qxh5 Nxg5 21.Bg6+-] 19.Qxh5 Bxe3 20.fxe3 [20.fxe3 Qe7 21.Qg4+ Ng6 22.Bxg6 hxg6 23.Qxg6+ Kh8 24.h7+-] 1–0

3.Ftacnik,L (2563) Garcia Palermo,C (2455) [E17]TCh-EUR Senior 2014 Sibenik CRO (3.2), 03.04.2014 Position after 22nd move. White to play. 23.Nf6+! Kh8 [23...gxf6 24.Rh3!+-] 24.Rh3 h6 25.Qb1 1–0

4.Hou Yifan (2618) Dzagnidze,Nana (2550) [B41]4th WGP 2014 Khanty-Mansiysk RUS (3.2), 11.04.2014 22.Qh6! 22...gxf5 [22...f6 23.Rh5 Rf7 24.Bxg6+- Rg7 25.Bxh7+ Kf7 26.Rf1 Rh8 27.exf6 Nxf6 28.Bxf6 Bxf6 29.Rhf5+-] 23.e6 Nf6 [23...f6 24.Bxf5+-] 24.Qg5+ [24.Qg5+ Kh8 25.Bxf6+ Bxf6 26.Qxf5! Mates] 1–0

5.Volkov,Sergey (2600) Shyam,Sundar M (2481) [A41]16th Dubai Open 2014 Dubai UAE (8.17), 14.04.2014 Position after White’s 42nd move. Black to play. 42...Nf3+! 43.Bxf3 [43.gxf3 Qxh5+ 44.Kg2 Qh1+ 45.Kg3 Rg1#] 43...Qd8!–+ White has to lose his Queen to avoid mate by 44.... Qh4+ 0–1

6.Bachmann,Axel (2598) Rapport,Richard (2698) [A92]18th Neckar Open 2014 Deizisau GER (7.2), 20.04.2014 Position after White’s 33rd move. Black to play. 33...Nd3+! [33...Nd3+ 34.Bxd3 34...fxe3+ 35.Kxe3 Rf3+ 36.Kxe4 Re8+ 37.Kxf3 Qxd4 38.Rad1 38...Re3+ 39.Kf2 Qf4+ 40.Kg2 Qf3+ 41.Kh2 Qh3#] 0–1

Solution to ‘Test your endgame’ on page 43

1. H. Rinck “Els Escaca a Catalunya” 1935 White to play and win 1 Bg3+ Kxd5 2 Bb1 d3 (Be6, f7, Ke6) 3 Ba2 and wins

2. L. Prokes 1944 White wins 1 c6 dxc6 2 Rc5+ Ka4 3 Rc4+ Kxa3 4 Rc3+ Ka4 5 Rc1 Rxb7 6 Ra1+ Kb5 7 Rb1+

3. Y. Brenyov “64” 1931 White to move and win 1 h4 b5 2 Kd5 Kd3 3 h5 b4 4 h6 b3 5 h7 b2 6 h8Q b1Q 7 Qh7+and wins

4. A. Havasi“Wiener Schachzeitung” 1924 White to play and win 1 exd6 Bxa5 2 Nd4 Bxc3 3 d7 Ba5 4 Nxe6

5. Y. GruengardPalestine Post 1945; 3rd Hon.Mention Israel Ring Tourney 1945-62 White to play and win 1 Bc6!/i Kg5/ii 2 Kf3 Kh6 3 Kg2 g5 4 Kh3 g4+ 5 Kh4 and wins.i) A delicate waiting move and the only winning plan. 1 Bd5?h4!=; 1 Bf3? Kg5 2 Kf2 Kh6 3 Kg2 g5 with 4...g4 and 5...h4 to follow, =; 1 Bc8+? Kf6 2 Bd7 Kg7 3 Be8 Kh6=; 1 Be4+? Kf6! 2 Bf3 Kg5 etc.; 1 Kf3? g5=. ii) 1...g5? 2 Be8! Kg4 3 Kf2 and wins.

6. Henri RinckDeutsche Schachzeitung 1903 White to play and win 1 h6 b2 2 h7 b1Q 3 h8Q+ Ke6 4 Qe8+ Kf5 5 Qf7+ Kg4 6 Qg6+ Kh4 7 Qh7+ Kg4 8 Nf6(f2)+ and wins.

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Solution to ‘Puzzle of the month’ on page 41 : Move back the WPd4 to d2 and mate in one with Ng5

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52nd National Challengers Chess Championship, Dharamshala

Paul Rasu,IAS,Deputy Commissioner, Kangra making the inaugural move against GM Vidit Santosh Gujrathi

Winner GM Vidit Santhosh Gujrathi receiving the trophy from Shri G.S. Bali, Hon’ble Minister for Transport, Technical Education, Food & Civil Supplies, Govt. of Himachal Pradesh,Bharat Singh, CEO,AICF is on the left and Ajay Verma, Director of General Industries Corporation and President, Himachal Pradesh State Chess Association is on the right.

28th National Under 9 Open & Girls Chess Championship 2014, Puducherry

National under-9 championships in progress

From left to right:- Treasurer G.Sankar, Chief Guest Hon’ble Minister for Electricity Thiru.T.Thyagarajan, AICF Secretary Thiru V.Hariharan, President PSCA Thiru. A.Bakthavatchalam, Secretary R.Devakumar, Chief Arbiter Mr. RR.Vasudevan with Champions.