AICF CHRONICLE

the official magazine of the All India Chess Federation

Volume : 8 Issue : 8 Price Rs. 25 February 2015

7th Chennai Open International

Open Grandmaster Chess Tournament, Chennai

13th Parsvnath Delhi International Grandmasters

GM Popov Ivan (Russia )
Chess Tournament2015,New Delhi Winner

GM Andrey Baryshpolets (Ukraine)

Winner
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Inside……
13th Parsvnath Delhi International Grandmasters Chess
Tournament2015,New Delhi…
Andrey Baryshpolets wins Parsvnath GM Open
1
by IA Dharmendra Kumar
7th Chennai Open International Open Grandmaster
Chess Tournament,Chennai 8
Popov Ivan wins title
by V.Vijayaraghavan IA, Chief Arbiter
6th AIM All India Open FIDE Rated
Chess Tournament-2015 13 System. FIDE is celebrating 2015 as the year of
Sekar is champion
by FA Anandh Babu VL, Chief Arbiter
Puzzle of the month
by C.G.S. Narayanan 15 as ‘immortal zugzwang game’ in the centre page
St Ann’s All India Fide Rating
Chess Tournament 2015,Hyderabad… 16
Sai Agni Jeevitesh wins at Hyderabad
FA Promodraj Moree, Chief Arbiter
4th WBCWS FIDE Rated Chess Tournament, Kolkata…. 18 S.P.Sethuraman on his winning the Nord-West
Sayantan Das wins title
Asit Baran Choudhury, IA,Chief Arbiter
1st Balasore All India FIDE Rating Chess
Tournament ( Below1800),Balasore 20
Tirth Sarkar clinches title
FA Suresh Chandra Sahoo,Chief Arbiter
Selected games
Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron 22
Tactics from master games
by S.Krishnan 41
Test your endgame
by C.G.S. Narayanan 42
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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.
A chess writer nonpareil
Aron Nimzowitsch was the most
important and influential chess
player and writer in the history
of chess. He was considered
the foremost hypermodern
whose theories flew in the face
of established conventions which
dominated the era of stalwarts like Tarrasch, Steinitz,
Alekhine and Capablanca. His My System, which
has seen many editions, is considered to be one
of the most influential chess books of all time.
Our own Aaron, Manuel Aaron, once confided
in me that he became IM mainly by studying My
Nimzowitsch. As a tribute to this genius we are
presenting one of his games which is widely hailed
of this issue.
Our congratulations to Grandmaster
Cup in Germany. Reports, final standings and
photographs of FIDE rated tournaments including
the two popular Grandmasters tournaments
conducted last month, Parvsnath Delhi GM Open
and Chennai GM Open are featured in this issue.
Important decisions taken at the Central Council
meeting of the Federation held in Chennai on 4th
January 2015 are also presented in this issue.
Vladas Mikenas, Lithuanian Grandmaster is
featured in the ‘Masters of the past’ series. Puzzle
of this month is a Retro-analytical problem worth
the study.
C.G.S.Narayanan
13th Parsvnath Delhi International Grandmasters Chess Tournament2015,New Delhi…
Andrey Baryshpolets wins Parsvnath GM Open
by IA Dharmendra Kumar
13th edition of Parsvanath Delhi Intl GM
Chess Tournament started this year on Jan
09 . First day witnessed 663 players at a
time in tournament hall. Category ‘A’ and ‘B’
started together on 09th which concluded on
16th and 12th respectively . A total number
of 179 players from 18 countries, including
22 Grandmasters, 27 International Masters
and 3 Women Grandmasters were taking
part in Cat-‘A’ while in the Category ‘B’ for
the players below 1999 international rating
attracted a total number of 484 players out
of which 440 were rated !
Before the first round of Cat-‘A’, there was a
inaugural function attended by Smt.Neelam
Pratap Rudy as Chief guest while as guest
of Honor , Mr. Bharat Singh Chauhan , CEO,
AICF graced the occasion. Other digni-
taries present on the dais were Mr. Kapil
Saxena, Joint Secretary , AICF & Hon. Sec-
retary, MP Chess Association, Mr. Mahendra
Dhakal, Hony. Secretary, Sikkim Chess Asso
cition, Mr. Vipnesh Bhardwaj,Hon. Secretary,
Chandigarh Chess Association , Mr. Rajesh
Kumar Hon.Secreatry,Kerla Chess Associa-
tion and Organizing secretary Ajeet Kumar
Verma.
Grandmaster Andrey Baryshpolets of Ukraine
won the 13th Parsvanth International Grand-
masters chess tournament defeating Deepan
Chakkravarthy in final round.It was a three-
way tie for the top spot and Baryshpolets was
followed by Ivan Popov of Russia and Alberto
David of Italy who finished second and third
respectively on eight points out of a possible
ten. Of the three, Baryshpolets went home
richer by Rs. 300000/- in the Rs.3000000/-
prize money festival.Deepan Chakravarthy
had the consolation of finishing as the best
performing Indian as he finished tenth on
seven points despite losing the last round
game.It was a tough final day as overnight
sole leader Mikhail Mozharov of Russia was
outdone by David who won a fine game with
black pieces. Popov also had to work hard but
eventually prevailed over Van Huy Nguyen
of Vietnam.Top seed Abhijeet Gupta won his
last round game against Himal Gusain to end
11th on seven points. After a slump midway
in the tournament Gupta recovered a little
to win the last three rounds.As many as five
International Master norms were secured in
the tournament and the biggest gainer was
C R G Krishna who became an International
Master on his performance here. The other
norms were scored by Aniruddha Desh-
pandey, Abhishek Kelkar, M Kunal.
S.Rakesh Gurung of Sikkim won Category ‘B’
emerged as Champion, if it is Delhi Open
where around 700 players was in action. As
top seed of the tournament, he proved and
showed his playing strength by scoring 9 out
of 10. On the way to title , he lost one and
only game against Md.Fasal in 3rd round but
thereafter he remarkably won all his games
and declare clear winner with 9 point alone
.He went home richer by Rupees 1.5 Lakh
and must not forget to mentioned that 4th
place also goes to Sikkim as Rahul Gurung
who scored 8 point but with better buchholz
amongst the players in the same score brack-
et and pocketed Rs. 75 Thousand. Rakesh
was closely followed by Manan Rai of Delhi
and Prasad Aurangabadkar of Maharashtra
who finished 2nd and 3rd place and earned
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1.2 Lakh and 1 Lakh respectively.
I n t h e p r i z e d i s t r i b u t i o n c e r e m o n y,
Ukranian Grandmaster Valeriy Neverov and
CEO, AICF Mr.Bharat Singh Chauhan has
gave away the prizes to winners in presence
of Mr. Kapil Saxena, Joint Secretary, AICF
& Hony . Secretary, MP Chess Association,
Mr.Rajesh Kumar, Hony.Secretary, Kerla
Chess Association and Organizing secretary
Ajeet Kumar Verma.Category ‘C’
Vardan Nagpal clinched Category ‘C’ title.A
total of 670 players in Category ‘C’ made the
temperature of tournament hall higher then
usual one outside of hall . Non stop chess show
began in full stream when Category ‘C’
on Jan 13th. Back to back round of
both the categories was really The ‘C’
category of the festival was won by young
talent from Delhi Vardan Nagpal who won a
cash prize of Rs. 1.25 Lakhs for his efforts.
Interestingly the second place in this section
was also won by local youngster Rishabh
Jain who won Rs. 100,000/-. 57th seed
local champ made 9 point out of 10 round
and clear half point ahead from others.
2nd place was decided by tiebreak where
7 players were tied with 8.5 point. With
better buchholz score , Rishabh Jain and
Mulla Nihalahamad of Maharashtra got silver
and bronze respectively .
The prizes to the winners of Category
‘A’ & ‘ C’ were given away by Mr. Ajit M
Sharan, Secretary Sports Govt. of India, Air
Commodore Mr. G Amar Babu, Air Officer
Commanding Air Force Station New Delhi,
Group Captain Mr. J Rajendra, Chief Admin-
istrative Officer Air Force Station New Delhi,
Mr.V Hariharan, Hony. Secretary AICF,
Mr.Bharat Singh Chauhan, CEO AICF and
Mr.A K Verma, Hony. Secretary Delhi Chess
Association.Not just a tournament but
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Delhi Chess Association believes in all other 7th Chennai Open International Open Grandmaster Chess Tournament, Chennai
aspects of life.
Birthdays of S.L.Narayan and IA Vasanth B
H with all the arbiters and organizers.Birth-
day of GM Dzhumaev was also celebrated
biters.Mr. Bharat Singh Chauhan , CEO, AICF.
Delhi Chess Association felicitated IA M.S.
Gopakumar for his contribution to Chess.
He is associated with DCA for more then a
decade and played exemplary role in chess
promotion .
Final Ranking:Delhi Open A
( first 124 placings only)
Rk. Name FED Pts.
1 GM Baryshpolets Andrey UKR 8
2 GM Popov Ivan RUS 8
3 GM David Alberto ITA 8
4 GM Mozharov Mikhail RUS 7.5 (L-R) R.Rajesh, Secretary, Chess Association Kerala,V.Hariharan, Secretary AICF, D.V.Sundar,
Vice-President, FIDE,IM Manuel Aaron (inaugurating the Chennai Open 2015) Prof.R.Anantharam,
5 GM Cruz Cristhian PER 7.5
IA, FM R.Praggnananda
6 GM Nguyen Duc Hoa VIE 7.5
7 GM Rombaldoni Axel ITA 7.5
8 IM Nguyen Van Huy VIE 7
9 GM Demchenko Anton RUS 7
10 GM Deepan Chakkravarthy IND 7
11 GM Gupta Abhijeet IND 7
12 GM Neelotpal Das IND 7
13 GM Debashis Das IND 7
14 GM Kunte Abhijit IND 7
15 IM S L Narayanan IND 7
16 IM Karthikeyan P. IND 7
17 GM Brunello Sabino ITA 7
18 IM Prasanna Raghuram Rao IND 7
19 Krishna C.R.G. IND 6.5
20 IM Narayanan Srinath IND 6.5
21 IM Satyapragyan S IND 6.5
22 IM Rathnakaran K. IND 6.5
23 Gusain Himal IND 6.5
24 IM Saptarshi Roy IND 6.5
25 GM Rahman Ziaur 6.5
26 GM Neverov Valeriy UKR 6.5
27 Visakh Nr IND 6.5 (L to R) Mr V Hariharan, Hon. Secretary , AICF, Champion GM Popov Ivan of Russia , Mr Shambhu
28 IM Swapnil S. Dhopade IND 6.5 Kallolikar, IAS, Member Secretary, Sports Development Authority of Tamil Nadu, Mr D V Sundar,
29 GM Shyam Sundar M. IND 6.5 Vice President, FIDE
30 GM Gasanov Eldar UKR 6.5
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7th Chennai Open International Open Grandmaster Chess Tournament, Chennai 31 IM Shyam Nikil P. IND 6.5
32 Abhishek Kelkar IND 6
33 IM Nitin S. IND 6
34 Ravi Teja S IND 6
35 IM Himanshu Sharma IND 6
36 GM Grover Sahaj IND 6
37 Krishna Teja N IND 6
38 IM Chakravarthi Reddy M IND 6
39 Pradeep Kumar R.A. IND 6
40 IM Ramnath Bhuvanesh.R IND 6
41 WGM Swathi Ghate IND 6
42 Kulkarni Rakesh IND 6
43 Ajay Krishna S IND 6
44 IM Shivananda B.S. IND 6
45 FM Raghunandan KS IND 6
46 GM Evdokimov Alexander A RUS 6
47 IM Kathmale Sameer IND 6
(L to R) Mr V Hariharan, General Secretary, Tamil Nadu State Chess Association, Mr T Chandrasekar, 48 IM Sangma Rahul IND 6
Stadium Officer, Nehru Stadium, Dr V R Newbegin Chellappa, General Manager, Sports
49 IM Cruz Jonathan PER 6
Development Authority of Tamil Nadu, Category ‘B’ Champion O T Anilkumar, Rotarian R Tamil
50 IM Gagare Shardul IND 6
Selvan, District Rotract Chairman, Rotary District 3230
51 IM Anurag Mhamal IND 6
52 Pratyusha Bodda IND 6
53 GM Dzhumaev Marat UZB 6
54 GM Lazarev Vladimir FRA 6
55 CM Puranik Abhimanyu IND 6
56 Harsha Bharathakoti IND 6
57 Ritviz Parab IND 6
58 Deshpande Aniruddha IND 5.5
59 Kunal M. IND 5.5
60 IM Kulkarni Vikramaditya IND 5.5
61 IM Murali Krishnan B.T. IND 5.5
62 Vignesh Nr IND 5.5
63 Harikrishnan.A.Ra IND 5.5
64 IM Del Rey Diego ESP 5.5
65 Shashikant Kutwal IND 5.5
66 IM Thejkumar M. S. IND 5.5
67 Navalgund Niranjan IND 5.5
68 WFM Saranya J IND 5.5
69 Michelle Catherina P IND 5.5
70 Dhar Rajib IND 5.5
71 WFM Vaishali R IND 5.5
72 Sidhant Mohapatra IND 5.5
73 Senthil Maran K IND 5.5
(L to R )back row: Chief Arbiter S Paul Arokia Raj, Mr V Hariharan, General Secretary, Tamil Nadu
74 Pranav Shetty IND 5.5
State Chess Association, Mr N Rajesh, Secretary, Chess Association Kerala, Mr B Murugavel, Vice
75 IM Sardana Rishi AUS 5.5
President, Tamil Nadu State Chess Association, Mr M Senthilvel, Joint Secretary, Tamil Nadu State
Chess Association. (L to R front row) Category "C" prize winners 76 FM Praggnanandhaa R IND 5.5
77 Arvind Shastry IND 5.5
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78 Dhananjay IND 5.5
79 Nishant Malhotra IND 5
80 Sahoo Utkal Ranjan IND 5
81 Aradhya Garg IND 5
82 Nath Rupankar IND 5
83 Patil Pratik IND 5
84 Thing Bibek NEP 5
85 Joshi Govind Ballabh IND 5
86 Dodeja Pawan IND 5
87 Kumar Gaurav IND 5
88 WIM Andrenko Irina UKR 5
89 Pradip Tiwari IND 5
90 Gahan M.G. IND 5
91 Tiwari Arjun IND 5
92 Lama Himal NEP 5
93 Bhambure Shantanu IND 5
94 Harini S. IND 5
95 IM Gokhale Chandrashekhar IND 5
96 Mehar Chinna Reddy IND 5
97 Niraj Saripalli IND 5
98 Saurabh Anand IND 5
99 WFM Monnisha Gk IND 5
100 Godbole Atharva IND 5
101 FM Rakesh Kumar Jena IND 5
102 Arjun K. IND 5
103 Kulkarni Vinayak IND 5
104 Imocha Laishram IND 5
105 WFM Varshini V IND 4.5
106 Iniyan P IND 4.5
107 Madhurima Shekhar IND 4.5
108 WFM Mahalakshmi M IND 4.5
109 Sumit Grover IND 4.5
110 Surendran N. IND 4.5
111 Ashwath R. IND 4.5
112 Lakshmi Narayanan Mv IND 4.5
113 Yohan J. IND 4.5
114 Santu Mondal IND 4.5
115 IM Rajesh V A V IND 4.5
116 Vasli Aref IRI 4.5
117 WFM Tarini Goyal IND 4.5
118 WGM Safranska Anda FRA 4.5
119 Kranti Kumar P. IND 4.5
120 Niklesh Kumar Jain IND 4.5
121 WFM Arpita Mukherjee IND 4.5
122 Upadhyay R IND 4.5
123 Adhithya S IND 4.5
124 Pranavananda V IND 4
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Final standings: Delhi Open B
( first 91 placings only) 46 Vaibhav Aggarwal 7
Rk. Name Pts.
1 Gurung Rakesh 9
2 Manan Rai 8.5
3 Aurangabadkar Prasad 8.5
4 Gurung Rahul 8
5 Harshavardhan G B 8
6 Koireng Leitanthem 8
7 Sanjay Chhabra 8
8 Ahirwal Dinesh 8
9 Aditya Basu 8
10 Barath Kalyan M 8
11 Patel Nishrut R 8
12 Verma Rahul 8
13 Akshay Anand 7.5
14 Rahul Ubadhyay 7.5
15 Raghvendra Kumar Mishra 7.5
16 Abhishek Jaiswal 7.5
17 Khalid Amin 7.5
18 Abhinav Gola 7.5
19 Bhupendra Kumar 7.5
20 Subhayan Kundu 7.5
21 Khusraw 7.5
22 Vigneshwaran S 7.5
23 Shaon Chowdhury 7.5
24 Sankalp Gupta 7.5
25 Rohan Bharat Joshi 7.5
26 Sadhwani Raunak 7.5
27 Doshi Moksh Amitbhai 7.5
28 Bharat Kumar Reddy Poluri 7.5
29 Lawaniya Eshan 7.5
30 Ajay Kumar Rai 7.5
31 Subramanian Pl 7
32 Kaushik Shubham 7
33 Sachin Malik 7
34 Rupesh Ranjan 7
35 Rajendra Kumar Bajpai 7
36 Venkataramana P 7
37 Kushagra Mohan CM 7
38 Rishabh Nishad 7
39 Patil Mayur 7
40 Shatrughan Kaushik 7
41 Balaga Ravi Kumar 7
42 Trivedi Karan R 7
43 Salonika Saina WCM 7
44 Ayush Bhai Mehta 7
45 Barun Paul 7
47 Aditya B Kalyani 7
48 Dileep Tripathi 7
49 Vaibhav Barahate 7
50 Mohammed Yonus 7
51 Kamdar Udit 7
52 Shiva Pavan Teja Sharma U 7
53 Bhandari Jitendra Singh 7
54 Singh Amarjit 7
55 Mota Pankit 7
56 Singh Soram Rahul 7
57 Subhajit Dhar 7
58 Anirban Basu 7
59 Tamang Thendup 7
60 Patil Jitendra 6.5
61 Smeeru Thakur 6.5
62 Sudhir Kumar Behera 6.5
63 Taorem Chitaranjan 6.5
64 Surya Narayana.M 6.5
65 Muthu Hareeswaran S 6.5
66 Anil Shivpuri 6.5
67 Avdhoot Lendhe 6.5
68 Binayak Rath 6.5
69 Mohan Naithani 6.5
70 Om Kharola 6.5
71 Abhishek Sarkar 6.5
72 Katkade Pavan 6.5
73 Tamim Ahmad 6.5
74 Vijeet Deliwala 6.5
75 Om Vinay Vitalkar 6.5
76 Kumar Sanu 6.5
77 Harshavardhan B 6.5
78 Amlan Mahanta 6.5
79 Raees Ahmed A Q 6.5
80 Rath Hrusikesh 6.5
81 Anchit Vyas 6.5
82 Amini Habibullah 6.5
83 Agamjot S Kals 6.5
84 Shami Vipin K. 6.5
85 Raghav Bagri 6.5
86 Potluri Saye Srreezza 6.5
87 Aditya Mittal CM 6.5
88 Dangmei Bosco 6
89 Amarasinghe A A C B 6
90 Suraj Dahiya 6
91 Aishwin Daniel 6
Parvsnath GMOpen’C”
( first 90 placings only) 45 Kawade Avadhut 7
Final standings: 46 Meenal Gupta 7
Rk. Name Pts.
1 Vardan Nagpal 9
2 Rishabh Jain 8.5
3 Mulla Nihalahamad 8.5
4 Gabbar 8.5
5 Sachinder 8.5
6 Sarvaliya Niraj 8.5
7 Suraj Dahiya 8.5
8 Harshavardhan B 8.5
9 Sanchit Anand 8
10 Das Jitendra Kumar 8
11 Saikat Nath 8
12 Suraj Prakash Mina 8
13 Kadakkavur Anil 8
14 Anil Prasad 8
15 Hemanth Eswar G 8
16 Kalbande Mayur 8
17 Prraneeth Vuppala 8
18 Jai Prakash Singh 8
19 Aan Sikka 8
20 Muthu Hareeswaran S 7.5
21 Srihari L R 7.5
22 Adarsh Tripathi 7.5
23 Divyanshu Gupta 7.5
24 Jaiswal Shubham Rajendra 7.5
25 Rajnish Goyal 7.5
26 Komal Ashish 7.5
27 Jaskeerat Singh 7.5
28 Pukhraj Singh 7.5
29 Rathi Dhanashree 7.5
30 Sharmik Rawal 7.5
31 Thakur Ankur Singh 7.5
32 Muthukrishnan S 7.5
33 Jain Kashish Manoj 7.5
34 Tathagat Pal 7.5
35 Jha Kishor 7.5
36 Kunal Kakumanu Prasad 7.5
37 Vilakshan Mehta 7.5
38 Aanandha Kumar M S 7.5
39 Narvekar Pruthviraj 7.5
40 Dhanush Ragav 7.5
41 Arun R 7.5
42 Raghav Juneja 7
43 Jonny Verma 7
44 Anurag Kuruvada 7
47 Yash Joshi 7
48 Ankit Payal 7
49 Manish Anto Cristiano F 7
50 Tushar Banerjee 7
51 Bhosale Shriraj 7
52 Satyanarayana Raju D S 7
53 Arsh Verma 7
54 Bala Subramaniyan R 7
55 Soham Kamotra 7
56 Shrivastav Hritik 7
57 Sivakumar S 7
58 Ankit Saxena 7
59 Tripathi D P 7
60 Lakhan Sharma 7
61 Dushyant Khanduja 7
62 Vishal Thorat 7
63 Utkarsh Gupta 7
64 Harsh Vardhan Gautam 7
65 Mokashi Rohit 7
66 Bhat Siddharth K 7
67 Gaha Narayan 7
68 Dinesh Bhagat 7
69 S.A. Surya Kumar 7
70 Amitesh Kumar Sinha 7
71 Gaurav Kumar (mah) 7
72 Deepak Kumar 7
73 Nivedan Bhardwaj 7
74 Gaurav Nishad 7
75 Barde Om 7
76 Sinha Shivam 7
77 Sasikumar.S 7
78 Telang Yashwant 7
79 Yogesh Solanki 7
80 Saurabh Mathur 7
81 Ershad P 7
82 Lovish Verma 6.5
83 Patel Sanket S 6.5
84 Shivam Srivastava 6.5
85 Sharma Suyash 6.5
86 Sanjib Mali 6.5
87 Wanjari Rajendra 6.5
88 Kalnad Dilip 6.5
89 Shahnawaz Khan 6.5
90 Qureshi A S 6.5

