AICF CHRONICLE - India Chess Federation
AICF CHRONICLE the official magazine of the All India Chess Federation Volume : 8 Issue : 11 Price Rs. 25 May 2015 National Rapid & Blitz Chess Championship 2015, Rourkela GM Debashis Das National Rapid Champion IM K.Ratnakaran National Blitz Champion AICF CHRONICLE MAY 2015 Room No. 70, Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, Chennai - 600 003. Ph : 044-65144966 /Telefax : 044-25382121 E-mail : indianchessfed@gmail.com Publisher: V. Hariharan Editor : C.G.S. Narayanan Price: Monthly Rs.25 Annual Rs.300 Inside... 1st Physically Disabled National Individual Chess Championship 2015,Trichy Jennitha and Karthik win titles IA Anantharam R, Chief Arbiter 1 2nd ACCF FIDE Rated Open , Calicut… Shyam Nikhil wins by L.R. Bhuvanaa Sai, IA, Chief Arbiter 2 Karnataka State Open FIDE Rated … Shivananda is Champion From the Editor’s desk It is delightful news for Indian chess fans that Vishy Anand has broken into 2800 elo yet again after 2011 and has also climbed to the spot in ranking behind World Champion Magnus Carlsen after a four-year hiatus. His impressive performance at the Gashimov Memorial Tourney last month outclassing most of the young guns speaks volumes about the resilience of this fivetime World Champion. by Vasanth BH, Chief Arbiter7 Karnataka State U 13 Open FIDE Rated Aditya Kalyani wins title FASaleem Beig,Chief Arbiter9 Maharashtra State Open & Women FIDE Rating Nagpur Pruthu Deshpande and Tejaswini Sagar win IA Swapnil Bansod,Chief Arbiter 11 National Rapid & Blitz Chess Championship-2015,Rourkela Debashis Das and Ratnakaran win titles by Rajendra Shidore,IA,Chief Arbiter14 56th Odisha State Senior FIDE Rating,Puri… Rakesh Kumar Nayak wins title Suresh Chandra Sahoo, Chief Arbiter16 Late Motilalji Firodia Memorial FIDE Rating Ahmednagar Sameer Kathmale is champion by IA Nitin Shenvi,Chief Arbiter18 Dr. Hedgewar Fide Rated, New Delhi Pravin Thipsay wins title by IA Dharmendra Kumar,Chief Arbiter22 1st Thali Yuva Sangh Open FIDE Rating Sinha Santosh Kumar is the winner IA I G Parmar,Chief Arbiter 30 Selected games from National Team Chess Championships,Goa & Kolkata GM Open annotated by IM Manuel Aaron Tactics from master games 32 By Srinivas Krishnan41 AICF Calendar48 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. Our women team though missing out on a medal finished a creditable fourth at the World Women Team Chess Championship at Chengdu,China. Harika Dronavalli and Koneru Humpy bagged individual silver and bronze medals for their performances on second and top boards respectively. Our men team disappointed with a lowly ninth placing. Reports on the World team chess Championships with photographs are featured in the centre pages of this isue. Debashis Das won the rapid title and Ratnakaran the Blitz at the National Rapid and Blitz Championships held at the steel city,Rourkela. Report on this National along with FIDE rated tournaments held in April 2015 are presented in this issue. Selected games are from National Team Chess Championship and Kolkata GM Open annotated by IM Manuel Aaron. GM Ludek Pachman is featured in the ‘Masters of the past’ series. C.G.S.Narayanan 1st Physically Disabled National Individual Chess Championship 2015,Trichy Jennitha and Karthik win titles IA Anantharam R, Chief Arbiter Physically Disabled National Individual Chess Championship 2015, first of its kind in India was organised by Trichy District Physically Disabled Chess Association at Pavendhar Bharathidasan College of Engineering and Technology, Trichy from 16th to 19th April 2015. The seven round Swiss format tournament, with a time control of 90 minutes each and 30 seconds increment from move 1 was attended by 26 participants from five states – Tamil Nadu, AP, Karnataka, Pondicherry and Maharashtra. Fide Master Venkata Krishna Karthik of AP was the top seed followed by WIM and women world champion for physically disabled person JennithaAnto of the host association.The tournament is of special importance, as the physically disabled players exhibited their prowess. ShaileshNerlikar’s both legs are immobilised; he cannot even sit and has to play only by lying on the table. He has a rating of 1565! Many players needed assistants to record the moves and operate the clock. In the inaugural round, top seed Venkata Krishna Karthik, who defeated a grandmaster and many IMs in Serbia recently was stretched to the full distance by unrated Gunasekaran of TN before emerging victorious. In the second round, Annadurai of TN, rated 1572 was beaten by young Karnataka boy Samarth J Rao, who has to be carried by his father everywhere and could not sit for a long time properly. At the end of fourth round, Karthik had four points and JennithaAntohad 3.5 points.In the crucial clash between the top two seeds, Jennitha subdued Karthik to surge ahead with 4.5 points, along with SathyaMoorthy of Pondicherry. Jennitha had no difficulty in beating unrated Senthil Kumar in the sixth and penultimate round, to emerge sole leader with 5.5 points, with Karthik on 5 points. Both Jennitha and Karthik won their final round encounters with their respective opponents; thus Jennitha winning the women title and Venkata Krishna Karthik, the men title and they received Rs.10000 each. Samarth J Rao and Shailesh Nerlikar scored five points each and better tiebreak score helped Samarth to finish second in the men section.Senthil Kumar has secured rating in this tournament, and two others opened their account. The credit goes to Samarth, who has earned about 115 rating points in this tournament. Mr.V. Hariharan, General Secretary of TN State Chess Association and Secretary of AICF distributed the prizes in the august presence of Dr.Arun MBBS., Managing Trustee, Pavendar Bharathidasan Institutions and President of Tamil Nadu Physically Disabled Chess Association. Earlier on the first day, Dr.Arun inaugurated the tournament, in the presence of Mrs. Uma Arun, Director of PBI and Mrs. MP Aamenabi, Vice President, TNPDCA. Final placings: 1. Jennitha Anto K., 2.Venkata Krishna Karthik K , 3.Samarth J Rao, 4.Nerlikar Shailesh, 5. Sathya Moorthy, 6.Yesu Babuk, 7. Manikandan Rajangam, 8.Jahir Hussain.A, 9. Senthil Kumar Sundaram, 10. Uday Kumar Tummagunta. AICF CHRONICLE MAY 2015 1 2nd ACCF FIDE Rated Open Chess Tournament, Calicut… 1st Physically Disabled National Individual Championship 2015,Trichy Shyam Nikhil wins by L.R. Bhuvanaa Sai, IA, Chief Arbiter The 2nd ACCF FIDE Rated Open Chess Tournament was inaugurated by Shri Purushan Kadalundi, MLA,Kerala against the international master Shyam Nikhil of Tamilnadu at New Nalanda hotel on 3rd April at 11 am. Mr. Nirmal Das secretary of ACCF delivered Welcome Address in the presence of the chief guest shri Kamal Varadhu, president of press club and Shri Preman, the president of Anand Chess and Cultural Forum. With the total prize fund of 1, 63,500 this event attracted 331 participants from 2 federations, (India and England) 8 states, union territory (Pondicherry), special units like BSNL, ICF and LIC which includes 3 International Masters, a Fide master, a women fide master and 2 candidate masters. Top seed players sailed smoothly to the 2nd round. In 2nd round 15 years old boy Narendran of TN drew with IM Ramanathan Balasubramanian. 11 players shared their lead with full points at the end of 4th round. During 7thround 7 players led the top tables with 5.5 points each. After this round IM Shyam Nikhil took sole lead and maintained in the next round also. At the end of penultimate round Shyam, IM Praveen Kumar and Phoobalan of ICF and Fide Master Maheswaran of TN were the joint leaders with 7 points each. In final round Shyam Nikhil beat Phooblan of ICF and won the 2nd ACCF Open fide rating chess tournament title with 8 points. The champion bagged Rs. 25,000 cash award with trophy. Praveen Kumar of ICF and Maheswaran of TN drew with each other with 7.5 points each. Better tie break 2 AICF CHRONICLE MAY 2015 helped Maheswaran to finish 2nd place and received 15,000 cash award with trophy. Ram S Krishnan of BSNL beat Gavi Siddaya of Karnataka and finished 3rd spot with 7.5 points and received 10,000 cash award with trophy. T.J Suresh Kumar, treasurer, Chess Association Kerala distributed the prizes to the winners. Final standings: Rk Name 1 Shyam Nikil P IM 2 Maheswaran P FM 3 Ram S. Krishnan 4 Lakshmi Narayanan Mv 5 Praveen Kumar C IM 6 Visveshwar A 7 Subramanian Pl 8 Prakashram R 9 Arjun Satheesh 10 Kunal M. 11 Mohammed Dilshad 12 Phoobalan P. 13 Iniyan P 14 Anilkumar O.T. 15 Jos Paul Davis 16 Chandar Raju 17 Akhilan E M 18Prasannaa.S 19 Arjun K. 20 Varma Shabdhik 21 Athul Krishna S 22 Sreekumar P. 23 RBalasubramaniam IM 24 Raju O A 25 Subramanian R M 26 Arjun Kalyan 27 Arjun Adappa 28 Gavi Siddayya 29 Santoshkashyap Hg Pts 8 7½ 7½ 7½ 7½ 7½ 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 6½ 6½ 6½ 6½ 6½ 6½ 6½ 6½ 6½ 6½ 6½ 6½ 6½ 6½ Champion Venkata Krishna Karthik receives prize from Mr. V. Hariharan,Secretary, AICF Women champion WIM Jennitha Anto receives the trophy from Mr.V. Hariharan,Secretary, AICF 3 Dr. Hedgewar Fide Rated Chess Tournament, New Delhi (from left to right) Prabhat Kumar of Prabhat Publication Delhi , Chief Guest Gen. V.K.Singh , MoS EA Simmy Jain , Chairman , Org. Committee and Wg. Comr. J. Rajendra (From left to right) Vijay Kumar , DD Sports , Dharmendra Kumar, Chief Arbiter, Shweta Bahal, Deepa, Prabhat Kumar, Arun Jain, Winner GM Pravin Thipsay, Simmy Jain, Shirish Jain, Pammi Jain, Purnima Goel, A.K. Verma, Secretary, DCA 4 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 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 Gukesh D Sanjay S Pillai Balasubramanian A. Bindu Saritha K WFM Dheekshith Kumar R Vincent Dave Mohanan U.C. Jagadeesh A.K. Anand Nadar Sriram B Marthandan K U Meghna C H Banjan Priyadarshan Bhagya Jayesh Likhit Chilukuri Jai Aditya D Krithigga K ManuDavid Suthandram Muthukumar C P Aji Kumar A Harshavardhan G B Sreeraman Namboodiri Thorat Aishwarya Selvamurugan B Rajeev V.M. Arijith M Harikrishnan A Martin Samuel Sishir B Santhosh David Chujeeth Vignesh A Vinay Thomas Abraham Dhanasekar K. Sachin Pradeep Rahul Bharadwaj B Ajeesh Antony Srihari L R Nithin Babu Karan J P Muhammed Shibily N Poojakanth M. Deepak K Isha Sharma Sreehari G Madhusoodanan K.R. John P B Narendhiran R 6½ 6½ 6½ 6½ 6½ 6½ 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 5½ 5½ 5½ 5½ 5½ 5½ 5½ 5½ 5½ 5½ 5½ 5½ 5½ 77 Jayakrishnan P 78 Nitin Shankar Madhu 79 Akash K A 80 Abhiram Sudheesh 81 Eswar Theagarajan 82 Panaiappan S 83 Prabhugaonkar A Aman 84 Rajashakkthivel K K 85 Subramanian V 86 Vaishnav S 87 Adhi Dev K P 88 Dev Shah CM 89 Shah Rishab 90 Prem Krishna N 91 Naveen Kumar T 92 Jibin Varghese John 93 Gautham B 94 Thorat Sanjay 95 Varadharajan S 96 Sibi Visal R 97 Pranav V 98 Jain Aum 99 V Sankaran Brahmaha 100S. Jeevanandam 101Vishnu Ram M 102Shourya Jain 103Avi Jaiswal 104Vathan P H 105Eldho Skaria 106Ithal H L Rajath 107Chandran T. 108Arvind Ramnath Iyer 109Krishna M K Ramanatha 110Swarnamala B 111Neeraj Kumar 112Shreyas Pavan 113Sudheer K B 114Aswin B S 115Ruhaan Mahindru 116Pooja S (2002) 117Senbabu M B 118A C Santhalaya 119Abhiram T 120Subramanian T.V. 121Amisha Arunjay Kumar 122Patil Ketan 123Praveen Kumar G AICF CHRONICLE MAY 2015 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 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 124Rohit Sasidharan 125Nachiketh Adiga 126Adwait Meethal 127Arunachalam Shivaa T 128Swaroopa E T 129Megha K 130Chandramohan K 131Shirodkar Aayush 132Sarath K 133Ashmit Arunjay Kumar 134Sujithraj U Mallan 135Gowtham T S 136Shivani Madhu 137Harshad S 138Afinu Shifan M 139Rakshitta Ravi 140Dawood.K 141Rohit S 142Muralidharan M 143Manika Kesavan 144Niranjan Rajeev 145Gokul N 146Abdul Nazer K 147Ramakrishnan T V 148Razan P 149Denil James 150Manoranjan Kelad 151Govindarajan Suganthi 152Abhiram C Nath 153Murugappan S P 154Shane V Jose 155Jamal Muhammad M 156Mohammed Salih Pk 157Pranav Anand 158Nikhil Magizhnan CM 159Digvijay Sunil 160V Sankaran Swaha 161Gowrichander U 162Vaheeb Shafi Hassan K 163K N Nidhin 164Chirag Mudraje 165Madhavan G 166Kaushik M Khedekar 167Gautham Prasanth 168Tejas Cavale 169John Veny Akkarakarn 170Vasundhara P. 