AICF CHRONICLE

the official magazine of the All India Chess Federation

Volume : 12 Issue : 9 Price Rs. 25 April 2018

Candidates 2018, Berlin

AICFB 13th National ‘A’ Chess

Championship for the blind, Mumbai

GM Fabiano Caruana
Winner

Kishan Gangolli
Winner
Fifth title in a row!
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2nd Dalmia Cements FIDE Rating Tmt
Arpan Das emerges Champion
by Hemant Sharma FA,Chief Arbiter 1
16th KCA Open Fide Rated Tmt,Kottayam
Ram S Krishnan wins title
by L.R.Bhuvanaa Sai IA, Chief Arbiter 6
Maharashtra State Rapid and Blitz Selection
Nubairshah Shaikh and Om Kharola win titles
by Vitthal Madhav IA, Chief Arbiter 9
30th WB State U-11 Open & Girls Ch’ships, Kolkata
Alekhya Mukhopadhyay and
Sinthia Sarkar win titles
by Asit Baran Choudhury IA,Chief Arbiter 12
2nd Holi Cup Lakecity Open
FIDE Rating Tmt, Udaipur
FM Sauravh Kherdekar Wins at Udaipur
by IA Swapnil Bansod,Chief Arbiter 16
Puzzle of the month by C.G.S.Narayanan 20 Punjab during March 2018.Reports on these two
Children Chess Festival 2018,
Cuddalore-A report
by IA Balaraman S , Chief Arbiter 21
Selected games from Delhi Open and
National Team Chess Championships
Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron 27
Problem World by C.G.S.Narayanan 41
Tactics fro master games
by S.Krishnan 42
Test your endgame
by C.G.S.Narayanan 43
Masters of the past-87-Raul Sanguineti 44
AICF Calendar 48
From the Editor’s desk
Italian-American grandmaster
Fabiano Caruana, Winner of the
Candidates Tournament 2018 at
Berlin, is all set to challenge the
reigning Champion Magnus Carlsen
for the World title in London later this
year. Needing only a draw in the final round the Miami-
born Caruana won with black pieces over Russia’s
Alexander Grischuk to finish a clear first by a full point
in the eight player double round robin Candidates.
India’s domination in Asian Youth Chess 2018 at
Thailand was complete with a rich haul of 35 gold
medals in Team and Individual events combined in all
the three formats Classical, Rapid and Blitz to stand
out as the most powerful chess country in Asia way
ahead of the second placed Vietnam team which won
17 gold medals. Detailed reports with photographs
will be featured in the next issue.
To keep pace with the ever growing Indian chess
the need for quality arbiters and trainers was felt
in order to take care of the increasing number of
rated tournaments and players. The All India Chess
Federation and FIDE Arbiters’ Commission with the
support of Government of India's Ministry of Youth
Affairs & Sports successfully organized a FIDE
Arbiter's Seminar which was held at Manali, Himachal
Pradesh and a FIDE Trainer seminar at Mohali,
events are featured in the centre pages of this issue.
Selected games from Delhi Open and National
Team Chess Championships held at Bhubaneswar
annotated by IM Manuel Aaron are also presented in
this issue. A pen portrait of Argentine Grandmaster
Raul Sanguineti is featured in the ‘Masters of the
past’ series.
C.G.S.Narayanan
Readers are invited to offer their feedback on the
regular features in the AICF Chronicle and are
also invited to send interesting articles, annotated
games and chess anecdotes to the Editor at ‘www.
indianchessfed@gmail.com’ or ‘cgsnarayanan
@hotmail.com.
2nd Dalmia Cements All India Open FIDE Rating Chess Tournament 2018
Arpan Das emerges Champion
by Hemant Sharma FA,Chief Arbiter
The second edition of Dalmia Cements All
India Open FIDE Rating Chess Tournament
2018, organized by All Jharkhand Chess
Association was held at Sarala Birla Public
School, Mahilong from 26th to 31st March
2018. At the inaugural function the chief
guest Manish Ranjan IAS Secretary, Tourism,
Arts, Culture, Sports & Youth Affairs Depart-
ment, Govt. of Jharkhand inaugurated the
tournament. Pradip Varma President AJCA &
School Head Personnel & Admin, Pritam Sin-
gh, CEO AJCA, Navjot Singh Alang, Secretary,
RDCA, Paramjit Kaur, Principal SBPS and IM
N.K. Mishra, Secretary AJCA also witnessed
the opening ceremony.
Total 210 players from the various parts
of the country including one Grand Master,
one International Master and one Candi-
date Master participated in the tournament
played under swiss system and FIDE rules.
The tournament having prize pool of Rs. 2,
00,000/- was played over 10 rounds in cat-
egories unrated, rating from 1001 to 1300,
from 1301 to 1600, from 1601 to 1900 and
Veteran 60+ along with the main category.
From the first to the fourth round all the
seeded players won their games easily but
in the fifth round top seed IM Aragyadip Das
was held at draw by 6th seed Shrutarshi Ray.
In the sixth round IM Aragyadip Das split the
point with CM Aronyak Gosh at second, third
and fourth boards were also drawn while at
the top board GM Saptarashi Roy Chowdhary
bagged full point against kaustuv Kundu and
attained sole lead with 6 points and main-
tained the lead till eighth round by splitting
the point in two consecutive rounds. In the
penultimate round GM Saptarashi Roy Chow-
dhary again played a draw with IM Aragyadip
Das while CM Aronyak Gosh, kaustuv Kundu
and Arpan Das grabbed full point against
their opponents and joined the lead with GM
Saptarashi Roy Chowdhary with 7.5 points
each. In the tenth and final round CM Aron-
yak Gosh split the point with kaustuv Kundu
while Arpan Das had a stunning victory over
GM Saptarashi Roy Chowdhary to clinch the
championship with 8.5 points to his credit.
Although CM Aronyak Gosh, kaustuv Kundu,
Shrutarshi Ray, IM Aragyadip Das, Priyanka
Kumari and Routary Priyanka scored 8 points
each but due to tie breaks score they stood
from second to seventh respectively.
In the category unrated Tirth Shresth, in the
category 1001 to 1300 Pradhan Anubhav,
in the category 1301 to 1600 Ankit Kumar
Singh, in the category 1601 to 1900 Debata
Sarthak, in the category under 7 Boys Kush
Mundhra, in Under 7 Girls Yashica Prerna
Dadle, in the category under 9 Boys Panda
Hrishikesh, in Under 9 Girls Advika Das, in
the category under 11 Boys Ishant Kumar, in
Under 11 Girls Arpita Kumari, in the category
under 13 Boys Shounak Mazumder, in Under
13 Girls Marium Fatima, in the category under
15 Boys Sathwik Shivananda P.S, in Under 15
Girls Bhavya Verma and in veteran category
Nihar Ranjan Banerjee were the winners.
At the prize distribution function Chief Guest
Sunil kumar Barnwal (IAS) Chief Secretary,
CM Jharkhand distributed the cash prizes and
trophies to the winners. Guest of Honour
Rajiv Kumar Sinha, Deputy Manager Dalmia
Cements, R.K. Singh, Registrar Sarla Birla
University) Suresh Nath Naron (Secretary
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DDCA), Paramjeet Kaur (Principal Sarla Birla
Public School), Pritam Singh (CEO AJCA ) IM
Neeraj Mishra ( Secretary AJCA) were also
present at the function.
Final standings: 44 Mukherjee Sanchit 6
Rk Name Pts
1 Arpan Das 8½
2 CM Aronyak Ghosh 8
3 Kaustuv Kundu 8
4 Shrutarshi Ray 8
5 IM Das Arghyadip 8
6 Priyanka Kumari 8
7 Routray Priyanka 8
8 GM Roy Chowdhury Saptarshi 7½
9 Chakrabarti Tamal 7½
10 Rupam Mukherjee 7½
11 Biswal Sagar 7½
12 Verma Sanjay 7
13 Mohanty Soyamsree 7
14 Siddhant Nath Jha 7
15 Kamal Kishore Debnath 7
16 Ankit Kumar Singh 7
17 Debata Sarthak 7
18 Abhirup Das 7
19 Kumar Utkarsh 7
20 Pradhan Anubhav 7
21 Swapnil Raj 7
22 Nihar Ranjan Banerjee 7
23 Marium Fatima 7
24 Shounak Mazumder 7
25 Aniruddh Chatterjee 6½
26 Sudhakar Prem Dutt 6½
27 Raja Bose 6½
28 Abhay Narayan Tiwari 6½
29 AIM Sathwik Shivananda P.S 6½
30 Debanjan Ghosh 6½
31 Mantosh Kumar 6½
32 Nayak Satyam 6½
33 Adreeja Sinha 6½
34 Pratyush Kumar 6½
35 Pramit Chanda 6½
36 Lokesh Kumar 6½
37 Tirth Shresth 6½
38 Raj Aryan 6½
39 Bakrewal Vinamra 6½
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40 Atri Chakraborty 6½
41 Ankush Kumar Singh 6½
42 Nitin Kumar 6½
43 Biranchi Kumar Sinha 6½
45 Amit Paswan 6
46 Bhavya Verma 6
47 Dhritabrata Kundu 6
48 Supratim Ghosh 6
49 Priyangshu Gupta Bhaya 6
50 Rohit kumar 6
51 Singh Rishi 6
52 Panda Hrishikesh 6
53 Prateeti Gorai 6
54 Shruti Shreya 6
55 Banerjee Abhradeep 6
56 Sunil Kumar Singh 6
57 Ishant Kumar 6
58 Kundu Uttam 6
59 Sayon Kundu 6
60 Sayam Chakraborty 6
61 Aryaman V Verma 6
62 Yamijala Koulini 6
63 Om Narayan Bhuyan 6
64 Manauar Hussain 6
65 Amrit Sajan 6
66 Santanu Gupta Bhaya 6
67 Prem Kumar 6
68 Roushan Kumar 6
69 Deobrat Singh 5½
70 Avinash Mishra 5½
71 Prakhar Alok Chaudhary 5½
72 Vivek Anand Chaudhary 5½
73 Shaswata Paul 5½
74 Barnwal Dhriti 5½
75 Vikash Kumar Mehta 5½
76 Bhanu Prakash Narayan 5½
77 Aloukik Jaiswal 5½
78 Shailesh Kumar 5½
79 Mitra Subhanil 5½
80 Verma Balkrishn 5½
81 Gupta Saroj Prasad 5½
82 Dev Anoop Kr Singh 5½
83 Rishav Kumar 5½
84 Kumar Aswini 5½
KNOW YOUR IM Nihal Sarin
Nihal Sarin is a 13-year old chess prodigy from Thrissur,
Kerala, India. He holds the title of International Master
with two grandmaster norms and a rating of 2551. He
is ranked No. 1 in the world in the under-14 category.
Nihal was born on 13 July 2004 at Thrissur. He started
playing competitive chess as a seven-year-old in the
middle of 2011. Nihal was formally taught chess by
Mathew P. Joseph Pottoore, the school’s chess coach
who instructed once a week in the beginning and later
became the most influential person in Nihal's early
chess development.
Nihal’s first big break came at the World Youth Chess Championship in the Under-10 category,
which was held in Durban, South Africa in September 2014. He scored 9.0/11 to be crowned the
Under-10 World Champion. For this achievement, he was conferred the Candidate Master title
by FIDE. Right after his World Youth success in 2014, Nihal scored his first victory over a titled
player IM Jonathan Westerberg of Sweden at the World Junior Championship 2014 in Pune, India.
In 2015, he won the silver medal in the Under-12 category of World Youth Chess Champion-
ship at Greece starting as the 28th seed among 202 participants from 73 countries. In the last
rounds of the tournament, Nihal successively defeated the top two seeds of his category: IM
Awonder Liang in round seven, and FM NodirbekAbdusattorov (rated 2432) in round eight. He
was conferred the FIDE Master title by the FIDE in the same year as he had crossed live Elo
rating of 2300.
In February 2016, Nihal played his first International Open outside India, the prestigious Cappelle
la Grande Open and registered his first International Master norm. In the process, he defeated
a grandmaster for the first time in his career.At the Sunway Sitges Open 2016, Nihal registered
his second International Master norm by scoring 5.5/9.His third International Norm was regis-
tered in the Aeroflot Open 2017 held in February, where Nihal scored 5.5/9 as well, performing
at 2539, to cross the 2400-mark and become an International Master. He scored his maiden
Grand Master norm at the TV2 Fagernes International 2017,Norway.
In December 2017, at the World Youth Olympiad at Ahmedabad, Nihal played for India Green,
helping the country secure a Silver medal. He also won an Individual Gold on board three. In
2017, Nihal increased his rating by 192 elo points to cross 2500 in rating with several grand-
master scalps to his name. At Reykjavik Open 2018 held in March, Nihal scored 6.0/9 with a
rating performance of 2668 to score his second GM norm.
Nihal is coached by E.P. Nirmal from 2013 on a regular basis, helping him develop from a raw
talent to a rising player.Since 2016, Nihal began working independently on his game. He is
occasionally coached by Ukrainian GM Dimitri Komarov from 2014 and GM Srinath Narayanan
from 2016 until the present day. His early favourite was Alexander Alekhine.
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 Shri Dhakshinamurthy Memorial Intl.FIDE Rated chess tournament,Tindivanam 85 Rishu Raj 5½
86 Raunak Gupta 5½
87 Sankar Bhattacharya 5½
88 Sashank Pandey 5½
89 Kumar Ankit 5½
90 Arpita Kumari 5½
91 Riddhima Singh 5½
92 Prince 5½
93 Umesh Sona Tanty 5
94 Ashutosh Kumar 5
95 Aditya Sinha 5
96 Abhishek Kumar 5
97 Sharma Prahlad 5
98 Samyukta Gade 5
