AICF CHRONICLE

the official magazine of the All India Chess Federation

Volume : 14 Issue : 4 Price Rs.25 November 2019

National Junior (Under-19) Open & Girls Chess Championships 2019,

Gurugram, Haryana

Aradhya Garg
(Delhi)
National Junior Open Champion

Shrishti Pandey
(Maharashtra)
National Junior Girls Champion

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19th Adyar Times FIDE rated open , Chennai
Balasubramaniam wins title for the fourth time
by IA & FI S.Paul Arokia Raj, Chief Arbiter 1
1st Hyderabad All India Open Fide Rating , Hyderabad
Kausthuv Kundu of West Bengal is Champion
by FA Subba Raju, Chief Arbiter 5
60th Odisha State Senior FIDE Rating Open , Balasore
Rajesh Nayak is the winner
by IA Suresh Chandra Sahoo, Chief Arbiter 7
‘Chess for Everyone’ FIDE Rating Championship,Chaibasa
Shuvam Roy wins title
by Jayant Kumar Bhuyan IA,Chief Arbiter 9
Adith Paulson Mem.4th Don Bosco FIDE rated,Irinjilakuda
Sooraj M.R wins title
by Peter Joseph M,Chief Arbiter 11
Hatsun Idhayam 5th FIDE Rated , Virudhunagar
Muthiah AL is Champion
Prof. R. Anantharam IA, Chief Arbiter 13
2nd Hyderabad All India Below 1400 FIDE Rating,Hyderabad
Arghya Sen of West Bengal is Champion
by Promodraj Moree IA,,Chief Arbiter 15
Kurnool District Open Fide Rating Nandyala
Bharath Kumar Reddy Poluri Wins
by IA Venkata Kumar G , Chief Arbiter 17
All India Open FIDE Rapid Rating Chess tournament2019, Nagpur
GM R R Laxman wins
by IA Swapnil Bansod, Chief Arbiter 19
3rd RGS Guwahati India Open Fide Rating, Guwahati
GM Vasquez Schroeder Rodrigo of Chile clinches title
by IA V.Lesunathan Anandh, Chief Arbiter 21
SDM Roto Lawyers Cup International FIDE Rated,Belthangady
GM Girish A Koushik is the Champion
by Saleem Beig, Chief Arbiter 27
Smart Girl All India Open FIDE Rated ,Ernakulam
Priyanka Bhatt wins Smart Girl at Ernakulam
by M.S.Govindan Kutty, Chief Arbiter 29
Smart Girl FIDE Rated Chess Tournament 2019, Faridabad
Krishika Garg wins at Faridabad
by FA Rupesh kumar, Chief Arbiter 31
1st All India Grandprix Servo 1st Rapid FIDE Rated , Tiruvarur
M.Pranesh is Champion
by V.Vijayaraghavan IA, Chief Arbiter 33
57TH WB State FIDE Rated Open Tournament 2019
Rajdeep Sarkar takes title
by Biswanath Banerjee, Chief Arbite
Selected games annotated by IM Manuel Aaron
Tactics from master games by S.Krishnan
Test your endgame by C.G.S.Narayanan
Masters of the past-105:Harry Golombek
AICF Calendar
From the Editor’s desk
At the recently concluded World
Junior Chess Championships held
at New Delhi Evgeny Shtembuliak
of Armenia and Polina Shuvalova
of Russia took the titles. India’s
hopes GM Karthikeyan Murali, Ar-
avindh Chithambaram and Pragg-
nanandhaa finished fifth, seventh and ninth re-
spectively in the open event. Among Indian girls
Akanshka Hagawane won the last round to finish
fifth. At the recently concluded World Youth Ol-
ympiad (U-16) held in Corum, Turkey, the In-
dian team,seeded 19th,performed above par to
finish seventh out of 48 teams.These two events
are featured in the colour pages of this issue.
India’s latest addition to the recent crop of
young Grandmasters is Raunak Sadhwani, a
13-year old kid from Nagpur, is all set to be-
come nation’s 65th Grandmaster after his ster-
ling performance at FIDE Grand Swiss.com Isle
of Man 2019 tournament. As this issue goes to
press, National Junior Chess Championships
held at New Delhi threw up two new Champi-
ons-Aradhya Garg from Delhi and Shrishti Pan-
dey from Maharashtra. Report on this National
event will be presented in the next issue.
AICF’s laudable initiative, Smart Girls FIDE rat-
ed tournament, is becoming increasingly popu-
lar and the two tournaments held last month at
Ernakulam and Faridabad drew good number of
participants. Reports, final standings and pho-
tographs of these tournaments along with those
of other FIDE rated tournaments are presented
in this issue.
Selected games from 2nd Gujarat GM Open
tournament may be found annotated by IM Ma-
nuel Aaron elsewhere in this issue. British GM
and author Harry Golombek is featured in the
‘Masters of the past’ series.
C.G.S.Narayanan
Readers are invited to offer their feedback on
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37 the regular features in the AICF Chronicle and
42 are also invited to send interesting articles,
43 annotated games and chess anecdotes to the
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Editor at indianchessfed@gmail.com’ or
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cgsnarayanan@hotmail.com.
19th Adyar Times FIDE rated open chess tournament, Chennai
Balasubramaniam wins title for the fourth time
by IA & FI S.Paul Arokia Raj, Chief Arbiter
The traditional Adyar Times FIDE rated open
chess tournament organized by the Tamil Nadu
State Chess Association has turned 19 this year.
The event organized between October 3rd and
6th was formally inaugurated by India’s first IM
Manuel Aaron and Mrs. Dafefnee Rodgers, Vice
Principal of Bala Vidya Mandir Senior Secondary
School. The magnificent Vidya Peet Auditorium
and two other spacious halls of Bala Vidya Mandir
in South Chennai was the venue of this popu-
lar event of Chennai. A record number of 438
players including participants from three other
federations namely Botswna, France and United
States were in the fray.
Right from the start of the tournament each
round was fought with grit and determination.
Only by the end of the sixth round the leadership
issue was resolved with the top seed and IM P.D.S
Girinath of Andhra Pradesh emerging as the sole
leader with six points. But it was short lived as
he went down fighting against A.Balkishen of
Karnataka after over stepping the time limit in
the seventh and the penultimate round. At the
same time the second seed B.Vignesh accounted
for Swaraj Palit of Jharkhand and Rajarishi Karthi
also scored a fluent victory over FM Vinoth Ku-
mar. All the above three winners were leading
jointly with 6.5 points each before the start of
the final round and it was a virtual photo finish
on the cards. On the top table in the final round
while the game between B.Vignesh and Rajashri
Karthi ended in a draw, IM R.Balasubramaniam
of Integral Coach Factory, Chennai struck a bril-
liant victory over A.Balkishen to set a target of 7
points. Earlier he has conceded two draws. Soon
he was joined by five others to make it a six
way tie for the championship. On account of his
higher Buchholz score R.Balasubramaniam was
adjudged as the 19th Adyar Times FIDE rated
open champion. Earlier he has lifted Adyar Times
trophy three times in 2002. 2005 and 2015.
Rajashri Karthi and B.Vignesh finish second and
third respectively.
On the evening of 6th October in a well attend-
ed closing ceremony Shri.J.P.Janakan.managing
editor, Adyar Times felicitated the winners in the
presence of Shri. D.V.Sundar. Vice President.
FIDE, Shri. Manuel Aaron, Dr. R.Srinivasa Ragha-
van, Principal B.V.V.M. School, Shri. B.Murugavel,
Vice President, TNSCA and Shri. P. Stephen Ba-
lasamy, General Secretary, TNSCA.
Final Ranking:
Rk. Name Pts.
1 IM R. Balasubramaniam 7
2 CM Rajarishi Karthi 7
3 Vignesh B 7
4 Arun R U 7
5 IM Girinath P.D.S. 7
6 Bargava Narasimhan S 7
7 FM Vinoth Kumar M. 6.5
8 Balkishan A. 6.5
9 Swaraj Palit 6.5
10 Kabhilan S 6.5
11 Nidheshpa S 6.5
12 Sivan S Roshan 6.5
13 Srihari L 6.5
14 Midilesh Ms 6.5
15 Ilamparthi A R 6
16 Deepak Raj R 6
17 Ganesan K. 6
18 AGM Rathneesh R 6
19 Tejaswini G 6
20 Aakash K P 6
21 Neil Franclin S 6
22 Samyak L 6
23 AGM Vignesh B 6
24 AIM Ashwin Sairam 6
25 Shree Ganesh M Annamalai 6
26 Vijay M. 6
27 Varsha Ramesh 6
28 Divyan T 6
29 Chembeti Shreesh Amit 6
30 Badrinarayanan N 6
31 Jai Sankar Subramanian 6
32 Ratnapriya K 6
33 Sasvatha A 6
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34 Muthu Palaniappan P L 6 83 Moneshraj S 5 19th Adyar Times FIDE rated open tournament, Chennai
35 Lakshmi Sandeep Naidu V 6 84 Aadith R 5
36 Abishna Anojan 6 85 Danish Roy Vinoth Kumar 5
37 Balasubramanian G 6 86 Vignesh Manikandan 5
38 Harish Krishna Velayutham 6 87 Vikraanth S 5
39 Pranav K P 6 88 Jaikavin Senthilkumar 5
40 Pon Balaji N 6 89 Aaditya A 5
41 AFM Abhinav Karthik M 6 90 Richard Solomon M 5
42 Praveen K B 6 91 Srinivasan Vijayaraghavan 5
43 Vengatesh Krishnan C 6 92 Dillish L 5
44 Sai Alagappan S 6 93 Ajjesh J R 5
45 Vijay Shreeram P 5.5 94 Muralidharan P S 5
46 Ragul S 5.5 95 Vijay Kumar Pakkurti 5
47 Sidharth P G 5.5 96 Sahithyan D 5
48 Priyan R S 5.5 97 Karthick Narayanan P 5
49 Jeeva K 5.5 98 Mukesh K J 5
50 Sanjay Sriram 5.5 99 Jaikeerthi R 5
51 Daakshin Arun 5.5 100 Abinaya Anojan 5
52 Jaivant R 5.5 101 Santhosh V 5
53 Bharath Ravikumar 5.5 102 Prashanth L A 5
54 Sri Harish J 5.5 103 Raghav V 5 (L-R) IA &FI S.Paul Arokia Raj, Chief Arbiter, IM Manuel Aaron, D.V.Sundar, Vice President, FIDE, J.P.Janakan,
55 Sathyanarayanan S. 5.5 104 Vasudeva Varun 5 Managing Director, Adyar Times, Dr. R.Srinivasa Raghavan, Principal B.V.V.M. School, International Master
56 Vishnu Vijay 5.5 105 Ramakrishnan M R 5 R.Balasubramanian (Winner), B.Murugavel, Vice President, TNSCA and Shri. P. Stephen Balasamy, General
57 Jayaraman Balasubramanian 5.5 106 Varun Prabhakaran K S 5 Secretary, TNSCA
58 Yashwant Annamalai 5.5 107 Deepika P 5
59 Shravan Swaminathan 5.5 108 Ilakiyan M Xavier Jeen 5 SDM Roto Lawyers Cup International FIDE Rated Open Tournament
60 Navnitan S V 5.5 109 Jeevan Prakash N 5
61 Raaghav Rajesh 5.5 110 Krishnamurthy S 5
62 Venkata Sai Krishna V 5.5 111 Sarvajith Muthukumar 5
63 Anandan Dayalan 5.5 112 Divesh G 5
64 Swapna C N 5.5 113 Ananya Raman 5
65 Pavan Anand S 5.5 114 Bhagatsingh D 5
66 Haridev S 5.5 115 AFM Vakeesh S 5
67 Balu Karthick 5.5 116 Devdarshan R B 5
68 Vikash K S 5.5 117 Nikhil R 5
69 Deivadharshan U 5.5 118 Kavya N 5
70 Saravanan 5.5 119 ACM Kashyap Adithya A 5
71 Sashaankh B 5.5 120 Nitin M Pai 5
72 Rakshith M 5.5 121 Varadharajan S 5
73 Hiren K G 5 122 AFM Shyam Sundar B 5
74 Gnanasekar .G 5 123 Tejasvi Suresh 5
75 Thenamudhan B J 5 124 Preethi A S 5
76 Jeyanth R 5 125 Panaiappan S 4.5
77 AIM Vishal Choudary B 5 126 Rishiraj P 4.5
78 Anirudh S V 5 127 Adit Pushan Krishnaswamy 4.5
79 Nandhagopal B 5 128 Balaji Subramanian 4.5
80 Harish Babu K S 5 129 Anirudh R 4.5
81 Naveen Kanniyappan S 5 130 Nitesh Sai Sundaram 4.5 Left to right: M V Bhat, Aloysius Lobo, IM Chakkravarthy Reddy, GM Girish A Koushik,Rithesh Baliga, Swaraj Pal-
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 Smart Girl All India Open FIDE Rated Tournament,Ernakulam
Smt.Madhavi Kutty IAS making
the inaugural move
Priyanka Bhatt receiving
the prize from Rajesh
Nattakom, Secretary,
Chess Association,
Kerala
Smart Girl FIDE Rated Chess Tournament 2019, Faridabad
Krishika Garg, Winner,
receiving the prize from
Shri Naresh Sharma, Joint
Secretary, All India Chess
Federation.Madam Sanyogi-
ta, Director, Manav Rachna
International School is
standing fourth from right
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1st Hyderabad All India Open Fide Rating Chess Tournament, Hyderabad
Kausthuv Kundu of West Bengal is Champion
by FA Subba Raju, Chief Arbiter
Top seed Kaustuv Kundu of West Bengal won
the Hyderabad All India Fide Rating Chess
Tournament organized by Prufer Logic and
Spoorthi Chess Academy from 1st to 5th
October 2019 concluded at L B Stadium, Hy-
derabad. He scored 8 points from 9 rounds.
In the final round he drew with Bharat Kumar
Reddy of Telangana. There is a Five Way tie
with 7.5 points for second place between
Prakash Ram(Punjab), Bharat Kumar Red-
dy(TEL) , V Varun (TEL), Saik Sumer Arsh
(TEL), Musini Ajay (AP) , due to better tie
break score Prakash Ram and Bharat Kumar
Reddy were placed 2nd and 3rd.
Winner Kausthav Kundu got winner tro-
phy and cash prize of Rs. 50,000/- and
Runner up Prakash Ram got 25,000/- and
3rd placed Bharat Kumar Reddy took Rs.
13,000/-. A total of Rs. 3,10,500/- was dis-
tributed among 50 prize winners.The event
attracted 282 players, including 152 FIDE
rated, from all over India. Beside majority
players from Telangana and Andhra, Tamil-
nadu, Karnataka, Maharastra, Goa, Madhya
Pradesh, Orissa, Punjab, West Bengal, Bihar,
Uttarpradesh and Delhi.
In the glittering prize distribution ceremony,
Chief Guest P Dinakar Babu, IAS, VC-MD of
SATS, K S Prasad, Secretary-TSCA distrib-
uted the trophies and cash prizes to the win-
ners Organizing committee B Raja Sekhar
of Prufer Logic , Prashanth Goud of Spoothy
Chess Academy , Mr. Suman of Joykids and
Mr. M S Reddy of Anand Chess Academy
were also present. The chief arbiter was FA S
Subba Raju, the deputy chief arbiter was FA
Sreedhara Raju P and deputy arbiters were
NA Chandra Reddy Mouli R ,NA Sriram R and
NA Prasanth Gaddam.
Final ranking
Rk Name Pts
1 Kaustuv Kundu 8
2 Prakash Ram 7½
3 Bharat Kumar Reddy Poluri 7½
4 Varun V 7½
5 Shaik Sumer Arsh 7½
6 Mushini Ajay 7½
7 Sai Agni Jeevitesh J 7
8 Praveen Prasad P. 7
9 Ramakrishna J. 7
10 Kumar S. 7
11 Shanmukha Pulli 7
12 Raghav Srivathsav V 7
13 Gajanan Vijay Jayade 7
14 Srinivasa Rao G.V. 7
15 Bipin Raj S 7
16 Sreehith Reddy R 6½
17 Hemanth Raam 6½
18 Kari Venu 6½
19 Ramakrishna Perumalla 6½
20 Rama Krishna Murthy Malladi 6½
21 Hruthik Lokesh P 6½
22 Abhiram Vaddi 6½
23 Shetty Murugan 6½
24 Md Bashiq Imrose 6½
25 Gudla Shanth Kumar 6½
26 Suhaas A 6½
27 Subhash Kumar M 6½
28 Md Imran 6½
29 Arpan Das 6
30 Setumadhav Yellumahanthi 6
31 Sai Raj Gopal K 6
32 Deepak Batra 6
33 Pavan Teja Medam 6
34 Jatinder Kapoor 6
35 Senthil Kumar Natarajan 6
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36 Umesh Konduru 6 79 Medi Avinash 5½ 60th Odisha State Senior FIDE Rating Open Championship 2019, Balasore
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Srujan Keerthan Solletti
Vikash Kumar Dwivedi
6
6
80 Gade Vishal
81 Surapaneni Jayram Shaurya
5½
5½
Rajesh Nayak is the winner
39 Thamaraiselvi P 6 82 Chavan Dakshayani Tushar 5½ by IA Suresh Chandra Sahoo, Chief Arbiter
40 Surya Raghava I 6 83 Devaki Nandana 5 The 60th Odisha State Senior FIDE Rating Top three finished with 7.5 each and po-
41 Avaneesh Gupta D C S 6 84 Vegi Bhavishnu Sai Sivaji 5 Open Chess Championship,2019 was or- sition was decided through the tie-break.
42 Kandi Ravi 6 85 Khandrika Aahlad Karthik 5 ganised by Balasore District Chess Associ- The top seed Rajesh Nayak, 2242 of Puri
43 Viswak Sen M 6 86 Vignesh Advaith Vemula 5 ation under the aegis of All Odisha Chess clinched the Championship trophy with
44 Chidvilash Sai Surapaneni 6 87 Dadi Siddhartha 5 Association and All India Chess Federation. 7 win 1 draw & 1 loss from 2nd seed
45 Sai Krishna S. 6 88 Siddarth Sankeerth Sirimilla 5 The tournament was conducted from 1st to Rakesh Nayak and awarded a cash prize
46 Sai Mahati A 6 89 Sevitha Viju M 5 5th October 2019 at Venya Paradise near of Rs.8,000. The 3rd seed Nilsu Pattnaik,
47 Kumaran Charan 6 90 Dadisetty Yaswanth 5 O.T.Road, Balasore. The tournament was 2004 of Cuttack became Runner-up and
48 Rama Anjaneyulu R V S S 6 91 Vivek Tribhuvan Ramam D 5 inaugurated by the Chief Guest Sri Uday bagged Rs.6,000 with Trophy 7 wins, 1
49 Akhil Alapati 6 92 Bonthula Roshini Sarayu 5 Ranjan Das, Rtd, DGM SBI and Rotari- draw with 7 seed and one loss from top
50 Srinivas Gopal Reddy K 6 93 Rachita Sabbathi 5 an. Other dignitaries present on the dais seed.Rakesh Kumar Nayak, 2037 (3rd in
51 Srivatsa Ananth Kothagundla 6 94 Srudi Veena G 5 were Sj. Chitaranjan Panda, General Sec- 24th National (U-13) in 2010),stood 3rd
52 Radha Krishna Devaki 6 95 Aaryan Balaji Rao 5 retary, BJP, Balasore District; Sj. Debasis with 6 wins & 3 draws, pocketed Rs.4,000
53 Surya Alakanti 6 96 Ganesh Sai Siddarth S 5 Chakraborty; President, BDCA; Sj. Pradipta withTrophy in the tournament.
54 Murali Mohan Y 6 97 Rohith N 5 Kumar Panda, Working President, BDCA, Sj
55 Karthikeya R 6 98 Goutham Akhil Ch 5 Manoranjan Panda, Hon. Secretary, BDCA; The tournament concluded with Valedic-
56 Narasimha Raveendra G 5½ 99 Gurmanya Kaur 5 &Sj. Sandeep Samantray, Executive Mem- tory ceremony-cum-Prize Distribution, at
57 Naga Akhil Charan B 5½ 100 Sri Krishna Praneeth K 5 ber, All Odisha Chess Association and Chan- 05:30 P.M. on 05Oct 2019.The Chief Guest
58 Amrutha Varshini Damisetty 5½ 101 Dornala Shivateja 5 dan Singh, Member, BDCA. was Dr Prafulla Kumar Acharya, Renowned
59 Manikanta Barla 5½ 102 Ritobroto Sen 5 Doctor & Social Activist; Guest of Honour
60 Vakcheri Mohitha 5½ 103 Vijay Prajwal P 5 The total no of participants (105) from Sj. Sangram Kumar Dash, Industrialist;
61 Pottturi Venkata Satyanarayana 5½ 104 Challa Saharsha 5 12districts(Angul-1, Bhadrk-2, Balas- Chief Speaker Dr J.P. Nath, President,
62 Jahnavi Sri Lalita Mareddy 5½ 105 Harini Narahari 5 ore-29, Bargarh-2, Cuttack-26, Dhen- BDCA, Other dignitaries who graced the
63 Bharathakoti Sneha 5½ 106 Rithvik R 5 kanal-1, Jajpur-7, Khordha-20, Gajapa- occasion on the last day were Sj Sandeep
64 Dhanush Reddy A 5½ 107 Satya Sai Vardhan P 5 ti-2, Kendrapara-2, Puri-5, Sambalpur-2 Samantaray, E.C. Member, AOCA;Sj. De-
65 Adanwale Siddhik 5½ 108 Amrutha Bhagavatula 5 & Sundargarh-5) had taken part in this basis Chakrabarty, President, Balasore Dis-
66 Vihaan Chowdhary N 5½ 109 Sridhanvi Boggavarapu 5 event.Sixty six rated players (inclusive of trict Chess Association; Sj. Pradipta Kumar
67 Hriday Nikshipt Adari 5½ 110 Ravi Kiran Cherala 5 7 women including one Women FIDE Mas- Panda, C.A., Working President, BDCA; Sj.
68 Abdul Azeez S.K. 5½ 111 Ravi Madduru 5 ter) participated.Nine rounds Swiss system Manoranjan Panda, Secretary, BDCA.
69 Varshith Nela 5½ 112 Narahari Geethika Hasini 5 league was played with a time control of
70 Vinnakota Sashank 5½ 113 Viswajith Sai B 5 90 min. with 30 sec increment from move The press and media covered the event
71 Ch. Nanda Sai Vinesh 5½ 114 Pradyumna Kanukollu 5 no.1 and games on top seven boards were well and we had considerable support from
72 Nethra Chandupatla 5½ 115 Abhirama Praneeth A V K 5 covered live for entire tournament. the parents and guardians of the kid partic-
73 Madhukesh Ram 5½ ipants.Out of 39 unrated players 11 players
74 Ramadugu Akshay 5½ Giving up the center must not here be re- The total prize fund for above captioned will get their new rating in the month of
garded as illogical. Was happiness no hap-
75 Paladugu Yoga Harishini 5½ event was Rs.50,000/- (Rupees Fifty thou- November and six players gained more
piness because it endured for just a short
76 Yagna Priya Polisetty 5½ sand only).The organisers provided FREE than 50 ELO in this tournament. Om Aditya
time? One cannot always be happy.
77 Prasada Rao G 5½ dormitory Accommodation to the players Khadanga, 1399 (+94, Himansu Pradhan,
- Aron Nimzovitch.
78 Raj Pal Singh R 5½ for the entire tournament period. 1134 (+65), Aryan Arnav Samantaray,