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 7th Chennai Open International Open Grandmaster Chess Tournament,Chennai
Popov Ivan wins title
by V.Vijayaraghavan IA, Chief Arbiter
GM Ivan Popov of Russia won the 7th
edition of the Chennai Open with a score
of 7.5 points. The ten round Swiss format
tournament, with a time control of 90
minutes each with an increment of 30
seconds per move was held at Jawaharlal
Nehru Stadium, Chennai from 30th Decem-
ber 2014 to 1st January 2015. The list of parti
cipants included 15 Grandmasters, 27 Inter
n a t i o n a l M a s t e r s , 2 Wo m e n G r a n d
masters and Women International Master in a
total of 179 players from 12 countries. Ivan
Popov of Russia, with a rating of 2622 was
the top seeded player of the tournament.
The total prize fund of Rs.10 lakh and 50
thousand was distributed in 50 main prizes, in
addition to 3.5 lakh rupees for B & C Category
Tournaments.
As usual the lower rated Indian players pro-
duced many upsets in the inaugural round,
mainly Rakesh Kumar Jena of Orissa defeat-
ing GM Axel Ramboldini of Italy and Vinoth
Kumar of Chennai beating experienced GM
DeepanChakkravarthy of Railways. GM elect
Swapnil Dhopade of Railways beat overnight
joint leader and his team mate IM Rathna-
karan in the 5th round to emerge sole leader
with 5 points. GM Mikhail Mozharov of Russia
joined Swapnil at the top by beating CRG
Krishna of Telangana. Swapnil snatched the
sole lead again by beating Mozharov in the
7th round to tally 6.5 points. IM Cruz Jona-
than of Peru was closely following the leader,
half a point behind.
Popov rallied from behind to score a crucial
win over Swapnil to be on par with him and
Mozharov on 6.5 points each at the end of
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this nine round Swiss event, including two Final standings: GM Open - Cat.A
FIDE title holders. ( first 138 placings only)
Rk Title Name Fed Pts
Total cash prizes for Rs 200000 (Rupees 1 GM Popov Ivan Rus 7½
Two Lakhs only) were distributed by Dr V 2 GM Dzhumaev Marat Uzb 7½
8th round. Spate of draws on top boards 3 GM Mozharov Mikhail Rus 7½
R Newbegin Chellappa, General Manager,
maintained the status quo after 9 rounds. In 4 IM Ramnath Bhuvanesh.R Ind 7½
Sports Development Authority of Tamil Nadu.
the crucial 10th round all the top 6 boards 5 IM Swapnil S. Dhopade Ind 7½
Present in the dais were Guest of Honor
ended without any decisive result leading 6 IM Ravichandran Siddharth Ind 7½
Rotarian R Tamil Selvan, District Rotract 7 GM Gasanov Eldar Ukr 7½
to a 8 way tie on 7.5 points each for the
Chairman, Rotary District 3230, Mr T Chan- 8 GM Nguyen Duc Hoa Vie 7½
coveted prizes. Caissa smiled on Ivan Popov
drasekar, Stadium Officer, Nehru Stadium 9 GM Cruz Cristhian Per 7
who had a better tie break scores to become
and Mr V Hariharan, General Secretary, Tamil 10 IM Das Sayantan Ind 7
the champion of the tournament. GM Dzhu-
Nadu State Chess Association. 11 IM Karthikeyan Murali Ind 7
maev Marat of Uzbekistan tried hard for a
12 GM Brunello Sabino Ita 7
win, but had to settle for a draw against GM 13 GM Evdokimov Alexander Rus 7
Dheekshith Kumar wins Chennai Internation-
EldarGasanov of Ukraine to finish runner up. 14 GM Baryshpolets Andrey Ukr 7
al Open "C" (Under 1600) title With a high
The third spot went to GM Mikhail Mozharov 15 FM Rakesh Kumar Jena Ind 7
score of 8.5 points from nine rounds R Dheek-
and RamnathBhuvanesh edged out Swapnil 16 GM Neverov Valeriy Ukr 7
shith Kuimar won the title in the Chennai
for the 4th place. 17 GM DeepanChakkravarthyJ. Ind 7
International Open "C" (Under 1600) Chess
18 IM Rathnakaran K. Ind 6½
Tournament at Nehru Stadium, Chennai here
It was a heartening tournament for IM Ram- 19 IM Cruz Jonathan Per 6½
today. Dheekshith shed a single draw and
nath Bhuvanesh and IM Swapnil Dhopade 20 GM David Alberto Ita 6½
won the other eight games to finish ahead 21 IM Prasanna R Rao Ind 6½
who gained GM norms, Rakesh Kumar Jena
of the pack. The title win fetched Dheekshith 22 K. Praneeth Surya Ind 6½
for obtaining IM Norm and Pratyusha Bodda
a cash award of Rs 25000 (Rupees twenty 23 IM Sharma Dinesh K. Ind 6½
for achieving WIM Norm. Sri SambhuKollo-
five thousand only). Vignesh Kasi PL took the 24 IM Navin Kanna T.U. Ind 6½
likar, IAS, Member Secretary, SDAT presided
runner up spot with 8.0 points, along with a 25 IM S L Narayanan Ind 6½
over the function and the guest of honor was
cash award of Rs 15000 (Rupees fifteen thou- 26 IM Nguyen Van Huy Vie 6½
Shri D V Sundar, Vice President, FIDE 27 IM Kathmale Sameer Ind 6½
sand only). 386 players participated in this
28 Harsha Bharathakoti Ind 6½
nine round Swiss tournament run parallel to
Anilkumar wins Chennai International 29 IM Rajesh V A V Ind 6½
the Chennai International Open Grandmaster
Open "B" Chess Tournament :- Kera- 30 Visakh Nr Ind 6½
tournament.
la player O T Anilkumar won the 7th 31 GM Rombaldoni Axel Ita 6½
Chennai Open FIDE Rating Tournament 32 Mehar Chinna Reddy Ind 6½
Cash prizes to the tune of Rs. 1.5 lakhs
(Category B) with 8.5 points from nine 33 GM Lazarev Vladimir Fra 6½
(Rupees One lakh fifty thousand only) were
rounds at Nehru Stadium, Chennai here 34 Krishna C.R.G. Ind 6
distributed by Mr Rajesh, Secretary, Chess 35 IM Karthikeyan P. Ind 6
today. Anilkumar shed a lone draw in the
Association Kerala and by Mr B Murugavel, 36 Vignesh Nr Ind 6
third round and won the rest of the games to
Vice President, Tamil Nadu State Chess 37 Gahan M.G. Ind 6
login a whopping 8.5/9 score, pocketing the
Association. Present in the dais were Shri V 38 Hemant Sharma (del) Ind 6
winner's purse of Rs. 30000 (Rupees Thirty
Hariharan, General Secretary, Tamil Nadu 39 Srinath Rao S.V. Ind 6
thousand only).
State Chess Association, Mr M Senthilvel, 40 IM Stany G.A. Ind 6
Joint Secretary, Tamil Nadu State Chess 41 Ravi Teja S. Ind 6
The second place was shared by Dusthageer 42 Kunal M. Ind 6
Association and Chief Arbiter S Paul Arokia
Ibrahim M (TN), Toshali V (AP) and Harshini 43 FM Matta Vinay Kumar Ind 6
Raj.
A (TN) at 7.5 points. 372 players played in 44 Ram S. Krishnan Ind 6
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45 Lokesh P. Ind 6
46 Surendran N. Ind 6
47 IM Deshmukh Anup Ind 6
48 Pradeep Kumar R.A. Ind 6
49 IM Nitin S. Ind 6
50 Navalgund Niranjan Ind 6
51 Phoobalan P. Ind 6
52 Sahoo Utkal Ranjan Ind 6
53 Sekar B Ind 6
54 Abhilash Reddy M.L. Ind 6
55 IM Shivananda B.S. Ind 5½
56 Pratyusha Bodda Ind 5½
57 Kumaran B Ind 5½
58 GM Laxman R.R. Ind 5½
59 Vasli Aref Iran 5½
60 FM Maheswaran P. Ind 5½
61 IM Narayanan Srinath Ind 5½
62 IM Praveen Kumar C. Ind 5½
63 Tiwari Arjun Ind 5½
64 Pranav Vijay Ind 5½
65 WGM Kiran Manisha Mohanty Ind 5½
66 Aniruddh Aiyengar Ind 5½
67 Nishant Malhotra Ind 5½
68 Lokesh N. Ind 5½
69 Ajay Krishna S Ind 5½
70 Michelle Catherina P Ind 5½
71 Subramanian R M Ind 5½
72 Abhishek Kelkar Ind 5
73 Debarshi Mukherjee Ind 5
74 Bavankumar Ind 5
75 WFM Saranya J Ind 5
76 Ashwath R. Ind 5
77 Harikrishnan.A.Ra Indi 5
78 Sanjay N. Ind 5
79 D Bala Chandra Prasad Ind 5
80 Kumar Gaurav Ind 5
81 Sa Kannan Ind 5
82 Ritviz Parab Ind 5
83 Pranavananda V Ind 5
84 FM Praggnanandhaa R Ind 5
85 Saurabh Anand Ind 5
86 IM Saravanan V. Ind 5
87 Sidhant Mohapatra Ind 5
88 WFM Vaishali R Ind 5
89 WFM Varshini V Ind 5
90 Lakshmi Narayanan Mv Ind 5
91 IM Murali Krishnan B.T. Ind 5
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92 WGM Safranska Anda Fra 5
93 Swain Ashirwad Ind 5
94 FM Vinoth Kumar M. Ind 5
95 Senthil Maran K Ind 5
96 Ganesh Babu S. Ind 5
97 Vignesh B Ind 5
98 Yashas D. Ind 5
99 Harini S. Ind 5
100 Hirthickkesh Pr Ind 5
101 WFM Monnisha Gk Ind 5
102 Snehal Bhosale Ind 5
103 Patil Pratik Ind 5
104 Neelash Saha Ind 5
105 Mohammad Ashraf Ind 4½
106 CM Rathanvel V S Ind 4½
107 IM Shyam Nikil P. Ind 4½
108 Nandhidhaa Pv Ind 4½
109 Prajesh R Ind 4½
110 WFM Pujari Rucha Ind 4½
111 Mari Arul S. Ind 4½
112 Rajarishi Karthi Ind 4½
113 CM Govindasamy Nashlen SA 4½
114 WIM Andrenko Irina Ukr 4½
115 Dahale Atul Ind 4½
116 Roshan Rangarajan. Ind 4½
117 Haribalu V. Ind 4½
118 Erigaisi Arjun Ind 4½
119 Anustoop Biswas Ind 4½
120 Rahul Srivatshav P Ind 4½
121 Mirashi Shantanu Ind 4½
122 WFM Arpita Mukherjee Ind 4½
123 Chakravarthi Y.V.K. Ind 4½
124 Iyer Vishal Ind 4½
125 Lakshmi K Bhushan D Ind 4½
126 Eashwar.M Ind 4
127 Joshi Govind Ballabh Ind 4
128 Sai Vishwesh.C Ind 4
129 IM Shetty Rahul Ind 4
130 Negi Virender Singh Ind 4
131 Jayakumaar S Ind 4
132 Sumit Kumar Ind 4
133 Jaswant G Ind 4
134 Kulkarni Vinayak Ind 4
135 Shet Prajwal P Ind 4
136 Hemanth Raam Ind 4
137 Iniyan P Ind 4
138 Chaithanyaa K.G. Ind 4
Final standings:’B':
( first 91 placings only)
Rank Name Pts
1 Anilkumar O.T. 8½
2 DusthageerIbrahim M 7½
3 Toshali V 7½
4 Harshini A 7½
5 Raju S 7
6 Manigandan S S 7
7 B Abhinav Reddy 7
8 Sadhu S Adithya 7
9 Yuvan Bharathi K S 7
10 Sahu Rajendra Kumar 7
11 Parthasarathy R 7
12 Hari Madhavan N B 7
13 Adethya R 7
14 Avi Jaiswal 7
15 Marthandan K U 6½
16 Dileep Kumar R 6½
17 Barath M 6½
18 Harshavardhan G B 6½
19 Karthick Narayanan S 6½
20 Abir Sinha 6½
21 Gopalakrishnan K. 6½
22 Karmukilan S 6½
23 Priyamvada Karamcheti 6½
24 Uttam Sharma 6½
25 Aditya S S V 6½
26 Malik Jan Mohamed A. 6½
27 Arjun Adappa 6½
28 Prachet Sharma 6½
29 Srinath.V 6½
30 Dhanasekar K. 6½
31 Raahul V S 6½
32 Neil Franclin S 6
33 Reetish Padhi 6
34 Niranjan Nadarajan 6
35 Harshita Guddanti 6
36 Rahul S 6
37 Vinay Vijaykumar 6
38 Visveshwar A 6
39 Arjun Kalyan 6
40 Shakthi Vishal J 6
41 Kasinathan S 6
42 S Pavan Teja Sharma U 6
43 Manu D Suthandram R 6
44 Gowtham K K 6
45 Vijaya Sharathy 6
46 Sharath E. 6
47 Aarudhra Ganesh 6
48 Rohit Ramanan T G 6
49 Matta Theja Sahithi 6
50 Ashhwath C 6
51 Prathish A 6
52 Adarsh Tripathi 6
53 Rakshith N D 6
54 Jai Aditya D 6
55 Shreyas M 6
56 Manoj B Kulkarni 6
57 Girinath B S 6
58 Balachandar E 6
59 Nikhil Magizhnan CM 6
60 Poojakanth M. 6
61 Bhuvaneshwari.R 6
62 Murugan M 6
63 Srihari L R 6
64 Pranav P 6
65 Vigneshwaran S 6
66 Hariharan S Pillai 6
67 Pranav V 6
68 Prasant N Nayagam 6
69 Sudhamahari Dinker 6
70 Praveen Kumar S 6
71 Rajeev V.M. 5½
72 Salil Kumar D. 5½
73 Sanjay Thiruvengadam 5½
74 Ajay Karthikeyan 5½
75 Varsha C K 5½
76 Krithigga K 5½
77 Potluri Saye Srreezza 5½
78 Gayetri R 5½
79 Swaroop M 5½
80 Navnitan S V 5½
81 Upendra R 5½
82 Muthu Hareeswaran S 5½
83 Balaji M 5½
84 Paul Arokiaraj S. 5½
85 Dharani Kumar M S 5½
86 MounikaAkshayaWCM 5½
87 Arjun B 5½
88 Aswin S 5½
89 Dnyaneshwar S Gharge 5½
90 Dinesh Annamalai 5½
91 Ram Kumar G M 5½
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Final standings: Category C
( first 91 placings only) 46 Chandra Hass M C J 6
Rank Name Pts
1 Dheekshith Kumar R 8½
2 Vignesh Kasi P L 8
3 Atul Srivatsa 7½
4 Sumit Samantray 7½
5 Ramachandran. V 7½
6 Narayanan G K 7
7 Bala Subramaniyan R 7
8 Selvamurugan B 7
9 Vishwak S 7
10 Lathecka Sai M.A. 7
11 Murali Krishna 7
12 Srihari L R 7
13 Muthukrishnan S 7
14 Stephen Raj A 7
15 Nishant Deoram Wanjari 7
16 Prahalad B 7
17 Dnyaneshwar S Gharge 7
18 Rathneesh R 7
19 Pranav V 7
20 Rohith Krishna S 6½
21 Gopikrishnan S 6½
22 Sivasubramanian R 6½
23 Deepak K R 6½
24 Sasidhar Nb 6½
25 Adarsh Tripathi 6½
26 Sai Balaji E 6½
27 Muthu Hareeswaran S 6½
28 Vijay V.S. 6½
29 Hirthik Rajan B P 6½
30 Krishna K R 6½
31 Rakshith J 6½
32 Mokashi Rohit 6½
33 Ashwath C S 6½
34 Subash Anand R 6½
35 Bhagyashree Patil 6½
36 Benny P C 6½
37 Vinoth Kumar M 6½
38 Anurag Kuruvada 6½
39 Raju G 6½
40 Sekar A Muthusamy 6
41 Kamat Vishal 6
42 Hariharan S 6
43 Sreevijay Sunil 6
44 Dhivyashree J 6
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45 Suudhan S 6
47 Mogan Raj S 6
48 Manish Anto Cristiano F 6
49 Nagalakshmi R 6
50 Subhransu Sekhar Dash 6
51 Kalyanaraghavan.V.S 6
52 Dixit Tharun Raja P 6
53 Bino Sebastian 6
54 K Rajaraman 6
55 Ravi Kumar K.V.K 6
56 Pranav Hariraja D 6
57 Komal Srivatsav Sajja 6
58 Sriram C 6
59 Vamsi Krishna B 6
60 Kavi Samrat P 6
61 Praveen Raj Pushparaj 6
62 Senthamizh Yazhini S 6
63 Kumar T V 6
64 Raja V 6
65 Thulasingam V 6
66 Gopinath Parthasarathy 6
67 Keerthi V 6
68 Selvamuthu K 6
69 Rohit S 6
70 Sivaa G M 6
71 Adanwale Siddhik 6
72 Deepika M C 6
73 Bala Murugan G 6
74 Shree Krishna Pranama 6
75 Nitin Shankar Madhu 6
76 Dhyana Patel 5½
77 Deepak Kumar R 5½
78 Shriman K 5½
79 Gopichand K 5½
80 Garima Gaurav 5½
81 Srijan J 5½
82 Rajeshwar A Sadasivan 5½
83 Arputha Jasmine B A 5½
84 Vajandar Amogh 5½
85 Sukumar.S 5½
86 Navaneeth B 5½
87 Hiren K G 5½
88 Shivashankaran R 5½
89 Keerthana Maran T 5½
90 Ragesh Sarma.M 5½
91 Arjun Kesav Mugilvannan 5½
6th AIM All India Open FIDE Rated Chess Tournament-2015
Sekar is champion
by FA Anandh Babu VL, Chief Arbiter
The 6th AIM All India Open Fide Rated Chess
Tournament -2015 was organized by AIM
Chess Academy,Namakkal with Park View
Academy at Park View Academy, AniyApuram,
Namakkal.
The Tournament was started with lighting
