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25 November 2012

TATA 50th National Premier 39th India Premier National

Championship 2012, Kolkata….. Women Championship, Jalgaon…

WGM Mary Ann Gomes

G.Akaash RAMCO 26th National Under-13 Open &

Girls Championship 2012,Chennai….

XXVI National Under-9 Championship for

Boys & Girls, Ahmedabad..

L.N.Ram Arvind C.Lakshmi R.Vaishali N.R.Visakh

 November 2012
TATA 50th National Premier & Zone 3.7
Chess Championship 2012,Kolkata…..
Akash becomes the youngest
National Champ
IA R. Anantharam, Chief Arbiter
39th India Premier National Women Ch, Jalgaon…
Mary Ann Gomes retains title
RAMCO 26th National Under-13 Open &
Girls Chess Championship 2012,Chennai….
Visakh and Vaishali emerge Champions
by R.R.Vasudevan
Puzzle of the month
The XXVI National Under-9 Chess Championship
for Boys & Girls, Ahmedabad..
Ram Arvind and Lakshmi win titles
IA Bhagwati Prasad Sharma,Chief Arbiter
2nd CDCA FIDE Rated Chess tournament,Chennai….
Prasannaa emerges Champion
Ram S Krishnan finishes second
NIT Nagpur International GM Open Tournament, Nagpur...
Ziaur Rahman wins Nagpur GM Open
by IA R.Anantharam,Chief Arbiter
1st ACE International FIDE Rated
Chess tournament 2012,Alappuzha…..
Ratnakaran wins ACE FIDE Rated Open
by B.T.Sethuraman,Chief Arbiter
Selected games from
National Women Challenger Ch., Delhi
Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron
Tactics from master games
by S.Krishnan
Test your endgame
by K.Muralimohan, FIDE Instructor
Masters of the past-23
Carl Schlechter
AICF Calendar
I t ' s ye t a n o t h e r s t e l l a r
performance from the young
Indian brigade, this time at the
World Youth Chess at Slovenia!
It is no mean achievement that
India tied at the top in the
medal tally with strong Russia
with eight medals –three golds, two silver and
three bronze,which augurs well for the future
of Indian chess. As this goes to press It is
heartening news that IM Dronavalli Harika
has advanced to the semi finals in the FIDE
01 World Women Chess Championship at Khjanty
Mansyisk,Russia and we look forward to the
best from this talented Indian star in the
05 games ahead.
There was a flurry of chess activity in the month
that passed by, which witnessed as many as
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five National events which threw up six
Champions besides Velammal School which
11 won the National School Team Chess
Championship. Winning a National title is tough
and retaining it is even tougher, proved Mary
12 Ann Gomes who won the last round against
Nisha Mohota to ensure better tie-break that
saw her through. Untitled G.Akaash became the
16 youngest National Premier Champion at Kolkata
as reported earlier. The Under-12 golden girl at
Slovenia, Vaishali, added the National Under-13
19 title to her kitty closely after her National
Under-11 title at Jamshedpur in August
2012.Visakh won the Under-13 title. Under-9
titles won by Ram Aravind and C.Lakshmi at
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Ahmedabad reinforced Tamilnadu's domination
in National category events. Reports on all these
National events together with a few FIDE rated
27 tournaments are presented in this issue.
IM Manuel Aaron annotates games from
40 National Women Challenger Championship,
Delhi. Carl Shlechter, Austrian chess
theoretician, who contributed to variations in
41
many prominent openings is featured in the
'Masters of the past series'.
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TATA 50th National Premier & Zone 3.7 Chess Championship 2012,Kolkata…..
Akash becomes the youngest National Champ
IA R. Anantharam, Chief Arbiter
The golden jubilee edition of the TATA National
Premier Chess Championship was organized by
Dibyendu Barua Chess Academy, under the
leadership of India's second grandmaster
Dibyendu Barua at Khudiram Anushilan Indoor
stadium, Kolkata from 1st to 14th October. It
is also incorporated with the FIDE Zone 3.7
championship, the winner qualifying for the
world championship cycle/world cup. With the
withdrawal of India's latest GM Vaibhav Suri of
Delhi due to health problems, the total number
of participants was forty four. The forty four
players list is star studded with thirteen GMS,
thirteen IMs, one WGM and four FMs.Former
world under 16 champions B. Adhiban and S.P.
Sethuraman, both from PSPB were the top two
seedings respectively. Grandmaster GN Gopal,
also of PSPB was seeded third.
The first round itself had a measure of its own
upsets and excitements. National under 13
champion Aravindh Chithambaram of Tamil
Nadu defeated India's second GM Dibyendu
Barua and second seeded SP Sethuraman lost
on time to the only woman participant Mary
Ann Gomes of West Bengal. Sethuraman's
claim that the clock was faulty and his protest
against the decision of the arbiter did not bear
any fruit. Debutant Anuragh Mhamal of Goa
started his career in Premier championship with
a sweet victory over former world under 10
champion GM Deep Sen Gupta of PSPB. On
the second day, youngsters on the lower
boards shined, world under 12 champion
Karthikeyan Murali of TN, Pratik Patil of
Maharashtra and Pranpionsheeth Surya of AP
scoring over IM Praveen Kumar of Railways,
IM Suvrajit Saha of Railways and CRG Krishna
of AP respectively.
Swapnil Dhopade of Railways emerged sole leader
with 3 points in as many rounds. MR. Venakatesh
of PSPB joined him at the top by beating his
team mate Neelotpal Das. GN Gopal also of PSPB
also shared the lead with them at the end of the
fifth round, by beating Sahaj Grover of Delhi.
The trio continued to lead for another round and
in the next round, Swapnil slipped out by making
a draw, while Gopal met with a loss at the hands
of Deep Sen Gupta and Venkatesh scored a win
over Deepan Chakkaravarthy of Tamil Nadu to
reach the summit alone, with a tally of 5.5/7.
Venkatesh increased his lead by a full point over
his nearest rivals by outwitting P. Karthikeyan of
PSPB in the eighth round.
Youngsters Anuragh Mhamal of Goa and G.
Akash of TN had a fine run in the tournament,
taking GMS and IMs in their stride, which enabled
them to fetch IM norms, even at the end of the
eighth round. Anuragh went one step further to
beat Sahaj in the ninth round to secure his maiden
GM norm also. Swapnil Dhopade also made his
first GM norm and Bitan Bannejee his final IM
norm in the ninth round. Venkatesh managed to
keep the lead with 7.5 points at the end of the
tenth round and Gopal and Deep Sengupta were
breathing at his shoulders, half a point behind.
Disaster struck Venkatesh in the eleventh round,
when he and Karthikeyan arrived late to the
tournament hall, losing their games by forfeit to
Akash and world under 12 champion Karthikeyan
Murali. Vidit Santosh Gujrati of PSPB seized the
initiative to beat GN Gopal to share the lead with
Venkatesh, Sengupta (who had to draw a long
battle with Neelotpal) and Akash. Akash was
paired with Venkatesh again in the penultimate
round, wherein he proved his mettle in an
attacking game to subdue Venkatesh. The forfeit
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point in the 11th round gave a dramatic touch to 5 IM Venkatesh M.R. 2511 PSPB 8
the tournament, as Akash had 8.5 points after 6 GM Gopal G.N. 2544 PSPB 8
12 rounds, followed by VIdit, Arun Prasad and 7 GM Adhiban B. 2564 PSPB 8
Deep, with 8 points each. In the thirteenth and 8 GM Lalith Babu M.R. 2540 PSPB 8
final tense round, Venkatesh drew his game with 9 IM Swayams Mishra 2393 ORI 8
Arun and Akash drew with Deep, waiting anxiously 10 GM Deepan Chakkravarthy J. 2523 TN 7½
for the result between Adhiban and Vidit. Adhiban 11 IM Grover Sahaj 2516 DEL 7½
neutralized Vidit's advantage to hold in a 105 12 GM Kunte Abhijit 2518 PSPB 7½
moves battle. This helped Akash to emerge 13 Karthikeyan Murali 2299 TN 7½
undisputed winner of the national premier
14 IM Swapnil S. Dhopade 2459 Rlys 7
championship, scoring 8.5 points, an untitled
15 GM Neelotpal Das 2485 PSPB 7
player clinching the title after many long years.
16 FM Anurag Mhamal 2349 Goa 7
In addition to winning the championship, Akash
17 Narayanan.S.L 2330 KER 7
also secured the IM title automatically for winning
18 IM Debashis Das 2454 ORI 7
the FIDE Zone 3.7 tournament. Vidit, Arun and
Deep tied for the runner up spot with 8 points 19 Sagar Shah 2352 MAH 7
each and better tiebreak favoured Vidit, followed 20 GM Thipsay Praveen M 2418 MAH 7
by Arun. In the cash rich tournament, Akash 21 WGM Gomes Mary Ann 2381 WB 7
received Rs.1,75000 and Vidit received 1,10,000 22 IM Murali Krishnan B.T. 2329 Rlys 7
rupees. Three GM norms (Swapnil, Akash and 23 IM Satyapragyan Swayangsu 2456 AI 6½
Anuragh) and four IM norms (Bitan, Saga Shah, 24 K. Praneeth Surya 2201 AP 6½
Akash and Anuragh) speak volumes about the 25 FM Ghosh Diptayan 2415 WB 6½
quality of young Indian talent 26 IM Karthikeyan P. 2401 PSPB 6
The tournament was well organized by Dibyendu 27 GM Sethuraman S.P. 2553 PSPB 6
Barua Chess Academy under the guidance of 28 GM Sundararajan Kidambi 2450 PSPB 6
Barua, his wife Saheli Dhar Barua and IM NK Mishra 29 GM Barua Dibyendu 2429 WB 6
in a professional and meticulous manner. Shri. 30 FM Rajesh V A V 2395 TN 6
Madan Mitra, Honourable Minister for Sports West 31 Abhilash Reddy M.L. 2242 AP 6
Bengal, inaugurated the championship. Honourable 32 Ravi Teja S. 2288 AP 6
Minister for Commerce, WB Government, Shri 33 IM Suvrajit Saha 2362 Rlys 6
Partha Chaterjee presided and distributed the prizes 34 Bitan Banerjee 2326 WB 5½
in the presence of a galaxy of dignitaries, Shri. 35 Shashikant Kutwal 2307 Rlys 5½
Madan Mitra, Honourable Minister for Sports West 36 IM Praveen Kumar C. 2330 Rlys 5½
Bengal, DV Sundar, Vice President of FIDE, former 37 Krishna C.R.G. 2326 AP 5½
foot ball Olympian PK Bannerjee and former hockey 38 FM Aravindh Chithambaram Vr. 2276 TN 5
Olympian Gurbux Singh. 39 Patil Pratik 2197 MAH 5
Final standings: 40 IM Saptarshi Roy 2419 Rlys 4
Rk. Name Rtg Club Pt. 41 Arindam Mukherjee 2265 Rlys 4
1 G. Akash 2343 TN 9 42 Ram S. Krishnan 2303 TN 4
2 IM Vidit Santosh Gujrathi 2501 PSPB 8½ 43 Phadke Sohan 2247 MAH 3½
3 GM Arun Prasad S. 2510 PSPB 8½ 44 IM Lahiri Atanu 2332 LIC ½
4 GM Sengupta Deep 2539 PSPB 8½ 45 GM Vaibhav Suri 2494 DEL 0
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KNOW YOUR WGM Bhakti Kulkarni
Bhakti Kulkarni (Born on 19.5.1992) started playing chess at
the age of six. Ms.Bhakti Kulkarni is the first Woman
Grandmaster from the state of Goa and has the enviable record
of winning Gold Medals on all four levels- World, Asian,
Commonwealth and National thanks to her tutelage under
India's first Dronacharya Awardee in chess, Raghunandan
Gokhale. She won Asian Gold in Under 14 Girls' section at
Teheran, Iran in 2006. In the same year, she grabbed the
Commonwealth Gold in the Under 18 Girls' section at Mumbai.
Her National Gold came in 2007 when she won National Under
19 Girls Chess Championship at Nagpur with a record score of
10/11. She repeated the feat in 2009 by annexing the National Junior crown at Chennai.
In 2008 at Singapore she annexed the World School Chess Championship. Bhakti
achieved the title of Woman Grandmaster in September 2012. She added one more
feather to her cap when she became the first Asian Junior Blitz Chess Champion at
Tashkent in June 2012 after winning Asian Junior Girls Championship at Colombo in June
2011.She also had one more sterling performance when she annexed the National
Women Challengers Championship at Chennai in July 2011. Recently she finished a close
second in the National Women Premier 2012 at Jalgaon. She likes positional chess and
her favourite players are Kasparov,Karpov,Botvinnik and Anand. Her other interests are
table tennis, watching movies , listening to old Hindi songs and reading inspirational
books. A student of Second Year Arts, Bhakti's present Elo rating is 2196.The list below
shows some of her significant achievements.
Asian Junior Girls Blitz Ch'ship Uzbekistan June 2012 Gold
Highland Open Blitz Tournament Czech Republic Sept 2011 First
Caissa Masters(IM) Round Robin Ty Hungary Sept 2011 Gold
Asian Junior Championship Srilanka June 2011 Gold
Caissa Masters(IM)Round Robin Ty Hungary Jan 2011 Gold
Asian Youth Chess China U-18Girls July 2010 Gold
Commonwealth Chess Delhi U-20 Girls May 2010 Bronze
Asian Youth Chess Delhi U-18Girls Aug 2009 Bronze
World Schools Chess Greece U-17G&B Apr 2009 G&S
Asian Junior Chess Chennai Dec 2008 Bronze
World School Championship Singapore U-17Girls Aug 2008 Gold
Asian Chess Championship Teheran U-16 Aug 2008 Bronze
Asian Chess Championship Uzbekistan U-16 July 2007 Silver
Commonwealth Games Delhi U-18 Girls Nov 2006 Gold
Asian Youth Chess Teheran U-14Girls June 2006 Gold
Asian Youth Chess Delhi U-14 Dec 2005 Bronze
National Women Challenger Chennai July 2011 Champion
National Women Challenger Nagpur Sep 2009 Silver
National Junior Championship Nagpur Sep 2007 Champion
 United India 2nd CDCA FIDE Rated Chess tournament,Chennai…

(L to R) Shri B Murugavel, Vice President, Tamil Nadu State Chess Association,

Shri D V Sundar, Vice President, FIDE, Champion S Prasannaa, Shri Rajasekaran,
Deputy General Manager, Chief Vigilance Officer, United India Insurance Co Ltd,
Shri Bharat Singh Chauhan, Honorary Secretary, All India Chess Federation.

1st ACE Alappuzha International FIDE Rated Chess Tournament 2012

(L-R) Sri.Shanavas. A (Ward Councillor),Sri.Vamanan Namboothiri(Former State

Youth Champion),Sri.V.Vijayakumar (Vice President, Academy for chess
education), IM K.Ratnakaran (Champion), Sri.N.T.Suresh Kumar (Acting
President, Chess Association, Kerala),CA.Sunil P (President, Chess Association,
Alappuzha), Sri.P.Venugopalan (Secretary, Chess Association Kerala), Sri.Shaji,
P.M (Treasurer, Chess Association, Alappuzha)
39th India Premier National Women Chess Championship.Jalgaon…
Mary Ann Gomes retains title
by Arvind Aaron
Mary Ann Gomes of Airport Authority of India, WIM Ivana Furtado, WFM Rucha Pujari, Cholleti
Kolkata retained the National Women's Premier Sahajasri, WFM K Sai Nirupama 5.5 each; 23-
title at Jalgaon in Maharashtra on November 3, 25. WGM Kruttika Nadig, WFM J Saranya, Shweta
2012.The event ran from October 22 to Gole 5 each; 26-28. Amruta Mokal, G Lasya,
November 3 and was sponsored by the Jain Group WFM N Raghavi 4.5 each; 29 WIM Bhagyashree
and organised smoothly by the Jalgaon District Thipsay 4; 30 R Salini 3; 31 J Rajasurya 2.5
Chess Association and the Jain Sport Academy.
Earlier, the premier event was off to a colorful
Mary Ann Gomes who dedicated her first title at start at President Cottage Resort, Ajintha Road,
Chennai last year to her mother had the best of M.I.D.C., Jalgaon.The tournament attracted 31
tie-break after four players tied for first on 7.5 entries. International Master Eesha Karavade of
points. She suffered a defeat to Swati Ghate Maharashtra was the top seed.Shri D V Sundar,
and bounced back very well. She won the last Vice President, FIDE (World Chess Federation),
two games to retain her title. After nine rounds Shri. Bharat Singh, Hon. Secretary, All India
she looked like she was out of contention for the Chess Federation, Shri. R. M. Dongre, Treasurer,
title race by the leaders slowed down and Mary All India Chess Federation, Smt. Jayashri Dhande
Ann caught up. Mayor of Jalgaon, Shri Dnyaneshwar Rajurkar
Bhakti Kulkarni of Goa who became a Woman Collector of Jalgaon Dist, Shri S. JaiKumar
Grand Master recently finished second. The Superintend of Police of Jalgaon and Grand
champion of 2010 Soumya Swaminathan of Pune Master Abjeet Kunte were special guests at the
was third and Eesha Karavade who had never inaugural function.
won was fourth.Atleast seven players were in Shri. Faruk Shaikh, Secretary, Central Maharashtra
lead or joint lead after a sole leader emerged. State Chess Association, gave the welcome
Leaders: Meenakshi 4/4; Swati Ghate 5.5/7; Nisha address. Delivering the Guest of Honor address,
Mohota, Bhakti Kulkarni 6/8; Bhakti Kulkarni, Shri D V Sundar, Vice President, FIDE (World
Eesha Karavade, Soumya Swaminathan 7/10. Chess Federation) said, "AICF got new place to
Older players tired out! Swati Ghate who was the host national Tournaments" and opportunity for
leader with 5.5/7 lost the last four rounds. Nisha our young players to show their talents against
Mohota lost the last two rounds. Meenakshi lost stars of India.Shri S. JaiKumar Superintend of
three games in te second half. Police of Jalgaon made a symbolic first move
Final placings: 1-4. WGM Mary Ann Gomes, WGM against current champion Mary Ann Gomes and
Bhakti Kulkarni, WGM Soumya Swaminathan, IM Maharashtra players to inaugurate the event.
Eesha Karavade 7.5/11; 5-6. WGM Padmini Rout, Shri. Shakil Deshapande of Executive member,
WGM Kiran Mohanty 7 each; 7-11. IM Nisha proposed the vote of thanks. In the opening
Mohota, WGM S Meenakshi, WIM P Priya, S round WGM Aarthie adopted Tarrasch variation
Harini, WFM Chandika Divyasree 6.5 each; 12- against Eesha's French defence, Aarthie made
13. Bodda Pratyusha, WFM Swati Mohota 6 each; full use of few weaker moves of Eesha to launch
14-22. WGM Swati Ghate, Nimmy George, strong attack in the center against Eesha'
Michelle Catherina, WGM Aarthie Ramaswamy, uncastled king. The game ended in 24 moves

