2019 Sep Chronicle AICF

AICF CHRONICLE
the official magazine of the All India Chess Federation
Volume : 14 Issue : 2 Price Rs.25 September 2019
National Amateur Chess 8th National Youth Under-25

Championship 2019 , Bhopal Open Chess Championship 2019, Jammu
Anadkat Kartavya Kumar S

(Gujarat) (Tamilnadu)
Champion Champion
33rd National Under-9 Open &Girls Chess Championships 2019, Ahmedabad
G.Akash Vidula Anbuselvan

(Tamilnadu) (Tamilnadu)
Open Champion Girls Champion
From the Editor’s desk
AICF CHRONICLE September 2019
The invaluable Governmental sup-
33rd National Under-9 Open &Girls Chess Championships 2019,Ahmedabad
Room No. 70,
Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium,
port in promoting chess through Aakash and Vidula Anbuselvan are Under-9 Champs
exposure trips do provide impetus
Chennai - 600 003. by V.Vijayaraghavan IA , Chief Arbiter
Telefax : 044-25382121 to the already growing chess talent
E-mail : indianchessfed@gmail.com in the country and the exposure
Aakash G and Vidula Anbuselvan, both from Arjun had the better Buchholz scores. Meanwhile
Publisher : Bharat Singh Chouhan tour to Abu Dhabi in August is a
Tamil Nadu, won their respective sections in 33rd Lakshyesh and Sadhbav finished 5th& 6th re-
Editor : C.G.S. Narayanan case in point. It was an incredible
National Under 9 Chess Championships here at spectively with 8.5 points.
Price Monthly Rs.25 Annual Rs.300 performance by our young stars at the Abu Dhabi
Junior event where India won all of the first five GSC Bank Auditorium, Ahmedabad, Gujarat,
Inside.... places.FM M.Pranesh of Tamilnadu won the event. which concluded on 11th August 2019. On the other hand unrated Vidula Anbuselvan
33rd National Under-9 Open &Girls Championships, Ahmedabad It was total domination by India at the Western was coasting well with 9 points till 10th round
Aakash and Vidila Anbuselvan are Under-9 Champs Asia and Junior chess Championship held at New The opening ceremony was held on 3rd of Au- but stumbled in the last round against 2ndplaced
by V.Vijayaraghavan IA , Chief Arbiter 3
Delhi reaping a rich haul of 125 medals including gust in presence of Mr Jayesh Modi, President of Devaki Nandana of Andhra Pradesh. Luckily for
28th National Youth Under- 25 Open Championship , Jammu
44 Gold way ahead of runner–up with 8 medals. Karnavati Club, Mr Bhavesh Patel, CEO, GSCA, her the tie break scores came in handy. Shreya
Kumar S of TN Wins
by IA Nitin Shenvi,Chief Arbiter 5 Mr Rajendra Chavda, Secretary, GSCA, IM Se- G Hipparagi of Maharashtra and Shreshti Gupta
1st A.S.Subbaraman Mem. trophy Intl.FIDE rated open Blitz, Chennai At the 3rd International Irena Warakomska Me- khar Sahu, Vice President, AICF, Mr Samir Shah, of Punjab finished 3rd& 4th respectively.
GM Karthikeyan Murali clinches the title
by R. Ravikumar, IA, Chief Arbiter 8
morial tournament at Suwalki, Poland, GM Harsha Treasurer, GSCA.
ARCA State Under 19 Boys & Girls Fide Rated Tournament,Udaipur
Bharathakoti won the title. At the ninth edition of Overall the tournament was a success with good
Dhruv Dak wins at Udaipur Riga Technical University International Chess Festi- The 9 day swiss event carried a prize fund of number of local parent volunteers guiding the
by IA Rajendra Teli, Chief Arbiter 10
val 31 Indian players including several strong GMs Rs.2,00,000/- and was distributed to top 20 participants during the tournament. This included
1st Banke Bihari Brij Chess Cup U.P.State Open FIDE Rated ,Mathura
Katiyar Prashant wins title
took part. In the blitz event India swept all the top places of each category. The girls section had 163 result confirmation after the game, accompany-
by Raghvendra kumar shukla , F.A.,Chief Arbiter 12 ten places,except the ninth. GM Shardul Gagare participants from 28 states and the open section ing the children in the lifts, attending their health
12th Modern School International Rating Tournament, Nanganallur won the blitz event. Consistent play enabled GM had 263 participants from 30 states. Out of 163 issues with care, passing on the messages to
Sham wins title
by M.Vijayakumar, Chief Arbiter 14
Vishnu Prasanna take the fifth place in the stand- girl players Gujarat fielded 22 players followed the parents in the ground floor etc. The team of
57 MP State FIDE Rating Championship 2019,Chhindwara
ard format. Reports on all the above events are by Maharashtra with 17. In open section Gujarat arbiters led by the deputy chiefs IA Prem Pandit
Aishwin Daniel wins title featured in the centre colour pages of this issue. was on top with 47 and Maharashtra behind with of Maharashtra and IA Govindan Kutty of Kerala
by IA Yashpal Arora, Chief Arbiter 16
8th National Amateur Chess Championship 2019, Bhopal 35 players. did a commendable job in handling the children
There were three National Championships organ-
Kartavya Anadkat is Champion on many occasions. The Gujarat State Chess
by A.C.Joshi, Chief Arbiter 18 ized during August 2019.G.Akash and Vidula An-
The auditorium of GSC Bank was air-conditioned Association has added a feather in their cap in
Smart Girls FIDE Rated Tournament, Gangtok buselvan, both from Tamilnadu, were Champions
Susmita Lama of Sikkim is Champion had the ambience to make it an excellent play- organizing this National Under 9 Chess Champi-
in the Open and Girls sections in the 33rd Nation-
by Dharmendra Kumar IA, Chief Arbiter 20 ing hall for any category Nationals. Around 160 onships.
al Under-9 chess Championships at Ahmedabad.
The Smart Girl Queen’s Fide Rating Open , Udaipur
Vanshika Sachdeva is Smart Girl in Udaipur 28th National Youth Under-25 Championship was boards of boys and girls top 29 boards were
FA Neelesh Kumawat,, Dep. Chief Arbiter 21
well organized by AJKCA at Jammu. Due to the played in the main hall and the remaining 50 Final Ranking:Open
1st Talent Chess Academy Open FIDE Rated Tournament, Chennai
sensitive atmosphere in the valley the event had plus boards were played, a floor below in the Rk. Name Pts.
V.S.Raahul wins title
by S.Balaraman I.A.,Chief Arbiter 22 to be wound up after the seventh round and S.Ku- gymnasium hall which was equally good. The 1 Aakash G 9.5
Tetrasoft Hyderabad Marriott Grandmaster Tournament,Hyderabad mar of Tamilnadu won the title. At the 8th National accommodation for the selected players has been 2 Adireddy Arjun 9
GM Boris Savchenko wins Tetrasoft
Amateur Chess Championship 2019 held at Bhopal provided adjacent to the playing hall which they 3 Suhaas A 9
by IA Dharmendra Kumar,Chief Arbiter 28
Anadkat Kartavya from Gujarat emerged Champi- use to call as “Farmer’s Nest” but looks much 4 Mrinmoy Rajkhowa 9
Thalavaipuram Rotary Club and Kamarajar Matric HSS, Intl.
FIDE Rated Tournament, Thalavaipram on. Fathima Abdeen of Kerala finished first among better like 2 or 3 star hotel rooms. 5 Lakshyesh Mohan Gupta 8.5
R.Balasubramanian wins title
women. Selected games from National Under-17 6 Sadbhav Rautela 8.5
by IA Prof.R Anantharam, Chief Arbiter 31
Championships annotated by IM Manuel Aaron are In the open section Aakash won 8 games and 7 Vivaan Vijay Saraogi 8.5
45th Tripura State Fide Rating Championship, Belonia
presented elsewhere in this issue. British GM Tony drew 3 games to score 9.5 and remained un- 8 Chinmay Kowshik 8.5
Bappi Deb is Champion
by Pradip Kumar Roy, IA,Chief Arbiter 33
Miles is featured in the ‘Masters of the past’ series. defeated till the end. On his way to the title he 9 Abhinav Raj 8
Athens of the East Grandmaster Open Chess Tournament, Madurai beat the first seed Sadbhav Rautela of Uttara- 10 Vaz Ethan 8
Boris Savchenko of Russia wins title khand and 2nd seeded Lakshyesh Mohan Gupta 11 Ashvath Mittal 8
by S.Paul Arokia Raj IA, Chief Arbiter 34 of Madhya Pradesh. He drew with the runner up 12 Ajay Santhosh Parvathareddy 8
C.G.S.Narayanan
Selected games from National Under-17 Adireddy Arjun of Telangana in the 7th round. 13 Haridev S 8
Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron 36 Readers are invited to offer their feedback on
There was a 3 way tie for the 2nd place between 14 Jaivardhan Raj 8
Tactics from master games by S.Krishnan 42 the regular features in the AICF Chronicle and
Adireddy Arjun & Suhaas of Telangana and Mrin- 15 Soumick Bandopadhyay 7.5
by C.G.S.Narayanan are also invited to send interesting articles,
Test your endgame 43
moy Rajkhowa of Assam on 9 points . Adireddy 16 Mitul K H 7.5
Masters of the past-103:- Tony Miles 44 annotated games and chess anecdotes to the
AICF Calendar 48 Editor at indianchessfed@gmail.com’ or
cgsnarayanan@hotmail.com.
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17 Raghav V 7.5 Final Ranking :Girls Tetrasoft Hyderabad Marriott Grandmaster Chess Tournament, Hyderabad
18 Shreeyash Kejriwal 7.5 Rk. Name Pts.
19 Goutham Krishna H 7.5 1 Vidula Anbuselvan 9
20 Pratyush Nayak 7.5 2 Devaki Nandana 9
21 Nimay Tejas Mavani 7.5 3 Shreya G Hipparagi 9
22 Sawalakhe Jay 7.5 4 Shresthi Gupta 9
23 Jivitesh Singh Sethi 7.5 5 Saara Jain 8.5
24 Jval Saurin Patel 7.5 6 Saparya Ghosh 8.5
25 Ojash Jain 7.5 7 Shriyana S Mallya 8 Bharat Singh, Secretary AICF plays an inaugural
26 Gaikwad Manas 7.5 8 Nuka Laasya 8 rapid game against GM Boris Savchenko of Russia
27 Jain Kushagra 7.5 9 Shanjula Senthil 8
28 Shriyansh Dey 7.5 10 Shubhi Gupta 8
29 Aditya Kunal Patil 7.5 11 Asudani Ruhani Raj 7.5
30 Chitre Arush 7.5 12 Arshiya Das 7.5
31 Debanjan Sinha 7.5 13 Vaishnavi S K 7.5
32 Amogh Bisht 7.5 14 Gifty R S 7.5
33 Advait Iyer 7.5 15 Kolagatla Alana Meenakshi 7.5
34 Sanyam Srivastava 7.5 16 Saanvi Agarwal 7.5
35 Shreyas Ravindra Patil 7.5 17 Shah Hiya 7.5
36 Mohapatra Ayush Aryan 7 18 Pratyasha Jena 7.5
37 Gaigore Sanskar 7 19 Shriya Patil 7.5
38 Archisman Patra 7 20 Shreya C Shah 7.5
39 Vignesh Kannan P 7 21 Marvaniya Mahi V 7.5 Winner Boris Savchenko receives the Winner’s
40 Varun Prabhakaran K S 7 22 Daksha Rudra 7.5 cheque from the Chief Guest R Srinivasa Rao,
41 Sharnarthi Viresh 7 23 Sandeepa Priyadarshini Sahoo 7 Chief Operating Officer , Hysea
42 Challa Saharsha 7 24 Aisha Wadhwani 7
43 Shrihan Sabat 7 25 Kukreja Suguna 7
44 Stellferd S Stalin 7 26 Lakshana Subramanian 7
45 Rishan Debnath 7 27 Paladugu Yoga Harishini 7
46 Sherla Prathamesh 7 28 Swasti Jha 7
47 Yug Desai 7 29 Aadhya Jain 7
48 Vatsal Singla 7 30 Sherali Pattnaik 7
49 Rangeet Majumdar 7 31 Saganapriya V 7
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Dananjey Prabu
Vandan Rashmikant Thakar
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32 Ananya Manisundaram
33 Barik Jayashree
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Athens of the East Grandmaster Open Chess Tournament, Madurai
52 Mithiran A 7 34 Hiya Garg 7
53 Sayanth Krishna 7 35 Ananya Arora 6.5 L-R) B.T.Sethuraman,
54 Maaz Iqubal 7 36 Sequeira Jennica 6.5 S.Paul Arokia Raj IA,
55 Jain Hitansh 7 37 Kamalini Haradhana Nimban 6.5 N.Lenin, Madurai Dis-
56 Angle Vedant 7 38 Stevlin S Stalin 6.5 trict Sports Officer, GM
57 Dhruv Singh Bisht 7 39 Vipassana Lama 6.5
Boris Savchenko of Russia
58 Shreyansh Hota 6.5 40 Trisha Jagtap 6.5
59 Ayushman Mohanty 6.5 41 Ambilwade Ojal 6.5
receiving the trophy from
60 Banik Hrishikesh Kumar 6.5 42 Amaira Mittal 6.5 the Chief guest Sri. VVR
61 Ishaan Singh Khanuja 6.5 43 Prisha Kesarwani 6.5 Raj Satyen, President of
62 Rounaiv Rana 6.5 44 Gorli Nyna 6.5 Tamil Nadu Basketball
63 Reyan Md. 6.5 45 Hridika Das 6.5 Association, GM Deepan
64 Muthukumar Mukesh 6.5 46 Vaishnavi Vijay Parab 6.5 Chakravarthi,Pragadeesh,
65 Ratnani Harshit 6.5 47 Srushti D Patel 6.5 Organizer of the event
48 Suneli Bera 6.5 and M.Ephrame IA.
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1st Banke Bihari Brij Chess Cup U.P.State Open FIDE Rated 2019, Mathura 28th National Youth Under- 25 Open Chess Championship 2019, Jammu
Kumar S of TN Wins
by IA Nitin Shenvi,Chief Arbiter
The Crown Trust (Sports) organised 28th Na- seconds increment per move from first move
tional Youth Under- 25 Open Chess Champi- (Fisher mode).
onship 2019 event which was a second event
in succession (after national youth organised Chief Guest of the inaugural function Mr
Jaiveer Singh Memorial FIDE Rating Chess Atul Kumar Gupta President AJKCA made
Tournament in same hall) under the aegis of the inaugural move along with Mrs. Ran-
All Jammu and Kashmir Chess Association deep Wazir MD academics IDPS school, in
(AJKCA was established in 2006). the presence of Mr Suminder Singh and Mr
Swarn Choudhury MD IDPS, Mr Raj Kumar
This event was organised in beautiful and DSP prosecution & Organizing Secretary of
well ventilated hall of International Delhi this event, Mr Baldev Raj, Mr Kuljeet Singh
Public School, with ample space between two Jamwal, Mrs Madhu Abrol, Mr Nitin Shenvi
boards. The arrangements inside these halls IA Chief Arbiter and others.
were excellent and as per the standards of
any national event according to FIDE rules. The Karnataka FM Navalgund Niranjan &
The players and accompanying persons were FM Gahan M G, FM Harshal Shahi of Delhi,
Winner Katiyar Prashant receiving the trophy from the Chief Guest,Surander Kumar Chauhan, State Secretary
provided with transportation from hall to Rajesh Nayak of Odisha, Sibi Vishal R, He-
hotel and vice a versa from Jammu. All the manth Raam & Kumar S of TN, Indrajeet
33rd National Under-9 Open &Girls Chess Championships 2019, Ahmedabad players appreciated the warm hospitality of Mahindrikar of MAH, Grahesh Y of AP, Yash
IDPS. Many big names like Mr Atul Kumar Bharadia of RAJ, Sooraj M R of KER and Say-
Gupta President AJKCA, Mr Raj Kumar DSP & puri Srithan of TEL, Trivedi Karan R of GUJ
Organising Secretary, Mr Arshid Ahmad Kolu and Garv Gaur of HAR, along with local lads
General Secretary, Mr A. R. Wani, Mr Bal- WCM Arushi Kotwal and Akashdeep Singh of
dev Raj, Mr Taranvir singh Gujral, Mr Ashiq JNK, were the challengers for Championship.
