AICF CHRONICLE

the official magazine of the All India Chess Federation

Volume : 12 Issue : 4 Price Rs. 25 November 2017

Dr. N. Mahalingam 28th National Under-17 Open and Girls

Chess Championship, Coimbatore, Tamilnadu

K.Priyanka CM Raja Rithvik R

(Tamilnadu) (Telangana)
Under-17 Girls Champion Under-17 Open Champion

43rd National Under-15 Open & 34th National Under-15 Girls

Chess Championship ,Ahmedabad, Gujarat

Sankalp Gupta WFM Divya Deshmukh

(Maharashtra) (Maharashtra)
Under-15 Open Champion Under-15 Girls Champion
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43rd National Under-15 Open & 34th National
Under-15Girls Championship-2017,Ahmedabad
Divya & Sankalp emerge Champions
by IA Vasanth BH , Chief Arbiter 1
Dr. N. Mahalingam 28th National U-17
Open and Girls Championship, Coimbatore
Raja Rithvik and Priyanka are Champions
by Vithal Madhav IA, Chief Arbiter 8
2nd DCA Open FIDE Rated Tournament, Delhi
Shailesh Dravid wins Delhi Open
by IA Gopakumar MS, Chief Arbiter 11
17th Adyar Times FIDE rated Open Tmt, Chennai
Balasubramaniam wins Adyar Times Open
byS.PaulArokiaRajIA,ChiefArbiter 15
1st Nitai Ghosh Memorial International
FIDE Rated,Kolkata
Kaustuv Kundu wins title
by Biswanath Banerjee FA, Chief Arbiter 18
Nanjil of 1st All India Fide Rated Open Tmt, Nagercoil
M.Kunal clinched the title
by Bhuvanaa Sai IA, Chief Arbiter 21
Smt. Suneeta Singh & Sanjay Kasliwal
Open FIDE rated Tmt ,Indore
Gajwa Ankit wins title
by IA Anurag Singh, Chief Arbiter 28
4th Late Shri Laxmikant V Desai
Mem.FIDE Rating , Ponda, Goa
Snehal Bhosale is Winner
by IA Vasanth BH, Chief Arbiter 31
Selected games from Asian Cities
Ch’ship,Bubaneshwar
Annotated by IMN Manuel Aaron 34
Tactics from master games by S.Krishnan 42
Test your endgame by C.G.S.Narayanan 43
Masters of the past-82: Arthur Bisguier 44
AICF Calendar 48
From the Editor’s desk
For the first time India will be hosting the
World Youth (under 12,14 & 16) Chess
Championship in 2019. FIDE had allotted
this prestigious event during the FIDE
Congress held at Antalya on the 14th
October 2017.
There were notable Indian successes at international events
in the month gone by. Asian Women Blitz Champion WIM R
Vaishali continued to revel in the fastest version of the game
to finish a creditable third ahead of 12 GMs at the Chigorin
Memorial Blitz tournament in Russia.GM M.R.Venkatesh’s
fairly long wait for a title in an event with classical time control
ended when he won Liffre Open International in France.GM
Sandipan Chanda finished joint first in the 21st Bavarian
International Open and in Philippines GM Srinath Narayan
had to settle for the fourth spot after his loss in the final round
to GM Nigel Short in the Piaya Network Negros Open. Brief
reports and photos of these events are carried in the centre
pages of this issue.
On the home front, Divya Deshmukh, World Cadet Under-12
Champion, from Nagpur was on a roll to clinch the National
Girls title comfortably in the National Under-15 Chess
Championships held at Ahmedabad. Fifth seeded Sankalp
Gupta, also from Nagpur, won the Open Under-15 title.
Dr.N.Mahalingam’s contribution to the promotion of chess in
the country is enormous and it was only fitting that the 28th
edition of Under-17 National Championships was organized, by
the Academy named after the former AICF&TNSCA President,
and that too at Coimbatore. Dr.Raja Rithvik of Telangana and
K.Priyanka of Tamilnadu took the National Under-17 titles.
Reports, final standings and photographs of these events
together with those of FIDE rated tournaments organized during
October 2017 are featured in this issue.
Selected games annotated by IM Manuel Aaron are also
presented along with ‘Tactics from master games’ by Srinivas
Krishnan. American chess grandmaster, chess promoter, and
writer Arthur Bisguier is featured in the ‘Masters of the past’ series.
C.G.S.Narayanan
Readers are invited to offer their feedback on the
regular features in the AICF Chronicle and are
also invited to send interesting articles, annotated
games and chess anecdotes to the Editor at ‘www.
indianchessfed@gmail.com’ or ‘cgsnarayanan
@hotmail.com.
43rd National Under-15 Open & 34th National Under-15
Girls Chess Championship-2017,Ahmedabad,Gujarat
Divya and Sankalp emerge Champions
by IA Vasanth BH , Chief Arbiter
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3rd National U-15 Open and 34th
National U-15 Girls Chess Champi-
onship-2017 organised by Gujarat
State Chess Association under the aegis
of All India Chess Federation from 1st to
9th October 2017 at Rajpath Club (A.C.
Hall), S. G. Highway, Ahmedabad, Gujarat.
The championship was inaugurated by the
President of Karnavati Club Mr.Jayeshbhai
Modi along with Mr.Preyas Panchigar a well
known industrialist, IM Sekhar Sahu, Vice
President, All India Chess Federation, Mr.
Bhavesh Patel, Joint Secretary, All India
Chess Federation and Secretary, Gujarat
State Chess Association, Mr Samir Shah,
Treasurer, Gujarat State Chess Association
and MrMayur Patel, Vice President, Gujarat
State Chess Association. The Championship
was supported by Ministry of Youth Affairs
&Sports,Gujarat, Sports Authority of India
and Sports Authority of Gujarat.
183 players from almost all the states across
the country participated in Under 15 Chess
Open Chess Championship. International
Master P Iniyan(2461) from Tamil Nadu was
the top seed in open category followed by FM
Erigasi Arjun (2354), Runner up of previous
National Under 15 chess championship from
Telangana and (2288) of Bihar.
AashnaMakhija (2137) from Maharastra was
top seed in Girls Under 15 Chess Champi-
onship followed by WFM DivyaDeshmukh
(2051) from Maharastra, WFM Saina Salon-
ika (2041) from Odisa and Shanya Mishra
(2000) from Delhi. Total of 114 players from
All over India were participated in this event.
WCM Dhyana Patel of Gujarat defeated 4th
seeded Shanya Mishra of Delhi who has 300
more rating points than Dhyana and in Round
4 she drew withMeenal Gupta of J&K who is
again 300 points higher than Dhyana Patel.
Sanskriti Goyal of UP defeated WFM Saina
Solanki of Odisa.
WFM Divya Deshmukh played in top board
until 6th round. She lost to Sanskriti Goyal
of UP in the 6th round and bounced back to
top board in 10th round. Aashna Makhija of
Maharastra defeated the overnight leader
Sanskriti Goyal of UP. Divya comfortably won
with WFM BomminiMounikaAkshayain the
10th round and lead the team. She defeated
Shanya Mishra of Delhi in the final round and
crowned the championship.
In Open category, Ansh M Shah (1724) of
Gujarat drew with 5th seeded Sankalp Gupta
(2244) of Maharastra in the second round.
Ansh playing against Sankalp choose the
french variation to play a solid defensive
game with Bishop vs Knight end game. 3rd
seeded Saurabh Anand (2288) of Bihar and
4th seeded Anuj Shrivatri (2244) of MP also
drew with their lesser rated opponents in
the 3rd round. Top seeded P Inyan (2461) of
Tamil Nadu opted for an unorthodox system
and snatched an initiative of his opponents
advance pass pawn on the king file, with his
pawn on 7th Rank the top seed sacrificed
a piece and exploited the advantage with
immaculate tactical accuracy to smash the
opponent in the top board of 3rd round.
MokshDoshi (2195) of Gujarat pulled a major
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upset by defeating the top seed IM P Iniyan
of Tamilnadu in the 5th round.Moksh faced
the semi slavdefense of IM Iniyan and played
on center and took initiative to exploit the
weak king position of opponent. Eventually
the game was liquidated to a winning rook
pawn end game for the Gujarat boy.
Overnight leader Koustav Chatterjee (WB)
lost to Sankalp Gupta of Maharashtra in ae-
nglish opening game where the former lost a
pawn and went down eventujally. V. S. Rahul
of Tamilnadu accounted for team mate Dileep
Kumar in a ruylopezbreyer variation game.
Koustav, V. S. Rahul and Sankalp Gupta and
Erigasi Arjun became the leaders with eight
points each at the end of penultimate round.
Koustav Chatterjee defeated VS Rahul and
Sankalp Gupta defeated Raja Ritwik R of
Telangana in final round. Based on better tie
break score Sankalp Gupta clinched the title.
All the participants and parents were happy
as the venue, accommodation and trans-
port were par excellence. Parents of Gujarat
chess players distributed fruits, chocolates
and fruit juices to all the players during the
championship
President of Gujarat State Chess Association
Shri Ajaybhai Patel provided all the neces-
sary support for smooth conduction of Chess
Championship at Rajpath Club. Cash prize of
Rs.2,50,000/- were awarded between top
20 winners along with trophy by Bhavesh
Patel, Secretary, GSCA, Jayesh Modi, Vice
President, GSCA, Mayur Patel, Vice Pres-
ident, GSCA, Mishal Patel, Secretary, Ra-
jpathClub Ltd., Sekhar Chandra Sahu, Vice
President, All India Chess Federation and K
Shiva Prasad, Secretary, Telangana State
Chess Association.
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Final Ranking:Open 43rd National Under-15 Open & 34th National Under-15 Girls
Rk. Name Pts.
1 Sankalp Gupta 9 Chess Championship-2017,Ahmedabad,Gujarat
2 Koustav Chatterjee 9
3 FM Erigaisi Arjun 8.5
4 IM Iniyan P 8.5
5 CM Aronyak Ghosh 8.5
6 Raahul V S 8
7 Vatsal Singhania 8
8 Dileep Kumar R 8
9 Saurabh Anand 8
10 Rahul S 8
11 Utsab Chatterjee 8
12 CM Raja Rithvik R 7.5
13 Moksh Amit Doshi 7.5
14 Akshit Kumar J 7.5
15 Mehta Naitik R 7.5
16 Panda Sambit 7.5
17 Anadkat Kartavya 7.5
18 Banerjee Ashutosh 7.5
19 CM Kushagra Mohan 7.5
20 CM Karthik Kumar Pradeep 7.5
Venue of Championship
21 Neelash Saha 7
22 Aditya B Kalyani 7
23 Anuj Shrivatri 7
24 Tarun V Kanth 7
25 Debata Sarthak 7
26 Saksham Rautela 7
27 Jayachandra Srinivas V 7
28 GokhaleR Chandrashekhar 7
29 Vignesh Kasi P L 7
30 Abhishek T M 7
31 Aditya Basu 7
32 Sibi Visal R 7
33 Sai Prasath A S 7
34 Manish Anto Cristiano F 6.5
35 Dhanush Ragav 6.5
36 Kamdar Aparva 6.5
37 Nawin J J 6.5
38 Ansh M Shah 6.5
39 Patil Priyanshu 6.5
40 Samdani Sahil Sagar 6.5
41 Alok Sinha 6.5 (Standing L-R) IG Parmar IA, KS Prasad, IM SekharchandraSahu, Bhavesh Patel, Mishal Patel, IA Vasanth
42 Debanga Kalita 6.5 BH, Ajay Patel, Mayur Patel, Ankit Dalal.(Sitting L-R) E Arjun, Koustav Chatterjee, Sankalp Gupta, Divya
43 Vrandesh Parekh 6.5 Deshmukh, Sanskriti Goyal, Saina Salonika
Cont.on p.5 3
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43rd National Under-15 Open & 34th National Under-15 Girls Chess 44 Shyam Prasad Reddy K 6.5 91 Patel Suyogkumar M 5.5
45 Shuban Saha 6.5 92 Patro Yasoman 5.5
Championship-2017,Ahmedabad,Gujarat 46 Lokesh Hans 6.5 93 Aagam Aditya E 5.5
47 Swarnava Biswas 6.5 94 Agaaz Bansal 5.5
48 Cheela Naga Sampath 6.5 95 Shirodkar Aayush 5.5
49 Joy Pankaj Shah 6.5 96 Upadhyay Prince 5.5
50 Rishabh Jain 6.5 97 Makwana Devam 5.5
51 Shah Jeet 6.5 98 Roshan Hari 5.5
52 Aryan Ranjan 6.5 99 Kholia Kishan 5.5
53 Anandha Venkatesan 6.5 100 Patel Rut 5.5
54 Rudranarayan 6.5 101 Vraj N Shah 5
55 Dhannawat Chakshu 6.5 102 Panchal Soham 5
56 Shyam Sundar M 6.5 103 Mukherjee Sanchit 5
57 Mahitosh Dey 6.5 104 Mehta Vansh Himanshu 5
58 Anup Shankar R 6 105 Anurag Debnath 5
59 Samant Aditya S 6 106 Babaria Rahil Pareshbhai 5
60 Samal Aditya Ranjan 6 107 Md Bashiq Imrose 5
61 Sarath Chandra K 6 108 Mahek J Hinhoriya 5
62 Sharma Vivek 6 109 Rupesh B Ramchandra 5
63 Panwar Krish Navratan 6 110 Prajjwal Suhane 5
64 Aviral Jaiswal 6 111 Gupta Sanyam 5
Sankalp Gupta receiving trophy. (L-R) KS Prasad, IM Sekhar Chandra Sahu, Bhavesh Patel, Mishal Patel, 65 Arunabh Gohain 6 112 Neel Thomas 5
Ajay Patel, Mayur Patel, Vasanth BH. 66 Aditya P Melani 6 113 Piyush Kumar 5
67 Akira S Reddy 6 114 Arnab Kumar Mullick 5
68 Mishra Sumit 6 115 Bhrigu Suryanarayan 5
69 AIM Komal Srivatsav Sajja 6 116 Udit Gupta 5
70 Saumya Srivastava 6 117 Dhruv G Kulkarni 5
71 Uttam Prakash Sharma 6 118 AGM Navodith V Bhat 5
72 Nithyan S 6 119 Sappra Priyanshu 5
73 Thakar Dhruv K 6 120 Anil Thungesh 5
74 Shree Krishna Pranama 6 121 Raval Jay Ketan Bhai 5
75 Thaker Kautilya P 6 122 Jayant Sai 5
76 Dhoot Vinit 6 123 Prajapati Ayush R 5
77 AIM Pankaj Bhat 6 124 Ezaz Ahamed S K 5
78 Malviya Aryaman 6 125 Chinmay Mehta 5
79 Parth Kuntal Raval 6 126 Parth Arora 4.5
80 Kanishk S K 5.5 127 Marsattiwar Yash 4.5
81 Ayush Bhai Mehta 5.5 128 Vishnu Menon 4.5
82 Aarohon Bharadwaj 5.5 129 Ruchir Sengupta 4.5
83 Shree Ganesh Muthu A 5.5 130 Shivansh Pandey 4.5
84 Sibi S Eistein Reddy 5.5 131 Sadbhav Rautela 4.5
85 AIM Aaromal R S 5.5 132 Garvit Kumar Kalra 4.5
86 Jain Adi 5.5 133 Vyas Tatva 4.5
87 B Chidambaram.C 5.5 134 Dhirain Vij 4.5
DivyaDeshmukh receiving trophy. (L-R) KS Prasad, IM Sekhar Chandra Sahu, Bhavesh Patel, Mishal 88 Barde Om 5.5 135 Aakashdeep Singh 4.5
Patel, Ajay Patel, Mayur Patel, Vasanth BH. 89 Thaga Sheriff M 5.5
136 Maharshi Kadam 4.5
90 Patel Maharshi 5.5
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137 Kapoor Divye 4.5 182 Pednekar Ayush 0 43 Arputha Jasmine B A 6 90 Shah Princi 4.5
138 Siddhant Ranjeet Gautam 4.5 183 Nizami Sada 0 44 Madhani Shilpee 6 91 Vadoya Vishva 4.5
139 Patel Jaymin J 4.5 45 Agrawal Aanya 6 92 Vishruti 4.5
140 Chavda Kathan B 4.5 Final Ranking:Girls 46 Bhavi Bhansali 6 93 Yadav Sneha 4
141 Kalash Pratap Gaur 4.5 Rk. Name Pt 47 Pracheta Agarwal 6 94 Vaishnavi Badasheshi 4
142 Krish Srivastava 4.5 1 WFM Divya Deshmukh 9.5 48 Aneri Ketan Kanjar 6 95 Sri Anjana Sarvani M 4
143 Datta Siva Teja R 4.5 2 Sanskriti Goyal 9 49 Tanisha Shital Gotadke 6 96 Shah Garvi 4
144 Bharat Khanna 4.5 3 WFM Salonika Saina 8.5 50 Sneha Paul 6 97 Bhadra Neha 4
145 Agarwal Mukund H 4 4 Makhija Aashna 8.5 51 Panchal Tisha N 6 98 Mandeep Kaur 4
146 Shah Marmik 4 5 Ghosh Samriddhaa 8 52 Nanditha V 5.5 99 Muskan Debnath 4
147 Thakkar Kathan K 4 6 WFM Bommini M Akshaya 8 53 Sanjana Raghunath 5.5 100 Shreetu Bhavikbhai N 3.5
7 Jain Nityata 7.5 54 Sonal Dugar 5.5 101 Wadhwa Maneya 3.5
148 Dhineshwar R S 4
8 Rajashree Rajeev 7.5 55 Yashasvi Gupta 5.5 102 Dhruthi Sriprada M 3.5
149 Singh Yashveer 4
9 WCM Dhyana Patel 7.5 56 Parikh Urvi 5.5 103 Aishani Anand 3.5
150 Rao Vishwas 4
10 WFM Lakshmi C 7.5 57 Ananya Anamika 5.5 104 Baby Jahnavi M 3.5
151 Jani Kushal R 4
11 Abhirami Madabushi 7.5 58 Srivastav Trisha 5.5 105 Cheshta Arora 3.5
152 Nikith Krishna P 4
12 Kaur Palkin 7.5 59 Sagar Siya 5.5 106 Ketki Karsa 3
153 Shaurya P Jain 4 13 WFM Tanishka Kotia 7 60 Bhavya Verma 5.5 107 Aanshita Jain 3
154 Hardikar Tanmay S 4 14 Tejasvi M 7 61 Panchal Hiya 5.5
155 Divyanshu Tewari 4 15 Shanya Mishra 7 62 Sri Chandana G 5.5
156 Sai Akshar Tadimeti 4 16 Srimathi R 7 63 Vathsalya V 5.5
157 Sridhara Sriman Manoj 4 17 Eesha Ajay Sarda 7 64 Meenal Gupta 5
Puzzle of the month
158 Parekh Vishrut 3.5 by C.G.S.Narayanan
18 Sudipa Haldar 7 65 Mahi Amit Doshi 5
159 Shah Moxit J 3.5 19 Vincent Alaina 7 66 Siva Sai Sugandhi Ch 5
160 Gadhavi Veerbhadrasinh 3.5 20 Diya Chowdhury 7 The diagram below is a familiar retro
67 Shah Kritee 5
161 Chavda Priyam B 3.5 21 Rindhiya V 6.5 analytical problem where the solver has
68 Mafruza Farooqui 5
162 Ved Shah 3.5 22 Parakh Niyati 6.5 to achieve the position in four moves
69 Sushma Reddy B 5
163 Shlok Sivanarayan 3.5 23 Bhagyashree Patil 6.5 70 Mistry Tinaz Dinkoo 5 from the intial game array.
164 Mohith Kumar 3.5 24 Garima Gaurav 6.5 71 Patel Riddhi R 5 Tibor Orban
165 Karan Kumar 3.5 25 WCM Shreya Smruti Mohanty 6.5 72 Harini R 5 Die Scwalbe 1976
166 Prakhar Chaturvedi 3.5 26 Kalyani B 6.5 73 Ananya B 5
167 Mavani Nimay Tejasbhai 3.5 27 Mishra Riya 6.5 74 Gujja Dheekshitha 5
168 Ayaan Chettiar 3.5 28 Benasir M 6.5 75 Ananya Bansal 5
169 Mittal Garv 3.5 29 Shah Rutvi 6.5 76 Arya Ranjan 4.5
170 Mevada Malay 3 30 Ananya Bothra 6.5 77 Anaidaa Santosh 4.5
171 Devansh Ajay Sarda 3 31 Gotmare Mrinmayi 6.5 78 Swara Lakshmi S Nair 4.5
172 Patel Jaivin 3 32 Aditi Bajaj 6 79 Aastha Kapoor 4.5
33 Debalina Kundu 6 80 Lakhwani Nandani 4.5
173 Rushin S Tagoor 2.5
34 Routray Priyanka 6 81 Arya Usha 4.5
174 Hriday Malik 2.5
35 Laheri Nitya 6 82 Vanshika Sharma 4.5
175 Gohel Dhawnit 2.5
36 Genita Gladys A 6 83 Aakanksha Patel 4.5
176 Soma Shankara Sharma B 2.5
37 Shah Vrushti 6 84 Kamya Gupta 4.5
177 Deota Snehil S 2
38 Greeshma Anand D 6 85 Falak Joni Naik 4.5
178 Dharani Srinivas K B 2
39 Prachi Bharti 6 86 Nizami Sada 4.5 Arrive at the above position in exactly 4
179 Madhu Karthik Ch 2
40 Sanika Sengupta 6 87 Adivi Karawat 4.5 moves from the initial game array
180 Parikh Kairav 1
41 Isha Pritam Inamdar 6 88 Vanshika Sachdeva 4.5 (Solution on page 48)
181 Gouranga Sonowal 0
42 Kritika Pal 6 89 Nikita A 4.5