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 5 5 5 4½ 4½ 4½ 4½ 4½ 4½ 4½ 4½ 4½ 4½ 4½ 4½ 4½ 4½ 4½ 4½ 4½ 4½ 4½ 4½ AICF CHRONICLE MAY 2015 171Rithunandan R 172Jayanth R J R 173Hiranmayi K 174Dhanesh P H 175Jacob Ragland A 176Guruprasad Gopinath 177Karunakara Menon K 178B Gayatri Harshad 179P Krishna Mukkolath 180Sidharthan C P 181Satheesh A S 182Sreevijay Sunil 183Fathima Abdeen 184Vivekraj 185Rethish Puthanpurayil 186Santhosh S 187Saraf T M 188Abdurahiman Elangoli 189Abhishek T M 190Adhithya C K 191Jithu S Nair 192Moir Donald 193Kamalakannan S 194Murali N P 195Prabhakaran K 196Devathma D 197Rithwik Maya Rajesh 198Subash Aravind B 199Ridhan M Feroz 200Vinothkumar R 201Narendran Gouthaman 202Aswin S 203Goutham Krishna G 204Swetha K 205Mohana R 206Revathi Jyothish 207Harikrishnan S B 208Sharsha Backer 209Shashank S L 210Krishnakumar Arulraj 211Sidharth D 212Aswanth S Kumar 213Deepthi Lakshmi K 214Rao Harsh 215Adeena Arjun 216Dhruv Easwar 217Siri Sharma 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 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 Karnataka State Open FIDE Rated Chess Championship 2015… Shivananda is Champion by Vasanth BH, Chief Arbiter Karnataka State Open FIDE Rated Chess Championship 2015 was organised by Karnataka School of Chess, Bangalore, under the auspices of United Karnataka Chess Association at Kempegowda Hall, Malleswaram Association, Malleswaram Bangalore from 15-19th April 2015. The championship was inaugurated by great chess lover and Patron of United Karnataka Chess Association Mr Achuthananda Reddy. A total of 260 players from different parts of Karnataka participated in this championship, out of which 135 were International rated player. International Master Shivananda BS (ELO Rating 2302) was top seed followed by FIDE Master Raghunandan K S (2301), Sanjay N (2298), Arvind Shastry (2235), Sriram Sarja (2169). At the end of the championship, IM Shivananda BS and Mr N Sanjay scored 7 points each. Based on better tie break score, IM Shivananda was adjudged as Champion and Sanjay was declared second. Mr Arvind Shastry, Prachura PP and other six players score five and half points out of maximum possible 8 points. Bansed the tie break, Arvind Shastry was third and Prachura PP was place 4th place respectively. Mr Arvind Shastry, Secretary, United Karnataka Chess Association, Mr Nagendra Muralidhar, Secretary, Mysore District Chess Association, Mr Raghavendra Founder Director, Karnataka School of Chess, International Master Shivananda B S distributed the prizes. Final standings: Rk Name 1 Shivananda B.S IM Pts 7 2 Sanjay N. 3 Arvind Shastry 4 Prachura P.P. 5 Sriram Sarja 6 Manjunath J. 7 Shreeshan S 8 Aditya Chakraborty 9 Varma Shabdhik 10 Darshan V P S 11 Raghunandan K S FM 12 Kishan Gangolli 13 Santoshkashyap Hg 14 Raghavendra V. 15 Arjun Adappa 16 Parthasarathy R 17 Yashaskara Jois K.R 18 Ojas Kulkarni 19 Raju M. 20 Jagadish P 21 Likhit Chilukuri 22 Sugyan Prakash Maharaj 23 Dhrikshu K Vasant 24 Varun Anant 25 Andria L D`souza 26 Gavi Siddayya 27 Sushrutha Reddy 28 Manasa H R 29 Aman Chandra 30Vivekraj 31 Shyama Krishna S 32 Sriram Udhayakumar 33 Sharan Rao 34 Hariharan Subramony 35 Shalon Joanne Pais 36 Aravinda B R 37 Yajaman Aditya 38 Saket Kumar 39 Iyengar Sharanya WCM 40 Shashank S Mayya 41 Nandan Hegde AICF CHRONICLE MAY 2015 7 6½ 6½ 6½ 6½ 6½ 6½ 6½ 6½ 6 6 6 6 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 5½ 5½ 7 42 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 Supreeth Mohan Ankit Payal Thyagaraj M T Pereira Asim Anthony Siddharth Murali Tulsi M Raghavendra K T Dubey Amit Kumar Harish Bn Muniraju Narayanappa Ithal H L Rajath K R Bhat Chaithanya Ganesh Nikhilesh Prabhakar Karthikay C Abhinav Bhatt Svatejas Shivakumar Pranav Anand Nachiketh Adiga Venu Madhav P L Shree Krishna Pranama Ruthvik R Ananya Arumbakkam Amaey Advait Raghuraman N. 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Adithya Narayanan Pramod D Kayasth Rajat Dhruva Ravindra Karthik Jagannath Banthiya Rishabh Yogesha K S Ritwik Vasudev Bilgi Shreyas Pavan Kanishka Basu Navodith V Bhat Gaurav Sharma Bal Govind Komal Srivatsav Sajja Shashidhar Rai B Sudarshan Bhat Shivanth M Sheshashayan M V Sreedhara K T Ritesh Dharmatti Shyam Sunder H S Mahalinga Gowthama Sathish Hemant 8 5½ 5½ 5½ 5½ 5½ 5½ 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 4½ 4½ 4½ 4½ 4½ 4½ 4½ 4½ 4½ 4½ 4½ 4½ 4½ 4½ 4½ AICF CHRONICLE MAY 2015 89 Shalmika K Jain 90 Akshat Shisodia 91 Shaunak Geetprasad 92 Nidhi Shenoy 93 Shreekanth N 94 Chirag S Agile 95 Adarsh Narayanan 96 Srinivas Murthy N 97 Aryan Rajesh Jain 98 Kaushik J 99 Aravindakshan Su 100Panchami Shenoy K 101Satvik Tripathi 102Chiranjan Kumarr K S 103Lakshvant B 104Prajwal M Joshi 105Harishankar S 106Kaushik G Iyer 107Vedanth Reddy 108Anmol S 109Raghav Srinivas 110Khandelwal Anshul 111Manya Hegde 112Bhagyashree G Patil 113Preetham Gangadhar 114Tejas Cavale 115Rohit Kamath S 116Umesh K M 117Vishwas Jamadagni 118Tanmay Srinath 119Shripad K V 120Varun A Bharadwaj 121Sheshadri L 122Achal P Shetty 123Aakash Rajan 124Saathvick R Shankar 125Chinua Pailoor 126Anjaneyulu Movva 127Agrawal Arnav 128Anudeep K S 129Anjali G Malali 130Kalki Eshwar D 131Prajwal Gupta C R 132Anusha T 133Bhoomish P 134Abhay B Bhandarkar 135Shivshankar B Anehosur 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 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 Karnataka State U 13 Open FIDE Rated Chess Championship 2015…. Aditya Kalyani wins title FASaleem Beig,Chief Arbiter Karnataka State U 13 Open FIDE Rated Chess Championship 2015 was conducted from 20th to 23rd April 2015. The 4 day tournament attracted 174 entries and was conducted in a 9 round Swiss format, with two rounds on day 1, 3 rounds on day 2 and day 3 and 1 round on day 4. The event carried a prize pool of Rs.34, 500 in cash. And lunch provided two days for children ,Certificates given for all Participants. Guests are mr.Aravind Shasthri secretary of Karnataka UKCA, And Gurukul’S Sports Manager with A.Chidanand BRDCA Secretary given the Prizes to Prize Winners 60 players were FIDE Rated and 14 players were female. The event was organized by BRDCA talents. Aditya B Kalyani scored 7½ points out of 9 and clinched the championship with a better buccholz, Bangalore, Karnataka. The event attracted local players and benefited local. Final ranking: Rk Name 1 Aditya B Kalyani 2 Jagadish P 3 Manoj B Kulkarni 4 Shreyash A Kulkarni 5 Pankaj Bhat 6 Aryan Rajesh Jain 7 Shreyas Pavan 8 Nachiketh Adiga 9 Pranav Anand 10 Komal Srivatsav Sajja 11 Shree Krishna Pranama 12 Agrawal Arnav 13 Ritwik Vasudev Bilgi 14 Niranjan Rajeev Pts 7½ 7½ 7½ 7½ 7 7 7 7 6½ 6½ 6½ 6½ 6½ 6½ 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 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 Karthik Muruganantham Venu Madhav P L Pranav Kumar Chaithanya Ganesh Karthikay C Preetham Gangadhar Anirudh B S Shreyas V.S. Lakshvant B Rithesh Bhat Chiranjan Kumarr K S Kruthik K S Darshan J Nikilesh G K Kaushik G Iyer Aneesh Aparanji Tejas Cavale Abhinav Bhatt Deepthi Lakshmi K Chirag Mudraje Adithya Narayanan Amaey Advait Kalki Eshwar D Vineeth Vishwanath Karthik Sivaram Jasti Aditya Somasundaram Sumukha K Nayak Jai Adithya S Akash Somasundaram Tusshar N B Chinua Pailoor Anmol S Tejas Varma H Rupesh Raghuvaran Chava Govardhan Chetan Prashanth Anirudhh M K Tanav Sudarshan Aakash Rajan Peter M Jose AICF CHRONICLE MAY 2015 6½ 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 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 5½ 5½ 5½ 5 5 5 9 55 Keshav Kothari 56 Srikant Nayak A 57 Ajitesh Kumara 58 Naidhruva S Bettadapur 59 Abhay B Bhandarkar 60 Rakesh N 61 Khandelwal Anshul 62 Prajwal P 63 Apoorv Indrajit Belgundi 64 P Surya Prasad Bhat 65 Kshitij Manjappa 66 Adarsh Narayanan 67 Vishruth U 68 Saathvick R Shankar 69 Aneesh Kiran 70 Rithvik M P 71 Ankit Loni 72 Pragy Narayan 73 Saigal Archit 74 Mohit Madiraju 75 Prajwal K M 76 Monosij Roy 77 Raju Prasad R 78 Panchami Sarpangala 79 Sriram Badrinarayan 80 Prajwal S 81 Anya Seth Syed 82 Poorvik M P 83 Rishabh Kumara 84 Akash I R 85 Satyendra G 86 Shefali A N 87 Pranitha S R 88 Shreyas Kannan 89 Tarun Varadharajan 90 Ayush J Yajaman 91 Keshav Malik Kapoor 92 Meghana S 93 Navodith V Bhat 94 Keshav Gorur Sriram 95 Pranava Shrisai Gande 96 Peeyush Rampal 97 Tharun B S 98 Sasmith A Suvarna 99 Preetham B S 100Nishanth Sathish 101Pratham Ajay 10 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 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 AICF CHRONICLE MAY 2015 102Shivaprasad V Tengli 103Krishna K Ravi 104Krishnaraj Patil 105Shivshankar B Anehosur 106Shanmukha K Nayak 107Rajath Menon 108Shashank J 109Megha M Hegde 110Aryan Surya S A 111Ruthvik Srikanth 112Swaroop B V 113Shraddha Somanath 114Tejas C K 115Niranjan Babu 116Ganapathi R Mysore 117Hriday Bhutada 118Vishal B Anehosur 119Aditya Prasanna Kumar 120Arhan Chethan Anand 121Bharath Kumar 122Patki Varudhini Sadananda 123Rishi Baskaran 124Bhanu Prakash H S 125Aditya E 126Sriram Balaji S 127Mohith V 128Chakravorty Soham 129Neeraj Kumar 130Anoushka Bhatt 131Akash M H 132Suchit Chebolu 133Eshan Bhatta 134Harsh Srivastava 135Ghanashyam M V 136Yuvan K 137Adityaa R 138Rithyu Ravindra 139Gagan C 140Shravani T R 141Shaamik A R 142Samrudh B S 143Pervaje Arjun Prasad Bhat 144Teshub Dinesh 145Adarsh A Toshniwal 146Kalyan Krishnappa 147Manasa Narayan 148Siddhant Vasan 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 3½ 3½ 3½ 3½ 3½ 3½ 3½ 3½ 3½ 3½ 3½ 3½ 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 Maharashtra State Open & Women FIDE Rating Tournament 2015,Nagpur Pruthu Deshpande and Tejaswini Sagar win IA Swapnil Bansod,Chief Arbiter Maharashtra State Open and Women Fide Rating Chess Tournament 2015 was organized by Nagpur Taluka Chess Association under the aegis of Maharashtra Chess Association & Nagpur District Chess Association from 28th April to 2nd May 2015 at Dr. Ambedkar College, Deeksha Bhoomi, Nagpur. The total number of participants were 173 which included 138 players in open section and 35 players in women section. There were total 118 rated players including 1 FM, 1 WFM, 1 WCM. The venue was very good. The tournament was inaugurated by Dr. P C Pawar, Principal, Dr. Ambedkar College & Institute of Research and Management. The other dignitaries present were Shri. Manoj Itkelwar, Vice President, Maharshtra Chess Association, Shri. Dilip Pagay, Secretary Maharashtra Chess Association, Shri. K K Barat, Secretary Nagpur District Chess Association, IA Swapnil Bansod, Chief Arbiter. In Open Section 16th Seed Pruthu Deshpande of Pune won the tournament with ½ point margin over his nearest rival Shailesh Dravid of Nagpur. He already showed his determination to win the tournament by beating the top seed FM Saurabh Kherdekar of Nagpur in 5th Round, later in last round he beat Sankalp Gupta of Nagpur and remained unbeaten in the tournament and won the championship. Other Upsets of the tournament were top seed FM Saurabh Kherdekar held by local boy Saurabh Lokhande in 3rd round game, while 2nd seed Dilip Pagay of Nagpur lost to 8th seed Nishit Singh of Aurangabad in 4th round. In Women’s Section Top seed WCM Tejaswini Sagar of Aurang- abad won the tournament on better buchcholz score. She tied on 8 points with her city mate WFM Mitali Patil and Divya Garg of Nagpur. WFM Mitali Patil and Divya Garg stood 2nd and 3rd respectively. All the top 3 players sharing the lead with each other from round 7th to last round. In last round game Tejaswini beat her opponent Eesha Sarda while Mitali Patil and Divya Garg beat Sonal Mandhana, Tanya Pande respectively. Top 4 players from both group selected for forthcoming National Challenger and National Women Challenger. The total prize fund for the event was Rs. 75000/-, in which Rs. 50000/- for open group and Rs. 25000/- for women group. The prizes were distributed at the hands of Shri. Sandeep Joshi, Corporator Nagpur, in the presence of Shri. Sudhir Fulzele, Director Dr. Ambedkar College , Ms. Rajashree Datta, Principal Somalwar School, Shri. A P Joshi, Vice Principal, Dr. Ambedkar College, Shri. Dilip Pagay, Secretary MCA, Shri. Swapnil Bansod, Chief Arbiter and Shri. Sushant Jumde, Organising Secretary. Final ranking: Maharashtra State Open Rk Name 1 Pruthu Deshpande 2 