of Lamp and inaugurated by Mr. S Mani,
Correspondent ,Park View Academy at 10:30
am on 22nd January 2015 , in the Pres-
ence of Mr.K C Karuppan ,Patron AIM Chess
Academy, Dr.P Selvaraj, Correspondent,
Selvam Educational Institutes. ChiefGuests were
Mr.V Vijayaraghavan, Secretary,Coimbatore
district Chess Association and Joint Secretary
TNSCA, Dr.V S Ramesh,President,Namakkal
District Chess Foundation, Dr.R Arun –Sath-
ish Dental Hospital-Namakkal, Mr.M Thurai-
raj-Veerakumar Bus Service, Namakkal,
Dr.Saravanan S-Harshanna Bio-Gen , Namak-
kal, with Mr.Iyyappan SV Secretary-AIM Chess
Academy and Mr.V Aathyam Treasurer of AIM
Chess Academy. Vote of Thanks was delivered
by Mr.S Gnanshekaran-treasurer Namakkal
District Chess Foundation.
Soon after the inauguration ceremony Play-
ers Meeting took place and l Technical Mat-
ters and Appeals Committee were formed.
Total Number of Participants was 160 which
comprised of 1 IM , 1FM and 124 Rated
Players from 5 States and all Districts of
Tamilnadu players participated .The event
which was spread over five days and ten
rounds with a time control of 90 min and 30
sec increment from move No.1. The Total Cash
prize of the event was Rs.1,80,000/-(Rupees
One lakh Eighty Thousand Only INR)
All the Boards provided with DGT Clocks. Time
Control: 90min with 30 seconds increment
from move No.1. The tournament was played
under Swiss System ,Top Seed of the tourna-
ment is Mr.Kunal-2336,from Bishop Heber
College ,Trichy. In the beginning stage of the
event the players were leading in their points
with their seedings. In Round 5 Top Seed Kunal
IM Elect was been defeated by P Iniyan -For-
mer Under 13 National Champion. In the same
Round Second seed IM Balasubramaniam R
was been defeated by Sekar B from Chennai.
The Tournament from Round 5 was very tight
and tough fight between all the players , Till
Round 7 P Iniyan from Salem was sole lead
and he was been defeated by IM Balasubra-
maniam in Round 8 and jointed with 7 points
with Sekar B and Kunal M.
In the last day in Round 9 Kunal M lost his
point to IM Balasubramaniam and in Second
board Sekar beat Vigneshwaran S of Namak-
kal.Till the last round 10 champion of the
event could not been decided and there was a
tough fight between Ramakrishna J of Andhra
Bank and in Second Board Sekar B and Dileep
kumar R from Chennai also in a tough fight.
Finally Sekar won in second Board and IM
Balasubramanian after 4.5 hrs play lost his
game to Ramakrishna J from Andhra Bank.
Sekar Won the Championship with 9 points
lead and Iniyan with Second of 8.5 pts
The team of Arbiters led by Chief Arbiter
Mr. Anandh babu VL FA were, FA Prem G, NA
A Jahir Hussain, NA Iyyappan SV, NA Aathy-
am. The Prizes where given in three slabs
specifically (0-1400), (1401-1699) and Main
Prizes(1700 and above).
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Prize Distribution ceremony held on26th
January 2015 Chief Guest of the func-
tion Lawyer S K Vel, Chairman,Park View
Academy,Namakkal, Lawyer C.Thangaraj
,Secretary ,Park View Academy,Namakkal,
Mr.M.SenthilVel,President Salem District
Chess Association and Joint Secretary,
TamilNadu State Chess Association, in the
Presence of Ln.M.N Naryanasamy, Sri Sai Surya
Poultry Agencies, with S.Naveen,President
of AIM Chess Academy, Srinivasa Corpora-
tion and Rama Jewellery, Presided with S.V
Iyyappan-Secretary AIM Chess Academy and
Mr.Aathyam-Treasurer,AIM Chess Academy.
All the prizes where distributed at the
hands of the Chief Guests Mr.Rama Srini-
vasan, Mr.K Nataraj,Sri Ganesh Transport,
Mr. Thangaraju,Patron AIM Chess Academy
and Mr.S.Sathyanarayanan-Sri Subramniya
Jewels Shop.Vote of Thanks delivered by
Jc.Er.R.N.Kamala Sekar,RNS Construction.
Final standings:
Rk. Name Pts.
1 Sekar B 9
2 Iniyan P 8.5
3 R Balasubramaniam IM 8
4 Ramakrishna J. 8
5 Visveshwar A 8
6 Kunal M. 7.5
7 Vigneshwaran S 7.5
8 Manigandan S S 7.5
9 Kasi A.L. 7.5
10 Dileep Kumar R 7
11 Yuvan Bharathi K S 7
12 Anandha Venkatesan 7
13 Karmukilan S 7
14 Gowtham K K 7
15 Prasant N Nayagam 7
16 Prathish A 6.5
17 Lokesh N. 6.5
18 Gukesh D 6.5
19 Arjun B 6.5
20 Aravindkumar S 6.5
21 Akash S 6.5
22 Muthu Hareeswaran S 6.5
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23 Manu David Suthandram 6.5
24 Shyam Sundar M 6.5
25 Mohamed Anees M 6.5
26 Nitin Shankar Madhu 6.5
27 Siddharth Sabharishankar 6.5
28 Raahul V S 6.5
29 Sarvesh Kumar A 6.5
30 Varsha C R 6.5
31 Navnitan S V 6.5
32 Krithigga K 6.5
33 Poojakanth M. 6
34 Kannan.V 6
35 Kasthoori Mahalingam K 6
36 Priyanka K 6
37 Jagadish P 6
38 Bharath Subramaniyam H 6
39 Aasha.C R. 6
40 Umashankar A 6
41 Selvamurugan B 6
42 Vishnu Prasad S 6
43 Abhinessh S 6
44 Anand J P 6
45 Mohammed Shamil A 6
46 Vignesh N 6
47 Kabhilan S 6
48 Inamadar Kartik 6
49 Sibi Visal R 6
50 Vinoth Kumar M 6
51 Kamalraj B 6
52 Krishna K R 6
53 Anup Shankar R 5.5
54 Srihari L R 5.5
55 Subramanian V 5.5
56 Rajat Dhruva Ravindra 5.5
57 Abhilash G 5.5
58 Pranav Anand 5.5
59 Sooraj K 5.5
60 Surya S G 5.5
61 Manish Anto Cristiano F 5.5
62 Praveen V 5.5
63 Nithin A V 5.5
64 Manish Chandra Kashyap 5.5
65 Venu Madhav P L 5.5
66 Sanjai Kumar S. 5
67 Srimathi R 5
68 Amith A 5
69 Arputha Jasmine B A 5
70 Rakshitta Ravi 5
71 Ithal H L Rajath 5
72 Tarun Sivakumar 5
73 Abirami S 5
74 Vinoth A 5
75 Vasudev R 5
76 Prem Kumar S 5
77 Yashwanth Raj S 5
78 Pooja S (2002) 5
79 Kruthika K R 5
80 Dhanaviswanathan C T 5
81 Muthukumar P 5
82 Sushmit Banerjee 5
83 Karthick Rajgobal 5
84 Abdul Hameed 5
85 S P Krishnamurthy 5
86 Vidhyth Narain Selvam 5
87 Sakthi Subash A S 5
88 Hariprasad S 5
89 Tamilvelan J 5
90 Sri Vignesh Ravi 5
91 Shivani Madhu 5
92 Subramanian T.V. 4.5
93 Aravinth Shanmugam S 4.5
94 Vignesh R 4.5
95 Eliyaz K L 4.5
96 Tarunika P 4.5
97 M Padma Pratibha 4.5
98 Ebnesar Anto A 4.5
99 Subash Mathivanan 4.5
100 Rajini Kanth D 4.5
101 Nicknesar Anto A 4.5
102 Ahalya A 4.5
103 Hemachandran M 4.5
104 Senthil Murugan M 4.5
105 Anirudhh M K 4.5
106 Tejas Cavale 4.5
107 Roshan S 4.5
108 Nachiketh Adiga 4
109 Sivasubramanian Manoj 4
110 Adithyan G 4
111 Azath H 4
112 Nithish A V 4
113 Dhanu Keerthana G 4
114 Jagan K S G 4
115 Devkarvin V U 4
116 Kamali B 4
117 Ramesh V 4
118 Poorneshwari S 4
119 Karthick Raj S 4
120 Naveen K 4
121 Santhana Mani S 4
122 Nithish Kumar Kanagaraj 4
123 Mugelan K Parthasarathy 4
124 John De Rose P 4
125 Madhu M 4
126 Lohith V G 4
127 Netesh S S 4
128 Shankarasubbu B 3.5
129 Keerthi Anand S R 3.5
130 Dharshan Venkatachalam 3.5
131 Kaushik K 3.5
132 Sanjay Muthiah R 3.5
133 Gowri Shankar P 3.5
134 Hari V P 3
135 Jayakumar Thamarai 3
136 Vinoth Kumar Anbalagan 3
137 Senthil Kumar C 3
138 Madheswaran G U 3
139 Anunithi S S 3
140 Abinivesh Sivakumar 3
141 Nirmal N 3
142 Shanmugam Pck 3
143 Nishanth Nallusamy 3
Puzzle of the month
by C.G.S.Narayanan
The puzzle this month is a retro which needs
a closer look. The mate in one for white
1.cxb e.p is staring in the face but can white
capture en passant is the question.
( Solution on page 48 )
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 St Ann’s All India Fide Rating Chess Tournament 2015,Hyderabad…
Sai Agni Jeevitesh wins at Hyderabad
FA Promodraj Moree, Chief Arbiter
St Ann’s Fide Rating Chess Tournament
2015 took place at the St Ann’s College for
women, Medhipatnam, Hyderbad. A total
of 180 players from various parts of India
which included one Grandmaster R.R Lax-
man of ICF,two International Master, one fide
master, one candidate master and 117 fide
rated players. Players from 7 states partici-
pated in this event. The event had a prize
fund of Rs 2 Lakh with first price of Rs 30,000.
The five day had classical time control event
with 9 rounds and top 50 cash prizes and 20
Trophies for the various children’s category. It
started on 21st Jan and the tournament was
inaugurated by Nagireddy Senior commis-
sioner of police, Hyderabad. Sri Narashima
Reddy, Vice president AICF was the guest of
honor. Mr. S Vijaya Sarathi Ex- Secretary AP
Chess Association also graced the occasion.
The event was organized for the first time in
this college.
There was tough contest till the last round.
In the last round GM RR Laxman and
Bhavan Kumar of Telangana were leading
with 7 points each, the game ended in a
draw. And on the 2nd board local Talent
Sai Agni Jeevitesh defeated IM Stany to tie
for the first place, with 3 players on 7.5 each
tied for the 1st place. Sai Agni Jeevitesh of
Telangana bagged the first place with better
tie break score.
The prize Distribution ceremony took place
on 25th Jan at 4 pm. The dignitaries who
were present as guests of Honour were-
Mr A Tirumala Reddy Garu, ICL Organizer,
Mr Narasimha Rao Member of Telangana
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36 Viswanath Sandilya B. 5½ 83 Ved Prakash 4½
37 D. Ashraf Subhani 5½ 84 Karthik Sai Ch 4½
38 Medwin V. John 5½ 85 Vishwajeeth Reddy Adla 4½
39 Subba Raju S. 5½ 86 Sreekanth Oddepalli 4½
40 CM Karthik Kumar Pradeep 5½ 87 Nanditha V 4½
State Adhoc Committee,Mr K Raghuveer 41 Pvs Aravind 5½ 88 Gopalakrishnan Baskaran 4½
Garu, Principal, Vasavi Education Colleges 42 Ravindra P 5½ 89 Sreevijay Sunil 4½
and K.S.Prasad, Organizing Secretary. 43 Shanmukha Teja P 5½ 90 Srihari Padmanabhan 4½
44 WCM Bommini Mounika Akshaya 5½ 91 Konatham Snehil 4½
45 Sai Kiran Y 5½ 92 Aryagopal 4½
Final ranking
46 Kasaram Gananeshwar 5½ 93 Rithvik Raja M 4½
Rk Name Pts
47 Kandi Ravi 5½ 94 Mahesh G S 4½
1 Sai Agni Jeevitesh J 7½
48 Srikanth G 5½ 95 Srujan Keerthan Solletti 4½
2 GM Laxman R.R. 7½
49 Narasimhamurthy 5½ 96 Narasimha Rao Konda 4
3 Bavankumar 7½
50 Adethya R 5 97 Abhinav Ganti 4
4 Anilkumar O.T. 7
51 Sreeshwan Maralakshikari 5 98 Bipin Raj S 4
5 Lakshmi Sandeep Naidu V 7
52 Jishitha D 5 99 Davuluri Vihar 4
6 Kranti Kumar P. 7
53 Satyanarayana Raju D S 5 100 Rohith Yadav B R 4
7 Prasannaa.S 7
54 Ravikumar M 5 101 Biradavolu Asrith 4
8 Raghav Srivathsav V 7
55 Bala Chandrudu A 5 102 Madhuri Ch 4
9 IM Chakravarthi Reddy M 7
56 Manukonda Arun 5 103 Karunakar Reddy K 4
10 CM Kushagra Mohan 7
57 Vijay Shreeram P 5 104 Lalit Vishnu Vardhan R 4
11 Shet Prajwal P 7
58 Shourya Mupparapu 5 105 Saypuri Srithan 4
12 FM Matta Vinay Kumar 6½
59 Patil Samiksha 5 106 Saketh Kumar Reddy C 4
13 Lakshmi Krishna Bhushan D 6½
60 Srivastava Pratyush 5 107 Vysetty Sahithi 4
14 IM Stany G.A. 6½
61 M Tulasi Ram Kumar 5 108 Vangala Prashanth 4
15 Sharan Rao 6½
62 Praveen Veeramalla 5 109 Vathsalya V 4
16 Shreeshan S 6½
63 Hemanth Eswar G 5 110 Suresh Raju N 4
17 Ram S. Krishnan 6
64 Digvijay Sunil 5 111 Raviteja T V 4
18 Ravi Teja S. 6
65 Mohan Sapa 5 112 Muppiri Dheeraj 4
19 Murthy V S N 6
66 Chetana D 5 113 Sevitha Viju M 4
20 Raju M.Y. 6
67 Muralinadh K. 5 114 Dara Divya 4
21 Melvin Joel V. 6
68 Shreyas P 5 115 Manaswini Maheshweram 4
22 Khan S 6
69 Prraneeth Vuppala 5 116 Sujani M 4
23 Seshu P.V.V 6
70 Laasya Priya P 5 117 Amudala Shravan Gaud 4
24 Vishwanath Vivek 6
71 Nitheesh Pothireddy 5 118 Pranay Venkatesh 4
25 Ramakrishna Perumalla 6
72 Kalur Nikhil 5 119 Megh Raj 4
26 Prateek Srivastava 6
73 Varshitha V 5 120 Shiva Kumar G 4
27 Shiek Fayaz 6
74 Sarath Chandra K 5 121 Kartikeya Kashyap K B S 4
28 Sachin Pradeep 6
75 Raja Ravi Kiran Reddy K 5 122 HBharadwaj Gundepudi 3½
29 Priyamvada Karamcheti 6
76 Raana Pramodh 5 123 Rajinikanth G 3½
30 Abdul Azeez S.K. 6
77 Srinivas Asapu 5 124 Sree Divya B 3½
31 Subhash K V 6
78 Kavya Srishti K 4½ 125 Ranjana Reddy Namireddy 3½
32 Subuddhi Ramesh Kumar 6
79 Neeraj Anirudh K 4½ 126 Vijay Sundar 3½
33 Isha Sharma 6
80 Meghanshram B V 4½ 127 Ruthvik Ponnapalli 3½
34 Anurag Kuruvada 6
81 Venkata Krishna Tondapu 4½ 128 Geereddy Saketh Reddy 3½
35 Joshi Sunil 6
82 Sanjay Bhargawa B 4½
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 4th WBCWS FIDE Rated Chess Tournament, Kolkata….
Sayantan Das wins title
Asit Baran Choudhury, IA,Chief Arbiter
St Ann’s Fide Rating Chess Tournament
2015 took place at the St Ann’s College for
women, Medhipatnam, Hyderbad. A total
of 180 players from various parts of India
which included one Grandmaster R.R Lax-
man of ICF,two International Master, one fide
master, one candidate master and 117
fide rated players. Players from 7 states
participated in this event. The event had a
prize fund of Rs 2 Lakh with first price of Rs
30,000.
The five day had classical time control event
with 9 rounds and top 50 cash prizes and 20
Trophies for the various children’s category.
It started on 21st Jan and the tournament
was inaugurated by Nagireddy Senior com-
missioner of police, Hyderabad. Sri Narashi-
ma Reddy, Vice president AICF was the guest
of honor. Mr. S Vijaya Sarathi Ex- Secretary
AP Chess Association also graced the occa-
sion. The event was organized for the first
time in this college.
There was tough contest till the last round.
In the last round GM RR Laxman and
Bhavan Kumar of Telangana were leading
with 7 points each, the game ended in a
draw. And on the 2nd board local Talent
