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AICF CHRONICLE
the official magazine of the All India Chess Federation
Volume : 8
Issue : 10
Price Rs. 25
April 2015
INDIA CHINA SUMMIT CHESS
Story on p.23
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Inside…..
LIC 2nd International Grandmasters Chess
Tournament,Kolkata...
Ganguly wins title
by IA R. Anantharam
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3rd Bhubaneswar All India Open
FIDE Rating Chess Championship 2015
R.R.Laxman wins title
FA Suresh Chandra Sahoo,Chief Arbiter
3rd Chess Specific Open FIDE
rated Tournament 2015…
Sahaj Grover wins title
by IA Gopakumar MS, Chief Arbiter
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1st ADRA FIDE Open International Rating
Chess Tournament, Purulia, West Bengal….
Joydeep Dutta is champion
by IA L.R.Bhuvanaa Sai, CA
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15th Jharkand Senior State FIDE Rating
Chess Championship 2015,Ranchi…..
Pritam Singh is Champion
Nihar Ranjan Sasmal IA ,Chief Arbiter
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Selected games annotated by
IM Manuel Aaron Prize winning studies from
4th FIDE World Cup in composing
Tactics from master games
by S.Krishnan
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Test your endgame
by C.G.S.Narayanan
Masters of the past-51
Lionel Adalbert Kieseritzky AICF Calendar 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.
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From the Editor’s desk
Planet ‘4538 Vishyanand’ arrives in
space! It is exciting news for chess
lovers that five-time World Champion
and India’s first chess grandmaster
Vishwanathan Anand has been granted
the honour of having a minor planet
named after him. With this privilege,
Anand joins former world chess champions Alexander
Alekhine and Anatoly Karpov who have had similar
honour bestowed on them. AICF congratulates the Indian
chess maestro who incidentally has become the first
Indian sportsperson to be so honoured.
At the India-China summit chess meet at Hyderabad the
second half did not go India’s way. After the sides won
two rounds apiece to be level at the half way stage, the
second half decisively tilted in favour of the visitors who
won the Scheveningen System double round event to
lift Komatireddy Prateek Reddy Trophy. Looking back at
the event, AICF has really provided the Indian team good
practicing ground against Olympiad gold medallist prior to
the World Team Championship to be held at Armenia in
April. This issue contains, in its centre pages, the report,
photographs and a few selected games from the event.
Mariya Muzychuk has become the 15th Women's World
Chess Champion at Sochi beating Natalia Pogonina of
Russia. Indian challenge sadly ended in the semi-finals
when IM Dronavalli Harika, performing at her career best,
went down fighting in the tie-break games. Earlier in the
quarterfinals Champion accounted for the top seeded
Indian GM Koneru Humpy in the rapid tie-break. Report
on this event is also carried in the centre pages. Lionel
Adalbert Kieseritzky is featured in the ‘Masters of the
past’ series. Selected games from Chennai Open and
National Team Chess Championships annotated by IM
Manuel Aaron are also presented in this issue.
C.G.S.Narayanan
LIC 2nd International Grandmasters Chess Tournament,Kolkata...
Ganguly wins title
by IA R. Anantharam
The LIC 2nd International Grandmasters Chess Tournament was organised by Dibyendu
Barua Chess Academy at the Indian Council for Cultural Relations, Kolkata from 15th to 25th
March 2015. One hundred and thirty participants from eleven federations included seventy
five title holders- 27 GMs, 24 IMs, 4 WGMs, 2 WIMs, 9 FMs, 6 WFMs and 3 CMs. It was a
nine round Swiss system, with a time control of 90 minutes with 30 seconds increment per
move. Much to the joy of players, there was only one round a day.
Former PCA world championship finalist Nigel Short of England was the top seed in the
tournament, followed by GM Kokarev Dmitry of Russia and GM Quesada Perez Yuniesky
of Cuba. The Indian contingent was spearheaded by grandmasters SS Ganguly, Sandipan
Chanda and Deep Sengupta – all from Kolkata. World junior champion Lu Shanglei of China
led a field of four players from China. An average rating of 2287 for 131 players speaks
volumes about the strength of the tournament.
Hiccups in the first round was no exception to the tournament, especially Cubans found the
going tough on their first visit to India. Fourteen year old Puranik Abhimanyu of Maharashtra
shocked fourth seeded Cuban grandmaster Ortiz Suarez Isan Reynaldo (2625), rated 360
points above him and third seeded Quesada Perez of Cuba escaped with a draw against
thirteen year old Kolkata boy Rajdeep Sarkar, with a similar rating difference.
Veteran and former national champion P. Konguvel of PSPB overcame GM Pavel Kotsur of
Kazakhstan and Abhishek Kelkar of Maharashtra defeated GM Abdulla Rakib of Bangladesh
in the second round. Another Bangladesh GM Enamul Hossain was a victim to Orissa’s Utkal
Ranjan Sahoo in this round. By the end of third round, Nigel, Ganguly, IM N Srinath of Tamil
Nadu and Abhishek were leading with three points each. Favourites Nigel and Ganguly had
a perfect four points in four rounds, after registering convincing victories over Petr Kostenko
of Kazakhstan and IM N. Sinath.
While the two leaders drew in the clash between them, GM elect Swapnil Dhopade subdued
Kovalev Vladislav of Belarus to join them at the top in the fifth round. Ganguly defeated
Swapnil and Nigel beat second seed Dmitry to keep the lead between them, after six rounds.
Lu Shanglei joined the duo at the top, by beating IM Shardul Gagare, as Nigel and Ganguly
were held by Stupak Kirill of Belarus and Wang Chen of China respectively.Ganguly survived
a scare from Lu Shanglei to split the point and Nigel forced Sandipan Chanda to a draw by
repetition of moves, enabling the trio to keep the overnight lead at the end of the eighth
and penultimate round.
Nigel had to be content with a draw against Lu, but Ganguly outwitted Ortiz Suarez of Cuba
to be crowned an outright winner of the prestigious tournament, held in his home town.
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He received a cash prize of three lakh rupess
for his efforts. Nigel, with a higher tiebreak
finished runner up, followed by Lu Shanglei
and 4th and 5th places were won by Kolkatans Deep Sengupta and Sandipan.
Ms. Usha Uthup, popular singer was the chief
guest for the closing ceremony in the august
presence of India’s second grandmaster Dibyendu Barua and a host of other dignitaries.
Final ranking
Rk
Name
FED Pts
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
Ganguly Surya Shekhar
Short Nigel D
Lu Shanglei
Sengupta Deep
Sandipan Chanda
Wang Chen
Gopal G.N.
Quesada Perez Yuniesky
Kokarev Dmitry
Xu Yinglun
Stupak Kirill
Narayanan Srinath
Laxman R.R.
Ortiz S Isan Reynaldo
Rathnakaran K.
Kovalev Vladislav
Rahman Ziaur
Lalith Babu M.R.
Vignesh Nr
Gagare Shardul
Deepan Chakkravarthy J.
Harikrishnan.A.Ra
Stany G.A.
Das Sayantan
Kulkarni Rakesh
Lin Chen
Das Arghyadip
Ankit R. Rajpara
Ravi Teja S.
Kotsur Pavel
Neelotpal Das
Kunte Abhijit
Harsha Bharathakoti
Visakh Nr
IND
ENG
CHN
IND
IND
CHN
IND
CUB
RUS
CHN
BLR
IND
IND
CUB
IND
BLR
BAN
IND
IND
IND
IND
IND
IND
IND
IND
CHN
IND
IND
IND
KAZ
IND
IND
IND
IND
GM
GM
GM
GM
GM
IM
GM
GM
GM
GM
IM
GM
GM
IM
GM
GM
GM
IM
GM
IM
IM
IM
IM
GM
GM
GM
GM
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7
7
7
7
6½
6½
6½
6½
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
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36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
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46
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48
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50
51
52
53
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56
57
58
59
60
61
62
63
64
65
66
67
68
69
70
71
72
73
74
75
76
77
78
79
80
81
GM Oral Tomas
CZE
Kunal M.
IND
Roy Prantik
IND
IM Swapnil S. Dhopade
IND
GM Shyam Sundar M.
IND
GM Sriram Jha
IND
IM Satyapragyan Swayangsu IND
WGM Swathi Ghate
IND
CM Puranik Abhimanyu
IND
IM Chakravarthi Reddy M
IND
Gusain Himal
IND
Abhishek Kelkar
IND
IM Vijayalakshmi S
IND
IM Shyam Nikil P.
IND
FM Raghunandan K S
IND
GM Hossain Enamul
BAN
IM Mohota Nisha
IND
IM Murali Krishnan B.T.
IND
FM Rakesh Kumar Jena
IND
Abhishek Das
IND
GM Bakre Tejas
IND
Saravana Krishnan P.
IND
Gurung Rakesh
IND
GM Roy Chowdhury Saptarshi IND
Singh S. Vikramjit
IND
WFM Vaishali R
IND
GM Kostenko Petr
KAZ
Sahoo Utkal Ranjan
IND
Navalgund Niranjan
IND
Patil Pratik
IND
IM Girinath P.D.S.
IND
GM Abdulla Al-Rakib
BAN
WGM Soumya Swaminathan
IND
Santu Mondal
IND
IM Konguvel Ponnuswamy
IND
Hemant Sharma (del)
IND
FM Thakur Akash
IND
Lakshmi Narayanan Mv IND
Pradeep Kumar R.A.
IND
Aradhya Garg
IND
Hirthickkesh Pr
IND
Raja Harshit
IND
IM Saravanan V.
IND
IM Swayams Mishra
IND
WGM Kiran Manisha Mohanty IND
IM Himanshu Sharma
IND
Rajdeep Sarkar
IND
5½
5½
5½
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
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5
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5
5
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Workshop for Arbiters of National Championships 2015
Prof. R. Anantharam IA
The Workshop for chief arbiters and deputy chief arbiters of National Chess Championships
2015 was organized by All India Chess Federation at Hotel Royal Regency, Chennai on 11th
April 2015. Thirty four arbiters attended the one day workshop with zeal and enthusiasm. Mr.
CGS Narayanan, Fide Master for Chess Composition and Editor AICF Chronicle, inaugurated the
Workshop in the morning. In his inaugural address, he elaborated the Arbiter’s responsibilities,
when they send a report to AICF, about tournaments in which they serve as chief arbiters.
Arbiters who attended the course
Mr. V. Hariharan, Secretary, All India Chess Federation discussed in detail about the importance
of fide id to a player, the arbiter’ role in creating fide ids, their duty to check ids in tournaments
etc. He also explained the new fide rules in getting e-mail ids from new players and also about
the eradication of double ids of players.
Prof.R. Anantharam gave a lecture on the rules and regulations introduced by fide after 1st
July 2014, mainly focusing on the Anti-cheating measures and prohibition of mobile phones
in tournament halls. He also lectured on many new regulations to be adopted by the arbiters,
with respect to AICF and their states.
In the post lunch session, Prof. Anantharam discussed answers for the 40 questions he sent to
the arbiters about one week earlier. Most of the questions were based on Laws of Chess and a
few of them on Rating, Title regulations and Swiss pairing. All the arbiters enjoyed and were
benefitted by the lively interaction and exchange of views. They informed that the questions
were challenging and useful, as they oriented towards problems arising in tournaments.
In his valedictory address, Mr.V. Hariharan detailed about the procedure in admitting players
with foreign passports, PIO cards etc. to tournaments.
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1st ADRA FIDE Open International Rating Chess Tournament, Purulia
3rd Bhubaneswar All India Open FIDE Rating Chess Championship 2015
R.R.Laxman wins title
FA Suresh Chandra Sahoo,Chief Arbiter
(L-R)Mr. Radheshyam, GM SE Rly,GM Sriram Jha Champion,Joydeep Dutta
Runner up, Santu Mondal Third, Mr. Anshul Gupta DRM Adra Divn.
15th Jharkand Senior State FIDE Rating Chess Championship 2015,Ranchi…
Champion Pritam Singh receiving the trophy from Mrs. Poonam Singh, Principal
Sarala Birla Public School,Mahilong,Ranchi, Pradip Varma, President All Jharkhand
Chess Association. Nihar Ranjan Sasmal IA, Chief Arbiter is also seen.
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The 3rd Bhubaneswar All India Open FIDE
Rating Chess Championship was inaugurated
by Sj. Diptesh Patnaik, IPS, Dy Inspector
General of Police Govt. of Odisha, Bhubaneswar.Other dignitaries Mr. Manoj Kumar
Panigrahi, Jt Secretary, All Odisha Chess
Association; Mr. GC Mohapatra, Executive
Member, All Odisha Chess Association, Mr.
Subhasis Patnaik, Secretary, Khordha District
Chess Association – cum – Executive Member
All Odisha Chess Association and Mr. Suresh
Chandra Sahoo, F.A., Chief Arbiter, Executive Member, All Odisha Chess Association
were present on the dias. With the total prize
fund of Rs. 5,00,000 the event attracted 165
participants from thirteen States (Andhra
Pradesh-25, Assam-1, Chhatisgarh-3, Chandigarh-1, Jharkhand-3, Karnatak-9, Kerala-1,
Maharashtra-16, Odisha-59, Tamilnadu-20,
Telengana-2, Uttar Pradesh-2, West Bengal-14, Madhya Pradesh-1) States & 05 from
Special units (ICF -2, KIIT – 4, LIC – 1, RLYs1, Andhra Bank-1) with one Grandmaster,
one Women Grandmaster, four International
Masters, five FIDE Masters, one Women FIDE
Master and two Women Candidate Masters.
IM Himanshu Sharma(2432) of Railways was
the top seed.
Six Players shared the lead with full points
at the end of 4th round and after 5th round
only GM RR Laxman
was leading with five points while six players
closely followed with 4.5 points. After the
sixth Round three
players with (5.5), after the seventh round
5 players with six points, after the eighth
round only two players, GM RR Laxman and
a 14 year old boy of West Bengal FM Mitrabha
Guha, shared the lead with seven points.
After the end of round nine, GM RR Laxman
dominated the show with sole lead of 8 points
and clinched the Championship with a cash
prize of `75,000/-. IM Himanshu Sharma
of Railways became Runner-up & bagged `
45,000/- & IM Vikramaditya Kulkarni of Maharashtra stood 3rd with ` 25,000/-.
There were many upsets right from the first
round. Round 1:WGM Kiran Mnisha Mohanty,
2135 lost to Meyank Mohapatra, 1294 of
Odisha Dutta Ramakrishna J, 1247, AP beat
Ketan Boricha, 2056, Maharashtra Round
3:Rajesh Nayak, 2013, Odisha beat Himal
Gosain, 2343, Chandigarh Deepthamsh
Reddy. M 2097, AP lost to Lakshmi C, 1588,
TN Biswajit Sahu, 1456, Odisha beat Ketan
Boricha, 2056, Maharashtra Rajarshi Dutta,
1830, WB lost to Jyoti Ranjan Padhi, 1420,
Odisha Round 4:Ramakrishna J, 2145,
Andhra Bank beat Rajdeep Sarkar, 2268, WB
Chakravarthi Reddy M, 2283 lost to Rajesh
Nayak, 2013, Odisha Jayakumar S, 2065, TN
lost to Hrusikesh Rath, 1714, Odisha Nilsu
Pattnayak, 1701 beat Chakravarthi Y.V.K.
2014, AP Sa Kannan, 2014, TN lost to Raahul
V S, 1701, TN Sreeshwan Maralakshikari,
1601, Ap beat Harshavardhan G B, 1931,
TN Jyoti Ranjan Padhi, 1420, Odisha beat
FM Sankalp Baliarsingh, 1810 Biswajit Sahu,
1456, Odisha beat Bristy Mukherje, 1814,
West Bengal Round 5:FM Rakesh Kumar
Jena, 2299, Odisha lost to WFM Vaishali R,
2149, TN Sunyasakta Satpathy, 1847, Odisha
beat Mohammad Ashraf, 2189, KIIT Raahul
V S, 1701, TN beat Gavi Siddayya, 1975,
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Karnatak WGM Kiran Manisha Mohanty, 2135,
LIC drew with Sreeshwan Maralakshikari,
1601, AP Ghosh Samriddhaa, 1776, WB lost
to Manthan Kashyap Datta, 1381, Assam.
Round 6:Hirthickkesh Pr, 2131, TN beat IM
Stany G.A., 2380, KAR Anil Kumar O.T., 2143,
KER beat Navalgund Niranjan, 2252, TN
Bonu Ravi Kumar, 1664, AP lost to Jayanth
Reddy K, 1330, AP Round 7:Prajesh R, 2128,
TN beat IM Chakravarthi Reddy, 2283, MAH
Rajdeep Sarkar, 2268 lost to Bartakke
Amardeep S., 2145, MAH
Round 8:FM Mitrabha Guha, 2143, WB beat
IM Kulkarni Vikramaditya, 2354, MAH Gusain
Himal, 2343, CHND lost to Hirthickkesh Pr,
2131, TN WCM Saina Salonika, 1830, ODI
lost to Raj Santosh Panda, 1516, Odisha.