99 Smriti Rajesh Kumar 5
100 Vijay Kumar Singh 5
101 Adarsh Kumar 5
102 Prabhat Kumar 5
103 Ansh Kumar 5
104 Ashutosh Bhardwaj 5
Anbhazhagan, Ezhumalai, Chief Guest, Smt.Shanthi, School admin, Dharamchand Jain School,
Karuvambakkam, Mr.G.Karthikeyan, Winner, Balachander, Principal, Mr.Jinraj , chairman and 105 Hardev Sahai 5
Mr.S.Balaraman IA, Chief Arbiter 106 Mrityunjay Choudhary 5
107 Swastik Sur 5
108 Nikhil Biyani 5
16th KCA Open Fide Rated Chess Tournament,Kottayam 109 Jatin Kumar 5
110 Manav Daga 5
111 Aastha Rani Bhuyan 5
112 Ayushman Vats 5
113 Gyan Mitra 5
114 Advika Das 5
115 Harshvi Matalia 5
116 Krishna Tulsi 5
117 Saumya Anshul 5
118 Sahil 5
119 Satish Kumar Barnwal 5
120 Ankush Raj 4½
121 Biplab Chandra Dalal 4½
122 Bijay Kumar Sinha 4½
123 Harsh Raj Pandey 4½
124 Krishna Kumar Saw 4½
125 Puspen Kumar Pore 4½
126 Komal Kriti 4½
(L-R) Naresh Krishna S, Arbiter, Shaji P M,Secretaty, Alleppy, Govindan kutty M S,Secretary, Palakkad, 127 Aditi Raj 4½
Mr. Vijayakumar,Secretary, Pathanamthitta, Champion Ram S Krishnan ,BSNL receives the award from
128 Bani Kanta Nath 4½
Rajesh Nattakom ,Secretary, Chess Association Kerala, Ammer, Kannan, Saju Manjaly(Ernakulam),
IA Bhuvanaa Sai,Chief Arbiter, V. Rajaraman, Arbiter. 129 Shivansh Siddharth 4½
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130 Atulya Kumar 4½
131 Sachin Anand 4½
132 Suraj Kumar Singh 4½
133 Shochisha 4½
134 Om Chaitanya Sharma 4½
135 Pradeep Kumar 4½
136 Priyanshu 4½
137 Ankit Kumar Krissh 4½
138 Omprakash 4½
139 Jayshil Mohan Srivastava 4½
140 Yash Wardhan Mundhra 4½
141 Divya Gupta 4½
142 Archit Mittal 4
143 Parimi Anil Kumar 4
144 Rahul kant 4
145 Yogesh Agrawal 4
146 Pratibha Singh 4
147 Palak Bagla 4
148 Advika Mohanty 4
149 Ujjwal Saboo 4
150 Subhang Raj 4
151 Sneh Kumar 4
152 Darshit Bagla 4
153 Tejal Burman 4
154 Naman Gaba 4
155 Jiya 4
156 Shreyash Jajodia 4
157 Luvya Agarwal 4
158 Harsh Raj Priyadarshi 4
159 Kush Mundhra 4
160 Aditya Tanmay Sharma 4
161 Yash Raj Agrawal 4
162 Vedika Sinha 4
163 Ansh Pathak 3½
164 Pranamya Adinath 3½
165 Anushree Khetan 3½
166 Satyam Vasistha 3½
167 Aoisikha Mukherjee 3½
168 Rutvi Raj 3½
169 Debadrita Das 3½
170 Manisha Ranjan 3½
171 Yogita Bora 3½
172 Amit Kumar R 3½
173 Hrishik Sinha 3½
174 Yashica Prerna Dadle 3½
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16th KCA Open Fide Rated Chess Tournament,Kottayam
Ram S Krishnan wins title
by L.R.Bhuvanaa Sai IA, Chief Arbiter
K
CA’s 16th Open Fide Rated Chess Tour-
nament was organized by Kottayam
Chess Academy from 29th March to 1st
April 2018 at Mammen Mappillai Hall, Kottay-
am. The participation of IM Shyaam Nikhil
of ICF, 3 Fide Masters Matta Vinay Kumar,
Ramakirshna J from AP and Vinoth Kumar M
from TN added beauty to this tournament.
A total of 365 players from 4 federations (
Iran, Kenya , USA & India) 3 union territories
(Delhi,Goa and Pondicherry) and 10 states
(Andhra, Bihar, Haryana,Jharkhand,Karna-
taka,Kerala,Maharashtra, Telengana, Tamil-
nadu and Uttar Pradesh) participated in the
8 round event.
6 players shared their lead with full points
after 5 rounds. Shyaam couldn’t continue
his good run in sixth round due to lost on
time to Ram S Krishnan of BSNL. Kunal had
a win against Bharath Kumar Reddy Poluri
on second table. Ram and Kunal were the
leaders with 6 points each. Prasaanna, Mat-
ta Vinaykumar, Sri Sai Baswanth and S S
Manigandan scored 5.5 points each at the
end of sixth round. In the clash between
Ram and Kunal, Ram conquered the second
seeded player Kunal in 36 moves and took
sole lead with perfect score of 7 points af-
ter the penultimate round. FM Matta Vinay
Kumar of Andhra Bank was the only player
scored 6.5 points. In the final round Ram S
Krishnan, BSNL had a formal draw against
Andhra Bank Player FM Matta Vinay Kumar
to win the KCA’s 16th Open fide rated Chess
Tournament and cash award 50,000 with a
beautiful trophy. Matta Vinaykumar secured
second place. The tournament concluded in
a grand manner with the wonderful co-oper-
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39 Harshad S 5½ 86 Muhammed Reja C 5
40 Avinash Hari 5½ 87 Saket Kumar 5
41 Farhaan M 5½ 88 Eldho Skaria 5
42 Tajane Ganesh 5½ 89 Prince Mundakayam 5
43 Badri Narayan B 5½ 90 Aswin.P.G 5
ation of the players and parents and with the 44 Theju K V 5½ 91 Susheel Reddy P 5
support of experienced arbiters team. 45 Madhusoodanan K.R. 5½ 92 Aravind Matthews A C T 5
Final standings: 46 Sibi Visal R 5½ 93 Kanishk S K 5
Rk Name Pts 47 Selvamurugan B 5½ 94 Sri Santhosh D 5
1 Ram S. Krishnan 7½ 48 Vishwa Bala Kumaran M 5½ 95 Anil Thungesh 5
2 Matta Vinay Kumar FM 7 49 Arul Anandh S P K 5½ 96 Dinesh K 5
3 Bharat Kumar Reddy Poluri 7 50 Shanjay Krishnaa Sathiskumar 5½ 97 Nishad A 5
4 Vinoth Kumar M FM 7 51 Vaishant Kumar Gangwani 5½ 98 Borse Pankaj 5
5 Kunal M. 6½ 52 Tejes Suresh Kumar 5½ 99 Jayasangar T 5
53 Raju O A 5½ 100 Arjun Sidharth S 5
6 Shyaamnikhil P IM 6½
54 Binoy Chacko 5½ 101 Praveen Kumar Gunasekaran 5
7 Marthandan K U 6½
8 Swaraj Palit 6½ 55 Srikrishnan P 5½ 102 Bhagwat Heramb 5
9 Manigandan S S 6½ 56 Navodith V Bhat 5½ 103 Sathishkumar L 5
10 Balkishan A. 6½ 57 Pathrose C.T 5½ 104 Kamble Dipankar 5
11 Vinodh Kumar B. 6½ 58 Charles J 5½ 105 Sumesh Kabeer 5
12 Abhinessh S 6½ 59 Yogesh Bharat Mahamuni 5½ 106 Sajan Issac 5
13 Kabhilan S 6½ 60 Sasikumar N 5½ 107 Sivasubramanian S 5
14 Ajith M.P. 6½ 61 Bhaskar N S 5½ 108 Nitin M Pai 4½
15 Prahalad B 6½ 62 Mohith R 5½ 109 S. Jeevanandam 4½
16 Bhat Sanjay 6½ 63 Muthu Paramaguru M 5½ 110 Prashanth J Naik 4½
17 Prasannaa.S 6 64 Yogeshwaran S A 5½ 111 Sayu P S 4½
18 Ramakrishna J. FM 6 65 Venkatesan B 5½ 112 Subramanian T.V. 4½
19 Rohit Ramanan T G 6 66 M Tulasi Ram Kumar 5½ 113 Sanjeev M 4½
67 Sri Sai Baswanth P 5 114 Subramanian V 4½
20 Vijay Anand M. 6
68 Nithish Muthukumaran 5 115 Anil Kumar S 4½
21 Saranya Y 6
22 Salil Kumar D. 6 69 Vishwanath Kannam 5 116 Alex C Joy 4½
23 Mushini Ajay 6 70 Phatak Aanjaneya 5 117 Eshwanth Dev Kumar J 4½
24 Sooraj M R 6 71 Rohan Kailash B 5 118 Lenin A G 4½
25 Ganesan K. 6 72 Gopinath Parthasarathy 5 119 Satheesh Kumar G 4½
26 Ravi Kumar K 6 73 Nawin J J 5 120 Vinoth M 4½
27 Senthil Kumaran T.H. 6 74 Ranjith R.K. 5 121 Raghu Ram Reddy Seelam 4½
28 Suganthan S 6 75 Sivaa G M 5 122 Mahendran K 4½
29 Dhanasekar K. 5½ 76 Suresh Kolavapalli 5 123 Joshi Tejas 4½
30 Dharmaraj P. 5½ 77 Devesh Anand Naik 5 124 Iniyan Sivakumar 4½
31 Sriram B 5½ 78 Praveen Kamath 5 125 Jeyanth R 4½
32 Sathya Giri V 5½ 79 Swarnamala B 5 126 Pavan C 4½
33 Kathiravan M. 5½ 80 Alwin Biby 5 127 Saravanan A 4½
81 Gabriel B M 5 128 Anand Babu P 4½
34 Naveen Giri 5½
82 Nijai Giri 5 129 Priyanka Bhatt 4½
35 Aravinth Shanmugam S 5½
36 Dhanush Ragav 5½ 83 Dharani Srinivas K B 5 130 Mani Bharathy 4½
37 Mohanan U.C. 5½ 84 Sanil S 5 131 Raaghav Rajesh 4½
38 Hermon Dain Saldanha 5½ 85 Satheesh M 5 132 Anselm Flavian Paul 4½
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133 Mallesh Beerla 4½ 180 Prasath K R 4
134 Samson D Cruz J 4½ 181 Lekshanth M 4
Maharashtra State Rapid and Blitz Selection 2018, Maharashtra
135 Karthik K 4½ 182 Ramakrishnan V 4 Nubairshah Shaikh and Om Kharola win titles
136 Nitish Mani S 4½ 183 Jeyasurya Umashankar R 4 by Vitthal Madhav IA, Chief Arbiter
137 Gunaseelan V A 4½ 184 Unnikrishnan B 4
138 Aakash K P 4½ 185 Vishnu Sridhar 4 The Maharashtra State Rapid Rating Cham- fore the start of the penultimate round won
139 Emayasri S 4½ 186 Patil T S 4 pionship witnessed a response of total 195 the tough game against Chandratreya Pra-
140 Karthik K Bhat 4½ 187 Arjun Kumar S 4 players with IM Nubairshah Shaikh as the chiti emerging as the winner of Maharashtra
141 Sarvesh Aadityaa R 4½ 188 Suhaib Ahmad 4 top seed followed by FM Anand Nadar. In State Blitz Champion. This is the first time IM
142 Samhitha Sharma B S 4½ 189 Jayakrishna H 4 the fourth round FM Anand Nadar was held Nubairshah came 2nd in any state Champi-
143 Renganayaki V 4½ 190 Vinoth Naveen Jose R 4 to a draw by the local lad Om Kharola whith onship he has participated.Both Om Kharola
144 Sanjay Robin 4½ 191 Aji Kumar A 4 only 6 players leading with 4 points. In sixth and IM Nubair will represent Maharashtra at
145 Pankaj Prem M. 4½ 192 Sunildutt 4 Round the game on the top board, between National Blitz Chess Championship 2018.
146 Dennis Moothedath 4½ 193 Sidharth Rajeev 4 IM Nubairshah Shaikh and Suyog Wagh both Final standings:Rapid
147 Roshan S 4½ 194 Balaji S 4 leaders with 5 points, ended in a draw. Rk Name Pts
148 Roshan Hari 4½ 195 Ashvin Venkat G 4 1 IM Md Nubairshah Shaikh 8
149 Arumugam N 4½ 196 Pankaj Bhat 4 2 Wagh Suyog 8
In seventh round IM Nubairshah Shaikh
150 Sindhusree K 4½ 197 Muthu P 4 3 Panesar Vedant 7½
gained a lead of half point over Suyog Wagh.
151 Jaijish J 4½ 198 Greeshma Anand Dhumal 4 4 Aarav Dengla 7
152 Adarsh P.B 4 199 Anirudh Ra 4 But in the eighth round Vedant Panesar held
5 Mishra Sanjeev 7
153 Gopinath M 4 200 Janakiraman R 4 him to a draw whereas Suyog defeated Ve-
6 FM Anand Nadar 7
154 Deepthi Lakshmi K 4 201 Rajan K.N. 4 dant Vekhande to join Nubair with 7 points.
7 Shah Jeet 7
155 Badrinarayanan N 4 202 Varun Rajesh Nandanam 4 Although both won the last round Nubair won 8 Patil Ketan 7
156 Natarajan M 4 203 Midilesh Ms 4 the championship with a better tie break. 9 Chandratreya Prachiti 7
157 Pushpa Evengeline V 4 204 Siva Vamsikrishna 4 Suyog Wagh of Aurangabad was placed 10 Om Kharola 6½
158 Thomas M J 4 205 Sumit Kumar 4 second . Both will represent Maharashtra at 11 Nikam Sudhanshu 6½
159 Roshan Abendhra Ramesh 4 206 Abimanyu M 4 National Rapid Chess Championship 2018. 12 Soni Deepak R 6½
160 Adithya A Chullikkad 4 207 Niranjan Sreejithmon 4 13 Nagare Akhilesh 6½
161 Varunsatyaa Parthasarathy 4 208 Hariharan Gandhi 4 In the Blitz championship there were 82 14 Upadhyay R 6½
162 Arul Prakash N 4 209 Rijo Mathew 4 15 Rahul Lamba 6½
entries with IM Vikramaditya Kulkarni as a
163 Felix Moothedath 4 210 Bharath Bhushan Reddy N 4 16 Kadam Om Manish 6½
top seed followed by IM Nubairshah Shaikh
164 Someswara Battu W 4 211 Arun Prasath P 4 17 Nikam Ravindra 6½
and FM Anand Nadar. In the third Round
165 Sarath Kumar Murugesan 4 212 Akshaya R.S. 4 18 Vinay Vijaykumar 6½
166 Ruban S 4 213 Vishnu Namboothiri M V 4 Vedant Panesar surprised everyone by a
19 Lekh Mithawala 6½
167 Preneesh Kumar C. S. 4 214 Dravid T 4 draw with IM Nubairshah Shaikh. At the end
20 Gawde Prathmesh 6½
168 Aakash G 4 215 Benatin Britto Hamlet Raj 3½ of 5th round IM Vikramaditya Kulkarni and
21 Gupta Rajesh R.S. 6½
169 Femil Chelladurai 4 216 Vel Murugan B 3½ FM Anand Nadar Emerged as leaders with 5 22 Butala Krish 6½
170 Midhun Kumar M A 4 217 Madhavan R Munjanattu 3½ points each. Both agreed for a draw in the 6th 23 Yadav Aakashkumar 6½
171 Sakthivel Heamish Kanha 4 218 Abi A 3½ round continuing their lead of half point over 24 Redij Aniket 6
172 Hrishikesh A J 4 219 Ahalya A 3½ others, whereas IM Nubair faced a defeat at 25 Bartakke Aditya 6
173 Gawde Prathmesh 4 220 Kesavan G 3½ the hands of Ketan Boricha. 26 Vedant Nitin Vekhande 6
174 Harish Kumar N 4 221 Divya Teja P 3½ 27 Shah Devansh 6
175 Manojan Ravi 4 222 Thulaseedharan K 3½ In eighth round both the leaders viz IM 28 Prasad Sachin 6
176 Radhakrishnan.K.S 4 223 Heera P 3½ 29 Vakil Akhtar 6
Vikramaditya Kulkarni and FM Anand Nadar
177 Muthu Palaniappan P L 4 224 Binu Sebastian 3½ 30 Punia Yuvraj 6
faced defeats at the hands of Om Kharola and
178 Lanka Sri Karthikeya D 4 225 Jaidambareesh N R 3½ 31 Aarav Lakhani 6
IM Nubairshah respectively. With Om Kharola
179 Jean Mani Joseph T 4 226 Jayakumar P K 3½ 32 Kale Aditya 6
having a lead of half points over others be-
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34 Parmar Arein 6
35 Dakare Rucha 6
36 Borse Pankaj 6
37 Siddhanth Lohia 6
38 Jadhav Jyotiraditya 6
39 Phene Yatiraj 6
40 Kadam Rishi R 6
41 Patil Harshal 5½
42 Bagwe Gaurang 5½
43 Borase Manoj 5½
44 Ramgude Nishigandha 5½
45 Joglekar Abhijit 5½
46 Khandelwal Naman 5½
47 Nagarkatte Vedant 5½
48 Hrishikesh Chavan 5½
49 Jojo K L 5½