Ahmad, Mr Mohd Shafi, Mr Khalid Amin, Mr
Vikas Nanda, Dr. A S Bhatia, Mr Kuljeet Singh In the event out of 109 players three FM, a
Jamwal, Mr Faisal Farooq, Mr Ajit Singh, Mr WCM, an AGM and an AFM took part and 87
Rakesh Gupta, Mr Sumit Grover, Mr Soham players were having ELO rating and rating
Kamotra, Ms Meenal Gupta, Ms Arushi Kotwal average 1552 of rated players which is a very
(WCM), Mr Vivek Bharti etc. are associat- good average. In this event total 22 states
ed with this organisation throughout these took part comprising of Andhra Pradesh,
years. Bihar, Chandīgarh, Chhattisgarh, Delhi, Gu-
jarat, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu
The tournament was to be played from 1st to and Kashmir, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Ker-
7th August 2019 in the Swiss League (Dutch ala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Odisha,
System) format, comprising 9 rounds, ex- Pondicherry, Punjab, Rajsthan, Telangana,
cept second & fourth day two rounds all other Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh & West Bengal.
days one round each. The main thinking time The top seed, FM Navalgund Niranjan rep-
Prize winners with dignitaries was 90 minutes to each player along with 30 resents Karnataka, having ELO rating 2261,
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followed by Rajesh Nayak of Odisha having scored 4½ points each.In the sixth round, were directly or indirectly involved in this 34 Swapnil Raj UP 4
ELO rating 2250, GM Gahan M G of Karnata- morning round sole leader Aditya lost to prestigious 28th National Youth Under- 25 35 Gaurav Sharma DEL 4
ka having ELO rating 2224 and FM Harshal Yash as well as on 2nd Board Kumar S won Open Chess Championship 2019, excellent 36 Shivam Verma BIH 4
37 Surya Raghava I AP 4
Shahi of Delhi having ELO rating 2140. Local against Trivedi Karan. So after this round support offered by organising committee and 38 Sooraj M R KER 4
J&K players are very excited for this event Yash and Karan became joint leader with AJKCA during the event. I am also thankful 39 Vikash Nishad UP 4
being organized at their home state and for 5½ points. They were closely followed by to all my team of Arbiters namely IA Pranesh 40 Walde Harshal MAH 4
some home town. Aditya, Saypuri, Sparsh & Mohit with 5 Yadav DCA along with FA Anil kotwal, FA 41 Aman Kumar BIH 4
points each. Bindu Pathania, Table Arbiter Ravi Sharma & 42 Sai Prasath A S TN 4
The fierce fight seen from first round itself. Tab Operator FI Ajit Singh, Sunil Sharma and 43 Adarsh Sanklecha CHH 4
44 Garg Shivam RAJ 4
Playing with White chessmen lower rated Due to restrictions imposed in J&K by the Volunteers for their performance and support 45 Pratyush Kumar BIH 4
having ELO rating 1396 Nagasri Saikanth of Central Government, it was decided with during this event. It was a pleasure to be part 46 Divyanshu Joshi DEL 4
AP defeated Mahindrakar Indrajeet of MAH consent of Managers, players and parents of such an important function and event. 47 Patil Rohit R MAH 3½
having ELO rating 2078. After end of first to conclude the event with 7th round. In 48 Dutta Sarthak UP 3½
round 52 players took joint lead with one the 7th round, playing on first board with Final ranking: 49 Shahab Ahmad Farooqui UP 3½
Rk Name Club Pts 50 Rewansh Vaidya MP 3½
point each. tremendous pressure Yash lost to Saypuri
1 Kumar S. TN 6 51 Joel Paul G AP 3½
Srithan. Aditya managed to draw with Kumar 2 Mohit Kumar Soni BIH 6 52 Avinash Kumar Yadav BIH 3½
In the third round, on third board playing S. On third board Sparsh left early morning 3 Saypuri Srithan TEL 6 53 Akash Tiwari WB 3½
with White chessmen Sibi Vishal R of TN without informing, Mohit received point be- 4 Bharadia Yash RAJ 5½ 54 WCM Arushi Kotwal JNK 3½
drew with Patil Rohit R of MAH. After end cause of his absence. Kumar S of Tamilnadu 5 Aditya P Melani GUJ 5½ 55 Lokesh Kumar JHAR 3½
of third round only eight players namely, won the championship whereas Mohit Soni 6 Chudasama Ankit GUJ 5½ 56 Raj Aryan BIH 3½
7 FM Navalgund Niranjan KAR 5½ 57 Sujay B M KAR 3½
Gahan, Harshal, Sparsh Khandelwal (MAH), of Bihar was runner up and they received
8 Sparsh Khandelwal MAH 5 58 Aryan Raj Bali JNK 3½
Bharadia Yash (RAJ), Kumar S. (TN), Adit- Rs. 22,000 and Rs. 18,000 along with tro- 9 FM Harshal Shahi DEL 5 59 Dev Raj BIH 3½
ya P Melani & Chudasama Ankit (GUJ), and phies respectively. Kumar S, Mohit Soni and 10 Vivekananda L KAR 5 60 Jasim Rashid Bhat JNK 3½
Mohit Kumar Soni (BIH) scored 3 points Saypuri Srithan of Telangana scored 6 points 11 Suvankar Maity WB 5 61 Chinmay Mehta HP 3½
each. They are with ½ point very closely and secured 1st, 2nd and 3rd rank decided 12 Sharan R S TEL 5 62 Jai Saxena UP 3½
followed by nine players.In fourth round, on by tie break. 13 Shubham DEL 5 63 Nadeem Hussain Mir JNK 3½
14 Garv Gaur HAR 5 64 Yashasvi Gupta RAJ 3
first board lower rated (1847) player Aditya
15 Sibi Visal R TN 5 65 Ahire Vaibhav MAH 3
P Melani of GUJ overpowered 2nd seeded The valedictory function conducted at the 16 Mahindrakar Indrajeet MAH 5 66 AFMNarayan Joshi RAJ 3
player Gahan. Whereas Harshal faced draw hands of Shri Atul Kumar Gupta President 17 Farhaan M POND 5 67 Ashutosh Jamwal JNK 3
with lower rated (1826) Sparsh. Only three AJKCA, Shri Raj Kumar DSP Prosecution 18 Utkarsh Bhatnagar UP 5 68 Chris Charly T KER 3
players took joint lead after fourth round & organising Secretary, Mr Vikas Nanda 19 Anuj Bansal PUN 4½ 69 Shubham Pareta MP 3
namely Kumar S, Yash & Aditya scoring four and myself. The event was held under the 20 Raghav Juneja PUN 4½ 70 Amulya Palangi AP 3
21 FM Gahan M G KAR 4½ 71 Sparsh Prashar HP 3
points each on nearest challengers Su- overall planning of Atul Kumar Gupta, Mr
22 Nagasri Saikanth AP 4½ 72 Gupta Sanyam JNK 3
vankar Maity of WB and Saypuri Srithan of Raj Kumar DSP Prosecution and Shri Bharat 23 Ashish Raj BIH 4½ 73 Krushna Mishra ODI 3
TEL scored 3½ points.Jammu City Mayor Singh Chauhan. 24 Balkawade Sai MAH 4½ 74 Gnanyta Netha TEL 3
Chandermohan Gupta visited our tourna- 25 Jariya Harsh MP 4½ 75 Mushtaq Ahmed Malik JNK 3
ment and inaugurated fifth round. I would like to thank AICF for appointing me 26 Gurav Sanmil MAH 4½ 76 Sejal Sharma HP 3
as Chief Arbiter, Central Council, the organ- 27 Bhagare Abhishek MAH 4½ 77 Jha Milan Kumar BIH 3
28 Gohil Vishal GUJ 4 78 Burhan Ahmad Wani JNK 3
Out of three joint leaders only Aditya man- izers & FIDE. Special thanks to Raj Kumar Ji
29 Trivedi Karan R GUJ 4 79 Prodeep Biswas CHA 2½
aged to won against his opponent Harshal. and Atul Ji for getting required permissions 30 Ujjwal Deep RAJ 4 80 Pranav Abrol JNK 2½
Hence Aditya became sole leader of this in tough situations and protecting interest of 31 AGM Lakshith B Salian KAR 4 81 Nilesh Kumar BIH 2½
contingent who scored 5 points. He was players as well as everyone around. I wish to 32 Pavan Teja Medam TEL 4 82 Pavan S AP 2½
closely followed by Kumar S and Yash who express my sincere thanks to all of them who 33 Sanjay S Pillai KER 4 83 Balkawade Om MAH 2½
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1st A.S.Subbaraman Memorial trophy international FIDE rated open Blitz, Chennai Final ranking 49 Kumar S. 7½
Rk Name Pts 50 Arjun C Krishnamachari 7½
GM Karthikeyan Murali clinches the title 1 GM Karthikeyan Murali 10 51 WGM Kulkarni Bhakti 7½
2 GM Aravindh Chithambaram Vr. 9½ 52 WGM Ramaswamy Aarthie 7½
by R. Ravikumar, IA, Chief Arbiter
3 GM Vishnu Prasanna. V 9½ 53 Dananjey Prabu 7½
The 1stA.S.Subbaraman Memorial Trophy GM Karthikeyan Murali beat GM Sethura- 4 FM Rathanvel V S 9½ 54 Aakash K P 7½
5 GM Sundararajan Kidambi 9 55 Badrinarayanan N 7½
FIDE rated Open Blitz Chess tournament, man and FM Rathnavel beat GM Ramesh.
6 Ajay Krishna S 9 56 WIM Meera Sai 7½
jointly organized by Queens Chess Acad- There was a three way tie between Aravin- 7 GM Sethuraman S.P. 9 57 Narendhiran R 7½
emy & IITM Chess Club at IIT, Madras on dh, Karthikeyan and Rathnavel at the end 8 GM Shyam Sundar M. 8½ 58 Daakshin Arun 7½
15th August with a big attraction for strong of tenth round with 9 points each. 9 GM Ramesh R B 8½ 59 Manish Anto Cristiano F 7
players. 8 Grand Masters, 1 International In the final round, GM Karthikeyan Murali 10 IM Ravi Thandalam Shanmugam 8½ 60 Akash S 7
Master, 3 Women Grand Masters and 4 beat GM Narayan Srinath in the 2nd board 11 GM Narayanan Srinath 8½ 61 Sharan Rao 7
12 Sai Vishwesh.C 8½ 62 Harsh Suresh 7
Women International Masters were in the scored 10 points and clinched the title with
13 FM Maheswaran P. 8½ 63 Chandak Shivam 7
fray. GM Aravindh Chithambaram Vr of the sole lead, while the top board players 14 Chaithanyaa K G 8½ 64 Arun R U 7
Tamil Nadu was the top seeded player fol- IM Rathnavel and GM Aravindh drew their 15 Jayakumaar S 8½ 65 Dinesh Rajan M 7
lowed by seven strong Grand Masters were game and scored 9.5 points. In the 3rd 16 Sanjay Thiruvengadam 8½ 66 WFM Rajasurya J. 7
in the contest. A total of 460 players from board, GM Vishnu Prasanna beat IM T.S. 17 Saranya Y 8½ 67 Siddharth Sabharishankar 7
Tamil Nadu, Goa, Gujarat, Karnataka, Jhar- Ravi and also scored 9.5 points. With a 18 CM Bharath Subramaniyam H 8½ 68 WIM Priya P. 7
19 Pranav V 8½ 69 Balu Karthick 7
kand, AP, Pondicherry, Telangana, Kerala, better buchholz points GM Aravindh was
20 Gunasekaran K. 8½ 70 Sidharth P G 7
Maharashtra, Bihar, Rajasthan, Delhi and placed second and GM Vishnu Prasanna 21 WGM Vaishali R 8 71 Priyanka Kumari 7
Andaman & Nicobar participated in the 11 came third. 22 FM Rohith Krishna S 8 72 Dharunkumar 7
round event. 23 FM Srihari L R 8 73 Dharani Kumar M S 7
In the Open Section, GM Karthikeyan Murali 24 FM Vinoth Kumar M. 8 74 Thamaraiselvi P 7
The tournament was inaugurated by Shri. got the first place, received Rs.35,000/- 25 CM Rajarishi Karthi 8 75 Farhaan M 7
26 AGM Vignesh B (2004) 8 76 Thirunaga Sundaram S 7
D.V. Sundar, Honorary Vice President, FIDE and Trophy, GM Aravindh Chithambaram
27 Raahul V S 8 77 WIM Rakshitta Ravi 7
in the presence of Shri Manuel Aaron, 1st and GM Vishnu Prasanna won the 2nd& 28 Vignesh B (1999) 8 78 AIM Pati Spandan 7
IM of India & Arjuna Awardee, Shri E.K. 3rd places and received Rs.25,000/- and 29 FM Ajay Karthikeyan 8 79 Ganesan K. 7
Dilip Kumar, CO, DIPA Dairies & very em- Rs.17,000/- plus trophy respectively. 30 Peter Anand A 8 80 Sathyanarayanan S. 7
inent Astrologer,Mrs. Rani Subbaraman, 31 Hemanth Raam 8 81 Vijay Shreeram P 7
Chairman, QCA, Shri.Sriram Jha, Hony. In the Women section, Saranya Y won 32 WIM Raghavi N. 8 82 Rajesh 7
33 Harish Krishna Velayutham 8 83 Vinoth Kumar C 7
Vice President, QCA and WGM S. Vijay- the Rani Subbaraman Trophy along with
34 FM Pranesh M 8 84 Karil Garg 7
alakshmi, Hony.President, QCA. Rs.5,000/-, while WGM R. Vaishali& WIM 35 Karthick Narayanan S 8 85 Bala Murugan G 7
N. Raghavi won the 2nd and 3rd place with 36 Shankar A. 8 86 Divyan T 7
There were no major upsets in the early Rs.3,000/- & Rs.2,000/- respectively. 37 Haribalu V. 8 87 Pranav K P 7
rounds, except 13th seed Bhakti lost to 38 Midilesh Ms 8 88 Bhaskar N S 7
141st seed Maral Pranav in the 2nd round. Chief Guest of the function Shri S. Sreeku- 39 WFM Savitha Shri B 8 89 Manikandan Rangan 7
40 Saisarvesh S 8 90 Sridhar C S 7
In 7th round, top seed of the tmt. GM Ar- mar, Airport Director, Chennai Airport, AAI;
41 AGM Balaji M 8 91 Gokulraj K 7
avindh drew with WGM Vaishal, GM R.B. Shri Narayanan, Purple Stream; Mrs. Rani 42 FM Manu David Suthandram R 7½ 92 Sneha G P S 7
Ramesh lost to GM ShyamSundar M. At the Subbaraman, Chairman, QCA; Shri R. Ravi- 43 Srikrishnan P 7½ 93 Vishruth Sham 7
end of round 7, GM Vishnu Prasanna was kumar, International Arbiter, Chief Arbiter; 44 Karthik Rajaa 7½ 94 Thrish Karthik 7
in sole lead with 7 points. Shri Sriram Jha, Hony. Vice President, QCA 45 Mari Arul S. 7½ 95 Vengatesh Krishnan C 7
and WGM S.Vijayalakshmi, Hony. President, 46 Bala Kannamma P 7½ 96 Jeevan Prakash N 7
47 FM Vatsal Singhania 7½ 97 Subalakshmi M S 7
In the penultimate round, GM Aravindh QCA gave away the prizes to the winners.