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 RAMCO 26th National Under-13 Open & Girls Chess Championship 2012,Chennai….
Visakh and Vaishali emerge Champions
by R.R.Vasudevan
N R Visakh of Tamil Nadu, with 10.0 points, Chess Federation), Shri K Muralimohan, General
emerged the National Under 13 Champion after Secretary, Tamil Nadu State Chess Association.
a tense final round in the RAMCO 26th National Current National Premier Champion G Akash of
Under-13 Open & Girls Chess Championship 2012 Tamil Nadu was honored as a special invitee.
at Multipurpose Indoor Stadium, Periamet, Top seed FIDE Master V R Aravindh
Chennai Steady and solid play saw N R Visakh, a Chithambaram was off to a winning start in
student of the Velammal Group of Schools, defending his title in the first round of the RAMCO
Chennai annexing his first National title with 10.0 26th National Under 13 Open & Girls Chess
points from eleven rounds. Top seed FIDE Master Championship 2012 at Multipurpose Indoor
V R Aravindh Chithambaram (9.5) had to be Stadium, Periamet, Chennai here today. Aravindh
satisfied with the runner-up spot, as Visakh kept Chithambaram converted his middle game
winning and could never be caught. Thus it was advantage to a full point against Eshan
a twin triumph for hosts Tamil Nadu, who keep Balachandar of Maharashtra. Sharing the lead
producing champions consistently for the past with Aravindh are other seeds viz., Abhimanyu
several decades. Puranik (Mah), Pranav Vijay and N R Visakh (both
In the Girls section, R Vaishali of Tamil Nadu had TN) among others.In the girls section, National
annexed the title with a round to spare. The Under 11 Champion R Vaishali of Tamil Nadu
fight for the runner-up spot was intense, and scored a comfortable victory over her state mate
finally it turned out to be a six way tie. Woman V Aarthi. Also finishing on the winning side were
Candidate Master Savant Riya of Goa, who had seeds were Savant Riya, Rutuja Bakshi and CH
a mixed tournament, fought well in the second Meghna respectively.
half to finish second and take the runner-up spot The tournament attracted 102 entries in the Girls
with superior tie-break. Behind Savant Riya were section and 185 entries in the Boys section.
Tejaswini Sagar, Bakshi Rutuja (both Mah), Potluri Leading the challenge in the boys section was
Supreetha (AP), A S Saughanthika (TN) also at the talented Madurai lad Aravindh Chdambaram
8.0 points. and Chennai girl R Vaishali got the top billing in
Champion Vaishali incidentally gets her second the Girls section.
National title this year, having won the National Earlier the tournament was inaugurated with the
Under-11 title at Jamshedpur.two months ago. Chief Guest Shri JCD Prabhakar, President, All
Vaishali, a student of Velmmal School, T S Krishna India Chess Federation making a symbolic first
Nagar, Chennai presently trains with Bloom Chess move against top seed V R Aravindh
Academy, Chennai. With two National titles under Chithambaram, Shri Prabhakar, said, "Tamil Nadu
her belt, 11-year-old Vaishali is targeting her sights is the home of chess in India, and our stalwarts
for a Gold medal in the World Youth Chess starting with World Champion Viswanathan Anand
Championship at Maribor, Slovenia next month. has been making us proud with great
The cash prizes to the tune of Rs. 179000 (One consistency." He further added, "the landmark
Lakh seventy nine thousand only) along winner's schemes announced by our Honorable Chief
trophies were distributed by Chief Guest Shri Minister of Tamil Nadu introducing chess in schools
Bharat Singh Chauhan, Honorary Secretary, All from the age of 7 to 17 years has already
India Chess Federation. Present in the dais were touched more than a lakh of children in schools
Shri D V Sundar, Vice President, FIDE (World all over Tamil Nadu".

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Delivering the Guest of Honor address, Shri D V
Sundar, Vice President, FIDE (World Chess
Federation) said, "This event sponsored by
RAMCO is coming to Chennai and offers great
opportunity for our kids to showcase their talents,
and exposure to such intense competition is
bound to produce more future champions and
Grandmasters".
In his address, Shri V Kameswaran, India's first
International Arbiter said, "The Tamil Nadu State
Chess Association has been formed as a
registered body much before our Independence,
showing the immense chess culture prevalent in
our state many decades back".Shri K
Muralimohan, General Secretary, Tamil Nadu State
Chess Association, propose the vote of thanks.
Top seed FIDE Master V R Aravindh
Chithambaram won his third game in a row and
shared the lead after the third round. Aravindh
got the better of Mangesh Harsh of Maharashtra
in a French game that lasted 35 moves. The
Madurai boy spotted a sharp tactic and won an
exchange by move 14 and easily converted the
advantage into full point. Sharing the lead with
Aravindh were N R Visakh (TN) and Harsha
Bharatakoti (AP) among others.
In the girls section, top seeded National Under
11 Champion R Vaishali of Tamil Nadu defeated
C R Varsha also of Tamil Nadu and moved into
lead with 3 points. Vaishali sewed the game up in
45 moves, as Varsha failed to see through the
maze of tactics and got herself checkmated.
Seeded players sharing the lead with Vaishali were
Bakshi Rutuja (MAH), Shiny Das (TRI), Manasa
H R (KAR) among others. Woman Candidate
Master Savant Riya of Goa who dropped half a
point in the earlier round, bounced back to defeat
Aashna Makhija of Maharashtra, and moved into
half a point behind the leaders. In the lone upset
of the day, Woman FIDE Master Bidhar
Rutumbara of Orissa defeated fourth seeded CH
Meghna of Kerala.
Fourth seeded N R Visakh of Chennai held top
seed FIDE Master V R Aravindh Chithambaram
to a draw in the sixth round. N R Visakh, Aravindh
Chithambaram (both TN) and Ritviz Parab (Goa)
share the top spot with 5.5 points. Ten players
remained half a point behind the leaders including
seeds Abhimanyu Puranik (Mah) and Pranav Vijay
(TN).The top board Sicilian game saw both the
players fighting for the initiative. Aravindh slowly
improvised his position and gained a protected
passer in a tactical shot. Visakh was upto the
task and held fort with his advanced knight giving
sufficient threats, fetching him a draw after 41
moves..
In the girls section, top seeded National Under
11 Champion R Vaishali of Tamil Nadu maintained
her cent percent record defeating Shiny Das of
Tripura. The win puts Vashali on top of the table
with 6.0 points from as many rounds. A full point
behind at 5.0 points were Woman Candidate
Masters Savant Riya of Goa and Tejaswini Sagar
of Maharastra respectively.
FM V R Aravindh Chithambaram shared the lead
with his Tamil Nadu State mate N R Visakh with
6.5 points in the Open section after the seventh
round. Both the leaders won their games against
Ritviz Parab (Goa) and V Karthik (AP) without
much ado. Sharing the third spot with 6 points
were M Aadhityaa, Pranav Vijay (both TN) along
with Sharan Rao of Karnataka.In a closed Sicilian
game, Aravindh outwitted his Goan challanger,
going for an exchange of queen versus two
rooks. Making further in-roads into his opponents
territory, Aravindh gained the full point when Ritvik
lost a piece and resigned on the 32nd move.In
the girls section, top seeded National Under 11
Champion R Vaishali of Tamil Nadu continued her
grand run defeating second seed challenger from
Goa, Savant Riya. Spotting a tactical opportunity,
Vaishali snatched two pieces for her rook and
converted the ensuing end game with pin point
precision. The win gives the Chennai girl a clear
one point lead at 7.0 points. Following the leader
is Woman Candidate Master Tejaswini Sagar of
Maharashtra at 6.0 points.
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R Vaishali lead with 8.0 points in the Girls section 7.5 points. Top seed Aravindh Chithambaram
after the eighth round. Eight wins on the trot, keeps made amends for his loss earlier defeating
the Chennai girl ahead of the pack, with a Aradhya Garg of Delhi. The win took the top
comfortable cushion of 1.5 points. Following Vaishali seeded Aravindh half a point behind the
at 6.5 points were D Meera of TN and Shweta tournament leader.
Priyadarshini of UP.In the Open section, N R Visakh Final standings :
of Tamil Nadu moved into sole lead with 7.5 points
Rk. Name State Pt.
and is followed by his state mate Pranav Vijay at
1 Visakh Nr TN 10
7.0 points. Top seed Aravindh Chithambaram's loss
2 Aravindh Chithambaram Vr FM TN 9½
placed him in the third spot with 6.5 points along
3 Pranav Vijay TN 8½
with Ritviz Parab (Goa), Y Grahesh (AP), Aradhya 4 Muthaiah AL TN 8½
Garg (Del) and A L Muthaiah (TN) respectively. 5 Ritviz Parab GOA 8
Earlier, top seed Aravindh Chithambaram went 6 Puranik Abhimanyu CM MAH 8
down to his Tamil Nadu state mate Pranav Vijay. 7 Aradhya Garg DEL 8
The Scandinavian game saw Aravindh getting 8 Sai Vishwesh.C TN 8
over ambitious in the middle game ceding too 9 Manan Rai DEL 8
many pawns. The resultant queen and rook end 10 Ajay Krishna S TN 8
game saw Pranav executing his position 11 Siva Mahadevan TN 8
advantage to snatch the full point. Overnight joint 12 Kumar Gaurav BIH 8
leader N R Visakh scored a methodical win over 13 Harsha Bharathakoti AP 7½
his Tamil Nadu state mate M Aadhityaa. 14 Aadhityaa M TN 7½
15 Chandar Raju KER 7½
R Vaishali of Tamil Nadu lead the field with 9.0 16 Abhishek A KER 7½
points in the Girls section after the ninth round. 17 Hirthickkesh PR TN 7½
With her ninth consecutive win, Vaishali extends 18 Visveshwar A TN 7½
her lead over her nearest rivals by two points. 19 Grahesh Y AP 7
Following Vaishali at 7.0 points are Shiny Das 20 Karthik V. Ap AP 7
(Tripura), Tejaswini Sagar (Maharashtra) and 21 Naik Rishubh Naresh GOA 7
S Ananya (Karnataka) respectively. Showing 22 Ravindra Teja Muttineni AP 7
strength and maturity beyond her age, Vaishali 23 Vignesh B TN 7
overcame a stiff challenge from Shweta 24 Hemanth Raam TN 7
Priyadarshini of UP. The Ruy Lopez game saw 25 Rakesh Kumar Jena FM ORI 7
Vaishali excel in the middle game, proving the 26 Pranavananda V AP 7
superiority of her double knight and rooks 27 Audi Ameya GOA 7
versus double bishop and rooks. Shweta gave 28 Prakashram R TN 7
up on the 30th move. Vaishali needed only a 29 Anustoop Biswas WB 7
draw to confirm the title. Playing in an age 30 Elancheralathan P TN 7
group ahead of her age, the Chennai girl 31 Eashwar M TN 7
showed playing strength and understanding 32 Harikrishnan A Ra TN 7
much beyond her age. 33 Aniruddh Aiyengar TN 7
34 Akash R TN 7
In the Open section, N R Visakh of Tamil Nadu 35 Iniyan P TN 7
kept his lead with 8.0 points, holding his TN state 36 B Sri Viswaroopanand ORI 7
mate Pranav Vijay to a comfortable draw. Half a 37 Akhilan E M KER 6½
point behind Visakh were N R Aravindh 38 Swain Ashirwad ORI 6½
Chithambaram and Pranav Vijay (both TN) at 39 Kaustuv Kundu WB 6½

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40 Parag Ravindra Patil MAH 6½ 86 Kushagra Sharma RAJ 5½
41 Sriram S TN 6½ 87 Narendran V TN 5½
42 Harsh mangesh Ghag MAH 6½ 88 Deepak Kumar Pandey UP 5½
43 Jayakumar S TN 6½ 89 Pitkar Ashutosh MAH 5½
44 Pavit Singh DEL 6½ 90 Gadhiya Hrithvik MAH 5½
45 Naga Shashank D AP 6½ 91 Neelash Saha WB 5½
46 Clifford Flair TN 6½ 92 Hariharan S TN 5½
47 Vigneshwaran S TN 6½ 93 Roshan Antony C TN 5½
48 Samal Ansuman ORI 6½ 94 Murugesh S TN 5½
49 Teja Suresh M AP 6½ 95 Ganesh Aluri AP 5½
50 Anantharam R U KAR 6½ 96 Darshil K Desai MAH 5½
51 Nitish Belurkar CM GOA 6½ 97 Anindya B Pattanaik ORI 5½
52 B Abhinav Reddy TN 6½ 98 Soumyaditya Saha WB 5½
53 Saurabh Anand BIH 6½ 99 Viekash V.K. TN 5½
54 Dileep Kumar R TN 6½ 100 Manu DSuthandram R TN 5½
55 Jayesh M TN 6½ 101 Tarun Simon P TN 5½
56 N Herojit Meitei MAN 6½ 102 Mahesh PYurembam MAN 5½
57 Saptorshi Gupta WB 6½ 103 Sanjay Thiruvengadam TN 5
58 Aadityan G TN 6½ 104 Tarun V Kanth TN 5
59 Rohit Vassan S TN 6 105 Yutesh P TN 5
60 Sharan Rao KAR 6 106 Upendra R TN 5
61 Sathya Giri V TN 6 107 Sheshathiri S TN 5
62 Sadhu S Adithya TN 6 108 Khanda Soumya Sagnik ORI 5
63 Tamojit Poddar WB 6 109 Navnitan S V TN 5
64 Mehta Jwalin GUJ 6 110 Sai Mohit Kumar V AP 5
65 AHaribhau Kawade MAH 6 111 Shrutarshi Ray WB 5
66 Haricharann D V TN 6 112 M BVignesh Reddy AP 5
67 Girinath B S TN 6 113 Karthik JC AP 5
68 Keerthivasan K TN 6 114 Shanbhag Rahul MAH 5
69 Erigaisi Arjun AP 6 115 Bhagavathi Sankar K TN 5
70 Siddharth G DEL 6 116 Sharan Sridhar TN 5
71 Niranjan R TN 6 117 Vishesh Agrawal DEL 5
72 Arjun Adappa KAR 6 118 Rohit S PON 5
73 Selvabharathy T TN 6 119 Harshavardhan G B TN 5
74 Mahindrakar Indrajeet MAH 6 120 Changmai Satyajit ASM 5
75 Vignesh V TN 6 121 Srikalyan S B AP 5
76 Hari Madhavan N B TN 6 122 Arvind N TN 5
77 Nehete Akshay S MAH 6 123 Nithese KrrishnaVM TN 5
78 Sarbojit Paul WB 6 124 Trinav Rattan MAH 4½
79 Nikhil Singh JHA 6 125 Ashhwath C TN 4½
80 Barath Kalyan M TN 5½ 126 Arijith M KER 4½
81 Bhuvan R TN 5½ 127 Dheekshith Kumar R TN 4½
82 Prudhvi Kumar V AP 5½ 128 Shubhankar Biswas WB 4½
83 Praggnanandhaa R TN 5½ 129 Vishwanath Vivek AP 4½
84 Balachandar Eshan MAH 5½ 130 Shyam Sundar M TN 4½
85 Jerome JEbenezer. G TN 5½ 131 Dharshan P TN 4½

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132 Vishwak S TN 4½ 178 Samik Das TRI 2½
133 Rahul Bharadwaj B TN 4½ 179 Abhra Raj Chanda TRI 2
134 Vaidya Omatharv MAH 4½ 180 Madhu Karthik Ch AP 2
135 Neelushansh N MP 4½ 181 Durga Kumar K J TN 2
136 Sparsh Bansal DEL 4½ 182 Karthikeyan L TN 1
137 Arvind S TN 4½ 183 Shouvik Kar WB 0
138 Audi Saiesh GOA 4½ 184 Sharma Vibhav HAR 0
139 Sayantan Chandra WB 4½ 185 Rahul D TN 0
140 Vilakshan Mehta J&K 4½ Final standings: National Girls U-13
141 Devang Choudhary MP 4½ 1 Vaishali R TN 10½
142 Vignesh R TN 4½ 2 Savant Riya WCM GOA 8
143 Pranav P TN 4½ 3 Ananya S KAR 8
144 Mythiriyan P TN 4½ 4 Tejaswini Sagar WCM MAH 8
145 Majumdar Ritam MAH 4 5 Bakshi Rutuja MAH 8
146 Debanjan Majumdar TRI 4 6 Potluri Supreetha AP 8
147 Raahul V S TN 4 7 Saughanthika AS TN 8
148 Mishra Abhishek ORI 4 8 Shiny Das TRI 7½
149 Akkilesh P TN 4 9 Meghna C H KER 7½
150 Arun M S TN 4 10 C R Varsha TN 7½
151 Avranil Mukherjee HAR 4 11 Bidhar Rutumbara WFM ORI 7
152 Hillol Debnath TRI 4 12 Meera D TN 7
153 Amaresh P TN 4 13 Shweta Priyadarshini UP 7
154 Lakshman K R TN 4 14 Chandreyee Hajra WB 7
155 Ajay Kumaar.S PON 4 15 Potluri Saye Srreezza AP 7
156 Dinesh Maran T TN 4 16 Anigani Kavya AP 7
157 Shanmuga Chidambaram TN 4 17 Sunyuktha C M N TN 7
158 Jain Ajinkya MAH 4 18 Hilmi Parveen KER 7
159 Amoga Vigram P KAR 4 19 Shah Vishwa MAH 7
160 Saravanan E TN 4 20 Manasa H R KAR 6½
161 Venkat Raghavan D TN 4 21 Bhagya Jayesh KER 6½
162 Abishek R TN 4 22 Harshita Guddanti AP 6½
163 Vaghmarey Nikhil MP 3½ 23 Sweta Senapaty ORI 6½
164 Githin Mathew George KER 3½ 24 Abirama Srinithi G TN 6½
165 Vishweshwaran K TN 3½ 25 Joshi Nimita MAH 6½
166 Prasanna Venkatesh G TN 3½ 26 SnehaN.G. PON 6½
167 Prathish A TN 3 27 Harivardhini I TN 6½
168 Pratik Agarwal JHAR 3 28 Dakshinya T R S TN 6½
169 Harisakthi Prasad M TN 3 29 Lakshmi C WFM TN 6½
170 Kingston K J TN 3 30 Angira Choudhuri WB 6½
171 Sivaarunagirinathan TN 3 31 Vaisalie K TN 6½
172 Abhinav Bhatt UTR 3 32 Sharanya V KAR 6½
173 Ayush Bhatt UTR 3 33 Vantika Agrawal DEL 6½
174 Tamil Selvan R TN 3 34 Breasha Gupta MAH 6
175 Lokesh K TN 3 35 Riddhi Zantye GOA 6
176 Anmol Surana CHA 2½ 36 Priyanka K TN 6
177 Manish Babu S TN 2½ 37 Kavitha P L TN 6