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1333, (+53), WFM Rutumbara Bidhar, 1847 44 Satyam Sarbajit Mishra 5 ‘Chess for Everyone’ FIDE Rating Chess Championship 2019, Chaibasa
45 Sahoo Shreyash Kumar 5
(+52).I take this opportunity to thank the
Balasore District Chess Association and All
46 Dhirendra Kumar Das 4½ Shuvam Roy wins title
47 Mohapatra Ayush Aryan 4½
Odisha Chess Association for making such by Jayant Kumar Bhuyan IA,Chief Arbiter
48 Biswa Preet Ray 4½
tournament a grand success, which will 49 Soyam Laxmidatt D Sabat 4½
go a long way in creating awareness and 50 Pratyush Tripathy 4½ Chess for Everyone FIDE Rating Chess were- in the boys section Adrij Mohanty
51 Kumar Kausik 4½ Championship 2019 was inaugurated by of Jamshedpur (4 years 9 months) and
popularising chess in our State 52 Abhishek Kar 4½
53 Shriyansh Dey 4½
IM Neeraj Kumar Mishra ,Hon. Secretary, in the girls section Shanmukh Priya of
Final rankings: 54 Sandeepa Priyadarshini Sahoo 4½ All Jharkhand Chess Association on 17th Dhanbad girl (4 years 10months). Both
Rk Name Pts 55 Abinash Acharya 4½ October 2019 at 11.00 am at Birsa Munda were awarded trophies.
1 Nayak Rajesh 7½ 56 Pratyasha Jena 4½ Indoor Stadium in presence of Mr.Mukund
2 Pattnayak Nilsu 7½ 57 Pujari Swayam 4½
58 Aditya Narayan Mohanty 4½ Rungta, President WSDCA, Mr.Pankaj Chi- The Prize Distribution ceremony was held
3 Rakesh Kumar Nayak 7½
4 Bidhar Rutumbara WFM 7 59 Tripathy Bijay Ketan 4 rania, Mr.Jaydev Tripathy, Mr.N.N.Pandey in the evening of 21st October 2019 at
5 Mishra Om 7 60 Mrutyunjay Mondal 4 and Mr.Basant Khandelwal, Secretary WS- 3.00 pm in the tournament hall. The Top
6 Shreyash Shuvam Patnaik 6½ 61 Swastik Suvam Patnaik 4 DCA. This Tournament was organized by 20 Prizes were awarded by the Chief
7 Das Susobhit 6½ 62 Anil Bhoi 4
63 Aayush Soni 4 West Singhbhum Dist Chess Association Guest, Mr.Paritost Kumar Thakur SDM,Sa-
8 Samal Ansuman 6½
9 Padhi Kamal Lochan 6½ 64 Swayamshree Saisnata 4 with the help of All Jharkhand Chess As- dar, Chaibasa, and Category Prizes were
10 Swain Narayan 6½ 65 Tridev Tirthankar 4 sociation from 17th to 21st October , awarded by Mr.Nitin Prakash, President,
11 Khadanga Omm Aditya 6 66 Jugal Kishor Sahu 4
67 Rukman Kumar Sahoo 4
Chaibasa, Jharkhand. Chamber of Commerce, Mr.V.N.Pandey, Pa-
12 Badamundi Tapan 6
13 Nayak Sanjeeban 6 68 Vaibhav Majumdar 4 tron, WSDCA, Mr.Pankaj Chirania, Mr.Sri-
14 Rabindra Kumar Ojha 6 69 Samal Subhrajit 4 108 players took part in this event. Out of kant Mundhra, Mr.Nirmal Chandra Tripathy
15 Sahu Biswahari 6 70 Arushi Srichandan 3½ 108 players , 55 players were Rated and of WSDCA.
16 Srinath Bhoi 6 71 Tanmay Talin Behera 3½
72 Behera Alekh 3½ 15 women participants also took part in
17 Birendra Raita 6
18 Suryapranjal Indrajeet S P 6 73 Dash Hardik 3½ this event. Players participated from dif- I am happy to mention that this All India
19 Mohapatra Pratyush 6 74 Sai Amrit Parija 3½ ferent States are as under :Jharkhand - 75 level Tournament was organized very
20 Ayushman Mohanty 6 75 Satyabrata Mishra 3½ . Bihar - 19 , West Bengal -12, Chhattis- smoothly with the help of Mr.Vishal Kumar
21 Swapnil Priyadarshi 5½ 76 Aditi Upasana Pattanaik 3½
77 Pritam Kumar Jena 3½ garh - 1, and UP - 1 participants. In this Minz.FA, Mr.Chandan Kumar Prasad.SNA
22 Debi Prasad Nayak 5½
23 Barik Jagdish 5½ 78 Dristi Pradhan 3½ 9 Rounds tournament, Shuvam Roy of and Mr.Binod Kumar Saw. I am grateful
24 Mohanty Ashutosh 5½ 79 Parida Uday 3½ West Bengal clinched the top honours to them.
25 Rhea Mohapatra 5½ 80 Acharya Priya Ranjan 3½
81 Ritusmita Biswal 3½
and became the Champion of “Chess for
26 Samantaray Aryan Arnav 5½
27 Siddhesh Kamila 5½ 82 Behera Rojalin 3 Everyone FIDE Rating Chess Champion- I am grateful to Mr.Neeraj Kumar Mishra,
28 Ranjit Bhoi 5½ 83 Acharya Anish 3 ship - 2019 ” and was awarded Cham- Hon.Secretary, AJCA & Mr.Basant Ku-
29 Dolisiyas Dash 5½ 84 Akash Kumar Mallick 3 pions Trophy along with Cash Award of mar Khandelwal, Secretary, WSDCA and
30 Panda Raj Santosh 5 85 Dhananjaya Sabat 3
86 Ayushi Mohanty 3 Rs.11,000/- . He scored 8.5 points out of Mr.Sunil Kumar Sharma, Tournament Direc-
31 Satyajit Mohapatra 5
32 Vabesh Kumar Bardhan 5 87 Smruti Ranjan Sahoo 3 possible 9 points. Akash Tiwari also from tor for their valuable guidance provided to
33 Khamari Amarendra 5 88 Pratik Kushal Rout 3 West Bengal secured second place with Technical Committee. This technical team
34 Pradhan Himansu 5 89 Dash Sthitiprajna 3 7.0 points. He was awarded Cash Prize performed their best in conducting the
35 Pratyush Nayak 5 90 Radha Prasanna Mohanty 3
91 Adyasha Jena 3 of Rs.7,000/- . tournament smoothly with grand success.
36 Dash Sanjay Kumar 5
37 Keshab Charan Sahoo 5 92 Swayam Pratyush Samal 3 The success of the tournament is also due
38 Acharya Lalit Ansuman 5 93 Jayaditya Padhy 2½ The Senior most player of the tournament to dedicated members of WSDCA, Mr.
39 Sanjay Kumar Rath 5 94 Abhishek Kumar Jena 2
95 Shriyans Sekhar Rout 2
was Mr.Bani Kant Nath of 68 years of Jaideb Tripathy, Mr.Arpit Khirwal, Subrata
40 Bapun Patra 5
41 Sanjoy Pattnaik 5 96 Sanjayjayaram M 2 age and also from West Bengal. He won Tripathy, Mr.Purushottam Saraff and staff
42 Sahoo Stitaprangya 5 97 Ritesh Kumar Kar 2 Second Place in the Senior Citizen section. of Indoor Stadium. I am also thankful
43 Rout Prakruti 5 98 Shubham Pratyush Manna 2 The youngest players of the tournament to parents and guardians of little masters