50 Somaiya Shreyansh 5½
51 Kotkar Sunil 5½
52 Gada Vaarin 5½
53 Saparia Jeel Bharat 5½
54 Biswas Rayon 5½
55 Mohite Ramesh 5½
56 Koli Isha 5½
57 Sinha Soham 5½
58 Riyan Amit Shah 5½
59 Krishna Prabhakar 5
60 Potawad Anirudhha 5
61 Singh Vibhav 5
62 Jaiveer Mahendru 5
63 Raj Jaivardhan 5
64 Sachin Pandharinath Vaidya 5
65 Vedant Mistry 5
66 Kapadia Hrishita 5
67 Kshatriya Nitin Vekhande 5
68 Redkar Yash 5
69 Shah Param J 5
70 Dutta Auritro 5
71 Shelke Pratham Ashish 5
72 Bulsara Yazaan 5
73 Kulkarni Siya Jayant 5
74 Atharv Krishna Vedula 5
75 Mayekar Ayush 5
76 Parkar Ashish 5
77 Ambre Sayali 5
78 Suhaani Lohia 5
79 Sohanganesh Uddhav Nikam 5
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80 Kadakia Veer 5
81 Phene Ojas 5
82 Iyer Arvind 5
83 Bohra Kanishk 5
84 Gogate Yash 4½
85 Darsh Shetty 4½
86 Parab Ram Vishal 4½
87 Jagesia Daksh 4½
88 Gada Om 4½
89 Nipun Dangche 4½
90 Chopra Karan 4½
91 Kunder Pratik 4½
92 Rajveer Pinkesh Nahar 4½
93 Khadilkar Shourya 4½
94 Salvi Aarush 4½
95 Hatvalne Swarali 4½
96 Nihalani Moksh 4½
97 Andhere Omkar 4½
98 Tamboskar Shourya 4½
99 Bhandari Agastya 4½
100 Aashay R Kher 4½
101 Iyer A N 4½
102 Gupta Ankita 4½
103 Vasudeva Varun 4½
104 Wagle Rajas 4½
105 Manna Sachita 4½
106 Iyer Aarav 4½
107 Shah Neel Prakash 4½
108 Thite Rahul 4
109 Kapadia Prisha 4
110 Rajesh Aditya 4
111 Chitaliya Nevil 4
112 Aditya Kunal Patil 4
113 Rane Viraj 4
114 Bhatia Daksh 4
115 Gupta Ananya Vikas 4
116 Shirke Omkar 4
117 Patel Darsh 4
118 Vartak Parth 4
119 Talwelkar Shreyas 4
120 Alaukik Sinha 4
121 Bhatia Kiran 4
122 Yash Uday Sane 4
123 Gala Vansh Rasik 4
124 Solanki Harsh Rupesh 4
125 Newar Medhaansh 4
126 Ashay Jayesh Mayekar 4
127 Dabhade Arnav 4
128 Kolwankar Swapnil 4
129 Gupta Ronika 4
130 Varun K Menda 4
131 Rounaiv Rana 4
132 Arya Saranathan 4
133 Ramanan Vedhika 4
134 Gogte Soumil 4
135 Mehta Aarav Bhaven 4
136 Remani Advaith 3½
137 Krishna Bhatt 3½
138 Nalawade Om 3½
139 Patil Shreyash Dhanraj 3½
140 Dharmadhikari Aryan 3½
141 Gandhi Vedant 3½
142 Baliga Gaurish 3½
143 Lohakare Pratham 3½
144 Shambharkar Richie 3½
145 Varadkar Neel 3½
146 Atharva Mehta 3½
147 Chauhan Janmesh 3½
148 Anirudh Satish 3½
149 Sakhardande Harsh 3½
150 Jain Ojes 3
151 Talwelkar Gargi 3
152 Iksha Soni 3
153 Verma Vivaan 3
154 Dadrewalla Khushnaz 3
155 Anaidaa Santosh 3
156 Vedant Biyani 3
157 Tendulkar Heemanshi 3
158 Shah Purvaan 3
159 Nysha K Vhatwar 3
160 Ishaan A Tendolkar 3
161 Vir Nagpal 3
162 Sabat Shrihan 3
163 Contractor Vivana 3
164 Jajal Veer 3
165 Vyom Shivmath 3
166 Iyer Advait 3
167 Shajumon Ashlin 3
168 Pheron 3
169 Raut Anand 3
170 Vora Ananya 2½
171 Shreya Iyer 2½
172 Gauri Saraswat 2½
173 Yashvardhan Iyer 2½
174 Remani Ganesh 2
175 Remani Agastya 2
176 Nagarkatte Saina 2
177 Pawar Sarah 2
178 Vij Aarush 2
179 Rathi Arpita 2
180 Patnaik Udeep 2
181 Arham Mehta 2
182 Chayani Aditi 2
183 Anaishaa Pinkesh Nahar 2
184 Bhandari Arjun 2
185 Aaradhya Lad 1½
186 Vohra Devansh 1
187 Garv Kuldeep Vhatwar 1
188 Bagchi Jayorit 0
189 Pawar Rahul 0
190 CM Bhagat Kush 0
191 Kotak Sagar A 0
192 Bhatwadekar Aarya 0
193 Desai Rujula 0
194 Nilange Arul 0
195 Nilange Arush 0
Final ranking:Blitz
Rk Name Pts
1 Om Kharola 8
2 IM Mohammad Nubairshah S 7½
3 Wagh Suyog 7½
4 Nagare Akhilesh 7
5 Rahul Lamba 7
6 FM Anand Nadar 6½
7 IM Kulkarni Vikramaditya 6½
8 Lekh Mithawala 6½
9 Chandratreya Prachiti 6½
10 Kadam Om Manish 6½
11 Nikam Ravindra 6
12 Vedant Nitin Vekhande 6
13 Nikam Sudhanshu 6
14 Prabhu Ajay P. 6
15 Suthar Pradip 6
16 Patil Ketan 6
17 Redij Aniket 6
18 Panesar Vedant 6
19 Boricha Ketan 5½
20 Vinay Vijaykumar 5½
21 Gupta Rajesh R.S. 5½
22 Butala Krish 5½
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 30th WB State Age Gr.(U-11 Open & Girls) Chess Championship, Kolkata
Alekhya Mukhopadhyay and Sinthia Sarkar win titles
by Asit Baran Choudhury IA,Chief Arbiter
The 30th WB State Age Gr. (U-11 Boys &
Girls) Chess Championship 2018 organized
by North 24 PGS District Chess Association
held at Kalakakoli, Clive House, Nager Bazar,
Kolkata, from 29th to 31st March 2018 . The
Tournament was inaugurated by Avijit Mitra,
Councilor, South Dumdum Municipality, Dr.
Ananda Bagchi, by making the customary
first move on the board in the presence of
Debasish Barua, Secretary, North 24 PGS
Dist. Chess Association.
A total 254 players (191 for Open Category &
67 for Girls Category Rated players) from the
various districts from remote corner of the
state have taken part in the tournament in
which 49 rated in Open Section and 16 in Girls
. The playing hall was fully air-conditioned
and very good atmosphere for the players
with sufficient toilet facilities. As per AICF
guidelines I have checked aicf registration
and found all paid.
The tournament was played under swiss
system format 8 rounds for Open and 7
rounds for girls section . International chess
set was used and digital chess clocks in every
board.The organizers and players were very
supportive and cooperated with each other.
This is the first time that any WB State age
group chess championship was conducted.
At the end of final round games Alekhya
Mukhopadhyay (7)became champion in Open
Section by better tie break of Aayush Bhat-
tacherjee (7) & Rachishnu Datta (7) placed
second and third respectively. In the girls
section Sinthia Sarkar(6.5)became cham-
pion in girls section , Mrittika Mallick(5.5)
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18 Bratajit Mukherjee 6 61 Banik Hrishikesh Kumar 4½
19 Debaprabho Gorai 5½ 62 Yug Desai 4½
20 Snehil Raj Singh 5½ 63 Swapneel Gupta 4½
21 Rupankar Kundu 5½ 64 Swastik Roy 4½
22 Sayan Ghosh 5½ 65 Rhitam Sadhukhan 4½
& Ankita Kundu(5.5) placed second & third 23 Shreeyash Kejriwal 5½ 66 Srijit Sardar 4½
respectively. 24 Indrava Banik 5½ 67 Subhaditya Das 4½
25 Debarghya Bhowmick 5½ 68 Debaryo Basu 4½
The tournament was going on smoothly 26 Sagnik Biswas 5½ 69 Arka Mitra 4½
throughout all the rounds. There were no 27 Archisman Patra 5½ 70 Srijan Chatterjee 4½
disputes/protests placed before the Appeals’ 28 Shubhajit Roy 5½ 71 Suvayu Chakraborty 4½
Committee. All deputy Arbiters were worked 29 Souhardya Prosad Sinha 5½ 72 Adrish Awon 4½
hard during the whole tournament and mark 30 Soureen Bhattacharya 5½ 73 Swapnil Ghosh 4½
the undisputed event. The Organisers pro- 31 Sourjya Mukherjee 5 74 Ojash Jain 4½
vided tiffin packets to all participants during 32 Judhajit Dutta Roy 5 75 Gavish Jaiswal 4½
the game. 33 Satadru Ash 5 76 Vanij Agarwal 4½
34 Shresth Mahapatra 5 77 Chandramouli Dey 4½
In the valedictory ceremony Mr. Bratyo Basu, 35 Debapriyo Saha 5 78 Nilarnab Barman 4½
Hon’ble Minister in charge, department of 36 Sohom Chatterjee 5 79 Anwesan Mukherjee 4½
Cultural & Information, Dr.Pachu Roy, Chair- 37 Archisman Banerjee 5 80 Aaron Bhuimali 4½
man,SouthDumdum Municipality, Dr. Ananda 38 Subham Bhattacharjee 5 81 Suvraneel Ghosh 4½
Bagchi, Mr. Avijit Mitra, Councillor, SDDM 39 Tuhin Shuvra Das 5 82 Sagnik Nandi 4½
and GM dibyendu Barua were present and 40 Projoy Jana 5 83 Suvayan Dey 4
distributed the prizes. 41 Ritam Kundu 5 84 Satyaki Dutta 4
42 Swapnadeep Kar 5 85 Aranya Ghosh 4
Final ranking:Open 43 Tushar Bhunya 5 86 Anirin Majumder 4
Rk Name Pts 44 Debarpan Saha 5 87 Ryan Mandal 4
1 Alekhya Mukhopadhyay 7 45 Biraj Paul 5 88 Riddhiman Kundu 4
2 Aayush Bhattacherjee 7 46 Arnab Debnath 5 89 Debjyoti Das 4
3 Rachishnu Datta 7 47 Rajdeep Dutta 5 90 Soumick Bandopadhyay 4
4 Swarnoj Saha Talukdar 7 48 Arghyadeep Acharya 5 91 Aarav Sharma 4
5 Srijak Sengupta 6½ 49 Sagar Sinha 5 92 Rangeet Majumdar 4
6 Atreya Nandy 6½ 50 Satyamoy Ghosh 5 93 Swapnanil Kar 4
7 Eshan Bhattacharjee 6½ 51 Ankit Ray 5 94 Rudrasish Som 4
8 Sankalan Shah 6 52 Arit Chakrobarty 5 95 Anjishnu Chatterjee 4
9 Arkya Chatterjee 6 53 Srijit Saha 5 96 Arunodoy Chakraborty 4
10 Shaunak Mallick 6 54 Aarav Mehta 5 97 Spandan Bhattacharyya 4
11 Aritrya Pal 6 55 Aditya Raj Gupta 5 98 Ranit Maity 4
12 Uddipan Roy 6 56 Ritojoy Mandal 4½ 99 Tushnim Hazra 4
13 Shankhodip De 6 57 Ritwik Datta Gupta 4½ 100 Somneel Chowbey 4
14 Dhrubajyoti Barman 6 58 Adhyayan Banerjee 4½ 101 Shrijato Das 4
15 Saanket Das 6 59 Tuhin Mondal 4½ 102 Sounak Biswas 4
16 Oishik Kundu 6 60 Baivab Chatterjee 4½ 103 Saptarshi Ghosh 4
17 Debadrito Banerjee 6
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104 Rudra Jaiswara 4 147 Wriddhish Chakraborty 3 190 Srinjoy Banerjee 0 39 Samriddhi Gharami 3
105 Akshat Kumar Roy 4 148 Debdoot Chowdhury 3 191 Anubhab Ray 0 40 Samiya Singh 3
106 Soumil Majumdar 4 149 Swarnava Ghosh 3 41 Ahana Dutta Roy 3
107 Sirshak Das 4 150 Vignesh Dey 3 Final ranking:Girls 42 Kanyoka Banerjee 3
108 Avideep Roy 4 151 Tridipta Bhattacharyya 3 Rk Name Pts 43 Reina Mandal 3
109 Aviraj Chatterjee 4 152 Rajarshi Ray 3 1 Sinthia Sarkar 6½ 44 Mrigakshi Mazumder 3
110 Addhayan Ghosh 4 153 Debartha Joth 3 2 Mrittika Mallick 5½ 45 Aishani Nag 3
111 Aditya Kayet 4 154 Abhirup Basu 3 3 Ankita Kundu 5½ 46 Pratyasha Ghosh 3
112 Tanish Das 3½ 155 Srijit Pal 3 4 Sneha Halder 5½ 47 Gunjan Mohta 3
113 Aditya Mukherjee 3½ 156 Rudraksh Datta 3 5 Anwesha Saha 5½ 48 Prokriti Roy 2½
114 Jatin Agarwalla 3½ 157 Arya Sengupta 3 6 Jhinuk Dutta 5½ 49 Sohini Lahiri 2½
115 Mayukh Ganguly 3½ 158 Sagnik Datta Gupta 2½ 7 Tanisha Chatterjee 5 50 Ishani Chattopadhyay 2½
116 Gairick Saha 3½ 159 Harsha Vardhan Chourasia 2½ 8 Shreshtha Surai 5 51 Suneli Bera 2½
117 Aanshu Jaiswara 3½ 160 Tushar Kundu 2½ 9 Saparya Ghosh 4½ 52 Dhruvi Sha 2½
118 Shreyan Das 3½ 161 Amitra Sudan Bhowmick 2½ 10 Olivia Biswas 4½ 53 Sneha Dey 2½
119 Sabuj Roy 3½ 162 Soham Keshri 2½ 11 Anjistha Basak 4½ 54 Urvashi Baitha 2
120 Ritoban Basu 3½ 163 Adhrit Chatterjee 2½ 12 Gargee Bose 4½ 55 Akansha Dey 2
121 K. Nimalan Karthikeyan 3½ 164 Arhat Chattopadhyay 2½ 13 Aarshiya Biswas 4½ 56 Kashvi Chitlangia 2
122 Priyanshu Das 3½ 165 Krishiv Vikram Agarwal 2½ 14 Anwesha Sur 4½ 57 Diya Ghosh 2
123 Subhrajit Dey 3½ 166 Saraswat Kolay 2½ 15 Oiendrila Bhattacharya 4½ 58 Shrijata Basak 2
124 Shatodru Das 3½ 167 SK Tahmid Hossain 2½ 16 Prena Mukherjee 4½ 59 Sharanya Maity 2
125 Anuranan Nag 3½ 168 Debdeep Das 2½ 17 Rupkatha Malakar 4½ 60 Tuhina Dey 1
126 Saptarshi Talukdar 3½ 169 Ritam Halder 2 18 Soumeli Das 4½ 61 Shrestha Chatterjee 1
127 Muhammad Ali Moinuddin 3½ 170 Om Das 2 19 Prapti Moulik 4½ 62 Sahana Chakraborty 1
128 Arnesh Giri 3½ 171 Somsekhar Bhattacharyay 2 20 Debapriya Manna 4 63 Sudakshina Basu 0
129 Syamantak Saha 3 172 Abhirup Dey Sarkar 2 21 Arhashirsha Biswas 4
130 Kaushal Golchha 3 173 Dipayan Samanta 2 22 Auhona Chakraborty 4
131 Sarbartha Debnath 3 174 Abhigyan Roy 2 23 Priyanjali Saha 4
132 Aayushman Jha 3 175 Srijan Das 2 24 Hiya Sengupta 4 When Grand Masters play, they see the
133 Soumyadip Das 3 176 Ramit Mitra 2 25 Krittika Sinha 4 logic of their opponent's moves. One's
134 Soumyadeep Sanpui 3 177 Shreyas Garg 2 26 Ishani Mondal 3½ moves may be so powerful that the oth-
135 Agnivo Chakraborty 3 178 Arunabha Das 2 27 Arnabi Sen 3½ er may not be able to stop him, but the
136 Sourjo Ghosh 3 179 Ranveer Singh 1½ 28 Panchali Dutta 3½ plan behind the moves will be clear. Not
137 Soumyadeep Mitra 3 180 Meghadri Das 1½ 29 Olivia Banerjee 3½ so with Fischer. His moves did not make
138 Agnija Das 3 181 Venkatesh Das 1½ 30 Samadrita Mukherjee 3½ sense - at least to all the rest of us they
139 Hemadri Biswas 3 182 Vardan Varma 1½ 31 Rajendrani Basu 3½ didn't. We were playing chess, Fischer
140 Dhairya Khetan 3 183 Nirvaan Sahu 1 32 Shabarni Datta 3½ was playing something else, call it what
141 Sagnik Dutta 3 184 Yataarth Malpani 1 33 Adrita Mitra 3½ you will. Naturally, there would come a
142 Aritra Dey 3 185 Satyaki Kumar Banik 1 34 Dwaram Likhita 3½ time when we finally would understand
143 Rohan Saha 3 186 Debjit Kali 0 35 Rajanya Ray 3½ what those moves had been about. But
144 Aarchit Chakravartty 3 187 Abir Nag 0 36 Biyas Banerjee 3½ by then it was too late. We were dead.
145 Parijat Paul 3 188 Arav Agrawal 0 37 Manjita Mallick 3½ - Mark Taimanov
146 Debraj Sengupta 3 189 Swarnil Roy 0 38 Kangona Sinha 3½