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38 Annie Gladys A TN 6 84 Siri P AP 4
39 Harshini A TN 6 85 Aparnaa S TN 4
40 Athira S Prabhu TN 6 86 Vinotha S TN 4
41 Kaur Palkin DEL 6 87 Shreya JHA 4
42 Prasanna Arpita Ch. AP 6 88 Sandhya B TN 4
43 Kratica Shekhwat RAJ 6 89 Pousumi Maity WB 4
44 Tulsi M KAR 6 90 Padma Pratibha M TN 4
45 Raga Jyothsna R AP 6 91 Kamakshi K K TN 3½
92 Toshali V AP 3
46 Manjula R TN 5½
93 Lasya Mayukha N AP 3
47 Tejasvi M TN 5½
94 Amrusha M TN 3
48 Preethy P. PON 5½
95 Kanatamani Harika AP 3
49 Jegatha B TN 5½ 96 Niveditha K TN 2½
50 Krithigga K TN 5½ 97 Meenakshi K TN 2½
51 Nabanita Pattanayak ORI 5½ 98 Nandini V TN 2½
52 Shinjini Sengupta WB 5½ 99 Rajashri K J TN 2½
53 Dhivyashree J TN 5½ 100 Pooja S TN 1
54 Shah Rutvi GUJ 5½ 101 Kharunya V TN 1
55 Prabhugaonkar Aditee Aman GOA 5½ 102 Priyanka S AP 0
56 Priyamvadha Sundar TN 5½ 103 Megha Krishnan A A TN 0
57 Tejashree G Nilwarna MAH 5½
58 Anmol Jain (girl) AP 5½ Puzzle of the month
59 Abirami S TN 5½ by C.G.S.Narayanan
60 Aarthi V TN 5
From the diagram below one can infer that
61 Makhija Aashna MAH 5
white must have moved last. what was the
62 Priyanka N AP 5
63 Rohini G TN 5 move and what was black's move prior to
64 Thorat Aishwarya GOA 5 that? These will provide answer to the question
65 Shreyanthi A TN 5 as to whether black can still castle.
66 Kharunya C.S. TN 5 Robert Smullyan
67 Natha Mayil N TN 5 Chess Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes 1979
68 Priyadarshini B TN 5
69 Garima Gaurav BIH 5
70 Bhavani R TN 5
71 Monicca G V TN 5
72 Taniya Acharya WB 4½
73 Srimathi R TN 4½
74 Swathi Y AP 4½
75 Keerthana Maran T TN 4½
76 Neela S TN 4½
77 Rakshitta Ravi TN 4½
78 Aparjha S TN 4½
79 Sriranjani N R TN 4½
80 Twinkle Patgiri ASM 4½
81 Sakshi Jha BIH 4 Can Black castle still ?
82 Siva Sai Sugandhi Ch AP 4 (Solution on page 48)
83 Jayalakshmi R K TN 4

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 The XXVI National Under-9 Chess Championship for Boys & Girls, Ahmedabad..

Ram Arvind and Lakshmi win titles

IA Bhagwati Prasad Sharma,Chief Arbiter
The XXVI National Under 9 Chess top board. Kruthika K R of TN lost his final
Championship for Boys & Girls was held from round to runners up Fernandes Krystal of Goa
1st October 2012 to 10th of October 2012 in on the second board with 10 pts.
Shanti Asiatic School, Ahmedabad, co-sponsors
The tournament was played in excellent air
and one of the richest School in Gujarat. Shanti
conditioned School Rooms which overshadowed
Asiatic School joined Ahmedabad City Chess
the scorching heat in the city. Parents,
Association and Fischer Chess Club to organise
managers and coaches were provided space
this prestigious event for this category. The
with adjacent hall to spend their time, while
tournament was inaugurated by Mrs Nikita
the kids were battling it out. Each round was
Chiripal, Director of Shanti Asiatic School and
inaugurated by guests of the day which included
Hon. Secretary of Gujrat State Chess
the directors of the Shanti Asiatic School Mrs.
Association Mr.Bhavesh Patel. Other dignitaries
Nikita Chiripal SAS, WIM Dhyani Dave and
on dias were Hon. Secretary of Ahmedabad
others. Top Five games in boys and girls
City Chess Association Mr. Vinay Parikh and
sections were telecast live through the Monroi
O r g S e c re t a r y M r. M a y u r Pa t e l . T h e
system, a special instrument procured by the
tournament practically started on 2nd October,
All India Chess Federation for transmitting the
2012. Around 102 Girls and 183 Boys had
games online. The organisers Vinay Parikh &
participated in this qualifying event.
Mayur Patel did an excellent job in making this
In the boys section FM Ram Aravind L N of event a memorable one.
TN was leading the table with 6 pts after 6
On the final day Prizes were distributed by Amit
rounds. Ram Aravind LN beat Ritam Nag [WB]
Thakkar President of Yuva BJP, Vinay Parikh,
to take lead from 8th round till the end. He
Mayur Patel, Principal of SAS and Director Nikita
remained unbeaten with 11 points out of 11
Chiripal, Bhavesh Patel, Turstee of Shanti
rounds. Praggnanandhaa R [TN] lost his final
Asiatic School in each category, along with cash
round to runner up Kushagra Mohan of AP,
prizes for first Twelve players. Trophies were
who stood second with 9 points, the Buchholz
also distributed.
score helped him to gain 5th place with 8 points.
Co-arbiters Mr Vimal Srivastgava, Mr.Murti ,
Second seed Koustav Chatterjee of West
S.K.Shah, Anil Kotwal, Hemal Thanki, Bhavdip
Bengal was in contention for the title lost to
Parikh, Malhar Jadav and other officials lent
the champion in the last round and could get
excellent co-operation and skilful handling of
tenth place in the end. Aronayak Ghosh (WB)
the disputes to make this event a grand
stood third with 8.5 points while Erigaist Arjus
success.
(AP) was fourth on the same score.
National Under-9:Final standings:
In the girls section the leaders were switching Rk. Name Club Pt.
till the final round. WFM Lakshmi C of TN led 1 Ram Aravind L N FM TN 11
with the 6.5 pts of 7th round. In a dramatic 2 Kushagra Mohan AP 9
final round game, WFM Lakshmi C of TN 3 Aronyak Ghosh WB 8½
quickly won against Poorna Sri M K of TN on 4 Erigaisi Arjun AP 8½

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5 Praggnanandhaa R TN 8 50 Mazumdar Soubhanik ORI 6½
6 Nihal Sarin KER 8 51 Faiz Khan MAH 6½
7 Pranab Kumar Patra ORI 8 52 Om Kharola DEL 6½
8 Ritam Nag WB 8 53 Wadhwani Aum MAH 6½
9 Sayantan Mukherjee WB 8 54 Aditya M TN 6½
10 Koustav Chatterjee WB 8 55 Namann D Jain RAJ 6½
11 Mohamed Anees M TN 8 56 Parikh Kairav GUJ 6½
12 Sanket Chakravarty WB 8 57 Nimdia Ridit MAH 6½
13 Aditya Basu WB 7½ 58 Abishek A TN 6½
14 Aryan Abhijeet Shah MAH 7½ 59 Joy Pankaj Shah GUJ 6
15 Amitansu Priyadarsan ORI 7½ 60 Doshi Moksh Amitbhai GUJ 6
16 Yutesh P TN 7½ 61 Saahil A Ghorpade MAH 6
17 Soumma Chakraborty WB 7½ 62 Polakhare Aryan MAH 6
18 Alan Diviya Raj TN 7½ 63 Hari Varshan S R TN 6
19 Aditya Guhagarkar MAH 7½ 64 Shah Rishab MAH 6
20 Srinath Chowdary A AP 7½ 65 Akilesh Viswaa TN 6
21 Samyak Dutta WB 7½ 66 Karthik Kumar Pradeep AP 6
22 B Chidambaram.C TN 7½ 67 Sharma Dushyant PUN 6
23 Raja Rithvik R AP 7 68 Vignesh A AP 6
24 Arpan Das (jr) WB 7 69 Arora Saksham MAH 6
25 Avijaan Roy Choudhury WB 7 70 Samarateja K AP 6
26 Vel Vishwanathan G M TN 7 71 Chaithanya Ganesh KAR 6
27 Shuban Saha WB 7 72 Sriram B TN 6
28 Sai Krishna S TN 7 73 Banerjee Ashutosh CHA 6
29 J Akshith Kumar AP 7 74 Raghuram D AP 6
30 Aswin Kumar B S TN 7 75 Deshpande Aditya Anand MAH 6
31 Shilimkar Avanish MAH 7 76 Samantaray Aryan Arnab ORI 6
32 Sundar Chokkalingam TN 7 77 Soumein Rajdev ORI 6
33 Shelke Sankarsha MAH 7 78 RChandrashekhar Gokhale MAH 6
34 Kumar Utkarsh JHAR 7 79 Panesar Vedant MAH 6
35 Vijay Shreeram P TN 7 80 Kailash G M TN 6
36 Soham Sameer Palkar MAH 7 81 Abhinessh S TN 5½
37 Shah Jainam A GUJ 7 82 Dikshant Dash ORI 5½
38 Sonowal Aryan ASM 7 83 Jagadish P KAR 5½
39 Harshavardhan G B TN 6½ 84 Alex Khundongbam MANI 5½
40 Koushik Sarun Reddy Y TN 6½ 85 Nitin Shankar Madhu TN 5½
41 Vrandesh Parekh GUJ 6½ 86 Daksh Jain DEL 5½
42 Raahul V S TN 6½ 87 Leon Mendonca GOA 5½
43 Panda Sambit ORI 6½ 88 Manpreet Singh DEL 5½
44 Rahil D Gandhi MAH 6½ 89 Mihir, Varma Ch AP 5½
45 Alok Sinha DEL 6½ 90 Saksham Rautela UTT 5½
46 Mehta Naitik R GUJ 6½ 91 Mugunth R B TN 5½
47 Dharshan P TN 6½ 92 Parulekar Atharva Mahesh MAH 5½
48 Krishna K R TN 6½ 93 Siddharth Ghosh WB 5½
49 Shourya Vir Jain MAH 6½ 94 Vinay Kamath MAH 5½

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95 Nithin A V TN 5½ 140 Doshi Manav R MAH 4½
96 Aryan Ranjan DEL 5½ 141 Prajapati Ayush R GUJ 4½
97 Kabir Belgikar MAH 5½ 142 Dheeraj Kumar S TN 4½
98 Singh Gurmeher DEL 5½ 143 Rudrapratap S Ghatge MAH 4½
99 Mahitosh Dey ORI 5½ 144 Harshit Arya HAR 4
100 Viswas Dinesh AP 5½ 145 Aaryan Singh UP 4
101 Deshpande Jatin N MAH 5½ 146 Amara V Ramcharan AP 4
102 Rishiraj K AP 5½
147 Chaudhary Pallav RAJ 4
103 Soumalaya Nandy WB 5½
148 Jayesh Shettigar GOA 4
104 Surya Y TN 5½
149 Abhishek A R KER 4
105 Abhay Gopal GUJ 5½
150 Tathya J Sheth GUJ 4
106 Saketh B AP 5
151 Nakul Hans HAR 4
107 Baibhab Singh ORI 5
152 Jash Parag Mehta MAH 4
108 Aravinth Shanmugam S TN 5
153 Shishir Lamba PUN 4
109 Kar Pratyanshu ORI 5
154 Mudit A Bansal GUJ 4
110 Atharv N Tekurkar MAH 5
155 Himank Bansal DEL 3½
111 Malviya Aryaman MP 5
156 Maharshi Kadam GUJ 3½
112 Samdani Sahil Sagar GUJ 5
157 Kulkarni Dhruv G MAH 3½
113 Saran G PDY 5
114 Gupta Aakarsh DEL 5 158 Bhatia Mananshrajsingh CHA 3½
115 Srivastava Pranjal RAJ 5 159 Shravanadash M PDY 3½
116 Japman Avtar DEL 5 160 Rao Akhil MAH 3½
117 Amrutansu Bhatta ORI 5 161 Nagvenkar Aryan S GOA 3½
118 Ravani Heet MAH 5 162 Patel Chinmay M GUJ 3½
119 Ansuman Bhatta ORI 5 163 Konatham Snehil AP 3½
120 Vodnala Bhuvanrag AP 5 164 Rahul Sharma RAJ 3½
121 Anuj Shrivatri MP 5 165 Nitin S N KAR 3½
122 Shah Manav A GUJ 5 166 Chokshi Nivaan Umang GUJ 3½
123 Patel Ved C GUJ 5 167 Maru Aarav K MAH 3½
124 Abhivansh HAR 5 168 Shah Sahaan Sharvil GUJ 3½
125 Shirode Jayant MAH 4½ 169 Mhatre Rahat Rahul MAH 3
126 Shashwat Dubey UP 4½ 170 Shah Siddhant Shreyans GUJ 3
127 Jagarapu Trilodhar AP 4½ 171 Singh Shubham Kr BIH 3
128 Panwar Krish Navratan GUJ 4½ 172 Shah Arhaan Niren GUJ 3
129 Anhat Singh CHD 4½ 173 Shourya Gupta MAH 2½
130 Rishabh Anand ORI 4½ 174 Ranjan Priyanshu BIH 2½
131 Abhinav Rajan R P TN 4½ 175 Gaddipati Anjani Kumar AP 2½
132 Aroush Tagore WB 4½ 176 Nachiket Iyer GUJ 2½
133 Aayush Pinakin Barot GUJ 4½ 177 Keval Rajesh Shah GUJ 2½
134 Namitbir Singh Walia PUN 4½ 178 Vraj Kayasth GUJ 2
135 Sairam S TN 4½ 179 Patel Vaheen GUJ 2
136 Dhanush Surya AP 4½ 180 Seth Randive GUJ 1½
137 Rithvik Raja M AP 4½ 181 R Paramahamsa K AP 1
138 Sirjan Singh Kathuria DEL 4½ 182 Singh Vaibhav ORI 0
139 Mumukshu Mittal PUN 4½ 183 Srivastava Anuj MP 0

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National U-9 Girls: Final standings: (first 90 placings only) 44 Ananya Ela TN 6
Rk. Name Club Pt. 45 Samyuktha B S TN 6
1 Lakshmi C WFM TN 10½ 46 Y N V V S Sowjanya D AP 6
2 Fernandes Krystal GOA 10 47 Lakshitha S TN 5½
3 Bommini Mounika Akshaya AP 8 48 Aishwarya S TN 5½
4 Mrudul Dehankar MAH 8 49 Mehendi Sil WB 5½
5 Swera Ana Braganza GOA 7½ 50 Srijita Sarkar WB 5½
6 Salonika Saina WCM ORI 7½ 51 Dabholkar Aarohi MAH 5½
52 Akshaya P TN 5½
7 Pracheta Agarwal JHA 7½
53 Kesarkar Akshara A GUJ 5½
8 Ananya Rishi Gupta MAH 7½
54 Nikita Mallick ORI 5½
9 Kruthika K R TN 7½
55 Vysetty Sahithi AP 5½
10 Poorna Sri M.K TN 7½
56 Jishitha D AP 5½
11 Rindhiya V TN 7½
57 Meenakhsi Mehra PUN 5½
12 Kotwal Arushi J&K 7½ 58 Chinnam Vyshnavi AP 5½
13 Sudipa Haldar WB 7 59 Tanvi Agarwal WB 5½
14 Shreya Smruti Mohanty ORI 7 60 Adishree Krishnan MAH 5
15 Mishra Riya UP 7 61 Hamsavalli J TN 5
16 Tanishka Kotia HAR 7 62 Saanvi Khanna WB 5
17 Bhagyashree Patil MAH 7 63 Thakare Seeya Kapil MAH 5
18 Madhumitha R (2003) TN 7 64 Oke Sanika Kedar MAH 5
19 Keerthi B AP 7 65 Shah Jiya Mangesh MAH 5
20 Manya Bagla DEL 7 66 Parikh Ananya GUJ 5
21 Kanukuntla Anvitha AP 6½ 67 Doshi Mahi A GUJ 5
22 Garima Gaurav BIH 6½ 68 Nalluri Varshini AP 5
23 Bidisha Roy JHA 6½ 69 Gandhi Krisha MAH 5
24 Choksey Maitri MAH 6½ 70 Jetly Mili GUJ 4½
25 Rajarshi A 6½ 71 Snigdha DEL 4½
26 Eesha Ajay Sarda MAH 6½ 72 Shivani Madhu TN 4½
27 Chol Biswarupa ORI 6½ 73 Sahoo Ankita ORI 4½
74 Kagitha Jahnavi AP 4½
28 Shah Vrushti GUJ 6½
75 Jain Nityata MP 4½
29 Bhavana A TN 6½
76 Pethad Hetvi MAH 4½
30 Khushi M Hombal KAR 6½
77 Dabhade Vaishnavi GUJ 4½
31 Boramanikar T Sagar MAH 6½
78 Sadhana Jagan TN 4½
32 Jesica DEL 6½
79 Bajaj Aditi MP 4½
33 Niranjana Aishwarya Dass ORI 6 80 Patel Dhyana GUJ 4
34 Chamundeswari B PDY 6 81 Aditi P Iyer MAH 4
35 Darshana Balakrishnan TN 6 82 Shristi Dwivedi UP 4
36 Sanika Sengupta WB 6 83 Manleen Kaur Marwaha HAR 4
37 Bristy Mukherjee WB 6 84 Tisha Panchal GUJ 4
38 Madhani Shilpee GUJ 6 85 Ardra Tito KER 4
39 Beverly Mendonca GOA 6 86 Ekaa Desai MAH 4
40 Prachi Bharti KAR 6 87 Srivastava Shristi CHA 4
41 Shivani K TN 6 88 Vidula V K TN 4
42 Swetha Balaji TN 6 89 Nikihila Chowdary K AP 4
43 Arya Ranjan DEL 6 90 Rupal Mishra ORI 3½