Sai Agni Jeevitesh defeated IM Stany to tie
for the first place, with 3 players on 7.5 each
tied for the 1st place. Sai Agni Jeevitesh of
Telangana bagged the first place with better
tie break score.
The prize Distribution ceremony took place
on 25th Jan at 4 pm. The dignitaries who
were present as guests of Honour were-
Mr A Tirumala Reddy Garu, ICL Organizer,
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Mr Narasimha Rao Member of Telangana
State Adhoc Committee,Mr K Raghuveer
Garu, Principal, Vasavi Education Colleges and
K.S.Prasad, Organizing Secretary.
Final ranking 46 Kasaram Gananeshwar 5½
Rk Name Pts
1 Sai Agni Jeevitesh J 7½
2 GM Laxman R.R. 7½
3 Bavankumar 7½
4 Anilkumar O.T. 7
5 Lakshmi Sandeep Naidu V 7
6 Kranti Kumar P. 7
7 Prasannaa.S 7
8 Raghav Srivathsav V 7
9 IM Chakravarthi Reddy M 7
10 CM Kushagra Mohan 7
11 Shet Prajwal P 7
12 FM Matta Vinay Kumar 6½
13 Lakshmi Krishna Bhushan D 6½
14 IM Stany G.A. 6½
15 Sharan Rao 6½
16 Shreeshan S 6½
17 Ram S. Krishnan 6
18 Ravi Teja S. 6
19 Murthy V S N 6
20 Raju M.Y. 6
21 Melvin Joel V. 6
22 Khan S 6
23 Seshu P.V.V 6
24 Vishwanath Vivek 6
25 Ramakrishna Perumalla 6
26 Prateek Srivastava 6
27 Shiek Fayaz 6
28 Sachin Pradeep 6
29 Priyamvada Karamcheti 6
30 Abdul Azeez S.K. 6
31 Subhash K V 6
32 Subuddhi Ramesh Kumar 6
33 Isha Sharma 6
34 Anurag Kuruvada 6
35 Joshi Sunil 6
36 Viswanath Sandilya B. 5½
37 D. Ashraf Subhani 5½
38
39
Medwin V. John
Subba Raju S.
5½
5½
40 CM Karthik Kumar Pradeep 5½
41 Pvs Aravind 5½
42 Ravindra P 5½
43 Shanmukha Teja P 5½
44 WCM Bommini Mounika Akshaya 5½
45 Sai Kiran Y 5½
47 Kandi Ravi 5½
48 Srikanth G 5½
49 Narasimhamurthy 5½
50 Adethya R 5
51 Sreeshwan Maralakshikari 5
52 Jishitha D 5
53 Satyanarayana Raju D S 5
54 Ravikumar M 5
55 Bala Chandrudu A 5
56 Manukonda Arun 5
57 Vijay Shreeram P 5
58 Shourya Mupparapu 5
59 Patil Samiksha 5
60 Srivastava Pratyush 5
61 M Tulasi Ram Kumar 5
62 Praveen Veeramalla 5
63 Hemanth Eswar G 5
64 Digvijay Sunil 5
65 Mohan Sapa 5
66 Chetana D 5
67 Muralinadh K. 5
68 Shreyas P 5
69 Prraneeth Vuppala 5
70 Laasya Priya P 5
71 Nitheesh Pothireddy 5
72 Kalur Nikhil 5
73 Varshitha V 5
74 Sarath Chandra K 5
75 Raja Ravi Kiran Reddy K 5
76 Raana Pramodh 5
77 Srinivas Asapu 5
78 Kavya Srishti K 4½
79 Neeraj Anirudh K 4½
80 Meghanshram B V 4½
81 Venkata Krishna Tondapu 4½
82 Sanjay Bhargawa B 4½
83 Ved Prakash 4½
84 Karthik Sai Ch 4½
85
86
Vishwajeeth Reddy Adla
Sreekanth Oddepalli
4½
4½
87 Nanditha V 4½
88 Gopalakrishnan Baskaran 4½
89 Sreevijay Sunil 4½
90 Srihari Padmanabhan 4½
91 Konatham Snehil 4½
92 Aryagopal 4½
93 Rithvik Raja M 4½
94 Mahesh G S 4½
95 Srujan Keerthan Solletti 4½
96 Narasimha Rao Konda 4
97 Abhinav Ganti 4
98 Bipin Raj S 4
99 Davuluri Vihar 4
100 Rohith Yadav B R 4
101 Biradavolu Asrith 4
102 Madhuri Ch 4
103 Karunakar Reddy K 4
104 Lalit Vishnu Vardhan R 4
105 Saypuri Srithan 4
106 Saketh Kumar Reddy C 4
107 Vysetty Sahithi 4
108 Vangala Prashanth 4
109 Vathsalya V 4
110 Suresh Raju N 4
111 Raviteja T V 4
112 Muppiri Dheeraj 4
113 Sevitha Viju M 4
114 Dara Divya 4
115 Manaswini Maheshweram 4
116 Sujani M 4
117 Amudala Shravan Gaud 4
118 Pranay Venkatesh 4
119 Megh Raj 4
120 Shiva Kumar G 4
121 Kartikeya Kashyap K B S 4
122 HBharadwaj Gundepudi 3½
123 Rajinikanth G 3½
124 Sree Divya B 3½
125 Ranjana Reddy Namireddy 3½
126 Vijay Sundar 3½
127 Ruthvik Ponnapalli 3½
128 Geereddy Saketh Reddy 3½
129 Karthikeya T 3½
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 1st Balasore All India FIDE Rating Chess Tournament ( Below1800),Balasore
Tirtha Sarkar clinches title
FA Suresh Chandra Sahoo,Chief Arbiter
The 1st Balasore All India FIDE Rating Tour-
nament – 2015 (Below1800) was inaugurat-
ed by Chief Guest Asit Kumar Panigrahi, IPS,
DIG Police, Eastern Range, Guest of honor
Sj. Himanshu Dash, Chairman, Modern En-
gineering & Management Studies, Balasore;
Industrialist, on 23rd Jan at Modern Engineer-
ing & Management Studies, Balasore, Odisha,
in the presence of Sj. Pradip Kumar Panda,
Chattered Accountant; President, Balasore
District Chess Association, Sj. Manoranjan
Panda, Secretary, BDCA, Balasore.
The total no of 203 participants (from 15
states) had taken part in this event from dif-
ferent parts of the Country. Total 136 rated
players (including 16 women) were partici-
pated. Nine rounds Swiss system league was
played with a time control of 60 min. with 30
sec Increment from move no.1.
The total prize fund for above captioned
event was ` 2,00,000/- (Rupees Two lacs
only) with 108 prizes + many trophies. No
doubt this is the cheapest tournament (as en-
try fee concerned) on this category in India.
The organiser arranged with FREE dormitory
Accommodation & FREE food (Breakfast +
Lunch + Dinner) to players for entire tourna-
ment period.
Tirth Sarkar, 1780 of West Bengal (8.5
points ) and clinched the Championship and
awarded a cash prize of ` 30,000/- along
with Championship trophy. Odisha born
U-12 boy Pranab Kumar Patra, 1653 became
Runner-up & bagged ` 20,000/- & Odisha
born U-10 boy (Runner-up of U-7 National
in 2012) Mahitosh Dey, 1606 stood 3rd with
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` 15,000/- in the tournament .
In the closing ceremony the Chief guest
was Sj. Sanatan Mallick, Collector & District
Magistrate, Balasore. Other dignitaries who
graced the occasion on the last day were Sj.
Himanshu Dash, Chairman, Modern Engi-
neering & Management Studies, Balasore;
Industrialist; Dr. Choudhury Satyabrata
Nanda, Medicine specialist; Sj. Pradip Kumar
Panda, Chattered Accountant; President, Bal-
asore District Chess Association; Sj. Debashis
Chakraborty, Vetran National Chess Player;
Sj. Manorajan Panda, Secretary, Balasore
District Chess Association. The Press and
Media covered the event well and we had
considerably support from the parents and
guardians of the kid participants.
I take this Opportunity to thank the Balasore
District Chess Association and All Odisha
Chess Association for making such tourna-
ment a Grand success, which will go a long
way in creating awareness and popularising
Chess in our State & Country & for giving
another chance to below 1800 players to
show off their talents.
The Chief Arbiter for the Event was FIDE
Arbiter Suresh Chandra Sahoo ably assisted
by NA Bhabesh Mohanty & NA Sanjay Kumar
Mahapatra of Odisha.
Final standings:
1 Tirtha Sarkar 8½
2 Pranab Kumar Patra 8
3 Mahitosh Dey 7½
4 Patra Subhendu Kumar 7½
5 Sandil Nirmal Chandra 7
6 Das Susobhit 7
7 Kiran Kumar P J 7
8 M Sanjay Kumar 7
9 Tayyeb Asif Mohmamad 7
10 Nayak Satya Sundar 7
11 Sahoo Soumya Ranjan 6½
12 Sahu Thompson 6½
13 Deepak Batra 6½
14 Kaushik Nath 6½
15 Rajat Kumar Sahoo 6½
16 Pattnayak Nilsu 6½
17 Deo Anurag 6½
18 Sahoo Ankush 6½
19 Sasikumar N 6½
20 S. Jeevanandam 6½
21 Niroj Lochan Das 6½
22 Katiyar Prashant 6½
23 Sukadev Badhai 6½
24 Pujjam Bansod 6
25 Panda Sambit 6
26 Swain Diptanshu Ranjan 6
27 Satyajit Sarkar 6
28 Deepak Singh 6
29 Sanku Mitra 6
30 Nayak Sanjeeban 6
31 Rakesh Kumar Kesherwani 6
32 Ali Khan Aamir Gulrez 6
33 Debasish Majumder 6
34 Apurba Chakraborty 6
35 Samantaray Aryan Arnav 6
36 Sayantan Das 6
37 Mohanty Rajesh 6
38 Tapas Mandal 6
39 Basant Khandelwal 6
40 Panda Bharat 6
41 Ashok Kumar Jaju 5½
42 Saikat Bose 5½
43 Lochan Kumar Das 5½
44 Shambo Dutta 5½
45 Khamari Amarendra 5½
46 Bidyut Kr. Mondal 5½
47 Bidhu Bhusan Mishra 5½
48 Tanuj M. Meshran 5½
49 Imran Hussain 5½
50 Avinash Baliarsingh 5½
51 Sweta Senapaty 5½
52 Narayan Das 5½
53 Debata Sarthak 5½
54 Mallick Subham 5½
55 Dikshant Dash 5½
56 Srinath Bhoi 5½
57 Gopal Ch Mahapatra 5½
58 Manish Kumar (2006) 5½
59 Karmakar Ramen 5
60 Sumanta Pattnaik 5
61 Sahadeb Mondal 5
62 Mohapatra Sarat 5
63 Mishra Abinash 5
64 Sahu Biswahari 5
65 Ananta Narayan Mishra 5
66 Mishra Satya Nandan 5
67 Shailesh Madne 5
68 Biswal Gitashree 5
69 Rudranarayan 5
70 Mishra Anisha 5
71 Srimannarayana K S S 5
72 Sahu Jagabandhu 5
73 N Srikshetra Sourav 5
74 Jadhav Pratik 5
75 Tekam Krunal 5
76 Ranjit Bhoi 5
77 Tripathy Bijay Ketan 5
78 Krishnamoorthi P K 5
79 Biswajit Mandal 5
80 Ansar Baksha K 5
81 Mriganka Bhowmik 5
82 Durgesh 5
83 Atanu Panda 5
84 Sanjib Kumar Mohanta 4½
85 Mohanty B Chandra 4½
86 C B Surya Bangaru Raju 4½
87 Singh Chandan Lal 4½
88 Lokesh Kumar 4½
89 Gohel Bimal Ramnik 4½
90 Goutam Das 4½
91 Hillol Debnath 4½
92 Kumar Amit 4½
93 Murthy P B L N 4½
94 Keshab Charan Sahoo 4½
95 Patra Diptesh Kumar 4½
96 Siddhesh Kamila 4½
97 Sinthia Sarkar 4½
98 Sahoo Soumya Prakash 4½
99 Rajbeer Ahmed 4½
100 Panda Abhinandan 4½
101 Rajesh Kumar Jaiswal 4½
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Selected games from National Premier,
Kottayam
Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron is better placed. To be considered here is: 25...
Rajesh,V A V (2408)
Girinath,P.D.S (2333) [A61]
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 c5 3.d5 e6 4.Nc3 exd5 5.cxd5
d6 6.Nf3 g6 7.Bf4 a6 8.a4 Bg7 9.h3 0–0 10.e3
Qe7 11.Nd2 Nbd7 12.Nc4 Ne8 13.a5 Though
this is the logical move here as it cramps
black's queen-side, it has not been tried
before, players preferring to complete their
development with 13 Be2. 13...Ne5 14.Bxe5
[Stronger was: 14.Nb6 Rb8 15.Nxc8 Rxc8
16.Be2 Nf6 17.Qc2 h6 18.0–0] 14...Bxe5
[This was forced. If 14...dxe5? 15.d6 Qd8
16.Nb6 Rb8 17.d7+-] 15.Be2 f5 16.0–0 Bd7
17.Na4 Bg7 18.Nab6 Rd8 19.Rb1 White has
a long term plan of targeting the b7 pawn.
19...Nf6 20.Bd3 Bb5 21.Na3
21...Be8? [It would have been best had he
exchanged off his bishop instead of preserv-
ing it and cramping his own game: 21...Bxd3
22.Qxd3 Ne4 23.Nac4 Rde8 24.f3 Ng3 25.Rfe1
f4 26.b4 cxb4 27.Rxb4 fxe3 28.Nxe3 Qf7
29.Qd2 Bh6 30.Qf2 Qe7=] 22.Bc2 Bf7 23.Qd2
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Ne4 24.Bxe4 fxe4 25.b4 cxb4 [With both white
knights operating on the queen-side, black
should try for play on the king-side where he
g5 26.Nac4 cxb4 27.Qxb4 Bh5=] 26.Rxb4
g5 27.Rc4 Bg6 28.Nc2! This knight is headed
for e6. 28...g4 29.hxg4 Qh4 30.Nd4 Qxg4?!
[This loses the exchange and eventually the
game. His best try was: 30...Be5 31.f4! exf3
(31...Bxd4 32.Qxd4 Qxg4 33.Rc7!±) 32.Nxf3
Qg3 33.Nxe5 Rxf1+ 34.Kxf1 Qxe5 35.Rf4!±]
31.Ne6 Be5 [If 31...Qh5 (to avoid the tactic
f2-f4 as happens next move) 32.Nxd8 Rxd8
33.f4 Bf5 34.Rc7 Bf6 35.Rxb7 Kh8 36.Rc1 Rg8
37.Nd7 and black's planned counter-attack is
still born.] 32.f4!
32...Bf6 [Surprisingly, the en passant capture
loses the queen: 32...exf3? (two pawns on the
fourth rank vanish simultaneously!) 33.Rxg4]
33.Nxd8 Rxd8 34.f5! Bh5 [Now the game is
lost. If 34...Bxf5 35.Qf2 and one of the bishops
must exit.] 35.Rf4! Qg5 36.Rcxe4 Be5 37.Qf2!
White feels generous as he has a rook and
pawn for a bishop. By offering to return the
rook for a bishop white takes the sting out of
black's counter-play. More importantly he is
( contd on p.27 )
Sethuraman wins Nord-West Cup in Germany
by Arvind Aaron
National champion Grand Master S.P. Sethuraman of Chennai
won the Nord-West Cup 2015 Open at Bad Zwischenahn in
Germany on January 25, 2015.
In the 189-player event, he tied for first place on six points
and had the higher tie-break to win the title. He was the top
seed. Ninth seed Shyam Sundar of Chennai finished seventh
and seventh seed Lalith Babu of Vijayawada finished ninth
half a point behind on 5.5 points.
Sethuraman was India’s highest performer in the Tromso
Olympiad 2014 in which India won its maiden medal – bronze.
Sethuraman is employed with ONGC, India’s largest profit
making Government owned company.
Bad Zwischenahn is between Groningen (Netherlands) and
Hamburg (Germany) in north west Germany. The event had
a prize fund of Euro 5,000 of which Sethuraman’s share was
Euro 1000. This event ran from January 22-25, 2015.
Nimzowitsch’s ‘Immortal zugzwang game’
Aron Nimzowitsch (7 November 1886 – 16 March 1935)
was a Russian-born, Danish leading chess master and a very
influential chess writer. He was the foremost figure amongst the
hypermoderns.Born in part of the Russian Empire, the Jewish
German-speaking Nimzowitsch came from a wealthy family, where
he learned chess from his father, who was a merchant. In 1904,
he travelled to Berlin to study philosophy, but set aside his studies
soon and began a career as a professional chess player that same
year. He won his first international tournament at Munich 1906.
Then, he tied for first with Alexander Alekhine at St. Petersburg
1913/14 (the eighth All-Russian Masters' Tournament).
One of Nimzowitsch's most famous games is his celebrated
immortal zugzwang game against Sämisch at Copenhagen 1923.
Another game on this theme is his win over Paul Johner at Dresden 1926. When in form,
Nimzowitsch was very dangerous with the black pieces, scoring many fine wins over top players.
Nimzowitsch is considered one of the most important players and writers in chess history. His