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 Dr. N. Mahalingam 28th National Under-17 Open and Girls Championship, Coimbatore
Raja Rithvik and Priyanka are Champions
by Vithal Madhav IA, Chief Arbiter
T
he Dr. N. Mahalingam 28th National
Under-17 Open and Girls Chess Cham-
pionship 2017 , which was organised
by Dr. N. Mahalingam Chess Academy, &
Coimbatore District Chess Association, and
conducted at Kumaraguru College of Technol-
ogy, Coimbatore was inaugurated by Dr. M
Balasubramaniam Correspondent, KCT. Shri.
Shankar Vanavarayar, Joint Correspondent,
KCT, welcomed Shri Bharat Singh Chauhan,
Secretary AICF, Prof. Anantaram, Shri. Ste-
phen Balasamy, Secretary TNSCA, by pre-
senting Mementos.
The tournament was declared open by Dr. M
Balasubramaniam by making a move on the
board against Shri Bharat Singh Chauhan.
In the open Category 108 Boys had taken
part from 20 states with FM Erigaisi Arjun of
Telangana as a Top seed. The open category
also saw 2 Visually impaired players namely
Aryan Joshi of Maharashtra and Marimuthu
K of Tamilnadu competing against regular
players. In Girls category 70 girls were
participated with WIM Sakshi Chitalange of
Maharashtra as a top seed.
In 2nd round of Open Category Ratneesh R
from Tamilnadu held the Top Seed FM Erigasi
Arjun for a draw on the first board. 4th seed
FM Jeet Jain of Gujrat was stunned by local
lad Sibi Vishal. At the end of 3rd round only
6 players namely Mitrabha Guha (West Ben-
gal), FM Rathanvel V S, Manish Anto Chris-
tiano F, Arunachalam Siva T V (all Tamilnadu),
Nitin Babu (Kerala) and Chaitanya Sairam
Mogili( Andhra Pradesh) were leading with
6 points. Chaitanya Sairam Mogili created a
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sensation by defeating the top seed FM Er-
igaisi Arjun.In the fifth round FM Rathanvel
V S emerged as a sole leader with 5 points
by defeating his Manish Anto Christiano F of
his state. He was followed by FM Mitrabha
Guha and CM Raja Rithvik R of Telangana.
In 6th round Rathanvel maintain his lead of
half point by defeating FM Mitrabha Guha and
was closely followed by ony CM Raja Rithvik
R of Telangana with 5.5 points.In the 7th
round CM Raja Rithvik R surprised everyone
by beating FM Rathanvel V S and emerging
as a sole leader with 6.5 points. Tamilnadu
players Sibi Vishal R and FM Rathanvel V S
were joint 2nd with 6 points followed by FM
Erigaisi Arjun, FM Mitrabha Guha, FM Nitish
Belurkar of Goa with 5.5 points. In the 8th
Round CM Raja Rithvik R defeated Sibi Vishal
to take his tally of points to 7.5. As FM Nitish
Belurkar held FM Rathanvel V S for a draw
CM Raja Rithvik was having a lead of 1 point
over the top seed FM Erigaisi Arjun and FM
Rathanvel V S.In the 11th Round CM Raja
Rithvik R of Telangana emerged as a winner
by beating Tarun V kanth.
In the girls Category WFM Bommini Mounika
Akshaya of Andhra Pradesh was held by Kala-
iarasi D Pasubathi of Tamilnadu for a draw in
the first round. In 2nd Round 5th Seed WFM
Tarini Goyal of Chandigarh was shocked by
Senthamizh Yazhini S of Tamilnadu. Niharika
Ch of Andhra Pradesh won against Priyanka
K to be among the 4 leader including WIM
Sakshi Chitalange of Maharashtra, WCM
Jyothsna L of Tamilnadu and WIM Tejaswini
Sagar of Gujrat. At the end of 4th round Ni-
harika Ch who has scored over WCM Jyothsna
L emerged as a sole leader as both the WIMs
viz, Tejaswini and Sakshi agreed for a draw
among themselves, only to emerge as joint
leader at the end of 5th round as Sakshi de-
feated Niharika and Tejaswini to Toshali V
of Andhra Pradesh.In 6th Round WFM Arpita
Mukherjee of West Bengal defeated top seed
Sakshi to join another leader Tejaswini who
had a draw against Tarini Goyal. In 7th Round
Arpita stunned Tejaswini with black pieces
and gained a lead of half point over 5 others.
At the end of 8th round Priyanka K drew with
the leader Arpita Mukherjee allowing Sakshi
and Tarini to be joint leader with Arpita with
6.5 points. They are followed by Tejaswini
and Priyanka with 6 points.In 10th round
Priyanka won a hard fought battle against
the Sakshi emerging as a sole leader with
half point lead.In 11th Round Priyanka drew
with Tejaswini to clinch the title.
Final ranking:Open 40 Selvamurugan B TN 6
Rk Name Sta Pts
1 CM Raja Rithvik R Tel 9
2 FM Erigaisi Arjun Tel 8½
3 FM Mitrabha Guha WB 8½
4 FM Rathanvel V S TN 8
5 Saurabh Anand Bih 8
6 FM Nitish Belurkar Goa 8
7 Sibi Visal R TN 7½
8 Manish Anto Cristiano TN 7½
9 Deota Snehil S Kar 7½
10 FM Jeet Jain Guj 7½
11 Barath Kalyan M TN 7½
12 Tarun V Kanth TN 7½
13 Srihari L R TN 7
14 Nithin Babu Ker 7
15 Harshavardhan G B TN 7
16 Srihari L Pud 7
17 Kumar Gaurav Bih 7
18 Manu DavidSuthandram TN 7
19 Arjun Krishnamachari TN 7
20 Utsab Chatterjee WB 7
21
22
Pruthu Deshpande
Dileep Kumar R
Mah
TN
7
7
23 Hari Madhavan N B TN 6½
24 Jubin Jimmy Ker 6½
25 Harshad S TN 6½
26 Ithal H L Rajath Kar 6½
27 Dhananjay S Cht 6½
28 Avinash Vaidyanathan Kar 6½
29 Utkarsh Agrawal MP 6½
30 Grahesh Y AP 6½
31 Rounak Pathak WB 6½
32 Cheela Naga Sampath AP 6
33 Shyam Kumar M TN 6
34 Rathneesh R TN 6
35 Shuban Saha WB 6
36 Chaitanya Sairam Mogili AP 6
37 Hari R Chandran Ker 6
38 Kishore K Jaganathan TN 6
39 Avinash Hari Ker 6
41 Rakshith Srinivasan Kar 6
42 Hemanth Raam TN 6
43 Roshan Hari Ker 6
44 Sudarshan Bhat Kar 6
45 Gokulraj K TN 6
46 Shyam Sundar M TN 6
47 Shreyas M TN 6
48 Mohith R TN 6
49 Om Chauhan UP 6
50 Thaga Sheriff M TN 5½
51 Patil Harshal Mah 5½
52 Subash Mathivanan TN 5½
53 Suthershun A TN 5½
54 Dinesh K Jaganathan TN 5½
55 Aswin Kumar B S TN 5½
56 Anup Shankar R TN 5½
57 Devaraja G TN 5½
58 Mumukshu Mittal Pun 5½
59 Bipin Raj S Tel 5½
60 Aryan B Joshi aicf 5
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Shailesh Dravid wins Delhi Open
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64 S Gurukrishnan TN 5 105 Someshwar V S TN 1½

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65 Marimuthu K aicf 5 106 Akilesh Kumar V S TN 1½ he 2nd Delhi Chess Association Open Shailesh Dravid of Maharashtra emerged
66 Arul Anandh S P K TN 5 107 Shashank V S TN 0 FIDE Rated Chess Tournament was held as champion to pocket a cash prize of Rs.
67 Aaromal R S Tel 5 at Navakaar Banquets, Hotel Caspia, 1,01,000/- along with winner’s trophy while
68 Sreerag M R Ker 5 Final ranking:Girls New Delhi from 11-15 Oct 2017. while Matta Vinay Kumar of Andhra Bank
69 Honnesh Sankaran TN 5 1 Priyanka K aicf 8½ A total number of 481 players which includes finished as first runner up and Arghyadip Das
two grandmasters, eight International Mas- of Railways as second runner up.
70 Abhay B Bhandarkar Kar 5 2 WFM Arpita Mukherjee WB 8
ters and 419 International rated players from
71 Ganesha Moorthy D TN 5 3 WFM Tarini Goyal Chd 8
different parts of the country were participat- In the rating category of 1999-1600, Alok
72 Arjun Kumar S TN 5 4 WIM Tejaswini Sagar Guj 8
ed in the event which was spread over five Sinha of Delhi secured first prize with Rs.
73 Pratyay Chowdhury WB 5 5 WIM Chitlange Sakshi Mah 7½
days with a time control of 90 minutes and 71,000/- as cash award while in Below 1599
74 Saikat Saha WB 5 6 Toshali V AP 7½ 30 seconds increment from move 1. The total category, Nakul Chaudhary of Uttar Pradesh
75 Nishan M TN 5 7 Niharika Ch AP 7½ prize fund of the event was Rs.17,77,000. won the first prize to pocket same amount
76 Yogeshwaran S A TN 4½ 8 Kavisha S Shah Guj 7½ as cash prize.
77 Sooraj K TN 4½ 9 WFM Bommini M Akshaya AP 7½ The Tournament was played under Swiss Sys-
78 Subbhu Karthick S M TN 4½ 10 Harshita Guddanti AP 7 tem with nine rounds and had International Stuti Bhanot of Haryana adjudged as best
79 Nithyan S Ker 4½ 11 WCM Dhyana Patel Guj 7 Master Himal Gusain of Chandigarh as the top female player while Ansh Bhargava of Delhi
80 Subinay Kumar Kar 4½ 12 Abirama Srinithi G TN 7 seed. With Round one starting on time and become best among unrated players. Aaryan
81 Mishra Sumit UP 4½ 13 Rajashree Rajeev Ker 7 the players went into their business mode Varshney of Delhi, Raahl Mullick of Mahar-
82 Sivaa G M TN 4½ 14 Jegatha B TN 7 from the start itself in the beautiful venue, ashtra, Tanish Sai Kavuru of Andhra Pradesh
83 Nandish V S TN 4½ 15 Divyabharathi Masanam TN 7 which Delhi Chess Association selected at last finished best among Under-15, Under-12
minute to give better playing facilities to the and Under-8 age categories respectively.
84 Abhishek S TN 4½ 16 WCM Jyothsna L TN 6½
players. The same has been whole heartedly Shubham and Palkin Kaur become Best Delhi
85 Pannag Kumaar Kar 4½ 17 Bhanot Stuti Har 6½
welcomed by players and parents. player and Best Delhi girl player respectively.
86 Arunachalam Shivaa TN 4 18 Mohana Praba R B TN 6½
In a colourful closing ceremony, Shri. Anurag
87 Bhoopnath Bih 4 19 Benasir M TN 6½
The tournament progressed on expected lines Garg IPS, Jt Director Central Bureau of Inves-
88 Aakash G TN 4 20 Tarunika P TN 6½ as seeded players registered comfortable tigation and Shri. Bharat Singh, Secretary All
89 Pinak Har 4 21 Garima Gaurav Bih 6½ victories on earlier part of the event. In the India Chess Federation gave away the cash
90 Kishore M TN 4 22 Medha Chauhan UP 6½ seventh round Matta Vinay Kumar of Andhra prizes and trophies to the winners along with
91 Mittal Tanmay Pun 4 23 Harshini B TN 6 Bank defeated top seed Himal Gusain to take Shri. AK Verma, Secretary Delhi Chess As-
92 Ajay C G TN 4 24 Sunyuktha C M N TN 6 sole lead but his lead not last long as in the sociation and Grandmaster Mircea Parligras.
93 Baleboina B Mahesh Tel 4 25 Poorna Sri M.K TN 6 eighth and penultimate round, International
94 Sahu Ayush Cht 4 26 Senthamizh Yazhini S TN 6 Master Arghyadip Das outwitted Vinay Kumar Final ranking:
95 Kabid Basu WB 4 27 Pooja S (2002) TN 6 to make the tournament wide open leading Rk Name Pts
to the final round. 1 Shailesh Dravid 7½
96 Nachiketh Adiga Kar 3½ 28 Soundariya Lakshmi G TN 6
2 FM Matta Vinay Kumar 7½
97 Singh Chirag Har 3½ 29 Annapurni S TN 6
Friendly encounters and hard fought battles 3 IM Das Arghyadip 7½
98 Madhawender Mishra Utt 3½ 30 Mishra Riya UP 5½ 4 GM Laxman R.R. 7½
ensured a thrilling end to the event as eight
99 Ethan V Johnson TN 3½ 31 Subhiksha E TN 5½ 5 IM Sangma Rahul 7½
players tied for the pole position with seven
100 Isht Chitkara Del 3½ 32 Madhani Shilpee Guj 5½ 6 Alok Sinha 7½
and half points. With better tie break score,
101 Banerjee Abhradeep Jha 3 33 Archi Agrawal Del 5½ 7 Anilkumar O.T. 7½

