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28th National Under 9 Open & Girls Chess Championship 2014,Puducherry
Sadhwani Raunak
Under-9 Open Champion
Rakshitta Ravi
Under-9 Girls Champion
52nd National Challengers Chess Championship, Dharamshala, Himachal Pradesh
GM Vidit Santosh Gujrathi
Winner
From the Editors desk
Great players leave their
imprint on their favourite
sport with their signifcant
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 fne 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 ffth 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
Room No. 70,
Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium,
Chennai - 600 003.
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Publisher: V. Hariharan
Editor : C.G.S. Narayanan
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28th National Under 9 Open & Girls Championship 2014, Puducherry
Sadhwani Raunak and Rakshitta Ravi
emerge Under 9 Champions
by R.R.Vasudevan, Chief Arbiter 1
52
nd
National Challengers Chess Championship, Dharamshala
GM Vidit Santosh Gujrathi wins National Challenger
by R.Srivatsan, Chief Arbiter 7
5
th
KACC FIDE Rated Tournament (below 2200), Puducherry
Bavan Kumar wins title
by R. Anantharam IA, Chief Arbiter 10
1
st
Nalanda Cup Open FIDE Rated Tournament below 2000, Shimoga
Srikanth wins at Shimoga
by IA Manjunatha M Chief Arbiter 12
3
rd
KCM (below 2000) FIDE Chess Tournament,Coimbatore
Aadithyaa wins title
by .V.Vijayaraghavan IA, Chief Arbiter 13
NHPC FIDE Rated Tournament for below 1600,New Delhi
Pratik Das wins NHPC FIDE Rated
by IA Gopakumar MS, Chief Arbiter 15
7
th
All India Open fde Rating tournament below 1800, Hyderabad
Divesh is the winner
by Promodraj Moree FA, Chief Arbiter 18
5
th
KCA FIDE Rated Chess Championship below 1800, Kottayam
S Gopakumar Clinches the title
by M.Ephrame IA, Chief Arbiter 20
1
st
Excellent International Rating below 1600 Tournament 2014, Ernakulam
Dijocherian wins title
by Peter Joseph M, Chief Arbiter 21
42
nd
TN State Fide Rated Womens Chess Championship 2014. Tiruvarur
Srija Seshadri wins
by L.R.Bhuvanaa Sai IA, Chief Arbiter 27
Desai Pratishthans Late Shri Laxmikant V Desai Memorial All India
FIDE Rating (below 1600) Tournament 2014, Goa
Datta Kambli clinches title
Vasanth BH Chief Arbiter 28
1
st
Brainium FIDE Rated Tournament for below 1700, New Delhi
Kashyap wins Brainium FIDE Rated
by M.S.Gopakumar IA , Chief Arbiter 30
Ist BDCA Open FIDE Rated (below 1600) Tournament, Bangalore
Jagadish P wins title
Vasanth BH Chief Arbiter 32
25th CUSAT International Rating Chess Tournament, Cusat
Ram S Krishnan is champion
by V.Vijayaraghavan IA, Chief Arbiter 34
Selected Games From National Team Chess, Kanpur
Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron 36
Tactics from master games
by S.Krishnan 42
Test your endgame
by C.G.S. Narayanan 43
Masters of the past - 41 44
AICF 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 qualifer began on 20th May,
2014 with 170 boys and 114 girls on roll.
Nagpur boy Sadhwani came a clear frst
scoring 9.5 points from 11 rounds, while
Rakshitta tied for frst 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 fnal 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
stifing 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, Honble Minister
for Electricity, was the Chief guest who
distributed the prizes on the fnal day.
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Under-9 Boys:Final ranking
1 Sadhwani Raunak MAH 9
2 Praggnanandhaa R FM TN 9
3 Sai Pranav Siddamshetty AP 9
4 Mahitosh Dey ORI 8
5 Mendonca Leon Luke CM GOA 8
6 Abinandhan R TN 8
7 Arya Bhakta WB 8
8 Rudranarayan ORI 8
9 Ruhaan Mahindru MAH 8
10 Samip Roy WB 8
11 Bharath Subramaniyam H TN 8
12 Sreeshwan Maralakshikari AP 8
13 Shahil Dey ASM 8
14 Manish Anto Cristiano F TN 7
15 Jubin Jimmy KER 7
16 Jain Kashish Manoj MAH 7
17 Barde Om GOA 7
18 Manthan Kashyap Datta ASM 7
19 Adarsh Tripathi DEL 7
20 Abhishek A R KER 7
21 Nikhil Magizhnan CM TN 7
22 Sriram B TN 7
23 Komal Srivatsav Sajja KAR 7
24 Gukesh D TN 7
25 Gnanasabesan G TN 7
26 Harshad S TN 7
27 Aditya Mittal MAH 7
28 Srihari L R TN 7
29 Karthik Sai Ch AP 7
30 Karthikay C KAR 7
31 Siddhant Gunwant Deore MAH 7
32 Vallabh Kavi MAH 7
33 Pranav Anand KAR 7
34 R Venkata Raghunandan AP 7
35 Rishabh Anand ORI 7
36 Gowtham T S TN 7
37 Siddhanth Lohia MAH 6
38 Namitbir Singh Walia PUN 6
39 Pranesh M TN 6
40 Satvik V TN 6
41 Hriday Dharmesh Sheth MAH 6
42 Dikshant Dash ORI 6
43 Colaso Vernon GOA 6
44 Manav Chopda MAH 6
45 Rahul Krishna V KER 6
46 Rishi R TN 6
47 Mukherjee Sanchit JHAR 6
48 Kalur Nikhil AP 6
49 Rakesh P V TN 6
50 Pratyay Chowdhury WB 6
51 Evan Sanjoe TN 6
52 Samantaray Aryan Arnav ORI 6
53 V Sumant AP 6
54 Biswal Sumit ORI 6
55 Rishabh C Gokhale MAH 6
56 Nikam Sudhanshu MAH 6
57 Utsav Ghosh WB 6
58 Gavade Atharv MAH 6
59 Santo Wilbert TN 6
60 Sharath R Shanbhag GOA 6
61 Manooneeth B PUD 6
62 Manish Kumar (2006) ORI 6
63 Akshath Sinha WB 6
64 Rahul Krishna V TN 6
65 Anantha Sai S TN 6
66 Harsh R Shah TN 6
67 Aaryan Singh UP 6
68 Hemanathan C PUD 6
69 Priyansh Sahu CHA 6
70 Vishal Sharma BIH 6
71 Aniruddh Chatterjee WB 6
72 Samyak L TN 6
73 Dhrupad Kashyap ASM 6
74 Aditya Mukerjee CHA 6
75 Hreeday Desai GUJ 5
76 Sourath Biswas WB 5
77 Shreyan Dutta Roy WB 5
78 Ronitkumar M Padia GUJ 5
79 Pranav Senthil Kumar TN 5
80 Garv Rai DEL 5
81 Jaya Krishna Hariharan TN 5
82 Karthik Muruganantham KAR 5
83 Soham Saha WB 5
84 Marvin Eric Joseph A TN 5
85 Harsh Mangesh Dagare GOA 5
86 Jijo Joy KER 5
87 Shrivastava Kushagra MP 5
88 Agarwal Krishnav GUJ 5
89 Aaryan Shah GUJ 5
90 Arjun Kumar S TN 5
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5
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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
ofcials), Shri. Bavan Kumar, Winner with Pakkirisamy Memorial Rolling Trophy, Shri.A. Srikanth, Treasurer, KACC,
Shri.I. Arokiaraj, President, KACC, Shri. Arulumozhi (KACC ofcial) and J. Ramesh, Secretary, KACC.
Sitng l-r, S. Vasudevan, VP, PSCA, R. Devakumar, Secretary, PSCA, Chief Guest Mr. Gunasekaran, Superintendent of
Police, Trafc, Pondicherry, Shri.P. Saravanan, Main Sponsor, Shri.Anantharaman, Chief Arbiter, Shri. Nadarajane,
Dy. Arbiter.