Out of 30 unrated players 10 players will get
the rating in the month of April. Two players
Krishnater, Kushager, 1635, Maharashtra and
Sreeshwan, Maralashikari, 1601, Telengana
increased 160, 106 in their rating respectively.
In the valedictory ceremony the Chief guest
was Sj. Sarat Chandra Mishra, IPS (Retd.) Ex
Director General of Police, Govt. of Odisha.
Other dignitaries who graced the occasion on
the last day were Mr. Debashis Mekap, Vice
President, Khordha District Chess Association; Mr. GC Mohapatra, Executive Member,
All Odisha Chess Association & Subhasis
Patnaik, Secretary, Khordha District Chess
Association – cum – Executive Member, All
Odisha Chess Association. The Press and
Media covered the event very well. Without
any dispute the tournament ended successfully.The Chief Arbiter for the Event was FIDE
Arbiter Suresh Chandra Sahoo ably assisted
by FA Arghya Arpan Parida and SNA Bhabesh
Mohanty of Odisha.
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Final Ranking: Rk. Name
1 GM Laxman R.R. 2 IM Himanshu Sharma 3 IM Kulkarni Vikramaditya 4 Ravi Teja S. 5 FM Mitrabha Guha 6 Harikrishnan.A.Ra 7 FM Mishra Soumyaranjan 8 FM Rakesh Kumar Jena 9 Hirthickkesh Pr 10 FM Ramakrishna J. 11 Lakshmi Narayanan Mv 12 Syed Anwar Shazuli 13 Bartakke Amardeep S. 14 Sahoo Utkal Ranjan 15 Adhithya S 16 WGM Kiran Manisha Mohanty 17 Nayak Rajesh 18 WFM Vaishali R 19 Kulkarni Vinayak 20 Gusain Himal 21 Prajesh R 22 Navalgund Niranjan 23 IM Stany G.A. 24 Rajdeep Sarkar 25 Anilkumar O.T. 26 Srinath Rao S.V. 27 Ankan Roy 28 Deepthamsh Reddy. M 29 Mohammad Ashraf 30 Krishnater Kushager 31 IM Chakravarthi Reddy M 32 Harshini A 33 Sa Kannan 34 Baivab Mishra 35 Sunyasakta Satpathy 36 Chakravarthi Y.V.K. 37 Binayak Rath 38 Nayak Biswajit 39 S Maralakshikari 40 Lakshmanrao D. 41 WFM Bidhar Rutumbara 42 Abijit Mistry 43 Mishra Anwesha 44 WFM Lakshmi C 45 Boricha Ketan Club
ICF
RLY
MAH
RLY
WB
TN
ODI
ODI
TN
AB
TN
ICF
MAH
KIIT
TN
LIC
ODI
TN
MAH
CHD
TN
TN
KAR
WB
KER
MAH
WB
AP
KIIT
MAH
TEL
TN
TN
ODI
ODI
AP
ODI
ODI
TEL
AP
ODI
WB
ODI
TN
MAH
Pts.
8
7.5
7
7
7
7
6.5
6.5
6.5
6.5
6.5
6.5
6.5
6.5
6.5
6.5
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
5.5
5.5
5.5
5.5
5.5
5.5
5.5
5.5
5.5
5.5
5.5
5.5
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
59
60
61
62
63
64
65
66
67
68
69
70
71
72
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74
75
76
77
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79
80
81
82
83
84
85
86
87
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89
90
91
92
Panda Sambit Bonu Ravi Kumar Yuti Mayur Patel Vignesh R Sadhu S Adithya Raahul V S Vatsal Singhania Pattnayak Nilsu Smaraki Mohanty Rahul Srivatshav P Sirsat Shekhar V. Gavi Siddayya WCM Salonika Saina Shyamashree Sarkar Harshavardhan G B Akshay V Halagannavar Ghosh Samriddhaa Mishra Srinibas Rath Hrusikesh FM Sankalp Baliarsingh Pranab Kumar Patra Dinesh Sinha Sahoo Ankita Manthan Kashyap Datta Arvind Ramnath Iyer Panda Raj Santosh Bristy Mukherjee Chandrahaas M C J Prasannakumar Nayak Patel Mayur Subhadip Seth Rangarajan Srinivasan Godavarthi Chiranjeevi Aneek Das Sahu Biswajit Mahitosh Dey Anshul Nigam Padhi Jyoti Ranjan Rakshitta Ravi Datta Ramakrishna J Arpan Das (jr) Karmakar Ramen Biswal Gitashree Jishitha D Aryan Mohapatra Rajarshi Dutta Jayanth Reddy K ODI
AP
MAH
TN
TN
TN
JHA
ODI
KIIT
AP
MAH
KAR
KIIT
WB
TN
KAR
WB
ODI
ODI
ODI
ODI
UP
ODI
ASM
KAR
ODI
WB
AP
ODI
MAH
WB
TN
AP
WB
ODI
ODI
JHA
ODI
TN
AP
WB
ODI
ODI
AP
ODI
WB
AP
5.5
5.5
5.5
5.5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
4.5
4.5
4.5
4.5
4.5
4.5
4.5
4.5
4.5
4.5
4.5
4.5
4.5
4
4
93 Jayakumaar S 94 My Aditya 95 Mohapatra Meyank 96 Chatterji Anantyoya 97 Animith Srimani 98 Srimathi R 99 Abhirami Madabushi 100 Sanjib Kumar Mohanta 101 Das Gaurab 102 Kalur Nikhil 103 Sarath Chandra K 104 Dikshant Dash 105 Kriti Mayur Patel 106 Aditya S Hariharan 107 Maheswar Dalnayak 108 Pracheta Agarwal 109 Abhinav C Kodali 110 D S Subrahmanyam 111 Das Devanssh Arav 112 Ramesh Kumar Sonker 113 Pati Sandeep 114 Jayadeba Patel 115 Raivath Mallela 116 Abhinav Ganti 117 Panda Miracle 118 Praneeth R 119 Boricha Yohan 120 Md Imtiaz Alam 121 Hota Sampanna 122 B Chidambaram.C 123WCM Wankhade Sanskruti 124 Manish Kumar (2006) 125 Sahu Aswini Kumar 126 Sahu Bibek Kumar 127 Subhrajyoti Sarkar 128 Pranav Kondapalli 129 Neeraj Anirudh K 130 Samal (2005) Ansuman 131 Siddhartha Sarkar 132 Prasmit Prayansu 133 Bartakke Aditya 134 Swain Gobinda Chandra 135 Abhishek Nayak 136 Mallick Saswat 137 Panda Abhinandan 138 Nayak Suddh Simon 139 Sevitha Viju M AICF CHRONICLE
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AP
ODI
ODI
WB
TN
AP
ODI
ODI
AP
AP
ODI
MAH
TN
ODI
JHA
AP
AP
ODI
UP
ODI
ODI
AP
AP
ODI
AP
MAH
ODI
ODI
TN
MAH
ODI
ODI
ODI
WB
AP
AP
ODI
WB
ODI
MAH
ODI
ODI
ODI
ODI
ODI
AP
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
3.5
3.5
3.5
3.5
3.5
3.5
3.5
3.5
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3rd Chess Specific Open FIDE rated Tournament 2015…
Sahaj Grover wins title
by IA Gopakumar MS, Chief Arbiter
The 3rd Chess Specific Open FIDE Rated
Chess Tournament was conducted by Grandmasters Chess Academy at Major Dhyanchand National Stadium, India Gate, at the
heart of National capital from 25-29 March
2015. A total number of 440 players which includes one Grandmaster, three International
Masters and 348 International rated players
from different parts of India participated in
the event which were spread over five days
with a time control of 90 minutes and 30
seconds increment from move 1. The total
prize fund of the event was Rs. 8,00,000.
In a brief opening ceremony, Shri. Bharat
Singh Chauhan, Chief Executive Officer All India Chess Federation inaugurated the event in
presence of Shri. AK Verma, Hony Secretary
of Delhi Chess Association. The Tournament
was played under Swiss System with nine
rounds and had Grandmaster Sahaj Grover
as the top seed. With Round one starting on
time and the players went into their business
mode from the start itself.
har of Gujarat to tie for the pole position with
eight and half points from possible nine. But
better tie break score helped top seed Grover
to clinch the title along with a cash award
of Rs. 60,000/- while Sangma finished as
first runner and pocketed a cash prize of
Rs. 50,000/- along with coveted trophy and
Rajarishi Karthi of Tamilnadu finished as
second runner-up.In the rating category of
1999-1600, Anurag Jaiswal of West Bengal
secured first prize with Rs. 50,000/- cash
prize while in Below 1599 category, S Jeevanandam of Tamilnadu won the first prize to
pocket same amount as cash prize.Priyanka K
of Tamilnadu adjudged as best female player
while Asish Sehgal of Haryana become best
among unrated players. Avdhoot Lendhe of
Maharashtra, Gukesh D of Tamilnadu and
Garv Rai of Delhi finished best among Under-15, Under-12 and Under-8 age categories
respectively. Nishant Malhotra and Vantika
Agrawal become Best Delhi player and Best
Delhi girl player respectively.
The tournament progressed on expected lines
as seeded players registered comfortable victories on earlier part of the event. Unexpectedly second seed International Master Vishal
Sareen withdrawn from the tournament due
to personal reasons, when he was maintaining a perfect score at the end of fourth round.
Top seed Sahaj Grover and third seed Rahul
Sangma took the joint lead at
At a colourful closing ceremony, Shri. Bharat
Singh, CEO All India Chess Federation gave
away the cash prizes and trophies to the winners along with Shri. AK Verma, Secretary
Delhi Chess Association, Shri. R S Tiwari,
International Arbiter and Shri. G B Joshi,
FIDE Trainer.
the end of sixth round matches and maintained the same till the end. In the final
round, Grover beat K Srikanth of Indian Air
Force while Sangma outwitted Sanjeet Mano8
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Final standings:
Rk Name
1 Grover Sahaj
2 Sangma Rahul
3 Rajarishi Karthi
4 Anurag Jaiswal
Club
DEL
W R
TN
WB
Pts
8½
8½
7½
7½
5
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10
11
12
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14
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20
21
22
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24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
Hemant Sharma (del)
Praveen Kumar C.
Gandhi Anish
Sanjeet Manohar
Negi Virender Singh
Deepak Katiyar
Vinoth Kumar M.
Deepak Rai
Joshi Govind Ballabh
Sumit Grover
Katiyar Prashant
Srikanth K.
Ashutosh Kumar
Ganguly Ritabroto
Mohammed Dilshad
Ramakrishna Perumalla
Kranthi Kumar B.
Phoobalan P.
Vigneshwaran N.
Jeet Jain
Maulik Raval
Kalyan Kumar Y.
Nishant Malhotra
Priyanka K
S. Jeevanandam
Avdhoot Lendhe
Grahesh Y
Kadav Omkar
Anand Nadar
Vakil Akhtara
Singh Arvinder Preet
Arjun Satheesh
Vantika Agrawal
Aishwin Daniel
L Krishna Bhushan D
Ashwani K Grover
R KMishra
A Alpesh Laxmikant
Naveen S Hegde
Sanku Mitra
Trivedi Karan R
Karthik Gopal G
Sanchit Anand
Abhishek Jaiswal
S Mithilesh Kumar
Joy Lazar M.A.
Roop Saurav
DEL
ICF
MAH
GUJ
DEL
DEL
TN
DEL
DEL
J&K
UP
IAF
BIH
WB
KER
TEL
TEL
ICF
TN
GUJ
GUJ
AP
DEL
TN
TN
MAH
AP
MAH
MAH
MAH
PUN
KER
DEL
MP
TEL
PUN
IAF
MAH
KAR
WB
GUJ
AP
DEL
UP
DEL
KER
BIH
7½
7½
7½
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
6½
6½
6½
6½
6½
6½
6½
6½
6½
6½
6½
6½
6½
6½
6½
6½
6½
6½
6½
6½
6½
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
52 Anustoop Biswas
53 Dilip Das
54 Suraj Dahiya
55 Madhusoodanan K.R.
56 Aarudhra Ganesh
57 Ankit Sen
58 Baig Akram
59 Sunil Vaidya
60 Niklesh Kumar Jain
61 Cheniram Pegu
62 Gukesh D
63 Patil Mitali Madhukar
64 Pimpalkhare Vedant
65 Sachin Malik
66 Pranav V
67 Mayank Soni
68 Sarbojit Paul
69 Diwan Rajesh
70 Om Batra
71 Doshi Moksh Amitbhai
72 Bala Subramaniyan R
73 Om Kharola
74 Dave Kantilal
75 Dhruv Kakkar
76 Surya Dhanush G
77 Anshul Kaushik
78 Banjan Priyadarshan
79 Nicolas John
80 Aditya Guhagarkar
81 Rajeev Kumar
82 Sahil Dhawan
83 Amit Panchal
84 Gupta Rajesh R.S.
85 Verma H.S.
86 Aditya Mittal
87 Subba Raju S.
88 Gajwa Ankit
89 Joshi Abhijeet
90 Saket Kumar
91 Shrutarshi Ray
92 Ayush Bhai Mehta
93 Sharma Varun
94 Ramana Babu B.
95 Vikrant Jaglan
96 Vijaya Kumar A.V.S.
97 Aansh Gupta
98 Prasath K R
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WB 6
WB 6
HAR 6
KER 6
TN 6
UP
6
DEL 6
MAH 6
MP 6
ASM 6
TN 6
MAH 6
MAH 6
DEL 6
TN 6
DEL 6
WB 6
ofspb 6
DEL 6
GUJ 6
TN 6
DEL 6
RAJ 6
HAR 6
AP
6
HAR 6
MAH 6
MAH 6
MAH 6
PUN 6
HAR 6
MAH 6
MAH 6
DEL 6
MAH 6
TEL 6
MP 5½
MAH 5½
KAR 5½
WB 5½
MP 5½
MP 5½
AP
5½
HAR 5½
AP
5½
DEL 5½
TN 5½
9
99 Mayur Patel
GUJ
100Vardan Nagpal
DEL
101Isha Sharma
KAR
102Deshmukh Nachiket
MAH
103Rajeev V.M.
KER
104Rajesh Kumar Nath
HP
105Gajengi Rajababu
MAH
106Arnav Tiwari
DEL
107Pathak Anshu Kr
UP
108Mendonca Leon Luke
GOA
109Sathyanarayanan S.
TN
110Rishabh Jain
DEL
111Rawal Shailesh
GUJ
112Patel Vivek
GUJ
113Vishesh Agrawal
DEL
114Shijil K
KER
115Mishra Uttam
CHT
116AryanDEL
117Prithu Gupta
DEL
118Ashish Sehgal
HAR
119Gaur H C
IAF
120Srihari N.
DEL
121D Vrushali Umesh
MAH
122Dony K V
IAF
123Sana Gupta
DEL
124Makhija Aashna
MAH
125Vidya Sagar J.B.M.
AP
126Aditya Mittal
HAR
127Shanya Mishra
DEL
128Herschelle Gupta
DEL
129Panesar Vedant
MAH
130Wanjari Rajendra
MAH
131Shah Rishab
MAH
132Dheekshith Kumar R
TN
133Chakravarthi S.V.C.
TEL
134M Tulasi Ram Kumar
TEL
135Kaushal N Panchal
GUJ
136Shivam Verma
BIH
137Vaibhav Aggarwal
HAR
138Alok Sinha
DEL
139Vesave Govardhan
MAH
140Pujjam Bansod
MAH
141Bhanot Stuti
HAR
142Rathi Dhanashree
MAH
143Likhit Chilukuri
KAR
144Raunak Mondal
WB
145Acharya Abhijit
GUJ
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5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
146Shankarasubbu B
147Sasanka Shandilya
148Arvind Kumar Mishra
149Raees Ahmed A Q
150Ravindra Raju
151Karthik Kumar Pradeep
152Kaur Palkin
153Sudhir Kumar
154Yashashwat Srivastava
155Thaker Kautilya P
156Goswami Kaushalgiri
157Ashok B
158Umer S.M
159Krithigga K
160Abhay Bandewar
161Prasanta Mondal
162Dinesh Kumar Gupta
163Vikee Vishal
164Arun R
165Shourya Jain
166Manya Bagla
167Ayush Srivastava
168Dhiraj Patil
169Shah Mihir
170Tayyeb Asif Md
171Rohan Nag Chowdhury
172Akhilesh K. Srivastava
173Girkar Nilesh
174Garv Rai
175Aan Sikka
176Pasricha Jayan
177Shatrughan Kaushik
178Pulkit Jain
179Sivasankar Sudha Sathyan
180Raval Dipak
181Sarvadh Sathiaram
182Stephen Raj A
183Arnab Kumar Mullick
184Hiren K G
185Padma Gogoi
186Dhande Girish
187Shashwat Dubey
188Bidyut Kr. Mondal
189Achleshwar Singh
190Vikram Vishwajeet
191Tarun Kanyamarala
192Kushagra Gupta
TN
5
ASM 5
UP
5
MAH 5
AP
5
AP
5
DEL 5
HAR 5
DEL 5
GUJ 5
GUJ 5
AP
5
MP
5
TN
5
MP
5
WB 5
DEL 5
BIH 5
TN
5
MAH 5
DEL 5
UP
5
MAH 5
GUJ 5
ofspb 5
WB 5
DEL 5
MAH 5
DEL 5
DEL 5
PUN 5
UP
5
UP
5
KER 5
GUJ 5
TN
5
TN 5
DEL 5
TN 5
ASM 5
MAH 5
UP
5
WB 5
HAR 5
UP
5
TEL 4½
DEL 4½
210Meet Puri
211Sapre Shreyas
212Shahil Dey
213Rajesh Rajput
214Manas Rajawat
215Nitheesh Pothireddy
216Pukhraj Singh
217Ishaan Singh M
218Saurabh Mathur
219Gursimar Singh Arneja
220Atul Bihari Sharan
221Bhagyashree Patil
222Ruthwik K.V.S.