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8 IM Rathnakaran K. 7½ 55 Gavi Siddayya 6 102 Falgun D Purohit 5½ 149 Tanmay Chopra 5
9 CM Aronyak Ghosh 7 56 Arka Sengupta 6 103 Himanshu Moudgil 5½ 150 Kohli Pranav 5
10 IM Gusain Himal 7 57 Sri Sai Baswanth P 6 104 Sumit Grover 5½ 151 Sharma P L 5
11 Saravana Krishnan P. 7 58 Badrinath S. 6 105 Ashutosh Kumar 5½ 152 Kaur Palkin 5
12 Joy Lazar M.A. 7 59 Gajendra Singh 6 106 Punit Indora 5½ 153 Aneek Das 5
13 IM Hemant Sharma (del) 7 60 Dave Kantilal 6 107 Ashutosh Sharma 5½ 154 Aman Sharma 5
14 Balkishan A. 7 61 Arun Rathi 6 108 Pati Spandan 5½ 155 Krishna Karthik N 5
15 Joshi Govind Ballabh 7 62 Shanmukha Teja P 6 109 Panda Priyabrata 5½ 156 Kadav Omkar 5
16 Deepak Katiyar 7 63 Pimpalkhare Vedant 6 110 Kar Satyabrata 5½ 157 Atri Chattopadhyay 5
17 Ganesh Babu S 7 64 Deepthamsh Reddy. M 6 111 Gawade Milind 5½ 158 Prashanth J Naik 5
18 Lakshmi Sandeep Naidu V 7 65 Ganguly Ritabroto 6 112 Govind Kumar 5½ 159 Aswin.P.G 5
19 CM Kushagra Mohan 7 66 Arun R U 6 113 Ayushh Ravikumar 5½ 160 Bhavyay Gupta 5
20 Samal Ansuman 7 67 Karthik Gopal G 6 114 Abhay Bandewar 5½ 161 Diwan Rajesh 5
21 FM Ramakrishna J. 7 68 Chourasiya Hemant 6 115 Santhosh Kumar G. 5½ 162 Chandra Sekharan A P 5
22 Pradip Tiwari 7 69 Ankit Kumar Singh 6 116 Kartik Kumar Singh 5½ 163 Shaik Sumer Arsh 5
23 IM Abhishek Kelkar 6½ 70 Rabindra Kumar Ojha 6 117 Hriday Dharmesh Sheth 5½ 164 Aaditya Dhingra 5
24 IM Chakravarthi Reddy M 6½ 71 Shubham 6 118 Joshi Tejas 5½ 165 Sharma Rohit 5
25 GM Venkatesh M.R. 6½ 72 Akshay Madhusoodhanan 6 119 Kabhilan S 5½ 166 Aakashdeep Singh 5
26 Raghav Srivathsav V 6½ 73 Vikrant Jaglan 6 120 Soumik Datta 5½ 167 Vinayak Agarwal 5
27 Mushini Ajay 6½ 74 Arjun C Krishnamachari 6 121 Sushrutha Reddy 5½ 168 Trinabh Bhatnagar 5
28 Pattnayak Nilsu 6½ 75 Rawat R.S. 6 122 Suhail Rasheed 5½ 169 Khedkar Prasad 5
29 Ashish Kumar 6½ 76 Mughaho Awomi 6 123 Archi Agrawal 5½ 170 Jalap Indraj 5
30 Mohamed Anees M 6½ 77 Atma Prakash 6 124 Bir Singh Raminder 5½ 171 Bhogal Rupesh 5
31 Saranya Y 6½ 78 Mohan Virwani 6 125 Bhat Siddharth K 5½ 172 Govind Prabhu Mah 5
32 Subramanian R M 6½ 79 Anirudh D Venkat 6 126 Shaik Shabaaj 5½ 173 Dhiraj Patil 5
33 Saksham Rautela 6½ 80 Mandloi Mukesh 6 127 Dony K V 5½ 174 Shambo Dutta 5
34 Pranav Shetty 6½ 81 Katiyar Prashant 6 128 Arnav Maheshwari 5½ 175 J M Baisakh 5
35 Patil Pratik 6½ 82 Akshay Anand 6 129 Jayadev R Balan 5½ 176 Sidharth A Kumar 5
36 Manigandan S S 6½ 83 Raj Prakhar 6 130 Singh Satendra 5½ 177 Dhritabrata Kundu 5
37 Bhambure Shantanu 6½ 84 Tajane Ganesh 6 131 Chouhan N.C. 5½ 178 Harshiel Sehgal 5
38 Verma Rahul 6½ 85 Esshan Wadhawan 6 132 Aaryansh Bhartiya 5½ 179 Brijbhooshan Dubey 5
39 Aaryan Varshney 6½ 86 Lokesh Hans 6 133 Arnab Kumar Mullick 5½ 180 Raghav Bansal 5
40 Kant Rupesh 6½ 87 CM Mullick Raahil 6 134 Sai Sujan S 5½ 181 Bhushita Ahuja 5
41 Srikanth K. 6½ 88 Abhishek Jaiswal 6 135 Mohammad Ismail Khadar 5½ 182 Samarth Mittal 5
42 Nakul Chaudhary 6½ 89 Sudhanshu Ranjan 5½ 136 Mahajan Ayush 5½ 183 Amale Bharat 5
43 Dubey Sanchay 6½ 90 Shrutarshi Ray 5½ 137 Hariom Solanki 5½ 184 Arjun Gupta 5
44 Jatinder Kapoor 6½ 91 Anurag Jaiswal 5½ 138 Rajagopalan 5½ 185 Nitin Kumar Pandey 5
45 Shiva Pavan Teja Sharma 6½ 92 Adarsh Tripathi 5½ 139 Sree Veeramani P 5 186 Tanish Sai Kavuru 5
46 Bhandari Jitendra Singh 6½ 93 Sher Singh 5½ 140 Kumar Sanu 5 187 Ragesh Sarma.M 5
47 Vijay Anand M. 6½ 94 Nasir Ali Syed 5½ 141 Gokulraj K 5 188 Santosh Pal 5
48 Sai Krishna S. 6½ 95 Subramanian V 5½ 142 Himanshu Ranjan 5 189 Sheetal Sonwane 5
49 CM Gopal K.N. 6½ 96 Vigneshwaran S 5½ 143 Sourath Biswas 5 190 Verma H.S. 5
50 Sinha Santosh Kumar 6 97 Naveen S Hegde 5½ 144 Sathishkumar L 5 191 Amaranjay Kumar Dubey 5
51 Ghosh Samriddhaa 6 98 Sandeep Chitkara 5½ 145 Aan Sikka 5 192 Sambamurti P 5
52 Barath Kalyan M 6 99 Negi D.S. 5½ 146 Asif Mohammad Tayyeb 5 193 Yash Jyoti Bir 5
53 Bhanot Stuti 6 100 Mahitosh Dey 5½ 147 Bhat Sanjay 5 194 Bharadia Yash 5
54 Priyanka Kumari 6 101 Duvvala Suresh 5½ 148 Parmod Kharbash 5 195 Lakshit Rana 5

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196 Negi A S 5 243 Kukreja Sankalp 4½ 17th Adyar Times FIDE rated Open Chess Tournament, 2017, Mylapore, Chennai
197 Kadakia Veer 5 244 IM Wazeer Ahmad Khan 4½
198 Bhavik Ahuja 5 245 Khuanna Kapoor 4½ Balasubramaniam wins Adyar Times Open
199 Vangala Prashanth 5 246 Gaurav Nishad 4½ by S.Paul Arokia Raj IA, Chief Arbiter

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200 Aryan Garg 5 247 Sanjay Kumar Mittal 4½
201 Kalgaonkar S 5 248 Satvik Sharma 4½ .Balasubramaniam of Padma Seshadri three International Masters. The participation
202 CM Bhagat Kush 5 249 Harish Kumar K 4½ Higher Secondary School, K.K. Nagar, of four foreign players from 3 federations
203 Md. Furqan Khan 5 250 Namish Sharma 4½ Chennai emerged as the champion of namely England, Boswana and USA was an
204 Sarthak Rawat 5 251 Sriansh Das 4½ the 17th Adyar Times FIDE rated Open chess additional glamour this year. Earlier the four-
205 Somwanshi Nathu 5 252 Atul Bihari Sharan 4½ Tournament, 2017 which got concluded on day event was formally inaugurated by Shri.
206 Suresh Garg 5 253 Sunil Raina 4½ Sunday 15th October, 2017 at the Montfort Stephen Balasamy. General Secretary, Tamil
207 Krishna Murthy 5 254 Yogesh Sharma 4½ Indoor Stadium, Santhome Higher Second- Nadu State Chess Association.
208 Rishabh Nishad 4½ 255 Kaamyaa Negi 4½
ary, Chennai. A student of eighth student,
209 Deepak Rai 4½ 256 Aditya Pratap Singh 4½
PSBB School, master H.Balasubramaniam Final Ranking:
210 Singaram P.L. 4½ 257 Rahil Raj Verma 4½
carried home winner’s prize of Rs. 25,000/- Rk. Name Pts.
211 Daaevik Wadhawan 4½ 258 Duvvuri S Subrahmanyam 4½
He demonstrated a great kill in taming former 1 Balasubramaniam H 6.5
212 Rajesh Kumar Nath 4½ 259 Mithilesh K Balagopalan 4½
Tamil Nadu State champion Ram S Krishnan 2 Ashwath R. 6.5
213 Sahoo Devendra Kumar 4½ 260 Tanveer Singh Channa 4½
in the seventh and the final round to set a 3 Manu David Suthandram R 6.5
214 Vinoth M 4½ 261 Jasprit Singh 4½
4 Gunasekaran K. 6
215 M Tulasi Ram Kumar 4½ 262 Cheniram Pegu 4 winner’s target of 6.5 points . In a three way
5 IM Ravi T.S 6
216 Pranav Aggarwal 4½ 263 Tripathy Manoj Ku 4 tie for the first place Balasubrananiam was 6 AGM Vignesh B 6
217 Krishna Bajaj 4½ 264 Arora Honi 4 adjudged as the champion on account of 7 IM Praveen Kumar C 6
218 Ansh Bhargava 4½ 265 Aviral Jaiswal 4 better bucholtz score. Last year champion R. 8 Nitin Shankar Madhu 6
219 Sambarta Banerjee 4½ 266 Hemakshi Chauhan 4 Ashwath of Chennai was the runner up who 9 Sharan Sridhar 6
220 Jagdish Narang 4½ 267 Saket Kumar 4 became richer by Rs. 15,000/-. Third place 10 Bala Kannamma P 5.5
221 Goutam Das 4½ 268 Sadbhav Rautela 4 went to school boy Manu David Suthandar- 11 Hemanth Raam 5.5
222 Vraj N Shah 4½ 269 Praveen K Gunasekaran 4 12 Ajay Karthikeyan 5.5
am. In a glittering prize distribution ceremony
223 Kuldeep Sharma 4½ 270 Vaishant K Gangwani 4 13 CM Bharath Subramaniyam H 5.5
Shri. A.D.Ranjan, Editor and Publisher, Adyar
224 Chauhan Narayan 4½ 271 Nirnay Garg 4 14 Ram S. Krishnan 5.5
Times gave away the prizes in the presence 15 Alan Diviya Raj 5.5
225 Raghvendra K Mishra 4½ 272 Aditya Chowdhry 4
226 Anil Verma 4½ 273 Vijay Kumar Singh 4 of Shri. Manuel Aaron, Arjuna awardee and 16 AGM Srihari L R 5.5
227 Simon Jacob 4½ 274 Suraj Gupta 4 India’s first International Master, Bro. A.St- 17 Kishore Kumar Jaganathan 5.5
228 Rangarajan Srinivasan 4½ 275 Akshat Mekol 4 anilaus, Head Master and correspondent, 18 Dharani Kumar M S 5.5
229 Shah Asif 4½ 276 Harsh Vardhan Joshi 4 Santhome Higher Secondary Scool and Shri. 19 Vijay Shreeram P 5.5
230 Chetan Sharma 4½ 277 Habib Qureshi Raaz 4 R. Muthu Kumar, Editor and Publisher, Trinity 20 Shriman K 5.5
231 Shubham Kumar 4½ 278 Pragadesh P 4 Mirror and Makkal Kural. Earlier International 21 Sangeetha P 5.5
232 Manikya Negi 4½ 279 Chaurasia Sanjiv 4 22 Shyam Kumar M 5.5
Arbiter S.Paul Arokia Raj, Chief Arbiter of the
233 Siddhant Nath Jha 4½ 280 Kavya Aggarwal 4 23 Roshan S 5.5
tournament welcomed the gathering.
234 Bhaskar N S 4½ 281 Mohit Ambwani 4 24 Arjun Sidharth S 5.5
25 Srikrishnan P 5.5
235 Priansh Das 4½ 282 Devan Pillai 4 The Adyar Times FIDE rated open chess tour- 26 Suresh K. 5.5
236 Bahadur Singh 4½ 283 Shashank Maheshwari 4
nament is an important annual event in the 27 Tarun V 5.5
237 Dalli Shriya Reddy 4½ 284 Sachin Jain 4
Indian chess calendar conducted successfully 28 Krishna K R 5.5
238 Dave Shiv Shankar 4½ 285 Pawar Harshit 4
for the 17th year in succession from October 29 Sathananthan I 5.5
239 Sparsh Bisht 4½ 286 Samveg Jain 4
12 to 15, 2017. Sponsored by Adyar Times, 30 Dinesh Kumar Jaganathan 5.5
240 Amit Garg 4½ 287 Swayam Gupta 4 31 Abishna Anojan 5
241 Prabhav Aggarwal 4½ 288 Harshit Amarnani 4 this year’s event has attracted a record num-
32 Harsh Suresh 5
242 Siddiqui Md. Sabir 4½ 289 Chandran T. 4 ber of 356 entries from all over India including
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34 Thiyagarajan Tamilselvi 5 83 Adithya Ramesh 4.5 132 Pawan Kumar 4 181 Rishwant V P 3.5
35 Alagappan S 5 84 Muthukumar Thangapandian 4.5 133 Sairam S 4 182 Abhinav D P 3.5
36 Hiren K G 5 85 Tamizhanban N 4.5 134 Sri Harish J 4 183 Hameed Baig H 3.5
37 Prahalad B 5 86 Mithun Raj A 4.5 135 Midilesh Ms 4 184 Diya Jain 3.5
38 Shyaam M 5 87 Vivek Ramanathan V 4.5 136 Balaji Suyam Prakasam 4 185 Surya Narayanan B G 3.5
39 Harshavardhan V Ravindhra 5 88 Jegatha B 4.5 137 Vakeesh S 4 186 Harani N 3.5
40 Nidheshpa S 5 89 Praveen Narayan S 4.5 138 Eswar Raj G 4 187 Sheriff Ansari 3
41 AGM Vignesh N 5 90 Dharunkumar 4.5 139 ACM Adithya Sekar 4 188 Jayasree M 3
42 Lakshmi Narasimhan V S 5 91 Peshane S 4.5 140 Charan K 4 189 Sairam B Subramaniam 3
43 Vishwa Bala Kumaran M 5 92 Abilash G 4.5 141 Bharath Narayanaswamy 4 190 Manikandan Ramanayya 3
44 Divyan T 5 93 Elangovan 4.5 142 Avinash S P 4 191 Baranidharan K 3
45 Abinandhan R 5 94 Kaustubh Balaji 4.5 143 Veerapathiran R 4 192 Dinesh Kumar Raja 3
46 Andrew Veda W Solomon 5 95 Annapurni S 4 144 Ratnapriya K 4 193 Sri Saran S 3
47 Gopinath Parthasarathy 5 96 Samyak L 4 145 Aravindhan Chakravarthy 4 194 Ilakiyan M Xavier Jeen 3
48 Anselm Flavian Paul 5 97 Tina C 4 146 Vedharathinam S V 4 195 Seshuvardhan M 3
49 AFM Ravindran R 5 98 Samson Anna Rao. T 4 147 Venkatachalam S 4 196 Karthick Narayanan P 3
50 Bala Murugan G 5 99 Kumar T V 4 148 Sakthivel Heamish Kanha 4 197 Harini M 3
51 Harshini B 5 100 AFM Abhinav Karthik M 4 149 Adharsh D P 4 198 Ashwin Bala R 3
52 Varun R S 5 101 Jayakrishna H 4 150 Athish R S 4 199 Pooja Tarunika M 3
53 Shrija K M 5 102 C Gopalakrishnan 4 151 Karthikeyan Panchapakesan 4 200 Siddharthan Anandan 3
54 Aravind Matthews A C T 5 103 Muthu P 4 152 Daakshin Arun 4 201 Madhavan Thrivikraman 3
55 Saahil Ahmed M 5 104 Kruthika K R 4 153 Mugesh R 4 202 Shailesh K 3
56 Venkatakrishnan R.V. 5 105 Senthil Kumaran N.S 4 154 Danish Roy Vinoth Kumar 3.5 203 Satheesh Kumar N 3
57 Sivasubramanian M 5 106 Deepak Raj R 4 155 Vikraanth S 3.5 204 Gopikrishnan S 3
58 Iqbal Musthafa I S 4.5 107 Murali Ranganathan 4 156 Jayachandhar N. 3.5 205 Mayur S 3
59 Pooja S (2002) 4.5 108 Sivaram S 4 157 Vinoth Kumar V 3.5 206 Vijayan B Y 3
60 Aakash G 4.5 109 Rishiraj P 4 158 Charles J 3.5 207 Abinaya Anojan 3
61 Sivan S Roshan 4.5 110 Narayanan G K 4 159 Vikas Saini 3.5 208 S Venkatasubramanian 3
62 George Daniel 4.5 111 Yashwant Annamalai 4 160 Ramakrishnan S G 3.5 209 Arueran Raghuraman 3
63 Subramanian T.V. 4.5 112 Vignesh Velu 4 161 Arjun Vasudevan 3.5 210 Avanthika F G 3
64 Shivani Madhu 4.5 113 Kavin B 4 162 Shravan Swaminathan 3.5 211 Jerome X 3
65 Varun Suresh Roshan 4.5 114 Ramesh V 4 163 Balaji S 3.5 212 Shreeniketh E R 3
66 Kirtana S P 4.5 115 Dawood.K 4 164 Kaviya R 3.5 213 Kalathyeeswaran A 3
67 Saadhana A 4.5 116 Hariharan S 4 165 Shrrivathsa M 3.5 214 Arumugam M 3
68 Manika Kesavan 4.5 117 Paul I. Sumi 4 166 Shreyas Seshadri Nallore 3.5 215 Sanjeeth P 3
69 Niteesh Lingeswaran 4.5 118 Suresh R 4 167 Sathish H 3.5 216 Liban Reyhan M M 3
70 Honnesh Sankaran 4.5 119 Tharun S 4 168 Sanju Shree Murali 3.5 217 Jaivant R 3
71 Krishna Raaju J 4.5 120 Vijay V.S. 4 169 Kashyap Adithya A 3.5 218 Susheel Reddy P 3
72 Raghul Saro S 4.5 121 Santhosh V 4 170 Sooriya B Y 3.5 219 Thulasidhass P 3
73 Arvind Rajamanohar 4.5 122 Varadharajan S 4 171 Syam Prasad A 3.5 220 Prajit Ravishankar 3
74 Sakthi Subash A S 4.5 123 Rishikesh A 4 172 Ramakrishnan M R 3.5 221 Sai Sundar A 3
75 Bharath Ravikumar 4.5 124 Akshaya Rajaraman 4 173 Kaviyarasan T 3.5 222 Rajappan.K 3
76 Balaji Rao D 4.5 125 Vengatesh Krishnan C 4 174 Krishna Kumar G 3.5 223 Ashwin M 3
77 Anilkumar K.V. 4.5 126 Mrithyunjay Mahadevan 4 175 Aakash K P 3.5 224 Denton Gamble 3
78 Vinoth K 4.5 127 Sanjay Srinivasan R 4 176 Sanchith Sundararam K 3.5 225 Rahul Karthik S 3
79 Subashree Ranganathan 4.5 128 Tharun S Srinivasan 4 177 Pranav K P 3.5 226 Rishikesh S S 3
80 Ananya Arumbakkam 4.5 129 Krishan A 4 178 Divyanshu Gupta 3.5 227 Aswin R 3
81 Vinay R Jumani 4.5 130 Narayana Perumal K 4 179 Anirud M 3.5 228 Vaibhav V 3
82 Muralidharan P S 4.5 131 Sahanaa S M 4 180 Dhamodharan M. 3.5

