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Volume : 11 Issue : 8 Price Rs. 25 February 2016
14th Edition of Parsvnath Delhi Open

International Grandmasters Chess tournament, New Delhi
8th Chennai Open International Grandmaster

Chess tournament 2016, Chennai
GM Ivan Popov
GM Belous Vladimir
Winner
Winner
AICF CHRONICLE February 2016 From the Editor’s desk 14th Delhi Open International Grandmasters Chess Tournament-2016
Room No. 70,
Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium,
Chennai - 600 003.
Chess historians consider Paul Keres,
nicknamed ‘The Crown Prince of Chess’,
Ivan Popov wins title
Ph : 044-65144966 /Telefax : 044-25382121 was the strongest player never to become by IA Dharmendra Kumar, Chief Arbiter
E-mail : [email protected] world champion. Keres defeated nine
Publisher: V. Hariharan undisputed world champions, more
Editor : C.G.S. Narayanan
than anyone else in chess history and 14th Edition of Parsvnath Delhi Open Inter- in the very first round as he shocked Ital-
Price: Monthly Rs.25 Annual Rs.300 represented the Soviet Union in seven national Grandmasters Chess tournament ian Grandmaster David Alberto. The game
consecutive Olympiads, winning seven consecutive team had a flying start on January 9th, 2016 at the was flowing along normal lines until Alberto
Inside…. gold medals, five board gold medals, and one bronze board Prestigious Ludlow Castle Sports complex, lost a pawn, slipped into time-pressure as
14th Delhi Open Intl.GM Tmt,New Delhi medal.The year 2016 is being commemorated by FIDE his clock ticked down and eventually con-
Ivan Popov wins title Civil Lines, Delhi at 0930 AM.Delhi chess As-
as the ‘Year of Paul Keres’. AICF will remember this great
by IA Dharmendra Kumar, Chief Arbiter 1 sociation renowned for their organising skills ceded defeat to the Maharashtra youngster.
master through his games and quotes through the year.
8th Chennai Open Intl. GM Tmt, Chennai
displayed it once again in style. Vinayak Kulkarni of Karnataka started the
Belous Vladimir is Champion
Broaching on the contents of this issue, GM Baskaran tournament on a positive note as he held
by IA R.R.Vasudevan, Chief Arbiter 9
1st Chitkara Intl. School Open Fide
Adhiban played at 2704 to win the Tata Steel Challengers in A total number of 200 players from 13 Grandmaster Artur Gabrielian of Russia. Ad-
Rating Ch’ship,Chandigarh
Netherlands and thus qualifying for the next year’s Masters. countries, which include 21 Grandmasters, hithya S of Tamil Nadu also held Hungarian
Gibraltar Masters witnessed more than 250 players from Grandmaster Attila Czebe as Indians proved
Himanshu Sharma is Open Champion 21 International Masters participated in the
50 countries battle it out for honours. Two Indian GMs,
by Naveen Bansal, Chief Arbiter 12
premier section of this 35 lakh prize money a solid match to the foreign grandmasters.
1st CAK Fide Raing Tournament below 1600, Ernakulam S.P.Sethuraman and P.Harikrishna, had title chances until
the last round but they drew their last round games to settle event while in the Category ‘B’ for the play- The upset galore in the premier event as R
Bhoopathi wins Ernakulam
L.R.Bhuvana Sai IA, Chief Arbiter 14 for 4th and 5th places.GM Hikaru Nakamura won the event. ers below 1999 international rating which A Pradeep Kumar caused another flutter ac-
8th KCM FIDE (Below 1600) Rated Tournament, Reports on these events are presented in the centre pages was running simultaneously with the premier counting for Grandmaster Artur Gabrielian
Coimbatore… of this issue. section attracted a total number of 602 play- of Russia in the fourth round.
Vinayak Hariwal emerges champion
ers. The third category for the players below
by V.Vijayaraghavan IA, Chief Arbiter 16 On the home front , Russian GM Ivan Popov won the 14th
1599 elo rating drew a record 1053 entries. Russian Grandmasters Ivan Popov and An-
5th JRD Tata All India Open Tournament,Jamshedpur Edition of Parsvnath Delhi Open International Grandmasters
Abhisek Das wins at Jamshedpur Chess tournament.The mega annual event, organized ton Demchenko along with VItaly Sivuk of
Jayant Kumar Bhuyan, IA,Chief Arbiter 18 in three categories, drew a whopping 1855 entries this In the opening ceremony, Mrs. Rashmi Singh, Ukraine emerged as the co-leader in the
1st Lions District FIDE Rated Open year. Yet another Russian GM Belous Vladimir won the Patron Delhi Chess Association and Group premier event with four points out of pos-
Ty SiliguriJoydeep Dutta wins at Siliguri
Chennai GM Open.Indian IM Vijayalakshmi turned out a Captain J Rajendra VSM, Chief Administrative sible four games.As many as 11 players
by Debasish Barua IA,Chief Arbiter 20
stellar performance to finish third in this event achieving her share the fourth spot on 3.5 points apiece.
1st St. Teresa School FIDE Rating Tournament, Officer Air Force Station New Delhi formally
fourth GM norm in the process. Reports and final standings
Ghaziabad inaugurated the tournament by making the Dhulipalla Bala Chandra Prasad meanwhile
on these two events along with those of other FIDE rated
Dinesh K.Sharma wins at Ghaziabad
tournaments organized in January are included in this customary first move in presence of Shri. continued his dream run in the tournament.
by A.K. Raizada FA, Chief Arbiter 22
issue. Selected games from Delhi GM Open annotated by Bharat Singh, CEO All India Chess Federa- After beating Russian Grandmaster Vladi-
Abyaas 1st All India Fide Rating Ty , Guntur
R. Balasubramaniam wins
IM Manuel Aaron are presented in this issue. tion, Shri. Atul Gupta, Shri. Kapil Saxena, mir Belous in the second round, Chandra
by Venkata Kumar G (FA) , Chief Arbiter 28 Joint Secretaries of All India Chess Fed- Prasad added another Grandmaster scalp at
1st Vimla Devi Lunia Memorial Open FIDE Rtd Tmt,Raipur eration, Shri. Dhiraj Raghuvanshi, President the expense of Valeriy Neverov of Ukraine
C.G.S.Narayanan
Manoj Mishra wins title
Chess Association Uttaranchal, Shri. AK and then in the fourth played out a draw
FA Biswanath Banerjee, Chief Arbiter 31
Verma, Secretary Delhi Chess Association with another Ukrianian Grandmaster Vi-
Selected games from Delhi Open
and Delhi’s Grandmaster Vaibhav Suri. taliy Bernadskiy.11-year old Nihal Sarin also
Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron 33
Readers are invited to offer their feedback on
Tactics from master games In the opening ceremony, Shri. Bharat Singh came up with a sparkling effort to add to the
the regular features in the AICF Chronicle and
by S.Krishnan 42
are also invited to send interesting articles, made a surprise announcement that the woes of Vladimir Belous here. The Kerala boy
Test your endgame
annotated games and chess anecdotes to the next edition of this event would with a record was as his nonchalant best in holding the
by C.G.S.Narayanan 43
MOTP-61 Milan Vidmar 44
Editor at ‘[email protected]’ or prize fund of Rs. 51 lakh in the year 2017. Russian Grandmaster to a draw.An untitled
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‘[email protected]. Unheralded 12-year-old Sankalp Gupta of player still, Pradeep Kumar inched closer
Nagpur, Maharashtra created a major flutter to an International Master norm following
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another fine result post his victory over contention.R A Pradeep Kumar finished his Know your Arbiter Debashis Barua
Russian Grandmaster Artur Gabrielian at third and final International Master norm just
fourth round.Continuing with his fine run, R A by appearing for his game against Neverov Debasish Barua (Born on 10.10.1961) was a National Arbiter since 1996
Pradeep Kumar held compatriot Grandmas- as the Indian had achieved the feat a round and an International Arbiter from 2003 onwards. He has officiated as an
ter Vaibhav Suri to a draw in the fifth round. to spare. Arbiter, Dy.Chief Arbiter and Chief Arbiter in various National and inter-
national tournaments some of which are listed below.
At the top of the tables, Ivan Popov of Rus- Himal Gusain brought cheers to the Indian Debashis hails from a family of chess players. His father late Benoy Bhuson
sia showed his class to beat his country- camp defeating compatriot K Praneeth Surya Barua, a keen chess enthusiast introduced both his sons Debashis and his
man Anton Demchenko to emerge as the to achieve the same feat while Mehar Chinna younger brother Dibyendu Barua to chess, the latter became India’s second
sole leader.With his fifth victory in as many Reddy also got his IM norm despite the loss Grandmaster in 1991 after Anand. Debashis played in Junior Nationals 1979
games, Popov maintained a clean slate and against N R Vignesh.Recently migrated to & 1980 and the National B in 1988 in Bikaner. Both his sisters, Dipika and
enjoys a half point lead over Vitaly Sivuk of Delhi, Srija Seshadri joined the party getting Devika have also played in the Nationals in women's chess. Debashis gradu-
Ukraine and second seed Boris Grachev of herself a Women International Master norm ated in Commerce and LLB from Calcutta University and is employed in the Indian accounts
Russia. As many as seventeen players share despite her loss against Marat Dzhumaev of & Audit Department as a Senior Auditor. He is the Treasurer of Bengal Chess Association.
the fourth spot with four points each in their Uzbekistan.
kitty. With five rounds still to come in one of Chief Arbiter, 2nd All India WBCWA FIDE Rated Rapid Tournament 2002, Kolkata
the strongest open of the country, the stage Final round Chief Arbiter,XIX National Under-17Boys&Girls Championship 2008, Aurangabad
is set for an exciting second half. International Master Sayantan Das defeated Chief Arbiter,24th National Junior Girls Championship 2009,Chennai
Vitaliy Bernadskiy of Ukraine to make a Chief Arbiter,37th National Women ChallengersChampionship 2010, Nagpur
Penultimate round Grandmaster norm after the end of the tenth Chief Arbiter, 01st BCA FIDE Rated Tournament 2011, Kolkata
Russian Grandmaster Ivan Popov inched and final round.It was an intense drama in Chief Arbiter, National Junior Boys & Girls 2011, Goa
closer to the title after settling for a draw the final round of Rs. 12.5 lakh prize money Chief Arbiter, National Sub Junior Boys 2012,Mumbai
with Yuri Solodovnichenko of Ukraine in the tournament as overnight sole leader Ivan Chief Arbiter, National Amateur Championship 2014,Siliguri
ninth and penultimate round of the Category Popov suffered a shock defeat at the hands Chief Arbiter, 06th KIIT International Chess Festival 2014, Bubaneshwar
A event. After scoring seven victories on of veteran Grandmaster Valeriy Neverov of Chief Arbiter,29th National Under11 Boys & Girls Championship 2015, Puduchery
the trot, Popov did not take many chances Ukraine. Chief Arbiter, 6th Jugal Kishore Newatia FIDE Rating 2015, Guwahati
with Solodovnichenko and his second draw While it did not alter the final rankings, it Chief Arbiter, 1st WB State FIDE Rated Blitz Championship 2015, Kolkata
on the trot ensured that he has a half point counted for a thrilling day as Neverov de- Chief Arbiter, ADRA Open FIDE Rating 2015, Adra, Purulia,WB
lead going in to the final round of Rs. 12.5 feated Popov in a class act with white pieces. Chief Arbiter, 1st Lions District 322F FIDE Rated Open 2016,Siliguri
Lakh prize money tournament. At the end it was a three-way tie for the top
spot on eight points each with Hungarian Dy Chief Arbiter, Commonwalth Chess Championshop 1996, Kolkata
Grandmaster Czebe Attila of Hungary was Grandmaster Attila Czebe who also reached Dy Chief Arbiter, Commonwalth Chess Championshop 2003, Mumbai
Popov’s closest contender on 7.5 points af- the magical eight points.As the tie was re- Dy Chief Arbiter, Asian Youth Chess Championship 2005, New Delhi
ter he won his game against highest rated solved, Popov still had the best tiebreak and Dy Chief Arbiter, Commonwalth Chess Championshop 2007, New Delhi
Indian in the fray , M R Lalith Babu.With the Russian walked away with the winner’s Dy Chief Arbiter, Asian Team Championship 2009,Kolkata
just a round to go, the Ukrainian trio of cheque of Rs. 300000/-. For the records, Dy Chief Arbiter ,Asian Chess Championship 2010, Delhi
Solodovnichenko, Vitaly Sivuk and Valeriy Czebe came second second and Neverov had Dy Chief Arbiter,2nd Tata All India Open Tournament 2010, Jamshedpur
Neverov were in the third spot jointly on to be content with a third place finish. Dy Chief Arbiter, 23rd Telegraph school championship 2011, Kolkata
seven points apiece. Dy Chief Arbiter, Orissa GM Open 2013,Bubaneshwar
It turned out to be another productive day Amongst the Indians, M R Lalith Babu scored Dy Chief Arbiter, 5th BCA FIDE Rating (below 2000) 2013, Kolkata
from Indian perspective. As many as four a fine victory in the last round over Yuri Dy Chief Arbiter,Asian Youth Chess Championship 2015 Seoul, S.Korea
norms were made by Indians and with one Solodovnichenko of Ukraine to tie for the Dy Chief Arbiter, Mayor's Cup International Rating below 2200
more round to go, there were three more in fourth spot and finish sixth overall. Also end- He has been associated with KIIT GM Chess Tournament held at Bhubaneswar six times in
various capacities such as arbiter, Dy. Chief and Chief Arbiter.
Condt. on page 5
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16th North East FIDE Rating Championship, Aizawl Mizoram ing in this set on 7.5 points were Sayantan Prize Distribution
Das and Vaibhav Suri who finished seventh Chief guest of the function , Group Captain
and ninth respectively.The day however be- J Rajendra VSM, Chief Administrative Officer
longed to Sayantan who made a Grandmas- Air Force Station, Guest of honor , Shri.Dhi-
ter norm with a commendable show. Vitaliy raj Raghuvanshi, President Chess Association
Bernadskiy was outdone in the middle game Uttarakhand and Shri. Bharat Singh, CEO
where he lost a couple of pawns without All India Chess Federation were gave away
much compensation and slowly but surely the prizes amongst the Prize winners of both
Sayantan converted his advantage. Category A & C in presence of Shri. Kapil
Saxena, Joint Secretaries of All India Chess
Sayantan Das thus added a fifth norm to the Federation, Shri. A.K.Raizada, Hony Secretary
tournament after R A Pradip Kumar, Himal , UPCSA and Shri. AK Verma, Secretary Delhi
Gusain and Mehar Chinna Reddy made Inter- Chess Association cum organizing secretary
national Master norms while Srija Sheshadri of 14th Parsvnath Delhi Open International
got her Women International Master norm. Grandmasters Chess tournament.
Category ‘B’ Norm Achievers:

Category ‘B’ of the festival ended with Rishab The following were the norm achievers in
Nishad of India winning the title and a cash this tournament-IM Sayantan Das,GM Norm,
award of Rs. 150000/-. The category ‘B’ Pradeep Kumar R.A,IM Norm,HimalGussain
had a total prize pool of Rs. 1150000/-.The IM Norm,FM Mehar Chinna Reddy I M N o r m
Standing in the centre are (L-R) Rahul Soram Singh_(Runner-up), Santanu B. Gohain_champion, Zohming
second place in this section went to Pankaj and WFM Srija Shesadri,WIM Norm
Liana_3rd place with dignitaries..Sitting :Extreme left -Atanu Lahiri, D.V.Sundar, Vice President FIDE
(Third from left) Bharat Singh, CEO/AICF (Second from right). Sharma and Amini Habibullah of Afghanistan
finished third. This was probably a modernised chess event
in the country, coping up with the latest
Abyaas 1st All India Fide Rating Chess Tournament , Guntur security scenario of the country. Organisers
Category ‘C’
In the category ‘C’ that also concluded simulta- left no stone unturned for meeting all the se-
neously with Category ‘A’ , N Srihari emerged curity requirements and providing a perfect
victories scoring a whopping 9.5 points out of playing atmosphere to the players. The entire
a possible ten. Srihari won Rs. 150000/- for event premises was under CCTV surveillance
his efforts. In a three-way tie for the second and for the first time we witnessed metal
spot on nine points, Ashutosh Bannerjee fin- detectors and security people in action. The
ished second, Shanya Mishra was declared team of organisres , arbiters and volunteers
third while Manish Kumar Sharma finished who put their great effort to make it success
fourth. The category ‘C’ had a prize fund of . Arbiters team was very efficient , dedicated
Rs. 1100000/- (Rupees Eleven Lakhs) and hardworking as no protest or appeal was
The event is set to get bigger next year as the lodged against them.
prize fund has been increased to a massive
51 lakhs in three categories combined. A total Final standings:
of 1855 players took part in three categories Rk Name FED Pts
this year and next year the participation is 1 GM Popov Ivan RUS 8
(L-R) Sri Challa Chinna Anjaneyullu, President, Genius Chess Academy ; Sri Ch. Ravindra Raju, Secretary- expected to cross the 2500 mark. 2 GM Czebe Attila HUN 8
Genius Chess Academy ; Winner IM R Balasubrahmanyam; Hon’ble Sri R Sambasiva Rao,MP; Sri Y D Rama 3 GM Neverov Valeriy UKR 8
Rao, President APCA; Dr Kodela Siva Prasad, Honorable Speaker – AP Assembly; Sri Ramakrishna, MLC. 4 GM Sivuk Vitaly UKR 7½
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5 GM Demchenko Anton RUS 7½ 48 CM Rathanvel V S IND 6 91 Negi Virender Singh IND 5½ 6 Koireng Leitanthem Man 8
6 GM Lalith Babu M R IND 7½ 49 IM Murali Krishnan B T IND 6 92 WIM Nandhidhaa Pv IND 5 7 Sarthak Gupta Del 7½
7 IM Das Sayantan IND 7½ 50 Sahoo Utkal Ranjan IND 6 93 Kulkarni Vinayak IND 5 8 Singh Soram Rahul Ass 7½
8 GM Nguyen Duc Hoa VIE 7½ 51 WFM Srija Seshadri IND 6 94 Hirthickkesh Pr IND 5 9 Ajay Kumar Rai DEL 7½
9 GM Vaibhav Suri IND 7½ 52 FM Gajwa Ankit IND 6 95 Manush Shah IND 5 10 Soham Datar Mah 7½
10 GM Mozharov Mikhail RUS 7½ 53 GM Dzhumaev Marat UZB 6 96 Arjun Kalyan IND 5 11 Madhav Mahere UP 7
11 GM Grachev Boris RUS 7 54 IM Shyaamnikhil P IND 6 97 Jain Naveen IND 5 12 Badrinath S. Pon 7
12 GM Solodovnichenko Yuri UKR 7 55 FM Raghunandan K S IND 6 98 Bala Kannamma P IND 5 13 Om Vinay Vitalkar Mah 7
13 IM Vignesh N R IND 7 56 Debarshi Mukherjee IND 6 99 Aditya Basu IND 5 14 Shiva P Teja Sharma U AP 7
14 Sammed Jaykumar Shete IND 7 57 FM Rajdeep Sarkar IND 6 100 Deepak Katiyar IND 5 15 Anchit Vyas MP 7
15 IM Krishna C R G IND 7 58 WIM Michelle Catherina P IND 6 101 Nayak Rajesh IND 5 16 Arnav Tiwari Del 7
16 GM Sriram Jha IND 6½ 59 Santu Mondal IND 6 102 Mulay Pratik IND 5 17 Sooraj M R Ker 7
17 Pradeep Kumar R A IND 6½ 60 Singh S. Vikramjit IND 6 103 Vijay Keerthi K. IND 5 18 Heikrujam Jacky Singh Man 7
18 IM Himanshu Sharma IND 6½ 61 WIM Ivana Maria Furtado IND 6 104 Vantika Agrawal IND 5 19 Patil Jitendra Mah 7
19 Gusain Himal IND 6½ 62 Ganguly Ritabroto IND 6 105 Gurung Rakesh IND 5 20 Shubham Lakudkar Mah 7
20 IM Rathnakaran K. IND 6½ 63 Iniyan P IND 5½ 106 Adhithya S IND 5 21 Baig Akram DEL 7
21 GM Belous Vladimir RUS 6½ 64 Patil Pratik IND 5½ 107 Shailesh Dravid IND 5 22 Sumit Kumar Wes 7
22 GM Bernadskiy Vitaliy UKR 6½ 65 FM K. Praneeth Surya IND 5½ 108 Sa Kannan IND 5 23 Tajane Ganesh Mah 7
23 GM David Alberto ITA 6½ 66 Navalgund Niranjan IND 5½ 109 Koustav Chatterjee IND 5 24 Tushar Anand DEL 7
24 GM Tukhaev Adam UKR 6½ 67 Lokesh N. IND 5½ 110 Didwania Vishal IND 5 25 Souradip Deb Tri 7
25 IM Palit Somak IND 6½ 68 IM Chakravarthi Reddy M IND 5½ 111 CM Aditya Mittal IND 4½ 26 Joshi Omkar Mah 7
26 IM Narayanan Srinath IND 6½ 69 IM Krishna Teja N IND 5½ 112 Kumar Gaurav IND 4½ 27 Pranav V TN 6½
27 Harsha Bharathakoti IND 6½ 70 Anilkumar O.T. IND 5½ 113 FM Matta Vinay Kumar IND 4½ 28 Anmol Bhagat Pun 6½
28 FM Thakur Akash IND 6½ 71 Snehal Bhosale IND 5½ 114 Phadke Sohan IND 4½ 29 Gurung Rahul Sik 6½
29 IM Ramnath Bhuvanesh.R IND 6½ 72 Dahale Atul IND 5½ 115 Bhambure Shantanu IND 4½ 30 Tamang Thendup Sik 6½
30 Erigaisi Arjun IND 6½ 73 Hemant Sharma IND 5½ 116 Nishant Malhotra IND 4½ 31 Shyam Sundar T. TN 6½
31 GM Nguyen H Minh Huy VIE 6½ 74 FM Praggnanandhaa R IND 5½ 117 Audi Ameya IND 4½ 32 Meenal Gupta JK 6½
32 IM Rajesh V A V IND 6½ 75 Sankalp Gupta IND 5½ 118 Joshi Govind Ballabh IND 4½ 33 Vinodh Kumar B Pon 6½
33 Aradhya Garg IND 6½ 76 Rahul Srivatshav P IND 5½ 119 Arjun Adappa IND 4½ 34 Nair Sanjeev Mah 6½
34 IM Akash G IND 6½ 77 Ram S. Krishnan IND 5½ 120 Aansh Gupta IND 4½ 35 Sanskriti Goyal UP 6½
35 GM Esen Baris TUR 6½ 78 CM Sadhwani Raunak IND 5½ 121 Pardeep Arora IND 4½ 36 Alok Sinha DEL 6½
36 GM Gabrielian Artur RUS 6½ 79 Debashish Dutta IND 5½ 122 Harshita Guddanti IND 4½ 37 Anshul Kaushik Har 6½
37 IM Kathmale Sameer IND 6½ 80 Deshpande Aniruddha IND 5½ 123 Srijit Paul IND 4½ 38 Ravi Kumar Gautam UP 6½
38 IM Ravi Teja S. IND 6 81 Suvradeepta Das IND 5½ 124 Nath Rupankar IND 4½ 39 Vaibhav Barahate Mah 6½
39 FM Mehar Chinna Reddy IND 6 82 Shreyansh Daklia IND 5½ 125 Sumit Grover IND 4½ 40 Bharat Kumar Reddy AP 6½
40 IM Visakh N R IND 6 83 CM Gukesh D IND 5½ 41 Pranesh M TN 6½
41 D Bala Chandra Prasad IND 6 84 Harikrishnan.A.Ra IND 5½ Category B (Fist 50 placings only) 42 Rahul Ubadhyay UP 6½
42 IM Sangma Rahul IND 6 85 Vakil Akhtara IND 5½ Rk Name State Pts 43 Lawaniya Eshan UP 6½
43 Kulkarni Rakesh IND 6 86 Sahil Tickoo IND 5½ 1 Amini Habibullah 8 44 Chittal Sairaj 6½
44 IM Nitin S. IND 6 87 Subhayan Kundu IND 5½ 2 Rishabh Nishad UP 8 45 Akshay Anand Pun 6½
45 FM Nihal Sarin IND 6 88 Priyanka K IND 5½ 3 Sharma Pankaj Pun 8 46 Sarthak Mahajan DEL 6½
46 GM Ernst Sipke NED 6 89 Tiwari Arjun IND 5½ 4 Ashish Kumar 8 47 Sparsh Khandelwal Chh 6½
47 CM Prince Bajaj IND 6 90 WIM Parnali S Dharia IND 5½ 5 Mohammed Dilshad Ker 8 48 Abhishek Jaiswal UP 6½
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49 Singh Amarjit Pun 6½ 40 Shiv Priya Bhardwaj Bih 7½
41 Sankalp Arora UP 7½
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Belous Vladimir is Chennai Open Champion
Category C (First 50 placings only)
44 Habib Qureshi Raaz MP 7½ GM Norm for Vijayalakshmi Subbaraman
Rank Name State Pts
1 Srihari N Del 9½ 45 Basak Bishal Wes 7½ by IA R.R.Vasudevan, Chief Arbiter
2 Banerjee Ashutosh Chh 9 46 Anurag Malik HAR 7½
3 Shanya Mishra Del 9 47 Aryan Ranjan Del 7½ Grandmaster Belous Vladimir (Russia) and was there till the last round. He was trifle
4 Manish Kumar Sharma Del 9 48 Aanandha Kumar M S TN 7½ emerged the Chennai Open 2016 Champion unlucky to lose the final game, that possibly
5 Sudhanshu Ranjan Bih 8½ 49 Sandeep Kumar Del 7½ with 8.5 points after the tenth and final snatched away a big title for him. Defending
6 Aditya Savalkar Mah 8½ 50 Himanshu Ranjan Bih 7½ round of the 8th Chennai Open International champion Popov Ivan, had it tough, when he
7 Somakanta Singh Haobam Man 8½ Grandmaster Chess tournament 2016 for could score only 1.5/4 in the final four rounds,
8 Aryan JK 8½ Sakthi Group Dr N Mahalingam trophy, held finishing 21st place.
9 Nipun Kakkar Raj 8½ at Nehru Stadium, Chennai here today. Be- Champion Belous started with a draw, but
10 Shanmukha Teja P AP 8½
Puzzle of the month lous Vladimir received Sakthi Group Dr N came up with crucial wins when required.
11 Nagargoje Dhananjay Mah 8½ by C.G.S.Narayanan Mahalingam trophy and the winner's purse His fortuitous penultimate round win over
12 Rajendra Gupta UP 8½ of Rs. 200000 (Rupees two lakhs only) from Indian Grandmaster Deepan Chakkravarthy,
This month’s puzzle is a tantalizing retro
13 Parakh Niyati Chh 8½ Dr Rajendra Kumar, IAS, Secretary, Youth put him on track for the title. Grabbing the
original, one of the six, by Andrey Frolkin
14 Ravindra P AP 8 Welfare & Sports Development, Government chance that came his way, Belous stunned
posted in the website ‘SuperProblem’ on
15 Suman Yaddanapudi AP 8 of Tamil Nadu. veteran Dzhumaev Marat emerging Chennai
4.1.2016 to celebrate International Day
16 Hruthik Lokesh P AP 8 Open 2016 champion.
of Chess Composition.
17 Mohinder Singh Verma Him 8 Sharing the second spot with 8.0 points were
Andrey Frolkin (Original)
18 Nishant Deoram Wanjari Mah 8 Grachev Boris (Russia) and Vijayalakshmi The 214 player, ten round Swiss tournament,
SuperProblem 4.1.2016
19 Gopikrishnan S TN 8 Subbaraman (India) respectively. In crucial which had the confirmed participation of 20
20 Vinoth Kumar M TN 8 final round games, Belous Vladimir (Rus) Grandmasters, 2 Woman Grandmasters, 23
21 Chandan Kumar Bih 8 defeated Dzhumaev Marat (Uzb), tourna- International Masters and 71 FIDE titled play-
22 Japhar Ali MP 8 ment leader Solodovnichenko Yuri (Ukr) ers came to a grand conclusion. Cash prizes
23 Basant N Mah 8 went down to Grachev Boris (Rus), while worth Rs 1100000 (Rupees Eleven lakhs
24 Wankhede Avishkar Mah 8 Indian flag bearer Vijayalakshmi Subbara- only) were awarded to the winners byDr Ra-
25 Neeraj Kumar MP 8 man brought down Mozharov Mikhail (Rus). jendra Kumar, IAS, Secretary, Youth Welfare
26 Paran Malhotra DEL 8 & Sports Development, Government of Tamil
27 Baidurjya Mitra Del 8 Showing fine form right through, Vijayal- Nadu along with Dr M Manickam, President,
28 Venkata Sai Suraj Sanka AP 8 akshmi achieved her Grandmaster Norm, Tamil Nadu State Chess Association Execul-
29 Shirliyev Allayar 8 scoring 2.5/3 in the last three rounds against tive Chairman, Sakthi Group of Companies
30 Ashfaq Ahmed UP 8 2600 plus opponents. Vijayalakshmi's star and D V Sundar, Vice President, FIDE. Pres-
Pieces of a particular type are designated
31 Ramayanam Chaitanya AP 7½ performance came up with six wins and ent in the dais were Arjuna Awardee Manuel
by the same letter. Lower-case letters
32 Raghunandan Rohit MP 7½ four draws counting for a 2573 rating per- Aaron, V Hariharan, Hon. Secretary, All India
stand for black and upper-case letters for
33 Nandha Kumar K TN 7½ formance. Wins over GMs Nguyen Duc Hoa Chess Federation and B Murugavel, Vice Pres-
white men. Determine the position.
34 Kalyan Kumar K AP 7½ (Vietnam), Demchenko Anton, Mozharov ident, Tamil Nadu State Chess Association.
35 Sanjib Mali Wes 7½ Solution for the above retro narrated by Mikhail (both Russia) helped her gain 30 Final ranking
36 Joel Paul G AP 7½ Dr.Manikumar,who participated in the ELOs. Rk Name FED Pts
37 Aaryan Varshney Del 7½ contest and tied for 6th-7th place, can be Earlier, it was Ukraine Grandmaster 1 GM Belous Vladimir RUS 8½
38 Patil Harshal Mah 7½ seen on page 30. Solodovnichenko Yuri who set the trend, as 2 GM Grachev Boris RUS 8
39 Chudasama Ankit Guj 7½ he occupied the top board from round three

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3 IM Vijayalakshmi Subbaraman IND 8 46 IM Krishna Teja N IND 6 89 WFM Patil Mitali Madhukar IND 5½ 132 Rohit Vassan S IND 4½
4 GM Solodovnichenko Yuri UKR 7½ 47 IM Visakh N R IND 6 90 Ithal H L Rajath IND 5½ 133 Dileep Kumar R IND 4½
5 GM Tukhaev Adam UKR 7½ 48 IM Vignesh N R IND 6 91 Navalgund Niranjan IND 5½ 134 Likhit Chilukuri IND 4½
6 GM Ernst Sipke NED 7½ 49 Saravana Krishnan P. IND 6 92 Ayushh Ravikumar IND 5½ 135 Tarun V Kanth IND 4½
7 GM Gabrielian Artur RUS 7½ 50 FM Srinath Rao S.V. IND 6 93 IM Navin Kanna T.U. IND 5 136 Prajesh R IND 4½
8 GM Mozharov Mikhail RUS 7 51 Sekar B IND 6 94 CM Sadhwani Raunak IND 5 137 Narendran V IND 4½
9 GM Bernadskiy Vitaliy UKR 7 52 Hemant Sharma (del) IND 6 95 Sammed Jaykumar Shete IND 5 138 Mota Pankit IND 4½
10 GM Dzhumaev Marat UZB 7 53 Surendran N IND 6 96 Subhayan Kundu IND 5 139 Ajay Karthikeyan IND 4½
11 IM Shyaamnikhil P IND 7 54 Arjun Kalyan IND 6 97 WFM Saranya J IND 5 140 Balasubramaniam H IND 4½
12 GM Demchenko Anton RUS 7 55 Lakshmi Narayanan M V IND 6 98 Gireman Ja IND 5 141 Samal Ansuman IND 4½
13 IM Rathnakaran K. IND 7 56 WGMKulkarni Bhakti IND 6 99 Sanjeet Manohar IND 5 142 Utsab Chatterjee IND 4½
14 IM Swapnil S. Dhopade IND 7 57 Iniyan P IND 6 100 S Maralakshikari IND 5 143 WCM Mrudul Dehankar IND 4½
15 GM Sivuk Vitaly UKR 7 58 FM Matta Vinay Kumar IND 6 101 Chaithanyaa K.G. IND 5 144 Jyothsna L IND 4½
16 GM Nguyen Duc Hoa VIE 7 59 Harikrishnan.A.Ra IND 6 102 Bala Kannamma P IND 5 145 Pvs Aravind IND 4½
17 GM Venkatesh M.R. IND 7 60 Hirthickkesh Pr IND 6 103 Dahale Atul IND 5 146 Thaga Sheriff M IND 4½
18 GM Neverov Valeriy UKR 7 61 FM M Fahad Rahman BAN 6 104 WCM Ananya Suresh IND 5 147 Avadhanulu A.S.M.S.S. IND 4½
19 GM David Alberto ITA 7 62 IM Shivananda B.S. IND 6 105 Joshi Govind Ballabh IND 5 148 Azikri Gur ISR 4½
20 GM Nguyen H Minh Huy VIE 7 63 Saurabh Anand IND 6 106 Nitin Shankar Madhu IND 5 149 Rounak Pathak IND 4½
21 GM Popov Ivan RUS 6½ 64 Harihara Sudan M IND 6 107 WFM Lakshmi C IND 5 150 WFM Bommini Mounika Akshaya IND 4½
22 GM Deepan Chakkravarthy J. IND 6½ 65 Bavankumar IND 6 108 Shreyansh Daklia IND 5 151 WIM Nandhidhaa Pv IND 4
23 IM Ramnath Bhuvanesh.R IND 6½ 66 IM Praveen Kumar C IND 6 109 IM Kathmale Sameer IND 5 152 IM Hegde Ravi Gopal IND 4
24 GM Czebe Attila HUN 6½ 67 Pradeep Kumar R A IND 6 110 Nair Sanjeev IND 5 153 Mani Bharathy IND 4
25 Kulkarni Rakesh IND 6½ 68 IM Gokhale Chandrashekhar IND 6 111 Raahul V S IND 5 154 Shweta Gole IND 4
26 Md Nubairshah Shaikh IND 6½ 69 WFM Divya Deshmukh IND 6 112 Marthandan K U IND 5 155 Subramanian R M IND 4
27 IM Nitin S. IND 6½ 70 Soham Datar IND 6 113 CM Mendonca Leon Luke IND 5 156 Kumar S. IND 4
28 Rahul Srivatshav P IND 6½ 71 CM Gukesh D IND 6 114 Didwania Vishal IND 5 157 Abid Ali Mujawar IND 4
29 FM Ramakrishna J. IND 6½ 72 FM Praggnanandhaa R IND 5½ 115 CM Nikhil Magizhnan IND 5 158 Manu David Suthandram IND 4
30 IM R Balasubramaniam IND 6½ 73 CM Raja Rithvik R IND 5½ 116 Singh Neha IND 5 159 Anilkumar K.V. IND 4
31 IM Chakravarthi Reddy M IND 6½ 74 Negi Virender Singh IND 5½ 117 Gavi Siddayya IND 5 160 Sibi Visal R IND 4
32 Kumar Gaurav IND 6 75 Ram S. Krishnan IND 5½ 118 Srihari L R IND 5 161 George Daniel IND 4
33 FM Thakur Akash IND 6 76 Kulkarni Vinayak IND 5½ 119 Nehete Akshay S IND 5 162 Yutesh P IND 4
34 IM Ravi Teja S. IND 6 77 IM Murali Krishnan B T IND 5½ 120 Genish Prakash J IND 5 163 Mohamed Anees M IND 4
35 Erigaisi Arjun IND 6 78 Phoobalan P. IND 5½ 121 Barath Kalyan M IND 4½ 164 CM Bharath Subramaniyam IND 4
36 GM Laxman R.R. IND 6 79 Sa Kannan IND 5½ 122 IM Ravichandran Siddharth IND 4½ 165 Siddharth Sabharishankar IND 4
37 Muthaiah Al IND 6 80 FM Vinoth Kumar M. IND 5½ 123 Elancheralathan P IND 4½ 166 Arpan Das (jr) IND 4
38 FM Raghunandan K S IND 6 81 FM Maheswaran P. IND 5½ 124 Srijit Paul IND 4½ 167 Soham Das IND 4
39 IM Shetty Rahul IND 6 82 Arjun Adappa IND 5½ 125 Dinesh Kumar G IND 4½ 168 Gopikrishnan S IND 4
40 Akash Pc Iyer IND 6 83 Debashish Dutta IND 5½ 126 IM Singh D.P. IND 4½ 169 Shijil K IND 4
41 CM Rathanvel V S IND 6 84 Phadke Sohan IND 5½ 127 WFM Arpita Mukherjee IND 4½ 170 CM Dev Shah IND 4
42 Vignesh B IND 6 85 CM Rajarishi Karthi IND 5½ 128 Priyamvada Karamcheti IND 4½ 171 Sydney Lewis IND 4
43 Tiwari Arjun IND 6 86 Selvabharathy T IND 5½ 129 Anant Prabhudesai IND 4½ 172 Sai Pranav Siddamshetty IND 4
44 Shailesh Dravid IND 6 87 Pranav Anand IND 5½ 130 Hari Madhavan N B IND 4½ 173 Suriya S V IND 4
45 Kunal M. IND 6 88 WIM Ivana Maria Furtado IND 5½ 131 Vijay Shreeram P IND 4½ 174 Rohit S IND 4