223Kalyani B
224Nivedan Bhardwaj
225Ali Khan Aamir Gulrez
226Vineet Pandey
227Sulekh Kumar Malik
228Pradeep Nautiyal
229Raman Sharma
230Pandi Durai P
231Bhavyay Gupta
232Dhyana Patel
233Pankaj Sindhu
234Karra Abhinav
235Trisha Kanyamarala
236Ritvik Gupta
237Mahi Rajawat
238KM K Ramanatha
239Prathivya Gupta
240Ganesh Kumar
241Deepanshu Khemka
242Sushrutha Reddy
243Sareen Vishal
244Manush Shah
245Falgun D Purohit
246Uttam Prakash Sharma
247Ameen Mohammad
248Debanga Kalita
249Soham Kamotra
250Makwana Jaydev Sinh
251Anil Shivpuri
252Archi Agrawal
253Mehak Jain
254Munna Das Bairagi
255Giri Abhishek
256Chandan Palash N
MAH
MAH
ASM
GUJ
DEL
AP
PUN
CHD
UP
DEL
JHA
MAH
DEL
AP
CHD
UP
MP
HAR
UTT
HAR
TN
DEL
GUJ
HAR
MAH
TEL
DEL
DEL
AP
DEL
HP
DEL
KAR
DEL
GUJ
GUJ
HAR
MAH
ASM
J&K
DEL
DEL
DEL
DEL
MP
MAH
MAH
4½
4½
4½
4½
4½
4½
4½
4½
4½
4½
4½
4½
4½
4½
4½
4½
4½
4½
4½
4½
4½
4½
4½
4½
4½
4½
4½
4½
4½
4½
4½
4½
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
257Kranti Kumar Gupta
258Priyadarshi Alok
259Rajagopalan
260Aaryan Varshney
261Manuj Mittal
262Aanya Agarwal
263Harshe Arvind
264Ruhaan Mahindru
265Ketan Kaushik
266Dr Prabhat Kumar
267Aaryansh Bhartiya
268Devang Singla
269Kaamyaa Negi
UP
BIH
DEL
DEL
RAJ
DEL
MP
MAH
UP
BIH
DEL
PUN
DEL
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
Puzzle of the month
by C.G.S.Narayanan
In the diagram below both white and black
retract their last move and after that black
plays a helpful move so that white mates
next. To give a clue white has just moved to
h5 capturing a black piece. Before that the
just captured black piece has captured a
white piece on h5. Find the pieces captured
by white and black and then the helpful
black move leading to white mate.
Dr.Julio Sunyer
The Chess Amateur 1923
White and black retract their last move.
Then Helpmate in one!
(solution on page 48)
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1st ADRA FIDE Open International Rating Chess Tournament, Purulia, West Bengal
Joydeep Dutta is champion
by Debasish Barua IA, Chief Arbiter
The 1st ADRA FIDE Open International Rating Chess Tournament was organized at Railway Officers’ Club, Adra, Purulia, (W.B.) from 26th to 30th March 2015 successfully by the
Rly.Authorities with 88 players out of which 54 fide rated players along with GM Sriram
Jha and IM Sayantan Das played in this tournament.The top seed was IM Sayantan Das
with ELO 2433 and the second Seed was GM Sriram Jha with ELO 2409. In the inauguration ceremony DRM Mr. Anshul Gupta, S.E .Rly, declared the Chess Tournament open by
making first move on the chess board, IM Atanu Lahiri, Secretary, BCA,Shri V.P. Saraf,
ADRM/S.E.Rly/ADRA and Shri.S.P. Chandrikapure, Org. Secy. & Sr. DEN(Co)/Adra and other
distinguished personalities were present on the dais .
The tournament took place in a remote place named ADRA in Purulia district of West Bengal. The organizers were disappointed due to less number of entries though the organizers
have taken adequate initiatives for wide publicity. All amenities for players, parents and
guardians were very effective and free accommodation to all participants near the venue
was provided. The tournament hall was air-conditioned and very spacious with sufficient
toilet facilities .All players felt comfortable to play in such pleasant environment. The Railway Officers' Club is a beautiful garden area with green meadows and colourful flowering
plants.The organizers have arranged to serve tea and aqua water to all participants in the
tournament Hall. They also provided refreshments, lunch and dinner at nominal cost to all
the participants and guardians.
No dispute or arguments arose during the tournament. AICF and FIDE guide lines were strictly
followed in the tournament hall. It may be mentioned here that no complaint was placed
before the Appeals’ Committee. Strict silence was maintained during the tournament. The
tournament was played in an eight round swiss league format. At the end of the final round
FM Joydeep Dutta of Railways became the Champion with 6.5 points with better tie break
and bagged Rs. 50000/-and a big KING Trophy. GM Sriram Jha of LIC and Santu Mondal of
Income Tax secured second and third places and richer by Rs. 30000/ and trophy and Rs.
20000/-and trophy respectively. In the final round Sriram Jha drew with Santu Mondal and
Arindam Mukherjee lost to Joydeep Dutta.A total of Rupees four lakhs together with forty
glittering trophies were distributed among prize winners including the age group players.
In the prize distribution ceremony Shri Radhey Shyam, GM, S.E. Rly as Chief Guest, IM
Atanu Lahiri, Secretary, BCA, Sri Tanmoy Chakraborty, D.M. Purulia, Shri Rupesh Kumar,
S.P., Purulia, Shri Manoj Pandey, CPO, SE Rly., and Shri Anshul Gupta, DRM, SE Rly/Adra
were present.Total prize money of Rs. 4,00,000/- distributed amongst the Prize Winners.
The Railway authorities have shown their eagerness to conduct the second edition of this
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tournament well in advance with more prize
money and amenities to participants.
Final ranking
Rk
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
FM
GM
IM
Name
Pts
Dutta Joydeep
6½
Sriram Jha
6½
Santu Mondal
6
Chattarjee Laltu
6
Abhishek Das
6
Pradip Ghosh
6
Bhattacharya N Shekhar 6
Cheela Naga Sampath
6
Nath Rupankar
6
Arindam Mukherjee
5½
Das Sayantan
5½
Biswajit Chatterjee
5½
Verma Sanjay
5½
Basu Suman
5½
Ambarish Sharma
5½
Saptorshi Gupta
5½
Rao K. Damodar
5½
Kaustuv Kundu
5
Srinivasa Rao G.V.
5
Pranay Rajak
5
Raja Bose
5
Sambarta Banerjee
5
Tapan Kumar Dey
5
Maheshwar P
5
Abhijit Bhattacharjee
5
Sounak De (1)
4½
Umesh S Lalwani
4½
Venkatesh H
4½
Rounak Pathak
4½
Satyanarayan U
4½
Prasada Rao G
4½
Hrishikesan Sundararajan4½
Sanjib Chatterjee
4½
Nihar Ranjan Banerjee 4½
Pallab Bala
4
Sunil Kumar Ray
4
Swarnava Biswas
4
Shuvam Roy
4
Babu Rao
4
Pranav Ram Hariharan 4
Rajendra Pr. Nag
4
Jayesh Khatri
4
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
59
60
61
62
63
64
65
66
67
68
69
70
71
72
73
74
75
76
77
78
79
80
81
82
83
84
85
86
87
88
Adrian Sajjan
4
Krishna Prasad
4
Surya Prakash Murugesan4
CH. Narayana Rao
4
Netai Sinha
4
Priya Ranjan Das
4
Udhaya Chandran Bharath4
Manoj Kumar Sharma
4
Manash Bala
4
Hiran Banerjee
4
Sandip Debnath
3½
Prasad Kaustav
3½
Prodip Biswas
3½
Atreya Nandy
3½
Debanjan Ghosh
3½
Rajnikant Pandey
3½
Md. Shabbir Ali
3½
Rishi Kumar Gupta
3½
Shaswata Paul
3½
Samir Sarkar
3
Anup Kumar Ghosh
3
Ajay Kumar Chaudhuri
3
Rahul Sharma
3
Mithu Pandey
3
Prem Kumar
3
Chinmoy Kumar Majhi
3
Vipul Kumar
3
P. Dharan
3
Anuj Kumar Paswan
2½
Meghali Kumari
2½
Sajal Basu Roy
2½
Siddhartha Dhibar
2½
Soumil Banerjee
2½
Chandra Kishore Majhi 2
Kalyan Dutta
2
Deepankar Roy
2
Subhasish Dey
2
Kushagra Gautam
1½
Nawal Kishore Singh
1½
Sunkara Ramesh
1
Ch. Dolly Sailaja
½
Akhilesh Kumar Mehta 0
N. K. Singh
0
Rajapu Srinivas
0
Swapnaneel Gorai
0
V. K. Sharma
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15th Jharkand Senior State FIDE Rating Chess Championship 2015,Ranchi
Pritam Singh is Champion
Nihar Ranjan Sasmal IA ,Chief Arbiter
Aditya Birla Memorial 15th Jharkhand Senior State Fide Rating Chess Championship-2015 was inaugurated by Chief Guest
Mr. Amar Bauri, Sports Minister,Ranchi, on
21st Mar’2015 at Sarala Birla Public School,
Mahilong, Ranchi in the presence of Mr. Pradip Varma, President All Jharkhand Chess
Association, Mr.Pritam Singh, Sect AJCA &
Mr. Manish Kumar, Sect, RDCA along with
other dignitaries.
This wonderful state rating event was
successfully organized by Ranchi District
Chess Association under the supervision
of Mr.Manish Kumar, Sect, Ranchi District
Chess Association for the third Consecutive time under the aegis of All Jharkhand
Chess Association & under the AICF event
code 109680/JHAR/2015 & was recognized
by AICF and FIDE.
A record no of 143 participants (from 10
districts) had taken part in this event from
different parts of the state. A total of 9
rounds Swiss system league was played
with a time control of 60 min. with 30 sec
increment. A total no of 61 rated players
were there with a record nos of 45 new Fide
id has created in this tournament.
Top seed of the tournament was Swaraj
Palit-2032, followed by Pritam Singh-2026(8
times state champion), Rajesh Kumar-2005
etc. Total Cash Prizes was Rs.51,000/- with
a 1ST prize of Rs.10,000/- +Champions
trophy followed by runners up of Rs.8000/,Rs.5000/- etc.
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ished with 9th ranked where as 2nd seed
veteran player Pritam Singh clinched the
top honor and became the Champion of
15th Jharkhand State Chess Champion for
the 3rd consecutive times(a total 9 times)
at the same venue and was awarded Cash
Prize of Rs.10,000/- along with Champions
Trophy. In the PD ceremony, he dedicated
his Champions trophy to the President of
AJCA Mr. Pradip Varma. He scored 8 points
out of a possible 9 points. He along with Priyanka kumari, Alka Das & Saurabh Mandal
were qualified for the forthcoming National
Challengers chess to be held at UP from
2nd-12th August’2015. This tournament
was a selection for both National Challengers, Women & U-25 categories.
In the closing ceremony the Chief guest was
Mrs. Poonam Singh, Principal Sarala Birla
Public School,Mahilong,Ranchi, Mr. Pradip
Varma, President All Jharkhand Chess Association, Mr. Pritam Singh, Sect AJCA along
with Mr. Manish Kumar, RDCA & Mr.Nihar
Ranjan Sasmal(IA) Chief Arbiter.
I express my heartiest thanks to the organizing body i.e. Ranchi District Chess
Association and AJCA for giving me an opportunity to undertake the responsibility as
Chief Arbiter.The Press and Media covered
the event well and we had considerably
very good support from the parents and
guardians of participants too.This event
has added to the new mileage of Jharkhand
state as one of the fast developing Chess
states in eastern India after Odisha and
West Bengal.
Final Ranking:
Rk.
Name
1
Singh Pritam 2
Priyanka Kumari 3
Alka Das 4
Saurabh Mandal 5
Manideep Mukhi 6
Sudhakar Prem Dutt 7
Shashi Kant 8
Anshul Nigam 9
Swaraj Palit 10
Pracheta Agarwal 11
Saikat Dutta 12
Manish Sharma 13
Umesh Saw 14
Kumar Sanu 15
Kumari Rama 16
Vatsal Singhania 17
Rajesh Kumar 18
Kamal Kishore Debnath 19
Sandil Nirmal Chandra 20
Basant Khandelwal 21
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Rohit Verma Raj Kumar Soni Rupesh Kumar Shaswata Paul Raish Imam Kumar Rishabh Raj Kushanand Singh Bhavesh Kumar Gupta Mukherjee Archit Sagar Aryan Sachin Kumar Ashish Kumar Mayank Sekhar Tiwari Apurba Chakraborty Nitin Om Narayan Bhuyan Anand Kumar Kumar Prashant
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Selected games from Chennai Open
2015
Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron
Nguyen,Duc Hoa (VIE) (2507) Harikrishnan A Ra (2124) [E09]
1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.g3 Be7 5.Bg2
0–0 6.0–0 c6 7.Qc2 Nbd7 8.Nbd2 b6 9.e4
dxe4 10.Nxe4 Nxe4 11.Qxe4 Bb7 12.Rd1
Qc7 13.Bf4 Bd6 14.Bxd6 Qxd6 15.Ne5
Nf6 16.Qf3 [16.Qc2 has been met here.] 16...
Rac8 17.c5! bxc5 18.Nc4! Qe7 [If 18...Qd5?
19.Qb3! Qd7 20.dxc5± with a huge advantage
for white.] 19.Qa3! ensures that he re-captures
the pawn on c5 with a big advantage. 19...Nd5
20.dxc5 Ba8 21.Nd6 Rb8 22.Rd4 Rfd8 [If
22...Qf6 23.Rd2 a6 24.Qxa6 (24.Rad1 Bb7
25.Qa5±) 24...Rxb2 25.Ne4 Qe5 26.f4 Qb8
27.Qe2 Rxd2 28.Qxd2²] 23.Re1 Qf6 24.Red1
Rd7 25.R1d2 h6 26.Ra4 Qe7 27.Re2 Rc7
28.Bh3
Threatening a sacrifice on f7. 28...Rf8 [The
threat of Nxf7 was real because if now: 28...
Rd7 29.Nxf7 Kxf7 30.Bxe6+ Qxe6 31.Rxe6
Kxe6 32.Rxa7+-] 29.Bg2 Rd8 30.h4 Rdd7
31.Bh3 Qd8 32.Qb3 [32.f4!± would tighten
white's grip over the black forces, but many
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experienced players would instinctively avoid
such a move that 'weakens' his own castled
position.] 32...Qf8 33.Bg2 Black has to wait
and watch while white jockeys his forces to
make the final attack. Now white has a change
of plan. He plans to bring this bishop to c2
and his queen to d3 to make a deadly battery
against h7. Black cannot easily guess where
the blow is going to land. 33...Rd8 34.Be4
Nf6 35.Qa3 Qe7 [If 35...Nxe4 36.Rexe4
because the white knight is occupying the
key square while the black bishop is just an
insignificant piece of wood in the corner of the
board.] 36.Bc2 h5 37.Rf4 Rf8
38.Qd3 Threatens 39 Rxf3! and 40 Qh7#
and provokes black's reply which weakens his
position decisively. 38...g6 [If 38...Rd8 Making way for the king to flee from the threatened Qxh7# then comes further agony with:
39.Re5! Rcd7 40.Rg5 e5 41.Rff5 (41.Rxf6
Qxf6 42.Qh7+ Kf8 43.Qh8+ Ke7 44.Nc8+
Rxc8 45.Qxc8 Bb7 46.Qb8+-) ] 39.Re5 Nd5
40.Rd4 Nf6 41.Rg5 Rb8 42.Nxf7!! (See
diagram)[42.Nxf7 Qxf7 43.Rxg6+ Kh8 (43...