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 The 2nd Holi Cup Lakecity Open FIDE Rating Tournament, Udaipur
FM Sauravh Kherdekar Wins at Udaipur
by IA Swapnil Bansod,Chief Arbiter
The 2nd Holi Cup Lakecity Open FIDE Rat-
ing Tournament was started on 29th March
2018 at Bhandari Darshak Mandap, Che-
tak Circle, Udaipur, organized by Chess in
Lakecity under aegis of All Rajputana Chess
Association and All India Chess Federation.
Managers and players meeting was ar-
ranged just before the starting of tourna-
ment. The other necessary technical mat-
ters were decided and appeals committee
was formed.This event was inaugurated
by GM B. Adhiban & Shri. Chandra Singh
Kothari, Mayor, Udaipur City, other dignitar-
ies present were Shri. Rajeev Bharadwaj,
President Chess in Lakecity, Shri. Ashok
Bhargava, Secretary, ARCA, Shri. Paras
Singhvi, President, Chamber of Commerce,
FA Vikas Sahu, Secretary CIL & IA Swapnil
Bansod Chief Arbiter.
FIDE title holders 2 IM, 1 FM, 1 CM, 317
fide rated players and 181 unrated players
which totally 498 players took part in the
prestigious chess tournament, from 16
states, 1 affiliated special units and 2 play-
ers from USA and Scotland respectively.
Fourth seeded International Master Ra-
manathan Balasubramanium of TN was held
to a draw by a lower seeded Aparva Kam-
dar of Gujarat during a fourth round game.
At the end of 6th round two players were
sharing the lead, FM Saurabh Kherdekar of
RLYS, and Prakash Ram of Punjab with 6
pts. In the penultimate round FM Saurabh
Kherdekar of RLYS beat his joint leader
Prakash Ram of Punjab to take the sole
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lead with 7pts. Saurabh and Santu Mondal
of Del started their last round game with
Dutch Defence, later in the queen end-
game they agreed to split the point, with
this half point Saurabh Kherdekar won the
tournament with 7.5 points out of possible
8. Santu Mondal, IM Rahul Sangma, Su-
mit Grover, Deepak Katiyar, Prakash Ram,
Ketan Boricha, Sonakshi Rathore, Akash
Tiwari and Samarth Gorai stood 2nd to 10th
respectively.
This mega event has been completed
successfully without a single dispute. The
players and the managers were very much
co-operative. All the arrangements like
venue, accommodation, food etc. were
excellent.The team of arbiter’s namely Dy
Chief : IA Rajendra Teli, FA Vikas Sahu, FA
Mohd. Mehmood, SNA Manish Chandalia,
SNA Roopak Arora, and SNA Raghvendra
Kumar Shukla were very much compe-
tent and reacted in every condition with
equipped technical knowledge.
It is my duty to thank Mr. Rajeev Bharadwaj
tournament director of the event without
him this event could not have been a grand
success. I take this opportunity to thank Mr.
Rajendra Teli, Mr. Vikas Sahu, Secretary,
Chess in Lakecity for their tireless work,
dedication and support to conclude this
mega event with grand success. The tour-
nament ended in a very peaceful manner
without a single dispute. Organisers pro-
vided writing pads to all the players and
Arbiters which was a unique gesture and
need to be reckoned in its true spirit. The
prize distribution ceremony was organized 29 Ansh M Shah 6
in a grand manner at the hands of Ms. Swati
Agarwal, MD Hotel Radisson Blue, other
30
31
Nitul Khare
AGM Chandrajeet Singh R
6
6
guests present were Dr. Om Sahu, VP Chess 32 Sanjeet Manohar 6
in Lakecity, Mr.Shatrudhan Bandwal, Pres- 33 Gupta Rajesh R.S. 6
ident Buddhibal Seva sansthan, Shri Prem 34 Ayush Sharma 6
Singh Shaktawat, Secretary BJP Udaipur, 35 Rathore Mahendra Singh 6
Mr. Aditya Shah, CEO G D Goenka, Mr. Ra- 36 Sanjay Sinha 6
jeev Bhardwaj, President Chess in lakecity, 37 Souhardo Basak 6
Mr.Vikas sahu, Secretary, Chess in Lakecity. 38 Dhruv Dak 6
& IA Swapnil Bansod Chief Arbiter. 39 Bardoliwala Nirmal 6
40 AGM Bhattacharya Arunava 6
Final ranking 41 Vikash Kumar Dwivedi 6
Rk Name Pts 42 Ujjwal Deep 6
1 FM Sauravh Khherdekar 7½ 43 Naman Porwal 6
2 Santu Mondal 7 44 Medhansh Saxena 6
3 IM Sangma Rahul 7 45 Uttam Prakash Sharma 6
4 Sumit Grover 7 46 Yadav Ashindra 6
5 Deepak Katiyar 7 47 Kamdar Abhay 6
6 Prakash Ram 7 48 Joshi Nilesh 6
7 Boricha Ketan 7 49 AFM Nehete Arnav 6
8 Rathore Sonakshi 7 50 Jain Adi 6
9 Akash Tiwari 7 51 AIM Sahib Singh 6
10 Samrat Ghorai 7 52 Sathyanarayanan S. 5½
11 Trivedi Karan R 6½ 53 Ananmay Sharma 5½
12 Bhagyashree Patil 6½
54 Kamdar Aparva 5½
13 Chudasama Ankit 6½ 55 Vikramaditya Mukhija 5½
14 Punit Indora 6½ 56 Gupta R K 5½
15 Rahul Kumar 6½ 57 Hriday Dharmesh Sheth 5½
16 Falgun D Purohit 6½ 58 Tripathi D P 5½
17 Kant Rupesh 6½ 59 Ayush Lodha 5½
18 Maulik Raval 6 60 Vashishtha Ankesh 5½
19 AFM Pawar Harshit 6 61 Gautam Kataria 5½
20 IM R Balasubramaniam 6
62 AIM Mandloi Mukesh 5½
21 Rishabh Nishad 6 63 Bhawesh Pandiyar 5½
22 Rohan Bharat Joshi 6 64 CM Bhagat Kush 5½
23 Patil Ketan 6 65 Khedkar Prasad 5½
24 Mraduhas Tripathi 6 66 Boricha Yohan 5½
25 Shashi Prakash 6 67 Gopal Shah 5½
26 Aashish Choudhary 6 68 Aashman Gupta 5½
27 Patil Rohit R 6 69 Atma Prakash 5½
28 Venkatesh H 6 70 Aarav Lakhani 5½
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71 Shrivastav Hritik 5½ 113 Srivastava V.K. 5 155 Yajat Vyas 4½ 197 Kuril Atharv 4
72 Agrawal Aanya 5½ 114 Deepak Chaurasia 5 156 Kiyarra Sunil Khaturia 4½ 198 Jani Kushal R 4
73 Ashwani Kumar Grover 5½ 115 Govind Kumar Chandel 5 157 Rajagopalan 4½ 199 Bhagat Rajesh J 4
74 Johney Mandal 5½ 116 Chhabra Kunal 5 158 Mumukshu Mittal 4½ 200 Mayurdhwajsinh A Jadav 4
75 Vijendra Kumar 5½ 117 Mayank Srivastava 5 159 Dwivedi Umang 4½ 201 Dukhande D S 4
76 Sangeen Mandre 5½ 118 Om Ji Verma 5 160 Yash Tulapurkar 4½ 202 Chopade Saimira 4
77 Dhruv Khosla 5½ 119 Arnav Kushwaha 5 161 Abdul Azeem R 4½ 203 Vakil Akhtar 4
78 Raj Prakhar 5½ 120 Joglekar Abhijit 5 162 Shah Het D 4½ 204 Yatharth Dangi 4
79 Neeraj Sah 5½ 121 Anjishnu Mondal 5 163 Chavda Kathan B 4½ 205 Hend Pravin 4
80 Shah Yesha 5½ 122 J M Baisakh 5 164 Shashwat Dubey 4½ 206 Aditya Kunal Patil 4
81 Rahul Singh 5½ 123 Bhatt Pradip P. 5 165 Monika Sahu 4½ 207 Sunil Vyas 4
82 Kothari Pranit 5 124 Srivastav R P 5 166 Shlok Sivanarayan 4½ 208 Prakhar Chaplot 4
83 AGM Bhogal Rupesh 5 125 Varad Deepak Kabra 5 167 Shinde Kunal 4½ 209 Chourasiya Hemant 4
84 Mohit Kumar Soni 5 126 Borgaonkar Akshay 5 168 Amrit Raunak 4½ 210 Sharma Deepanshi 4
85 Rawal Shailesh 5 127 Arun Kataria 5 169 Kalgaonkar S 4½ 211 Gaurav Kathuria 4
86 Raj D Vyas 5 128 Jigna Joshi 5 170 AFM M Vikramaditya Jain 4½ 212 Dhruv Kalani 4
87 Patel Palak 5 129 Giridharan M 5 171 Tete Sandeep Barnad 4½ 213 AFM Nagarkatte Vedant 4
88 Umer S.M 5 130 Sudhakar 5 172 Aum Nikunjkumar Desai 4½ 214 Patel Kushal 4
89 Jain Madhur 5 131 Sharma Jyoti Prakash 5 173 Solanki Abhishek 4½ 215 Khem Singh Bhati 4
90 Aditya P Melani 5 132 Rao Vishwas 5 174 Piyush Kumar 4½ 216 Aashi Upadhyay 4
91 Abhay Bandewar 5 133 Ishwar Ramteke 5 175 Shamkuwar Y. M. 4½ 217 Garg Shivam 4
92 Upadhyay Prince 5 134 Rituraj Singh 5 176 Purushotham Joshi 4½ 218 Anishka Vikram 4
93 Soumen Mondal 5 135 Dharmesh Sharma 5 177 Dak Daksh 4½ 219 Aarna Chugh 4
94 Babel T Divyanshu 5 136 Riyan Amit Shah 5 178 Aaditya Ranjan 4½ 220 Arun Kumar Sharma 4
95 Pardeshi Ajay 5 137 Haldankar Dhruv 5 179 Gaurav Tiwari 4½ 221 Goswami Rakeshnath 4
96 Sunny Bedi 5 138 Akshat Rawat 5 180 Shejal Sahil Sanjay 4½ 222 Arnav Dhamija 4
97 Kholia Kishan 5 139 Goswami Sagargiri 5 181 Hemant Arora 4½ 223 Parva B Thakkar 4
98 Babaria Rahil Pareshbhai 5 140 Prem Singh Bhati 5 182 Bang Atharva 4½ 224 Tushar Chaudhary 4
99 Rajendra Singh Rana 5 141 Mishra Aditya 5 183 Saurabh Porwal 4½ 225 Shivam Panchal 4
100 Kanani Parth R 5 142 Mevada Malay 5 184 Kshatriya Nitin V 4½ 226 Thakor Sagarkumar V 4
101 Saxena Kunal Kant 5 143 Porwal Dhruv 5 185 Ishan Ghosh (Siliguri) 4½ 227 Yash Srivastava 4
102 Darsh Kansal 5 144 Machchhar Kaniayalal 4½ 186 Panchal Hiya 4½ 228 Aditya Maderana 4
103 Awasthi Balgovind 5 145 Dr Sanjay Date 4½ 187 Kavya Jain 4½ 229 Kargutkar N. J. 4
104 Vikas Vyas 5 146 Sanjib Ghosh 4½ 188 Tawar Abhirajsingh 4½ 230 Harini R 4
105 Vedant Nitin Vekhande 5 147 Chouhan N.C. 4½ 189 Aggarwal Aayush 4½ 231 Shah Divyang D 4
106 Raval Dipak 5 148 Kartik Bhandari 4½ 190 Dev Raj 4½ 232 Hamendra Singh Makwana 4
107 Maheshwari Prabhav 5 149 Durgesh Tiwari 4½ 191 Varshita Jain 4½ 233 Hingne Shirish 4
108 Bharadia Yash 5 150 Chinmay Danawat 4½ 192 Meghani Liyakat 4½ 234 Mohammed Raoof 4
109 Bhrigu Suryanarayan 5 151 Trivedi Gaurav V 4½ 193 Siddiqui Md. Sabir 4½ 235 Prakhar Gupta (Mp) 4
110 Chaudhary Pallav 5 152 Menon Padmanand 4½ 194 Abhishek Sudhakar J 4½ 236 Vanshika Sachdeva 4
111 Suthar Pradip 5 153 Sarvaiya H Manishbhai 4½ 195 Swapnil Kothari 4½ 237 Riya Tewari 4
112 Dadwani Sahil 5 154 Mahabir Parshad Verma 4½ 196 Mohammad Zubar 4 238 Ishvi Aggarwal 4