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and all the participants for their sporting 46 Manoj Kumar Singh 5 Adith Paulson Memorial 4th Don Bosco FIDE Chess Tournament,Irinjilakuda
47 Md. Kaif Ullah 5
support extended to me in conducting the
tournament in a grand way. 48 Siddhant Raj 5 Sooraj M.R wins title
49 Kadambinee Ghadai 5 by Peter Joseph M,Chief Arbiter
Final ranking
50 Geethika Samyuktha 5
Rk Name Pts
51 Dyuti Chakraborty 4½
1 Shuvam Roy 8½ The Don Bosco Youths,Lions club, Irin- kharan after a neck and neck fight and won
52 Gagrai Juel 4½
2 Akash Tiwari 7
53 Animesh Kumar Singh 4½ jalakuda West and Thrissur Chess Academy the tournament and bagged 30000/- prize
3 Soumalya Mondol 7
54 Saara Jain 4½ jointly organised Adith Paulson Memorial money and trophy,Sri. Abdul Majeed for-
4 Basant Khandelwal 7
55 Ravikant 4½ 4th Don Bosco Fide Rated Chess Tourna- mer state champion, veteran player from
5 Basak Bishal 7
56 Ayush Kumar Dayanand 4½
6 Sneha Halder 6½ ment.The tournament was inaugurated by Kozhikode became the runner up and Sri.
57 Mrityunjay Choudhary 4½
7 Sandil Nirmal Chandra 6½ Sri. Thomas Unniyaden, Ex. Kerala govern- Gunasekharan, Sri. P K Suresh were placed
58 Kumar Ayush 4½
8 Priyanka Kumari 6 ment chief whip, at Don Bosco School on third and fourth spots respectively.
59 Bhupesh Balmuchu 4
9 Mukherjee Sanchit 6
60 Purushottam Saraff 4 4th October 2019. Sri. Sasidharan,Presi-
10 Anish Rooj 6
61 Abhishek Kumar Gupta 4 dent, Chess Association Thrissur presided In the prize distribution ceremony Fr. Ma-
11 Amit Tiwari 6
62 Ratnesh Kumar 4 over the inaugural meeting . Sri. George nuel Mevada, Rector, Don Bosco,Presid-
12 Anurag Panigrahi 6
63 Naman Agarwal (Jhar) 4
13 Lokesh Kumar 6 Moreli,II vice district Governor, Lions club, ed over the meeting. Sri. Saju Pathadan,
64 Sachin Anand 4
14 Manish Sharma 6 Sri Johnson Kolankanny, Sri.Sajithan,.K.K., district governor lions club distributed
65 Yash Wardhan Mundhra 4
15 Kumar Utkarsh 6 Zonal chairman, Sri. SureshkumarT.J,In- the prizes for the winners. Sri.. Johnson
66 Ayan Chakraborty 4
16 Ankit Kumar Singh 6
67 Bisadeep Thakkar 4 dian youth team coach, Sri. Shajan Chak- Kolankanny Sri. Shajan Chakkalakal, pres-
17 Yamijala Koulini 6
18 Das Bhola Nath 6 kalakal, President, Lions club, Irinjalakuda ident, Lions club, Irinjalakuda west, Sri.
19 Anand Shekhar 6 Puzzle of the month West, Sri. BabuK T, Chairman, Adith foun- Peter joseph, Secretary, chess association
20 Rishan Debnath 6 by C.G.S.Narayanan dation, attended the meeting. Fr. Manuel Thrissur, Sri. Radhakrishnan K S, Treasurer,
21 Raja Bose 6 Mevada, Rector, Don Bosco Irinjalakuda, Chess association Thrissur, attended the
22 Vishnudev 6 The Phoenix theme involves a rebirth hap-
pening after the demise of the original piece.
welcomed the gathering and Sri. Peter Jo- closing ceremony. It was the team work of
23 Adiba Ullah 6
If this order is reversed we have a Prenix. seph M,Secretary, Chess Association, Thris- the organising committee which made the
24 Nilesh Kumar 6
25 Manoj Kumar 5½ The proof game below shows these two sur expressed vote of thanks.The tourna- tournament as a memorable event.
26 Sayam Chakraborty 5½ types of invisible promotions. ment was conducted from 4/10/2019 to
27 Arun Kumar 5½ Stefan Dietrich 8/10/2019 in Swiss system comprising 9 I wish to extend my sincere thanks to Sri.
28 Dhananjay Mahato 5½ Problem Paradise No.45,2008 rounds. Bharath Singh Chauhan,General Secretary,
29 Mohd Tabseer Alam 5½ All India Chess Federation, Sri. Srivatsan
30 Aditi Raj 5½
Sri Gunasekharan with a rating of 2017 was Rating officer, All India Chess Federation,
31 Aarshiya Biswas 5½
32 Rishiraj Bhardwaj 5½ the top seed among 207 players took part Sri, Rajesh R, General Secretary, Chess
33 Sourav Kumar 5 and 126 players were having Elo rating.As Association Kerala for supporting us to
34 Samir Purty 5 usual, tournament witnessed many upsets. conduct this year tournament. Of course,
35 Narendra Nath Pandey 5 First seed Sri. Gunasekharan lost to Sri. we mention our sincere thanks to Sri. T j
36 Bakrewal Vinamra 5 Abdul Majeed and Sri. O T Anilkumar lost Sureshkumar, who is our mentor, for sup-
37 Vishuddh Nishchhal 5
to Sri. O A Raju in the 5th round of the porting this tournament and every chess
38 Debanjan Sinha 5
39 Kanhaiya Pandey 5 tournament. related activity in our district. I wish to
40 Kumar Sankalp 5 congratulate the arbiter team members
41 Vikash Kumar Mehta 5 At the end of eighth round Sri Sooraj M who conducted the tournament without any
42 Adhiraj Mitra 5 PG in 6.0 moves R, the local boy, was the sole leader with glitches. I thank almighty god who powered
43 Tushar Bhunya 5 The above position is to be arrived at in six
moves from the initial game array.
7.5 points. In the last round Sri Sooraj M us to conduct one more tournament.
44 Abhishek Kumar 5
(Solution on page 48) R signed peace with top seed Sri. Gunase-
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Final ranking 41 Rejith Babu C 5½ Hatsun Idhayam 5th FIDE Rated Chess Tournament, Virudhunagar
Rank Name
1 Sooraj M R
Pts
8
42
43
Shreyas Arun
Sreerag M R
5½
5½
Muthiah AL is Champion
2 Abdul Majeed N. 7½ 44 Freddin V Jose 5½ Prof. R. Anantharam IA, Chief Arbiter
3 Gunasekaran K. 7 45 Arnav Dawn 5½
4 Suresh P K 7 46 Sreedil Lal 5½ The 5th edition of the Hatsun Idhayam Maheswaran of Postal Services, M Pranesh
5 Nijai Giri 7 47 Rajkrishna T D 5½ FIDE rated chess tournament was organ- and Sa Kannan won their
6 Abhinav C Santhalayan 7 48 Satheesh A S 5½ ised by VIrudhunagar Chess Club at VSVn respective games creating a six way tie for
7 Vishnu Menon 7 49 Mohammed Salih Pk/Bl 5½ Polytechnic College, Virudhunagar from the first place. Muthaiah and Chakravarthy
50 Sunilkumar P K 5½ 5th to 8th October 2019. Three hundred remained identical in all the five tie breaks
8 Raveendran C.R. 7 51 Pravin P 5½ and eighteen players from Tamil Nadu, to tie for the first and second rank. They
9 Madhusoodanan K.R. 7 52 Shane Joseph 5½ Karnataka, Kerala, AP, Maharashtra, Del- shared the prize money and the champi-
10 Felix Moothedath 7 53 Kutty T P C 5½ hi and Pondicherry took part in the four on of the tournament was decided by an
11 Abdulkhader A. 7 54 Sidharth Rajeev 5½ day-eight round tournament. International Armageddon play off. Muthaiah, playing
12 Raju S 6½ 55 Safar Hussain 5½ master A Ra Harikrishnan of Chennai was with black pieces defeated Chakravarthy to
13 Raju O A 6½ 56 Sibin Paul 5½ the top seed followed by IM Muthaiah AL be declared as the champion. Sa Kannan,
14 John Veny Akkarakaran 6½ 57 Peter K P 5½ of Tamil Nadu and IM Chakravarthy Reddy Pranesh, Harikrishnan,Maheswaran and
15 Joy Antony 6½ 58 Mishail Rashid 5½ of Telangana. Manigandan S S finished third to seventh
16 Bright Lee M Sunilkumar 6½ 59 Uthara S 5½ in that order.
17 Mihir A K 6½ 60 Lakshanaa R 5½ Surprisingly, all the seeded players had a
18 Vishnu Dath V D 6½ 61 Meenakshi Sundaram 5 smooth sailing until the fourth round. In Sri VVR Muthu, Managing Director Idhayam
19 Jos Paul Davis 6½ 62 John Paul P J 5 the fifth round, SS Manigandan of Madurai Group of Industries inaugurated the tour-
20 Ebin Benny 6½ 63 Raju Vislavath 5 held international master AL Muthaiah to a nament. On the final day, Sri A. Gopalsamy,
21 Nithyan S 6½ 64 Fizan Ahil K P 5 draw and Sa Kannan of Karaikudi forced his President Virudhunagar District Chess As-
22 Jyothika U R 6½ 65 Gowrichander U 5 city mate and IM norm holder M Pranesh to sociation presided over the meeting and Sri
23 Joy Lazar M.A. 6 66 Gokul K K 5 a draw. Four players, IM Harikrishnan, IM VVR Muthu was the chief guest. Sri VMG
24 Mohanan U.C. 6 67 Arjun Das C P 5 Chakravarthy Reddy, Senthil Maran of TN Rajasekaran President of Virudhunagar
25 Adra P 6 68 Madhu P P 5 and Sharsha Backer of Kerala were leading Chess Club, Sri.VPPKC Narayanamoorthy,
26 Anilkumar O.T. 6 69 Snehapalan L 5 with full five points at the end of the fifth Secretary VSVN Polytechnic College, Sri. R.
27 Nandish V S 6 70 Aman George Thomas 5 round. The top board games between the Mariappan, Secretary, Virudhunagar Chess
28 Prasad Subramanian 6 71 Hrithwik Sadanandan 5 four leaders ended without any decisive Club and TKSP Sankara Pandian were the
29 Adithya S 6 72 Madhav Krishna U 5 result. Pranesh, M BharathKalyan and B guests of honour.
30 Surya Jaya 6 73 Gautham P R 5 Selvamurugan of Tamil Nadu registered
31 Aswin.P.G 6 74 Joseph P Kuriype 5 victories to join the four leaders with 5.5 Final ranking
points each, after six rounds. Rk Name Pts
32 Satheesh M 6 75 Antony Simethy 5
1 IM Muthaiah Al 7
33 Naveen Ramdas 6 76 Laiju Ct 5 2 IM Chakravarthi Reddy M 7
34 Ashil A J 6 77 Angelo Lijo 5 Among the sixth round leaders, only the
3 AGM Sa Kannan
35 Nivin Ravichandran 6 78 Nagasaireddy Patlola 5 first and third seeds Harikrishnan and 7
36 Srihari Satheeswaran 6 79 Subramanian P V 5 Chakravarthy recorded wins to set up a 4 FM Pranesh M 7
37 Nishad A 6 80 Heera P 5 clash between them in the final round with 5 IM Harikrishnan.A.Ra 7
6.5 points each. Eight players including 6 FM Maheswaran P. 7
38 Pournami S 6 81 Sachin Rao 5
second seeded Muthaiah trailed behind 7 Manigandan S S 6½
39 Sharath E. 5½ 82 Vinod K Kuttappan 5 8 Sharsha Backer 6½
40 Yashwanth R 5½ 83 Karthik P S 5 with six points each. While Hari and Char-
9 Rathish T.J. 6½
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10 Arunkumar Mutthukumar 6½ 60 Siva A C 5 2nd Hyderabad All India Below 1400 FIDE Rating Tournament 2019
11 Senthil Maran K 6 61 Abi A 5
12 Selvamurugan B 6 62 Sathyan P Muthukrishnan 5 Arghya Sen of West Bengal is Champion
13 Ram S. Krishnan 6 63 Shadhursshaan R 5 by Promodraj Moree IA,,Chief Arbiter.
14 Manoj B 6 64 Karthi Ganes M 5
15 Suganthan S 6 65 Karuppasamy C 5
2nd Hyderabad All India Below 1400 FIDE cash prize of Rs. 50,000/- and Runner up
16 Prasannaa.S 6 66 Shanthosh R 5
17 Aakash G 6 67 Prakaash S A Krishna 5 rating chess tournament was conducted at Bharatraj got 25,000/- and 3rd placed Pa-
18 Tamizh Selvan Ganesan 6 68 Arul Anandh S P K 5 the L.B.Stadium for 3 days from 11th to supula Teja Sree took Rs. 13,000/-. Total
19 Thiyagarajan Tamilselvi 6 69 Balaji V 5 13th of October 2019. 607 players from Rs. 3,90,000/- was distributed among 50
20 Vaibhav Singh Verma 6 70 Vignesh Kannan P 5 all over India participated in the event. prize winners.In the glittering prize distri-
21 Balaji P 6 71 Infant Jose H 5 Top seed of the event was Raju Salandri bution ceremony Chief Guest Sri N Ram-
22 Dinesh Rajan M 6 72 Gokul Ravichandran 5
of Andrapradesh. 283 International (FIDE) achandhra Rao, MLC, and guest of honors
23 Kathiravan M. 6 73 Shiva Rajan K 5
24 Kumaresh A 6 74 Surya Sathiaguru 5 Rated players from 19 states those are Tel- Dr. Dipak Ripote, IRS, Commissioner of
25 Suthershun A 6 75 Vidula Anbuselvan 5 angana, Andhra Pradesh, Tamilnadu, Kar- Incomtax, Sri K S Prasad, Secretary-TSCA
26 Aswath S 6 76 Ahalya A 5 nataka, Maharastra, Goa, Madhya Pradesh, distributed the trophies and cash prizes to
27 Anilkumar K.V. 6 77 Bharkavi S 5 Orissa, Punjab, West Bengal, Bihar, Ut- the winners. Organizing committee B Raja
28 Ethan V Johnson 6 78 Kavitha P L 5 tarpradesh, Haryana, Kerala,Chattisgarh, Sekhar of Prufer Logic , Prashanth Goud
29 Gokul S 6 79 Subramanian T.V. 5
Gujarat, Jharkhand, Jammu Kashmir and of Spoothy Chess Academy , Mr. Suman of
30 Jayadev R Balan 6 80 Manoharan V P 5
31 Barath Kalyan M 5½ 81 Rohan Anand 5 Delhi. Joykids and Mr. M S Reddy of Anand Chess
32 Eshwanth Dev Kumar J 5½ 82 Divin S V 5 Academy were also present.
33 Dhanasekar K. 5½ 83 Shibin Shipru S S 5 The event was inaugurated by Chief Guest
34 Dharmaraj P. 5½ 84 Jagendran Kamak N 5 Dr. K Narasaiah, Deputy Director-Techni- Final ranking
35 Narayan Iyengar 5½ 85 Parthiban V 5 cal- Sports Authority of Telangana State Rk Name Pts
36 Jack Samuel 5½ 86 Akshay Prakash T B 5 1 Arghya Sen 8½
(SATS) playing first move. K S Prasad,
37 Raghavendra V 5½ 87 Rakshitha P 5 2 Bharathraj S 8
38 Shaktivel Selvaraj 5½ 88 Harsha Y 5 Secretary-Telangana State Chess Associa-
3 Pasapula Teja Sree 8
39 Akhil Vijayakumar 5½ 89 Yashwant B 5 tion also graced the occasion. 4 Unnikrishnan Sasthamkunnel 8
40 Prawin K 5½ 90 Mukesh N J 5 5 Sami M A 8
41 Kiruthika B 5½ 91 Manikandan C 5 Arghya Sen of West Bengal won the 2nd 6 Satheesh M 7½
42 Raghul Saro S 5½ 92 Divya Sree K 5 Hyderabad All India Below-1400 Fide Rat- 7 Gyaneshwar B 7½
43 Tina C 5½ 93 PremKumar Esakkimuthu 4½ 8 Ramadugu Akshay 7½
ing Chess Tournament (Organized by Prufer
44 Aashish Niranjan B 5½ 94 Swati M 4½ 9 Behara Venkatesh 7½
45 Marimuthu K 5½ 95 Saravanan G 4½ Logic and Spoorthi Chess Acdemy) . He
10 Pragadesh P 7½
46 Umesh P 5½ 96 Riya Shannon S 4½ scored 8.5 points from 9 rounds won the 11 Ravi Raj 7½
47 AIM Arul Prakash N 5½ 97 Nithin A V 4½ championship with clear margin of half a 12 Nihal Swarna 7
48 Sanjay Ganesh Pandi 5½ 98 Yadhu Krishna M L 4½ point ahead of his followers. He is unde- 13 Amol Ramteke 7
49 Sajan J 5½ 99 Stepheena S 4½ feated player in the tournament with 8 wins 14 Sree Hari Y 7
50 Murugesan G 5½ 100 Sreevathsan H 4½ 15 Sai Siddharth U 7
and a single draw from 9 rounds. There was
51 Krishan A 5½ 101 Devin S V 4½ 16 Gowri Karthikeyan 7
52 Sooriya B Y 5 102 Sherlina S 4½ a four way tie for second place between
17 Rayudu Sai Charan Raj 7
53 Manikanda Prabhu B V 5 103 Sarvesh Aadityaa R 4½ Bharatraj (TN), Pasupula Teja Sree (AP) ,S 18 Silambarasan P 7
54 Kanish Vikraman Adithan 5 104 Sugan Rithik K S 4½ Unnikrishnan (Kerala), M A Sami(Kerala) all 19 Sahu Deepak 7
55 Sanil S 5 105 Dhanu Dharsan K S 4½ scoring 8 points each , but due to better 20 Nisikant Pattnaik 7
56 Logesh Sanmugam S 5 106 Guruvignesh V 4½ tie break score Bharatraj (TN), Pasupula 21 Rajendra Singh 7
57 Gokulakrishna S 5 107 Sam Sudharshan 4½ 22 Sureka Akshat 7
Teja Sree (AP) are placed 2nd and 3rd.
58 Nagarajan P 5 108 Srinivasaraj S 4½ 23 Gade Vishal 7
59 Leaha B 5 24 Vignesh Advaith Vemula 7
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25 Srinivas Gopal Reddy K 7 75 Shrish S Amin 6 Kurnool District Open Fide Rating Chess Tournament, Nandyala
26 Syed Ali 7 76 Deepika P 6
27 Allampati Kovidh Kushal Reddy 7 77 Selvaraj Mahendran 6 Bharath Kumar Reddy Poluri Wins
28 Ajay Kumar Vemuluri 7 78 Bilal Mohammed 6 by IA Venkata Kumar G , Chief Arbiter
29 Bidyut Kr. Mondal 7 79 Uday Kiran Kumar P 6
30 Shaik Jani Basha 7 80 Hankare Ashish 6
31 Mallesh Beerla 7 81 Lalit Kumar D 6
Bharath Kumar Reddy of Telangana won of Ramakrishna PG College, P Dastagiri
32 Abishek K 7 82 Raghavendra Naik 6 Kurnool District Open Fide Rating Chess Reddy,Chairman of Sri Guru Raghavendra
33 Srivardhan Reddy Devareddy 7 83 Upade Dhiraj 6 Tournament held at Shri Rama Krishna PG Banking Coaching Center, Andhra Pradesh
34 Saket Atul Kumar 6½ 84 Odela Ranjith 6 College, SBI Colony, Nandyala, Kurnool State Chess Association gave away the
35 Ghorghate Sahil 6½ 85 Shashank K 6 District, Andhra Pradesh (Organized by trophies and cash prizes to the winners.
36 Varadharajan I. 6½ 86 Vinit K 6
Andhra Pradesh Chess Association ) from Sri S Sudhakar, Santhinikethan Group of
37 Sarvani Cheedella 6½ 87 Praveen P S 6
38 Raju Salandri 6½ 88 Khandrika Aahlad Karthik 6 09th to 13th October 2019. In the final Schools Adviser, Sri J V Lakshmi Kanth
39 Manoj E T 6½ 89 Anil Pradhan 6 round he defeated Ganesh Sai Siddarth S Reddy, Chairman of LKR Institutions, Smt
40 Pratham Shrivastav 6½ 90 Srinivas Bangarapu 6 (Telangana) to become winner with clear G Vijaya Kumari, RK Ins., Sports Director,
41 Vishwa Teja B 6½ 91 Vijayendrakumar D N 6 margin of half point. Bharath Kumar Reddy Sri V Satyanaryana Rao, Presindent Kur-
42 Vihaan Chowdhary N 6½ 92 Uttham Naresh P 6 Poluri Scored 8.5 points out of 9 rounds nool District, K B Sesha Reddy, Secretary
43 Hriday Nikshipt Adari 6½ 93 Tawari Manas 6
with single draw and winning all rounds Kurnool District, G Hemanth Reddy,Dean
44 Sanikommu Manasvi 6½ 94 Trinadharao S 6
45 Nandha Kumar M 6½ 95 Anubhav Singhal 6 without any loss. Swaraj Palit of Jharkhand of RK PG & Degree College, IA G Venkata
46 Atul Bihari Sharan 6½ 96 Pavan Kumar Posa 6 got runner up with 8 points out of 9 rounds. Kumar – Joint Secretary APCA graced the
47 Srikanth T J V K 6½ 97 Nigamaa Sree D 6 Shanmukha Pulli got 3rd place with scored occasion.
48 Mane Sandeep 6½ 98 Duvvuri S Subrahmanyam 6 7.5 points out of 9 rounds.
49 Jyothi Kiran P 6½ 99 Sajitha B 6 The chief arbiter was IA Venkata Kumar G
50 Biswajith Krishna Ch 6½ 100 Abhinav Ram Bommakanti 6
Winner Bharath Kumar Reddy P got winner (A P), the deputy chief arbiter was FA Vam-
51 Dravid T 6½ 101 Srinadh Madhavarapu 6
52 Gagan 6½ 102 Murthy Vijaykumar Madar 6 trophy and cash prize of Rs. 10,000/- and si Krishna R (A P). NA Md Hussain Babu
53 Vijay Prajwal P 6½ 103 Guna Sekhar G (Chittoor) 6 Runner up Swaraj Palit got 7,000/- and Khan P (A P) and NA Gangadasari Rama
54 Maria Wilson 6½ 104 Pritam Siddarth Thota 6 3rd place Shanukha Pulli took home Rs. Subba Reddy (A P) weree deputy arbiters.
55 Damodar Mundrikeri 6½ 105 Jagadish G Baluragi 6 5,000/-. A total of Rs. 32000 was distrib-
56 Khan Raees Ahmed 6½ 106 Sadhwani Prince Kailash 6 uted among 12 prize winners. The event Final ranking
57 Patnana Kishore Rajan 6½ 107 Sharma Ritin 6
had 160 participants (including 40 Fide Rk Name Pts
58 Rachita Sabbathi 6½ 108 Ravi Palsule 6
Rated ) from Andhra Pradesh, Telanga- 1 Bharat Kumar Reddy Poluri 8½
59 Vishal Kumar Singh 6½ 109 Mallikarjuna V 6
60 Joshi Swarup 6½ 110 Satya Sai Vardhan P 6 na, Jharkhand, Karnataka and Tamilnadu 2 Swaraj Palit 8
61 Anand Harjee Singh 6½ 111 Ananth Kota 6 states. 3 Shanmukha Pulli 7½
62 Edwin Nelson S 6½ 112 Sawant Sanskruti 6 4 Srinivasa Rao Tummalapali 7
63 Vikash Kumar Satnami 6½ 113 Krishna Sai V 6 The tournament was inaugurated by Chief 5 Surya Raghava I 7
64 Neeraj Dharwan 6 114 Roshan Lal Kumbharani 6 6 Suresh Kolavapalli 7
Guest Sri Pocha Brahmananda Reddy,MP,
65 Ganesh K N 6 115 Vandan Alankar Sawai 6 7 Veera Phani Sai Teja K 7
66 Vinnakota Sashank 6 116 Shashikant Ravindra Rajhans 6 Nandyala , Andhra Pradesh State Chess
Association and S Venkata Krishna, Mu- 8 Jerush Vijay V 7
67 Sunil Gokhale 6 117 Sanjib Chatterjee 6
9 Kavyasree T V S 7
68 Nayan Chandrabhan Ramteke 6 118 Kavya N 6 nicipal Commissioner Nandyala.
69 Karan Pandita 6 119 Yashodarshan Kalmanoor 5½ 10 Ganesh Sai Siddarth S 6½
70 Mamidala Venugopal 6 120 Kannuru Ananth Kumar 5½ 11 Subba Rao P Venkata 6½
In the glittering prize distribution cere-
71 Vijendra Victor 6 121 Tarun K C 5½ 12 Mahammad Usman Gani S 6½
mony Chief Guest Sri Pocha Brahmananda
72 Mohan Sapa 6 122 Shamkumar Malayil 5½ 13 Aditya E 6½
73 Rikesh Kumar Sahoo 6 123 Yogesh M 5½ Reddy- Member of Parliament Nandya-
14 Abhinav Bhatt 6
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15 Srinivas Kamisetty 6 60 Md Shoaibullah Khan 5 All India Open FIDE Rapid Rating Chess tournament2019, Nagpur
16 Neeharika B 6 61 Madivada Bhavana 5
17 Majji Ram Charan Teja 6 62 Hameed Basha M 5 GM R R Laxman wins
18 Achyutha Rama Raju Y B 6 63 Yeleswarapu Rama Sreekar 5 by IA Swapnil Bansod, Chief Arbiter
19 Saragada Ashok Kumar 6 64 Arkojyoti Banerjee 5
20 Surya S S 6 65 Shaik Adnaan Ameen 5 The All India Open FIDE Rapid Rating Chess IM Sai Agni Jeevitesh and Local boy Jay
21 Gollakaram Vishnu Sri Vardhan 6 66 Chahana Somashekar 5 tournament 2019 was organised by Jai Sai Sawalakhe stood 3rd to 5th respectively.
22 Tatarao Mylapalli 6 67 Banoth Kishan 5 Welfare foundation at Naivedhyam North
23 Vishnu Karthikeya D 6 68 Yuvanshankar S 5 Star, Koradi Road, Nagpur from 31st Oc- The Prizes were distributed by Shri. Pi-
24 Nesar P Shetty 6 69 Vibhuvan V 5 tober to 1st November 2019. yush Ambulkar, Sport Dept, Krida San-
25 Prabhakar Konparthi 6 70 Sanjana Priya Gosula 5 skritik Officer, Other guests present were
26 Raghunadha Rao K 6 71 Ravikumar Avuti 4½ The tournament was inaugurated on 31st Shri. Manish Tiwari, Executive Naivedhyam
27 Durga Praveen Saragada 6 72 Vincent 4½ October 2019 at 10 AM at the hands of North Star, FA Umesh Panbude Tournament
28 Ci Naga Sri Vardhan Chowdary 6 73 Noushad Khan Pathan 4½ Master Rounak Sadhwani, the first and Secretary NDCA, SNA Sushant Jumde, Or-
29 Kalidoss Petchi Ganesh N 6 74 Abbas Shaik 4½ the youngest Grand Master from Nagpur. ganising Secretary and IA Swapnil Bansod
30 Deepika Pagidala 6 75 Bhargava Susanth Saketh M 4½ The eminent Guests present were Shri Chief Arbiter.
31 Riya Hrishikesh Thale 6 76 Ganesh Babu P 4½ Dilip Kamdar, President NDCA, K.K Barat
32 Hemanth Kumar Reddy B H K 6 77 Naga Srinish K 4½ Secretary NDCA, Shri. R.N Shriwas, Sec- Chief Arbiter IA Swapnil Bansod headed the
33 Kolla Bhaavan 5½ 78 Lovi Tarun Durga Sai 4½ retary VCA and also Shri Bharat Sadhwani team of Arbiters consisting of FA Deepak
34 Sathwik Palangi 5½ 79 Seelam Jashwanth 4½
and Mrs. HeenaSadhwani (parents of Rau- Chavan Dy Chief, FA Umesh Panbude, NA
35 Seetasagar Konaparthi 5½ 80 Penugonda Sri Viswa Teja 4½
nak Sadhwani), Tournament Organizing Amit Tembhurne, NA Jitendra Sharma, NA
36 Mouli Lovi 5½ 81 Vaishnavi Pv 4½
Secretary of Jai Sai Welfare Foundation Ashindra Yadav who ably assisted him.
37 Anoushka Bhatt 5½ 82 Bhuvana Koppineni 4½
and Shri Swapnil Bansod, Chief Arbiter of
38 Rajkumar D 5½ 83 Likhitha Mamidi 4½
Tournament
39 Desmond Dass Mallem 5½ 84 Sashi Rekha V 4½
Final ranking :
40 Karthikeya R 5½ 85 Aashritha Maanvi K 4½
41 Gajjala Mahesh Babu 5½ 86 Jaswanth Naik E 4½
The tournament was of total 9 rounds in
Swiss system format. The tournament at- Rk Name Pts
42 Charan Teja Sana 5½ 87 Sandeep K 4½
tracted 220 participants from all over In- 1 GM Laxman R.R. 8
43 Amulya Palangi 5½ 88 Shaik Babjan 4½ 2 FM Shailesh Dravid 8
44 Mulakala Satya Rakesh 5½ 89 Musalaiah Penjarthi 4 dia which included 1 GM, 4 IMs, 1 FM and
3 IM Mohammad Nubairshah
45 Sesha Reddy K B 5½ 90 Poojit P 4 130 FIDE Rated players. It had been very Shaikh 7½
46 Jaswanth Reddy A 5½ 91 Rohith Babu P 4 tough fight from round one till the last 4 IM Sai Agni Jeevitesh J 7½
47 Kedhar V N S N 5½ 92 Vivekananda A 4 round. IM Sai Agni Jeevitesh of Telangana 5 Sawalakhe Jay 7½
48 Kandanathi Chittem Krishna Sai 5½ 93 Sindhura K M S L 4 leading the event with 7.5 pts at the end of 6 IM Sankalp Gupta 7
penultimate round. GM R R Laxman of ICF, 7 Patil Priyanshu 7
49 Dhanunjaya Chary A V 5½ 94 Venkata Shanmukha Reddy 4
8 IM Girinath P.D.S. 7
50 Bhanuprakash P V 5 95 Vallapu Lakshmi Kumar 4 FM Shailesh Dravid of MAH, KshitijMudli-
9 Mudliyar Kshitij 7
51 Tharun Kumar Reddy V 5 96 Malapati Sreenivasa Reddy 4 yar of MAH following him with 7 pts each 10 Suraj Jaiswal 7
52 Palem Stalin 5 97 Peetla Lakshmi Sandeep 4 on 2nd spot. In the last round game FM 11 Gawai Siddhant 7
53 Madisetti Baby Jahnavi 5 98 Pagadala Abhiram 4 Shailesh Dravid beat IM Sai Agni Jeevitesh 12 Vaibhav Jayant Raut 7
54 Satyanarayana Rao V 5 99 Choppa Madhu Dhanush Teja 4 of Tel while on 2nd board KshitijMudliyar 13 Saurabh Lokhande 7
55 Venkata Sai Jagadesh 5 100 Harsha Vardhan Achari U 4 of Nagpur MAH lost to GM R R Laxman. 14 Dhanvij Ansh 7
56 Godugula Bharadwaj 5 101 Pravallika Yalluri 4 15 Shanmukha Pulli 6½
GM Laxman and FM Shailesh tied for 1st
16 Gaigore Sanskar 6½
57 Sai Krishna K V 5 102 Pradhani Shanmukha Ganesh 4 place with 8 pts each, but better tiebreaker 17 Piyush Narsikar 6½
58 Chavala Harathi 5 score helped GM R R Laxman to clinch the 18 Chitre Arush 6½
59 Arlagadda Vamsidhara Reddy 5 title. IM Mohd. Nubairshah Shaikh of MAH, 19 AGM Shivasubramanian R 6½