First Runner-Up Prasanta Mondal, Winner Pratk Das of West Bengal and Second Runner-Up Sumesh Kabeer of
Kerala
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1
st
Nalanda Cup Open FIDE Rated Tournament below 2000,Shimoga
5
th
KCA FIDE Rated Chess Championship below 1800, Kottayam
Standing:L_R_M_Raju,IM_Stany, G.A,Krishna Udupa,Kishan Gangolli
Sitng:Arjun_Adappa_Srikanth_K_Arjun_Kalayan
(L-R) Gopakumar,Winner receiving prize from, Thiruvanchiyoor Radhakrishnan, Honble Minister for Sports,
Kerala, M.Ephrame , Chief Arbiter (extreme lef) and P.Rajesh, General Secretary All Kerala Associaton(centre)
are also seen
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91 Kriish Mehta MAH 5
92 Rajaram Suriyanarayanan TN 5
93 Isaimaran M PUD 5
94 Tathya Sheth GUJ 5
95 Ksh Aimson MAN 5
96 Srijeet Mullick WB 5
97 Ayush Sharma MP 5
98 Sanjay Srinivasan R TN 5
99 Vignesh N TN 5
100 Arjun Sidharth S PUD 5
101 Bharath A TN 5
102 Gaddipati Anjani Kumar AP 5
103 Shravan R TN 5
104 Dhritabrata Kundu WB 5
105 Ryan Priyank S TN 5
106 Jaswanth Simha T AP 5
107 Vishnudevanandan R P KER 5
108 Jena Aditya Akash Titrha ORI 5
109 Sarvadh Sathiaram TN 5
110 Abhiram Reddy K AP 5
111 Vinay R Jumani TN 5
112 Harshwardhan Ravi Gupta MAH 5
113 Guru Aribam A Sharma MAN 5
114 Samneet Munde PUN 5
115 Jain Aryan S MAH 5
116 Nawab Mukril Zadeed ASM 5
117 Uday Bhaskar Sarmah ASM 5
118 Shirodkar Aayush GOA 5
119 Anurag Banerjee BIH 5
120 Prerak Darvekar MAH 5
121 Barik Jagdish ORI 4
122 Anukarssa Dutta WB 4
123 Jairam G TN 4
124 Mihir Godawat HAR 4
125 Jain Divyam MAH 4
126 Jothesh Rajamanickam TN 4
127 Aaditya A PUD 4
128 Aditya Bose WB 4
129 Pranav Raghul A K TN 4
130 Ram Soni HAR 4
131 Dibya Jyoti Sarkar TRI 4
132 Srikrishnan P TN 4
133 Aayush Sheetal MAH 4
134 Harish V PUD 4
135 Vrishva Swaran M KAR 4
136 Rajbeer Ahmed TRI 4
137 Thrayambhakesh A PUD 4
138 Kailash Rajasekaran PUD 4
139 Arjun T PUD 4
140 Ayush Bhattacherjee WB 4
141 Gowtham Reddy G AP 4
142 LSri Karthikeya Durgapras AP 4
143 Abdullah M N TN 4
144 Hridya Ghosh WB 4
145 Kaligotla Sri Harshith PUD 4
146 Ishant Kumar JHA 3
147 Pranay Venkatesh AP 3
148 Sanjay Sriram G P TN 3
149 Nikilesh G K KAR 3
150 Kushagra Agrawal HP 3
151 Aditya T N V S AP 3
152 Anoop Rahul V TN 3
153 Sudhanva Susarla AP 3
154 Jaswanth R PUD 3
155 Krishna Prasad S PUD 3
156 Param Shah GUJ 3
157 Sundararaja S D PUD 3
158 Vedang Avinash Kulkarani MAH 3
159 Ramkarthick S V PUD 3
160 Navin S PUD 3
161 Jagannath S PUD 3
162 Snehasish Sinha ASM 2
163 Dharunkumar TN 2
164 Bhavesh S TN 2
165 Suriya N PUD 2
166 D Sai Mano Gupta AP 1
167 Manoj B PUD 1
168 Krishnasanketh Reddi K AP 1
169 Jaidambareesh N R TN 1
170 Naga Vijaya Keerthi T AP 0
Under-9 Girls:Final standings
1 Rakshitta Ravi TN 10
2 Divya Deshmukh WFM MAH 10
3 Bhagyashree Patil MAH 9
4 Khandelwal Krisha MAH 8
5 Chinnam Vyshnavi AP 8
6 Chopdekar Gunjal GOA 7
7 Ayantika Das WB 7
8 Swaroopa E T KER 7
9 Piya Saxena MAH 7
10 Kaamyaa Negi DEL 7
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11 Mohanty Aditi ORI 7
12 Ananya Arumbakkam KAR 7
13 Alaina J J Pereira GOA 7
14 Mohana R TN 7
15 Ananya D AP 7
16 Boramanikar Tanisha S MAH 7
17 Rishita Sinha ASM 7
18 Indukuri Gayathri AP 7
19 Dhyana Patel GUJ 7
20 Ahalya A TN 7
21 Sathwika N AP 7
22 Spandana M Raikar KAR 7
23 Kriti Mayur Patel MAH 7
24 Vaishnavi S PUD 7
25 Yashavishree N TN 7
26 Mahi Amit Doshi GUJ 6
27 Bhagyashree G Patil KAR 6
28 Dash Adhisha ORI 6
29 Harshavardhini M.S. PUD 6
30 Dhanyatha Corry KAR 6
31 Sanjana Raghunath KAR 6
32 Surana Dhriti Shailendra MAH 6
33 Savitha Shri B TN 6
34 Panda Miracle ORI 6
35 Khaturia Kiyarra MAH 6
36 Agrawal Aanya GUJ 6
37 Tanvi Vasudev Hadkonkar GOA 6
38 Pratyusha Priyadarshini ORI 6
39 Kirtana S P TN 6
40 Rout Prakruti ORI 6
41 Chandhana Vivekanandan TN 6
42 Tina C TN 6
43 Meenatchi Rajam V TN 6
44 Konalika Yumnam MAN 6
45 Akshaya R.S. TN 6
46 Ishika Mandal WB 6
47 Charuta J Shetye GOA 6
48 Naga Vijaya Keerthi T AP 6
49 Nayak Adishree Anjum ORI 5
50 Annyatoma Das WB 5
51 Alaya Vella D Cruz GOA 5
52 Darsana M S TN 5
53 Varsha Ramesh TN 5
54 Geethika Mahalakshmi J AP 5
55 Kerthana Ms PUD 5
56 Shah Kritee GUJ 5
57 Barmecha Diya MAH 5
58 Barnita Singha TRI 5
59 Mathuriya Bharathi R S TN 5
60 Nair Devika KER 5
61 Swara Dalvi MAH 5
62 Amulya D AP 5
63 Ishita Kothari CHA 5
64 Venmathi V A TN 5
65 Anjitha Krishnakumar KER 5
66 Ishwari A Gosavi MAH 5
67 Sevitha Viju M AP 5
68 Avanthika F G TN 5
69 Kagitha Jahnavi AP 5
70 Shah Vrisha Parag MAH 5
71 Sanvi Naik Gaonkar GOA 5
72 Ananya Karunakaran TN 5
73 Priyadharshini K PUD 5
74 Cindralla Magdalene PUD 5
75 Meetu Rochishna Reddy AP 5
76 Mahasweta S PUD 5
77 Vishwa Vasanwala GUJ 4
78 Monisha S TN 4
79 Pragati Das WB 4
80 Manushri Deva AP 4
81 Bhathmalakshmi A TN 4
82 Raavya Jain PUN 4
83 Mayuri A Chari GOA 4
84 Shah Viha MAH 4
85 Anchita Sharma ASM 4
86 Oishanee Biswas WB 4
87 Samya Rishi Gupta MAH 4
88 Vora Ananya MAH 4
89 Meghana Naga Padmasri P AP 4
90 Nungshithoi Ngairangbam MAN 4
91 Rachita Sabbathi AP 4
92 Pawar Archi MP 4
93 Samiksha Bhatia PUN 4
94 Chakraborty Sucharita JHA 4
95 Vallari Narewadi HAR 4
96 Samixa Rani HAR 4
97 Lavanya Bugde MP 4
98 Saadhanaa Shri V TN 4
99 Ashpriha Das WB 4
100 Jothi Roshini M TN 3
101 Sachika Tomer GUJ 3
102 Mahalakshmi Manikandan TN 3
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52
nd
National Challengers Chess Championship, Dharamshala
GM Vidit Santosh Gujrathi wins National Challenger
by R.Srivatsan, Chief Arbiter
The 52
nd
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 9
th
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 10
th
and 13
th
May with
single round on all the remaining days.
Due to power problem the double round on
fourth day was shifted to the ffth day.
In the frst 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 10
th
Round
it looked like a strategy to get qualifed 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
qualifcation 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 52
nd
National Challengers Chess
Championship 2014.
The top nine players qualifed 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, Honble 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 Pts
1 GM Vidit Santosh Gujrathi PSPB 9
2 GM Grover Sahaj Del 9
3 IM Shyam Nikil P. TN 9
4 GM Sengupta Deep PSPB 9
5 GM Sethuraman S.P. PSPB 9
6 IM Swayams Mishra Odi 9
7 IM Rajesh V A V TN 9
8 GM Lalith Babu M.R. PSPB 9
9 GM Deepan Chakkravarthy J. Rlys 9
10 GM Kunte Abhijit PSPB 9
11 IM Girinath P.D.S. Rlys 9
12 IM Karthikeyan P. Rlys 9
13 GM Laxman R.R. Rlys 9
14 GM Shyam Sundar M. TN 9
15 IM Murali Krishnan B.T. Rlys 9
16 IM Anurag Mhamal Goa 9
17 IM Himanshu Sharma Rlys 8
18 IM Karthikeyan Murali TN 8
19 GM Vishnu Prasanna. V TN 8
20 GM Debashis Das Odi 8
21 IM Rathnakaran K. Rlys 8
22 IM Swapnil S. Dhopade Rlys 8
23 IM Nitin S. TN 8
24 S L Narayanan Ker 8
25 IM Konguvel Ponnuswamy PSPB 8
26 Patil Pratik MAH 8
27 Karthik V. Ap AP 8
28 IM Das Sayantan WB 8
29 IM Sangma Rahul Rlys 8
30 Agarwal Brajesh LIC 8
31 CM Prince Bajaj Del 8
32 Lokesh P. TN 8
33 Ravi Teja S. AP 8
34 Siva Mahadevan TN 8
35 Abhishek A Ker 8
36 Harsha Bharathakoti AP 8
37 IM Deshmukh Anup LIC 8
38 Rohan Ahuja Goa 8
39 GM Roy Chowdhury Saptarshi Rlys 8
40 GM Sriram Jha LIC 8
41 IM Saravanan V. TN 8
42 WGM Kulkarni Bhakti Goa 8
43 FM Joshi Pankaj Rlys 8
44 Anilkumar O.T. Ker 8
45 Debarshi Mukherjee WB 8
46 Singh Arvinder Preet Pun 8
47 Bhatt Jalpan Guj 8
48 Kumaran B TN 7
49 IM Sharma Dinesh K. LIC 7
50 Chakravarthi Reddy M AP 7
51 Aradhya Garg Del 7
52 FM Prasenjit Datta Del 7
53 Saravana Krishnan P. TN 7
54 Tiwari Arjun MP 7