Shailesh Dravid 3 Sauravh Khherdekar FM 4 Patil Ketan 5 Gandhi Anish 6 Sammed Jaykumar Shete 7 Saurabh Lokhande 8 Sankalp Gupta 9 Dilip Pagay 10 Singh Nishit AICF CHRONICLE MAY 2015 Pts 8 7½ 7½ 7 6½ 6½ 6½ 6½ 6½ 6½ 11 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 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 Patil Priyanshu Sadhwani Raunak Om Vinay Vitalkar Sivasubramanian R Dahale Atul Roneet Das Patil Kiran Krishnater Kushager Gouravkumar Nanwani Devansh Ratti Palaskar Rutwik Nahar Anish Yash Ingolikar Nagare Akhilesh Raunak Godbole Atharva Rakesh Bhede Ghorghate Sahil Satkar Chirag Patil Mayur Rohan Bharat Joshi Shamkuwar Y. M. Deogade Salil Naresh Kantode Vinay V. Barhanpure Gupta Rajesh R.S. Patil Rohit R Sanil Upasani Patil T S Jeswani Saransh Sapre Shreyas Dewang Kalpesh Swayam Uttam Aalewad Dhanvij Ansh Spandan P Seth Yadav Satendrakumar Nilesh Kevaldas Bankar Deshmukh Nachiket Tanuj M. Meshran Pendsey Muktanand Chandran T. Vaishnav Paunikar Laha S K Deshpande Ishan M Ramachandran. V Saurav L Tembhare Kohad Dipesh Ahire Vaibhav 12 6½ 6½ 6½ 6½ 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 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 AICF CHRONICLE MAY 2015 58 Shintre Neel 59 Dange Atharva 60 Sangai Samkit 61 Khopey Jay 62 Pophali Aryan S 63 Kushal R Karwa 64 Hardas Akhilesh 65 Chaoji Vikram 66 Zambad Aman 67 Borkar B C 68 K.K. Pandey 69 Pagay Shail 70 Dnyandeep Jadhav 71 Joshi Ved 72 Lonkar Parth 73 Joshi Kshitij D 74 Goyal Devansh 75 Aryan Khurana 76 Raut Rutvij 77 Dodeja Mann 78 Madke Viraj 79 Hirani Lakshya 80 Bhoyar Shreerang 81 Awghad Shyam 82 Kherdekar Arnav 83 Chandrani Shlok 84 Kalgaonkar S 85 Lohit Rushikesh 86 Moharir Aayush 87 Khan H K 88 Patil Siddhey 89 Chourasiya Sumukh 90 Shende Manthan 91 Suchak Adarsh 92 Javkhedkar Sarang 93 Gorghate Rushabh 94 Deogade Aryan 95 Demetrius D Souza 96 Borkar Nikhilanand 97 Yash Dhoke 98 Nirwan Saurabh 99 Shinde Rujul 100Bharadkar Shashwat 101Taori Yash 102Wairagade Khush 103Vekhande Shivam 104Mahore Archis 5 5 5 5 5 5 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 4 4 4 3½ 3½ 3½ 3½ 3½ 3½ 3½ 3½ 105Chaoji Parth 106Ayalwar Manthan 107Juare Deep 108Sonkusre Om Sanjay 109Honmane Suyog 110Moholkar Amogh Maharashtra FIDE Women Final placings: Rk Name 1 Tejaswini Sagar WCM 2 Patil Mitali Madhukar WFM 3 Divya Garg 4 Adane Narayani 5 Patil Samiksha 6 Nagalakshmi R 7 Anjali R. Sagar 8 Eesha Ajay Sarda 9 Pagay Shalaka 10 Sonal Mandhana 11 Tanya Pandey 12 Saloni Patel 13 Chansoriya Ketki 14 Dnynadha N Vitalkar 15 Thakare Seeya 16 Subhasmitha Sahoo 17 Palorkar Riddhi 18 Sagar Siya 19 Ismat Chimthanwala 20 Nusrat Chimtanawala 21 Gupta Niti 22 Gudsurkar Rekha 23 Patil Aditi G 24 Jhawar Preksha 25 Wairagade Rashi 26 Sharanya Vinayak Adane 27 Verma Riya 28 Belpande Shalaka 29 Maheshwari Krishna 30 Harde Sharyu 31 Deshmukh Keshar 32 Kumbhalkar Anisha 33 Deshmukh Kasturi 34 Gotefode Sneha 35 Anushka Heda 3½ 3½ 3½ 3½ 3½ 3½ Pts 8 8 8 6 6 5½ 5½ 5½ 5 5 5 5 5 5 4½ 4½ 4½ 4½ 4½ 4½ 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 3½ 3 3 3 2 1 0 0 Puzzle of the month by C.G.S.Narayanan SPG (Short proof game) is a type of problem in which the task is to reconstruct a legal game. Starting from the opening array, the solver has to find the shortest possible game that leads to the diagram position. White and Black thus effectively cooperate to achieve this, and that the moves would not be sensible in a competitive game is considered irrelevant. SPGs are also characterised by their exact play – the move order in each solution is unique.Separate section for retros and proof games is introduced in the latest 10th WCCT announced. Here is a position in which every piece stands on its game array square. The main point of this short proof game is the visual effect and a kind of deceptive symmetry. In spite of White and Black’s symmetrical arrangement in the final position, the play leading to it is non-symmetrical. Joost de Heer Probleemblad 2001 SPG in 6 moves Find the six moves from the game array to reach this position. (Solution on page 48) AICF CHRONICLE MAY 2015 13 National Rapid & Blitz Chess Championship-2015,Rourkela Debashis Das and Ratnakaran win titles by Rajendra Shidore,IA,Chief Arbiter National Rapid & Blitz Chess Championship-2015 was inaugurated by Hono ra b l e C h i e f G u e s t S r i P K P ra d h a n GM(P&A),Rourkela Steel Plant, Mr.Raheman Khan, GM(TS),RSP in the presence of Mrs. Minati Mohapatra,DGM(sports),SAIL,RSP on dated 26th April’2015 at the Rourkela Club, Rourkela, Odisha.Rourkela is known as a Steel City of India as well as of Odisha. This city is 14TH green city of India when one & only in Odisha. This prestigious National Rating event was successfully organized by Rourkela Steel Plant, Rourkela under the aegis of All Odisha Chess Association under the strong supervision of Mrs. Minati Mohapatra DGM(sports) SAIL,RSP and other officials of All Odisha Chess Association under the AICF event code 111535,111536/ODI/2015 and was recognized by AICF and FIDE. In this event in-spite of less no of entry this is strongest ever rapid & blitz chess event held in India. Including 2 GM & 9 IM total 52 players from 9 states were participated in this well organised event. At the end in Rapid section top seed GM Debashis Das,Odisha & in blitz section IM K Ratnakaran, of Kerala became the champion of this national event. 1st time the new time control was introduced in the National Rapid chess as 15 mints with 10 sec increment(world Rapid format) as suggested by all the majority players & title holders. We are thankful to AICF for sending us new FIDE ids in time. Top seed GM Debashis Das got champions 14 AICF CHRONICLE MAY 2015 trophy with a prize money of Rs.50,000/- followed by Runners up IM Diptayan Ghosh a Total Cash Prizes of Rs.25,000/-. In the blitz section IM Ratnakaran K,Ker got the champions trophy with a total cash of Rs.20,000/-. Total cash prizes was Rs.1,75,000/- in Rapid section with Rs.75,000/- in Blitz section. In the closing ceremony the Chief Guest was Mr.G.S.Prasad,CEO, SAIL,RSP with Guest of Honor Dr.A.K.Singh,Director i-c(M&HS) SAIL,RSP, Mr.PK pradhan,GM i-c(P&A) SAIL,RSP, Mr. R Khan GM (TS), Mr. Sitaram Pradahan GM(F & A) RSP, Mrs. Minati mohapatra,DGM sports,RSP and respected Mr Ranjan Mohanty, vice president AOCA. Also I am very thankful to AICF for nominating me as Chief Arbiter and Mr Nihar Ranjan Sasmal,IA of Odisha as Dy. Chief Arbiter for this prestigious event. Organizers had provided very good lodging, boarding and transport facilities for all the players & officials. Weather condition during the event was good for the players also the playing venue was a A/C hall.No protest was lodged during the entire tournament and tournament was held in very smooth manner. National Rapid: Final standings Rk 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 GM IM GM IM IM IM IM Name Pts Debashis Das 9½ Ghosh Diptayan 8½ Neelotpal Das 8 Rathnakaran K. 8 Satyapragyan Swayangsu 7½ Murali Krishnan B.T. 7 Sharma Dinesh K. 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 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 IM IM IM IM FM Swapnil S. Dhopade Das Arghyadip D Bala Chandra Prasad Deshmukh Anup Suvrajit Saha Srinath Rao S.V. Sahoo Utkal Ranjan Muthukumar C P Debarshi Mukherjee Mari Arul S. Rakesh Kumar Jena Sa Kannan Singh Pritam G Hema Chandra Mouli Rahul Srivatshav P Bose Sayan Rajdeep Sarkar Saurabh Mandal Ram Charan Das Susobhit Bihari P.K. Parichha Sk Rakesh Kumar Nayak Pvs Aravind N.N.Behera Samal Ansuman Varma Vikrant Mohanty Binikesh Shashi Nand Kumar Swain Diptanshu Ranjan Valsan Kanavath Atul Bihari Sharan Routray Priyanka Gobardhan Behera Debata Sarthak Panda Sidhanta Mohanty Soyamsree Dash Biswaswarup Samal Aditya Ranjan Das Samarth Milind Kaushik Basil Gouda Sarthak Pujari Panda Hrishikesh Satwik Patnaik 7 7 7 6½ 6½ 6½ 6½ 6½ 6½ 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 5½ 5½ 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 4½ 4½ 4½ 4½ 4½ 4½ 4½ 4 4 3½ 3½ 3 3 3 2½ ½ National Rk 1 IM 2 GM 3 IM 4 GM 5 6 IM 7 8 9 IM 10 11 12 FM 13 14 15 IM 16 IM 17 IM 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 IM 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 Blitz: Final standings Name Pt Rathnakaran K. 8½ Neelotpal Das 8 Ghosh Diptayan 8 Debashis Das 7½ D Bala Chandra Prasad 7½ Satyapragyan Swayangsu 7½ Srinath Rao S.V. 7 Sahoo Utkal Ranjan 7 Suvrajit Saha 7 G Hema Chandra Mouli 6½ Debarshi Mukherjee 6½ Rakesh Kumar Jena 6½ Bose Sayan 6½ Rajdeep Sarkar 6½ Sharma Dinesh K. 6 Murali Krishnan B.T. 6 Swapnil S. Dhopade 6 Singh Pritam 6 Srivastava Pratyush 6 Rahul Srivatshav P 5½ Rakesh Kumar Nayak 5½ Ram Charan 5½ Pvs Aravind 5½ Swaraj Palit 5½ Deshmukh Anup 5 Das Susobhit 5 Swain Diptanshu Ranjan 5 Saurabh Mandal 5 Bihari P.K. 5 Mohanty Soyamsree 5 Panda Sidhanta 5 Valsan Kanavath 4 Ranjan Mohanty 4 Varma Vikrant 4 Routray Priyanka 4 Shashi Nand Kumar 3½ Sandeepta Kumar Dash 3 Milind Kaushik 2½ Basil Gouda 2 Chess is like a language, the top players are very fluent at it. Talent can be developed scientifically but you have to find first what you are good at. by.Anand AICF CHRONICLE MAY 2015 15 The 56th Odisha State Senior FIDE Rating Chess Championship,Puri… Rakesh Kumar Nayak wins title Suresh Chandra Sahoo, Chief Arbiter The 56th Odisha State Senior FIDE Rating Chess Championship was organized by District Chess Association of Puri from 8th to 12th April 2015 at Gopandhu Ayurveda Mahavidyalaya, Puri.The tournament was inaugurated by Sj. Jayanta Kumar Sarangi, Chairman, Puri Municipality., other dignitaries were Sj. Rabi Narayan Senapati, Sports Officer, Puri, Sj. Gouri Shankar Singhari, Social Worker, Puri, Sj. Pradyumna Mishra, Vice-President, Dist. Chess Association of Puri and Sj. Subhash Chandra Sahoo, Hony. Secretary, Dist Chess Association of Puri were present on the dias. With the total prize fund of Rs. 50,000/- (Rupees fifty thousand only) of the event attracted 142 participants from 18 Districts (Angul–8, Bolangir–2, Balasore-3, Cuttack–15, Dhenkanal-5, Ganjam-7, Jajpur-4, Jharsuguda-2, Khordha-25, Kalahandi-2, Kendrapara-2, Koraput-6, Nuapara-2, Nayagarh-1, Puri-43, Sambalpur-2, Subarnapur-1, Sundargarh-9) with two special units (KIIT – 02 & POSTAL - 02 ) with Two FIDE Master &, one Women Candidate Master, FIDE Master Rakesh Kumar Jena, 2292 (Jajpur) was the top seed. A total of 105 Rated players participated. Five players shared their lead with full points at the end of 4th round and after 6th round only 2 players Baivab Mishra, 1999 & Rakesh Kumar Nayak, 2079 were leading with (5.5), while only 7 players led the top tables with 5 points. After 7th Round Rakesh Kumar Nayak was the so leader with 6.5 points & only 3 players were leading WITH 6 points. At the end of round 9, a 17 year boy (3rd in National U-13 in 2012) 16 AICF CHRONICLE MAY 2015 Rakesh Kumar Nayak drew with FIDE Master Soumyaranjan Mishra and clinched the Championship with a cash prize of `10,000/-. FIDE Master Rakesh Jena became Runner-up & ` 7,000/- & local boy Baivab Mishra, stood 3rd with ` 5,000/-.There were many upsets started from the third round onwards.Out of 35 unrated players 17 players will get the Rating in the month of May. Three players Dikshant Das, 1358, Jagdish Barik, 1130 and Nilsu Pattnaik, 1743, increased 151, 1112 & 105 in their rating respectively. In the valedictory ceremony the Chief Guest was Sj. Vivek Kumar Tibarewal, Hony. Secretary, All Odisha Chess Assocoiation, Other dignitaries who graced the occasion on the last day were Sri Ramesh Chandra Mohapatra, (Title Sponsor) Son of Late Laxmi Priya Mohapatra, Sri Pradyumna Mishra, Vice President, District Chess Association of Puri, Sri Manoj Kumar Panigrahi, Jt Secy. District Chess Association & All Odisha Chess Association, Sri Subhash C h a n d r a S a h o o , S e c r e t a r y, D i s t r i c t Chess Association of Puri. The Press and Media covered the event very well. Without any dispute the tournament ended successfully. I take this opportunity to thank District Chess Association of Puri and All Odisha Chess Association for making such tournament a Grand success, which will go a long way in creating awareness and popularising Chess in our State & for giving a chance to play