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25 March 2013

33rd National Team Chess Championship, Hyderabad...

Winners PSPB
11th National Women Team Chess Championship, Hyderabad...

Winners Air India

 March 2013

'Catch'em young' is the

familiar catchphrase for
spotting young talent in every
sport and chess is no
exception. FIDE's mission to
promote chess in schools in
India gained momentum with
the recent visit of Ali Nihat Yazici, Vice
National Team Chess Championship, Hyderabad…….. President FIDE and Chairman, CIS
PSPB win men title, Air India the women title 01 Programme. In the centre pages of this issue
by R.Srivatsan, Chief Arbiter
Ali shares his pleasant experience of his
Late Narayan Nigalye Memorial All India FIDE Rating Open interaction with officials and children during
Rapid Chess Tournament 2013, Ponda…..
Chinmay Kulkarni wins title 08 his visit to three cities in India-Pune,
Hyderabad and Delhi.
Late Sharad Kunte Memorial FIDE Rating Rapid Chess, Pune…..
Tejas Bakre wins 11 PSPB and Air India won men and women titles
The 3rd Homeland International Fide Rated Chess Tournament respectively in the National team Chess
(Below 1600 rated), Chennai……. Championship held at Hyderabad. Reports on
Mahesh Kumar wins Homeland FIDE rated 13
this event along with a few FIDE rated
Raghav's Foundation 1st International Fide Rating tournaments, the final standings and
Chess Tournament (Below 2000),Hyderabad…..
Venkata Ramana wins title 15 photographs are featured in this issue.
6th North East Chess Championship,Imphal… Anand won Grencke chess classic in Baden-
Santanu retains title of NE Championship 17 baden where Caruana finished second but in
by IA Dharmendra Kumar,Chief Arbiter
the four-player all play all league at Zurich
Bhopal International Rating Chess Tournament… Challenge the roles got reversed. Anand beat
Arjun Tiwari Lifts Bhopal Intl. Rating 19
Kramnik to finish second behind Fabiano
Selected games from Caruana.
Chennai GM Open 2013, Chennai 20
Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron A philanthropist and keen chess lover that he
undoubtedly is, J.C.D.Prabhakar, President
Selected games from
National Team Championships, Hyderabad 35 AICF, sponsored a 2 lakh prize money Blitz
tournament in Chennai to commemorate 65th
Tactics from master games 38
by S.Krishnan birthday of Honourable Chief Minister,
Tamilnadu Dr. J.Jayalalitha which drew nearly
Test your endgame 39
by K.Muralimohan, FIDE Instructor
a mammoth seven hundred entries. The
decisions taken at the Central Council meeting
Masters of the past-27 40
Howard Staunton
held at Chennai on 3rd March 2013 are listed
elsewhere in this issue. Among the regular
Solutions to ‘Tactics from master games 41
features the 'Puzzle of the month' presents a
AICF Calendar 48 curious retro on 'Monochromatic chess'
National Team Chess Championship, Hyderabad……..