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Deepak Rai
Mishra Rahul
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Children Chess Festival 2018, Cuddalore-A report
by IA Balaraman S , Chief Arbiter
241 Yuvraj Soni 4 283 Suraj Sahu 3½
242 Anupam Dutta 4 284 Mistry Tinaz Dinkoo 3½ Edify School and Cuddalore Chess Academy nament proved to be a boon to every chess
243 Ashish Kumar 4 285 Garg Rushil 3½
jointly conducted the Guinness World Re- player from Govt. & Govt. aided Schools and
cord Children Chess Tournament under the Colleges in Cuddalore.
244 Pokharna Dhairya 4 286 Tirth Jigna Doshi 3½
aegis of Tamil Nadu State Chess Association
245 Sawant G L 4
and Cuddalore District Chess Association on “It is our honor to serve Cuddalore District
246 Gokul G.Pillai 4
10th & 11th March, 2018 at Edify School, chess players”, said Mr. Prem Kumar, the
247 Shah Krish G 4
Vazhapattu, Cuddalore District. Secretary of Cuddalore Chess Academy.The
248 Akshi Chhatwani 4
function began with a prayer, followed by
249 Anagha Yardi 4
Puzzle of the month Every one will be glad to know that our Iconic lighting of the sacred lamp (Kuthuvilakku)
250 Patel Trishul D 4 by C.G.S.Narayanan Personality Super Grand Master Viswana- by the hands of distinguished guests and oth-
251 Chachcha Jaysukh 4 than Anand is the Brand Ambassador of the er dignitaries on the dais. The tournament
252 Atharva Srivastava 4 The shortest proof game (SPG) is a great Edify School spread across the country. was inaugurated by Chairman and Managing
253 Ammar Habib 4 type of problem in which the task is Because of that goodwill, Edify School at Trustee of Edify School Mr. S. Srinivasan to
254 Prachi Bhushan 4 to reconstruct a legal game. Starting Cuddalore, came out to popularize the brain mark the chess tournament traditions.
255 Shivika Saraogi 4 from the opening array, the solver has Game of Chess at Cuddalore by erecting a
256 Khalash Alkesh 4 to find the shortest possible game that mammoth pandhal, on the football Ground FIDE Arbiter Sathiesh GG accompanied by
257 Lakhwani Nandani 4 leads to the diagram position. White and Volley Ball Court to accommodate as 6 System Arbiters, 32 Sector Arbiters, 27
258 Patel Jaymin J 4 and Black thus effectively cooperate to many as 2500 players. Tables and chairs Assistant Arbiters, 22 School Staff and also
259 Plavit Chandalia 4 achieve this, and that the moves would were systematically arranged. Water facility many more volunteers worked for the smooth
260 Indrajeet Kumar 4 not be sensible in a competitive game was available aplenty. Mobile Rest / Wash conduct and success of this mega tourna-
261 Vedant Mistry 4 is considered irrelevant. SPGs are also Rooms in the form of most modern cabin ment. The tournament was played as per
262 Ankur Agarwal 4 characterised by their exact play – the were made available. Even Fire Extinguish- the Swiss format, comprising 7 rounds. The
263 Ashwini 4 move order in the solution is unique. ers and Ambulance vehicles were kept ready thinking time was fixed at 30 minutes each.
264 Amit Kumar Yadav 4 for the asking. The arrangements inside the All the participants wore face-mask of the
265 Anirudh Sharma 4 Edify School were beyond compare, even to illustrious iconic legend Viswanathan Anand
266 Ravi Kumar 4 beat the standards of any National event. while playing their games in that mammoth
267 Samyak Dharewa 4 venue of this historic tournament.
268 Patel Nihal Trishulkumar 4 The District level Children Chess festival The proceedings of this mega event was
269 Rashmi Priya 4 consisted of Eleven categories of Boys & keenly inspected by the officials of the World
270 Hiya Garg 4 Girls (21 Categories), Under-5, 6, 7, 8, 9, Record Research Foundation, who proudly
271 Charvi Patidar 4
10, 11, 12, 13, 14 Boys & Girls and Open. declared this event as a WORLD RECORD.
The Cash prize offered for Open was fixed Certainly this is a matter of great pride and
272 Tarun N 4
at Rs.21,000/-. The total number of 1000 honour for our country, All India Chess Fed-
273 Divya Prakash Tripathi 4
Trophies and Medals which were on the show, eration and Tamil Nadu State Chess Associ-
274 Pranay Chordia 4
were all eye catching. Entry fee for children ation.
275 Verma Vivaan 4
was fixed as low as Rs.20/- while no Entry
276 Choudhary Aaditya 4
Fee was charged for Govt. & Govt. aided During and after the tournament, not a single
277 Yachna Singh 4
Schools and Colleges. A total of 1720 play- protest, nor any claim of appeal was raised
278 Yuval Parmar 4 Short proof game in 4 moves ers, mostly from Govt. & Govt. aided Schools by any of the participants before me in my
279 Guman Singh Rathore 4 (solution on page 48) and Colleges participated. This is a historic capacity as the FIDE Arbiter, steering this
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satisfaction that not a single unforeseen in-
cident took place either within the venue of
the event, or outside. Spot certificate was
issued by the World Record Authority which
vouches for the fool-proof organization of the
entire event right from the beginning.
The prize distribution function began at 4.30
p.m on the concluding day i.e., 11th March.
The Chairman and Managing Trustee of the
Edify School Mr. S. Srinivasan presided over
the function. Thiru M.C. Sampath, Hon'ble
Minister for Industries, Government of Tamil
Nadu, was the Chief Guest of the occasion,
who gave away the prizes to the successful
participants and Mrs. S. Indhumathi Srini-
vasan, Director of Edify School delivered the
vote of thanks.
It is now my pleasant duty to thank sincerely
Stephen Balasamy, the General Secretary of
the Tamil Nadu State Chess Association, Mr.
S. Sekar, President, CDCA; Mr. A. M. Balas-
ubramaniyam, Secretary, CDCA; Mr. A. Ra-
jangam, V P, CDCA; J. Murasoli Raja, patron,
Cuddalore chess academy; Mr.T. Kalaiselvan,
president, CCA; Mrs. K. Tamilselvi, Treasurer,
CCA and S. Manikandan, VP, CCA.
I also thank my Fellow Arbiters Mr. GG
Sathiesh, Mrs. Parvathy, Mr. Vinoth Kumar,
Mr.Ramesh, Mr. Raja Sekaran and Mr. Sankar
for conducting the tournament smoothly
without drawing a single protest from any
quarter.I also thank the volunteers of the
Cuddalore Chess Academy but for whose
major support, my role as a Chief Arbiter
of this magnum opus event would not have
been successful. I am grateful to TNSCA
for the honour and trust that they deposed
on me to organize this World Record Chess
Tournament.
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Candidates 2018, Berlin
ISC 2018- Indian solvers excel
The 14th International Solving Contest Fabiano Caruana is the Challenger
was organized by Tamilnadu State Chess
Association at Chennai on 28.01.2018
under the aegis of World Federation for
Chess Composition (WFCC).The event
was organized simultaneously in all par-
ticipating countries. There were three
categories: one for experienced solvers.
In this category solvers obtain rating
points. The second category was intend-
ed for weaker, inexperienced solvers.
This second category was not open for
solvers with a rating (or half-rating or
non-active-rating) of more than 1700.
The third category was intended for
youngsters born after 31.12.2004. In
India The event was conducted at two
locations- Chennai and Bangalore.WFCC
D.V.Sundar, Vice President FIDE (on the right) , presenting the medal to GM Fabiano
delegated C.G.S.Narayanan as local con-
Caruana,Winner Candidates 2018. Ilya Merenzon, the CEO of Agon is on the left
troller for Chennai. Mr.Sailesh was the
controller at Bangalore. Nobody deserved it more than Fabiano Caruana. He led right from the start at the Candi-
dates 2018. He did have his hiccup in the twelfth round, losing to Karjakin, but he showed
The contest in the main category con- his mental toughness by beating Aronian in round 13 and Grischuk in the final round. With
this he becomes the World Championship Challenger, the first American after Bobby Fischer
sisted of two rounds with six problems
in 1972. The match will be held in November 2018 in London.
each.The second category consisted of
two rounds with six problems each, i.e. Fabiano Caruana was so close to becoming a challenger in 2016, but lost the last round to
for each round two ≠2, a 3≠, ≠n, EG and Sergey Karjakin. He had to wait two years, but he finally did deliver. Many of the people
in one round a h≠ and in the other round had Aronian as their favourite prior to the start of the Candidates 2018. Caruana is a great
a s≠. The youth category consisted of player but he lacks in him the quality to win an event like the Candidates, is what many
said. Caruana maintained his lead right from the start until round 11. In round 12, he had a
one round with six orthodox problems,
big accident in round against Karjakin. People started to feel that Karjakin would once again
i.e. four 2≠, a 3≠ and an EG. For each
earn a rematch against Carlsen as the momentum was with the Russian. Caruana came back
round, the solving time was two hours. strongly and beat Levon Aronian in the penultimate round and Alexander Grischuk in the last
There was also ranking for youngsters, round to win the Candidates 2018.
seniors and female solvers. Divyalakshmi
Rajagopal from Chennai won the second What was extremely impressive about Fabiano is the fact that he kept his cool in the last
round and brought home the full point. At some point the games had already ended in draws
Category 2- finshed first overall, first in
between Kramnik and Mamedyarov and also Karjakin versus Ding Liren. A draw would have
women solvers and first in Juniors.GM
been sufficient for Caruana to win the Candidates. But he played on and won the last round.
Karthikeyan Murali finished third in the What is it that makes Caruana a dangerous opponent for Carlsen," asked Daniel King to
tough Category one- juniors. Congratula- Kasimdzhanov. "Well, he has me!" was Rustam's reply. Surely Kasimdzhanov is a huge as-
tions to the prize-winners! (Visit wfcc for set to Fabiano and with his experience of working for Anand in the past, he will ensure that
problems, solutions,solver rating details) Carlsen has a hard time in this World Championship Match.
courtesy:chessbase india
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 Central Council Meeting 24.3.2018 – decisions
The All India Chess Federation announced several important decisions taken by Central
Council Meeting at New Delhi on 24th of March 2018.
In a historic move, the World Youth Chess Championship will be taking place at Nagpur, Mahar-
ashtra in 2019. Further, the AICF Secretary said that World Junior Chess championship 2019 will
be held at New Delhi in 2019.
The Central Council Meeting approved the inclusion of the World Women No-4 Grandmaster Koneru
Humpy in the Indian Women Team for the forthcoming Chess Olympiad at Tbilisi in September
2018.
As per the recent Guidelines of FIDE Central Council Meeting, AICF has banned the use of Wrist
Watches while playing any official National Chess championship and FIDE Rated events henceforth.
It was also decided that agreed draws in official National Chess Championships before completion
of 30 moves will not be permitted.
A Three-member committee comprising of GM RB Ramesh, IM Sekhar Chandra Sahu and IM
Neeraj Mishra was formed to select Women Players for the proposed category Women Chess
Tournament in June 2018.
It was confirmed that India-China summit 2019 will be conducted by AICF.
AICF remarked that the Indian Chess team (for forthcoming Chess Olympiad) has been highly
motivated by the presence of Five-time World Champion Viswanathan Anand in the Pre-Olympiad
Coaching Camp concluded at New Delhi two days back.
A Workshop for all the office bearers of various State Chess bodies of India was held to appraise
the necessity for bringing a lot of reforms. Three Well known persons, including national Chess
Coach GM Ramesh, Parth Narang, AICF Treasurer Kishor M Bandekar gave extensive lecturers to
motivate & educate on various Chess subjects.
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Every month starting from May, there will be Grandmaster Coaching Webinars on AICF Official
Website. All chess players from India, registered with the AICF will be eligible to be a part of the
webinars. The Federation is preparing to rope in former World Champion Viswanathan Anand to
broadcast online chess lessons for 2 hours duration every month. The webinars will be viewed
by millions of youngsters.
In yet another major decision, the federation decided to suspend All Bihar Chess Association
pending inquiry for making serious lapses in their functioning. An Ad-hoc body will be framed by
the AICF to run the day to day functions of all official Bihar State Chess Tournaments.
Arbiters' training seminar in Manali
-report by IA M.S.Gopakumar
Altogether thirty-three participants from Jammu&Kashmir, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Uttar
Pradesh, Chandigarh and Rajasthan participated in this three-day event which was organized by the
AICF and FIDE Arbiters’ Commission with the support of Government of India's Ministry of Youth
Affairs & Sports. IA Gopakumar M.S was the Chief Lecturer of the seminar and he was assisted by
International Arbiter Swapnil Bansod.
Participants,officials,Lecturers with Hon’le Minister of Sports.Himachal Pradesh
One might not think there would be many disputes in the game of chess but there are cases which
require a thorough knowledge of the rules and the wisdom to implement the call correctly and that's
where arbiters come to rescue. The topics which were covered in this three-day seminar were laws
of chess, rating regulations, title regulations, arbiter regulations, competition rules, tiebreaks, pair-
ing regulations, anti-cheating regulations and much more. The participants were very enthusiastic,
inquisitive and I received a lot of inputs from them. Each one enjoyed very much being a part of
this seminar.
The participants also wrote an examination which was conducted on the final day of the seminar
and the results will be published by FIDE Arbiter's Commission in two weeks' time. India will have
fresh new arbiters within two weeks.Hon’ble Minister for Sports Government of Himachal Pradesh Mr.
Govind Singh was a part of the closing ceremony addressing all the participants. He also felicitated
the lecturers and the participants with the famous traditional ‘Kullu Caps’.
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The Himachal Pradesh State Chess Association Secretary Shri. Sudarshan Kumar and his team put
meticulous efforts for making the seminar a memorable one for the participants and the lecturers.
Selected games from Delhi GM white queen's xray attack on a7 is signif-
icant as black cannot play the natural ....
AICF is leaving no stone unturned and we congratulate them for all their efforts and initiatives that Open 2018 Nf5 because of Nxf5 and Qxa7. 27...Nf7
they have been taking in the recent past.
Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron 28.a6! This secures the key c6 square for
FIDE Trainers’ Seminar, Mohali 2018 Sammed Jaykumar,Shete (2337) his pieces. 28...b6 29.Rxc8 Rxc8 30.Rc1!
FIDE Trainers’ Seminar was organised at Learning Paths School, Mohali from 4th to 6th March 2018 Rozum,Ivan (GM (2595) [B12] Rc7 [30...Rxc1? 31.Qxc1 Nd8 (31...Nxe5
under the aegis of Sports Authority of India and All India Chess Federation. Forty participants from 32.Qc8+ Kf7 33.Qb8 Kf6 34.Nc6 Nxc6
Jammu & Kashmir, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Chandigarh If one goes through this game one might 35.bxc6+-) 32.Qc8 Be8 33.Nc6+- Black is
and Rajasthan participated in the event. FIDE Senior Trainers GM R.B Ramesh and IM Vishal Sareen crushed.] 31.Rc6!? Diagram #
think that the names of the two players
were the lecturers of this three-day seminar.
had been inverted. No! The little known,
untitled, 19-year old Indian, plays like an
experienced Grandmaster! 1.e4 c6 2.d4
d5 3.e5 Bf5 4.Nf3 e6 5.Be2 Nd7 6.0–0
Bb4 7.c3 Ba5 8.b4 Bc7N 9.a4 f6 10.Bf4
Ne7 11.Bg3 Ng6 12.exf6 Nxf6 13.Nbd2
0–0 14.Re1 Nh5 15.Bxc7 Qxc7 16.a5
Rae8 17.Bf1 Nf6 [If 17...Nhf4 18.g3 Nh3+
19.Bxh3 Bxh3 20.Ng5 Bf5 21.Qh5 h6 22.Nh3
Nh8=] 18.Ne5 Nxe5 19.dxe5 Ng4 20.Qe2
c5 21.h3 Nh6 22.Qe3 Rc8 23.Nb3 cxb4
24.cxb4 Qe7 25.b5 Diagram #