55 Krishna Teja N AP 7
56 Harikrishna. S. R. Ker 7
57 Shreyansh Daklia Cha 7
58 Ajay Krishna S TN 7
59 Navalgund Niranjan TN 7
60 Dhar Rajib Asm 7
61 Rajdeep Sarkar WB 7
62 IM Lahiri Atanu LIC 7
63 Dusthageer Ibrahim M. TN 7
64 Shashikant Kutwal Rlys 7
65 Joshi Govind Ballabh AI 7
66 Arjun K. Ker 7
67 Kulkarni Vinayak KAR 7
68 Dhananjay Cha 7
69 S Mithilesh Kumar Del 7
70 Vasantha Ruba Varman TN 7
71 Sayan Sen WB 7
72 Suresh Kumar T.J. Rlys 7
73 Gurung Rahul Sik 7
74 Adithya S TN 7
75 IM Thejkumar M. S. Rlys 7
76 IM R Balasubramaniam Rlys 7
77 FM Ramakrishna J. AP 7
78 Vipul Subhashi Bih 7
79 Thanki Hemal Karsanji BSNL 7
80 Muthaiah Al TN 7
81 Trailokya Nanda Asm 7
82 Neelash Saha WB 7
83 Sammed Jaykumar Shete MAH 7
84 IM Singh D.P. Rlys 7
85 Hemant Sharma (del) Delhi 7
86 Avdhoot Lendhe MAH 7
87 Manush Shah Guj 7
88 Gurung Rakesh Sik 7
89 WCM Tejaswini Sagar MAH 7
90 Rahul Srivatshav P AP 7
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91 Nayak Rajesh Odi 7
92 CM Nitish Belurkar Goa 7
93 Singh Pritam Jha 7
94 Harsh Mangesh Ghag MAH 7
95 Rajaryan Kuvelkar Goa 7
96 Suresh P.K. Ker 7
97 Roop Saurav Bih 7
98 Mukund G. Bhatt Guj 7
99 Sumit Kumar Jha UP 7
100 Sushmita Lama Sik 7
101 Dev Krishan HP 7
102 Prodip Bhuyan Asm 7
103 Srinath Rao S.V. Cha 6
104 Kranti Kumar P. AP 6
105 Shailesh Dravid MAH 6
106 Sumit Grover J&K 6
107 Chauhan Ashvinkumar Guj 6
108 Teli Rajendra Raj 6
109 Vijay Kumar Bih 6
110 Pardeep Arora Pun 6
111 Rajeev V.M. Ker 6
112 Aishwin Daniel MP 6
113 Rakesh Kumar Nayak Odi 6
114 Lakshmi Narayanan Mv TN 6
115 Jayakumar P. BSNL 6
116 Kaustav Bhattacharya WB 6
117 Samal Ansuman Odi 6
118 Thakur Sanjeev HP 6
119 Arpan Das WB 6
120 Singh Balwinder Pun 6
121 Upadhayay R. SSCB 6
122 Negi Virender Singh AI 6
123 Kaushik Shubham Har 6
124 Subhayan Kundu WB 6
125 Buxy Rajanikant Cha 6
126 Kevilekho Zumvu Nag 6
127 Gurung Rohit Sik 6
128 Akshay V Halagannavar KAR 6
129 Sudhirsana Singh R.K. Mani 6
130 Chakrabarty Debasis Odi 6
131 Swaraj Palit Jha 6
132 Gandhi Anish MAH 6
133 Ranjan Rakesh Bihar 6
134 Debasish Mukherjee WB 6
135 Meghna C H Ker 6
136 Gajendra Singh LIC 6
137 Srijit Paul WB 6
138 Aansh Gupta Del 6
139 Vantika Agrawal Del 6
140 Diwan Rajesh FSCB 6
141 Madhab Sarma Asm 6
142 Dupit Tabu AP 6
143 Soni Krishan Har 6
144 Anchit Vyas MP 6
145 Singh Th. Nabachandra Mani 6
146 WFM Tarini Goyal Cha 6
147 Dupit Tachung AP 6
148 Rijied Katrai Meg 6
149 Sharma Dushyant Pun 6
150 Raj Kumar Chauhan BSNL 5
151 Arun Rathi Har 5
152 Md Jamiruddin SSCB 5
153 Rishabh Nishad UP 5
154 Hage Lasa Nado Ar-P 5
155 Lalnunsanga Miz 5
156 Wairokpam Bheem Singh Mani 5
157 Manan Rai Del 5
158 Barath M Goa 5
159 Lalawmpuia Miz 5
160 Dony K V SSCB 5
161 K Sanjoy Singh Mani 5
162 Smeeru Thakur HP 5
163 Shubham Shukla Pun 5
164 Saksham Dewan Del 5
165 Tamang Thendup Sik 5
166 Tayyeb Asif Mohmamad FSCB 5
167 Thakur Diwan HP 5
168 Hingne Shirish PSCB 5
169 Saksham Rautela Uttarl 5
170 Nobleman Wanniang Meg 5
171 Deepak Ranga Rao Jha 5
172 Melesayi Dawhuo Nag 5
173 Vishesh Agrawal Delhi 5
174 Silkam Sangma Meg 5
175 Tokuho Sumi Nag 5
176 Vipin Tiwari BSNL 5
177 Pathak Vivek Kumar FSCB 5
178 Kughaho Kiho Nag 5
179 Rapalli Krishna SSCB 5
180 Manjeet Poonia Har 5
181 Ayush Bhai Mehta MP 5
182 Avinash Chandra Uttar 5
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The 5
th
King Anand Chess Club FIDE rated
tournament was held at Arumuga Kalyana
Mandapam, Pondicherry from 8
th
to 11
th
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
ffth 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 fve way at the top in
the penultimate round, leading to high
expectations in the fnal round.
In the exciting summit round, Bavan Kumar
and Ram S Krishnan scored fuent wins to
tie for the frst place, with 8 points each.
5
th
KACC FIDE Rated Tournament (below 2200), Puducherry...
Bavan Kumar wins title
by R. Anantharam IA, Chief Arbiter
Bavan Kumar had a superior tiebreak to
win the coveted trophy and frst 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 fnish 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 8
th
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 mathematcs, if I fnd a new approach to a problem,
another mathematcian might claim that he has a beter,
more elegant soluton. In chess, if anybody claims he is
beter than I, I can checkmate him.
The combinaton player thinks forward; he starts from the
given positon, and tries the forceful moves in his mind.
A chess game, afer all, is a fght in which all possible
factors must be made use of, and in which a knowledge of
the opponents good and bad qualites is of the greatest
importance.
- by Lasker
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Final standings (rs 90 placings only)
Rk Name Club Pts
1 Bavankumar J TN 8
2 Ram S. Krishnan TN 8
3 Gopalakrishnan K. TN 7
4 Harikrishnan.A.Ra TN 7
5 Aadhityaa M TN 7
6 Sai Agni Jeevitesh J AP 7
7 Elancheralathan P TN 7
8 Iniyan P TN 7
9 Santosh Kashyap Hg KAR 7
10 Praggnanandhaa R TN 7
11 Hirthickkesh Pr TN 7
12 Ankan Roy WB 7
13 Akash Lal O TN 7
14 Hemanth Raam TN 6
15 Sai Vishwesh.C TN 6
16 Anjana Krishna S KER 6
17 Ranjith R.K. TN 6
18 Uma Maheswaran P TN 6
19 Yogit S TN 6
20 Hilmi Parveen KER 6
21 Navnitan S V TN 6
22 Subhasis Barik ORI 6
23 Girinath B S TN 6
24 Aarudhra Ganesh TN 6
25 Prathish A TN 6
26 Prajesh R TN 6
27 Eashwar.M TN 6
28 Suresh Krishna S PON 6
29 Mythireyan P TN 6
30 Marthandan K U KER 6
31 Priyanka Nutakki AP 6
32 Subramanian V TN 6
33 Adethya R TN 6
34 Sachin Pradeep KER 6
35 Raahul V S TN 6
36 Dhanush Bharadwaj KAR 6
37 Subramanian Pl TN 6
38 Guru Prakash A. TN 6
39 Chandar Raju KER 6
40 Visveshwar A TN 6
41 Narendiran P PON 6
42 Ashwin R TN 6
43 Pranab Kumar Patra ORI 6
44 Dileep Kumar R TN 6
45 Yutesh P TN 6
46 Saughanthika As TN 6
47 Farhaan M PON 6
48 Lakshmi Krishna Bhushan D AP 6
49 Aravind K TN 6
50 Thamizharasan J PON 6
51 Sanathanan N.R.S. TN 6
52 Aswin Kumar B S TN 6
53 Harshavardhan G B TN 6
54 Abhijith M. KER 6
55 Vigneshwaran S TN 6
56 Solomon Rathna Sekaran TN 6
57 Narendran V TN 5
58 Vignesh B TN 5
59 Shalon Joanne Pais KAR 5
60 Vinodh Kumar B. PON 5
61 Reetish Padhi KAR 5
62 Manu David Suthandram R TN 5
63 Rohit Vassan S TN 5
64 Alan Diviya Raj TN 5
65 Arjun Kalyan TN 5
66 Bhagya Jayesh KER 5
67 Lakshmi Praneetha K AP 5
68 Sunil Dev S PON 5
69 Raman R. PON 5
70 Narendhiran R TN 5
71 Vigneswaran S TN 5
72 Karthick Raja R TN 5
73 Karmukilan S TN 5
74 Dinesh A PON 5
75 Clifford Flair TN 5
76 Abishek A TN 5
77 Bhaskar N S TN 5
78 Sneha G P S TN 5
79 Kasinathan S TN 5
80 Gokul Sathyan TN 5
81 Keerthivasan K TN 5
82 Saranya Y TN 5
83 Jayakumar S TN 5
84 Vigneshwaran N. TN 5
85 Barath Kalyan M TN 5
86 Aditya S Hariharan TN 5
87 Mohan Ram Sridhar TN 5
88 Sharan Sridhar TN 5
89 Shyam Sundar M TN 5
90 Anandha Venkatesan TN 5
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1
st
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 todays 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 7
th
round Srikanth K of Air
forces (Delhi) had full 7points and remained
unbeaten and emerged the winner of the
1
st
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
1
st
Nalanda Cup Open FIDE Rated Tournament below 2000,Shimoga
Srikanth wins at Shimoga
by IA Manjunatha M Chief Arbiter
based on tie break system, clinched 2
nd
to
7
th
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 feld of Chess.The
team of arbiters included IA Pranesh yadav
K, FA Chandrashekar Upadhyaya T V and
FA Salim Beig. Salim was an effcient and
hard working arbiter whose work deserves
mention here. Overall there was no appeal
from the players.