in Open FIDE Rating tournament by paying a minimum of Rs.500. Final ranking: Rk Name 1 Rakesh Kumar Nayak 2 Rakesh Kumar Jena FM 3 Baivab Mishra 4 Mishra Soumyaranjan FM 5 Nayak Rajesh 6 Bhaskar Sri Viswaroopanand 7 Mahesh Prasad Sethi 8 Swain Ashirwad 9 Das Susobhit 10 Samal Ansuman 11 Padhi Kamal Lochan 12 Johnson Sahoo 13 Salonika Saina WCM 14 Guruprasad Bhatta 15 Panigrahi Manoj Kumar 16 Pattnayak Nilsu 17 Pranab Kumar Patra 18 Sumit Kumar Banerjee 19 Rath Hrusikesh 20 Panda Sambit 21 Behera Dillip 22Rudranarayan 23 Smaraki Mohanty 24 Swain Diptanshu Ranjan 25 Jena Binayak 26 Rabindra Kumar Ojha 27 Patra Subhendu Kumar 28 Soundarya Kumar Pradhan 29N.N.Behera 30 Dikshant Dash 31 Mishra Srinibas 32 Sahoo Ankush 33 Sradhanjali Jena 34 Sahoo Soumya Ranjan 35 Pradhan Mohan Das 36 Prachurya Kumar Pradhan 37 Mishra Om 38 Gopal Ch Mahapatra 39 Mishra Anwesha 40 Mohapatra G.C. 41 Sahoo A Sudip Kumar 42 Kar Satyabrata 43 Mahitosh Dey 44 Pradip Kumar Bisoyi 45 Nayak Biswajit Pts 7½ 7½ 7½ 7½ 7 7 7 6½ 6½ 6½ 6½ 6½ 6½ 6½ 6 6 6 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 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 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 Pattnaik Bishal Gobardhan Behera Sudhir Kumar Behera Prasannakumar Nayak Biswal Gitashree Lalitmohan Digal Patro Yasoman Samantaray Aryan Arnav Choudhuri Kumar Naik Barik Jagdish Dash Shrimay Sahu Bibek Kumar Sahoo Sangram Keshari Jayadeba Patel Bag G5 Sahoo Dasharathi Sourav Mohanty Mishra Abinash Lochan Kumar Das Sahu Aswini Kumar Mohanty Swaraj Sanket Sahu Ajay Kumar Sahu Susant Kumar Parichha Sk Narayan Das Rout Kandarpa Ezaz Ahamed S K Panda Chandra Sekhar Panda Raj Santosh Manish Kumar (2006) Mishra Anisha Bhoi Gunanidhi Dash Gagan Behari Sethi Ankit Kumar Pradhan Guru Nath Mohanty Anoushkaa Padhi Jyoti Ranjan Jyotsna M Biswal Subhradeep Atanu Panda Mishra Siddharth Anil Bhoi Mandal Dillip Kumar Guru Nirmal Chandra Ravi Kumar N Das Bighnesh Sahoo Sudeep Kumar AICF CHRONICLE MAY 2015 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 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 4 4 4 4 17 Late Motilalji Firodia Memorial FIDE Rating Chess Tournament, Ahmednagar Sameer Kathmale is champion by IA Nitin Shenvi D.L.B. Bahuuddeshiya Vikas Pratishthan, Ahmednagar conducted the Late Motilalji Firodia Memorial FIDE Rating Chess Tournament at Saptak Sadan, Near Pankaj Lodge, Khist Lane, Ahmednagar, Maharashtra, which is one of the central place in Kapadbazar area in Ahmednagar. This event was organized by prominent chess players and key personalities of various Chess activities in Ahmednagar viz. Mr. Yashwant Bapat, Dr. Gagare, Mr. Firodia accompanied by other chess players like Y. M. Kamble, etc. The event was played from 22nd to 26th April, 2015 and conducted in the Swiss League format, comprising 10 rounds, with two rounds on every day. The time control for the game was 90 minutes to each player with an increment of 30 seconds per move from first move. The event was inaugurated by Ukranian GM Alexander Goloschopo accompanied by other dignitaries on dais local favorite IM Shardul Gagare, Shri Narendra firodia President Ahmednagar District Chess Circle (ADCC) & Shantikumarji Firodia Memorial Foundation, Shri Yashwant Bapat Secretary ADCC & President D.L.B. Bahuuddeshiya Vikas Pratishthan and myself Chief Arbiter of this event. Inaugeral match between Shri Narendra Firodia and GM Alexander ended in draw. In this event 222 players out of which 118 were rated having rating average 1452, with players coming from nearly all parts of Maharashtra. The championship was being led by a IM & a WCM including eleven players above 1800 rating. IM Sameer Kathmale of Sangli, with a rating of 2289 was the top seeds in this event.The upset started right 18 AICF CHRONICLE MAY 2015 from the first round, as the unrated Chhallani Abhishek of Nashik outwitted Bhogal Rupesh of Mumbai. Similarly, unrated Jadhav Omkar S of Pune defeated More Amit of Raigad, unrated Patil Harshal of Nashik won against Bhoite Krishna of Pune, unrated Rathod Abha of Pune earned one point from Kothari Pranit of Ahmednagar, Rohra Harsh of Thane defeated Modak Mangesh of Ratnagiri, unrated Salve Siddhant outwitted WCM Wankhade Sanskruti of Akola, unrated Samplewala Ebrahim of Palghar won against Mane Shreyanshu of Satara, unrated Shelke Sanket of Ahmednagar defeated Dhumal Amit of Pune, unrated Tolani Diksha of Thane outwitted Torvekar Girish of Ahmednagar, unrated Vikam Chintan of Pune won against Kalkar Anurag of Nashik, unrated Wangikar Aashay of Pune scored win against Aryan Khurana of Nagpur. In 2nd round, Somvanshi Prashant of Pune outwitted Nishant Deoram Wanjari of Bhandara, Dange Atharva of Aurangabad defeated Joshi Sunil of Ahmednagar, Kherdekar Arnav of Nagpur won against Limaye Vedant of Pune all with nearly 300 points ELO difference, unrated Jadhav Omkar S of Pune earned one point from Kamble Balbhim of Ahmednagar, unrated Hurkude Shrinath of Aurangabad outwitted Modak Mangesh of Ratnagiri, unrated Jadhav Viraj of Pune defeated Torvekar Girish of Ahmednagar, and unrated Kulkarni Purva of Thane defeated Sarang Nair of Pune. In 3rd round, Gugale Sunny of Ahmednagar lost with Kulkarni Aakash of pune, Nagargoje Dhananjay of Pune defeated Banjan Priyadarshan of Mumbai Suburban, Pawar Rahul of Thane outwitted Tanuj M. Meshran of Bhandara, Nankar Pranav of Aurangabad won against Shirke Pradeep of Raigad, Gupta Shllok of Pune prevailed Kamble Balbhim of Ahmednagar with nearly 300 ELO points difference, unrated Chhabra Aakash of Thane defeated Shinde Nitin of Pune, unrated Dongaonkar Indraneel of mravati won against Bhoite Krishna of Pune, unrated Halkude Nagnath of Pune won against Kulkarni Ayush A of Beed, unrated Godbole Gautam of Pune won against Hurkude Shrinath of Aurangabad, unrated Nair Prajit of pune won against Kale Sujal of Aurangabad, unrated Wankhade Bharati of Akola won against Dhamane Yash of Nashik, unrated Tolani Diksha, Wangikar Aashay, Wankhade Sanghadas won against Raul Sumit, Killedar Nirav, Phadnis Adwait respectively. At the end of 3rd round 20 players scoring 3 points each took ½ points lead on nearest rivals. In 4th round, Kathmale Sameer, Kulkarni Chinmay, Verma Rahul, Gandhi Anish, Mulay Pratik, Soham Datar and Kadav Omkar were leading with four points each. In this round, Joshi Nikhil, Menon Padmanand & Pawar Rahul drew with ELO difference of more than 300 points Jaiswar Shailesh, Wagh Suyog & Patil Jitendra respectively. At the end of fifth round Kathmale Sameer, Kulkarni Chinmay & Kadav Omkar took joint lead of ½ point with individual score of five points. Kadav Omkar of Satara won against Dahale Atul of Pune having ELO difference of around 200 points. The unrated players namely Jadhav Omkar S, Wangikar Aashay, Chhallani Abhishek, Patil Harshal, Vikam Chintan, Hurkude Shrinath, Tolani Diksha, & Kulkarni Purva completed five rated players with rating average and rating performance above 1000 ELO points. In 6th round, on 2nd board Jaiswar Shailesh outwitted Kulkarni Chinmay and forced him to resign the game in 52 moves eventhough tha rating difference is nearly 200 ELO points. Sameer Kathmale became the sole leader with six points in pocket beating Omkar Kadav. Sameer is followed by Jaiswar Shailesh, Wagh Suyog and Verma Rahul with 5½ points each. Seven unrated participants other than above eight players able to cross 1000 ELO point mark. At the end of 7th round Kathmale Sameer played against Verma Rahul on first board which ended in draw, while Wagh Suyog played against Jaiswar Shailesh on second board and in crucial position, Suyog lost in calculation game resulted in favour of Shailesh. After this round Sameer KAthmale and Shailesh Jaiswar took joint lead scoring 6½ points each with ½ point lead on nearest rivals namely Verma Rahul, Kulkarni Chinmay, Gandhi Anish, and Sankarsh Shelke local favourite. Total Eighteen unrated managed to cross 1000 ELO point mark. At the end of quarter final round Kathmale Sameer played against Shailesh Jaiswar on first board which ended in draw, while Chinmay Kulkarni played against Verma Rahul on second board game resulted in favour of Chinmay. After this round Sameer Kathmale, Chinmay Kulkarni and Shailesh Jaiswar took joint lead scoring 7 points each with ½ point lead on nearest rivals viz. Gandhi Anish, Sankarsh Shelke, Atul Dahale, Wagh Suyog, Mulay Pratik, Soham Datar, and Nagare Akhilesh. Total Twenty-three managed to cross over 1000 ELO point mark. AICF CHRONICLE MAY 2015 19 In penultimate round (9th) Sameer won against Chinmay while on 2nd board Pratik Mulay won against Shailesh made Sameer the sole leader. Final round in this event on first board Suyog drew with Sameer even though this result does not affect the Champion of the event. The tournament was completed in peaceful manner and no appeals arose. The Appeals Committee members consisting of IM Sameer Kathmale of Sangli, Chinmay Kulkarni of Pune, Jitendra Patil of Nandurbar as the main members and Sunny Gugale of Ahmednagar & Mohit Ladhe of Thane as reserve members. The championship was a real boon for many players, as many of them gained considerable ELO rating of 100 or above. Special mention has to be made of Pranav Nankar (Aurangabad) & Rushikesh Oke (Aurangabad) increased their rating by 124 and 110 points respectively. In open section out of 104 unrated participants, 32 participants became rated players. Final Ranking : Rk NamePts 1 Kathmale Sameer IM 8½ 2 Jaiswar Shailesh 8 3 Shelke Sankarsha 8 4 Wagh Suyog 8 5 Gandhi Anish 8 6 Mulay Pratik 8 7 Soham Datar 7½ 8 Kulkarni Chinmay 7½ 9 Nagare Akhilesh 7½ 10 Patil Jitendra 7½ 11 Menon Padmanand 7½ 12 Dahale Atul 7½ 13 Joshi Mihir 7½ 14 Verma Rahul 7 15 Pate Machindra 7 16 Gugale Sunny 7 17 Patil Samiksha 7 20 AICF CHRONICLE MAY 2015 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 Vaidya Kaiwalya Sourabh Bhange Giri Abhishek Kulkarni Aakash Telang Yashwant Vikam Chintan Jaiswal Prince Pogul Yuvraj Kadav Omkar Nirgun Keval Nagargoje Dhananjay Chandran T. Joshi Nikhil 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 6½ 6½ 6½ 6½ 6½ 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 Ladhe Mohit Dhagdhage Shashank Pawar Rahul Gorde Dattatray Borse Pankaj Roneet Das Siddha Suyash Kapadi Yash Limaye Vedant Shelke Omkar Chhallani Abhishek Ghumare Anil P Soman Saharsha Borase Manoj Joshi Abhijeet M Banjan Priyadarshan Tanuj M. Meshran Bilpe Abhijeet Chavan Nameet Shimpi Rushikesh Bhogal Rupesh Kamalnayan Deshmuk Spandan P Seth Sarvankar Girish Vijay Jhanwar Muchandikar Shrikant Nishant Deoram Wanjari Wagh Varun 6½ 6½ 6½ 6½ 6½ 6½ 6½ 6½ 6½ 6½ 6½ 6½ 6½ 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 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 Awade Pradeep Bhatawdekar Ved Chothe Sadanand Wagh Shubham Basant N Phadnis Adwait Jain Kashish Manoj Shirke Pradeep Kulkarni Ayush A Adam Rajat Nankar Pranav Thakare Seeya Gouravkumar Nanwani Nikam Sudhanshu Patodi Samyak Satbhai Mohanish Datar Amogh Boramanikar Tanisha S Raktade Rohan Oke Rushikesh Chhabra Aakash Somvanshi Prashant Kandi Utkarsh Godambe Ritesh Shinde Kunal Deshmukh Varun 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 5½ 100Dhadge Yash 101Shinde Nitin 102Wangikar Aashay 103D Souza Ynez 104Deshpande Jatin N 105Mungase Amol 106Jaiswal Shubham Rajendra 107More Amit 108Somwanshi Nathu 109Kale Sujal 110Wankhade Bharati 111Ahale Saurabh 112Dange Atharva 113Patil Harshal 114Modak Mangesh 115Samplewala Ebrahim 116Kalkar Anurag 117Bothikar Tegas 118Pawar Harish 119Dagadkhair Saurav 120Subramanian Shreyas 121Rudrapratap Satish Ghatge 122Sheth Siddhi 123Tandale Pravin 124Dhumal Amit 125Sasne Ashok 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 4½ 4½ 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 Killedar Nirav Halkude Nagnath Aum Chordia Mane Shreyanshu Kulkarni Purva Dhamane Yash Mrunal Manish Lalwani Raul Sumit Soni Piyush Bhoite Krishna Chandurkar Bhalchandra Makone Kaustubh Siddhesh Kitkaru Kothari Pranit Bendre Aman 5½ 5½ 5½ 5½ 5½ 5½ 5½ 5½ 5½ 5½ 5 5 5 5 5 126Apte Dhaivat 127Lasaroda Prince 128Saurav L Tembhare 129Gupta Shllok 130Nair Prajit 131Godbole Gautam 132Ghanwat Abhaysinh 133Aryan Khurana 134Hurkude Shrinath 135Joshi Sunil 136Wankhade Sanskruti 137Jagdale Shivendra 138Mahale Tanmay 139Kunte Amogh 140Prerana Gholap 4½ 4½ 4½ 4½ 4½ 4½ 4½ 4½ 4½ 4½ 4½ 4½ 4½ 4½ 4½ AICF CHRONICLE MAY 2015 21 World Women’s Team Chess Championship, Chengdu Dr. Hedgewar Fide Rated Chess Tournament, New Delhi Georgia wins Women’s World Team Chess Championship Pravin Thipsay wins title by IA Dharmendra Kumar,Chief Arbiter Dr. Hedgewar Fide Rated Chess Tournament was organized this time in Thyagraj Stadium New Delhi. The spacious venue was well decorated and furnished. Analysis room media room , lounge for V.I.P. and refreshment area were available. 