Kf8 44.Rf4!) 44.Rd8+ Rxd8 45.Qxd8+ Ne8
46.Qg5 threatening 47 Rh6 mating.] 1–0
(Position after 42.Nxf7)
Ramnath,Bhuvanesh R (2405)
K.Praneeth Surya (2212) [B20]
1.e4 c5 2.b3 d6 3.Bb2 Nf6 4.Bb5+ Bd7
5.Bxd7+ Nbxd7 6.d3 g6 7.f4 Bg7 8.Nf3
0–0 9.a4?! [There was no need to forestall
...b5. 9.0–0 is more usual here.] 9...e5 [Better was: 9...d5 10.e5 Nh5 11.Qd2 Bh6 12.g3
Ng7= black has absolutely no problems.]
10.fxe5 Ng4 11.Nc3 Qa5 12.Qd2 Bh6?!
[This is tempting, playing along the weak
dark squares of white. Better was: 12...Ndxe5
13.0–0 Nxf3+ 14.Rxf3 f5 15.Raf1 d5! 16.exf5
(16.exd5 Rae8³ with advantage to black as
the white rooks are doubled along the f-file
where nothing is about to happen and the
knight is pinned along two diagonals.) 16...
d4 17.Ne4 Qxd2 18.Nxd2 Ne3 19.fxg6! (19.
Rc1 Rxf5) 19...Nxf1 20.gxh7+ Kxh7 21.Kxf1=
White has two pawns for the sacrificed exchange.] 13.Qe2 Ne3 14.h4?! [It is difficult
to comprehend this move. Probably he wants
to play Ng5 and threaten black's Ne3. But he
never gets to it. Better was to take the second
pawn with: 14.exd6! f5 15.Kf2! c4 16.Nd1±
Ng4+ 17.Kg1 cxb3 18.cxb3 Qb6+ 19.Kf1
Qxb3 20.e5 Rae8 21.d4± The moral we draw
from this is that when we cannot fathom the
correctness or otherwise of your opponent's
sacrifice, accept it and put the onus of proving
it right on your opponent.] 14...d5! 15.exd5
Rae8! With the white king caught in the centre, black is playing imaginatively and is on
the verge of seizing the initiative. 16.Kf2!
Ng4+ [If 16...Nxe5 17.Nxe5 Rxe5 18.Ne4!
Rf5+ 19.Kg1 Nxd5 The fight now revolves
around the control of the key f6 square. 20.c4!
Nf4 (20...Be3+ 21.Kh2 Qd8 (Or 21...Bf4+
22.g3 Be5 23.cxd5+-) 22.g3 wins.) 21.Qe3!
Qd8 22.Rd1±] 17.Kg1 Be3+? [Black gets
a clear advantage with 17...Ndxe5 18.Nxe5
Be3+ 19.Kf1 Rxe5 20.Qxg4 Bd4 21.Rh3 Bxc3
22.Bxc3 Qxc3 23.Rc1 Rfe8] 18.Kf1 h5? [Once
again black misses to reap the benefits of
his previous active play! With this one move,
black slips from a good game to a lost game.
And it is the same move: 18...Ndxe5 19.Nxe5
Rxe5 20.Qxg4 Bd4³ as in the commentary to
black's 17th move.] 19.Ne4!+- Bd4?
[This completely overlooks white's brilliant
reply. Best was: 19...Bf4 20.Nd6 Ndxe5
21.Nxe8 Rxe8 22.Rh3 though black would still
lose.] 20.b4!! Qd8 [Black sees too late that
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if 20...Qxb4 21.c3! the black bishop is lost.]
21.Nxd4 cxd4 22.Bxd4 Ndxe5 [22...Ngxe5
23.Re1 b6 24.Rh3+-] 23.Bc5 f5! The only
move to keep the attack going. 24.Ng5 Nf7?!
[Best here was to mix aggression with caution: 24...Qxd5! 25.Re1 Rf6 26.d4 b6 27.Qb5
Rc6 28.Bxb6 Qxb5+ 29.axb5 Rxb6=] 25.Qf3
[Stronger was: 25.Qd2 Nxg5 26.Bxf8 Kxf8
27.hxg5 (27.Qxg5 Qb6 28.Qf4 Ne3+ 29.Kg1
Nxc2+ 30.Kh2 Nxa1 31.Rxa1 and white stands
better with his extra pawn.) 27...Qxd5 28.Re1
Rxe1+ 29.Qxe1 Qd4 30.Rh3 Qf4+ 31.Ke2±
though white has the problem of bringing his
rook into the game and warding off the perpetual check threats from the black queen.]
25...Nxg5 26.hxg5 Rf7 27.Re1 Rxe1+
28.Kxe1
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28...Ne5 [At a first glance 28...b6 29.Bd4
Qe7+ appears to be very good for black, but
30.Kd2! (30.Kd1 Qxb4µ) 30...Qxb4+ 31.Bc3
Qxa4 32.Re1! While the white king is safe in
the centre, the black king is vulnerable on the
king-side with the white bishop's action along
the long black diagonal is damaging. 32...
Qd7 33.Re6! Kh7 34.Qe2! Qxd5 35.Re8+-]
29.Qe3 Qxd5 30.Rh4! Once this rook comes
to life, black's game is over. 30...Nc6 31.b5
f4 32.Rxf4 Rxf4 33.Qxf4 Qxc5 34.bxc6
Qxc6 35.Qe4 Qxc2 [If 35...Qxe4+ 36.dxe4
and white easily wins the pawn ending.]
36.Qxg6+ Kf8 37.Qf6+
1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.Nd2 dxe4 4.Nxe4 Bf5
5.Ng3 Bg6 6.h4 h6 7.Nf3 e6 8.h5 Bh7 9.Bd3
Bxd3 10.Qxd3 Nf6 11.Bd2 Be7 12.0–0–0
0–0 13.Kb1 c5 14.Be3 cxd4 [14...Nbd7 in
this position is logical but the GM obviously
wants to take his opponent out of the book.]
15.Nxd4 Nbd7= 16.Ne4 Qa5= 17.g4?!
Ne5! [17...Nxg4 18.Nb3 Qd5 19.Qxd5 exd5
20.Rxd5 Ndf6=] 18.Nxf6+ Bxf6 19.Qe2
Rfc8 20.Nb3 [white should have continued
aggressively with: 20.g5! hxg5 21.h6 Nc4
22.c3 Qe5 23.Qf3²] 20...Qa4 21.Bd4 Qc4=
This rules out any complications favourable
for white. 22.Qxc4 Rxc4
37...Kg8 [If 37...Ke8 38.g6 Qc1+ 39.Ke2
Qc2+ 40.Ke3 Qc1+ 41.Ke4 Qe1+ 42.Kf5+-]
38.g6! Now that white is threatening mate in
two with 39 Qf7+ Kh8 40 Qh7# black's defensive resources are vastly reduced. 38...Qb3
39.d4 b6 40.Kf2 a6 41.Kg1 b5 42.axb5
axb5 43.Kh2 Now that the white king is
safely tucked away from checks on h2, white
is ready for the winning procedure. 43...Qd5
44.Qe7! [44.Qe7 b4 45.Qh7+ Kf8 46.g7+
wins.] 1–0
Kathmale,Sameer (2267)
Mozharov,Mikhail (2557) [B19]
23.Na5?! [This plays into black's hands.
Better was 23.Bxe5 Bxe5 24.Rhe1 Bc7 25.f3
Rd8 26.Rxd8+ Bxd8 27.Rd1 Bb6 28.Rd7
Rf4 29.Rxb7 f5 30.gxf5 Rxf3=] 23...Ra4
24.Nxb7 Nxg4 25.Bxf6 Nxf6³ Material is
level. But white's two separated pawns on the
king-side offer black chances of victory. 26.b3
Rf4 27.Nd6 [White reconciles to the loss of a
pawn. If 27.Rh2 Rb8 28.Nc5 Rc8 29.Nd3
Rf5 30.Rdh1 Kf8 Black has the advantage
as the two white rooks are tied to the defence
of his h5 pawn while the black forces regroup
and attack at leisure.] 27...Rxf2 28.c4 Kf8
29.Rhf1 Rh2 30.c5 With the game going
downhill rapidly, white pins his hope on his
pased c-pawn. 30...Ke7 (See Diagram)
[Black plays cautiously. The h5 pawn was not
poisoned: 30...Rxh5 31.Rc1 Rd5 32.b4 h5
33.Kc2 Ke7 34.Rf3 a5 and it is a simple win for
black.] 31.c6 Nd5! 32.Nf5+ Kf8!µ 33.Rxd5
The threasts of ...Nc3+ and ...Rc8 threatening
his c6 pawn have forced white to give up the
exchange. 33...exd5 34.c7 Rc8 35.Rc1 Ke8!
36.Nd6+ Kd7 37.Nxc8 Kxc8 38.Rf1 Rxh5!
39.Rxf7 g5 [39...Rg5 for 40...h5 was stronger.] 40.Rf5 Rh1+ 41.Kc2 Kxc7 42.Rxd5
Rh2+ 43.Kc3[No decent chess player would
play the passive43.Kb1? ]43...Rxa2 44.Rf5
g4 45.Rf7+
[45.Rh5 Ra6 to be followed by ...Rg6 and
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advancing the g-pawn.] 45...Kd6! Black
plans the sacrifice of his h-pawn to rapidly
advance his g-pawn. In such endings, it does
not matter who has more pawns, it matters
who queens first. 46.Rf6+ Ke5 47.Rxh6 g3
48.Rg6 Kf4 49.b4 g2 50.Kb3 Re2 51.Kc4
Kf3 52.Kb5 Kf2 53.Rf6+ Ke1 54.Rg6 Kf1
55.Ka6 Ra2+ 56.Kb7 g1Q 0–1
Karthikeyan,P (2400)
Sa Kannan (1932) [A90]
1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.Nc3 c6 5.g3
Ne4 6.Bg2 f5 7.0–0 Bd6 8.Qc2 0–0 9.Ne5
Nd7 10.Nd3 Qf6 11.e3 [A 2003 game
S.Shaidulina vs S.Strutinska went: 11.f3 dxc4
12.Nf4 Nxc3 13.Qxc3 c5 and black won eventually.] 11...g5 12.f3 Nxc3 13.Qxc3 Qg7
[Better was: 13...dxc4 14.Qxc4 Nb6 15.Qb3
f4 16.exf4 Qxd4+ 17.Kh1 gxf4 18.Bxf4 Bxf4
19.Nxf4 Qc4 20.Qa3 with a slight advantage for white.] 14.Bd2 h5 [Again 14...
dxc4 15.Qxc4 Nb6 16.Qb3 f4=] 15.e4 dxc4
16.Qxc4 Nb6 17.Qc2 Qxd4+ 18.Kh1 Qg7
19.Bc3
19...Qg6 [It was best to place the queen on
the h-file where the white king is situated:
19...Qh6 20.Ne5 h4 21.gxh4 Qxh4 22.f4 with
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equal chances.] 20.Ne5 Bxe5 21.Bxe5 Bd7
With the disappearance of the dark square
bishops from the board, the chances have
tilted in favour of white as the black king
has no pawn cover. 22.a4 Be8 23.a5 Nd7
24.Bd6 Rf7 (See diagram)
25.a6! creating weak pawns for black on the
queen-side. 25...Nf6 26.axb7 Rxb7 27.Bc5
Rf7 [If 27...fxe4 28.fxe4 e5 (28...Nd7 29.Bd6)
29.Rf5 and white is nearly winning. Black's
problem is his ineffective light-square bishop.
It should be on g6.] 28.Qc4 Nd7 29.Bd4
Nf8 30.Rfe1 Kh7 31.Bc3 Qg8 [If 31...Bd7
32.Qd4 Qg8 33.Rxa7±] 32.Ra5 Rd8 33.Re5
h4 [Better, but still losing was: 33...f4 34.gxf4
Rxf4 35.Qc5 Kh6 36.Qe7 Rb8 37.Bd2+-]
34.exf5 hxg3 35.fxe6 Rf4
36.e7! Qxc4 37.exd8Q Rh4 [If 37...Bg6
38.Rxg5 gxh2 39.Re7+ Kh6 40.Bg7+ Kxg5
41.Re5# It is a mate by double check!]
38.Qxe8 Very cool! 38...Rxh2+ 39.Kg1
Ng6 40.Rxg5 Still, black cannot give a check
from c5. 1–0
Mehar,Chinna Reddy C.H (2281)
David,Alberto (Ita) (2578) [B40]
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.b3 b6 4.Bb2 Bb7
5.Qe2 Nc6 6.Nc3 [A 2006 game between
P.Vavra 2311 and N.Vyskocil 2307 went:
6.c3 d5 7.exd5 Qxd5 8.Na3 Nf6 9.0–0–0 Be7
and eventually black won.] 6...a6 7.0–0–0
Nd4 8.Qe3 Nxf3 9.gxf3 Nf6 10.Rg1 b5
11.Kb1 Qc7 12.f4 c4 [An exciting variation
is: 12...b4 13.e5 bxc3 14.exf6 g5 15.dxc3
Qxf4 16.Rxg5 Qxh2 17.Rxc5!] 13.bxc4 bxc4
14.f5 Bc5 Adventurous, as he lives dangerously in the following moves, offering his g7
pawn, etc. 15.d4! [Good, but not so strong
was: 15.Qe2 Qxh2 16.Rxg7 Rb8] 15...cxd3
16.Qxd3 Rb8!?
always better than a passive defence. Best
was to carry the attack to black with: 18.Rxg7
Qxh2 19.fxe6 fxe6 20.Nd5 exd5 21.Bxf6 Qxf2
22.e5±] 18...Qe5 19.Nb5 [19.Rxg7=] 19...
Qxh2 (See diagram)
17.Ka1 [17.Rxg7 Qxh2 18.fxe6 dxe6 19.Qc4
Be7 (or 19...Rc8 20.Qa4+ Ke7 (20...Kf8
21.Rg2 Qb8 22.Bxa6²) 21.e5! Qxe5 22.Nd5+
Qxd5 23.Rxd5 Nxd5+-) 20.Rg2 Qf4 21.Ka1=]
17...Bc6 18.Rb1 [An aggressive defence is
25...0–0! Probably white forgot that black
still has the right to castle!! Now, black wins
because of being exchange up. 26.Qd3
[After 26.Qd3 Qf2! (threat: 27...Bxe4! 28
Qxe4 Qxf1+ winning.) 27.Bd4 (27.Be2 Bxe4
20.Rxg7 White was forced into capturing
this pawn. But this move is now too late.
20...Bxb5 21.c4 Bc6 [If 21...Qh6 22.Qg3
d6 23.cxb5 Nxe4 24.Qg2 e5 and the game
is almost equal.] 22.Bxf6 Rxb1+ 23.Qxb1
Bd6! 24.Rg3? [This loses quickly. Better was:
24.c5 Bc7=] 24...Bxg3 25.fxg3
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28.Qxe4 Qe1+ 29.Kb2 Rb8+ 30.Kc2 Qb1+!) 27...
Qe1+ 28.Qb1 Qxb1+ 29.Kxb1 Bxe4+] 0–1
Selected games from National
Team Chess, Goa
Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron
Sharma,Dinesh (LIC) (2391)
Vidit,Gujrathi (PSPB) (2617)
1.Nf3 Nf6 2.c4 c5 3.Nc3 Nc6 4.e4 e6
5.Be2 Qb6 6.d3 Bd6 [A strange move which
would give white many options to seize the
initiative. Seen so far has been: 6...Be7 7.0–0
0–0 8.Rb1 Rd8 9.Bg5 happened in P.Gelazonai
2321 vs P.Kalagashvili 2237 in 2001 which
black eventually won.] 7.0–0 0–0 8.a3 [8.b3
releasing the Bc1 for action elsewhere was
better.] 8...Ng4 9.h3 [This is run of the mill.
For a queer move like 6...Bd6, white must did
deep to find the refutation. A good alternative
here is: 9.b4 cxb4 10.Nb5 Bb8 11.h3 Nge5
12.Be3 Nxf3+ 13.Bxf3 Qd8 14.axb4 white has
the advantage, for if now 14...Nxb4 15.Bc5
wins the exchange.] 9...Nge5 10.Na4 Nxf3+
11.Bxf3 Qc7= With the white knight perched
on a4, black has a very slight pull in this position. 12.g3 b6 13.Bg2 Be5 14.Rb1 Rb8
15.Bd2 Bd4 16.Kh1 b5! 17.Nc3
17...bxc4! The strategic idea behind this apparently simplifying move is to bring pressure
on white's queen-side along the half open bfile. 18.dxc4 Ba6 19.b3 Rb7 20.Ne2 Rfb8
21.Qc2 Bf6 22.Rfc1 [Black gets a clear advantage after: 22.Bc3 Bxc3 23.Qxc3 Na5
and white loses a pawn for if 24.Nc1 Bxc4µ]
22...Na5! 23.Bxa5 Qxa5 24.a4 This weakening of the b4 square is forced. After allowing such a big advantage to a grandmaster
it is generally difficult to survive. 24...Rb4
25.Rd1! Qb6?! [This is based on the tactic
that if white's Rd1 takes on d7, then black
could play ...Bxc4 as the white rook on b1 is
supported only by his queen. However, it was
better to offer the d-pawn on d6 instead of on
d7 from where the white rook can still cause
damage to black. Better was: 25...d6! and if
now 26.Rxd6 Bxc4 and black is poised to win
more pawns.] 26.Rxd7
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8-8 at the half way stage, the second half went decisively in favour of the visitors. China
won 2.5-1.5, 3-1, 2-2 and 2.5-1.5 to wrap up the series with a healthy four point margin.