works influenced numerous other players, including Savielly Tartakower, Milan Vidmar, Richard
Réti, Akiba Rubinstein, Bent Larsen and Tigran Petrosian, and his influence is still felt today.
He wrote three books on chess strategy: Mein System (My System), 1925, Die Praxis meines
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Systems (The Practice of My System), 1929, commonly known as Chess Praxis, and Die Blockade Chess Association. The list of the members
(The Blockade), 1925, though much in the latter book is generally held to be a rehash of material to be approved by the AICF.
already presented in Mein System. Mein System is considered to be one of the most influential c. The last date for submitting the Annual
chess books of all time.It sets out Nimzowitsch's most important ideas, while his second most Subscription to be 01st March 2015. (Those
influential work, Chess Praxis, elaborates upon these ideas, adds a few new ones, and has already paid to be exempted)
immense value as a stimulating collection of Nimzowitsch's own games accompanied by his
d. The date of election to be 29th March,
idiosyncratic, hyperbolic commentary which is often as entertaining as instructive.
2015.
The Immortal Zugzwang Game is a chess game between Friedrich Sämisch and Aron
e. Meeting notice to be issued on or before
Nimzowitsch, played in Copenhagen 1923. It gained its name because the final position is
07th March, 2015.
sometimes considered a rare instance of zugzwang occurring in the middlegame.
f. The list of members to accompany the
White: Friedrich Sämisch
election meeting notice
Black: Aron Nimzowitsch
g. The last date for filing nominations 04.00
Opening: Queen's Indian Defense (ECO E17) 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 b6 4. g3 Bb7 5. Bg2 Be7 PM on 18th March, 2015.
6. Nc3 0-0 7. 0-0 d5 8. Ne5 c6 Safeguards the position. 9. cxd5?! cxd5 10. Bf4 a6 Protects the
h. The last date for withdrawal 04.00 PM on 20th March, 2015.
outpost station c4, i.e., by ...a6 and ...b5. 11. Rc1 b5 12. Qb3 Nc6 The ghost! With noiseless
i. The list of candidates to be announced at 05.00 PM on 20th March, 2015.
steps he presses on towards c4.
j. Mr.Arindam Barua, Chairman North East Committee, to nominate the Election Officer in
13. Nxc6 Samisch sacrifices two tempi (exchange of the tempo-
consultation with Hon. Secretary, AICF and the AICF will depute an observer. In case Mr.Arindam
eating Knight on e5 for the Knight which is almost undeveloped)
Barua decides to contest, the AICF will name the Election Officer.
merely to be rid of the ghost. 13... Bxc6 14. h3? Qd7 15. Kh2 Nh5
I could have supplied him with as yet a second ghost by ...Qe7 k. It was also decided to allow the existing office bearers (elected on 23rd August, 2014) to
and ...Knight–d7–b6–c4, but I wished to turn my attention to continue to serve the All Assam Chess Association till the elections.
the King's side. [Ed: The author likely meant ...Qb7, as e7 has a 2. To organise India – China Summit Clash 2015 at Hyderabad from 01st to 10th March, 2015.
bishop on it.] 16. Bd2 f5! 17. Qd1 b4! 18. Nb1 Bb5 19. Rg1 Bd6 3. Since adverse reports have been filed by the Chief Arbiter of the World Youth Chess
20. e4 fxe4! - all this for This sacrifice, which has a quite surprising Championship held at Durban, South Africa against FA Jyothi Ganesh Inaganti and FA Amarnath
effect, is based upon the following sober calculation: two Pawns Inaganti, it was decided that till such time the above two arbiters improve their knowledge they
and the seventh rank and an enemy Queen's wing which cannot will not be posted as Chief Arbiters in any tournament.
be disentangled only one piece!
4. The Central Council decided that the rating restricted tournaments could be organised
21. Qxh5 Rxf2 22. Qg5 Raf8 23. Kh1 R8f5 24. Qe3 Bd3 25. Rce1 within three months after organising the open tournament which should be organised first. No
Position after 20...fxe4
h6!! A brilliant move which announces the Zugzwang. White has postponement under any circumstances will be given. All other Rules governing such tournaments
not a move left. If, e.g., Kh2 or g4, then R5f3. Black can now make waiting moves with his remain the same.
King, and White must, willy-nilly, eventually throw himself upon the sword. 0-1
5. A committee with Mr.Kishor Bandekar
(Goa) as Chairman is formed to implement
Important decisions at the AICF Central Council meeting uniform financial regulations for all state
on 4th January 2015 associations.
AICF Central Council Meeting was held on 04.01.2015. Here are the important decisions taken 6. The Central Council decided that all
during that meeting. State Associations should bear the cost
1. The AICF Central Council accepts the recommendations of the High Power Committee to of travelling of their selected / seeded
solve Assam problem. The following decisions were taken: players while representing their states in
various Nationals.
a. Fresh Elections to be held for the All Assam Chess Association before 31st March 2015.
7. To conduct Arbiters’ refresher course
b. All the district associations which existed and affiliated to All Assam Chess Association as
to all the Arbiters who are likely to serve
on 31st March, 2014 to be allowed to continue as members of the General Body of All Assam
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as Chief Arbiters and Deputy Chief Arbiters in 2015. Attendance to this course will be compulsory.
8. To conduct Arbiters’ Workshop for all the Chief Arbiters and Deputy Chief Arbiters who are
nominated for the National Championships during 2015.
9. It was decided to implement Payment Gateway to help Registration of players faster.
10. It was decided to allow players in the “above restricted” tournaments, if at any time their
career rating is above the stipulation. For example if the tournament is for players with ELO
1800 above, the player is eligible if at any time he/she had crossed ELO 1800 even if their
current rating is below 1800.
Carlsen wins Grenke Classic
Carlsen missed a chance to convert against Bacrot in the seventh
round and had to settle for a tiebreak match to determine the winner
against Naiditsch... though both were lucky that Caruana did not join
them as he missed a win against Baramidze! In the match Carlsen
won the first, Naidtisch retaliated, and after two draws The World
Champion triumphed in the Armageddon. With the tournament ending
with a tie at the top between Naiditsch and Carlsen a tiebreak match
was needed. Things started off well for the World Champion as he
was able to score a victory in the first game .However Naiditsch was
able to strike back, saving his skin! The game was full of errors but
at the end the German triumphed, forcing another two games. Those
were drawn, forcing another tiebreak... and Armageddon game to
determine the winner of the tournament. With this victory Carlsen
wins another tournament, and another excellent recovery after losing to Naiditsch himself in
round three.
Carlsen,Magnus (2865)
Naiditsch,Arkadij (2706) [E11]
3rd GRENKE Classic TB Baden Baden GER (1), 08.02.2015
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 Bb4+ 4.Nbd2 b6 5.a3 Bxd2+ 6.Qxd2 0–0
7.e3 Bb7 8.b4 a5 9.Bb2 axb4 10.axb4 Ne4 11.Qc2 Rxa1+ 12.Bxa1
Qe7 13.c5 f5 14.Be2 Nc6 15.Bc3 bxc5 16.dxc5 Ra8 17.0–0 Nxc3
18.Qxc3 Qf6 19.Qd2 Rd8 20.b5 Ne5 21.Nxe5 Qxe5 22.c6! Using
the pin on the d-file White kills the bishop on b7. 22...Bc8 23.Rd1
d5 24.Qd4 Qxd4 25.exd4 Kf8 26.f4 Black's position is simply sad.
The bishop on c8 has absolutely no moves. White simply has to
march his forces forward. 26...Ke7 27.Ra1 g6 28.Kf2 Kd6 29.Ra3
Rf8 30.h4 Ke7 31.h5 Rg8 32.hxg6 hxg6 33.Rh3 g5 34.fxg5 Kd6
35.Rh6 Ke7 36.Bf3 e5 37.Rh7+ Kd6 38.dxe5+ Kc5 39.Rxc7 Kxb5
Position after 26.f4 40.Bxd5 1–0
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( contd from p.27 )
threatening 38 Qh4 exchanging queens and
winning simply. 37...Kh8 38.Qh4 Bxf4 39.Rxf4
Qxh4 40.Rxh4 Bf7 41.Rc4! This rook is bound
for c7 from where it is going to dominate and
paralyse black's game in conjunction with his
firmly established knight on b6. And black
cannot do anything about this threat. 41...
Kg7 42.Kf2 Kf6 43.e4 Re8 44.Kf3! The king
is a fighting piece in the endgame and it must
be used as such. From f3, the king protects
e4 and also prevents possible black incursion
on the king-side, especially along the g-file.
44...Rg8 45.Rc7 Preventing the black king
from moving forward as he cannot abandon
his bishop. 45...Rg7?!
[A clever move which conceals a trap. How-
ever, now his bishop gets pinned against the
rook. Perhaps, 45...h6 and then 46...Bh5
could have prolonged the game.] 46.Kf2! [You
have to be vigilant at all times, even when
the scent of victory is very strong. If here
46.Rxb7?? Bh5+ 47.Kf2 Rxb7–+] 46...Rg4
[If 46...Ke5 47.Rxb7 h5 (47...Kxe4 48.f6!)
48.Nc4+ Kxe4 49.Rxf7!!+-] 47.Nc4 Bh5 [47...
Rxe4? 48.Rxf7+ Kxf7 49.Nxd6+–+] 48.Rxh7
Rxe4 49.Nxd6 Re2+ 50.Kf1 Bg4 51.Rh4! Rd2
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52.Ne4+ Finally, black falls to a knight fork.
1–0
Karthikeyan,P (2400) Swayams,Mishra (2491)
[C11]
1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.e5 Nfd7 5.f4 c5
6.Nf3 Nc6 7.Be3 Be7 8.Qd2 0–0 9.dxc5 Bxc5
10.0–0–0 Qb6 11.Bg1!? [The usual move here
is 11.Bxc5 Nxc5 12.Bd3 with a faint advantage
for white.] 11...Bxg1 12.Rxg1 Nc5
13.Qe1 [With his Rg1 supported only by his
Nf3, white cannot be straightaway aggressive:
13.g4 Ne4! 14.Qe1 (14.Nxe4 dxe4 15.Nd4
Rd8³) 14...Nxc3 15.Qxc3 Bd7=] 13...Bd7
14.Kb1 Rac8 [14...Rfc8 was better as it would
provide an immediate escape square for his
king if white embarks on a Bxh7+ sacrifice
continuation which is generally available in
such positions.] 15.Bd3 Nxd3 [If 15...Nb4
16.Bxh7+! Kxh7 17.Qh4+ Kg8 18.Ng5 Rfd8
19.Qh7+ Kf8 20.Qh8+ Ke7 21.Qxg7 Be8]
16.Rxd3! Nb4 17.Rd4 Rc7= 18.f5 Rfc8 [If
18...exf5 19.a3! Nxc2 (19...Na6 20.Nxd5+-)
20.Kxc2 Rfc8±] 19.Qh4 Diagram # 19...Nd3?!
[Black goes for a spectacular continuation
which is harmless for white. He could take the
initiative with the backward movement of his
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knight with: 19...Nc6! 20.Rdd1 Na5 21.Qd4
(21.fxe6? Nc4 22.exf7+ Kf8 23.Qe7+ Kxe7
24.Nxd5+ Kxf7 25.Nxb6 Nxb6 26.Nd4 Ke7
and black should win with careful play.) 21...
Rc5³ and black's attack is slowly becoming
ominous.]
(Position after 19.Qh4)
20.Rxd3! Rxc3 21.Rxc3 Rxc3 22.Rd1² Rc8 [If
22...exf5? 23.Qe7! (23.Rxd5?? Rxf3! black
wins.) 23...Ba4 24.e6 Qxe6 25.Qd8+! and
the Rc3 is captured.] 23.f6! A natural move
creating mating threats. 23...Qc5 24.Nd4! g6
Black is ready to defend his castled position
with ...Qf8, but in such cramped positions
the superior side can somehow find a win-
ning breakthrough. 25.Rd3!+- b5 26.Rc3!?
[This was not necessary. Either 26.Rh3 or 26
c3 would also have led to victory.] 26...Qf8
27.Rh3 h5
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28.g4! Qh6 29.gxh5! Qd2? [This capitulates
quickly. 29...Qxh5 30.Qxh5 gxh5 31.Rxh5
b4 would have slowed down white's winning
process.] 30.a3! g5 31.Rg3! A mating attack
with a queen and rook is always magnificent,
when you have the queen and rook! 31...Kf8
32.Rxg5 White's threat is non-stop check
mate with 33 Rg8+!! Kxg8 34 Qg4+ Kf8 35
Qg7+ Ke8 36 Qg8# 1–0
Grover,Sahaj (2505)
Laxman,R.R (2408) [C65]
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 Nf6 4.d3 d6 5.0–0
Be7 6.c3 0–0 7.Re1 Bd7 8.a4 Kh8 9.a5! This
is an unusual move with a deep strategical
idea. 9...Ng8?! [This move declares that he
is going to play f7-f5 which is cleverly fore-
stalled by white. Better was: 9...a6 10.Bc4
Be6 11.Nbd2 Rb8 was only slightly better for
white.] 10.a6! b6 11.d4 [Perhaps stronger
was: 11.Qa4 Nb8 12.Bxd7 Qxd7 13.d4 Qxa4
14.Rxa4 Nd7 15.Be3²] 11...Nxd4 12.Nxd4
exd4 13.Bxd7 Qxd7 14.cxd4 d5 15.e5 [If
15.exd5 Nf6 16.Nc3 Bb4 17.Bd2 Bxc3 18.bxc3
b5 19.Qb3 Nxd5 20.c4 bxc4 21.Qxc4 Rab8
and the chances are almost equal.] 15...c5
16.Nc3 Rfd8 17.Bf4 Rac8 18.Qa4?
[An inaccuracy. Best was: 18.Qd2 cxd4
19.Ne2 Qg4 20.Rad1=] 18...Qf5? [Black
misses a promising attacking variation: 18...
cxd4 19.Qxd7 Rxd7 20.Nb5 d3 21.b3 (this is
to prevent 21...Rc4. If 21.Red1 Rc4 22.Bg3 h5
23.Rxd3 h4 24.e6 fxe6 25.Bb8 Rd8 26.Bxa7
Ra8 27.Bxb6? Rxa6!) 21...d4 22.Re4 Rc3!
23.Nxc3 dxc3 24.Kf1 b5 and black has a
strong game.] 19.dxc5 Rxc5 20.Bg3 Rc4
[Better was to trouble the Bg3 with: 20...
h5!? 21.h4 Rc4= 22.Qa2 Bxh4 23.Bxh4 Rxh4
24.Nxd5 Nh6³] 21.Qa2 Rc5 22.Qb3 h5 23.h3
h4 24.Bh2 Nh6 25.Rad1 Qe6 26.Ne2 Rc4 [If
26...Qc8 27.Qf3 (the white queen moves over
to the king-side enfeebled by the withdrawal of
the black queen) 27...Qf5 (27...Qxa6? 28.Bf4!
and black's king-side crumbles.) 28.Bf4! g5
29.Qh5! Kh7 30.Be3] 27.Nf4
27...Qf5 [Excellent positional play develops
after: 27...Qc6 28.e6! Re4 29.Qc3! Qxc3
(29...Rc4 30.Qf3 Re4 31.Rf1! and the threat
of 32 Rxd5 is acute.) 30.bxc3 Rxe1+ 31.Rxe1