251 players including 155 rated players participated in this tournament 20 title players were appeared in this tournament Including 4 GM and 8 IM The Tournament schedule was slightly change as decided in players meeting Total no. of round was 9 and except last day everyday double round.Tournament was played on open Swiss system format. Program used for the pairing was Swiss manager and time control was 90 minutes with 30 sec. increment from move 1.It was decided during the technical meeting that default time will be 30 minutes . During the technical Meeting, it was decided and confirm to use following tiebreak , The Buchholz 1 ) Cut1, 2) Cut2 3) SB 4)Median Buchholz 5) Sum of Buchholz. On April 27th , the first round commenced . Separate seating gallery for all the parents and spectators were provided. All basic facilities were provided by the Organizers in the playing venue i.e. water, coffee and tea for the players and officials, W.C., smoking area, analysis area. Grand colourful opening ceremony was held on April 27th . Tournament was Inaugurated by Gen. V.K.Singh , Minister of state for External affair , Govt. of India In presence of Wing Comdr. J. Rajendra , Prabhat Kumar and Mrs. Simmy Jain , Chairman Org . Committee . Mr. Singh made an inaugural move and declared tournament formally open . During his speech , he appreciated a lot to organization . Other dignitaries presents on the occasion was A.K.Verma , Hony. Secreatry , DCA , R. S. Tiwari , Org. Secreatry , Shirish Jain,co-coordinator of the tournament. First round results were on the expected lines and nothing special to be mention. Second round had something that Ankit sen (1735) of U.P. and Mendonca Leon Luke (1699) OF Goa held IM elect Ravi Teja and National U-17 Champion Aradhya Garg respectively. Third round of course had big news for media when Arpan Das of W.B. defeated GM Sahaj Grover. In other hand , GM Sriram Jha , IM Himanshu Sharma and IM Rahul Sangma were forced to draw their games against Anurag Jaiswal(WB) , Sumit Grover(J&K) and K. Arvind(TN) respectively. After 3rd round , 22 players joined the top score bracket as 3/3. Fourth round:Rating difference of first 10 board was around 200 and results was almost expected , either win or drew for higher rated player. But board # 11 had news which may not as much big but it was notable that Abhishek Das, An IM elect of Jharkhand , lost his 3rd round game against Dhruv Kakkar , a player who had 741 less Elo points than him !! At the end of 4th round , there were 6 players with 4/4. On board # 1 , IM Somak Palit defeated to Sai Agni Jeevitesh while board # 2 ended in drew where IM Chakravarthi ( contd on p.27 ) 22 AICF CHRONICLE MAY 2015 Women’s World Team Chess Championship 2015 was held in Chengdu,China from 16th April 2015 to 28th April 2015. Georgia won Women’s World Team Chess Championship 2015. Georgia concluded the event in style, by defeating the host country and three-times world champions China. The decisive game of the match was Meri Arabidze’s fine victory on the second board. From the early opening stage the Georgian put a strong pressure on her opponent Shen Yang, won a pawn and went on to convert into full point. The remaining three games were drawn. Georgia took the gold medal with 17 match points, conceding only one tie to Russia. Bela Khotenashvili was by far the best top board, scoring 7,5/9 points for a 2699-elo performance. Meri Arabidze was the best 3rd board with 6/7. China is third with 11 match points, claiming the bronze. Still holding a hope for the gold medal in case of Georgia’s failure in the final round, Russia put up a powerful performance against USA, convincingly winning the match 3,5-0,5.Katerina Nemcova was the only to hold a draw, against the world championship finalist Natalija Pogonina. Olga Girya, playing as the 5th board, was the top performer of the event with 6,5/7 points or 92,9%. Russia won the silver medal, with equal sum of individual points as Georgia, 25 each, but only 15 match points, having conceded ties to Kazakhstan and Armenia. Ukraine won 3,5-0,5 against Egypt, but Shrook Wafa, earning on the experience of participating in recent Women’s World Championship in Sochi, played an inspired game against Inna Gaponenko and nearly defeated the much higher rated opponent. Gaponenko managed to salvage a draw. Armenia started the match against India without its top player Elina Danielian. Nevertheless, her replacement Lilit Mkrtchian won a fine game against the top rated player in the championship Humpy Koneru. However, India showed strength on the lower boards and emerged victorious 3-1. Poland and Kazakhstan exchanged blows to finish their match in a 2-2 tie. The top two boards were drawn. Kazakhstan assumed the lead after Gulmira Dauletova won against the World University Champion Klaudia Kulon. Karina Szczepkowska-Horowska leveled the score by defeating Guliskhan Nakhbayeva. Final placings: 1.Georgia 2.Russia 3.China 4.India 5.Ukraine 6.Kazakhstan 7.Armenia 8.Poland 9.United States 10.Egypt. 23 The opening ceremony of the Women’s World Team Chess Championship 2015 took place in the hall of the Wang Jiang Hotel on the 18th of April.The ceremony was attended by Vice Mayor of Chengdu Government, Mr. Fu.Yonglin, the director of Chengdu sports bureau, Ms.Tan Xuejun, Deputy Director of Chengdu Sports Bureau, Mr. Gao Wei, General secretary of CCA, Mr. Ye Jiangchuan, FIDE Vice President and Chairman of Appeals Committee, D.V. Sundar, President of Georgian Chess Federation and member of Appeals Commitee, Giya Giorgadze, players, captains and other guests. At the start of the ceremony Vice Mayor of Chengdu Government, Mr. Fu.Yonglin welcomed all players and team leaders in Chengdu.FIDE Vice-President D.V. Sundar expresses his gratitude to the organizers for hosting the WWTCC and FIDE Presidential Board Meeting in Chengdu and wished good luck to all players. IM Shen Yang delivered her speech on behalf of the Women’s National Team of China. The Chief Arbiter of the tournament Panagiotis Nikolopoulos conducted the ceremony of drawing of lots. The top players from each team were invited to the stage and proposed to choose a toy of panda, one of the most recognized animals from China, regarded as a symbol for friendship and peace. Harika and Humpy win medals The Indian women team just missed out on a podium finish and finished fourth with ten points, one point behind the bronze medal winner,China,after their final round win over Armenia. Considering that India entered as a wild card entry it is a decent show by the Indian women. Dronavalli Harika and Koneru Humpy clinched came up with fine individual performances to win silver and bronze (on second and top board) respectively. World Team Chess Championship, Armenia F China is the World Champion rom 18-29th April, 2015 The Armenian Chess Federation under the auspices of FIDE hosted The World Team Chess Championship in the resort town of Tsaghkadzor. The tournament was held at Golden Palace Hotel Resort & Spa where on 18th April at 19:00 (local time) the opening ceremony of the championship took place. According to FIDE Regulations and the decision of FIDE President the following Federations participated in the championship: Russia, China, Hungary, India, USA, Egypt, Ukraine, Armenia, Cuba, Israel. The ceremony was honored by the presence of President of the Republic of Armenia, who doubles as the President of the Armenian Chess Federation, Serzh Sargsyan, FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, a number of state officials and the delegates of 10 participant countries. 24 An amazing mime show, commemorating the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, was performed for the guests of the championship urging the entire world to never repeat such an immense crime and live in peace and solidarity Olympiad champions China defeated India 3-1 in the final round to win the World Team Chess Championship that concluded at Armenia on April 28, 2015.India suffered defeats on the white boards of Sethuraman and Deep Sengupta. Harikrishnan and Sasikiran drew with the black pieces in the top and third boards. Two defeats in the last two rounds cost India dearly in the placings scale. India stayed on seven points and were pushed to ninth place. India had finished third at best in this edition many years back when China withdrew in the last moment and India was given their slot. This win for China is a confirmation of the new super power in team chess. They had won the Chess Olympiad for the first time in August 2014 at Tromso, Norway. Ukraine was in the title race but defeat to low rated USA cost them the gold medals. Ukraine scored 12 match points, three points behind China. China remained undefeated, winning six matches and drawing three for the maiden title. India won three matches, lost five and drew one for seven points. Three players, Sethuraman (-16.5), Sasikiran (-7.9) and Deep Sengupta (-4.9) are losing while Harikrishna (+2.2) and Vidit Gujrathi (+13) are gaining Elo. The scores: Harikrishna 5/9, Sethuraman 2.5/9, Sasikiran 3/8, Vidit Gujrathi 4.5/7 and Deep Sengupta 1/3. Four defeats in the last five games should be a shock to coach Grand Master R.B. Ramesh. India had finished with the bronze medal at Tromso 2014. The results (round 8): India lost to Armenia 1.5-2.5; Egypt lost to Russia 0.5-3.5; Israel drew 25 Hungary 2-2; Ukraine lost to USA 1.5-2.5; Cuba lost to China 1-3. The results (round 9): China beat India 3-1; USA beat Cuba 3-1; Hungary drew Ukraine 2-2; Russia beat Israel 2.5-1.5; Armenia beat Egypt 2.5-1.5. Final placings:1.China2.Ukraine3.Armenia 4.Russia 5.USA 6.Hungary 7.Israel 8.Cuba 9.India 10.Egypt The Ukrainian team ended its match with Hungary in a draw and took the 2nd place. In order to get bronze medals the Armenian team should win the Egyptians and they fulfilled their task defeating the opponent with the score 2.5 : 1.5. The team of the USA showing successful game at the end of the tournament ended the match with Cuba with victory . The Americans took victory with the score 3 : 1 and sharing the 4 - 5th places with the Russian team with additional indexes took the 5th place. The team of Russia taken the 4th place took victory over Israel with the score 2.5 : 1.5. Earlier in the seventh round Vidit Gujrathi scored an important victory over Ortiz Suarez on the fourth board to help India defeat Cuba 2.5-1.5 . In the match featuring the leaders, Vassily Ivanchuk's win for Ukraine was neutralised by Bu's win for China in the third board. China and Ukraine drew 2-2 to stay way ahead of the rest in this 10-team contest. They were leading with 11 points. India and other teams were sharing the third place with seven match points.India won three matches and lost three and drew one. India had at best won the bronze medal in this event. Grand Master R.B. Ramesh is the coach of the Indian team. Deep Sengupta is likely to be rested for the last few games. The only undefeated team is Olympiad champions China. Four of their five players are undefeated. They have given a solid display. Sunday was a decisive round and saw many narrow 2.5-1.5 margin scores. Russia was beaten by Armenia, Hungary beat Egypt and USA beat Israel by the narrow 2.5-1.5 margins. Standings after round seven: 1-2. China, Ukraine 11 each; 3-7 India, Cuba, Israel, Armenia, Hungary 7 each; 8-9. Russia, USA 6 each; 10 Egypt 1. India made a comeback to defeat Hungary 2.5-1.5 in the fourth round of the World Team Chess Championship on April 22, 2015.Vidit Gujrathi gave India the full points in the fourth board when he beat Richard Rapport with the black pieces. Harikrishna, Sethuraman and Sasikiran played draws against Leko, Erdos and Almasi. Cuba leads with seven match points and are followed by China on six points. India is in third place along with Israel on five points. In the four rounds, India won two matches, lost one and drew one. The results (round four): India beat Hungary 2.5-1.5; Russia drew USA 2-2; Armenia lost to China 0.5-3.5; Egypt lost to Cuba 1-3; Israel lost to Ukraine 1.5-2.5. 