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1st Chitkara Intl. School Open Fide Rating Championship 2016,Chandigarh 28 Pukhraj Singh Pun 4½ 14 Utkarsh UP 6½
29 Harshit Arya Har 4½ 15 Mridul Shukla UP 6½
Himanshu Sharma emerges Open Champion 30 Anshul Kaushik Har 4½ 16 Nilesh Wasnik Mah 6½
Sankalp Arora wins below 1600 Category event 31 Lokesh Hans Har 4 17 Punit Indora Pun 6½
32 Harjap Singh Pun 4 18 Priyadarshi Alok Bih 6½
by Naveen Bansal, Chief Arbiter
33 Shubham Shukla Pun 4 19 Deepak Poonia Har 6½
International Master Himanshu Sharma of Honor at the function. 34 Adarsh Tripathi Del 4 20 Narayan Joshi Raj 6½
Railways became the champion with 7½ 35 Sunil Bansal Chd 4 21 Shweta Chd 6½
points in the 1st Chitkara International The tournament was conducted by Chandi- 36 Amanpreet Singh Pun 4 22 Namitbir Singh Walia Pun 6½
School Open Fide Rating Chess Champion- garh Chess Academy over a period of 5 days 37 Mohan Singh Dewat Raj 4 23 Hemanth Kumar M AP 6½
ship 2016. The tournament was being held and it went off very smoothly and players 38 Shamim Ahmad UP 4 24 Ishaan Singh M Chd 6½
from 02nd to 6th Jan, 2016 at Chitkara In- from 17 different states participated in this 39 Saypuri Srithan Tel 4 25 Singh Rajiv Har 6½
ternational School, Sector 25, Chandigarh. Tournament. 40 Sunil Gupta Raj 3½ 26 Prateek Wadhwa Chd 6
The second position was bagged by Himal 41 Pankaj Sindhu Har 3½ 27 Jagdish Pachar Raj 6
Gusain of Chandigarh with 7½ points, who Final standings: (Open) 42 Singh Arvinder Preet Pun 3 28 Sahil Thakur Pun 6
was very close to the Champion but got Rk Name State Pts 43 Mayank Pal Del 3 29 Ravinder Goyat Har 6
second position in the Tie- Break and third 1 IM Himanshu Sharma Rly 7½ 44 Manav Gupta Chd 3 30 Mumukshu Mittal Pun 6
position went to Ram S Krishnan of Tamil 2 Gusain Himal Chd 7½ 45 Gupta R K UP 3 31 Anubhav Sharma Pun 6
Nadu also on 7½ points. . 3 Ram S. Krishnan Che 7½ 46 Akash Thakur HP 3 32 Kommabathula Prakash Pun 6
4 FM Harshal Shahi Del 6 47 Arsh Gupta Pun 2 33 Raghav Maheshwari UP 6
A total number of 302 players participated 5 Vikas Sharma Pun 6 48 Hitesh Issar Chd 2 34 Jyotirmay Singh Pun 6
in this Mega Event. From amongst these 6 IM Sangma Rahul Rly 6 49 Shivom Sood Chd 2 35 Saurabh Sharma Chd 6
160 players are International Rated Players. 7 WFM Tarini Goyal Chd 6 50 Anmol Rattan Chd 2 36 Nivedan Bhardwaj Chd 6
The players from 17 different states of India 8 FM Tiwari Ashwani Pun 6 51 Laxmee Kanta Sahoo Odi 1½ 37 Soumiljit Singh Gill Chd 6
were participated in this tournament. The 9 Vinay Raj Bhatt UP 6 52 Vardan Nagpal Del 1 38 Ved Prakash UP 6
tournament was divided into two categories 10 Pardeep Arora Pun 6 53 PRamachandran Vijay TN 0 39 Jonny Verma Har 6
‘Category A (Open)’ and ‘Category B (Below 11 Sumit Grover J&K 5½ 54 Anubhav Sharma Pun 0 40 Mishra Ashish UP 6
1600)’. There are also age category prizes for 12 Sandeep Chitkara Del 5½ 55 Shubham Lohia Pun 0 41 Tanzeel-Ur-Rehman Pun 6
Under-15 and Under-11 apart from several 13 Anmol Bhagat Pun 5½ Final standings (below 1600 rating) 42 Rohit Roy Chaudhary Chd 6
other category prizes 14 Aryan Del 5½ Rk Name State Pts 43 Yogender Del 6
15 Dushyant Sharma Pun 5 1 Sankalp Arora UP 8 44 Vaibhav Sharma UP 6
Mr. Vivek Atray, Director Industries, Haryana 16 Atul Kumar J&K 5 2 Aryan J&K 8 45 Krishan Kumar Raj 6
was the Chief Guest at the Prize Distribution 17 Suraj Dahiya Har 5 3 Mangal Prasad Asm 7½ 46 Vijay Yadav Har 6
Ceremony. On this occasion he congratu-
18 Sushant Manuja Pun 5 4 Nagargoje Dhananjay Mah 7½ 47 Raghav Bansal Pun 6
lated the Chandigarh Chess Academy for
19 Apoorv Anand Pun 5 5 Gaurav Sharma Up 7½ 48 Choubey Saurabh AFM MP 6
organizing such a big event in the city. He
20 Akshay Anand Pun 5 6 Satyam Prakash Del 7 49 Saurav Agarwal Del 6
distributed prizes and trophies to the win-
21 Deepak Rai Del 5 7 Tanmay Jain Pun 7 50 Manjeet Poonia Har 5½
ners and certificates among the participants.
22 Jaskeerat Singh Chd 5 8 Ankit Saxena UP 7 51 Prabhsimran Singh Pun 5½
Several category prizes for children were
23 Ashwani Kumar G Pun 5 9 Prabhujot Singh Pun 7 52 Kuljeet Singh Khurana Pun 5½
also distributed at the closing ceremony. Dr.
24 Meenal Gupta J&K 5 10 Bhat Siddharth K Del 7 53 Lakshay Nagpal Del 5½
Amit Bhattacharjee Mentor Abhinav Bindra
25 Chetan Bansal Pun 4½ 11 Sanjeev Choudhary UP 7 54 Singh Jeet Pun 5½
and Mr. Ashish Goyal IIS, Director Media and
26 Puneet Manchanda Har 4½ 12 Devang Singla Pun 7 55 Aman Sharma Del 5½
Information Broadcasting were the Guest of
27 Sharma Vinod Pun 4½ 13 Suthar Manish Del 7 56 Pawan Kaushik Har 5½

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1st CAK Fide Raing Chess Tournament below 1600, Ernakulam 40 Amal Roozi 6 83 Sreyas Payyappat 5
41 Eldho Skaria 6 84 Ajithkumar Murugan 5
Bhoopathi wins at Ernakulam 42 Yogeesh Bhat 6 85 Mukhesh C 5
L.R.Bhuvana Sai IA, Chief Arbiter 43 Ani Joseph 6 86 Krishnadev S Nair 5
44 Aji Kumar A 6 87 Nasser Poyil 5
1st CAK Fide Rating Chess tournament be- 2 Vishwanath Kannam 7½ 45 Abhilash G 6 88 Priyanka Bhatt 5
low 1600 was organised Chess Association 3 Nitin M Pai 7½ 46 Kailas Nath 6 89 Rutherford S 5
Kerala in association with Chess Association 4 Balasubramanian G 7½ 47 Jean Mani Joseph T 6 90 Avichal Jadeja 5
Ernakulam at Oberon Mall, Edapally. It was 5 Muhammed Musthafa 7½ 48 Satheesh Kumar G 6 91 Colaco Vernon Jesus 5
inaugurated by Mr.K.Jayasankar, Managing 6 Kesavan G 7 49 Raj Kumar B 6 92 Avinash Hari 5
Director, Malayalam Industries at 10.30 am 7 Bright Lee M Sunilkumar 7 50 Rishi R 6 93 Arjun Sidharth S 5
on 24th January. This event attracted 277 8 Naveen Giri 7 51 Naushad Vavachan 6 94 Surya Prakash J 5
entries including 218 rated players from 9 9 Praveen Raj Pushparaj 7 52 Abhishek A R 6 95 Akhil Rony 5
states and 1 union territory (Pondicherry) 10 Ranjith Kaliyarasan 7 53 Unnikrishnan Sasthamkunnel 6 96 Sumukh M G 5
11 Abdul Raheem K A 7 54 Anfas Muhammed 5½ 97 Dhruv Rajeev 5
Seeded players sailed smoothly up to fourth 12 Rohan Kailash 7 55 Kishore Dev S. 5½ 98 Vikumar P K 5
round. First and seventeenth seeds Boopathi 13 Kanishk S K 7 56 Arun S Shenoy 5½ 99 Srikrishnan P 5
Raja and Balasubramanian G of Tamilnadu 14 Syam Hari H V 7 57 Rijesh A V 5½ 100 Askkar Ali P 5
jointly shared the lead with full points at the 15 Nijai Giri 7 58 Sriram Udhayakumar 5½ 101 Vinodkumar K V 5
end of 5th round. In the next round Boopathi 16 Bargava Narasimhan S 7 59 Seljan K V 5½ 102 Sharath R Shanbhag 5
beat Balasubramanian and took sole lead 17 Prabeesh K 7 60 Sarathkumar Sasi 5½ 103 Arul Pon Venakatesh
with 6 points. He maintained his lead till the 18 Binu K P 7 61 Unni Krishnan Pg 5½ Shanmugam 5
final round. Four players Naveen Giri, Nitin M 19 Vangala Prashanth 6½ 62 Ishan Sanjay Pagi 5½ 104 Sreedeep C V 5
Pai, Viswanath K and Kesavan G followed the 20 Rejith Kumar T N 6½ 63 Sudheesh Kumar 5½ 105 Shadhursshaan R 5
leader with 7 points each after the penultimate 21 Sameer C 6½ 64 Geetha Krishnan S 5½ 106 Baby Kuriakose 5
round. At last Boopathi of Tamilnadu won the 22 Bala Ganeshan 6½ 65 Jithu Sajeevan 5½ 107 Jojo P John 5
championship with 8.5 points. He bagged
23 Sagar Ch 6½ 66 Ershad P 5½ 108 Adithya Krishna H R 5
Rs.35000 with trophy. Vishwanth Kannam of
24 Vivek Vinod 6½ 67 Devesh Anand Naik 5½ 109 Dakshnamoorthy Arumugam 5
AP was the runner-up of the event with 7.5
25 Thulaseedharan K 6½ 68 Jeevan Vijayakumar L 5½ 110 George John 5
points.
26 Manikuttan K P 6½ 69 Pragadesh P 5½ 111 Sanjay Robin 5
27 Paul Kodaly 6½ 70 Nithyan S 5½ 112 Abdulla Ismail Kizhakkayil 5
Shri.John, Center manager, Oberon Mall,
28 Fathima Abdeen 6 71 Sunildutt 5½ 113 Mahesh A Shetti 5
Edappally, Kochi, Kerala distributed the prizes
29 Sasikumar.S 6 72 Hari R Chandran 5½ 114 John Veny Akkarakarn 5
to the winners. The event concluded in a grand
30 Arunkumar S 6 73 Satheesh A S 5½ 115 Ranjith P B 5
manner without any dispute.The team of Ar-
31 Thrigunan K 6 74 Bharath Kulandai Velu 5½ 116 Rajesh K Raman 5
biters were: L.R. Bhuvanaa Sai,IA Chief Arbi-
32 Sarvadh Sathiaram 6 75 Sharon Joseph 5½ 117 Siddhanth Sharad Patil 5
ter ,R.RajeshIA ,Dy.Chief Arbiter and Ar-
33 Ananthapadmanabh D V 6 76 Arnav Muralidhar 5½ 118 Ajeesh K M 5
biters Jismon Mathew,M.S.Govindan Kutty,AP
34 Paulson Frenchy 6 77 Vivek P S 5½ 119 Yatharth Jain 5
Venugopalan, P.S.Ameer,P.M.Shaji,Saju Man-
jally and O.A.Babu. 35 Kabhilan S 6 78 Girish G 5½ 120 Roshan Haris 5
Final ranking: 36 Sai Balaji E 6 79 Hariharan Gandhi(blind) 5½ 121 Madhu K R 4½
Rk Name Pts 37 Binu Sebastian 6 80 Suresh Kumar Saravanan 5½ 122 Abhinav Chakrapani Santhalaya 4½
1 Boopathi Raja 8½ 38 Aadhil Biju 6 81 Rahul Krishna V 5½ 123 Hari K Mohanan 4½
39 Amitesh Kumar Sinha 6 82 Anand M S 5½ 124 Varun Sudarshan 4½

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8th KCM FIDE (Below 1600) Rated Chess Tournament, Coimbatore… 3 Boopathy Jayaraman 0 CBE 5 8 Midhru Jayan K 1208 CBE 5
Vinayak Hariwal emerges champion Best veteran

