2016 Aug Chronicle AICF

AICF CHRONICLE
the official magazine of the All India Chess Federation

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August 2016
30 th National U-11 Open & Girls Chess Championships 2016, Raipur
Manish Anto Cristiano
Divya Desmukh
Open Champion
Girls Champion
National Challenger Chess

Championship, Noida
IM Ravi Teja
Winner
Erigaisi Arjun
Open Champion
30 th National Under 13 Open & Girls

Chess Championships,2016,Ahmedabad
Jishitha D
Girls Champion
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54th National Challengers Chess Championship, Noida

IM Ravi Teja emerges Champion
by M Ephrame IA, Chief Arbiter
1
30th National U-11 Open & Girls Chess Championships,Raipur
Manish Anto Cristiano and Divya Desmukh are Champions
by IA Ambrish C Joshi, Chief Arbiter 6
30thNational Under 13 Open and Girls
Championships,,Ahmedabad
Erigaisi Arjun and Jishita D are the champions
by S.Paul Arokia Raj,IA ,Chief Arbiter 10
3rd Arrvindurga Fide Rating Chess Tournament,Tambaram
S. Prasannaa wins title
L.R.Bhuvana Sai IA, Chief Arbiter 14
BRC Schools Rapid Rating Chess Championship 2016,Kolkata
Kaustuv Kundu crowned champion
by Asit Baran Choudhury, IA,Chief Arbiter 16
Robert Fischer Memorial 2016 All India Open Ty,Trivandrum
Manikandan lifts trophy
by M Ephrame IA,Chief Arbiter 18
All India (below 1600) Fide Rating Chess Tournament,
Hyderabad
Chourasiya Hemant wins
by FA S Subba Raju , Chief Arbiter 20
1st Kalajyothi All India Fide Rating Ty.,Dharmavaram
M Chakravarthy Reddy Wins
by Vappangi Srikanth (FA) , Chief Arbiter 21
Karnataka State Amateur FIDE Rated , Bangalore
Raghavendra is Karnataka State Amateur Champion
by Promodraj Moree FA, Chief Arbiter 27
GH Raisoni PCA FIDE Rating Chess Tournament 2016,
Nagpur
VAV Rajesh of AAI wins both Standard & Blitz events
by IA Swapnil Bansod,Chief Arbiter 29
Sivam Children Hospital All India Rapid Rating Ty,Sivakasi
Shyam Nikhil wins at Sivakasi
by R. Anantharam IA, Chief Arbiter 31
1th Macaulay All India FIDE Rating Open Ty.,Bubaneshwar
Rakesh Kumar Nayak emerges Champion
by Suresh Chandra Sahoo IA,Chief Arbiter 33
6th St.Josephs International Fide Rating Ty, Chennai
Saravana Krishnan retains title
by M.Vijayakumar IA, Chief Arbiter 34
1st Sivsagar International fide rating chess tournament,
Joysagar..
Anurag Jaiswal wins title
by Pradip Kumar Roy, FA,Chief Arbiter 36
Selected games from 43rd National Women Challengers,
Chennai
Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron
37
Tactics from Master games by Srinivas Krishnan
42
Test your endgame by C.G.S.Narayanan
43
Masters of the past-67 Klaus Junge
44
AICF Calendar
48
From the Editors desk
WIM Jennitha Anto claimed gold in

the women section for the third time
in a row at the 16th IPCA World
Individual Chess Championship
2016 for physically disabled chess
players in Novi Sad, Serbia. At
the World Youth Olympiad 2016 at
Slovakia Mitrabha Guha won gold for his performance
on board five though India finished fourth. Apart from
these events the centre pages also feature some of the
notable successes of Indian GMs Sasikiran,Vidit Santhosh
Gujrati and Shyam sundar at international open events
held in July 2016.
IM Ravi Teja representing RSPB won the National
Challenger at Noida. Manish Anto Cristiano of Tamilnadu
and Divya Desmukh of Maharashtra emerged Champions
in the 30th National Under 11 chess Championships
hosted at Raipur. Erigaisi Arjun and Jishitha are the
new title winners at the National Under-13 chess
Championship held at Ahmedabad. Reports, final
standings and photographs on these three national events
along with those FIDE rated tournaments held last month
are presented in this issue.
German chess master Klaus Junge is featured in the
Masters of the past series.Srinivas Krishnan continues
to present interesting tactical positions from recent GM
level tournaments in the Tactics from master games. Test
your endgame this month features six masterly endgame
studies from the FIDE Album 1962-64.
C.G.S.Narayanan
Readers are invited to offer their feedback on
the regular features in the AICF Chronicle and
are also invited to send interesting articles,
annotated games and chess anecdotes to the
Editor at www.indianchessfed@gmail.com or
cgsnarayanan@hotmail.com.
54th National Challengers Chess Championship, Noida
IM Ravi Teja emerges Champion

by M Ephrame
4th National Challengers Chess

Championship, organized by U P
Chess & sports Association attracted
167 players from 26 States and 9 special
units. The championship offering a total
prize amount of Rs.500000/-(Rupees five
lakh) attracted 8 GMs, one WGM and 19
IMs. Thirteen round Swiss championship
had a time control of 90 minutes for first
40 moves and 30 minutes additional for
remaining part of the game plus 30 seconds increment per move. GM Aravindh
Chithambaram of Tamilnadu was the top
seed. Namish Sharma from Delhi at the
age of 8 years was the youngest participant of this championship. Participation
of players from North eastern region,
Assam, Megalaya, Nagaland, Sikkim and
Tripura was highly appreciated. Out of the
167 players 159 players were Fide rated.
Only 8 players were unrated.
Earlier 54th National challengers Chess
Championship got under way at Amity
University , Noida, Uttar Pradesh on 9th
July 2016. The Vice Chancellor Prof.(Dr)
Balvinder Shukla Inaugurated the event.
AICF CEO Bharat Singh Chauhan welcomed the gathering, Mr. A K Raizada Hon.
Secretary U P Chess & sports Association
& the organizing Secretary delivered the
vote of thanks. Mr. Bachchu Singh and
Mr. R C Kochar Pro Vice Chancellor Amity
University were the guests of honour.
The 11 day 54th National Challengers
Championship battle ended on 19th July
in the Amity University of Noida , with IM
IA, Chief Arbiter

Ravi Teja of Railways emerging as clear
champion with 10 points, who remained
undefeated with 7 wins and six draws
and took home the winners purse of Rs.
150000/-. Dhulipalla Bala Chandra Prasad of Andhra Pradesh who stood second
with 9.5 points in a four way tie. The third
place was secured by FM Praneeth Surya
K of Telengana.
The following nine players have qualified
from this championship for the National
Premier Championship, which has been
allotted to UP Chess & Sports Association
which will be held during November 2016.
IM Ravi Teja of Railways ,2.Dhulipalla
Bala Chandra Prasad of Andhra Pradesh,
3. FM Praneeth Surya K of Telengana,4.
GM Kunte Abhijit of PSPB,5. IM Abhishek
Kelkar of Maharastra,6.IM Nitin S. of
Railways, 7.GM Laxman R.R. of Railways,
8.GM Gagare Shardul of Maharastra,
9. GM Aravindh Chithambaram Vr. of
Tamilnadu.
Rs.500000/- (Rupees Five Lakhs only)
cash award was given to the top 30 finishers by Smt. Prof(Dr). Balvinder Shukla,
V C Amity University. Shri Bharat Singh
Chauhan, Deputy President, Asian Chess
Federation & CEO, All India Chess Federation, Dr. W. Selvamurthy, President ASTIF
& DG, ADSI, Dr. D K Bandyopadhyay, Chief
Advisor, Founder president's Office, Mr.
Ephrame Chief Arbiter, Mr.Vipin Malhan
President, Noida Entrepreneurs Association, Shri. A K Raizda, Secretary, U P
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Chess & sports Association were present

on the closing ceremony dais.
Amity University has provided a beautiful air conditioned spacious playing hall
with nice accommodation to the players
and also to the accompanying persons
inside the campus. Players enjoyed the
playing hall and the accommodation.
Players and accompanying persons also
enjoyed the good food provided at subsidised rates in the Amity campus Young
players including the Grandmasters and
international Masters relaxed and enjoyed playing Table tennis & bowling.
Final ranking
Rk
Name
Club Pts
1 IM Ravi Teja S.
RSPB 10
2
D Bala Chandra Prasad
AP
9
3 FM Praneeth Surya K
TEL 9
4 GM Kunte Abhijit
PSPB 9
5 IM Abhishek Kelkar
MAH 9
6 IM Nitin S.
RSPB 9
7 GM Laxman R.R.
RSPB 9
8 GM Gagare Shardul
MAH 9
9 GM Aravindh Chithambaram Vr
TN 9
10 GM Sriram Jha
LIC 9
11 GM Bakre Tejas
IA
9
12 IM Mishra Neeraj-Kumar
JHA 9
13
Sahoo Utkal Ranjan
ODI 9
14
Kunal M.
TN
8
15 GM S L Narayanan
KER 8
16 GM Vishnu Prasanna. V
TN
8
17 IM Akshat Khamparia
RSPB 8
18
Santanu Borpatra Gohain ASM 8
19 IM Kulkarni Vikramaditya
RSPB 8
20
Gusain Himal
CHD 8
21 IM Rajesh V A V
AAI 8
22
Sidhant Mohapatra
ODI 8
23
Harsha Bharathakoti
TEL 8
24 IM Ramnath Bhuvanesh.R TN 8
25
Tiwari Arjun
RSPB 8
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Vantika Agrawal
DEL 8
27
Aradhya Garg
DEL 8
28
Arjun Kalyan
TN
8
29
Nayak Rajesh
ODI 8
30 IM Deshmukh Anup
LIC 8
Mahindrakar Indrajeet MAH 8
31
32 IM Palit Somak
RSPB 8
33 IM Akash G
TN
8
34
Santu Mondal
DEL 8
35
Joshi Govind Ballabh
IA
8
36 WGM Gomes Mary Ann
PSPB 8
37
Thanki Hemal Karsanji BSNL 7
38
Pranavananda V
AP
7
39 WFM Varshini V
AAI 7
40 FM Mehar Chinna Reddy CH AP 7
41
Kulkarni Vinayak
KAR 7
42
Pradip Ghosh
RSPB 7
43
Akash Pc Iyer
TN
7
44
Sumit Grover
J&K 7
45
Agarwal Brajesh
LIC 7
46 IM Sharma Dinesh K.
LIC 7
47 WFM Tarini Goyal
CHD 7
48 IM Murali Krishnan B T
RSPB 7
49 IM Narayanan Srinath
IA
7
50
Ram S. Krishnan
BSNL 7
51
Rajith V.
LIC 7
52
Senthil Maran K
TN
7
53
Anchit Vyas
MP
7
54 WCM Chandreyee Hajra
WB 7
55
Rohit Vassan S
TN
7
56
Shubham
HAR 7
57
Indranil Das
WB 7
58
Baivab Mishra
ODI 7
59 IM Suvrajit Saha
RSPB 7
60
Abhilash Reddy M.L.
AP
7
61 IM Shetty Rahul
IA
7
62
Singh Soram Rahul
ASM 7
63
Cheniram Pegu
ASM 7
64
Tamang Thendup
SIK 7
65
Gawade Milind
RAJ 7
66
Sinha Sudhir Kumar
BIH 7
67
Utsab Chatterjee
WB 7
Cond. on p.5
30th National U-11 Open & Girls Chess Championship 2016, Raipur
Playing Hall
Manish Anto Cristiano of Tamilnadu,

Winner of National Under-11 Boys
title receiving the trophy from the
Chief Guest Mr. Pramod Dubey, Mayor,
Raipur. Mr.A C Joshi and Mukesh
Singhania, President, CPCA are also
seen
Divya Deshmukh of Maharashtra,

Winner of National Under-11 Girls
title receiving the trophy from the
Chief Guest Mr. Pramod Dubey, Mayor,
Raipur. Mr.A C Joshi and Mukesh
Singhania, President, CPCA are also
seen
Robert Fischer Memorial 2016 All India Open Tournament, Trivandrum
(L-R)A Rajendran Achary, Secretary Trivandrum District Chess Association, Sreekumar MD Zafin
Center of Excellence, Technopark, Trivandrum, Ashok Nair Director, UST Global/Secretary,
Travancore Chess Club, S S Manikandan,Winner, Ephrame , Chief Arbiter
Karnataka State Amateur FIDE Rated chess championship 2016, Bengaluru
Raghavendra V,Winner, receiving the prize from D V Sundar Vice President FIDE, Mr Ramakrishna,
Director of Woodlands Hotel, Mr Hanumanta AICF Joint Secretary, Ms Geeta Rao Propreiter
Woodlands hotel Mr Nagendra Muralidhar, Vice President of UKCA, Mr Aravind Shastry,
Secretary UKCA are also seen
Cond. from p.2
68 IM
69
70
71
72
73
74
75
76
77
78
79
80 IM
81
82
83
84
85
86
87
88
89
90
91
92
93
94
95
96
97
98
99
100
101
102
103
104
105
106
107
108
109
Sangma Rahul
Dixit Nikhil
Negi Virender Singh
Jaspreet Singh
Shuban Saha
Naveen Bansal
Sahil Dhawan
Melesayi Dawhuo
Mehta Naitik R
Akshit Kumar J
Harsh Himanshu
Mari Arul S.
Gokhale Chandrashekhar
Gurung Rahul
Srikanth K.
Gajendra Singh
Shanya Mishra
Lekh Mithawala
Sunny Bedi
Ashish Raj
Tajane Ganesh
Sher Singh
Pankaj Verma
Raj Kumar Chauhan
Rahul Kumar
Sai Vishwesh.C
Bindipal Doley
Vijay Kumar
Apoorv Anand
Mufidul Islam Khan
Madhab Sarma
Diwan Rajesh
Surya Prakash Pokhrial
Arun Wahi
Gurung Rohit
IMWazeer Ahmad Khan
Roop Saurav
Om Batra
Harikrishnan A
Aravind P V S
Shubham Shukla
Saikat Dutta
RSPB
MAH
IA
PUN
WB
CHD
HAR
NAG
GUJ
AP
BIH
RSPB
IA
SIK
SSCB
LIC
DEL
MAH
RAJ
BIH
MAH
RAJ
HP
BSNL
BIH
TN
PSPB
HP
PUN
OSPB
ASM
OSPB
UTT
DEL
SIK
UP
BIH
DEL
KER
TEL
RSPB
JHA
7
7
7
7
7
7
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
6
6
6
6
6
6
5
5
110
111
112
113
114
115
116
117
118
119
120
121
122
123
Saksham Rautela
Sheth Preet
Sukhavi Achumi
Avinash Chandra
Bhoopnath
Shweta Priyadarshini
Dutta Umashankar
Abid Hossain
Vatsal Singhania
Sanskriti Goyal
Soham Kamotra
Pankaj Sindhu
Subba Raju S.
Asem Indrajit Singh
UTT 5
GUJ 5
NAG 5
UTT 5
BIH 5
UP
5
TRI 5
TRI 5
JHA 5
UP
5
J&K 5
HAR 5
TEL 5
SSCB 5
Puzzle of the month

by C.G.S.Narayanan
A retro which needs no words!