26 ( contd from p.22 ) Reddy and GM Saptarshi Roy Chowdhury signed the peace treaty. Board # 3 was a big upset when GM Thipsay resigned his game against Dhruv Kakkar in 87 moves but this game was under complain as Dhruv was using electronic device and after the game complain was found correct and point awarded to GM Pravin thipsay. Sixth round: At the start of 6th round , only two players were jointly leading the tournament , GM Pravin Thipsay and IM Somak Palit, as they both had 5/5 . They paired together in round no. 6 . A 56 year veteran GM from Mumbai finally defeated to Somak and became sole leader with 6/6/ at the end of round . On the board # 2 and #3 , IM Saptarishi Roy and IM Elect Ravi Teja defeated to IM V.A.V. Rajesh and IM Himanshu Sharma respectively and joined the 2nd top score bracket as they both had 5.5/6 . Seventh round: As sole leader , GM Thipsay preferred to preserve his energy for evening round and agreed for drew with IM Saptarshi Roy on board # 1 . At the same time , GM Sahaj Grover , playing on board #2, tried to get full point against Ravi Teja but position over the board was not good enough to do so and decided to share the point. But the board #3 had interesting result of course where young talent from Bihar Kumar Gaurav defeated to IM Somak Palit and join the 2nd top score bracket 6/7 along with 5 others. Eighth round: With 6.5 point , GM Pravin Thipsay was sole leader and on 2nd spot 6 others players were ready to challenge him. But the 1st board between GM Thipsay and Ravi Teja ended in drew , finally. While on board #2 & #3 IM Saptarshi Roy and Himal Gussain defeated IM Chakravarthi Reddy and Kumar Gaurav respectively which helped them to join elite class with Thipsay as they all had 7 point. Ninth round:First three board ended in drew while on board #4 GM Sahaj Grover defeated IM V.A.V. Rajesh and all these results produced four players with 7.5 point each. Ram Madhav, Rashtriya Mahasachiv, Bhartiya Janta Party was the Chief guest in closing ceremony . He attended the function and spent an hour with players and officials. He appreciated a lot to organization and offered his support to chess at any time. “ In my opinion ,chess is the best mental instrument and all the students must play this game ”, said Madhab in his speech during the game. He congratulated to all the winners and appreciated all the participants for their presence in this tournament named Dr. Hedgewar Fide Rated Chess Tournament. He witnessed blindfold chess exhibition in reverse order performed by Raghav Srivatsava of Telangana and wished him bright future in the game of Chess. Other dignitaries presents on this auspicious occasion were Arun Jain, Prabhat Kumar, MD Prabhat Publication , Simmy Jain, Chairperson , Org. Committee , A,K,Verma, Hony Secretary , DCA, R.S.Tiwari, Org. Secretary ,Purnima Goel, Secretary, BRICS Forum, India , IA Dharmendra Kumar, Chief Arbiter. Finally my special thanks are due to all the arbiters who assisted me to conduct this event successfully. Final standings: Rk 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 GM IM GM IM IM Name Thipsay Praveen M Saptarshi Roy Gusain Himal Grover Sahaj Ravi Teja S. Himanshu Sharma Lahiri Atanu AICF CHRONICLE MAY 2015 Pts 7½ 7½ 7½ 7½ 7 7 7 27 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 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 IM FM GM IM IM GM CM FM IM WFM 28 Palit Somak 7 Thakur Akash 7 Sriram Jha 7 Sangma Rahul 7 Chakravarthi Reddy M 6½ Roy Chowdhury Saptarshi 6½ Prince Bajaj 6½ Kumar Gaurav 6½ Kaustuv Kundu 6½ Patil Pratik 6½ Mitrabha Guha 6½ Aradhya Garg 6½ Pradip Ghosh 6½ Raghav Srivathsav V 6½ Diwan Rajesh 6½ Sai Agni Jeevitesh J 6 Arpan Das 6 Rajesh V A V 6 Hemant Sharma (del) 6 Joshi Govind Ballabh 6 Singh Arvinder Preet 6 Nishant Malhotra 6 Santu Mondal 6 Sumit Grover 6 Anurag Jaiswal 6 Shubham Shukla 6 Deepak Katiyar 6 Abhishek Das 6 Vantika Agrawal 6 Verma H.S. 6 Ojas Kulkarni 6 Arindam Mukherjee 6 Kaushik Shubham 6 Sanskriti Goyal 6 Lawaniya Eshan 6 Soham Das 6 Sonkalan Bharati 6 Ashutosh Kumar 6 Chandreyee Hajra 6 Mahitosh Dey 6 Raghav Bagri 6 Aneek Das 6 Dubey Sanchay 5½ Bhattacharya Niladri Shekhar5½ Aansh Gupta 5½ Dony K V 5½ Tarini Goyal 5½ AICF CHRONICLE MAY 2015 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 CM 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 CM 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 CM 91 92 93 94 95 96 CM 97 98 99 100 101 Akash Lal O Saranya Y Saurabh Anand Jagdeep Singh Sudan Abhay Bandewar Vijay Anand M. Saptorshi Gupta Deepak Rai Avhra Biswas Arvind Kumar Mishra Samant Aditya S Nikhil Magizhnan Arun Wahi Aravind K Roop Saurav Ankit Sen Ganguly Ritabroto Sudarshan Mitra Raunak Mondal Vikrant Jaglan Jatinder Kapoor Aan Sikka Saksham Rautela Mendonca Leon Luke Shashi Raj Saxena Vardan Nagpal Dave Shiv Shankar Bhagyashree Patil Sunil Vaidya Kaur Palkin Rajarshi Dutta Domnic Xavier R S Bhavyay Gupta Anshul Mehta Garima Gaurav Dev Shah Afaq Haider Mayank Soni Nitheesh Pothireddy Tayyeb Asif Mohmamad Shatrughan Kaushik Karthik Kumar Pradeep Pradeep Kumar Nag Sandeep Kumar Kush Kalra Archi Agrawal Oshan Modi 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 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 Rishit Thakur Vijay Yadav Simrandeep Singh Om Batra Rajesh Kumar Nath Jaskeerat Singh Chitrang Natu Garv Rai Nithish Kumar S Vivek Prakash Mishra Manya Bagla Ritvik Gupta Negi Virender Singh Somdatt Tiwari O P Aaryan Varshney Prithu Gupta Dinesh Kumar Gupta Shanya Mishra Jain Piyush Anmol Singh Kohli Fulzale Shrushti Manjali Bhardwaj Dhruv Kakkar Sachinder Rushil Gupta Mishra Ravi Pratap Devanshi Rathi Anish Srivastava Kapil Gupta Sonu Kumar Swayam Gupta Agastya Makkar Jyoti Kumar Raghul Adhitya Pj Amritansh Saraf Sarvadh Sathiaram Shetye Shyam Gaurang Hari singh Rajagopalan Shubham Rastogi Rajan BL Akshat Jha Avi Walia Rahul Yadav Palak Jain Ashish Kumar Dahiya 5 5 5 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 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 Manish Thapa 4 Ankur Rajvanshi 4 Saurabh Singh 4 D Krishnasri 4 D Kavyasri 4 Shivom Sood 4 Akshay Panchal 4 Rahul Phull 4 Shyam sundar 4 Rishab Goel 4 Vishesh Agrawal 3½ Shashank Gupta Blind 3½ Utsab Chatterjee 3½ Dipu Jacob 3½ Somender BL 3½ Ankit Naudiyal 3½ Satvik Kalra 3½ Haleshwarayya H.M. 3½ Bhupender Bharti 3½ Satyaprakash Shrivatsava 3½ Balaji D 3½ Pasupulati Saphal 3½ Rajveer Singh Kochar 3½ Rakesh 3½ Chaitanya Kumar 3½ Vairavan N 3½ Yudhisthir Singh 3 Atul Kumar 3 Jagdish Chander 3 Ajay KumarTripathi 3 Bhumi 3 Kumar Gaurav Makhnotra 3 Krish Aggarwal 3 Arjun 3 Shashidharan Sharma 3 Parth 3 Narendra Kumar 3 Ajay 3 Rajan GLT 3 Sandeep Kumar 3 Yashavijain 3 Navdeep Rinwa 3 Surya Bhushan Kumar 3 Naba Kamal Bhuyan 3 Vishal Tripathi 3 Varun 3 Rajaram 3 AICF CHRONICLE MAY 2015 29 1st Thali Yuva Sangh Open FIDE Rating Chess Tournament – 2015 Sinha Santosh Kumar is the winner IA I G Parmar,Chief Arbiter 1st Thali Yuva Sangh Open FIDE Rating Chess Tournament 2015 at Ahmedabad, Gujarat had a colourful start at the sprawling lawns of Rifle Clubin Ahmedabad on Saturday, 25th April, 2015. Prominent dignitaries including Mr. Sunil Bohara, President,Thali Yuva Sangh, Bhavesh Patel Hon. Secretary GSCA, Mayur Patel [Vice-President GSCA], Joy Chauhan (Managaing Director, Tirth Chess Club) Prakash Baid, President of Chanakya Chess Academy, IA Indubhai Parmar (Chief Arbter), Vimal Srivastava were present on inauguration function. This event was well organized by Tirth Chess Club and Chanakya Chess Academy & Co-Sponsor Rifle Club of Ahmedabad, on behalf of Gujarat State Chess Association under the aegis of All India Chess Federation. 1st Thali Yuva Sangh Open FIDE Rating Chess Tournament will be remembered in more than one way.For the first time 98 rated players, two blind players, one handicap player and 80 below 13 Category players were in action in this tournament. The Tournament attracted a number of 230 players aged between seven to 68 years old, from all over India, namely Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, M.P. & Gujarat. The event was conducted in 9 round Swiss format with a total Cash Prize of Rs 1,00,000 & Trophy including 80 Children Consolation Trophies.Based on the BH score Sinha Santosh Kumar (Elo Rating 2099)of Gujarat emerged winner with a better BH score of 50.5 with 8 points, while Thanki Hemal Karsanji (Elo rating 2119) of BSNL, Gujarat was placed second with a score of 7.5 BH Score [54] points. Badavath Anand 30 AICF CHRONICLE MAY 2015 (Ele Rating 1882) of Rly emerged on third position with 7.5 BH Score 51.5 points. 68 year old Veterans’ player Mr. S.R.Narayanan of Gujarat displayed excellent skills against his rated opponents and secured 6 points out of 9 rounds. The organizer Joy Chauhan Managing Director (TCC) and Prakash Baid, President (CCA) did an excellent job in making this event a memorable one. About 24 players from Rajasthan participated in this tournament which included Rajendra Teli and Rachit Jain. Mr. Bhavesh Patel (Hon.Secretary – GSCA), Executive Committee member of Rifle Club Mr. Barotji, Sponsor of Thali Yuva Sangh Secretary of Vijay Nahata, Joy Chauhan (MD – TCC), President of CCA Mr. Prakash Baid, Dipak Vyas (CCA), Rajeshkumar Trivedi (CCA) awarded the Cash prizes & trophy in the Valedictory function. My sincere thanks goes to my Dy Arbiters Mr. Dilip Raval from Mumbai, & Mr.Rajendra Teli from Rajasthan and other arbiters/official Mr. Vimal Srivastava, for their excellent co-operation and skilful handling of the disputes and made this event a grand success.I also thank All India Chess Federation for giving me an opportunity to serve as Chief Arbiter. Final Ranking after 9 Rounds Rk.Name 1 Sinha Santosh Kumar 2 Thanki Hemal Karsanji 3 Badavath Anand 4 Mraduhas Tripathi 5 Chauhan Joy 6 Maulik Raval 7 Doshi Moksh Amitbhai 8 Sadhu N Vishal 9 Riyazkhan Pts. 8 7.5 7.5 7.5 7.5 7 7 7 7 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 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 Rawal Shailesh Chandrajeet Singh R Makhija Aashna Pathan Zafar Falgun D Purohit Dr Hitesh Vasanwala Prajapati Rakesh Dinesh Sinha Pradeep Pandya Koradia G V Dave Kantilal Deota Snehil S Jigna Joshi Dutta Debarghya Mayurdhwajsinh A Jadav Chudasama Ankit Vrandesh Parekh P Abdul Karimbahi Shah Dilip Parikh Kairav Dhruv Dak Mulherkar Siddharth Sanghavi Naitik Narayanan S.R Dabhi Sangeet H Gourav Barik Chauhan P M Babel T Divyanshu Panchal Tisha N Chavada Rajendrasinh Parth A Raval Bhatt Palak K Shah Akanksha Raj D Vyas Jain Adi Samdani Sahil Sagar Joshi Deep Dabhi Geet H S Brijesh Mohan Shah Ashok Hiralal Gajjar Jaswant G Totlani Varun Bhatt Swayam Shah Riddhesh Chinmay Jain Arun Kataria Agrawal Uttaransh 7 7 7 7 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 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 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 Kohle Anushka Agrawal Anay Sanjay Davda Shah Mihir Prajapati Manish Agrawal Vaibhav Bhawesh Pandiyar Shah Het D Laheri Nitya Sharma Harsh Yogesh Shriom Revankar Bhagat Rajesh J Aditya P Melani Thakkar Dipen Shah Saumya Shah Manav Hiren Kartik Bhandari Vishwa Vasnawala Priyanshu Baid 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 L.K.Ganga Bai passes away Tamil Nadu's pioneering woman chess player L.K. Ganga Bai died in Chennai on 14th May 2015. She was 92.Bai, retired school headmistress, had won the Tamil Nadu State Women's Championship three times in 1970, 1974 and 1977, said the Tamil Nadu Chess Association. She played in several National Women's championships including one hosted in then Madras for the first time in March 1979 at the Integral Coach Factory. Ganga Bai comes from a family of chess players.Her brother L.K. Ramachandran was also a prominent National player of the 1960s and 1970s. She had received the Best Teacher Award from Chief Minister M.G.Ramachandran. AICF CHRONICLE MAY 2015 31 Selected games from National Team Chess Championships,Goa Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron Roy Chowdhury,Saptarshi (Rly B) Dodeja,Pawan (MCA Senior) [C54] 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.c3 Nf6 5.d3 a6 6.Bb3 Ba7 7.0–0 d6 8.Nbd2 Ne7 9.Re1 Ng6 10.Nf1 0–0 11.h3 Be6 12.d4 Qc8 13.Ng3 h6 14.Bc2 c5 15.d5 [This closing of the centre is a big change from ac- black's game.] 21.bxc3 c4 [Another possibility was: 21...Nh5 22.e5 c4 23.exd6 Bc5 24.Rad1±] 22.Qxf4 Qc5 23.Qd2 There were other ways to defend f2 like, 23 Ne3 and 23 Ned2. But white already has a plan of advancing e4-e5 and therefore protects d5 in advance with his queen. 