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 1st Nitai Ghosh Memorial International FIDE Rated Open Chess Tournament,Kolkata
Kaustuv Kundu wins title
by Biswanath Banerjee FA, Chief Arbiter
1
st Nitai Ghosh Memorial International
FIDE Rated Open Chess Tournament,
organised by Jalpaiguri Chess Acade-
my attracted 242 players. Kaustuv Kundu
of Kolkata emerged as Champion with 8
points, and take home the winner purse of
Rs. 60,000/- and a beautiful Trophy. Earlier
the 1st edition of Nitai Ghosh Memorial Inter-
national FIDE Rated Open Chess Tournament
got under way at “The Greater Kailash” on
6th October,2017. This is the first time in the
history of Jalpaiguri Chess that such kind of
big tournament is organised. International
Master and Jt. Secretary of AICF Mr. Atanu
Lahit inaugurated the event in the presence
of Mr. Ananda Ghosh, Son OF Late Nitai
Ghosh, JDCA President Mr. Pradip Bhattacha-
rjee Convenor of the event – Mr Prosenjit
Saha. AICF Jt. Secretary and Secretary BCA
Mr. Atanu Lahiri was the guest of honour.
159 rated and 83 unrated players participated
in this event. The organisers arranged the
lodging facility for all the players and for their
accompanying persons inside this Venue.
The tournament was well organised by the
Jalpaiguri Chess Academy in an air condi-
tioned hall and quality food was provided at
an affordable rate.Digital Chess Clocks were
used in all the bords.
This tournament ended on 11th August and
offered a prize fund of Rs.600000/-. The
time format of the tournament is 90 mins +
30 sec increment from move no. 1. Kaustuv
Kundu was the top seed player of this tour-
nament with a rating of 2296 followed by IM
D.K.Sharma with a rating of 2247. After 9
nerve wracking rounds the top seed Kaustuv
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10 Nath Rupankar 7 53 Chakrabarti Tamal 5½
11 Samar Chatterjee 7 54 Mithun Pal 5½
12 Anustoop Biswas 7 55 Swapan Chakraborty 5½
13 Subhayan Kundu 6½ 56 Rounak Guha Roy 5½
Kundu won the title with 8 points. Arpan Das 14 Satya Sekhar Mitra 6½ 57 Sinthia Sarkar 5½
won the 2nd position and baged Rs.35000/- 15 Basak Sajal 6½ 58 Md Ardash Ali 5½
followed by IM D.K.Sharma with an amount 16 Gurung Rahul 6½ 59 Mrityunjay Kumar 5½
of Rs. 20000/- 17 Gurung Rohit 6½ 60 Chhetri Priya 5½
18 Saptorshi Gupta 6½ 61 Subba Surendra 5½
Mr. Nantu Paul, local politician , DSP Head- 19 Tamang Thendup 6½ 62 Krish Kedia 5½
quarter Mr. Manabendra Das, Mr. Ananda 20 Nitish Das 6½ 63 Anish Rooj 5½
Ghosh son of Late Nitai Ghosh Mr. Ananda 21 Hilal Mondal 6½ 64 Anwesha Saha 5½
Rai, District Secretary were the chief Guests 22 Akash Tiwari 6½ 65 Raunak Datta Nath 5½
for the final day function. Many other digni- 23 Ambarish Sharma 6½ 66 Soham Pal 5½
taries from Jalpaiguri Chess Academy were 24 Mukherjee S.K. 6 67 Shyamal Kumar Saha 5½
also present in this gorgeous function. They 25 Md. Shahidul Islam 6 68 Mullick Saikat 5
also gave away the prizes amongst the 26 Pradip Ghosh 6 69 Subhrangsu Kundu 5
winner. 27 Rohan Nag Chowdhury 6 70 Shuvam Roy 5
28 Pritam Bhattacharya 6 71 Arunika Ghosh 5
We should appreciate the the organiser for 29 Sounak De 6 72 Shouvik Dutta 5
their wonderful support and also to the sup- 30 Sanjit Saha 6 73 Biswajit Dutta 5
porting staff who worked with us for the past 31 Arijit Mukherjee 6 74 Anupam Talukdar 5
7 days. A very good team of arbiters along 32 Venkatesh H 6 75 Dugar Chetan 5
with a group of dedicated officials made the 33 Pratyay Chowdhury 6 76 Aviroop Bhattacharya 5
tournament successful. Finally I must thank 34 Roop Saurav 6 77 Sheik Md. Abdul Muttalib 5
Mr. Prosenjit Sha , Mr. Sushan Gurung and 35 Bhowmik Anup 6 78 Sudev Pal 5
Mr. Atanu Lahiri , Secretary of Bengal Chess 36 Subba Saurab 6 79 Kamal Kanti Pal 5
Association 37 Dutta Umashankar 6 80 Satyajit Saha 5
and all the officials of JDCA and Jalpaiguri 38 Ayantika Das 6 81 Bhabishnu Pranti Bordoloi 5
Chess Academy for given me the chance to 39 Chettri Bhoj Bahadur 6 82 Shreya Das 5
work as a Chief arbiter for this wonderful 40 Ashoke Sen 6 83 Khan Niroz 5
tournament. 41 Praloy Sahoo 6 84 Mangaldeep Mitra 5
Final ranking: 42 Sougata Singha 6 85 Sayantan Choudhury 5
Rk Name Pts 43 Debjeet Das 6 86 Md. Tamizar Rahman 5
1 Kaustuv Kundu 8 44 Soham Dey 6 87 Rupankar Kundu 5
2 Arpan Das 8 45 Mukesh Kumar 6 88 Sanjib Ghosh 5
3 Sharma Dinesh K IM. 7½ 46 Soumen Mondal 6 89 Chettri Dinesh 5
4 R.Balasubramaniam IM 7½ 47 Nitai Pada Sarkar 6 90 Supriya Guru 5
5 Chattarjee Laltu 7½ 48 Basak Bishal 5½ 91 Nabam Nikum 5
6 Sandip Dey 7 49 Aryamann Sain 5½ 92 Sagnik Saha 5
7 Arindam Mukherjee 7 50 Sushmita Lama 5½ 93 Srinjoy Sarkar 5
8 Rupam Mukherjee 7 51 Sengdup Lama 5½ 94 Sankalan Shah 5
9 Santu Mondal 7 52 Das Monaj 5½ 95 Saayan Dutta 5
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96 Arman Siddique 5 139 Ishan Ghosh 4 Nanjil of 1st All India Fide Rated Open Chess Tournament, Nagercoil
97 Saibal Ghosh 5 140 Manish Mandal 4
98 Srijit Saha 5 141 Soham Roy 4
M.Kunal clinched the title
99 Bhutia W. T. 5 142 Jit Modak 4 by Bhuvanaa Sai IA, Chief Arbiter

N
100 Rajdeep Dutta 5 143 Arijit Ghosh 4
101 Aditya Chatterjee 5 144 Subhrajit Saha 4 anjil 1st All India Fide Rated Open distributed the prizes to the winner in the
102 Priyangshu Gupta Bhaya 5 145 Bhaskar yoti Borah 4 Chess Tournament was organized by presence of Mr. A.F. Rex, Secretary, Kanyaku-
103 Sourajit Mallick 5 146 Ashish Seal 4 Nanjil Chess Club. The event attract- mari District Chess Association, Mr. R.Johnny
104 Soumen Dutta 5 147 Diwakar Waiba 4 ed 259 entries from Tamilnadu, Kerala and Roy, Secretary Nanjil Chess Club, Mr.M.Sekar,
105 Aniket Mondal 5 148 Diptam Roy 4 Puduchery which included 131 international President and Mr.S.John Ramesh, Treasurer
106 Dutta Samaritan 5 149 Prapti Moulik 4 fide rated players. Earlier the tournament was of Nanjil Chess Club.The tournament con-
107 Rai Sejal 5 150 Sanjay Kumar Sadhukhan 4 inaugurated by Mr.Issac, Senior Manager, Ca- cluded in a grand manner.
108 Hrittik Sarkar 4½ 151 Raunit Mitra 4 nara Bank here at A.S.T.Kalyana Mandapam,
109 Nihar Ranjan Banerjee 4½ 152 Uddipan Roy 4 Meenakshipuram, and Nagercoil on 3rd Nov Final standings:
2017 at 10.30 am Rk Name Pts.
110 Gautam Kumar Maitra 4½ 153 Anjistha Basak 4
111 Manjul Shrivastava 4½ 154 Prachi Singh 4 1 Kunal M. 7
112 Sushovan Chaudhury 4½ 155 Subhrajyoti Sarkar 4 Kunal M was the top seed of this tournament. 2 Hirthickkesh Pr 7
113 Rohan Kumar 4½ 156 Vaskar Chakraborty 4 The participation of prominent players like 3 Dharmaraj P. 7
114 Agrawal Rishab 4½ 157 Sourasish Saha 4 Ram S Krishnan,( BSNL), Syed Anwar Sha- 4 Manigandan S S 6.5
115 Sayantan Das 4½ 158 Priya Mondal 4 zuli, Phoobalan and Gunasekaran from ICF 5 Sa Kannan 6.5
116 Saurabh Kumar 4½ 159 Dutta Pehlaj 4 added beauty and strength for this event. 6 Syed Anwar Shazuli 6.5
117 Prabuddha Sarkar 4½ 160 Aditya Datta 4 Seeded players sailed smoothly up to 4th 7 Gunasekaran K. 6.5
118 Tuhin Shuvra Das 4½ 161 Arkaprava Das 4 round. Kunal M and Manigandan S S shared 8 Godson Merlin E 6.5
119 Aneesh Chanda 4½ 162 Anutosh Mukherjee 4 the lead with full points at the end of 5th 9 Ram S. Krishnan 6.5
120 Tanisha Chatterjee 4½ 163 Shiny Ghosh 4 round. Six players shared the 2nd spot with
10 Alaguraja M.A. 6.5
121 Sharma Durga Prasad 4½ 164 Anupam Maiti 4 4.5 points each. In the 6th round. Kunal and
11 Kannan R. 6.5
122 Gupta Rick 4½ 165 Snigdharup Bagchi 4 Manigandan drew with each other. The victo-
12 Anilkumar O.T. 6
123 Debapriyo Saha 4½ 166 Parthajit Saha 4 ry of Phooblan P (ICF), Hirthickesh P R (TN)
and Anikumar O T (kerala) took them to join 13 Phoobalan P. 6
124 Subhankar Kar 4½ 167 Sonu Kumar Sharma 4
with the leaders on 5.5 points each. At the 14 Alan Diviya Raj 6
125 Dhrubajyoti Barman 4½ 168 Ujaan Bhattacharya 4
126 Mano Raj Sarkar 4½ 169 Tirtha Sarkar 4 end of the penultimate round players on top 15 Sathya Giri V 6
127 Subhankar Das 4½ 170 Basnett Yam Maya 3½ 3 tables drew with each other, and on 4th 16 Theju K V 6
128 Bishwjeet Kumar Sah 4½ 171 Aniruddha Poddar 3½ table Ram S Krishnan beat Genish Prakash 17 Yuvan Bharathi K S 6
129 Arkya Chatterjee 4½ 172 Pankaj Bhuyan 3½ J and moved to the final round with other 18 Genish Prakash J 6
130 Yudhajit Saha 4½ 173 Ousnik Kundu 3½ leaders on 6 points each. After a tough battle 19 Unnikrishnan S 6
131 Anushka Gupta 4 174 Arnab Kumar Pal 3½ between these players Kunal, Hirthickesh and 20 Sathyanarayanan S. 6
132 Sayan Biswas 4 175 Koushik Das 3½ Dharmaraj finished with 7 points each. But 21 Andrew VedaWSolomon 6
133 Gouranga Sonowal 4 176 Mahadev Bhardwaj 3½ better tie break helped kunal to clinch the 22 Kabhilan S 6
134 Sumangal Borgohain 4 177 Swaraj Saha 3½ title. Hirthickesh P R and Dharmaraj P were 23 Manikanda Prabhu B V 6
135 Susovan Dey 4 178 Avhilash Ghosh 3½ in 2nd and 3rd place respectively.
24 Suresh Kumar Ashok 6
136 Rishith Gupta 4 179 Shuvam Das 3½
25 Ram Kumar G M 6
137 Abhisek Biswas 4 180 Srijana Bhowmik 3½ The Chief Guests Mr. M. udhaya Kumar, Udaya
26 Abishek A 5.5
138 Aniruddha Chaudhuri 4 181 Saptak Chakraborty 3½ Hardwares and Mr. P.Nagarajan, Vice Principal
of DMI College of Engineering, Aralvaimozhi 27 Akash S 5.5