The Chinese pulled up their socks in the second half to win the 4-player Scheveningen system
double round event with a 18-14 margin at Hyderabad on March 10, 2015. The Telangana Chess
Association organised this event on behalf of the sponsors, the All India Chess Federation.
Sethuraman scored 5/8 and Lalith Babu got 4.5/8 to pump Elo points into their April 2015 numbers.
Sasikiran made 2 and Adhiban 2.5 and the Indian scoring suffered on account of it.China won
but the margins they got would not have pleased their rating numbers. Ding Liren made 5/8,
Wei Yi and Wang Chen scored 4.5/8 each, Zhou Jiangchao 4.
( contd on p.27 )
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China Beat India 18-14
Considering the strength of the teams, a similar score could have been anticipated. However,
being hosts, India should have done better. Sasikiran and Adhiban were off form. Sethuraman
and Lalith Babu performed well.
[Better was the trappy: 26.Nf4 Rxb3 (26...Bd4
27.Nd3 Rxb3 28.a5 Qb7 29.e5 Rxb1 30.Bxb7
R1xb7) 27.Rxb3 Qxb3 28.Qxb3 Rxb3 29.Rxd7
Rb1+ 30.Kh2 g6 31.Rxa7 Bxc4 32.h4 Bd4]
26...Bxc4! 27.Rc1 Bxb3 [Another possibility
was: 27...Bxe2 28.Qxe2 Rd4 29.Rd1 Qxb3]
28.Qxc5 Qxc5 29.Rxc5 Bxa4 30.Rxa7 h6
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China won the Komatireddy Prateek Reddy Trophy and INR 600,000 while India received INR
400,000. The Governor of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana States, E.S.L. Narasimhan was the
Chief Guest in the closing ceremony.The aim of this event was to give training for the Indian
team before playing in the World Team Championship at Armenia. Facing Olympic Champions
China would be the best practice and the All India Chess Federation provided that. The event
took place at the Marriott Hotel in Hyderabad.
Lalith Babu helps India level scores
M.R. Lalith Babu of Vijayawada helped India level the scores against China. He defeated Wang
Chen with the black pieces in round two to help India win 2.5-1.5. After two rounds, the series
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games still to be played.
In the top board, Adhiban could
only draw with white against World
No.14 ranked Ding Liren. In a rook
ending, Adhiban had to fight and get
a draw after 70 moves with the white
pieces.In the other two games, Wei
Yi-Sethuraman and Sasikiran-Zhou
Jianchao ended in draws. Lalith Babu
won a piece against Wang Chen but
was able to cash the point in a touch
and go ending after 59 moves. Lalith
Babu played the Caro-Kann and his
opponent went for the two knights
variation. Chances for both sides opened up in the opposite coloured bishop ending. Game became
lively. Lalith Babu raced ahead by one move to win the game.
AICF Central Council Meeting on 05.04.2015
The AICF Central Council meeting took
place at the Hyatt Regency in Chennai on
05.04.2015 and the following were some
of the important decisions taken at the
meeting.
•
The Central Council placed on record its
thanks to the FIDE President Mr.Kirsan
Ilyumzhinov for giving Indian Women
Team a place in the ten teams World
Women Team Chess Championship to
be held at Chengdu, China from 18th to
29th April, 2015.
•
It was decided to conduct one day workshop for the Administrators of all the State Chess
Associations.
•
The Central Council decided to nominate an Ad-Hoc Committee to run the affairs of the
All Assam Chess Association till such time fresh elections are held to the office bearers of
the Association. The Ad-Hoc Committee to have the following members: Rajeev Kumar
Bora,Chairman,Laishram Imocha,Member,BinodKhemka,Member,MridulKumarMahanta,Me
mber and Biswajit Bharadwaj,Secretary
•
The Central Council was informed by Mr.Bharat Singh, CEO,AICF that this year Commonwealth
championship will be open only for Commonwealth countries.
•
The Central Council informed all the members regarding the new Regulations to be introduced
by FIDE with regard to registration of new chess players wherein it is necessary for the players
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to have email ids.
•
The Central Council welcomed the newly formed “The Andhra Pradesh Chess Association”
with Mr.Y.D.Rama Rao as President and Mr.Devaram Srihari as General Secretary.
•
It was also decided to regulate the participation of players to Asian and World Schools from
2016 onwards. To include this also part of ACTC so that players may get the benefit of airfare
from the Government.
Mariya Muzychuk is the new World Women's Champion
Mariya Muzychuk of Ukraine won the FIDE World Women's
Chess Championship when she defeated Natalia Pogonina
of Russia by 2.5-1.5 in a best of four finals at Sochi, Russia
on Easter Sunday.On course, Muzychuk beat Y Yuan (Can)
2.5-1.5, Monika Socko (Pol) 3-1, A Stefanova (Bul) 1.50.5, Koneru Humpy (Ind) 2.5-1.5, D Harika (Ind) 3.5-2.5,
Natalia Pogonina (Rus) 2.5-1.5.
In the second game of the best of four series, Mariya
wrested sole lead with an attacking victory over Pogonina.
Other three games were drawn. Mariya was never in big
trouble in any of her games in the finals. The Ukrainian started the last game with her favorite
move 1.е4. Pogonina also responded with her pet 1…е5. In the Scotch Four Knights Game she
tried to avoid the main theory by implementing a weird-looking idea – her bishop came to b4 via
c5. The idea is hardly promising by itself, however, it allowed Black to duck the home preparation
of her opponent.
White got a spatial advantage and overall more pleasant game after the opening, bu then decided
to build up the initiative by advancing her kingside pawns, weakening her own king. A sharp and
dynamically balanced position arose, with both sides having pawn weaknesses. Tension grew with
every minute. Black had a couple of opportunities to seize the initiative, but did not use them.
On the move 41 Mariya Muzychuk carried out a simplifying combination, transposing to an ending
with two strong passed pawns against a knight. Black was left with no winning chances, and the
game ended in a draw on the move 56 after the move repetition. Thus, Mariya Muzychuk won the
match 2.5-1.5 and became the 15th World Champion!
The first game victory against Humpy and second game win against Pogonina, showcased the brilliance
of Mariya Muzychuk. This 1992-born player from Lviv in Ukraine is the younger sister of the more
famous Anna Muzychuk who was herself eliminated in the quarter-finals by Pia Cramling.
"Those matches were very tense indeed. However, I always kept fighting and it probably helped
me," said Muzychuk about the matches against Humpy and Harika.Her conversation with her sister
became real. While packing the bags at home, Anna asked, “Are you taking your dress for the opening
ceremony?” And I said: “No, I take it for the closing ceremony!” In fact I was hoping to win the
championship even before it started!
Mariya thanked her sister for helping her in chess and non-chess issues. She thanked her sister for not
leaving (after the loss to Cramling) and for staying back and helping her. Back in Ukraine, Mariya had
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worked with Alexander Beliavsky. During the finals she received some help from Evgeny Miroshnichenko.
She became the second player from Ukraine to win the title after Anna Ushenina (2012-2013).
Harika Loses To Mariya Muzychuk In Semis
Dronavalli Harika lost to Mariya Muzychuk of Ukraine after performing at her career best in the FIDE
World Women’s Chess Championship at Sochi, Russia on March 31, 2015.In the two game classical
control, the players drew both games. In the tie-break games, Harika lost the first game and came
back with the black pieces to level the scores at 1-1.In the subsequent second play-off, Muzychuk
drew the first and won the second with the black pieces. Harika lost a pawn on move 26 and never
recovered in this decisive sixth game. Muzychuk won 3.5-2.5.
Report & photos courtesy: chessbase.com
Shri.Kanickai Irudayaraj elected Vice President
Shri.Kanickai Irudayaraj Gnanamuthu has been elected as 2nd Vice President
(for Asia) at the 21st IPCA (International Physically Disabled Chess Association)
Congress held in Serbia.
K.Murali Mohan passes away
K Muralimohan (1950-2015) International Arbiter who passed away recently at
Chennai on April 3, 2015 after a brief illness was involved in the game of chess
for the last 40 years as a player, coach, arbiter and administrator and author.
Muralimohan held the longest term as Secretary of the Chennai District Chess
Association. He held similar positions at Madurai and Delhi. He retired voluntarily
from UCO Bank as Manager after 28 years of service.
In the last decade, he was elevated as General Secretary of the Tamil Nadu State
Chess Association and he was also Joint Secretary and Rating Officer of All India Chess Federation.
As a player he had a strong FIDE rating of 2110. He represented Tamilnadu and Delhi in several
National ‘B’ and National Team Chess Championships.Muralimohan was Chief Arbiter in various
tournaments. The last time he was Chief Arbiter was in the National Women’s Premier at Chennai
in 2011. He became an International Arbiter in 1988 and took the title of FIDE Instructor in 2008.
Muralimohan was a successful coach.WGM Aarthie Ramasamy was trained by him in the formative
years and she went on to win National Under-12, 14 and 15 Championships and World Under-18
title. Among his other of his illustrious wards are International Master P.Karthikeyan and A.Ra
Harikrishnan, youngest FIDE rated player in 2008.He founded Capa Chess Academy in 1991
and organized numerous tournaments ranging from Children’s tournaments to international
level tournaments.He ran chess columns on tactics in magazines as Chess Mate. He authored
many notable books such as ‘Endless Endings’, Zee Boom Bah, Kamikaze, New Tactical Weapons
of Chess and ‘Learn Chess: The Game of Kings and the King of Games’.Wit and humour were his
forte in his writings which set him apart from other authors. He contributed invaluable articles on
rating systems and also ‘Test your endgame’ in ‘AICF Chronicle in 2007 and 2008’.
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Black is better as his two bishops sweep the
board and white's minor pieces are not well
placed. 31.Rac7 Rb1+ 32.Rc1 R1b2 33.Bf3
Bb5 34.Rc8+ Rxc8 35.Rxc8+ Kh7 36.Nc3
Rc2 [After 36...Bxc3 37.Rxc3 Rxf2 38.Kg1 Rb2
black has won a pawn but the resultant position
would be difficult for black to win because of the
opposite colour bishops.] 37.e5! Threatening
38 Be4+ forking king and rook. 37...Rc1+!
38.Kh2 [38.Kg2? If 38...Bf1+ 39.Kh2 Bxe5
40.Be4+ g6–+] 38...Bxe5 39.Rc5 White counters the pin along the c-file with a fork along
the 5th rank. Now follows very interesting
play. 39...Rxc3 40.Be4+ f5 41.Rxe5 Bd7
[Retaining same colour bishops in the ending
gives white good winning chances. If 41...fxe4
42.Rxb5 e3 43.fxe3 Rxe3 and black should win
this difficult ending after a long fight.] 42.Bg2
Rc2 43.Kg1 Rc1+ 44.Kh2 Rc2 45.Kg1 Kg6!
46.h4 Kf6 47.Re1 Rd2 48.Bf3 Ba4 49.Rb1
g5 50.hxg5+ hxg5 51.Ra1 Bb3 52.Rb1 Ba2
With an extra pawn, black is winning. He will
plan to carefully advance his pawns to ensure
victory. 53.Re1 e5 54.Bg2 g4 55.Rc1 e4!
blocking out whites bishop from the game.
56.Bf1 Bb3 57.Rb1 Bd1 58.Ra1 white is
naturally waiting for black to disclose his plans
and does not do anything hasty. 58...Bf3
59.Re1 Kg5 60.Bb5 Rb2 [Exchanging rooks
would throw away winning possibilities. After
60...Rd1 61.Rxd1 Bxd1 62.Kf1 Bb3 63.Ke2
Kf6 64.Ke3 Ke5 65.Bc6 and the game is
practically drawn. After the inevitable pawn
exchanges, white will just sacrifice his bishop
for the last black pawn and draw.] 61.Bc4 Kf6
62.Bf1 Rd2 63.Bb5 Ke5 64.Bc4 f4 Without
the advance of this pawn black cannot achieve
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anything. 65.gxf4+ Kxf4 66.Ra1 g3 67.Rf1
[If 67.fxg3+ Kxg3 68.Kf1 Rh2–+] 67...g2
68.Re1
68...e3!! 69.fxe3+ Kg3! Black's mating plan
of 70...Rd6, 71...Rh6 and 72 Rh1# cannot be
stopped. 70.e4 Rd6 0–1
Swapnil,Dhopade (Rly B) (2438) Mokal,Amruta (Chess is Life) (2053)
1.d4 Nf6 2.Bg5 d5 3.Bxf6 gxf6 4.c4 dxc4
5.e3 c5 6.Bxc4 cxd4 7.Nc3
[This is new. 7.exd4 Bg7 8.Ne2 0–0 led to victory for black in H.Romero 2455 vs I Farago
2520 in 1986.] 7...Nc6³ [Not 7...dxc3??
8.Bxf7+ wins the queen.] 8.Qh5 Ne5? [Moving the knight again and doing nothing about
completing her development will cost her
heavily. She could retain equal chances with
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8...e6 9.0–0–0 Qc7 10.exd4 Qf4+ 11.Kb1
Nxd4 and the game is approximately level.
Black's extra pawn does not mean much as
he is yet to complete development of his
pieces and his king is in the centre.] 9.Bb5+
Bd7 10.exd4 Ng6?! [Better was: 10...Bxb5
11.dxe5 Qd3 12.Nf3 Bc6=] 11.Nge2 Bxb5
12.Qxb5+ Qd7 13.0–0 Bg7 [If 13...Qxb5
14.Nxb5 Kd7 15.Rac1] 14.Qh5 0–0 Black
was forced to castle here although she would
have no protection for her h7 pawn thanks to
the doubled f-pawns. Castling on the queenside would have made the game still shorter.
15.Rad1 The general idea is Rd1–d3-h3 for
attack on h7. 15...f5
16.d5 [If white takes his rook to h3 quickly
without preparation he will not achieve anything: 16.Rd3 b5 17.Rh3 h6=] 16...Kh8± [If
16...f4 (to prevent 17 Ng3) then the other
white knight quickly jumps into the fray.
17.Ne4!] 17.Ng3 f4 18.Nf5 Rg8 [If 18...
Bxc3 19.bxc3 Rg8 20.Rd3± white's original
plan of Rh3 is now successful] 19.Ne4 f6
20.Nc5 immediately exploiting the weakness on e6. 20...Qc8 21.Ne6 Bf8 22.Rd3
Bg7 23.Rh3! Diagram #[White's original
attacking idea of bringing the rook to h3 for
mate has been
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successfully implemented. 23.Rh3 h6
24.Qxh6+ Bxh6 25.Rxh6#] 1–0
Narayanan,Srinath (AI) (2456)
Maheswaran,P (TN) (2276) [C77]
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6
5.d3 d6 6.c3 g6 7.0–0 Bd7 8.Re1 Bg7
9.Bg5 [9.Nbd2 is usual here.] 9...h6 10.Bh4
0–0 11.Nbd2 Qe8 12.Bc2 Nh5 13.Nf1 f5
14.exf5 gxf5 15.Ne3 [Better was: 15.Bb3+
Kh8 16.Ne3 Na5 17.Bc2 Nf6! 18.d4 e4 19.Nd2
Qf7 20.b4] 15...Kh8 16.d4 e4 17.Nd2 Qg6
18.f3 Rg8!? Black has conceived an interesting mating attack along the half-open g-file.
19.fxe4 Nxd4!? 20.exf5 Bxf5 21.Bb1 [21.
cxd4? Bxd4 22.Qf3 Bxc2 and black is winning.] 21...Rae8!= All the black forces are
in play and the white king is under pressure.