Final ranking
Rk Name Pts
1 Srikanth K. 8
2 Arjun Adappa 8
3 Arjun Kalyan 8
4 Shreeshan S 8
5 Aravind K 8
6 Shet Prajwal P 8
7 Kuldeep Sharma 8
8 Mishra R.K. 7
9 Visveshwar A 7
10 Vijay Anand M. 7
11 Nikhil R. Umesh 7
12 Sree Veeramani P 7
13 Harshita Guddanti 7
14. Raju M. 7
15. Sonkalan Bharati 7
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3
rd
KCM (below 2000) FIDE Chess Tournament,Coimbatore
Aadithyaa wins title
by .V.Vijayaraghavan IA, Chief Arbiter
M Aadhithyaa of Tamilnadu won the 3
rd
KCM
(below 2000) FIDE Chess Tournament here
at Coimbatore. The 4 day event was held
from 1
st
to 4
th
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 6
th

round when Prajesh and Vaisnav drew their
individual encounter. Aadhithyaa went on to
beat Raju in the crucial 7
th
round and KV
Ramani in the fnal round. The organisers
offered buttermilk, TANG Cool drink etc to
lessen the heat. On the 3
rd
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 Offcials on the
stage. The prizes were distributed by their
member parents.
Final standings (rst 135 placings only)
Rk. Name Pts.
1 Aadhityaa M 8
2 Raju S 7.5
3 Prajesh R 7.5
4 Vaisnav M 7.5
5 Vignesh B 7.5
6 Ramani K.V. 7
7 Bala Kannamma.P 7
8 Suresh K. 7
9 Stanley Samson P. 7
10 Karthikeyan, J. 7
11 Ananya Suresh WCM 7
12 Haricharann D V 7
13 Jayakumar S 7
14 Hemanth Raam 7
15 Akshaya Nandakumar 6.5
16 Anurag Jaiswal 6.5
17 Subramanian V 6.5
18 Narendiran P 6.5
19 Kumar S. 6.5
20 Charles J 6.5
21 Aarudhra Ganesh 6.5
22 Umashankar A 6.5
23 Narendran V 6.5
24 Vinith Kumar I. 6.5
25 Rohit Vassan S 6.5
26 Suresh Krishna S 6.5
27 Subramanian Pl 6.5
28 Bhaskar N S 6.5
29 Sachin Pradeep 6.5
30 Adethya R 6.5
31 Dhanasekar K. 6.5
32 Abdul Majeed N. 6.5
33 Rathish T.J. 6.5
34 Mythireyan P 6
35 Hari Pragadish S.B. 6
36 Chandar Raju 6
37 Marthandan K U 6
38 Ram Vishwanathan 6
39 Gayetri R 6
40 Dileep Kumar R 6
41 Meenakshi Sundaram 6
42 Thamaraiselvi P 6
43 Divya Lakshmi R 6
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44 Girinath B S 6
45 Vijay Shreeram P 6
46 Kamalanathan R 6
47 Raja Chokkarvel Y 6
48 Murali. R 6
49 Harshini A 6
50 Ananda Subramaniam 6
51 Athul Krishna S 6
52 Jasper Jothi P 6
53 Sathyanarayanan S. 6
54 Sanjay Snehal M S 6
55 Prasant N Nayagam 5.5
56 Madhusoodanan K.R. 5.5
57 Harivardhini I 5.5
58 Dharani Sree R 5.5
59 Jibi Kallingalpadem 5.5
60 Keerthivasan J 5.5
61 Vinoth M 5.5
62 Vishwa Anand V 5.5
63 Sarveshwaran P 5.5
64 Muraleedharan P G 5.5
65 Mani Bharathy 5.5
66 Dinesh A 5.5
67 Vel Vishwanathan G M 5.5
68 Akash S 5.5
69 Tharanitharr P 5.5
70 Mohanakrishnan B 5.5
71 Vishnu Bharani S 5.5
72 Vishwak S 5.5
73 Sanathanan N.R.S. 5.5
74 T Sampath Kumar 5.5
75 Ramesh Krishnan Ar 5.5
76 Venkat Subramanian Rm 5.5
77 Senthamizh Yazhini S 5.5
78 Suresh Kumar K 5.5
79 Karthick Narayanan S 5.5
80 Rama Mohan Rao N 5.5
81 Nandakumar D 5.5
82 Sundar Pranesh J S 5.5
83 Muthu Palaniappan P L 5.5
84 Aswin Babu J 5.5
85 Bhaskar.V 5.5
86 Kavitha P L 5.5
87 Prem Krishna N 5.5
88 Gouthaman A M 5.5
89 Vinesh R 5.5
90 Arvind Ramnath Iyer 5.5
91 Ritesh Dharmatti 5
92 Vivek Ramanathan V 5
93 Mohan Ram S 5
94 Aswin Kumar B S 5
95 Jai Aditya D 5
96 Shaji T. L. 5
97 Rajasekaran P. 5
98 Arun M S 5
99 Balaji M 5
100 Shalon Joanne Pais 5
101 Kaushika S G 5
102 Tejasvi M 5
103 Sneha G P S 5
104 Karan J P 5
105 Harshavardhan S 5
106 M David Suthandram 5
107 Niranjan Raghu 5
108 Suryaa S S 5
109 Khazeber R 5
110 Dharani Kumar R A 5
111 Deepak K 5
112 Suseenthiram.R 5
113 Alan Diviya Raj 5
114 Baskaran Mannar Chetty 5
115 Balasubramaniam.P.A 5
116 Sethuram S 5
117 Hari Prabhu S V 5
118 Yashwanth Raj S 5
119 Upendra R 5
120 Jayanth R P 5
121 Praveen R 5
122 Arvind Chidambaram 5
123 Jinan Jomon 5
124 Svatejas Shivakumar 5
125 Shankar Ramakrishnan 5
126 Naveen Kumar T 5
127 Santhosh Kumar G 5
128 Vignesh Kasi P L 5
129 Subramanian P V 5
130 Mani A 4.5
131 Sathish Kumar A.B. 4.5
132 Navnitan S V 4.5
133 Sreehari G 4.5
134 Vinayagam M 4.5
135 Jayasangar T 4.5
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NHPC FIDE Rated Tournament for below 1600,New Delhi
Pratik 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 15
th
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 fnal 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 fnish as frst runner-up while
Sumesh fnished as second runner-up.
Gulrez satisfed with fourth spot fnish.
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 fnished 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 beftting 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 (rst 202 placings only)
Rk Name Club Pts
1 Pratik Das WB 9
2 Prasanta Mondal WB 8
3 Sumesh Kabeer KER 8
4 Ali Khan Aamir Gulrez UP 8
5 Vaibhav Aggarwal HAR 8
6 Loukrakpam Raju Mangang DEL 8
7 Shatrughan Kaushik DEL 8
8 Siddiqui Mohd.Imran UP 8
9 Prem Anantha Rajan V. TN 8
10 Gupta Shailendra DEL 8
11 Ahirwal Dinesh MP 8
12 Chulet Mayank L MAH 8
13 Anwar Singh PUN 7
14 Jaskeerat Singh CHD 7
15 Jitendra Kumar Jawahar BIH 7
16 Joshi Nilesh GUJ 7
17 Souradip Deb TRI 7
18 Kunal Kakumanu Prasad DEL 7
19 Robi Singh Jeron ASM 7
20 Manan Chandok DEL 7
21 Ravindra P AP 7
22 Jayesh T A KER 7
23 Sunil Kumar Sonipat HAR 7
24 Raj Pal Singh R AP 7
25 Paritosh Malvi MP 7
26 Rathore Vikram Singh MP 7
27 Sparsh Bansal DEL 7
28 Stephen Raj A TN 7
29 Afaq Haider UP 7
30 Dinesh Bhagat PUN 7
31 Anshul Mehta PUN 7
32 Ruthwik K.V.S. DEL 7
33 Sanchit Anand DEL 7
34 Varma Vikrant DEL 7
35 Manish Vatsa DEL 7
36 Aryan Ranjan DEL 7
37 Divyanshu Gupta MP 7
38 Shashwat Chakraborty CHAT 7
39 Kabir Sachdeva DEL 7
40 Katiyar Prashant UP 7
41 Arushi Kotwal J&K 7
42 Ravi Sharma J&K 7
43 Heeramon Baruah ASM 7
44 Rohit Sharma DEL 7
45 Anil Kumar S KER 7
46 Prabhsimran Singh PUN 7
47 Anmol Agarwal AND 7
48 Herschelle Gupta 7
49 Singh Vishnu Pratap MP 7
50 Baidurjya Mitra DEL 7
51 Shrivastava Chitransh MP 6
52 Sarvaliya Niraj GUJ 6
53 Arnav Tiwari DEL 6
54 Kumar Amit UP 6
55 Rishab Tyagi DEL 6
56 Narayan Das ODI 6
57 Sumay Mishra DEL 6
58 Avinash MP 6
59 Nitesh Jain MP 6
60 Adarsh Tripathi DEL 6
61 Madhusudan Sahu ODI 6
62 Rishabh Jain DEL 6
63 Sakshi Pradyumn MP 6
64 Vikrant Jangra HAR 6
65 Anmol Bhagat PUN 6
66 Vardan Nagpal DEL 6
67 Vivek Prakash Mishra MP 6
68 Akhilesh K. Srivastava DEL 6
69 Jagat Singh Rajpoot MP 6
70 Abhinav Chauhan DEL 6
71 Kalbande Mayur MP 6
72 Vibhav Pamecha RAJ 6
73 K. Natarajan TN 6
74 Aadrito Datta WB 6
75 Singh Vinit UP 6
76 Ashok A (pud) PUD 6
77 Mohammad Nishat Qureshi MP 6
78 Manoj Vijay Kumar MP 6
79 Priya Ranjan Das WB 6
80 Deepak Poonia HAR 6
81 Vineesh P S KER 6
82 Arjun Singh Puri HAR 6
83 Manya Bagla DEL 6
84 Suthar Manish DEL 6
85 Tanmay Garg DEL 6
86 Mohd Latif Sheikh Kadir MP 6
87 Abijit Mistry WB 6
88 Bhagwat Rohit MAH 6
89 Sachinder DEL 6
90 Ganesh Kumar HAR 6
91 Manish Kumar Sharma DEL 6
92 Aan Sikka DEL 6
93 Prithu Gupta DEL 6
94 Ayush Pandey DEL 6
95 Aditya Ved Narayan DEL 6
96 Kalash Gupta DEL 6
97 Virendra Singh DEL 6
98 Tushar Arora DEL 6
99 Jagadeeshwar Yerupula AP 6
100 Pujari Ansuman ODI 6
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101 Chandwani Prateek MP 6
102 Moni Mohan Singh ASM 6
103 Sigdel Krishna Prasad NEP 6