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20 Krishna Taori 6½ 69 Alok Singh Kshatri 5 3rd RGS Guwahati India Open Fide Rating Chess Tournament, Guwahati
21 Raut Kailash 6½ 70 Oojasv Goswami 5
22 Bodkhe Aditya 6½ 71 Patil Aditi G 5 GM Vasquez Schroeder Rodrigo of Chile clinches title
23 Prerak Jayant Darvekar 6½ 72 Wadhwani Kapil 5
24 Vivaan Vijay Saraogi 6 73 Shubhrato S Gour 5
by IA V.Lesunathan Anandh, Chief Arbiter
25 Vedant Bhardwaj 6 74 Shirbhate Suryansh 5
26 Dishank Sachin Bajaj 6 75 Sai Rahul Tarekar 5 The tournament was organized by Assam bramaniam from ICF, Chennai and the IM
27 Shah Asif 6 76 Junghare Aditya 5 Chess Club, unit of sports promotion NGO elect Koustav Chatterjee from West Bengal.
28 Srivastava V.K. 6 77 Rishabh Agrawal 5 Akshayam and Royal Global School under
29 Deogade Salil 6 78 Kumbhalkar Sparsh 5
the aegis of All Assam Chess Association The event was conducted under the Swiss
30 Mayur S Shelke 6 79 Saksham Singh 5
31 Raja Mohammad 6 80 Kalbende Vedant 5 ,All India Chess Federation and the World League with 10 rounds , time control of
32 Marsattiwar Yash 6 81 Deshmukh Deep 5 Chess Federation(FIDE) from 7th to 12th 90 min plus 30 sec increment from move
33 Tiwari O P 6 82 Akshat Goverdhan October 2019. No.1 ,all the three Halls were centrally air
34 Pujjam Bansod 6 Virkunvar 5 conditioned , for all players good vegetar-
35 Batham Avinash 6 83 Aniket Pawar 5 The 3rd RGS Guwahati India Open Inter- ian food was served free of cost by the or-
36 Deshpande Suhan 6 84 Narayan Rai 5
national Rating Chess tournament 2019 ganizer in the School Canteen.Also for the
37 Prasannakumar Nayak 6 85 Kolhe Shruti 5
38 Geetesh Mishra 6 86 Nachankar Harsh 5 was inaugurated on 7th October 2019 by first time in the North east part of India,
39 Hirani Lakshya 6 87 Rathi Nitish 5 Sri Keshab Mahanta, Honourable Minis- live broadcast was done for the top games
40 Sahoo Devendra Kumar 6 88 Vritika Krushna Game 5 ter, Government of Assam in the presence of the tournament.
41 Sarth Sachin Padghan 6 89 Shrirame Praveen 5 of Arjuna Awardee International Master
42 Rajendra Singh 6 90 Nishith Pagaria 5 Sri D.V Prasad, first International player Top seed Grand Master Vasquez Schroeder
43 Kulkarni Nilay 6 91 Bahadure Shreyas 5
from North East Sri A.B Meetei of Manipur, Rodrigo of Chile clinched the Champion’s
44 Singh Sanjay 6 92 Meshram Harshal 5
45 Prathmesh Dharmdhikari 6 93 Sasane Ganesh 5 Amitabh Basumatary, Additional SP, As- title of the 3rd RGS Guwahati India Open
46 Chhabda Soham 6 94 Nilesh Sathawane 5 sam Police and host of players officials and International Rating Chess Tournament
47 Bhosale Tejaswi 6 95 Gillurkar Palash 5 guest. The tournament is being supported 2019.The Prize Distribution ceremony was
48 Ravi Kumar K 5½ 96 Pandit Malay 5 by Government of Assam, Life Insurance attended by Member of Parliament Queen
49 Lonkar Parth 5½ 97 Bajaj Shraddha 5 Corporation of India Limited (LIC), ONGC, Ojha, LakhyaKonwar Member Secretary
50 Dande Vyankatesh S 5½ 98 Atharva Ghugal 5
Assam Tourism, Numaligarh Refinery Lim- (SLAC) Govt of Assam, Mridul Kumar Ma-
51 Suresh Kolavapalli 5½ 99 Borkar Rudraksh 5
52 Ramteke Sumedh 5½ 100 Dnyaneshwar Wardhekar 5 ited (Limited) among others.The event has hanta, Additional Secretary (WPT&BC),Govt
53 Arun Kumar G 5½ 101 Jethwani Himani 4½ been covered by AsomiyaPratidin, The Tel- of Assam, Deba Kumar Mishra Director of
54 Wanjari Krupal 5½ 102 Saksham Omer 4½ egraph, Northeast Live and Prag Channel Tourism, Govt of Assam, Ritubaran Shar-
55 Shoan Raj 5½ 103 Naresh Kantode 4½ as Media Partner. ma, Vice Chairman, Amtron, Atanu Lahiri,
56 Gahine Ashish 5½ 104 Tm Kawadkar 4½ Joint Secretary, All India Chess Federation,
57 Sanjay Kumar Mittal 5½ 105 Chhabda Aishita 4½
A total of 356 players from Belgium, Chile, Santanu Kalita, Vice President, Assam Box-
58 Ramteke Vivek 5½ 106 Chandankhede Yashika 4½
59 Keram Rhutupearn 5½ 107 Ankush Chore 4½ Thailand, Phillipines, Bangladesh,Nepal and ing Association, AnkurDeka, Sr. Journalist,
60 Bahalkar Aarya 5½ 108 Junghare Avanti 4½ host India are participating in this 6 days Assam Tribune and Amitabh Basumatary,
61 Bhake Vallabh 5½ 109 Ishwar Ramteke 4½ International event which had a total prize President, Organizing Committee and host
62 Jagdish Narang 5½ 110 Agrawal Shamit 4½ money of Rs 10 lakhs in which the partic- of other guest and officials.
63 Bawangade Krish 5 111 Harshavardhan ipants icluded 2 Grand Masters- Vasquez,
64 Ramteke Ayush 5 Ravindra Chatte 4½
Grand Master SriramJha from LIC and In- All the participants were provided free
65 Vinay V. Barhanpure 5 112 Abhir Sandeep Dhote 4½
66 Manthan Vijayrao Kale 5 113 Nihaan Pohane 4½ ternational Master Dhulipala Bala Chandra lunch during the event. The outstation
67 Himanshu Jethwani 5 114 Sharma Sai 4½ Prasad from Andhra Pradesh, Siddhant participants were provided air-conditioned
68 Siddhant Purushottam 115 Shailendra G Pohekar 4½ Mohapatra from Odishsa, Sayantan Das furnished accommodation in the school
Pitlawar 5 116 Bhange Adityasing 4½ from West Bengal and Ramnathan Balasu- hostel adjacent to the playing venue while

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the Grandmasters, International Masters 39 Ningthem Oinam MAN 7 World Junior Chess Championships 2019, New Delhi
40 Sanjit Saha KAR 7
and officials were accommodated in hotels.
41 Aman Kumar BIH 7
Evgeny Shtembuliak and Polina Shuvalova win titles
Final ranking
42 Silkam Sangma MEG 6½
Evgeny Shtembuliak of Armenia and
Rk Name Club Pts 43 Nepal Prakash NEP 6½
Polina Shuvalova of Russian performed
1 GM Vasquez Schroeder Rodrigo CHI 9 44 Rathore S.K. MP 6½
45 Anadkat Kartavya GUJ 6½
to expectations to clinch their maiden
2 Koustav Chatterjee WB 8½
46 Neelabh Jyoti Borthakur ASS 6½\ World Junior Titles on October 24th
3 IM Dhulipalla Bala Chandra P AP 8
47 Hrengsa Lalrinsanga MZI 6½ 2019 in New Delhi.In the final round
4 FM Kulpruethanon Thanadon Tha 8
48 Sharma Aribam M. MAN 6½ Polina playing black drew in just 30
5 IM R. Balasubramaniam TN 8
6 Panta Sumit NEP 8 49 Priyangshu Mazumder ASS 6½ moves against China’s Song Yuxin and
7 Singh Y. Dhanabir MAN 8 50 Saurabh Kumar BIH 6½ took the Girl’s title with a tally of 9.5
8 Trivedi Karan R GUJ 8 51 Arun Som ASS 6½ points from 11 rounds.
9 IM Das Sayantan WB 7½ 52 Dupit Tabu Aru 6½
10 Prakash Ram PUN 7½ 53 Gias Uddin Ahmed BAN 6½ Seventh seed Shtembuliak outplayed
11 IM Sidhant Mohapatra ODI 7½ 54 Rijied Katrai MEG 6½ Russian prodigy Volodar Murzin in 63
12 Vipul Subhashi BIH 7½ 55 Gouranga Sonowal ASS 6½ moves and raised his tally to 9 points
13 CM Shahil Dey ASS 7½ 56 Pran Govinda Parashar to win the gold. His compatriot, Ar-
14 Singh Soram Rahul ASS 7½ Kashyap ASS 6½ menia’s Shant sargsyan overpowered
15 Imtiaz Islam Bora ASS 7½ 57 Mrinmoy Rajkhowa ASS 6½ Spain’s Miguel Santos Ruiz in a marathon 95 moves to take the silver medal.Yet another
16 Subedi Rajan NEP 7½ 58 Pheephacharakan Armenian Aram Hakobyan claimed the bronze following a 64 move draw with India’s hope
17 Lama Surbir NEP 7½ Pinatpong Tha 6½ and third seed Aravind Chithamabaram.
18 Elangbam Shashikanta S MAN 7½ 59 Gapur Dupit Aru 6½
19 Portugalera Ric Phil 7½ 60 Khanindra Barman ASS 6½ Iran’s Mobina Alnasab fought or 67 moves to beat Kazakhsthan’s Bibisara Assaubayeva
20 Gurung Rohit SIK 7½ 61 Abhinav Dubey ASS 6½ for the girl’s silver.The bronze was won by the Russian girl Eliaveta Solozhenkina who pre-
21 Mayank Chakraborty ASS 7½ 62 Dupit Tachung Aru 6½ vailed over her team mate Dinara Dordzhieva in a marathon game which lasted 83 moves.
22 Dhar Rajib ASS 7 63 Mara Tapung Pogia Aru 6½ After three years India again missed out on a podium finish.Second seed Murali Karthikey-
23 GM Sriram Jha DEL 7 64 Dhruv Phukan ASS 6½
an signed off with a win in the final round and finished fifth.
24 Barbe Tom BEL 7 65 Rintu Brahma ASS 6½
25 Apollosana Mangang 66 Nishanta Das ASS 6½
Among the girls Aakanshka Hagawane also won the last round to finish fifth, the best re-
Rajkumar MAN 7 67 Nalo Dr. Taga ARU 6½
sult by an Indian girl. K.Praggnanandhaa
26 Singh Bhogen R K MAN 7 68 Pranit Malhotra ASS 6½
was held by K.S.Raghunandan and Luke
27 FM Wiwatanadate Poompong Thai 7 69 Moirangthem Modhusudon MAN 6½
Mendonca and Harsha Bharathakoti
28 Tuhin Kashyap ASS 7 70 Kirison Engti ASS 6½
71 Md Ardash Ali ASS 6½
played fought a 83 move draw.N.Priyan-
29 FM Habla Jony Phil 7
72 Abhiraj Banerjee WB 6½ ka missed out on the chances of a medal
30 Cheniram Pegu ASS 7
73 Ashvin Sharma ASS 6 following a 53 move defeat to Ukraine’s
31 Rakesh Chakravorty ASS 7
74 Diya Chowdhury WB 6 Marria Berdnyk.
32 FM Hamal Manish NEP 7
33 Imocha Laishram ASS 7 75 Hage Lasa Nado Aru 6 Medallists(Open):1.Evgeny Shtembuliak
34 Mughaho Awomi NAG 7 76 Ishan Ghosh (Siliguri) WB 6 (Ukraine) 2.Shant Sargsyan (Armenia)
35 Manish Gwra Basumatary ASS 7 77 Iftikar Alom Mazumdar ASS 6 3.Aran Hakobyan (Armenia)
36 Mujhyaman Thakuria ASS 7 78 Rajashekara N NAG 6 Indians placings: Murali Karthikeyan
37 Meetei A.B. MAN 7 79 Rajbeer Ahmed TRI 6 5th; Aravindh Chithambaram 7th;R.
38 Rajdip Das ASS 7 80 Nihad Islam Hazarika ASS 6 Praggnanandhaa 9th.