48 Hirthickkesh Pr 7½ 98 Anand Sivasankar A
Chithambaram beat GM Vishnu Prasanna,
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ARCA State Under 19 Boys & Girls Fide Rated Chess Tournament- 2019,Udaipur 48 Tushar Damor 4½
Final ranking 49 Dak Daksh 4½
Dhruv Dak wins at Udaipur Rank Name Pts 50 Dakalia Darshan 4½
1 Dhruv Dak 7½ 51 Devansh Srivastava 4½
by IA Rajendra Teli, Chief Arbiter
2 Arun Kataria 6½ 52 Jain Saumya 4½
3 Aditya Kumawat 6½ 53 Deependra Singh 4½
ARCA State Under 19 Boys & Girls Fide Kumawat of Jaipur, Vrashank Chouchan & 54 Yuvraj Soni 4½
4 Vrashank Chouhan 6½
Rated Chess Tournament, 2019 in memory Ayush Lodha of Chess in Lakecity secured 5 Ayush Lodha 6½ 55 Hemant Bhatt 4½
of Bharat Ratna and Ex Prime Minister Late third, fourth and fifth positions. This mega 6 Gautam Kataria 6 56 Utsavi Dave 4½
Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Sahab, organized event was completed successfully without 7 Babel T Divyanshu 6 57 Tarun Manwani 4½
by Chess in Lakecity under the aegis of All any dispute. The players and the manag- 8 Naman Porwal 6 58 Amogh Gupta 4½
9 Bhawesh Pandiyar 6 59 Shikhar Karn 4½
Rajputana Chess Association and All India ers were very much co-operative. The ar-
10 Yajat Vyas 6 60 Ajitpal Singh Bhati 4
Chess Federation, commenced from 23rd to rangements of venue, accommodation etc. 61 Chinmay Danawat 4
11 Dakshita Kumawat 6
25th Aug 2019 at Maa Karma Sahu Dham, was excellent.The team of arbiter’s namely 12 Akshita Jain 6 62 Tejasvee Naresh Singh 4
Bhuwana, Udaipur. Dy Chief: FA Neelesh Kumawat. Arbites 13 Yashika Singh 6 63 Chhabra Kunal 4
IA Vikas Sahu, FA Manish Chandalia, SNA 14 Prakhar Chaplot 5½ 64 Heet Jain 4
Managers / players meeting was held just Gayatri Kataria, SNA Deepika Sahu, SNA 15 Rudradaman Mertia 5½ 65 Khushi Mishra 4
16 Shivika Saraogi 5½ 66 Krit Birla 4
before the start of the tournament. The Parul Rathore, SNA Monika Sahu, were
17 Vaibhav Parihar 5½ 67 Divyangana Verma 4
necessary technical matters were decided very much competent and were equipped 68 Sahu Mitansh 4
18 Anisha Jain 5½
in the meeting and also the appeals com- with full technical knowledge which helped 19 Garg Shivam 5½ 69 Krishaa Jodhawat 4
mittee was formed.The opening ceremony each one of them to tackle every situation 20 Elakshi Srivastava 5½ 70 Garv Sikligar 4
was held on 23rd of August in presence of efficiently. I will fail in my duty if I do not 21 Rishabh Jaju 5½ 71 Singh Pravardhman 4
Cheif Guest Shri Arun Tak, Congress Lead- thank Mr. Rajeev Bharadwaj, the tourna- 22 Chahat Sethiya 5½
er, Special Guest Shri Rajesh Menaria, Shri ment director of this mega event because 23 Raina Udlakshaya 5½ Solutions to ‘Test your endgame’ on page
Shaid Hussian, Shri Dr Dilip Singh Chou- without him this event could not have been 24 Mudit Maheshwari 5½ 43
25 Kaustubh bharadwaj 5 Pogosjanc 1964
han, Vice President Chess in Lakecity, IA a grand success. I also take this opportu- 26 Prakhar Maheswari 5 1.Qf7 Qh8+ 2.Kxh8 a1Q+ 3.Kg8 Qh8+ 4.Kxh8
Vikas Sahu, Secretary CIL & IA Rajendra nity to thank, Mr. Vikas Sahu, Secretary, 27 Pranjal Srivastava 5 Ng6+ 5.Kg8 Be6 6.Ng5 Bxf7+ 7.Nxf7#
Teli Chief Arbiter. Chess in Lakecity for their tire less work, 28 Bharti Kabir 5 Fritz 1962
dedication and support till the conclusion 29 Pokharna Dhairya 5 1.Nd4+ Kf6 2.Nd7+ Ke7 3.Rxa3 Nc7+ 4.Kc5
The three day swiss event carried a prize of this grand successful mega event. 30 Porwal Dhruv 5 Rxd4 5.Re3+ Ne6+ 6.Rxe6+ Kxd7 7.Bh3
fund of ₹1,21,111 and was distributed 31 Sameer Verma 5 Kalandadze&Neidze 1963
32 Pranay Chordia 5 1.c6 Be5 2.gxh7 f2 3.h8Q Bxh8 4.c7 f1Q
amongst different category.47 fide rated Organizers provided mementoes to all the 33 Jeetan Patel 5 5.c8Q+ Kg7 6.Qc3+ Kg6 7.Qc2+ Kg7 8.Qh7+
players along with 92 unrated players which kids which was memorable and need to be 34 Chatwani Akshi 5 Kf8 9.Qh6+ Ke7 10.Qg5+ Kf8 11.Qd8+ Kg7
took the tally of players to 139, from 8 Dis- reckoned with in its true spirit. The prize 35 Ankur Agarwal 5 12.f8Q+ Qxf8 13.Qg5#
trict took part in this prestigious chess tour- distribution ceremony was organized in 36 Aanya Chawat 5 Petrov 1962
nament. Top seeded Dhruv Dak of Chess a grand manner. The prizes were distrib- 37 Ashmil Saxena 5 1.Rh7 Qxh7 2.Rd7+ Ka8 3.Kc7 Qh6 4.Rd8+
in Lakecity scored an unbeaten 7.5/8 to uted at the hands of Shri Dr. Bhavani Pal 38 Tanmay Nalwaya 5 Ka7 5.Kc6 Qg7 6.Rd7+ wins
39 Charvi Patidar 5 Tjavlovski 1963
win ARCA State Under 19 Boys & Girls Fide singh, Secretary Sports Board, Rajasthan 40 Yaksh Malasiya 5 1.Re7 e2 2.Bxe2 Kd6 3.Re3 d4 4.cxd4 Nxe2
Rated Chess Tournament. He performed at Vidhyapeeth. Other guests present were 41 Vassu Sharma 5 5.Rxe2 Kd5 6.Kc3 Ra3+ 7.Kb4 Rd3 8.Nf6+
1705 and gained his Elo rating by 46 points. Shri. Chandra Prakash Verma, Manager 42 Vaishali Mishra 5 Kxd4 9.Re4#
Four players tied at the Second spot with LIC India, Shri Dr Dilip Singh Chouhan, 43 Pratham Mali 5 Bron 1963
6.5/8, but Arun Kataria of Chess in Lake- Vice President Chess in Lakecity, IA Vikas 44 Hinger Swapnil 5 1.Ng8+ Kf7 2.d7 Rxg2 3.d8R Rh2+ 4.Nh6+
city secured the first runner up position Sahu, Secretary CIL & IA Rajendra Teli 45 Aayush Bhojak 4½ Ke7 5.Ra8 Kd6 6.Ra5 Rh5 7.Ra6+ Kxd5
46 Bhavya Gupta 4½ 8.Ra5+ wins
according to Better tie-break score. Aditya Chief Arbiter. 47 Bhuvanshu Bhatnagar 4½
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1st Banke Bihari Brij Chess Cup U.P.State Open FIDE Rated 2019 39 Deepak Chauhan 5 90 Gyanendra Pal 4
40 Raghav Garg 5 91 Raj Sen 4
Katiyar Prashant wins title 41 Trivedi Shwetank 5 92 Himanshu Kushwaha 4
42 Akash Sharma 5 93 krishiv singhal 4
by Raghvendra kumar shukla , F. A.,Chief Arbiter
43 Swati Pal 5 94 Anjali Khetan 4
44 Shiva Gautam 5 95 Mohammed Iliyas Khan 4
1st Banke Bihari Brij Chess Cup UP State conduct of the tournament. I am thankful 45 Jai Saxena 5 96 Singhal Keshav 4
Fide Rating Chess Tournament was organ- to them for their co-operation and under- 46 Ravish Chaudhary 5 97 Rahul Baghel 4
ized by Chess Sports Association Mathura standing. 47 Krishna 5 98 Shivam Singh 4
from august 7th to 10th august 2019 in the 48 Praveen Kumar 5 99 Aashutosh Mishra 4
campus of Heritage Pulic School in front Final ranking 49 Mohit 5 100 Shivam Chaudhary 4
Rk Name Pts 50 Sankalp Gupta 5 101 Lalit Kumar Singh 4
of iskon Temple,mathura Uttar Pradesh. 51 Tanya Verma 5 102 Aman Patrick 4
The playing and staying venue was very 1 Katiyar Prashant 7½
2 Madhav Mahere 7 52 Parth Gupta 5 103 Aniket Prabhakar 4
peaceful with full of natural greeneries. It 53 Rajan Gupta 5 104 Jatin Khetan 4
3 Lawaniya Eshan 7
is remarkable effort of District Association 4 Rishabh Nishad 7 54 Arkaansh Singh 5 105 Aaradhya Chauhan 4
to conduct the tournament in such a place 5 Singh Ajeet 6½ 55 Rohit Verma 5 106 Haqiq Ahmed 4
that is very good for popularity, accepta- 6 Gabbar 6½ 56 Krishna Kumar Yadav 5 107 Vikash Kashyap 4
7 Gaha Narayan 6½ 57 Suryakant Verma 5 108 Rehaan Ranjan 4
bility and growth of chess in the remote 58 Ujjwal Chauhan 4½
area. 8 Ashish Kumar 6 109 Navin Singh 4
9 Sharma Hari O.M. 6 59 Saurabh Porwal 4½
110 Ajeet Kumar Maurya 4
10 Abid Ali 6 60 Faraz Khalid 4½
The tournament hall was air conditioned 61 Raunak Kumar 4½ 111 Dhruv Bansal 3½
11 Rituraj Singh 6
which provided excellent and comfortable 62 Akshat Bhatnagar 4½ 112 Sushant Kumar Maurya 3½
12 Aditya Pant 6
playing conditions. 188 players including 13 Ravi prakash maurya 6 63 Shivam Pandey 4½ 113 Adhish Bansal 3½
14 Ved Prakash 6 64 Ashish Kumar Singh 4½ 114 Chaudhary Satyam 3½
81 Rated players from UP were present and 65 Astha Rastogi 4½
participated in the event and all the rounds 15 Gauraang Goyal 6 115 Anshul Chimnani 3½
16 Dutta Sarthak 6 66 Sandeep Singh 4½
started on scheduled time. 116 Jalaj Shroti 3½
17 Aditya Pratap Singh 6 67 Ananya Jain 4½
68 Hemendra Singh Tomar 4½ 117 Anish Agarwal 3½
18 Aviwer Nigam 6
The tournament was formally inaugurated 69 Anya Jain 4½ 118 yash yadav 3½
19 Sanjay Sinha 5½
by Chief Guest, Chairmen Naam dev .Main 20 Vikash Nishad 5½ 70 Akshay Chaturvedi 4½ 119 Jai Sharma 3½
21 Tripathi Skand 5½ 71 Shobhit Jaiswal 4½ 120 Bhavya Hasija 3½
pool winners and category prize winners 72 Shantanu Pathak 4½
were awarded by total sum of Rs fifty thou- 22 Vamsi Krishna A 5½ 121 Somiya Hasija 3½
23 Shiv Goyal 5½ 73 Amitabh Jain 4½
sand and Trophies, Cups, Shields. 122 Aditya Krishna Yadav 3½
24 Rajendra Gupta 5½ 74 Viyom Bansal 4½
75 Sachin Kumar 4½ 123 Gaurav Bharadwaj 3
25 Aman Agarwal 5½
Chief Guest, State Secretary, Surander Ku- 76 Priya Yadav 4½ 124 Prashant Singh 3
26 Wais S M 5½
mar Chauhan and jila Olympic Association 27 Syed M Hussain Jafry 5½ 77 Varun Gera 4 125 Sakshi Verma 3
28 Parth Bhatnagar 5½ 78 Singh Prakhar 4 126 Ravi Kant Srivastava 3
Matura Treasurer Chatpal singh distribut- 79 Tejaswa Tiwari 4
ed cash prizes total worth Rs Fifty thousand 29 Shubh Saxena 5½ 127 Sarfaraj Faruqi 3
30 Shashwat Dubey 5½ 80 Suryansh Choudhary 4
Thousand along with Trophies and medals 128 Mukund Bansal 3
31 Bhavishya Chauhan 5½ 81 Ashish Kumar 4
129 Anshul Verma 3
to all the winners during felicitation cere- 32 Yachna Singh 5½ 82 Aditya Singh 4
130 Pankaj Shakya 3
mony held on 10th Aug 2019 33 Khan Md. Raisudin 5 83 Aryan Rajawat 4
34 Sameer 5 84 Bhatnagar Shabd 4 "On the chessboard, lies and hypocrisy do not
35 Mithun Roy 5 85 Aadya Singh 4 survive long. The creative combination lays
I was ably supported by Mr. Ashindra Ya- 86 Azad Singh Verma 4
36 Shani Kumar Soni 5 bare the presumption of a lie; the merciless
dav(SNA) , Nakul chaudhary(SNA) and Mr. 87 Bhupendra Kumar 4 fact, culminating in the checkmate, contra-
37 Vinay Kumar Pandey 5
Vaishnavi Yadav (SNA) for the smooth 88 Tanvi Singh 4 dicts the hypocrite." ~ Emanuel Lasker
38 Amit Mishra 5
89 Barisha Kandhari 4
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12th Modern School International Rating Chess Tournament, Nanganallur mar M.S of Chettinad Vidyashram bagged 29 Jayaraman Balasubramanian 5
the third prize and got Rs 15000. 30 Arputha Jasmine B A 5
Sham wins title At the Prize giving ceremony Dr Moha- 31 Bhuvanesh G 5
32 Sathwik D S S U 5
by M.Vijayakumar, Chief Arbiter na, Principal, Modern Senior Secondary 33 Tejaswini G 4½
School welcomed the gathering, Shri D 34 Yuvan Kumar S 4½
The 12th Modern School International Fide Vysya Bank inaugurated the Champion- V Sundar, Vice President, Fide was the 35 Naveen Kanniyappan S 4½
Rating Chess Championship for School ship by moving the chess piece at 9.30am Chief Guest and distributed the prizes 36 Abishna Anojan 4½
students was held at Modern Senior Sec- on 02nd August 2019.At the end of the and Shri S.Sridaran, Secretary, Modern 37 Mithylesh P R 4½
ondary School,Nanganallur from 02nd fourth round 14 players AGM N.Vignesh, Educational Society felicitated the win- 38 Keerthana B 4½
to 04th August 2019 for a prize pool of AIM Aswin Sairam, AIM Chandni, Rathina 39 Shreyas Seshadri Nallore 4½
ners at 5.30pm on 4th August 2019. 40 Jaivant R 4½
Rs.1,50,000/-.This Rating Chess Champi- Sapabathy, Tejaswini, Dharani Kumar, 41 Vijay Shreeram P 4½
onship was organized very well by Modern Nawin, Sham, Sai Alagappan, , Harish I take this opportunity to thank AICF, TN- 42 Swapna C N 4½
Senior Secondary School, under the aus- KrishnaShree Ganesh Muthu Annamalai, SCA,KDCA and Modern School Management 43 Harish Ganesh 4½
pices of Tamilnadu State Chess Association Liban Reyhan, Sri Hrushikesh and Akshaya for the successful conduct of the event. I 44 Lakshanaa R 4½
and All India Chess Federation The venue of Rajaraman were leading the table with also thank my fellow Arbiters conducted 45 Hari Keshav K 4½
the tournament was Sankara Hall of Mod- 4points each. 46 Nithyashree Muthu 4½
this event very well without any dispute. 47 Adharsh K 4½
ern Senior Secondary School, AG’S colony, 48 Shirodkar Aayush 4½
Nanganallur, Chennai-61. On the fifth and penultimate round Nawin Final standings: 49 Jayakrishna H 4½
M S defeated the top seed N.Vignesh of Rk Name Pts 50 Krishna Kalyanasundaram 4½
Main sponsor for this event was Modern host school in an unclear game and 1 Sham R 6 51 Divesh G 4½
Senior Secondary School, Chennai and led the table with five others. Six play- 2 Nawin M S 5½ 52 Saisriram S 4½
3 Dharani Kumar M S 5½ 53 Moneshraj S 4½
they provided free lodging to all players, ers Nawin, Sham, Ashwin Sairam, Rathina
4 Ashwin Sairam 5½ 54 Sashaankh B 4½
free hospitality to officials, arbiters etc and Sapabathy, Sai Alagappan, Shree Ganesh 5 Rathina Sabapathi A 5½ 55 Srinivasan Vijayaraghavan 4½
also sponsored the entire prize money of muthu Annamalai were leading with 5 6 Shree Ganesh Muthu Annamalai 5½ 56 Gokulvas M 4½
Rs.1,50,000/- points after 5th round. 7 Vakeesh S 5½ 57 Harini Sukumar 4
In the tense final and sixth round battle 8 Sai Alagappan S 5 58 Srimozhi S 4
This event attracted 437 participants from over night leaders Aswin Sairam drew with 9 Akshaya Rajaraman 5 59 Varadharajan Shravan 4
10 Vignesh N 5 60 Jackson V X 4
various States like Andhra, Kerala, Kar- Rathina Sapabathy and Nawin drew Shree
11 Chandni R Y 5 61 Aaditya A 4
nataka, Pondichery, Maharastra and also Ganesh and all four settled with 5.5points 12 Sai Hrushikesh Simhdri 5 62 Girishwar Karthick V 4
from several districts in Tamilnadu like each. 13 Harish Krishna Velayutham 5 63 Anjana Devi G 4
Chennai, Kanchi, Madurai, Tiruvellor, Sa- Sham.R of Velammal School outplayed Sai 14 Sathwika N 5 64 Sanjaykumar M 4
lem, Villupuram, Tiruvarur, Thanjavur, Vel- Alagappan of Zion Matric Hr Ses School and 15 Vignesh B 5 65 Kanishkaraj V 4
lore, Coimbatore Trichy etc.,Participation scored 6 points and won the 12th Mod- 16 Vengatesh Krishnan C 5 66 Allampati Kovidh Kushal Reddy 4
17 Pon Balaji N 5 67 Dharma Surendar Raj A 4
of nearly 158 International rated players ern School Fide Rated Chess Tournament.
18 Sarvajith Muthukumar 5 68 Bhuvan Ghanesh A V 4
including many National level players made Six players Nawin, Dharanikumar , Ash- 19 Keerthana Easwar 5 69 Harini T 4
the event stronger and so colourful. This win Sairam, Rathna Sapabathy, Shree Ga- 20 Haresh Nandan C 5 70 Jayanth B 4
was the 12th time the School students nesh Muthu Annamalai and Vakeesh were 21 Ramakrishnan M R 5 71 Saravanan S 4
Tournament being organized as a FIDE scored 5.5 points each and finished second 22 Saravana Vel R 5 72 Prajit Ravishankar 4
Rated event in Tamilnadu and this event to seventh respectively on tie break. 23 Sasvatha A 5 73 Abhishek K 4
24 Sreenandan Babu J 5 74 Aniruddh B 4
conducted as 6 round Swiss format. Shri M Winner Sham of Velammal School received
25 Saravanan 5 75 Arun Nithi R 4
Vijayakumar, IA officiated as Chief Arbiter. cash prize of Rs 25000 and a Trophy. Nawin 26 Jairam G 5 76 Arpit N 4
of Velammal won the runner up title and 27 Liban Reyhan M M 5 77 Niranjan Karthi Y 4
IM P. Saravanakrishnan, Manager, Karur received Rs 20000 cash prize. Dharani Ku- 28 Aswinika Mani R 5 78 Ayush Martin Sabu 4
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57 MP State FIDE Rating Chess Championship 2019,Chhindwara 11 Santosh Pal 5½ 61 Hari Om Patel 3
12 Shrivastav Hritik 5½ 62 Soumya Servaia 3
Aishwin Daniel wins title 13 Shrivastava Chitransh 5½ 63 Koshthi Kanishk 3
14 Mishra Kamad 5½ 64 Bhagwan Prasad 3
by IA Yashpal Arora, Chief Arbiter
15 Rewansh Vaidya 5½ 65 Devendra Parmar 3
16 Devansh Singh 5 66 Diwakar Vishwakarma 3
57 MP State Open FIDE Rating Chess Tour- the 7th round senior player SK Rathore of 17 Vivekanand Yadav 5 67 Dinesh Tiwari 3
nament, Chhindwara was organized ex- Gwalior and Aishwin Daniel from Bhopal 18 Eshaan Chandrol 5 68 Abhinav Singh 3
cellently by Chhindwara Chess Academy both were leading with 6.5 points. 19 Darsh Kansal 5 69 Suresh Chandra 2½
(CCA) under the guidance of MPCA,Madhya 20 Prajjwal Suhane 5 70 Neelesh Kumar 2½
21 Kavyansh Agrawal 5 71 Devanshu Kumar Saket 2½
Pradesh from 10 August to 13 August Pal very In the 8th and last round was
22 Vaibhav Tomar 5 72 Nirupam Jain 2½
2019 at the Raja ki Bagiya,Nagpur road,Ch- very crucial because both Ashwin and 23 Shah Krish G 5 73 Karan Sahu 2½
hindwara. Chief Guest Banty Sahu (Jila Rathore were in race for the title. On the 24 Sahu M L 4½ 74 Naivedh Khemuka 2
Prabhari BJP),Ramesh Jakhotiya,Manoj first board Ayush Sharma gave tough fight 25 Aditya Tiwari 4½ 75 Bamne Deepak 2
Soni Ji,Nand Kishore Paradkar (Director to SK Rathore and finally won the match 26 Nitin Biswas 4½
Of CCA),Shri Prem Satija ( (Founder Of and secured his position in MP team. On 27 Devansh Panthi 4½
28 Shailendra Saraf 4½
CCA), jointly inaugurated the fide rating the second board in last and final round
29 Ali Danish 4½ Puzzle of the month
chess tournament. Sourabh Choubey drew with Aishwin Dan- 30 Akshay Singh Tomar 4½ by C.G.S.Narayanan
iel.On the third board Harsh Jariya beat 31 Abhisheak D Chandra 4½
This Championship attracted 84 players Santosh easily. 32 Mayank Chhattani 4½ The proof game this week is taken from
33 Abhijeet Awasthi 4½ the article ‘An introduction to proof games’
including 48 rated players from all over
34 Honey Raghuwanshi 4½ by Alain Brobecker. In a proof game, it is
MP.This has been the first Fide Rating chess On the concluding day In Prize Distribution reiterated, solver has to find co-operative
35 Panchal Sahil 4½
Tournament in Chhindwara.The total Prize Chief Guest Shri Atul Saxena and Tour- moves of both white and black to reach
36 Aishwarya Daniel 4½
Fund Of Tournament was 51,000 Rs along nament Director Shree prem Satija (CCA 37 Goswami Dr.Arvind 4 the diagrammed position. The PG this
with trophies. founder ) distributed the prizes with all 38 Nagle Manoj 4 month shows theme ‘Phoenix’ where a
Chhindwara Chess Axcademy Team Nand 39 Atharva Bajpai 4 rebirth of a piece occurs after the original
40 Rahul Shinde 4 piece vanishes.
This championship was organized in 08 kishore Padarkar who was the backbone of
41 Naman Shrivastava 4 Stephan Dietrich
Rounds Swiss format. The organizers pro- this event rendering the vote of thanks.I Problem Paradise No.45,2008
42 Rishi Sonwani 4
vided great atmosphere and all facilities, take this opportunity to thank Mr. Kapil
43 Geetansh Seth 4
they provided free stay ,pure drinking wa- Saxena, Secretary, MPCA ,CCA and AICF 44 Shubham Pareta 4
ter and tea to all players at free of cost. for giving me an opportunity to serve as 45 Harsh Raghuwanshi 4
Players and Parents were very happy with Chief Arbiter for this successful champi- 46 Deepak Mehra 4
the facilities provided by Organizers such onship. 47 Santosh Vishwakarma 4
as Hotel Accommodation, Tournament Hall 48 Vishal Baghel 4
49 Atul Rajak 4
and food. Final ranking
50 Vivek Mahajan 3½
Rk Name Pts
51 Janmejay Gupta 3½
There were no major upsets in the first 1 Aishwin Daniel 7
52 Gupta Harsh Raj 3½
2 Ayush Sharma 6½
five rounds. In the 6th Round on 4th Board 53 Aryan Singh Thakur 3½
3 Rathore S.K. 6½
Lower Rated player Santosh Pal ,Sehore 54 Ravi Verma 3½
4 Choubey Saurabh 6
drew Against Saurabh Choubey from Bho- 55 Shushil Mishra 3½
5 Abhay Bandewar 6 PG in 6 moves
56 Vedant Saxena 3½
pal , 8th board senior player Dr.Arvind 6 Soni Sangharsh 6
57 Abhishek Kumar Soni 3½
Goswami Sagar lost to Harsh jhariya in- 7 Jariya Harsh 6 It takes 6 moves from the initial game
58 Anuj Mishra 3½
dore, 11th board Manoj Nagle from Betul 8 Saket Atul Kumar 6 array to reach the above position.