9 Aravind Nagarajan
10 Saravanan R
1181 TN 5
1096 CBE 5
by V.Vijayaraghavan IA, Chief Arbiter Saibudeen M 1260 TN 5
Under 15
Best Women 1 Jaisurya M P 1573 TN 6
Vinayak Hariwal of Karnataka won the 8th 3 Roshan S 1592 TN 7½
Akshaya P 1305 TN 6 2 Avichal Jadeja 1212 KAR 6
KCM FIDE (Below 1600) Rated Chess Tourna- 4 Sameer C 1403 KER 7½
3 Rohith N D 1262 CBE 6
ment held from Jan 1st to 3rd here at Krishna 5 Nasser Poyil 1401 KER 7½
6 Gouthaman A M 1395 TN 7½ Youngest player 4 Harish S 1341 CBE 6
Gounder Kalyana Mandapam, Coimbatore.
7 Kabhilan S 1586 TN 7 Meiyappan M 0 CBE 1 5 Harsath S 1306 CBE 5½
The 9 round swiss format carried a prize
8 Srihari N 1556 DEL 7 6 Harsha R 1182 CBE 5½
fund of Rs.1 lakh and 50 thousand. The Main
9 Rajashakkthivel K K 1574 TN 7 Under 9 7 Abhishek S 1204 CBE 5½
prizes were distributed in Rs.96400 and Rat- 10 Sandeep Santhosh 1371 KER 7 1 Muthu P 1219 TN 5 8 Umeshwaran S A 1204 CBE 5½
ing and Category prizes was Rs.53,600. The 11 Avinash Hari 1323 KER 7
event attracted 295 players with 148 players 2 Kishor Kumar G 1014 CBE 4 9 Thiruvengadam C 1288 CBE 5½
12 Nitin M Pai 1529 KER 7
from the host district itself. 13 Kathir Balaji K 1510 CBE 7 3 Nandish V S 0 CBE 4 10 Naveen R G 1231 TN 5½
14 Nandhini M 1468 TN 6½ 4 Dinesh Abinav Sundar 0 USA 4
Vinayak&Senthil Kumar lead the pack with 6 15 Athish Vikram C S 1338 TN 6½ 5 Abi A 0 CBE 4 Coimbatore Under-9
points at the end of 6th round. Vinayak pre- 16 Shankar Ramakrishnan 1319 CBE 6½ 6 Hari V P 1045 TN 4 1 Sarvesh Aadityaa R 1187 CBE 5
17 Muhammed Musthafa 1465 KER 6½ 7 Abenav M 0 CBE 4 2 Tejaswi R 1055 CBE 4
vailed over his counterpart Senthil in the 7th
18 Mohamed Yousuff A 1553 CBE 6½
round to move on to 7 points. Nasser Poyil 8 Pragy Narayan 0 KAR 4 3 Ryan Priyank S 1183 CBE 4
19 Mano Ranjith J 1423 TN 6½
beat Kabilan to follow the leader with 6.5 9 Mitul K H 0 KAR 3½
20 Raj Kumar B 1400 CBE 6½
points in the sole second spot.Once again Vi- 21 Kanishk S K 1428 CBE 6½ 10 Adithya A Chullikkad 1002 KER 3½ Coimabatore Under-11
nayak had less trouble in disposing Nasser in 22 Shetty Murugan 1478 MAH 6½ 1 Ethan V Johnson 1061 CBE 5½
the 8th round to lead the pack with 8 points. 23 Rijesh A V 1374 KER 6½ Under 11 2 Evan Sanjoe 1230 CBE 5
Meanwhile LakshmirajaPerumal, Sameer, 24 Senthil Kumar N 1359 TN 6 1 Darsana M S 1286 TN 6 3 Nirmal L 1176 CBE 5
Gowthaman were in pursuit with 7 points. In 25 Kishore Dev S. 1530 KER 6 2 Anissh S K 1192 TN 5½
the final round Lakshmi raja Perumal beat Vi- 3 Sharath R Shanbhag 1282 GOA 5½ Coimbatore Under-13
nayak while Sameer and Gowthaman signed Best below 1299 4 Iniyan T 1154 TN 5 1 Shalini J 1160 CBE 6
a truce, enabling tie between Lakshmi and RK Name IRtg Club Pts 5 Sachjith M 1230 TN 5 2 Yugesh Maitreyan S 1200 CBE 5½
Vinayak on 8 points. Vinayak fared better in 1 Sudarsan P 1277 CBE 7 6 Santhosh S 1268 TN 5 3 Nishanth K 1234 CBE 5½
the Buchholz tie break and won the 1st prize 2 Tamilarasan B 1134 CBE 7 7 Sivaneshan V 0 CBE 5
of Rs.20,000/- 3 Shadhursshaan R 1214 TN 7 8 Pratyush J 1070 TN 5 Coimbatore Under-15
4 Pushpanathan S 1143 CBE 6½ 9 Anantha Sai S 1214 CBE 5 1 Sanjay Snehal M S 1523 CBE 6
P Sudarsan of Coimbatore won the first prize 5 Prabu R 0 CBE 6½ 10 Surya T V 1053 CBE 5 2 Abinands R 1184 CBE 6
of Rs.10,000/- for below 1299 and M Kishore 6 Narendran Gouthaman 1215 TN 6 3 Ananya V Krishnakumar1155 CBE 6
won the best unrated prize. The prize distri- 7 Vallal A 1284 TN 6 Under 13
bution was as usual simple one, with prizes 8 Ashwin K R 1248 TN 6 1 Roshan Hari 1217 KER 6
distributed by the office bearers of Kovai 9 Aji Kumar A 1293 KER 6 2 Sivashankar M 1321 TN 5½ Attackers may sometimes regret bad
Chess Mates. 3 Joshua Anto A 1195 CBE 5½ moves, but it is much worse to forever
10 Kathiresan M 0 CBE 6
Main Prizes 4 Thoufeeq S 1280 CBE 5 regret an opportunity you allowed to
Best unrated
Rk Name IRtg Club Pts 5 Yogeshwaran S A 1156 CBE 5 pass you by.
1 Kishore M 0 CBE 5
1 Vinayak B Hariwal 1529 KAR 8 6 Midhun Kumar M A 1056 CBE 5
2 Muthuganesan H 0 TN 5 ― Garry Kasparov
2 Lakshmi Raja Perumal K 1488 CBE 8 7 Samson D Cruz J 1097 CBE 5

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5th JRD Tata All India Open Chess Tournament- 2015,Jamshedpur… Final ranking: 39 Ramesh Kumar JHA 6
Rk Name Club Pts 40 P Subhendu Kumar ODI 5½
Abhisek Das wins at Jamshedpur 1 Abhishek Das JHA 8 41 Srikanth K. IAF 5½
Jayant Kumar Bhuyan, IA,Chief Arbiter 2 Baivab Mishra ODI 8 42 Arya Bhakta WB 5½
The 5th JRD Tata All India Open Chess from Andhra Pradesh was the senior most 3 WFM Srija Seshadri DEL 7½ 43 Basant Kr. Das WB 5½
Tournament- 2015 was inaugurated by participant and the youngest was Master 4 Nayak Rajesh ODI 7½ 44 Ashok Kumar Jaju ODI 5½
Mr.Neeraj Kanth,MD,ISWP, Jamshedpur, on Archit Mittal 6 years of age (5.9.2009) 5 Saurabh Anand BIH 7 45 Garima Gaurav BIH 5½
9th December 2015 at 6.30 pm at JRD Tata from Jharkhand . 6 Shrutarshi Ray WB 7 46 Aayush Agarwal JHA 5½
Sports Complex, Jamshedpur in presence 7 Suvradeepta Das WB 7 47 Mahitosh Dey ODI 5½
of Mr. Suresh Kumar, VP,SS, Tata Steel & I am happy to mention that this 7 days 8 Harsh Mangesh Ghag MAH 7 48 Tuhin Dutta WB 5½
Org.President, and Mr.B.T.Rao President tournament went on very smoothly and due 9 IM Singh D.P. TN 7 49 Venkatesh H WB 5½
SKDCA, Mr.Narendra Kr.Tiwary, Org. to full co-operation from Mr.Nihar Ranjan 10 Mukherjee S.K. WB 7
50 Soumyajit Das WB 5½
Secretary. Sasmal,IA, and Mr.Tapas Mohanty FA both 11 Dave Sneh GUJ 7
from Odisha. This technical team performed 51 Swarnava Biswas WB 5½
12 IM Krishna Teja N AP 7
This tournament was organized by East their best in conducting the tournament 52 Aneek Das WB 5½
13 Kumar Gaurav BIH 7
Singhbhum Dist. Chess Association an Af- smoothly. The success of the tournament is 53 Bidisha Roy JHA 5½
14 Roop Saurav BIH 7
filiate body of All Jharkhand Chess Associa- also due to dedicated committee members 54 Sahoo Soumya Ranjan ODI 5½
tion in Association with Tata Steel. of the Org.Committee. Mr.Debasish Barua IA 15 Ayush Bhai Mehta MP 7
55 Palton Soren JHA 5½
from WB , Mr.N.K.Tiwary, Mr.Chandan Ku- 16 Rajarshi Dutta WB 6½
56 Ishan Gupta JHA 5
124 players from 15 States of India took mar Prasad, Mr.B.T.Rao, Mr.Alok Dasgupta, 17 Alka Das JHA 6½
57 Kalindi Vikash JHA 5
part in this event. Out of 124 players, 2 Mr.Shashank Shekher, Mr.Kamesher Yadav, 18 Anurag Jaiswal WB 6½
58 Pragyanand Kumar JHA 5
IM, One WFM One CM title holder players Mr.J.N.Singh,(all from Tata Steel) , Mr.Aman 19 Purushothaman T AP 6½
took part, where 80 players were rated Choubey, Mr.K.P.Sharma,Mr.R.C.Singh and 59 Singh C B JHA 5
20 Rao J. Malleswara AP 6½
and 45 were unrated. 64 players from the staff of Sports Dept. of Tata Steel 21 Samal Ansuman ODI 6½ 60 Arbind Kumar Singh IAF 5
Jharkhand State followed by 22 from who extended their help round the clock 22 Chakravarthy M S R K AP 6½ 61 Anup Kumar Singh JHA 5
West Bengal and 9 from Andhra Pradesh, in smooth functioning of tournament ac- 23 Sourath Biswas WB 6½ 62 Lokesh Kumar JHA 5
exhibited their talent along with other tivities. I am also thankful to parents and
24 Basant Khandelwal JHA 6½ 63 Das Bhola Nath JHA 5
participants from Punjab to Assam and guardians of little masters and above all
25 Rajarshi Basu WB 6½ 64 Md Ashfaque Ahmad JHA 5
Tamil Nadu. A total No of 18 women par- the participants for their sporting support
26 Sai Kiran Y AP 6½
ticipants took part in this event. extended to me in conducting the tourna- 65 CBSurya Bangaru Raju AP 5
ment successfully. 27 CM Shahil Dey ASM 6
66 Abhiraj Sinha JHA 5
In this 10 rounds tournament there were 28 Raja Bose JHA 6
67 Arun Kumar JHA 5
lots of ups and downs and also sensa- Chief Guest of the evening was Mr.Adarsh 29 Ghosh Samriddhaa WB 6
tional results from day one. Finally Ab- Agarwal, MD, Jamipol, and other dignitaries 30 Manisha Masi JHA 6 68 Kumar Amit JHA 5
hishek Das (IM Elected) from Jharkhand were Mr.Suresh Kumar, VP-SS, Tata Steel 31 Ambarish Sharma WB 6 69 Ashok Kumar JHA 5
and working in Indian Railway, Bangalore & Org.President, Mr.Rajesh Das, Org. Vice 32 Pankaj Sindhu HAR 6 70 Aayush Bhattacherjee WB 5
clinched the top Honor and became the President, Mr.Pritam Singh, Hony. Secretary, 33 Anshul Nigam JHA 6 71 Shounak Mazumder WB 5
Champion of 5th JRD Tata All India All Jharkhand Chess Association, Mr.B.T.Rao 34 Pracheta Agarwal JHA 6 72 Shivmangal Kumar JHA 5
open Chess Tournament- 2015 and was President SKDCA, and Mr.Narendra Kr.Tiwary, 35 Shuvam Roy WB 6
awarded Cash Prize of Rs.50,000/- along Org.Secretary.This event has added one more 73 Sidhu Anup PUN 5
36 Jha Kausal Kumar JHA 6 74 Kumar Sankalp JHA 5
with Champion Trophy . He scored 8.0 feather to the reputation of Jamshedpur as
37 Atul Bihari Sharan JHA 6 75 Aman Suhela BIH 4½
points out of possible 10 points. Mr.C.B. one of the fast developing Chess Centres in
38 Mallikarjuna Raob AP 6
Bangaru Raju (Rating-1429) of 76 years India

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1st Lions District FIDE Rated Open Chess Tournament 2016,Siliguri… 19 Dave Sneh 5½ 60 Anirudh Raj 4
20 Kamal Karmakar 5½ 61 Sneha Paul 4
Joydeep Dutta wins at Siliguri 21 Aneek Das 5½ 62 Soham Roy 4
by Debasish Barua IA,Chief Arbiter 22 Arpan Das (jr) 5½ 63 Monideep Banerjee 4
23 Chettri Bhoj Bahadur 5½ 64 Arundhati Brahmachari 4
1st Lions District FIDE Rated Open Chess Nath was awarded with Rs.25,000 and a tro- 24 Sanjib Ghosh 5½ 65 Subham Kumar Singh 4
Tournament 2016 was organized by Lions phy. Both Mitrabha and Arpan scored 7points 25 Ray Suraj 5½ 66 Subhankar Das 4
Clubs International, District 322F and held at the end of the 9th round. At the better 26 Bhutia W. T. 5½ 67 Srinjoy Sarkar 4
at Uttar Banga Marwari Bhawan,2nd Mile, tie, Mitrabha Guha bagged the third position 27 Krish Kedia 5 68 Pratik Rai 3½
Sevoke Road, Siliguri, from 4th to 8th Janu- with and award of Rs.15,000 and a trophy 69 Abhra Baran Kar 3½
28 Subba Saurab 5
ary,2016. and Arpan Das stood at the 4th position with
29 Somnath Banerjee 5 70 Priyangshu Gupta Bhaya 3½
Rs.10,000.
30 Tuhin Saha 5 71 Tarafder Arghadeep 3½
Lions Club International is famous for its
31 Pratyay Chowdhury 5 72 Suraj Gupta 3½
social work-in all the fields. In the field of Prize distribution ceremony is presided over
by Rajesh Kedia, Lions Organizing Secretary, 32 Sougata Singha 5 73 Abishek Subba 3½
chess, even, in West Bengal, they are the
along with Atanu Lahiri, Secretary of Bengal 33 Chhetri Priya 5 74 Roy Manidipa 3½
first one to host a tournament such a grand
Chess Association.The organizer, officials, 34 Dugar Chetan 5 75 Sayan Biswas 3½
one like this.
In the opening ceremony, West Bengal Sec- arbiters and volunteers worked whole heart- 35 Datta Shankar Narayan 5 76 Gupta Rick 3½
retary Atanu Lahiri and Darjeeling District edly and sincerely to make the tournament 36 Aviroop Bhattacharya 5 77 Hritik Kumar 3
Chess Association Secretary Nantu Pal along successful. The players and guardians also 37 Sharma Durga Prasad 5 78 Adhikari Duryodhan 3
with the Lions District Governors were pres- extended full co-operation which attributed 38 Rai Anand 5 79 Acharya Leela Prasad 3
ent to lit the lamp and open the tournament. to the smooth running of the tournament. 39 Biswajit Shil 5 80 Siddharth Chhoria 3
40 Biswajit Mandal 5 81 Samyak Dharewa 3
The number of participants was 93 includ- Rk Name Pts 41 Mukesh Kumar 5 82 Aniruddha Poddar 3
ing 61 FIDE rated players. Players from 1 Dutta Joydeep FM 7½ 42 Shyamal Kumar Saha 5 83 Basak Pritoshkanti 3
our neighboring countries including Nepal, 2 Nath Rupankar 7½ 43 Roy Manoj Kumar 5 84 Anjum Zia 3
Bhutan also participated in the tournament. 3 Mitrabha Guha FM 7 44 Chettri Dinesh 4½ 85 Arrya Das 3
There was 9 rounds of play. The playing 4 Arpan Das 7 45 Sah Amod Kumar 4½ 86 Ranjan Priyanshu 3
venue was excellent with good and com- 5 Chattarjee Laltu 6½ 46 Anant Mittal 4½ 87 Jit Modak 3
fortable table and seating arrangements, 6 Debasish Mukherjee 6½ 47 Moktan Naresh 4½ 88 Abhinav Agrawal 3
sufficient lighting, and necessary amenities 7 Samrat Ghorai 6½ 48 Ratnakar Sarkar 4½ 89 Ishan Ghosh (siliguri) 2½
like pure drinking water, sufficient toilets etc.
8 Sayantan Mukherjee 6½ 49 Bipasha Roy 4½ 90 Aditya Pan 2½
The game was conducted with international
9 Verma Sanjay 6½ 50 Saraswati Kumari 4½ 91 Naman Chhoria 2½
standard chess sets and clocks. The tourna-
10 Basak Sajal 6 51 Saayan Dutta 4½ 92 Shrayansh Jain 2
ment environment was quite natural, cordial
11 Santu Mondal 6 93 Rudhra Tiwari 1
and all the arbiters acted impartially. 52 Saouhridya Pran Kashyap 4½
12 Shuban Saha 6 53 Puskar Basak 4
13 Bose Sayan 6 By strictly observing Botvinnik's rule
After 9 rounds of the game, Joydeep Dutta 54 Prabuddha Sarkar 4
14 Sayan Banik 6
regarding the thorough analysis of one's
and Rupankar Nath both stood at 7.5points 55 Sankar Saha 4 own games, with the years I have come
out of 9. At the better tie, Joydeep Dutta 15 Chakrabarti Tamal 6 56 Aayush Bhattacherjee 4 to realize that this provides the foundation
came first while Rupankar Nath stood at the 16 Sengdup Lama 6 57 Subhabrata Hore 4 for the continuos development of chess
second position. Joydeep Dutta was awarded 17 Shahil Dey CM 6 58 Ritam Mukherjee 4 mastery. ― Garry Kasparov
with Rs.40,000 and a trophy and Rupankar 18 Sumit Roy 6 59 Bala Ram Sharma 4