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Medallists(Girls):1.Polina Shovalova (Russia) 2.Mobina Alinasab(Iran) 3. Eliaveta Solozhen- nent.After 8 rounds,GM Shtembuliak Evgeny and GM Miguel Ruiz
kina (Russia) are in the joint lead with 6.5 points each and the remaining rounds
Indian placings: Aakanshka Hagawane 5th; N.Priyanka 11th;Sakshi Chitlange 13th. promise to be exciting.

Earlier WJCC 2019 inaugration cer- In the girls section was filled with impressive games and decisive
emony was attended by FIDE pres- results.On the top board , Russian WIM Polina Shuvalova played a
ident Mr. Arkady Dvorkovich, Hon. brilliant game to defeat her opponent, WGM Assaubayeva Bibisara
Vice President Mr. D.V Sundar, Pres- of Kazakasthan.Shuvalova found a beautiful combination involving
ident of Asian Zone 3.7 Mr. Ravin- a queen sacrifice that sealed the victory.
dra M Dongre, AICF President Mr. P On the second board,13 year old Indian talent WIM Divya Deshmukh
R Venketrama Raja, AICF Secretary salvaged a draw against WIM Alinasab Mobina of Iran.Divya was
Mr. Bharat Singh Chauhan and Or- struggling throughout the game and was just two pawns down with
ganising Secretary of Delhi Chess a completely lost position but time pressure played it’s part and Ali-
Association Mr. A.K Verma.Mr.Arkady nasab allowed a perpetual check which led to a draw.
Aakanshka
Dvorkovich spoke about how FIDE On board 6WIM Priyanka Nutakki beat WGM Vaishali R with the Hagawane
values transparency and is trying to white pieces. Fifth place
bring real change in the chess world. After 8 rounds,WIM Polina Shuvalova has emerged as the sole lead-
AICF believes in the President’s vi- er with 7 points and is being trailed closely by WIM Alinasab Mobina
sion and is working with FIDE to- World under-18 champion R. Praggnanandhaa lights the with 6.5 points.
wards this end. traditional lamp, which is usually done in India for an aus-
picious beginning | Photo: Niklesh Jain
World Youth Olympiad (U-16) Corum, Turkey
In the eighth round-
Open category-The 8th round witnessed a bevy of decisive results on the top boards with India finishes seventh
Miguel Ruiz’s 3 back to back victories being especially impressive.GM Miguel Ruiz of Spain At the recently concluded World Youth Olympiad (U-16) held in Corum, Turkey, the Indian
had a difficult opponent in the form of GM Praggnanandhaa R of India and things were team (Seeded 19th) performed above par to finish seventh out of 48 teams. The tourna-
especially tricky since he was surprised right out of the opening.Praggnanandhaa played ment consisted of players from 38 countries and witnessed the participation of prodigies
a variation of the sicilian that he doesn’t from around the world.
usually play but Miguel reacted very well
and with some accurate calculation and The World Youth under-16 Chess
technique,managed to launch a success- Olympiad took place from the 29th
ful kingside attack that got him the full of October to the 11th of Novem-
point.The first board game between Ar- ber in Corum, Turkey. With a mod-
menian GM Shant Sargsyan and Ukrani- est rating average of 2235, the In-
an GM Evgeny Shtembuliak was an inter- dian team this year in the event
esting theoretical battle.Shant, playing was relatively weak and started off
with the white pieces was in the driver’s as the nineteenth seed but the five
seat throughout the game but Shtem- players showed some excellent
buliak played well to hold the draw.On spirit and fought on till the end
Board 3,Indian GM Murali Karthikeyan to finish with a creditable seventh
beat 13 year old Russian prodigy FM Vo- place.
lodar Murzin.Murali displayed good posi-
tional understanding and made the right The Indian contingent started off
GM Karthikeyan Murali (fifth place)
GM R.Praggnanandhaa (ninth place) and manoeuvres to outplay his young oppo- pretty well in the first two rounds
GM V.Aravindh Chithambaram Vr (seventh place)

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beating Thailand B and Turkmenistan by 4-0. In the first round, it was Srihari's quick win SDM Roto Lawyers Cup International FIDE Rated Open Tournament 2019
on board one that set the tone of the rest of the match. Lakshmi got the upperhand when
her opponent blundered under time pressure, while Ajay and Utsab were both in control of GM Girish A Koushik is the Champion
their respective games right from the beginning.But In rounds 3 and 4 India’s performance by Saleem Beig, Chief Arbiter
in the next two rounds was lackluster losing 0.5-3.5 to Uzbekistan and a close 1.5-2.5 to
Kazakhstan. SDM Roto Lawyers Cup International The inaugural ceremony was presided
After shaky performances in the previous rounds the Indian team made a strong come- FIDE Rated Chess Tournament 2019 was over by Sri. Harish Poonja, MLA. Rtn Dr B
back against Malaysia-B in the fifth round. This was a much weaker team in terms of rating held at Shri Manjunatha Swamy Kalabha- Yashovarma, Secretary SDM Educational
and the result clearly reflected that as India pulled off a thumping 3.5-0.5 victory. vana, Belthangady. 150 players from 12 Institutions inaugurated the event. Other
states(AP,GOA,JHA,KAR,KER,MAH,MP,RA- dignitaries present on the dais were B K
The sixth round happened after the rest day and Czech Republic came really well-prepared J,TEL,TN, UP and WB) participated in this Nagesh Murthy, Principal Senior Civil Judge
against India. They surprised by fielding Kristyna Laurincova on the fourth board who was event. There were 30 female players. GM and JMFC Belthangady, K M Anand, Prin-
just exceptionally strong against Utsab Chatterjee's Najdorf and outplayed him right out of Vishnu Prasanna V of TN with an ELO Rating cipal Civil Judge and JMFC Belthangady,
the opening. Aronyak Ghosh and Srihari L won their encounters quite smoothly, while Ajay of 2505 was the top seed and the second Satheesh K G, Additional Civil Judge and
failed to convert an advantageous position and conceded a draw. seed was Karnataka’s latest Grandmaster JMFC Belthangady, Rtn Ranganath Bhat,
Girish A Koushik with an ELO rating of Rtn Rithesh Baliga, Rtn Major General M
The seventh round proved to be a disaster for team India as they were quite simply white- 2501. Totally there were 8 titled players V Bhat, Rtn Jayaram S, President Rotary
washed by Belarus 4-0.Though there was no chances of a medal anymore, the Indian including 4 IM’s and WIM Sharma Isha of Club, Belthangady, Sri Aloysius S Lobo,
players gave their best in the remaining two rounds of the tournament fetching convincing Belthangady. Time control was 90 mins President, Bar Association Belthangady,
victories against Turkey-White and Serbia. each + 30 Sec Increment from move 1. Sri Raghavendra V, Treasurer UKCA and
The 5 day event was conducted from 24th Sri Rathnavarma Bunnu, Chief coordinator
The Indian team consisted of CM Aronyak Ghosh (2380), FM Ajay Karthikeyan (2214), to 28th October 2019, with 2 rounds per
Utsab Chatterjee (2211) and WFM Lakshmi Chidambaram (1859). Rating average -2235. day. The hall was spacious with proper ven- Master of Ceremony was Subramanya
The team Captain/Coach was GM Priyadarshan Kanappan. tilation. As per the Fide rules Clocks were Kumar Agarta, Advocate, Belthangady.
provided to all the boards. Inaugural Move was made by Master Ar-
yaman, Grandson of D Surendra Kumar
Raunak Sadhwani is India’s 65th Grandmaster Arbiters were licensed and had attended Dharmasthala and Dr. B Yashovarma. Lat-
Raunak Sadwani at a tender age of just 13 years 9 months and 28 days has achieved the the refresher course. All the rounds start- er Sri. Harish Poonja, MLA promised to
coveted Grandmaster title to become Nagpur’s 1st and India’s 65th Grandmaster.Raunak’s ed on time. The event started on time and popularize Chess in Government Schools,
first GM norm came in the 2019 Aeroflot Open and the second in the 2019 Porticcio Open. finished on a good note as the prize list by providing coaching and other facilities
and final standings were displayed within to the students during the coming days
In the recently held Fide Grand Swiss Chess.com, Isle of 10 minutes after the last result of the last
Man 2019, for his final norm, Raunak faced all Grandmas- round. The tournament carried a prize fund On day 3 Padma Vibhushan Awardee,
ters.He started his campaign by upsetting Sanan Sjugirov of Rs.4, 00,000/- Dharmadhikari Sri. Veerendra Heggade
(Russia, 2662) and drew with sixth seed Sergey Karjakin along with his wife Smt. Hemavathi D Heg-
(Russia, 2760), Surya Shekhar Ganguly (2658), Ivan Sarin SDM Educational institutions, Rotary gade visited the venue and blessed all the
(Croatia, 2667), Pavel Eljanov (Ukraine, 2663), Peter Leko Club, Belthangady and Bar Association players with his divine powers. He showed
(Hungary, 2670) and Gabriel Sargissian (Armenia, 2690) in Belthangady were the organizers of this keen interest in some of the games going
succession. At the end of the tournament, he had gained event. It was organized under the auspices on and very particularly watched games of
28 rating points and leapfrogged to the stipulated rating of UKCA, AICF and FIDE.Mr.Rathnavarma WIM Isha Sharma and Shabdik Varma of
of 2500 which needed to become a Grandmaster.Five-time Bunnu was the chief Co coordinator of this SDM Institution. Later interacted with the
World Champion Viswanathan Anand congratulated the event. This was the fourth edition of rating Chief Arbiter Saleem Beig about how the
newly minted Grandmaster and welcomed him to the Grandmaster Club. tournament game has evolved from ancient times to
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him the various names of the pieces 7 IM Harikrishnan.A.Ra 6½ Smart Girl All India Open FIDE Rated Chess Tournament,Ernakulam
8 Senthil Maran K 6½
GM Girish A Koushik successfully defended 9 Anilkumar O.T. 6½ Priyanka Bhatt wins Smart Girl at Ernakulam
10 IM Sai Agni Jeevitesh J 6½
the title with 7 and half points.He remained by M.S.Govindan Kutty, Chief Arbiter
11 WIM Michelle Catherina P 6½
undefeated with 3 draws and 6 wins. In the 12 Sreehith Reddy R 6½
final round he drew with Sekar B of Tamil Thirteenth seed Priyanka Bhatt of Uttar Ernakulam Sports Council and Sri Kurian,
13 FM Ramakrishna J. 6½
Nadu. There was a tie for the first place be- 14 WCM Sharma Isha 6½ Pradesh scored 7.0/9 and won the big- Operations Manager, Fragomen India and
tween Girish and IM Chakravarthi Reddy M, 15 Joy Lazar M.A. 6½ gest Smart Girl All India Open FIDE Rated Mr. Abdul Azeez, Chairman Blue Ocean
but in the 6th round Chakravarthi had lost 16 Santoshkashyap Hg 6½ Chess Tournament under the umbrella of Academy, Dubai and Mr.Kannan, Chairman,
17 AIM Komal Srivatsav Sajja 6 AICF’s ambitious project ‘Smart Girl’ or- State Chess in School. Vote of thanks was
to Girish and hence direct encounter came 18 Likhit Chilukuri 6
into play and decided Girish as the winner. ganised by Cognizant Chess Academy on given by Mr.ArunboseVs, Secretary, Er-
19 Raghavendra V. 6
Chakravarthi came second and third place behalf of Chess Association Kerala at Hotel nakulam Chess Association.
20 Parthasarathy R 6
went to Swaraj Palit of Jharkhand who had 21 Paarth P Salvi 6 Mermaid, Ernakulam from 19th to 23rd
a slight advantage in tie breakers over 22 Vigneshwaran S 6 October 2019. In a colourful closing ceremony Shri Rajesh
Sekar B and Balkishen A, as they were 23 Varma Shabdhik 6 Nattakom, General Secretary Chess Associ-
24 AIM Pankaj Bhat 6 At the end of final round, four players tied ation Kerala gave away the prizes in pres-
tied with 7 points each. Swaraj Palit had 25 Sudarshan Bhat 6
a wonderful tournament with wins against for the pole position with 7 points but bet- ence of Shri.Jayasankar ,MD, Malayalam
26 Shree Krishna Pranama 6
GM Vishnu Prasanna V in the 3rd round and ter tie break score helpedPriyanka to finish Group of Industries,Shri. Saju James, MD,
27 Lakshmi Sandeep Naidu V 5½
IM Sai Agni Jeevitesh in the final round. 28 IM Hegde Ravi Gopal 5½ at top while Kerala’s budding talent, mul- Fragomen India,Shri.Kannan Chathuran-
29 Borate Suraj 5½ tiple state champion and former common- ga, Chairman State Chess in School,Sri.
Valedictory Ceremony was presided by Shri 30 Joglekar Abhijit 5½ wealth under-10 Gold medallist , Anupam SajuManjally,State Chess Event Coordina-
31 AFM Dhanush Ram M 5½ M Sreekumar finished as first runner-up. tor,CAK and Shri.Arunbose.V.S, Secretary,
Rtn Rithesh Baliga, Asst Governor zone 32 WCM Shriyana S Mallya 5½
IV,Rtn. Major General M V Bhat, Chairman Divyabharathi Masanam of Tamilnadu and Ernakulam Chess Association.
33 AGM Lakshith B Salian 5½
Organising Committee, Raghavendra V, Prasiddhi Bhat of Karnataka also scored Final ranking
34 Sujay B M 5½
Treasurer UKCA, Rtn Jayaram S, President 35 Narayan Iyengar 5½ identical score of winner but satisfied with Rk Name
Rotary Club Belthangady , Aloysius Lobo, 36 Manvith K 5½ third and fourth finish on tie break. Club Pts
37 Raghavendra Bhandarkar B 5½ 1 Priyanka Bhatt UP 7
President BAR association Belthangady,
38 Sheik Mohammed Irfan 5½ A total of 68 players from six different 2 Anupam M Sreekumar KER 7
Rathnavarma Bunnu, Chief Coordinator 39 Balasubramanian G 5½ states of India participated in the event 3 Divyabharathi Masanam TN 7
SDM Roto Lawyer’s Cup 2019 and Saleem 40 Nambiar Vivek 5
which include 31 international rated play- 4 Prasiddhi Bhat KAR 7
Beig, Chief arbiter were the other Guests. 41 Jatin S N 5
ers. A total of Rs. 110000 prize money 5 Meenu Rajendran KER 6½
Master of ceremony was Pratap Simha Nay- 42 Devi Das Suresh Pai 5
6 Tejaswi R TN 6½
ak.2 Licensed and AICF Registered arbiters, 43 Deepak Pai 5 was distributed among the prize winners,
44 Aathish B Shetty 5 making it the biggest Smart Girl All India 7 Pragnya H G TN 6½
FA Sudeep S and SNA Sakshath U K assist- 8 Harshini A KAR 6½
45 Subramanian T.V. 5 Open ever organized till date.
ed me in the tournament. All the Conditions 46 Aravinda B R 5 9 Harsha R TN 6
stipulated as per AICF and FIDE rules were 47 Kantak Adv. P.M. 5 10 Cuba Punitha Vilvam TN 6
followed in the tournament. In befitting opening ceremony, the five-day
48 WCM Shefali A N 5 11 Aasta Joy EKM 6
Final ranking 49 Priyadarshini Mulloli 5 event was inaugurated by Chief Guest Ms.
12 Kaavyadharsini S TN 6
Rk Name Pts 50 Satheesh M 5 Madhavikutty IAS, Assistant Collector, Er-
13 Jaysree S TN 5½
1 GM Girish A. Koushik 7½ 51 Shashank S Mayya 5 nakulam. It was presided by Subha Rakesh,
14 Vindya Sridhar KAR 5½
2 IM Chakravarthi Reddy M 7½ 52 Jayakrishna H 5 FIDE Arbiter, President of Ernakulam Chess
53 Dilip Kumar Pedda 5 15 M Padma Pratibha TN 5½
3 Swaraj Palit 7 Association & Organising Secretary, Cog-
4 Sekar B 7 54 AFM Rai Shashidhar B 5 16 Athira A J KER 5½
nizance Chess Academy. Welcome speech 17 Gifty R S KER 5½
5 Balkishan A. 7 55 Basavaraj D N Dr. 5
6 GM Vishnu Prasanna. V 6½ 56 Ashika M 5 was delivered by Sibin Raghavan and felic- 18 Sugirtha S TN 5½
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 19 Ashika M KAR 5½ 64 Anugraha Raghupathy EKM 2 Smart Girl FIDE Rated Chess Tournament 2019, Faridabad
20 Rithika S TN 5½ 65 Chinmayee V J TN 2
21 Laxmi Rakesh EKM 5½ 66 Sulekha AD EKM 2 Krishika Garg wins at Faridabad
22 Sahanaa S M TN 5 67 J Sri harshini EKM 1 by FA Rupesh kumar, Chief Arbiter
23 Kowsika A TN 5
24 Mayeesha Zabin S TN 5
25 Mithra M M KER 5 Bohemian with an echo Smart Girl FIDE Rated Chess Tournament Sharma All India Chess Federation Joint
26 Veda Raveendran KER 5 W.A.Shinkman 2019, Faridabad (Only for female players) Secretary; Sanyogita Ma’am – Director of
27 Premakumari Subramanian TN 5 Dubuque Chess Journal 1880 was held at Manav Rachna International Manav Rachna international school; Shri.
28 Niranjana N KER 5 School, Charmwood, Faridabad, Haryana Chauhan sir General Secretary of Guru-
29 Twinkle Riju EKM 5 from 16th October to 20th October 2019.A gram Chess Association; gave away the
30 Monisha S TN 5 total number of 104 players which includ- prizes and trophies to the winners.
31 Vaishnavi S K TN 5 ed 13 International rated players from
32 Vedavarshni T G TN 5 India participated in the event which were Final ranking
33 Shalini J TN 4½ spread over 5 days with a time control of Rk Name Pts
34 Nerita Nahas KER 4½ 90 minutes and 30 seconds increment from 1 Krishika Garg 8½
35 Drishtee Ghosh KAR 4½ move 1. 2 Eshika Pillai 8
3 Tanishi Choudhari 7
36 Afeefa Sadik Muhammed KER 4½
4 Devaanshee Agarwal 6½
37 Aardhra K KER 4½ The Tournament was played under Swiss 5 Riddhika Kotia 6½
38 Hruthwika K N KER 4½ System with nine rounds and Riddhika Ko- 6 Brinda Sharma 6½
39 Jayachandana J KER 4½ tia with 1426 as top seed. All India Chess 7 Swasti Jha 6½
40 Avantika Banujit Narayan KAR 4 Mate in three moves
Federation Joint Secretary Shri. Naresh 8 Isha Verma 6½
41 Aarshidha K KER 4 When two variations end in similar mating
Sharma inaugurated the event by making 9 Etasha Agrawal 6½
42 Anna Rose Rajan KER 4 positions the lines are said to be echoes 10 Armin Kaur 6½
the customary first move against Sanyo-
43 Johanna P Sheeju TN 4 of each other. It is not hard to see which 11 Palak Jhamb 6
gita Ma’am – Director of Manav Rachna
44 Apsara R TN 4 piece makes the key, for the bishop on h5 12 Manya Sharma 6
international school.
45 Roshini M TN 4 is out of play in the diagram and even more 13 Akshika Mital 6
46 Vaishnavi S GUJ 4 so after 1…Kb6 or 1…Kc7.It is tempting to 14 Mehreet Kaur 6
put the bishop behind the queen by 1.Bg4
The tournament progressed on expected 15 Yogda Kalra 6
47 Lakshmipriya V M TN 4
which threatens 2.Bg1 followed by Qd7 or lines with lot of twists and turns. At the end 16 Aisha Wadhwani 6
48 Rajana P R KER 4
Qc8 mate according to black’s response. Krishika Garg was placed first, Eshika Pillai 17 Divaa Agrawal 6
49 Lakshmi Ajay EKM 4
However black replies 1…Kb6 when the g4 was second and Tanishi Choudhari finished 18 Drishti Gaur 6
50 Nandana H KER 4
third in the main prize list. Mehreet Kaur 19 Dorri Sharma 6
51 Shifna P KER 3½ bishop serves no useful purpose. Therefore
1st, Arshika 2nd , Ridhima 3rd were best 20 Hassi Chhikara 6
52 Bhavadharani V J TN 3½ 1.Be2 is the most likely candidate. Looking
21 Janya Kaur 5½
53 Safna P KER 3½ around for a threat one finds mate in two among Under 7 players. Brinda Sharma
22 Rijak Kaur 5½
54 Khayalvizhi Kamesh EKM 3½ by 2.Qe6+ 2.Qd7+ 2.Qc8+ and even 2.Qe5. 1st , Swasti Jha 2nd , Etasha Agrawal 3rd
23 Yashika Wadhwani 5½
55 Ranga Priya Acharya TEL 3½ Multiple threats are frowned upon but since were best among Under 11 players. Palak 24 Navya Arora 5½
56 Kalyani Sirin KER 3 the main point of the problem lies in the Jhamb 1st , Manya Sharma 2nd , Janya 25 Yaashna Vaishnavi 5½
57 Itta Anjana Shruti EKM 3 replies to black’s king flights it is not too Kaur 3rd were best among Under 15 play- 26 Tanisha Kaur 5½
58 Devapriya PS EKM 3 serious a flaw here. After 1…Kb7 white plays ers. Isha Verma 1st , Drishti Gaur 2nd , 27 Bhavya Jha 5½
59 Mersiha Zabin S TN 3 2.Qc8+ Kxc8 (2…Ka7 3.Qa6/Qb8/Bg1 or 2… Dorri Sharma 3rd were best among Under 28 Ishi Minij 5
60 Manesha Sri S TN 3 Kb6 3.Qc7)) 3.Ba6 while 1…Kb6 leads to the 17 players. Yogda Kalra 1st were best 29 Nishtha Arora 5
echo 2.Qa5+ Kxa5 (2…Kc6 3.Bf3 or 2…Kb7 among Under 19 players. 30 Muskan Jindal 5
61 Vishnupriya Acharya TEL 3
3.Qa6) 3.Bc7 31 Samaira Jain 5
62 Nilambari M Sandesh KER 2½
(excerpts from John Nunn’s ‘Solving in style) 32 Manasvi Saneja 5
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33 Asmi Singh 5 81 Suhani Kalra 2 1st All India Grandprix Servo 1st Rapid FIDE Rated Chess tournament, Tiruvarur
34 Yashika 5 82 Lamha Maheshwari 1½
35 Amaira Mittal 5 83 Aalya Agrawal 1½ M.Pranesh is Champion
36 Arshi Garg 5 84 Shahanavi Pandey 1 by V.Vijayaraghavan IA, Chief Arbiter
37 Harshita 5 85 Naina Pandita 1
38 Radhika Kanoria 5 86 Riya Arora 1
39 Kashvi Singh 5 Thirteen year old FIDE Master M Pranesh prix points.
40 Aashita Singhal 5 of Sivagangai District, Tamilnadu won the
41 Kashish 5 Fascinating knight play inaugural All India Grand Prix event, Servo The 7 round swiss format was conducted in
42 Tvisha Bindal 4½ A.Gurevich 1st All India Rapid FIDE Rated Chess tour- a single day and carrying a total prize fund
43 Ridhima Malhotra 4½ Revista Romania de Sah 1948 nament with 6.5 points out of 8 rounds. of Rs.1,25,000/- with the main prizes of
44 Varaenyam 4½
The tournament was jointly organized by Rs.80,000/- and the winners getting a cash
45 Hiya Raina 4½
Tiruvarur District Chess Association, Ro- prize of Rs.15,000/- . Apart from the main,
46 Lavanya Dawar 4½
47 Advita Mohapatra 4½ tary Dist 2981, Zone 17,Tiruvarur New prizes were given to ELO rating and age
48 Saanvi Singh 4½ Barath Matriculation Higher Secondary category performers. When top seed IM
49 Saanvi Tyagi 4 school,Tiruvarur Taluk Chess Association, Saravanakrishnan of KVB was held to draw
50 Jessica Montrose 4 Servo oil was inaugurated by Rtn S.Ven- in the 4th round by Rohith Krishna, Srihari
51 Hiranya 4 katesan, President, Tiruvarur Rotary club and Pranesh were among the leaders with
52 Manya Singhal 4 in presence of Zone 17 Assistant Gover- 4 points along with few others. 2nd seeded
53 Khushi 4 nor and Organising committee chairman Ram S Krishnan lost to Srihari and Pranesh
54 Arshika 4
S Mohan, Rotary Dist chairs Rtn Tataspari, was scoring against unfancied opponents.
55 Gourvanshi 4
56 Saumya Vashishtha 4 Rtn.Arungandhi,.Zone 17 Secretary R An- At the end of 6th round Pranesh, Srihari,
57 Samaira 4 nadurari, Treasurer Rtn. Sivagurunathan, Senthil Maran, Sa Kannan &SibiVisal were
58 Ridhima 4 White to play and win pp Rtnkumarasmy ,pp RtnKamarajRtn jointly leading with 5.5 points each. In
59 Divya bhargava 4 Sathyamoorthy and many others. the final round Pranesh was able to beat
60 Paraa Baranwal 4 White has sufficient material advantage to SibiVisal, while Srihari had to be contend
61 Chahat Kohli 4 win but his pieces are badly co-ordinated The grand prix event which is series of 5 with a draw against Senthil Maran. Sar-
62 Kashvi Saini 4 and he needs to defend against the threats
tournament with a similar format, conduct- vanakrishnan beat Sa Kannan in the final
63 Oshin Rathore 3½ of ..Kxh6 and …hxg3.1.Nf5! Ng3! 1…Nf3 (
ed in 5 different places, was an idea by IA round to take the 4th place. Overall the
64 Shreya Saini 3½ or 1…Kxf5 2.Rxh4 and black loses a knight
65 Mehar 3 in return) 2.Nde7 Ng3 3. Rg6+ Kf4 4.Nxg3 Ganesh Babu of Madurai. Along with Prof. tournament was a success with 223 play-
66 Sarahna Pande 3 hxg3 5.Nd5+5.Nd5+Ke5 6.Rxg3 wins but Anantharam, International Arbiter, Chair- ers from the Southern States, Jharkand,
67 Isha kulshreshtha 3 black can play 1….Ng4 2.Rxh4 Bg3! trans- man, Arbiters Commission, AICF, a system 3 Institutional representatives. Free lunch
68 Shreya dutt 3 posing the main line.2.Rxh4 Ng4 ( 2….Nf3 of grand prix points was devised for top was provided to all the participants and
69 Anya Bansal 3 3.Rh3 and 2..Nhf1 3.Rf4 wins without dif- 10 performers and the sum of the above parents.
70 Tapas 3 ficulty.3.Nd4! otherwise white loses a piece points will be the criteria for a final clash
71 Sambodhi 3 without compensation. 3…Kxh4 4.Nf3+ Kh5 after 5 tournaments. The Chairman of Organising Committee,
72 Varshita Aggarwal 3 4…Kh3 5.Nf4 is the first of the mates deliv-
Rtn S Mohan, Asst Governor, Zone – 17
73 Prerita Gautam 3 ered by the knight pair.5.Kg7 Threat 6.Nf4
mate.If the knight on g4 moves white can Pranesh has earned 200 grand prix points left no stone unturned to make this event
74 Sara Kapoor 3
75 Aakshi Saini 3 mate by Nf6 5….Ne5+ 6.Kh7 with a dreadful from this victory. There was a 9 way tie !on a grand success. Rtn R K Balagunasekaran,
76 Rudrakshi Gupta 3 zugzwang leading to mate next move by 6 points from 2nd to 10th place with L R Jt. Secy of TNSCA and the member of or-
77 Aakriti Saini 2½ Nf4 or Nf6 Srihari of Kanchipuram, taking the 2nd spot ganising team, thank the support rendered
78 Kanak Vashishth 2½ (excerpts from ‘Solving in style’ by John on tie breaks ahead of 3rd placed R Ganesh by all.
79 Prisha Pahuja 2 Nunn) of Coimbatore. All the 9 players who tied
80 Aadya Singhal 2 for the 2nd place were given 88.88 grand-