59 Sukant Pathak 3½
9 Singh Ojasva 5½ Solution on p.48
lost to Atharva Bajpayee from Gwalior.In 60 Ulhas Bapat 3½
10 Sachin Soni 5½
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8th National Amateur Chess Championship 2019, Bhopal 26 Kuwar Tushar MAH 6½ 76 Yuvika Sehgal DEL 5
27 Mayank Sharma Nandkishore DEL 6½ 77 Patil Rohit R MAH 5
Kartavya Anadkat is Champion 28 Rathi Dhanashree MAH 6½ 78 Kshitij Kadam KAR 5
29 Narasimha Raveendra G AP 6½ 79 Santosh Pal MP 5
by A.C.Joshi, Chief Arbiter 30 Umesh Konduru TEL 6½ 80 Devansh Panthi MP 5
31 Babaria Rahil Pareshbhai GUJ 6½ 81 Unnikrishnan M A KER 5
8th National Amateur Chess Championship hall on time. They have also arranged the 32 Sankalp Arora UP 6½ 82 Bino Joseph KER 5
2019 was held at Hotel Kanta Shravan tasty breakfast, tea,lunch and delicious 33 Ananya Arumbakkam KAR 6½ 83 Dhandapani P TN 5
Palace,Bhopal, M.P.from 20th to 25th Aug dinner with fixed charges so that even in 34 Suthar Pradip MAH 6½ 84 Teerthala Abhinav TEL 5
2019. A total of 165 players participated rainy season the guest need not have to 35 Aishwin Daniel MP 6 85 Vaishag P V KER 5
in this tournament from all over India and go outside for food. Overall tournament 36 Sikka Sumit MP 6 86 Mali Nilesh MAH 5
37 Himanshu Moudgil DEL 6 87 Nevin Jose KER 5
among them 132 were rated players,33 experience was excellent. Kudos to Mr. 38 Arnav Kushwaha CHA 6 88 Pavan Kumar Zutshi MP 5
unrated players, 134 men and 31 women Kapil Saxena, Tournament Director and 39 Darsh Kansal MP 6 89 Aditi Garhwal MP 5
players were there. Hon.Secretary of MPCA and his energetic 40 Shah Devansh MAH 6 90 Gurjeet Singh PUN 4½
team which has taken a keen interest and 41 Singh Vimlesh Kumar DEL 6 91 Umer S M MP 4½
There were 10 rounds (One round-2 days extended all the facilities to players. Last 42 Ankitha Goud Palle TEL 6 92 Khuanna Kapoor DEL 4½
and two rounds-4days)played from 20th but not least ,how can I forget my Arbiter 43 Rahul Yadav DEL 6 93 Tawar Abhirajsingh MP 4½
44 Brajesh Kumar Upadhyay MP 6
to 25th August. Several hard fought vic- team .They worked hard & always on all (contd from page 41 )
45 Krishna Malay MAH 6
tories, some upsets and some draws were the corner with eagle eye for the success 46 Pandey Divya MP 6 35.Raf1 h6 [35...Qxe4? 36.Nh5 h6 37.Rxf7
witnessed during the tournament. After of the tournament. 47 Aaditya Ranjan UP 6 Rc2+ 38.Qxc2 Qxc2+ 39.R1f2+- White's con-
10 rounds the Champion of the 8thh Na- 48 Sharma Varun MP 5½ centration of pieces on the king-side should lead
49 Asif Mohammad Tayyeb SPB 5½ to a dangerous attack.] 36.Ne2 Rb3 37.Qc2
tional Amateur Chess Championship 2019 Final ranking:
50 Panda Miracle ORI 5½ Be6± 38.Rf8+ Kh7 [38...Qxf8 39.Rxf8+
was Kartavya Anadkat of Gujarat with 8.0 Rk Name Gr Pts
51 Aditya Rawat DEL 5½ Kxf8 40.Nd4 Rc3 41.Nxe6+ Ke7 42.Qd1 Kxe6
points while in the women category first 1 Anadkat Kartavya GUJ 8
52 Mangal Prasad SCB 5½ 43.Qd5+ Kf6 44.e5+ Kf5 45.e6+ Kf6 46.Qxb7+-]
2 Srikanth K. SCB 8
prize was bagged by Fathima Abdeen of 53 Devvrat Tiwari CHH 5½ 39.e5+ g6 40.R1f6 Qg7 41.Nf4 [Much strong-
3 Mahindrakar Indrajeet MAH 8
Kerala with 7.0 points. 54 Medhansh Saxena UP 5½ er was: 41.Rxe6 Rb2 (or 41...Qxf8! 42.Qxg6+
4 Pradeep Tiwari DEL 8
55 Sandeep Santhosh KER 5½ Kh8 43.Re8+-) 42.Qxb2 Qxf8 43.Nf4+- Black
5 Trivedi Karan R GUJ 8
56 Aryan Shamrao Raikar GOA 5½ is routed.] 41...Rc3 42.Qb1 Rb3 43.Nxe6
In The Closing ceremony the prizes were 6 Tanmay Chopra DEL 7½
57 Shah Krish G MP 5½ Rxb1 44.Nxg7 b3 [Black is beyond saving. If
given by the Chief Guest Dr.S.L.Thousen,IPS 7 Colaco Reuben GOA 7½
58 Jatinder Kapoor DEL 5½ 44...Kxg7?? 45.R6f7#] 45.R6f7 g5 46.Ne8+!
(Director Sports & Youth Welfare ,Govt. 8 Banerjee Ashutosh CHH 7
59 Aswin P G KER 5½ [It is mate after: 46.Ne8+! Kg6 47.Rg7+ Kh5
9 Aarush Gupta DEL 7
of MP), Shri Bharat Singh (Hon.Secre- 60 Shah Kritee GUJ 5½ 48.Nf6#!!] 1–0
10 Sharma Pankaj PUN 7
tary-AICF), Shri Sunil Bansal (President of 11 Fathima Abdeen KER 7 61 Suryavanshi Brijesh Mohan MP 5½
MPCA),Shri. Kapil Saxena (Hon Secretary 62 Dony K V SCB 5½ 35.Raf1 h6 [35...Qxe4? 36.Nh5 h6 37.Rxf7
12 Chudasama Ankit GUJ 7
63 Suresh Garg DEL 5½ Rc2+ 38.Qxc2 Qxc2+ 39.R1f2+- White's con-
of MPCA)& Shri A.C.Joshi International 13 Sanchit Anand DEL 7
64 Lakshyesh Mohan Gupta MP 5½ centration of pieces on the king-side should lead
Arbiter. 14 Mandloi Mukesh RAJ 7
65 Azal Nasir DEL 5½ to a dangerous attack.] 36.Ne2 Rb3 37.Qc2
15 Chauhan Joy GUJ 7
66 Diwan Rajesh SPB 5½ Be6± 38.Rf8+ Kh7 [38...Qxf8 39.Rxf8+
16 Sairaj Dilip Vernekar GOA 7
The tournament was organised in fully Air 67 Sawyan Baran De WES 5½ Kxf8 40.Nd4 Rc3 41.Nxe6+ Ke7 42.Qd1 Kxe6
17 Sooraj M R KER 6½
conditioned, spacious Hall , decorated with 68 Patel Riddhi R GUJ 5½ 43.Qd5+ Kf6 44.e5+ Kf5 45.e6+ Kf6 46.Qxb7+-]
18 Subhabrata Roy WES 6½
sufficient lighting. The hall is surrounded 69 Anahita Verma PUN 5½ 39.e5+ g6 40.R1f6 Qg7 41.Nf4 [Much strong-
19 Jaiswal Puneet DEL 6½
70 Ethan V Johnson TN 5½ er was: 41.Rxe6 Rb2 (or 41...Qxf8! 42.Qxg6+
by lush green garden and fully equipped 20 Devesh Anand Naik GOA 6½
71 Poluri Kumaraswamy AP 5½ Kh8 43.Re8+-) 42.Qxb2 Qxf8 43.Nf4+- Black
with all amenities including dining hall and 21 Wajih Nassir DEL 6½
72 Raj Kumar DEL 5½ is routed.] 41...Rc3 42.Qb1 Rb3 43.Nxe6
with separate arrangements for parents 22 Femil Chelladurai TN 6½
73 Aravind Matthews A C T TN 5 Rxb1 44.Nxg7 b3 [Black is beyond saving. If
23 Sheikh Jahan MP 6½
and managers also. The accommodation 74 Nirnay Garg HAR 5 44...Kxg7?? 45.R6f7#] 45.R6f7 g5 46.Ne8+!
24 Kohli Pranav MAH 6½
was available in the same luxurious hotel 75 Parihar Rajeev Singh MP 5 [It is mate after: 46.Ne8+! Kg6 47.Rg7+ Kh5
25 Kavyansh Agrawal MP 6½
so that all the players can reach the playing 48.Nf6#!!] 1–0
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Smart Girls FIDE Rated Chess Tournament, Gangtok The Smart Girl Queen’s All India Fide Rating Open Chess Tournament 2019, Udaipur
Susmita Lama of Sikkim is Champion Vanshika Sachdeva is Smart Girl in Udaipur
by A.C.Joshi, Chief Arbiter FA Neelesh Kumawat,, Dep. Chief Arbiter
The Smart Girl Queen’s All India Fide Rating retary, Chess in Lakecity for their tire less
Yet another Fide Rating Tournament exclu- Priya Chhetri . Open Chess Tournament 2019, organized work, dedication and support till the con-
sively for Girls , an initiative of All India by Chess in Lake city under the aegis of All clusion of this grand successful mega event.
Chess Federation , took place in mountain Tournament hall was good, with enough Rajputana Chess Association and All India The tournament was organized in such a
range of Himalayas . This is the very first space for players and visiting dignitaries. Chess Federation, commenced from 9th Aug way that it ended in a very peaceful manner
2019 at Baskaran Adhiban Academy,Maa without any dispute. Organizers provided
time , Sikkim Chess Association organ- Sikkim, in the month of August is rainy and
karma Sahu dham, Dagliyo Ki Magri, Udai- mementoes to all the Participants which
ized a fide rating tournament only for the climate cool. Playing condition was also pur. Managers / players meeting was held was a unique and need to be reckoned with
Girls. This tournament was financially good and comfortable for players. just before the start of the tournament. The in its true spirit. The prize distribution cer-
supported by All India Chess Federation necessary technical matters were decided in emony was organized in a grand manner.
and played from August 7th to 11th at At the end of the tournament, Chief guest the meeting and also the appeals commit- The prizes were distributed at the hands of
Saraswati Bal Vidya Mandir ,Tadong , of the Function Mr. Anand Lama In charge tee was formed. This event was inaugurated Colonel Shri. Sanjeev Kumar, Sena Medal,
at the hands of Shri. Kamlesh Choudhary, Deputy Commander, Eklingarh Cantt, Udai-
Gangtok. , Tadong and guest of Honor Shri Bhu-
Secretary of Chittorgarh District Chess As- pur. Other guests present were Shri. Rajeev
wan Pradhan,Chief Conservator of forest sociation. Other dignitaries present were Bhardwaj, President Chess in lakecity, Shri.
The five-day tournament was inaugu- and Shri Laxman Sharma, Dean, Sikkim Shrimati. Anila Shah Ben, reputed and aged Himmat Singh Siglikar, Vice President Chess
rated by Chief Guest Mr. Anand Lama , University gave away the prizes to all the player from Gujarat a motivation to chess in lakecity, IA Vikas sahu, Secretary, Chess
In charge , Tadong . He inaugurated the winners . Chief Arbiter IA Dharmendra Ku- players, Shri. Rajeev Bharadwaj, President in Lakecity, IA Rajendra Teli, Chief Arbiter,
tournament by making the a ceremonial mar presented the tournament report while Chess in Lakecity, IA Vikas Sahu, Secretary FA Neelesh Kumawat Dep. Chief Arbiter.
CIL , IA Rajendra Teli Chief Arbiter & FA
inaugural move on the board with young Mahendra Dhakal, Secretary, Sikkim Chess
Neelesh Kumawat Dep.Chief Arbiter. Final ranking (first 25 placings)
Girls players of Sikkim. Mr. Mahendra Association delivered the vote of thanks.
Rk Name Pts
Dhakal, Secretary, All Sikkim Chess As- 13 fide rated players along with 49 unrated 1 Vanshika Sachdeva 8
sociation , and Mr. Dharmendra Kumar , Final ranking (first 15 placings only) players which took the tally of players to 2 Heena Kaak 7
Chief Arbiter &Hony Secretary All Bihar 62, from 5 States took part in this prestig- 3 Dakshita Kumawat 7
ious chess tournament. 6th seed Vanshika 4 Khushi Mishra 7
Chess Association were the other digni- Rk Name Pts 5 Yashika Singh 7
Sachdeva of Jodhpur won the tournament
taries present on the dais Tournament 1 Susmita Lama 8½ 6 Arpita Jain 6½
with 1 point lead. This mega event was
was played on open Swiss format with 9 2 Priya Chettri 7 completed successfully without any dispute. 7 Charvi Patidar 6
round . 3 Vaani Agarwal 7 8 Jain Saumya 6
The players and the managers were very 9 Anisha Jain 6
4 Pushpa Gurung 7 much co-operative. The arrangements of 10 Aanya Chawat 6
In all 64 players including 5 rated players 5 Emetna Limboo 7 venue, accommodation etc. was excellent. 11 Katariya Gayatri 6
participated in this tournament .Top seed 6 Amisha Kumari 6½ The team of arbiter’s namely Dy Chief: 12 Komal Kumawat 6
FA Neelesh Kumawat, IA Vikas Sahu, FA 13 Vaishali Mishra 6
of the tournament and women Champion 7 Anusha Chettri 6½
Manish Chandalia, SNA Gautam Kataria, 14 Shirin Bhattacharyya 5½
of Sikkim Susmita Lama performed as 8 Nameirakpam Bewan Devi 6 SNA Bhawesh Pandiyar and SNA Monika 15 Utsavi Dave 5½
expected from highest rated player of the 9 Jenisha Gurung 6 Sahu were very much competent and were 16 Doshi Diya 5½
tournament and win the tournament . She 10 Shriya Agarwal 6 equipped with full technical knowledge 17 Himanshi Ola 5½
which helped each one of them to tackle 18 Tamanna Gupta 5½
scored 8.5 out of 9 round stood first . 1.5 11 Yangchen Lama 6 19 Akshita Jain 5
point s ahead of nearest scorer . 4 players 12 Prachi Roy 6 every situation efficiently. I will fail in my
20 Shah Anila Kishorekumar 5
duty if I do not thank Mr. Rajeev Bharadwaj,
scored 7 points each but with the help of 13 Shraddha Sharma 6 21 Palak Sharma 5
the tournament director of this mega event 22 Sanganeria Hitanshi 5
tie break , their position declared from 14 Rozila Pradhan 6 because without him this event could not 23 Avantika gupta 5
2nd to 5th . According to tie break , 2nd 15 Srijana Rai 5½ have been a grand success. I also take this 24 Ishika bapna 5
place went to 2nd seed of the tournament opportunity to thank Mr. Vikas Sahu, Sec- 25 Dipika Sahu 5
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1st Talent Chess Academy Open FIDE Rated Chess Tournament, Chennai Western Asian Youth and Junior Chess Championship, New Delhi
V.S.Raahul wins title Indian youngsters dominate
Report by M.S.Gopakumar, International Arbiter
by S.Balaraman I.A.,Chief Arbiter
1st Talent Chess Academy Open FIDE Rated embraced a record-breaking 374 players in
Chess Tournament was organized by Tal- that 4 International Masters, 2 FIDE Mas-
ent Chess Academy supported by Mata ters, 1 Women FIDE Master and 1 Candi-
Amirtananandamayi Math, Tamil Nadu and date Master were in the fray. Players from
Sport India from 21.08.2019 to 25.08.2015 14 states, 2 Union territories of India such
The opening ceremony got underway at the as Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Harayana,
Mata Amirtananandamayi Math & Kalya- Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra, Madhya
na Mandapam, Virugambakkam, Chennai, Pradesh, Puducherry, Telangana, Tamil-
Tamil Nadu on August 21, 2019 at 11.30 nadu, West Bengal, Uttarakhand, Bihar,
A.M., where BR Vinayamrita Chaitanya, Delhi, Special units such as Railways, BSNL
Correspondent, Amirta Institutions, Chen- and ICF and two foreign federations from
nai inaugurated the event by lighting the USA and England took part in the event.
auspicious Kuthuvillakku and performing
puja in front of Mata Amirananandamayi In a colorful closing ceremony Dr. Amutha
Mr. Berik Balgabaev, Advisor to the FIDE President inaugurating the championship by customary lighting of the lamp. Mr. AK Verma,
pooja Mandab. Also present on the dias, Balakrishnan, Chairman Amutha Educa- Secretary Delhi Chess Association; Mr. RS Tiwari, Senior International Arbiter; (Mr. Husan Turdialiev, President Asian Zone 3.4 and Mr.