K.Fabel & W.Keym
Basler Nachrichten 1967
Review the structure of the white pawns on

the eastern side and their possible black
captures.Who moved last?
(Solution on page 9)
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30th National U-11 Open & Girls Chess Championship 2016
Manish Anto Cristiano and Divya Desmukh are Champions

By IA Ambrish C Joshi, Chief Arbiter
n the Green city Raipur, the 30th National U-11 Open & Girls Chess Championship 2016 was held from 28th june
to 6th July 2016 at Shri Ramswaroop
Niranjan Lal Dharamshala,VIP Road,Raipur.The event was organized by Chattisgarh Pradesh Chess Association , Raipur
District chess Association and Raipur
Chess Academy .
The tournament attracted total number

of 222 entries all over state of India, in
which 140 players in Open Category ,
which included 108 rated players, while
82 players were in the fray in Girls category, which included 60 rated players.
Major part of entries were from Maharashtra(26) followed by Chattisgarh(24)
and Tamilnadu (19).
The event was conducted under 11 Rounds
Swiss league system, with the time control of 90 min plus 30 sec increment from
move No.1, Daily one round ( Except 2
days 2 rounds).The Total prize money of
the event was Rs.2,25,000 with First Prize
of Rs.30,000 for the winner of the event
in both categories.
The talented young players from all over
India participated in the National U-11
championship to snatch the total prize
money of Rs.2,25,000/- .Hard fought
victories and some keen draws were witnessed during the Championships. At the
end of the eleventh round the ultimate
winner in open category was Master Manish Anto Cristiano of Tamilnadu and the
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runner up was Master Pranesh M also of

Tamilnadu. In the Girls category Kum.
Divya Desmukh of Maharashtra emerged
the champion and the Runner Up of the
girls category was Kum. Rakshitta Ravi of
Tamil Nadu. In both Categories winner got
the cash prize of Rs.30,000/- each while
the Runners- up got Rs.22500/-.each.The
The first two players will be representing
India in the Asian Chess Championship.
This was the 5th Tournament in a row
conducted by the Raipur Chess Academy
under the aegis of Chhattisgarh Pradesh
chess association. It was also the first
time in the history of Nationals that online
Entry form with fees and others was registered to minimize the last minute rush.
As an arbiter it was the most comforting
experience of conducting any tournament
.The players list ,the aicf registration
forms, calculation of fees and other issues were well sorted and laid out with
clear reports of state wise player list and
prefilled forms of tournament was handed
over to respective state managers which
was resubmitted after signature from
respective players.The system was flawless and successful. Kudos to B.Chandra
Shekhar Iyer(Hon.Secretary-CPCA) for
his excellent efforts and vision. Also our
heartfelt appreciation for The Secretary of
Raipur District, Mr. Shekhar Peri and his
team for their dedicated efforts. Raipur
chess Academy has done a wonderful work
to fulfill all requirement by providing a
fully Air-conditioned Tournament hall and
a free A/c Accommodation to all selected
and seeded players. The delicious breakfast, Lunch and Dinner during Tournament
was also arranged with a very discounted rate for all in the same Venue. Live
music entertainment provided after the
rounds was awesome. The parents area
was well maintained and air-cooled with
clean and neat bathrooms all throughout
the tournament .The accommodation was
very well maintained by a team of house
keeping. Parents enjoyed the scenic venue with beautiful landscapes which made
their stay very comfortable.The organizers took the extra effort of displaying the
top table matches on a big LED screen
at the parents waiting area.Overall the
experience of being in this tournament
was overwhelming. The hospitality and
the warmth of the organizers deserved
commendation.
The team of Arbiters headed by Chief Arbiter A.C.Joshi ensured smooth conduct
of this prestigious event and not a single
dispute arose during the entire championships.
Final rankings:Under 11 Open

Rk. Name
1 Manish Anto Cristiano F
2 Pranesh M
3 Rohith Krishna S
4 Pranav V
5 Sreeshwan Maralakshikari
6 Mahitosh Dey
7 Srihari L R
8 Harshit Ranjan Sahu
9 Bharath Subramaniyam H CM
10 Samip Roy
11 Prraneeth Vuppala CM
12 Jain Kashish Manoj
13 Dikshant Dash
14 Jubin Jimmy
AGM
Club
TN
TN
TN
TN
TEL
ODI
TN
ODI
TN
WB
TEL
MAH
ODI
KER
Pts.
9
9
8.5
8.5
8.5
8.5
8
8
8
8
7.5
7.5
7.5
7
15 Sadhwani Raunak CM
16 Nikam Sudhanshu
17 Chilukuri Sai Varshith
18 Gukesh D
CM
19 Aaryan Varshney
20 Adarsh Tripathi
21 Ayush Jha
22 Mihir Godawat
23 Vallabh Kavi
24 Karthik Sai Ch
25 Mukherjee Sanchit
26 Samant Aditya S
27 Kalur Nikhil
28 Shahil Dey CM
29 Harshad S
30 Ghelani Dhairya
31 Hari R Chandran
32 Mullick Raahil CM
33 Ayush Sharma
34 Ananmay Sharma
35 Praneeth R AFM
36 Swapnil Priyadarshi
37 Dhrupad Kashyap
38 Shah Jeet
39 Dadwani Sahil
40 Manish Kumar (2006)
41 Shirodkar Aayush
42 Aditya Savalkar
43 Gavade Atharv
44 Rajbeer Ahmed
45 Prakhar Gupta
46 Sriram B
47 Manthan Kashyap Datta
48 Sandipan Paul
49 Aditya Varun Gampa
50 Prerak Darvekar
51 Agastya Makkar
52 Mallick Saswat
53 Arun Kataria
54 Soham Pal
55 Pati Spandan
56 Zala Akshar
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MAH
MAH
TEL
AP
DEL
DEL
WB
HAR
MAH
TEL
JHA
MAH
TEL
ASM
TN
MAH
KER
MAH
MP
GUJ
AP
ODI
ASM
MAH
MP
ODI
GOA
MAH
MAH
TRI
MP
TN
ASM
WB
AP
MAH
DEL
ODI
RAJ
WB
TEL
GUJ
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
6.5
6.5
6.5
6.5
6.5
6.5
6.5
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
57 Medhansh Saxena
58 Akhil B V S
59 Srujan Keerthan Solletti
60 S Laxmidatt D Sabat
61 Agarwal Krishnav
62 Priyansh Sahu
63 Garv Gaur
64 Saypuri Srithan
65 Mahajan Ayush
66 Rohith S
67 Garg Shivam
68 Sadbhav Rautela
69 Dhritabrata Kundu
70 Sahu Bibek Kumar
71 Chinmay Jain
72 Dibya Jyoti Sarkar
73 Tathya Sheth
74 Bharadia Madhav
75 Ashvin Sharma
76 Rishabh Singh
77 Yug Kataria
78 Pasricha Jayan
79 Patel Suyogkumar M
80 Avathanshu Bhat
81 Sai Raj Gopal K
82 Sai Nikhil Y
83 Thrayambhakesh A
84 Aditya Mukherjee
85 Aaditya Dhingra
86 Abhishek Nayak
87 Jayanth R J R
88 Chhattani Shourya
89 Simon Jacob
90 Durvish Khurana
91 Thakuria Rishiraj
92 Subhranil Majumder
93 Sharath R Shanbhag
94 Rohan Gupta
95 Dutta Samaritan
96 Aadi Pandey
97 Prabhav Aggarwal
98 Aaditya A
UP
AP
TEL
ODI
GUJ
CHA
HAR
TEL
MAH
TN
RAJ
UTT
WB
ODI
RAJ
TRI
GUJ
RAJ
ASM
ASM
MP
PUN
GUJ
MAH
AP
AP
PUD
CHA
HAR
ODI
TN
MP
CHA
PUN
ASM
TRI
GOA
CHD
ASM
UP
UP
PUD
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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
5.5
5.5
5.5
5.5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
4.5
99 Adalja Vanssh A
GUJ
100
Bharadia Yash
RAJ
101
Singh Ojasva
MP
102
Dev Raj
BIH
103
Rahul Sharma
CHA
104
Saketh Kumar Reddy C TEL
105
Shravan Swaminathan TN
106
Adalja Samarth
GUJ
107
Abichal Sarma
ASM
108
Biyani Shresth
MAH
109
Parth Bhargava
DEL
110
Teja Vishwaksena K
TEL
111
Kiaan Agrawal
CHA
112
Anurag Banerjee
BIH
113
Aman Sharma
HAR
114
Lakshyesh Mohan Gupta MP
115
Kumar Sankalp
JHA
116
Vibhaan
HAR
117
Dutta Pehlaj
ASM
118
Aujsya Mohta
CHA
119
Shorya Mohta
CHA
120
Pranav Nathani
CHA
121
Chavda Priyam B
GUJ
122
Tiwari Arnav
CHA
123
Ritwik Swarnkar
CHA
124
Soni Yatnesh
CHA
125
Tanmay Iyer
CHA
126
Harroop Chhabda
CHA
127
Agrawal Aryan
MP
128
Krishiv Agarwal
CHA
129
Jaideep Kashyap
ASM
130
Tatva Burad
CHA
131
Kunshraj Singhania
CHA
132
Pranav Aggarwal
UP
133
Jagroop Chhabda
CHA
134
Agrawal Abhinav
CHA
135
Aryan Surana
CHA
136
Vihar Sharan Bhatia
CHA
137
Jahan Ajay Vyas
GUJ
138
Singh Gurmeher
DEL
139
Sourath Biswas
WB
140
Kartik Pant
UTT
4.5
4.5
4.5
4.5
4.5
4.5
4.5
4.5
4.5
4.5
4.5
4.5
4.5
4.5
4.5
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
3.5
3.5
3.5
3.5
3
3
3
3
2.5
2
1
0.5
0
0
Final ranking:Under-11 Girls

Rk. Name
Club Pts.
1 Divya Deshmukh WFM
MAH 10
2 Rakshitta Ravi
TN
9
3 Bhagyashree Patil
MAH 8
4 Kriti Mayur Patel
MAH 8
5 Dhyana Patel
GUJ 8
6 Sathwika N
AP
7.5
7 Vincent Alaina
MAH 7.5
8 Chinnam Vyshnavi WCM
AP
7.5
9 Tina C
TN
7.5
10 Vijayasubhasri S
TN
7
11 Agrawal Aanya
GUJ 7
12 Tanvi Vasudev Hadkonkar
GOA 7
13 Ayantika Das
WB 7
14 Harshavardhini M.S.
PUD 7
15 Mohana R
TN
6.5
16 Panda Miracle
ODI 6.5
17 Annyatoma Das
WB 6.5
18 Darsana M S
TN
6.5
19 Ramgude Nishigandha
MAH 6.5
20 Sairupa P
ODI 6.5
21 Rishita Sinha
ASM 6.5
22 Mariyam Fatima
BIH 6.5
23 Velpula Sarayu
TEL 6
24 Choudki Khushi
MAH 6
25 Kiyarra Sunil Khaturia
MAH 6
26 Varsha Ramesh
TN
6
27 Sevitha Viju M
TEL 6
28 Jesica
DEL 6
29 Adreeja Sinha
ASM 6
30 Meenatchi Rajam V
TN
6
31 Rebecca Jesumarian
TN
6
32 Sahithi Varshini M
AP
6
33 Vishwa Vasnawala
GUJ 6
34 Tanisha A R Som
ASM 6
35 Pratyusha Priyadarshini
ODI 6
36 Bhange Anushka
MAH 5.5
37 Sanjana Raghunath
KAR 5.5
38 Anishka Vikram
DEL 5.5
39 Rachita Sabbathi
TEL 5.5
40 Geethika Mahalakshmi J
TEL 5.5
Solution to Puzzle of the month

on page 5
All 13 missing Bl. units have been captured by the Wh. pawns b2, c2, d2, e2 &
f2 going eastward from the b-file to the
g-file. wPa2 and wPh2 did not change
column. So that bPh3 came from the
g-file with one capture (one wN), and
the original bPh7 also used one capture
(the other wN) to reach the g-file. In
order to get captured, both bPa7 and
bPb7 had to promote so that either
the WPa2 was captured on the a-file,
or it was promoted on a8 after Black
captured axb and promoted his a and
b Ps on b1.
This accounts for all 3 captures by
Black, so that Black's only potential last
move, -1. e5xf4, is not possible after
all. White played last. Last move was
necessarily -1. g2-g4 allowing Bl. to
avoid retropat by retracting bKg4-h4
wPf2-f3+ bKh4-g4 etc.
Therefore Black has the move (1. Bf2
mate?? is not allowed). Furthermore
Black has only one possible legal move:
1 ... f4xg3 ep mate, so that no stipulation is required.
A player can sometimes afford the

luxury of an inaccurate move, or even
a definite error, in the opening or middlegame without necessarily obtaining
a lost position. In the endgame ... an
error can be decisive, and we are rarely presented with a second chance.
- Paul Keres
contd on page 13
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30thNational Under 13 Boys and Girls Chess Championship,2016,Ahmedabad
Erigaisi Arjun and Jishita D are the champions
by S.Paul Arokia Raj,IA ,Chief Arbiter
he century old Rajpath Club in the