104 Maheshwari Prabhav RAJ 6
105 Mohanraj S TN 6
106 Rajagopalan DEL 6
107 Chintamani Joshi MAH 6
108 Thakre Ajinkya MAH 6
109 Hari P. Nambiar DEL 6
110 Soham Kamotra J&K 6
111 Sukul Khanna DEL 6
112 Shashi Raj Saxena DEL 6
113 Chandra Mourya V S DEL 6
114 Prakhar Gupta (mp) MP 6
115 Siddhant Rao DEL 6
116 Yogi Anurag Upadhyay UP 6
117 Yadav Bateshwar Singh MP 6
118 Arvindh Raj A TN 6
119 Gaurav Sharma DEL 6
120 Manjot Singh Gill PUN 6
121 Rishit Arora DEL 6
122 Abhinay Varma RAJ 6
123 Dharmpal Khari DEL 6
124 Rajendra Pr. Nag WB 6
125 Lakshay Nagpal DEL 6
126 Shiv Vaidya DEL 6
127 Subhash Chopra HAR 5
128 Tanishk Shukla MP 5
129 Prajjwal HAR 5
130 Shanti Lal Yadav CHAT 5
131 Dakshayan Varshney DEL 5
132 Manas Rajawat DEL 5
133 Pinak HAR 5
134 Pranad Rattan Gandhi DEL 5
135 Kakumanu Kautil Prasad DEL 5
136 Abdul Basheer K M KER 5
137 Kashyap Tiwari RAJ 5
138 Thakur Ankur Singh MP 5
139 Eshaan Chandrol MP 5
140 Amit Soni DEL 5
141 Prabhujot Singh PUN 5
142 Gautam Kataria RAJ 5
143 Yashraj Singh Sandhu UP 5
144 Devashish Gupta DEL 5
145 Thomas Nidhin V V KER 5
146 Jitendra Verma MP 5
147 Dhruv Dak RAJ 5
148 Harshit Arya HAR 5
149 Mahi Rajawat DEL 5
150 Pandi Durai P TN 5
151 Pant K N DEL 5
152 Amit Khanduri DEL 5
153 Rohit Poonia HAR 5
154 Padhan Akshaya Kumar ODI 5
155 Aryaman Bhatia DEL 5
156 Saurabh Jain MP 5
157 Nipun Kundu DEL 5
158 Kriti Lamba HAR 5
159 Dharni V UP 5
160 Arya Ranjan DEL 5
161 Vikas Chandra Bhatt DEL 5
162 Aaryansh Bhartiya DEL 5
163 Mishra Ravi Pratap UP 5
164 S.M. Wais UP 5
165 Upadhyay Ayush MP 5
166 Amit Mehrotra HAR 5
167 Archi Agrawal DEL 5
168 Zakir Hussain Janab RAJ 5
169 Priyadarshi Alok BIH 5
170 Tushar Chandra DEL 5
171 Jacob Antony KER 5
172 Makwana Jaydev Sinh DEL 5
173 Kirtvir Singh DEL 5
174 Ram Kumar R AP 5
175 Sharma Sanjay MAH 5
176 Satyam Prakash DEL 5
177 Chaudhary Pallav RAJ 5
178 Atul Kumar Mehta UTT 5
179 Murugan S T TN 5
180 Aanya Agarwal DEL 5
181 Parth Arora HAR 5
182 Abhishek Bansal DEL 5
183 Shreyas Puri DEL 5
184 Shardool Vikram Gupta DEL 5
185 Amogh Rajpal DEL 5
186 Jeswani Saransh MAH 5
187 Vasu Aggarwal UP 5
188 Shaminder Singh PUN 5
189 Choubey Saurabh MP 5
190 Sambhav Jain DEL 5
191 Shirsh DEL 5
192 Arnab Bhor DEL 5
193 Aniket Arora DEL 5
194 Gaurav Patial HP 5
195 Tiwari Uddhav MP 5
196 Mehak Shah DEL 5
197 Keshav Sethi DEL 5
198 Gursimar Singh Arneja DEL 5
199 Gautam Sharda HAR 5
200 Shivansh Bhardwaj RAJ 5
201 Gupta Vijay Kumar DEL 5
202 Chaitanya Dadhwal DEL 5
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7
th
All India Open fde Rating tournament below 1800, Hyderabad
Divesh is the winner
by Promodraj Moree FA, Chief Arbiter
7
th
All India Open FIDE Rating chess
tournament below 1800 was organized
at St jospehs 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
childrens category prizes. 1
st
Prize was Rs
40,000. The event took place for 4 days
with 9 rounds.
Top seed of the event was Mr Subba Raju,
fde 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 6
th
and 7
th
round
and won the 8
th
and 9
th
round to bag the 1
st

Prize.
In the fnal round 3 players were in lead
with 7 points each after the 8
th
round. In
the fnal round on the frst board Divesh of
Maharahsta was playing against Teja Suresh
M of Andhra Pradesh. Divesh Defeated Teja
with the white pieces to get the frst
place. On the 2
nd
board the 3
rd
competitor of
the title Vishwanath Vivek of AP was fghting
against Satya Giri V of Tamil Nadu. If
Vishwanath would have won he would have
tied for the 1
st
palce, but the game ended
in a draw. And Divesh was the sole leader
after 9
th
round and became the Champion.
2
nd
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 (rst 107 placings only)
Rk Name Club Pts
1 Bramhecha Divesh Mah 8
2 M Tulasi Ram Kumar Hyd 7
3 Vishwanath Vivek AP 7
4 Sahoo Dasharathi Ori 7
5 Sathya Giri V TN 7
6 Potluri Supreetha AP 7
7 Teja Suresh M AP 7
8 Sonkalan Bharati WB 7
9 Vikram Teja C V AP 6
10 Aditya S S V Hyd 6
11 Bhaskar.V TN 6
12 Menon Padmanand Mah 6
13 Kadav Omkar Mah 6
14 Gupta Rajesh R.S. Mah 6
15 Shiva Pavan Teja Sharma U AP 6
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16 Shivam Verma Bih 6
17 Karthik.J.C AP 6
18 Muralidharan R. TN 6
19 Satyanarayana M Hyb 6
20 Subba Raju S. Hyb 6
21 Aryan Del 6
22 Sushrutha Reddy Kar 6
23 Srivastava Pratyush Hyb 6
24 Perumallu K. Hyb 6
25 Avi Jaiswal Kar 6
26 Vaibhav Barahate Mah 6
27 Sinha Rajesh Kumar Bih 6
28 Jagadeeshwar Yerupula Hyd 6
29 Amit Panchal Mah 6
30 Imran Hussain Dhan 6
31 Venkataramana P AP 6
32 Devansh Ratti Mah 6
33 Gopal Reddy B Hyd 6
34 Prasanta Mondal WB 6
35 Venu Gopal Vangala AP 6
36 Dilan Paul Roy J TN 6
37 Vishwanath Kannam AP 6
38 N Madhumitha AP 6
39 Harshavardhan B AP 6
40 Priyadarshi Alok Bih 6
41 Amale Bharat Mah 6
42 Warude Satyam Mah 6
43 Krishna D V Hyd 5
44 Diwakar V U Hyd 5
45 Singh Vimlesh Kumar Bih 5
46 Kandi Ravi AP 5
47 Ajinkya Pingale Mah 5
48 Murthy V S N Hyb 5
49 Santhosh Kumar.N TN 5
50 Nitheesh Pothireddy Hyb 5
51 Ankitha Goud Palle Hyd 5
52 Anurag Kuruvada AP 5
53 Jayanth Reddy K 5
54 Bhushan Raghuvir Thumsi Hyd 5
55 Narvekar Pruthviraj Mah 5
56 Totlani Varun GUJ 5
57 Ameya Abhay Shrivastava Mah 5
58 Balaji.S TN 5
59 Poojanjali B AP 5
60 Taide Siddhant Mah 5
61 Gaikwad Vishal Mah 5
62 Raghava M TN 5
63 Subhash K V AP 5
64 Srinath Bindumadhavan Hyb 5
65 Sravan Kumar G AP 5
66 Sai Siddardha A Hyb 5
67 Ram Prasad S AP 5
68 Mrudul Dehankar 5
69 Chandi Sachin Mah 5
70 Ravindra P Hyb 5
71 Anannya Menkudle Mah 5
72 Shinde Kunal Mah 5
73 Murali Mohan Y Hyd 5
74 Vinay Khobragade Mah 5
75 Anam Alpesh Laxmikant Mah 5
76 Vijayakumar.N. TN 5
77 Kumtakar Deepak Mah 5
78 Wankhade Sanskruti WCM Mah 5
79 Midhush Sirigudi AP 5
80 Abhinav Chandra Kodali AP 5
81 Shabaaj Sk Hyd 5
82 Ishwar Ramteke Mah 5
83 Rajkumar Duvvuri AP 5
84 Bhaskar V AP 5
85 Nanditha V Hyb 5
86 Prateek Atluri AP 5
87 Sai Naga Samhitha G Hyb 5
88 Neeraj Anirudh K AP 5
89 Ruthvik Ponnapalli Hyb 5
90 Nikith Krisna P AP 5
91 Ananya D AP 5
92 Aditya Vardhan AP 5
93 Lasya Mayukha AP 5
94 Subodh D Bhagwatkar Mah 5
95 Jagannathan Govind Mah 5
96 Swetha Gunturi AP 5
97 Shirode Jayant Mah 5
98 Prashanth K Hyb 5
99 Jashwanth T Hyd 5
100 Patil Priyanshu Mah 4
101 Kavya Srishti K Hyd 4
102 Rajagopalan Del 4
103 Gowtham Pollam 4
104 Sarath Chandra K AP 4
105 Kumar Reddy M V AP 4
106 Khandelwal Khushi 4
107 Abhishek Reddy M Hyd 4
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5
th
KCA FIDE Rated Chess Championship below 1800, Kottayam
S Gopakumar Clinches the title
by 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 fnal round at Great Hall, CMS
College, Kottayam. This draw enabled Gopakumar to take his tally to 8 points lifting the
Winners trophy and pocketing a cash prize of twenty fve 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 1
st
May 2014. The event attracted 121 Fide rated Chess
players in action in a feld 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 frst 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 7
th
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 8
th
round and continued the lead with 7.5 points at the end of round eight.