Mr.S.Balaraman, I.A., Chief Arbiter of the tional Trust, Tamil Nadu along with Mr. Khurshed Vatanov, FIDE Delegate Tajikistan Federation not seen pic but in back ground); Mr. Bharat Singh Chauhan, Dy President Asian
Tournament, welcomed all participants and Anand Anbazhagan, Director, Sport India, Chess Federation; Mr. R Hanumantha, Secretary United Karnataka Chess Association.
expressed hope that they would have a Mr.S. Natarajan, Secretary, Master Mind
The Western Asian Youth & Junior Chess Championships-2019 organised by Delhi Chess As-
memorable stay in Tamil Nadu. Chess Academy and Dr. G G Satheish, I sociation on behalf of All India Chess Federation and Asian Chess Federation was held at The
A, and Mr. S. Balaraman I A, Chief Arbiter Tivoli Grand Resort Hotel, New Delhi from 4th to 11th September 2019. A total number of
Talent Chess Academy’s first Internation- gave away the trophies and cash prizes. 408 players from ten Asian Zone 3.1, 3.2, 3.4 and 3.7 federations (India, Sri Lanka, Bangla-
al Open FIDE Rating Chess Tournament I thank Shri. Bharat Singh Chauhan, Gen- desh, Nepal, Iran, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and UAE) participated in
concluded with three players finishing at eral Secretary, All India Chess Federation, this prestigious event, which have 16 different age categories and played under Standard,
Rapid and Blitz format.
8/9, however, fourth-seeded Tamil Nadu's Shri. P. Stephen Balasamy, General Secre-
untitled V S Raagul came out at the top tary, Tamil Nadu State Chess Association Mr. Berik Balgabaev, Advisor to the FIDE President inaugurated the championship in presence
due to a better tie-break score to win the and Mr.S.Vijaya Kumar, Organizer of 1st of Mr. Bharat Singh Chauhan, Dy President Asian Chess Federation; Mr. Husan Turdialiev,
first prize of ₹1,00,000/-.West Bengal's In- Talent Chess Academy International Open President Asian Zone 3.4; Mr. Khurshed Vatanov, FIDE Delegate Tajikistan Federation; Mr.
ternational Master Sayantan Das finished FIDE Rated Chess tournament for giving Naresh Sharma, Joint Secretary All India Chess Federation; Mr. R Hanumantha, Secretary
second and CM Rajarishi Karthi and IM R me the wonderful opportunity to work as United Karnataka Chess Association and Mr. AK Verma, Secretary Delhi Chess Association.
During the ceremony Mr. Balgabaev conveyed the good wishes message of FIDE President
Balasubramanian of Tamil Nadu finished a Chief Arbiter in this mega event.I also
Mr. Arkady Dvorkovich to all the participants and officials. In the opening day, Rapid events
third and fourth. Totally 374 players par- thank all the Co-Arbiters, Parents, Players, were held with a time control of 10 Minutes plus 10 second increment from move 1 under
ticipated in this five-day nine-round swiss and Assistants for the smooth conduct and Swiss System with 7 rounds and as expected the host India dominated the medal tally by
league tournament. A total prize fund of success of the tournament. winning 43 medals, which include 15 gold. Uzbekistan secured Gold in Under-18 Open cat-
Rs. 7,31,000/- was distributed among 1115 egory while Tajikistan, Bangladesh made place in the medal tally with solitary silver while
prize winners. Final ranking Kazakhstan and Sri Lanka contented with winning bronze. The Standard format played un-
Rank Name Pts der 9 round Swiss System with a time control of 90 Minutes plus 30 second increment from
1 Raahul V S 8 move 1. As dominating country in the Western Asian, India once again proved their mettle
This 9 round Swiss System, Classical for- by winning 41 medals out of 48 in which 14 each were Gold and Silver. Uzbekistan secured
2 IM Das Sayantan 8
mat, 1st Talent Chess Academy Interna- 3 CM Rajarishi Karthi 8 one Gold and Two Bronze while Kazakhstan secured single Gold. Tajikistan and Sri Lanka
tional open FIDE Rated Chess Tournament 4 IM R Balasubramaniam 7½ made their presence in medal tally with solitary silver and Kyrgyzstan with a bronze.
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and Silver.
and Silver. Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan secured
secured one
one Gold
Gold and
and Two
Two Bronze
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Sri Lanka
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Silver Mohamed Anees M 6 B Aakash G 6.5
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(UZB) B Kheerthi Ganta psp 6.5
Medal winners:Standard format 3rd International Irena
Western Asian Youth Warakomska
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Medal winners:Standard format Western Asian(UZB)
Youth & Junior Chess
Western Asian Youth & Junior Chess Western Asian Youth & Junior
Championship-2019 (U18O)Chess Harsha Bharathakoti wins title
3rd International Irena Warakomska Memorial,Suwalki
Harsha Bharathakoti wins title
Western Asian Youth & Junior
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Name (U18O) Pts. In the third International Irena Warakomska Memorial held from 5th to
Med Championship-2019
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3rd International 97 participants
Irena Warakomska took part in open A
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G Srijit Paul 7
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titleevent.
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G FM Abdisalimov Abdimalik
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G
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BS FM
IM Rajdeep Sarkar
Mendonca Leon Luke 7.5
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FM Asian Mukhammadali
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G Name
WCM Mrudul Dehankar Pts.
8 from around the world each year. The third edition of the event this year
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Priyanka K 8
7.5 took place in the Velvet Hotel of Suwalki. The nine-round Swiss event
SG WIM Vantika
WIM Chitlange Sakshi
Agrawal 7
6.5 BS PriyankaSrishti
Pandey K 7.5
6 followed a time control of 90 minutes for first 40 moves then 30 minutes
BS WIM Abdusattorova
WIM Vantika AgrawalBakhora 6.5
6.5 for the rest of the game, with a 30-second increment from move one.
B Pandey Srishti 6
At the end of nine rounds three players - Harsha Bharathakoti, Tomasz
B WIM Abdusattorova Bakhora 6.5
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Markowski, and Vladimir Zakhartsov - finished tied on top scoring 7.0/9 points. But based 5 IM Nitin S. 7½ 55 Rishi R 6
on the tie-breaks Harsha was declared as the champion and the latter two had to settle for 6 FM Srihari L R 7½ 56 Gokula Vishnu R 6
second and third places respectively. 7 Balkishan A. 7 57 Anandan Arunachalakani 6
8 FM Vinoth Kumar M. 7 58 Charan K 6
Riga Technical University Chess Festival, Riga,Latvia 9 Prasannaa.S 7 59 Keshav Padmanabhan 6
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12 WFM Saranya J 7 62 Chopon Babu .R.K 6
The ninth edition of Riga Technical University International Chess Festival was held from 3rd 13 Ram S. Krishnan 7 63 Bharath Ravikumar 6
to 11th of August in Riga, Latvia. The Grandmaster Open of the event saw a total of 275 14 AGM Vignesh B 7 64 Ganesh Aravind N 6
players participating from about 40 different countries. India was the second most repre- 15 IM Praveen Kumar C 7 65 Sri Harish J 6
sented country in the tournament (second only to Latvia!) with as many as 31 players com- 16 AGM Rathneesh R 7 66 Samyak L 5½
peting. Among them Gopal G.N. was the highest rated followed by an array of several other 17 Badrinath S. 7 67 Prabhu Packiaraj G 5½
strong Grandmasters including Lalith Babu M R, Abhimanyu Puranik, Deepan Chakkravarthy, 18 Vijayasubhasri S 7 68 Aakash G 5½
and Gukesh D. After nine rounds Latvia’s number one Igor Kovalenko and Šarūnas Šulskis of 19 Borse Pankaj 7 69 Gokulraj K 5½
Lithuania were tied with 7.5/9 points but based on a better tie-break score the former was 20 Gunasekaran K. 6½ 70 Abishna Anojan 5½
declared as the champion. Among Indians, the best performer was Vishnu Prasanna V. who 21 Rathina Sabapathi A 6½ 71 Rakshitha P 5½
finished fifth just half a point behind the leaders scoring 7.0/9. 22 Kiruthika B 6½ 72 Rupak M 5½
23 Gowtham K K 6½ 73 Shrija K M 5½
The chess festival commenced on 3rd of August with an eleven-round blitz event following 24 Nichat Ajinkya 6½ 74 Priyan R S 5½
a time control of three minutes plus two seconds increment from move one. The top seed 25 Syed Anwar Shazuli 6½ 75 Midilesh Ms 5½
was the best Latvian player Igor Kovalenko followed by German Grandmaster Rasmus Svane 26 AGM Vignesh N 6½ 76 Raghul Saro S 5½
but the event was in for a shocker as Indians displayed sheer dominance by securing all of
27 Sidharth P G 6½ 77 Ratnapriya K 5½
the top places. Shardul Gagare, who started as the twentieth seed, was surprisingly the one
28 Tamizhanban N 6½ 78 Jaikavin Senthilkumar 5½
who dominated the field with an astounding 10.0/11 points. Shardul remained unbeaten and
29 Sham R 6½ 79 Deepak Raj R 5½
won eight games in a row to begin with. He defeated strong opponents like Gopal, Lalith,
30 Kishore V 6½ 80 Hariharan V 5½
Kantans, Deepan, Nevednichy and others, thus achieving a performance rating of 2752 and
31 Ghouse Kamardeen D 6½ 81 Rajagopalan 5½
gaining a whopping 92 Elo points. Besides Shardul’s scintillating performance the first seven
32 Sai Kiran G V 6½
places were all clinched by Indians and GM Deepan Chakkravarthy became tenth. 82 Raaghav Rajesh 5½
33 Raghav V 6½
34 Srihari K R 6½ 83 Lathecka Sai M.A. 5½
Top ten in Blitz Open 1.GM Gagare Shardul ;2 GM Gopal G.N ;3.GM Gukesh D 4..GM Lalith Babu M 84 Karthick Narayanan P 5½
35 Gugan G 6
R 8,5; 5.GM Stany G.A 8,5;6.GM Puranik Abhimanyu 7.GM Vishnu Prasanna. V 8,5; 8.GM Svane
36 Thiyagarajan Tamilselvi 6 85 Srimozhi S 5½
Rasmus (Germany)8,0; 9.FMGalchenko Matvey (Russia) 8,0 10.GM Deepan Chakkravarthy J Stany
37 Anup Shankar R 6 86 Kiruba Hari P 5½
G.A. acquired 36.6 Elo points, while Gukesh D a whopping 60.6.
38 Kumar S. 6 87 Anilkumar K.V. 5½
Abu Dhabi Chess Festival, Abu Dhabi 39 Balaji P 6 88 Abhiram Vaddi 5½
40 Bargava Narasimhan S 6 89 Balaji Rao D 5½
FM Pranesh is the Champion 41 Rajesh Kumar Nayak 6 90 Sanjay Srinivasan R 5½
Report by IA Praful Zaveri 42 Adithya Ramesh 6
91 Madhavan R Munjanattu 5½
The Abu Dhabi Juniors, which is a part of Abu Dhabi Chess Festival 43 Yashwant Annamalai 6
– witnessed a complete Indian domination as the first five places 44 Sriram Suresh 6 92 Behera Snehayukta 5½
were clinched by Indian players. FM Pranesh won the champion- 45 Ravi Kumar K 6 93 Thenamudhan B J 5½
ship with a whopping 8/9 and became richer by US $ 1500. There 46 Harshini B 6 94 Aadith R 5½
was a 3-way tie for the 2nd place but CM Kushagra Mohan became 47 Badri Narayan B 6 95 Sam Jebadurai 5½
the runner-up with a better tie-break to win US $ 1000. FM Srihari 48 Naveen Kanniyappan S 6 96 J Balasubramanian 5½
L R & Aaryan Varshney secured 3rd and 4th position to win US $ 49 Sailesh R 6
97 Sakthi Subash A S 5½
700 and US $ 500 respectively. All these players had scored 7.5 50 Arvind Rajamanohar 6
points.The top-seeded Indian for this event, IM Leon Mendonca 51 Subramanian V 6 98 Sai Nikhil Y 5½
did not have a good event by his standards and finished 5th with 52 Praveen K B 6 99 Saravana Vel R 5½
a score of 7 points to win US $ 400. Asylos Miras from Kazakhstan 53 Divyan T 6 100 Ponnala Prabhas 5½
was the only player outside India to figure in the main prize list. He secured 6th position to 54 Jegatha B 6
bag US $ 300.The Indian contingent participated in Abu Dhabi as a part of ‘Exposure Tour’.
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Tetrasoft Hyderabad Marriott Grandmaster Chess Tournament,Hyderabad Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 On 3rd board, KaustuvKundu of West
Atul selected Najdorf variation. Alexandr Bengal - India opened the game with c4
GM Boris Savchenko wins Tetrasoft answered with h3 the Najdorf - Adams the English opening. The challenger IM
by IA Dharmendra Kumar attack. Alexandr’s 23. c3 move changed Khusenkhojaev Muhammad of Tajikishtan
game’s direction the pawn attached two retorted with Nf6 Anglo-Indian defense.
Grandmaster Boris Savchenko of Rus- d6. The game continued 2. d4 Nf6 3. Nc3 pieces of Atul namely Bishop and Rook. The game ended in draw in 13th move with
sia won the inaugural edition of Tetrasoft the PircDefence chosen by white answered After 49. C6 move Atul accepted his defeat. identical three pictorial position (applied
Grandmaster Open tournament at Hyder- by black with g6. Then white played f4 and article 9.2)
abad . First ever Grandmaster tournament selected variation Austrian attack. In 44th On 5th board, SahooUtkalRanjan of Odi-
of Hyderabad was held at five star hotel J move white Mosadeghpour accepted defeat sha - India opened the game with d4 the On 4th board, IM Raja Rithvik R of Telan-
W Marriott from 20th to 27th August ,2019 since Adam is two pawn up. Queen's pawn. The opponent IM Rathna- gana - India started the game with d4 the
.The 10 round Swiss open GM Tournament karan K. of S Rly responded with g6 the Queen's pawn. The rival GM Mosadegh-
attracted 151 players from different part of On 2nd board, IM Khusenkhojaev Mu- Modern defence. The game continued 2. pourMasoud of Iran reacted with Nf6 the
the glob including 19 titled players .(GM:8 hammad of Tajikishtan started the game c4 Bg7 3. Nc3 d6 4. e4 the variation is Queen's pawn game. The game continued
WGM:1 , IM:6 , WIM:3 , FM:10 , WFM:1) . with d4 the Queen's pawn. The opponent Averbakh system. Rathnakaran played Nc6 equal and decided draw between them.
HariMadhavan N B of Tamil Nadu - India the in Averbakh system Kotov Variation.
There was a grand opening ceremony held answered with d5 Queen's pawn game. The game remained equal and after whites On 5th board, IM Rathnakaran K. of S Rly
on August 20th , 2019 . Mr. Bharat Sin- White replied with c4 offering pawn to rival move 54. Rb2 both agreed draw. opened the game with e4 the King's pawn
gh Chahan ,Hony. Secretary , All India and changed opening to Queen's Gambit. opening. The opponent GM Laxman R.R.
Chess Federation graced the occasion as The black replied with c6 Queen's Gambit And the final round was dramatically in- of ICF responded with e5 the King's pawn
Chief Guest while Mr. Narsimha Reddy , Declined Slav defence. They prefererred teresting when leader for last two round game. 2. Nf3 opening changed to King's
Chairman , Bar Council of Telangana cum to play Modern line of Slav Defence. The couldn’t survive in last round . Playing knight opening. The Laxman replied with
Vice President AICF was Guest of honor position maintained till move 42 move and against GM Savchenko Boris ,3rd seed GM Nc6 again pulled back to King's pawn game.
. Other Dignitaries presents on dais were both players accepted draw. Adam Tukhaev of Ukraine lost against him 3. Bc4 followed by Bc5 changed opening
Jaypal Reddy , CFO , Tetrasoft , Major and they both tied on equal points and to Giuoco Piano. The Laxman played Rb1
Shivaprasad , VP , TSCA , K S Prasad , On 3rd board, GM Savchenko Boris of Rus- the tie was broken using direct encounter in 83rd move and Rathnakaran accepted
Hony Secretary , TSCA , IA Dharmendra sia opened the game with e4 the King's which favored Boris while 2nd position defeat.
Kumar , Chief Arbiter , Srikanth Sharma M pawn opening. The challenger Bharat Ku- went to GM Tukhaev Adam of Ukraine .