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1st St. Teresa School All India FIDE Rating Chess Tournament,Ghaziabad International chess news
Dinesh K.Sharma wins at Ghaziabad
by A.K. Raizada FA, Chief Arbiter Adhiban Wins Wijk Aan Zee
The first St. Teresa School All India FIDE Rat- 8 Nath Rajesh Kumar 7 Baskaran Adhiban played at 2704 to win
ing Chess Tournament (Event Code 126630/ 9 Negi D.S. 7 the Tata Steel Challengers with 9/13 in
UP/2016) Started on 3rd January 2016 at St. 10 Rajkumar 7 the Netherlands on Jan 31, 2016.Adhiban
Teresa School indiapuram Ghaziabad There 11 Shami Vipin K. 7 picked up Euro 2000 plus trophy. Adhiban
was good response from players from all over 12 Alok Sinha 6½ was the only Indian in fray at this year's
India and 174 players enrolled their names Tata Steel Tournament. The 23-year-old
13 Sawyan Baran De 6½
International Master Dinesh Kumar Sharma was the second seed in the event. He
14 Tanishka Kotia WFM 6½
from UP and Candidate Master Prince Bajaj played some fantastic chess, won the sec-
15 Gaha Narayan 6½
of Delhi also participated. The venue was a tion and qualified for next year's Masters.
16 Awasthi Balgovind 6½
well decorated A/C Hall. Lodging facilities His victims included joint winner Safarli
were very good and the food in the campus 17 Aaryan Varshney 6½
and the experienced Russian Alexey Dreev.
made it very comfortable for the players at 18 Mathew Sunny 6½
The venue was the historic beach town of
Ghaziabad . It was a nine round Swiss format 19 Sanjay Sinha 6
Wijk aan Zee and other cities like Amster-
tournament. 20 Ritu Ranjan 6
dam which is 45 minutes drive from Wijk.
The tournament was inaugurated by 21 Ajit Singh 6
Important, this title would give Adhiban
Shri.R.R.Khanna , Director of St, Teresa 22 Chauhan Atul 6 greater recognition and valuable Elo. Ad-
School mr. Vijay Kumar Gulati were the 23 Sushil Kumar Verma 6 hiban, who suffered one defeat to J Van
Guests of honour. There were music and 24 Kapil Dahiya 6 Foreest, won six and drew six games.
dance programs as well which were received 25 Hriday Goel 6
well by the players. The organizing school 26 Kartikey Verma 6 In the eleventh round Adhiban had an al-
staff were very co-operative and caring. 27 Yash Joshi 6 most losing position against Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu but clawed back and made a draw with
Mr. D.K.Sharma (IM) won the tournament, great effort. In the penultimate round just like in the game against Nisipeanu, Adhiban was
28 Rahul Tomar 6
detailed prize list enclose separately. In the also lost here. But true to his fighting spirit, he kept posing problems to Nino Batsiashvili,
29 Keshavendra Mishra 6
prize distribution ceremony Shri. Bachhe when the Georgian collapsed, couldn't find the win, and the game ended in a draw. With
30 Nakul Chaudhary 6
Singh, City Magistrate, Gautam Noida and the last round to go Adhiban shared the lead with Dreev on 8.5/12, with Safarli right on
Mr. Dr. Shelesh Member CBSE Board were the 31 Shaurya Panpalia 6
their heels.
Guests of honor who distributed the prizes to 32 Aviral Jaiswal 6
the winners. The photograph of inauguration 33 Sudhanshu Singh 6
In the final round It all hinged on his game against Samuel Sevian. Adhiban who had the
and prize distribution ceremony are enclosed. 34 Aryan Garg 6
black pieces was in a precarious situation. While a tie in points would be in his favour, he
Final rankings: 35 Santosh Pal 5½
couldn't really play it safe because Dreev had excellent chances of beating his FM opponent.
Rk Name Pts 36 Karunanayake Mayuri 5½ The Indian player needed to choose a fighting opening and he decided to go for the Naj-
1 Sharma Dinesh K. IM 8 37 Gursimar Singh Arneja 5½ dorf against 1.e4. The game was quite complicated. Sevian even sacrificed an exchange,
2 Abid Ali 7½ 38 Ayush Kumar Gupta 5½ but Adhiban could trade pieces at regular intervals and reach an endgame where he had
3 Deepak Katiyar 7½ 39 Kabir Anand 5½ absolutely no chance of losing. When he saw that Dreev had drawn his game he decided
4 Wajih Nassir 7½ 40 Uday Bansal 5½ to offer a draw, which was promptly accepted and the Indian lad had done it! Adhiban had
5 Ritwan Sauntra 7½ 41 Ketan Kaushik 5½ become the champion! Adhiban had been world under-16 champion and one of the young
6 Gajendra Singh 7 42 Ananya Singhal 5½ players to win the Indian National Premier.
7 Prince Bajaj CM 7 43 Veer Bhan Harsh 5½
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A game from Tata Steel Challngers Rxd7 28.Qxd7+- When the win is not at all difficult to achieve.] 23.Qxb5+ Kf8 24.Qb3!
Dreev resigned the game as the bishop moving back is met either with Ng5 or Ne5 and the
Adhiban,Baskaran (2653) - Dreev,A (2644) [D45] f7 pawn cannot be defended. What a beautiful piece of opening preparation by Adhiban.
78th Tata Steel GpB Wijk aan Zee NED (7), 23.01.2016 And that was followed by some explosive middlegame chess. No wonder he is one of the
Annotated by Sagar Shah best upcoming talents in the country! 1–0
The most important duel of the Challengers section was between Adhiban and Dreev in the
seventh round. Both of them were leading the tournament with 5.0/ 6. The Indian player
having the white pieces made full use of that fact. 1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Nf3 e6 Hikaru Nakamura wins Gibraltar Masters
Dreev is a big expert in the Meran System and has written a book on it as well. 5.e3 Nbd7 Indians gained 83.20 Elo overall
6.Qc2 b6 This move is a Dreev speciality and he has employed it on 43 occassions with 11 Arvind Aaron
wins and 5 losses. Knowing how well Adhiban prepares, we can be sure he came to the game Hikaru Nakamura of the United States of America won the Gibraltar Masters beating French-
doing his homework. [6...Bd6 is the main move in the position by a overwhelming margin man Maxime Vachier-Lagrave 3-2 in the tie-break after the players tied for first on 8/10 in
and nearly 19,000 games have been played with that move.] 7.Bd3 Bb7 8.0–0 Be7 9.b3 the 257-player Swiss. Anna Muzychuk of Ukraine won the women’s best score prize.
dxc4 10.bxc4 c5 Nothing new under the sun. Everything has been played before. 11.d5!? The Gibraltar Chess Festival will soon see a tie-break match between titleholder Hikaru Na-
( see diagram) An interesting pawn sacrifice that is aimed at kamura of United States of America and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave of France. Both remained
taking advantage of the black king who hasn't castled yet. Of undefeated on 8/10. Nakamura played at 2811 while the Frenchman played better at 2838.
course this is not new for Dreev who has faced it against Huzman, They never met in the 10-round Swiss and are facing each other in the tie-breaks only.
Sargissian, Miljkovic and Zviaginsev. 11...exd5 12.cxd5 Nxd5
13.Nxd5 Bxd5 14.Rd1 Bf6 15.e4!?N Adhiban made this move At the start of the final round, two Indians were among the 8 leaders and had title chances.
instantly which meant that he was completely prepared. This is a Harikrishna as white had a pawn on the seventh rank but in the rook and opposite colour
novelty and not one of engine's top suggestions. The Indian GM bishop ending the Chinese Li Chao was able to pull off a draw. Sethuraman (black) and
had prepared this position deeply and came to the conclusion that Bacrot drew a level rook and bishop ending from the Ruy Lopez. Nakamura and Vachier won
e3-e4 is an excellent practical move. But Dreev's next move must and reached eight points and the semi-rapid tie-break games are underway for the title,
have come as a surprise to him. 15...c4!? [15...Bxa1 Why can't Anand recovered with two wins in the end. It was a painful event with two defeats in the
this rook be taken is the logical question. 16.exd5÷ And you cannot middle. He finished on 6.5/10 and loses about 21.90 Elo. In the end, Anand tied for the
0–0 because the h7 pawn is hanging. At the same time Re1+ is threatened. Objectively the 18-43rd places.
position could be equal but practically it is extremely dangerous for Black. And trying it out
against a well prepared opponent is not such a great idea.] 16.Be2!? Practically this is also Harika had a memorable event beating Short and scoring 6/10 to gain 15.10 Elo. Padmini
a good move. Now the bishop is hanging on d5 and also e4-e5 is threatened. So the a1 rook Rout gained 15.40 Elo. Harika and Mariya Muzychuk scored the same six points but Anna
has to be taken. [16.Bxc4 would have given White a clear edge. Adhiban could have been Muzychuk went ahead to seven points beating Arab pride GM Salem A R Saleh (UAE) in the
worried about 16...Bxc4 And now taking on c4 is bad because of Bxa1 when the e-file has final round. A total of 257 players from 51 nations took part in this global meet represented
not been opened. But here White has a strong move - 17.e5! Nxe5 (17...Be6 18.exf6 Qxf6 by players from all continents.
19.Ba3!± Stopping 0–0) 18.Rxd8+ Rxd8 19.Nxe5 Bxe5 20.Bg5 Bxa1 21.Bxd8 Be6 22.Bc7±
When White is clearly better.] (see diagram)16...Bxa1 17.Rxd5 Indians gained 83.20 Elo overall from this Masters section. Our rating losers totalled 54.90
There is no time to 0–0 for Black. 17...Qc7 [17...0–0? 18.Qd1!±] led by Anand 21.90, Ganguly 14.10 etc. Our gainers totalled 137.20 and it was led by
18.Ba3! The bishop makes a wonderful entry in to the position. Sethuraman 19.40, Padmini Rout 15.40, Harika 15.10, Abhijeet Gupta 15 etc.
18...Bf6 19.Bxc4 The threat now is to put additional pressure on
d7 knight by means of Qa4 and Bb5. 19...Be7 20.Qa4! Bxa3? Final placings (points order only): 1-2. M Vachier-Lagrave (Fra), Hikaru Nakamura (USA) 8/10
The final mistake. [20...a6 was necessary. 21.Re5! 0–0 22.Rxe7 each; 3-7. E Bacrot (Fra), S.P. Sethuraman (Ind), P Harikrishna (Ind), Emil Sutovsky (Isr), Li
Looks pretty depressing for Black but he can fight on with 22... Chao (Chn) 7.5 each; 8-17. Abhijeet Gupta (Ind), Sebastien Maze (Fra), D Jakovenko (Rus),
b5 23.Qd1 bxc4 24.Rxd7 Rfd8! 25.Rd5!± White is better but it Anton David (Esp), Lazaro Bruzon (Cub), Richard Rapport (Hun), Vidit Gujrathi (Ind), Zoltan
is not clear whether the advantage is decisive.] 21.Rxd7! Qxd7 Almasi (Hun), Edouard Romain (Fra), Gata Kamsky (USA) 7 each; 18-43. M.R. Lalith Babu,
22.Bb5 Qxb5 [22...0–0–0 23.Bxd7+ Rxd7 Could have been an Sandipan Chanda, V Anand, Surya S Ganguly, V Vishnu Prasanna 6.5 each…257 players.
option but it fails to 24.Ne5! Rd2 25.g3! Bc5 26.Qc6+ Kb8 27.Nd7+
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A game from Gibraltar Masters 44 Saumya Srivastava 5½ 85 ushan Samridhi 4½
45 Vandan Sharma 5½ 86 Anupam Verma 4½
Harikrishna,Pentala (2755) - Vidit, 46 Arti Singh 5½ 87 Aadi Pandey 4½
Santosh Gujrathi (2642) [A48] 47 Ayush Patel 5½ 88 Lata Shimon 4½
Gibraltar Masters 2016 Caleta ENG (8.3),02.02.2016 48 Sumit Sharma 5½ 89 Saksham Bhawani 4½
Annotated by Sagar Shah 49 Sudipta Chakraborty 5 90 Anmol Verma 4½
Harikrishna played the London System against
50 Shatrughan Kaushik 5 91 Adarsh Kumar 4½
Vidit Gujrathi and was able to subdue him with
51 singh Prakash Vikram 5 92 Aniket Singh 4½
some nice attacking moves. With this win, Hari
52 md. Rashid 5 93 Badruddin 4½
moved into the leaders pack with 6.5/8. Sethura-
53 S.M. Wais 5 94 Namish Sharma 4
man and Abhijeet Gupta followed him on six points
1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 g6 3.Bf4!? Inspired by Carlsen's win over Tomashevsky from the Wijk aan 54 Sharma Gaurav 5 95 Santosh Kumar 4
Zee 2016, Harikrishna plays the London. 3...d6 4.c3 Nh5!? This seems like improvisation 55 Mahi Rajawat 5 96 Hemant Kumar 4
on the board by Vidit. No real games have been played with this move before. 5.Bg5 h6 56 Shukla Vivek 5 97 Abhilash Johari 4
6.Bh4 g5 A very common idea to win the dark squared bishop for a knight. In return Black 57 Nitin Ticrolia 5 98 Prateek Gupta 4
weakens his kingside. There is one more factor which we must take into consideration here. 58 Mustafa Zaidi S M 5 99 Aviral Agarwal 4
After Nxg3, the bishop on g7 will be unopposed. But it will not be 59 Ashish Kumar 5 100 Divyansh Govil 4
very happy because he faces this barricade of pawns b2-c3-d4 60 Manas Rajawat 5 101 Tanishka Jain 4
on the diagonal. Things could have been much different had the 61 Shubham D Singh 5 102 Anushruti Kumari 4
pawn been on c4. 7.Bg3 Bg7 8.e4 0–0 9.Bd3 e6 10.Ng1!? 62 Bhavyay Gupta 5 103 Maitreyi Gupta 4
Harikrishna is in a creative mood! But he needed to do something 63 Sarthak Chaudhary 5 104 Rajendra Prasad T 4
about the threat of f5. Is this move any good, I don't think so.
64 Ram Kumar 5 105 Aditya Srivastava 4
[10.Nbd2 f5 11.exf5 exf5 12.Qb3+ Kh8 13.0–0–0 is computer's
65 Shorya Shatakshi 5 106 Himanshu Kingar 4
way of playing this position. 13...f4 14.Bg6 Nf6 15.Nxg5! hxg5
66 Dushyant Kumar 5 107 Mridul Vashistha 4
16.h4!±] 10...Nxg3 11.hxg3 c5! Black has clearly equalised out
67 Negi Pradeep 5 108 Manikya Negi 4
of the opening and maybe much more. 12.dxc5 dxc5 13.Qe2
Qc7 14.Nh3 [14.e5!?] 14...Rd8 15.f4! (see diagram) 68 Siddhant Srivastava 5 109 Garvit Bhutani 4
Harikrishna's king is in the center but he feels that it is the right 69 Tanmay Garg 5 110 Amit Kumar 4
time to launch an attack on his opponent's king. 15...Qd6 16.Bc4 Qe7?! This is just too 70 Dhruv Vashishth 5 111 Aryan Malik 4
tame. After this White gets into the driver's seat. [16...Nc6! 17.fxg5? (17.e5 Qc7 and the 71 Sharma Shardul 5 112 Saksham Mishra 4
position is still quite complex.) 17...Qxg3+] 17.Nf2 [17.fxg5 hxg5 18.Qh5± would have 72 Shivam Kumar 5 113 Maheshwari Pallavi 4
caused immense problems to Black.] 17...Nc6 18.Nd2 Na5 19.Bd3 c4 20.Bc2 [20.Nxc4 73 Srishti Tyagi 5 114 Krish Kumar 4
Nxc4 21.Bxc4 b5 22.Bxb5 Rb8 Might have been Vidit's idea to get 74 Raja Babu 5 115 Kartikeya Goel 4
some play. But the compensation looks quite insufficient.] 20... 75 Riddhika Kotia 5 116 Shubham Singh 3½
gxf4 21.gxf4 e5 22.f5 b5 It is now a race but somehow White 76 Saini Ashutosh 4½ 117 Ishab Pokhriyal 3½
reaches the gates faster than Black. 23.Nf3 b4 24.Ng4 bxc3 77 Pranshu Kanodia 4½ 118 Rajeev Kashyan 3½
25.bxc3 Rd6 26.Qe3 Rb8 27.Nxh6+ Kf8 28.Ng4 Kg8 [28...
78 Tushar Sharma 4½ 119 Aviral 3½
Rb2 would have been desirable but doesn't do much. 29.Qc1 Rdb6
79 Roopak Arora 4½ 120 Pramod Kumar 3½
30.Rh7±] 29.Rb1 Rxb1+ 30.Bxb1 Qb7 31.Kf2 Rb6 32.Bc2
80 Rishabh Singh Chauhan 4½ 121 Aditya Agarwal 3½
Rb2? [32...Qe7 And the position is still complex, white has a small
81 Jaiswal Ayushi 4½ 122 Saumya Tyagi 3½
edge though.] 33.Qg5! (see diagram) Giving up the bishop on
c2, the two knights, queen and rook are good enough to create a 82 Vijoy Kumar Sinha 4½ 123 Shikha Singh 3½
massacre![33.Qg5 Rxc2+ 34.Kg3 f6 35.Nxf6+ Kf8 36.Nh7+ Ke8 83 Arjun Naidu 4½ 124 Simran Sharma 3½
(36...Kg8 37.Qd8++-) 37.f6+-] 1–0 84 Azal Nasir 4½
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Abyaas 1st All India Fide Rating Chess Tournament , Guntur 30 Akshit Kumar J 5½ 73 Karthikay C 5
74 Radhika Devi Chavali 5
IM Ramnathan Balasubramaniam wins 31 Sri Sai Baswanth P
32 Kandari Sasidar K A IM
5½
5½ 75 Rehaman Kotte 4½
by Venkata Kumar G (FA) , Chief Arbiter 76 Srinivasa Rao Tummalapali 4½
33 Shyam Prasad Reddy K 5½
34 Subramanian T.V. 5½ 77 Savitha Shri B 4½
International Master Ramnathan Balasub- Rao,Correspondant ,Sri S. Yesu Ratnam, 78 Vijay Babu S 4½
35 Ranadheer B J S K 5½
ramaniam of Tamil Nadu became champion M.D. Abyaas Jr College, Sri Devaram 79 Kalur Nikhil 4½
36 Arun R U 5½
of Abyaas 1st All India Fide Rating Chess Srihari,Secretary, APCA,Sri Challa Chinna 80 Rohith Yadav B R 4½
37 Vasishta S 5½
Tournament conducted from 28th to 31st Anjaneyullu, President,Guntur Dist Chess 81 Abhijith Cheettrala 4½
38 Vidya Sagar J.B.M. 5½
January 2016 at Abyaas Junior College, Nal- Assnt, Sri Y. Suman,Joint-Secretary ,APCA 82 Sai Rohan Chowdary M 4½
39 Pranav Ram Hariharan 5½
lapadu, Guntur, Andhra Pradesh. He scored 7 and Sri Ch. Ravindra Raju, Secretary, Guntur 83 Chinnam Vyshnavi WCM 4½
40 Harisurya Bharadwaj G 5½
points from 8 games. He tied with 4 players Dist Chess Assn graced the occasion. 84 Sibi Srinivas Eistein Reddy 4½
41 Praneeth R 5½
and the tie was resolved by Bucchholz which Final ranking: 85 Kargutkar N. J. 4½
42 Duvvuri S Subrahmanyam 5½
ensured Dhulipalla Bala Chandra Prasad of Rk Name Pts 86 Amar CS 4½
43 Chetana D 5½
Andhra Pradesh finish second with same 1 R. Balasubramaniam IM 7 87 Venkata Subbarao M 4½
44 Digvijay Sunil 5
number of points. IM CRG Krishna (AP), FM 2 D Bala Chandra Prasad 7 88 Sarath Chandra K 4½
45 Benasir M 5
J Ramakrishna (Andhra Brank), Youngster 3 Krishna C R G IM 7 89 Kruti G 4½
46 Aasha.C R. 5
M Nikhil (AP) placed 3rd to 5th positions in 4 Ramakrishna J FM 7 90 Sri Ram T 4½
47 Soumyajit Das 5
that order. 5 Nikhil M 7 91 Sreevijay Sunil 4½
48 Abhinav Chandra Kodali 5
6 Rahul Srivatshav P 6½ 92 Anirudh B S 4½
49 M Tulasi Ram Kumar 5
Winner Balasubraminam got prize money of 7 Harshita Guddanti 6½ 93 Prasad ARV 4½
50 Neeraj Anirudh K 5
Rs. 20,000/- and Runner-up Bala Chandra 8 Subramanian V 6½ 94 Keerthi Bandlamudi 4½
51 Gatram Sravan Kumar A IM 5
Prasad got Rs. 15,000/- . 3rd placed IM CRG 9 Chakravarthy Y V K 6½ 95 Swathi Y 4½
52 Madhavan G 5
Krishna got 10,000/- .A total of Rupees one 10 B Mounika Akshaya WFM 6½ 96 Sumanth P 4½
53 Rithvik Raja M 5
lakh prize money was distributed among 40 11 Cheela Naga Sampath 6½ 97 Saypuri Srithan 4½
54 Murali Mohan Y 5
players. 12 Pvs Aravind 6½ 98 Abdul Nabi 4½
55 Chandran T. 5
13 Mehar Chinna Reddy FM 6 99 Aarvi Jain 4½
56 Thaga Sheriff M 5
The event organized by Genius Chess Acad- 14 Lakshmanrao D. 6 100 Mahendra Teja Mekala 4½
57 Sri Sai Harsha Kuralla 5
emy attracted 250 participants from Andhra 15 Potluri Supreetha WFM 6 101 Tarun Vankadaru 4½
58 Hemprakash Barsagade 5
Pradesh, Telangana, Maharashtra, Tamilnadu, 16 Subhash K V 6 102 Sai Yashwanth P 4½
59 Rama Rao T V 5
Karnataka, Goa, Odissa,West Bengal, Andhra 17 Priyanka Nutakki 6 103 Krishna Reddy 4½
60 Varshini N 5
Bank and LIC Departments. FA Venkat 18 Vigneshwaran S 6 104 Suman Yaddanapudi 4½
61 Hrishikesan Sundararajan 5
Kumar G is the Chief Arbiter and FA S Subba 19 Chaitanya Sairam Mogili 6 105 Priyamvada Karamcheti 4
62 Ishwar Ramteke 5
Raju is deputy arbiter for the event. 20 Arya Bhakta 6 106 Ismail S K 4
63 Abhilash Varma A 5
21 Sarvesh Kumar A 6 107 Abhay D Pendse 4
64 Niharika Ch 5
In the valedictory function Chief Guests were 22 Nitheesh Pothireddy 6 108 Aryan Rajesh Jain 4
65 Sai Sujan S 5
Hon’ble Sri. Dr.Kodela Siva Prasad,Speaker,AP 23 Sai Kiran Y 6 109 Swamy M V 4
66 Dukhande D S 5
Assembly, Hon’ble Sri R Sambasiva Rao, 24 Mithilesh K Balagopalan 6 110 Valety Swetha 4
67 Konatham Snehil 5
MP and Hon’ble Sri Rama Krishna,MLC dis- 25 Sandya M 6 111 Goutham D 4
68 Shanmukha Teja P 5
tributed the prizes. Sri Y. D. Rama Rao, 26 Prasannaa.S 5½ 112 Venkatesachari G 4
69 Gopal Reddy B 5
President , AP Chess Association presided 27 Rao J. Malleswara 5½ 113 Sai gnanadeep J 4
70 Harshad S Parulekar 5
over the function. Sri V. V. Narasayya, Chair- 28 Ravi Kumar K 5½ 114 Srinivasa Rao G.V. 4
71 Patil T S 5
man, Abyaas Jr College, Sri B. Lakshmana 29 Jayachandra Srinivas Vellanki 5½ 115 Samba Siva Rao M 4
72 Siva Chowdeswar N 5