[Like the former world champion Tigran

Petrosian, white enjoys circling the black
forces and crushing him rather than go
for the direct win with: 31.Rxc7 Qxc7
32.Nxe6 Qxe5 33.Qxe5 Nxe5 34.Nd4 Be8
GM R.B.Ramesh delivering lecture 35.g3! for 36 Bg2 targeting d5 with ad-
There were 40 coaches from 8 different states from North India. Along with the trainers’ seminar,
vantage.] 31...Nd8 [31...Rxc6 32.Nxc6
there was also a coaching camp for the local kids which was well received. The coaches asked Qc7 33.Qa3 Be4 34.f3 Bb1 35.Qe7! Qxe7
many questions related to the problems they face while coaching their students. It was a good 36.Nxe7+ Kf8 37.Nc6+-] 32.Rd6 Be8
learning experience for all of us.” 33.Be2 [White is so keen on positionally
crushing his opponent that he misses the
At the end of the seminar, an examination was conducted. According to the performance, various tactical stroke: 33.Rxd8! Qxd8 34.Nxe6
Trainer Titles will be awarded to participants by FIDE Trainers Commission with the approval of
FIDE Presidential Board.This is the second such initiative by All India Chess Federation to pro- [Though white plays this game exceptionally Qd7 35.Nxc7 Qxc7 36.e6+-] 33...Bd7
duce more number of FIDE Titled Trainers in India. The seminar conducted free of cost to the well, like a grandmaster, here he misses the 34.Bg4! Rc4 35.Kh2 g6 36.Be2 Rc7
participants with boarding, lodging and FIDE Fee. The first one was conducted at Guwahati for much stronger: 25.Qxa7 Qxb4 26.Nd4 Rc5 37.Bg4 Kg7 [He should repeat 37...Rc4
the personnel belong to North-Eastern States & Andaman. Now northern states of India were (26...Qc5 27.Qxc5 Rxc5 28.g4+-) 27.Red1 and find out what improvement white has.
covered through Mohali seminar and All India Chess Federation is aiming for more number of But even though his position is cramped
Rfc8 28.g4 Bc2 29.a6 bxa6 30.Nxe6+-]
such seminars at other parts of the country.Additionally, a special coaching camp for a group of and backward, the Russian GM does not
30 promising children from Punjab and Chandigarh was held simultaneous to hone the skills of 25...Bc2 26.Nd4! Bg6 27.Rac1 White's
the upcoming talents.During the closing ceremony, Shri. Bharat Singh Chauhan, Hony Secretary advantage derives from his well placed want the game to slip into a draw, he still
All India Chess Federation kick-started the Chess in School programme of Jammu & Kashmir, knight on d4 which obliges the black queen hopes to win!] 38.Qg3 Rc4 Diagram #
Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Chandigarh and Rajasthan. to remain on e7, defending e6. Also the
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39.Bxe6! A tactical finish to a positionally
played game which wins the exchange five
moves later. 39...Bxe6 40.Rxe6! Qf8 [If 40...
Nxe6?? 41.Nf5++- wins the queen.] 41.Rf6
Qe8 42.Nf5+ Kg8 43.Nd6! Qe7 44.Nxc4
dxc4 45.f4 Qc5 46.f5! White announces
that the game is not over with the win of the
exchange, it continues with greater vigour!
46...c3 47.fxg6 h6 48.g7! Nf7 49.Rxf7!
1–0
Deepan,Chakkravarthy (2475)
Pratyusha,Bodda (2162) [A07]
This game can be called a game of repeti-
tions, the first one on the 9th move being
absolutely atrocious, ridiculous and wanton!
Perhaps Deepan wanted to show that he
could sacrifice two moves in the opening
against a Woman International Master and
still win. Pratyusha probably did not want
those two gifted moves and returns the com-
pliment immediately, playing her bishop back
and forth! This reminds us of Bobby Fischer
who once challenged any female player to a
match where he would play without a knight.
However, when the Soviets showed interest
in such a match it is said that Fischer went
into a huddle looking up the games of the
best Soviet women players and decided not
to pursue the boast. Experts at that time said,
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"Fischer is Fischer! But a knight is a knight!!"
The second repetition which happens from
the 21st to the 25th moves should have end-
ed in a draw by repetition, had black claimed
a draw. But she does not and goes on to lose
the game! Deepan Chakkravarthy, 31, is a
Tamil Nadu grandmaster who is a born co-
median around whom there could never be
a dull moment! And black, as far as I know,
is a serious 21–year old WIM from Andhra.
1.Nf3 d5 2.g3 Bg4 3.Bg2 c6 4.0–0 Nd7
5.d4 Ngf6 6.c4 e6 7.Qb3 Qb6 8.Nc3 Be7
9.Nb1?
What is this, the latest from a modern Rus-
sian chess theory factory? Or has the grand-
master made some bet that he could waste
a couple of moves in the opening and still
defeat his WIM opponent?! Bobby Fischer
once made an offer that he could beat any
female player in the world giving the odds
of a knight? 9...Bf8? [This retreat is equally
incomprehensible! Probably, black declines
the grandmaster's goofy generosity with
her own! Better was: 9...Qxb3 10.axb3 0–0
11.Nc3 Bf5³] 10.Nc3 Be7 Back to normal,
the game resumes! 11.c5 Qxb3 12.axb3
0–0 [Black has a slight edge after 12...
Bxf3! 13.Bxf3 e5 14.e3 a6] 13.b4 [Better
was: 13.Bf4 making the freeing e6-e5 hard-
er.] 13...Bxf3 14.Bxf3 e5 15.Be3 exd4
16.Bxd4 a5! 17.Rxa5 Rxa5 18.bxa5 Nxc5
19.b4! Ne6 20.Bxf6 Bxf6 21.Na4 Bd8
[21...Ra8 squashing whatever dreams white
might have of playing a5-a6, breaking up
black's queen-side, was preferable.] 22.Nc3
Now starts a merry dance between the white
knight and the black bishop which should
have ended the game in draw by repetition
of moves! 22...Bf6 23.Na4 Bd8 24.Nc3 Bf6
25.Na4 Before making her next move, Bd8,
black could have claimed a draw by a three
fold repetition of moves saying she was going
to play ...Bd8! 25...Bd8 26.e3 Bc7 27.Rc1
g6? Diagram #
[Black's sense of danger deserts her at a
critical point in the game. She should have
played 27...Ra8 or 27... Rb8 to avert white's
threat of 28 a5-a6 breaking up black's queen-
side pawn structure.] 28.a6!± Ra8 29.b5
cxb5 30.Nc5! Bd6 [If 30...Nxc5 31.Rxc5
Bd6 32.axb7 Rb8 33.Rxb5+-] 31.axb7
Rb8 32.Nxe6 fxe6 33.Rc6 Bf8 34.Rxe6!
Kg7 [34...Rxb7? 35.Bxd5+- wherever the
black rook flees, the white rook will hunt it
down with a discovered check.] 35.Bxd5 b4
36.e4! Rd8 37.Rc6 1–0
Tiviakov,Sergei (GM (2584)
Harsha,Bharathakoti (IM) (2451) [B47]
Tiviakov, 45, is a grandmaster who has
played in the Olympiads for two countries for
Russia till 1997 and post 1997 for Holland.
Harsha Bharathakoti, born 2000, is one of
our future Grandmaster hopes. He has won
two National Championships, the U13 in 2013
and the National Junior in 2017. 1.e4 c5
2.Nc3 e6 3.Nge2 Nc6 4.d4 cxd4 5.Nxd4
Qc7 6.g3 The Sicilian Taimanov variation.
6...a6 7.Bg2 Nge7 8.Nb3 Ne5 9.0–0 b5
10.f4 Nc4 11.Nd4= [A game in the American
Continental Ch, 2003, between Campora
D, 2510, and Granda Zuniga, 2641, went:
11.a4 b4 12.Ne2 Bb7 13.Qd3 g5 14.fxg5
Ng6 15.Nf4 Nge5 16.Qe2 h6 17.Nd3 hxg5
18.Bxg5 Be7 19.Bf4 .... 80. Draw] 11...Nc6
12.Nxc6 Qxc6 13.e5 Qb6+ 14.Kh1 Bb7=
15.Ne4 Bd5?! [This awkward move hands
over the initiative to white. Black can gain
a slight advantage with: 15...d5! 16.exd6
Nxd6 17.Be3! Qc7! 18.Nxd6+ Bxd6 19.Bxb7
Qxb7+ 20.Kg1 Rd8 21.Qh5 0–0 22.Rae1 Rfe8
23.c3³] 16.b3² Qc6 17.Qe2 Nb6 18.Bb2
Rc8 19.Rac1 Be7 20.f5 exf5
Diagram # 21.Nd6+! Bxd6 [This leads to a
quick defeat. More stubborn was to give up
the rook for the dangerous knight with: 21...
Kf8 22.Nxc8 Nxc8 23.Rxf5+-] 22.exd6+ Kf8
23.Qe7+ Kg8 24.Rxf5 Bxg2+ 25.Kg1 Bd5
26.Rg5! Qc5+ 27.Kf1!
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Diagram #[After 27.Kf1! g6 (There is no
other way to prevent Rxg7#) 28.Qf6 Kf8
29.Qxh8#] 1–0
Tukhaev,Adam (GM Ukr) (2570)
Mohammad,Nubairshah Shaikh (2380)
[B12]
1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.e5 The Advance Variation
in the Caro-Kann. 3...c5 4.Nf3 cxd4 5.Nxd4
e6 6.Nd2 [Karthikeyan Murali, 2498, vs
Swapnil Dhopade 2497, 53rd National Cham-
pionship, Tiruvarur, 2015, went: 6.c4 Bc5
7.Nb3 Bb6 8.cxd5 exd5 9.Nc3 Ne7 10.Bb5+
Nbc6 11.0–0 0–0 12.Re1 d4 13.Na4 ..... 55.
1–0] 6...Nc6 7.N2f3 Bc5 8.c3 f6 9.b4?!
[It was best to conduct the game in a bold,
aggressive manner: 9.Bd3! Nge7 10.Be3 Bb6
11.exf6 gxf6 12.Nd2] 9...Bb6 10.b5 Nxe5
11.Nxe5 fxe5 12.Qh5+ g6 13.Qxe5 Nf6
14.Ba3 [The writing is already on the wall for
white. If 14.Nxe6?! Qe7 15.Bg5 (If 15.Ng7+?
Kf7 16.Qxe7+ Kxe7 and the white knight has
no exit!) 15...Rf8 16.Ng7+ Kf7 17.Qxe7+
Kxe7 18.Be2 Kf7 19.Bh6 Ng8–+] 14...Kf7!
15.f3 [15.Bd3= was the natural move here.]
15...Re8 16.Be2 Bc7 17.Qe3 e5! Bold and
natural. One must try at all times to unsettle
the opponent by aggressive play. After this
move, the Bishop on c8 is no longer a caged
canary. 18.Nb3 d4!? black sacrifices a pawn
and takes the initiative. He will not let white
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castle! 19.cxd4 exd4 20.Qxd4 Bd7
Diagram # 21.Kf2 [As white cannot castle
because his Be2 will hang he decides to
sacrifice the exchange. Best appears to
be: 21.Qd3 Bb6 22.Rd1 Rc8 23.Bb2 Qe7
24.Bxf6 (the idea behind the exchange is
to secure the e4 square for his knight) 24...
Kxf6 25.Qd6+ (if 25.Nd2? Qc5! 26.Rf1
(now white threatens 27 Ne4+) 26...Ba5!
27.Qxd7 Rcd8 and white has the unpleas-
ant choice of sacrificing his queen for either
of black's rooks.) 25...Qxd6 26.Rxd6+ Be6
27.Nd4 Bxd4 28.Rxd4 Bc4 29.Rd2 Bxb5
30.Kf2 Bxe2 31.Rxe2 Rxe2+ 32.Kxe2
Rc2+–+] 21...Be5 22.Qd2 Bxa1 23.Rxa1
Rc8 24.Rc1 Rxc1 25.Bxc1 Qb6+
Diagram # 26.Nd4 [If 26.Kf1 Bxb5
27.Nd4 Bxe2+ 28.Nxe2 Qc6 and black
should win as he has a rook for knight in
an otherwise normal position with no coun-
ter-play for white.] 26...Qc5 27.Bb2 Be6
28.a4 Bc4 29.Bd1 [If 29.Bxc4+ Qxc4 30.a5
Nd5 31.Kg1 Re3µ and white's position is
looking increasingly precarious.] 29...b6
30.h4 Kg8 31.Qg5? [Black's previous move
withdrawing his king to g8 and leaving his
Nf6 unprotected, lures white to attack it, not
realising that black would abandon the knight
and threaten a deadly double attack. Better
was: 31.Kg1 Nh5 32.Bc3 Rd8 33.Kh2 Qe5+
34.Kg1 Nf4] 31...Qb4!
Diagram # Though white has got his three
minor pieces within sight of his king, he is
curiously helpless against the dual threats of
32...Qe1# and 32....Qxb2+. 0–1
Roy Chowdhury,Saptarshi (GM) (2318) -
Nguyen Duc Hoa,(GM Vie) (2490) [A48]
1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 g6 3.Nbd2 Bg7 4.e4 d6
The Opening has transposed to a Pirc De-
fence, Classical system. 5.c3 0–0 6.Bc4
Nxe4 7.Nxe4 d5 8.Bd3 dxe4 9.Bxe4 Nd7
10.0–0 c5 11.Bc2 Qc7N 12.Re1 cxd4 [It is
understandable that black wants to complete
the development of his queen-side but he
could have postponed it for: 12...Re8 which
gives black a few options.] 13.Nxd4 Nc5
14.Qe2 Bd7? [This move conceals an ele-
mentary trap which would sink an amateur,
for if 15 Qxe7?? Rfe8! would win material
because of the unprotected white rook on
e1. Better was: 14...e5 15.Nb3 Be6= with
easy equality.] 15.Nb5 Qc6 [Somewhat
better was: 15...Qb6 16.a4 a6 17.Nd4 Rac8
18.a5 Qf6 and if now 19.Qxe7?? Rfe8 and
the unprotected Re1 is lost.] 16.Nd4 Qb6
17.Nb3 Na4 18.Nd2 [18.Be3 Qc6 19.Bd3
Rfd8 20.Rad1 was another way to keep his
advantage.] 18...e5 19.Nc4 Qc7 20.Ne3=
Nb6 21.Bb3 Bc6 22.Ng4 h5! 23.Nh6+?!
[With this move white plays for glory in
a wild game. 23.Ne3 would have offered
equal chances with no risk.] 23...Kh7
Diagram # 24.Nf5 This is no surprise as
his previous move had burnt his boat! 24...
gxf5 25.Qxh5+ Kg8 26.Bh6 Qd6 27.Bxg7
Kxg7 28.Re3 The natural follow up to his
sacrificial play. 28...Bd5 [28...f4? (to pre-
vent 29 Rg3+) 29.Rxe5+-] 29.Rd1! [If
29.Rg3+ Kf6 and the black king escapes from
the horrors of his devastated king-side.] 29...
Rad8 30.Bxd5 Nxd5 Diagram # 31.Rxd5!
Qg6 [The only way to stay in the game. Not
31...Qxd5?? 32.Qg5+! Kh7
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33.Rh3#] 32.Qxg6+ fxg6 33.Rexe5 Rfe8
[Two pawns down, black should try for some
complications with: 33...f4 though white
should win.] 34.Kf1 Kf6 35.Rxe8 Rxd5
36.Ke2 In rook endings, it is important not
to allow your opponent's rook to penetrate
your position. 36...a5 37.b3 g5 38.h3 Rc5
39.c4 a4 40.Rd8 [40.Kd3! was a stronger
move that would demoralize black still more.]
40...axb3 41.axb3 Re5+ 42.Kd2! This pre-
vents the black rook from getting to e2 or e1
and creating nuisance. 42...Ra5 Diagram #
43.Rd5! Ra2+ [The pawn ending is lost
after: 43...Rxd5+ 44.cxd5 Ke5 45.Ke3
Kxd5 46.f4! gxf4+ 47.Kxf4 Ke6 48.Kg5+-]
44.Ke3! Ra1 45.Rb5! Re1+ 46.Kf3 Re7
47.g3 Black resigns as white is threatening
to create a passed pawn on the h-file which
would overwhelm black. 1–0
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Horvath,Adam (GM Hun) (2484) Akash
Pc,Iyer (IM) (2415) [B67]
This game is a good example of how to at-
tack an uncastled king. 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6
3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 Nc6 6.Bg5
e6 7.Qd2 a6 8.0–0–0 Bd7 9.f3 Qc7
10.Kb1 Be7 11.h4 h6 12.Be3 Na5N [12...
h5 13.Bg5 Rb8 was unsuccessfully tried in
a Spanish Championship game in 2000.]
13.g4 b5 14.Bd3 Nc4 15.Bxc4 bxc4= 16.g5
Diagram #
16...Nh5? [Black seems to have a penchant
for playing his knights to the edge of the
board in this game. This second knight move
takes him closer to disaster. Better was: 16...
Ng8! 17.Rhg1 Rb8 18.gxh6 gxh6 19.Bf2=
Though Black has not castled he has a com-
fortable game with no exploitable weak-
nesses.]17.gxh6 gxh6 18.Rhg1! Rb8 [An
horrible alternative was: 18...Bxh4? 19.Qh2
Qd8 20.Nde2!+- Black is in a big mess with
a knight and bishop perilously perched along
the h-file and his d6 pawn beyond saving.]
19.Ka1 Qb7 20.Rb1 Bf8 This is the only
way black can defend his h6 pawn. 21.Nde2!
Having completely secured his castled posi-
tion, white now turns his attention to the un-
castled black king. 21...Qc6 22.f4!? Under
tension, black would have been wondering
whether f4-f5 is being threatened or e4-e5.
22...Be7 23.f5?! [This allows the black knight
on h5 to return to the centre of activities.
Stronger was: 23.Bd4! Nf6 24.e5 dxe5
25.Bxe5 Rd8 (25...Rb7 26.Qd4 Bc5 27.Bxf6
Bxd4 28.Nxd4+-) 26.Qd4 Bc8 27.Bxf6! Rxd4
28.Nxd4 Qb7 29.Bxh8+-] 23...Nf6 24.fxe6
[Stronger was: 24.Bxh6! Nxe4 25.Nxe4
Qxe4 26.Bg7 Rg8 27.f6 Bd8 28.Nc3 Qf5
29.Qxd6+-] 24...fxe6 25.Nd4 Qb7 [25...
Nxe4?? 26.Qg2!+-] 26.Bxh6² Now, this does
not carry the punch it would have had on the
24th move. 26...Nxe4 27.Qe3 [White wants
to keep supporting his Bh6. However, both 27
Qg2 and 27.Qe2! (sacrificing his bishop and
targeting the Ne4 and threatening Qh5+),
were stronger. The text does not have access
to a queen check on the h5-e8 diagonal. 27...
Rxh6 28.Nxe4 Kd8 29.Qxc4! Bf8 (29...
Qxe4 30.Rg8+ Be8 31.Nc6+ Kc7 32.Qxe4
wins the Q) 30.Ng5!+-] 27...Nc5 28.Bg5!
Diagram # A very good move! When a king is
caught in the centre, uncastled, removing or
exchanging off of his defensive forces around
him is a good preliminary. It is fun attacking
the defenceless king.
28...Rf8 [If 28...Bf8 29.Bf6 Rh5 30.Rg8 (30.
Qg3?! Bc8!) 30...e5 31.Bg7 Kf7 32.Rxf8+
Rxf8 33.Rf1+! Kxg7 34.Qg1+ (34.Qg3+
(second best) 34...Kh7 35.Rxf8 Qh1+!
36.Nb1 Qd5±) 34...Kh6 35.Rxf8+-] 29.Bxe7
Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron
Kxe7 30.Qg5++- In battles where the major
pieces, the queens and rooks, are involved
diagonal checks are often most effective.
30...Ke8 31.Qh6 A clever move preventing
the black king's flight to d8 and at the same
time threatening Rg7. However, another win-
ning idea was 31 b4 releasing his Rb1 from
guard duty against mate on b2 and bringing
it to f1 which would practically terminate the
game almost immediately. 31...Qb6 32.Nf3
[If 32.Rg7? Kd8 black gets a new life escap-
ing from the mating net in the centre.] 32...
Qd8?? Diagram #
[This is the only move that loses instantly!
The material on the board is absolutely level.
The only difference is in the position. Without
any question, white is on top. But white is not
winning yet and a resourceful and stubborn
defence might still save the game. Black
should try: 32...Bc8± ]
33.Qh5+ [After 33.Qh5+ Rf7 34.Rg8+ Ke7
35.Qg5+ (35.Rxd8 is simpler, slower.) 35...
Rf6 36.Rg7+ Kf8 37.Rh7! wins.] 1–0
Deepan,Chakkravarthy (2475) Naid-
itsch,A (Aze) (2701) [C75]
This is a delightful tactical game where
black's attack is met by a inspired defence.
As the game nears the end, the heavy pieces
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are still on the board while the pawns are
disappearing fast. 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5
a6 4.Ba4 d6 5.c3 Bd7 6.0–0 g6 7.d4 Bg7
8.d5 Nce7 9.c4 b5 10.Bc2 bxc4 11.Nbd2
f5N [Zubov 2493 vs Malaniuk 2526, Warsaw
Rapid, 2005 went more modestly: 11...Nf6