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2nd CDCA FIDE Rated Chess tournament,Chennai….
Prasannaa emerges Champion
Ram S Krishnan finishes second
Chennai boy S Prasannaa, a student of Velammal
School, T S Krishna Nagar, Chennai emerged the
clear champion with 8.5 points after the tenth
and final round of the United India 2nd CDCA
FIDE Rated Chess tournament at Hall of Chess,
Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, Chennai here today.
15-year-old Prasannaa got a cash award of Rs.
25000 along with a handsome trophy.
Sharing the second place at 8.0 points were top
seed IM Norm holder Ram S Krishnan (BSNL),
FIDE Master P Maheswaran, FIDE Master M
Vinoth Kumar, International Master R
Balasubramaniam (ICF), P Lokesh, Dr Linda
Rangarajan (Pondy) respectively.Showing maturity
beyond his age, Chess Gurukul trained Prasannaa
held more experienced IM R Balasubramaniam
to a draw in the top board. A fighting draw in the
second board between Ram S Krishnan (BSNL)
and P Maheswaran, helped Prasannaa finish a
clear first. This is Prasannaa's third all India FIDE
rated title in the last two years. The best Academy
award went to Bloom Chess Academy, which had
the most winner's in the podium today.
Total prizes worth Rs 1.6 lakhs were distributed
by Chief Guest, Shri Rajasekaran, Deputy General
Manager, Chief Vigilance Offier, United
India Insurance Co Ltd. Guests of honor were
Shri D V Sundar, Vice- President, FIDE and Shri
Bharat Singh Chauhan, Honorary Secretary,AICF
Final Placings :
1 S Prasannaa 8.5, 2-7 Ram S Krishnan (BSNL),
P Maheswaran, M Vinoth Kumar, R
Balasubramaniam (ICF), P Lokesh, Linda
Rangarajan (Pondy) 8.0, 8-14 D S Shashaank, P
Elancheralathan, P M Karthik, A Vishveshwar, B
Vignesh, Hemanth Raam, P R Hirthickkesh 7.5
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Earlier…..
Led by top seed and International Master Norm
holder Ram S Krishnan (BSNL), the United India
2nd CDCA FIDE Rated Chess tournament took
off to a fine start with seeded players coasting to
comfortable victories. In the top board, Ram S
Krishnan defeated A Rahul Raaj. Other titled
players viz., International Master Ramanathan
Balasubramaniam, FIDE Masters P Maheswaran
and M Vinoth Kumar scored over their lower rated
opponents without any difficulty.259 players from
two countries, including 140 FIDE Rated players,
comprising of three FIDE titled players participated
in this 10 round Swiss event.
In the second round Chennai girl C R Aasha held
fourth seed P Lokesh to a draw. In the top board,
Ram S Krishnan, playing with black pieces
defeated G Anuraag. International Master
Ramanathan Balasubramaniam of ICF snatched
the full point against his lower rated opponent S
Aswin. FIDE Masters P Maheswaran and M Vinoth
Kumar scored over D Arun Prasad and Sheshathri
respectively.
After the fifth round International Master
Ramanathan Balasubramaniam of ICF shared the
lead with 5.0 points along with FIDE Master M
Vinoth Kumar.
Nine players including IM Norm holder Ram S
Krishnan and FIDE Master P Maheswaran share
the third spot at 4.5 points.In the top board
Chennai youngster S Prasannaa held top seed
Ram S Krishnan to a draw.The double round day
saw International Master R Balasubramaniam
putting it across veteran C S Sridhar, while M
Vinoth Kumar overcame Chennai junior P
Mythireyan.
At the end of seventh round International Master 16 Raju S 7
Ramanathan Balasubramaniam of ICF lead with 17 Sa Kannan 7
6.5 points after the seventh round. Eight players 18 Naren Swaminathan P 7
including FIDE Masters P Maheswaran and M 19 Barath Kalyan M 7
Vinoth Kumar shared the second spot with 6.0 20 Hari Pragadish S.B. 7
points.The double round day saw International 21 Arjun Adappa 7
Master R Balasubramaniam defeating M Vinoth 22 Prakashram R 7
Kumar in the morning round and signing peace 23 Jerome Jorge Ebenezer. G 7
with top seed IM Norm holder Ram S Krishnan in 24 Milind Parle 7
the afternoon. In a marathon 6th round game 25 S. Jeevanandam 7
Linda Rangarajan and Sai Prahalad battled for 26 Sai Saravanan K 7
148 moves before, agreeing to split the point. 27 Shankar A. 6.5
28 Jaswant G 6.5
In the penultimate round Chennai school boy S 29 Sathyanarayanan S. 6.5
Prasannaa snatched the lead with 8.0 points after 30 Sridhar C.S. 6.5
the ninth and penultimate round. Sharing the 31 Chopon Babu .R.K 6.5
second place at 7.5 points were the trio viz., 32 Chiffot Nicolas 6.5
International Master R Balasubramaniam (ICF), 33 Harikrishnan.A.Ra 6.5
IM Norm holder Ram S Krishnan (BSNL) and 34 Jayakumar S 6.5
FIDE Master P Maheswaran respectively. Further 35 Harish Kumar S 6.5
half a point down at 7.0 points were six other 36 Vikram G 6.5
players including FIDE Master M Vinoth Kumar 37 Bhuvan R 6.5
and Linda Rangarajan (Pondy).In the final double 38 Senthil Kumar S 6.5
round day, Prasanna was impressive as he scored 39 Abhijit Chutia 6.5
successive wins over higher rated players P 40 Rohit Ramanan T G 6.5
Lokesh and FIDE Master M Vinoth Kumar 41 Divya Lakshmi R 6.5
respectively. 42 Chujeeth Vignesh A 6.5
43 Harshini A 6.5
2nd CDCA Final standings:
44 Aswin S 6.5
Rk. Name Pt.
45 C. R. Varsha 6.5
1 Prasannaa.S 8.5
46 Prakruthee A 6.5
2 Ram S. Krishnan 8
47 Tm Kawadkar 6.5
3 Maheswaran P. FM 8
48 Karthikeyan M 6.5
4 Vinoth Kumar M. FM 8
49 Aasha.C R. 6
5 R Balasubramaniam IM 8
50 P Ramachandran, Vijay 6
6 Lokesh P. 8
51 Mani Bharathy 6
7 Linda Rangarajan 8
52 Mythireyan P 6
8 Shashaank D.S. 7.5
53 Sheshathri 6
9 Elancheralathan P 7.5
54 Anand R 6
10 Karthik P M 7.5
55 Prasanth Kumar S 6
11 Visveshwar A 7.5
56 Kalyanaraghavan.V.S 6
12 Vignesh B 7.5
57 Tarun V Kanth 6
13 Hemanth Raam 7.5
58 Arun Prasad D 6
14 Hirthickkesh Pr 7.5
59 Sanjay Thiruvengadam 6
15 Sai Prahlad K 7
60 Vijay Shreeram P 6

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61 Divya Charaneeshwar R P 6 106 Tarun Simon P 5
62 Vigneshwaran S 6 107 Abhishek Prataap R 5
63 Upendra R 6 108 Abishek R 5
64 Barath A 6 109 Vigneswara M H 5
65 Arvind S 6 110 Kumar T K 5
66 Suresh Agarwal 6 111 Mohideen Koya A 5
67 Rajesh N 6 112 Sharan S 5
68 Niranjan Nadarajan 6 113 Karthikeyan L 5
69 Sree Veeramani P 6 114 Hari Keshavan S B 5
70 Hariharan S 6 115 Srivat Raj R 5
71 Sharan Sridhar 6 116 Dinesh Maran T 5
72 Pakkurti Vijay Kumar 6 117 Krishnamurthy R 5
73 Subalakshmi M S 6 118 Nivetta T 5
74 Abhilash Kumar R 6 119 S Eswar 5
75 Kamal G 6 120 Pradeep V 5
76 Charan Kumar A 5.5 121 Harish S 5
77 Anuraag G 5.5 122 Arputha Jasmine B A 5
78 Karthick Raja R 5.5 123 Sivanantham R 5
79 Lakshmanan A R 5.5 124 Rithvik R 5
80 Hari Madhavan N B 5.5 125 Sriniketh P R 5
81 Mohan Ram Sridhar 5.5 126 Mythiriyan P 5
82 Rahul Bharadwaj B 5.5 127 Aditya R 5
83 Sneha G P S 5.5 128 Vimalan K.M 5
84 Bala Kumar R 5.5 129 Navaneeth B 5
85 Keerthana Maran T 5.5 130 Bharathi A 5
86 Neeraj Kumar.R 5.5 131 Mallikarjun Karra 5
87 Manu David Suthandram R 5.5 132 Sriranga V 5
88 Viswanathan T 5.5 133 Hemnath V 5
89 Dharani Kumar M S 5.5 134 Gokul U 5
90 Dhamodharan K 5.5 135 Preethika B 5
91 Kavimani S 5.5 136 Satvik V 5
92 Vijay V.S. 5.5 137 Tamil Selvan R 5
93 Roshan Antony C 5.5 138 Rishi Hariharan.S.N 4.5
94 Thulasingam V 5.5 139 Shrutarshi Ray 4.5
95 Anish A 5.5 140 Ajay S 4.5
96 Sai Balaji E 5.5 141 Thilagan K.M 4.5
97 Mohanavel S 5.5 142 Adarsh Balachandar 4.5
98 Vijayakumar.N. 5 143 Jeevan C 4.5
99 Prajesh R 5 144 Vishnu Ram R V 4.5
100 Gokulnath V 5 145 Rafeeq Ahmed Sulaiman 4.5
101 Ravi Shashwath J K 5 146 Abel Emmanuel Andrew 4.5
102 Kalaimathi G 5 147 Amarnath A C 4.5
103 Anbarasan S 5 148 Gokul Sathyan 4.5
104 Sushmit Banerjee 5 149 Prawin Kumar S 4.5
105 Santhosh Kumar C 5 150 Joseph M 4.5

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NIT Nagpur International Grandmasters Open Chess Tournament,Nagpur...
Ziaur Rahman wins Nagpur GM Open
by IA R.Anantharam,Chief Arbiter
The Nagpur Improvement Trust celebrated its
diamond jubilee by organising the international
GM open chess tournament at Naivedhyam
Recreation Centre, Nagpur from 15th to 23rd
October 2012. Fifty eight title holders - 17 GMs,
28 IMs, 3 WGMs and 2 WIMs among 168 players
speak volumes about the strength and quality of
the tournament. Aleksandrov Alexej of Belarus
and Kravtsiv Martyn of Ukraine, who regularly
participate in Indian tournaments were seeded
first and second respectively. Participants were
from ten different nations, including India, Russia
and USA. The highest ranked GM among Indians
is former Asian Junior runner up MR Lalith Babu
of PSPB. The tournament was a 11 round Swiss
system, with a time control of 90 minutes for all
the moves with an increment of 30 seconds per
move.
Eleven year old KS Raghunandan of Karnataka
drew the attention in the first round, when he
drew with veteran GM Alexander Fominyh of
Russia. The name Kulkarni seems to be a
nemesis to GM RR Laxman of ICF, as he lost the
second round game to Rakesh Kulkarni of
Maharashtra and later to Vikramaditya Kulkarni
of Railways. Udeshi Aditya of Maharashtra created
waves by beating experienced Saidali Iuldachev
of Uzbekistan in the third round. But, he lost the
next round game to his city mate IM Vidit Santosh
Gujrathi. Vidit and Bangladesh GM Ziaur Rahman
shared the lead with four points at the end of
the fourth round.
Fifth round had a pack of six players in the lead,
the only surprise in the list young Shardul Gagare
of Maharashtra, who defeated GM Abdulla Al Rakib
of Bangladesh. He lost to Kravtsiv in the sixth
round and other top board games were drawn,
enabling Kravtsiv to emerge sole leader.
Aleksandrov defeated Andrew Devaitkin of Russia
and Vidit outwitted Railways IM Himanshu Sharma
to join Kravtsiv at the top with 6 points from
seven rounds. The game between the top two
seeds ended in a draw after a long struggle,
allowing Vidit, Ziaur and Karnataka's newly
approved IM GA. Stany to join them.
The turning point came in the ninth round, when
Ziaur defeated his team mate GM Abdulla Al Rakib
to emerge sole leader with 7.5 points. He
managed to cling on to the lead in the tenth
round also by beating IM Himanshu Sharma of
Railways. In the final round, Ziaur settled for a
draw against Maharashtra's Ankit Rajpara, raising
his tally to nine points. Aleksandrov also reached
nine points and tied for the first place by beating
Indian GM MR Lalith Babu in a rook and pawn
ending. On applying Buchholz tiebreak, Ziaur was
declared champion and Aleksandrov the runner
up. Kravtsiv finished third with 8.5 points. Among
the six players vying for the fourth to ninth
places, Vidit secured the fifth spot, followed by
Himanshu, Ankit, Grover and Diptayan in that
order. Vidit Santosh Gujrati earned a GM Norm
and Padmini Rout & CRG Krishna & Diptayan
Ghosh received their IM Norms.
Honourable Guardian Minister Shri Shivajirao
Moghe. Minister for Social Justice, Govt. Of
Maharashtra distributed the prizes in the august
presence of FIDE Vice President Shri. DV Sundar,
Shri. Praveen Darade IAS, Chairman of NIT, as
well as the organising committee, Shri. Ravindra
Dongre, President of fide Zone 3.7 and Shri.
Bharat Singh, Secretary AICF, and other
dignitaries. Special mention has to be made of
Shri. Praveen Darade, chairman of the organising
committee, who is a true sports lover. He evinced
keen interest in the successful conduct of the
tournament. Mr. Manoj Itkelwar and his team
also did a commendable job for the smooth flow
of the tournament.
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Final standings : 40 Chandra Akshat USA 6½
Rk. Name Club Pt. 41 FM Gagare Shardul IND 6½
1 GM Rahman Ziaur BAN 9 42 GM Ziatdinov Raset USA 6½
2 GM Aleksandrov Aleksej BLR 9 43 Karthikeyan Murali IND 6½
3 GM Kravtsiv Martyn UKR 8½ 44 FM Rahman, Md. Taibur BAN 6½
4 IM Vidit Santosh Gujrathi IND 8 45 IM Akshayraj Kore IND 6½
5 IM Himanshu Sharma IND 8 46 IM Konguvel Ponnuswamy IND 6½
6 IM Ankit R. Rajpara IND 8 47 FM Hasan Mehdi BAN 6½
7 IM Grover Sahaj IND 8 48 FM Chatterjee Debaraj BAN 6½
8 FM Ghosh Diptayan IND 8 49 Vignesh Nr IND 6½
9 GM Vovk Andrey UKR 8 50 FM Ahmed Sk. Nasir BAN 6½
10 GM Lalith Babu M.R. IND 7½ 51 Deepak Katiyar IND 6½
11 IM Mohota Nisha IND 7½ 52 Krishna C.R.G. IND 6
12 IM Udeshi Aditya IND 7½ 53 Gurpreet Singh Maras IND 6
13 GM Neelotpal Das IND 7½ 54 Abhishek Kelkar IND 6
14 GM Abdulla Al-Rakib BAN 7½ 55 Sahu Vikramaditya IND 6
15 GM Harutjunyan Gevorg ARM 7½ 56 IM Rathnakaran K. IND 6
16 GM Hossain Enamul BAN 7½ 57 Roy Prantik IND 6
17 GM Petrosian Davit G. ARM 7½ 58 WGM Swathi Ghate IND 6
18 GM Deviatkin Andrei RUS 7 59 IM Sahu Sekhar Chandra IND 6
19 Stany G.A. IND 7 60 Patil Pratik IND 6
20 GM Iuldachev Saidali UZB 7 61 GM Fominyh Alexander RUS 6
21 IM Shivananda B.S. IND 7 62 FM Thakur Akash IND 6
22 IM Prasanna R Rao IND 7 63 Tiwari Arjun IND 6
23 Dodeja Pawan IND 7 64 Pradeep Kumar R.A. IND 6
24 IM Swayams Mishra IND 7 65 GM Sriram Jha IND 6
25 IM Karthikeyan P. IND 7 66 Nishant Malhotra IND 6
26 IM Minhazuddin Ahmed BAN 7 67 Sahoo Utkal Ranjan IND 6
27 IM Murali Krishnan B.T. IND 7 68 IM Abu Sufian, Shakil BAN 6
28 IM Nitin S. IND 7 69 Nandhidhaa Pv IND 6
29 IM Narayanan Srinath IND 7 70 D Bala Chandra Prasad IND 6
30 IM Sangma Rahul IND 7 71 Cholleti Sahajasri IND 6
31 IM Saptarshi Roy IND 7 72 WIM Ivana Maria Furtado IND 6
32 IM Sharma Dinesh K. IND 7 73 Krishna Teja N IND 6
33 GM Laxman R.R. IND 7 74 Ashwini U IND 6
34 GM Deepan Chakkravarthy.J IND 7 75 Harikrishna. S. R. IND 6
35 Kulkarni Rakesh IND 7 76 Nepal Prakash NEP 6
36 IM Kulkarni Vikramaditya IND 6½ 77 Anuprita Patil IND 6
37 WGM Padmini Rout IND 6½ 78 Sidhant Mohapatra IND 5½
38 IM Vishnu Prasanna. V IND 6½ 79 IM Shyam Nikil P. IND 5½
39 Gusain Himal IND 6½ 80 Kumaran B IND 5½