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116 Ramakrishna A 4 Solution to ‘puzzle of the month’ on p.8 1st Vimla Devi Lunia Memorial All India Open FIDE Rtd Tmt 2016,Raipur
117 Gaddipati Anjani Kumar 4 ‘d’ (capital or small) is obviously the king as
118 Jagapathi Babu Ch 4 only two kings (white and black) must be on Manoj Mishra wins title
119 Ingle C T 4 board. ’e’ cannot be queen or bishop as two FA Biswanath Banerjee, Chief Arbiter
120 Sasidhar P 4 bishops/queens cannot check the opponent
121 Charumati K 4 king simultaneously. ’e’ also cannot be rook The 1st Vimla Devi Lunia Memorial All India smoothly conducted by me with the help
122 Sudipta Chakraborty 4 as in that case g3 rook must be the last move Open FIDE Rated Tournament 2016 was in- of my deputy FA Mrinal Ghosh, & S Athar
123 Akira Sowmyanatha Reddy 4 checking the king-but there is no legal place augurated by railway officials along with Mr. Abbas Kazmi.
124 Adithya Krishna Sai Ch 4 from where it could have come from. Also it P C Sekhar in the presence of other execu-
125 Swetha Sree Lanka 4 can’t be a pawn as they cannot be on the first tive body members of District Chess Asso- S Athar Abbas Kazmi got his 2nd FA Norm
126 Lanka Sri Karthikeya Durgapras 4 rank. That leaves the possibility of ‘e’ being ciation & State Chess Association on 29TH from this tournament . The closing Ceremony
127 Shaik Sumer Arsh 4 only a knight. Since g1 knight is checking January 2016 at 10.30 am at Samudayik was held in a befitting manner. Many digni-
128 Sai Divya M 4 the opponent king at f3, this must be the last Bhawan,Raipur , WRS Colony at Chhattis- taries’ from District and from Railways were
129 Sai Aravindh Sridhar 4 move. The only possibility of how the g1 knight garh. This tournament was organized by present in this ceremony & gave away the
130 Sanjana C 4
could have reached there is f2xg1=N+. That Raipur District Chess Association with Chhat- prizes to all the winners. Many local play-
implies lower case letters are black(as it has tisgarh Pradesh Chess Association under the ers will get Elo rating and some players got
131 Girish Kumar K 4
to promote down to a knight at g1) and upper Aegis of AICF and FIDE and Sponsored by partial rating from this event. I express my
132 Venkata Jitin Varikuti 4
case letters are white.
133 Bolisetty Lochana 4 “Vimla Devi Lunia Memorial Trust”. Chhattis- thanks to the organizing body i.e Raipur
134 Sudhakar K 4 garh is a newly born State in our chess family District Chess Association & Chhattisgarh
‘a’,’b’ and ‘f’ are not pawns as they are on first
135 Arudhra B 4 and this is the first time they organised such Pradesh Chess Association for giving me an
rank. ’b’ cannot be queen or bishop as they will
136 Agrawal Arnav 4 a fantastic tournament. The tournament is opportunity to undertake the responsibility
check the black king. So ‘b’ must be rook. Now
137 Srivardhan Reddy D 4 played in a big hall, with sufficient drinking as Chief Arbiter for this event. I express my
we have to select bishop or queen for ‘a’ and ‘f’.
138 Tanish Sai Kavuru 4 water and washroom facilities. The organisers special thanks to Mr. Sekhar Iyer & Mr. P.C.
If ‘f’ is a bishop white is left with no legal move
139 Jayanth R 4 prior to the last black move f2xg1=N+. This arranged a separate place for parents. They Sekhar for their immense support. Without
140 Sawant G L 4 is irrespective of whatever piece is at g1.So ‘f’ provide a beautiful Cafeteria, from where their support this is not possible for anybody
141 Md Kousar Ahmadee 4 must be a queen and ‘a’ is a bishop. The last all the participants , officials and others can to make this event a grand success. The
142 Linga Bathini Rambabu 4 moves are Qh3(from anywhere on the h-file) get their lunch , tea etc. Digital Clocks were Press and Media covered the event well and
143 Sarayu V 4 followed by f2xg1=N+ provide in all the boards. we had considerably very good support from
144 Sathvik Gaddala 4 ( Solution narrated by Dr.Manikumar) the parents and guardian of the participants.
145 Sohith Podile 4 Andrey Frolkin (Ori ginal) A total of 200 players from 9 States of In-
146 Dheeraj T 4 Super Problem 4.1.2016 dia took part in this event. Out of these 200 Final ranking:
147 Bhuvanchand Chowdary K 4 players, 69 players were rated and 131 were Rk Name Pts
148 Ismail P 4 unrated. Top seed was FM Srinath Rao S.V 1 Mishra Manoj 6
149 Subrahmanya Kumar K 4 with a rating of 2298 who finished runner- 2 Srinath Rao S.V FM 5½
150 Srinivasa Rao Bayya 3½ up whereas 6th seed Manoj Mishra clinched 3 Dodeja Pawan 5½
151 Honnesh Sankaran 3½ the Championship title and became the 4 Nath Rupankar 5½
152 Pushpa Kumar K 3½ Champion of “1st Vimla Devi Lunia Memorial 5 Samal Ansuman 5½
153 Agarwal Raghav 3½ All India Open FIDE Rtd Tmt 2016 and was 6 Girish Dakliya Yogesh 5
154 Narasimha Naidu G 3½ awarded a Cash Prize of Rs.20,000/- along 7 Yashpal Arora 5
155 Sai Sumanth Reddy R 3½ with Champions Trophy. He scored 6 points 8 Shiv Shankar Agrawal 5
156 Yashavishree N 3½ out of 6 rounds. Total prize money was 9 Sparsh Khandelwal 5
157 Dharma Teja Yelpucherla 3½ Black played last f2xg1=N+ Rs.150,000/- Not a single protest/claim was 10 Vinod R. Sharma 5
158 Venkata Krishna Komanduri 3½ and prior to that white played Qh3 there during that period. Tournament was 11 Rakesh Kumar Kesherwani 5

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12 Debiprasad Sarkar 5
13 Anoop Edward 5
56 Harsh Sharma
57 Rahul Sharma
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4
Selected games from Delhi Open
14 Banerjee Ashutosh 5 58 Shinde Rujul 4 Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron
15 Niklesh Kumar Jain 5 59 Dedhia Anan 3½
16 Atul Bihari Sharan 5 60 Milind Agarwal 3½ Dhulipalla,Bala Chandra Prasad (2248)
17 Dhananjay 4½ 61 Aditya Chatterjee 3½ Belous,Vladimir (Rus) (2557)
18 Anurag Jaiswal 4½ 62 Ashok Kr. Patel 3½
19 Shastry P.L. 4½ 63 Gaurav Banerjee 3½ 1.d4 Nf6 2.Bf4 g6 3.e3 Bg7 4.Nf3 d6
20 Sonker Santosh Kumar 4½ 64 Ranade Mayank 3½ 5.h3 0–0 6.Be2 c5 7.c3 b6 8.0–0 Bb7
21 Rohit Sahu 4½ 65 Rohit Yadav 3½ 9.Nbd2 Nbd7 10.a4 a6 11.Bh2 Qc7
22 Hend Pravin 4½ 66 Maharana Pratap 3½ 12.Bd3 Rfe8 13.Qe2 [This is new. In 2003,
23 Manish Thadhani 4½ 67 Firke Yash 3½ A.Whatley 2323 vs P.Charbonneau 2442
24 Yadav Prem Gopal 4½ 68 Sahu Girish 3½ went: 13.Re1 e5 14.dxe5 Nxe5 15.Nxe5 (Position after 20….Qxb7)
25 Shashwat Chakraborty 4 69 Vijay Kumar Kashyap 3½ dxe5 16.Be2 Qc6 17.Bf3 e4 18.Be2 Rad8³ 21...Nef6 22.Bc4 b5 23.axb5 axb5
26 Ravi Kumar Thadhani 4 70 Aryan Jaiswal 3½ and black won eventually.]13...e5 14.dxe5 24.Bd5 Nxd5 25.Rxd5 f6 [Inexplicably
27 Pandey Prashant 4 71 Subhendu Guha 3½ dxe5 15.Rfd1 Qc6? [Black is anxious to black is overcome by the defensive spirit.
28 Yash Dhoke 4 72 Kshirodra Kumar Purohit 3½ get his queen out of the dark diagonal Best was: 25...f5 26.Rad1 f4=]26.b4!
29 Mehendi Sil 4 73 Roshan Lal Kumbharani 3½ which is controlled by the Bh2. Better was Nb6! 27.Rd6 [After 27.Rxc5? Na4! and
30 Rajneesh Chaddha 4 74 Mukesh Thakur 3 15...Red8=]16.e4² Re7 17.Nc4?! [17.b4! suddenly black is on top!]27...Nc4 28.Rd5
31 Mandakani Mishra 4 75 Mohan Soni 3 would have intensified white's pressure on Nb6 29.Rd6 Na4 [Black varies. He wants
32 Mayank Dewangan 4 76 Gupta Vishal 3 the queen-side.]17...Qc7? more!]30.bxc5 Nxc3 [Better was: 30...
33 Lokesh Kumar 4 77 Rathindra Thakur 3 Nxc5 31.Rd5=]31.Qd3 Na4 [Not 31...
34 Patil Priyanshu 4 78 Anubha Agrawal 3 Nxe4? 32.Rb6 and the Ne4 is lost.]32.c6!
35 Agarwal Nitish 4 79 Joshi Tushar 3 Qc7 33.Rd1
36 Shourya Agrawal 4 80 Garv Gaur 3
37 Uppal Anshul 4 81 Linu Rajan 3
38 Vijay Jhanwar 4 82 Khirod Kr. Khuntia 3
39 Parakh Niyati 4 83 Aryan Goswami 3
40 Ishika 4 84 Sappra Priyanshu 3
41 Kant Swapnil 4 85 Bani Kanta Nath 3
42 Bhavi Bhansali 4 86 Ashwani Kumar Koshray 3
43 Vikas Jaiswal 4 87 Ekre Abhishek 3
44 Mishra Kamad 4 88 Bodkhe Aditya 3
45 Tanmay Iyer 4 89 Chaoji Parth 3
46 Vishal Dwivedi 4 90 Abhinav Agrawal 3 [Best was to capture the pawn: 17...Nxe4!
47 Shanti Lal Yadav 4 91 Arvind Dhiwar 3 18.Bxe4 Qxe4 19.Qxe4 Bxe4 20.Rxd7
48 Sharma Kunal 4 92 Alok Singh Kshatri 3 Rxd7 21.Nxb6 Rdd8 22.Nxa8 Bxf3 White has a terrific grip over the centre and
49 Pratham Peri 4 93 Ved Prakash Kashyap 3 23.gxf3 Rxa8 24.Rd1 f6÷]18.Bc2 Rb8 should win.]33...Rf7 34.Qb3 [Threat is 35
50 Bhawana Jaiswal 4 94 Sahu Om Aditya 3 19.Nd6 Ne8 20.Nxb7 Qxb7 [Diagram Rd7 wining the pinned rook on f7.]34...Kh8
51 Tarun Kumar Nayak 4 95 Meenal Sahu 3 #]21.Bb3 [A positional approach to the 35.Rd7 Rxd7 36.cxd7 Nc5 37.Qf7 [The
52 Mohan Prasad Tiwari 4 96 Sonboir Samir 3 situation would give white a bigger ad- threat now is 38 Qe8+ winning.]37...Qd8
53 Aditya Priya 4 97 Arundhti Dey 3 vantage: 21.b4 Nef6 22.Bd3 Ra8 23.Nd2 38.Qd5 Na4 [Not 38...Bf8? 39.Nxe5!+–
54 Singh Harishabh Kumar 4 98 Lalit Kumar 3 Nh5 24.Bc4 Nf4 25.Qf3 Rd8 26.b5!±] ]39.Bxe5! fxe5 40.Ng5!
55 Ravi Rochlani 4

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Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron
[Black has a slight advantage as white's
bishop cannot be easily developed. If 24
Bd2 Nd3 wins b2 and 24 Be3 would allow
....Rxe4.]
24.Ra3 c4 [Now black has a clear advan-
tage.]25.Nd4?
30...Bb8 31.Re3 Na8 32.Rg3 Bxd6