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28 Sivakumar C. 5.5 69 Aaron P Michaelraj 5
Vaishali R. finishes third ahead of 12 Grandmasters
29 Vijin Babu S 5.5 70 Udhayan Jacob 5
30 Achaya Vijayan 5.5 71 Divin S V 5 2017 Chigorin Memorial Blitz concluded in
31 Dhanusha S 5.5 72 Arnold P 5 St. Petersburg, Russia. Two hundred and fifty
players took part in this event, including 14
32 Sanjay Sreekandan 5.5 73 Reena K P 5
Grandmasters and 21 International Masters.
33 Karunakaran V 5.5 74 Leaha B 5 WIM R. Vaishali (2327) finished 3rd by scor-
34 Rutherford S 5.5 75 Visshnu S 5 ing 09/11 points; in the process, gained 78
35 A Jesumarian Leslie 5.5 76 Sreejith V S 5 elo points due to the performance rating of
36 Ashok D 5.5 77 Thajol T J 5 2601.
37 Harshad S 5.5 78 Dalton GSam Emmanuel 4.5
Her coach GM. Ramesh R.B. commented
38 Sriram S 5.5 79 Devin S V 4.5
that,”She won Asian Women individual blitz
39 Pavithra M 5.5 80 Rohan Anand 4.5
championship recently. Vaishali plays lot of
40 Guru Sabari Thirumalai 5.5 81 Saahil Ahmed M 4.5 blitz in our academy and has fantastic reflexes. One of the best I would say. I am not surprised
41 Bhagavathi Sankar K 5.5 82 Akash Ram Babu N I 4.5 that she did well and finished 3rd in Chigorin Memorial. Once her general playing strength im-
42 Leela Maheswari B 5.5 83 Aishwariya APonnusamy 4.5 proves further, she will be formidable in short forms of the game.” Courtesy photo: Lennart Ootes.
43 Prem K Esakki Muthu 5.5 84 Madhavan R Munjanattu 4.5
44 Merryston David Scanny 5 85 Nijalin Nixon 4.5 Piaya Network Negros Open: GM Srinath Narayanan finishes fourth
45 Jeyanth R 5 86 Athish S 4.5
46 Senthil Kumar Natarajan 5 87 Kanaka Raj K 4.5 Piaya Network Negros International Open has taken place from October 11 to 19 in Bacolod City,
Phillippines. The tournament was a 9 round Swiss open, played at 90 minutes for the whole game
47 Ashvin Venkat G 5 88 Aringar Anna V 4.5
plus 30-second increment. English Grandmaster Nigel Short seized the first place; whereas,
48 Jaya Suriyah Ayyappan 5 89 Femil Chelladurai 4.5
Chennai’s GM Srinath Narayanan, the lone Indian in the tournament, settled for the 4th spot.
49 Aswath S 5 90 Manikandan C 4.5 GM Srinath was among the four grandmasters who was trailing behind the tournament leader
50 Preejesh S B 5 91 Abinesh S S 4.5 Antonio Rogelio Jr at the end of 4th round. After series of draws, Srinath was able to squeeze
51 Girish G 5 92 Dawood.K 4.5 a victory in the penultimate round which enabled him to contend for the first place. However,
52 Sivaram Sivarajan 5 93 Sanjay Srinivasan R 4.5 an uphill task was ahead of him, he was paired against English chess legend Nigel Short in the
53 Sanjeev M 5 94 Jaivanth M K 4.5 final round. Nigel’s vast experience
thwarted all attempts to seal a vic-
54 Jagatheeswaran G 5 95 Balaji Suyam Prakasam 4.5
tory, and soon Srinath succumbed
55 Priya Varshini T 5 96 Magdalene Roy R 4.5 to a loss.
56 Sivaneshan V 5 97 Riya Shannon S 4.5 Speaking about his performance in
57 Rebecca Jesumarian 5 98 Amisha Sany M 4.5 the second-half of the tournament,
58 Gowtham T S 5 99 Kaviyarasan T 4.5 “I played some very interesting
59 Pratyush J 5 100 Parimelazhagan M 4.5 games in rounds 5-9, against 5
Grand Masters. I struggled in the
60 Subramanian T.V. 5 101 Clavio A 4.5
first two games and was completely
61 Arul Prakash N 5 102 Rupak H 4.5
losing against Antonio Regelio jr.
62 Andrew Saffrin J 5 103 Jayaraam A G S 4.5 I salvaged a draw by sheer good
63 Anni Shayana Stephen 5 104 Barath K N 4 fortune. After taking a timeout in
64 Vignesh Rajan 5 105 Sri Hari S 4 round 7, with a quick draw, I finally
65 Lekshanth M 5 106 Pushpa Evengeline V 4 hit my feet running for the last two
66 Ruben K 5 107 Dhanesh G R 4 games. In the 8th round, I outplayed
the third-seeded GM Tran Tuan Minh
67 Siva Ganesh R 5 108 Ajeesh S 4
convincingly.” said GM Srinath.
68 Niranjana P R 5 109 Ranjith Kalaiyarasan 4
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 M.R.Venkatesh wins Liffre Open International
Even though this game was a draw, it featured much excitement with pawn storms and
M R Venkatesh's long wait for opposite wing castles. Gopal had a slight edge after the queen exchange but a delay in re-
winning a title prize in a classical capturing black's bishop on b7 lost him his advantage. Chanda, who had now lost the lead,
time control tournament was final- fought really hard to regain his tournament position against the Chinese IM Li Di in the sev-
ly over at the Liffre International enth round. After a rather peaceful middle game, the Bengali GM tried really hard with the
Chess Open held in France the white pieces to push for an advantage. His efforts did get rewarded as he was able to win a
final weeks of October. Scoring pawn eventually. However, in the end, he had to content himself with a draw.
8.0/9, Venkatesh emerged as the
clear winner of the tournament, The penultimate round brought victories to both Indian GMs and brought them back into the
half a point ahead of his nearest race for the title. Both were now tied for second, half a point behind the leader GM Kaido
rival.” I was happy after I won Kulaots who had snatched the lead from Ahmed Adly by beating him in the seventh round.
my 4th round game against 1st
seed Kryakvin Dmitry (2583) in a While GN Gopal systematically outplayed IM Gelerf Meins, after the German IM gave up two
convincing manner. This is when pieces for a rook in the middle game, GM Sandipan Chanda almost lost his edge against IM
I really started to think about Arno Zude and was on the verge of conceding a draw.With the leader, Kaido Kulaots' draw
the winning the title. In the final against Itturizaga Bonelli in the final round, Sandipan Chanda was able to climb up the leader
round, I won against Gahan MG board and catch Kulaots at the top. Egyptian GM, Ahmed Adly also won his game against
which I felt I played quite well Fernando Peralta to join the leaders. After tie-breaks were applied, Adly took the title prize
and won a clean game. Neelotpal while Kulaots and Chanda finished second and third, respectively.
& I were in joint-lead until the M.R.Venkatesh receiving the Winner’s prize
penultimate round but on the last
round I won and he drew against Kidambi, hence I secured clear first.” said GM M.R.Venkatesh Nodirbek Abdusattorov is second youngest GM in chess history
Nodirbek Abdusattorov has GM norms from last
year's Chigorin Memorial and from Abu Dhabi
21st Bavarian International Chess Open 2017. And now he's added a third in the Chig-
orin Memorial in St. Petersburg.Combined with
Sandipan Chanda finishes joint first a rating over 2500 he has met the qualifications
for the GM title several months ahead of the
The recently concluded 21st Bavarian International
previous record held by Parimarjan Negi. The
Chess Open attracted almost 500 participants of whom
boy is a huge talent and a lot can be expected
around two dozen were Grandmasters. In fact, the
of him from future. As for now Karjakin's record
top six seeds were rated above Elo 2600! There were
of 12 years 7 months remains intact and Pragg-
only two Indian GMs in this super strong field - GN
nanandhaa has five months to break it!
Gopal and Sandipan Chanda. Despite being far from
Photo: Amruta Mokal
the rating favourites, both players performed out-
standingly. Sandipan Chanda was tied for first and
had it not been for the mishap in the final round,
Gopal, too, would have been among the leaders. Sportsman of the year award for Vidit
However, despite all odds, he finished tied for second The Sports Journalists' Association of Mumbai (SJAM) is a very famous and well known or-
with an unbeaten score. ganization. They held their 50th year award celebrations at the Bombay Gymkhana. Vidit
Gujrathi was going to feted with the award of the sportsman of the year. SJAM have previ-
The first half of the event went extremely well for ously felicitated the likes of Tendulkar, Gavaskar and many other great sportsmen. Chess
the Indian GMs. While the seventh seed, GM G N Gopal scored 4.5/5 in his first five games, getting its due was something very special. With so many eminent journalists, and so many
the 13th seeded GM Sandipan Chanda was in joint lead with a perfect 6.0/6. Unfortunate- sports players from different disciplines being present there, it was just wonderful to see
ly, in round 6, Chanda's winning spree was brought to a crashing halt by the Egyptian GM Vidit getting the biggest award.
Ahmed Adly.
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Vidit receiving the award for the best sportsman of the year from Vinod Tawde and Pravin Thipsay
Photo: Amruta Mokal
Courtesy:Chessbaseindia
Lombardy, Fischer’s second, passes away
GM William James Lombardy (1937-2017) passed away on 13 Oct
2017 in Matinez, CA, USA. He was the first US player to win the World
Junior when it was held once every two years with a 11/11 score in
1957! Nobody ever has repeated that full score in any World Junior.
Lombardy was known as one of the top talented players of the United
States in the 1950s and 60s. His International successes were so
great that he would have become the icon of American Chess, had
Bobby Fischer not come along. Six years older than Fischer, he never
grudged Fischer his fame and actually helped him in his chess ascent.
Lombardy became more famous when Bobby Fischer chose him as
his ‘second’ in the epoch making 1972 World Championship match
at Reykjavik. Born in Manhattan (NY) and raised in the Bronx (NY)
he lived in the east coast for most of his last years. He represented
USA in seven Chess Olympiads and won a gold medal in Haifa 1976.
He won four team medals (one gold, one silver and two bronze) and one individual medal (gold,
1970).
Like Fischer, Lombardy also learnt chess from Jack Collins. He was also noted for his brilliant
finishes and queen sacrifices. He defeated Spassky in a 1960 game with the black pieces and
then 12 years later assisted Fischer to defeat Spassky in the 1972 World Title match.
Interestingly, Lombardy served as a Catholic priest during his playing years. It affected his
chess. He entered the seminary in 1961 and after ordination, worked as a priest in the Bronx.
But he left it in 1973, complaining of unscrupulous pastors who objected to his playing chess.
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110 Shreya S Pillai 4 151 Porkalaivani N 3.5
111 Viknesh Babu E 4 152 Satheesh Kumar G 3.5
112 Karthi Ganes M 4 153 Emmanuel Austin B 3.5
113 Anirudh Ra 4 154 Esakkiappan E 3.5
114 Sriram Mariappan 4 155 Arun Karthikeyan R 3.5
115 James Edison P 4 156 Muthukumaran A 3.5
116 Dheepak S 4 157 Arthiha Neelavathy P 3.5
117 Balu P 4 158 Natarajan M 3.5
118 Krithik Shai M P 4 159 Ranjith Ananth S 3.5
119 Mitul Bala S 4 160 Sanjay Jacob 3.5
120 Vaisakh R P 4 161 Akshay Prakash T B 3.5
121 Sudharsun N K 4 162 Avesh K J 3.5
122 Sumesh Kabeer 4 163 Roshan Adhithya 3.5
123 Navin Dharrsan S K 4 164 Vinodh C 3.5
124 Roshan Prakaash E 4 165 Manjit T S 3.5
125 Srinivas M B 4 166 Aji Goodwill 3.5
126 Shirojith Samuel S J 4 167 Rishi C 3.5
127 Heerthick M J 4 168 Sathvihaa S K 3.5
128 Darsika B Padmanabhan 4 169 Maathesh N 3.5
129 Poojaa K I 4 170 Antel Joee 3.5
130 Sujin Dhas J 4 171 Rahesh Prian S K 3.5
131 Yuthisthra Bose M N 4 172 Jason Sekar S 3.5
132 Karthick Ram 4 173 Anton Retnastanis S A 3.5
133 Sivashini C M 4 174 Antony Nelson V 3.5
134 Hariraj M 4 175 Amit G A 3.5
135 Rohith Vinay R 4 176 Sandra Presanna S A 3.5
136 Raaghav Kabil M 4 177 Johaan Tony J A 3.5
137 Nirmal K S 4 178 Peter M Pereira 3.5
138 Bavana J S 4 179 Thrushwini R S 3.5
139 Leroy Laszlo J 4 180 Ruban Sanjay M 3
140 Lisha Benist V 4 181 Mathuriya Bharathi R S 3
141 Aswin J D 4 182 Goutham Krishna K V 3
142 Steve Rohan S 4 183 Akash R George 3
143 Sachin S E 4 184 Roy R Sharthiha 3
144 Sivaneswari C 4 185 Manoj R 3
145 Pavithra Murugan 4 186 Akileash Kumar J K 3
146 Muthu Nagaraj K M 4 187 Dhanabala Bhoopathy T 3
147 Roshan Saai J S 4 188 Ajay T S 3
148 Manikandan Sundhar 4 189 Johan P 3
149 Cinthia M 4 190 Rajeev S 3
150 Henishma A R 3.5 191 Kavya T S 3
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 Smt. Suneeta Singh & Sanjay Kasliwal Open FIDE rated tournament,Indore
Gajwa Ankit wins title
by IA Anurag Singh, Chief Arbiter
A
ll Indore Chess Association being a
famous organizer from Indore contin-
ued the tradition of conducting Rating
event every year at the pleasant Emerald
Heights International School located in Rou,
Indore. The above tournament was organized
successfully by All Indore Chess Associa-
tion. Total number of entries was 202 from
various parts of India. The tournament was
inaugurated by Director,Emerald Heights In-
ternational School: Mukhtesh Singh and Dr.
Ajit Kumar Singh Kasliwalby playing moves
on Chessboard. Inauguration Ceremony was
graced bythe presence of Kasliwal family,
All Indore Chess Association President and
tournament Director- F. Anil, MPCA Joint
Secretary Piyush Zamindar, All Indore Chess
Association Vice President Sanjay Pable along
with Chief Arbiter IA Anurag Singh & Deputy
Chief Arbiter FA Vivek Sohani.
In the first round itself Unrated Degwekar
Anmol Started blowing crackers after Diwali
Festival with a draw against ELO 1755 player
BiseShailesh. In second round, Low Rated
Hitesh Jariaand Shivam Panchal stopped their
higher rated opponents to draw. Third round
gave quite expected results, but fourth round
came and it was very clear that tournament
is going to be electrifying when we got top
4 boards ended in draw out of which, Top
Board Game was very notable where Bhogale
Rupesh from Maharashtra drew his game with
616 ELO points higher Ankit Gajwa. In round
Five,Playing with White pieces, Ankit Mondal
from West Bengal stunned last time Winner &
second seed Arjun Tiwari from Railways with
a win and now the tournament results hung
in balance. Unrated Surendra Yadav from MP
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continued his good form in round six of this
tournament where he conquered Elo 1545
Shrivastava Chitransh from MP. Round sev-
en witnessed draw between MP state Open
Champion Rupesh Kant and MP State Women
Champion Nityata Jain. Nityata managed to
draw with Senior Player from MP Mr. Mrudu-
has Tripathy from slightly minus position in
the penultimate round.
The total cash prizes worth INR 2,00,000/-
(Both Tournaments) were given by the chief
guestsMr. Ajitsinghkasliwal, other Dignitaries
present on the dais were Mr. PiyushJamindar,
Mr. Muktesh Singh, Dr. Anupuma Jain, Mr.
Apurvjain, Mr. Gajendra Kumar, Mr. F Anil,
Mr. Mahesh Agrawal,Chief Arbiter IA Anurag
Singh & Deputy Chief Arbiter FA VivekSohani.
The Tournament concluded in a very smooth
manner and the players and parents were
quite happy about overall conduct of the
tournament.
Final Ranking: 43 Saurabh Jain 5.5 86 Bansod Siddhi 5
Rk. Name Pts.
1 FM Gajwa Ankit 8
2 Mraduhas Tripathi 7.5
3 Jain Nityata 7
4 Kant Rupesh 7
5 AIM Mandloi Mukesh 7
6 AGM Bhogal Rupesh 7
7 Ajay Virwani 7
8 Devang Bisani 7
9 Shintre Neel 7
10 Tiwari Arjun 7
11 Shrivastav Hritik 6.5
12 Prakash Yadav 6.5
13 Darsh Kansal 6.5
14 Bise Sailesh 6.5 57 Tawar Abhirajsingh 5.5
15 Ayush Sharma 6.5 58 Pavan Kumar Zutshi 5.5
16 Sudarshan Malga 6.5 59 Aditya Gupta 5.5
17 Hitesh S. Jariya 6.5 60 Sujay Jain 5.5
18 Murarilal Kori 6.5 61 Patwardhan Kushal 5.5
19 Singh Sukhpal 6.5 62 Varma Pratik 5
20 Devansh Singh 6.5 63 Saharsh Goyal 5
21 Panchal Sahil 6.5 64 Bharadwaja B 5
22 Aniket Mondal 6 65 Jaiswal Abhishek 5
23 Dishant Jain 6 66 Varshita Jain 5
24 Surendra Yadav 6 67 Agrawal D Ramakant 5
25 Jain Swatantra 6 68 Jain Madhur 5
26 Thakur Ankur Singh 6 69 Prajapat Gaurav 5
27 Tomar Nishant Singh 6 70 Mohammad Irfan 5
28 Shrivastava Chitransh 6 71 Shah Krish G 5
29 Anishka Vikram 6 72 Shah Sushrut 5
30 Rajaram 6 73 Vedant Singh Tomar 5
31 Dadwani Sahil 6 74 Chauhan Animesh Singh 5
32 Mishra Kamad 6 75 Deepak Mehra 5
33 Bharat Jethmalani 6 76 Navya Goyal 5
34 Aditi Bajaj 6 77 Borse Umesh Suresh 5
35 Rajendra Singh 6 78 Swapnil Kothari 5
36 Pranay Jain 6 79 Raikwar Hemant 5
37 Yatharth Joshi 6 80 Tandon Dhruv 5
38 Kalgaonkar S 6 81 Kunal Vyas 5
39 Adireddy Tarun 5.5 82 Singh Kawaljeet 5
40 Ankur Khatri 5.5 83 Pandey Divya 5
41 Sidak Chhabra 5.5 84 Sanjay Kumar Jaiswal 5
42 Jain Prakhar 5.5 85 Jethwani Yashita 5
44 Jigna Joshi 5.5 87 Shakya Gaurav 5
45 Asthana B.S. 5.5 88 Nigam Sanya 5
46 Sagar Medatwal 5.5 89 Borse Suresh 5
47 Tandon Aakarsh 5.5 90 Sunil Panwar 5
48 Anshuman Singh Tomar 5.5 91 Yash Modi 5
49 Jain Hardik 5.5 92 Koli Anil 4.5
50 Ramchandra Yadav 5.5 93 Mandakani Mishra 4.5
51 Cera Dagaria 5.5 94 Ravi Palsule 4.5
52 Manikya Negi 5.5 95 Sudeep Tripathi 4.5
53 Prakhar Gupta (mp) 5.5 96 Chopade Saimira 4.5
54 Shivam Panchal 5.5 97 Chatterjee Arindam 4.5
55 Jindal Akshat 5.5 98 Chhattani Shourya 4.5
56 Jariya Harsh 5.5 99 Adivi Karawat 4.5
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100 Dubey Akshita 4.5 143 Purushaartharaj Singh P 3.5 4th Late Shri Laxmikant V Desai Mem.FIDE Rating Chess Tournament, Ponda, Goa
101 Sharad Kumar 4.5 144 Parashar Dhairyaa 3.5
102 Yug Kataria 4.5 145 Nirmal Chandel 3.5
Snehal Bhosale is Winner
103 Sharma Rahul Ashok 4.5 146 Himanshi Lalwani 3.5 by IA Vasanth BH, Chief Arbiter
104 Kankaria Nishka 4.5 147 Gupta Sourav 3.5