In the fnal 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) 7; 3. Venkataramana P (AP) 7; 4.Sathya
Prasad K.(Kar)7; 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)6; 12.Yashaskara Jois K.R (Kar) 6; 13.Sanil S (Ker) 6; 14.Anwar N K
(Ker) 6; 15.Vijayakumar.N(TN)6; 16.Ajith Kumar PN(Ker) 6; 17.Sathya Giri V(TN)6;
18.Sanjay SPillai (Ker) 6; 19.Muthukumar C P(TN) 6; 20.Balaguru T(Pud)6;
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1
st
Excellent International Rating below 1600 Tournament 2014, Ernakulam
Dijocherian wins title
by Peter Joseph M, Chief Arbiter
The 1
ST
edition 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. Josephs public School,
South Kalamassery from 9
th
May to 11
th
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 FIDEs 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 frst 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 Winners 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,
Honble general Secretary of AICF. The
offcials of AICF helped our tournament with
their timely guidance.
1
st
Excellent FIDE Rated
Final standings: (rst 125 placings only)
Rk Name Pts
1 Dijo Cherian 8
2 Santhosh V R 7
3 Abhilash G 7
4 Sooraj M R 7
5 Nagaraj Naik 7
6 Kishore Dev S. 7
7 Sasikumar.S 7
8 Muthukrishnan S 7
9 Dharani Kumar M S 7
10 Arun R 7
11 Ravindran Nair P V 7
12 Joseph S A 7
13 Shreyas M 7
14 Ram Kumar G M 7
15 Naveen Giri 7
16 Tharayil Sudhir 6
17 Abhinav Chakrapani Santhalaya 6
18 Melvin Thomas Varghese 6
19 Ramakrishnan V 6
20 Muhammed Reja C 6
21 Suresh G Menon 6
22 Raghu U V 6
23 Shanoj T Syed Alavi 6
24 Muhammed Shah 6
25 Harikrishnan A (kottayam) 6
26 Varadharajan I. 6
27 Hassan Kunju V M 6
28 Arjun T 6
29 Sajeev K K 6
30 Sivagnanam S 6
31 Nivetta T 6
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32 Jayesh T A 6
33 Binu K P 6
34 Rajkumar B 6
35 Sudheesh Kumar 6
36 Yashwanth Babu P 6
37 Shibu M P 6
38 Madhu K R 6
39 Subalakshmi M S 6
40 Ajayan K V 6
41 Xavier Joseph 6
42 Mogan Raj S 6
43 Gowri Shankar A 6
44 Thulaseedharan K 6
45 Suhas Reddy M 6
46 Jayanthakumar A P 6
47 Sanil S 6
48 Saji T. 6
49 Mathivanan S 6
50 Abhishek Babu 6
51 Vishnu Bipin 6
52 Abdul Raheem K A 6
53 Adarsh P.B 6
54 Muthu Rakesh Babu 6
55 Ismail P 6
56 Senny P 6
57 Steve Jero Nelson P 6
58 Kevin Jacob Stanly 6
59 Karthikeyan G 6
61 Ayushh Ravikumar 6
62 Gabriel B M 5
63 Rathneesh R 5
64 Harikrishnan Samyuktha 5
65 Sivadas T N 5
66 Ramesh R 5
67 Bright Lee M Sunilkumar 5
68 Bino Sebastian 5
69 Vishnu Prakash 5
60 Vignesh R 6
70 Nijai Giri 5
71 Syam Peter 5
72 Sarath Peter 5
73 Sreelakshmi M Sunilkumar 5
74 Dhanush Ragav 5
75 Deepak Kumar R 5
76 Eldho Skaria 5
77 SIBU M P 5
78 Atal Krishnan 5
79 Sivant M 5
80 Arputha Jasmine B A 5
81 Joseph P Kuriype 5
82 Sumesh Kabeer 5
83 Manilal K.R 5
84 Raghuraj V.N. 5
85 Nandha Kumar K 5
86 Dhivyashree J 5
87 Hari Suresh 5
88 Syam Hari H V 5
89 Harikrishnan A 5
90 Sidharth Menon S 5
91 Dhanusha S 5
92 Paulson Frenchy 5
93 Praveen Lawrence 5
94 Annie Gladys A 5
95 Fathima Abdeen 5
96 Morisha A 5
97 Rajeeb K K 5
98 Adwait Meethal 5
99 Joshua Anto A 5
100 Sudhir Vanarase 5
101 Sarath M Salim 5
102 Sivaprakash N 5
103 Pavithra M 5
104 Anwin Jojo 5
105 Kabhilan S 5
106 Balamurugavel P 5
107 Tejas Sony Mevada 5
108 Madhavan G 5
109 Deepu N Prathapan 5
110 Vijayaraghavan G 5
111 Sulaiman T.A 5
112 Benu Varghese Benjamin 5
113 Ramachandran Nair G 5
114 Vivek Prasannakumar 5
115 Bestin K J 5
116 Gautham P 5
117 Varun Krishna 5
118 Sabu Joseph 5
119 Antony Kings As 5
120 Goutham Krishna M 5
121 Sreegovind Ganesh 5
122 Dalton Griffn Sam Emmanuel 5
123 Vikas V 5
124 Tajmeera S Thufail 5
125 Keerthana Maran T 5
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Asian Cup of Nations Team event,Iran
China 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 frst 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 round
Chinese men catch up India
India 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 Indias 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 ffth round
India Shocks China 2.5-1.5
India defeated China 2.5-1.5 in the ffth 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 Indias 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 womens 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 Womens title
Indian womens 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 womens 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 fve 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 sacrifcial 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 Velimirovi
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 Velimirovics
spectacular attacking style that endeared him to chess fans
all over the world. He made signifcant 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 fne details of this violent attacking continuation.
Dragoljub Velimirovi was born in Valjevo, Yugoslavia on 12 May 1942. He was introduced
to chess at the age of seven by his mother Jovanka Velimirovic (19101972), who was
one of Yugoslavias 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 Nikic/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 frst 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 Szirk 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, Vrac 1987 and Niksic 1994.
Dragoljub Velimirovi 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 Velimirovics 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 Velimirovi Attack, a variation in the Sicilian where White castles queenside with
aggressive intentions. The namesake opening beftted 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 9.000 Qc7 10.Bb3 Na5 11.g4
b5 12.g5 Nxb3+ 13.axb3 Nd7 14.Nf5 (See diagram)
exf5 15.Nd5 Qd8 16.exf5 00 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 fde.com
The grandmaster will forever be remembered thanks to the opening bearing his
name, the Velimirovi 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
9.000 Qc7 10.Bb3 Na5 11.g4 b5 12.g5 Nxb3+ 13.axb3 Nd7 14.Nf5
exf5 15.Nd5 Qd8 16.exf5 00 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 190002. In 1901 he
presented his doctoral thesis ber 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 signifcant
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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42
nd
TN State Fide Rated Womens Chess Championship 2014. Tiruvarur
Srija Seshadri wins
by L.R.Bhuvanaa Sai IA, Chief Arbiter
Third Seeded player WFM Srija Seshadri
from NLC Won the 42
nd
TN State Fide Rated
Womens Chess Championship conducted from
7
th
to 11
th
May 2014. The championship was
inaugurated by Mrs. Mercy Regina, District Sports
Offcer 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 7
th
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 5
th
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 7
th
round. They
played Sicilian Najdorf variation, till 38
th
move
there was equal position but Vaishali made a
blunder with Qf8 on 39
th
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 42
nd
TN State Fide Rated Womens
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 fnished 2
nd
to 5
th

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: (frst 25 placings only)
Rk Name Club Pts
1 Srija Seshadri NLC 8
2 Varshini V CHE 7
3 Divya Lakshmi R CHE 7
4 Harini S. CHE 7
5 Thamaraiselvi P CHE 6
6 Vaishali R CHE 6
7 Akshaya Nandakumar CBE 6
8 Sunyuktha C M N KAN 6
9 Sangeetha P TRY 6
10 Neela S MDU 6
11 Bala Kannamma.P CHE 6
12 Visalatchi R VNR 6
13 Rohini G CHE 6
14 Akshita D CHE 6
15 Bhuvaneshwari.R TRY 6
16 Kavitha P L SLM 5
17 Thirtha Kanth.M CUD 5
18 Poojakanth M. CUD 5
19 Hema Priya N CHE 5
20 Abirami S MDU 5
21 Jasper Jothi P CBE 5
22 Harivardhini I TVLR 5
23 Harshini A TRR 5
24 Dakshinya T R S TPR 5
25 Rindhiya V CHE 5
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Desai Pratishthans 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 Pratishthans Late Shri Laxmikant V Desai Memorial
All India FIDE Rating (below 1600) Tournament 2014, Goa
Datta Kambli clinches title
Vasanth 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 2
nd
to 4
th
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 (frst 94 placings only)
1 Kambli Data 8
2 Barde Om 7
3 Telang Mrinal 7
4 Vinoth Kumar M 7
5 Chulet Mayank L 7
6 Mendonca Leon Luke 7
7 Riddhi Zantye 7
8 Parsekar Anirudh 7
9 Sudhakar Patgar 7
10 Kabil S 7
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11 Raghuvendra J Gupta 7