[Or, still better: 40.Nxe5! Bxe5 41.Qxe5+ [A grave strategic mistake. He should cap- 33.exd6 Qxd6 34.Rg7! Qd7 35.Bg6 [This
Kg8 42.Qxb8!!+–]40...Nc3 41.Nf7+ Kg8 ture tht knight before it could cause severe return of the bishop is winning. White wins
42.Nh6+ Kh8 43.Nf7+ Kg8 44.Nxd8+ damage to his position. 18...Bxc5 19.bxc5 a decisive pawn.]35...Nc7 36.Rxf7 Rxf7
Nxd5 45.Nc6! [Now white is totally win- a4 was good for white, but it was black's 37.Qxh8 Rg7 38.Qxh5 Qd8 39.Bd3 Qg8
ning.]45...Ra8 46.Rxd5 Bf6 47.d8Q+ best in the circumstances.]19.Nb7 Qd7 [Black's attack is easily warded off.]40.
Bxd8 48.Rxd8+ Rxd8 49.Nxd8 b4 [Prob- 20.Nd6+ Kd8 21.Bg5+ Kc7 22.Bf6 Rh7 Qf3 Ne8 41.Re1 Nf6 42.h5! Nxh5 [Des-
ably black thought his b-pawn could not [Black believes that as the queen-side is perately black grabs the bait thinking he [White has the worse position. Yet, 25.Bd2
be stopped. But there is a nasty surprise completely blocked his king is safe in it. has enough counterplay against the white Nd3 26.Rxd3 cxd3 27.Bc3 was the lesser
around the corner!]50.Nc6 b3 51.Ne7+! But the king-side is not yet impenetrably king.]43.Qxh5! Rxg2+ 44.Kf1 e5 [After evil.]25...Bxd4! 26.Qxd4 Nc2 27.Qf6
[After 51...Kf7 52 Nd5 b2 53 Nc3 and the blocked.]23.c3 Na6 24.Qg5 Kb6 25.Be7 44...Rg1+ 45.Ke2 black has nothing for Qe7 [Black pauses to defend his king-
b-pawn is stopped.]1–0 Nc7 26.Rae1 [White has already planned his bishop minus.]45.Qxe5 Qg4 [Black side as he is guaranteed to win one of
his attack many moves deep and knows threatens mate in one, but before that, the two white rooks.]28.Qxh6 Nxa3
Popov,Iv RUS (2650) where this rook would be most effec- white finishes him off.]46.Qb8+! [46. [Capturing the other rook would lose
Ravi,Teja S (2385) [B11] tive!]26...Rg7 [Black cannnot even try to Qb8+ Ka6 47.Bxb5+ cxb5 48.Qd6+ Kb7 outright: 28...Nxe1 29.Rg3 f6 30.Bxg 5
exchange white's knight on d6: 26...Ne8?? 49.Re7+ mates next move.]1–0 fxg5 31.Rxg5++–]29.bxa3 [White
1.e4 c6 2.Nc3 d5 3.Nf3 Bg4 4.h3 Bxf3 27.Bxf8 wins a knight for nothing.]27.Qf6 m i s s es h i s b es t ch an ce: 29. Bxg5 Q f8
5.Qxf3 Nf6 6.d3 e6 7.Bd2 Bb4 8.a3 Ba5 [Rook, go back!] Tukhaev,Adam (Ukr) (2556) 3 0 . Qx f 8 + Kx f8 31. bx a3 c3 32. Bf6 c2
9.e5 Nfd7 10.Qg3 g6 11.d4 Bb6 [After 27...Rh7 28.Bxf8 Rxf8 29.Bxg6 Rhh8 Sriram,Jha (2416) [C77] 3 3 . f 3 Rec 8 3 4 . Rc1 Rab8 35. h 6 Kg8=]
this, black is gradually outplayed and kept 30.Bd3 [Diagram #][This is simple and 29...f6 30.Bb2 Qg7 [Better was:
under control till the end of the game. A good, but probably stronger was the follow- 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 30...Rf8 31.Qg6+ Qg7 32.Qf5=]31.
game K.Chernyshov (2485) vs M.Turov ing queen-sacfice variation: 30.Nxf7! Rh7 5.d3 d6 6.c3 g6 7.0–0 Bg7 8.Nbd2 Qxf6 Qxf6 32.Bxf6 g4± 33.a5? Kh7
(2460), 1998 went: 11...c5 12.b4 cxd4 31.Bxh7 Rxf7 32.Bg6! Rxf6 33.exf6 Na6 0–0 9.Re1 b5 10.Bb3 Na5 11.Bc2 c5 [Better was: 33...Ra7 34.Bg5 Rf7
13.Nxd5 exd5 14.bxa5 Nc6 15.a6 bxa6 34.f7 Qe7 35.Re3! White plans to double 12.Nf1 Nc6 13.a4 [Camino Carrio 2136 35.Bd2 Re5 and black is on the ascen-
16.Bxa6 Qb6 17.Bd3 Ncxe5 18.0–0 Nxd3 rooks on the e-file for a decisive attack. vs C.Martin Luis 2252, 2007 went: 13.Bg5 dancy.]34.Kh2 Rf8 35.Bd4 [Diagram
19.Rab1= White eventually won.]12.Be3 35...Nb8 (worse is 35...Nc7 36.Bxh5 and h6 14.Bh4 Qb6 15.Qd2 Kh7 16.h3 Be6 #][White's best was to counter attack
a6 13.h4 h5 14.Na4 Ba7 15.b4± [White black has no defence against the threat 17.Ne3 Rfe8 18.g4 Ng8 19.Kh1 Nge7 a n d t r y t o g et h i s o wn passed pawn s
wants to make sure that the black bishop of Re3–g3–g8.) 36.Rxe6! Qxe6 37.f8Q 20.Nf5 gxf5 21.gxf5 Nxf5 White won on rolling: 35.Be7! Rxf2 36.Bxd6 Re8
stays dead and does not enter the game!] Qxg6 38.Qd8+! Kb7 39.Re1! White has the 32nd move.]13...Bb7 14.Ne3 Re8 37.Kg3 Rd2 38.Bb4 c3! 39.Kxg4 Rxg2+
15...a5 16.Bd3 [Now black must guard a decisive mating attack starting with 40 15.Bb3 Qc7 16.Nd5 Nxd5 17.Bxd5 Ne7 40.Kf3 Rh2! 41.Rc1 c2= This ending is
against the possibility of white sacrificing Re7+] 18.Bxb7 Qxb7 19.h4 h6 20.h5 g5= extremely complicated offering chances
on g6.]16...Nf8 17.0–0 b5 18.Nc5 a4? 21.d4 exd4 22.cxd4 Nc6³ 23.d5 Nb4 to both players.]

34 35
two king-side pawns and become part of 36.f6±]23...Qb6 24.Rae1 Qc6 25.Qg2
three connected passed pawns.]49.Rd3 Rad8 26.g6! fxg6 [After 26...hxg6
Kg6! 50.g3 Kf6 [Black concentrates on de- 27.fxg6 f6 28.b3 Nf8 29.Rc1 Qb5² White
stroying or controlling the d-pawn.]51.Rd4 has a faint advantage with greater board
Ke5 52.Re4+ Kxd6 53.g4 Re5 54.Ra4 room. But he needs to be careful taking
Ke6 55.Kg3 Kf6 56.Kf4 Re6 57.Ra5 Rf8 care of his pawns on d6 and g6.]27.fxg6
58.Kg3 Kg6 59.Ra3 [If 59.f4 Re3+ 60.Kf2 h6 28.Rc1 Qd5 29.Rc7!
(60.Kh4?? Rh8+) 60...Rc3 61.Rg5+ Kf7
62.Rf5+ Ke7 63.Re5+ Kd6–+]59...Re1
60.f3 Rf6 61.Rb3 Rfe6 [It would have
been interesting to see how black wins, as
it does not appear to be easy. White's resig-
35...Rac8 36.e5?! [36.Kg3 c3 37.Be3 is nation deprives us of that experience!]0–1 `
an extremely interesting position requiring 35...Rg8! [suddenly the advantage shifts
great flair for the ending, especially like Suri,Vaibhav (2552) and it is black on the attack now!]36.
here where there is a great imbalance Das,Sayantan (2411) [D10] Bg3 Qh5! [Black has two serious
in material and the material is scattered threats: 1) 37...Rxd6!! 38 Qxd6 Qf3#!
all over the board.]36...dxe5 37.Rxe5 [This exciting game must have kept the 2) 37...Rxg3.]37.Kg2= Qg6? [A mis-
Rfe8! [If black exchanges off a pair of spectators on their toes as the players trade take which hands the advantage back
rooks the position would be more fa- mistakes and brilliancies. This is worth ana- to white. Better was: 37...Qh6 38.Re4
vourable for him.]38.Rf5³ c3 39.Kg3 lysing for your own benefit-Aaron] 29...Qe6 [White is not offering the b6=]38.Re4! Qh5 39.Qe6? [White
c2 40.Bb2 c1Q 41.Bxc1 Rxc1 bishop for nothing. If 29...Bxe3 30.Rxd7! misses: 39.Re7! Qg5 40.d7! (threatens
1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.e3 a6 5.Nf3 Kh8 (30...Rxd7? 31.Nf6+! wins the 41 Qf7 and 42 Re8 winning.) 40...f5
Bf5 6.Ne5 dxc4 [This gives the initiative queen.) 31.Rxg7! Kxg7 32.Rf7+ (40...Qd2+ 41.Kh3 Qh6+ 42.Rh4+–)
to white. 6...h6 is preferred here.]7.Bxc4 Qxf7 (32...Kh8? 33.Rh7+ Kg8 34.Nf6+ 41.Qf7 Qh6 42.Re8!+– Qd2+ 43.Kh3
e6 8.g4! Be4 9.f3 Bd5 10.Be2 [The K f 8 3 5 . Q x d 5 a n d m a t e n e x t m o ve . ) Qh6+ 44.Rh4]39...Rg6 40.Qe7 [White
threat is 11 e4 trapping the bishop.]10... 33.gxf7+ Kxf7 34.Qf3+ Bf4 35.Qh5+ misses yet another win and this time
c5 11.g5 Nfd7 12.Nxd5 [Better was Kg7 36.Qg4+ Kh8 (36...Bg5? 37.h4!) it is fatal. He could win with: 40.Rc8!
12.Nxd7 Nxd7 13.e4 cxd4 14.Nxd5 exd5 37.Nf6+–]30.Bxh6! Rf8 [If 30...gxh6 Rxc8 41.Qxc8+ Kh7 42.d7+–]40...Rdg8
15.Qxd4 dxe4 16.Qxe4+ Be7 17.Be3² 31.g7 b5 32.Rxd7 Rxd7 33.Nf6+ Kf7 41.d7 [Till now, the black queen could
Qa5+ 18.Kf1 Qb4²]12...Nxe5 13.Nc3= 34.g8Q+ Rxg8 35.Qxg8#]31.Bg5 Qxg6 not leave the h-file for fear of Qh7#.
cxd4 14.exd4 Ng6 15.d5 Nd7 16.0–0 32.Re1 [White misses the winning line: But now after 41 d7 there is no mate on
Bc5+ 17.Kh1 0–0 18.f4 [Better 18.dxe6 32.Rfc1 Nf6 33.Bxf6 Qxg2+ 34.Kxg2 gxf6 h7 and black is given a crucial tempo.
fxe6 19.Bc4 Re8 20.Qb3 Qb6=]18...e5 35.Rxb7+–]32...Nf6 33.Nxf6+ gxf6 If 41.Qf7 f5–+]
White has a rook for three pawns. Unfor- 19.f5 Nf4 20.Ne4 Nxe2 21.Qxe2 Bd4 34.Qd5+ Kh8² 35.Bh4? [Diagram #] 41...Qg5? [Black goes wrong! He should
tunately none of those pawns are threat- 22.Be3 Re8 23.d6 [23.Nd6 leads to a [White errs at a critical juncture. This win by: 41...Rh6! 42.d8Q (or, if 42.h4
ening or pose any danger to black. Ma- fascinating variation 23...Rf8 24.Bxd4 move loses. However, he could win with: Rxg3+ 43.Kxg3 Rg6+ 44.Kh2 Bg1+
terially, he is losing. Yet the actual plan exd4 25.g6 Nf6 26.gxf7+ (26.Qe5 Qd7 35.Qe6! b6 (35...Qxg5? 36.Qh3+ Kg8 45.Kh3 Qf3#) 42...Qxh2+! 43.Kf1 Qh1+
for black to win is not easy to find.]42. 27.gxf7+ Kh8 28.Nc4 Qxf7=) 26...Kh8 37.Qh7#) 36.Re2 Qb1+ 37.Rc1! (37. 44.Ke2 Qxe4+ 45.Kd2 Qe3+ 46.Kc2 (or
Rf6 Rc3+ 43.Kxg4 Rxa3 44.Rxa6 27.Qe6 Qa5 28.Rg1 Qxd5+ 29.Qxd5 Bc1? Qd3!–+) 37...Qg6 38.Rg2! Bc5 46.Kd1 Rh1+ 47.Kc2 Rc1#) 46...Qe2+
b4 45.d6 b3 46.Rb6 Rxa5 47.Rxb3 Nxd5 30.Rg4 Rad8 31.Re1! Rxd6 39.Rc3 Rxd6 (39...Qb1+ 40.Bc1 mates 47.Kb3 Qxb2+ 48.Ka4 Qb5+ 49.Ka3
Rg8+ 48.Kf3 Rxh5! [It was best to 32.Re8 Rd8 33.Rxd8 Rxd8 34.Rxd4 with 41 Rh3+) 40.Rh3+ Kg7 41.Bh6+ Bb2#
destroy this pawn, lest it join his other (threat Rxd5!) 34...g5 35.Rxd5 Rf8 Kh8 42.Bxf8+ mates.]

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hopes to use his queen + bishop battery and g5 pawns.]32...Qe6 44.Kh2 d1Q 45.Rxd1 Rxd1 46.c7! Rc1
on the long white diagonal against g2. He 47.a6! Ke6 48.a7! and one of the two
also hopes to capitalise on his semi-open white pawns queen.]1–0
g-file with his Rh8.]
21.Bf1!± [The bishop is no longer needed Ravi,Teja S (2385)
on b5 and returns to defend his g2 from Bernadskiy,Vitaly (Ukr) (2546)
any developing threat.]21...Ng5?! [This
simplifies the position for white. Perhaps 1.d4 f5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.g3 g6 4.Bg2 Bg7
better was to keep the tension in the game 5.0–0 0–0 6.b3 Ne4 7.Bb2 c5 8.Nbd2 Nc6
with: 21...e5 22.Nd2 Nd6 23.f3 f5 24.Bd3 9.e3 d5 10.c4 e6 11.a3 [J.Kekki (2230)
Re8 25.Bc2±]22.Nxg5 hxg5 23.h3 Rh4 vs S.Hamalainen (2130) Finnish Chp 1995
42.d8Q? [White could win with: 42.Rxd4! 24.Rg3 f6 went: 11.Rb1 cxd4 12.Nxd4 e5 13.cxd5 exd4
exd4 43.Rc8 Qd2+ 44.Kf1 Qd1+ 45.Kf2 14.Nxe4 fxe4 15.dxc6 bxc6 16.Bxd4 Ba6
Qd2+ 46.Qe2+–]42...Qd2+ 43.Kf1 Qd1+ 33.Rxe5! Qxf5 34.Rxf5 Rd8 35.Rc5! 17.Bxg7 Kxg7 18.Qxd8 Raxd8± white won
44.Kg2 [If 44.Re1 Qf3+ 45.Bf2 Rg1#]44... [White does not mind turning his connected in 32 moves.] 11...b6 12.Qc2 Bb7 13.dxc5
Qg1+ 45.Kh3 Qf1+! 46.Kh4 Rh6#0–1 passed pawns into disconnected passed bxc5 14.Bxg7 Kxg7 15.b4! cxb4 16.axb4
pawns if they advanced fast enough to dxc4 [16...Nxb4? 17.Qb2+ wins the Nb4.]
Neverov,V (2506) the 8th rank. The slower way to win was: 17.Nxe4 fxe4 18.Qxe4
Popov,Iv RUS (2650) [D49] 35.Kf1 Rc2 36.Ke1 Rb2 37.Rc5]35...
Rxc5 36.bxc5 Bf8 37.c6 Bc5 [37...Rc8
1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.Nc3 e6 38.Rxd4 Rxc6 39.Ra4 Ra6 40.g3+– White
5.e3 Nbd7 6.Bd3 dxc4 7.Bxc4 b5 8.Bd3 will win effortlessly.]38.h4 Rb8? [Prob-
a6 9.e4 c5 10.e5 cxd4 11.Nxb5 axb5 ably, black has mentally given up the
12.exf6 Qb6 13.fxg7 Bxg7 14.0–0 game. A reasonable alternative was: 38...
Bb7 15.Re1 Qd6 [This is a well explored, 25.b3! [With his g2 adequately protect- gxh4 39.Rxh4 Rc8 40.c7 Ke6 41.Bf4 d3
sharp line in the Semi-Slav Meran varia- ed, white plans to use his white square 42.Rh3 Kf5 43.Bh2 Ke4 44.Kf1 Kd4 45.Rh7
tion. A game V.Schulz (2223) vs J.Wegerle bishop more aggressively. He now threat- Kc3 46.Rd7+–]39.hxg5 f5 40.Rh4 Bd6
(2354), 2003 went: 15...Nc5 16.Bf4 Rd8 ens 26 Bc4 skewering the e6 pawn.]25... 41.Bf4! d3 [Diagram #][41...Bxf4 42.Rxf4
17.Rc1 Rd7 18.Be5 Bxf3 19.Qxf3 Nxd3 Ba6 [Black can try in vain to sacrifice the Rb1+ 43.Kh2 Rc1 44.Rxf5+ Ke7 45.Rd5 is
20.Qxd3 Bxe5 21.Rxe5 Ke7 22.Rxb5± exchange for a pawn: 25...Rc8 26.Bc4 an easy win.]
White won later.]16.Ng5 Nf6 [Challeng- Rxc4 27.bxc4 Qxc4 28.Re2 Qd5 (threat White attacks two isolated, undefendable
ing the Ng5 immediately allows white a 29....Rxh3!!) 29.Rb2! Kg8 (29...Rxh3? black pawns. The only way to defend both is
dangerous attack: 16...Bf6 17.Qh5 (Threat 30.Rxb7) 30.a5+–]26.Bxa6 Rxa6 27.Qd3 to offer exchange of queens which leads to
18 Rxe6+!) 17...Bxg5 18.Bxg5 h6 19.Bh4 Rc6 28.Bd2 Kf7 29.a5 [White resumes his an inferior endgame and the loss of pawns in
Rg8 20.Bg3 Qd5 21.Qxd5 Bxd5 22.Bxb5 queen-side advance as he has satisfactorily regular intervals. 18...Qd5 19.Qxd5 exd5²
h5 23.f3 Ke7 24.Red1 White has a win- dealt with the threats to his king.]29...e5 20.Ng5 Nd8 21.Rfd1 Black's d5 pawn should
ning advantage.]17.Bxb5+ Kf8 18.a4 [threat ....e5–e4.]30.Rg4 Rh8 [Black tries fall soon. 21...h6 22.Nh3 Ne6 [Black can-
h6 19.Nf3 Ne4 20.Ra3! [This interesting to bring this rook to help contain the white not defend his d5 with 22...Rf5 (because
way of developing the Ra1 and bringing pawns on the queen-side. After 30...Rxg4 after) 23.Nf4 the d5 falls.] 23.Bxd5 Bxd5
it to the king-side, or the centre, without 31.hxg4 black is not only a pawn down, but 24.Rxd5 c3 25.Rc1 Rfc8 26.Nf4 Nxf4
moving his queen bishop is met sometimes is also saddled with a very bad bishop.]31. 27.gxf4! [After 27.exf4 white does not
in middle-games arising from Queen Pawn b4 Qc4 32.Qf5! [By pinning the f6 pawn, have a potential passed pawn on the e-file.]
openings.]20...Qd5 [A pawn down, black white now threatens the capture of the e5 42.Bxd6 d2 43.Rd4! [43.Rd4 Rb1+ 27...Rab8