Kg8 (31...fxe6?? 32.Ng6+ wins the bishop.)
32.Rd1±] 28.Rxd5! With this move white of-
fers his two minor pieces for rook and pawn,
no doubt after careful evaluation. 28...Rxf4
29.Rxd8+ Bxd8 30.Bxf4 Qxf4 31.Qd5!± One
must remember that the queen is most pow-
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erful when placed in the centre of the board.
31...Be7 32.Qa8+ Ng8 33.Qxa7 Bc5! 34.Rf1
Qa4 [Black can try some aggressive defence
and test whether white gets rattled: 34...Bd4
35.Qb7 Bxe5 36.Rd1 and 36...Qh2+ would
lead to nothing but defeat.] 35.b4 Bd4 [If 35...
Qxb4 36.Qxf7 b5 37.a7 Qe4 38.Qh5+ Nh6
39.Qe8+ Kh7 40.a8Q] 36.b5 Bxe5 [If 36...
Qxb5 37.Qb7 and the a-pawn promotes to
queen.] 37.Qxf7! The queen must make way
for the a-pawn to advance and at the same
time prevent mating and drawing threats by
the black queen. 37...Nf6 38.a7 Kh7 39.Qb7!
39...Qf4! Black's only attempt left to save the
game. 40.Re1 Qd2 41.Rb1 Qd3 [This short-
ens his agony. But, if 41...Qf4 42.Qf3! Qh2+
43.Kf1 Qh1+ 44.Ke2 Qxb1 45.Qd3+ and
wins.] 42.Rf1! Now the black queen cannot
get back to f4 in one move to threaten mate
on h2. 1–0
Grover,Sahaj (2505)
Sethuraman,S.P (2622) [C86]
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.0–0
Be7 6.Qe2 This is known as the Worrel attack
and is generally used against players who
might themselves play the Marshall Attack.
6...b5 7.Bb3 0–0 8.c3 d5 9.d3 Bb7 10.Nbd2
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Re8 11.Re1 Bf8 12.a3 h6 13.exd5 Na5 14.Ba2
Bxd5 15.Bb1 [A 2001 game went: 15.c4 e4
16.cxd5 exf3 17.Qd1 Rxe1+ 18.Qxe1 fxg2
19.Ne4 Nb7 20.Bf4 Nxd5 and eventually black
won in Van der Vorm, 2356, vs F. Cuijpers.
2474.]
15...c5 16.b4 Nc6 17.Ne4 Nxe4 18.dxe4 Bc4
19.Qe3 [19.Qb2=] 19...a5 [Better was: 19...
cxb4 20.axb4 a5 21.bxa5 Nxa5] 20.bxc5 a4
21.Nd2 Na5
22.Bc2 [Worse would be the obvious 22.Ba2
Bxa2 23.Rxa2 Qc7 24.Qe2 Qxc5 25.Rc2
Red8µ the white forces lack both develop-
ment and co-ordination.] 22...Qc7 23.Rb1
Bxc5 24.Qg3 Qc6!? A multi-purpose move.
Black defends b5 and simultaneously prepares
against white's further Bxh6 threat. 25.Nf3
Qf6 26.Nh4 Nb3! With white's threats on the
king-side adequately provided against, black
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turns his attention to the queen-side. He is
now threatening ....Nxc1 and Bxa3 winning a
pawn. 27.Bb2 Rad8 28.Rbd1 Na5 29.Nf5 Bb3!
30.Bxb3 axb3 31.c4 Diagram #
[This is a violent attempt to break out of the
shackles that black has imposed on him and hit
at black's central e5 pawn. But a more patient
approach was also doomed for failure: 31.Bc1
(threat Bxh6) 31...Kh7! 32.Qg4 (32.Be3 Bxa3
33.Rxd8 Rxd8 34.Bb6 Ra8µ) 32...Nc4 33.Qe2
Rxd1 34.Rxd1 Rd8 35.Rxd8 (35.Rf1 b2 36.Be3
Bxe3 37.fxe3 Rd2 38.Qg4 Rc2–+) 35...Qxd8
36.h4 Bxa3 37.Bxa3 Nxa3 38.Ne3 Nc4! 39.Nd1
(39.Nxc4 bxc4 40.Qxc4 b2) 39...Qxh4 black
wins.] 31...bxc4 32.Rxd8 Rxd8 33.Bxe5 Qg5!
Black's connected passed pawns are more than
adequate for the loss of the g7 pawn. 34.Bxg7
Qxg3 35.hxg3 Rd2! Throwing the opponent on
the defensive is the first step to victory in such
situations. 36.Rf1 b2 37.Kh2 [If' 37.Bc3? Rxf2!
38.Rb1 Rxf5+ 39.Kh2 Rh5#] 37...Rxf2 38.Rb1
Rxf5 Black wants to simplify quickly. 39.exf5
Kxg7! 40.Rxb2 c3 41.Rb5 Be3! If 42 Rxa5 c2
and the pawn queens. 0–1
Sethuraman,S.P (2622) Laxman,R.R
(2408) [E32]
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.Qc2 0–0 5.Nf3
d6 6.Bd2 Re8 7.a3 Bxc3 8.Bxc3 d5 [8...
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Nbd7 9.0–0–0 Qe7 10.e3 d5 led to a draw in 27 Qe5+ winning) 26...Rae8 27.Rdg1 mat-
A.Scheffner 2315 vs J.Stadtmann in 1997.] ing with a discovered check.] 24...Kg7 [The
9.e3 c6 10.Bd3 b6 11.Ne5 Bb7 12.f3 Nbd7 desperate defence 24...Rae8 would also
13.0–0–0 Nf8 [If 13...dxc4 14.Bxc4 Qc7 lose. 25.hxg6 h6 26.Rh5 Rxe3 27.Rxh6 Rfe8
15.Nxd7 Qxd7 16.e4²] 14.Kb1 N6d7 [The 28.Rdh1 Qd5 29.Rh8+ Kg7 30.Rxe8 Rxe8
best continuation here was the natural 14... 31.Qd2! and white would be mating soon.]
c5 striking at white's centre and trying to open
the queen-side where black has castled.] 15.h4
Though the position is equal and black does not
have any weaknesses that could be exploited,
white's greater board room on the king-side
promises good scope for attacking play. 15...
f6?! [15...c5 was still black's best bet.] 16.Nxd7
Qxd7 17.Bb4! White threatens the knight that
is defending h7 and thereby provokes black to
weaken the pawn structure around his king.
17...f5 18.g4 [Also playable was: 18.e4 dxe4 (Position after 23….dxc4)
19.fxe4 c5 (19...Qxd4? 20.Bxf8 Kxf8 21.exf5 c5 25.hxg6 h6 26.Rh5 Rf6 [If 26...Kxg6
22.Rhf1 white has a winning attack.) 20.dxc5 27.Rg1+!! Kf6 (27...Kxh5?? 28.f4+ Kh4
bxc5 21.Bxc5 Qc6 22.Be3 fxe4 23.Be2 Red8 29.Bf1 for unavoidable 30 Qh2#) 28.Rxh6+
24.h5±] 18...a5 19.Bxf8 It was best to ex- Ke7 29.Rg7+ Rf7 30.Rxf7+ Kxf7 31.Rh7+
change off this knight which could become wins.] 27.e4 Raf8 28.Rdh1 Rxg6 29.exf5
the black king's best defensive aide. 19...Rxf8 Rgf6 30.Qc1!? [If 30.Qd2?! Qd6 (30...c3
20.Rhg1 Ba6 [After 20...dxc4 21.Bxc4 Ba6 31.bxc3 Bxe2 32.Qxe2±) 31.R1h4 b5 with
22.Bb3 Kh8 23.h5 fxg4 24.h6 g6 25.fxg4 white counter chances for black.] 30...Qd6 31.Rg1+
would be able to exploit the precarious position Kh7 [If 31...Kf7 32.Bxc4+ Bxc4 33.Qxc4+
of black's king sooner or later.] 21.gxf5 exf5 Qd5 34.Qa6+- White has a winning attack.]
[Better was: 21...dxc4 22.Bxc4 Bxc4 23.Qxc4 32.Qg5! Qd7 Diagram #
Rxf5 24.f4 Raf8 Black can hold this position
with careful play.] 22.Rg5! g6 [Black's posi-
tion has gradually become worse. If now 22...
h6 23.Rxf5 Rae8 24.Rxf8+ Rxf8 25.f4 Qe7
26.Qb3± and if now 26...Qxe3?? 27.Bh7+
wins the queen.] 23.h5! dxc4 (See diagram)
24.Be2?! [White misses an opportunity to win
in style: 24.hxg6!! cxd3 (24...h6 25.Bxf5 Qd6
26.Rh5+-) 25.gxh7+ Kh8 26.Qh2! (threat
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33.Bd1! With black's major pieces tied up to
defend the king-side white conceives a clever
plan to bring his bishop to c2. Once it is on
c2, he woluld play the surprising Rxh6 and if
black recaptures, Rxh6, then would follow the
deadly discovered check f5-f6 winning on the
spot. 33...Qf7 34.Rgh1? [The interrogation
mark is for missing the planned winning move
34 Bc2! Probably in the heat of the battle
white thought that his opponent's ...Qf7 de-
fended against the developing threat. Hardly!
He should continue: 34.Bc2 Rg8 35.Rxh6+!
Rxh6 36.f6+ Rgg6 (36...Kh8?? 37.Qxh6+
mates.) 37.f4! and the threat of 38 Qxh6+!!
Kxh6 39 Rh1# is winning.] 34...Qg7 Black
has had a reprieve from quick defeat. But it
is just around the corner. 35.Qf4 Bc8 36.Bc2
Kg8 37.R1h4! [The idea of this move is to pin
the queen with 38 Rg4. The straightforward
smash on h6 seems stronger: 37.Rxh6 Rxh6
(37...Bxf5 38.Bxf5 Rxf5 39.Qh2! threatening
40 Rh8+ winning.) 38.Rxh6 Bxf5 39.Bxf5
Rxf5 40.Qb8+ Rf8 41.Qd6 and white should
win.] 37...Rg6
Black relieves the pressure on his position with
this witty move which gives up both rooks for
the queen. The relief is temporary as the white
rooks have an easy time rampaging the king-
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side and forcing mate. 38.fxg6 Rxf4 39.Rxf4
Be6 40.Re5! Qc7 41.Rfe4! Bd7™ 42.Re7 Qd6
43.Rf7 c5 44.Ree7 Bc6 45.g7 The threat is 46
Rf8+ Kh7 47 g8Q# 1–0
Sengupta,Deep (2566)
Grover,Sahaj (2505) [B96]
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 Nf6 4.Nc3 cxd4 5.Nxd4
a6 6.Bg5 e6 7.f4 h6 8.Bh4 Qb6 9.Qd3 Qxb2
10.Rb1 Qa3 11.f5 [The deeply researched
move here is 11.e5 ] 11...Be7 12.fxe6
12...Bxe6? [Better was 12...fxe6! 13.e5! dxe5
14.Qg6+ Kf8 15.Nde2 Nc6 16.Rd1 Nd4 17.Rd2
Bd7 when black is poised to beat back white's
attack and win in this complicated position
where only pawns have been exchanged.]
13.Nxe6 fxe6 14.e5 dxe5 15.Bxf6 gxf6 [Bet-
ter was: 15...Bxf6 16.Qg6+ Kd8 17.Qd3+
Kc8 18.Qc4+ Nc6 19.Qxe6+ Kd8 20.Nd5 (20.
Qd5+ Kc7 21.Qf7+ Be7 22.Nd5+ Kb8³ when
it seems that black's troubles seem to be over
while it is white's turn to face an attack.) 20...
Re8 21.Qf7 Be7 22.Nxe7 Qxe7 23.Rxb7 Qxf7
24.Rxf7 Rb8 25.Kf2 Rb1 26.g3 Re7³] 16.Be2
e4 17.Bh5+ Kf8 18.Qh3! Diagram # 18...Bb4?
[This is a grievous error, letting white capture
on e6 with his queen and setting up many
threats. Better was to develop his knight as
the white king has not yet castled into safety:
18...Nd7 19.0–0 Nc5! 20.Rbe1 Qb4 21.Bg6!
Kg7 22.Bxe4 Rad8 23.Qg3+
(Position after 18.Qh3)
Kf8 Black has a pawn more, but he has to play
with great caution as white's development is
superior.] 19.0–0!
White is winning after this. 19...Qxc3 [Black
has no defence against white's threatened
Qxe6. If 19...Ke7 20.Rxf6!! (another way to
win, though not so spectacular, was: 20.Qg3!
Qxc3 21.Qg7+ Kd6 22.Qxh8 Kc7 23.Qxf6 and
black's position crumbles.) 20...Kxf6 21.Qh4+
Ke5 (21...Kg7 22.Qg3+! Kf8 23.Rf1+ Ke7
24.Qc7+! Nd7 25.Rf7+ mates.) 22.Qg3+
Kd4 23.Rd1+ Kc4 24.Be2+ Kc5 25.Qd6#]
20.Qxe6 1–0
Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron
If in a battle, I seize a bit of
debatable land with a handful
of soldiers, without having done
anything to prevent an enemy
bombardment of the position,
would it ever occur to me to
speak of a conquest of the terrain
in question? Obviously not. Then
why should I do so in chess?
- Aron Nimzowitsch
W
hen I today ask myself
whence I got the moral
courage, for it takes moral
courage to make a move (or
form a plan) running counter
to all tradition, I think I may say
in answer, that it was only my
intense preoccupation with the
problem of the blockade which
helped me to do so.
- Aron Nimzowitsch
C hess strategy as such today
is still in its diapers, despite
Tarrasch's statement 'We live
today in a beautiful time of
progress in all fields'. Not even
the slightest attempt has been
made to explore and formulate
the laws of chess strategy. -
1925
- Aron Nimzowitsch
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Selected games from Asian Youth
Chess, New Delhi
Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron
Vaishali,R(2118)
Tejaswini,Sagar (1950) [A01]
1.b3 d5 2.Bb2 Bg4 3.f3 Bh5 4.d4 [This is
new. A 1990 game went: 4.e3 Nd7 5.c4 e6
6.cxd5 exd5 7.Be2 Bg6= M.Lauren 2285 vs
G.Osterman 2305 which was drawn.] 4...e6
5.e3 Bd6 6.Qd2 Nf6 7.Nh3 Nbd7 8.c4 dxc4
9.Bxc4 Bg6 10.0–0 0–0 11.e4 e5 12.Ba3
Bxa3 [12...Nb6 would be a shade better for
black.] 13.Nxa3 Nb6 14.Rfd1 exd4 15.Qxd4
Qe7 [Not 15...Qxd4+?! 16.Rxd4 Rfd8 17.Rad1
and black's control of the only open d-file is
going to be a big setback for black.] 16.Nc2
Rad8 17.Qe3 Nxc4 18.bxc4 a6 [18...c5=]
19.Nf4 Qe5 20.Rab1 b6 21.Nb4! Rxd1+
22.Rxd1 Qa5 23.a3! Qa4
24.Rc1!± White correctly anticipates that she
would be playing Nbd5 sometime and there-
fore, the occupation of the only open d-file was
of little significance. She is going to pressure
the c-file. Admirable positional judgment! 24...
Rd8 25.Nbd5 Nxd5 26.cxd5 Qd7 27.Qc3
White's control over the c6 square would
gradually lead to her victory as the c7 pawn is
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sitting on a sem-open file. 27...Rc8 28.Qc6!
Qxc6 29.Rxc6 Kf8 30.h4 h6 31.d6!+- An
excellent move taking advantage of the pinned
c7 pawn. 31...Ke8 32.dxc7 Bh7 [Black loses
quickly after: 32...Kd7 33.Rxb6 Kxc7 34.Nd5+
Kd8 35.Rxa6+-] 33.Nd5 Kd7 34.Rxb6 f5
35.e5! Bg8 36.Rd6+! Ke8 37.e6! a5
38.e7! [This is the spectacular way to win the
game. The prosaic way to win was: 38.Rd7
Bxe6 39.Re7+ Kf8 40.Rxe6+-; The 'Tigran
Petrosian way' to win was the quiet: 38.Kf2!!
which soon inflicts Zugzwang on black - for
if 38...Ra8 39 Nb6 wins. Or, if she moves the
pawns on the king-side she will soon run out
of moves, and would eventually have to move
the bishop or king allowing still greater dam-
age.] 38...Bxd5 39.Rd8+! Kxe7 40.Rxc8
Kd7 41.Rd8+! 1–0
Priyanka,K (1868) - Ananya,Suresh
(1924) [B42]
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 a6
5.Bd3 Nf6 6.0–0 Qc7 7.Qe2 d6 8.c4 Nbd7
9.Be3 Be7 10.Nc3 0–0 11.f4 b6 12.Rac1
Nc5 13.b4 [White wants to attack without
stopping to retain her two bishops. A positional
game ensues when white stops to pull back
her Bd3 as follows: 13.Bb1 Bb7 14.Bf2 Ncd7
15.b3 Rac8 16.Qf3 Rfe8 17.Qh3 Nf8 18.f5 e5
19.Nde2² and white eventually won in H.Weigel
vs G Drebes, 1997] 13...Nxd3 14.Qxd3 Bb7
15.f5
15...e5?! [The easy way out for black ap-
pears to be to block the position. But better
was to counter-attack: 15...Rfc8 16.fxe6 fxe6
or, 17.a3! Or (17.Nxe6 Qxc4 18.Qxc4 Rxc4
19.Nd5 Bxd5 20.exd5 Rxc1 (20...b5³) 21.Rxc1
Nxd5 22.Nc7 Nxc7 23.Rxc7=) 17...Qxc4
18.Qd2 e5 19.Nd5 the queen has no escape.
19...Bxd5 20.Rxc4 Bxc4 21.Nf5 Bf8 22.Nxd6
Bxd6 23.Qxd6 Nxe4=] 16.Nd5 Qd8 [After
16...Bxd5 17.cxd5 white has a tremendous
positional advantage thanks to her control of
the c-file, the weakness of black's c6 and b6
squares and black's bad bishop on e7.] 17.Nb3
Nxd5 18.cxd5 Bc8 An incomprehensible