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81 FM Sauravh Khherdekar IND 5½ 121 Sankalp Gupta IND 4½
82 IM Deshmukh Anup IND 5½ 122 Razdan Anmol IND 4½
83 IM Swapnil S. Dhopade IND 5½ 123 Saurabh Lokhande IND 4½
84 Phadke Sohan IND 5½ 124 Shah Nevil U IND 4½
85 Niraula Niraj NEP 5½ 125 Chandan Mahajan IND 4½
86 WFM Chandika Divyasree IND 5½ 126 Prachand Shrutika IND 4½
87 Raghunandan K S IND 5½ 127 Nerkar Chitrana IND 4½
88 Jaiswar Shailesh IND 5½ 128 Kumthekar Shubham IND 4
89 Rohan Ahuja IND 5½ 129 D.K. Chopra IND 4
90 Nayandeep Dilip Kotangle IND 5½ 130 Sunil Vaidya IND 4
91 Thapa Krishna NEP 5½ 131 Naresh Kantode IND 4
92 Aurangabadkar Prasad IND 5½ 132 ABhattacharyya IND 4
93 Madhurima Shekhar IND 5½ 133 Singh Jatinder IND 4
94 Deepthamsh Reddy. M IND 5½ 134 Yash Ingolikar IND 4
95 Sourav Sahoo IND 5½ 135 Srivastava V.K. IND 4
96 Raja Harshit IND 5½ 136 Pavitra Batra IND 4
97 Chinmay Pathak IND 5½ 137 Bhajne Atharva IND 4
98 Bramhecha Divya IND 5½ 138 P A Chouganjkar IND 4
99 Lohana Kapil IND 5 139 Kapil Ghatwai IND 4
100 Raghavendra V. IND 5 140 Karunanayake Mayuri SRI 4
101 Roop Saurav IND 5 141 Shuban Saha IND 4
102 WIM Shamima Akter Liza BAN 5 142 Divya Deshmukh IND 4
103 Satra Hardik IND 5 143 Dodeja Saurabh IND 4
104 Shweta Gole IND 5 144 Narendrkumar Rangari IND 4
105 Kaushik Shubham IND 5 145 Sewakram M Gharde IND 4
106 Sandhya G IND 5 146 Deshmukh Aditi IND 4
107 Om Vinay Vitalkar IND 5 147 IM Singh D.P. IND 3½
108 Rajasurya J. IND 5 148 Pradip Tiwari IND 3½
109 Rajeev V.M. IND 5 149 Thakur Shivam IND 3½
110 Raut Vaibhav IND 5 150 Palaskar Rutwik IND 3½
111 Akshay V Halagannavar IND 5 151 Jain Prasanna IND 3½
112 Adethya R IND 5 152 Mohan Kale IND 3½
113 Ojas Kulkarni IND 5 153 Budhraja Param IND 3½
114 Prameya Garge IND 5 154 CM Prince Bajaj IND 3
115 Munemane Ameya IND 5 155 Chaudhary Arya IND 3
116 Divya Garg IND 5 156 Gayatri U Panbude IND 3
117 Pujjam Bansod IND 5 157 Amle Sanjay IND 3
118 Lakshmi Krishna Bhushan D IND 4½ 158 Ranade Piyush IND 3
119 Anshul Kaushik IND 4½ 159 Ashok B. Muktewar IND 3
120 Shailesh Dravid IND 4½ 160 Channawar Shlok IND 3

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1st ACE International FIDE Rated Chess tournament 2012,Alappuzha…..

Ratnakaran wins ACE FIDE Rated Open

by B.T.Sethuraman,Chief Arbiter
1ST ACE International FIDE Rated Chess 5 Anilkumar O T 7½
tournament 2012 was organized by the Academy 6 Siva Mahadevan 7½
for Chess Education from 07-10-2012 to 12-10- 7 Singh D P IM 7½
2012 at Town Hall,Alapauzha, Kerala.Players' 8 Joy Lazar M.A. 7½
meeting was held after the inauguration and 9 Anand Raj S 7½
members of Appeal Committee were appointed. 10 Himanshu Sharma IM 7
11 Lokesh N 7
Sri KC. Venugopal, Hon'ble Power Minister of 12 Arjun Satheesh 7
Kerala, inaugurated the 1ST ACE International 13 Shaon Chowdhury 7
FIDE Rated Chess tournament 2012 in the 14 Mohanan U C 6½
presence of Sri. AA.Shukkur, Ex. MLA and Sri. G. 15 Chakravarthi Reddy M 6½
Sudhakaran MLA AmbalpuzhaMr. NT. 16 Surendran N. 6½
Sureshkumar Acting President CAK.131 Players 17 Kunal M. 6½
from Various States and Federations took part in 18 Suresh Kumar N.T. 6½
this 1ST ACE International FIDE Rated Chess 19 Harikrishna. S R 6½
tournament 2012. All the rounds were played as 20 Unni C. S. 6½
per the schedule and throughout the tournament 21 Ganesan K. 6½
no dispute arose. The players co-operated to 22 Priya Vss 6½
ensure a smooth run of this Rating tournament. 23 Muralidharan R 6½
Prizes were distributed by Adv. Prathiba Hari, 24 RShanmugasundaram 6½
District Panchayat President in the Presence of 25 Anjana Krishna S 6½
26 Sekar B 6½
Mr. P. Venugopal, Secretary, CAK, and Mr. KK.
27 Chujeeth Vignesh A 6½
Padnabaha Pillai, Director of ACEIn a nail biting
28 Athish K 6½
final round LIC player Mr. Sharma Dinesh K(8.5
29 Sreejith G.S. 6
points) drew Southern Railways Player Mr. Singh
30 Joy Antony 6
DP (7.5 pts) and Sourthern Railways player Mr.
31 Manu M 6
Ratnakaran K (8.5 pts) defeated TN Player M.
32 M Tulasi Ram Kumar 6
Kunal. Two players tied with 8.5 points out of 10
33 Rejith Babu C 6
Rounds. But in the better tie break points the
34 LKrishna Bhushan D 6
Southern Railways players Mr. Ratnakaran K
35 Vijaya Kumar V 6
became the Champion of 1ST ACE International
36 Noushad A 6
FIDE Rated Chess tournament 2012, IM. Dinesh 37 Mohanan K K 6
K Sharma was placed second and IM S. Nithin 38 Lakshmanan A R 6
finished third. 39 Ajeesh Antony 6
Final standings: (first 45 placings only) 40 Senbabu M B 5½
Rk. Name Pt. 41 Radhakrishnan N 5½
1 Rathnakaran K IM 8½ 42 Ajith Kumar P N 5½
2 Sharma Dinesh K IM 8½ 43 Shince Sebastian 5½
3 Nitin S IM 7½ 44 Saji T 5½
4 Shyam Nikil P IM 7½ 45 Mohanan V P 5½

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Musings on FIDE Ratings …

Humpy back at No.2 spot

Koneru Humpy who won the Ankara Grand Prix of FIDE
recently has reclaimed the No.2 place in the November
2012 rating list of FIDE. In the previous list Humpy was at
No.4 behind world women's champion Hou Yifan and
Muzychuk. She overtook them as the Chinese and
Slovenian lost Elo in the Istanbul 2012 Olympiad. Humpy
did not play the Olympiad. Yet, without Humpy, Indians
led by Harika and Tania helped India finish all-time best of
fourth. FIDE which started the Elo ratings have been
rating players six times in a year, Jan, Mar, May, July, Sep,
Nov year after year.
Magnus Carlsen is just three Elo shy of the all-time high 2851 recorded by Garry
Kasparov, former world champion and No.1 rated player of the world. Carlsen is 33 Elo
above nearest Aronian.In the FIDE rating file, India (26818) is maintaining the third
position behind France (31808) and Spain (29299) but ahead of Germany (25388) and
Russia (24141). This is the number of players rated and have competed for rating but not
got that rating yet. It signifies the chess activity of a nation.
Men: 1 Carlsen (Nor) 2848; 2 Aronian (Arm) 2815; 3 Kramnik (Rus) 2795; 4 Radjabov
(Aze) 2793; 5 Caruana (Ita) 2786; 6 Anand (Ind) 2775; 7 Karjakin (Rus) 2775; 8 Topalov
(Bul) 2769; 9 Grischuk (Rus) 2764; 10 Mamedyarov (Aze) 2764. Other Indians in top
100: 59 Harikrishna 2692; 80 Sasikiran 2676; 86 Abhijeet Gupta 2667.
Women: 1 Judit Polgar (Hun) 2705; 2 Koneru Humpy (Ind) 2610; 3 Hou Yifan (Chn)
2606; 4 Anna Muzychuk (Slv) 2586; 5 Zhao Xue (Chn) 2565; 6 Dzagnidze (Geo) 2555; 7
Lahno (Ukr) 2553; 8 N Kosintseva (Rus) 2539; 9 Cmilyte (Ltu) 2524; 10 Marie Sebag
(Fra) 2521. Other Indians in top 100: 14 Harika 2512; 65 S. Vijayalakshmi 2400; 67
Tania Sachdev 2400; 72 Eesha Karavade 2393; 75 Mary Ann Gomes 2384.

Velammal School steals the show in

National Schools Team Chess Championship 2012
Velammal Matriculation Higher Secondary School Chennai bagged the major share of
medals in the 1st National School Chess Championship at Ludlow Castle Sports Complex,
Civil Lines 31 October 2012.
st

Velammal made a clean sweep in the Under-17 and Under-15 categories of team
championship while in Under-13 and Under-9 categories they secured pole position. In
the individual championship also most of the medals were bagged by the Velammal
students and showed their supremacy in the premier edition of the meet.
 In all over 600 School children
participated in the various individual
categories starting from Under-5 age
group to the under-17 age group.
There were total of 14 categories in
boys and girls section and the Chennai
school naturally hogged the limelight.
The supremacy of the players of
Vellamal school was especially evident
in the team championship of under-15
and under-17 section wherein they
won all medals at stake. The host city
had something to cheer about in the
under-5 category wherein Garv Rai of Modern School Vasant Vihar won the Gold medal.
Amongst other aspirants in the city, Nishant Malhotra of Balbharti School Dwarka won the
Silver medal in the under-17 open category, Manan Rai of Amity International secured
the same medal in under-13 section, Sarthak Mahajan won Silver in under-15 while
Aansh Gupta had a similar result in under-11 category.
Amongst other local hopefuls in the fray, Manpreet Singh, Harshal Shahi, Aarchi Agarwal
and Abir Sinha won Bronze medal in their respective categories.
Medal Winners Individual Championship (Gold, Silver & Bronze):-
Under-5 Open : Garv Rai, Ryan Priyank & Chandrani Shlok
Under-5 Girls : - Yashavishree N, Prathivya Gupta & Savitha Shri B
Under-7 Open :- Praggnandandhaa R, Leon Mendonca & Mahitosh Dey
Under-7 Girls :- Chinnam Vyshanvi, Wankhade Sanskruti & Divya Deshmukh
Under-9 Open :- Harshvardhan G B, Raja Rithvik R & Manpreet Singh
Under-9 Girls :- Salonika Saina, Garima Gaurav & Manya Bagla
Under-11 Open :- Siva Mahadevan, Aansh Gupta & Rajdeep Sarkar
Under-11 Girls :- Vaishali R, Bidhar Rutumbara & Archi Agrawal
Under-13 Open :- Karthikeyan Murali, Manan Rai & Harshal Shahi
Under-13 Girls :- Shiny Das, Manasa H R & Dakshinya TRS
Under-15 Open :- Barath L, Sarthak Mahajan & Senthil Maran K
Under-15 Girls :- Monnisha G K, Varshini V & Sandya M
Under-17 Open :- Chaithanyaa K G, Nishant Malhotra & Abir Sinha
Under-17 Girls :- Anjana Krishna S, Hema Priya N & Akshaya Nandakumar
2nd Vizag Intl Open Chess Tournament,Visakhapatnam…..

GM Enamul Hossain wins

by IA Dharmendrakumar, Chief Arbiter
Closely following GM Ziaur Rehman
who won the NIT Tournament in
Nagpur yet another Grandmaster
from Bangladesh, Enamul
Hosssain, won the 2nd edition of
Vizag International Open Chess
Tournament. Enamul finished in
the same score group of 8.5 but
better Bucchollz tiebreak helped
him claim the title leaving behind
GM B.Adhiban and GM Davit
Petrosian. Both the GM Adhiban
and Davit Petrosian won their last
round games but playing as sole leader by half point, Enamul was just content with a
draw in the final round to earn the title. Adhiban scored over Swayams Mishra with the
black pieces while Hossain drew Stany with the white pieces for the Rs 2 lakh first prize.
Vishakhapatnam , the famous port city of southeast coast of India witnessed the 2nd edition
of Vizag GM Intl open chess tournament . The city, popularly known as Vizag , is the
administrative headquarters of Visakhapatnam district and headquarters of the Eastern
Naval Command of the Indian Navy. Like its west-coast counterpart it has attractive
beaches, hillocks and a pleasing landscape. The event attracted 163 players from 11
federations with remarkable presence of Masters. It is notable that nearly one fourth of the
entries were titled players which included 17 GMs, 18 IMs, 8FMs and 1WIM.
Earlier, This 11 round swiss open tournament was inaugurated by
Mr. Ganta Srinivas Rao , Minister for investment , infrastructure,
airport and Natural gas , Govt. of Andhra
Pradesh, by playing a game with GM
M.R.Lalithbabu. Other dignitaries present on
that auspicious occasion were Muthumsetty
Srinivas Rao and Panchakarla Ramesh Babu
,both are M.L.A. , M. Satynarayana, GVMC
Shardul Gagare
Commissioner, K.Kanna Reddy , Secretary , AP
Chess Association and Dharmendra Kumar, Chief Arbiter. Anand
Reddy has presided over the function while Tournament Director
Diptayan Ghosh
K.V.V. Sharma welcomed the guests.
Any chess event is remembered by the titles and norms players make. Although no
Grand Master norms were recorded, two International Master norms were recorded.Two
young Indians Diptayan Ghosh and Shardul Gagare achieved their IM norm. It was final
norm for unbeaten and remarkable performer Diptayan Ghosh who made all his three
norm this year and with his rating 2415, he is all set to apply for IM title. Shardul
completed his 2nd norm and looking for the final one.
In a colourful closing ceremony , Prizes were distributed to the winners by Chief guest Mr.
K.Balakanamma .Other dignitries present in the veladictory function were K.Kanna
Reddy , Secretary ,APCA, Maj. K.Shivaprasad, Vice-President , APCA. Dharmendra
Kumar, Chief Arbiter presented the tournament report while K V V Sharma ,
Tournament Director proposed vote of thanks .

GM Hikaru Nakamura Wins Unive Chess 2012

American chess champion 2012, Grandmaster Hikaru
Nakamura has won the 16th Unive Chess Tournament that
was held in Hoogeveen, Netherlands from October 19-27.
The tournament consisted of the Crown Group, the Unive
Open and two Amateur events. The Crown Group was a
four-player double round-robin. Hikaru Nakamura won the
event with 4,5/6 points. Sergei Tiviakov was second at 4,0.
Dutch top player Anish Giri finished third with 2,5 points,
while the Women's World Chess Champion Hou Yifan ended
the tournament with 2 points.
Along side the main chess event, the Unive Open was held
as a nine-round Swiss for the players rated 2000 or above.
Local Grandmasters L'Ami Erwin and Nijboer Friso shared
the first place with 7,0/9 points each. L'Ami defeated Nijboer
GM Hikaru Nakamura in the last round and overtook him by the additional criteria
to claim the winner's trophy. GM Ernst Sipke, GM Timman
Jan, GM Van Kampen Robin and IM Bosboom Manuel (all Netherlands) shared the third
place with 6,5 points each. The prize fund in the Open was 7500 EUR with 3000 EUR
reserved for the winner.
Surya Shekar Ganguly wins, Sandipan Chanda third
GM Surya Shekar Ganguly wins Fujairah International Chess Championship 2012 organized
by the Fujairah Chess Club from 13th to 21st November at Fujairah, United Arab Emirates.
The 9-round Master Tournament was open for the players rated 2200 or above. Indian
Grandmasters Ganguly Surya Shekhar and Sandipan Chanda signed a quick draw in the last
round and waited for the other games to finish.Sergey Fedorchuk, who was the co-leader
before the last round, was defeated by Le Quang Liem, but Alexander Moiseenko outplayed
the legendary GM Jaan Ehlvest to catch the Indians on the shared first place.Ganguly Surya
Shekhar was declared winner on best tie-break score.