PSPB win men title, Air India the women title

by R.Srivatsan, Chief Arbiter
Shri Ponnala Lakshmaiah, Honorable Minister for Women team as Bindu.K Saritha, Swathi ghate,
Information Technology & Communications Kiran Manisha Mohanthy and Manjul Srivastava
inaugurated the 33rd National Team Chess scored over Siva sai saugandhi, Anushka raj, Akhila
Championship& 11th National Women Team Chess G and Ch. Bhavana.Goa Chess Association
Championship at KVBR Stadium, Yousufguda, defeated 4-0 Vanitha (A.P) as Prabhugaonkar,
Hyderabad on 20th February 2013 while Mr. Ali Fernandes Krystal, Thorat Aishwarya and Gauri
Nihat Yazici (Turkey) Vice-President Fide; Chairman- Keshav Scored over T.Shriya, Shivsha, Swetha and
Chess in Schools Commission Fide ; Dr. T.R.K Rao, Shreemaiye.
IRTS, Vice-Chairman & Managing Director-SAAP ;
In the Men's section seeded teams had a smooth
Dr. R.S Praveen Kumar, IPS, Secretary, A.P SWEREI
sailing in the first round. Top seededed Petroleum
Society; Shri G.Vinod, President, Hyderabad Cricket
Sports Promotion Board overwhelmed
Association; Shri D.V Sundar, Vice-President, FIDE;
Madhyapradesh with a 4-0 score on the first table.
Shri Bharat Singh Chauhan, Hon.Secretary, All India
PSPB fielding an all GM's team with the former
Chess Federation were the Guests of Honor for
World Junior Champion GM Abhijeet Gupta yet to
the function, while Shri A.Narasimha Reddy, Vice-
play a game. Following the suit 2nd seeded Indian
President-All India Chess Federation, Chairman Bar
Railway A team beat lowly rated Bihar Team with a
Council of A.P Presided over the function, Shri
similar 4-0 score. 3rd seeded Airport Authority of
K.Kanna reddy, Gen.Secretary APCA addressed
India (AAI) has fielded young IM's on all the 4
the gathering. In open category 43 teams
boards. AAI had to shell out a half a point on the
participated while 14 team participated in the women
3rd table Board 2 when IM Stany was held to draw
team chess championship.
by a determined SSCB's Srikanth. Indian Railways
In this event, nine Grandmasters Abhijeet gupta B and Air India beat their opponents Raghav's
(PSCB), Adhiban(PSCB), Sethuraman(PSCB), foundation and Hyderabad 5 with a 4-0 score. Men's
Deepsengupta(PSCB), Lalithbabu (PSCB), R.R section was played in a 9 round format with the
Laxman (Railways), Tejas Bakre(AIR-INDIA), 2nd round slated to be played at 4.00 pm.
Satyapragyan (AIR-INDIA), Dronavalli Correspondingly the SBH 11th National Team Chess
Harika(Airports Authority of India) participated in Championship for Women was played under 7 round
this mega event. Ten Woman Grand Masters format with a participation of 14 teams.
S.Vijayalakshmi(Air-India), Tania Sachdev(Air-India),
On day two Top table first board Cholleti Sahaja sri
S.Meenakshi(Air-India), Bhakthi kulakarni(Air-India),
of A.P RACE hold Woman Grand Master Mary Ann
Mary Ann Ghomes(Airport Authority of India),
Ghomes of Airports authority of India while on third
Padmini Rout(Airhority of India), Nisha
board game Anigani Kavya hold Nimmy George.
Mohotha(PSPB), Soumya Swaminathan (PSPB),
The top seed in women section, Airport Authority
Swathi ghate (LIC), Kiran Manisha Mohanty(LIC)
of India led by the only GM in the women section
participated in this prestigious event.
Dronavalli Harika, the pride of AP, followed by Air
In the Women event Petroleum Sports Control Board India and PSPB respectively. With Harika yet to
defeated Cyber Chess Academy by 4-0 as WFM play AAI had to concede two draws against the
Rucha pujari, WGM Soumya swaminathan, young AP RACE. Sahajasri and Anigani Kavya drew
Mahalakshmi, Michelle Catherina defeated Ankitha against WGM Mary Ann Gomes and AG Nimmy.
goud, shivani.B, Sabbi Sri Rohitha and WGM Padmini Rout of AAI had some resistance
Vinuthana.K.While LIC Of India defeated 4-0 A.P before scoring against Hinduja Reddy of AP Race.