move at first sight, this has the plan of relo-
cating this bishop to a more effective square
at b5. 19.Qc2 Bd7 20.Qf2 Rb8 21.Nd2 Bb5
22.Rfd1 Bg5 [The idea is to exchange off
her bad, 'locked-in' bishop at e7 for white's
good bishop. The preliminary 22...Bh4 does
not make a significant change: 23.Qf3 (23.g3
Bg5 24.Rc3) 23...Bg5 24.Rc3²] 23.Nc4 Bxe3
24.Qxe3 f6 Black had to worry about the
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threat of f5-f6 at some point of time and fore-
stalls it. 25.Qb3 Qd7 26.Nb2! threatening 27
a4 trapping the bishop. 26...Qd8 27.a4 Be8
28.b5 a5? [Exchanging pawns on b5 would
give black an object of attack for her bishop. Af-
ter this blocking of the postion, the bishop has
nothing to attack and the knight becomes more
powerful. Better was: 28...axb5 29.axb5 Rc8
30.Rxc8 Qxc8 31.Nd3 g6 32.Rc1 Qd7 33.fxg6
hxg6=] 29.Qa3 Threat 30 Nc4 targeting d6.
29...Rf7 Now black has to manoeuvre her
pieces within her own cramped territory. [29...
Rc8 30.Nc4 (Not 30.Rxc8?! Qxc8 31.Qxd6 Qc2!
32.Qa3 Bh5 33.Re1 Rc8³) 30...Rc5 31.Ne3 Bh5
32.Rxc5 dxc5 33.Rd2 with a strong position for
white.] 30.Rd3 Kf8 [The game has become
very unpleasant for black. If now, 30...Rc7
31.Rxc7 Qxc7 32.Rc3 Qd8 33.Rc4 Rc8 34.Qe3
and black's b6 pawn is her biggest liability.]
31.Rdc3 Ra7 Probably for lack of time or for
lack of any worthwhile plan in this dismal po-
sition black moves her rook along her second
rank. This is tantamount to resigning. White
has lots of time to prepare her break-through
into black's heart. 32.Nc4 Rd7 33.Ne3 Ra7
34.Rc6!! Ke7 [Black cannot accept the
exchange sacrifice as it leads to quick de-
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molition: 34...Bxc6 35.dxc6+- for if 35...Re7
36.Rd1] 35.Nc4 Rd7 Black brings her third
defending unit for her besieged d6 as there
are three forces attacking it. Now white must
shift her focus to another black weakness
which could not be held. 36.Qe3! Rc7 [If
black abandons her d6 pawn in favour of her
b6, then her game will end in a spectacular
collapse: 36...Rdb7 37.Rxd6 Bd7 38.Qh3!
With the black forces massed uselessly on the
queen-side, white attacks along the sparsely
defended king-side. 38...h6
(If 38...Qg8 39.Re6+ Bxe6 40.Qa3+! Kd8
41.fxe6 and the end is near for black.) 39.Nxe5!!
fxe5 (after 39...Kxd6 40.Qa3+ Kxe5 41.Rc4!
leads to an unpreventable, pretty mate, 42
Qg3#!) 40.Rxh6! gxh6 41.f6+! Kf7 42.Qh5+
Kxf6 43.Qxh6+ Ke7 44.Qg7+ Ke8 45.Qg6+
Kf8 46.Rf1+ Ke7 47.d6#] 37.Rxc7+ Qxc7
38.Nxe5! Qb7 39.Nc6+ Bxc6 40.Rxc6 Black
has given back the exchange and a pawn. Yet
the vicious white grip on her position remains.
40...Qd7 41.Kf2 [Stronger was: 41.Qg3!
Probably she played this quiet move to catch
her breath after the excitement of completing
the 40th move in a winning position.] 41...
Qd8 42.Qg3 g6 43.fxg6 hxg6 44.Qxg6 Qh8
45.Rc7+ Kd8 46.Rh7! Qf8 47.Qf5! [47.Qf5
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Qe8 to prevent Qd7#. 48.Qxf6+ Kc8 49.Qc3+!
Kd8 50.Qc7# A delightful finish!] 1–0
Mendoza,Shania Mae (Phi) (1907)
Varshini,V (Ind) (2015) [B90]
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6
5.Nc3 a6 6.Bc4 e6 7.Bb3 Be7 8.g4 h6
9.Be3 Nc6 10.Rg1 Na5 11.Qe2 b5 12.f3
Nxb3 [A short violent game in this variation
went: 12...Qc7 This move is standard in most
Sicilian games. 13.h4 (13.0–0–0 b4 14.Na4
Bd7) 13...Nxb3 14.axb3 b4! 15.Na4 d5! 16.g5
hxg5 17.hxg5 Rh2 18.Qd3 Nh5 19.exd5 Nf4
20.Bxf4 Qxf4 21.Ne2 Qh4+ 22.Kd1 Bb7 23.g6
Rd8µ 24.gxf7+ Kf8 25.Nd4 Rxd5 26.c3 Bf6
27.Nxe6+ Kxf7 28.Nd4 Qf4! preparing the final
assault. 29.Nb6 Rxd4! 30.cxd4 Bxf3+ 0–1 Jan
Michalek 2320 - M.Orsag 2385, Brno 1991.]
13.axb3 Bb7 14.0–0–0 Nd7 15.Kb1 Qc7
[If 15...b4 16.Na2 a5 17.h4 d5 18.exd5 Bxd5
19.Nf5! g6 20.Bd4 f6 21.Nxe7 Qxe7 22.g5²]
16.Bf2 Nf6 17.h4 g6 18.Qd2 h5 19.g5
Nd7= 20.Bg3 0–0 Slowly the game has been
turning in favour of black and it inspires white
to seize the initiative with an unsound sacrifice.
21.Ndxb5?! axb5 22.Nxb5 Qb6 23.Bxd6
Bxd6 24.Nxd6 Qa6 25.c4–+ Bc6 26.Kc2
Rab8?! [26...Nc5 27.Ra1 Qb6 28.Qc3 Nxb3
29.Rxa8 Rxa8 30.Rf1 Rb8–+ black does not
have enough for her bishop minus.] 27.Qe3
Qa5 28.Qc3 Qb6 [28...Rb4! threatening to
triple her major forces along the b-file would
have guaranteed black the win.] 29.b4! This
is apparently a mistake, giving away one of
the three pawns which she has got for her
sacrificed bishop. But it is an ingenious, deeply
thought out attempt to take the game away
from black. And she succeeds. 29...Qxb4 [Bet-
ter was: 29...Rfd8 30.Rg2 Qc7 31.Rgd2 (31.
b5 Nc5 32.Rgd2 Be8³) 31...Nb6 32.b5 Be8=]
30.Qxb4 Rxb4= 31.Kc3 Rfb8 32.Nb5!
Probably black had missed this 'interference'
move? This is a special tactic to ensnare a rook
which is protected by another rook on an open
file. 32...Ra4?! [Black misses a good tactical
opportunity to stay alive in the game with:
32...Rxc4+! 33.Kxc4 Bxb5+ 34.Kc3 Ne5 35.f4
Nf3 36.Rg2 (36.Rh1 Rc8+ 37.Kb4 Bc6 38.e5
Bd5–+ Black has a dominating position.) 36...
Bc6! (the h4 pawn will not run away!) 37.Re2
Kf8 38.Rd6 Rc8! 39.Kb4 Ke7 40.Rd1 Nxh4 and
black is winning.] 33.b3 Ra6= 34.Nd4 Nf8?
[This backward move causes black serious
difficulty. Better was: 34...Nc5 keeping the
balance.] 35.Ra1 Rxa1 36.Rxa1 Be8 37.f4
Nd7 38.b4 [Half of successful chess strategy
is denying your opponent's pieces active play.
As black has indicated with her last move her
intention of playing e6-e5, best was to make it
difficult with: 38.Ra5 when white's two-pawn
compensation for the bishop would amount to
more. I recall V.Anand's advice to the Indian
World Junior aspirants in a Training camp in
Madras in 1993 to find the opponents' plan and,
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even if it is bad, dont allow it!] 38...e5? [The
preliminary 38...Kf8 was to be considered. But
white's space advantage is turning the posi-
tion in white's way.] 39.Nc6! Rb6 40.Nxe5
Nxe5 41.fxe5± Rb7 42.Ra8 [This is a waste
of time as the black king anyway gets to e7.
42.b5!± would have further cramped black's
bishop. In all likelihood, white feared the sac-
rifice: 42...Bxb5 but 43.cxb5 Rxb5 44.Ra8+
Kg7 45.Re8!±] 42...Kf8 43.Ra6 Ke7 44.Rd6
Bd7 45.Rd5 [Now 45.b5 Bxb5! 46.cxb5 Rxb5
47.Kd4 Rb4+ would lead to a draw.] 45...
Bc6 46.Rd4 [White wants to play b4-b5 only
when black could not sacrifice her bishop for
two pawns. Exciting play could result from
46.c5!? Ra7 47.Rd6 Bxe4 48.c6 Ra1 49.Kd4
Bg2 50.b5 Rc1 51.Rf6 Rc2=] 46...Ra7 47.b5
Bd7 48.Kb4
48...Ke6?! [This move really does not threaten
the e5 pawn because her Bd7 is a big liability.
Also, the king was best kept at e7 so that it
could go to d8 and add to the defence of her
queen-side against the threatened pawn rush
on that sector. Moreover, it was best to place
her rook at the rear of the white forces in this
ending: 48...Ra1 49.Kc5 Ra4 (the greedy 49...
Rh1? (would not get the h4 pawn) 50.b6! Rb1
51.Rd2 Rb3 52.Ra2±) 50.b6 Ra5+ 51.Kb4
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Ra4+ 52.Kb3 Ra1 white will have trouble
dvancing her queen-side passed pawns.]
49.Rd5 Ra1 50.Kc5 Ke7 51.b6 Ra5+
52.Kd4 Ra8 [Now too late would be 52...
Ra1 because of 53.b7! Rb1 54.Rb5! Bxb5
55.b8Q+-] 53.Rd6 Rc8 54.c5+- Ra8 [54...
Bc6? 55.Rxc6! Rxc6 56.b7! queens.] 55.c6
Be6 56.b7 Rb8 57.Rxe6+! destroying the
bishop which is guarding the c8 square. 57...
Kxe6 58.c7! Rxb7 59.c8Q+ Rd7+ 60.Kc5
Ke7 61.Qh8 Rc7+ 62.Kd4 [62.Kd5!] 62...
Rc6 63.Kd5! Ra6
64.Qf6+?! [Though 64.Qb8! wins easily
enough, white simplifies into a simple pawn
up king and pawn ending which she is sure
of winning.] 64...Rxf6 65.exf6+ Kd7 66.e5
Ke8 67.e6 [67.Kc6 Kd8 68.Kd6 Ke8 69.Kc7
was sure and simple.] 67...Kf8 68.exf7! [68.
e7+ also wins, but she has to be careful not
to stalemate her opponent. 68...Ke8 69.Kc5
(69.Kc6 is stale mate!) 69...Kd7 70.Kb6
Ke8 71.Kb7 Kd7 72.e8Q+ Kxe8 73.Kc7 Kf8
74.Kd7 Kg8 75.Ke7 Kh7 76.Kxf7 white wins.]
68...Kxf7 69.Kd6 Kf8 70.f7! [Also 70.Ke6
Ke8 71.f7+ Kf8 72.Kd6 (72.Kf6? is another
stalemate!) 72...Kxf7 73.Kd7 Kf8 74.Ke6 Kg7
75.Ke7 Kg8 76.Kf6 Kh7 77.Kf7 and white wins.]
70...Kxf7 71.Kd7 Kg7 72.Ke7 Kh7 73.Kf7
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Kh8 74.Kxg6 Kg8 75.Kh6! White has played
the pawn ending impeccably. 1–0
Karimov,Alisher (TJK) (2129)
Wanigasinghe,Nipuna Nandika (SL)
(1376) [B01]
1.e4 d5 2.exd5 Qxd5 3.Nc3 Qa5 4.d4 Nf6
The Centre Counter defence has practically
disappeared from top level chess. But it makes
it appearance regularly in continental chess.
5.Bc4 Bg4 6.f3 Bf5 7.Nge2 c6 8.Bf4 Nbd7
9.0–0 [This is new here. Usually played here is
9.Qd2 keeping the option of castling on either
side.] 9...Bg6 10.a3 e6 11.b4 Qb6 [Better
was: 11...Qh5 as the queen is immune for
further chasing by the black forces.] 12.Na4
Qd8 13.Nc5 Qc8 [Black is drifting. Better
was: 13...Nxc5 14.bxc5 Nd5=] 14.Re1 Be7
15.Nc3 Nxc5 16.dxc5 0–0= Black has suc-
cessfully developed his queen-bishop, but finds
it difficult to get his queen into play. 17.Qe2
17...Bd8?! [Black makes heavy weather of
his game and goes into needless contortions
to get his pieces working. With 17...b5 18.Bd3
Bxd3 19.cxd3 Qd7 black could achieve a very
comfortable position.] 18.Be5 Nd5 19.Bxd5
[White could establish a slight advantage with
19.Ne4! a5 20.Nd6 Qd7 21.Bxd5 exd5 22.c4²]
19...cxd5= 20.Rad1 Bc7? [Just because he
has played 17...Bd8, he does not have to fol-
low up with this move, especially when a good
opportunity to equalise was available with:
20...a5 21.Nb5 axb4 22.axb4 Ra2=] 21.Bxc7
Qxc7 22.Nb5 Qc6 23.c4
23...Rfd8?! [This gives white a clear advan-
tage. Better was to face the problem head on
with 23...b6 24.cxd5 exd5 25.Nd4 Qa4 26.Nb5
bxc5 27.bxc5 Rab8 28.Nd6 when white has
only a slight advantage.] 24.Nd6 b6 [Bet-
ter was: 24...dxc4 25.Qxc4 b6 26.Qa6 Kf8²]
25.cxd5! exd5 26.Qa6! f6? Black had suc-
cessfully developed his light square bishop. But
with white cleverly shifting his focus of play to
the queen-side, this bishop feels out of place on
g6 and wishes to get back to the queen-side.
But with this move, he creates a fatal weakness
on e6 which white exploits with glee. 27.Re7!
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27...Be8 28.Qe2! Target 29 Qe6+ enter-
ing black's fortress. 28...bxc5 [If 28...Bd7
then comes the devastating 29.Rxg7+!!
Kxg7 30.Qe7+ Kg8 (or, 30...Kg6 31.Qf7+
Kg5 32.Qg7+ mates.; or, 30...Kh8 31.Qxf6+
Kg8 32.Qg5+ Kf8 33.Rd4 etc.) 31.Qf7+ Kh8
32.Qxf6+ Kg8 33.Qg5+ Kf8 34.Rd4!! mating
quickly.] 29.Qe6+ Kh8 30.Nf7+ Bxf7 [If 30...
Kg8 31.Nh6+ Kh8 32.Qg8#] 31.Qxc6 1–0
Mosadeghpour,Masoud (Iran) (2335) -
Chakravarthi Reddy,M (Ind) (2282) [C01]
1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.exd5 exd5 The exchange
variation in the French Defence leads to easy,
absolute equality because of which it is very
rarely seen in practice. If a decisive result does
occur from such openings, it is because of
considerable differences in playing strengths of
the players and their will powers. 4.Nf3 Nc6?!
[Black must play with circumspection, denying
white any chance of getting a good game. This
move allows the white bishop to be developed
aggressively. Better was: 4...Bd6 5.c4 dxc4
6.Bxc4 Nf6 7.Qe2+ Be7 8.0–0 0–0=] 5.Bb5!
Bd6 6.0–0 White's idea is to castle quickly
and initiate aggressive action in the centre.
6...Nge7 7.c4 dxc4 8.Bxc4 0–0 9.Be3 Bg4
10.h3 Bh5 11.g4 Advancing one's pawns in
the castled position is fraught with risk if the
opponent plays imaginative, aggressive chess.
11...Bg6 12.Nc3 Nb4 [12...Na5 exchanging
off white's light squared bishop was a wee bit
better for black.] 13.Nh4?! [Best for white
was: 13.a3 Nc2 14.Rc1 Nxe3 15.fxe3=] 13...
c6 [Better was to try to conserve his light-sq
Better was to try to preserve his light-square
bishop with: 13...Bc2 14.Qd2 Nc8 15.Bg5
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Be7 16.Bxe7 Qxe7 17.Nf3 Nb6 18.Rae1 Qf6]
14.Bg5 Bc2 15.Qf3 h6 16.Be3 b5! 17.Bb3
[17.Be2 Re8 18.Nf5 Nxf5 19.gxf5 Nd5 20.Nxd5
cxd5 21.Bxb5 Be4 22.Qe2 Re7 and black has
an excellent game thanks to his bishops being
placed better than white's.] 17...Bxb3 18.axb3
Having achieved a superior position against the
Iranian, black over estimates his chances and
hits upon an unwise plan giving up a pawn and
exposing his own king in the process. 18...f5?
[Much better was: 18...Bc7 19.Qg2 Re8 20.g5 27.Bxg5! Kf7 [If 27...Rxg5 28.Rxg5 Qxg5
h5 21.Rfc1 a5µ and black has positional supe- 29.Rg1 Qxg1+ 30.Kxg1 and white wins.]
riority.] 19.Nxf5 Nxf5 20.gxf5 Bc7 [Stronger 28.Rxa7! The blow comes from the queen-
was: 20...Qd7 21.Ne4 Be7 22.Qg3 Kh8 23.Nc5 side! 28...Rc8 29.Ne4 Ke6 [29...Nd3
Qxf5 and black is fine.] 21.Kh1 Qd6 22.Qg2 30.Qxf5+ (30.Rg3 Nxf2+ 31.Nxf2 Ke6
Rxf5 23.Rg1 32.Nd3 Bxg3 33.Re7+ Kd5 34.Nb4+ Kxd4
35.Be3#) 30...Qxf5 31.Nd6+ Ke6 32.Nxf5
Kxf5 33.Be3+-] 30.Bf4 The black king, along
with its queen, is caught in multiple cross-
fires. 30...Qxg1+ This is forced. 31.Kxg1
Bxf4 32.Nc5+ Kf6 33.Rf7+!! 1–0