4
105 Harsh Vardhan Singh 4.5 148 Ishaan Singh Khanuja 3.5 th Late Shri Laxmikant V Desai Memo- seed Snehal Bhosale (2211) of Maharastra in
106 Jain Chidesh 4.5 149 Avika Panwar 3.5 rial All India FIDE Rating Chess Tour- the 4th round. Second seed Arvind Shastry
107 Pankaj Negi 4.5 150 Vihaan Sachdeva 3.5 nament was inaugurated by Rajendra (2192) of Karnataka lost to his state mate
108 Ashish Saxena 4.5 151 Raunit Jain 3.5 Desai, Trustee of Desai Pratishthan in the Sanjay Sindhia (1758) in the fifth round. This
109 Rajendra Sharma 4 152 Tarun N 3.5 presence of Amogh Namshiker, President, loss of second seed and draw of top seed in
110 Bajaj Vishwa 4 153 Agrawal Soumya 3 Ponda Taluka Chess Association, Anand Kurti- the earlier round stopped them from first
111 Degwekar Anmol 4 154 Chhabariya Honey 3 kar, Secretory, Ponda TCA, Mahesh Khedekar, position.
112 Khanwilkar Anant 4 155 Prince Choudhary 3 Treasurer, Ponda TCA, Sunita Bhende, Sagar
113 Sarthak Bhave 4 156 Krish Kothari 3 Sakordekar, Tournament director, Mangaldas At the end of 6th round, Ameya Audi and
114 Neema Eshika 4 157 Upadhyay Prashant 3 Gaude, Sarpanch, VPK Panchayat, Shivdas Swaraj Palit were leading with six points
115 Hardik Rajan 4 158 Bajaj Jeet 3 Gaude,ZP,Veling Priol, Wilson Cruz, Vice Pres- each. Snehal Bhosale, Girish Bachikar and
116 Bhargava Kartik 4 159 Batra Khwahish 3 ident, Pond TCA. On 26th October 2017 at Nirav Rajasuba were in five and half points
117 Sikandar Mansuri 4 160 Mohit Ochani 3 VPK Grampanchayat Hall, Mardol, Ponda Goa. each.In the final round , Top seed, Snehal
118 Zamindar Aadyaa 4 161 Kharchane Aamrapali 3 Bhosale of Maharastra defeated Swaraj
119 Malakar Durga 4 162 Ketki Karsa 3 Total of 298 players from AP, Chhattisgarh, Palit of Jharkhand to win the 4th Late Shri
120 Tongia Vihaan 4 163 Vivek Jaiswal 3 Delhi, Goa, Gujarat, Haryana, Jharkhand, Laxmikant V Desai Memorial All India FIDE
121 Garg Arpit 4 164 Batra Pari 3 Maharashtra, Karnataka and UP were partic- Rating Chess Tournament. Audi Ameya of
122 Asmit Mishra 4 165 Buchade Chitransh 3 ipated in this tournament out of which 129 Goa drew with Arvind Shastry and became
123 Ishan Singh 4 166 Ansh Nayyar 3 were rated players. the 1st runner-up. Gajanan D of Karnataka
124 Kekre Tanishk 4 167 Sharma Aishwarya 3 defeated his state mate Sanjay Sindhia to
125 Jalwani Karan 4 168 Kavin Kapoor 3 Snehal Bhosale of Maharastra was top seed become the 2nd runner-up.
126 Chhabra Sukhhraj 4 169 Saran Anushka 3 with 2211 ELO rating. Arvind Shastry(2192)
127 Niket Jain 4 170 Sharma Atharva 3 of Karnataka, Ameya Audi (2153) of Goa, Chief guest, Mr Rajendra Desai, Trustee of
128 Patel Vedika 4 171 Balram Chouhan 3 Swaraj Palit (1975) of Jharkhand and Nirav Desai Pratishthan, Guest of honor Dr Celso
129 Ritwik Nigam 4 172 Shriya Agrawal 3 Rajasuba (1858) of Gujarat were other seed- Fernades, Sagar Sakordekar, Tournament Di-
130 Neema Harsh 4 173 Agrawal Paridhi 3 ed players. rector, Amogh Namshiker, President, Ponda
131 Jain Naisha 4 174 Khan Anwar Azim 2.5 Taluka Chess Association, Mahesh Khedekar,
132 Khare Shivam 4 175 Lunia Arnav 2.5 The tournament was organized in a very Treasurer, Ponda TCA, Wilson Cruz, Vice
133 Yadav Aishwariya 4 176 Heman Gupta 2.5 spacious and well ventilated hall. Every day President, Ponda TCA, Vishwas Pilankar,
134 Sanyukta Sharma 4 177 Fatechandani Nikhil 2.5 organiser provided Tea and biscuits to all the Treasurer, Goa Chess Association distributed
135 Shevde Ninaad 4 178 Yash Bardiya 2.5 players. More than 50 percent of the players the prizes.
136 Tanvi Chandak 4 179 Joshi Alka 2.5 were less than 12 years of age. They were
137 Muskan Karsa 4 180 Kukreja Nikhil 2 well disciplined and updated with all latest Final rankings:
138 Negi Agriti 4 181 Ankush Makwan 2 chess rules. The credit goes to the parents Rk Name Pts
139 Mihir Mandloi 4 182 Rajendra Dhakad 2 and their coaches. 1 Snehal Bhosale 7½
140 Singh Jaskeerat 4 183 Thakur S Khumsing 2 2 Audi Ameya 7
141 Prabhat Datre 3.5 184 Namit Rajan 2 Shree Krishna Pranama (1606) of Karnataka 3 Gajanan D 7
142 Tiwari Pradeep 3.5 185 Harnoor Khanuja 2 playing with black pieces, drew with the top 4 Arvind Shastry 6½

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5 Swaraj Palit 6½ 48 Ghadi Rajan 5½ 91 Akhil Naik 4½ 134 Sawant Shraddha Narayan 4
6 Kulkarni Saurabh P 6½ 49 Sharath R Shanbhag 5½ 92 Sanvi Naik Gaonkar 4½ 135 Naik Kartik 4
7 Ian Savio Rodrigues 6½ 50 Colaco Vernon Jesus 5½ 93 Suyash Pai 4½ 136 Dessai Purush Rajkaran 4
8 Nirav Y. Rajasuba 6½ 51 Sawant Vignesh 5½ 94 Shivdatt Kuncolienkar 4½ 137 Abhisheki Shravani 4
9 Barde Om 6½ 52 Kavish Gharse 5 95 Shriom Revankar 4½ 138 Amit Ashok Bandekar 4
10 Shirodkar Aayush 6½ 53 Pardeshi Vivek 5 96 Sainee N F Dessai 4½ 139 Coleridge Timothy Fernandes 4
11 Devesh Anand Naik 6½ 54 Lohia Sohum 5 97 Ganesh Bhaskar Mhamal 4½ 140 Zore Chinmay 4
12 Durgesh K 6 55 Thorat Sanjay 5 98 Pai Vithal 4½ 141 Desai Vihav Vihar 4
13 Bachikar Girish 6 56 Pardeshi Omkar 5 99 Naik Shirodkar Prajay 4½ 142 Sanjeev Parab 4
14 Sanjay Sindhia Mh 6 57 Swayam Naik 5 100 Ved Prashant Narvekar 4½ 143 Sayyed Maizah 4
15 Shree Krishna Pranama 6 58 Shetti Ameya 5 101 Sathvik Ashok Kerkar 4½ 144 Anushka Arun Mardolkar 4
16 Nandhini Saripalli 6 59 Choudekar Dinesh 5 102 Kakodkar Love 4½ 145 Desai Dhruv Manjunath 4
17 Tanvi Vasudev Hadkonkar 6 60 Jadhav Manomay 5 103 Shubh Kalangutkar 4½ 146 Pradnya Sachin Kakodkar 4
18 Paarth P Salvi 6 61 Ayush Ramchandra Shetkar 5 104 Shivani Sutar 4½ 147 Khandeparkar Pradnya 4
19 Komal Srivatsav Sajja 6 62 Avaneeshwar Guin 5 105 Sai Kalagutkar 4½ 148 Saiesh Shenvi Priolkar 4
20 Gajengi Rajababu 6 63 Alaya Vella D Cruz 5 106 Wadile Vinayak 4½ 149 Prabhu Sahil Sudheer 4
21 Parsekar Anirudh 6 64 Vansh Morajkar 5 107 Sutar Vinay 4½ 150 Angle Vedant 4
22 Kuril Atharv 6 65 Shivam Kapdi 5 108 Thirthalli Shefali 4½ 151 Komarpant Saurav 4
23 Sairaj Dilip Vernekar 6 66 Bir Yogesh Pai 5 109 Srilaxmi Kamat 4½ 152 Aishwarya Kadamb 4
24 Colaco Reuben 6 67 Khan Raees Ahmed 5 110 Vicente Fernandes 4½ 153 Tushar Sunil Kutre 4
25 Fadte Rudresh 6 68 Sanjeev Akash 5 111 Harsh S Kurtikar 4½ 154 Saidas D Fotto 4
26 Bhimappa Harijan 6 69 Yash Manoj Upadhye 5 112 Siddhiraj Gaunekar 4½ 155 Rahul Mahale 4
27 Kadam Rishi R 6 70 Mayekar Ayush 5 113 Swapnil Kurtiker 4½ 156 Kulkarni Akash Girish 4
28 Kunnekar Vanshri 6 71 Rutik Shanbhag 5 114 Suvrat Acharya 4½ 157 Sopan Desai 4
29 Antonio A J D 6 72 Sarah Gayle Fernandes 5 115 Gangnaik Santosh 4½ 158 Jaidev M Araundekar 4
30 Shalon Joanne Pais 5½ 73 Dey Jeet 5 116 Pardeshi Gayatri 4½ 159 Asmi Chaudikar 4
31 Shreyas Ghadi 5½ 74 Sarvesh S Kurtikar 5 117 Atharva Sawal 4½ 160 Shivmay Naik 4
32 Advait Rajiv Dhawalikar 5½ 75 Dyaneshwar Hawal 5 118 Rishabh Verma 4 161 Hande Vrujesh 4
33 Gaude Sachin 5½ 76 Tejal Sunil Lotlikar 5 119 Kundaikar Rounak 4 162 Shriya Patil 4
34 Bhuta Hriday 5½ 77 Shriyana S Mallya WCM 5 120 Pai Vishwesh 4 163 Nidhi Gaude 4
35 Sanat Borkar 5½ 78 Mayekar Jayesh 5 121 Vas Bryan 4 164 Ali Amanat 4
36 Naik Gaonkar Suyash 5½ 79 Nagvekar Sairudra 5 122 Porob Vraj 4 165 Anvita Ramdas Burde 4
37 Audi Saiesh 5½ 80 Sanket Shamkuwar 5 123 Sania Salvi 4 166 Jahnvi Abhay Desai 4
38 Sahil Dayanand Desai 5½ 81 Parab Rishikesh 5 124 Varun R Shastry 4 167 Aarav Kamat 4
39 Chitalkar Nilesh 5½ 82 Parth Kamat 5 125 Shlok Dhulapkar 4 168 Skandhaj Kotha 4
40 Anurag Sandesh Adwalpalkar 5½ 83 Pai Sunay Pundalik 5 126 Shivam Raikar 4 169 Christabel G Clara Fernan 4
41 Ananya Parikh 5½ 84 Parab Sneh 5 127 Namesh Milesh Churi 4 170 Chopdekar Aman 4
42 Mantrawadi Harsh 5½ 85 Anvesh Bandekar 5 128 Katkar Atharv 4 171 Sequeira Alex 4
43 Kuncolienkar Shivank 5½ 86 Narvekar Arya 4½ 129 Sohan Prashant Phanasekar 4 172 Coutinho Sinai 3½
44 Pratik S Borkar 5½ 87 Madhavan G 4½ 130 Harshul Jindal 4 173 Sumit Kumar 3½
45 Kakodkar Joy 5½ 88 Jugan Sales Rodrigues 4½ 131 Govardhan Palekar 4 174 Vernekar Shubham 3½
46 Ishan Sanjay Pagi 5½ 89 Behera Debadatta 4½ 132 Charuta J Shetye 4 175 Krutam Naik Gaonker 3½
47 Akhilesh Akshay Nigalye 5½ 90 Kaushik M Khedekar 4½ 133 Gaurav Gokuldas Naik 4 176 Kulkarni Vaibhav 3½