, Tournament Director and R. Anantharam mar Reddy Poluri of Andhra Pradesh - India In prize distribution ceremony , Cheif Guest
, IA . Mr. Bharat Singh Chahan ,Hony. Sec- retorted with e6 the French defence. The GM Tukhaev Adam of Ukraine opened the R Srinivasa Rao ,Chief Operating Officer
retary,AICF inaugurated the tournament game continued till white third move 2. game with Nf3 the Reti opening. The rival , Hysea gave away the prizes to all the
by playing a complete blitz game with GM d4 d5 3. Nc3 Paulsen variation. The black GM Savchenko Boris of Russia replied with winners in presence of Special Guest A
Savchenko . replied with Bb4 the Winawer (Nimzovich) c5. In 39th move black Boris played Nh4 Dinakar Babu, IAS , VC & MD, SATS , A
variation. The fourth move of Boris e5 and white Adam accepted defeat. Venkateshwar Reddy , Chairman , SATS ,
In the ninth and penultimate round GM changed variation to Winawer, advance Surya Thammiraju , CTO, Tetrasoft , Major
Adam was in full flow and determined to variation. 27. … hxg4 gives clear advantage On 2nd board, HariMadhavan N B of Tamil Shiva Prasad , Vice President, TSCA and
continue his lead. On the top board 3rd for white player Boris. 62nd Kb7 and Bharat Nadu - India started the game with d4 the K Siva Prasad , General Secretary, TSCA.
seed GM Adam Tukhaev of Ukraine won Kumar accepted defeat. Queen's pawn. The opponent IM Triapish-
against GM Mosadeghpour Masoud of Iran koAlexandr of Russia answered with Nf6 Final standings:
and continued with sole leadership after On 4th board, IM Triapishko Alexandr of the Queen's pawn game. In The game Alex- Rank Name FED Pts
9th Round with eight points. GM Mosade- Russia started the game with e4 the King's andr having little advantage but he doesn’t 1 GM SavchenkoBoris RUS 8
ghpour Masoud of Iran opened the game pawn opening. The rival Dahale Atul of have time to think. At the 122 move with 2 GM TukhaevAdam UKR 8
with e4 the King's pawn opening. The rival Maharashtra - India reacted with c5 the black playing Kg3 resulted in stalemate.
3 IM Khusenkhojaev M TJK 7½
GM Tukhaev Adam of Ukraine replied with Sicilian defence. The game continued 2. 4 IM TriapishkoAlexandr RUS 7½
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5 SahooUtkalRanjan IND 7½ 55 PraloySahoo IND 5½ Thalavaipuram Rotary Club and Kamarajar Matric HSS,
6 GM LaxmanR.R. IND 7½ 56 AIM AbhayBandewar IND 5½ International FIDE Rated Chess Tournament, Thalavaipram
7 HariMadhavanNB IND 7½ 57 ToshaliV IND 5½
8 KaustuvKundu IND 7½ 58 PriyankaraChamil SRI 5½ R.Balasubramanian wins title
9 GM MosadeghpourMasoud IRI 7 59 AdityaBikramPaul IND 5½
10 IM RajaRithvikR IND 7 60 KarthikSaiCh IND 5 by IA Prof.R Anantharam, Chief Arbiter
11 PranavV IND 7 61 AmbarishSharma IND 5
12 GM SmirnovPavel RUS 7 62 AFM ChoubeySaurabh IND 5 Thalavaipuram, a small town in south Tamil manian, IM Rajesh, Balkishan of Karnataka,
13 FM AaryanVarshney IND 7 63 SriSaiBaswanthP IND 5 Nadu, very popular for the manufacture of former under 10 national champion Syed
14 CM KushagraMohan IND 7 64 ChilukuriSaiVarshith IND 5 all kinds of garments for ladies, conducted AnvarShazuli of ICF and Sa Kannan of TN
15 SammedJaykumar S IND 7 65 FM DeSilvaLMST SRI 5 a rating tournament from 1st to 4th August. were trailing behind by half a point. Balasu-
16 GM ZiatdinovRaset USA 7 66 ChetanSharma IND 5
17 AyushhRavikumar IND 7 67 ShanmukhaPulli IND 5
It was jointly organised by Thalavaipuram bramanian defeated the leader Dusthageer
18 BaivabMishra IND 7 68 KabhilanS IND 5 Rotary Club and Perunthalaivar (meaning and Sa Kannan overcame the stiff resist-
19 FM RamakrishnaJ. IND 7 69 SreekarJSS IND 5 Great leader) Kamarajar Matric and Higher ance from Balkishan to share the lead with
20 IM RathnakaranK. IND 6½ 70 AbhiramiMadabushi IND 5 Secondary School at the air conditioned 5.5 points from six games, before the start
21 GM KarthikeyanP. IND 6½ 71 ShravanSwaminathan IND 5 marriage hall adjoining the school. Though of the final round. Eight players comprising
22 IM MuthaiahAl IND 6½ 72 AIM KomalSrivatsavSajja IND 5 it had a less strength of 152 players, it was the top four seeds also were on the second
23 BharatKumarReddy Pi IND 6½ 73 GarvGaur IND 5
24 ManishKumar(2006) IND 6½ 74 VishwaBalaKumaranM IND 5
a strong tournament, due to the partici- spot, with five points each.
25 SurendranN IND 6½ 75 HarshitRanjanSahu IND 5 pation of four international masters – the
26 PatilPratik IND 6½ 76 AFM PawarHarshit IND 5 top seeded Chakravarthy Reddy of Telan- Except the top board game in the final
27 VarunV IND 6½ 77 SamalAnsuman IND 5 gana, VAV Rajesh and R Balasubramanian round, all the other five games had de-
28 DahaleAtul IND 6 78 NagareAkhilesh IND 5 of Tamil Nadu and C Praveen Kumar of ICF. cisive results, leading to a six way tie.
29 BarathKalyanM IND 6 79 RohithYadavBR IND 5 The Swiss format tournament had seven International master R. Balasubramanian
30 AkshitJha IND 6 80 ShubhKapur IND 5
31 AdityaVarunGampa IND 6
rounds, with a time control of 90 minutes pipped S Prasanna by half a point in the
81 SoumikDatta IND 5 + 30 seconds per move. third tiebreak to win the title and a cash
32 RajuJ.K. IND 6
33 PimpalkhareVedant IND 6 82 SahuRajendraKumar IND 5 prize of Rs.60000/-. And Prasanna pocket-
34 WGM KiranManishaMohanty IND 6 83 VinayRJumani IND 5 After the smooth sailing of the first two ed Rs.40000/-. Sa Kannan of Karaikudi was
35 Md.AbzidRahman BAN 6 84 SibiSrinivasEinstein IND 5 rounds, all the top four players were dealt declared third, followed by SS Manigandan
36 NawinJJ IND 6 85 RohnitGAmin IND 5 with a heavy blow by lower rated players of Madurai, IM Rajesh VAV and IM Praveen
37 AryamannSain IND 6 86 NandithaV IND 5
38 SamithReddyI IND 6
in the third round. IM Chakravarthy Reddy Kumar.
39 SarathChandraK IND 6 87 MrithyunjayMahadevan IND 5 succumbed to the onslaught of R. Anup
40 ChetanSharma IND 6 88 AdityaChatterjee IND 5 Shankar of Trichy, NS DhanushRaghav Rotary District 3212 Governor nominee Sri.
41 RahulKrishnaV IND 6 89 VishwanathPrasad IND 4½ of Dindigul defeated fourth seeded IM C Murugadas inaugurated the tournament
42 ShahJeet IND 6 Praveen Kumar. Second seed IM VAV Rajesh in the presence of the President of the
43 GM VasquezSchroeder R CHI 5½ 90 RakshithSrinivasan IND 4½
and third highest rated player S Prasanna Thalavaipuram Rotary Club Sri. B. Ganesh
44 MohamedAneesM IND 5½ 91 AagamAdityaE IND 4½
45 BhambureShantanu IND 5½
of TN were held to draw by former national Kumar, Sri. M. Sundar Rajan, Secretary of
92 SreehithReddyR IND 4½ deaf and dumb champion MA Alaguraja of Virudhunagar District Chess Association
46 KavindaAkila SRI 5½
47 IM Sahu Sekhar Chandra IND 5½ 93 PrudhviKumarV IND 4½ TN and KK Gowtham, also of TN respective- and the organising secretary Sri SR Rav-
48 NayakRajesh IND 5½ 94 AbhiramPramodK IND 4½ ly. Four players shared the lead with four ichandran.Dr.A. Sheik Saleem, Governor,
49 MushiniAjay IND 5½ 95 AdityaRamanathan IND 4½ points each at the end of the fourth round. Rotary District 3212 who is also the former
50 AmanSharma IND 5½ The giant killer Anup Shankar was stopped President of Tirunelveli District Chess As-
96 PotluriSupreetha IND 4½
51 SohamDey IND 5½
52 PotawadAnirudhha IND 5½ 97 KaushikGIyer IND 4½ by Dusthageer Ibrahim of Madurai who sociation distributed the prizes, along with
53 PattnayakNilsu IND 5½ 98 ArijitMukherjee IND 4½ emerged sole leader with five points from other dignitaries.
54 AGM Sa Kannan IND 5½ 99 RithvikRajaM IND 4½ five games. Five players – IM R Balasubra-
100 GoelPratyaksh IND 4½
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Final ranking 49 Sreejith S 4 45th Tripura State Fide Rating Chess Championship, Belonia
Rk Name Pts 50 Lokesh Varmaa K 4
1 IM R.Balasubramaniam 6 51 Kavinkumar G 4 Bappi Deb is Champion
2 Prasannaa.S 6 52 Prawin K 4
by Pradip Kumar Roy, IA,Chief Arbiter
3 AGM Sa Kannan 6 53 Pandiyarajan S 4
4 Manigandan S S 6 54 Karuppasamy C 4 45th Tripura State FIDE rating Chess Cham- 6 Prandhan Debnath 6½
5 IM Rajesh V A V 6 55 Kannan Ritish 4 pionship was organized by Belonia Chess 7 Soham Nag 6½
6 IM Praveen Kumar C 6 56 Sanjai Karna R 4
7 Uma Maheswaran P 5½ 57 Arasu P 4
Assocation at Sonartari , Belonia Town 8 Joydeb Nandi 6
8 Daakshin Arun 5½ 58 Bhavana P G 4 Hall Complex from 23 to 27th August 9 Dutta Umashankar 6
9 Syed Anwar Shazuli 5 59 Shiva Rajan K 4 2019 . Sri Arun Ch. Bhowmik, Hon’ble 10 Subhradeep Sengupta 6
10 Dhanush Ragav N S 5 60 Srihari Satheeswaran 4 MLA, Smt. Sukla Deb Sarkar, Chairperson, 11 Abhinaba Roy 6
11 FM Vinoth Kumar M. 5 61 Lenin A G 4 BMC, Sri Bivision Ch. Das, Member, STZP
12 Dusthageer Ibrahim M. 5 62 Vignesh G 4 12 Rahul Kanti Nag 6
were present in the opening ceremony.
13 Gowtham K K 5 63 Rohith Vinay R 4 13 Sudarsan Saha 5½
14 Alaguraja M.A. 5 64 Vignesh E 4 14 Subham Nath 5½
15 IM Chakravarthi Reddy M 5 65 Tanushree V P 4 Total prize fund was declared Rs 20000.
15 Nil Kumar Datta 5½
16 Barath Kalyan M 5 66 Aparna G 4 A total of 71 players participated in this
17 Anup Shankar R 5 67 Kirpesh I 4 tournament & 32 players were rated 16 Biprayan Choudhuri 5½
18 Badrinath S. 5 68 Suganth S A 4 among them. Players from different sub 17 Biswajit Rakshit 5½
19 Gopinath Parthasarathy 5 69 Subramanian T.V. 3½ division of Tripura participated in this 18 Avigyan Ghosh 5½
20 Godson Merlin E 5 70 Deeksith Kasthuri Rajan 3½ 19 Binode Chakraborty 5½
21 Aravinth Shanmugam S 5 71 Hariharan A C G 3½
competition . Among them large number
22 Marimuthu K 5 72 Riya Shannon S 3½ of junior players were there .The overall 20 Barnita Singha 5½
23 Shaktivel Selvaraj 5 73 Kannish Varmaa K 3½ playing conditions of the tournament was 21 Gopal Tamang 5½
24 Unas K.A. 5 74 Surya Sathiaguru 3½ good and there was not a single dispute 22 Rajesh Krishna Debbarma 5
25 Abi A 5 75 Yashwant B 3½ which arose during this tournament. At 23 Ayush Saha 5
26 Jack Samuel 5 76 Nandhini R 3½ the end Sri Bappi Deb of Teliamura
27 Chandra Sekharan A P 5 77 Steve Rohan S 3½ 24 Debankur Banerjee 5
28 Kanish Vikraman An 5 78 Surya V 3½
emerged Champion and awarded Rs 5000 25 Tapojit Majumdar 5
29 Balkishan A. 4½ 79 AFM Naveen Kumar P 3½ and a beautiful trophy , Rajbeer Ahmed 26 Liton Kr. Raha 5
30 Shadhursshaan R 4½ 80 Dhanu Dharsan K S 3½ and Subhranil Majumder of Sadar stood
27 Alok Bhowmik 5
31 Anilkumar K.V. 4½ 81 Vijayakumar S 3½ 2nd and 3rd respectively.
32 R Venkatasubramani 4½ 82 Rahul K 3½ 28 Atanu Bahadur 5
33 Anupam M Sreekumar 4½ 83 Avinash Kumar G 3½ 29 Tuton Datta 5
In the closing ceremony, Sri Arun Ch.
34 Rejith Babu C 4½ 84 Bhavana O 3½ 30 Dipak Saha 5
35 Rahul Bharadwaj B 4½ 85 Pavithra Murugan 3½
Bhowmik, Hon’ble MLA, Pradip Kumar
Choudhury,Secretary,ATCA, Mihir Shil, 31 Ashish Chakraborty 5
36 Balaji P 4½ 86 Siranjeevi Sanjay S 3½
37 Gowtham S G 4½ 87 Harivignesh V 3½ Sports Officer were present and distrib- 32 Debarup Saha 4½
38 Sooriya B Y 4½ 88 Mani Arumugam 3 uted the prizes to the prize winners. 33 Sikha Das Gupta 4½
39 Kaviyarasan T 4½ 89 Gopi A 3 34 Anabil Goswami 4½
40 Balasubramanian G 4 90 Sachin Pai 3
Final ranking 35 Anju Sarkar 4½
41 Mohana R 4 91 Jothi Sankari M 3
42 Kalidass C. 4 92 Ayyanar K 3 Rk Name Pts 36 Baishali Debnath 4½
43 Raghul Saravanakumar 4 93 Madhan Kumar S 3 1 Bappi Deb 8½ 37 Souvik Sengupta 4½
44 Saravanan A 4 94 Jaivanth M K 3 2 Rajbeer Ahmed 7 38 Gourab Acharjee 4½
45 Gokulakrishna S 4 95 AFM Pradeepkumar Mithran 3 39 Atanu Bhattacharjee 4½
3 Subhranil Majumder 7
46 Parthiban V 4 96 Avanish Ram Amarnath 3
47 Murugesan G 4 97 Saradha M 3 4 Arunika Ghosh 7 40 Adrija Debnath 4½
48 Sanjay Ganesh Pandi 4 98 Babu K 3 5 Kinkar Roy 6½
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Athens of the East Grandmaster Open Chess Tournament, Madurai 24 Prasannaa.S 6.5 74 Gias Uddin Ahmed (BAN) 5
Boris Savchenko of Russia wins title 25 Lokesh N.
26 FM Aaryan Varshney
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by S.Paul Arokia Raj IA, Chief Arbiter 27 Ram S. Krishnan 6.5 77 Subramanian R M 5
28 Lakshmi Narayanan M V 6.5 78 Aswin Kumar B S 5
Second seeded grandmaster Boris with the progress of the game., with equal
29 Dusthageer Ibrahim M. 6.5 79 Ilamparthi A R 5
Savchenko of Russia, clinched the title pieces. Adam comfortably placed his a- 30 Koustuv Dash 6.5 80 Barik Jagdish 5
of the Athens of the East 1st Interna- pawn on seventh rank with the support 31 Rathneesh R 6.5 81 Sreekar J S S 5
tional Grandmaster open tournament, of his rook, he forced Abhijeet to resign 32 Suthershun A 6.5 82 Shyam Sundar M 5
organised by Ananthi Chess Academy at on 50th move. 33 IM Konguvel P 6 83 Aswath S 5
Poppys hotel Madurai today. He tied with In another Neo Grunfeld defence, Sayan- 34 IM Rathnakaran K. 6 84 Sai Kiran Y 5
35 WGM Kiran Manisha Mohanty 6 85 Shreyash Shuvam Patnaik 5
MR Venkatesh of declared fourth. tan Das needing half a point to achieve
36 IM Murali Krishnan B T 6 86 Bhagyashree Patil 5
In a game of mixed PSPB, IM Sayantan a grandmaster norm stoutly defended 37 Niraj Saripalli 6 87 IM Deshmukh Anup 5
Das of Kolkata and Pavel Smirnov of Rus- denying his opponent Pavel Smirnov of 38 Manigandan S S 6 88 Manthan Kashyap Datta 5
sia with eight points each but he had a Russia to make any inroads. The game 39 Surendran N 6 89 Kalyani B 5
superior tiebreak. Sayan Das not only se- petered out to a draw after well fought 40 Priyanka K 6 90 Krishna Raaju J 5
cured the second spot, but also achieved 44 moves. 41 Jayachandra Srinivas V 6 91 Aaditya Dhingra 5
42 Dhanush Ragav N S 6 92 Chilukuri Sai Varshith 5
a grandmaster norm to his credit. While Sri. VVR Raj Satyen, President of Ta-
43 WIM Michelle Catherina P 6 93 Sreekumar P. 5
Venkatesh finished third, Adam Tukhaev mil Nadu Basketball Association was the 44 Siddarth M 6 94 Aagam Aditya E 5
of Ukraine who handed over the second chief guest in the closing ceremony, to- 45 Vinay R Jumani 6 95 Arul Prakash N 5
loss to the top seed Abhijeet Gupta was gether with Sri N. Lenin, Madurai district 46 Anilkumar O.T. 6 96 Abinandhan R 5
fortunes arising from the popular Ruy sports officer and grandmaster Deepan 47 Harshavardhan G B 6 97 Komal Srivatsav Sajja 5
Lopez, both Boris and the Indian GM MR Chakravarthy of Madurai. 48 Sibi Visal R 6 98 Alalwan Sajjad A K(IRQ) 5
49 Balkishan A. 5.5 99 Phatak Aanjaneya 5
Venkatesh of PSPB held upper hand at Final Ranking:
50 Kunal M. 5.5 100 WFM Bidhar Rutumbara 4.5
many various instances. Both missed to Rk. Name Pts.