12 Sahil Shety 6
13 Thorat Aishwarya 6
14 Dias Aston 6
15 Vaskar Rajat Raghoba 6
16 Chorge Mangesh 6
17 Ridikesh Dilip Vernekar 6
18 Khandeparkar Mohit 6
19 Urvi Bandekar 6
20 Shaunak V.S.Kuncolienkar 6
21 Wagle Aakash Abhay 6
22 Bodke Sharmad S 6
23 Jha Kishor 6
24 Aravindh S 6
25 Anish Prabhudessai 6
26 Vikram Mishra 6
27 Nageshkar Sohan S 6
28 Saish Ulhas Fondekar 6
29 Chopdekar Gunjal 6
30 Gourav Barik 6
31 Sachin V Sawant 6
32 Meet Puri 6
33 Siddhesh Data Pednekar 6
34 Ashesh Keni 6
35 Bhimappa Harijan 6
36 Chodankar Akash 6
37 Fernandes Krystal 6
38 Audi Saiesh 6
39 Aryan Shamrao Raikar 6
40 Sunad Govekar 6
41 Sachin Kakodkar 6
42 Anandakrishnan R 6
43 Fuzail Saudagar 6
44 Siva Bala Sankar Manimaran 6
45 Bir Yogesh Pai 6
46 Swera Ana Braganca 5
47 Bhobe Harsh 5
48 Data Bhika Naik 5
49 Advait Rajiv Dhawalikar 5
50 Fadte Rudresh 5
51 Thorat Sanjay 5
52 Akhilesh Akshay Nigalye 5
53 Pranav Prakash Naik 5
54 Ian Savio Rodrigues 5
55 Sarvam Sandesh Naik 5
56 Sanjeev G Hammannavar 5
57 Ritwik Vasudev Bilgi 5
58 Siddhesh Milind Marathe 5
59 Prem Kumar S 5
60 Mangesh Sagar Sakordekar 5
61 Arun Harishankar Tripathi 5
62 Khan Faiziya 5
63 Sahil Dayanand Desai 5
64 Bhargava Rajesh Bhatkurse 5
65 Aditya A Chodankar 5
66 Eeshan Gad 5
67 Shety Ashray 5
68 Raikar Aman Umakant 5
69 Ruthik Shanbhag 5
70 Kuncolienkar Shivank 5
71 Bhobe Ved 5
72 Pranav Subrahmanya Hedge 5
73 Anand Kurtker 5
74 Milind Gauns 5
75 Tanvi Vasudev Hadkonkar 5
76 Vaibhav N Tarkar Pednekar 5
77 Harrop Singh Goindi 5
78 Morajkar Navin 5
79 Dalal Ambar Abhay 5
80 Thivagar T 5
81 Shirodkar Aayush 5
82 Sawant Vignesh 5
83 Naik Shvesh S 5
84 Sarvesh Sahadev Rao 5
85 Naik Atharv 5
86 Pratk S Borkar 5
87 Naik Shirodkar Prajay 5
88 Trish Velan Dcruz 5
89 Reagan Aaron Rodrigues 5
90 Kenkare S H 5
91 Sahakari Virendra 5
92 Shivashankaran R 5
93 Ghosarwadkar Pushparaj 5
94 Pai Vishwesh 5
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The 1
st
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 19
th
May
2014, Shri. Sabir Ali, Founder, Right Step
NGO, inaugurated this event by making
customary frst move against Delhis 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
fnal round changed the entire
1
st
Brainium FIDE Rated Tournament for below 1700, New Delhi
Kashyap 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
champions 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 fnish
as frst 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 fnish 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 fnished 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 beftting 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(rst 90 placings only)
Rk Name Club Pts
1 Kuldeep Kashyap DEL 9
2 Patel Vivek GUJ 8
3 Vaibhav Barahate MAH 8
4 Singh Vimlesh Kumar BIH 8
5 Saxena Kunal Kant MP 8
6 Imtiaz Ali PUN 8
7 Mishra Srinibas ODI 8
8 Lawaniya Eshan UP 8
9 Sharma Vibhav HAR 8
10 Debashis Majumder(irs) WB 8
11 Sahil Dhawan HAR 7
12 Krishnater Kushager MAH 7
13 Rohan Gupta DEL 7
14 Yashraj Purohit RAJ 7
15 Kuldeep Sharma DEL 7
16 Shashwat Chakraborty CHAT 7
17 Manoj Vijay Kumar MP 7
18 Siddiqui Mohd.Imran UP 7
19 Shami Vipin K. UP 7
20 Suraj Jaiswal MAH 7
21 Kaur Palkin DEL 7
22 Arun Wahi DEL 7
23 Sudarshan Mitra WB 7
24 Pvs Aravind AP 7
25 Prachet Sharma DEL 7
26 Parvej Alam Ansari GUJ 7
27 Alok Sinha DEL 7
28 Shatrughan Kaushik UP 7
29 Stuti Dewan DEL 7
30 Harminder Singh DEL 7
31 Rahim Lakhani GUJ 7
32 Satyajit Sarkar WB 7
33 Rathi Yashvardhan MAH 7
34 Sarbajit Chowdhury DEL 7
35 Deori Hiranjit ASM 7
36 Raj Kumar DEL 7
37 Aan Sikka DEL 7
38 Sujay Debnath WB 7
39 Mangal Kashinath MAH 7
40 Shivam Verma BIH 7
41 Deba Dutta ASM 7
42 Saveson K DEL 6
43 Deepak Singh DEL 6
44 Balaguru T PUD 6
45 Waghela Dhairya Pankaj MAH 6
46 Shankar Kuldeep UP 6
47 Sachinder DEL 6
48 Dhruvik Shah GUJ 6
49 Dinesh Sinha UP 6
50 Bhanot Stuti HAR 6
51 Dave Shiv Shankar RAJ 6
52 Robi Singh Jeron ASM 6
53 Arnav Tiwari DEL 6
54 Hariom Solanki UP 6
55 Anwar Singh PUN 6
56 Souradip Deb TRI 6
57 Ashitosh Kumar PUN 6
58 Aneek Das WB 6
59 Prasannakumar Nayak ODI 6
60 Jagdeep Singh Sudan DEL 6
61 Sinha Shivam CHAT 6
62 Chourasia Nitin MP 6
63 Kakumanu Kautil Prasad DEL 6
64 Siva Kumar Badireddy AP 6
65 Md. Furqan Khan DEL 6
66 Sikka Sumit MP 6
67 Sparsh Bansal DEL 6
68 Ravindra P AP 6
69 Kunal Kakumanu Prasad DEL 6
70 Abijit Mistry WB 6
71 Puneet Manchanda HAR 6
72 Tathagat Pal DEL 6
73 Jashanpreet PUN 6
74 Sumesh Kabeer KER 6
75 Ahirwal Dinesh MP 6
76 Vaishant Kumar Gangwani HAR 6
77 Mishra Om ODI 6
78 Bidisha Roy JHAR 6
79 M Tulasi Ram Kumar AP 6
80 Venkat Reddy S AP 6
81 Anirban Basu WB 6
82 Sarkar Arna WB 6
83 Manish Kumar BIH 6
84 Prithu Gupta DEL 6
85 Prajapati Ketan GUJ 6
86 Ram Singh Parihar HAR 6
87 Ravi Sharma J & K 6
88 Vardan Nagpal DEL 6
89 Ishwar Ramteke MAH 6
90 Mukund Khanna UP 6
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Ist BDCA Open FIDE Rated (below 1600) Tournament, Bangalore
Jagadish 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 18
th
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
16
th
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 ffth
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 fnish as second runner-up. Reethis Padhi
and Unrated Kanishka Basu of Karnataka
fnished fourth and ffth 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 (rst 123 placings only)
1 Jagadish P 8
2 Karthik Shetty 8
3 Thirunarayanan Sampath Kumar 7
4 Reetish Padhi 7
5 Kanishka Basu 7
6 Chaithanya Ganesh 7
7 Dheekshith Kumar R 7
8 Jha Kishor 7
9 Rahul Bharadwaj B 7
10 Santhosh V R 7
11 Abid Ali Mujawar 7
12 Bhavik Dave 7
13 Ajay R 7
14 Swarnamala B 7
15 Tejas S Iyer 7
16 Ankit Payal 6
17 Sai Ganesh S 6
18 Nagaraj Naik 6
19 Aswat Narayanan R 6
20 Sudarshan Bhat 6
21 Oke Aditya 6
22 Avi Jaiswal 6
23 Koushik Sarun Reddy Y 6
24 Muthukrishnan S 6
25 Gangadhar T 6
26 Merithraj M 6
27 Vani S Indrali 6
28 Nitin R 6
29 Chandan A 6
30 Hirthik Rajan B P 6
31 Prajwalesh 6
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32 Shabreen T Khanam 6
33 Raja V 6
34 Shakthi P 6
35 Bino Sebastian 6
36 Ramesh R 6
37 Manjunath D Naik 6
38 Sai R. Arulmurugan 6
39 Venkatesh Upadyaya Tv 6
40 Sheshashayan M V 6
41 Prabhuraj Prabhakaran 6
42 K R Bhat 6
43 Arun M S 6
44 Benny P C 6
45 Siddharth Murali 6
46 Mohamed Anees M 6
47 Naveen H J 6
48 Ranganatha B S 6
49 Venkatesh K 6
50 Rohan Jaggi 6
51 Deepika M C 6
52 Rahul Raaj A 6
53 Deepak Kumar R 6
54 Krishna Murthy 6
55 Navaneetha Krishna 6
56 Mahendar B 6
57 Anish Prabhudessai 6
58 Ravi Prasad S N 6
59 Ithal H L Rajath 6
60 Praveen L 6
61 Dhivyashree J 6
62 Akash Reghunathan 6
63 Kishore Dev S. 6
64 Shyama Krishna S 6
65 Ritu A Toshniwal 6
66 Muniraju Narayanappa 6
67 Komal Srivatsav Sajja 5
68 Pranav M Bhat 5
69 Chaithanya Shyam D 5
70 Vijay Raghav J S 5
71 Chidanand A 5
72 Amarnath G 5
73 Chitranjan Chetkar 5
74 Pranav Anand 5
75 Jose P C 5
76 Srikanta Bhatta 5
77 Svatejas Shivakumar 5
78 Akkilesh P 5
79 Ismail P 5
80 Dinakaran Vijayan 5
81 Preetham Gangadhar 5
82 Shaunak Geetprasad 5
83 Vineeth C Johnson 5
84 Satwik M Hegde 5
85 Raghavendra G 5
86 Harishankar S 5
87 Dhanush Ravi 5
88 Gokulnath V 5
89 Sandeep Subraman Raghav 5
90 Banthiya Rishabh 5
91 Tarun Simon P 5
92 Arifulla T Abdul Hameed 5
93 Varanasi Rama Sai Srikar 5
94 Ramakrishnan V 5
95 Nuthan B S 5
96 Rai Shashidhar 5
97 Manika Kesavan 5
98 Rajat Dhruva Ravindra 5
99 Aryan Jain Karnataka 5
100 Aravindakshan Su 5
101 Siddharth Yedlapati 5
102 Karthikay C 5
103 Anup Mahesh Ganjal 5
104 Prajeet Singh Rawat 5
105 Sharath V Shetty 5
106 Pranav Kumar 5
107 Diya James 5
108 Ashwin Rao M A 5
109 Hemanth Kumar Mandala 5
110 Peter M Jose 5
111 Tanav Sudharshan 5
112 Shijo J Joy 5
113 Aadith R 5
114 Sishir B 5
115 Adithya J 5
116 Baligar Dr Vishwanath 5
117 Shyam Mohan 5
118 Adya Singh 5
119 Prachi Bharti 5
120 Abhinav Bhatt 5
121 Neeraja J 5
122 Suveer Kumar R K 5
123 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
fve 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, 35
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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
fnancially 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 frst 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, Honble Minister for Public
Works distributed prizes and certifcates
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 (rst 76 placings only)
Rk. Name Pts.