22.g3 [Better was the complicated variation:
22.Nxf5 Nxf5 (Black is threatening the stunning ... Bd4+!!! and Qxg2#) 23.Qf3 Nxh4
24.Bxg6 Nxf3+ 25.Nxf3 Rxe1+ 26.Rxe1 Bxc3
27.Bxh5 Bxe1 28.Nxe1 with approximately
equal material.] 22...Bxb1 23.Qxb1 Diagram
# 23...Nf4! 24.cxd4 [24.Qxg6 Nxg6 25.Ng2
Nf5! and black has a tremendous advantage
despite the exchange of queens.] 24...Bxd4
25.Ndf1 Nd3 26.Re2 Nf4 27.Re1
(Position after 23.Qxb1)
Nd3 28.Re2 Qe4 White does not accept the
tacit draw offer by repetition and is now nearly
winning! 29.a4 Nf4? [In sight of an amazing victory, black stumbles and lets white off
the hook. The winning move here was: 29...
Rgf8! threatening 30...Rxf1+! 31 Qxf1 Bxe3+
wins hands down.] 30.Qxe4 Nxe2+ 31.Kf2
Rxe4 32.Kxe2 Rge8 33.Ra3 Bxb2µ For
white's two knights, black has a rook and
two pawns. A factor in favour of black is that
the white bishop is a mere spectator on h4.
34.Rb3 Bd4 35.Kf3 Bc5 36.Nd5 [36.Bf6+
Kg8 37.Bb2 Rxa4 38.Rxb7 Bb6–+ the white
rook is trapped.] 36...Re1 37.Nd2 c6 38.Nf6
R8e3+ 39.Rxe3 Rxe3+ Now black is clearly
winning. 40.Kg4 d5 41.Kh5 Diagram
1...Bf8? [Why go into defence when attack
was warmly beckoning! This is panic at the
moment of victory! Winning immediately was:
41...Bb4! 42.Nf1 Rf3 or 42 Nb1 Re1 traps
the hapless knight.] 42.Kg6 b5 [Again the
same 42...Bb4! wins for the same reasons
as given in the notes to the previous move.]
43.axb5 axb5 44.Ng4 Rd3 45.Bf6+ Kg8
46.Be5! Be7 [White is trying to work magic
with his knight and bishop battery against the
cornered black king. He is hoping for at least
perpetual check. If now: 46...Rxd2? 47.Nf6+
Kh8 48.Nxd5+ Kg8 49.Nf6+ Kh8 50.Ne4+
Kg8 51.Nxd2+-] 47.Bg7! Diagram
[This is a very frightening move. White threatens 48 Nxh6#. It is not known whether black
lost on time or he resigned fearing imminent
mate. But he stood to gain a clear advantage after: 47.Bg7 Bg5! 48.Nf1 (48.h4 Rxg3!
49.hxg5 Rxg4 50.Bxh6 Rg3 and black's pawns
should win.) 48...Ra3 49.h4 h5! 50.Be5 hxg4
51.Kxg5 b4µ] 1–0
Gupta,Abhijeet (PSPB) (2622)
Swayams,Mishra (AAI) (2481) [E12]
1.d4 e6 2.c4 Nf6 3.Nf3 b6 4.a3 Bb7 5.Nc3
d5 6.cxd5 Nxd5 7.Qc2 Be7 8.e4 Nxc3
9.bxc3 0–0 10.Bd3 c5 11.0–0 Nc6 12.Bb2
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cxd4 13.cxd4 Rc8 14.Qe2 Na5 15.Rad1
Re8 16.Ne5 Bd6 [A game Efimov 2405 vs
Mokry 2450, 1985 went: 16...f6 17.Ng4 Bf8
18.Ne3 Qe7 19.e5² and white won eventually.] 17.f4 White has good prospects with his
central pawns limiting the black forces. 17...
Qe7 18.Kh1!?
(Position after 29…h5)
not affect white's king-side attack in any way.
35.Bb1! Kh7
[An intuitive pawn offer. 18.a4= was simple
and equal, but white wants adventure and a
full point.] 18...Bxa3 19.Bxa3 Qxa3 20.Qh5
g6 21.Qh3 Qe7 [If 21...Nc6 22.Ng4! Qe7
23.e5 and the black castled position is on the
verge of collapse.; however, 21...f5= leaves
fewer options for white to gain the initiative.]
22.f5! exf5 23.exf5 Qg5 [the belated attempt
to challenge the dominating white knight fails:
23...Nc6 24.fxg6 fxg6 25.Bc4+ Kg7 26.Rf7+
wins.] 24.Ng4! Rf8 25.Rde1 Rcd8 26.Re3 Kh8
[If 26...Rxd4 27.Nh6+ Kh8 (27...Kg7 28.f6+
Kh8 29.Nxf7+ Rxf7 30.Re8+) 28.fxg6 Bxg2+
29.Qxg2 Qxg2+ 30.Kxg2 hxg6 31.Nxf7++-]
27.Rg3 Qh5 28.Nf6! Qxh3 29.Rxh3 The attack
continues unabated even after the exchange
of queens. 29...h5 Diagram # 30.Nxh5!! Bc8 [If
30...gxh5 31.Rxh5+ Kg8 32.Rg5+ Kh7 33.Rf4
Kh6 34.Rg3! mates.] 31.d5! Kg8 [31...Rxd5??
32.Nf6+ Kg7 33.Nxd5+-] 32.Rg3 Rd6 33.h4
Nb7 34.Nf4 Nc5 Black's knight on c5 does
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36.Ne6!± Nxe6 [36...fxe6 37.fxg6+ Kg7
38.Rxf8 Kxf8 39.g7+ Kg8 40.Bh7+!] 37.dxe6
Bxe6 38.fxg6+ Kg7 39.gxf7+ Kh8 40.Rf6 Bf5
41.Rxf5 1–0
Thejkumar,M. S (Rly A) (2438)
Satyapragyan,S (Air India) (2409)
1.d4 e6 2.c4 Bb4+ 3.Bd2 Bxd2+ 4.Qxd2
f5 5.g3 Nf6 6.Bg2 0–0 7.Nc3 d6 8.Nf3
Qe7 9.0–0 c6 10.Rad1 d5 [A 1976 game
L.Christiansen 2400 vs A.Kushnir 2365 went:
10...Nbd7 11.d5 cxd5 12.cxd5 e5 13.Ng5 Ne8
14.Ne6 Rf6 15.f4 Nf8 and eventually drawn.]
11.Qc2 Ne4 12.Ne5 Nd7 13.Nxe4 fxe4
14.Nxd7 Bxd7= 15.f3! exf3 16.exf3 Qb4
This queen sortie does not achieve much.
Though black will be in a slightly minus
position, he must try to get his bishop out of the
pawn chain with 16...Be8 17.Rfe1 Bg6 18.Qe2
Rae8] 17.c5 b6 18.a3 Qa5 19.Rfe1 bxc5
20.dxc5 Rab8 21.Re3 Qd8 22.Rde1 White
has a very firm grip over black's backward e6
pawn. To make matters worse his bishop is
locked up at d7. 22...a5 23.f4 Qf6 24.Re5
Rb7 25.b3 Rfb8 26.R1e3 Qg6 27.Qd1 [27.
Qxg6 hxg6 28.Bh3 Rxb3 29.Bxe6+ Bxe6
30.Rxb3 Rxb3 31.Rxe6 Rxa3 32.Rxc6 Rc3]
27...Rb5 28.Rc3 Qf6 29.Bf1! R5b7 30.Bh3
Kh8 He is going to allow the capture of his e6
pawn, but without check. 31.Rce3 Qf8 [31...
Re8? 32.f5! and white captures the e6 pawn.]
32.Bxe6 Qxc5 33.Bxd7 Rxd7
Almost miraculously black has been able to
avert any material loss. But it cannot be for
long. 34.Qc2!! Qa7 [34...Qxc2?? 35.Re8+
mates.; also 34...Qb6 35.Qxc6!] 35.Qxc6 h6
36.Kg2+- Qb7 37.Qxb7 Rbxb7 38.Rd3!
One does not have to win something, everytime
one attacks. Here, it is just to pin down black's
rooks to the defence of his d-pawn and break
the spirit of the opponent. 38...Rb5 39.a4 Rc5
40.Kf3 Kg8 41.Ke3 d4+ Diagram # This is a
desperate attempt to create counter chances.
42.Ke4 [Capturing the pawn also won: 42.Rxd4
Rxe5+ (or, if 42...Rc3+ 43.Kd2 Rdc7 44.Rc4!
R7xc4 45.bxc4 Rxc4 46.Rxa5 and white should win
comfortably.) 43.fxe5 Rb7 44.Rd3 Rb4 45.Kd2 Kf7
46.Kc3 Ke6 47.Rd6+ Kxe5 48.Ra6 and white will
have two extra connected passed pawns on the
queen-side.] 42...Rc1 43.Rxa5 Re1+ 44.Kf3
Rf1+ 45.Ke2! With two extra connected passed
pawns on the queen-side, all that white has to do is
to play sensibly, avoid giving anything back without
reason and play aggressively when possible. 45...
Rh1 46.h4! Rc7 47.Rxd4 Rc2+ 48.Kd3! Rg2
49.Ra8+ Kh7 [If 49...Kf7 50.Ra7+ Kg8 51.b4
Rxg3+ 52.Ke4 Rxh4 53.b5 and now 53...g5??
54.Rd8# allows] 50.b4 Rxg3+ 51.Kc4 Rxh4
52.a5 Rh1 53.a6 Ra1 54.b5 Rg6 55.Rad8
h5 56.R8d6 h4
57.f5! Rxd6 [If 57...Rg5 58.Rxh4+ Kg8
59.Rd8+ Kf7 60.Rd7+ Ke8 61.Rhd4 Rxf5 62.a7
and white would win.] 58.Rxd6 h3 59.Rd3! If
now 59...h2 60 Rh3+ Kg8 61 Rxh2 wins. 1–0
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Games from India- China Summit
34.Re1 Nxf4 35.Kc2 Kf5 36.Kd2 Ke4 37.b4 Kf3
Annotated by Ramirez Alvarez Alejandro,
Sagar Shah : courtesy: www.chessbase.com
Sasikiran Krishnan (2682)
Wei,Yi (2706) [D70]
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.f3 d5 4.cxd5 Nxd5
5.e4 Nb6 6.Nc3 Bg7 7.Be3 0–0 8.Qd2 e5
9.d5 c6 10.h4 cxd5 11.exd5 N8d7 12.h5
Nf6 13.hxg6 fxg6 14.0–0–0 Qd6 15.Kb1
Bf5+ 16.Ka1 h5 17.Nh3 e4 18.Bh6 Rad8
19.Bxg7 Kxg7 20.Nf4 Rfe8 21.Bb5 e3
22.Qd4 Re5 23.Bd3 Nbxd5 24.Nfxd5?
(Position after 28…Rxd5)
Sasikirian underestimates his opponent's
chances. [24.Bxf5! gxf5 25.Ncxd5 e2 26.Rde1
Nxd5 27.Ne6+!! Would have been a brilliant
way to gain an advantage. (27.Rxe2 the far
more normal move, also was good for a plus.)
27...Qxe6 28.Rxe2 and the rook on e5 will
fall.] 24...Bxd3 25.Rxd3 Nxd5 26.f4 Nxc3
27.Qxd6 Rxd6 28.Rxd6 Rd5! A beautiful
sequence. Sasikirian has no choice but to take
the rook, and although he is up the exchange,
the powerful knight on d5, the passed pawn
on e3 and the quickness with which the king
can approach the center is enough to render
his position hopeless. 29.Rxd5 Nxd5 30.g3
Kf6 31.Rd1 Ke6 32.Kb1 h4 33.gxh4 e2
38.a4 (See diagram) Kf2 39.b5 b6 40.Rh1
Ng2 0–1
Ding,Liren (2755)
Sethuraman,S.P (2623) [E60]
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.g3 c6 4.Bg2 d5 The c6
line agains the fianchetto Grunfeld, is, as we
have seen, a very solid way of dealing with
White's attempts for and advantage. However,
just because it is normally a solid line does
not mean it always stays that way. 5.e3!? Not
completely new, and maybe a trend? Kramnik
used it recently and now Ding Liren is giving
it a try. 5...dxc4 6.Ne2 Nbd7 [6...Bg7 7.0–0
Nbd7 (7...0–0 8.Na3 Nbd7 9.Nxc4 eventually
led to a draw in Kramnik-Gelfand, but the Russian already held a small edge here with his
powerfully placed knight on c4 and open bishop
on g2.) 8.Na3 Nb6 9.Qc2 was Potkin-Timman
from Wijk aan Zee 2015.] 7.0–0 Bg7 8.Qc2
a new attempt, instead of recovering the pawn
as quickly as possible Ding Liren tries to establish a strong pawn center. 8...Nb6 9.e4 e5!?
Breaking the position and creating a complex
structure. 10.dxe5 Ng4 [10...Qd3? 11.exf6!!
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Would have led to a beautiful white victory.
11...Qxc2 12.fxg7 Rg8 13.Nbc3+- and now
Black has real problems: the threat is Nd4 and
Rd1, trapping the queen, while there doesn't
seem any good way of helping it. Also a threat
is Rd1–Rd2!] 11.Rd1 Qe7 12.f4
Risky but the only way to fight for an advantage. [12.Nbc3 Nxe5 simply leaves Black
up a pawn.] 12...f6 [12...Qc5+ 13.Nd4
is not that dangerous yet.] 13.exf6 Bxf6
14.e5 Bf5 15.Qc3 [15.exf6 Qc5+ is a big
problem; White cannot take on f6 yet.] 15...
Qc5+ 16.Nd4 Be7 Only sixteen moves of
chess, but already a position that is incredibly complicated. White has the structural
advantage with a powerful passed pawn on
e5, but Black's pieces are fully mobilized,
more than White can say for his own, and
the monarch on g1 feels uncomfortable with
that pin down g1–a7. White has to be very
precise to not be worse, but if he survives he
would be strategically much better. 17.Na3?
[17.b3! Forced and sufficient. The move is
dual purpose: The first it adds pressure on
to c4, which is very important, second it liberates both a3 and b2 for the dark-squared
bishop. 17...cxb3! (17...0–0–0 18.Ba3! Rxd4
19.Qxd4! Qxd4+ 20.Rxd4 an Black does not
have enough for his lost material.) 18.axb3!
0–0–0 19.Ba3 Qxc3 20.Nxc3 Bxa3 21.Rxa3
White is structurally better, but Black has the
following resource: 21...Ne3 22.Rd2 Nc2!
23.Rxc2 Rxd4 24.Re2 a6= and Black's activity and blockade on the lightsquares should
give him acceptable chances against White's
pawn structure.] 17...0–0–0 White is now
not on time to defend his diagonal. 18.h3
Bd3 Of course! Blac kdoesn't bother moving
back the knight. 19.hxg4 Na4 This is the
real key: White cannot lose control of d4, but
where does his queen go? 20.Qe1 [20.Rxd3
Nxc3 21.Rxc3 Qxd4+ 22.Be3 Qd7 is clearly
insufficient.] 20...Qxd4+ 21.Be3
[21.Kh2 Bxa3 is a horrible pin.] 21...Qxb2
alas, and unexpectedly, it is the knight on a3
that costs White the game. It is trapped, and
with its loss White has no chance of surviving. 22.Qa5 Qxa3 23.Bxc6 some clever last
minute counterplay, but Black has many ways
of countering it. 23...Bc5 [23...bxc6 24.Qa6+
Kd7 also worked, actually.] 0–1
Lalith,Babu M.R (2556)
Zhou,Jianchao (2578) [E16]
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 b6 4.g3 Bb7 5.Bg2
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Bb4+ 6.Bd2 c5 A novelty idea. It scores relatively well, but if White follows some of the
most principled routes it might be dubious for
Black. 7.Bxb4 cxb4 8.a3 breaking with a3
soon is important: many people like to simply
leave the pawn be on b4, and that always ends
up back firing. The correct way of dealing with
these kinds of set ups is, essentially, trading
your a-pawn for the c-pawn. Meanwhile Black
should fight for the dark squares.
six. Ding Liren is the first one with the white
pieces, 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 Nf6 4.d3
The anti-Berlin; better get used to the lines
stemming from this move as we will see if a lot
more in the future. 4...d6 5.0–0 Bd7 6.c3 g6
that! 20...d5 21.Ra3 dxc4 22.dxc4 Rd7
23.c5!
8...bxa3 9.Nxa3 0–0 10.0–0 a5 11.Nb5
Na6 12.Qd2 Qe7 [12...d5! Is definitely more
difficult for White to deal with. The game
continuation allows Lalith to binding his opponent.] 13.Qf4 Rab8 14.Qd6 of course. Now
Black's lack of space is a real issue. 14...Qd8
15.Rfc1 Nb4 [15...Ne8 16.Qf4 is playable
but that knight doesn't want to be on e8.]
16.Ne5! Bxg2 17.Kxg2 Rb7
The White knights on e5 and b5 are beautiful. Balck does have an annoying threat,
though, to play Ne8 and trap the White queen!
18.Nd3! Ne8 19.Qf4 Nxd3 20.exd3 Excellent understanding. Lalith knows that the only
way to break out of the bind is to eventually
play d5, so he sets up his structure to counter
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this passed pawn sill cause serious problems.