heart of Ahemadabad city which
witnessed war of nerves among the
251 contenders over the 64 squares in
the last nine days finally came to an end
with the Under13 boys title going to Candidate Master Erigaisi Arjun of Telengana
and the under 13 girls title to JishithaD of
Andhra Pradesh.In the tense battle in the
eleventh and the final round the overnight
leader Erigaisi Arjun outmanovered his
team mate Sreeshwan Maralkshikari to
standa clear first with 10 points from 11
rounds.In the girls Jishitha D of Andhra
Pradesh too inflicted victory over her
opponent Poornasri of Tamil Nadu to annexe the U13 girls national title with 9.5
points.Here too the champion clinched
the title with a clear score.WCM Salonika
Saina of Odissa was the runner up in this
section with 9 points.while Tamil Nadus
Jyothsna L was third with 8.5 points.Both
champions apart from lifting the glittering champions trophy became richer by
Rs 25700/-.The runner up spot in the
boys section went to Koustav Chatterjee
of West Bengal who scored 9point.Third
place was occupied by Arjun Shivatriof
Madhya Pradesh with 8.5 points.
This nine days national event was organised by Gujarat State Chess Association
supported by Gujarat State Cooperative
Bank Ltd. The venue was the centrally
located Raj Path Club,Ahemadabad.In
a glittering prize distribution ceremony
Shri.Ajay Patel,President of Gujarat State
Chess Association felicitated the winners.
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Final standings:
Rk
Name Club
Pts
1 Erigaisi Arjun CM
Tel
10
2 Koustav Chatterjee
WB 9
3 Anuj Shrivatri
MP
8
4 Harshavardhan G B
TN
8
5 Aronyak Ghosh CM
WB 8
6 Sreeshwan Maralakshikari
Tel
8
7 Benjamin Varghees Issac
Ker 8
8 Ranadheer B J S K
AP
8
9 Aditya Basu
WB 8
10 Sankalp Gupta
Mah 8
11 Aditya Guhagarkar
Mah 7
12 Dhanush Ragav
TN
7
13 Kushagra Mohan CM
Tel
7
14 Srihari L
Pon 7
15 Shelke Sankarsha
Mah 7
16 Mahitosh Dey
Odi 7
17 Mohamed Anees M
TN
7
18 Joy Pankaj Shah
Guj 7
19 Shuban Saha
WB 7
20 Panda Sambit
Odi 7
21 Alok Sinha
Del
7
22 Polakhare Aryan
Mah 7
23 Arnav Tiwari
Del
7
24 Pranab Kumar Patra
Odi 7
25 Aan Sikka
Del
7
26 Akshit Kumar J
AP
7
27 Jayachandra Srinivas V
TN
7
28 Abhinessh S
TN
7
29 Sayantan Mukherjee
WB 7
30 Banerjee Ashutosh
Cht 7
31 Doshi Moksh Amitbhai
Guj 7
32 Vrandesh Parekh
Guj 7
33 Karthik Kumar Pradeep CM
Tel
7
34 Mehta Naitik R
Guj 6
35 Utsab Chatterjee
WB 6
36 Anadkat Kartavya
37 Nirgun Keval
38 Harshit Arya
39 Jaeel Atharva
40 Kabir Belgikar
41 Mumukshu Mittal
42 Niranjan Rajeev
43 Saketh B
44 Bright Lee M Sunilkumar
45 Shah Rishab
46 Shyam Prasad Reddy K
47 Parikh Kairav
48 Nimdia Ridit
49 Samarth Mittal
50 Jubin Jimmy
51 Dhoot Vinit
52 Tanmay Jain
53 Jeswani Saransh
54 Samdani Sahil Sagar
55 Shourya Jain
56 Madhavan G
57 Divya Deshmukh WFM
58 Kabhilan S
59 Rohnit G Amin
60 Patel Maharshi
61 Akira Sowmyanatha Reddy
62 Priyanshu Baid
63 Anurag Kuruvada
64 Krittibash Deva Sarmah
65 Aviroop Bhattacharya
66 Mouhurtik Ray
67 Hari Suresh
68 Parmar Bhagya
69 Subash Mathivanan
70 Shintre Neel
71 Patel Rut
72 Kumar Utkarsh
73 Jai Mehtani
74 Mhatre Rahat Rahul
75 Shree Krishna Pranama
76 Vraj N Shah
77 Darsh Kansal
Guj
Mah
Har
Mah
Mah
Pun
Kar
AP
Ker
Mah
AP
Guj
Mah
Har
Ker
Mah
Pun
Mah
Guj
Mah
Goa
Mah
TN
Mah
Guj
Tel
Guj
Tel
Ass
WB
WB
Ker
Guj
TN
Mah
Guj
Jhar
Har
Mah
Kar
Guj
MP
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6
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6
6
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5
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78 Chiranjan Kumarr K S
Kar
79 Hirani Lakshya
Mah
80 Dipnaik Ayush
Mah
81 Shah Manjal
Guj
82 Yatharth Joshi
MP
83 Upadhyay Prince
Guj
84 Kale Sujal
Mah
85 Nachiketh Adiga
Kar
86 Chauhan Narayan
UP
87 Saumya Srivastava
Bih
88 Shah Nihar
Guj
89 Rupesh B Ramchandra
Bih
90 Cyrus Chhikara
Har
91 Ayush Lodha
Raj
92 Siddhant Nath Jha
Har
93 Panwar Krish Navratan
Guj
94 Arunava Bhattacharjee
WB
95 Vraj Kayasth
Guj
96 Dhruv G Kulkarni
Mah
97 Abhijith Cheettrala
AP
98 Patel Suyogkumar M
Guj
99 Shah Krish G
MP
100
B Chidambaram.C
TN
101
Rahul Sharma
Cht
102
Rakesh N
Kar
103
Bokade Chinmay
Guj
104
Pankaj Arora
Pun
105
Maharshi Kadam
Guj
106
Vyas Tatva
Guj
107
Rithvik Raja M
Tel
108
Kholia Kishan
Guj
109
Abhay Gopal
Guj
110
Mishra Ayush
Mah
111
Shah Marmik
Guj
112
Gupta Sanyam
J&K
113
Akavaram Aashish Reddy Tel
114
Jindal Akshat
MP
115
Parikh Pratham
Guj
116
Panchal Soham
Guj
117
Aaryan Shah
Guj
118
Patel Jaymin J
Guj
119
Abel Saju Chazhoor
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Mah
Shah Het D
Guj
Sibi Srinivas Eistein Reddy
Soham Chakraborty
Tri
Harsh Mangesh Dagare Goa
Aditya Jain
Pun
Satwik Rath
Jhar
Saypuri Srithan
Tel
Adalja Vanssh A
Guj
Makwana Devam
Guj
Shah Moxit J
Guj
Parth Arora
Har
Arora Honi
Raj
Krish Srivastava
Bih
Dhirain Vij
Pun
Dharani Srinivas K B
AP
Yashovardhan Singh
Har
Mehul Gupta
Raj
Rao Vishwas
Guj
Aayan Iqbal Hazarika
Asm
Thakkar Kathan K
Guj
Mevada Malay
Guj
Hriday Malik
Chd
Garg Shivam
Raj
Thaker Vishwam Jayesh Guj
Shah Mann M
Guj
Sai Akshar Tadimeti
Guj
Sarvaiya Harsh Manishbhai
Ved Anil Mundhe
Mah
Aryan Jaiswal
MP
Durvish Khurana
Pun
Patel Shlok K
Guj
Chavda Kathan B
Guj
Phophale Aditya
Guj
Prajapati Ayush R
Guj
Sahil Jamal Ansari
UP
Shah Vansh R
Guj
Anmol Rattan
Chd
Param Shah
Guj
Brahmbhatt Harshil V
Guj
Vasanth K
Pon
Patel Rudra
Guj
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4
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4
4
4
4
4
4
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4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
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4
4
4
4
4
4
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
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163
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167
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Visesh Reddy Mandadi

Shaurya P Jain
Garg Rushil
Satvik Kalra
Chopra Sohamraj
Chavda Priyam B
Singh Aryan
Mudaliar Saurav
Rajyawardhan Singh Gour
Tel
Guj
Raj
Del
HP
Guj
HP
Guj
MP
3
3
2
2
2
2
2
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Final ranking: Girls Under-13

Rg.
Name
St
Pt
1 Jishitha D
AP
9
2 Salonika Saina WCM
Odi
9
3 Jyothsna L

Tn
8
4 Lakshmi C WFM
Tn
8
5 Abhirami Madabushi

AP 8
6 Dhyana Patel

Guj 7
7 Garima Gaurav
Bih
7
8 Mrudul Dehankar WCM
Mah 7
9 Madhani Shilpee
Guj
7
10 B Mounika Akshaya WFM
AP
7
11 Poorna Sri M.K
Tn
7
12 Sai Divya M
AP
7
13 Upase Riddhi
Mah 7
14 Bristy Mukherjee
WB 7
15 Bhagyashree Patil
Mah 7
16 Jain Nityata
Mp 6
17 Aanya Agarwal
Del 6
18 Prachi Bharti
Kar 6
19 Navya Tayal
Har 6
20 Shanya Mishra
Del 6
21 Rindhiya V
Tn
6
22 Nanditha V
Tel
6
23 Nidhi Shenoy
Kar 6
24 Arushi Kotwal\
J&k 6
25 Srimozhi S
Tn 6
26 Aditi Mukherjee
Cha 6
27 Patel Riddhi R
Guj 6
28 Sudipa Haldar
WB 6
29 Bidisha Roy
Jha 6
30 Shah Vrushti
Guj 6
31 Chetana D
Tel 6
32 Panchal Tisha N
Guj 6
33 Vysetty Sahithi
Tel 6
34 David Avril R
Mah 6
35 Mishra Riya
UP 6
36 Gotmare Mrinmayi
Mah 5
37 Manya Bagla
Del 5
38 Mistry Tinaz Dinkoo
Guj 5
39 Greeshma Anand Dhumal
Mah 5
40 Ishika Arora
Har 5
41 Siva Sai Sugandhi Ch
AP 5
42 Isha Pritam Inamdar
Mah 5
43 Shah Jiya
Mah 5
44 Charishma Yadav Palla
AP 5
45 Yashasvi Gupta
Raj 5
46 Sreenidhi C V
Ker 5
47 Himashree Deka
Asm 5
48 Shah Kritee
Guj 5
49 Mahi Amit Doshi
Guj 5
50 Bhavya Verma
Bih 5
51 Sagar Siya
Guj 5
52 Samyukta Banthia
Mah 5
53 Vadoya Vishva
Guj 5
54 Rachita Sabbathi
Tel 5
55 Shreetu Bhavikbhai Nandi
Guj 5
56 Swara Hetal Shah
Guj 5
57 Naik Sayuri
Goa 5
58 Agrawal Aanya
Guj 4
59 Bhagyashree G Patil
Kar 4
60 Saini Mitali
Cha 4
61 Anjitha Krishnakumar
Ker 4
62 Medha Barooah
Asm 4
63 Arunika Ghosh
Tri 4
64 Sarah Gayle Fernandes
Goa 4
65 Parikh Urvi
Guj 4
66 Chol Biswarupa
Odi 4
67 Shah Princi
Guj 4
68 Yashika Singh
Raj 4
69 Sharma Deepti
Pun 4
70 Tvisha Mangesh Shah
Mah 4
71 Ramyasree S
Pon 3
72 Kapadia Hrishita
Mah 3
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Samdani Suhani
Saloni Sugandhi
Miraya Chinai
Shah Dhyana V
Thakare Seeya
Bhandari Anusha singh
Mandakani Mishra
Sri Chandana G
Dhaaniya T
Guj 3
Mp 3
Guj 3
Guj 2
Mah 1
HP 1
Mp 0
Tel 0
Pon 0
FS:National U-11 Girls contd from page 9

41 Anoushka Priyam
ASM 5.5
42 Ayyala Shriyatha
AP
5.5
43 Jena Suhana
ODI 5.5
44 Gupta Aashita
MP
5.5
45 Ananya Anamika
ODI 5.5
46 Yashasvi Gupta
RAJ 5.5
47 Aradhana Gangopadhyay
WB 5.5
48 Barnita Singha
TRI 5.5
49 Shah Kritee
GUJ 5.5
50 Kulkarni Samruddhi
MAH 5.5
51 Shreya Das
BIH 5.5
52 Shreya S Pillai
KER 5
53 Vidhi Kaushikbhai Sheth
GUJ 5
54 Barik Bijayalaxmi
ODI 5
55 Rhythm Singhal
CG
5
56 Cera Dagaria
MP
5
57 Jethwani Himani
MAH 5
58 Anchita Sharma
ASM 5
59 Wairagade Rashi
MAH 4.5
60 Prasiddhi Bhat
KAR 4.5
61 Prakash Vaishnavi
UP
4.5
62 Charuta J Shetye
GOA 4.5
63 Paridhi Shrivastava
MP
4.5
64 Shiraz Arisha
JHA 4.5
65 Chakraborty Sucharita
JHA 4.5
66 Parnika Garg
UTT 4.5
67 Jain Omi
MP
4.5
68 Maitreyi Gupta
UP
4.5
69 Aarushi Chatterjee AFM
CG
4.5
70 Hema Keertana Vemuri
MAH 4
71 Varshita Jain
MP
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3rd Arrvindurga Fide Rating Chess Tournament,Tambaram
S. Prasannaa wins title
L.R.Bhuvana Sai IA, Chief Arbiter
rd Arrvindurga Fide Open Rating

Chess Tournament was organised
by Arrvindurga School of chess at
Dhanlakshmi College of Engineering,
Manimanglam, near Tambaram from 6th
July to 10th July 2016. Women Fide Master Srija Seshadri headed the list of 336
players from 6 states, 3 union territories
and 1 other federation. The event was
inaugurated by Dr.C.Ramesh Babu Durai,
Principal of the college. Free food, accommodation and transportation were provided to all the participants and parents.
At the end of 3rd round Srija drew with
Subash Mathivanan. Sa Kannan, Prasanna, Saranya, Balakannamma and Siddharth played with full points in 5th round.
Kannan beat Prasanna and took sole lead
with 6 points. Others 4 players followed
him with 5.5 points each after 6th round.
But Balakannammas victory led the field
with 6.5 at the end of 7th round. Bavankumar, Prasanna, Saranya and Sa Kannan
joined with Balakannamma at the top with
7 points each after the penultimate round.
In final round tough battle between these
players ended in a draw and each secured
7.5 points,The tie-break helped Prasanna
to clinch title of 3rd Arrvindurga Open
fide rating chess tournament. Sa Kannan
and Rahul were placed second and third
respectively.
Mrs. Dhanalakshmi, Director of Dhanlakshmi College of Engineering and
Mr.C.Ramesh Babu Durai, Principal of the
college distributed the prizes to the winners. The tournament was a well conduct14
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ed one and the team of arbiters ensured

that no appeal or dispute arose.
Final standings:
Rk Name
1 Prasannaa.S
2
Sa Kannan
3
Rahul S
4
Bala Kannamma P
5
Saranya J WFM
6
Siddarth M
7 Bavankumar
8
Arunachalam Shivaa T V
9
Vijay Shreeram P
10 Lakshmi C WFM
11 Dileep Kumar R
13 Srija Seshadri WFM
14 Hari Madhavan N B
15 Rathneesh R
16 Jayachandra Srinivas V
17 Hemanth Raam
18 Umashankar A
19 Rohan Kailash
20 Senthil Kumaran R.P.
21 Sanjay D G
22 George Daniel
23 Hiren K G
24 Senthamizh Yazhini S
25 Neela S
26 Krishna Raaju J
27 Alexander D
28 Ajay Karthikeyan
29 Ayushh Ravikumar
30 Nitin Shankar Madhu
31 Akash S
32 Vignesh R
Pts
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7
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7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
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7
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Srihari L
Dinesh Kumar Jaganathan
Srivatsan Sekar
Yutesh P
Mugilan G G
Kishore V
Bhaskar Teja K Venkata
Rohit Ramanan T G
Gokul Sathyan
Raj Kamal S
Nithish Muthukumaran
Sathyanarayanan V
Akshita D
Shriman K
Gowrichander U
Sivakumar T S
Subramanian V
Kishore Kumar J
Prithvi Rajan
Janakiraman R
Sarath Chandra K
Domnic Xavier R S
Vijay V.S.
Manika Kesavan
Suriya S V
Abinandhan R
Sachjith M
Srikrishnan P
A Veda Watson Solomon
Sathya Naarayanan S
Sibi Visal R
Harish S
Jeyanth R
Vinay R Jumani
Sivasubramanian Manoj
Vignesh N
Ayil Naidu K
Harsh Suresh
Venkata Subramaniam V
Arul Suresha G A
Suthershun A
Lokesh Varmaa K
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112
113
114
115
116
Abhinav Karthik M
Divyan T
Samyak L
Chockalingam P
Shivani Madhu
Soundariya Lakshmi G
Umeshwaran S A
Arjun Vasudevan
Karthik Ganesh
Gokula Vishnu R
Sudharsan S
Surya Kumar S A
Sakthi Subash A S
Shyam Kumar M
Shyam Kishore Prasad
Arnav Maheshwari
Syed Ibrahim Shah Jalal
Vadivu Nandhini
Alagappan S
Shravan R
Sarvadh Sathiaram
Sridaar Ks
Satvik V
Sabhesan R
Honnesh Sankaran
Murugesan K
Bragadeeshwaran C
Sushmit Banerjee
AP Santhana Prabu
Rajendran Sambandam
Yogeshwaran S A
Ilamparthi A R
Shreevathsan B S
Ratnapriya K
Sathyan S R
Aadarsh Sridharan
Muthu P
Aringar Anna V
Gowtham T S
Shinde Saumil
Sanjay Srinivasan R
Vishwa Bala Kumaran M
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BRC Schools Rapid Rating Chess Championship 2016,Kolkata
Kaustuv Kundu crowned champion