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AAI won 3-1 against the young futures of AP. The Rout maintained slight edge and a King walk in
interesting tie between Air India and LIC, who had the endgame won a successful passer on the b
experienced players on either side ended in favour file. On the 2nd table Air India won with similar
of the former with a similar 3-1 score. The lone 3.5 to 0.5 score against Goa Chess Assn with
point for LIC came from WGM Swathi Ghate Gauri Keshav Hadkonkar splitting the point with
outplaying WGM Bhakthi Kulukarni from the white WGM Aarthie Ramaswamy. The fourth round
side of the Italian game in 27 moves. clash of AAI with Air India is expected to produced
interesting games.
PSPB survived a scare against LIC of India when
GM Abhijeet Gupta of PSPB suffered a defeat at Into the 4th day of the HCA sponsored 33rd National
the hands of IM Anup Deshmukh of LIC on the Men team Chess Championship, top seeded PSPB
first table. Gupta, playing his first game of the was joined by the 9th seeded Tamilnadu B on the
tournament adopted Samish variation against the top with 8 match points a piece. Much expected
Kings India of Anup and was busy occupying the tough fight between Indian Railways B and PSPB
"a" file. Anup unperturbed by the action and fizzled out to be one sided with latter winning with
manoeuvred his knights around White's king and 0.5 - 3.5 margin. On the first board GM Adhiban
won an exchange on the 28thmove. A periodical responded with Meran Varition of Slav defence
exchange, simplified Anup's work and Gupta against queen pawn opening of IM Thejkumar.
resigned on the 43rd move when his Queen was Adhiban accepted the piece sacrifice on the 20th
about to get trapped. GM's Adhiban and move entering into a complex middle game and
Sethuraman sawthrough their opponents GM saw through comfortably to the end game and
Sriram Jha and IM Atanu Lahiri respectively to won in 54 moves.
win the match. Meanwhile Indian Railways A beat The surprising result of the day being Tamilnadu
Tamilnadu by 3.5 to 0.5 score with Navin Kanna B upset win over 3rd seeded Airport Authority of
earning the half a point for the latter. Six teams India. Pradeep Kumar bishop sacrifice on 27th
are leading with 6 match points at the end of the move to weaken the king side of IM Stany ended
third round of the HCA sponsored 33rd National in former's favour in 31 moves. The baton was
Men Team Chess championship handed over to Ram S Krishnan who outplayed
IM Swayam's Mishra from the white side of Nimzo
At the end of third round Airports Authority of
Indian defense in 59 moves.Andhra Bank of
India and Air India are jointly leading the SBH
Andhra Pradesh beat All India Reserve Bank team
11th National Women Team Chess Championship
2.5 to 1.5On top Board Matta Vinayakumar beat
here at KVBR Indoor Stadium, Hyderabad. Sukpal singh, on Board 2 FM J.Ramakrishna beat
In an interesing tussle on the top board between Sanjiv kumar while on third board the game was
AAI and PSPB, the former routed the oil team dran between K.V Subrahman and Sthalekar, on
3.5 to 0.5 with Nisha earning the sole consolation board 4 Kamalakar lost to Andurkar deepak.
for PSPB. GM Harika playing her first game of
the event won comfortably against Rucha Pujari In the corresponding women section Air India beat
from the white side of Catalan opening. In a Airports Authority of India with 2.5 - 1.5 score when
closed formation Rucha's b8 knight joined the WGM Bhakti Kulkarni propelled with a fine victory
party late allowing Harika, the World Chp over WGM Mary Ann Gomes, followed by a win by
semifinalist to promote the "b" pawn. A tactical IM Vijayalakshmi who overcame stubborn resistance
deploy in the end won a knight for the white from WGM Padmini Rout in a long game of 106
forcing resignation of Rucha in 57 moves. moves. Bharathi's win over WGM Meenakshi came
as a sole consolation for AAI. AP RACE won with a
On the 3rd board a resurgent play in the endgame fairly wide margin 3.5 to 0.5 against Goa Chess
saw Padmini Rout to score over Soumya Assn. Pratyusha, Sahajasri and Hinduja won their
Swaminathan. From the white side of Caro Kan, games to stay near the top.
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KNOW YOUR IM C. Praveen Kumar
Praveen Kumar (born on 8th June 1985) started playing at the
age of six. Hailing from Madurai, in Tamilnadu, he was trained
by IM G.B.Prakash when he shifted to Chennai for studies. He
got his FIDE rating at the age of twelve and his first success was
when he finished runner up in the National Under-8 held at
Palakkad in 1993.He won Trivandrum Open rating tournament
in 2009 and was a member of the team which won National
Cities Championship at Chennai. Though he achieved his first
IM norms at Parsvanth Open, New Delhi in the year 2004 he had to wait for four years for
his second norm in the same tournament in 2008 and the third IM norm was achieved at
the United Insurance open, Dhaka in 2009.He was awarded IM title in 2010. His highest
rating was 2421 in January 2010 list. He studied at Dolphin public School Madurai and
holds a masters degree in Commerce from Anna University. He is a fan of Alekhine and
Kramnik. His other interests are seeing movies and playing computer games. He is
employed with ICF since 2009 as senior clerk. A list of his achievements is given below:
National and International open events
Event Place Year Placing
2 Manali Intern. open
nd
Chennai 2010 2
1 ONGC FIDE rated Open
st
Andhra 2010 2
1 Trivandrum Open Rating
st
Trivandrum 2009 1
1 Citadel Intern. Open Chennai 2009 2
st