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Selected games from Asian Cities
Championships,Bubaneshwar
Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron
Tahbaz,Arash (2381)
Rahman,SM (2131) [A07]
1.Nf3 d5 2.g3 Nf6 3.Bg2 Bf5 4.0–0 e6
5.d3 Be7 6.Nbd2 0–0 7.b3 c6 8.Bb2
Nbd7 9.Re1 [M.Glenke 2300 vs H Sonn-
tag 2375, Bundesliga, 1987 went: 9.Nh4
Bg4 10.h3 Bh5 11.f4 Ne8 12.Nhf3 f5 13.e4
Bf6 14.Bxf6 Qxf6 15.e5 and white won on
the 50th move.] 9...Bc5= 10.e4 dxe4
11.dxe4 Bg6 12.Qe2 Qc7 13.e5
Diagram # 13...Nd5 [Risky would be: 13...
Ng4 14.Rf1 Bxc2 15.Ne4! Bxe4 16.Qxe4
Nh6 17.Ng5 Nf5 (17...g6 18.Qh4±) 18.g4
h6] 14.c4 Nb4 15.Ne4 Be7 16.Red1 From
here onwards, white starts dominating the
game. 16...Rfd8 17.Nd6 Nc5 [17...Nxe5?
18.Bxe5 Rxd6 (Forced, for if 18...Bxd6
19.Rxd6 Rxd6 20.c5!+-) 19.Bxd6 Bxd6]
18.Ne1 [Stronger was: 18.Bd4 Nd7 19.Bc3
Na6 20.b4] 18...a5 [Better, but looking
risky was: 18...f6 19.a3 Nba6 20.b4 Nb3
21.Ra2 Bxd6 22.exd6 Rxd6 23.Rxd6 Qxd6
24.Qe3 Qd2! and whether white captures
the queen or the knight, black has the
advantage.] 19.Rd2 [White proceeds ac-
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cording to well known theory - double your
rooks on the Open file. After 19.h4!? h6
can win more material! 1–0 Rfc8 23.Rxc6 [If 23.Kf2 Qa5 (threat 24...
Bxa3!!) 24.Qd3 Rc4] 23...Rxc6 24.Kf2
20.h5 Bh7 21.Bd4 Nba6 22.Qe3 b6 white's Qb3 25.Ne3 Diagram #
position is full of attacking possibilities, but
with no clear outcome.] 19...Rd7 20.Qe3
b6 21.a3! Nba6 22.b4 This takes advan-
tage of the pin along the a-file and the
unprotected black rook on a8. 22...Nb7 [If
22...axb4 23.axb4 Nb7 24.b5 and black's
queen-side collapses.] 23.b5 Nb8 [23...
cxb5? 24.Bxb7+-] 24.Rad1 Diagram #
Rahman,SM (2131)
Swayams,M (2455) [C11]
1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.e5 Nfd7 25...Rb6! If you put your opponent on the
5.f4 c5 6.Nf3 Nc6 7.Be3 Be7 8.Qd2 0–0 defensive, half the battle is won as many
9.Nd1 cxd4 10.Nxd4 Nxd4 11.Bxd4 Nb8 do not play well under pressure. 26.Nd1
12.c3N [S.Palit 2421 vs M. Swayams 2445, [26.Rb1? Bxa3!–+] 26...Rc6 27.Ne3 Qa2
2014 went: 12.Bd3 Nc6 13.Bf2 f6 and was 28.Ke2 Rb6 29.Nd1 Qb1 30.Re1 h6
drawn after 32 moves.] 12...Nc6 13.Ne3 31.Qd3 Qa2 32.Rg1 [Better 32.Kf1 Rc6
[Better was: 13.Be3 f6 14.exf6 Bxf6 15.Be2 33.Re2 and despite more freedom for his
d4 16.cxd4 Nxd4 17.Bd3 e5 18.0–0=] 13... pieces black has little advantage.] 32...Qa1
24...Kf8 [If 24...Nxd6 25.exd6 Bxd6 (or Nxd4 14.cxd4 Qb6 15.a3 f6 16.Ng4 33.Qd2 Qb1 34.g4?
25...Rxd6 26.Rxd6 Bxd6 27.c5!! bxc5
(27...Bxc5 28.Qe5!! Qxe5 29.Rd8+ Bf8
30.Bxe5 The white rook on the 8th rank
paralyses the entire black forces!) 28.b6!
Qe7 29.Qd2! and the Bd6 has no escape!)
26.Rxd6 Rxd6 27.Qe5!! threatening both,
mate on g7 and the rook on d6.] 25.bxc6!
Nxc6 26.Nb5! Again a double attack, both
the Qc7 and Rd7 are simultaneously threat-
ened leading to an immediate disintegration
of black's game. 26...Rxd2 27.Nxc7 Rxd1
28.Nxa8 Nc5 [A shade better was: 28...
Bc5 29.Qe2 Bh5! 30.Qxh5 Rxe1+ 31.Bf1 Diagram # 16...f5! [If 16...fxe5 17.Nxe5 Diagram # [He should stabilise his posi-
h6 32.Qf3 Nbd8 33.Kg2+-] 29.Qe2 Rb1 Bh4+ 18.g3 Bf6 19.Bd3 Bxe5 20.fxe5 tion first with: 34.Re1 ] 34...Rc6! 35.Qd3
30.Bxc6 Nd3 31.Bc3 Bc5 32.Kg2 Nxf2 Bd7 21.Qb4 Qxb4+ 22.axb4 a6 23.Ke2²] White's problem is that his knight cannot
Diagram # White has a huge material ad- 17.Nf2?! [Better was: 17.Ne3 Bd7 18.Be2 move as his rook would be lost. 35...Rc2+
vantage with Bb5=] 17...Bd7 18.Be2 Bb5 19.Bxb5 36.Kf3 Rxb2! 37.Nxb2 Qxg1 38.gxf5
queen and knight for rook and pawn. and Qxb5 Black is better as white cannot cas- Qxh2 39.fxe6? [More stubborn but still
with black's forces un-coordinated, white tle. 20.Rc1 Rac8 21.Rc3 Rc6 22.Nd1 losing was: 39.Qb5 Qh1+ 40.Ke2 (40.Kf2
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Bh4+!–+) 40...Qe4+ 41.Kd2 Qxf4+ 42.Kc3
Qxf5 and black should win.] 39...Qh3+
40.Ke2 Qg2+ 41.Kd1 Qxb2 42.Qg6
Qxd4+ 0–1
Rajat Kumar,S (1755)
Kiran,Mohanty (2162) [D02]
This is one more example of a David versus
Goliath story from Bhubaneswar. Rajat Ku-
mar Sahoo is an unknown 12-year old from
Puri who plays this game exceptionally well
like a seasoned master. Rating-wise, he is
400 points below his WGM opponent. On the
otherhand, Kiran Monisha Mohanty, 28, is a
WGM who won, both the National U–17 Girls
and National Woman 'B' Championships ten
years ago in 2007. She is the second high-
est ranked female player from Odisha after
Padmini Rout. 1.d4 Nf6 2.Bf4 g6 3.Nf3
Bg7 4.e3 d5 5.h3 0–0 6.Nbd2 c5 7.c3
Nc6 8.Be2 Nd7 9.0–0 e5 10.dxe5 Ndxe5
11.Nxe5 Nxe5 12.Nf3 Nc6 [When you are
an experienced FIDE-titled player, you cannot
afford to draw or lose against a lowly rated,
unknown player. You are expected to win
and this piles psychological pressure on the
Master who is persuaded by circumstances
into trying for more than what is available on
the board. Also, with FIDE ratings of young
players often being deceptive, one does not
know how exactly weak is ones weak op-
ponent! Better was to keep developing her
pieces with 12...Re8= ] 13.Qb3! c4
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Diagram # This move is kind of forced as
white threatens to pressure the d5 pawn
with Rfd1 and .....Be6 is not possible on
account of the danger to b7. But this move
leaves an ugly hole on d4. 14.Qc2 Bf5
15.Qd2 Qa5 Black's d5 pawn is a backward
pawn on a semi-open file. The d4 square
is firmly in the control of the white pieces.
16.Nd4 Nxd4 17.exd4 Rfe8 18.Rfe1 b5
19.Bf3 Be6? [Black is not playing at her
best. Better was: 19...Be4 20.Bxe4 Rxe4
21.Rxe4 dxe4 22.Qc2 Re8 23.Re1 f5=
with the threat of 24...Bxd4!] 20.a3 Qb6
21.Re2 a5 22.Rae1 Qc6 23.Be5 Red8?
[This allows the easy exchange of her valu-
able dark coloured bishop which is essential
for her king's defence. Better was: 23...
f6 24.Bf4 Bf7 not granting any advantage
to white.] 24.Bxg7 Kxg7 25.h4 Qd6 [If
25...h5 26.Qg5! Re8 (Or 26...Rh8 27.Rxe6!
fxe6 28.Qe7+ Kh6 29.Rxe6+-) 27.Bxh5
Bf5 28.Bf3+-] 26.h5 Rab8 27.h6+ Kg8
28.Qg5 White's forces are marshalled for
the kill. 28...Qf8 Diagram # 29.Rxe6!!
fxe6 30.Bg4! [The best way! To finish your
attack bring all of your available forces
to bear on the opponent's position. Here,
if 30.Rxe6 Qf5 31.Qe3 Rf8 32.Re5 Qf6
33.Bxd5+ Kh8 and white must still work
for the win.]
(Position after 28…Qf8)
Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron
30...Rb6 31.Bxe6+ Rxe6 32.Rxe6 Rd7
33.Qe3! [This is the surest way to victory.
A prolonged win involving the sacrifice of
his h6 pawn and some stunt moves was:
33.Qe5 Rd8 34.Re7 Qxh6 35.Qe6+ Kh8
36.Qf6+ Kg8 37.Rg7+! Qxg7 38.Qxd8+
Qf8 39.Qxd5+ Qf7 40.Qxb5+-] 33...Qf5
34.Re5 Qf6 35.Re6 Qf5 36.Re8+ Kf7
37.Rh8! Diagram #
Diagram # 20.dxc6!? [White decides to
create some excitement with chances for
both. He should have chosen a move which
would grant him a slight but enduring ad-
vantage as follows: 20.Qxc3 cxd5 21.Bxd5
Rad8 22.Re1 e6 23.Bf3 Nb8 24.b4 Nc6
25.Rac1 Nd4 26.Bb7²] 20...Ne5? [Black
was obviously taken by surprise by white
offering a rook and decides to play it safe.
But he could have reached an equal game
Threatening 38 Qe8+ and 39 Rf8+ winning. with: 20...Bxa1! 21.cxd7 Be5 22.dxe8Q+
37...Kf6 38.Qe8 Kg5 [If 38...Rf7 39.Qd8+! Rxe8 23.g3=] 21.Qxc3 Nxc6 22.c5 b5
Ke6 40.Re8+ mates.] 39.Rf8 Qg4 This [Better was: 22...Rac8 23.Rac1 b5 24.b4²]
is the only square from which the queen 23.Bxc6?! Diagram # [Better was: 23.Qe3
could keep supporting his Rd7. 40.f3 Qg3 Rad8 24.Rxd8 Nxd8 25.b4 Nc6 26.Qe4 Rc8
41.Qxd7 [After 41.Qxd7 Qe1+ 42.Kh2 27.Be2 Qb8 28.Rd1± White is completely
Qh4+ 43.Qh3 ends the battle.] 1–0 tied up with defence of his b5, c6 and e7
squares.]
Minhazuddin,A (2428)
Al Ansi,Amin (1898) [B01]
1.e4 d5 2.exd5 Nf6 3.d4 Nxd5 4.c4 Nb6
5.b3 g6 6.Bb2 Bg7 7.Bc3 0–0 8.Be2
Re8 9.Nf3 Bf5 10.0–0 c6 11.a4 Nc8
12.Qc1 Nd6 13.Nbd2 Ne4 14.Nxe4 Bxe4
15.Rd1 Bxf3!? [With the bishop perched
precariously on e4, normal development
was hazardous after 15...Nd7 16.Ne5 Bf5
17.Qe3 Nxe5 18.dxe5 Qc7 19.b4²] 16.Bxf3
Qc7 17.a5 Nd7 18.a6 This starts the vic-
torious assault on the queen-side. 18...b6
19.d5 Bxc3
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23...Qxc6 24.Qd4 Qc7 [If 24...Rad8
25.Qxd8! Rxd8 26.Rxd8+ Kg7 27.b4 Qe4
28.Rd7 Qxb4 29.Rc1 Qf4 30.Rdd1 Qc7 31.c6
Kf6 32.g3 b4 (32...Ke6 33.Rd7 Qb6 34.c7+-
) 33.Rd7 Qc8 34.Rxa7 b3 35.Rb7 and white
wins.] 25.b4 Red8 26.Qe4 h5 27.Rac1
Rab8 28.h3 Rd7 29.Rxd7 Qxd7 30.c6
Qc7 31.Qd5 Rd8 [If 31...Kg7 32.Qc5 Kg8
33.Re1 e6 34.Rd1 Rb6 35.Rd6 Rxa6 36.g3
Rb6 37.Rd7! Qxc6 38.Qe7!+- Qf3 39.Rd8+
Kg7 40.Qf8+ Kf6 41.Rd7+-] 32.Qxb5 Rb8
33.Qc5 Rd8 34.h4 e6 35.b5 Rd5
36.Qxd5!! An amazing combination that
wins. 36...exd5 37.b6! White's advanced
pawns on the queen-side, backed by a lone
rook, become a very strong winning offen-
sive. 37...Qf4 [If 37...axb6 38.a7! Qxa7
39.c7!] 38.Rf1! The rook gets to a safe
square, temporarily letting his advanced
queen-side pawns to fend for themselves.
38...Qd6 Diagram #
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39.c7 Qc6 40.b7! Qxc7 41.Rb1! Forcing
the black queen to humble defence.41...
Qb8[After41..Qb8 42.Rc1!threatens43.
Rc8+winning1–0
Swayams,M (2455)
Pattnaik,Ashis (1219) [C46]
Swayams Mishra is a strong IM trying to
get his Grandmaster title. Ashis Pattnaik is
a 11–year old boy trying to take advantage
of the Asian Cities Championship being
played in his backyard, so to say. 1.e4
e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Nc3 Bc5?! 4.Nxe5! Nxe5
5.d4 Bxd4 [Best was: 5...Bd6 6.dxe5
Bxe5 7.Bc4 Bxc3+ 8.bxc3 Qe7 9.0–0 d6
10.Re1²] 6.Qxd4 Qf6? Diagram # [Al-
most all ambitious young players at the
beginning of their chess career learn a
few opening traps and try to win quickly
with their own favourite traps. This move
(Qf6) is apparently defending his knight
on e5, but in fact, conceals a deadly
threat, for if now 7 Be2 or 7 Bc4, then
7....Nf3+ wins the Qd4. But if white sees
through the threat, he is safe and the
black queen on f6 is misplaced, taking
away the natural square of his knight.
Better here was: 6...d6 7.Bf4 (7.f4?
Qh4+ 8.g3 Nf3+ 9.Kd1 Nxd4 10.gxh4³)
7...f6 8.0–0–0 Ne7 9.Qa4+ Bd7 10.Qb3
Qc8±]
7.Be3 Ng4? [About 150 years ago in Vien-
na, 1873, Rosenthal vs Fleissig went: 7...
Ne7 8.Nb5! N7c6 9.Qc3 Kd8 (the only
way to save his c7) 10.f4 Ng4 11.e5! Qe7
12.Bc5 Qe6 13.Bc4 Qf5 14.0–0 f6? (14...
a6) 15.h3 Nh6 16.Nd4 Qh5? 17.Rad1 fxe5??
18.Ne6+! 1–0 for if 18...Ke8 19 Nxg7+
forks the Queen.] 8.Nd5! Qxd4 9.Bxd4
Diagram # Now black cannot stop the dual
threats of 10 Nxc7+ and 10 Bxg7. 9...N4f6
10.Nxc7+ Kd8 11.Nxa8 1–0
Goura,H (1738)
Tan,Jun Ying (2038) [A46]
1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 e6 3.g3 c5 4.Bg2 cxd4
5.Nxd4 d5 6.0–0 e5 7.Nf3 Nc6 8.Bg5
Be7 9.Nc3 d4 10.Bxf6N [In D.Gross
2305 vs S.Vesselovsky 2450, Frydek-Mistek
Op Cz Republic, 1995 white withdrew his
knight back to square one and still held
the draw against a vastly higher rated op-
ponnent: 10.Nb1 0–0 11.c3 Qb6 12.cxd4
Qxb2 13.Nbd2 exd4 14.Qb3 drawn on 53rd
move.] 10...Bxf6 11.Ne4 Be7 12.c3 f5!
Black systematically pushes back the knight
to gain a huge advantage. 13.Ned2 dxc3
14.bxc3 e4 Diagram #
Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron
15.Nd4! [A pawn sacrifice to complete his
development and take advantage of black's
uncastled king. Black's advanced pawns
on the e4 and f5 squares could become
vulnerable to attacks as one could see in
the further course of the game. Many of us
would go to any length for saving a pawn or
winning one! If white does not mind being
pushed into a corner and pummelled, he
can try: 15.Ne1 Be6 16.Qc2 Rc8 17.Rb1
Qd7 18.Qb2 Bf6µ] 15...Nxd4 16.cxd4
Qxd4 17.e3 Qe5 [After 17...Qd3 18.Nb3!
Qxd1 19.Raxd1 0–0 20.f3! Bg5 21.Rfe1
exf3 22.Bxf3 black has an extra pawn,
but it is not fully digested!] 18.Qb3 [After
18.f3?! exf3 19.Qxf3 0–0 20.Qd5+ Qxd5
21.Bxd5+ Kh8 22.e4 Rd8! 23.Nb3 white
does not have enough for his sacrificed
pawn.] 18...Qe6 19.Rab1 0–0 [19...b6±
would have kept his extra pawn. But it is
understandable that black would be anxious
to move his king away from the centre of
the board as soon as possible.] 20.Qxe6+
Bxe6 21.Rxb7 Thus white has recovered
his pawn. He would now have to neutralize
the slight edge that the two black bishops
hold. 21...Bf6 Diagram #
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 Ali,Abdulaziz (1881)
Nayak,Rajesh (2211) [B70]
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6
5.Nc3 g6 6.Be2 Bg7 7.g4 Bxg4 8.Bxg4
Nxg4 9.Ne6‰ [Peng Xiaomin 2648 vs
Wang Wenhao 2404, Chinese Ch. Suzhou,
2004 went: 9.Qxg4 Bxd4 10.Bd2 Nc6 11.0–
0–0 Qd7 12.Qg3 0–0–0 13.Kb1 Kb8 14.Bh6
Bxc3 15.Qxc3 Qe6 Game drawn after move
28.] 9...fxe6 10.Qxg4 Diagram #
15...Qc6! 16.hxg6 [If 16.Rh3 Bxc3
17.Bxc3 Qxe4+ 18.Kd1 Rc8 19.Kc1 Qe2!
Which pawn to push?
20.Qh1 Rxc3 21.bxc3 Ne1–+] 16...Qc4+ Matttison H 1927
17.Kd1 Qd4! From now onwards black's
simple logical play makes it appear as
though chess is an easy game. 18.Nb1
Nxd2 19.Nxd2 [If 19.c3 Qxe4! 20.Qxe4
Nxe4–+] 19...Rxf2 20.Qg5 hxg6 21.c3
Qd3 22.Re1 Diagram #

22.f3? [The road to equality is: 22.Bh3!