Asit Baran Choudhury, IA,Chief Arbiter
RC Schools Rapid Rating Chess

Championship 2016 organised by
Kolkata District Chess Association
was held at Bengal Rowing Club, Kolkata from 21/07/2016 to 23/07/2016. The
tournament was held in a 10-round Swiss
league. There were total of 192 participants which included 88 rated players.
59 new players were playing in this tournament.
The tournament was inaugurated by T.K.
Sengupta, VP-KDCA & Mr. Rajendra Singh,
Org. Secretary, Tournament Committee.
At the end of final round game Kaustuv
Kundu ( 9 pts) clinched the Championship title and bagged the amount of Rs.
20000/-. Rajdeep Sarkar ( 8.5 pts.) &
Sonkalan Bharati ( 8 pts) placed second &
third and got Rs. 14000/- & Rs. 10000/respectively.
The players, guardians were very co-operative throughout the tournament. Not
a single dispute arose during the whole
tournament. All Deputy Arbiters, volunteers ensured smooth conduct of the tournament.The venue was air-conditioned,
spacious with sufficient rest room facilities. The organizers provided tea, snacks
etc. to all participants and officials.
Final ranking
Rk Name
1
Kaustuv Kundu
2
Rajdeep Sarkar
3
Sonkalan Bharati
4
Shrutarshi Ray
5
Anustoop Biswas
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8
8
8
8
6
7
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Neelash Saha
Rajarshi Dutta
Srijit Paul
Arpita Mukherjee
Subhayan Kundu
Soham Das
Sarbojit Paul
Rounak Pathak
Ganguly Ritabroto
Rahul Krishna Viswanathan
Maloy Deb Roy
Avijaan Roy Choudhury
Rachishnu Datta
Dipanjan Chowdhury
Soumik Datta
Bipra Nath
Saikat Saha
Soumma Chakraborty
Soham Dey
Rishabh Kothary
Ambarish Sharma
Soham Pal
Pratyay Chowdhury
Aakash Poddar
Asmita Das
Arka Sengupta
Sanika Sengupta
Hrithik Chatterjee
Dipon Naskar
Raghuraj Pratap Singh
Sagnik Ray
Rano Banerjee
Samip Roy
Rupam Mukherjee
Soham Saha
Ritam Mukherjee
Ananya Bothra
U14

U14

U12
U14
U14
U10
U14

U12
U12

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U12
U12
U12

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U14
U12
U12
U10

U12
U14
U10
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7
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Nishant Mohapatra
Rwitik Chakraborty
Saanvi Khanna
Rajanya Datta
Sritama Sen
Swadesh Jana
Anubhab Das Biswas
Jagriti Agarwal
Vedika Agarwal
Ayan Pal
Rajarshi Mandal
Arhan Boyd
Aayush Bhattacherjee
Madhav Patel
Sayanton Mazumder
Debargha Basu
Hrittik Sarkar
Aditya Bikram Paul
Navdeep Singh Jaswal
Das Annika
Gargee Bose
Harshit Baid
Aritrya Pal
Yash Jyoti Bir
Indrava Banik
Anushka Gupta
Ishan Das
Saurya Sircar
Hindol Banerjee
Devansh Roy Choudhury
Oiendrila Bhattacharya
Shubham Mukherjee Micky
Arham Dugar
Aryan Jhunjhunwala
Neil Ananya Das
Himadri Das
Sourath Biswas
Sankalan Shah
Debayan Biswas
Prateeti Gorai
Aditi Bhowmick
Sartak Periwal

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F10
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U12
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U14
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F10
U14
U10
F10
U08
F10
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U10
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U10
U12
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U10
U12
U08
U10
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Anneshan Mitra Rao

Swapneel Gupta
Arhaan Swaika
Mahek Sethia
Subhayan Goswami
Sayak Sen
Ritabrata Das
Priyanshi Saraogi
Ishaan Poddar
Shaunak Paul
Srirup Saha
Gaurav Bhakat
Urja Goyal
Shivang Sadani
Debapriya Manna
Ankit Banerjee
Adhyayan Jana
Agradeep Halder
Rishit Bubna
Kriti Mundhra
Tejash Jain
Shreeyash Kejriwal
Dhimant Maloo
Juhi Parekh
Syamantak Saha
Sarthak Bansal
Disha Mundhra
Debaprabho Gorai
Anirban Roy Chowdhury
Shalin Srivastava
Amol Dalmia
Avirup Das Neogi
Samarth Periwal
Sohan Beela
Soumil Majumdar
Akshat Bhandari
Debarshi Kar
Shreyashree Bansal
Harsh Vardhan Chourasia
Aarshiya Biswas
Arka Hazra
Surjo Ghosh
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Robert Fischer Memorial 2016 All India Open Tournament,Trivandrum
Manikandan lifts trophy
by M Ephrame IA,Chief Arbiter
ravancore Chess Club Trivandrum

organized Robert Fischer Memorial
2016 All India Open Chess Tournament at Technopark Club Trivandrum,
Kerala. The tournament attracted 236
players from Gujarat, Karnataka, Kerala,
Maharashtra, Telungana, Tamilnadu and
Union territory Pondicherry. Players from
two special units PSPB and ICF also participated in this tournament. Participation
of two Grand Masters, and three International Masters made the tournament
more glamorous. Out of 236 players, 186
players were FIDE rated chess players.
The tournament was held from2nd July
2016 to 6th July 2016, offering a prize
fund of Rs,3,00,000/- . GM Venkatesh M
R from PSPB was the top seed.
.
Earlier the tournament was inaugurated
in a simple and traditional way. The organizing secretary Mr. Ashok involved the
two Grandmasters, three International
Master and the Trivandrum District Chess
Association Secretary to light the Kerala's
traditional Kuthuvilakku and declared the
tournament open. The players as well as
parents appreciated this inauguration that
took less than five minutes.
18th seeded young K U Marthandan of
Kerala held top seed Grandmaster M R
Venkatesh of PSPB to a draw in the fourth
round and another youngster from Tamilnadu Senthil Maran held Grandmaster R
R Laxman from ICF in the fifth round.
IM Praveen Kumar of ICF was in lead
with 5 point out of the possible five at
the end of round five. In round six the
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young Senthil Maran once again showed

his performance by holding IM Praveen
of ICF.In this same round,
the former
Kerala state Champion O T Anil kumar
shocked the GM Laxman R R with an upset
victory. Four players, GM Venkatesh, IM
Praveen,
IM Navin Kanna of DASCB
and O T Anilkumar were in lead with 5.5
points at the end of round six. In round
seven
IM Praveen Kumar lost to M
R Venkatesh whereas Navin kanna beat O
T Anilkumar which made GM Venkatesh
and Navin Kanna take the lead with 6.5
points at end of round seven. In round 8
GM Venkatesh and IM Navin Kanna drew
their games and maintained their lead
whereas IM Balasubramanian of ICF and
young S S Manikandan from Tamilnadu
beat their respective opponents and
joined the leaders. S S Manikandan victory
came over GM Laxman. GM Venkatesh,
IM Navin, IM Bala and Mani were the four
leaders at the end of penultimate round
with 7 points.
In the final round Balasubramanian and
Navin Kanna lost to M R Venkatesh and
S S Manikandan respectively. Both M R
Venkatesh and S S Manikandan scored 8
points each but better tie break helped S
S Manikandan win the tournament. Manikandan lifted the winners trophy and also
received Rs.60000/- as Cash prize.
Mr. Sreekumar, MD Zafin Center of Excellence, Technopark, Trivandrum distributed
the prizes to the winners. Shri. Ashok
Nair, Director, UST Global/Secretary, Travancore Chess Club felicitated the event.
Mr. Jenson Joseph, Travancore Chess Club

welcomed the gathering, Mr. Anand J S,
Travancore Chess Club proposed the vote
of thanks.
Travancore Chess Club is doing its service to the players in Trivandrum by
organizing this type of open Fide rated
chess tournaments. Players from neighbouring state are also benefitted by this
tournament. The organizing Secretary
Mr. Ashok working as the Director in a
software company in Technopark gave a
wonderful tournament. Players and parents enjoyed the campus, playing venue,
hospitality of the organizer. He could conduct the tournament in a grand manner
with a very limited team of members. This
tournament may be the first step for the
future high level tournaments. No doubt
Trivandrum chess circle will be benefitted
by his service.
Final ranking (first 70 placings only)

Rk
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
Name
Manigandan S S
GM Venkatesh M.R.
Sekar B
Badrinath S.
Kunal M.
IM Navin Kanna T.U.
IM R Balasubramaniam
Sreejith G.S.
Ajay Krishna S
Senthil Maran K
Lokesh N.
IM Praveen Kumar C
Marthandan K U
GM Laxman R.R.
Anilkumar O.T.
Santhosh Purushothaman
Harikrishna. S. R.
Parthasarathy R
Pts
8
8
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
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
58
59
60
Unnikrishnan S
Sanjay S Pillai
Joy Lazar M.A.
Gavi Siddayya
Abhiram Sudheesh
Vijay Anand M.
Mohanan U.C.
Uma Maheswaran P
Akash Lal O
Madhusoodanan K.R.
Mohan Ram Sridhar
Gopal Shah
Vijin Babu S
Jagadeesh A.K.
Harivardhini I
Saranya Y
Yuvan Bharathi K S
Dhanasekar K.
Vinodh Kumar B.
Shashank Bhat G S
Sachin Pradeep
Shyam Sundar M
Karan J P
Sathish Chandra G
Nithin Babu
Peter Anand A
Karthick Narayanan S
Sathya Giri V
Raju O A
Ruban Sanjay M
Alan Diviya Raj
Varsha C R
Aasha C R
Muralidharan R.
Karthik Raj C
Thrish Karthik
Jijo Joy
Umesh P
Narendra Pallavan S
Abhishek T M
Manu David Suthandram
Arijith M
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5
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5
5
5
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All India (below 1600) Fide Rating Chess Tournament, Hyderabad
Chourasiya Hemant wins
by FA S Subba Raju , Chief Arbiter
ll India Below 1600 Fide Rating

Chess Tournament Hyderabad Organized by R R District Chess Association was held from 2nd to 4th July
2016. International Fide Rated Players
Chourasiay Hemant (Madhya Pradesh) and
Suhaib Ahmad(Uttar Pradesh) got winner
and runner up positions after 9 rounds of
All India Fide Rating Below 1600 Chess
Tournament concluded here at Vasavi
Kalyana Mandapam, Lakdi-Ka-Pool, Hyderabad. Hruthik Lokesh placed 3rd with
similar score.
In the final round Hemant (8) defeated
J S S Sreekar (7.5) and got three-way
tie when Suhaib Ahmad (UP) and Hurthik
Lokesh (Telangana) also scored 8 points
each. With better tie break score Hemant,
Ahmad, Lokesh were placed in that order.
Winner got prize money of Rs. 30,000/whereas Runner up Arun received Rs.
20,000/- and 3rd placed got Rs. 10,000/Total Rs. 2 Lakh distributed among 50
prize winners.
The event attracted 329 participants from
Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra,
Tamilnadu, Karnataka, Delhi,Pondichery,
Haryana and a few participants from USA.
FA S Subba Raju was the Chief Arbiter and
FA Major K A Shiva Prasad were deputy
arbiters for the event.
In the valedictory function, chief guest Sri
Ch Ashok Kumar of Vasavi Group, Major K
A Shiva Prasad, Vice President TS Chess
Association, Sri G Srinivas, Jt SecretaryTSCA were present and distributed the
prizes.
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Rk Name
1
Chourasiya Hemant
2
Suhaib Ahmad
3
Hruthik Lokesh P
4
Sreekar J S S
5
Tarun V
6
Sridhar R
7
Raja V
8
Vangala Prashanth
9
Sagar Ch
10 Singireddy Sathvik
11 Mangaldeep Mitra
12 Praveen Veeramalla
13 Dibya Sinha Sarkar
14 Aji Kumar A
15 Joseph T J
16 Balakrishna Kavatrapu
17 Shanmukha Teja P
18 Trisha Kanyamarala
19 Phani Kanuri
20 Harsh Suresh
21 Rallabandi Vamsi Kiran
22 Raju A K
23 Hemanth Eswar G
24 Akavaram Aashish Reddy
25 Chetana D
26 Mallesh Beerla
27 Mohammad Mudassir
28 Singireddy Ruthvik
29 Konatham Snehil
30 Sibi Srinivas Eistein Reddy
31 Srikanth Myakala
32 Kalyan Srinivas Vetcha
33 Venkat Narasimha Rao P
34 Harender J
35 Vijay Chandran Bala
36 Mallik M
Pts
8
8
8
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
6
6
6
6
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1st Kalajyothi All India Fide Rating Chess Tournament ,Dharmavaram
M Chakravarthy Reddy Wins
by Vappangi Srikanth (FA) , Chief Arbiter
st Kalajyothi All India Fide Rating

Chess Tournament ,Dharmavaram
was organized by Kalajyothi Chess
Association from 2th to 10th July 2016..M
Chakravarthy Reddy, IM of Telangana won
1st Kalajyothi All India Fide Rating Chess
Tournament concluded here at Arya Vysa
Chowltry (New), Near Car Street, Dharmavaram, Ananthapur District. He scored
7.5 points from 8. Matta Vinay Kumar,
Andhra Bank he scored 7 points got 2nd
and Venkata Ramana P, AP he scored 6.5
points finished third.
Winner M Chakravarthy Reddy, IM got
prize money of Rs. 30,000/- and Runner Up Matta Vinay Kumar, Andhra bank
got Rs. 20,000/- . 3rd placed P Venkata
Ramana, AP got Rs. 15,000/- Total prize
money of 2,20,000/- was distributed
among 30 players.
In This event 132 participants from
Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Maharashtra,
Tamilnadu, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Odissa,
West Bengal, States and Andhra Bank took
part in the event.
The tournament was inaugurated by Sri
Pallem Venugopal, Silk Business, Sri Rama
Krishna Reddy, Proprietor, Sampoorna
Lodge,Sri D Srihari,Secretary APCA ,Sri
Singanamala Rama Krishna, Hon, President Kalajyothi, Sri Koti Venkateswarlu,
President, Arya Vysa Satram ,Sri Pola
Prabhakar ,President ,Yours Foundation,
Sri Narayana Swami, President Kalajyo-
thi Chess Ass.,Sri Hemadri, President

Ananthapur District Chess Association,Sri
Kalavala Murali,Silk Business.FA Vappangi Srikanth was the Chief Arbiter and FA
Venkata Kumar was deputy arbiter for
this event.
In the valedictory function Chief Guest Sri
Venu Gopala Rao, DSP,Dharmavarm, Sri B
V R Sreenivasulu ,B V R Silks, Sri Rangana
Aswrtha Narayana, Sitara Silks, Sri Pola
Prabhakar, President Yours Foundation,
Sri D Srihari, Secretary APCA, Sri Singanamala Rama Krishna Hon.President,
Kalajyothi Chess Association distributed
the prizes.
Final ranking:
Rk.
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
Name
Chakravarthi Reddy M IM
Matta Vinay Kumar FM
Venkataramana P
Shubham Lakudkar
Ravi Kumar K
Ramakrishna J. FM
Anurag Kuruvada
Seshu P.V.V.
Cheela Naga Sampath
Sai Kiran Y
Tarun Kanyamarala
Shankar T
Narayana Swamy Boya
Shiva S
Chakravarthi S.V.C.
Vinod Kumar Boya
Veerabhadri K
Santhosh Manikantan
Harish Kumar K
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7.5
7
6.5
6.5
6.5
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
5.5
5.5
5.5
5.5
5.5
5.5
21
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
58
59
60
61
Purusotham Vardhi
Sudipta Chakraborty
Dilip Chandra G.K.
Someswara Battu W
Satyanarayana P.
Durga Prasad K
Rama Mohan Rao N
Eswar Sai Akhlil Ch
Gupta Rajesh R.S.
Shabreen T Khanam
Guna Sekhar G (chittoor)
Abdulh Rahaman K
Amarnath G
Akira Sowmyanatha Reddy
Surya Raghava I
Rushikumar
Trisha Kanyamarala
Hemadri T
Sai Amulya S
Hruthik Lokesh P
Shivakumar D M
Suresh Kolavapalli
Mahendra Teja Mekala
Pavan Kumar
Arifulla T Abdul Hameed
Ravi Teja Kanakala
Adirathna Kumar S
Jaffar Vali S
Srinivasa Rao Vemula
Hemadri Dasari
Sk Abdul Azam
David Gladson B
Krishna Kishore Nichanametla
Atul Bihari Sharan
Veera Phani Sai Teja K
Kamatham Balaji
Afreed T Khan
Tangedugunta Imrankhan
Akhil Kumar Reddy C
Mahesh Adra
Narahari Kanaganapalli
Sreekanth Besta
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5.5
5.5
5.5
5.5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
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4.5
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4.5
4.5
4.5
4.5
4.5
4.5
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Dharma Teja Yelpucherla