23...g5?! [This move leading to the black king

remaining without any pawn cover was to be
avoided. Better was: 23...Rf7 24.Nxb5! Qe6
25.Nxc7 Rxc7 26.Bf4 Rf7 27.Be5 Nd3!=] 24.h4
Raf8? [This abandonment of the a7 pawn turns (position after 33.Rf7!)
out to be the decisive mistake in this game. Bet-
ter was: 24...Qg6 25.Qh3 Nd3 26.hxg5 hxg5
27.Qxf5! Qxf5 28.Rxg5+ Qxg5 29.Bxg5 Nxf2+
30.Kg2 Nd3 and black's chances in this ending
F irst restrain, next blockade,
lastly destroy.
- Aron Nimzowitsch
are preferable.] 25.hxg5 Qg6 26.Qh3 [26.
gxh6?? Rh5+ mates.] 26...hxg5 43

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 Solutions to ‘Tactics from master games’ on page 41
1. Kramnik,V (2769) Nakamura,Hi (2775)
[E92]
6th London Classic 2014 London ENG
White to play. 39.Rg8+! Ke7 [39...Kxg8
40.Nh6++-] 40.Bg5+ Bf6 [40...Nf6 41.Qxc7+
Qd7 42.Rg7++-] 41.Qe2+ [41.Qe2+ Ne5
(41...Kf7 42.Nh6#) 42.Bxf6++-] 1–0
2. Volokitin,And (2626) - Jaracz,P (2503)
[B54]European Rapid 2014
White to play. 29.Qxg6! fxg6 [29...Qxd4+
30.Rxd4 fxg6 31.Rxf8+ Kxf8 32.h7+-]
30.Rxf8+ Kxf8 31.h7 Qe2 [31...Bf6 32.h8Q+
(32.Bxf6? Qc5+ 33.Bd4 Qh5= 34.Rc1 Bb7!
35.Rc7 Qd1+ 36.Kh2 a) 36.Kf2? Qxd4+–+; b)
36.Kg2 Bxe4+ 37.Kg3 Qd3+ 38.Kh2 (38.Kg4
Bf5+–+ 39.Kf4; 38.Kh4 g5+!–+) 38...Qd2+=;
36...Qh5+=) 32...Ke7 33.e5 Bxe5 34.Qh4+–+]
32.h8Q+ Kf7 33.Qxg7+ Ke8 34.Rf1 1–0
3. Arkell,K (2460) - Jones,Steven A (2114)
[E11]
MSI Academy Final Open London ENG White
to play. 18.Rc7! Qd6 [18...Qf6 19.Nxe6]
19.Nxe6 Qxe6 20.Rxg7+! [20.Rxg7+ Kxg7
(20...Kh8 21.Rxb7+-) 21.Qg5++-]
4. Blanco Ronquillo,H (2440)
Rakhmanov,Ale (2636) [E15]
ITT Caracas 2014 Caracas VEN (1.2),
Black to play. 40...Qg5! [%csl Rd2] 41.Rxa2
[41.exd6+ Kh7 42.Qg4 Qxd2 43.Qxg3 Rf2–+;
41.e6+ Kh7 42.Rb8 Rh1+] 41...Rh1+! Rh2]
[41...Rh1+ 42.Bxh1 Nf1#]
5. Codenotti,M (2345) Antic,De (2484)
[C03]
28th Belgrade Trophy 2014 Belgrade
White to play. 29.Nf6+! gxf6 30.gxf6 Bd3
[30...Qf8 31.Qg5+ Kh8 32.Rxh7+ Kxh7
33.Rh1+ Wins] 31.Qg5+ Bg6 32.Rxh7! [32.
Rxh7 Kxh7 (32...Rxc3 33.Rh8+ (=33.Rch1)
33.Rh1+ Kg8 34.Qh6 Wins] 1–0
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6. Khachiyan,Melikset (2538)- Brown,
Michael W (2319) [C85]
50th American Open Orange (4), Black to play.
22...Rxe5! 23.fxe5 Bxe5 24.Qxe5 Ng4 [24...
Ng4 25.Qg3 Qxh2+ 26.Qxh2 Nf2#]
Solutions to ‘Test your endgame’ on page 42
1. Ilkka Saren, Fourth Place ,Nordiska
Masterskap 1968
1.Qe8+ Qd8 2.Qe6+ Kb8 3.Qc6 Qg8+ 4.Kb4
Qg4+ 5.Ka5 Qc8 6.Na6+ Ka7 7.Nc7 Qb7
8.Nb5+ Kb8 9.Qd6+ Ka8 10.Qe6 Kb8 11.Qe5+
Ka8 12.Qh8+ Qb8 13.Qa1 Qh2 14.Kb6+ Kb8
15.Qd4 Qh6+ 16.Nd6 Qh2 17.Qb4 Qc2 18.Nc4
Qg6+ 19.Ka5 Kc7 20.Qe7+ Kc6 21.Ne5+ wins
2. Werner Issler, Third Prize ,New States-
man,1970
1.Kf7 Be2 2.Ke7 Bh5 3.Be8 g4 4.BxB g3 5.Bf3
KxB 6.f7 g2 7.f8Q wins
3. Attila Koranyi, I Pr, Magyar Sakkszovet-
seg 1968
1.Nf7 Ba1 2.Bf8 Kg6 3.Nd8 Bb2 4.Nc6 Kh7
5.Kh4 Kg6 6.Kg4 Bf6 7.Kf3 Bg5 8.Ne5+ Kh7
9.Ng4 Kg6 10.Ke4 Bc1 11.Kd5 Bd2 12.Ke6 Bc1
13.Bg7 Bd2 14.Ne5+ Kh7 15.Nf7 Kg6 16.Ke7
Kh7 17.Kf6 Bc3+ 18.Ne5 Bd2 19.Nd7 Bh6:
20.Nf8+ Kg8 21.BxB wins
4. V. Bron, I Prize,Themes 64, 1968
1.g7 Rh4+ 2.Kd3 Rg4 3.Ne3 Rg5 4.Bd4+ Ke6
5.Ke4 Kf7 6.Nf5 Kg8 7.Bf6 Rg1 8.Ke5 Rg2 9.Ke6
Rg1 10.Ke7 Re1+ 11.Kd7 Kh7 12.Bb2 Re2
13.Bc3 Rg2 14.Ke7 Kg8 15.Ke8 Rg1 16.Be5
Rg2 17.Bd4 Rg5 18.Nh5+ Kh7 19.Kf8 KxN
20.Be3 wins
5. Hildebrand,I Prize, Lommer JT 1969
1.Nf1+Bb3 2.Rc3: BxN+ 3.Kd2 Nf7,Ne6
4.Ra3,Rh3 wins
6. Raikkonen,3 Pl,Breider JT 1968
1.Bd7 Bg1 2.Bd8 Bh2 3.Bb6 Bd6 4.Ke4 Kg4
5.Kd5 Kf8 6.Ke6 Kg5 7.Bc7 Kg4 8.Bd8 Kf4 9.Ba5
Kg4 10.Bd2 Kf3 11.Kf7 Bd6 12.Kg7: Ke4 13.Kf6
Be5+ 14.Ke6 wins
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Masters of the past-49 Vladas Mikenas 1st Balasore All India FIDE Rating Chess Tournament ( Below1800),Balasore
Vladas Mikėnas (17April1910 – 3 November 1992) was a
Lithuanian International Master of chess, an Honorary Grand-
master, and a journalist. Vladas Mikėnas played for Lithuania
at first board in five official and one unofficial Chess Olympiads Shri. Himanshu Dash, Chairman, Modern
between 1931 and 1939. Engineering & Management Studies
In 1930, he won the Estonian Championship in Tallinn (3rd lighting the lamp. Others from left to right
are Manoranjan Panda, Secy BDCA, Pradip
EST-ch). In 1931, he tied for 2nd–5th at the first Baltic Cham- Kumar Panda, President, BDCA, Chief
pionship inKlaipėda, which was won by Isakas Vistaneckis. In Guest Asit Kumar Panigrahi, IPS, DIG Police
the same year, Mikenas emigrated from Estonia to Lithuania.
In 1934, he won a match against Povilas Vaitonis (6:2). In
1935, he took 10th in Łódź (Savielly Tartakower won), and
drew a match with Vistaneckis (8:8). In 1936, he won the
Lithuanian Championship. In 1937, he won a match against
Vaitonis (5.5:4.5). In 1937, he took 10th in Kemeri; despite
his lowly placing, he defeated Alexander Alekhine. In 1937/38, he took 6th at Hast-
ings (Samuel Reshevsky won).In 1938, he won a match against Vaitonis (9:3). In
1939, he took 4th in Kemeri–Riga (Salo Flohr won). In September 1939, he took
3rd in Rosario (Vladimirs Petrovs won).
He played several times in Lithuanian SSR championships in Vilnius. He won the 14th Champion Tirth Sarkar WB, Runner-up
LTU-ch in 1947, won in 1948, took 3rd in 1949, took 6th in 1951, tied for 2nd–4th Pranab Kumar Patra, Odisha and Mahitosh
in 1952, took 6th in 1953, took 2nd in 1954, took 3rd in 1955, took 2nd in 1957, Dey, Odisha (Third )
tied for 2nd-4thin 1958, took 3rd in 1959, tied for 3rd–4th in 1960, won in 1961,
took 2nd in 1963, won in 1964, shared 1st in 1965, tied for 2nd–3rd in 1967, and
tied for 1st–2nd in 1968.
Meanwhile, in 1954, he won, ahead of Ratmir Kholmov, Vistaneckis and Viacheslav
Ragozin, in Vilnius (Quadrangular). In 1955, he tied for 3rd–6th in Pärnu (Keres
won). In 1959, he took 2nd, behind Boris Spassky, in Riga. In 1960, he took 10th
in Pärnu (Baltic Rep. ch, Keres won), and shared 4th at Leningrad (Mark Taimanov
4th WBCWS FIDE Rated Chess Tournament, Kolkata….
won). In 1964, he tied 2nd–3rd, behind Iivo Nei, in Pärnu (Baltic Rep. ch). In 1965,
he won in Palanga (Baltic Rep. ch). In 1971, he won in Lublin, Poland.
Mikenas was awarded the International Master title in 1950 (the year the title was
instituted). He was awarded the Honorary Grandmaster title in 1987.He was the
(L-R) Sayantan Das, Champion,
arbiter of the World Championship match between Anatoly Karpov and Garry Kasp- N. Srinath, Runner up, Atanu Lahiri,
arov in 1985. BCA Secretary, Santu Mondal,
The Mikenas Variation of the Modern Benoni, a sharp attacking line (1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 third,A.B. Choudhury,Chief Arbiter
c5 3.d5 e6 4.Nc3 exd5 5.cxd5 d6 6.e4 g6 7.f4 Bg7 8.e5), is named after him. He
also developed the Flohr-Mikenas Variation of the English Opening; the variation
runs 1.c4 Nf6 2.Nc3 e6 3.e4.
Courtesy:Wikepedia

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2 ND INTERNATIONAL
GRANDMASTERS TOURNAMENT, KOLKATA
(For rating 2000 and above)
(Organised by All Sport Management &
Dibyendu Barua Chess Academy)
Under the aegis of
All India Chess Federation &
Bengal Chess Association
AICF event code: 105543/WB/2015
Shri.Narasimha Reddy, Vice-President, AICF lighting the lamp at the inaugural function Date:
15th March to 24th March 2015
Venue:
Indian Council for Cultural Relations
9A Ho Chi Minh Srani,Kolkata-71

Total Prize Fund: Rs.10,00,000

Entries may be sent favouring
‘Dibyendu Barua Chess Academy’
Payable at Kolkata at the following address:
Dibyendu Barua Chess Academy
FD-437, Sector 3, Salt Lake,Kolkata 700 106

Contact person:
Prize winners J. Sai Agni Jeevitesh (Winner, sixth from right) GM R.R.Laxman(Runner-up) and Bavankumar (Third) with Mr.Neeraj Kumar Mishra
Prof.V.Satyanarayana, Director of Physical Education, Osmania University, Major K.A.Shivaprasad, President,Hyderabad
Chess Association, Dr.S.Amrutha, Principal, St.Ann’s College for Women, Chief Co-ordinator A.Narasimha Rao and Phone: 94711 90041
Organizing Secretary .
Email: igms.kolkata@gmail.com
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 AICF Calendar February 2015
National Team Open &Women Championship 20 Feb15-26 Feb15 Goa 13th Parsvnath Delhi International Grandmasters Chess
1st Deltin All India Open Rapid 28 Feb15- 01 Mar15 Goa Tournament2015,New Delhi…
Rotary FIDE Rating for the blind 28 Feb15-03 Mar15 Nagercoil,TN
Grandmasters Tournament, Kolkata 15 Mar15-24 Mar 15 Kolkata
Aditya Birla Mem.Jharkand Sr.State FIDE rated 21 Mar15-24 Mar15 Ranchi
3rd Chess Specific Open FIDE Rated 25Mar15-29Mar15 India Gate,Delhi
3rd Bubaneshwar All India FIDE rated 25 Mar15-29Mar15 Bubaneshwar,Odisha
2nd ACCF FIDE rated 03Apr15-07Apr15 Kozhikode,Kerala
National Rapid &Blitz Chess Championship 25 Apr15-29 Apr15 Odisha
Dr.Hedgewar Open FIDE Rated Open 26 Apr15-02May15 Daryaganj,Delhi
6th KCM FIDE rated Open 29Apr15-03May15 Coimbatore,TN
Don Bosco Birth Bicentenary FIDE Rated 01May15-05May15 Irinjalakuda,Kerala
Bhopal FIDE Rating Chess Tournament 04May15-09May15 Bhopal, MP
3rd KPK Open FIDE Rating Tmt 06May15-10 May15 Tirupur,TN
2nd Imperia Structures FIDE Rated Tmt 16May15-20May15 JNStadium,Delhi CEO All India Chess Federation Shri. Bharat Singh inaugurating the event by lighting the lamp. Also
seen Shri. AK Verma, Secretary Delhi Chess Association; Shri. R Rajesh, Secretary Chess Association
1st SCS All India FIDE Rated 17 May 15-21May15 Sivakasi,TN Kerala; Shri. Mahendra Dhakal, Secretary Sikkim Chess Association; Shri. Vipnesh Bhardwaj, Secretary
Grandmaster Tournament ,Odisha 24 May15-31 May15 Bubaneshwar Chandigarh Chess Association; Shri. Kapil Saxena, Secretary Madhya Pradesh State Level Chess
Association and Grandmaster Abhijit Kunte.
Grandmaster Tournament, Mumbai 02 Jun15- 09 Jun 15 Mumbai
National Under-9 Championship 11 Jun15-19 Jun15 Gujarat
Commonwealth Chess 22 Jun15- 30 Jun 15 Delhi
Natioinal Women Challenger 02 Jul15-11 Jul15 Delhi
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GM Chess Tournament 13 Jul15-20 Jul15 Hyderabad,AP

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Solution to puzzle of the month on page 22: Last move of black could not have been b7-b5
as then WBa8 must have been a promoted one. There is only one missing WP and there is
also already a promoted WB at h2.So BPb7 must have vacated well before to allow Ba8.It
is black’s turn to move now 1…b4 after which white mates with Qa6!
Category A winner Grandmaster Andrey Baryshpolets of Ukraine receiving trophy and winner’s cheque. Also
seen Shri. V Hariharan, Secretary All India Chess Federation; Shri. Bharat Singh, CEO All India Chess Federation,
Group Captain J Rajendra VSM, Chief Administrative Officer Air Force Station New Delhi; Shri. Ajit M Sharan,
Secretary Sports Government of India; Air Commodore G Amar Babu, Air Officer Commanding Air Force Station
New Delhi and Shri. AK Verma, Secretary Delhi Chess Association.

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13th Parsvnath Delhi International Grandmasters Chess
Tournament2015,New Delhi…

Category B winner Rakesh Gurung of Sikkim receiving trophy and winner’s cheque. Also seen Shri.
R Rajesh, Secretary Chess Association Kerala; Shri. Kapil Saxena, Secretary Madhya Pradesh State
Level Chess Association; Grandmaster Valeriy Nevrov of Ukraine; Shri. Bharat Singh, CEO All India
Chess Federation; Shri. AK Verma, Secretary Delhi Chess Association.

Category C winner Vardan Nagpal of Delhi receiving trophy and winner’s cheque. Also seen Shri. V
Hariharan, Secretary All India Chess Federation; Shri. Bharat Singh, CEO All India Chess Federation,
Group Captain J Rajendra VSM, Chief Administrative Officer Air Force Station New Delhi; Shri. Ajit M
Sharan, Secretary Sports Government of India; Air Commodore G Amar Babu, Air Officer Commanding
Air Force Station New Delhi and Shri. AK Verma, Secretary Delhi Chess Association.