Selected games from
National Women Challenger Ch.,Delhi
Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron
G Lasya (1993)
Divyasree Chandika (2218)
1.Nf3 Nf6 2.g3 d5 3.Bg2 c6 4.d3 Bf5
5.Nbd2 e6 6.0–0 h6 7.Qe1 Bh7 8.e4
Be7 9.Qe2 a5 10.a4 Na6 11.exd5 cxd5
12.Nb3 [Usual here is 12.Ne5 so that on
12...Nd7 13.Ndf3 with an equal position and
no problems for either side.] 12...0–0
13.Bd2 Nb4 14.Bc3 Nd7 15.Bh3 Re8
16.Nfd4 [White probably intends to
sacrifice on e6. To be considered is:
16.Rfe1 and then 17 Nbd4 was a better
plan.] 16...Bf8 17.f4 Nc5 18.Nxc5 [It was
better not to exchange on c5 and bring on
the black bishop to c5 Better was 18.Bg2
Qb6 19.Nc1 Rac8 20.Re1 though black’s
chances are better.] 18...Bxc5 19.Kh1
Qb6 20.Nf3 Rac8 21.Ne5 d4 22.Nc4
Qa6 23.Bxb4? [23.Be1=] 23...Bxb4
Move by move, white has practically invited
this bishop to advance into her position.
This bishop strangles the white position and
eventually wins the game for black. 24.Bg2
b5?! [It was better to re-deploy her rook
by playing 24...Red8 and wait for white to
show her plan.] 25.axb5 Qxb5
Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron
26.Be4? [A strategic mistake exchanging
off her valuable white square bishop
controlling the long white diagonal for the
ineffective bishop on h7. After 26.Qe5 Qxe5
27.fxe5= the game is level. The black bishop
on h7 has no role to play in the game and
white could target the a5 pawn.]
26...Bxe4+ 27.Qxe4 Qd5 28.b3? [though
she is doing the right thing by placing her
pawns on squares opposite to that of Black’s
bishop, she is endowing a lot of power to
the bishop which controls the a5 and e1
squares. The bishop is also now immune
from attack. Better was 28.Qg2 and wait
for black to commit herself to a plan.]
28...Bc3! A good move posing the question
to the white rook, whether it wanted to
remain on the a-file or stay on the first rank.
It cant do both. 29.Ra4 [29.Rad1 Qxe4+
30.dxe4 Rxc4 31.bxc4 a4 and though black
is slightly better, white is not without her
chances as she can always return the rook
for the dangerous bishop.] 29...Rc5 30.Kg2
Rd8 31.Qf3 h5 32.Rf2 g5 [this is a tactical
idea to attack the white king on the king-
side. A quieter, strategical plan would be:
32...Kf8 33.Re2 Qxf3+ 34.Kxf3 Ke7 and the
black king heads for b5 to relieve the Rc5
for attacking duties.] 33.Re2 g4 34.Qe4
[Better was: 34.Qxd5 Rdxd5 35.h3 gxh3+
36.Kxh3 Though the white rook on a4 is a
bottled piece, the constant threat of white
to sacrifice her a-pawn for counter-play on
the king-side has to be taken seriously.]
34...f5?!= [34...Qxe4+ 35.dxe4 Kg7]
35.Qxd5 exd5 36.Ne5= [If 36.Re5 Bb4
37.Na3 Rf8 38.Kg1 and black is still slightly
better.] 36...Kg7 37.h3 [White could sit tight
without committing herself to any change
in pawn structure. The art of doing nothing
and waiting for your opponent to unfold her
plans is an important trait of character that
does not come easy. One wants to attack
or retrieve a lost pawn immediately. 37.Ra2!
Rc7 38.Kg1=]
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(Position after 36…Kg7)
37...Rc7 38.Ra2 Kf6 39.Rf2 [With 39.h4
closing the king-side, the game should be
drawn. But white probably wants more.]
39...Rg8 40.Rf1? [By this move she is
allowing the bishop to reach e3 from where
it is even more dangerous that while at c3.
This was the last chance to block the king-
side with 40.h4 ] 40...gxh3+ 41.Kxh3
Rcg7 42.Rg1 Bd2µ This threatens ...Bxf4
43.Nf3 Be3 44.Raa1 [If 44.Rg2 Bxf4–
+] 44...Bf2! 45.Ng5 Bxg1 46.Rxg1 Rc7
47.Ra1 [Black has an absolute win after
47.Rc1 Re8 48.Nf3 Re3 49.Nxd4 Rxd3
50.Nb5 Rc5; Neither could white escape
with: 47.Re1 Rxc2 48.Re6+ Kg7 49.Re7+
Kh6 50.Nf7+ Kg6 51.Ne5+ Kf6 52.Rh7
Rc1!–+] 47...Ra8 48.Ra4? [Giving up
without a fight. Although black would still
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be on top, she should try: 48.Ra2 Rb7
49.Nf3 Rb4 and black’s plan of a5-a4 could
still be contested.] 48...Rxc2 49.Rxd4
Re8! 50.Rxd5 Ree2 [50...Re1
threatening mate on h1 was stronger.]
51.Nh7+ [If 51.Kh4 Rh2+ 52.Nh3 Rc8 with
the threat of Rg8 and Rg4 mating.]
51...Ke6 52.Re5+ Rxe5 53.fxe5 Kxe5
54.Ng5 Kd4 55.Nf3+ Kxd3 0–1
J Saranya (2140)
Shweta Gole (1984)
1.e4 e6 2.Nf3 d5 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.e5 Nfd7
5.d4 c5 6.dxc5 Nc6 7.Bf4 Be7 8.h3 Nxc5
9.Bd3 0–0 10.0–0 Nxd3 [A new move.
Usual is 10...Qb6 ] 11.Qxd3 f6 12.exf6
Bxf6 13.Bg3= a6 14.Rfe1 b5 15.Rad1
Ra7 [15...b4 16.Na4 Qa5 17.b3 Bd7]
16.Qe3 Qe7 17.Qb6 Qb7 18.Qc5 Bd7?!
[Though this bishop moves away from its
original square it cannot constitute
development. With her two central pawns
fixed on e6 and d5, and unable to move
without serious setbacks, black must seek
compensation in stirring up the position. With
this in perspective it was best here to
complicate with: 18...b4 19.Ne2 Bxb2
20.Nf4 Nd8 21.Nd4 Bc3 22.Re3 Bxd4
23.Rxd4 a5 and black is even a bit better
despite her weak central pawns!] 19.Bh4
Bxh4 20.Nxh4 Rc8? [All the black forces
are huddled on the queen-side while the king-
side is bereft of defenders. This is a recipe
for disaster. Better was: 20...Qc7! 21.Rd3
Na5 offering exchange of queens and Nc4
would give equal chances.]
No. Not crazy. Irrational judgment. Trauma of the
childhood. No, the father. If you mention the father,
he will not speak the whole night. Mother, he calls
every day. And the sister. Trauma of the childhood.
Bad instruction. Poor Bobby. -- Jezdimir Vasiljevic
(on whether he thought Fischer was crazy and
whether his problems stemmed from his relationship
with his mother)

21.Nxd5 exd5 22.Qxd5+ Kh8 23.Qf7!
Note that the black bishop cannot move
to any safe square to offer an exchange of
queens. 23...Qc7 24.Rd5
24...h6 [If 24...Qa5 25.Re4! threatening 26
Ng6+ hxg6 27 Rh4#; Or, if 24...Qd8 25.Rh5
Bf5™ 26.Qxf5 h6 27.Ng6+ Kg8 28.Qe6+
Kh7 29.Rd5 Qa5 30.Red1] 25.Ng6+ Kh7
26.Nf8+ Rxf8 [26...Kh8?? 27.Rxd7+-]
27.Qxf8 Qc8 28.Qf3 Kg8 [If 28...Be6
29.Qe4+ wins the bishop through a double
attack.] 29.Qe4 Ra8? [29...Kh8 Taking the
king away from a possible check was the
best. Now black falls to a series of double
attacks. Better was:] 30.Red1 Ra7?
[Probably in time trouble, black might have
thought she had no choice but to move
the rook. She could have still put up a dour
resistance with: 30...Be8 31.c3 Qc7±]
Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron
31.Rxd7! Double attack! 31...Rxd7
32.Qe6+ Kh7 33.Rxd7 Qa8 [If 33...Kh8
evading Rxg7+ then comes: 34.Qd6 with
35 Rc7 to follow.] 34.Qe4+ Kh8 35.Qg6!
Yet another double attack! 35...Qf8
36.Qxc6 Qf4 37.Qd6 Qc1+ 38.Kh2 1–0
Mohota,Swati (2025)
B Thipsay (2126)
1.d4 e6 2.c4 f5 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.Nc3 Bb4
5.Qb3 Qe7 6.a3 Bxc3+ 7.Qxc3 b6
8.Bg5 [8.g3 is the normal system of play
against the Dutch Defence.] 8...Bb7 9.0–
0–0!? [This is a new way of handling the
Dutch. Usual is 9.e3 ] 9...d6 10.d5 e5?!²
[Better was: 10...Ne4 11.Qe3 (Or 11.Bxe7
Nxc3 12.bxc3 Kxe7 13.Nd4 Bc8=)
11...Nxg5 12.Nxg5 e5=] 11.h4 Nbd7
12.Nd2?! [White can only guess where
black is going to castle. Till then, it would
have been good to have a useful move
like 12.h5 on the board.] 12...h6 13.Bxf6
Qxf6 [Black has a good game after the
natural recapture: 13...Nxf6 But she
apparently has dreams of using it on c5.]
14.e4 f4 [With both the white king and
queen on the c-file, it would have been
advisable to initiate activities along that file
with 14...c6 ] 15.g3
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15...a5?! [Black has made up her mind to
play Nc5. Again 15...c6= ] 16.Bh3 Nc5
17.Rhg1 g5? [Probably white’s Rg1
triggered fears in black and she reacts
quickly to stop any opening of the g-file.
Black has a good game with: 17...0–0
18.Kb1 Bc8=] 18.Bf5² Ke7 19.hxg5
hxg5 20.Rh1 a4 [Better was 20...c6
21.dxc6 Bxc6 22.Kb1 b5 with
approximately equal chances.] 21.Qf3
Rxh1 22.Rxh1 Rh8 23.Kc2! Rh6 [It was
not too late to carry the attack to white
with 23...c6 24.Rxh8 Qxh8 25.Qg4 Qf6
though the game is slightly tilted towards
white.] 24.Rh5! threatening Qh1 capturing
the h-file. 24...Rxh5 25.Qxh5
25...Qg7 [It is interesting how the same
move is the best for a player over a stretch
of the game, but that player never
considers it! Probably the move c6
appeared to be a case of breaking ones
head against a wall, but watch. 25...c6
26.g4 b5! 27.dxc6 Bxc6 28.cxb5 Bxb5
29.Nf3 Be8 30.Qxg5 Qxg5 31.Nxg5 Bc6
32.f3 Nb3 33.Ne6 Bd7 34.Ng5 Bc6 and it
should be a draw though white has a pawn
more.] 26.g4 Ba6 27.Kc3 b5 28.Nf3
bxc4 [If 28...Kf6 29.Qe8 bxc4 30.Nxg5!!
Kxg5 (30...Qxg5?? 31.Qf8#) 31.Qd8+ Qf6
32.Qg8+ mates.] 29.Nxg5 Bb5 30.Qh4!
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The threat of a discovered check could be a
terrifying experience for the defender.
30...Ke8 31.Nh7! Black’s knight and bishop
cannot get back to the defence of their king.
31...c6 32.Nf6+ Kf7 33.Nh5 Qh8 34.g5!
cxd5 35.g6+ After 35... Ke8 36 g7 Qg8 37
Nf6+ wins. 35...Ke8 36.g7 1–0
Riya Savant (1868)
Rucha Pujari (2210)
1.d4 d5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.g3 c5 Black is
already showing signs of aggression which
puts off white. 4.Bg2 cxd4 5.Nxd4 e5 By
simple logical play black has gained a big
space advantage. This is not a happy
variation for white. 6.Nf3 Nc6 7.0–0 h6
Maybe this is not a great move, but it limits
white’s option of playing Bg5. White is
forced to fianchetto her queen’s bishop as
well leading to a ‘heavy’ and uneasy
position for white. 8.b3 Be6 9.Bb2 Bd6
10.Nfd2? [The other knight could have
been moved here though it will also face
problems in a cramped position: 10.Nbd2
0–0 11.c4 Qe7] 10...0–0 11.e4 dxe4
12.Nxe4 Nxe4 13.Bxe4 f5 14.Bd5 Qe7
Spassky and Fischer were chess artists each trying
to paint the Mona Lisa while grabbing at the other's
brush. -- Larry Parr (on the '92 match)

15.Bxe6+? [Without a fight, white is
exchanging off her fianchettoed bishop
in the castled position. And it has made
4 of the 15 moves played so far! To be
considered was: 15.c4 Rad8 16.Nc3 e4
17.Bxe6+ Qxe6 18.Nd5 f4 19.Qh5³]
15...Qxe6 16.Nd2 Kh8 17.Nc4?! [The
development of this knight could be
delayed in favour of 17.Qe2 or 17 Qh5
clearing the first rank for the rooks and
then decide where to place the knight.]
17...Bc7 18.Qe2 f4 With white’s white
square bishop exchanged off the white
squares in her castled position have
become very weak. And black makes a
bee line towards them. 19.f3 b5 20.Nd2
fxg3 21.hxg3 Qg6 22.Ne4 Nd4
23.Bxd4 exd4 24.Kg2 Rac8
Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron
25.Rf2 [If 25.Qxb5?! Bf4! 26.Rf2 Be3
27.Re2 Rxf3! 28.Kxf3 Rf8+ and black
wins.] 25...Rf5 Threatening 26. ..Bxg3 27
Nxg3 Rg5 winning. The best defence to this
threat is indirect, pinning the Rf5 against
the queen with 26 Qd3. 26.g4 This further
weakens her king-side. Generally, the
further the pawns are advanced in your
castled position, the weaker the king’s
position. 26...Rf4 27.Ng3 Qd6! Planning
a discovered attack on the Ng3. 28.Qd3
[If 28.Ne4 Rxe4 29.Qxe4 (29.fxe4 Qh2+
30.Kf1 Qh1#) 29...Qh2+ 30.Kf1 Qh1+
black wins.] 28...Rf7 29.Nf1 a6 30.Rd1
Bb8! 31.Re2 [Not 31.Qxd4? Qxd4
32.Rxd4 Ba7 wins the exchange. This
possibility occurs again and again in the
further course of the game.] 31...Rcf8
32.Rf2 h5
33.Qe4 [This is asking for trouble. Though
she is in a downward spiral, she could try
33.gxh5 Rf5 34.Kg1 Rxh5 35.Rg2 Qh6
36.Qe4µ and let black worry about how
she was going to win from here.] 33...Rf4
34.Qd3 hxg4 35.Ng3 gxf3+ 36.Kf1 Rh4
The knight is lost. 0–1
He helped my mother in the kitchen and was very
friendly. My sister Sophia and I played blitz with
Bobby occasionally and we realized that he was still
a very strong and capable chess player. -- Susan
Polgar (on being visited by Fischer in Hungary)
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Catherina,Michelle (2079)
A G,Nimmy (2195)
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6
5.d3 Bc5 6.0–0 b5 7.Bb3 d6 8.c3 Ba7
9.a4 0–0? With her black square bishop on
the queen-side, she must first play h7-h6
and then only castle. 10.Bg5! h6 11.Bh4
11...g5 [The risky way to break the pin of
the bishop. The alternative is 11...Be6
(hoping for 12 Bxe6 fxe6 when the pin is
no longer a problem, but there comes.. .)
12.Bd5! Bxd5 13.exd5 Nb8 14.Bxf6 Qxf6
15.axb5 axb5 16.Na3±] 12.Bg3 Ne7
[12...b4 not allowing the opening of the
b-file gave equality.; But after 12...Nh5?
13.Nxe5 Nxe5 14.Qxh5 bxa4 15.Bxa4
Kh7 (threat Bg4 trapping queen) 16.Qe2
white is winning as she has an extra pawn
and black’s castled position if full of holes
waiting to be exploited.] 13.Re1 Ng6?!
[13...Nh5! was perfectly safe now.] 14.d4
Qe7 15.axb5 axb5 16.Na3 c6 17.Nc2
Nf4 It is not advisable to start an attack
when your forces are yet to be developed.
Here, black has to develop her Bc8 and
Rf8 into meaningful positions and then plan
on liberating herself from white’s grip.
18.Nb4 Qc7 19.Nd3
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19...Nxd3 [A good alternative, which at
first sight appears to be losing, was to stick
to her centre with: 19...Re8! 20.dxe5
(20.Bxf4 gxf4 21.dxe5 dxe5 22.Ndxe5
Rxe5 23.Nxe5 Qxe5 as in the main
variation.) 20...dxe5 21.Nfxe5 Rxe5
22.Bxf4 gxf4 23.Nxe5 Qxe5 24.Rxa7 Rxa7
25.Qd8+ Kg7 26.Qxc8 (so far good, but
now comes the counter tactic)
26...Qxe4!=] 20.Qxd3 Nd7? [Also leading
to equality would be: 20...Re8 21.dxe5
dxe5 22.Bxe5 Rxe5 23.Nxe5 Qxe5 follows
the same variation given in the previous
move.] 21.Qd2!± After this very strong
move threatening a sacrifice on the king-
side with 22 Nxg5, black has no good
defence. 21...exd4 [Black still has a few
tricks up her sleeve and could try to fight
back with: 21...Kh7 22.Nxg5+ hxg5
23.Qxg5 f6 24.Qh5+ Kg7 25.Qg4+ Kh7
26.Re3 (threatening 27 Bxd4 and 28 Rh3#)
26...Bxd4! 27.Rxa8 Bxe3 28.Rxc8 Rxc8
29.Be6!± the variations and sub-variations
are of absorbing interest.] 22.cxd4 Rd8
He had a funny habit: while his opponent was
pondering a move, he would now and then brush
off specks of dust, real or imaginary, from the
opponent's side of the chessboard. Eventually,
Petrosian broke him of the habit by giving him a rap
on the fingers. -- Alexander Koblentz