Suman Yaddanapudi
Afreen T Khanam
R Dilipkumar Tribhovandas
Muffasir Ahmed S
Mohana Parvathala
Cherla Sai Raghava
Venkata Narahari G
Basheer Ahammad Masala
Kranthi Kumar Boyagadda
Ravi Vasantha Kumar P
Naman Mehrothra
Sumanth Reddy Yanamala
Manohara Changala
Lakshmi Pathi K
Rabindra Kumar Moharana
Venugopal Reddy K
Pasapula Teja Sree
Chandra Sekhar B
Anand G
Aravind Ganta
Sai Khushal Dulam
Archakam Ramesh Babu
Armaan Jal Gala
Srinivas Kamisetty
Naga Seshu Kata
Noushad Khan Pathan
Uppara Chinna Kristaiah
Swarna Anand
Prateek Reddy M
Sai Bhargav Varada
Hemanth Sankar Reddy Dandu
Nagendra Badigi
Sri Krishna V R
Pradeep Yadav Kasigari
Samba Siva Rao Gorantla
Komal Challampalam
Manda Rama Mohan Rao
Meghana Matam
Jahnavi Sreenidhi P
Rohith Babu P
Desmond Dass Mallem
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
3.5
3.5
3.5
3.5
3.5
3.5
3.5
3.5
3.5
3.5
3.5
3.5
3.5
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3
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IPCA World Chess Championships, Novi Sad
Indians impress at Novi Sad

Jennitha Anto wins gold
by Arvind Aaron
Woman International Master K Jennitha

Anto (sitting right) won the IPCA World
Chess Championship for women at Novi
Sad in Serbia on July 29.All four Indians
impressed and gained Elo ratings. Shashikant Kutwal finished second with 6/9 and
won the silver medal in the open section.
He started as sixth seed and faced four
International Masters.
Jennitha scored 5/9 and won the gold
among women. Samarth J Rao took bronze for the third best score among juniors on 4/9.
Sanjeev G Hammannavar finished second from last but gained over 60 rating points for his
2/9.
Four players and two attendants had a very successful time from July 21-29 winning one
gold, one silver, one bronze and over 100 Elo points in all for India.
World Youth Chess Olympiad,Slovakia
Mitrabha Wins Gold

by Arvind Aaron
India finished fourth in the World Youth

Chess Olympiad that concluded at Slovakia on July 29.Iran won the title winning
eight matches and a draw. Russia got the
silver and Armenia the bronze.
India finished fourth winning five matches,
losing and drawing two matches apiece.
Stars of the Indian showing were K S
Raghunandan (5/9) in board one and
Mitrabha Guha (7/9) on the reserve
board. Both are gaining rating.
And P Iniyan (3/8), R Vaishali (3/6), Nitish Belurkar (2/4) played below rating expectations. Mitrabha remained undefeated and won a gold medal for the best showing on
board five.For missing a team medal, this Kolkata boy brought some cheer to many time
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Sasikiran triumphs at Benasque International

The 36th Benasque International
Tournament was held from 07-16
July 2016 in the cool and serene
town of Benasque in Huesca
province of Spain. GM Krishnan
Sasikiran had a fantastic tournament. He raced away to a
commanding 5.0/5, and then
settled for draws with GM Andrey
Baryshpolets (2551) and GM Yuriy
Kuzubov (2635). Then he reeled
off three more victories to claim
the first place undisputed.
Vidit becomes champion at Lake Sevan International
The 2016 Lake Sevan International Tournament began in Martuni, Armenia. The tourney is
a 10-player round-robin with an average rating of 2629. This was the third time GM Vidit
Santhosh Gujrathi was competing in the annual
invitational tournament. The first time he played,
back in 2014, he had won the tournament. Vidit
began comfortably with a win in the very first
round with the black pieces. After the third round,
Samvel Ter-Sahakyan, Vladislav Artemiev, Vidit
Gujrathi and Jan-Krzysztof Duda were leading
the table with 2.0/3. Vidit, though, settled for a
draw in the fourth round.
Last round: Duda vs. Vidit
Vidit and Sevian drew their respective games to enter the penultimate round as co-leaders,
and as befits such a scenario, they were facing each other!Vidit was clearly in the mood
to fight with the black pieces.Vidit got a stable advantage in the middlegame, but let the
advantage slip and was just two pawns down. The exciting game that lasted for almost
six hours saw an anti-climax in the end, when Sevian, two pawns up, lost on time! All Vidit
needed to do in the last round was hold the top seed Duda to a draw, which he did without
any issues. He won the Lake Sevan 2016 tournament with 6.0/9.
GM Shyamsundar wins Sant Mart International, Barcelona
One of the better events in the Catalan circuit is the Sant Mart International tournament
taking place in Barcelona, Spain. The average rating of the tourney was around 2200 Elo,
including 12 GMs and 18 IMs. With a total of 140 players, 73 of them titled, the tournament
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and ratings. Indian GM Shyam Sundar had a dream
tournament scoring 8.0/9 points to become the champion. The top seed was Axel Bachmann of Paraguay.
GM Shyam Sundar took sole lead after six rounds scoring 5.5 points and never looked back. On his road to
victory, he won important games against Argentine GM
Peralta Fernando (2588) and GM Murali Karthikeyan.In
this tournament, Shyam had a magical performance
with the black pieces as he won five games with the
colour. Mainly, he played the Sicilian and Kings Indian
Defense systems which show that he loves playing
aggressive chess.
Czech Open chess festival 2016
Abhimayu Puranik finishes third

A handful of Indians has headed
to the Czech Republic to compete in the Czech Open 2016
chess festival. The main event
is the grandmaster tournament
that began on 22 July, but prior
to that, a rapid tournament was
held with a very strong field replete with titled players it was
FIDE rated and formed a part of
the ACP Tour.
The tournament was a 9-round rated swiss with the time control of 15 mins. for the game
+ 10 secs. per move. The field was led by Czech genius GM David Navara and Armenian
Sergei Movsesian. Both the stars had a bumpy tournament managing just 6.0/9 and 6.5/9
respectively.14 Indians, led by GM Neelotpal Das, were in the fray in this strong rapid
tournament. However, the proceedings were dominated by two 2200s!
Abhimanyu has been rising meteorically over the last couple of years. Despite his 2450+
classical rating, his rapid Elo was just 2227. One must note that the reason this is so is
because he was rated in the 2200s when he first played a rapid rating event! He has come
a long way since then. Perhaps, his opponents did not know this fact? He raced off to a
near-perfect 4.5/5, before losing to David Navara in the sixth round. He finished with 2.5/3
to finish third in the tournament with 7.0/9.
(Courtesy: chessbase india.com)
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Cheerothi Kochuvareed Memorial Below 1600 FIDE Rated, Koratty
Winner Nitin M Pai receiving the trophy and cash award from Mrs. Sheela Vijayakumar, President,
Thrissur District Panchayath, Mrs Sheeju, President, Chalakudy block Panchayath, Mrs Jainiy Joshy, Vice
President, Koratthy Panchayath, Adv. K.R.Sumesh, Member, Thrissur District Panchayath are also seen.
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GH Raisoni PCA FIDE Rating

Chess Tournament 2016, Nagpur
1st Sivsagar International fide rating

Chess tournament, Joysagar..
V.A.V.Rajesh who won both

standard and Blitz events
Champion Anurag Jaiswal with trophy
Karnataka State Amateur FIDE Rated chess championship 2016, Bangalore
Raghavendra is Karnataka State Amateur Champion
Promodraj Moree FA, Chief Arbiter
r.Ragavendra V of Bangalore won

the Karnataka State Amateur fide
rating chess championship with
8 points. The 5 day event attracted 215
players from all over Karnataka. Top seed
of the event was Mr Ajith M P of Mysore,
world amateur silver medalist. The event
attracted 122 FIDE rated players. The
event was conducted for 9 rounds.
The event started on 2nd of July at 11
am, the competition was organized in the
Krishna hall, Woodlands Hotel, Richmond
Circle, Bangalore, which is in the center of
the city of Bangalore. From the 3rd round
itself the matches got tough many upsets
started to show up. In 3rd Round Ankit
Payal (1591) drew with 2nd Seed Sameer
Ghotane (1928)of Belgaum. Next round
Ansumah Mohanty(1626) of Bangalore
defeated Chincholimath Halsagar (1903).
In the 5th Round Jagadeesh P 14 Year boy
defeated Ajith M P of Mysore, the World
Amateur Silver medalist. Another boy Deota snehil who is gaining around 62 rating
points from this event had a notable win
against Ajit M P. Pankaj Bhat gained nearly 82 points in this tournament. Nearly
30 players were getting partial rating or
completing their rating from this tournament.76 years old Mr Ranghuraman N R
of Bangalore was the senior most player
of the tournament. 5 year old Tanishka
Jain of Mandya was the youngest player
of the tournament.
In the final Round Raghavendra defeated
Shabdik Varma of Mangalore to secure
the title, while on the second board Kedar
Umesh Vaze of Shimoga Drew with Chincholimath Halsagar of Belgaum. While on

the 3rd board Sameer Ghotane of Belgaum
won with Sugyan Prakash Maharaj of Bangalore to clinch the 2nd place.
Mr Raghavedra V emerged the leader with
sole lead with 8 points. There was four
way tie for the 2nd place with 7.5 points.
Sameer Ghotane of Belgaum secured the
second place with a better tie break score.
Top 2 players that is Mr Raghavendra V
and Sameer Ghotane, will represent Karnataka in the upcoming National Amateur
Chess championship.
The Prize distribution function took place
on 6th of July at 2.30 Pm. D V Sundar Vice
President FIDE, Mr Ramakrishna, Director
of Woodlands Hotel, Mr Hanumanta AICF
Joint Secretary, Ms Geeta Rao Propreiter
Woodlands hotel Mr Nagendra Muralidhar,
Vice President of UKCA, Mr Aravind Shastry, Secretary UKCA distributed the prizes
to the winners.
Final standings:
Rk Name
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Raghavendra V.
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Sameer Ghotane
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Chincholimath Halsagar
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Raju M.
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Kedar Umesh Vaze
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Varma Shabdhik
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Gautam J.K.
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Jagadish P
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GH Raisoni PCA FIDE Rating Chess Tournament 2016, Nagpur
VAV Rajesh of AAI wins both Standard & Blitz events

by IA Swapnil Bansod,Chief Arbiter
H Raisoni PCA FIDE Rating Chess

Tournament 2016 was organized by
PCA Chess Academy under the aegis
of Nagpur District Chess Association &Maharshtra Chess Association, from 28th June
to 3rdJuly, 2016. at DrAmbedkar College of
Management, Nagpur. The Total Number of
participants were 302 including 1GM, 2 IM,
6FM and 3WFM. The total tally of rated players were 228.
The tournament was inaugurated at the
hands of Ashiwini Kumar Jha, Divisional Manager, LIC west zone,. The other dignitaries
present were Dr. MrunalNaik, Raisoni Group,
Prof. A P Joshi, vice principal Dr. Ambedkar
College, Mr. Abhay Srivastava President PCA,
GM SriramJha, LIC & Top seed of Tournament,
Mr. Dhopade (Father of GM SwapnilDhopade),
and IA Swapnil Bansod, Chief Arbiter,
Second Seed,IM VAV Rajesh of AAI, clinched
the title of the tournament. He shared points
with IM Chakravarthi Reddy of AP in the last
round to score 8 points out of maximum possible 9.His tally of 8 points includes 7 wins
and 2 draws. At the end of 7th round Rajesh
VAV was leading the tournament with 7 points
andhe maintained his lead till the end of last
round and won the tournament.FM Srinath
Rao of MAH, DhulipalaBalachandra Prasad of
AP, IM Chakravarthi Reddy of TEL, FM SauravKherdekar of Rlys and Muthaiah ALof TN
secured2ndto 6th positions respectively. Top
seed GM SriramJha was placed 7th in the final
standing.While in Blitz tournament too, which
was held on 1st. & 2nd. July,2016 along with
this tournament and concluded just 1 day before the prize distribution, IM Rajesh clinched
the championship. He beat Sammed Shete
of Kolhapur and scored 8 points to tie with

Dhananjay of CG, who beat Sankalp Gupta
of Nagpur in last round game, for the 1st.
place. On better buchholz score IM Rajesh
secured the 1st place and Dhananjay had
to be satisfied with 2nd Place. FM Saurabh
Kherdekar and FM Srinath Rao stood 3rd and
4th respectively. Top seed ,SriramJha of LIC
lost his 4th Round game to Bhavankumar and
7th round game to Muthaiah, both from Al,
TN. With these two defeats he could secure
the 7th Place in Blitz tournament too.
The prize distribution function of 3rd G. H.
RaisoniPCA FIDE Rating Chess Tournament
2016 was held on 3rd July, 2016 at 3 pm at
Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Management Studies and Research, Deekshabhoomi, Nagpur.
Dr. MrunalNaik of Raisoni Group along withDr.
SudhirFulzele, Director, Dr. Ambedkar Institute of Management Studies & Research, Mr.
ManojItkelwar, Vice President, Maharashtra
Chess Association, Mr. K. K. Barat, Secretary,
Nagpur District Chess Association, Mr. AbhayShrivastava, President , Parent Chess Association, Adv. A.A.Badeand IA SwapnilBansod
Chief Arbiter were present on the occasion.
Final ranking
Rk
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2 FM
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8 FM
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Rajesh V A V
Srinath Rao S.V.
D Bala Chandra Prasad
Chakravarthi Reddy M
Sauravh Khherdekar
Muthaiah Al
Sriram Jha
Ramakrishna J.
Dodeja Pawan
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Sanjeet Manohar
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Shailesh Dravid
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Sankalp Gupta
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Nair Sanjeev
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S Jaykumar Shete
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Bala Kannamma P
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Akash Pc Iyer
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Mahindrakar Indrajeet
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Singh Aditya
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Anustoop Biswas
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Dixit Nikhil
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Bose Sayan
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Saurabh Lokhande
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Shubham Lakudkar
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Samrat Ghorai
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Aurangabadkar Prasad
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Polakhare Aryan
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Shubham
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Aditya Guhagarkar
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Bavankumar
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Nitheesh Pothireddy
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Arjun C Krishnamachari
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Shweta Gole
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Spandan P Seth
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Divya Lakshmi R
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Vrandesh Parekh
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Mishra Yash
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Dalal Ashutosh
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Pandey Srishti
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Vaibhav Jayant Raut
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Shukla Vikalp
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Devansh Ratti
65 WCM Mrudul Dehankar
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Shegaonkar Akshay
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Ankitha Goud Palle
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Bhogal Rupesh
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Shreyas S Nikam
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Banerjee Ashutosh
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D Vrushali Umesh
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Sonal Mandhana
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John Christopher
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Ishwar Ramteke
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Tanya Pandey
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"At the Warsaw team tournament in

1935, the most surprising discovery was
a gangling, shy, 19-year-old Estonian.
Some had never heard of his country
before, nobody had ever heard of Keres.
But his play at top board was a wonder to
behold. Not merely because he performed
creditably in his first serious encounters
with the world's greatest; others have
done that too. It was his originality, verve,
and brilliance which astounded and delighted the chess world."
GM Reuben Fine on Paul Keres
Sivam Children Hospital All India Rapid Rating Tournament 2016,Sivakasi
Shyam Nikhil wins at Sivakasi
by R. Anantharam IA, Chief Arbiter
he Sivam Children Hospital All India