(Threat 23 Nxe4!) 22...Rfe8 23.Rc1 g6
24.g4! fxg4 25.Nxe4 Be7 26.Bg2 a5=] White to play and win
22...Rfd8 23.Nb3 Bd5 24.Rc7 Bg5 Which pawn is to be pushed? This question
25.f4 Bf6 26.Rd1? [This pin of the Bd5 is faced by many players in many positions.
White decides in favour of the ‘b’pawn 1.b7
is brilliantly refuted. Better was: 26.Rfc1
(Of course 1.c7? is a mistake.After 1…Bc8
a5 27.g4! fxg4 28.Nc5 Bxa2 29.Nxe4 Bb2
white cannot make any headway)
30.R1c2 Rab8 31.Ra7 a4!³] 26...Bxb3! 1….Rb5 2.Rd8 Bg2
27.Rxd8+ Diagram # Black puts in the best defence.
3.b8Q [3.c7 Bxb7 4.Rb8 Rc5 (4…Rd5+
22...Kd7! [After the simple 22...Kd7! (fa- 5.Ke4 Ba6 6.Rb6 Bc8 7.Rb8 Ba6
10...Qd7!? [Black can straightaway take cilitating the Ra8 to enter the attack, it is 8.Rb6=) 5.Rxb7 Kg6=]
the initiative inflicting isolated doubled all over for white.) 23.Qe3 Qxe3 24.Rxe3 3….Rxb8 4.c7 !!
pawns on the c-file with: 10...Bxc3+! Rh8 25.Re2 Rxe2 26.Kxe2 Rh2+ 27.Kd3 (4.Rxb8 Bxc6=)
11.bxc3 Qc8! 12.Bd2 Nc6 13.f4 Na5 14.h4 Bh6 28.Nf3 Rxb2 29.Rg1 b5 30.Rxg6 Bf4 4……Rb2+ 5.Kc1!! [5.Kc3? The normal
Nc4 15.h5 Rg8 16.Rb1 b6 17.Rb3 e5 18.f5 black wins easily.] 0–1 king up in the endgame principle would
g5 19.h6 Nxd2 20.Kxd2 Qc5] 11.Bd2 Nc6 have proved wrong here. 5…..Rb6
12.h4?! [If 12.0–0–0 Ne5 13.Qh3 0–0! Black is not giving up just like that.He is
When Grand Masters play, they see the posing challenge after challenge to white.
14.Be3 (14.f4 Nc4) 14...Rf3 15.Qg2 Raf8
logic of their opponent's moves. One's It appears now that black has salvaged
16.Qg5 Nc4 17.Bd4 Qc7–+] 12...Rf8µ
moves may be so powerful that the oth- himself but…
13.h5 Ne5 14.Qg2 Nf3+–+ 15.Ke2 Di- [5…..Bh3 6.Kxb2 Kg6 7.c8Q Bxc8 8.Rxc8
er may not be able to stop him, but the
agram # Kg5 9.Kc3 h3 10.Kd2 Kg4 11.Ke1 h2
plan behind the moves will be clear. Not
27...Bxd8![This unexpected recapture im- 12.Rh8 Kg3 13.Kf1+-]
so with Fischer. His moves did not make
mediately wins for black. If white removes 6.Rg8+ Descends as a thunderbolt
sense - at least to all the rest of us they
his rook away from capture, black's bishop from the blue sky! [6.c8Q? Rc6+ draws]
didn't. We were playing chess, Fischer
on b3 would do the same, leaving black with 6…..Kh7
was playing something else, call it what [6…Kxg8 7.c8Q Kh7 8.Qc7++-]
and extra bishop! After the expected 27...
you will. Naturally, there would come a 7.Rxg2 Rc6+ 8.Rc2
Rxd8 28.axb3 Rd3 29.Bf1 Rxe3 30.Bc4+
time when we finally would understand Now you can see the difference between
Kf8 black has a slight advantage, nothing
what those moves had been about. But 5.Kc1!! and 5.Kc3?.Had white played 5.Kc3
more! The presence of opposite coloured
by then it was too late. We were dead. the interposition Rc2 would not have been
bishops makes the outcome drawish.] 0–1
- Mark Taimanov possible. 1-0

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 Tactics from master games Test your endgame
by C.G.S.Narayanan
by S.Krishnan

Prof.Ladislav Prokes 1948 Dr.Artur Mandler 1950

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

Dr.Alois Wotawa 1950 Vitaly Halbertstadt 1955

3 4
3. 4.
Black to play and win Black to play and win
Frantisek Richter 1947 Prtof.Ladislav Prokes1947

5. 6.
5 6
White to play and win in all the six endings above
Black to play and win White to play and win

(solutions on p.47)
(Solution on page 47 )

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Masters of the past-82 Arthur Bisguier
17th Adyar Times FIDE rated Open Tournament, 2017, Chennai
Arthur Bernard Bisguier (1929 –2017) was an American chess
grandmaster, chess promoter, and writer. Bisguier has won two
U.S. Junior Championships (1948, 1949), three U.S. Open Chess
Championship titles (1950, 1956, 1959), and the 1954 United States
Chess Championship title. He played for the United States in five
chess Olympiads. He also played in two Interzonal tournaments
(1955, 1962).On March 18, 2005, the United States Chess Federa-
tion(USCF) proclaimed him "Dean of American Chess".
Bisguier was born in New York City and graduated from the Bronx
High School of Science. He was taught chess at the age of 4 by
his father, a mathematician. In 1944, aged 15, he was third at the
Bronx Empire Chess Club. In 1946, aged 17, he came fifth in the U.S. Open at Pittsburgh,
followed by seventh place in 1948. Later that year, he took the U.S. Junior Championship.
In 1949 he retained the U.S. Junior Championship title, and also won the Manhattan Chess
ClubChampionship. In 1950 he won the first of his three U.S. Open titles, and also won at
Southsea in England.Army service interrupted his U.S. chess career during 1951 to 1953, Muthukumar.M.Jt.Secretary, TNSCA, International Master Manuel Aaron, Shri.Ranjan A.D.Editor &
Publisher, Adyar Times, (Chief Guest), Manu David Suthandram R, Balasubramaniam H, Ashwath R, Rev.
but he managed to get leave to play in two European events. He played at the Helsinki Bro.Stanislaus.A,Head Master & Correspondent, Santhome Hr.Sec.School, Shri.Muthukumar R. Editor &
Olympiad 1952, and then won the third annual Christmas tournament at Vienna 1952 with Publisher, Trinity Mirror & Makkal Kural, International Arbiter. Paul Arokia Raj.S, Chief Arbiter.
a 9–2 score. He earned the International Master title in 1950 from his Southsea victory.
After a poor performance in the U.S. Open in 1953, he entered the Philadelphia Candidates' 2nd DCA Open FIDE Rated Chess Tournament-2017, New Delhi
Tournament for the U.S. Championship and came through with a first-place finish and another
over-2600 performance. His meteoric rise culminated in winning the 1954 United States
Chess Championship at New York. He also won the 2nd Pan American Chess Championship
at Los Angeles 1954. In 1956 at Oklahoma City, he added the U.S. Open Chess Champion-
ship title to his U.S. Championship. Bisguier achieved the International Grandmaster title in
1957. He tied with Bobby Fischer for first–second places at the U.S. Open at Cleveland1957,
where Fischer was awarded the title on tiebreak. Bisguier also served as a second to Fischer
at several international events.
Most of Bisguier's play after the mid-1960s was limited to U.S. events. He won National
Opens in 1970 (jointly), 1974, and 1978. He won the Lone Pine tournament in 1973, tied for
second place behind reigning World Champion Boris Spassky in the international tournament
in San Juan, Puerto Rico in 1969, and took first place in the first-ever Grand Prix in 1980. He
took first place in the U.S. Senior Open in 1989, thus winning a U.S. championship at every
age level of chess. He won the Senior Open again in 1997 and 1998.Bisguier continued to
play regularly at the Metrowest Chess Club in Natick, MA until 2014. He qualified for and
competed in the 2011 Metrowest Club Championship.Bisguier had been a regular contrib-
utor to Chess Life magazine. In 2003 he wrote a book on his best games from 1945–1960 IM Das Arghyadip (Third place) , Shailesh Dravid (Winner) and FM Matta Vinay Kumar (Second
titled The Art of Bisguier. place)
Courtesy:Wikepedia
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 4th Late Shri Laxmikant V Desai Mem.FIDE Rating Chess Tournament, Ponda, Goa Solutions to ‘Tactics from master
games’ on page 42
By S.Krishnan
1.Vucinic,G (2403)
Jovanovic,DD (2379) [C72]
Banja Vrujci SRB Banja Vrujci SRB
16.Rxe7! Rxe7 17.Nxf6+ gxf6 18.Bh6 Kh8
[18...Re4 19.Qf3+-] 19.Qg4 Qg8 20.Qh4+-
1–0
2.Tabatabaei,M (2548) Pashikian,A
(2592) [E20]
2nd Yerevan Open 2017 Yerevan ARM
20.Ne7+ Kh8 21.Rxc5 Ne2+ 22.Kg4 Bxe4
[22...g6 23.Be5++-; 22...Nxf4 23.Nxf4 Qf6
24.Rxd3 Bb6 25.Ned5+-; 22...Qb6 23.Ng5 h6
24.Be5 f6 25.Qg6 (Also winning is 25.Rxd3
fxe5 (25...Qxc5 26.Qg6; 25...fxg5 26.Rd6
Rajendra Desai making the inaugural move against Om Badre. Wins) 26.Nf7+ Rxf7 27.Qxf7 Qxc5 28.Ng6+
Standing L-R:Anand Kurtikar. Sunita Bhende, Mangaldas Gaude, Sagar Sakordekar, Shivdas Kh7 29.Rd7 Wins) 25...f5+ 26.Kh5 Qxg6+
Gaude, Amogh Namshiker, Mahesh Khedekar, Wilson Cruz, Dattaram Pinge 27.Nxg6+ Kg8 28.Rxd3+-] 23.fxe4 Nc3
24.Qxh7+! [24.Qxh7+ Kxh7 25.Rh5#] 1–0
3.Nielsen,Andre (2162)
Stany,G (2491) [B06]
Oslo Open 2017 Fornebu NOR (2.7),
26...Rxg4! 27.hxg4 [27.Rfe1 Ndf3+ 28.Kf1
Rxf4+-] 27...Ne2+ 28.Kh1 Nf5+ 29.Kg2
Rh2+ 30.Kf3 Ng1+! 31.Rxg1 Rf2# 0–1
4.Dashko,Andrey (2226) Zvjaginsev,Va-
dim (2643) [B07]
ch-RUS Rapid 2017 Sochi RUS (3.24),
25...Nc2! 26.Kxc2 Nxd3+ 27.Kxd3? [27.Kb1
Nxe1 28.Qxe1µ] 27...Qa6+ 28.Kd2 Qxa2+
[28...Qxa2+ 29.Kd3 Qc2+ 30.Kd4 e5#] 0–1
5.Rozum,I (2590)Fedoseev,Vl3 (2731)
[E10]
ch-RUS Rapid 2017 Sochi RUS (7.6),
Anand kurtikar (Secretary, Ponda TCA), Wilson Cruz (vice-president, Ponda TCA). Snehal Bhosale 36...Qh2+ 37.Kf1 Bg3 38.Qg1 [38.Qa2 Ne3+
(winner), Amogh Namshiker (President, Ponda TCA), Chief Guest Rajendra Desai, trustee,
Desai pratishthan Guest of Honour Dr. Celso Fernandes, Sagar Sakordekar (Tournament 39.Bxe3 (39.Ke2 Qxg2#) 39...Rxe3 Threat-
director), Vishwas Pilankar (Treasurer, Goa Chess Association), Mahesh Khedekar (Treasurer, ening Re1ch followed by Bd3 mate 40.Rd2
Ponda TCA)
46
(40.Ne2 Rfxf3+ 41.Bxf3 Qf2#) 40...Rfxf3+
41.Bxf3 Rxf3+ 42.Rf2 Rxf2+ 43.Ke1 Qg1#]
38...Re1+! 39.Rxe1 Bd3+ 40.Re2 Nd2# 0–1
6.Maze,S (2614)Myhrvold,R (2243)
[C48]
Oslo Open 2017 Fornebu NOR (7.8),
39.Ne2! Bxg5 [39...Rxh4 40.Qxh4 [%cal
Gh4h7]; 39...Bh2 40.Qxf8+ Rxf8 (40...
Kxf8 41.Rxh8++-) 41.R4xh2 Qb6 a) 41...
Rf7 42.Rh7+ Kf8 43.Rxf7+ Qxf7 (43...Kxf7
44.Rh7+) 44.Rf1; b) 41...Qd6 42.Rh7+
Kg8 43.Rh8+ Kf7 44.Rf1+ Ke7 45.Rhxf8+-
; 42.Rh7+ Kg8 43.Rh8+ Kf7 44.Rf1+ Ke7
45.Rhxf8+-] 40.Qxf8+! [40.Qxf8+ Rxf8
(40...Kxf8 41.Rxh8+ Ke7 42.R8h7+ Kd6
43.Rxc7+-) 41.Rh7+ Kf6 42.Rxc7+-] 1–0
Solution to ‘Test your end game’ on
page 43
1.Prof.Ladislav Prokes 1948
1.Kf6 Kh8 2.g6 Rd6+ 3.Ke7 Rf6 4.Kf8 Rxg6
5.Ke7 Rg7 6.Kf6 Rg6+ 7.Kf5 wins
2.Dr.Artur Mandler 1950
1.Rh7 Rg8 2.Kc6 Rc8+ 3.Kb6 Rb8+ 4.Kc5
Rg8 5.Rf7 Re8 6.Kd4 Rxe7 7.Rxe7+ Kxe7
8.Ke5 wins
3.Dr.Alois Wotawa 1950
1.a8Q+ Kxa8 2.Bg4 Re4+ 3.Kd7 Rd4+ 4.Kc7
Rc4+ 5.Kb6 Rb4+ 6.Ka6 Rb8 7.Bf3+wins
4.Vitaly Harberstadt 1955
1.Nef6+ Kh6 2.Ng3 Qd1 3.Nf5+ Kg5 4.Ng7
Kh6 5.Ne6 Qh1 6.Ng4+ Kh5 7.Ng7+ Kg5
8.Nf6 wins
5.Frantisek Richter 1947
1.Bh2 a4 2.Nc7 a3 3.Ne6 Kd5 4.Nf4+ Ke4
5.Ne2 Kd3 6.Bd6 wins
6.Prof.Ladislav Prokes 1947
1.Qh4+ Kg6 2.Qh6+ Kf5 3.Qf6+ Kg4 4.Qf4+
Kh5 5.Qf3+ Kg6 6.Qf6+ Kh5 7.Qh6+ Kg4
8.Qh4+ Kf5 9.Qe4+ Kxg5 10.Qg2+ wins
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9 BRDCA FIDE Rated Tournament Bangalore Dec 01-to Dec 04
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