1 Ram S. Krishnan 9
2 Phoobalan P. 8.5
3 Maheswaran P. FM 8
4 Kunal M. 8
5 Chandar Raju 8
6 Mohammed Dilshad 7.5
7 Arjun Satheesh 7.5
8 Marthandan K U 7.5
9 Prakashram R 7.5
10 Iniyan P 7.5
11 Sai Vishwesh.C 7.5
12 Joshi Abhijeet 7.5
13 Syed Anwar Shazuli 7
14 Jagadeesh A.K. 7
15 Amir Asim 7
16 Shet Prajwal P 7
17 Visveshwar A 7
18 Arjun Adappa 7
19 Manu M 7
20 Karmukilan S 7
21 Akash R 7
22 Arun Kumar K.G 7
23 Wajih Nassir 7
24 Ajeesh Antony 7
25 Prasant N Nayagam 7
26 Mohanan U.C. 7
27 Dileep Kumar R 7
28 A K Kalshyan 7
29 Tulsi M 7
30 Bavankumar 6.5
31 Madhusoodanan K.R. 6.5
32 Varma Shabdhik 6.5
33 Balaji M 6.5
34 Raahul V S 6.5
35 Subramanian Pl 6.5
36 Sharma Shashi Pal 6.5
37 Nihal Sarin 6.5
38 Ashish Madhusoodhanan 6.5
39 Martin Samuel 6.5
40 Tarun V Kanth 6.5
41 Survar Subair 6.5
42 Alan Diviya Raj 6.5
43 Mohanan C S 6.5
44 Yashaskara Jois K.R 6.5
45 Shakthi Vishal J 6.5
46 Narendiran P 6.5
47 Badrinath S. 6.5
48 Ananya Suresh WCM 6.5
49 Vincent Dave 6.5
50 Athul Krishna S 6
51 Lakshmanan K A 6
52 Advaith S.B 6
53 Rajith V. 6
54 Sachin Pradeep 6
55 Arjun Kalyan 6
56 Shibin K Benny 6
57 Nikhilesh M Holla 6
58 Suhail Rasheed 6
59 Yutesh P 6
60 Rejith Babu C 6
61 Saughanthika As 6
62 Johnson O Abraham 6
63 Prem Krishna N 6
64 Dharani Kumar M S 6
65 Sreekumar Sm 6
66 Muralidharan R. 6
67 Sreedharan.E 6
68 Dharani Sree R 6
69 Raveendran C.R. 6
70 Abhiram C Nath 6
71 Abdul Majeed N. 6
72 Arijith M 6
73 Binu K P 6
74 Athul Jyothish A 6
75 Harikrishnan A 6
76 Naveen Giri 6
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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 fle.) 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 10] 10...
f6 [This immediate challenge to the white
king is a new idea here. 10...000 11.Kg3
Kb8 12.Rh2 a6 13.Be3 Rc8 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-fle where Blacks Rg8 is a potential
menace. 15...000 [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 Rxg4
slightly better for black, but very diifcult to
play from the white side; or if, 17.fxg5 fxe5
18.gxh6 Rxg4 19.h7 Bg7 It is advantage
to black once again, blacks 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 fre 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...000 11.Kg3 Kb8 12.Rh2 a6
13.Be3 Rc8 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...000 [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
Rxg4 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...000 11.Kg3 Kb8 12.Rh2 a6
13.Be3 Rc8 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...000 [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
Rxg4 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
Be5] 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.]
01
Shetty,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 9.00 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 00 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...00 14.e5 Ng4
15.Ng5 (Or 15.h3 Nxf2 16.Rxf2 Qb6
17.Qe2 Rfd8) 15...Qxg5 16.Bxb7
Qh5 17.h4 Nxf2+] 14.e5 Nd5
15.Ne4 Be7 16.Bd2 00 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
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
Be5] 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.]
01
Shetty,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 9.00 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 00 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...00 14.e5 Ng4
15.Ng5 (Or 15.h3 Nxf2 16.Rxf2 Qb6
17.Qe2 Rfd8) 15...Qxg5 16.Bxb7
Qh5 17.h4 Nxf2+] 14.e5 Nd5
15.Ne4 Be7 16.Bd2 00 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
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 Be5] 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.] 01
Shetty,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 9.00 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 00 with slight
advantage to black as he has both open fles
and ideally placed pieces whereas whites
development is lacking and his queen may
once again come under fre 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...00
14.e5 Ng4 15.Ng5 (Or 15.h3 Nxf2 16.Rxf2
Qb6 17.Qe2 Rfd8) 15...Qxg5 16.Bxb7
Qh5 17.h4 Nxf2+] 14.e5 Nd5 15.Ne4
Be7 16.Bd2 00 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
Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron
Do not permit yourself to fall in love with the end-game
play to the exclusion of entre 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-tme
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. 01
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 00
11.00 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. 01
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 00
11.00 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. 01
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 00
11.00 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. 01
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 00
11.00 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 cant really do
anything with the open fle. He needs to
fnd 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 infltrate whites camp. Challenging
the c fle 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 fnished here. White can play
Qxd5 and have an equal or slightly worse but
certainly holdable endgame. In all likelihood
white lost on time. 01
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 00 11.00 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 whites 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 knights position on
e5. 25.f3 [25.Rdb1 Ra8 26.Bd1] 25...h5
Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron
JUNE 2014
AI CF CHRONI CLE
39
26.Rd2 [Much better was to be aggressive
with: 26.Qxa6 Rxb2 27.Ra2] 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! 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# 01
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 frm
grip over the semi-open d-fle 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.Ra2] 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! 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# 01
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.Ra2] 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! 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# 01
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 sacrifced 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, whites 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 diffcult for a player who has
been continuously harassed from the 6th
move, to see the silver lining in the cloud.]
Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron
JUNE 2014
AI CF CHRONI CLE
40
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. 01
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 22.000] 21.Nxc6?
[White embarks on an adventure
whose consequences are favourable to
black. Better was: 21.000 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 000 27.Bc6
Bxc2+) 24...Nxd5 25.Re1 Nde3+
26.Kg1 Qxa2 and black is winning
without any problem.] 24.000 0
00= 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. 01
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 22.000] 21.Nxc6?
[White embarks on an adventure
whose consequences are favourable to
black. Better was: 21.000 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 000 27.Bc6
Bxc2+) 24...Nxd5 25.Re1 Nde3+
26.Kg1 Qxa2 and black is winning
without any problem.] 24.000 0
00= 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 fghting 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. 01
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 frst 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
fghts 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
22.000] 21.Nxc6? [White embarks on
an adventure whose consequences are
favourable to black. Better was: 21.000
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
000 27.Bc6 Bxc2+) 24...Nxd5 25.Re1
Nde3+ 26.Kg1 Qxa2 and black is winning
without any problem.] 24.000 000=
25.Ne7+ Rxe7 26.Qxd8+ Kb7 27.Bd5
Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron
JUNE 2014
AI CF CHRONI CLE
41
(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!] 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 01
(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!] 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 01
(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!] 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 01
(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!] 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 01
Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron
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)
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 Gligori
Svetozar Gligori (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 Gligori was one of the top players in the world.
Gligori was born in Belgrade to a poor family.His frst 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.
Gligori 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
ffteen Chess Olympiads from 1950 to 1982.
Although he compiled a superb tournament record, it is perhaps as an openings theorist and
commentator that Gligori will be best remembered. He made enormous contributions to the
theory and practice of the Kings Indian Defense, Ruy Lopez and Nimzo-Indian Defense,
among others, and particularly with the Kings Indian, translated his theoretical contributions
into several spectacular victories with both colours (including the sample game below).
Theoretically signifcant variations in the Kings Indian and Ruy Lopez arenamed for him.
His battles with Bobby Fischer in the Kings 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 Reykjavk in 1972. He also contributed
regularly to the Chess Informantsemi-annual (more recently, thrice-yearly) compilation of
the worlds most important chess games.
Gligori was the frst person to infict a defeat on Petrosian after he won the world title
from Mikhail Botvinnik in 1963. On August 14, 2012, Svetozar Gligori died from a stroke at 89
years of age in Belgrade. Courtesy : Wikepedia
Masters of the past-41 Svetozar Gligori

Svetozar Gligori (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 Gligori was one of the top players in the world.Gligori
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.
Gligori 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 Gligori 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 Reykjavk 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 KurtKot (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), Sitng(L-R) G.S. Sethi, Aditya Swarup, Pradip Varma, President AJCA, Dhananjay Kumar
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Desai Pratishthans 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, Data Kambli (receiving the
prize)
Ram S Krishnan receiving champions trophy from the
Honble 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.
Data 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 10
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+-] 10
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 10
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] 10
5.Volkov,Sergey (2600) Shyam,Sundar
M (2481) [A41]
16th Dubai Open 2014 Dubai UAE (8.17),
14.04.2014 Position after Whites 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+ 01
6.Bachmann,Axel (2598)
Rapport,Richard (2698) [A92]
18th Neckar Open 2014 Deizisau GER (7.2),
20.04.2014 Position after Whites 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#] 01
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. Gruengard
Palestine 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 Rinck
Deutsche 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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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, Honble 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
Natonal under-9 championships in progress
From lef to right:- Treasurer G.Sankar, Chief Guest Honble Minister for Electricity Thiru.T.Thyagarajan, AICF
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