FIDE rated Rapid chess tournament was
organised by Sivakasi Chess Club at
Arasan Ganesan Kalyanamandapam on 2nd
and 3rd July 2016. IM P. Shyaam Nikhil of
Tamil Nadu headed the list comprising 224
players from TN, Maharashtra, Karnataka
and Kerala. International master TS Ravi of
PSPB entered into the playing arena after a
long gap.
Shyaam conceded only draw to young Dhanush Bharadwaj of Karnataka in his tally of
8.5 points from nine games. After six rounds,
former national blitz champion Ram S Krishnan of BSNL led the field with 6 points, followed by Shyaam, TS Ravi, former TN State
junior champion P. Maheswaran of Sivakasi
Chess Club, representing Postal Services,
Boopathy Raja of Virudhunagar district and
DhanushBharadwaj. Maheswaran held Ram
to a draw in the seventh round which helped
Shyam and Ravi to join Ram at the top.
At the end of eighth round, Shyaam shot into

lead with a fluent win over P. Yutesh of TN, as
the game between Ravi and Ram ended in a
draw. In the final round battle between the
two international masters, Shyaam inflicted
a defeat on Ravi to win the title comfortably.
He was one point ahead of his four nearest
rivals. Dilip Kumar of Chennai came from
behind to hold Ram to collect 7.5 points and
thirteen year old S Suganthan of Tirunelveli
also played well to score 7.5 points. With
more number of wins, they were placed 2nd
and 3rd respectively, followed by Ram and
Maheswaran.
Sri. G. Ramamoorthy, former Vice President

of TN State Chess Association was the chief
guest. Mrs. Brinda Ragavan, Correspondent
of Renganayagi Varatharaj College of Engineering and industrialist GV Karthik were the
guests of honour. Earlier, Dr. K. Kathiravan,
Chairman of Sivakasi Municipality and the
sponsor of the event inaugurated the tournament.
Rk
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Dileep Kumar R
Suganthan S
Ram S. Krishnan
Maheswaran P.
Sa Kannan
Subramanian Pl
Chandra Sekharan A P
Prasannaa.S
Rajashakkthivel K K
Kalidass C.
Nikhil Magizhnan
Ravi T.S
Dhanush Bharadwaj
Girinath B S
Dhanush Ragav
Selvamurugan B
Unas K.A.
Deepak Kumar R
Vel Murugan B
Moorthy R
Priyan R S
Saravanan G
Aswin Kumar B S
Rathish T.J.
Yutesh P
Lenin A G
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1thMacaulay All India FIDE Rating Open Chess Tournament 2016, Bubaneshwar
Rakesh Kumar Nayak emerges Champion

by Suresh Chandra Sahoo IA,Chief Arbiter
The 1st Macaulay All India FIDE Rating Open

Chess Tournament 2016 tournament organized by All Odisha Association in association
with Master Chess Foundation was conducted
from 26th to 31st July 2016 at the Subas Institute of Technology, Barang, Bhubaneswar.
Overall the tournament was incredibly hard
fought, with battles, blunders, deep preparations, complete opening surprises and basically everything that fuels a fantastic event.
Rakesh Kumar Nayak, Odisha (Top seed of
tournament)a perfect winner to grab the title
is without a doubt the deserved winner.
The total prize fund for above captioned
Event was `1,55,000/- (Rupees One lacfifty
five thousand only) attracts only 99 participants from 5 States (Andhra Pradesh-7,
Maharashtra-1, Odisha-79, Telengana-3,
Uttar Pradesh-1, WB-9) with the average
ELO 1306, No title players, 67 Rated & 24
Women have participated in the tournament.
Rakesh Kumar Nayak, 2150of Odisha was
the top seed.
By getting (entry fee) 1% of prize money
with six days tournament without any sponsors was really a difficult financial challenge.
Subas Institute of Technology, Barang, Bhubaneswar, came forward to provide all logistic
support, to release pressure for organiser. As
declared in circular, Organiser provided hostel accommodation, boarding (on payment
basis) including pick-up & drop from Cuttack
Railway station, Bhubaneswar & Cuttack and
also from hotel accommodation provided
through organiser.The tournament could not
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session in Odisha
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Opening Ceremony was held at 02:30 p.m
on 26th Jul 2016 and Chief Guest was Sj.
Soubhagya Kumar Parida, Chairman, Subas Group. Mr. Lingaraj Pati, Director, Subas
Group, Mr. Bhabesh Mohanty, Executive
Member, All Odisha Chess Association, Miss
Malabika Banerjee, Cine Star, Mr Udyan, Cine
Star & Mr Shiva, Cine Star were also present.
Rakesh Kumar Nayak of Odisha (Top seed)
emerged champion by defeat Rajat Kumar
Sahoo,Odishain the 9th Round (FINAL) and
finished with 8 points (1/2 points lead) to
took away the top prize of `21,000/- (twenty one thousand)Rajesh Nayak, Odisha
drew with Sarbojit Paul, WB in top board
andplaced1strunner-upwith 12,000/-and
Mohammad Ashraf, Odisha, became 2nd
runner-up position with `7,000/- thousand
in the tournament.
Out of 32 unrated players 7 players will get
the Rating in the month of September. Six
playersChilukuri Sai Varshith, 1338, AP ;
Abigyan Mohanty, 1060, Odisha, Miracle
Panda, 1281; Koustuv Dash, 1197, Odisha;
Maheswar Mishhra, 1252, Odisha; & Annirudha Sahoo, 1190, Odisha increased(more than
50 ELO) 146, 68, 67, 62, 58 & 54 in their
rating respectively. More than 50 ELO lost by
Manish Kumar, 1675, Odisha; Dinesh Sinha,
1540, UP; Sreekar J S S, AP, 1394 & Anwesha
Mishra, 1974 of Odisha with -70, -68, -67 &
-56 respectively.
In the valedictory ceremony the Chief guest

was Sj. Pravat Tripathy,MLA (Banki Constitution). Other dignitaries who graced the
occasion on the last day were Sri Sekhar
Chandra Sahu, International Master, Vice
President of All India Chess Federation,
President, All Odisha Chess Association, Sri
Soubhagya Parda, Chairman, Subas Institute
of Technology, Saroj Kumar Das, Director,
Master Chess Foundation, Bhabesh Mohanty,
Secretary, Kendrapara District Chess Association-cum- Executive Member, All Odisha
Chess Association. The Press and Media covered the event very well. Without any dispute
the tournament ended successfully.
The Chief Arbiter for the event was International Arbiter Suresh Chandra Sahoo ably
assisted by FA Arghya Arpan Parida, National
Arbiter Santosh Mohapatra of Odisha.
Final ranking:
Rk Name
1 Rakesh Kumar Nayak
2 Nayak Rajesh
3 Mohammad Ashraf
4 Rath Hrusikesh
5 Nayak Sanjeeban
6 Sarbojit Paul
7 Anurag Jaiswal
8 Sawyan Baran De
9 Harshit Ranjan Sahu
10 Anirban Basu
11 Chilukuri Sai Varshith
12 Rajat Kumar Sahoo
13 Sahoo Dasharathi
14 Patra Subhendu Kumar
15 Sahoo Soumya Ranjan
16 Mishra Maheshwar
17 Samanta Singh P
18 Manish Kumar
19 Avinash Baliarsingh
20 Pattanaik Abhisikta
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25 K Sasidar Kartheek
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29 Sahoo Sushant Kumar
30 Biswal Gitashree
31 Koustuv Dash
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33 Mishra Anwesha
34 Narayan Das
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42 Mohapatra Pratyush
43 Mohanty Abhigyan
44 Anil Bhoi
45 Sangram Keshari K
46 Barik Siba Prasad
47 Swain Arin Anwesh
48 Ravi Teja Kanakala
49 Sahoo Prasana Kumar
50 A Lokeswara Rao
51 Naik Abhinab Kumar
52 B Lakshmi V Pratap
53 Sahoo Asish Kumar
54 Sreekar J S S
55 Abhishek Nayak
56 Dinesh Sinha
57 Naik Dinabandhu
58 Kashika Sharma
59 M Binod Kumar
60 Amrusha Mohanty
61 Aniket Debnath
62 Arushi Srichandan
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6th St.Josephs International Fide Rating Chess Tournament 2016, Chennai
Saravana Krishnan retains title
by M.Vijayakumar IA, Chief Arbiter
t.Josephs College Sponsored 6th St.

Josephs International Fide Rating Chess
Tournament was organized by Mount
Chess Academy at St. Josephs college of Engineering, Old Mamallapuram Road, Jeppiaar
Nagar, Chennai- 119, from 13th to 18thJuly
2016.
This event had attracted 473 players from 13
states which include 4IMs, 1WIM,2FMs,2WFMs & 368 Fide rated players took part in the
9 rounds Swiss tournament. The total prize
fund was Rs. 2, 00,000/- and prizes were
given to the top fifty players and five prizes
each in the 8 categories. The Entire prize
money was sponsored by St. Joseph College
of Engineering, Chennai & St.Josephs Institute of Technology, Chennai
This event was inaugurated by Dr.B.Babu
Manoharan, Managing Director, St.Josephs
group of educations on 13th July 2016 at
3.00P.M and he welcomed all players for the
6th Annual chess event and assured to host
this International fide rated event every year.
The first round started at 3.30 P.M on 13th
July2016.
Thirteen players including IM T.S.Ravi & IM
Chakravarthy Reddy were leading with 4
points each at the end of the fourth round.
Akhil A.S.J of Host College defeated International Master Balasubramaniaum in an
exciting battle.At the end of the 5th Round
4 players including top seeded P.Saravanakrishnan, Ashwin Kumar,
Prasanna and Parthasarathy were leading
with 5 points each. IM T.S.Ravi was held
to a draw by seasoned player O.T.Anilkumar of Kerala. Another overnight leader IM
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a peace treaty against young Balasubramanian of Chennai.

Saravanakrishnan and Prasanna of TN won
against Parthasarathy and Ashwin Kumar
respectively in the top two boards and both
jumped in to lead with 6points at the end of
the sixth round. Four players IM T.S.Ravi of
PSPB, O.T Anilkumar of Kerala, P.Phoobalan
of ICF and Sekar.B of Chennai were on second
place with 5.5points each.
Overnight leaders P Saravanakrishnan
and Prasanna were played a double edged
game in the top table and second seeded
Saravanakrishnan outwitted Prasanna in 45
moves and became sole leader with 7points
at the end of the seventh round. 13 players
namely IM C.R.G.Krishna, IM T.S.Ravi, IM
Balasubramaniaum, FM Matta Vinaykumar,IWM Pon.N.Krithikha,CM Rajarshi Karthick,
Shankar.A, P.Phoobalan,Syed Anwar Shazuly,
Prasanna.S,Balakannamma, B.Sekar, O.T.Anilkumar were scored 6points each and trailing
with one point behind the leader.
In the penultimate round P. Saravanakrishnan played an excellent middle game
against IM T.S.Ravi and clinched his eighth
successive victory at the end of the eighth
round and maintained his lead of one point.
Three players P.Phoobalan of ICF, Prasanna.S
of Kanchi and B.Sekar of Tiruvellore were on
second spot with 7 points each.
In the final and 9th round P.Saravanakrishna
made a miniature draw against P.Phoobalan
and defended the title with 8.5points.Prasanna.S scored against B.Sekar and came
second with 8 points. P.Phoobalan ,FM.Vinoth
Kumar,IM C.R.G.Krishna, IM Balasubramaniaum,Ganesh.R and FM Matta Vinaykumar
were scored 7.5points each and finished third
to eighth respectively on tie break.Winner

P.Saravanakrishnan of Karur Vysya Bank got
richer by Rs 40000 along with a glittering
winner Trophy. S.Prasanna of Kanchi came
second and received Rs 30000 cash prize.
P.Phoobalan of ICF finished third place and
got Rs 20000 cash Prize.
In total 37 unrated players played very well
against rated opponents and they will get
Fide rating in the coming list.Chief guest
Grandmaster J.Deepan Chakravarthy distributed the prizes to the winners on 18th
July2016.
Shri M Vijayakumar, Chief Arbiter and his
dedicated team organized this event very
well without any dispute. My sincere thanks
to AICF, TNSCA & KDCA and V.Ravichandran,
Secretary, Mount Chess Academy for the
successful conduct of this Annual event.
Rk
Name Pts
1 Saravana Krishnan P
2 Prasannaa.S
3 Phoobalan P.
4 Vinoth Kumar M.
5 Krishna C R G
6 R Balasubramaniam
7 Ganesh R
8 Matta Vinay Kumar
9 Sekar B
10 Pon N Krithika
11 Syed Anwar Shazuli
12 Ravi T.S
13 Rajarishi Karthi
14 Saranya J
15 Hemanth Raam
16 Akil A S J
17 Parthasarathy R
18 Shankar A.
19 Chakravarthi Reddy M
20 Anilkumar O.T.
21 Rao J. Malleswara
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23 D. Ashraf Subhani
24 Yutesh P
25 Srija Seshadri
26 Manu David Suthandram
27 Lokesh N.
28 Sa Kannan
29 Barath L
30 Hari Madhavan N B
31 Senthil Kumaran R.P.
32 Sibi Visal R
33 Biswajit Chatterjee
34 Karthik P M
35 Dheekshith Kumar R
36 Karthik Rajaa
37 Jibin Varghese John
38 Bala Kannamma P
39 Abhinessh S
40 Shvetha V
41 Arivu Selvan A S
42 Survar Subair
43 Ranjith R.K.
44 Harshad S
45 Sriram B
46 Shyam Kumar M
47 Tarun V
48 Aswin Kumar B S
49 Vijay Shreeram P
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51 Verma Sanjay
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"At Amsterdam in 1954 he scored 96.4%

on fourth board and won another game
so brilliant against ajtar of Czechoslovakia that the Soviet non-playing captain, Kotov, told to me that it was 'a true
Soviet game.' I told this to Keres who,
with the nearest approach to acerbity I
ever saw him show, said: 'No, it was a
true Estonian game.'"
GM Harry Golombek on Paul Keres
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1st Sivsagar International fide rating chess tournament, Joysagar..
Anurag Jaiswal wins title
Pradip Kumar Roy, FA,Chief Arbiter.
he tournament was held at at Sibsagar

College, Joysagar from8th to 13th July
2016. A total of 222 players participated in this Tournament and 112 players were
rated among them. The total prize money
was Rs.2,00,000. Sri Kamakhya Prasad
Tassa, M.P., Jorhat, Dr. Profulla Ch. Kalita,
Principal , Sibsagar College , Mrs Dipali Devi
, Principal , L.B. College, Sivasagar, and Mr.
Dipak Ghatuar, FA Sivsagar were present
in the opening ceremony.
The overall conduct of the tournament was
good. At the end Mr. Anurag Jaiswal of West
Bengal emerged Champion and was awarded Rs 40000/- and a beautiful trophy. Mr.
Chingkhei Singh of Assam and Mr. Trailokya
Nanda of Assam were stood 2nd & 3rd respectively.
In the closing ceremony, Mr. Bhogeswar Boruah , Arjuna award winner, Sri J.S. Warraich,
DGM, ONGC, Sri Charlin Bhuiyan, President
, AACA, Dr. Prafulla Ch. Kalita Principal
Sibsagar College were present and distributed the prizes to the prize winners.
Final ranking: (first 47 placings only)
Rk
Name
Pts
1 Anurag Jaiswal
2 Singh Chingkhei
3 Trailokya Nanda
4 Padma Gogoi
5 Rakesh Chakravorty
6 Singh Th. Nabachandra
7 Ankan Roy
8 Rajdip Das
9 Singh S. Vikramjit
10 Bipin Singhath.
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12 Ranjit Chutia
13 Rakesh Kohli
14 Aa Mangang Rajkumar
15 Kughaho kiho
16 Heikrujam Jacky Singh
17 Anirban Basu
18 Priyangshu Saikia
19 Sawyan Baran De
20 Chiraranjan Bhuyan
21 Mughaho Awomi
22 Amlan Mahanta
23 Moni Mohan Singh
24 Nitish Das
25 Bhabishnu Pranti Bordoloi
26 Biswajit Phukan
27 Ravi Kant Tiwari
28 Neelabh Jyoti Borthakur
29 Arunabh Gohain
30 Pranab Kumar Nath
31 Sonowal Aryan
32 Abhijit Paul
33 Deba Dutta
34 Maharnav Deka
35 Ayan Banerjee
36 Jatin Gogoi
37 Debanga Kalita
38 Uddipta Gogoi
39 Binod Gogoi
40 Gouranga Sonowal
41 Trideep luchan Thengal
42 Satabdajit S Baruah
43 Santanu Das
44 Anuj Protim Boruah
45 Pritom Nath
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Selected games from 43rd National