Making way for the king to flee but he
cannot go far. 23.Nxg5! hxg5 24.Qxg5+
Kf8 25.Qh6+ Ke8 [25...Ke7 26.e5 dxe5
(26...d5? 27.Bh4+ Ke8 28.e6) 27.Bh4+
Ke8 28.Qh5 Nf8 29.Rxe5] 26.Bxd6 1–0
P Priya (2167)
R Bharathi (2083)
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nc6
5.Nc3 a6 6.Be2 Qc7 7.0–0 Nf6 8.Be3
Bb4 9.Na4 Be7 10.Nxc6 bxc6 11.Nb6
Rb8 12.Nxc8 Qxc8 13.e5 Nd5 14.Bc1
0–0 15.c4 Nb6 16.Bd3 [White’s
intentions are clear. She wants to attack
the black king. Here 16 Qc2 has been
played before. A good positional
continuation could be 16.Bf4 keeping the
black d-pawn under pressure.] 16...Qc7
17.Bf4 c5 [17...d5?? 18.exd6 Bxd6
19.Bxd6 Qxd6 20.Bxh7+ wins the queen.]
18.Re1 g6 19.Qg4 d6 20.Rad1 White
has an excellent position. 20...Rfd8 21.h4
[This is a little too early. Better was: 21.b3
so that after 21...dxe5 22.Bxe5 Bd6 23.Bf6
Be7 she could retain an advantage with
24.Bc3] 21...dxe5 22.Bxe5 Bd6 23.Bf6
Re8 [Black thinks she can win by avoiding
the exchange of bishops. Better was
23...Be7= ] 24.h5 Nd7 25.Bc3 Ne5
Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron
Other alternatives like 25...Nf8 and 25...Kf8
also lead to advantage for white. 26.hxg6!
fxg6 [If 26...Nxg4?? 27.gxh7+ Kf8 28.h8Q+
Ke7 29.Qh4+ wins a knight.] 27.Qh3 Nxd3
28.Rxd3± e5 [As the pawn could not be
defended on e6, it is moved forward. If
28...Qe7 29.Red1 Rbd8 (29...Bc7 30.Qe3±
(Black’s problems are eased after 30.Rd7?
Rbd8!) ) 30.Ba5 Rd7 31.b4! Rc8 32.Bb6!+-]
29.Red1 Rbd8 30.Rd5 A good move
restraining black from active play. The e5 pawn
has to be defended. 30...Qe7
31.Bxe5! A well calculated combination which
nets white two pawns and reaches a queen
endgame. 31...Bxe5 32.Rxd8 Bh2+
33.Kxh2 Rxd8 34.Rxd8+ Qxd8 35.Qe6+
Kf8 36.Qxa6 Qd4 Black is attacking the b2
and f2 pawns. White must necessarily save his
f2 pawn which is important to prevent black
from getting a draw by perpetual check.
37.Qa8+ Kg7 38.Qb7+ Kh6
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39.Qf7! Qh4+ [If 39...Qxb2 40.Qf8+ Kg5
41.Qxc5+ Kf6 42.a4 and white wins easily.]
40.Kg1 Qd4 41.Qf8+ Kg5 42.Qe7+ Kf5
43.Qf7+ Kg4 44.Qf3+ Kh4 45.Qh3+
Kg5 46.Qe3+ 1–0
B Thipsay (2126)
J Rajasurya (1957)
1.e4 c5 2.Nc3 Nc6 3.f4 d6 4.Nf3 g6
5.Bb5 Bg7 6.Bxc6+ bxc6 7.d3 e6 8.0–
0 Ne7 9.Qe1 d5 10.e5 This is a new
move here. This allows the black knight
access to f5. 10 Na5 pressuring the
doubled c-pawn is usual. 10...Ba6 11.Na4
c4 12.Nc5 cxd3 13.cxd3± [Not 13.Nxa6?
Qb6+ 14.Qe3 Qxa6 15.Qxd3=] 13...h5
[Black wishes to play 13...Nf5 without
fearing 14.g4! Ne7 15.Be3±] 14.Be3
1.Nxf5+? [The interrogation mark is to
indicate that an immediately winning move
has been missed. Here white could ‘mate’
the queen with: 21.Nb5+ Kg8 22.Nc7 and
the black queen is lost.] 21...Kg8 22.Nd4
Qe8 23.Bd6 She is preparing for the
thematic pawn thrust f4-f5. 23...Bf8
24.Bxf8 Kxf8 25.f5 gxf5 26.Nxf5 Bxf5
27.Rxf5+- Rh6 28.Qg3 Qe6 29.Rcf1
Re8 30.d4 c5 Already a pawn down, she
sheds one more in a desperate attempt to
loosen white’s grip over the centre.
31.dxc5! Rh7 32.Rg5 White is
threatening to win the black rook on h7 by
a double attack after 33 Rg8+ Ke7 34
Rxe8+ Kxe8 35 Qg8+ 32...Ke7 33.Rf6
Qc8 34.b4 Kd8

Now the threat Nxa6 is renewed. 14...Bc8

The alternative was to play the passive
14...Qc8 which is even worse. [14...Bb5??
15.a4 and black loses her bishop.] 15.Nd4
Nf5 16.Rc1 [White needs to be patient and
not rush into disaster grabbing a pawn with:
16.Nxc6? Qb6 17.Nd4 Nxe3 18.Qxe3 Qxc5–
+] 16...Bd7 17.Nb7 Qe7 [17...Qc7 was
better even though it was also losing.]
18.Nxf5 exf5 19.Bc5! Qe6 20.Nd6+! Kf8 335.Qd3 The double attack wins. 1–0

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Two games from 25th SPIC
Open,Thoothukudi 2012
Bala Kannamma,P (1996)
Iniyan,P (1813) [B87]
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6
5.Nc3 a6 6.Bc4 e6 7.Bb3 b5 8.f3 Bb7
9.Be3 Nbd7 10.Qd2 Rc8 11.g4 Nc5
12.g5 Nfd7 13.Nce2 Ne5 14.0–0–0
Qc7 15.Kb1 Nxb3 16.axb3
16...Nxf3! A nearly winning sacrifice. 17.Nxf3
Bxe4 18.Ned4 e5 19.Rhe1 Be7 20.Bg1
Bg6 21.Nh4 exd4 22.Nxg6 hxg6 23.Bxd4
0–0 24.Re2 a5 25.Qf4 [25.h4 to be
followed by Rh1 and then h4-h5 should give
white good chances.] 25...a4 26.Rd3 axb3
27.Rxb3 Qc4 28.Rd3 [28.Rxe7?? Qxc2+
29.Ka2 Ra8+ 30.Ra3 Rxa3+ 31.Kxa3 Qa4#]
28...Rfe8 29.b3 Qd5 30.Rde3 Qh1+
31.Re1 Qc6 32.Rc3 [32.R3e2 Bf8] 32...Qd7
33.Ree3 Bf8 34.Rxc8 Rxc8 35.h4 Qc6
36.Qf2 Re8 37.Rf3 Qd5 38.Kb2 b4 39.h5?
gxh5 0–1
Ganesh Babu,S (2071)
Nishvin,J (2070) [D85]
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 d5 4.cxd5 Nxd5
5.e4 Nxc3 6.bxc3 Bg7 7.Nf3 c5 8.Rb1
0–0 9.Be2 cxd4 10.cxd4 Qa5+ 11.Bd2
Qxa2 12.0–0 b6 13.Qc1 Qe6 14.Bc4
Qxe4 15.Re1 Qb7 16.Bb4 Re8 [A new
Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron
move. Better was the usual move: 16...Bf6
] 17.Ng5 e6 18.d5 Na6 19.Bxa6!
Exchanging off his powerful bishop, but he
has a good reason for it. 19...Qxa6 20.Qc6!
[Not 20.Qc7? Qb7 By playing 20 Qc6! first
he is getting black to block his b7 square with
his bishop.] 20...Bb7 21.Qd7 Bxd5
22.Qxf7+ Kh8 23.Bc3! Rg8 24.Re3 Qa2
25.Qxg6!! If 25...hxg6 26 Rh3# 1–0
Rucha Pujari (2210)
Vaishnavi Thakur (1530)
1.d4 d5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.g3 Bf5 4.Bg2 e6
5.0–0 c5 6.b3 Nc6 7.Bb2 cxd4 8.Nxd4
Nxd4 9.Bxd4 Rc8 10.c4 [This sparks
violence of a rare order. Usually played here
is 10.c3 ] 10...dxc4 11.Bxb7 Rc7 12.Ba6
Threatening Bb5+ and also the black pawn
on c4. 12...Bh3
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This bishop threatens to make merry when

its white counterpart is away. But this move
inspires white to play like Tal, sacrificing left
and right. 13.Bxf6! Qxf6 [13...Qxd1
14.Rxd1 gxf6 15.bxc4±] 14.Bb5+! Ke7
15.Nd2! Bxf1 [15...Qf5 16.Nxc4 Qd5
17.Qxd5 exd5 18.Ne3 Rc5 19.Rfd1 Rxb5
20.Nxd5+ Rxd5 (20...Kd8 21.Nc3+ wins
the rook.; 20...Kd6 or any other king move
loses the Bh3 through a discovered check.
21.Nf4+) 21.Rxd5 and white has rook and
two pawns for black’s bishops.] 16.Nxc4!
threatening mate with Qd6. 16...e5 Lateral 25.Bb7+!! Another beautiful move!
defence against the threat of 18 Qd6# 25...Kb5 [If 25...Qxb7 26.Rc6+!] 26.Qxa7
17.Ne3 Qe6 [17...Qd6?? 18.Nf5++-] Bd7 27.Qa6+ Kb4 28.Rc4# Fireworks of
18.Nd5+ Kd8 19.Nxc7+ Kxc7 20.Rc1+ a high order in the very first round! 1–0
White gets her pieces into play at every
opportunity disdaining to capture the black A G Nimmy (2195)
bishop on f1. 20...Kb7 Amruta Mokal (2073)

29...Nc7 With two extra pawns and a

dominating rook on the 7th rank, black
should win as a matter of course. But
watch what happens!

21.Qd8! Bd6 [If 21...Ba3 white wins with

her original plan of 22.Qc7+ Ka8 23.Bc6+]
22.Qxh8 Bh3 23.Bc6+! Ka6 24.Qa8!!
White’s threat is 25 Qb5+ Ka5 26 Qb5#
24...Qe7
He was in the perfect atmosphere to learn chess.
There weren't so many good books then but
guys like Artie Bisguier, Bill Lombardy, Kmoch and
Walter Shipman would help him all they could.
Anything he wanted to know, they would try to
help him with. -- Ron Gross (on the young
Fischer)
30.Re3 Nc4 31.Rd3 e5–+ Though this
pawn move is winning, it lays the
foundation for her future difficulties. Black
should take steps to secure her king
position with either h6 or g6 and not
present black with an immediate object for
attack. 32.h3 Ne6 [It was best to make
secure her king’s position with 32...g6

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33.Re1 Rf7 34.Nxe5 Re7 35.Rd8+ Kg7
36.Nf3 Rxe1+ 37.Nxe1 Rc1 38.Rd7+ Kh6
and black is winning.] 33.Re1 Nc5 [Best
for black was: 33...Rf8 34.Nxe5 Nf4 35.Rf3
Nxg2 36.Rxf8+ Kxf8 37.Rf1+ Ke8 38.Nxc4
bxc4 and black should win this ending.]
34.Rd5 e4 [Better would have been
34...Nb3 35.Nxe5 Rd2 as she would avert
all danger and make one step in the direction
of simplifying the game and winning it.]
35.Ng5 h6! [It is better to get rid of the
mate threat hanging over your head and
chase the knight. If 35...Nd3 36.Nh5 Nxe1
37.Nxf4 Rd2 38.Rc5 and though black still
has the advantage she does not have a
clear win.] 36.Rxc5 hxg5 37.Nxe4 Nxa3
38.Rxg5 Kh7? [This is not a happy idea.
Black has everything under control after:
38...Rc6 39.g3 (black was threatening
39...Re6) 39...Rf8–+] 39.Nd6
39...Kh6? [Probably black was in time
trouble and, with the game slipping away
from her, she feared that the white knight
was entering the attack. This was the time
for her rook to fall back for defence. She
probably attacked the rook with her king
to gain time on the clock. Though the rook
flees, it goes to a square attacking the black
knight gaining time for her other rook to
get into the attack. 39...Rc7 preventing 40
Re7 was important.] 40.Rg3 b4
41.Re6++- Kh7 [If 41...Kh5 42.Reg6
Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron
(42.Re8 g5!=) 42...Rc5 43.Rxg7 and white
wins.] 42.Re7 Kg8 [Played under the
wrong notion that her king was safer on f8
than on h8. Though still losing better was:
42...Kh8 43.Rexg7 Rf8 44.Nf7+ Rxf7
45.Rxf7 Rc4 46.Rf6+-] 43.Rgxg7+ Kf8
44.Rh7! Threatening 45 Re8# 44...Kg8
45.Reg7+ Kf8 46.Rb7 Kg8 47.Ne8!
White is threatening 48 Rbg7+ Kf8 49
Rh8# A great escape for white! 1–0
B Thipsay (2126)
K Nirupama (1958)
1.e4 Nc6 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 Nf6 4.c3 Bg4
5.Bd3 e5 6.Be3 Be7 7.Nbd2 0–0 8.h3
Bh5 9.d5 Nb8 10.Nf1 this is a new move
as 10 0–0 is played here. With the text
white wants to get her knight into the king-
side when f1 is still available. 10...c6 11.c4
Qa5+ 12.Bd2 Qb6 13.Rb1 Bg6 14.Qe2
Nbd7 15.b4 Rfe8 16.Ng3 Bd8 17.0–0
White has a considerable space advantage.
17...Qc7 18.Nh2 Qc8 [Better was:
18...a5 19.bxa5 Nc5 20.Rfd1 Qd7=]
19.Rfc1 Bb6 (See diagram next
column) 20.Nhf1 [If 20.Ng4 Nxg4 21.Qxg4
a5 22.bxa5 Bxa5 23.Be3 and white has a
slight advantage.] 20...h5?! [This does not
get her anywhere. Better was: 20...c5 21.b5
Qc7=] 21.Bg5 Bd4 22.Ne3 Nh7 23.Bh4
Bxe3 24.fxe3?! [Announcing her intention
of operating along the f-file. Better was
24.Qxe3!± as she has the two bishops and
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retains her option of opening up the game
with f2-f4. Blocked positions suit knights, not
bishops.] 24...Ndf6 25.Rf1 cxd5 26.cxd5
Qc3 27.Rfc1 Qa3 28.Rc7 Nxd5 [If
28...Rac8 29.Rxb7 Rc3 30.Rb3 Rxb3
31.axb3 Qxb3 32.Nf5 Bxf5 33.exf5 Qxd5
34.Rxa7±] 29.Rb3?! Qxb3! 30.axb3 Nxc7
31.Bc4 Rac8 [With two rooks for a queen,
black could build a solid fortress with: 31...a6
32.Qd2 b5 33.Bd5 Nxd5 34.Qxd5 Ra7
35.Qxd6 f6µ] 32.Nxh5 b5 33.Bd3 a6
34.Ng3 Ne6 35.Nf5 Bxf5 [35...f6! would
take care of the threat of 36...Ne7+]
36.exf5 Neg5 [After 36...Nc7 black stands
better, though slightly.] 37.e4 f6= 38.Be1
38...Rcd8?! [The wrong rook! Why move
away from the open c-file when the other
rook can do the same job? Better was
38...Red8 ] 39.Qa2!² Ra8 40.h4 [This is
chasing the knight to where he wants to
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go anyway. White should plan on planting
her queen on the central d5 square which
will give her excellent attacking
opportunities. Therefore, 40.Qd2 Nf8
41.Be2! Red8 (41...Nxe4?? 42.Qd5+ wins
the knight.) 42.Qd5+] 40...Nf7 41.Be2
Nf8 42.Bh5 Red8 43.Qd2 d5! 44.exd5
[44.Bxf7+ Kxf7 45.exd5 Rd6!= as black is
going to double rooks on the d-file and
capture the d5 pawn.] 44...Ra7 45.Bf2
Rad7 46.Bf3 Nd6 47.g4 Nf7 48.Qc2 The
queen’s threat to enter the black camp is
now winnning the game. 48...Nh6 This
speeds up the disintegration of her position.
49.g5 fxg5 50.hxg5 Nf7 51.Be3 Nd6
52.Qc6? [This throws away the win for
which she has so patiently played. 52.Bg4
would win.] 52...Nf7 [Probably black
feared that there was a big trap behind the
offer of the pawn on f5. Her best would be
to capture it and try to steer the game
towards equality with: 52...Nxf5 53.Bb6
Nd4 54.Bxd4 exd4 55.Qxa6 Re8 56.Qxb5
Re5 57.g6 Rd6=] 53.f6 Kh7 54.Bc5
[54.Bc5 Nxg5 55.Bg4 Rf7 56.Be7 Rb8
57.Be6+-] 1–0
Salini (1823)
P Priya (2167)
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 Nc6 3.Nf3 e6 4.g3 Bb4+
5.Bd2 Qe7 6.Nc3 0–0 7.Bg2 d6 8.0–0
Bxc3 9.Bxc3 e5 10.d5 Nb8 11.c5
[Generally, it is not advisable to change the
pawn strcuture when you have not
completed your development. 11.Qc2 has
been played here before.] 11...e4 12.cxd6
cxd6 13.Nd2 Nbd7 [Premature would be:
13...e3 14.Nc4 exf2+ 15.Rxf2 Ng4 16.Qd4
f5 17.Rf4± and white has a very strong
attack.] 14.Nc4 b6 15.Ne3 Re8 (See
diagram next column) 16.Qd2!? White
has a refreshingly aggressive plan for her
future. She wants to place her queen on