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Final ranking 46 Raghul Saro S 4½ 57TH WB State FIDE Rated Open Chess Tournament 2019
47 Ethan V Johnson 4½
Rk Name Pts 48 Ragesh Sarma.M 4½ Rajdeep Sarkar takes title
1 FM Pranesh M 6½ 49 Kamali B 4½ by Biswanath Banerjee, Chief Arbiter
2 FM Srihari L R 6 50 Lokesh Varmaa K 4½
3 Ganesh R 6 51 Sri Sakthivel Murugan 4½
52 Syed Fazil Asgar Hassan 4½
57TH WB State Open FIDE Rating Chess On the concluding day In Prize Distribu-
4 IM Saravana Krishnan P. 6
53 B Nedunchezhian 4½ Tournament, was organized excellently 64 tion Chief Guest Shri Arup Sinha,Form-
5 Senthil Maran K 6
6 Selvamurugan B 6 54 Ashok Manickam P 4½ SQUARES under the guidance of Bengal er President,Bankers Union of India ,Mr.
7 Syed Anwar Shazuli 6 55 Kannan.V 4½ Chess Association from 09TH October to Amar Roy,Mr. Dilip Chakraborty,Mr. Sayak
8 Ram S. Krishnan 6 56 Arjun Kumar S 4½ 13 October 2019 at the Beliaghata Engi- Banerjee, distributed the prizes with all .
9 IM Harikrishnan.A.Ra 6 57 Kishore Vetrivel 4½ neering College of Ceremic Technology. Lastly Mr. Biswanath Banerjee who was the
10 Barath Kalyan M 6 58 Vijayasubhasri S 4 Chief Guest IM Atanu Lahiri, Mr. Amar Roy, backbone of this event rendered the vote
11 Sibi Visal R 5½ 59 Balaji P 4
Mr. Dilip Chakraborty, Mr. Tanmoy Ghorai, of thanks. I take this opportunity to thank
12 FM Rohith Krishna S 5½ 60 Srihari Satheeswaran 4
President 64 SQUARES jointly inaugurated Mr. Atanu Lahiri, Secretary, BCA and Jt.
13 Mohamed Anees M 5½ 61 Niranjana P R 4
62 Irulappan G 4 this fide rating chess tournament. Sec, AICF for giving me an opportunity to
14 AGM Sa Kannan 5½
15 Manigandan S S 5½ 63 Femil Chelladurai 4 serve as Chief Arbiter for this successful
16 Suganthan S 5½ 64 Sivakumar T S 4 This Championship attracted 263 play- championship. From this tournament Say-
17 Ayushh Ravikumar 5½ 65 Ganesh Aranganathan 4 ers including 172 rated players from all ak, Banerjee and Jyotirmoy Rudra got their
18 Avinash Ramesh 5½ 66 Vebudesh S S 4 over West Bengal. The total Prize Fund Of another FA norm.Digital Chess Clock was
19 Karthik Rajaa 5 67 Lakshana Subramanian 4 Tournament was 1,33000/- Rs along with provided in all the boards.
20 Swaraj Palit 5 68 Karthick Bala G 4 trophies and Age Group Medals. This cham-
21 Bala Kannamma P 5 69 Indira Priyadharshini S 4 Final standings:
pionship was organized in 09 Rounds Swiss
22 AGM Vignesh B 5 70 Vijayakumar J 4 Rk Name Pts
71 Moinudeen G 4 format. The organizers provided great at-
23 Prasannaa.S 5 1 Rajdeep Sarkar FM 8
24 Annapurni S 5 72 Anshika Sirin A 4 mosphere and all facilities, they provided
2 Kaustuv Kundu 8
25 Tamizh Selvan Ganesan 5 73 Jayasurya M 4 free ,pure drinking water and tea to all
3 Anustoop Biswas 7½
26 Dhanasekar K. 5 74 Tina C 4 players free of cost. 4 Subhayan Kundu 7½
27 Arnav Maheshwari 5 75 Boomika S 4 5 Dilip Das 7½
28 Prasath K R 5 76 Kaviyarasan T 4 Players and Parents were very happy with 6 Arpan Das 7½
29 Vinoth Kumar M 5 77 Raghul Ravi A 4 the facilities provided by Organizers such 7 Pratyay Chowdhury 7
30 Subramanian R M 5 78 Vignesh S 4
as Tournament Hall and food.In the mean 8 Avijit Ghosh 7
31 Kiruthika B 5 79 Tejaas S R 4 9 Basak Bishal 7
80 Sarumathi S 4
time 64 SQUARES celebrated the birthday
32 Rohith S 5 10 Rounak Guha Roy 7
81 Karan Nilesh V B 4 of Subhayan Kundu and Kaustuv Kundu.
33 Karthick Narayanan S 5 11 Aritrya Pal 7
34 Iniyan Sivakumar 5 82 Ashwinraj R 4 They provided birthday cake to everybody
12 Suvradeepta Das 6½
35 Sai Alagappan S 5 83 Kannish Varmaa K 4 and all parents and participants appreciat- 13 Saptorshi Gupta 6½
36 Prawin K 5 84 Vignesh S 4 ed this gesture. 14 Anish Rooj 6½
37 Kamalanathan R 5 85 Azmal Deen M 4 15 Sanket Chakravarty 6½
Thrish Karthik 5 86 Sriram Sundar V 4 There were no major upsets in the entire 16 Shounak Mazumder 6½
39 Venkat Sundaram 5 87 Sanjay Ram J 4
tournament. Rajdeep wins the title with 8 17 Soumyajit Das (Jr) 6½
40 Balakowshi D S 5 88 Yogesh Selvam 4 18 Tejash Jain 6½
points and bags Rs.18000/-,followed by
41 AGM Mani Bharathy 4½ 89 AFM Adhya S 4 19 Debasish Mukherjee 6½
90 Sundaresvaran J 4 Kaustuv Kundu and Anustoop Biswas and
42 Senthil Kumaran T.H. 4½ 20 Tushar Barua 6½
43 FM Vinoth Kumar M. 4½ 91 Sugumar R 4 Subhayan Kundu.Some Veteran players
21 Soumalya Mondol 6½
44 Thiyagarajan Tamilselvi 4½ 92 Rithis Vasan K 4 like Dilip Das, Dyutimoy Mukherjee played
22 Satya Sekhar Mitra 6½
45 Suthershun A 4½ 93 Arrumugarajan C P 4 unexpectedly well and secured their prizes. 23 Prithwi Sinha 6½