Women Challengers, Chennai
Bindu,Saritha K (1693) Vantika,Agarwal (1961) [A00]
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6
5.Nf3 00 6.Be2 e5 7.00 Nc6 8.Be3
Ng4 9.Bg5 f6 10.Bc1 f5 11.d5 Ne7
12.exf5 Nxf5 13.Ng5 Nf6 14.Nge4
Nxe4 [M.Szymanski 2180 vs G.Szabo 2160, Wld Ch U14, Cannes, 1997
went: 14...Nd4 15.Nxf6+ Bxf6 16.Be3
Nf5 17.Ne4 Nxe3 18.fxe3 Bf5 19.Nf2 Bg5
20.e4 Bd7 21.Bg4 Be3 22.Bxd7 Qxd7= ...
31 Draw] 15.Nxe4 Nd4 16.Bg4 Bf5!=
17.Ng3? [ B e t t e r wa s : 1 7 . B x f 5 g x f 5
18.Ng5 Qf6 19.Nf3 e4 20.Nxd4 Qxd4
21.Qc2=] 17...Bc2! 18.Qd2 e4! The
black forces are becoming more and more
aggressive. 19.Ne2 [Comparatively better
was: 19.Re1 Qh4 20.Qg5 Qxg5 21.Bxg5
Bd3 22.Rac1 h6 23.Bd2 h5 24.Bd1 Nf5]
19...Bd3 20.Nxd4 [Or 20.Rd1 Qh4
21.Nxd4 Bxd4 22.Be6+ Kh8+] 20...
Bxd4 21.Be2 Qh4! 22.g3 Diagram #
[After 22.Bxd3 Rxf2! 23.Rxf2 Rf8! 24.g3
Rxf2! 25.gxh4 Rxd2+ 26.Kf1 Rf2+! 27.Ke1
exd3 and black wins absolutely]
22...Rxf2! 23.Rxf2 Bxf2+ 24.Kg2 [If

24.Kxf2 Qxh2+ 25.Ke3 Qg1+ 26.Kf4 Rf8+
27.Kg4 Qh2 (threat ....Qh5#) 28.Qh6
(28.Qg5?? Bxe2#) 28...Bxe2+ 29.Kg5
Rf5#] 24...Qf6 25.Bg4 [After 25.Bxd3
Qf3+ 26.Kh3 exd3 27.Qf4 Qh5+ 28.Qh4
(28.Kg2 Rf8+) 28...Qd1! 29.Qe4 Qf1+
30.Kh4 Qe2!+] 25...Bf1+! Diagram
26.Kh1 [26.Kxf1 Be3++ wins the queen.]

26...e3! White's entire queen-side has
been immobilised. 27.Qd1 Bxc4 28.Rb1
Qe5! 29.Bf3 [The only way to block
the deadly advance e3-e2 loses: 29.Be2
Qxd5+ 30.Bf3 Qxd1+ 31.Bxd1 Bd5+]
29...e2! 30.Bxe2 Bxe2 01
Vijayalakshmi,Subbaraman (2384)
Divya,Lakshmi R (1914) [A77]
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 c5 3.d5 e6 4.Nc3 exd5
5.cxd5 d6 6.Nf3 g6 7.Nd2 Nbd7 8.e4
a6 9.a4 Bg7 10.Be2 00 11.00 Re8
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12.Qc2 Rb8 13.Re1 h6 14.Ra3 Ne5 [B.
Valach2099 vs V.Botto Slovak Ch, 2001
went: 14...g5 15.Nf1 Nf8 16.Ng3 Ng6
17.Bd2 Nf4 18.Bf1 Bd7 19.a5 Ng4 20.Nd1
Rc8 21.h3 Ne5 22.Ne3 ......47 drawn.]
15.h3 Diagram # [This threatens to play
f2-f4 without allowing ... Ng4. However,
it could also be played immediately: 15.f4
Neg4!? (a safer and quieter alternative is:
15...Ned7 16.Nf3) 16.h3! Ne3 17.Qd3
(The knight is trapped but black has resources to fight back!) 17...b5! 18.axb5
axb5 19.Qxe3 b4! 20.Rb3! Nxe4 (This
threatens to pin and win the queen with
21....Bd4. A bold and interesting alternative here was: 20...bxc3! 21.Rxb8 cxd2
22.Bxd2 Nd7! (threat 23...Bd4 pinning
the queen.) 23.Rxc8 Qxc8 24.Bc3 Bxc3
25.bxc3 Nf6 26.Bf3 Nxd5 27.Qd2 Qe6!
28.e5 Nc7!) 21.Qxe4 Rxe4 22.Ncxe4 Bb7
23.Bc4 Qd7 black has queen and pawn
for rook and two knights. In practice, either player could win!]
15...g5?! Better was 15...b6. With this

g6-g5, black decides, injudiciously, to stop
white from f2-f4. But the move g5 creates a hole on f5 which the white knights
exploit. And in the long run, black fails
to prevent f2-f4. Black's advantage lies
on the queen-side where she has a pawn
majority. Unfortunately, she does nothing
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about it in the game and tries to counter-attack on the king-side

where her opponent is strong. 16.Nf1 g4
17.hxg4 Nfxg4 18.Nd1 This knight also
readies itself to occupy f5. More importantly, this move enables the Ra3 to get to
g3 and join in the attack against the exposed black king. 18...Ng6 19.Ng3 Qh4
20.Bxg4 Bxg4 21.Ne3 Ne7 Black is trying
to control f5, but in the process creates
other weaknesses which the white forces
could attack on the king-side. 22.Nxg4
Qxg4 23.Nf1!? [This offers black a tactical chance to complicate, which goes
abegging! Better was 23.Bd2 giving support to her unprotected rook on e1 and
keeping the bishop ready to get to c3.]
23...Ng6
[Black could exploit the pin along the

e-file with: 23...Nxd5! 24.Bxh6! Blow for
blow! 24...Nb4 (24...Bxh6?? 25.Rg3+) 25.Qd2 Be5 26.Rh3 Re6 27.f3 Qg6
28.Ne3 White has a great position
though a pawn down. In hindsight,
white probably intended to lure black
into playing 23...Nxd5?!] 24.Rg3 Qd7
25.Ne3 Re5 [With white's threat of
Nf5 attacking h6 imminent, it was best
to advance the h-pawn: 25...h5 26.Nf5
h 4 2 7 . R h 3 b 5 2 8 . axb5 Rxb5 Black
loses her h-pawn but as compensation,
her rook on the b-file has become very

active.] 26.Nf5 Rbe8 27.Nxg7 Kxg7
28.f4! Rxd5 29.Qc3+ This supports the
Re1 and threatens the Rd5. Black's end
is near. 29...Rd4
Thus two of black's forces are pinned

against their king, the rook along the
long diagonal and the knight, vertically.
White is winning. 30.f5! Re5 31.fxg6
fxg6 32.Bf4 If 32...Re8 33 Rd3 wins
comfortably 10
Rindhiya,V (1589)
Krushna,Mishra (1456) [B73]
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 g6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4
Nc6 5.Nc3 Bg7 6.Be3 d6 7.Be2 Nf6
8.00 h6 [Black embarks on an unfortunate, weird plan of walking her king to
the king-side. More than a 100 years ago,
J.Showalter vs E.Delmar, New York, 1893,
went: 8...h5 9.f3 Bd7 10.Qd2 a6 11.Rad1
Qc7 12.h3 h4 13.f4 b5 14.Bf3 Rb8 15.a3
Na5 drawn on the 47th move.] 9.Qd2
Kf8? This immediately hands over the
initiative and advantage to white. The king
will reach the safety of h7 in another three
moves. This gives white plenty of time to
launch a massive attack. And after that
the rook would still remain on h8. However, if this were played under old Indian
rules, the black king could now leap like
a knight and reach h7 in just one move!
10.h3 Bd7 11.Kh1 Nxd4 12.Bxd4 Bc6
13.Bd3 Kg8 14.Be3 [The natural attacking move here: 14.f4? is no good because
of 14...Nh5!=; Despite black's strange
system of development white is unable to
achieve a clear advantage. She must try
to complete development as fast as possible and keep her forces ready to attack.
Therefore, indicated here is: 14.Rad1
Nd7 15.Bxg7 Kxg7 16.b4 a6 17.a4 Nf6
18.Qe3] 14...Kh7 15.f4 Nd7 16.f5 Ne5
17.Rf4? [This gives black the chance of
blocking the king-side and denying any
advantage for white, though black misses it! Better was: 17.Rad1 Qa5 18.Rb1!
Rhg8 19.b4 Qd8 20.b5 Bd7 21.Nd5 e6
22.f6 Bf8 23.Nc3 Rc8 24.Rb3] 17...a6
[Black can now equalise with: 17...g5!
18.Rff1 Nxd3 19.cxd3 d5!=] 18.Rh4!
Qf8 19.Rf1 The pressure on black is
getting more acute. 19...Kg8 20.fxg6
Nxg6 21.Rg4 Ne5 22.Rh4 Rd8 23.Bf4
Rh7 24.Bxe5 dxe5?! [Better was: 24...
Bxe5 25.Bc4 b5 26.Be6 (26.Bd5 Bd7=)
26...fxe6 27.Rxf8+ Rxf8 28.Rg4+ Kh8
Black has a solid, unbreachable position.] 25.Ne2 b5 [Better was: 25...Bf6
26.Rg4+ Rg7 27.Rxg7+ Qxg7 28.Qa5=]
26.Ng3 Bd7 27.Nh5 [If: 27.Nf5 Bxf5
28.exf5 Bf6 29.Re4 Rd4 30.Rfe1] 27...
Kh8 28.Rf3 Be6 29.Qf2 Rd6 30.Rg3
Bd7 [Not 30...Bxa2? 31.b3 Bf6 32.Nxf6
Rxf6 33.Qc5!+-] 31.Rf3?
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[She should activate her dormant bishop with: 31.c4! Rg6 32.b4 Bf6 33.Nxf6
exf6 34.c5 with a clear advantage to
white.]31...Be8 32.Rg4 [32.c4!] 32...
f6 33.Nxg7?! [It was best to delay this
move till the black queen moves away
from support of her h6 pawn: 33.Rh4!
Qg8 34.Nxg7 Qxg7 35.Rg3 Qf7 36.b3]
33...Rxg7 34.Rxg7 Qxg7 35.Rg3 Qf7
36.b3 Bd7 37.c4 Rd4 38.c5 Qe8 [After
38...Bc6 39.Qe3 Kh7 black has emerged
out of her difficulties.] 39.Qc2 Qc8 40.a3
Bc6 41.b4 Qb7?
[Black is so happy over her comparative

freedom from her past shackles that the
sense of danger deserts her and she
thinks she is launching a victorious attack
on e4. Necessary was: 41...Qe6 keeping
her queen ready to guard against any
attack on her king. From b7, the queen
cannot get back in time to defend her
king-side.] 42.Qb3 Bd5 [Desperation. But
if 42...Rd8 43.Qf7 e6 44.Qxf6+ wins.]
43.exd5 Qd7 [43...Qxd5 44.Qxd5 Rxd5
45.c6 Rd8 46.a4!+-] 44.c6 Qd6 45.c7!!
Qxc7 46.d6! Qc1+ 47.Kh2 Rc4 48.Bxc4
bxc4 49.dxe7! cxb3 50.e8Q+ Kh7
51.Qg8# 10
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Michelle Catherina,P (2135) Tarini,Goyal (1951) [B85]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nc6
5.Nc3 Qc7 6.Be2 a6 7.00 Nf6 8.Be3
Be7 9.f4 d6 10.a4 00 11.Kh1 Nxd4
12.Qxd4 Bd7 13.e5 Ne8 14.Rad1 Bc6
15.exd6 Nxd6 16.Qb6 Qxb6 17.Bxb6
Rac8 18.Bd3 g6 19.a5 Bd8! Black plays
carefully to evict the intruder from b6.
The game is level for a long, long time.
20.Bxd8 Rfxd8 21.Kg1 h5 22.Rfe1
Kg7 23.Kf2 Kf6 Both players position
their kings in readiness for an endgame
battle. 24.Re5 Nf5 25.g3 Nd6 26.Rde1
[A plan to act along the g-file would
backfire after: 26.Rg1 Bb5 27.Nxb5
Nxb5 28.g4 hxg4 29.Rxg4 Nd4] 26...Rc7
27.Rc5 Rdc8 28.Rd1 Ke7 29.Re5 White
could achieve nothing and gets back
to e5. 29...Rd8 30.Rde1 Kf6 31.R1e2
Rcd7 32.Rc5 (Threat 33 Bxa6) 32...Rc8
33.Ree5 Rdc7 34.b4 Kg7 35.Re1 Bd7?
Diagram # [At last black falters after

keeping white at bay for so many moves.
Young players sometimes tend to think
that exchanges lead to equality, which is
not always true! Black should try: 35...
Kf8 36.h3 Ke7 37.g4 hxg4 38.hxg4 Kd7=]
36.Rxc7 Rxc7 37.Ne4 Nxe4+ 38.Rxe4
Kf6 [38...f5? 39.Re5; or, 38...Bc6 39.Rd4
Kf6 40.Ke3 Bg2 41.c4 Bh3] 39.c4 Ke7

40.Rd4 Be8 41.Ke3 f6 42.h4 Bf7 43.c5
White has a tremendous advantage thanks
to her good bishop. The bishop runs along
white squares whereas all of her pawns are
fixed on dark squares. This is a big advantage. 43...Be8 44.Rd6 f5 Diagram #
(Positioin after 50.Bg2)

Poorna,Sri M.K (1420) Saughanthika,As (1589) [C88]
[This is forced as otherwise the bishop is

forced to keep defending her g6 pawn.
If 44...Rc6 45.Rxc6 and black loses her
a-pawn if she recaptures with the b-pawn
or her g6 pawn if she recaptures with
her bishop.; Worse would be: 44...Rd7
45.Rxd7+ Kxd7 46.b5! Kc7 47.bxa6 bxa6
48.Bxa6 Kc6 49.Kd4+-] 45.Kd4 Kf6 Black
does not wish to allow the white king to
e5 as her e6 pawn would collapse immediately. 46.Bc4 Rd7 [If 46...Bd7 47.Bd5!
Bc8 48.c6! bxc6 49.Rxc6 Ra7 (49...
Rxc6 50.Bxc6) 50.Rxc8 Rd7 51.Rc5+-]
47.Be2 The bishop is headed for f3 striking at b7. 47...Rxd6+ [47...Rc7 was
more stubboorn.] 48.cxd6 Bd7 49.Bf3
Bc8 50.Bg2 Diagram # Zugzwang! Any
move by black would lose! And she has
to move! 50...Kf7 51.Ke5 Bd7 [If 51...
Kg7 52.Bxb7! Bxb7 53.d7+-] 52.Bxb7
Bb5 53.Bc8 Bc4 54.Bd7! Bb3 55.b5
axb5 56.Bxb5 Bd5 57.a6 Ba8 58.a7
Bb7 59.Bd7 Bd5 60.Bxe6+! 10
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6