12.Nxc4 0–0 13.Bd2 Qb8 14.a4 c6 15.dxc6
Bxc6 16.Bg5 Rd8 17.Qe2 h6 18.Bd2 Ra7
19.Ba5 Rdd7 and drawn after 53 moves.]
12.Ng5!?
Diagram # [To many players, including my-
self, the move .... f5 is like a red rag to a bull.
The weakness of the square e6 is alluring and
they gun for glory! Safer was: 12.Nxc4 Nf6
13.Bg5 Nxe4 14.Bxe4 fxe4 15.Nfd2=] 12...
Nf6 13.Nxc4 h6 14.Ne6 Bxe6 15.dxe6
Nxe4 16.Bxe4 fxe4 In all likelihood, black
had deeply analysed this at home and con-
cluded that in the worst case scenario, it
would be an equal game. 17.Qa4+ c6= [Fritz
analyses: 17...Kf8! 18.f3 exf3 19.Rxf3+
Kg8 20.Rf7 d5 21.Qb4 Nf5 22.Rd7 Qh4
23.Rxd5 Nd4 as winning for black, but I feel
that any slight inaccuracy in this variation can
tactically finish off black.] 18.Qb4?! [This
is a poor choice that increases the tactical
capabilities of the black forces. Better was
18.Qa3 (keeping the option of Qg3 attacking
g6, or 18 Bd2) 18...c5 19.Rd1 Nf5 20.Be3
Nd4 21.Bxd4 exd4 22.Qg3! 0–0 23.Nxd6
Qc7 24.Nxe4 Qxg3 25.hxg3 Rfc8 26.b3=
with a slight edge for white.] 18...Nf5 19.g4
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Rb8 20.Qa3 d5 [This is the only move to
avoid being butchered in his bed! If 20...
Nd4 21.Nxd6+ Kf8 22.Nf7++-] 21.gxf5
dxc4 22.Be3! Qe7 23.Qxa6 [23.Bc5? Qg5+
24.Kh1 Qxf5 25.Qxa6 Qf3+ (if 25...Qxe6?
26.Qa7 is a winning double attack.) 26.Kg1
Qg4+ draws.] 23...0–0² 24.Qxc4 gxf5
25.Bc5 Qh4 26.e7+! Rf7 27.Kh1 Qh5
Threatening ...Qf3+, Qg4+ drawing, as well
as defending his Rf7. 28.Rg1 Kh7 29.Rg3
Avoids 29....Qf3+ and threatens 30 Rag1
winning. 29...e3 30.Qe6 Multiple threats: 31
e8Q, 31 Qxc6 and also anticipating black's
f5-f4. 30...f4!
Diagram # 31.Rh3 Rf6! 32.Qd7 [Also good
was: 32.Qxf6 Qxh3 33.Qxc6 exf2 34.Bxf2
Qh5 35.Rg1 Re8 36.Bc5+-] 32...Qf7! A good
move that gives black good chances of coun-
ter-attack via Qc4 and Qe4+ 33.fxe3? [This
gives some scope for white to fight back.
More accurate was: 33.Qd3+ Rg6 34.fxe3
Qe6 35.exf4 e4 36.Qe3 Bxb2 37.Re1 (37.
Rb1 Bd4! 38.Rxb8 Bxe3! 39.Bxe3 Qxh3?
40.Rh8+ Kxh8 41.e8Q+ Kh7 42.Qe7+! Rg7
43.Qxe4+ draw by perpetual check.) 37...Qf5
38.Rg3 Re6±] 33...Qc4! (threatening the
winning 34....Qe4+) 34.exf4 Qe4+ 35.Kg1
exf4 36.Rb3 [Trying to pin the black queen
is suicidal: 36.Qd3?? Rg6+! 37.Kf1 (37.Kf2
Rxb2+) 37...Qh1+ 38.Ke2 Rxb2++-] 36...
Rg6+ 37.Kf1 Qh1+ 38.Ke2 Qe4+ 39.Kd1
Rxb3 From the diagrammed position, try
to calculate the mate without moving the
pieces. 40.e8Q
Diagram # 40...Rd3+! 41.Kc1 Qc4+! [Af-
ter 41...Qc4+! 42.Kb1 Rxd7 43.Qxd7 Qe4+!
44.Kc1 Rg2–+] 0–1
Selected games from 38th National
Team Ch’ships, Bubaneshwar
Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron
Karthikeyan,Murali (2585) Sahoo,Utkal
Ranjan (2252) [C84]
This is a well played positional game by 19-
year old GM Karthikeyan Murali who was
National Champion in 2015 and 2016. At 22
Utkal Ranjan Sahoo is one of Odisha's talent-
ed youngsters who showed much promise a
couple of years back. 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6
3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.0–0 Be7 6.d3 b5
7.Bb3 d6 8.a3 0–0 9.h3 [This is varying
from the 2016 New York World Chp Match
game Karjakin vs Carlsen: 9.Nc3 Na5 10.Ba2
Be6 11.d4 Bxa2 12.Rxa2 Re8 Drawn after
30 moves.] 9...Be6 10.Bxe6 fxe6 11.Be3
Qe8 12.Nbd2 Nh5 13.c3 Qg6 Diagram #
Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron
[Both players have seen that black's occu-
pation of the f-file is not important: 13...Nf4
14.Bxf4 Rxf4 15.a4 b4 16.Qb3 Rf6 17.cxb4
Rb8 18.b5 Nd4 19.Nxd4 exd4 20.Qc4 axb5
21.axb5 Rxb5 22.Qxc7 Rxb2 23.Nc4 Rb3
24.Rfb1±] 14.a4 b4 15.Qb3 Rfb8 16.Qc2
[White is angling for a quiet positional ad-
vantage with play in the centre. If 16.a5 Nd8
(if 16...bxc3 17.Qxc3 Qe8 18.Rfd1²) 17.Qc4
c5=] 16...Rb7 17.d4! bxc3 18.bxc3 exd4
19.Nxd4! Nxd4 20.cxd4 Rab8
Diagram # [If black tries to get rid of his
passive bishop, he has to pay dearly: 20...
Bg5 21.Qc6! Rab8 22.Rfb1 Rxb1+ 23.Rxb1
Rxb1+ 24.Nxb1 Bxe3 25.fxe3 h6 26.Nd2²
As black's queen-side pawns are scattered
and easy prey for the white queen, his posi-
tional advantage is clear.] 21.Rab1! Rxb1
22.Rxb1 Rxb1+ 23.Qxb1 Qe8 24.Qc2 Qd7
25.Qc4± White is completely dominating.
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25...a5 26.d5!+- Kf7 [Black cannot afford
to close the centre for if 26...e5 27.Nb3+- and
a5 falls.] 27.Nb3 [Even stronger was: 27.Nf3
g6 28.Nd4 exd5 29.Qxd5+ Ke8 30.Qg8+ Bf8
31.Ne6 Qf7 32.Qxf7+ Kxf7 33.Nxc7+-] 27...
Nf6 28.Nxa5 exd5 29.exd5 Qf5 30.Nc6!
White knows that his a-pawn is a strong
candidate to win this game and makes way
for its advance, sacrificing his d-pawn. 30...
Qxd5 31.Qxd5+ Nxd5 32.a5! Nc3 [If 32...
Nxe3 33.fxe3 and black's bishop cannot con-
trol the key a7 square which white's passed
pawn would cross in just two more moves.]
33.a6 Nb5 34.Nxe7 The simplest way to
win. 34...Kxe7 35.a7 Nxa7 36.Bxa7 c5
37.Kf1 There were other attractive moves
like 37 f4, but white wants to make absolutely
sure that there is no mishap anywhere! 37...
Kd7 Diagram #
38.Bb8! [Played with great precision and an
eye out for lurking danger! If here 38.Ke2?
Kc7! 39.Kd3 Kb7 40.Bxc5 dxc5 41.Kc4 Kc6
and the game should be drawn.] 38...Kc6
39.Ke2 d5 40.Kd3 Kb5 41.f4 g6 42.Bd6
d4 43.Be7 Kc6 44.Kc4 1–0
Sharma,Dinesh K (2238) Deepan,Chak-
kravarthy J (2516)
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6
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5.Nc3 a6 6.Be3 e6 7.f3 b5 8.g4 Nfd7
9.Qd2 Nb6 10.0–0–0 N8d7 11.Ndxb5
axb5 12.Nxb5 Be7N [This move had been,
in all probability, well researched by black
who displays original ideas. 12...Ba6 was
successfully tried by J.Borisek, 2506, in
the 2007 Vidmar Memorial against B.Jeran,
2153.] 13.Nxd6+ Kf8 14.Kb1 Ba6 15.b3
Qb8 16.c4 Ne5 17.Nb5 Diagram #
17...h5 [Highly exciting play follows: 17...
Nxf3!? 18.Qf2 attacks both knights forcing
one of them to sacrifice himself! 18...Nxc4
19.Bxc4 Ne5 20.Bc5 Bxb5 21.Bxe7+ Kxe7
22.Qc5+ Kf6 23.Bxb5 (23.Qxb5 Qc7=) 23...
Rc8 24.Rhf1+ Kg6 25.Qe7 Ra7! (25...
Qxb5 26.Rxf7! Rc1+! (or 26...Nxf7 27.Qxe6+
Kg5 28.Qxf7! Kh6 29.h4! (threat 30 Qf4+
mating!))
27.Rxc1 Qd3+ 28.Rc2 Qd1+ 29.Rc1 Qd3+=)
26.Qh4 h6³] 18.f4 Bxb5 [If 18...Nxg4
19.Bd4 Bxb5 20.cxb5 e5 21.h3 exd4 22.hxg4
h4 23.Qxd4 Qc7 24.Bg2 Rd8 25.Qe3µ White
has three pawns for the knight, but as they
are all on the queen-side where he has cas-
tled, he cannot advance them in the mid-
dle-game. He has to wait for the reduction
of pieces on the board and that could take
a long, long time. Though black's Rh8 is not
in play, it has the prospect of entering the
game via h6. Considering all these factors,
black's chances of winning outweigh white's
of drawing.] 19.cxb5 Nxg4 20.Bd4
Diagram # 20...e5! 21.fxe5?! [21.h3 as
shown in the analysis to the 18th move was
better.] 21...Nxe5 22.Qf2 Nbd7 23.Rg1
[If 23.Bc4 Rh6! 24.Rhg1 Rf6 25.Qc2 g6µ
Black has a solid position and on the road
to victory.] 23...Rh6 24.Bh3 Rf6 25.Qg3
Rg6 26.Qc3 Rxg1 27.Rxg1–+ Qxb5! [This
is stronger than 27...Bf6 which also wins:
28.Bxd7 Nxd7 29.Bxf6 Nxf6 30.Qc5+
Kg8 and black's last try to gain perpetual
check fails: 31.Rxg7+!? Kxg7 32.Qg5+
Kf8 33.Qxf6 Qb7 34.Qh8+ Ke7 35.Qe5+
Kd7 36.Qf5+ Kd6! 37.Qf6+ Kc5 and black
has no perpetual check.] 28.Bxd7 Nxd7
29.Bxg7+ Ke8 White's extra pawns are far,
far away from the eighth rank. 30.Qc2 Qc5
31.Qxc5 Nxc5 32.Bd4 Nxe4 33.Rg8+ Bf8
34.Rh8 [If 34.Bg7 Ke7 35.Rh8 (35.Bxf8+
Rxf8–+) 35...f5 36.Bxf8+ Rxf8 37.Rxh5
Ke6–+ Black's last pawn wins the game.]
34...Rd8 35.Bb2 Rd5 36.a4 Rd1+ 37.Ka2
Rd2 Diagram #
Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron
[Maybe white lost on time here as this is
not yet a resignable position. After 37...Rd2
38.Kb1! (38.Rxh5?? Nc3+ 39.Ka1 Rd1+
40.Bc1 Ba3! mates.) 38...Ke7 39.Ba3+ Nd6!
40.Rxh5 Bg7 41.a5 Black's material advan-
tage may not be enough to win. For exam-
ple, after 41...Ke6 42.Bxd6 Kxd6 43.Rh7
Rb2+ 44.Kc1 Rg2 45.b4 the battle is still
on.] 0–1
Gopal,G.N (2593)
Sudhakar,Prem Dutt (1737) [B27]
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 g6 3.c3 Bg7 4.d4 cxd4
5.cxd4 d5 6.e5 Bg4 7.Bb5+ Nd7 8.Nbd2
a6 9.Bd3 e6 10.h3 Bxf3 11.Nxf3 Ne7
12.0–0 Nc6 [Vovsha, 2442, vs Wojtkiewicz,
2564, New York Rapid, 2004 went: 12...Qb6
13.Be3 0–0 14.Qd2 Nc6 15.h4 Qb4 16.Qe2
f6 17.exf6 Nxf6 18.Ng5 Rae8 .... 64.0–1]
13.Re1 0–0 14.h4 Qb6 15.Be3 h5? [This
irreparably weakens black's castled position
encouraging combinative play by white. Bet-
ter was to use one of the French Defense's
basic ideas: attack white's apex pawn with:
15...f6 16.exf6 Nxf6 17.Ng5 Rae8 18.Rc1
Re7÷ (18...Nxd4?? 19.Bxg6+-) ] 16.Ng5
Nb4? [This second weak move in a row is
guaranteed to lose. It would have been good
if it had resulted in the white bishop moving
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away from the juicy b1–h7 diagonal. But it
sticks to the diagonal threatening mayhem.
If 16...Qxb2? 17.Rb1 Qxa2 18.Rxb7 Ra7
19.Rxa7 Nxa7 20.Nxe6!! fxe6 21.Bxg6
and black's position is ready to collapse.;
However had black foreseen the war clouds
over his king-side he would have bolstered
his g6 with: 16...Ne7 17.Rc1 Rac8² with
only a very small advantage for white.]
17.Bb1 Rfe8
Diagram # He intends 18...Nf8 to strength-
en his g6, but it is too late! 18.Nxf7!! Kxf7
19.Qf3+ Kg8 20.Bxg6+- Not only is 21
Bxe8 threatened, but also 21 Qxh5. 20...
Re7 21.Bg5 Nf8 22.Bxe7 Nxg6
Diagram # 23.Bf6?! [One can understand
white's idea of directly finishing off black on
the king-side. But easier, and precise, was:
23.Bc5!
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Qb5 24.a4! Qa5 25.Rec1 (25.Qxh5 Nf4
26.Qg4 Nbd3 27.b4 Qc7 28.Re3+-) 25...
Nxh4 26.Qg3 Nf5 27.Qg6 Amazingly, 28
Qxe6+ cannot be prevented!] 23...Rf8?
[Black misses his chance to attain equality
with: 23...Bxf6! 24.Qxf6 Kh7= If any body
has a slight advantage in this position, it
is black!] 24.Qxh5 Bxf6 25.Qxg6+ Bg7
26.Rad1 White's simple plan is h4-h5-h6.
26...Qc6 Diagram #
27.a3! Qc2 [If 27...Nc2? 28.Rc1 and the
knight is pinned against the queen and
should be lost.] 28.Qxc2 [Also winning was:
28.Qxe6+ Kh7 29.Rf1 Nc6 30.f4+-] 28...
Nxc2 29.Re2! The knight has no escape! 29...
Nxd4 30.Rxd4 Rc8 31.g3 Rc1+ 32.Kg2
b5 33.f4 Bf8 34.f5! Bc5 35.Rg4+ Kf8
36.fxe6 Ke7 37.h5 Kxe6 38.h6 Rd1 1–0
Meenakshi,Subbaraman WGM (2193)
Aparajita,Gochhikar CM (1740) [D30]
1.d4 d5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.c4 c6 4.e3 e6 5.b3
Bb4+ 6.Nbd2 Nbd7 7.Bd3 Qc7 [Aronian
2744 vs Van Wely, Amber Rapid, 2007 went:
7...e5 8.dxe5 Bc3 9.exf6 Bxa1 10.fxg7 Bxg7
.... 53. Draw] 8.Bb2 0–0 9.a3 Bxd2+
10.Qxd2 Re8 [10...Rd8 threatening 11....
dxc4 and later ... e5 was a better plan.]
11.0–0 Diagram #
11...h6? On general principles, one should
not move the pawns in ones castled posi-
tion as it would weaken his pawn structure
and present the opponent with objects for
attack. Bettter were ....b6 as well as ....a5
though white would still be better. 12.Rac1
a5 13.Ne5 [This early skirmish in the centre
gives some breathing space for black. Better
was 13.Qc2! which would have given white
a firm advantage.] 13...Nxe5 14.dxe5
Nd7 [If 14...dxc4 15.Bxc4 Rd8 16.Qe2 Nd7
17.Rfd1! Nb6 18.Bd3 Nd5 19.Bb1 with a great
advantage for white.] 15.f4 [Better was the
more orthodox, patient 15.Qc3 which would
make black feel suffocated and imagine all
kinds of strangulation!] 15...Nc5 16.Bc2
dxc4 [16...Rd8 17.Bd4 dxc4 18.bxc4 b6
when white's position has lost some of its
teeth!] 17.bxc4 Rd8 18.Bd4 b6 19.Qe2
Ba6 [Better was 19...Nd7 for ....Nf8 and
eventually ....g6 putting up a solid defence
to his king.] 20.Rf3! Diagram
Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron
With both of her bishops already pointing
at white's king-side, the rook also joins in
for a massive attack. 20...Nd7 21.Rg3
Nf8 22.Qg4 g6 23.Qh4 White's pieces are
bristling with threats, the main one being f4-
f5 giving life to his muzzled Bd4. 23...Kg7
24.f5+- exf5 25.e6+ Rxd4 26.Qxd4+
Kh7 27.Bxf5! Nxe6 28.Bxe6 fxe6 29.Qe4
Qg7 [If 29...Qf7? 30.Rf1 Qg7 31.Rxg6 Qxg6
32.Rf7++-] 30.h4! h5 31.Rg5 (threat 32.
Rxh5+) 31...Kh6 32.Qxc6 With the game
safely in her pocket, white goes pawn pick-
ing! 32...Rf8 33.Qxb6 Qf6 Black threatens
perpetual checks with Qf2+ and Qxh4+.
34.Qd4! Diagram # 34...Qf2+ 35.Kh2 Bb7
36.Rg3 Kh7 37.Rb1 Bc6 38.Rb2 [As the
black queen has been rendered toothless,
white need not chase it away. Better was to
go for fresh conquests with the
simple: 38.Rb6! Be8 39.Rxe6+-] 38...
Qf5 39.Rb6 e5 40.Qd6 Be4 41.Rb5 Re8
42.Rxa5 1–0
Padmini,Rout (2325) Vijayalaksh-
mi,Subbaraman (2352)
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 e5
5.Nb5 d6 6.c4 Be7 7.N1c3 a6 8.Na3 Be6
9.Bd3 Rc8 10.0–0 Nf6 11.b3 This is a pop-
ular variation in the Sicilian Defence known
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Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron
as the Lowenthal and Kalashnikov line. 11...
Nb4 12.Bb2N Nd7 13.Nc2 Nxc2 14.Qxc2
0–0 15.Rad1 Qa5 16.Qd2 Moving away
the queen from the c-file where a black rook
is likely to strike by b7-b5 and planning the
stroke Nd5! 16...Rfd8 17.Bb1
Diagram # 17...Bf8 [Worth considering
here was the traditional way of attacking
white's Maroczy Bind set up against the Si-
cilian Defence with: 17...b5 18.cxb5 axb5
19.Nd5 Qxd2 20.Nxe7+ Kf8 21.Ng6+ hxg6
22.Rxd2 Ke7=] 18.Qe2 Nf6 19.Nd5 Bxd5
20.exd5 Qc5 21.Kh1! White's intentions
are clear. She is going to launch a king-side
attack starting with f2-f4 21...Re8 22.f4
Nd7 23.Qg4 Rc7 [23...Qc7 24.Rde1 Rcd8
25.Bf5 h6 26.Re2 Nf6 27.Qf3 b5 28.Bd3 Qb8
29.Bc3± White has more space and the freer
game.] 24.Bf5 Nf6 25.Qh4 h6 26.fxe5
dxe5 27.Bb1 Nh7 28.Qh5 Bd6 29.Qg4
b5 30.Bc1 Kh8 31.Qe4 Nf8 32.Be3 Qb4
33.Bd3 Qa5 Diagram #
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34.c5! Qxa2 [Black must give up the bishop
for if 34...Bxc5 35.Bxc5 Rxc5 36.Rxf7 Kg8
37.Rdf1+- White threatens 38 Rxf8+ and 39
Qh7#; or 34...Be7 35.Rxf7! for Rxf8+ and
Qh7#] 35.cxd6 Rd7 36.b4 Kg8 37.Bc5
g6 38.Qg4 Kh7 Facing the might of Black's
combined forces, and pushed into a corner,
black no longer has any saving move. A lesser
player would look for a painless way of end-
ing the game, but not Vijayalakshmi who is
famed for her stubbornness and never-say-
die attitude in the face of intense pressure.
39.Qe2!
Diagram # white wants to exchange off the
black queen as that is the only black piece in
the game now. Understandably, black avoids
it and lands her queen in her half of the board
giving company to her other non-functioning
pieces. 39...Qb3 40.Bc2 Qc3 41.Rd3 Qc4
42.Bb3 Qh4 43.Rh3 Qd8 Back to square 1.
44.Qe3 h5 45.g4! The final blow. 1–0
Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron
Problem World the main line succeeds.
by C.G.S.Narayanan E.M.H.Guttmann
Holst promotion Miniatures Startegiques 1935
The promotions in problem chess, both by
white and black, follow the general rules of
the game but the choice of black promotion
is only between a queen (which combines the
powers of rook and bishop) and knight. On
similar lines, promotions to WQ or WB after
a black defence is not considered a dual. In
Holst theme, a threat is defeated initially by
a specific promotion of a black pawn. The
foreplan forces the promotion of this black
Pawn to a different piece, so that the original
defence is no longer available.The diagram Mate in four moves
below is a lucid example where an initial try In the third problem below the white king
1.Rc3? inducing threat Ba7 is defeated by while unpinning WNd5 has to decide on the
1…a1=Q! square to which it has to move and BPb2
J.Fritz provides Holst interest.
4 Pr, Praca 1950
G.Zahodjakin
I Prize, Rochade(Miniatures)1980
Mate in three moves
After key 1.Rb3! white threatens discovered
check 2.Ba5+ followed by 3.Bh3.Now the
defence 1…a1=N controls the battery but Mate in three moves
lets in the original 2.Rc3! followed by 3.Ba7. Key 1.Kc3 ! threat:2.Nc7
The classic miniature below doubles the Holst 1...b1=N+ 2.Kb4 threat:3.Nc7
theme with ease. 1.Rc8?(2.Rc3 is met by 1… 2...Qxd5 3.Bxd5 #2...Qf8+ 3.Ne7
e1Q! and 1.Rd8?(2.Rd3) is countered by 1… 1...Qg3+2.Ne3 1...Qg7 2.Nf6+
e1N!. The key 1.Rg8!(2.Rg3) induces a 2...Qb7 3.Qxb7 1...Qh8 +2.Nf6
knight promotion on f1.After White forces the black check by the black
1…f1N 2.Rd8 will now work as 2….e1N is knight on b1 and then moves to a square safe
followed by 3.Rc8 (4.Rc3).A logical problem from further checks from the promoted piece.
with two consecutive foreplans after which
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 Tactics from master games Test your endgame
by S.Krishnan by C.G.S.Narayanan