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25 Soumen Mondal 6½
26 Debankan Dhara 6
27 Ambarish Sharma 6
28 Ishan Dashottar 6
29 Akash Tiwari 6
30 Debarghya Samanta 6
31 Chouhan N.C. 6
32 Shuvam Roy 6
33 Goutam Das 6
34 Amit Tiwari 6
35 Arnab Debnath 6
36 Akshath Sinha 6
37 Subrata Bhar 6
38 Ritojoy Mandal 6
39 Ritabrata Chakraborty 6
40 Sneha Paul 6
41 Sawyan Baran De 6
42 Mayukh Chatterjee 6
43 Eshan Bhattacharjee 6
44 Soumya Das 6
45 Uddipan Roy 6
46 Pallab Bala 6
47 Anjistha Basak 6
48 Anjishnu Mondal 6
49 Akash Gunin 6
50 Suvankar Maity 5½
51 Ankan Ghosh 5½
52 Raunit Mitra 5½
53 Tanisha Chatterjee 5½
54 Mukherjee Dyutimoy 5½
55 Soumick Bandopadhyay 5½
56 Chakrabarti Tamal 5½
57 Goutam De 5½
58 Rajat Mazumder 5½
59 Sourjya Mukherjee 5½
60 Soureen Bhattacharya 5½
61 Sudipta Sadhu 5½
62 Snehil Raj Singh 5½
63 Annyatoma Das 5½
64 Rounak Bhattacharya 5½
65 Soutrik Maitra 5½
66 Saikat Saha 5½
67 Archisman Patra 5½
68 Rishan Debnath 5½
69 Adrito Sarkar 5½
70 Ishir Narayan 5½
71 Swapan Kumar Das 5½
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72 Arkya Chatterjee 5½
73 Sk Samim 5½
74 Sritama Sen 5½
75 Shreyan Saha 5½
76 Debjeet Das 5
77 Oishik Kundu 5
78 Prateeti Gorai 5
79 Chandranshu Chattopadhyay 5
80 Mouhurtik Ray 5
81 Shayan Das 5
82 Bibhangshu Mandal 5
83 Amit Kumar Santra 5
84 Akash Hizli 5
85 Ishan Das 5
86 Anurag Sarkar 5
87 Arhashirsha Biswas 5
88 Sumit Ranjan Bhowmik 5
89 Banik Hrishikesh Kumar 5
90 Srijak Sengupta 5
91 Gairick Saha 5
92 Projoy Jana 5
93 Siddhartha Gupta 5
94 Prapti Moulik 5
95 Anjishnu Sinha 5
96 Siddharth Sarma B 5
97 Sarbartha Debnath 5
98 Soumyadeb Chakraborty 5
99 Shreyas Bhowmik 5
100 Souhardya Prosad Sinha 5
101 Urja Goyal 5
102 Debarpan Saha 5
103 Abhiraj Nag 5
104 Debasish Bag 5
105 Subham Bhattacharjee 4½
106 Shouvik Dutta 4½
107 Atrinjay Saha 4½
108 Pratish Raj 4½
109 Agnivo Chakraborty 4½
110 Aditya Kayet 4½
111 Siddhartha Sarkar 4½
112 Sayandeep Roy 4½
113 Tushar Bhunya 4½
114 Anurag Sarkar 4½
115 Abhiraj De 4½
116 Alakxya Das 4½
117 Nimalan Karthikeyan K 4½
118 Shivam Shah 4½
119 Susovan Dey 4½
Selected games from 2nd
Gujarat GM Open 2019
Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron
Barath,Kalyan M (TN) (2092) Vlasso-
v,Nikolai (IM Rus) (2384)
White is a 19-year old youngster from Ta-
mil Nadu and black is a 54-year old veteran
IM from Russia. In this game, the Russian
plays care free chess with gay abandon and
enjoys demolishing white's castled position
with spectacular moves while the youngster
was probably laden up with tons of theory
and the cares of a young unfolding life! 1.d4
Nf6 2.c4 Nc6 3.Nf3 e6 4.a3 g6 5.Nc3 Bg7 17.Qd3 [If 17.Rxf8+ Qxf8! 18.Rf1 Qd8!
6.d5 Ne7 7.dxe6N [This varies from 7.e4 (Cleverly played! Black dodges the attack
on his queen and keeps his multiple threats
played earlier.] 7...fxe6² 8.e3 [If 8.e4 d5
9.e5 Nd7 10.Qe2 (10.cxd5 Nxd5 11.Nxd5) on white's king, queen and rook. Also the
queen will be re-entering the attack through
10...0–0 11.Bg5 c6 12.0–0–0 h6] 8...0–0
9.Be2 b6 10.Qc2 Bb7 11.b4 [It is better for g5.) 19.Qd3 Qg5!–+ and black's three-fold
attack on g2 wins immediately. It could be
white to hurry with his development instead
neatly described as use of 'excessive force'!
of going for queen-side expansion. This move
20.Re1] 17...Rxf2 18.Qxe3 Rxg2 [A simpler,
necessitates delaying castling next move to
but nevetheless attractive win was: 18...
play Rb1 to avoid unpleasantness along the
Qh4! 19.Nde4 Bxe4 20.Nxe4 Bxb2 21.Rb1
b2-g7 diagonal. 11.0–0 is suggested.] 11...
Nf5 12.0–0 [In view of what happens, better Be5! 22.h3 Rf4!–+] 19.Nf3 Rxe2!! 20.Qxe2
was 12 Bb2 first and then 0–0 12.Rb1 ] 12... Qf6–+ Now black milks the pin on f3 to the
Ne4 13.Bb2 Ng5! 14.Nd2? [#] maximum. 21.Rf1 Rf8 22.Kg2#
[If 14.Nxg5 Qxg5 15.e4 a5! 16.g3 axb4
17.axb4 Rxa1 18.Bxa1 Nd4 19.Qd3 Ra8 20.Bb2 22...Qg5+! Because the knight is still pinned!
Using this pin, black gives a series of instruc-
Qe7!–+ (Black's sudden switch of focus from
the king-side to the queen-side puts white tive queen checks which wins the game quick-
ly. 23.Kh3 Qf5+! 24.Kg3 Qf4+! 25.Kg2
on a losing trail.) 21.b5 Qb4 22.Nd1 Nxe2+
Qg4+! 26.Kf2 Bxf3 27.Qd2 Be2+!! 28.Ke1
23.Qxe2 Ra2!–+] 14...Nh3+!! 15.Kh1 [If
[If 28.Ke3 Bh6+ 29.Rf4 Qxf4+ 30.Kxe2 Qf1#]
15.gxh3 Nxe3! 16.fxe3 Qg5+ 17.Bg4 Qxe3+!
28...Rxf1# 0–1
mates.] 15...Nxf2+! [Still stronger was: 15...
Kanishk,S K (TN) (2001) Deshmukh,Anup (IM
Bxg2+!! 16.Kxg2 Nxf2! 17.Rxf2 (17.Kxf2
Nd4+) 17...Nxe3+–+] 16.Rxf2 Nxe3 [#] Mah) (2193)
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Kanishk is a 16-year old unknown chess en-
thusiast from Tamil Nadu while Anup Deshmuk
is a 52-year old IM from Nagpur. Deshmukh
is known to be a fighter who would go to any
lenghths to win a game. The zest with which he
tries to get an advantage from the black side
of a Queen-pawn opening almost fails but his
determination and will power see him through.
1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 b5!? This kind of move has been
played, more to upset the opponent than to
really chase the white knight if it gets to c3.
3.g3 Bb7 4.Bg2 c5 5.dxc5 e6 [5...e5 has been
played here.] 6.Na3 [#]
[Complications favourable to white ensue af-
ter 6.b4! a5 7.c3 Na6 8.a3 d6 and now white
had to find the surprise pawn move - 9.a4!
axb4 10.axb5 Nxc5 11.Rxa8 Qxa8 12.cxb4
Na4 13.0–0 Be7 14.Bd2] 6...Bxc5 7.0–0 [If
7.Nxb5? Qb6 8.c4 a6 9.Nc3 Bxf2+ 10.Kf1
Nc6³] 7...a6! 8.c3 White has to make such
moves to get his Na3 back into the game.
8...h5?! A brave and romantic move her-
alding a king-side attack. No doubt this was
inspired by white's unnatural manoeuvres
with his Na3. But this move should have
come to naught as black's forces are not yet
sufficiently developed to warrant an attack
with h4-h5. 9.Nc2 Be4! 10.a4 [This does not
pose any threat to black who continues his
manoeuvre of developing his knight. Better
was to pinpoint the weakness of black in play-
ing 8...h5?! by 10.Bg5!= ] 10...Nc6 11.Ncd4
b4 12.Nxc6 Bxc6 13.cxb4 Bxb4 14.Qd4 Qa5
[14...Rb8!] 15.Bd2 [If 15.Bg5 Bc5 16.Qd3
Rb8 17.Ne5 Bxf2+! 18.Rxf2 Qxe5 19.Bxc6
Qxg5] 15...Rb8 16.Bf4 Bc5 17.Qe5? [This
careless move takes black on to the path
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of defeat. He could do better with: 17.Qd3!
Rxb2 18.Ne5 Bxg2 19.Kxg2 d5 20.Nc6! Qb6
21.Rfb1! 0–0±] 17...d6 18.Qg5 0–0 White's
queen-side pawns are ready to fall. White
must find some effective counter-attack or
perish. 19.Bd2 Qc7 20.Bc3 e5! This blocks all
prospects of a white attack on the black cas-
tled position. To breach this, white sacrifices
his knight but reasonable defence is able to
beat back the attack. 21.Nxe5? [#] [Better
was to make his forces work in harmony start-
ing with: 21.Rac1 Qb6 22.a5 Qb5 23.Nh4 Be4
24.Bxe4 Nxe4 25.Qxh5 Rfe8= White's extra
pawn is balanced by the aggressive set up of
the black forces.]
21...Nh7! [An excellent move diverting the
queen away from his soft belly on g7. If
21...dxe5?? 22.Bxe5 Qe7 23.Bxc6+-; worse
was: 21...Ne4? 22.Bxe4 Bxe4 23.Nd7! f6
24.Nxf6++-] 22.Qxh5 Bxg2 23.Kxg2 dxe5
24.Bxe5 [Better was 24.Qxe5 Qxe5 25.Bxe5
Rbe8 26.Bc3 Rxe2µ] 24...Qc6+ 25.Kg1 Rbc8
[Still better was: 25...Rb4 26.Bc3 Rc4 27.Qf5
Re8µ] 26.Rac1 Qe6!? [#] [26...Qxa4! was a
stronger move though it appears as though
black is going pawn grabbing. With ....Qe6,
black goes for higher rewards but should not
have succeeded!] 27.e3?? [White overlooks
the fact that his bishop on e5 is supported
only by his queen and if the queen were to
be driven away, he would lose the bish-
op. Here, he misses a good chance to get
back into the game with a counter-attack:
27.Bxg7 Bxf2+! 28.Kxf2 (28.Rxf2?? Rxc1+)
28...Kxg7 29.b4!? Qb6+ 30.Kg2 Qxb4
31.Rxc8 Qb7+! (31...Rxc8?? 32.Rxf7+
mates.) 32.Kg1 Qxc8 33.Rf4³ Black has a
knight for two pawns and in this open posi-
tion, converting that small advantage into a
win is going to be a questionable task!] 27...
g6! White loses his bishop too as his queen
cannot move to a square from where he con-
tinues to protect his bishop.0–1
Saptarshi,Roy (GM Ind) (2480) Ro-
zum,Ivan (GM Rus) (2596)
1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 dxe4 4.Nxe4 Nd7
5.Nf3 Ngf6 6.Ng3 e6 7.Bd3 Be7 8.0–0 c5
9.b3 0–0 10.Bb2 b6 11.c4 Bb7 12.Qe2
Re8 13.Rad1 Qc7 14.Bb1 Rad8 15.dxc5
Nxc5 [Varying from the 40–move draw be-
tween Mohrlok and Hubner in the German
Championship, 1967, which went: 15...Qxc5
] 16.Ne5 Ncd7?! 17.Rd3 [#]
[White follows the standard way of attacking
black's castled position with Rd1–d3-g3. But
he misses a brilliant continuation which would
have put the fear of defeat in the Russian's
heart. He should have tried the exchange
sacrifice which on correct play would have
led to an equal game. but who plays 'cor-
rectly' in a 10–round Swiss for 200 players
including 15 grandmasters and 14 Interna-
tional Masters baying for your blood and a
share of the big prize money! Some of the
many possibilities in this variation lead to bril-
liant and thrilling play for white. 17.Rxd7!!
Rxd7 (If 17...Nxd7 18.Bxh7+! Kxh7 (18...Kf8
19.Nxf7!! Nf6 (19...Kxf7 20.Bg6+! Kf8 (20...
Kxg6?? 21.Qh5#) 21.Qxe6 Ne5™ 22.Bxe5
Bc5 (22...Bf6? 23.Bd6+!! mates next move!)
23.Qf5+ wins) 20.Bg6 Qc6 21.f3 Qd7 22.Nxd8
Rxd8 23.Bc3+-) 19.Qh5+ Kg8 20.Qxf7+
Kh8 21.Nxd7 Bf8 22.Qh5+ Kg8 23.Ne5+-
Though white's two knights and two pawns are
technically equal to black's rook and bishop,
the position is a tantalising win for white who
threatens Ng6. Check it out!) 18.Nxd7 Qxd7
19.Rd1 Qc6 20.f3 Qc8=] 17...Nxe5 18.Bxe5
Qc6 19.Rf3 [If he blocks the threatened
mate with 19.f3 then he loses the possibility
of playing his rook to g3 which is his original
intention.] 19...Qc5 20.Re3 Qc6 21.Ne4
Nd7 22.Bxg7?! [Probably white thought that
if he had to sacrifice on the king-side, it is
now or never. But black puts up a very good
defence. Better was: 22.Bc3 e5 23.Qh5 g6=]
22...Kxg7 23.Rg3+ Kf8 24.Qh5 Threat:
mate in one with 25.Qh6# 24...Bf6 [The idea
of getting the black queen to defend against
the threatened Qh6+ leads to a clear advan-
tage for white: 24...e5?! 25.Qxh7 Bf6 26.Nc3
Nc5 27.b4! Ne6 28.Be4 Qc7 29.Bxb7 Qxb7
30.Ne4 Bg7 31.c5 Qd5 32.Nd6±] 25.Rf3 [#]
[The pawn grab would open the fury of black's
so far docile forces 25.Qxh7? Ke7! (threat
....Rh8 trapping the queen) 26.Qh6 Rh8
27.Qe3 Qc7 28.Nxf6 Nxf6 29.h3 Rhg8–+
After steady exchanges, black's extra knight
should win.] 25...Qxe4!! Carried away by the
momentum of his attack white had proba-
bly overlooked this queen sacfifice! 26.Bxe4
Bxe4= The material equivalent on the board
is almost equal. Black has two bishops and
a knight against queen and pawn. Black will
have no difficulties in coordinating his forces
as he has no weaknesses to defend. 27.Re3
Bg6 28.Qe2 Bd4 [I prefer 28...Nc5! But it
is a matter of personal taste!] 29.Rg3 Nc5
30.Kh1?! [#]
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[White should continue aggressively and dar-
ingly with: 30.b4 Ne4 31.Ra3 Rd7 32.h4 h5
33.Re3 Bxe3 34.Qxe3µ Though black is materially
ahead, white has interesting attacking possibil-
ities.] 30...Ne4 31.Rf3 Bc5!–+ 32.Rf4 Rd4!
Black starts dominating the game though the
material is about equal. 33.Qe1 e5 34.Rh4
Red8 35.b4 [White cannot save himself with:
35.f3 Rd1 36.Rxe4 Rxe1 37.Rexe1 Rd2 38.a4
Bd4!–+] 35...Be7 36.f3 Nf2+!! 37.Qxf2 Bxh4
38.g3 Bf6 After this, white is totally lost. He
has no answer to the threats of .... Rxc4 and ....
Rd2. 39.h4 Rxc4 40.Qe3 Rc2 41.Rc1 Rd3!
Black maximises his winning advantage. 42.Qe1
[42.Qh6+? Bg7–+] 42...Rxf3! 43.Rxc2 Bxc2
44.Qc1 Rc3 45.Kh2 e4 46.Qf4 Rc6 47.h5
Re6 48.h6 Be5 [48...e3! 49.Qb8+ Ke7 50.Qc7+
Ke8 51.Qc8+ Bd8 52.Qxc2 e2 wins.] 49.Qc1
Bd3 50.Kg2 Ke7 51.Qg5+ Bf6 52.Qc1 e3
53.Qc7+ Ke8 54.Qc8+ Bd8 55.Qc3 e2!
56.Qe1 Bg5! Threat ....Bd2! 0–1
Savchenko,Boris (GM Rus) (2576) Manish
Kumar,(Odi) (2053) [A48]
Tetrasoft Hyderabad Marriott GM Op. Marriott
Hyderabad, Sapphire B, 2019
Savchenko is a 33-year old Grandmaster from
Russia. He has just won two GM Opens on the
trot, first in The Athens of the East GM Open
in Madurai and here in this Petrasoft GM in Hy-
derabad. His opponent is a 13-year old untitled
school boy from Odisha. And the Russian almost
lost! This game is most remarkable as in one
variation in the middle-game, on move 24, black
has three knights !! This game is proof that even
unknown teenagers from unfancied Indian States
are no longer pushovers for European Grand-
masters. But we have nothing but admiration
for Savchenko's clever handling of the talented,
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but inexperienced teenager. This game is worth
playing over and analysing in depth. 1.d4 Nf6
2.Nf3 g6 3.Bg5 Bg7 4.Nbd2 d5 5.e3 0–0
6.c3 Nbd7 7.Be2 [7.Bd3!?] 7...Re8 8.0–0
e5 9.Rc1 c6 10.h3N e4 11.Ne1 h6 12.Bf4
g5 13.Bh2 Nf8 14.c4 Ng6 15.b4 Be6 [#]
16.a4?! This array of white pawns on the fourth
rank on the queen-side reminds me of former
National Champion, S. Nasir Ali of Kanpur. Na-
sir Ali (1934-2018) enjoyed moving all of his
Q-side pawns together like an armada of naval
ships majestically advancing on the enemy and
threatening annihilation. Here, Savchenko,
no doubt wants to overawe his 13-year old
opponent and make him commit mistakes. In
my experience such ponderous pawn advanc-
es are better on the side where the opponent
has castled, generally on the king-side, as in
some variations of the Sicilian Defence. On
the queen-side this ploy is risky. 16...Nd7?!
[Black's inexperience in such position shows as
he plans his own pawn-storm on the king-side.
He should continue his king-side plans with
....Nh4 after 16...a6= ] 17.b5 f5 18.Bh5?!
[Better was: 18.bxc6 bxc6 19.Nc2] 18...Qf6
[A typical move of an ambitious youngster. He
wishes to combine defence of his knight on g6
with attack by the queen along the f-file. But
this move loses control over c7 where a white
rook quickly lands. As we see further down, the
Russian takes advantage of the vulnerability of
the queen on f6. Better was: 18...Kh7 19.bxc6
bxc6 20.Nc2 Nf6=] 19.cxd5! cxd5 20.Rc7±
b6 21.Qc2 [It was best to immediately exploit
the position of the black queen on f6 with:
21.f3! exf3 22.Nexf3 f4 23.exf4 gxf4 24.Rc6±]
21...f4 22.f3 [Now, this move hands over the
advantage to black with wonderfully compli-
cated play. Best was: 22.Qc3= ] 22...fxe3!
This dares white to effect a discovered attack
on his queen! 23.fxe4? [Unwisely, white accepts
the challenge. Best was to concede the advantage
to black with: 23.Nb3 Rf8!] 23...exd2!! 24.e5
Qd8 [Sadly, black chooses to retreat his queen
for a slight advantage, missing the spectacular
continuation to the attack with: 24...dxe1N!! [#]
25.Qc6 a) 25.exf6 Nxc2 26.Bxg6 Rec8 27.fxg7
Rxc7 28.Bxc7 Nxd4–+; b) 25.Qc3 Qd8!
26.Bxg6 (26.Rxe1 Ndf8–+) 26...Re7 27.Rxe1
Nf8–+; 25...Qe7 26.Bxg6 Qb4 27.Bxe8
Rxe8 28.Bg3 (28.Qc3 Qxc3 29.Rxc3 Bf8!
30.Bg3 Bb4 31.Rc7 Nd3 32.Rf3 Nf4–+) 28...
Qxd4+ 29.Bf2 Nf3+! 30.gxf3 Qf4 31.Re1
Bxe5–+] 25.Nf3 [If 25.Bxg6? Qxc7 26.Qxc7
d1Q and black wins.] 25...Ne7? [Black can
continue strongly with: 25...d1Q! 26.Rxd1
Ndf8 27.Rc6 Ne7 28.Bxe8 Qxe8 29.Rc3 Bf5µ]
26.Bxe8 Qxe8 27.Qxd2 Qg6= [As a young-
ster, black still thinks of attack. An experienced
player would use tactics when tactics is called
for and switch to positional play when calmer
positional play is required. Here, black could
have put pressure on the grandmaster with
the positional approach: 27...Qd8! 28.Rfc1
Nc5! 29.Rxe7 Qxe7 30.dxc5 bxc5 31.Bg3 Rc8³]
28.a5 bxa5!? [Instead of this capture, black
could also try bringing back the queen (which
youngsters dislike!) to defend the queen-side
and reach positions where the imbalance of rook
and pawn for knight and bishop would lead to
very interesting play after: 28...Qe8 29.Rfc1
(or 29.Ra1 bxa5 30.Qxa5 Nb6 31.Rxa7 Rxa7
32.Qxa7 Nec8=) 29...Nf8 30.Qb4 Nf5 31.g4
bxa5 32.Qxa5 Ne3=] 29.Qxa5 h5? [29...Nf5
30.Rxa7 Rxa7 31.Qxa7 Ne3 32.Re1 Nc4 33.Bg3
Ndb6=] 30.b6!± g4 31.hxg4 hxg4 32.Nh4 [If
32.b7 Rf8 33.Nd2 g3! 34.Rxf8+ Bxf8 35.Bxg3
Qxg3= There is a glorious imbalance of mate-
rial with white having a rook and two pawns
for black's two bishops and a knight. Besides
the imbalance in material, one must note that
one of the white pawns is on the threshold
of becoming a queen and the black queen is
threatening perpetual checks.] 32...Qd3 33.b7
Qxd4+ 34.Kh1 Re8 35.Qa6?= [The right way
to continue the attack was: 35.Qa3! (with his
pawn on the 7th rank, white is threatening 36.
Rxd7! Bxd7 37. Qxe7!! Rxe7 38. b8=Q win-
ning) 35...Bf8 36.Qd6 Ng6 37.b8Q!! Nxb8
38.Re7!! Rxe7 39.Nxg6 Re8 40.Rxf8+ Rxf8
41.Qxf8+ Kh7 42.Qe7+ Kxg6 43.Qxe6+
and white will win by capturing the knight
with a double attack.] 35...Qb6! 36.Qxb6
axb6 37.Ra1 Kf7?! [Black has not consid-
ered white's next move, a true 'grandmaster'
move! He could keep the game level by: 37...
Nb8 38.Ra8 Kf7 39.Bf4 d4 40.Bg5 Bf8=] 38.Nf5!
Bxf5 [More stubborn, but eventually losing was:
38...Nxf5 39.Ra8! (taking advantage of the Nd7
becoming pinned) 39...g3 40.Rxd7+ Bxd7
41.Rxe8 Bxe8 42.b8Q gxh2 43.e6+! Ke7
44.g4! (chasing away the knight which supports
the Bg7) 44...Nd4 45.Qc7+ Kf8 46.Qd6++- Kg8
47.Qe7!+-] 39.e6+!+-
This opens up the diagonal for the Bh2 which now
eyes b8, the queening square for his passed pawn.
39...Bxe6 [Or, 39...Kxe6 40.Ra8 Rb8 41.Rxb8
Nxb8 42.Rxe7+ Kxe7 43.Bxb8+- Strange, that
black with a huge material advantage in this
ending, is lost because of white's advanced
passed pawn!] 40.Ra8! Nb8 41.Rxb8! Rxb8
42.Rxe7+ Kxe7 43.Bxb8 An amazing end to
a very eventful game! Though black is a bishop
and pawn up in this endgame he cannot prevent
white's threat of Bg3 and b8=Q. 1–0
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 Tactics from master games Test your endgame
by S.Krishnan by C.G.S.Narayanan