1 KPK Thirupur FIDE rating Thirupur 2009 2

st

8 Adayar Times
th
Chennai 2008 3
2 Mangalore All India Open
nd
Mangalore 2008 2
Adayar times FIDE rated Chennai 2007 3
Madurai open championship Madurai 2002 2
National Team(Rly team) Gurgoan 2011 4
National Cities chess championship Chennai 2007 1(Team)
National Under- 8 Palakad 1993 2
Here is one of his favourite wins.
Praveen Kumar,Chandrasekar (2338) -
Kamble,Vikramaditya (2458)
2 National Team Goa (8), 03.03.2012
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.g3 c5 4.d5 exd5 5.cxd5 b5 6.e4 Nxe4
7.Qe2 Qe7 8.Bg2 Nd6 9.Be3 Na6 10.Nc3 Rb8 11.a4 bxa4
12.Rxa4 c4 13.Nh3 Rb4 14.Ra2 g6 15.0–0 Bg7 16.Rfa1
0–0 17.Rxa6 Bxa6 18.Rxa6 Nf5 19.d6 Qe5 20.Nf4 Nxe3
21.fxe3 Rfb8 22.Nd1 Rxb2 23.Nxb2 Rxb2 24.Qf3 c3
25.Nd5 (See diagram) Bh6 26.Ra1 c2 27.Rf1 Rb1
28.Ne7+ Kh8 29.Qa8+ 1–0
(Position after 25.Nd5)
 At the Central Council meeting…..
At the AICF Central Council meeting held on 3rd March 2013
the following significant decisions were taken.
1. AICF approved Rs.1000 per player as food expenses to all
selected and seeded players in all the age group Nationals
for Nationals other than Junior / Sub-Junior / Challenger /
Premier. This expenditure will be met by the AICF.
2. The Central Council also accepted Prof. Anantharam's
suggestion of change of the Tie-Break for National
Premier/National Women Premier and resolved to implement the following tie – break
rules for different formats of National Championships
1. Round Robin Championships
Players, organisers, arbiters and officials may be aware that the format for the National
Premier Chess Championships has been changed by All India Chess Federation (2013
onwards) from Swiss to Round Robin format. The tie-breaks applied for Swiss system can
not be applied to RR, as all the tied players will have common opponents. Hence, it has
been decided in the Central Council meeting of the All India Chess Federation, to
implement the following tie-breaks for individual Round Robin national championships.
They have to be applied in the order given below:
1. Direct Encounter
2. Sonneborn Berger (sum of scores of opponents whom a player has defeated plus
half the sum of the scores of the opponents with whom the player has drawn)
3. Number of victories
3. Number of wins with Black
2. Swiss System Championships
For all national championships, played under Swiss system, the following tie-breaks
have to be applied in the order mentioned:
1. Buchholz Cut 1
2. Buchholz Cut 2
3. Sonneborn Berger
4. Buchholz Median
For unplayed games and byes, it has to be assumed that the player had played against a
virtual opponent in that round as per the rules prescribed in FIDE Handbook – C06 – FIDE
Tournament Rules – F. Handling Unplayed Games for Calculation of Buchholz (Congress
2009) (http://www.fide.com/fide/handbook.html?id=20&view=category)
3. Team Championships
For national team events (National Team and National Cities Championships etc.,pairing
has to be done based on match points. The order of tie-breaks to be used is:
1. Game points scored by the team in the tournament
2. Sonneborn Berger (sum of the products of the scores (game or match scores)
made by each opposing team and the score (game or match scores) made
against that team)
3. Sum of the match points of the opponent teams
4. Sum of the game points of the opponent teams
Continued from Page 2