51 Ananthapadmanabh D V 5.5 101 Arnav Muralidhar 4.5
capitalise the opportunities as well. It 1 GM Savchenko Boris (RUS) 8
52 Pattnayak Nilsu 5.5 102 S Ganesh Muthu A 4.5
2 IM Das Sayantan 8
was Venkatesh’s turn in the end game to 53 Rakesh Kumar Nayak 5.5 103 Bipin Raj S 4.5
3 GM Venkatesh M.R. 8
come up with two connected extra pawns 54 Mohamed Anees M 5.5 104 Md.Abzid Rahman (BAN) 4.5
4 GM Tukhaev Adam (UKR) 8
and rook to that of only rook of the op- 55 Nikhil M 5.5 105 Swapnil Priyadarshi 4.5
5 GM Smirnov Pavel 7.5
56 Karthik Sai Ch 5.5 106 Tamizh Selvan Ganesan 4.5
ponent cruising for a win. But he played 6 IM Shyaamnikhil P 7.5
57 Patil Pratik 5.5 107 Arjun Sidharth S 4.5
an insipid rook move and Boris seized 7 GM Laxman R.R. 7.5
58 Rakshith Srinivasan 5.5 108 Saypuri Srithan 4.5
the moment to sacrifice his rook, forc- 8 GM Gupta Abhijeet 7
59 Thiyagarajan Tamilselvi 5.5 109 Rindhiya V 4.5
9 GM Vasquez S Rodrigo (CHI) 7
ing a stalemate. Venkatesh’s chances of 60 Sa Kannan 5.5 110 CM Kadam Om Manish 4.5
10 IM Rajesh V A V 7
winning the title vanished all in vain and 61 IM Koshy Varugeese 5.5 111 Jain Kashish Manoj 4.5
11 IM Nitin S. 7
ultimately helped Boris to win the title on 62 Sooraj M R 5.5 112 Vaibhav Kalpaka 4.5
12 Sahoo Utkal Ranjan 7
63 FM Ramakrishna J. 5.5 113 Raghul Saro S 4.5
a better tiebreak score. 13 IM Khusenkhojaev Md (TJK) 7
64 Mushini Ajay 5.5 114 Sakthivel Heamish K 4.5
Four times Commonwealth champion and 14 Nayak Rajesh 7
65 WFM Lakshmi C 5.5 115 Akira Sowmyanath 4.5
the top seed Abhijeet Gupta of PSPB opt- 15 IM Muthaiah Al 7
66 Gokhale RChandrashekhar 5.5 116 Atreya Nandy 4.5
16 IM Triapishko Alexandr (RUS) 7
ed the Neo Grunfeld defence from the 67 Alan Diviya Raj 5.5 117 Priansh Das 4.5
17 IM Raja Rithvik R 7
black side against the Ukraine grandmas- 68 Tiwari Arjun 5.5 118 Godson Merlin E 4.5
18 Hari Madhavan N B 7
ter Adam Tukhaev. Abhijeet maintained a 69 Samal Ansuman 5.5 119 Rajeev V M 4.5
19 IM Saravana Krishnan P. 7
70 Shivasubramanian R 5.5 120 Soboleva Anastasia (RUS)4.5
slight advantage until the middle game, 20 GM Mosadeghpour Masoud 6.5
71 Arnav Maheshwari 5 121 Shravan Swaminathan 4.5
but he could not exploit it to a win. Tuka- 21 GM Karthikeyan P. 6.5
72 Marthandan K U 5 122 Sarath Chandra K 4
haev’s position grew better and better 22 CM Nikhil Magizhnan 6.5
73 Vignesh N 5 123 Shyam Kumar M 4
23 Baivab Mishra 6.5
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Selected games from National 17.Be2 N5g6 18.Nf3²] 16.c4 Rec8 17.f4 to calculate. Actually, when the players a2!] 21...axb2 22.Nb3? [It is white's
Under-17 Chess Championships N5g6 18.g3± Kg8 [18...Ke8 19.Bd3 agreed to a draw, white can play on for a turn now to miss the opportunity to turn
Ernakulam dxc4 20.Bxc4 Rd8 White has a long way win with his extra pawn. But having had the trend of the game which has been
Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron to go for equality.] 19.Bg2 Nf5 20.Rd3 a very rough game till then, he probably favouring black so far. Better 22.Bxd4!
Nfe7 21.Ne2 [If 21.cxd5 exd5 22.Bxd5? thought it wise not to trust his luck too cxd4 23.Qxb2 Nf6 24.Nb3 Nbd7 (or 24...
Ghosh,Samriddhaa (WB) (1913) (22.Ne2 h5 23.Nc3 Bf5 24.Rd2±) 22... far! 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 c5 3.d5 b5 4.Qc2 b4 Qxe4 25.Nd2 Qe7 26.Qxd4) 25.Re1 Nb6
Kalyani,B (AP) (1692) [C17] Bf5!=] 21...Be8 22.cxd5 exd5 23.Bxd5 (Benko - Volga Gambit) 5.e4 d6 6.Bd3 26.Qxd4 Nxc4 27.Qxc4] 22...Bxe3+
Nxd5 24.Rxd5 Nf8 [A better choice for g6= 7.f4 e6 8.Nf3 [If 8.e5 dxe5 9.fxe5 23.Rxe3 [#]
This was the crucial last round game of the wriggling was offered by 24...f6 which Ng4 10.Nf3 Bg7 11.Be4±] 8...exd5
championship. Both Samriddha and Sa- also should lose eventually.] 25.Rhd1 f6 9.cxd5 [This automatic recapture leads
loniki were trailing Kalyani by half a point. 26.Nd4 Bf7 27.Rd6 Rc7? to a slight advantage. ¹9.e5! Ng4 10.h3
While Samriddha with the white pieces Nh6 11.cxd5±] 9...Bg7 10.Bb5+ Bd7
comfortably beat Kalyani, Salonika, also 11.Bc4 0–0 [Black can try 11...Bc8!? and
playing white on the second table, could ask white whether he has any new plan!]
only draw with Delhi's Palkin Kaur, leav- 12.0–0 Bg4 13.Nbd2 Nh5! 14.Nb3 a5
ing Samriddha champion by half a point! 15.a4 bxa3 16.Rxa3 a4 17.Na1 [#]
Note that Samriddha was never in trouble
in this game. If anything, she missed a
couple of stronger continuations! 1.e4 e6
2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.e5 c5 5.Qg4 Ne7
6.dxc5 Bxc3+ 7.bxc3 Qa5 8.Qb4 Qxb4
[8...Qc7 is normal.] 9.cxb4 Nbc6 10.a3 23...Nf6 [Amazingly, black has a far
a5 [#] 11.b5 [Stronger was: 11.Bb2 axb4 from obvious combination because of his
12.axb4 Rxa1+ 13.Bxa1 Nxb4 14.Kd2²] passed pawn on b2: 23...Nxf4!! 24.Rxf4
11...Nxe5 12.a4 [12.f4 Nd7 13.Be3 Nf5 [#] 28.Nf5 [More direct was: 28.b6! Rcc8 Qg5!! 25.Ref3 Ra1+–+] 24.Qxb2 Nxe4??
14.Bf2] 12...0–0 13.Ba3 Re8 14.h3 29.c6! Be8 30.Kd2! Bxc6 31.Nxc6 Rxc6 [Black thinks that this is a safe pawn to
Bd7?! [14...N5g6!? 15.Nf3 f6 16.c4 e5=] 32.Rxc6 bxc6 33.b7 Rb8! 34.Rb1+- Threat capture, especially as he can bolster the
15.0–0–0! 35. Bd6 winning.] 28...Re8 29.Rd8 Re4 knight on e4 with f7-f5 little realising
30.c6 Re8 31.Rxe8 Bxe8 32.Rd8 bxc6 17...Qe7?= [White's curious, and in- that f7-f5 opens up the white bishops di-
33.b6! [A sweet finish! After 33.b6! Rb7 effective, opening strategy, helping his agonal against his king. 24...Nbd7! was
34.Rxe8 black is totally lost.] 1–0 opponent develop his pieces, can be pun- completely equal.] 25.Qe2 f5 26.Nxc5
ished now! Sometimes, not always (!) the [#] [Probably white reckoned that 26....
Neelash,Saha (WB) (2315) Jayachan- natural developing move is the best. This dxc5? was forced, allowing him to win
dra Srinivas,Vellanki is a case in point. Black can now take the queen by a discovered attack, d6+
(TN) (1893) [A57] the advantage with: 17...Nd7! 18.Rxa4 But black escapes by not capturing the
This was the only game in which the Rxa4 19.Qxa4 Nb6 20.Qc2 f5 21.e5 Bxf3 knight on c5! A preliminary exchange of
champion, Neelash Saha, was in fear of 22.Rxf3 dxe5 23.fxe5 Bxe5µ] 18.h3 Bxf3 pawns on f5 would have improved white's
defeat. Playing black, Jayachandra, 16, 19.Raxf3 a3 [Black is obviously attract- chances of success: 26.gxf5 gxf5 27.Nxc5
took admirable advantage of the inept ed by the unusually unprotected knight on Nd7 28.Nxe4 fxe4 29.Rxe4 Qf6 30.Kh2
opening play of his more famous opponent a1. Again, his best was: 19...Nd7! 20.Ra3 Kh8² White's advantage is minimal, es-
from Bengal and at one stage could have Nb6 21.Bb5 Bd4+ 22.Kh2 Nf6 23.Bc6 Ra7 pecially as his bishop is blocked in by his
[#] 15...Kf8 [Black's choices are lim- inflicted on him a combination based on 24.b3 Qxe4 25.Qxe4 Nxe4 26.Nc2 Bc3 pawn on d5.]
ited as her Bd7 is unprotected. There- his advanced passed pawn on b2, which 27.bxa4 Nc4! 28.Ra2 Na5] 20.g4 Bd4+
fore, better was: ¹15...Rad8 16.Kb2 h6 however, was hard to imagine and difficult 21.Be3 [If 21.Kg2 Nf6 22.e5 Nfd7 23.Nb3
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35.a4 Rb2+ 36.Kf3 Ra2 37.Ke4 Rxa4+
38.Kxe5 Ra2 39.g3 a4 40.Ra6 a3–+] 33...
Rxc7 34.dxc7 Rc8 35.Ke2 Kf8 36.Kd3
Ke7 37.Kc4 Kd6 38.Kb5 e4! 39.Kb6 e3
40.Kb7 Rxc7+ 41.Nxc7 e2 0–1
Utsab,Chatterjee (WB) (2067) Shy-

am,Kumar M (TN) (1846)
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4

Nf6 5.d3 d6 6.c3 g6 7.0–0 b5 8.Bb3
Bg7 9.a4 Bb7 10.Na3N [10.Re1= is the
26...Nd7 27.Nxe4 fxe4 28.Rxe4 Qh4± [#] 13.Bxc6+? [This leads to a strate- 25...Rab8 26.Qc4! e3 27.b3 exf2+ 28.Rxf2 normal Ruy Lopez move here.] 10...0–0
Black's threat is 29...Ra3. 29.Re3 Nc5 gically lost game. Better was the tactical Bg5 29.Kh1 Be3 30.Rf1 Bd4 31.Qd3 g6 11.Bg5 Na7 12.Qd2 Qd7 13.Rfe1 Rfe8
30.Bb5 Rab8 31.Bc6 Rb4 32.f5 gxf5 defence: 13.Qd3 Rc8 (13...b4? 14.Qc4=) 32.Rd1 Bb6 33.Qf1 Bxc7 34.Rxc7 Rbc8] 14.Bh6 c5 15.axb5 axb5= 16.h3 c4
[#] 14.Bxc6+ Qxc6 15.Nd5 Nxd5 16.exd5 25...bxa3 26.bxa3 Bg5! Threat: e4-e3. [The general rule is that one should not
Qc5 17.0–0 b4 18.Nb1 Be7 19.Qxa6 0–0 27.Qc4 e3 28.f4? [#] change the pawn structure when devel-
20.c3= with an edge for black.] 13... opment is incomplete. Though black has
Qxc6 Now black has two simultaneous completed his development, his knight is
threats going, one to fork the knights with sleeping at h7 with nothing to do. So it
b5-b4 and the other is to win a pawn with was better to relocate it and put the onus
....Nxe4. White is forced to lose his e4 of finding a way of continuing the game
pawn. 14.Nd5 Nxe4 15.c4 Nf6 [If 15... on White. Therefore, better was: 16...
bxc4 16.0–0! Nf6 17.Nb4 Qb7 18.Qa4+ Qd7 Nc8! 17.Bxg7 Kxg7=] 17.Bxg7 Kxg7
19.Qxd7+ Kxd7 20.Nxc4 Ke6 21.Rfe1=] 18.dxc4 Nxe4 19.Qe3 [#]
16.Qf3 [This attempt to win the queen
by the obvious tactic of a discovered at-
tack cannot be justified unless it fits in
[This is too early for a draw with lots of with white's general development plan for
play left. After 32...gxf5 33.gxf5 Ne4 his game which is not the case. Better [You cannot take chances with your op-
34.Kh1 Kg7!? 35.Qe1 Qxe1 36.Rfxe1 Ng5 was: 16.0–0 Nxd5 (16...bxc4 17.Nb4 Qb7 ponent's advaced passed pawn, the one
It will be very difficult for white to make 18.Qa4+ Qd7 19.Qxd7+ Kxd7 20.Nxc4 on e3. Better, though still disadvanta-
much of his f-pawn.] ½–½ Ke6³) 17.cxd5 Qd7 18.Rc1³] 16...Nxd5 geous was: 28.Qd3 exf2+ 29.Kxf2 g6
17.cxd5 Qb6 18.0–0 Be7 19.Rac1 0–0 30.Kg1 Rae8] 28...Bxf4!! 29.Qxf4 [29.
Ayush,Sharma (MP) (2011) Aron- 20.Rc6 Qd4 21.Qb3 Rxf4? e2!–+] 29...e2! The Rf1 is over-
yak,Ghosh (WB) (2349) [B56] [#] 21...e4 [As white intends Nc2, it was best loaded with the defence of his queen on
to precede this move by: 21...Qf4 22.Nc2 e4 f4 and guarding the e1 square. 30.Qxe5
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 23.Nb4 Bf6 24.Nxa6 Be5 25.g3 Qh6 26.Kg2 exf1Q+ this is known as the "Intermez- 19...Nc5? [In this position, black needs
Nf6 5.Nc3 Bd7 6.h3 e5 7.Ndb5 Bc6 f5!] 22.Nc2 Qe5 23.Nb4 a5 24.Na6 b4 zo", capturing a subsidiary piece with to play f7-f5 sooner or later to have a
8.Bg5 a6 9.Na3 Nbd7 10.Bc4?N [10. 25.a3 [This does not lead to enough com- check before recapturing the main piece. stake in the centre. Threrefore, best was:
Nc4 is commonly played here.] 10...b5! plications where white can seek escape from 31.Kxf1 dxe5 32.d6 White's only hope 19...f5 20.Bc2 Nf6 21.Red1 Qc6=] 20.Bc2
11.Bd5 Qc7 12.Bxf6 Nxf6 his pawn down position. 25.Nc7 could provide is this advanced passed pawn. 32...Rac8 f5 21.Rad1 Ne4? [This allows the white
black with complications to choose weaker 33.Rc7 [More stubborn was the losing queen into b6, creating threats against
variations under pressure to win. battle with: 33.Nc7 Rfd8 34.Ke2 Rb8 the b5 and d6 pawns. Better was 21...
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Rad8 providing additional protection to rificing his knight, but it lands white in a down and should courageously fight the
d6 ahead of white's impending threats.] losing position. It is always a good idea Rook and knight ending. Ideally, it is
22.Qb6! Bc6!? [If 22...Nc8 23.Qxb5 Qe7 to re-check our calculations when given best for a rook to control his opponent's
24.Bxe4 Bxe4 25.c5!± with 26.Nc4 to a chance. As the pin of the rook along passed pawn from behind, not from the
follow.] 23.Bxe4 fxe4 [If 23...Bxe4? the d4-h8 diagonal is not as deadly as front. But as the rook cannot get behind
24.Qxd6+- Qxd6 25.Rxd6 Bxf3 26.gxf3 he had imagined, better was to suffer a the b-pawn, he must improvise and do his
bxc4 27.Rd7+ Kg8 28.Nxc4+- White's bad position with: 27.Nc4 Rg5 28.h4 Rh5 best. One line is: 37...Nc6! 38.Kf2 Re4
shattered king-side pawn structure does 29.Rxe4 Kg8 30.Qe3 Nc8!µ] 27...Qf5! 39.g3 Kf7²] 38.b4!± Rb7 [38...Rxb4??
not matter in this endgame.] 24.Nd2? 28.f4?! [This plunges white into graver 39.Rd8+ Kf7 40.Rd7++-] 39.b5± Kf7
[This should lead to equality. Better was: trouble. Better was: 28.f3 Qf6 29.fxe4 40.Rc5 Ke6 41.Kf2 Kd6 42.Rg5 Rf7+
24.cxb5 exf3 25.bxc6 Nxc6 26.Nc4 fxg2 dxe4 30.Nc4 Re6–+ But it is better than 43.Ke3 Nc8 44.Nc4+ Kc7 45.b6+ [If
27.Kxg2 Rab8 28.Qc5 Qxh3+! 29.Kxh3 28.f4?!] 28...Qxf4 29.Rf1 Qg5 30.c4! 45.Rc5+ Kb7 46.Rxc8?? Re7+! (46...
dxc5²] 24...bxc4 [At the very first op- e3 [Threatens e3-e2. Also good was 30... Kxc8?? 47.Nd6++-) 47.Kd4 Kxc8] 45... [#] 25...Bd7?! [=25...Qe6! 26.Qb2 d5
portunity, black should kick out the big Ba4! 31.Rd2 Nc6–+ 32.Qc3 d4–+ White's Kb7 46.Rb5 Re7+ 47.Kf4 Kc6? 48.Rb2 27.Nxe5 dxe4 28.Rfa3 e3+ 29.Ndf3=;
intruder into his position with 24...Nc8! dream pin along the long dark diagonal is Nxb6 This is the only way to stop white's or 25...Bb5? 26.Nc4 Bxc4 27.Qxc4+
25.Qe3 bxc4 26.Naxc4 Qe6 27.b4 d5 over!] 31.h4 Qe7 32.Rfe1 To justify his threat of 49. b7! Rxb7 50. Na5+ winning. Kh8 28.Rf7 Qg5 29.Raf1+- threaten-
28.Na5 Ba4=] 25.Ndxc4 d5?! [#] 26th move knight sacrifice, it is impor- 49.Nxb6 h6 50.Nc4 Rf7+ 51.Kg3 Kc5 ing 30. cxd5! Rxc4? 31. Rf8+ mating.]
tant for white to attack the pinned Re5 52.Ne5 Rg7 [52...Rf6?? 53.Nd7++-] 26.Nc4! dxc5 27.Nb6 Bxh3+! 28.Kh2
a second time, but he cannot! 32...Kg8! 53.Rd2! This cuts off the black king from [If 28.Kxh3 Qe6+ 29.Kg2 cxb4! (29...