Jindrich Sulc 1948 Dr.Artur Mandler 1950

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

Dr.Jindrich Fritz 1948 Prof.Ladislav Prokes 1951

3 4 3. 4.
White to play and win Black to play and win
Gerbstsman 1948 Marcel Dore 1955

5. 6.
5 6
White to play and win Black to play and win White to play and win in all the six endings above
(Solution on page 47 )
(solutions on p.47)

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Masters of the past-105 Harry Golombek 60th Odisha State Senior FIDE Rating Open Championship 2019, Balasore
Harry Golombek OBE(1911–1995), was a British chess grandmaster,
chess arbiter, chess author, and wartime code breaker. He was three
times British chess champion, in 1947, 1949, and 1955 and finished
second in 1948. He was retrospectively awarded the grandmaster title
in 1985.

He was born in Lambeth to Polish-Jewish parents. He was the chess Pattnayak Nilsu (Runner-up) (left)
correspondent of The Times newspaper from 1945 to 1989, after Stuart and Rajesh Nayak (Winner) (right)
Milner-Barry. He was an official of the FIDE, and served as arbiter for
several important events, including the Candidates’ Tournament of 1959
in Yugoslavia, and the 1963 World Chess Championship match between
Mikhail Botvinnik and Tigran Petrosian. He also edited the game collections of José Raúl
Capablanca’s and Réti, and was a respected author. He was editor of British Chess Maga-
zine from 1938 to 1940, and its overseas editor in the 1960s and 1970s. Golombek also
translated several chess books from Russian into English.
‘Chess for Everyone’ FIDE Rating Championship 2019, Chaibasa
On the outbreak of World War II in September 1939, Golombek was in Buenos Aires, Ar-
gentina, competing in the Chess Olympiad for Britain alongside C. H. O’D. Alexander and
Stuart Milner-Barry. They immediately returned to the UK, and were soon recruited into
Bletchley Park, the wartime codebreaking centre. Golombek worked in Hut 8, the section
responsible for solving German Naval Enigma, moving to another section in October/
November 1942. After the war he lived at 35 Albion Crescent, Chalfont St Giles. He was Shuvam Roy receiving the prize
unusual among public figures in replying with care to letters from unknown people, such from Chief Guest, Mr.Paritost
as young schoolboys, from this address. Kumar Thakur SDM,Sadar,
Chaibasa
Golombek represented England nine times in chess Olympiads. He earned the title of In-
ternational Master in 1950 and was awarded an Honorary Grandmaster title in 1985.[6]
He was the first British player to qualify for an Interzonal tournament.

Golombek studied philology at King’s College London, having been a pupil at Wilson’s
Grammar School, Camberwell. He was appointed OBE in 1966, the first to be so honoured 1st Grandprix Servo 1st Rapid FIDE Rated tournament, Tiruvarur
for services to chess.

Golombek is well known author of many books which include the following:The World
Chess Championship 1948, 1948, David McKay Company,World Chess Championship 1954,
MacGibbon and Kee,Reti’s Best Games of Chess, 1954 (G. Bell & Sons, Ltd), republished M.Pranesh receiving the trophy from Dr
1974 (Dover Publications, Inc.)The Game of Chess, 1954, Penguin Books,The World Chess M Durai, IPS, Superintendent of Police,
Championship 1957, MacGibbon and Kee,Instructions to Young Chess Players, 1958, Pit- Tiruvarur District.
man Publishing,Modern Opening Chess Strategy, 1959, Pitman Publishing,4th Candidates
Tournament 1959: Bled, Zagreb, Belgrade (originally BCM Quarterly No.3), 1960, BCM,Ca-
pablanca’s 100 Best Games, 1970, G. Bell and Sons,Fischer v Spassky: The World Chess
Championship 1972, 1973, Times Newspapers,A History of Chess, 1976, Routledge & Ke-
gan Paul, Improve Your Chess, 1976, Pitman Publishing,The Best Games of CHO’D Alex-
ander (co-authored with William Hartston), 1976, Oxford University Press and Golombek’s
Encyclopedia of Chess (Golombek as editor-in-chief) 1977, Batsford.
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 Kurnool District Open Fide Rating Tournament, Nandyala Solutions to ‘Tactics from mas-
ter games’ on page 42
by S Krishnan
1. Giri,A (2780) - Anton Guijarro,D
(2674) [C50]
Batumi GEO Batumi GEO (3.3)26.10,
White to play 25.Bxh6 g6 [25...gxh6
26.Qxh6+ Nh7 27.Ng5 Rxg5 28.Rxg5 Rg8
29.Rxg8+ Kxg8 30.Re3 Wins] 26.Nxg6+ fxg6
27.Qh4 Nh7 28.Ng5 [28.Ng5 Nxg5 29.Bxg5+
Kg7 30.Qh6+ Kf7 31.Rf3+ Ke8 (31...Bf5
32.e6+ Ke8 33.Qh7+-) 32.Qh7 Wins]
2.Muradli,Mahammad(2459) - 18.Bxd7+-; 17...Ne5 18.Bh5++-] 18.Kxe1+-
Kukelko,Alexey (2342) [A13]
58th World Juniors 2019 New Delhi
White to play. 27.Rf4! (Threatening 28 Rh4
(L-R) Sri S Sudhakar Babu, SSNG Of Schools Adviser, Sri J V Lakshmi Kanth , Chairman of LKR Institutions, smt G ch) 27...f6 [27...g5? 28.Nf5+ Wins; 27...
V N Lakshmi, G Vijaya Kumari, RK Education Ins., sports director, Sri G Rama Krishna Reddy, Chairman of RK Edu- Nd6 28.Bxd5! Nxc8 29.Rh4+ Kg7 (29...Kg5
cation Institution, NA G Rama Subba Reddy, Shanmukha Pulli (3rd place) Telangana, V Satyanarayana, President, 30.Nf3+ Kf5 31.g4# (31.Rf4#) ) 30.Nf5++-
Kurnool district, Bharath Kumar Reddy Poluri(Winner)Telangana, Sri Pocha Brahmananda Reddy, Member of Par- ; 27...Bc3 28.Bxc3 Nxc3 29.Rxc3 Bxg2
liament, Sri G hemanth Reddy, Dean Sri RK PG College, Sri P Dastagiri Reddy, Chairman of Sri Guru Raghavendra 30.Kxg2+-] 28.Rh4+ Kg7 [28...Kg5 29.Nf3+
Banking Coaching Centre, Runner Swaraj Palit, Jharkhand , IA Venkata Kumar G, Joint Secretary APCA, FA R Vamsi Kf5 30.Bh3#] 29.Bxe4! Bxe4 [29...Bf7
Krishna, K B Sesha Reddy, Secretary Kurnool District. 30.Rf4+-; 29...Be6 30.Nxe6+ Qxe6 31.Rc7+
Kg8 32.Rcxh7+-] 30.Rc7 [30.Rc7 Qxc7
Adith Paulson Mem. 4th Don Bosco FIDE Tournament,Irinjilakuda 31.Ne6++-] 1–0
3. Le Quang Liem (2708) - Maghsood-
loo,Parham (2664) FIDE Chess.com
Grand Swiss Douglas ENG
White to play 26.Bxf7+ Kxf7 27.Rd6 Qc7
28.Qg6+ Kf8 29.Qh5 [29.Qh7!] 29...Ra6
30.Rfd1 [30.Ng6+! Kg8 (30...Kf7 31.Rfd1‚)
31.Rf6! Rxf6 (31...gxf6 32.Qh8+ Kf7 33.Qh7+
Ke6 34.Nf4+ Kxe5 35.Qxc7++-) ] 30...Rxd6
31.Rxd6 Nc6 32.Ng6+ Kg8 [32...Kf7 33.Rf6+
gxf6 34.Qh7+ Ke6 35.Nf4+ Kxe5 36.Qxc7+
Wins] 33.Qh8+ Kf7 34.Rf6+ gxf6 35.Qxf6+
[35.Qxf6+ Kg8 36.Qh8+ Kf7 37.Qh7+ Wns]
1–0
4. McShane,L (2682) - Kuzubov,Y (2636)
[B11]
FIDE Chess.com Grand Swiss Douglas ENG
Champion Sooraj.M R, and his father Sri Raju receiving the trophy and cash award from Ln. George Moreli, Pres- (11.24), 21.10.2019
ident,Lions club.Shajan chakkalakkal, Don Bosco rector, Fr. Manuel Mevada. Sri. Johnson kalankanny are also Position after White’s 43rd move. # Dagram
seen. Black to play 43...Bxb4! 44.Bxb4 [44.Bxd4
46
Bxa3 45.Nc2 Qb3 46.Bxe5 Ng4–+] 44...Rc1
45.Qxc1 Ne2+ 46.Kh2 Nxc1–+ 0–1
5. Gazik,Viktor (2546) - Miciano,John
Marvin (2345) [A85]
58th World Juniors 2019 New Delhi
White to play 13.Nf6+! exf6 [13...Kf7
14.Bh5+ Ke6 15.d5+ cxd5 16.cxd5+ Kf5
(16...Ke5 17.Nf3+ Kf5 18.g4#) 17.g4+ Ke5
18.Nf3#] 14.Qg7 Qa5+ [14...Qe7 15.Qxh8+
Kd7 16.Kd2+-; 14...Rf8 15.Bh5+] 15.Kf1
Rf8 16.Re1! Nd7 [16...Bd7 17.Bg4+; 16...
Rf7 17.Bh5++-] 17.Bg4+ Qxe1+ [17...Kd8
White won in 35 moves
6. Blagojevic,Dr (2500) - Nyback,T
(2565) [D10]
22nd European Teams Batumi GEO
White to play 20...Rxh2 21.Kxh2 Ke7 22.e4
[22.f3 gxf3 23.Nf4 Rh8+ 24.Kg1 f2+ 25.Kxf2
Rh2+ 26.Ke1 Bb4+–+; 22.Kg1 Rh8 23.f3
gxf3 24.Nf4 f2+–+] 22...Qxe4 23.f3 gxf3
24.Nxd4 Qh4+ 0–1
Solutions to ‘Test your endgame’ on
page 43 by C.G.S.Narayanan
1.Jindrich Sulc 1948
1.Be1 Bc5 2.Bh4 h5 3.Be7 Bb6 4.Bb4 Bd8
5.Ba5 Bg5 6.Bc3 wins
2.Dr.Artur Mandler 1950
1.Kb4 e2 2.Rh1 Kd3 3.Kc5 Kd2 4. 4.Kd4 wins
3.Dr.Jindrich Fritz 1951
1.Kb4 Be6 2.Rd6 Bf7 3.Bg6 Nh6 4.Kc3 Kh2
5.Bh5 Bxh5 6.Rxh6 wins
4.Prof.Ladislav Prokes 1948
1.Kf6 Kh8 2.g6 Rd6+ 3.Ke7 Rf6 4.Kf8 Rxg6
5.Ke7 Rg7 6.Kf6 Rg6+ 7.Kf5
5.Gerbstman 1950
1.Ne5 Bb2+ 2.Ke4 Bxe5 3.Kf5 Bg3 4.Bg5
wins
6.Marcel Dore 1955
1.f6 Kg6 2.Ke5 Kf7 3.Kd5 Ne6 4.Kc6 Nd4+
5.Kb6 Nf5 6.Kc5 wins
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AICF Calendar November 2019 1st Hyderabad All India Open Fide Rating Tournament, Hyderabad
U.P.State smart Girls FIDE Rated Chess 25 Nov - 29 Nov ,Lucknow,UP
Grand Chess Tour Tata Steel Blitz 25 Nov - 26 Nov Kolkata
9th National Schools Chess Championship 26 Nov - 01 Dec Aurangabad Front Row (L-R) A Sridhar Raju P; 3rd place P
Ramco Inst. of Technology's 2nd FIDE Rated 30 Nov - 03 Dec Rajapalayam Bharat Kumar Reddy, Winner Kaustuv Kundu
Mandya Chess Academy Blitz Rating 01 Dec - 01 Dec Mandya (both sitting) and Runner up Prakash Ram
National Senior Chess Championship 2019 09 Dec - 20 Dec Mazitar,,East Sikkim (Standing); NA Chandra Reddy Mouli R;Back
4th CPPA Open FIDE Rating Chess 12 Dec - 17 Dec Dibrugar, Row (L-R) Mr. Suman of Joykids; B Raja Sekhar
Chess for Every one All India Open 15 Dec - 19 Dec Raipur of Prufer Logic; Chief Guest P Dinakar Babu,
Lakecity winter below 1600 FIDE Rating - 18 Dec - 20 Dec Udaipur IAS, VC-MD of SATS; K S Prasad, Secretary-TS-
13th BRDCA Open FIDE Rating 20 Dec - 24 Dec Bangalore CA; . M S Reddy of Anand Chess Academy;
2nd Nitai Ghosh Mem.FIDE Rated 20 Dec - 24 Dec Jalpaiguri, WB NA Sriram R ; FA S Subba Raju ; NA Prasanth
DCA Open Rapid FIDE Rated 21 Dec - 22 Dec Delhi Gaddam.
APCA Secretary Cup 2019 All India Rapid 21 Dec - 22 Dec Nellore
Bhopal International GM Tmt 21 Dec - 28 Dec Bhopal, MP
3rd Hyderabad Open FIDE Rating 22 Dec - 26 Dec Khairatabad 2nd Hyderabad All India Below 1400 FIDE Rating Tournament
Chess for Everyone All India FIDE Rated 23 Dec - 27 Dec Faridabad
GKCA 1st All India Rapid FIDE Rated 25 Dec - 25 Dec Vadapalani Chief Guest Sri N Ramachandhra
Bhopal International GM Chess tmt Blitz 25 Dec - 25 Dec Bhopal, MP Rao, MLC, and guest of honors
Project Smart Girl Open FIDE Rating Chess 25 Dec - 29 Dec Rajnandgaon, Dr. Dipak Ripote, IRS, Commis-
1st Silicon City Open FIDE Rating 25 Dec - 29 Dec Bangalore sioner of Income tax, Sri K S
1st Jorhat Open FIDE Rating Chess 26 Dec - 31 Dec Jorhat,Assam Prasad, Secretary,TSCA and U
4th Hyderabad Open FIDE rated below 1400 27 Dec - 29 Dec Khairatabad Mallesh, State Executing Mem-
16th KCM below 1600 FIDE Rated Chess 27 Dec - 29 Dec Coimbatore ,TN ber, BJP.Front row: Bharatraj S
Thrissur Chess Academy Rated below 1600 - 27 Dec - 29 Dec Thrissur,KL (Tamilnadu) is 1st Runner up;
4th Edition Kharagpur Classic 27 Dec - 01 Jan Kharagapur
Pasupula Teja Sree (AP) is 2nd
Runner up and Winner Arghya
21st MCA All Bengal Open FIDE Rapid 28 Dec - 29 Dec Hooghly.
Sen (West Bengal)
4th ICA Open Below 1600 FIDE Rating 30 Dec - 01 Jan Bangalore
EKA - IIFL Investment Managers 5th Masters 30 Dec - 03 Jan Mumbai
EKA - IIFL Investment Managers
57TH WB State FIDE Rated Open Chess Tournament 2019
4TH Mumbai Junior (U-13) Chess 30 Dec - 07 Jan Mumbai
EKA - IIFL Investment Managers GM Ty 30 Dec - 07 Jan Mumbai

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Solution to ‘Puzzle of the month’ on page 10 : 1.f4 c5 2.f5 c4 3.f6 c3 4.fxg7

cxb2 5.gxf8B bxc1B 6.Bg7 Bb2

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 All India Open FIDE Rapid Rating tournament 2019, Nagpur

(L-R) Shri Bhushan Shriwas, Shri K K Barat, Secretary NDCA, IA Swapnil Bansod, Chief Arbiter, SNA Sushant Jumde,
Organising Secretary, GM Raunak Sadhwani, Chief Guest, Shri Dilip Kamdar, President NDCA and Shri R N Shri-
was, Secretary VCA.

(L-R) FA Umesh Panbude, Tournament Secetary NDCA, IA Swapnil Bansod Chief Arbiter, Shri. Piyush Ambulkar,
Chief Guest, FM Shailesh Dravid 2nd Place, Shri Manish Tiwari, Executive Naivedhyam North Star, GM R R Lax-
man, winner, IM Mohammad Nubairshah Shaikh 3rd Place, SNA Sushant Jumde, Organising Secretary,

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