V&M Platov 1906 C.J.deFeijter 1932

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

Ph.Stamma 1937 W.Prokurowski 1965

3 4 3. 4.
White to play and win White to play and win
Yochanan Afek 1973 H.Rinck 1923

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

 
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Masters of the past-87 Raul Sanguineti
2nd Dalmia Cements All India Open FIDE Rating Chess Tournament 2018, Mahilong
Raúl Carlos Sanguineti (1933-2000) was an Argentine chess Grandmaster.
He won the Argentine Chess Championship seven times, in 1956, 1957,
1962, 1965, 1968, 1973 and 1974. Raúl Sanguineti played for Argentina
in seven Chess Olympiads. He won two individual gold medals at Moscow
1956 and Varna 1962, and two team bronze medals at Munich 1958 and
Varna 1962. In total, he represented his country in seven Olympiads with
an aggregate of over 70 per cent . He played in the World Chess Champi-
onship Interzonals at Portorož 1958 and Biel 1976.Important tournament
victories included São Paulo 1957, Bariloche1960, Buenos Aires (Club
Argentino) 1963, Punte del Este 1964, Buenos Aires Open 1968, Fortaleza
Zonal 1975, Mar del Plata1976, Buenos Aires 1977, and Santos Lugares
1977. During his competitive career, which ran from 1954 to 1977, he very
rarely finished in the bottom half of the tournament table. In 1980 he won the Konex Award
as one of the 5 best chess players of the decade in his country.

Sanguineti began his high-level tournament career at the 1954 Buenos Aires Zonal tournament
in Mar del Plata, with a fine mid-place (tie for 7-9th place) finish of 10.5/20. He improved the
(L-R) Pritam Singh (CEO,AJCA),IM Neeraj Kumar Mishra (Secretary, AJCA) Paramjit Kaur
next year, 1955, with an excellent tie for fourth place at the Argentine Championship at Buenos
(Principal SBPS), Pradip Verma (President, AJCA) Manish Ranjan IAS (Sports Secretary Jharkand
Aires, where he scored 12/19. Next was the very strong Buenos Aires 1955 event, which featured Government) GM Saptarshi Roy Chowdhury,Navjot Alang (Secretary, RDCA),Ashish Kumar
star Grandmasters Borislav Ivkov, Svetozar Gligorić, Herman Pilnik and Laszlo Szabo, and he Dwivedi, Narahari Das (Chief Accountant, SBPS)
could only make 7.5/17 for 13th. But he followed this up with a much better result of third at
the annual Mar del Plata International of 1956, which often attracted many of the world's best
players during the 1950s and 1960s. There he scored 10.5/15 (tie for 3rd-4th).

Those strong performances earned him selection to the powerful national team, which was one
of the world's top teams in the 1950s and 1960s. For example, Argentina finished second and
earned team silver team medals at three straight Olympiads: Dubrovnik 1950, Helsinki 1952,
and Amsterdam 1954. For Moscow 1956, Sanguineti made his debut on the first reserve board,
and played sensationally to win the gold medal with a score of 9/11. Argentina finished fourth.

He played for Argentina at the 1958 World Students' Olympiad at Varna on board two, scoring
6/10. The Interzonal at Portorož was next, and although he failed to qualify further, he scored
respectively from the strong field, with 10/20, to place 14th out of 21. On the same trip, he
played for Argentina at the 1958 Munich Olympiad, again as first reserve, and scored 9.5/15.
Argentina won the team bronze medals with a third-place finish.

By January 1965, Sanguineti had reached a chessmetrics rating of 2677, good for #18 in the
world. He had performed at 2699 at Varna 1962. With a 2600 performance generally denot-
ing grandmaster standard, it seemed quite clear that Sanguineti deserved a promotion to the
higher title, based upon his consistently strong results in good calibre events.He was selected
again for Argentina at the Lugano 1968 Olympiad, earning a promotion to board three, where Suresh Nath Narone, Deepak Kumar, Arpan Das,Winner, Chief Guest Sunil Kumar Barnwal (IAS)
he scored well with 11.5/16.FIDE, the World Chess Federation, awarded him the Grandmaster Chief Secretary Jharkhand,Pradip Verma (President,AJCA),Anil Singh, Rajiv Kumar Sinha (Dy.
title in 1982. He died in Buenos Aires at age 67. Courtesy:Wikepedia Manager ,Dalmia Cemia Cements)
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 Solutions to ‘Tactics from master
West Bengal Under-11 Championships 2018, Kolkata
games’ on page 42
1.Jarmula,Lukasz (2498)
Saydaliev,Saidakbar (2349) [E04]
Moscow Moscow (5.24), 24.02.2018
White to play. 23.Rxc8! Rxc8 24.Nf6+! gxf6
25.Qf3 (Threatening 26.Qg4Ch and 27.Qh5.-
mate to follow.) If 25...Kh8 26.Qh5 Black
cannot avoid mate. 1–0
2.Triantos,Konstantinos (2062)
Markidis,K (2372) [C07]
4th Vardaris Open 2018 Thessaloniki GRE
(4.4), 17.02.2018
Black to play. 22...Bd3! 23.Qd1 [23.Qxd3
Nxf3+ 24.Qxf3 Qxa1+–+; 23.Qe1 Nc2–+;
23.Qc1 Ne2+–+] 23...Be2 24.Qe1 [24.Qb1
Nc2 25.Qxc2 Qxa1+–+] 24...Bxf3 24...Bxf3
25.Nxf3 Nc2–+]0–1
3.Morozevich,A (2665)
Nozdrachev,L (2410) [C65]
Sinthia Sarkar Receiving Champion Trophy(Girls) from Mr. Bratyo Basu,MIC,WB State & GM Dibyendu Barua RUS Rapid GP Serpukhov Serpukhov RUS
(6.10), 23.02.2018
White to play. 27.Bxd5+! [Rc6, Re8] 27...
Qxd5 [27...Nxd5 28.Qxg7#] 28.Rxe8+ Kh7
[28...Nxe8 29.Qxd5++-; 28...Kf7 29.Rb8+-]
29.Qxd5+- 1–0
4.Kobalia,M (2599)
Vastrukhin,O (2409) [C09]
Kolomna Rapid 2018 Moscow RUS (4.2),
16.02.2018
White to play. 20.Qxg6! Threatening 21.Qh7Ch
followed by 22.Qh8 mate 20...fxg5 21.Re7
Nxe7 22.Qxb6 Kh7 23.Qxb7 Ng6 24.Rd1+- 1–0
5.Anand,V (2776)
Grischuk,A (2767) [B31]
11th Tal Mem Rapid 2018 Moscow RUS (8),
04.03.2018
White to play. 27.Ng5+!! hxg5 28.Rxf7+ Qxf7
[28...Rg7 29.Qxe6+-] 29.hxg5+ Kg7 [29...Kg6
Alekhya Mukhopadhyay Receiving Champion Trophy(Girls) from Mr. Bratyo Basu,MIC,WB State & GM 30.Qh6#] 30.Qh6# 1–0
Dibyendu Barua
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6.Stany,G (2494)
Mastalerz,X (2252) [C05]
34th Cappelle Open 2018 Cappelle la Grande
FRA (2.9), 04.03.2018
White to play 19.Rf6! Nd7 [19...Na4 20.Bxa4
Rxa4 21.Nh5+-; 19...gxf6 20.Qxh6 threat-
ening 21.Nh5 followed by mate. 20...Nf5
21.Nhxf5 Bxf5 22.Nh5 Wins] 20.Rxh6 g6
[20...Ra6 21.Nh5 Bg4 22.Bh7+ Kh8 23.Qg5!
Bxh5 24.Bg6+ Kg8 25.Rh8+ Kxh8 26.Qxh5+
Kg8 27.Qh7#; 20...f6 21.Bh7+ Kf7 (21...Kh8
22.Bf5+ Kg8 23.Bxe6++-) 22.Nh5 Ra6 (22...
gxh6 23.Qxh6 Ke8 24.Ng7+ Kf7 25.Rf1 Win-
ning) 23.exf6 Nxf6 24.Nxg7‚ Kxg7 25.Qg5+
Kf7 26.Rxf6++-] 21.Rh8+! Kxh8 22.Qh6+ Kg8
23.Nh5 [23.Nh5 gxh5 (23...Nf5 24.Nxf5 Wins)
24.Qh7#] 1–0
Solutions to ‘Test your endgame’ on page
43
1.V&M Platov 1906
1.c6 b3 (1…Bc3 2.Bf4 wins) 2.c7 Bg3+ (2…b2
3.c8Q b1Q 4.Qf5+) 3.Kxg3 b2 4.c8B (4.c8Q?
b1Q 5.Qf5+ Ke2 and both 6.Qxb1 and Qxg4+
Ke1 will leave white with only a draw) Ke4 (4….
Kc2 5.Bf5+ Kb3 6.Bb1) 5.Kxg4 wins.
2.C.J.deFeijter 1932
1.Ng8 Bf5 2.Ne7 Be6 3.Ng6+ Kxh7 4.Nf8+wins
3.Ph.Stamma 1937
1.Bd4 Kxd4 2.b8Q g1Q 3.Qb6+
4.W.Proskurowski 1965
1.e7 b1Q 2.e8Q Qh7 3.Kc8 Qg7 4.Qd8 Qf7
5.Qh8 Qe7 6.Qg8 Qd6 7.axb7#
5.Yochanan Afek 1973
1.e5 Bxe5 2.Ke4 Ne6 3.Kxe5 Nf8 4.h8N Kc5
5.Kf6 Kd6 6.Nf7+ Kc7 7.Ne5 Nh7+ 8.Ke7 Ng5
9.Bf5
6.H.Rinck 1923
1.Bh6+ Ke8 2.Bg7 c2 3.Ke6 Kd8 4.Rb8+ Kc7
5.Be5+ Kc6 6.Rxg8 c1Q 7.Rc8+
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