38 39
48.Kg5! Kd5 49.f4! and white's victory is Rb3! 47.Rxb7 Rxb4 48.Ra7 Kb5+ 49.Kd3
beyond doubt.] 42.Rd7+ Ke6 43.Rd6+ a5 50.Kc3 Rg4 51.Rb7+ Kxc5 52.Ra7 Rg3+!
Ke7 44.Rf6 Ra1 [As white's only way to win 53.Kb2 Kb5–+] 43.Rf1 Rg7! 44.Rxf5 [If
here is by breaking f4-f5, it makes sense 44.Kf3 e4+ 45.Kf4 Rg4+ 46.Kxf5 Rxg3
to play 44...Re1 ] 45.Kh3 Rh1+ 46.Kg3 47.Rd1+ Rd3 48.Ra1 Rf3+ 49.Kg4 a5!
Kd7 47.f5! gxf5 48.Rxf5 Ke6 49.Rxh5 50.bxa5 Kxc5 51.Rb1 Rf7 52.Re1 Kd4
Ra1 50.Rg5 Kd5 1–0 53.Rc1 (threat 54 a6! ba6 55 Rxc6) 53...
c5] 44...Rxg3+ 45.Kd2 Rxa3 46.Rf7 a5!
Solodovnichenko,Yuri (Ukr) (2581) - 47.bxa5 Rxa5 48.Rxb7 Kxc5 49.Rd7
Lalith Babu,M.R (2553) Ra3 50.Re7 Kd5 51.Rd7+ Kc4 52.Re7
Rd3+ 53.Kc2 Rd5 54.Ra7 Kd4 55.Kd2 c5
1.e4 c6 2.Nc3 d5 3.Nf3 Bg4 4.h3 Bxf3 27.hxg7 [If 27.h7+ Kh8! (27...Kf8!? 56.Ra8 Rd7 57.Rh8 e4 58.Ra8 c4 59.Re8
5.Qxf3 e6 6.d4 Nf6 7.Bd3 dxe4 8.Nxe4 28.Qh3!–+) 28.Rb3 Qg5+ 29.Qg3 Qxg3+ c3+ 60.Kc2 Ke3 61.Re6 Kf3! Black gives
28.Rc5! Active defence! 28...Rxc5 29.bxc5 Nxe4 9.Qxe4 Nd7 10.c3 Nf6 11.Qe2 Bd6 30.Kxg3 Rb8 31.Rf3 Nf6 32.b4 Rd8 33.a3 up his c-pawn as he is able to reach the win-
Kf7 30.c6 Rc8 31.Rxc3 Rc7 32.Rb3! 12.g3 [An odd move, the significance of Rd7 34.Rd3 g6! 35.Kf4 Kxh7 36.Rxd7 ning Lucena Position where a second-pawn
With two extra pawns, white wants to ex- which is difficult to discern. 12.0–0 ] 12... (36.Ke5 Ng4+ 37.Kf4 Rxd3 38.Bxd3 Nxf2–+) is not necessary. 62.Kxc3 e3 63.Rf6+
change off the queen-side pawns so that Qe7 13.0–0 0–0 14.Re1 Rfe8 15.Qf3 36...Nxd7–+] 27...Nf6 28.Qe2 Nh5!µ Kg2 64.Re6 Kf2 65.Kc2 e2 66.Rf6+ Ke1
she can play easily on the king-side. 32... Rad8 16.Kg2 a6 17.h4 Bb8 18.Bc2 Rd7 29.Qf3 Nf4+ 30.Kf1 Kxg7 31.Qg3+ [Black 67.Kc1 Rc7+ 68.Kb2 Rc5! [68...Rc5 (the
Ke6 33.Rb7 Rxc6 34.Rxa7 Kf5 35.Kg2 19.Be3 [19.Bg5 is playable, but might has a solid position with an extra pawn in the key move in the Lucena Position) 69.Rf7 Kd2
Kf6 [If 35...Ke4 36.Kg3 Rb6 37.Re7+ Kd3 lead to an opposite colour bishop ending.] rook and minor piece ending after: 31.Rb3 70.Rd7+ Ke3 71.Re7+ Kf3 72.Rf7+ (72.
38.Rh7+-] 36.h4 h5 37.e4+- Rc4 38.f3 19...Qd6 20.c4 Re7 32.Re3 Rd7 33.Re4 Qh3+ 34.Qxh3 Nxh3 Re6 Rc4 threat 73...Re4 winning.) 72...Ke4
Rc2+ 39.Kg3 Rc1 40.e5+ Ke6 [If 40... 35.Ke1 Ng5µ] 31...Qxg3 32.fxg3 Ng6 73.Re7+ Re5–+] 0–1
Kf5? 41.Ra6 and the threat of Rf6# wins 33.Bxg6 Kxg6 34.Rd3 Re7! Whenever pos-
for white immediately.] 41.Rg7 Kd5 sible, do not allow your opponents forces into
your camp in the ending. 35.c5 Kf5 An im-
portant tip in the ending is to make your king “There is no one that can share your
go ahead of your pawns, not behind them! responsibility. It it is your responsibility
36.Ke2 Ke4 37.b4 f5 38.a3 e5 39.Re3+ you must carry it on and you must be
Kd4 40.Rd3+ Kc4 41.Rf3 Rf7 42.Ke3 Kd5 responsible for your actions. At the end
of the day we all are being challenged,
sooner or later, by our destiny. And it's
up to us to make all the difference in
this life. If not you, who else?”
[Better was: 20.Bg5 Nd5 21.c4 Nb4 22.Be4 By the time a player becomes a
a5 (22...Qxd4? 23.Rad1+-) 23.a3 Na6 Grandmaster, almost all of his training
24.d5 cxd5 25.cxd5 e5 26.Rad1] 20... time is dedicated to work on this first
[If one critically examines the great end- Ba7 21.g4 Threatens to win the knight with phase. The opening is the only phase
games played by famous masters one would g4-g5. 21...h5! 22.gxh5 [If 22.g5 Ng4 that holds out the potential for true
naturally acquire endgame experience 23.Bf4 Qf8 (23...Qb4 24.Qc3²) 24.Rad1 Bxd4 creativity and doing something entirely
and skill. Here, if 41...Kf5 42.Rf7+ Ke6 25.Qe4 f5 26.gxf6 Nxf6 27.Qg6 Qf7³] 22... new.
43.Rf6+ Kd5 44.Rd6+ (44.Rxg6?? Rg1+ Bxd4 23.h6 Bxe3 24.Rxe3 Qd4 25.Rd1 [Black can fluently win with: 42...e4 43.Rf4
45.Kf2 Rxg6 and it is black who wins!) 44... ― Garry Kasparov
Qxh4 26.Rxd7 Nxd7 Rg7 44.Rxf5 Rxg3+ 45.Kxe4 Rxa3 46.Rf7
Kc5 45.f5 gxf5 46.Rf6 Rg1+ 47.Kf4 Rh1

40 41
Tactics from master games Test your endgame
S.Krishnan by C.G.S.Narayanan
Onate 1970 Jakimcik 1968
1 2
White to play and win White to play and win 1. 2.
Kalandadze 1968 Kopelovich & Friedman1968
3 4
Mitrofanov 1970 Sindelar 1968
5 6
(solutions on p. 47 ) White to play and win in all the six endings above
(Solution on page 47)

42 43
Masters of the past-61 Milan Vidmar
14th Parsvnath Delhi Open International Grandmasters Chess tournament, New Delhi
Milan Vidmar (22 June 1885 – 9 October 1962) was a Slovene
electrical engineer, chess player, chess theorist, philosopher, and
writer. He was a specialist in power transformers and transmis-
sion of electric current.He was born in a middle-class family in
Ljubljana, Austria-Hungary (now in Slovenia). He began to study
mechanical engineering in 1902, and he graduated in 1907 at the
University of Vienna. He got his doctor's degree in 1911 from the
Technical faculty in Vienna. The study of electrical engineering at
the Technical faculty did not begin until 1904, so Vidmar had to
take special examinations in the field basics. He was a professor
at the University of Ljubljana, a member of the Slovene Academy
of Arts and Sciences, and the founder of the Faculty of Electrical
Engineering. Between 1928 and 1929 he was the 10th Chancellor
of the University of Ljubljana. In 1948 he established the Institute
of Electrotechnics that now bears his name. (L-R) Shri. Kapil Saxena, Joint Secretary, All India Chess Federation, Group Captain J Rajendra VSM, Chief
Administrative Officer Air Force Station New Delhi, Mrs. Rashmi Singh, Patron Delhi Chess Association,
Vidmar was also a top-class chess player, probably one of the best half dozen players in the Shri. Bharat Singh, CEO All India Chess Federation and (far right) Shri. AK Verma, Secretary Delhi Chess
world from 1911 to 1929, all the while remaining an amateur. He was awarded the Grand- Association & Delhi’s Grandmaster Vaibhav Suri making move on the board.
master title in 1950.
His successes include high places at some of the top chess tournaments of his time, e.g. 8th Chennai Open International Grandmaster Chess tournament 2016, Chennai
sixth at Carlsbad 1907, third at Prague 1908, first at Gothenburg 1909 (the 7th Nordic Chess
Championship), second at San Sebastián 1911 with Akiba Rubinstein behind José Raúl Ca-
pablanca, first at Budapest 1912, second at Mannheim 1914, first at Vienna and Berlin in
1918, second at Košice 1928, third at London 1922, shared first with Alexander Alekhine
at Hastings 1925/26, third at Semmering 1926, fourth at New York 1927, fourth at London
1927, shared fifth at Carlsbad 1929, tied for 4–7th at Bled 1931, tied for 3–6th at Stuttgart
1939, second behind Max Euwe at Budapest 1940, first at Basel 1952. The Slovene Chess
Federation organizes an international chess grandmaster tournament named the Milan Vid-
mar memorial. Vidmar became an arbiter, and was chief referee for the 1948 World Chess
Championship in The Hague/Moscow.
Vidmar wrote several books on chess, including Pol stoletja ob šahovnici (Half a century at the
chessboard) (Ljubljana 1951), Šah (Chess), Razgovori o šahu z začetnikom(Conversations on
chess with a beginner), and, in German, Goldene Schachzeiten (The Golden Times of Chess)
and others Transformatorji (Transformers), Problemi prenosa električne energije (Problems
of electric energy transmission), Pogovori o elektrotehniki (Talking about electrotechnics),
Med Evropo in Ameriko (Between Europe and America),Moj pogled na svet (My view of the
World), Oslovski most (Pons asinorum) (Merkur, Ljubljana 1936).His younger brother, Josip (L-R) Dr M Manickam, President, Tamil Nadu State Chess Association & Execultive Chairman, Sakthi Group
Vidmar, was an influential Slovenian literary critic and public intellectual; his son, Milan Vid- of Companies Dr Rajendra Kumar, IAS, Secretary, Youth Welfare & Sports Development, Government of
mar, Jr. was an International Master of chess. courtesy:Wikepedia Tamil Nadu, D.V.Sundar, Vice President FIDE,IM Vijayalakshmi Subbaraman (Third place) and B.Murugavel,
Vice-President, TNSCA
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14th Parsvnath Delhi Open International Grandmasters Solutions to ‘Tactics from master games 6. Djuric,S (2393
on page 42 Amate Tortosa,B (2094) [B08]
Chess tournament, New Delhi 4th Lorca Open 2015 Lorca ESP (4.15),
1. Bologan,Viktor (2654) 28.12.2015
Kashlinskaya,Alina (2448) [A13] Position after 19th move.White to play.
Doha QAT Doha QAT (3.29), 22.12.2015 20.Rxe7! Nxe7 21.Qg4+ Kf7 [21...Ng6
Position after 31st move. White to play. 22.Nh6+ [%csl Rd7] 22...Kg7 23.Qxd7+-]
32.Rxd5! Na4 [32...exd5 33.Nf5+- [%csl 22.Nxd6+ 1–0
Rc6,Rg7][%cal Gg4g7,Gf5e7]] 33.Ba1 [33.
Bc1!] 33...Nc3 34.Bxc3 Qxc3 35.R5d3 Qxe5 Solutions for ‘Test your endgame’
36.Nxf7! 1-0 on page 43
2. Melkumyan,H (2654) 1.Onate,I prize,Lommer JT 1970
Gunina,V (2502) [D12] 1.h6 Be4 2.Be6 Kc3 3.Bd7 Kc4 4.Bxc6 Bh7
European Blitz 2015 Minsk BLR (11.4), 5.Bxb7 Kc5 6.Be4 Bg8+ 7.Bd5 Kxd5 8.h7
18.12.2015 Bxh7 9.b7 wins
Position after 27th move. White to play.
28.Rxe5! Rxe5 29.Rc8+ Rb8 30.Rxb8+ [30. 2.Jakimcik,I prize, ‘64’1968
Rxb8+ Kxb8 31.Bf4+-] 1–0 1.Bf3+ Kh4 2.Be7 Bxe7+ 3.Kxe5 Bd6+ 4.Kf6
From left : 1st Runners up Pankaj Sharma , Champion Rishab Nishad (both from Be5+ 5.Kxe5 c1Q 6.Rh8+ Qh6 7.Rxh6+ Kg5
3. Navara,D (2730)
India) and 2nd Runners up Amini Habibullah of Afghanistan. 8.Th5+ gxh5 9.Be4 Kg4 10.Bf5+ Kh4 11.h3
Rozum,I (2559) [E11]
wins
European Blitz 2015 Minsk BLR (22.15),
18.12.2015
3.Kalandadze,3 Prize,
Position after 19th move. White to play.
Litalia Scahhistica 1968
20.Qxh5! gxh5 21.Bxh7+ Kh8 22.exd6+
1.Rc7 Ra8+ 2.Kb5 Rb8+ 3.Ka5 Ra8+ 4.Kb4
Bg7 23.Bxg7+ Kxg7 24.dxc7 f6 25.Be4 1–0
Rb8+ 5.Kc3 Rc8 6.Rxc8+ Kg8 7.Rg8+ Kh6
8.Rd8 Kg6 9.Kc2 Kh6 10.Rh8+ Kg7 11.Rg8+
4. Ni Hua (2693)
Kh6 12.Ne4
Vidit,S (2644) [E60]
Qatar Masters Open 2015 Doha QAT (6.11),
4.Kopelovich & Friedman
26.12.2015
I prize,Israel Ring Ty 1968
Position after 32nd Move. White to play.
1.Qc8 Bxc8 2.a8R Bb7 3.Ra7 Bc6 4.h7 Ba4
33.Qd5! a2 [33...Qxd5 34.c8Q+ Bf8 35.Nf6+
5.Rxa4 Kxa4 6.h8R b3 7.Kc4 Ka3 8.Rb8
Kg7 36.Nxd5 a2 37.Qa6 +-] 34.Qxb7 [34.
Qxb7 a1Q+ 35.Kh2 Be5+ 36.g3+-] 1–0
5.Mitrofanov 1970
1.Be1 Bxf2 2.Bxf2+ Nd4 3.Nxd4 e1Q 4.Kxg2
5. Moroni,L (2466) Christiansen,Johan-
Qe8 5.Nb5+ Kb7 6.Nd6+ wins
Sebastian (2385) [D20]
Qatar Masters Open 2015 Doha QAT (6.57),
6.Sindelar,4Pr,Sachove Umeni 1968
From extreme left : Shri. A.K.Raizada, Hony Secretary , UPCSA , Group Captain J Rajendra VSM, Chief Administrative 26.12.2015
Officer Air Force Station, Shri. Dhiraj Raghuvanshi, President Chess Association Uttarakhand, Shri. Bharat Singh, 1.h7 Nd2 2.b4 c3 3.b5 Rd7 4.b6 Rd8 5.b7
Position after 31st move.White to move.
CEO All India Chess Federation , Champion GM N. Shrihari , Shri. Kapil Saxena, Joint Secretary, All India Chess Rd6 6.b8N wins
32.Bg8+! Kxg8 33.Nf6+ gxf6 34.Rg4+ Kh7
Federation and Shri. AK Verma, Secretary Delhi Chess Association cum organizing secretary of 14th Parsvnath
Delhi Open International Grandmasters Chess tournament 35.Rh5# 1–0
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