In HCA National team chess championship - PSPB her Bishop and Knight and entered into a better
are leading the Men's section with 12 match points Rook and pawn endgame to win the game in 46
in the HCA sponsored 33rd National Team moves. Meanwhile AP RACE did some proud to
Championship at the end of the 6th round. In a the state by scoring over the experienced LIC of
tough match between Indian Railways A and the India team by 2.5 - 1.5 margin with Pratyusha and
top seed PSPB the "Oil"ers won by a narrow margin Kavya winning against Bindu Saritha and Manjul
of 1.5 - 2.5. The last game of the day to finish Shrivastava respectively. WGM Kiran Manisha
was the top board game between GM Abhijeet scored the lone win for LIC against Hinduja Reddy.
Gupta and IM Swapnil Dhopade ended in a draw
Day 6 report:
after 86 moves with a stalemate position to come.
Adhiban and Lalith drew against Arghyadip das and PSPB starring all GMs won its 7th straight match
Roy Chowdhury respectively. The lone win came and take the lead with 14 match points. On the
from GM Sethuraman against GM Laxman in 44 top table. LIC and Indian Railway B team are in
moves of the Bogo Indian defense. Sethu centre the second spot with 11 points apiece. GM Abhijeet
pawns were formidable together he combined his Gupta of PSPB beat Sagar Shah of Maharashtra
major pieces well to score a crucial point. In a clash Chess Association from the white side of Queen's
between Andhra Bank and West Bengal, Andhra Indian defense in 42 moves. Gupta saddled black
Bank won the match with a 2.5 - 1.5 as Vinay with a isolated pawn on d5 square and later
kumar of Andhra bank won against Nath Rupankar invaded the black's king side with Qe8 on 38th
of West Bengal, J.Ramakrishna (A.B) drew with move and ended the hunt 4 moves later. Shah's
Santu Mondal (W.B), K.V Subrahmanyam(A.B) team mate Atul Dahale played a better game
beat Battacharya Sekhar while B.V Ramanamurthy against GM Adhiban from the white side of Nimzo
(A.B) lost Debasish Mukharjee(W.B). Indian Rubinstein defense. The players agreed
for a draw on the 38th move with Atul holding a
At the end of the 5th round of SBH sponsored slight advantage and an extra pawn. Meanwhile
11th National Women team chess championship. GM Sethuraman's passer pawns on a and c files
Air India took the sole lead with 10 match points. saw him thro comfortably against Snehal Bhosale.
Experienced IM Vijayalakshmi won the crucial point PSPB won the match with 3-1 score and has so
for AI by scoring against Soumya Swaminathan of far won all the matches.
PSPB in 62 moves. Viji surprised Soumya by opting
The 2nd table games between the Railways A and
for a rare variation where Queen's are exchanged
B team ended in quick draws, probably aiming at
early and endgame arises early. Soumya allowed
the finish in the podium. LIC took on Tamilnadu A
the invasion of black rook on the 30th move which
on the 3rd table and won with a narrow margin of
put her into slightly inferior endgame. AI won the
2.5-1.5. IM's Anup Deshmukh and Atanu Lahiri
match with a 2.5 - 1.5 point margin after a well
won against Vinoth Kumar and Ram S Krishnan
fought draw on the first board game with Rucha
respectively. Shashaank of TN caused a mild flutter
Pujari maintaining some initiative and two bishop
when he beat IM Dinesh Sharma in 34 moves with
advantage against IM Tania Sachdev. The Catalan
a quick attack from the black side of the Nimzo
turned English opening led to small advantage for Indian defense. Meanwhile AAI struggled a bit
white, but in the end petered out to drawn ending against Kerala team but ended up with 3-1 score.
with Rook and bishops of same colour in 31 moves. IM Stany beat Harikrishna in 60 moves after the
On the 2nd table Airports Authority of India were latter blundered a pawn from seemingly equal
merciless against Tamilnadu team consisting of position. While IM Vishnu won, Nitin and Rajesh
youngsters by scoring 4-0. had to split the points against their low rated
Mary playing the fianchetto setup created a winning opponents. With 2 rounds to go in the men's section
Rook endgame in 42 moves. On the 2nd board plenty of action is to be seen. On table 5 Air India
WGM Padmini Rout occupied the key squares with beat Andhra Bank 3.5 - 0.5 as Satyapragyan drew

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with M. Vinay kumar of Andhra Bank on Board 1, Gokhale. GM Abhijeet Gupta invasion thro the b file
while Chandrasekhar Gokhale beat FM on the 26th move was so swift, his opponent
Ramakrishna.J, Rahul Setty beat K.V Satyapragyan's counter attack never came to lime
Subrahmanyam and G.B Joshi beat P.Kamalakar. light and the game ended in 33 moves when
At the end of the 6th round for the SBH 11th material loss was inevitable.
National Chess Championship, Air India maintained LIC of India drew with Railways A on all the boards
the lead with a 3-1 win against the young AP RACE. of the 2nd table, enabling the sibling Indian Railway
On the top board of the first table IM Tania sacrificed B team to finish runner up who beat Tamilnadu A
a Rook for Knight against Pratyusha Bodda on the with a 3.5 - 0.5 score. Navin Kanna held Thejkumar
15th move to create a stronger passer on the c to a draw but the "Railers" fielding experienced
file. Tania won two pieces for the rook on the 26 th players were too good for the youngsters of
move and won pawns at will to force resignation on Tamilnadu A team. AP's best bet The Empty led
the 40th move. The experienced IM Vijayalakshmi by National A Player Ravi Teja finished 6th by netting
opened up the attack with g pawn on the 21st points on the top 2 boards against Tamilnadu B
move from the white side of English opening and with Chakravarthi Reddy and Ravi Teja scoring
won a piece 2 moves later to win the game in 36 against Vinoth Kumar and Pradeep Kumar
moves. Air India has won all the matches so far respectively. Andhra Bank onsistin of Matta Vinay
and move on to 12 moves followed by AAI who Kumar, Ramakrishna lost to Maharashtra Chess
are trailing with 10 match points. AAI won all the Association with a narrow margin of 1.5-2.5
games today against Goa Chess Association.
In the corresponding women section as expected
Petroleum Sports Promotion Board won the HCA Air India completed the formalities with 14 match
33rd National Team Chess Championship with a points by accounting for 3.5 - 0.5 win over
round to spare. PSPB fielding an all GM's team won Tamilnadu. Vaishali 's half a point against WGM
all their matches and finished with 18 match points Bhakthi Kulkarni was a sole consolation, with former
from 9 matches. Indian Railways B and A team having a better position when signing the truce. On
finished 2nd and 3rd respectively with 14 and 13 the 2nd table AAI had a less experienced opponent
match points to their credit. PSPB beat Air India on in AP Women and they romped to the runner up
the top table in the final round with a 3.5 - 0.5 position with a 4-0 score. AP RACE managed only
score with sole draw coming from the 2nd board 0.5 - 3.5 score against PSPB with Pratyusha holding
truce between GM Adhiban and IM Chandrashekhar the experienced WGM Nisha Mohota to a draw.
11th National Women Team Championship 2013:Final rankings
Rk Team Gam . + = - MP Pts. SB
1 Air India 7 7 0 0 14 22 364.50
2 Airports Authority of India 7 6 0 1 12 24 352.25
3 PSPB 7 5 0 2 10 21½ 329.00
4 LIC of India 7 4 0 3 8 17 144.50
5 Tam ilnadu 7 4 0 3 8 16½ 213.00
6 AP RACE 7 4 0 3 8 16 242.25
7 Punjab State Chess Association 7 4 0 3 8 13 77.25
8 Gujarat State Chess Association 7 3 1 3 7 14½ 99.50
9 Bihar State 7 3 1 3 7 14 110.50
10 Goa Chess Association 7 3 0 4 6 12 108.25
11 Cyber Chess Academ y 7 2 0 5 4 9½ 89.00
12 East Godhavari 7 1 1 5 3 9 51.00
13 AP W om en 7 1 1 5 3 6 34.00
14 Vanitha (A P) 7 0 0 7 0 1 6.00