23...Nc7 24.c6 e5? [24...Rd5! Was a difficult to find computer move. It was probably
Black's best chance to survive, though after
25.Nxc7 Rf5 26.Qe3 Qxc7 27.Qc3 It's impossible to question White's edge.] 25.dxe5
Rd5 26.Nxc7 Qxc7 27.Re3 White's up a
pawn and Lalith brings it home comfortably.
27...Re8 28.Qe4 Rb5 29.Qd3 Rc5 30.Rxc5
bxc5 31.Qd5 Re6 32.Rd3 1–0
Ding,Liren (2755)
Sasikiran,Krishnan (2682) [C65]
[Ramirez Alvarez,Alejandro]
The duel of titans! The two strongest players
from each team fight it out in rounds five and
This solid way of development has been
popular for quite a while. White has had
plenty of problems trying to break this setup.
7.Re1 Bg7 8.Bg5 [8.Nbd2 is indeed the more
common move.] 8...0–0 9.Nbd2 Qe8!? A
common idea. The point is that Nh5 is now
playable and Black does not want to weaken
his kingside with h6. 10.Nf1 Nh5 11.Ne3 f6
12.Bh4 Kh8 13.a4 a6 14.Bc4 Nd8 15.d4
Ne6 16.Nd5 Rc8 17.a5 Black is extremely
solid and has control over f4, but the advantage and slightly greater central control gives
White a slight edge.
17...Nef4 18.Nd2 Nxd5 19.Bxd5 Rb8
[19...c6 20.Bb3 leaves both b6 and d6
vulnerable to a knight jump to c4.] 20.Bb3
Be6 21.Nf1 Bxb3 22.Qxb3 f5 These kind of
breaks always have to be calculated properly.
DIng Liren has many captures that open up
the position, and he chooses
the correct one. [22...exd4 23.cxd4 Qf7=]
23.dxe5! [23.exf5 gxf5 24.dxe5 dxe5 is
tempting at first, in order to play against the
somewhat weakened pawns, but the activity granted by them is not to be underestimated - a common motif in hanging pawn
situations.] 23...Qxe5 [23...dxe5 24.Rad1
Here White can take his time before taking
on f5.] 24.exf5 Qxf5 25.Ne3 Qd7 26.Nd5
c6 27.Re7!
This is the point, White does not retreat immediately and instead harasses the queen out of any
useful square. 27...Qg4 28.Ra4 Qf5 29.Ne3
Qb1+ 30.Qd1 Qxb2 Picking up the gauntlet,
Black destroys the pawns on the queenside,
but this comes at a risk: White is very active.
31.Nc4 Qxc3 32.Nxd6 Qc5 33.h3 A small
prophylactic move before engaging in further
aggression. Black doesn't have many moves.
33...Bf6 34.Rc4! Qa3 [34...Qxa5 35.Bxf6+
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Nxf6 36.Rh4! with strong threats on the kingside.] 35.Bxf6+ Rxf6 [35...Nxf6 36.Qd4+the threat of Nf7+, among others, is deadly.]
36.Nf7+ Kg7 37.Qd7
It's clear that this queen move spells disaster
for the Indian player. The seventh rank is too
weak, the king too exposed and Ding Liren just
has to mop up from here. 37...Kf8 38.Rce4
Qa2 39.Re8+ Rxe8 40.Rxe8+ Kg7 41.Ne5+
Kh6 [41...Rf7 42.Nxf7 Qxf7 43.Qxf7+ Kxf7
44.Rb8 is utterly hopeless.] 42.Ng4+ Kg5
43.Re5+ Kh4 44.g3+ Nxg3 45.fxg3+ Kxg3
Black threatens checkmate, but White has the
greatest advantage of all in chess: the power
to move. 46.Re3+ Black will be mated very
shortly. 1–0
Adhiban,Baskaran (2646)
Zhou,Jianchao (2578) [B94]
[Ramirez Alvarez,Alejandro]
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6
5.Nc3 a6 6.Bg5 Nbd7 7.Bc4 Qb6 8.0–0!?
An interesting pawn sacrifice, almost in the
spirit of the poisoned pawn. Interestingly, Adhiban's teammate, Sethuraman, is one of the
few people to who had employed it previously.
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Lagrave-Dominguez, Savchenko-Grischuk and
Jobava-Wojtaszek, among others..] 8...Qxb2
9.Nd5 Nxd5 10.Rb1 Qc3 11.Bxd5 Qc7
A better try. Here Black keeps his material and
threatens e6. [11...e6 12.Bxb7 Bxb7 13.Rxb7
Nc5 14.Rb6 Nxe4 15.Be3 led to plenty of compensation in Sethuraman-Al Sayed, 2014.]
12.Re1 e6 13.f4 of course White is in no mood
to withdraw his pieces, especially when he
does not have to. [13.Bxe6 fxe6 14.Nxe6 Qc6
15.Nd8!? Qc5 16.Ne6 might be some kind of
strange draw, but it looks very artificial. Black
might find a way out of the attack.] 13...Nf6
14.Bxf6 gxf6 15.Bb3 Black has no development and has some serious weaknesses that
White can latch on to, especially with f5, but
Zhou Jianchao shows wonderful understanding of this type of positions! 15...h5! Despite
not developing any pieces yet, Black goes on
the offensive with a single pawn! This move is
important for two reasons, one of them is that
it makes White's king uncomfortable, the other
is that it does not allow White's queen into h5.
16.Kh1 h4 17.h3 allowing h3 wouldn't be to
anyone's liking. 17...Bd7 18.f5 e5 Of course
it is important to keep the center closed, even
if it means giving up d5. 19.Ne2 Rc8!
The key to Black's position, for now, is that
Nc3 is not easy to accomplish. How important
that pawn on b2 seems now! 20.Bd5 b5
21.c4 Bh6 22.Nc3 Bg5 23.a4 Qa5! Black
has consolidated all around the board. White
keeps some pressure, but he already has to
be careful not to be worse. 24.Bb7? Too aggressive. [24.Qd3 b4 25.Na2 0–0 26.Nxb4÷]
24...Rxc4 25.Nd5 Rd4 26.Qf3 Rxa4
Asking "so what". Black is now up three
pawns nad White has to desperately try to
prove some compensation. 27.Bxa6 getting one back, but this gives Black too much
time. 27...Kf8! [27...0–0 28.Bb7 is not as
effective for Black: 28...Qa7 29.Ne7+! Kg7
30.Bc6] 28.Bb7 Qa7 Now White doesn't
have Ne7 and his bishop is in real problems.
29.Nc3 Ra3 30.Qd1 [30.Bd5 Bd2–+] 30...
Rxc3 31.Qxd6+ Ke8 The king can take care of
itself. 32.Rxb5 sheer desperation. 32...Bxb5
33.Rd1 Bd7 [33...Bd3–+] 34.Qxd7+ Kf8
35.Qd6+ Kg7 36.Bd5 Rhc8 37.Kh2 Bf4+
38.Kh1 Rc1 0–1
Sethuraman,S.P (2623)
Zhou,Jianchao (2578) [B12]
[Sagar Shah]
1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.e5 Bf5 4.Nf3 e6 5.Be2
c5 6.Be3 Qb6 7.Nc3 Nc6 8.Na4 Qa5+
9.c3 c4 10.b4 Qd8 11.0–0 h6 12.Ne1 b5
13.Nb2 Nge7 14.a4 a6 15.g4 Bh7 16.Ng2
h5 17.f3 Ng6 18.Qd2 Be7 19.Nd1 hxg4
20.fxg4 Nh4 21.Nf4 Be4 22.Nh5 Rh7
23.Bf4 Ng6 24.Nf2 Nxf4 25.Nxf4 Bg6
26.Nxg6 fxg6 27.Qc2 Rh6 28.g5 Bxg5
29.Ng4 Ne7 30.Nxh6 Bxh6 31.Qa2 Nf5
32.axb5 Be3+ 33.Kh1 Qh4 34.Rf3 g5
35.Rxf5 Qe4+ 36.Bf3 Qxf5 37.Qg2?!
[37.Qe2!+-] 37...Ke7 38.Qe2 Bf4 [38...Rh8!
39.Qxe3 Rh3 40.Rf1 g4 41.bxa6 Rxf3 42.Rxf3
gxf3 43.Qf2 Qb1+ 44.Qg1 Qe4=] 39.Bg4 Qh7
40.bxa6? [40.Rxa6!+-] 40...Bxh2! 41.Kg2
Qh4 42.Qf3 Rf8 43.Qh3 Qf2+ 44.Kh1 Qb2?
[44...Bg3 45.a7 Qf4 46.a8Q Rxa8 47.Rxa8
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Qe4+ 48.Kg1 Qe3+ 49.Kh1 Qe4+=] 45.Rd1
Bf4 46.Rf1 Ra8 47.b5 Qxb5? [47...Qc2!=]
48.Qh7!+- Rf8 49.Ra1 [49.Bh5! was the simplest win.] 49...Qe8 50.Rb1 [50.Qxg7+ Rf7
51.Qh6+-] 50...Rh8 51.Rb7+ Kd8 52.Rb8+ Kc7
The game has been a completely topsy turvy
affair. Sethuraman had a winning position on
many occasions but was unable to capitalize
on them. In this position White has to make a
decision whether he would like to take on h8
or on e8. What do you think is the best move?
Do you think only one move wins or both are
winning? 53.Qxh8
This move also wins but only by a whisker. [53.
Rxe8! was the easier way to win. 53...Rxh7+
54.Kg1 Kb6 55.Rxe6+ Ka7 56.Rc6 Rh8 57.Bf3
Bd2 58.Bxd5 Bxc3 59.Rxc4 Ba5 60.Bb7+-]
53...Qxb8 54.Qxb8+ [54.Qxg7+ Kb6 Should
be defendable position for Black.] 54...Kxb8
55.Bxe6 Sethuraman assessed this position as
winning and he wasn't wrong. 55...Bd2?Zhou
Jianchao doesn't test Sethuraman to the fullest.
[55...Ka7!? It was more important to eliminate
the a6 pawn. The logic is not too difficult. In
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20.axb5 Be7–+] 18...Qe8! What a brilliant accurate move. [18...Qxe6 19.Nxe6+ Kb6 20.Bxd5
cxd5 21.Nxg5= allows White to keep the balance.]
19.Bxd5 [19.Qxe8 was relatively the best. 19...
Rxe8 20.Nxb7 Kxb7 21.Bxd5 cxd5 I am not really
sure if White can defend this endgame. 22.f4 gxf4
opposite coloured bishop endgames passed
pawns separated by a few files are much more
dangerous than connected pawns. Hence it was
important to eliminate the a6 pawn. 56.Bc8!
This is the only winning move keeping the a6
pawn. (56.Bxd5? surprisingly this move throws
away
the win. 56...Kxa6 57.Bxc4+ (57.e6 Bd6
58.Bxc4+ Kb6 59.Bf1 Kc7 60.c4 Bf4 61.c5 Be3
62.Bh3 Kd8 63.c6 Bf4= and everything remains
under control.) 57...Kb6 58.Bf1 Bd2 59.c4
Bc3 60.e6 Kc7 61.Bh3 Kd8 62.d5 Bb4=) 56...
Bc1 57.e6 Ba3 58.Kg2 g6 59.Kf3 Be7 60.Bb7
Kb6 61.Bxd5 Kxa6 62.Bxc4+ Kb6 63.Be2 g4+
64.Kxg4 Kc7 65.Kf4+-] 56.Bxd5 Bxc3 57.e6!
Bb4 58.Bxc4 g4 59.Kg2 Bd6 60.Kf2 Ka7
61.Bf1 g3+ 62.Kf3 Kb6 63.Ke4 Be7 1–0
Lalith,Babu M.R (2556)
Ding,Liren (2755) [D43]
[Sagar Shah]
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 d5 4.Nc3 c6 5.g3
Nbd7 6.Bg2 dxc4 7.0–0 b5 8.e4 Bb7 9.e5
Nd5 10.Ng5 h6?! [10...Be7 is what is usually
played.] 11.Nxe6 fxe6 12.Qh5+ Ke7 13.Ne4
White has sacrificed a piece. The Black king looks
extremely uncomfortable on e7. This should be sufficient compensation but the Chinese players prepare
such lines in quite some depth. 13...Qe8 14.Bg5+
hxg5 [14...N7f6 15.exf6+ gxf6 16.Bxf6+ (16.Nxf6
Qxh5 17.Nxh5+ hxg5) 16...Nxf6 17.Nxf6 Qxh5 (17...
Kxf6 18.Qe5+) 18.Nxh5²] 15.Qxh8 Kd8 [15...
Qg6 16.Nd6 Ba6 (16...Rb8 17.Rae1! The idea of this
move can be understood with the help of a null move.
(17.Be4 Qh6 18.Qg8 Qh5 19.Bxd5 cxd5 (19...exd5
20.Nf5++-) 20.f4± (20.Rae1 g4÷) 20...gxf4 21.Rxf4
Nxe5 22.dxe5 Qxe5 23.Nxb7+-) 17...-- 18.Be4 Qh6
19.Qg8 Qh5 20.Bxd5 cxd5 21.f4+- with the rook on
e1 this is just crushing.) 17.Be4 Qh6 18.Qg8 Qh5
19.Bxd5 cxd5 20.Rae1!+- (20.f4 gxf4 21.Rxf4 Nxe5
22.Re1! Kxd6 23.Rxe5 Qe8 24.Rxf8 Qxf8 25.Qxe6+
Kc7 26.Qxa6±) ] 16.Qg8?! [16.Nxg5! This has to be
the improvement in this position. 16...Qg6 (16...Kc7
17.Qg8 Kb6 18.Nxe6±) 17.f4! This position which is
better for White was reached in Olszewski-Korobov.
17...Kc7 18.Be4 (18.Bh3? was played in the game
which shows difficult such positions are. 18...Bc5!
19.Nxe6+ Qxe6 20.Qxa8 Bxd4+ 21.Kh1 Qxh3–+)
18...Qe8 (18...Qh6 19.Qxh6 gxh6 20.Nxe6++Kb6 21.Bxd5 cxd5 22.f5+-) 19.Qh3±] 16...Qg6!
Black seems already fine according to the engine.
17.Nc5 Kc7 18.Qxe6 [18.Nxe6+ Kb6 19.a4 a5!–+
(Position after 18…Qe8!)
23.Rxf4 Be7] 19...Nxc5 20.Qxe8 Rxe8 21.Bf7
[21.dxc5 cxd5–+] 21...Re7 22.Bg8? [22.Bg6
was the last chance to prevent the knight from
coming to d3 but Black stands better after 22...
Nd7µ] 22...Nd3–+ White's position is beyond salvation. 23.b3 c5 24.bxc4 cxd4 25.f4 gxf4 26.gxf4
g6 27.Rad1 Rg7 28.Bd5 bxc4 29.Bxc4 Nb2
30.Rc1 Kd8 31.Rf2 Nxc4 32.Rxc4 d3 33.Rd2
Rd7 34.Kf2 Bd5 35.Rc1 Ba3
[35...Ba3 Lalith resigned at this point. After
36.Rc3 Bb4 37.Rcxd3 Bxd2 38.Rxd2 Ke7 should
not be too difficult to win this.] 0–1
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Prize winning studies from
4th FIDE World Cup in composing
The 4th edition of FIDE World Cup for endgame studies attracted 48 entries.The general
level of the entries, according to the judge
Yochanan Afek, was very high with many interesting and original ideas and lots of fighting
chess.The prize winners are presented here
with judge’s comments.
1st Prize – The Cup winner
Mirko Miljanic(Serbia)
White wins
1.c6+ Ka8 2.Nc7+!(2.Qxd7? Re2+ 3.Kf3
Qf8+ 4.Kxe2 Qf3+ 5.Kxf3 stalemate!) 2…
Qxc7 3.Rg8+ Rf8! (3…Nf8 4.Qxc7+-;3…
Ka7 4.Qxd7 Rf4+5.Ke3 Rf7 6.Qd4+!+-)
4.Rxf8+ Nb8 5.Qh6 Qh7+!(5…Qe7+ 6.Kd5
Qb4 7.Qc1+-) 6.Rf5!! Qxh6 7.Ra5+ Na6
8.Rxa6+ Kb8 9.c7+ Kxc7 10.Rxh6+Brilliant sacrificial anti-stalemate play on an
open board, with the heavy cannons absolutely
free. The battery Rook-pawn is created already
in the first move to trap the black queen by
checking her king should he move to the sixth
rank. Following an amazing journey highlighted
by 6.Rf5!! the very same rook eventually lands
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on the other side of the very same pinning line
to complete the initial job by role exchanges with
the pawn in regards to the enemy royal couple.
A highly original concept presented in an exemplary setting. A remarkable achievement!