g5, menacing black’s king-side. 16...Bb7
17.Rfd1 a5 18.Nf5 Qf8 19.Qg5 [She
goes according to her original plan not
seeing that stronger was: 19.Qf4! Ne5
20.Bxe4 Ng6 21.Qf3 Ne5 22.Qg2 Nxe4
23.Qxe4 Bc8 24.Re1± White plans 25
Rad1(The razor sharp alternative is good
for tactical players: 24.Nxd6 Qxd6 25.f4
Qc5+ 26.Bd4 Qb5 27.fxe5 Bb7 28.a4
Qxd5 29.Qxd5 Bxd5 30.Bxb6 and white
has a significant advantage.)] 19...Rac8
20.Nh6+? [This leads white nowhere.
20.Bh3!± pressuring the two inter-
connected black knights was an alternative
worthy of consideration.] 20...Kh8
21.Ng4? Nxg4 22.Qxg4 Nc5 23.Rac1
Rc7 [23...f5 24.Qf4 Ba6 is equal.] 24.a3
a4 25.Bd4 Rce7
26.Bxc5?! [With black’s e4 pawn getting
stronger, white acts defensively. Better was
Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron
to counter-attack: 26.Qf4 Nb3 (26...Ba6
27.Bxc5 dxc5 28.Rd2 e3 29.fxe3 Rxe3
30.Qxa4 Rxe2 31.Rxe2 Bxe2 32.Qa7±)
27.Rc2 f5 28.Qxd6 Rd8 and white has a
slight advantage.] 26...bxc5 27.Qf4 Re5
white’s d5 pawn is under siege. Black is
clearly on top. 28.f3 f5 29.fxe4 fxe4
30.Qg4 [30.Qxf8+ Rxf8 31.Rc4 (31.e3
Bxd5 32.Rd2 g6 and the d6 pawn cannot
be captured: 33.Rcd1 Bb3) 31...Bxd5
32.Rxa4 Bb3 and black wins the exchange.]
30...Qe7 31.Rd2 [There is no way for
white to save his d5 pawn, for if 31.Rc4?
Bxd5 32.Rxa4 Bb3 Black wins the
exchange.] 31...Bxd5 32.e3 Be6 33.Qe2
Bb3 34.Qb5 Qe6 35.Bf1 [If 35.Qc6 Qh6
36.Re1 Rd8 37.Bxe4 Qe6±] 35...Qh6
36.Re1 Qe6 37.Rc1 Qh6 38.Re1 Ra8
39.Qc6 Rd8 40.Qb5 Qg5 41.Bc4 Rf5
[41...h5!? would set off alarm bells in the
white camp.] 42.Bxb3 axb3 43.Qxb3 d5
44.Qc2 Rc8 45.Rf2 [45.b4 c4 46.Qc3
was only slightly worse for white.]
45...Rxf2 46.Qxf2 Qe5 47.Rc1 h6
48.Qd2 Rb8? [This give white a chance
to get back into the game. Better was
48...c4 or 48...Kh7] 49.Qc3? [White
misses the move that would give her at
least equality and plunges into a difficult
rook endgame. Better was: 49.Rxc5! Qxb2
50.Qxb2 Rxb2 51.Rxd5 Re2 52.a4 Rxe3
53.Re5 Re2 54.h4 e3 55.Re8+ Kh7 56.h5
Ra2=] 49...Qxc3 50.Rxc3 Rb5 51.b3
d4!± 52.exd4 cxd4 53.Rc4 Rd5 54.Kf1
d3 55.Ke1 d2+ 56.Kd1 e3! the threat is
57...e2+ 58 Kxe2 d1Q, so white’s reply is
forced. 57.Re4 Rd3! 58.b4 Rxa3
59.Ke2 White does not wait for 59....Ra1
60 Rd4 Re1+ winning. 0–1
Russians have held the chess World Championship
in all but three of the past thirty-four years. Bobby
is the man who will break that chain. Definitely.
Maybe not in 1963, maybe not even in 1966, but
eventually, for sure. -- Frank Brady
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 Tactics from master games
by S.Krishnan

1. 2.

Black totoplay
White playand winwin
and White
Whitetotoplay and
play winwin
and

3. 4.
Black
Blacktotoplay
playand
andwinwin White
Whitetotoplay and
play winwin
and

5. 6.

Black to play and win White to play and win

White to play and win White to play and win
Solutions on page 43

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 Test your endgame
by K.Muralimohan
All the six studies below are by K.L.Kubbel
Deutsche zeitung 1907 Deutsche Wachenschach 1911
1. 2.

Schweriche Scachzeitung 1935 Rigaer Tageblatt 1914

3. 4.

Wit aan zet wint 1917 Wit aan zet wint 1916
5. 6.

White to play and win in all the six endings above Solutions on page 43

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Masters of the past-23 Carl Schlechter

Carl Schlechter (2 March 1874 - 27 December 1918) was a leading Austrian

chess master and theoretician at the turn of the 20th century. Schlechter
was born into a Catholic family in Vienna. He began playing chess at the age
of 13. His first and only teacher was an Austria-Hungarian chess problemist,
Dr. Samuel Gold.From 1893 onwards he played in over 50 international chess
tournaments. He won or shared first at Munich 1900 (the 12th DSB Congress),
Coburg 1904 (the 14th DSB Congress), Ostend 1906, Stockholm 1906, in
the Vienna 1908 chess tournament, in the Prague 1908 chess tournament,
in the Hamburg 1910 chess tournament (the 17th DSB Congress), and thrice
in the Trebitsch Memorial in Vienna (1911, 1912, 1913).
In 1910 Schlechter played a match against Emanuel Lasker for the World Chess Championship (in
Vienna and Berlin). It is now generally accepted that Schlechter needed to score +2 to win the
match and thus he needed to win the tenth game. But, in the tenth game, tragedy struck: after first
achieving a won game, he blundered into a clearly drawn position, and then blundered again which
led to the loss of the game for him. The match ended tied at 5-5 (+1 -1 =8) and Lasker retained his
title. In any case, Schlechter distinguished himself by being the first person in 16 years to seriously
threaten to claim Lasker's world title.
During World War I, he thrice won Trebitsch Memorial in Vienna. In the last year of his life, he took
third in Vienna, lost a match to Akiba Rubinstein (+1 -2 =3), took second place in Berlin (Quadrangular,
Milan Vidmar won), tied for third place in Kaschau, and took third place in Berlin (Quadrangular,
Emanuel Lasker won). Schlechter died of pneumonia and starvation on 27 December 1918, and
was buried in Budapest on 31 December 1918.
The Carl Schlechter-Arthur Kaufmann-Hugo Fähndrich trio propagated the Viennese chess school,
founded by Max Weiss in the 19th century.Schlechter prepared the eighth and final edition of the
famous Handbuch des Schachspiels openings treatise. Published in eleven parts between 1912 and
1916, it totalled 1,040 pages and included contributions by Rudolf Spielmann, Siegbert Tarrasch,
and Richard Teichmann. International Master William Hartston called it "a superb work, perhaps the
last to encase successfully the whole of chess knowledge within a single volume."
He was a typical example of a gentleman chess player of old, offering courteous draws to opponents
who felt unwell. If his opponent arrived late for a game, Schlechter would inconspicuously subtract an
equal amount of time from his own clock. He also mentored many of his rivals, including Old?ich Duras.
There are several "Schlechter Variations" in the chess openings:
Schlechter Gambit of the Bird's Opening 1.f4 e5 2.fxe5 Nc6
Schlechter Variation of the French Defence 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Bd3
Schlechter Variation of the Slav Defence 1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.e3 g6 (or via a Grünfeld
move-order, 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 d5 4.e3 c6)
Schlechter Variation of the Danish Gambit 1.e4 e5 2.d4 exd4 3.c3 dxc3 4. Bc4 cxb2 5.Bxb2 d5

Courtesy : Wikepedia

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Solutions to ‘Tactics from master games’on p40
1. Mikhalevski,Victor (2519)
Krush,Irina (2457) [E11]
7th International Edmonton CAN (8),
01.07.2012
Position after White’s 50th move. 50...a2!
51.Rg7 Qg8! 52.Rxg8+ Kxg8 53.Qc1
Ra7 54.Qa1 Nbc2 55.Bxc2 Nxc2
56.Qd1 Nd4!–+ 57.Qg4+ [57.Nxd4 a1Q
58.Qxa1 (58.Qg4+ Rg7 Wins) 58...Rxa1
59.Nb5 Rd1 60.Kg2 Rd3–+] 57...Kh8
58.Qh4 Nf3+ 0–1
2. Kamsky,Gata (2744)
Le Quang,Liem (2693) [A30]
ACP Golden Classic Amsterdam (1.1),
14.07.2012
Position after 24th move. White to play.
25.Rxf6! gxf6 [25...Rxd5 26.Qf7+ Kd8
27.cxd5+-] 26.Qf7+ Kd8 27.Qxf6+ Kc7
28.Qxh8+- 1–0
3. Sasikiran,K (2707)
Le Quang Liem (2693) [D45]
ACP Golden Classic Amsterdam NED (3),
16.07.2012
Position after White’s 40th move. Black to
play. 40...Kg6!! 41.Ng3 [41.Rg2+ Kxh5
42.Rxg8 Qe2+ 43.Qxe2 dxe2 44.Rg1 e1Q
45.Rxe1 Bxe1 46.b6 Kh4–+] 41...Bxg3+
[41...Bxg3+ 42.Kxg3 Kh5+ 43.Kh2 Kh4
44.Qf2+ Qxf2+ 45.Rxf2 Rc8–+] 0–1
4. Sutovsky,E (2687)
Jobava,Ba (2730) [B38]
ACP Golden Classic Amsterdam NED (6),
20.07.2012
Position after 27th move. White to play.
28.Rb7! Bxb7 29.cxb7 Rab8 30.Rb6!
Rg8 [30...Ke8 31.Bd1+-] 31.Nc6+ Kd7
32.Nxa5 Rge8 33.Bd1! [33.Bd1 Ke7
34.Ba4 Rg8 35.Nc6++-] 1–0
5. Ernst,Sipke (2558)
Smeets,Jan (2620) [A11]
ch-NED 2012 Amsterdam NED (6),
20.07.2012
Positiom after White’s 17th move. Black
to play. 17...Ne4! [17...Ne4 18.fxe3
(18.Nd4 exf2+ 19.Rxf2 (19.Kh1 Ng3+
20.hxg3 Qh6#) 19...Nxf2–+) 18...Qxe3+
19.Kh1 Ng3+ 20.hxg3 Rh5#] 0–1
6. Koneru,Humpy (2598)
Zhao Xue (2556) [E15]
FIDE WGP Jermuk Jermuk ARM (1),
17.07.2012
Position after 21st move. White to play.
22.Rce1!+- Qf6 [22...Qc7 23.Rxe8+
Kxe8 24.Re1+ Kf8 (24...Kd8 25.Nxf7++)
25.Nxf7 Qxf7 26.Qxd6+ Kg8 27.Qd8+ Qf8
28.Be6#] 23.Rxe8+ Kxe8 24.Re1+
[24.Re1+ Kf8 (24...Kd8 25.Ne6+! Kd7
(25...Ke7 26.Nxg7++-; 25...fxe6
26.Qxd6+ Wins) 26.Nxg7++-) 25.Bd7!
Wins] 1–0
Solutions to ‘Test your endgame’ on page 41
1. 1.b5 Kf3 2.d4 Ke4 3.Nc8 Rxb5
4.Nd6+ c7xd8 5.c7 1-0
2. 1.Nd6 Rxe7 2.Nc4+ Kb3 3.Na5+ Ka3
4.Bf2! 1-0
3. 1.Re1+ Kf8 2.g7+ Qxg7 3.Rf4+ Nf5!
4.Rxf5 Kg8 5.Re8+ Kh7 6.Rh5+ Kg6
7.Reh8! Kf6 8.R8h6 1-0
4. 1.Be4 Kxa7 2.Nd5 Bg8 3.Ne7 Bh7
4.Kd6 Kb8 5.Kd7 Ka7 6.Ke6 Kb6 7.Kf6
Kc5 8.Kg7 1-0
5. 1.f7 a2 2.Be1+ Kc2 3.Bc3 Kxc3
4.fxg8Q a1Q 5.Qh8+ 1-0
6. 1.Ne4+ Kc4 2.Rd8 d1Q 3.Rc8+ Kd5
4.Nc3+ d4xc3 5.Rd8+ 1-0
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ArbiterNational Women Premier Champion WGM Mary Ann Gomes
 National Women Premier Chess Championship ,Jalgaon

Pratibha Shinde, Manish Jain,Nandalal Gadiya, SP.Jaykumar inaugurates, Faruk

Shaikh,Nandalal Gadiya, R.C.Chatterjie, GMAbhijit Kunte, Dyneshvar Rajurkar, Collector
Jayashri Dhande, Mayor D.V.Sunder, Vice-President, FIDE, Ashok Jain, President Maharashtra
Chess Association, Bhartsingh, Secretary AICF, Ravindra Dongre, Treasurer AICF (partly seen)

Players with (L-R) Faruk Shaikh, Organizing Secretary & Central Maharashtra Chess
Association, Pratibha Shinde, Social Worker, Manish Jain, MLA, Dalichand Jain, Jyoti Jain,
Nandalal Gadiya, Secretary, Jalgaon Dist Chess Association, R.C.Chatterji, Chief Arbiter
 Layal Celebration International
Fide Rating Chess Tournament
(Below 2000 rating)
AICF Event code: 71299/TN/2012
Organised by LAYAL CHESS ACADEMY

From 4th to 8th December 2012

Venue:
The Surabhi College of Polytechnic
Namakkal to Erode Road, Namakkal Dt,
Tamilnadu 637003

Total prize money: Rs.6,00,000

First prize: Rs.1,00,000

Entries to be sent to:

A.Balasubramanian, Organizing Secretary,
The Surabhi College of Polytechnic
Namakkal Erode Main Road, Manikattipudur
Nallipalayam (P.O) Namakkal Dt 637003

Inauguration: 4.12.2012 10 a.m

Prize Distribution: 8.12.2012 (one hour after final round)

Contact persons:
A.Balasubramanian, Org.Secretary 97898 86684/96886 11761
Ravi.S 94864 19020
Krishna Kumar Agarwal 96812 53362
C.S.Rajesh, Jt.Secretary,LCA 97913 38504
S.Ramesh Treasurer, LCA 96294 30424

For details of entry fees and prizes visit:

www.indianchessfed.org

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 AICF Calendar November 2012
(confirmed dates are in bold print)
Puri Open All India FIDE Rated Nov15- 20 Nov Puri
Goa Vidyaprasarak Mandal'sSNJA H.S.S PTA All India Open Nov15 - 20 Nov Amogh
1st Gurgaon All India FIDE Rated Nov 15 - 20 Nov Gurgaon
Women's FIDE Grand Prix Series Nov16 - Nov 30 Istanbul, Turkey
2nd Legends FIDE Rated below 2100 Nov 16 - 19 Nov Tirupur
Dr.K.L.Garg Memorial Rating below 2000 Nov 17 - 21 Nov Lucknow
Naurang Memorial FIDE F Rating (WZ) Nov 20 - 24 Nov Gujarath
Late Shantikumarji Firadia All India Open Nov 21 -25 Nov Ahmadnagar
Commonwealth Chess Championships Nov22 -01 Dec Chennai
24th Telegraph Schools Chess Tournament Nov 23 - 30 Nov Kolkata
5th Kolkata International GM Open Dec 03 -13 Dec Kolkata
Celebrating Championship(below 2000) Dec 04 - 08 Dec Namakkal
ACC Kymore Cup FIDE Rated Dec 15 - 21 Dec Katni,MP
AICF AAI Cup Category Tournament 2012 Dec 20 - 30 Dec New Delhi
Asian School Chess Championship 2012 Dec 13 - 20 Dec New Delhi
Ping Rapid Rating Tournament Dec 23 - 25 Dec Chennai, TN
Ping Blitz Rating Tournament Dec 25 - 25 Dec Chennai, TN
World Cities Team Dec 21 - 30 Dec Al Ain, UAE
Hyderabad Rating Ty (below 2000) Dec 22 - 25 Dec Hyderabad
Suraj FIDE Rated Tournament Dec 25 - 30 Dec Sangli
4th RCMM KCF FIDE Rated (below 1800) Dec 26 - 29 Dec Chennai
KCA 2nd FIDE Rated below 2200 Dec 27 - 30 Dec Kottayam
For more information, details, confirmation of dates refer to website:indianchessfed.org
ADVERTISE IN AICF CHRONICLE
Tariff for advertisement : Monthly (in Rs.) Annual (in Rs.)
Back Cover (Colour) 15,000 1,20,000
Inside Cover (Colour) 15,000 1,00,000
Full Page Inside (Colour) 7,000 60,000
Full Page Inside (Black & White) 5,000 45,000
Half Page Inside (Black & White) 3,000 30,000

Solution to ‘Puzzle of the Month’ on page 11

White pawn must have moved last from a2 to a3. Before that black must have
captured a knight obviously as no other white piece could have moved. BBc8 could not
have captured on c8 as white knight could have reached c8 only via d6 checking the
king.BRa8 could not have captured at a8 as BN could not have moved from b6 or c7
occupied by black pawns. This leaves us with two options- BK capturing at e8 or BRh8
capturing at h8. As both are possible and the movement of BK cannot be proved for
certain, black can castle on queen side 0-0-0.

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 The XXVI National Under-9 Chess Championship for
Boys & Girls, Ahmedabad..

Back row (L - R) Vimal Srivastava PRO, Bhavesh Patel, Secretary, GSCA,

Amit Thakkar, President of All India Yuva BJP, Vinay Parikh, Secretary,
Ahmedabad City Chess Association, Mayur Patel, Secretary, Fischer Chess
Club, Principal of Shanti Asiatic School, & Director of Shanti Asiatic School
Mrs. Nikita Chiripal. Front Row (L - R) Fernandes Krystal [Goa]
Runnersup, WFM Lakshmi C [TN] Champion of U-9 Girls, FM Ram Arvind
LN [U-9 Champion] & Kushagra Mohan [ AP] Runnersup U-9 Boys

RAMCO 26th National Under-13 Open &

Girls Chess Championship 2012,Chennai….

Under - 13 Girls in action

 RAMCO 26th National Under-13 Open &
Girls Chess Championship 2012,Chennai….

(L to R) JCD Prabhakar, President, All India Chess Federation, D V Sundar, Vice

President, FIDE, B Murugavel, Vice President, Tamil Nadu State Chess Association, V
Kameswaran, India's first International Arbiter, K Muralimohan, General Secretary,
Tamil Nadu State Chess Association, K Thirukkalathy, Assistant Treasurer, Tamil
Nadu State Chess Association, V R Aravindh Chithambaram

(L to R) Back Row - Indubhai Parmar, Chief Arbiter, D V Sundar, Vice President,

FIDE (World Chess Federation), B Murugavel, Vice President, Tamil Nadu State
Chess Association, Bharat Singh Chauhan, Honorary Secretary, All India Chess
Federation, K Muralimohan, General Secretary, Tamil Nadu State Chess
Association, G Akash, National Premier Chess Champion 2012