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33rd National Team Chess Championship 2013: Final Ranking
Rk Team Gam. + = - MP Pts. SB.
1 PSPB 9 9 0 0 18 29 607.25
2 Indian Railways - B 9 6 2 1 14 25½ 504.50
3 Indian Railways - A 9 5 3 1 13 24 524.50
4 LIC of India 9 5 3 1 13 23½ 476.00
5 Airports Authority of India 9 6 0 3 12 23 472.25
6 The Empty 9 5 2 2 12 22½ 406.25
7 Air India 9 5 2 2 12 22 431.50
8 Maharashtra Chess Association 9 5 2 2 12 21½ 422.00
9 Kerala State Team 9 5 1 3 11 21½ 365.00
10 Karnataka Silicos 9 5 1 3 11 21½ 349.00
11 Tamilnadu A 9 5 1 3 11 21 397.50
12 Andhra Pradesh - A 9 5 1 3 11 21 361.25
13 Tamilnadu - C 9 4 2 3 10 19½ 385.00
14 Tamilnadu - B 9 5 0 4 10 18½ 358.50
15 Andhra Bank 9 5 0 4 10 18½ 343.50
16 Punjab 9 5 0 4 10 18 301.50
17 Indian Bank 9 3 3 3 9 19 371.50
18 Goa Chess Assoiation 9 3 3 3 9 18½ 319.25
19 VIVA GOA 9 4 1 4 9 18½ 296.00
20 Hamara Chess Academy 9 4 1 4 9 18 318.50
21 Services Sports Control Board 9 3 3 3 9 18 286.25
22 Bihar Chess Team 9 4 1 4 9 18 235.00
23 West Bengal 9 4 1 4 9 17½ 321.75
24 Raghav's Foundation 9 4 1 4 9 17½ 258.75
25 Madhya Pradesh 9 4 1 4 9 17 305.00
26 All India Reserve Bank 9 4 0 5 8 17½ 260.25
27 AP Govt Irrigation Dept 9 3 2 4 8 17½ 185.25
28 Cyber Chess Academy 9 3 2 4 8 17 249.25
29 Maestro Chess Academy 9 4 0 5 8 16 276.25
30 White Squares 9 2 3 4 7 16½ 266.25
31 BSNL 9 3 1 5 7 16½ 212.75
32 Buddhibal Kreeda Trust 9 3 1 5 7 15½ 265.00
33 Gujarat Chess Association 9 2 3 4 7 15½ 244.75
34 White Lotus Team 9 3 1 5 7 15 225.75
35 Hyderabad Strikers 9 3 1 5 7 14½ 233.00
36 Hyderabad 5 9 3 1 5 7 13 201.00
37 V R-ONE 9 2 2 5 6 15½ 157.50
38 Shakti Chess Academy 9 2 2 5 6 15 152.50
39 Andhra Pradesh - B 9 2 2 5 6 15 146.50
40 Warangal AP 9 1 4 4 6 12 149.75
41 Himachal Pradesh 9 1 3 5 5 15½ 166.75
42 Global Chess Academy Juniors 9 1 3 5 5 11½ 89.25
43 Secunderabad Kharkana 9 0 1 8 1 2½ 7.75

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Late Narayan Nigalye Memorial All India FIDE Rating Open
Rapid Chess Tournament 2013, Ponda…..