5.00 Be7 6.Re1 b5 7.Bb3 00 8.h3
Bb7 9.c3 d5 10.exd5 Nxd5 11.Nxe5
Nxe5 12.Rxe5 Nf4 13.f3 Bd6 14.Re3
Qg5 15.Qf1 [A short game from the 1964
World U-26 Team Championship, between
P. Mancebo and G.Dahlin in the Cuba vs
Sweden match went: 15.g4 Qh4 16.Qe1
Nxh3+ 17.Kf1 Bg3 01] 15...Nxh3+ [15...
Qg3! threatening mate is faster.] 16.Kh1
Qf4 17.g3 Qxg3 18.Qg2 Qh4! 19.Bc2
Bg3!
Diagram # [Also winning, but less forceful

was: 19...Nf4+ 20.Qh2 Bxf3+ 21.Rxf3
Q e 1 + 2 2 . Q g 1 Ra e 8 2 3 . R g 3 Q e 5 + ]
20.Be4 Nf4+! 21.Kg1 Nxg2 01
AICF CHRONICLE
August 2016
41
Tactics from master games

S.Krishnan
White to play and win
Black to play and win

(solutions on p. 47 )
42
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Test your endgame

by C.G.S.Narayanan
Dr Jindrich Fritz 1962
1.
Kalandadze & Neidze 1962
2.
Attila Koranyi 1963
3.
Neidze 1962
4.
Pauli Perkonoja 1964
5.
Pogosjanc 1962
6.
White to play and win in all the six endings above
(Solutions on page 47)
(Solution on page
AICF CHRONICLE
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43
Masters of the past-67
Klaus Junge
Klaus Junge (1 January 1924 at Concepcin,

Chile 17 April 1945, at Welle, Germany) was
one of the youngest German chess masters. In
several tournaments during the 1940s he held
his own among the world's leading players. An
officer in the Wehrmacht, he died during the
Battle of Welle shortly before the end of World
War II.
Junge was born into a German Chilean family.
His father Otto was a strong chess player who
won the Chilean Chess Championshipin 1922. In
1928 his parents, together with their five sons,
returned to Germany.
On 1120 August 1939, he, along with Wolfgang
Unzicker (14 years old), Edith Keller (17), Rudolf
Kunath (15) and Karl Krbavic (17), played in
Frstenwalde (Jugendschachwoche) near Berlin.
In 1941, at the age of 17, Klaus Junge was considered one of the strongest players in Germany.
In 1941, he won the championship of Hamburg.
In May 1941, he won at Bad Elster (qualifying German championship). In August 1941,
he tied for first with Paul Felix Schmidt at Bad Oeynhausen (the eighth German Championship), although he lost a playoff match against Schmidt for the title at Bromberg (+0
3 =1). In October 1941, he took fourth place, behind Alexander Alekhine, Schmidt, and
Efim Bogoljubow, at Krakw/Warsaw(the second General Government chess tournament
championship).
In January 1942, Junge won the Dresden tournament. In 1942, he took second place,
behind Walter Niephaus, at Leipzig. In April 1942, he was second, behind Carl Carls, at
Rostock. In June 1942, he tied for thirdfourth with Schmidt, behind Alekhine and Paul
Keres, at the Salzburg 1942 chess tournament. In September, he took seventh place at
the Munich (the first European Championship), won by Alekhine. In October 1942, he took
second place, behind Alekhine, at Warsaw/Lublin/Krakw (the third General Government
championship). In December 1942, he tied for first with Alekhine at Prague (Duras Jubile, 60-jhrigen Jubilum). In 194243, he played in three correspondence tournaments,
beating among others Rudolf Teschner and Emil Joseph Diemer.
Klaus Junge, whose father had been a member of the Nazi Party since 1932, was an adherent of the National Socialist ideology. As a lieutenant of the Wehrmacht, refusing to
surrender, he died in combat against Allied troops on 17 April 1945 in the Battle of Welle
on the Lneburg Heath, close to Hamburg, three weeks before World War II ended. Paul
Schmidt wrote, had he not died in 1945 he would indeed have become a formidable
contender for the world championship. He was equally fond of combinatorial and positional play, and his style was completely mature even at age 18. My book Schachmeister
Denken! (Walter Rau Verlag, 1949) is dedicated to the memory of Klaus Junge.In 1946,
Regensburg hosted the first Klaus Junge Memorial. The event was won by Fedor Bohatirchuk, ahead of Elmrs Zemgalis, Wolfgang Unzicker, etc.
Courtesy:Wikepedia
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1th Macaulay All India FIDE Rating Open Chess Tournament 2016, Bubaneshwar
(L-R) Saroj Kumar Das,Director, MCF,Sekhar Chandra Sahu IM, President AOCA,Sj
Pravat Tripathy, MLA, Sj Soubhagya Parda, Chairman,Subas Group,Bhabesh
Mohanty,EC Member, AOCA,Champion,Rakesh Kumar Nayak
6th St.Josephs International Fide Rating Chess Tournament,Chennai
(L to R) Sri Ravichandran V,GM.J.Deepan Chakravarthy,Winner P.Saravanakrishnan

and Dr.B.Babu Manoharan, Managing Director ,St.Josephs group
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1st Kalajyothi All India Fide Rating Chess Tournament ,Dharmavaram
Winner M Chakravarthy Reddy,IM Receiving Trophy(L-R)Sri Venu Gopal, D.S.P, Dharmavaram,Sri

B V R Sreenivasulu, BVR Silks, Sri Rangana Aswartha Narayana, Sitara Silks, Sri D Sri Hari, Secretary
APCA, Sri Pola Prabhakar, President Yours Foundation, Sri Singanamala Rama Krishna, Hon.
President Kalajyothi Chess Association are in the picture
BRC Schools Rapid Rating Chess Championship 2016, Kolkata
Koustuv Kundu(Champion) receiving Champions trophy from Vikram Baid SS BRC

46
Solutions to Tactics from master games on

page 42
by S.Krishnan
1. Bachmann,Ax (2621)
Lundvik,J (2204) [E17]
Stockholm SWE Stockholm SWE (2.13),
01.05.2016
White to move 26.Nxa6! Bxa6 [26...Ne7
27.Nb4 Bd7 28.d5 cxd5 29.a6 Ra8 30.Rc7 Idea
31.a7+-] 27.Rxc6 Rff6 [27...Rxc6 28.Bxd5+
Kh8 29.Bxc6+-] 28.Rxa6 Rxa6 29.Bxd5+ Kf8
30.Rxb5 Ra7 31.Bb7!+- ] 10
2. Pandurevic,M (2310) Bosiocic,Mari
(2567) [A48]
Croatian Cup 2016 Mali Losinj CRO (1.51),
04.05.2016
Black to play 16...Nxe4! 17.Nxe4 [17.Be1 Nxc3
18.Bxc3 Bxc3 19.bxc3 (19.Qxc3 Qxc3) 19...
Qxc3+; 17.Nb5 Nf2 18.Nxc7 Nxd3+ 19.cxd3
Rxc7+ 20.Kb1 Bxg2+] 17...Ba6 [17...Ba6
18.Qxa6 Qxc2#] 01
3.Zysk,R (2383) - Kokkalis,V (2122) [D55]
44th TCh-GRE 2016 Achaea GRE (3.11),
06.07.2016
White to play 15.Nb1! [Or 15.Qe4! g6 16.Nb1
Qb2 17.Rd2 Qa1 18.Rc2+- Idea 18.Nbd2
trapping the Black Queen] 15...Qa4 [15...Qb2
16.Rd2+-] 16.Bc2 Qb5 17.Qxb5 cxb5 18.Bf5+10
4.Nesteretz,A (2423) - Pavlov,S2 (2456)
[E32]
Mukachevo Summer Mukachevo UKR
(8.2), 03.07.2016
White to play. 27.Qxf5! [Other roads also lead
to rome. 27.Bxh6+! Nxh6 (27...Kh8 28.Bxf8+)
28.Nh5+ Kg8 29.Qg5+-; 27.Nh5+! Kg8 (27...
Kh8 28.Bxh6 Qxe5 29.Qg5) 28.Qxf5 exf5
29.Nf6+ Kh8 30.Rxh6+ Kg7 31.Rh7#] 27...
gxf5 28.Rg3+ Kh8 29.Bxh6 Rg8 30.Bg7+! [30.
Bg7+ Rxg7 31.Rh3+ Rh7 32.Rxh7#] 10
5.Jakubowski,Krzysztof (2557) Tunik,Gennady (2390) [B43]
27th Czech Open A 2016 Pardubice CZE (4.24),

25.07.2016
White to play. 19.Nb5! cxb5 [19...axb5
20.Bxe5; 19...g6 20.Nxc7+-] 20.Bxe5 Qxe5
21.Qf7+ Kh8 22.Qg6 Qe4 [22...Kg8 23.Qh7#]
23.Bxe4 dxe4 24.Rf7 10
6.Tuna,Alp (2105) - Pantelic,Sa (2340)
[B00]
Int ch-Central SRB Op A Paracin SRB (2.17),
08.07.2016
White to play. 16.Bxf7+! Kxf7 [16...Kh8
17.Bxe8+-] 17.Qc4+ Kf6 [17...Ke7 18.Nd5+
Kd8 19.Ne6+ Rxe6 20.Nxc7 Kxc7 21.Qxe6+-]
18.Nd5+ cxd5 19.Qxc7+- 10
Solutions to Test your endgame on page 43

1.J.Fritz,1962
1.Rc7+ Kg6 2.Ba7 Na6 3.Rc6+ Kh7 4.Ra6
Nc3+ 5.Kd3 Nxe2 6.Be3 Ng3 7.Bf4 Nf5
8.Ke4 Ng7 9.Rh6#
2.Kalandadze & Neidze 1962
1.b8Q Bd7+ 2.Kb3 Be6+ 3.Kc2 Bf5+ 4.Kd1
Bg4+ 5.Kc1 Bg5+ 6.Nf4 Rc8+ 7.Kd2 Rd8+
8.Ke3 Rxb8+ 9.Bf2#
3.Attila Koranyi 1963
1.Rc8 Rc2 2.c7 Kh4 3.Kh1 Rc6 4.Kh2 Rc2
5.Rg8 h6 6.c8R Rxg2+ 7.Kh1 Rh2+ 8.Kg1
wins
4.Neidze 1962
1.Rf3 Nh5 2.Rf5 Ng7 3.Rf6+ Kd5 4.Rf7 Ne6
5.Rb7 Nc6 6.Rd7#
5.Pauli Perkonoja 1964
1.a4 Nb2 2.Nxc6 Kb3 3.a5 Ka4 4.a6 Bc4+
5.Kg1 Bxa6 6.Ra7 Kb5 7.Nb8 Bc8 8.Rc7
Ba6 9.Rc1 Na4 10.Rb1+ Ka5 11.Nc6#
6.Pogosjanc 1962
1.c7 Rg8 2.Rd8 Nd5 3.Rxd5 + Kb6 4.Rd8
Bb3+ 5.Kxb3 Rg3+ 6.Rd3 Rxd3+ 7.Kc2 Rd6
8.c8N+ wins
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AICF Calendar
August 2016
30th National U-9 Championship (Boys & Girls)

Jalandhar
Fomento All India FIDE Rating Tmt 2016 Panaji
42nd World Chess Olympiad 2016
Baku, Azerbaijan
South Asian Amateur Championship below 2000

Srinagar
Nat. U-17 Boys & Girls West Bengal
Talent Chess Academy 1st FIDE Rating Dharmavaram
5th Keshabananda Das Mem. All India Rating Bhubaneswar
4th NL Pandiyar Memorial FIDE Rating Open Udaipur
2nd Players Chess League Rapid Rating team Ahmednagar
Kannur FIDE Open
Chettipeedika
7th BBSR All India FIDE Rating below 1600 Bhubaneswar
Nat. U-7 Boys & Girls
Pondicherry
World Youth U14, U16, U18 Championships Khanty-Mansiysk
National U-25 Championships Assam
29th FIDE Rating Open Chess Tournament Tuticorin, TN
9th KCM Open FIDE Rated Coimbatore,TN
Viktor Korchnoi Memorial Open FIDE Rating Mysore
DCA Below 1600 FIDE Rated 2016 New Delhi
IDL national Open FIDE Rating for Visually challenged
Bangalore
Nat. U-19 Boys & Girls
CAKottayams 2nd Open FIDE Rating
Kottayam,Kerala
2nd Rail wheel factory FIDE Rated Bangalore
Asian Amateur Championship 2016
World Cadets U8, U10, U12 Championships Georgia
1st Koshal All India FIDE Rating open tmt Sambalpur
Chess For Youth Kolkata
C.P.P.A. FIDE rating below 1600 Payyanur,Kerala
Nat. Women Premier New Delhi
National Amateur Maharashtra
2nd Gayatri Devi Memorial FIDE Rating
Muzaffarpur
FIDE Rating tournament for the blind
Ahmedabad
Morphy FIDE Rating Open Nashik,Maharashtra
National Premier
Uttar Pradesh
Nat. U-15 Boys & Girls New Delhi
All India Rating Tournament Kolkata
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AICF CHRONICLE

the official magazine of the All India Chess Federation

30 th National U-11 Open & Girls Chess Championships 2016, Raipur

Manish Anto Cristiano

National Challenger Chess

30 th National Under 13 Open & Girls

Room No. 70,

Price: Monthly Rs.25 Annual Rs.300

54th National Challengers Chess Championship, Noida

From the Editors desk

WIM Jennitha Anto claimed gold in

54th National Challengers Chess Championship, Noida

IM Ravi Teja emerges Champion

4th National Challengers Chess

IA, Chief Arbiter

Chess & sports Association were present

Manish Anto Cristiano of Tamilnadu,

Divya Deshmukh of Maharashtra,

Robert Fischer Memorial 2016 All India Open Tournament, Trivandrum

Karnataka State Amateur FIDE Rated chess championship 2016, Bengaluru

Cond. from p.2

Puzzle of the month

A retro which needs no words!

Review the structure of the white pawns on

30th National U-11 Open & Girls Chess Championship 2016

Manish Anto Cristiano and Divya Desmukh are Champions

The tournament attracted total number

runner up was Master Pranesh M also of

Final ranking:Under-11 Girls

Solution to Puzzle of the month

A player can sometimes afford the

30thNational Under 13 Boys and Girls Chess Championship,2016,Ahmedabad

Erigaisi Arjun and Jishita D are the champions

by S.Paul Arokia Raj,IA ,Chief Arbiter

he century old Rajpath Club in the

Visesh Reddy Mandadi

Final ranking: Girls Under-13

FS:National U-11 Girls contd from page 9

3rd Arrvindurga Fide Rating Chess Tournament,Tambaram

S. Prasannaa wins title

L.R.Bhuvana Sai IA, Chief Arbiter

rd Arrvindurga Fide Open Rating

ed one and the team of arbiters ensured

BRC Schools Rapid Rating Chess Championship 2016,Kolkata

Kaustuv Kundu crowned champion

RC Schools Rapid Rating Chess

Anneshan Mitra Rao

Robert Fischer Memorial 2016 All India Open Tournament,Trivandrum

Manikandan lifts trophy

by M Ephrame IA,Chief Arbiter

ravancore Chess Club Trivandrum

young Senthil Maran once again showed

Mr. Jenson Joseph, Travancore Chess Club

All India (below 1600) Fide Rating Chess Tournament, Hyderabad

Chourasiya Hemant wins

by FA S Subba Raju , Chief Arbiter

ll India Below 1600 Fide Rating

Final ranking (first 36 placings only)

1st Kalajyothi All India Fide Rating Chess Tournament ,Dharmavaram

M Chakravarthy Reddy Wins