33.cxd5 entering the king-side where the action Qxb6? 30.Qc4+! Kh8 31.bxc5 Qc7 32.Rf7
is going to start. 53...h5? 54.Kf4 1–0 Qd8 33.Qc3+-) 30.Qb2 Qxb6=] 28...Bg4
29.Rf2 cxb4 [#]
Neelash,Saha (WB) (2315) Wank-
hede,Avishkar (Mah) (1747)
In this game, a player rated 568 points
below the champion, puts up a really
creditable fight. It shows that the general
chess standards in our country has risen
considerably. Somehow Indians are rated
below their real strength. 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4
[This ambitious move should have been e6 3.g3 Bb4+ 4.Bd2 (The Bogo Indi-
refuted, but is not! That it inspires white an) 4...Qe7 5.Bg2 Nc6 6.Nf3 Bxd2+
to an injudicious knight sacrifice is an- [#] 33...Bxd5!? [This is the second best 7.Nbxd2 d6 8.0–0 0–0 9.e4 e5 10.d5
other matter! In the back of his mind, move. In the heat of the battle black Nb8 11.Ne1 a5 12.Nd3 Na6 13.Qc2
white would have thought that black's overlooks that his Re5 is overloaded with Bg4 14.f3 Bd7 15.Qc3 a4? [15...c6 is 30.Qb2 [If 30.Nxc8 Rxc8 31.Qb2 Qd6
Ra8 is tied to the defence of his Na7 and the defence of his Bd5 and his pawn on usually played here.] 16.f4 Ng4 17.h3 32.Nxe5 Be6 33.Rd2 Qe7= Black has
could be of no use to black in the ensuing e3. Stronger was: 33...Rxd5! 34.Qc4 Qf7 Ne3 18.Rf3 Nxg2 19.Kxg2 f6 20.b4 enough compensation for the loss of the
play. Black should take a slight advan- 35.Nc2 Re8!–+] 34.Rxe3 Re8?? [This axb3 21.axb3 Rfc8? [21...c6 challeng- exchange.] 30...Rab8 31.Nxc8 Rxc8
tage with: 25...Nc8! 26.Qb4 Ra4 27.Qb8 gives away a bishop for nothing! After ing d5 was better as no white knight could 32.Nxe5 Be6 33.Nd3 Rc3! 34.Nf4 Bf7
Re6 28.Qb3 Ra7 29.Qb4 Rb7 30.Qa5 Re7 this, he becomes a pawn down in an end- get to d5.] 22.b4 [¹22.fxe5 fxe5 23.b4 [Better was: 34...Qg5! 35.Rg2 Bf7= For
31.Rd2 Qe6³ Black has manoeuvred him- ing. Better was 34...Be4! 35.Qc4+ Qe6 c6 24.dxc6 Bxc6 25.Qb3 Bd7=] 22...c6 his rook, black has a bishop and two
self out of a poor position and is now well 36.Qe2 Qc6!–+ black should win comfort- 23.fxe5 fxe5 24.dxc6 Bxc6 25.c5 pawns with no weaknesses whereas the
off!] 26.Nxe5? Rxe5 27.Qd4? [Played ably.] 35.Rxe5 Qxe5 36.Qxd5+ Qxd5 white king has no pawn cover.]
according to his original plan when sac- 37.Rxd5 Rb8? [Black is only a pawn (contd from page 19 )
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Tactics from master games Test your endgame
by S.Krishnan by C.G.S.Narayanan
Pogosjanc 1964 Dr.Jindrich Fritz 1962
1. 2.
White to play and win White to play and win
1. 2.
Kalandadze&Neidze 1963 Petrov 1962
3.. 4.
Black to play and win White to play and win
3. 4.
Tjavlovskiz 1963 V.Bron1964
5. 6.
White to play and win White to play and win
5. 6.
White to play and win in all the six endings above
(Solution on page 7)
(Solution on page 47) Solution On page 11
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Masters of the past -103 Tony Miles 8th National Amateur Chess Championship 2019, Bhopal
Tony Miles (Anthony John Miles, 23 April 1955 – 12 November 2001)
was an English chess Grandmaster. In 1973 Miles won the silver med-
al at the World Junior Chess Championship at Teesside, his first im-
portant event against international competition. He won the title next
year in Manila.
Miles entered the University of Sheffield to study mathematics, but

dropped out to concentrate on chess.In 1976, Miles became the first
ever FIDE Grandmaster born in the United Kingdom, narrowly beating
Raymond Keene to the title. For his achievement, Miles won a £5,000
prize.Miles had a string of good results in the late 1970s and 1980s, and
his success was a factor in the growth of strong British players shortly
after Miles became a GM. Miles won games against a number of former
World Chess Champions, including Vasily Smyslov, Mikhail Tal, and Boris Spassky. In 1980
at the European Team Championship in Skara, he beat reigning world champion Anatoly
Karpov with black using the extremely unorthodox opening 1. e4 a6!?, the so-called English
Defence. Miles beat Karpov again three years later in Bath in a game that was part of the
BBC's Mastergame series, but it was never shown on television due to a technicians' strike.
However, over their careers, Karpov won most of the other encounters.
A.C.Joshi IA, Chief Arbiter, Sunil Bansol, President MPCA, Chief Guest Dr.S.L.Thousen, Director
Miles won the British Chess Championship only once, in 1982. His prime time as a chess Sports& Youth Welfare, Govt.of MP, Bharat Singh, Hon.Secretary AICF, Kapil Saxena, Secretary
player was in the middle of the eighties. In the January 1984 FIDE rating system, he ranked MPCA
#18 in the world with a rating of 2599. One of his best (and most controversial) results was
his win at the Tilburg tournament in 1984. The following year, he tied for first there with 1st A.S.Subbaraman Mem. trophy Intl.FIDE rated open Blitz, Chennai
Robert Hübner and Viktor Korchnoi, playing several of his games while lying face-down on
a table, having injured his back.
Playing on top board for England, Miles helped his team to an all-time best silver medal at
the 1986 Chess Olympiad in Dubai. But he was never able to qualify for the Candidates' se-
ries for the world title, and was overtaken by fellow Englishman Nigel Short in 1985.Against
Garry Kasparov Miles had little success, not winning a game against him, and losing a 1986
match in Basel against him by the overwhelming score of 5.5–0.5. Following this encounter,
Miles described Kasparov as a "monster with a thousand eyes who sees all".
In 1991, he played in the Championship of Australia, but he eventually moved back to Eng-
land, and began to represent his home country again. He was equal first at the very strong
Cappelle-la-Grande Open in 1994, 1995 and 1997. He also won the Capablanca Memorial
in Cuba three times (1995, 1996, and 1999). His last tournament victory was the 2001
Canadian Open Chess Championship in Sackville, New Brunswick.Miles played in the 2001
British Championship, but withdrew before the final round, apparently because of ill-health.
WGM Vijayalakshmi Subbaraman, Hony.President, QCA, (second from left), Mrs. Rani Subbaraman, Chairman,
The Miles Variation (1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 b6 4.Bf4) in the Queen's Indian Defence is QCA (third from left) GM Sriram Jha, Hony. Vice President, QCA (sixth from left) R. Ravikumar, IA, Chief Arbi-
named after him.In his later years, Miles became grossly overweight, and suffered from ter(fifth from left)and Chief Guest Shri S. Sreekumar, Airport Director, Chennai Airport (fifth from right) with prize
diabetes. A post mortem found that this contributed to his death by heart failure. winners (kneeling) (L-R) WGM R.Vaishali, Y.Saranya,WIM Raghavi , GM Karthikeyan Murali ,GM Aravindh Chith-
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1st Talent Chess Academy Open FIDE Rated Tournament, Chennai Solutions to ‘tactics from Qg2 Qxg2+ 22.Kxg2 Bxe1 23.Rxe1 Nf4+
master games’ on page 42 24.exf4 Rxe1–+; 21.Nce2 Bxg1 22.Qg2
(22.Nxg1 Ng3+–+) 22...Rxe3 23.Qxh2
1.Petrov,Martin (2477) Nikolovski,
Bxh2–+] 21...Ng3+ 22.Qxg3 Qxg3–+ 0–1
Nikola (2409) [B75]
Spilimbergo ITA Spilimbergo ITA (9.9), 4.Admiraal,M (2513) - Skembris,S
15.08.2019 (2413) [C00]
White to play. 15.f6! exf6 16.Ndxb5! 17th Spilimbergo Open Spilimbergo ITA
axb5 [16...Nc8 17.Nd5 axb5 18.gxf6 Bxf6 (8.10), 14.08.2019
19.Nxf6+ Qxf6 20.Bd4 Rxa2 21.Kb1+-; 16... White to play 26.Qd3! Ke7 [26...Bxb3
fxg5 17.Nxd6++-; 16...d5 17.Qf2 Nc8 (17... 27.axb3 Qxc5 (27...Kg8 28.Ne8+-; 27...f5
Nfd7 18.Nd6++-) 18.Nxd5‚] 17.Bxb5+ Ke7 28.Nb5+-) 28.Ne4 Qd5 29.Qc2+-] 27.Qxh7
18.Bf4 Here White had a wide choice of at- Bxb3 [27...g5 28.Qg8‚] 28.Qh4+ Kf8 [28...
tack . [18.Qf2 Nfd7 (18...Nc8 19.gxf6+ Bxf6 f6 29.Qh8 e5 (29...Ba4 30.Qxg7+ Nf7
20.Rhf1 Nh7 21.e5) 19.Rxd6 Kxd6 20.Rd1+ 31.Qxf7+ Kd8 32.Qf8+ Wins) 30.Qe8#]
Kc7 21.Bxb6++-; 18.Rhf1 Ne6 19.gxf6+ 29.Nf5! Bxd1 [29...Kg8 30.Rxd8+ Qxd8
Bxf6 20.Qf2 Nd7 21.e5‚] 18...fxg5? [18... 31.Qxd8+ Kh7 32.axb3+-] 30.Qh8# 1–0
Nc8 19.gxf6+ Bxf6 20.e5+-] 19.Bxd6+ Ke6
5. Yeoh,L (2528) - Ervan,Mohamad
20.Qe3 Nfd7 21.Bc5+- The entangled Black
(L-R) GG Satheish I A, Dy. Chief Arbiter; Mr. Anand Anbazhagan, Director, Sport India; V S Raahul,winner, Dr. (2368) [B23]
King got mated in 32 moves. 1–0
Amutha Balakrishnan, Amutha Educational Trust, Chennai; S.Balaraman I A, Chief Arbiter of the tournament; S. 16th Malaysian Open 2019 Kuala Lumpur
Natarajan, Secretary, Master Mind Chess Academy and S. Vijaya Kumar, organizer of the tournament. 2.Cruz,Cr (2559) - Lianes Garcia,Mar- MAS (3.2), 13.08.2019
cos (2347) [A00] White to play. 29.Bxg7! Kxg7 30.Be4
7th ch-Iberoamericano Linares ESP (7.14), (Threatening 31.Qg4 followed by 32.Qf5)
Smart Girls FIDE Rated Tournament, Gangtok 16.08.2019 [30.Qg4+! also wins 30...Kh8 31.Rh5
White to play 25.Bb5! Ka8 26.a4 there (Threatening 32 Qf5) 31...f5 32.Qg6] 30...
were other tactical alternatives [26.Qb4 f5 31.Rdxf5 Bd6 [31...Rxf5 32.Qg4+ Wins]
Rxa2 (26...Nxb4 27.Rxc8+) 27.Rxc6 bxc6 32.Qg4+ Kh8 33.Rf7 1–0
28.Bc4+-; 26.Rc5 Ra3 (26...Qxa2 27.Qxa2
Rxa2 28.d5; 26...a6 27.Bxc6+-) 27.d5] 6. Karjakin,Sergey (2750) - Caruana,F
26...Rb8 27.Rc5 Ne7 28.Qb4 Qb6 [28...b6 (2818) [A46]
29.Re5] 29.Re5 Nc6 30.Rxc6 bxc6 31.Qxa5 Saint Louis Blitz 2019 Saint Louis USA (7.4),
[31.Bxc6+ Qxc6 32.Qxa5+-] 31...cxb5 13.08.2019
32.Rxb5+- 1–0 White to play 28.Nxg7 Kxg7 [28...Red8
29.Bb2 Ng6 30.Nh5‚] 29.Bb2+ Kg8 30.Qh5?
3.Hollan,Martin (2413) - Polak,T
Blitz game. Otherwise white would have
(2533) [D53]
easily found 30.f5! [30.f5! Threatening
Tirnavia Retiho Mem 2019 Trnava SVK
among other things 31. g6! For example.
(2.2), 14.08.2019
30...Qb7 31.g6! hxg6 (31...fxg6 32.f6+-
Black to play. 17...Bxh3! 18.gxh3 [18.Nf4
) 32.Qh3 f6 33.Bxf6 Rf8 34.Qh8+ Kf7
Nxf4 19.exf4 Be6–+] 18...Qh2 19.Ng1 [] Z0
35.fxg6+ Ke8 36.g7 Rg8 37.Bxe7+-] 30...
threatening Qxh3+ Kg1 Bh2+ Kh1 Bg3+
Ng6? Like wise Black falters in blitz. [30...
Kg1 Qh2+ Kf1 Qxf2# 19...Bg3! 20.Qf3
From left : The Lama , Priest of Monastery , Shri Laxman Sharma , Dean , Sikkim University IA Dharmendra Kumar Nf5! 31.exf5 Qxf5=] 31.Bf6! Threre is no
[20.fxg3 Nxg3#; 20.Re2 Bxf2 21.Rxf2 Ng3+
, Chief Guest Anand Lama , Govt. In charge of Tadong area , Champion Susmita Lama , Bhuwan Pradhan , CCF and answer for 32.Qh6. 1–0
22.Ke1 Qxg1+–+] 20...Bxf2 21.Qxf2 [21.
MahendraDhakal , Secretary , Sikkim Chess Association .
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AICF Calendar September 2019 Thalavaipuram Rotary Club and Kamarajar Matric HSS Intl.
19th Jharkhand State Junior (U-19) Chess 27 Sep - 29 Sep Ranchi FIDE Rated Chess Tournament, Thalavaipram
Balkeshwar Prasad Mem.FIDE Rating Chess 27 Sep - 01 Oct Patna
15th KCM Open FIDE Rated Chess 28 Sep - 02 Oct Coimbatore ,TN
1st Nellai below 1600 FIDE Rated 28 Sep - 30 Sep Courtalam,TN
6th KCA FIDE Rated below 1600 Ty 28 Sep - 30 Sep Chennai
Rotary Club of Ponda FIDE Blitz Ty 29 Sep - 29 Sep Ponda,Goa
World Youth Chess Under - 14, 16 and 18 01 Oct - 13 Oct Mumbai
1st Hyderabad All India Open FIDE Rating 01 Oct - 05 Oct Hyderabad
Karnataka State Open FIDE Rated Chess 02 Oct - 06 Oct Bangalore
19th Adyar Times Open FIDE Rating 03 Oct - 06 Oct Adyar, Chennai
Don Bosco FIDE Rated Chess Ty 04 Oct - 08 Oct Irinjalakuda,KL
Hatsun & Idhayam 5th FIDE Rated open 05 Oct - 08 Oct Virudhunagar.
RGS India Open rating Ty 06 Oct - 12 Oct Guwahati, Assam
Kurnool District Open FIDE Rating 09 Oct - 13 Oct Kurnool
57th W.B FIDE Rated Open 09 Oct - 13 Oct Kolkata
Kashvi Chess School 1st Open FIDE Rated 10 Oct - 14 Oct Udupi
2nd Hyderabad All India below 1400 Rating 11 Oct - 13 Oct Hyderabad
All India Open Rapid Rating chess 13 Oct - 13 Oct Assam
U.P.State smart Girls FIDE Rated Chess 14 Oct - 18 Oct Lucknow,UP From left: SP Chockalingam Treasurer Virudhunagar DCA, IA R. Anantharam chief arbiter, Karthik Raja Assistant
World Junior & Girls Chess Championship 14 Oct - 26 Oct New Delhi Governor, Rotary District 3212, Dr. Sheik Salim Governor, Rotary District 3212 and former president of Tirunelveli
Kashvi Chess School open FIDE Rating 15 Oct - 17 Oct Udupi District Chess Association, Ganesh Kumar, President, Thalavaipuram Rotary Club, IM R. Balasubramanian, Muru-
Women Coaching Camp at Delhi 17 Oct - 27 Oct Delhi gan, Secretary Thalavaipuram Rotary Club and SR Ravichandran, Organising Secretary
Talent Chess Academy's 2nd FIDE Rated below 1600 18 Oct - 20 Oct Chennai
1ST Cooch Behar Open Rating 19 Oct - 24 Oct Kolkata 12th Modern School International Rating Chess Tournament, Nanganallur
Smart Girls All India FIDE Rated Chess 19 Oct - 23 Oct Faridabad
Smart Girls FIDE Rated Ty 19 Oct - 23 Oct Ernakulam
4TH Roto Lawyer’s Cup 24 Oct - 28 Oct Belthangady
TTCA All India FIDE Rating Chess 29 Oct - 02 Nov Panaji,Goa
1st BDCA-DSA FIDE Rated Open 31 Oct - 03 Nov Durgapur,WB
All India Open Rapid Chess 31 Oct - 01 Nov Nagpur
National Junior boys & girls chess 01 Nov - 09 Nov Gurugram
ICA Open below 1500 FIDE Rated 01 Nov - 03 Nov Bangalore
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