Chinmay Kulkarni wins title

Top seed Chinmay Kulkarni (Maharashtra) scored Best Ponda Taluka player
8.5 pts. from 10 rounds and won the Late 1. Shaunak Kuncolienkar, 2. Gaurav Madkaikar
Narayan Nigalye Memorial All India FIDE Rating 3. Sohan Nageshkar
Open Rapid Chess Tournament 2013 was held Best U15 1.Vageesh Tendulkar 2.Sonali Kerkar
at Farmagudi- Ponda organized by Ponda Taluka Best U13 1. Rajaryan Kuvelkar
Chess Association. Sauravh Kherdekar of Railways 2. Vaibhav Pednekar
got 2nd place and Sameer Kathmale of
Best U11 1. Riddhi Zantye 2.Tushar K.
Maharashtra 3rd place.
Best U9 1.Gunjal Chopdekar 2.Madhavan G.
Shashikant Kutwal, Raja Harshit, Kiran Panditrao,
Best U7 1.Suyash Pai 2. Leon Mendonca
Varma Shabdhik, Madhusoodhan K.R., Ameya
Audi, Wilson Cruz, Sammed Shete, Rishubh Naik, Earlier the tournament was inaugurated at the
Kapil Pawse, Sumit Asnodkar, Vikram Mavlankar, hands of Chief Guest Shri. Bhaskar Khandeparkar,
Anish Gandhi, Shubham Sawaikar, Ravindra Chairman G.V.M. at G.V.M.s S.N.J.A. Higher
Nikam, Deeptesh Karmalkar and Nelson Clement Secondary School, Farmagudi Ponda Goa.
got 4th to 20th place in open category repectively. This tournament was organized by Ponda Taluka
Mr. Sandip Nigalye, MD of Raj Housing Chess Association. Out of the total 200 players
Development Pvt. Ltd. was the Chief guest of who participated in this tournament, 84 players
the prize distribution function. Also present at were rated including One FIDE Master Sauravh
the function were Mohandas Bakhale (Guest of Khherdekar. Also present at the inauguration were
Honour), Ashesh Keni (President, Goa Chess Ashesh Keni, Arvind Mhamal, Sagar Sakordekar,
Association), Principal A. K. Kamat, Chief arbiter Principal A. K. Kamat, Chief Arbiter Vasanth B.H.,
Vasanth B. H., Sagar Amogh Namshiker and Archana Tendulkar.

Sakordekar, President of Ponda Taluka Chess Goan chess has improved very much during last
5 years and the strength of rated players in Goa
Association and Amogh Namshiker, Secretary of
is 160. In next 2 years, strength of rated players
Ponda Taluka Chess Association.
is expected to cross 200 mark. Bhaskar
Sandesh Naik, Vatan Kuncolienkar, Shantanu Khandeparkar appreciated the efforts of Ponda
Gauns, Jayashree Madkaikar, Archana Tendulkar, Taluka Chess Association for organizing the First
Radha Sakordekar and Anand Kurtiker took active Rapid Rating chess tournament in Goa. Ashesh
part in organizing this tournament. Keni, President, Goa Chess Association
Consolation prizes awarded to other players congratulated the organizers for professionally
organizing the event.
were as follows:-
This tournament was being held under the guidance
Best Above 50 Suhas B. Asnodkar
of Chief Arbiter Shri. Vasanth B.H. assisted by
Best unrated Saleem Baig.President of Ponda Taluka Chess
1.Sanjil Hoble, 2. Harsha Gaonkar Association Shri. Sagar Sakordekar said that it was
Best Goan player a good opportunity for Goan players to get the
1.Avinash Malvankar 2. Bhimappa Harijan rapid rating and for rated players to improve their
3. Suyan Belurkar rating.Players were very happy with the spacious