23... Rfe8 24.Ng3 Rab8 25.Rab1 Bb6 Diagram # [30...Qd6] 31.Rxb5!! A winning sacrifice which has been well calculated to the end. 31...Rxe4 [If 31...Rxd2? 32.Rxe8+ Qf8 33.Rxf8+ Kxf8 34.Rxb6 Rxc2 35.Rxa6 Rxc3 36.Ne3+-] 32.Rxc5 Rxd2 33.Rc8+ Kh7 34.Bxe4+ g6 cepted strategy in this position. 15.Be3 and 15 Qd3 have been seen here.] 15...Bd7= 16.c4 b5 17.Be3 17...Nf4?! [Black misses white's idea behind 17 Be3 which is, if 17...bxc4 18.Nd2 to capture 19 Nxc4 next move with a good position where the two black bishops have no play; Black should therefore refuse to have his bishop buried on a7 and play 17...Bb6 18.Bd3 Ba5 19.Nd2 Re8 with an equal game.] 18.Bxf4 exf4 19.Nf1 bxc4 20.Qd2 [This offers black some chances of counter-play which he misses. After 20.N3d2 intending to capture on c4 with his knight, white has a fine game.] 20...c3 [20...Bb6 21.Qxf4 Ba5 22.Rec1 c3 23.b3 Re8 would have put some more life into 32 AICF CHRONICLE MAY 2015 [Better was: 25...Qa3 26.Rxb8 Bxb8 27.Rb1 Bc7 (27...Qxa2?? 28.e5! dxe5 29.Bh7+ Kxh7 30.Qxa2 white wins the queen.) 28.Nd4 Ba5 and white's advantage is small.] 26.e5!! this plunges the game into intense tactical play where white has the upperhand. 26...dxe5 27.Nxe5 white's d5 pawn is immune from capture by the Nf6 as black's Bd7 will be without support. 27...Bb5 28.Ne4! Nxe4 [28...Qxd5?? 29.Nxf6+ gxf6 30.Qxd5+-] 29.Rxe4 Rbd8 30.Ng4 [Still stronger was: 30.Qf4! Qxd5 31.Rd1] 30...Rxd5? 35.Rc6! [One must be very careful at all times, especially while winning. If 35.Rb8?? Rd1+ 36.Kh2 Bc7+ 37.g3 Bxb8 and it is black who wins!] 35...Ba5 36.Nf6+ Kg7 37.Nd5 Rxa2 38.Rxa6 Ra1+ 39.Kh2 Bxc3 [39...Bc7+ 40.Nxc7 and the Ra6 is protected by his knight.] 40.Rxa1 Bxa1 41.Kg3 f5 42.Bb1 Be5+ 43.f4 Bd4 44.Kf3 Kf7 45.Ba2! A clever move that wins the c4 pawn. for if 46 c3 Nxc3+ 1–0 Nitin,S (AAI) (2357) Swapnil,Dhopade (Rly B) (2438) 1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 dxe4 4.Nxe4 Bf5 5.Ng3 Bg6 6.N1e2 e6 7.Nf4 Bd6 8.h4 Qc7 9.Nxg6 hxg6 10.Ne4 Bf4 11.g3 Bxc1 12.Qxc1 Ne7 13.Qe3 [At first sight this looks illogical, playing the queen to a square where it would immediately come under attack. But he has an idea of playing along the a3-f8 diagonal. 13.Qd2 is usually played here.] 13...Nf5 14.Qa3 Qe7 [Black challenges the white queen. He has faith in the ensuing ending. If 14...Nxd4?! 15.0–0–0 Nf5 16.Bh3 The fight for control over the d6 square intensifies and ends in white's favour. 16...Qe7 17.Qf3 Nd7 18.Bxf5 gxf5 19.Nd6+] 15.Qxe7+ Kxe7 16.0–0–0² Nd7 17.Bg2 Rac8 18.Rhe1 Rhd8 19.c3 b6 20.Re2 Nf6 21.Ng5 Rd6 22.Nf3 c5 23.dxc5 Rxc5 24.Ne5 Nd4!? After a long manoeuvring phase where no player improved his prospects significantly, black initiates some tactics into the game. 25.Rxd4?! [25.Ree1! would have kept the small advantage that he has.] 25... Rxd4 26.Nc6+ Rxc6 27.Bxc6 Rc4 28.Bf3 Rc5= 29.Kc2 g5 30.hxg5 Rxg5 31.a4 Rf5 32.Bg2 g5 33.b4 g4 34.Kd3 Nd7 35.Kd4 Kd6 36.Rd2 Re5 37.Kc4+ Kc7 38.Ra2 f5 39.a5? AICF CHRONICLE MAY 2015 33 Diagram # With the approach of the time control on the 40th move, white makes an error, handing over the initiative to black. Any pawn move was bad for white. He should play 39 Kd1 and it would be difficult for black to achieve anything. 39...b5+! 40.Kd3 Re1 41.a6?! [This idea is to isolate black's e5 pawn and attack it later is faulty. White is still thinking of winning this game. Better was to strive for equality with: 41.Re2 Ne5+ 42.Kd2 Rxe2+ 43.Kxe2 Nc4 44.Kd3=] 41...Ne5+!µ 42.Kd2 Rg1 43.Bb7 Nc4+ 44.Ke2? [White can put up a better fight with: 44.Kc2 Re1 45.Kb3 Rd1 46.Re2 e5 47.Kc2±] 44...Rc1! 45.Kd3 e5 46.Re2 Kd6 47.Ra2 [47.Bc8? e4+ 48.Kd4 Rd1+ mates.] 47...e4+ 48.Ke2 [48.Kd4?? Rd1+] 48...Rxc3 Black's victory is certain. 49.Bc8 Rf3! 50.Ra1 e3! A beautiful and clever way to demolish white's king-side pawns. 51.fxe3 51...Kc7! A fine move, taking advantage of the smallest tactical possibilities. 52.Bb7 [The only move. 52.Be6?? Rxe3+ wins the bishop.] 52...Rxg3! Capturing g3 was best as the e3 pawn cannot run away without causing greater problems. 53.e4 f4! 54.Rh1 Re3+ 55.Kf2 g3+ 56.Kg2 Re2+ 57.Kf3 [57.Kh3 g2 58.Rc1 Rc2! 59.Rb1 Ne5 60.Rg1 f3 61.Kg3 Kb6 34 AICF CHRONICLE MAY 2015 and black is poised to make the winning push f3-f2!] 57...Rf2+ 58.Kg4 g2 59.Rh7+ Kd8! Black's message is clear, for every rook check, the king is going to move toward the rook on the h-file. 0–1 Gupta,Abhijeet (PSPB) (2622) Roy Chowdhury,Saptarshi (Rly B) (2426) [D56] 1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Bg5 Be7 5.e3 h6 6.Bh4 0–0 7.Nf3 Ne4 8.Bxe7 Qxe7 9.Rc1 c6 10.Qc2 Nxc3 11.Qxc3 Nd7 12.Be2 dxc4 13.Qxc4 [This is new. F.Berkes 2613 vs D.Korneev 2573 in 2004 went: 13.0–0 b5 14.b3 c5 15.Qa5 cxb3 16.axb3 Bb7 17.Qc7 Rab8 Draw agreed.] 13...e5 14.0–0 Re8 [14...exd4 15.Nxd4 Nb6 16.Qc2 is also equal.] 15.Rfd1 e4= 16.Nd2 Nb6 17.Qc5 Qf6 18.b4 18...Bd7 [Black's pawn on e4 indicates that black's chances are on the king-side. As white has already initiated the minority attack on the queen-side (his a and b- pawns versus the black a, b and c-pawns, Black is on the horns of a dilemma. He is yet to develop his queen-side. His bishop cannot both attack on the king-side and defend on the queen-side. Maybe, a little better was: 18...Qg6 19.Bh5 Qf6 20.b5 cxb5 21.Qxb5 Bd7 22.Qa5 Bc6 with chances of equality.] 19.b5 cxb5 20.Bxb5 Rac8 21.Qb4 Bxb5 22.Qxb5 Qe6 23.Nb3 f5? [This is only an attacking gesture and not a serious move to challenge white's castled position. Better was: 23...a6 24.Qb4 Nd5 25.Qxb7 Nc3 26.Re1 Rb8 27.Nc5 Rxb7 28.Nxe6 Nxa2 29.Rc7! and white's game is most promising.] 24.h3 Qf7 25.Rc5 Rf8 26.Rxc8 Rxc8 27.d5 The game is still equal. With this passed pawn advancing down the board, black has to worry about its 'lust to expand' by Nimzowitsch. 27...Rd8 28.d6 position. 32...Kh7 33.Qxc4 [33.Nc5! was stronger.] 33...Qg6 (position after 31…Rd7) 34.g4 Rxb7 35.d7 Rb1+ 36.Kh2 Qf6 Threat: 37...Qe5# 37.Qd5! 1–0 28...f4? [This weakens black's position further without giving him any chances of attack. He could have played: 28...Nc4 29.d7 Nb6 30.Nc5 Qxa2 31.Nxb7 Qc2 32.Rd6 Qc1+ 33.Kh2 (33.Qf1 Qxf1+ 34.Kxf1 Rxd7µ) 33... Qc7=] 29.Nc5 f3 30.Qb3! after this move, the black pawn on f3 turns into an additional liability for black. 30...Nc4 The exchange of the queens would result in the black pawns on e4, f3 and b7 becoming very very weak. 31.Nxb7 Rd7 Diagram # 32.Rd4! Enjoying the advantage of an extra pawn on d6, white nips any attack on his king-side by the black forces and simplifies. He wants to exchange off black's queen which alone can try some tricks on his castled Thejkumar,M. S (Rly A) (2438) Lahiri,Atanu (LIC) (2308) [E73] 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.Be2 0–0 6.Bg5 Na6 7.Qd2 e5 8.d5 Nc5 9.f3 a5 10.h4 c6 11.g4 cxd5 12.cxd5 Bd7 13.Nh3 Qb8 [This is new. 13...b5!? 14.Nf2 (14.Bxb5 Bxb5 15.Nxb5 Rb8=) 14...b4 15.Ncd1= was seen in Pellicer vs Andreu Sin, 2006.] 14.Nf2 b5 15.h5 b4 16.Ncd1 Bb5 17.Ne3 h6? [17... Bxe2 18.Qxe2 b3 19.Nc4 bxa2 20.Be3 Qb4+ 21.Bd2=] 18.Bxf6 Bxf6 19.hxg6 fxg6 AICF CHRONICLE MAY 2015 35 20.Nf5!! An excellent combination which takes advantage of the unprotected h6 pawn and the black queen's need to keep protecting his bishop on b5. 20...gxf5 21.Qxh6 [21.Bxb5? Qxb5 22.Qxh6 Rf7 23.gxf5 Bg7 24.Qxd6 Nd3+ 25.Nxd3 Qxd3 26.Rh3 Qe3+ 27.Kf1 Rc8] 21... Ra7? [Black's best which would have left white with no advantage was: 21...Rf7 22.gxf5 Bg7 23.Rg1 Nd7 24.Bxb5 Qxb5 25.Qxd6 Rc8=] 22.g5 even stop to capture the rook on g5 as he is going for mate on h8. Black 's best is to give up his queen: 26...Rfg7 27 Qh8+ Kf7 28 Qxb8 though he would still lose1–0 20.Nf2 Kg7 21.Ng4!± Black is nearly winning.] 18.fxe5 Bxe5 19.Nxe5 Vidit,Gujrathi (PSPB) (2617) Abhilash Reddy,M.L (2236) [A55] 1.c4 c6 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.Nc3 d6 4.d4 Nbd7 5.e4 e5 6.Be2 Be7 7.0–0 0–0 8.Be3 Re8 9.Qc2 Qc7 10.Rac1 Nf8 11.d5 [Here, 11.h3 is white's favourite move, limiting black's options by preventing both Bg4 and Ng4.] 11...Rd8?! dxe5 With his queen-side still remaining nonfunctional, black is losing. His king's only defensive piece is the knight on f8 which will become white's next target. 20.Qe4 The first move in creating a queen and bishop battery against black's castled position. 20...Qd6 [20...Qe7 21.Rce1 Re8 22.Bc3+- and black's pain is growing move by move.] 21.Bd3 Qg6? # 22...Bxg5? [Panic. He could get an equal game with: 22...Bg7! 23.Qh7+ Kf7 24.exf5 Ke8 25.Bxb5+ Qxb5 26.f6 Qb7 27.Ne4 Nxe4 28.fxg7 Qxg7 29.Qh5+ Qf7 30.fxe4 Qxh5 31.Rxh5 Rc7=] 23.Rg1 Rg7 24.Rxg5 Rff7 25.Kd2 Rxg5 26.Rh1!! An amazing move! White does not 36 AICF CHRONICLE MAY 2015 [If 11...Ng4 12.Bd2 Nf6 13.b4 Bg4 14.h3 Bd7 15.Rfd1²; or, best seems to be to clear his first rank of pieces and aim for king-side activity with: 11...Ng6 12.Rcd1 c5 13.a3 Bd7] 12.Ne1 c5 13.Nd3 Ng4 14.Bd2 f5 15.f4! Generally, in the Indian Defences, white's chances lie on the queen-side and black's on the king-side. But here, with a black rook on d8 instead of on f8, white feels that he has better chances on the king-side. 15...fxe4 16.Nxe4 Diagram # 16... Nf6 [If 16...Bf5 17.Ng3 Bc8 (17...Bxd3 18.Qxd3 Qd7 19.Nf5! Nf6 20.fxe5 dxe5 21.Bg5 and white is nearly winning.) 18.Bxg4 Bxg4 19.Rce1! exf4 20.Rxf4 Bc8 21.Rfe4 Ng6 22.Nf4±] 17.Nxf6+ Bxf6 [If 17...gxf6 18.fxe5 dxe5 19.Bh5 Ng6 [21...Ng6 22.Bg5 Rf8 (22...Rd7 23.Rce1 b5 24.cxb5 Bb7 25.Bc4 Bxd5 26.Rd1!) 23.h4!+with a standard winning attack.] 22.Qh4! [22. Qh4! A double attack! 22...Qd6 23.Rxf8+! Kxf8 (23...Rxf8 24.Qxh7+ Kf7 25.Bg5!) 24.Qxh7+Ke8 25.Bg5! and black cannot cope with the threat of 26 Bg6+ Kd7 27 Qxg7+ mating.] 1–0 Selected games from Kolkata GM Open Ganguly,S (2603) - Ortiz Suarez,I (CUB) (2625) [B92] 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.Be2 e5 7.Nb3 Be7 8.0–0 0–0 9.Be3 Be6 10.Qd3 Nbd7 11.Nd5 Bxd5 12.exd5 h6 [E.Szalanzy 2370 vs V. Loginov 2540, 1992 went: 12...Ne8 13.Bg4 Ndf6 14.Bf3 g6 15.a4 Ng7 16.a5 Nd7 17.c4 f5 black won eventually.] 13.c4 a5 14.Rad1 Ne8 This move had to be played sooner or later as the pawn structure indicates that the black forces could achieve activity only after f7-f5. 15.Bg4 a4 16.Nd2 Nc5 17.Qc2 17...Nf6? [A better idea might be to get rid of his inactive bishop with: 17...Bg5 18.Bxc5 dxc5 19.Rfe1 (19.Ne4 f5 20.Nxc5 fxg4 21.Ne6 Qc8 22.Nxf8 Kxf8 23.Qc3²) 19...Bxd2 20.Rxd2 Qg5 21.Bd7 Nd6 the ideal square for the knight. 22.Rde2 Qf4 23.b4 axb3 24.axb3 Qd4 and if now 25.Rxe5?? Qxe5 26.Rxe5 Ra1+ mates.] 18.Bh3 Qa5 19.Nb1 Nfd7 20.Bd2 Qd8 21.b4 axb3 22.axb3 Bg5 23.b4 Na6 24.Bc3 g6 25.Nd2 f5 26.g3 Bf6 [Better was: 26...e4 27.Rfe1 Bf6 with an equal game.] 27.g4! Bg7! [Indirectly AICF CHRONICLE MAY 2015 37 defending his f5 pawn. 27...fxg4 28.Qxg6++-] 28.gxf5 Qh4 [If 28...gxf5 29.Kh1! (29.Bxf5?? Qg5+! this double attack wins.) 29...Qg5 30.Rg1 Qh5 31.Rg3±] 29.Qd3 gxf5 30.Kh1 e4 (Position after 42…Kg6) Rd4 46.Ba5 Rd1+ 47.Kg2 b6 48.Bxb6 Nb7 49.c5! Nxc5 50.d8Q 1–0 31.Rg1! Nf6 [31...exd3? 32.Rxg7+ Kh8 33.Rxd7+ Rf6 (33...Kg8 34.Rg7+ Kh8 35.Rdg1! Rf6 36.Bxf5) 34.Bxf5 Kg8 35.Rg1+ Kf8 36.Bxf6 Qxf6 37.Be6 Qg5 38.Ne4 Qxg1+ 39.Kxg1 and white mates with 40 Nf6 and 41 Rf7#] 32.Qg3 Qxg3 33.Rxg3 Nh5 34.Rxg7+ Nxg7 35.Rg1 Rf7 Another brilliant move, exploiting the mess into which the black forces have sunk. 36.Nxe4! Nxb4 [If 36...fxe4 37.Be6 Kf8 38.Bxf7 Ne8 39.Bh5 b5 40.Rg4!+-] 37.Nxd6 Ra3 38.Bxb4 Rxh3 39.Nxf7 Kxf7 40.Re1 Rh4 [An interesting piece of play emerges after: 40...b5 41.c5! Rb3 42.d6! Rxb4 43.Re7+! Kf6 44.Rxg7! white's two connected passed pawns win. 44...Kxg7 45.c6! Rd4 46.c7! Rc4 47.d7!] 