2nd Prize
Martin Minski (Germany)
White wins
1.Re7+ Ka8 2.Qb1! (3.Qb7#) (2.Qxd4? Rc2+
3.Kd8 Nc5! 4.Qd5+ Kb8) 2…Nb4 3.Qxb4
Rc2+ 4.Kd8 (4.Rc7? Qe6+ 5.Kd8 Qd5+ 6.Kc8
Qe6+;4.Kd7?? Qc6+ 5.Kd8 Qc8#) 4…Rc8+!
(4…Qa6 5.Re1+-)5.Kxc8 (5.Kd7?? Qc6#)5…
Qa6+ 6.Kc7(6.Kd7? Qc6+! Kxc6 stalemate;
6.Qb7+? Qxb7+ 7.Rxb7 stalemate) 6…Qc8+!
[6…Qa7+ 7.Kd8! Qb6+! 8.Rc7!(8.Qxb6? stalemate) 8…Qxb4 9.Bc6+ Kb8 10.Rc8+(10.
Rb7+? Qxb7 11.Bxb7 Kxb7) 10…Ka7 11.Ra8+
Kb6 12.Rb8+ +-] 7.Kd6 (7.Kxc8 stalemate)
7…Qa6+8.Qb6!! [8.Bc6+? Qxc6+! 9.Kxc6
stalemate; 8.Kd5? Qd6+! 9.Kc4 (9.Qxd6
stalemate;9.Kxd6 stalemate) 9…Qd5+!
10.Kxd5 stalemate] 8…Qxb6+ 9.Bc6+ Kb8
10.Re8+[10.Rb7+? Qxb7 11.Bxb7 Kxb7
12.Kd5 Kc7 13.Kxd4 Kd6]10…Ka7 11.Ra8#
Another superb mutual sacrificial play to avoid
mates and stalemates with the cherry on top –
the formidable 8.Qb6!! to allow a model mate.
A genuine masterpiece in an excellent setting!
3rd Prize
Oleg Pervakov
White wins
1.Kf7! [1.Rg3? Be1! 2.f7 Nf6 3.Rxh3+ Kg6
4.Bh2 Bb4+ +-;1.f7? Ng7! 2.Bh2 Bb4+ +-] 1…
Bxf6 [1…Nxf6 2.Rg3 Kh6 (2…g1N 3.Rxg1 Kh6
4.Bf4+ Kf5 5.Rg5+ Kh4 6.Kg6+-)3.Bf4+ Kh5
4.Rxh3+ Kg4 5.Rg3+ Kh4 6.Rxg2+-] 2.Rg3!
[2.Rg6? Bg7! 3.Bh2 Bh6 4.Bg1 (4.Rg3 Nd6+
5.Kf6 Nc4=) 4…Ng7 5.Rg3 h2! 6.Bxh2 Nf5=]
2…Kh6 (2...Bh4 3.Rg6 Bf6 4.Bh2 Bc3 5.Rg4
Kh6 6.Kxe8+-] 3.Rxh3+ Bh4! 4.Rxh4+[4.
Bh2? Kg5 5.Kxe8 Bf2! (5...Kg4? 6.Rxh4+!
+-) 6.Ke7 Kg4 7.Rh8 Kf3 8.Rg8 Bxe3=]4…
Kg5 5.Rh8!! [Logical try 5.Rh3?! Nd6+! (5…
g1Q 6.Rg3+ Qxg3 7.Bxg3 Nf6 8.Bh4+! Kxh4
9.Kxf6 Kg4 10.Ke5 Kf3 11.Kd4+-) 6.Bxd6
g1Q 7.Rg3+ Kf5! 8.Bf4 (8.Rxg1 stalemate) 8…
Qg2! 9.Ke7 Qg1 positional draw or stalemate
10.Rg5+ Qxg5+ 11.Bxg5 Kxg5 12.Ke6 Kg6!
13.Ke5 Kf7 14.Kxe4 Ke6=] 5…g1Q 6.Bf4+!
[6.Rg8+? Ng7 7.Rxg7+ Kf5 8.Rxg1 stalemate] 6…Kg4! [6…Kf5 7.Rh5+ Kg4 8.Rg5+
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+-] 7.Rg8+(switchback)
7….Ng7! 8.Rxg7+ Kf5 9.Bh6!! [9.Rg3?
Qg2! 10.Ke7 Qg1 positional draw]9...Qa5
10.Rg5#
A highly fierce struggle to avoid stalemate
and positional draw in the best of classical
style!
4th Prize
Vladislav Tarasiuk(Ukraine)
White wins
1.Rg8 [1.Rg6? Nc7+ 2.Kb6 Ne6+ 3.Kxb7
Nc5+ 4.Kc6 Na4 5.Rd6 Bg5 6.Rxd5 Bf6]1…
Nc7+ 2.Kb6 Ne6+ 3.Kxb7 Bf6! [3…Bg5
4.Rxg5 Nxg5 5.Kc6] 4.Rg6 Nc5+ 5.Kc6!
[5.Kb6? Bxc3; 5.Kc7? Be5+ 6.Kc6 d4 7.cxd4
Bxd4]5…Ne4 [5..Bxc3 6.bxc3 Ne4 7.Kxd5
Nxd3+ 8.Kd4 Ne2+ 9.Ke3]
6.Rh6+!! [Thematic try: 6.Rxf6? Nxf6 7.b4
Ne4 8.b5 Nxc3 9.b6 d4 10.b7 d3 11.b8Q
d2 12.Qh8+ Kg2] 6…Kg2 [6…Kg1 7.Rxf6
Nxf6 8.b4 Ne4 9.b5 Nxc3 10.b6 d4 11.b7
d3 12.b8Q d2 13.Qg3+!] 7.Rxf6! Nxf6
8.b4 Ne4 9.b5 Nxc3 10.b6 d4 11.b7
d3 12.b8Q d2 13.Qb2! +A tiny intermediate check to the black king
prior to the thematic exchange sacrifice makes
a huge difference. A lovely logical study with
a lively introduction!
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Test your endgame
by C.G.S.Narayanan
Tactics from master games
Kalandadze 1967
by Srinivas Krishnan
1
1
3
White to play and win
White to play and win
2
4
White to play and win
Lubos Kopac 1966
2
Tjavlovski
1966
3
V.Bron 1965/67
4
White to play and win
Silkov 1966
5
Black to play and win
6
White to play and win
(Solution on page 47)
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5.
Jakimcik 1965
6
White to play and win in all the above six endings
(Solutions on page 47 )
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Masters of the past-51
Lionel Adalbert Kieseritzky
Lionel Adalbert Bagration Felix Kieseritzky (1 January 1806– 18 May
1853 ) was a Baltic German chess master, famous primarily for a
game he lost against Adolf Anderssen, which because of its brilliance
was named "The Immortal Game".
Kieseritzky was born in Dorpat (now Tartu), Livonia, Russian Empire
into a Baltic German family. From 1825 to 1829 he studied at the
University of Dorpat, and then worked as a mathematics teacher, like
Anderssen. From 1838 to 1839, he played a correspondence match
against Carl Jaenisch – unfinished, because Kieseritzky had to leave
for Paris. In Paris he became a chess professional, giving lessons or
playing games for five francs an hour, and editing a chess magazine.
Kieseritzky became one of the four leading French masters of the
time, alongside Louis de la Bourdonnais, Pierre Charles Fournier de Saint-Amant, and
Boncourt, and for the few years before his death was among the top two players in the
world along with Howard Staunton. His knowledge of the game was significant and he
made contributions to chess theory of his own, but his career was somewhat blighted by
misfortune and a passion for the unsound. He enjoyed a number of other magnificent
victories across his career, but his nerve was lacking when it came to tournament play.
He was invited to play in the first international chess tournament, the London 1851
tournament, where he scored ½–2½ and was defeated in the first round by the eventual
winner Adolf Anderssen. One of the games was finished in a mere 20 minutes after a
horrific blunder Staunton described as having been "never equalled even among beginners of the game". The other loss was equally one-sided. During his time in London
however, Kieseritzky also played an offhand game against Anderssen which has so
thrilled generations of chess players that it has been dubbed "The Immortal Game".
Despite losing, it was in fact Kieseritzky who recorded and published the game during
his period as editor of La Regence.
Kieseritzky is credited with invention of the first three-dimensional chess, Kubicschach
("Cubic Chess") in 1851, but failed to attract adherents. The 8×8×8 cube format was
later picked up by Dr. Ferdinand Maack in 1907 when developing Raumschach ("Space
Chess").
Kieseritzky was never a popular man owing to his narcissistic character—considering
himself the "Chess Messiah"—and on May 18, 1853, he died unmourned in Paris, France.
He was buried in a pauper's grave, its location has been found but not his exact plot,
and a memorial has been placed.
The following game, played in Paris in 1844 against Schulten, represents probably his
finest combination and bears a similarity to the famous "Immortal Game" he was to
lose seven years later:1. e4 e5 2. f4 exf4 3. Bc4 Qh4+ 4. Kf1 b5 5. Bxb5 Nf6 6. Nc3
Ng4 7. Nh3 Nc6 8. Nd5 Nd4 9. Nxc7+ Kd8 10. Nxa8 f3! 11. d3 f6 12. Bc4 d5 13. Bxd5 Bd6
14. Qe1? (14.e5! seems to be in White's favor. Instead he is delivered a beautiful forced
checkmate.) 14... fxg2+ 15. Kxg2 Qxh3+!! 16. Kxh3 Ne3+ 17. Kh4 Nf3+ 18. Kh5 Bg4# 0–1
Courtesy:Wikepedia
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1st Assam downtown FIDE Rated Chess Tournament,Guwahati.
Chief guest N N Dutta, Chancellor, Assam down Town University,
makes the opening move
Front row (L-R) Third placed Mughaho Awomi from Nagaland, Runner-up
Cheniram Pegu from Assam and Champion Y Dhanabir Singh from Manipur
with dignitaries
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3rd Chess Specific Open FIDE rated Tournament,New Delhi …
Solutions to ‘Tactics from master games’on
page 42
1. Schon,E (2318) Jones,RS (2414) [C42]
Sydney AUS Sydney AUS (8.9), 08.01.2015
Position after 30th move.White To play.
31.Nxd6! Rxe3 [31...cxd6 32.Rxe7+-]
32.Rxf7! Rxf7 [32...cxd6 33.Rf6+ Kh7
34.Rxf8 Wins] 33.Qxf7+ Kh8 34.Nf5 1–0
2. Gvetadze,Sopi (2315) Javakhishvili,L (2486) [C02]
72nd ch-GEO w 2015 Tbilisi GEO (4.1),
13.01.2015
Position after 20th move.White to play.
21.Qh3! h6 [21...Kf8 22.Qxh7+-; 21...
Nd7 22.Qxh7+ Kf8 23.Nxd7+ Bxd7 (23...
Qxd7 24.g4 Bf7 25.g5 Bxg5 26.Qh8+ Ke7
27.Qxg7+-) 24.g4 Ke7 25.g5+-] 22.Rxf6!
gxf6 23.Qg3+! Kh8 [23...Kf8 24.Ng6++-]
24.Nf7+ 1–0
Winner Sahaj Grover receiving winner's trophy. GB Joshi, AK Verma and Bharat Singh
3. Guliev,L (2385)
Bayramov,Elvin (2051) [B70]
70th ch-AZE 2015 Baku AZE (8.7),
41st move.White to play. 42.Rc7! Qxc7 [42...
Qg8 43.Qe4+ Kxh5 44.g4+ Kh4 45.Qxe5 Rxb3
46.Qg3+ Rxg3 47.fxg3#; 42...Qf5 43.Rg7#]
43.Qe4+ Kxh5 [43...Kf7 44.Qh7++- Rc7]]
44.g4+ [44.g4+ Kh4 45.Qe3 e4+ 46.Qg3+
Qxg3+ 47.fxg3#] 1–0
4. Suran,J (2384) - Teske,H (2500) [B40]
Prague Open 2015 Prague CZE (9.5),
Position after 15th move.White to play 16.b4!
Ba7[16...Bxb4 17.Nb6+-; 16...Be7 17.Nb6;
16...Bxf3 17.Qxf3] 17.Bxb7 [17.Bxb7 Qxb7
(17...Rb8 18.Bxa6+-) 18.Nd6+] 1–0
Categroy Below 1599 winner S Jeevanandam, Below 1999 winner Anurag Jaiswal, Runner up of
the event Rahul Sangma and Winner Sahaj Grover
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5. Karthikeyan,P2 (2435) Gupta,Ab (2631) [B67]
13th Parsvnath Open New Delhi IND (3.1),
10.01.2015
Position after White's 31st move. Black to
play. 31...Nxa3+! 32.bxa3 [32.Ka1 Nc2+
33.Kb1 Ra1#] 32...Qc2+! 33.Ka1 [33.Qxc2
bxc2+–+] 33...Rxa3+! [33...Rxa3+ 34.Bxa3
b2+ 35.Bxb2 (35.Ka2 b1Q#) 35...Ra8+] 0–1
6. Jankovic,A (2534) - Palac,M (2581)
[E17]
ch-CRO 2015 Opatija CRO (1.2), 11.01.2015
Position after 33rd move.White to play.
34.Rxe5! dxe5 35.Bc6! Qb8 [35...Rf7
36.Rd6 Kf8 (36...Ra1+ 37.Kg2) 37.Qh6+
Ke7 38.Rd7+ Kf6 39.Qh8+ Ke6 40.Qe8++-]
36.Rd7+ Rf7 37.Rd8! Qc7 38.Qh4! Rf8
39.Rxf8 Kxf8 40.Qh8+ [40.Qh8+ Ke7
41.Qg7+ Kd6 (41...Kd8 42.Qf8#; 41...Ke6
42.Qxc7+-) 42.Qf6#] 1–0
Solutions to ‘Test your endgame’ on page 43
1.Kalandadze
1.Rg4 Nh3 2.Nd7+ Kf7 3.Ne5+ Kf8 4.Rh4
Ng5 5.Rxh8 Nh7 6.Nd4 Kg7 7.Nf5+ Kxh8
8.Ng6#
2.Lubos Kopac
1.Nc4+ Kb3 2.Nxe3 Bd3 3.Kc6 Ka4 4.Kc5
Bb5 5.Nd5 Be8 6.Nf6 Bb5 7.Kb6 wins
3.Tjavlovski
1.Nb7+ Kc6 2.Nd8+ Kd6 3.Rf1 Rh7 4.Ke2
d1Q+ 5.Kc3 Rxd5 6.Kc4 Ra5 7.Rg3 Bf8
8.Ra3+ BxR 9.b3#
4. V.Bron
1.Na5+ Ka6 2.Nc7+ KxN 3.Bd2+ Ka4 4.Be8+
Kb3 5.Bf7+ Ka4 6.Kc2 b1Q+ 7.KxQ g1Q+
8.Ka2 Qg8 9.Bd5 Qf7 10.Ne6 Kb5 11.Nd4+
Ka4 12.Nb3+ wins
5.Silkov
1.Rf3 Ke4 2.Rh3 Be6 3.Rh6 Bg8 4.Nc4 BxN
5.Rh4+ Kd5 6.Nb6+ Kc5 7.KxB Rb1+ 8.Kc7
Rb4 9.c3 RxN 10.Rh5#
6.Jakimcik
1.1.Sg5 Ng6 2.Ne6 Nf4 3.NxN h3 4.Nxh3 b5
5.Nf2 b4 6.Nd1 b3 7.Kd2 Kb1 8.Nd6 a1Q
9.Nc3+ Kxb2 10.Nc4#
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Solution to ‘Puzzle of the month’ on page 11: Black played BRh8x WQh5 and then white played
WKg6x BRh5.After retracting the above moves we have BR at h8 and WK at g6.Now black plays
0-0 and white mates with Qh7!
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3rd Bhubaneswar All India Open FIDE Rating Chess Championship
Inauguration (L-R) On the Podium-Subhasis Patnaik, Secy Khordha Dist Chess Association-cum-Executive Member
AOCA; On the dais - FA Suresh Chandra Sahoo, Chief Arbiter; Manoj Kumar Panigrahi, Jt Secy AOCA, Diptesh Patnaik,
IPS, Dy Inspector General of Police Govt of Odisha, Bhubaneswar;GC Mohapatra, Executive Member, AOCA
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(L-R) GC Mohapatra, Executive Member, AOCA; 3rd IM Vikramaditya Kulkarni, Chief Guest Sj. Sarat Chandra Mishra,
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Member AOCA; Champion GM RR Laxman; Mr. Debashis Mekap, Vice President, Khordha District Chess Association;
Runner up - IM Himansu Sharma
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LIC 2nd International Grandmasters Chess Tournament,Kolkata...
Ustad Rashid Khan, famous
Hindustani vocalist, inaugurating the
tournament.
Final Round Game between S.S.Ganguly and
Cuban GM Ortiz Suarez
Champion Surya Sekhar Ganguly with
Runner Up Nigel Short and GM Dibyendu
Barua, Vice President, AICF