41.Re7+ Kf6 42.Rc7! This defends his vital c4 pawn and simultaneously threatens to win the rook with 43 Be7+ 42...Kg6 Diagram # 43.d6! Ne6 44.Re7 [Also winning was: 44.d7 Rd4 45.Rxb7 Nd8 46.Rb6+ Kf7 47.Rxh6 Rxd7 48.Rh7+ Ke6 49.Rxd7 Kxd7 50.h4 black cannot cope with white's two extra passed pawns on c4 and h4.] 44...Nd8 45.d7 38 AICF CHRONICLE MAY 2015 Sengupta,D (2567) Stupak,K (BLR) (2567) [C16] 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.e5 Qd7 5.a3 Bxc3+ 6.bxc3 b6 7.Qg4 f5 8.Qg3 Ba6 9.Bxa6 Nxa6 10.Ne2 Qf7 11.Qd3 Nb8 12.c4 Ne7 13.cxd5 exd5 14.h4 [14.0–0 would be normal here. But obviously white wants a lot of excitement.] 14...Nbc6 15.h5 Nd8 black wants to set up a classical blockade with his knight on e6. 16.Bg5 Ne6 17.Bxe7 Kxe7 [17...Qxe7? 18.Qxf5±] 18.a4 a5 19.Qa3+! White is making sure that the black rooks do not connect with each other. 19...Ke8 20.Rb1 Qd7 21.Rb5 Qc6 22.Kd2 Qc4 23.Qa1!? [This is a deep strategic move. Looking solid is: 23.c3 but white is deprived of using the c3 square for his rook to infiltrate the black position.] 23...Rd8 This is a necessary move as it would free the queen from the defence of his d5 pawn. 24.Rhb1 f4 25.R1b3 This looks like a move to prevent f4-f3, but in fact it threatens to trap the black queen with 26 Rc3! 25...Qc6 26.Qh1 Qc4! Attacking a4 and forcing the white queen to get back to a1. 27.Qa1 again threatening to trap the queen. 27...Qc6 28.Rc3 Qd7 29.Rd3 Qc6 30.Qa2 Qc4 31.Qa3 [Not 31.Qxc4? dxc4 32.Rh3 Nxd4 33.Nxd4 Rxd4+ 34.Kc3 Re4 and black has a clear advantage.] 31...Qc6 32.Qb3 Qc4 33.Qa3 Qc6! 34.Rc3 Qd7 35.Rf3 Rf8 36.Qd3 Threatening Qxh7. You have to keep on harrassing your opponent so that he finally misses a trick and crumbles. 36... Qf7! Black sets up his own counter, offering the h7 pawn as bait. 37.Qb3 [White wants to trade his h-pawn for black’s d5. Not 37.Qxh7?? Ng5 forks queen and rook.] 37...Qd7 38.Rd3 Planning 39 Nc3 winning the d5 pawn. 38... Rf5 unable to defend d5, black counter-attacks on the king-side. 39.Nc3 c5! A good tactical defence. 40.dxc5 Nxc5 41.Rxc5 bxc5 42.Nxd5 Qc6 [The only move to avert immediate defeat. 42...Rxe5?? 43.Nxf4! (with the winning threat of 44 Qg8+ winning material, and if now) 43... Qf7 44.Rxd8+ Kxd8 45.Qxf7+-] 43.Nf6+! Ke7 [If 43...gxf6 44.Qg8+ Ke7 45.Qxd8+ wins.; or, if 43...Rxf6 44.Qg8+ Rf8 45.Rxd8+ Kxd8 46.Qxf8+ Qe8 47.Qxe8+! Kxe8 48.Kd3 and the white king captures the f4 pawn.] 44.Rxd8 Rxe5 [If 44...Kxd8 45.Qd3+ Ke7 46.Qxf5 gxf6 47.Qxh7+ Ke6 48.exf6+-] 45.Rd7+ Kxf6 46.Qf7+ Kg5 47.Qxg7+ Kh4 48.Rd3 Rg5 [To prevent the mate with 49 Rh3, if 48...Rd5 49.Qe7+ (49.g3+ Kh3 50.gxf4+ Rxd3+ 51.cxd3 Kh2 52.Qxh7 Qxa4 53.Qe4 Qa2+ 54.Ke3 and white would win.) 49...Kg4 50.Qxh7 wins.] 49.Rh3+ Kg4 50.f3+ Kf5 51.Qxh7+ Ke5 52.Qe7+! simplifying to a won rook ending. 52...Kf5 53.Qe4+! Qxe4 54.fxe4+ Kxe4 55.Rh2!! A totally unexpected move that wins without any problems. Soon, black will be in zugzwang trying to hold the h-pawn. 55...Rd5+ 56.Ke2 Rd7 57.h6 Rh7 58.Rh4 c4 59.c3 [59.g3!] 59...Kf5 60.Kf3 Kg5 61.Rh1 [61.Rh1 Kf5 62.Rh5+ Kg6 63.Kg4!] 1–0 AICF CHRONICLE MAY 2015 39 Kostenko,Petr (Kaz) (2466) Roy,Pr (2300) [A15] 1.c4 Nf6 2.g3 g6 3.Bg2 Bg7 4.Nc3 0–0 5.e4 d6 6.Nge2 Nc6 7.d3 e5 8.0–0 Ne8 9.Be3 f5 10.Qd2 Nf6 11.Nd5 Be6 [The immediate 11...Ne7 has been seen in practice.] 12.Rac1 Qd7 13.f3 [This is not at all an impressive move. Better was: 13.Nxf6+ Bxf6 14.f4=] 13...Ne7 14.Bg5 c6 15.Nxf6+ Bxf6 16.Bxf6 Rxf6 17.f4 fxe4 [It was better to play the natural developing move in this position and wait for white's further plans. So, 17...Raf8= ] 18.dxe4 Raf8= 19.b3 Bg4 20.Nc3 Bh3 21.Ne2 By reversing his move, the Kazakh GM admits that his opening has not gone as planned or desired. 21...Bg4 22.Rce1 Bxe2 23.Rxe2 Qe6 24.Ref2 Kg7 25.Qa5 a6 26.a4 R8f7 27.Qb4 exf4 28.gxf4 40 AICF CHRONICLE MAY 2015 Tactics from master games Here, the white pawns on e4 and f4 could be termed hanging pawns though that term is used for c- and d-pawns (for both white and black) when they do not have pawns on the adjacent b- and e-files. Here the white pawns are weak as will be seen soon. 28...Qg4 29.c5 [It was better to wait for black to reveal his plans and play: 29.a5 ; or just defend the threatened pawn with 29.Qd2= and wait for black's next move was advisable.; However, not 29.Qxb7? Nd5! 30.h3 (30.Qxc6 Nxf4 31.Rxf4 Rxf4 32.Rxf4 Qxf4µ) 30...Qxg2+ 31.Kxg2 Ne3+! 32.Kf3 Rxb7 33.Kxe3 Rxb3+µ] 29...d5 30.e5 Re6 31.Qxb7 Nf5 32.Qxa6 Suddenly black is two pawns down, but the venom in his pieces has not lessened! 32...Ne3 33.h3 Qg3 34.Qc8 Ree7 35.Qxc6 Nxf1 36.Rxf1= Qxb3 37.e6? S.Krishnan 1 3 [White's best was to draw with: 37.Bxd5 Qe3+ 38.Kg2 Rxf4 39.Rxf4 Qxf4 40.e6 Qd2+ 41.Kf3 with draw by perpetual check.] 37...Qe3+ 38.Kh2 Rxe6 39.Qxd5 Rxf4! 40.Ra1 Rd4 41.Qb7+ Re7 42.Qb2 [This is hardly a pin. 42.Qb8 would not have led to a sudden, total collapse.] 42...Qe5+! This check unpins the rook and wherever the king goes, the rook would go Rd1+ and capture Qxb2. 0–1 5 White to play and win White to play and win White to play and win 2 4 6 White to play and win White to play and win White to play and win (solutions on p. 44 ) AICF CHRONICLE MAY 2015 41 Test your endgame by C.G.S.Narayanan Gorgiev 1967 1. Kuznetsov&Kralin 1965-66 Neidze 1966 4. Harold Lommer 1966 5. Ludek Pachman G.Kasparyan 1962-64 2. 3. Masters of the past-52 Visas Kivi 1965 6. White to play and win in all the six endings above Luděk Pachman (German: Ludek Pachmann, May 11, 1924, Bělá pod Bezdězem, today Czech Republic – March 6, 2003, Passau, Germany) was a Czechoslovak-German chess grandmaster, chess writer, and political activist. In 1972 he emigrated to West Germany. He lived the remainder of his life there, and resumed his chess career with considerable success, including playing in the Interzonal in 1976 and winning the West German Championship in 1978. Pachman's first chess championship came in 1940, when he became champion of the nearby village of Cista (population 900). The first break in his chess career came in 1943, when he was invited to an international tournament in Prague. World Champion Alekhine dominated the event, with Keres taking second place. Pachman finished ninth in the nineteen-player tournament. Alekhine paid him a compliment in an article in the "Frankfurter Zeitung" and from the fifth round on, invited him every evening to analyze games and opening variations. "I don't have to tell you how a beginner from a village chess club felt at that time", Pachman wrote. Pachman went on to become one of the world's leading players. He won fifteen international tournaments, but considered sharing second place in Havana 1963, with Mikhail Tal and Efim Geller, behind Viktor Korchnoi, his best tournament result. Pachman won the Czechoslovak championship seven times between 1946 and 1966. He became the champion of West Germany in 1978. He played in six Interzonal tournaments between Saltsjöbaden 1948 and Manila 1976. He represented Czechoslovakia in eight consecutive Chess Olympiads from 1952 through 1966, usually playing first board. The most successful year of his career was 1959. After winning the Czechoslovakian championship he went on a South American tour, winning tournaments in Mar del Plata (tied with Miguel Najdorf), Santiago, Chile (tied with Borislav Ivkov) and Lima, Peru (again tied with Ivkov). On this tour he beat the 16-year-old Bobby Fischer twice. Pachman made an even lifetime score against Fischer, +2 −2 =4. Pachman was also a prolific author, publishing eighty books in five languages. In the 1950s, he became the world's leading opening expert with the publication of his fourvolume opus, Theory of Modern Chess. Pachman considered Modern Chess Strategy, published in 1959, to be his best book. His book Checkmate in Prague recounts his treatment at the hands of the Communist authorities. Ludek Pachman - Oleg Neikirch [D41] Portoroz Interzonal Portoroz SVN (13), 27.08.1958 1.c4 Nf6 2.Nc3 e6 3.Nf3 d5 4.d4 c5 5.cxd5 Nxd5 6.e3 Nc6 7.Bc4 Nxc3 8.bxc3 Be7 9.0–0 0–0 10.Qe2 b6 11.Rd1 cxd4 12.exd4 Na5 13.Bd3 Bb7 14.Bf4 Qd5 15.Rab1 Rac8 16.Rb5 Qd8 17.Ng5 Bxg5 18.Bxg5 Qd6 19.Bf6 Qf4 20.Be5 Qg5 21.f4 Qe7 22.Bxh7+ Kxh7 23.Qh5+ Kg8 24.Bxg7 f5 25.Be5 Nc4 26.Qg6+ 1–0 Courtesy:Wikepedia (Solution on page 44) 42 AICF CHRONICLE MAY 2015 AICF CHRONICLE MAY 2015 43 Solutions to ‘Tactics from master games’ on page 41 1. Gao,Rui (2533) - Shen,Victor C (2401) [C99] White to play. 64.Qh6+! Kg8 [64...Bxh6 65.Ng5+ Kh8 66.Rh7#] 65.Qh8+ Bxh8 66.Nh6# 1–0 2. Semcesen,D (2471) - Norberg,J (2305) [A41] Position after 24th move.White to play. 25.Qxc5! dxc5 26.Rxd8 Nc8 27.R1d7+ Kh6 28.Rh8 [28.Rh8 f5 (28...Kg5 29.Rhxh7 f5 (29...Rb6 30.h4+ Kg4 31.f3#) 30.Rdf7 fxe4 31.Nbc3 idea 32.Ne4+ 31...Rf6 32.Nxe4+ Kf5 33.N2g3+ Kg4 34.h3+ Kf4 35.Rxf6#) 29.Rhxh7+ Kg5 30.h4+ Kf6 (30...Kg4 31.f3#) 31.Rdf7+ Ke6 32.Nec3 idea 33.Nd5-34.Rf6#] 1–0 3.Muzychuk,Mariya(2526) Koneru,Humpy (2581) [C45] Position after 25th move. White to play. 26.Qd2! Rf8 [26...Rxd2 27.Re8#; 26...Rb8 27.Bd5+ Bxd5 28.Qxd5+ Kh8 (28...Kf8 29.Qf7#) 29.Nf7+ Kh7 (29...Kg8 30.Nd8+ Kh8 31.Qh5+ Kg8 32.Re8#) 30.Qh5+ Kg8 31.Nh6+ gxh6 32.Qg6+ Kh8 33.Qxf6+ Kg8 34.Kh1 Idea 35.Rg1+] 27.Bd5+! Bxd5 28.Qxd5+ Kh8 29.Qf7! [29.Qf7 fxg5 30.Qxf8+ Kh7 31.Qf5+ mates in three] 1–0 4.Zvjaginsev,Vadim(2658) Bok,Benjamin (2587) [C44] Aeroflot Open A 2015 Moscow RUS (3.11), 29.03.2015 Position after 21st move. White to play. 22.Nb6! axb6 23.axb6 Na6 [23...Rxa1 24.bxc7+-] 24.dxc6! [24.bxc7 also wins] 24...bxc6 [24... Rxc6 25.Bxc6 bxc6 26.Rfb1!+-] 25.Rxa6 [25.Rxa6 Rcc8 (25...Rac8 26.bxc7; 25...Rxa6 44 AICF CHRONICLE MAY 2015 26.bxc7+-) 26.b7 Rab8 27.bxc8Q++-] 1–0 5.Khismatullin,Denis(2650) Mamedov,Rauf (2658) [E73] Aeroflot Open A 2015 Moscow RUS (9.7), 04.04.2015 Position after 25th move.White to play. 26.Bf6+! Kg8 [26...Kxf6 27.Rf3+ [%cal Gc2a4]] 27.Qd2 [27.Qd2 g5 (27...Kh7 28.Qxh6+! Kxh6 29.Rh3+ Rh5 30.Bxh5 gxh5 (30...Kh7 31.Bg4+ Kg8 32.Rh8#) 31.Bg7+ Kh7 32.Rxh5+ Kg8 33.Rh8#) 28.Rh3+- Nh7 29.Bxe5 dxe5 30.Rxh6 wins] 1–0 6. Pap,M (2459) - Buiza Prieto,Eihartze (2107) [B22] 38th San Sebastian Open Donostia ESP (5.8), 31.03.2015 Position after 19th move. White to play. 20.Nd5! exd5? [20...fxg5 21.Nxc7 gxf4 22.Nxe8+-] 21.Bxd5+ Kh8 22.Nf7+ Kg8 23.Nd8+ Kh8 [23...Ne6 24.Nxe6 Qd7 25.exf6 Bf8 26.f7+ Wins; 23...Be6 24.Nxe6+-] 24.exf6 Qxf4 [24...Bd6 25.Rxe8+ Wins] 25.Bg7# 1–0 Solutions to ‘Test your endgame’ on page 42 1.Gorgiev,I Pr,Shakmati 1967 1.e7 Bxe7 2.Re6+ Kd2 3.Rxe7 Rxf7 4.Rxf7 e1Q 5.Rd7+ Kc3 6.Rc7+ Kb3 7.Kc6+ Kc4 8.Kb7+ Kb5 9.Ka8+ Ka6 10.Ra7# 2.G.Kasparyan, 1963-64 1.Nf6+ Kf7 2.Nxg4 Ne6+ 3.Kf5 Be1 4.Ne5+ Ke7 5.Nc6+ Kd6 6.c4 Bc3 7.Na7 Nd4+ 8.Ke4 Nxb3 9.Nb5+ Kc5 10.Bf8+ Kxc4 11.Na3# 3.Kuznecov and Kralin,4 Pr,65-66 1.Bf3 a1Q 2.a8Q h1Q+ 3.Bxh1 Qxa1 4.Re1+ Kh2 5.Be4 Qa1 6.Rb1 wins 4.Neidze,2 Pl.Isenegger Mem.Ty, 1966 1.h8Q Bf5+ 2.Kg2 Be4+ 3.Kf1 Bd3+ 4.Ke1 Bb4+ 5.Nc3 Rxh8 6.Bc7# Karnataka State Open FIDE Rated Chess Championship 2015, Bangalore… Achuthananda Reddy makes the inaugural move against K.S.Raghunandan Sanjay N (Runner-up),IM Shivananda B.S (Champion), Arvind_Shastry(third) and Prachura P.P(fourth) 45 St. JOSEPH’S Maharashtra State Open & Women FIDE Rating Tournament 2015,Nagpur 5th INTERNATIONAL FIDE RATING CHESS TOURNAMENT AICF Approval No: 115575/TN/2015 & TNSCA Approval No:R08 /15-16 Organised by Mount Chess Academy Under the aegis of All India Chess Federation Tamil Nadu State Chess Association & Kanchi Dist Chess Association Sponsored by St.Joseph’s group of Institutions from 03rd July to 07th July 2015 Prize Money: 2 Lakhs Venue : St Inauguration: (L to R) IA Swapnil Bansod, Chief Arbiter, Shri. Dilip Pagay, Secretary MCA, Dr. P C Pawar, Principal Dr. Ambedkar College & Institute of Research and Managment, Shri. Manoj Itkelwar, Vice President MCA, Shri. K K Barat, Secretery NDCA. Joseph’s College of Engineering, Old Mahabalipuram Road (OMR), Sholinganallur, Chennai Entry fees can pay by online through:-www.paychessentry.com 1st Thali Yuva Sangh Open FIDE Rating Chess Tournament – 2015 Last date for entry: 26.6.2015. NO SPOT ENTRIES ALLOWED Free boarding to be provided to all participants Unfurnished lodging will be given to outstation participants. 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