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arrangement of the boards in the hall. Vatan 35 Gaonkar Harsha KAR 6.5
kuncolienkar, Shantanu Gauns, Sandesh Naik and 36 Mokashi Rohit MAH 6.5
Jayashree Madkaikar took active part in organising 37 Kamat Brahmanand GOA 6.5
38 Kudav Bansi Devidas GOA 6.5
the tournament.Total prize fund of the tournament
39 Sumukh Pinge GOA 6.5
is Rs. 55,000/- cash + trophies.
40 Nitish Belurkar CM GOA 6
Two players Chinmay Kulkarni, Shashikant Kutwal 41 Vinay Kurth Koti KAR 6
and Nitish Belurkar were leading with 5 points each 42 Raju N Hegadi KAR 6
at the end of 5 rounds. Ravindra Nikam, Sameer 43 Tushar K GOA 6
Kathmale, Sauravh Kherdekar and Shabdik Verma 44 Abid Ali Mujawar KAR 6
are in joint 2nd place with 4.5 pts. 45 Rajas Chari GOA 6
46 Madkaikar Gaurav S PON 6
Final standings (first 130 placings only) 47 Sahil Shetty GOA 6
Rk. Name City Pt. 48 Suhas B. Asnodkar GOA 6
1 Kulkarni Chinmay MAH 8.5 49 Eeshan Gad GOA 6
2 Sauravh Khherdekar FM MAH 8 50 Wairagade Atharva MAH 6
3 Kathmale Sameer MAH 8 51 Nageshkar Sohan S PON 6
4 Shashikant Kutwal MAH 8 52 Bodke Sharmad S GOA 6
5 Raja Harshit MAH 8 53 Parsekar Anirudh GOA 6
6 Kiran Panditrao MAH 8 54 Pawan Shailesh Vernekar GOA 6
7 Varma Shabdhik KAR 7.5 55 Bir Yogesh Pai PON 6
8 Madhusoodanan K.R. KER 7.5 56 Pai Vithal PON 6
9 Audi Ameya GOA 7.5 57 Pai Vishwesh PON 6
10 Cruz Wilson PON 7.5 58 Kenkare S H MAH 6
11 Sammed Jaykumar Shete MAH 7.5 59 Kambli Datta GOA 5.5
12 Naik Rishubh Naresh GOA 7.5 60 Kunal Naik GOA 5.5
13 Kapil Pawse GOA 7.5 61 Shetye Dilesh GOA 5.5
14 Sumit Asnodkar GOA 7.5 62 Verenker Disha GOA 5.5
15 Vikram Mavlankar MAH 7.5 63 Anish Prabhudessai GOA 5.5
16 Gandhi Anish MAH 7 64 K Shantaram Chopdekar GOA 5.5
17 Shubham R Sawaikar PON 7 65 Chopdekar Gunjal GOA 5.5
18 Nikam Ravindra MAH 7 66 Bhagwat S.M. KAR 5.5
19 Karmalkar Deeptesh GOA 7 67 Sadanand M Rawal GOA 5.5
20 Nelson Clement KER 7 68 Audi Saiesh GOA 5.5
21 Sanjil Hoble GOA 7 69 Naik Reema GOA 5.5
22 Malvankar Avinash GOA 7 70 Pai Sunay Pundalik PON 5.5
23 Vagesh Tendulkar PON 7 71 Madhavan G GOA 5.5
24 Bhimappa Harijan GOA 7 72 Mandnikar Atreya MAH 5.5
25 Riddhi Zantye GOA 6.5 73 Sakshi Naik Gaonkar GOA 5.5
26 Suyan Belurkar GOA 6.5 74 Baligar Dr Vishwanath KAR 5.5
27 Rajaryan Kuvelkar GOA 6.5 75 Kuncolienkar Shivank PON 5.5
28 Kerkar Sonali GOA 6.5 76 Beverly Mendonca GOA 5.5
29 Vasant Vishnu Naik GOA 6.5 77 Telang Mrinal GOA 5.5
30 Vaibhav NT Pednekar GOA 6.5 78 Anurag S Adwalpalkar GOA 5.5
31 Shaunak V.S.Kuncolienkar PON 6.5 79 Morajkar Navin GOA 5.5
32 Sawant Tatvesh Ramdas GOA 6.5 80 Mahale Renukesh S GOA 5.5
33 Tanad Anil Bandodkar GOA 6.5 81 Thorat Sanjay GOA 5.5
34 Nikhilesh M Holla KAR 6.5 82 Dias Aston PON 5.5

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83 Barde Om GOA 5.5
84 Shirodkar Sanish GOA 5.5 Puzzle of the month
85 Avvaru Rama Sirisha GOA 5.5 by C.G.S.Narayanan
86 Sahil Dayanand Desai GOA 5.5 In his book 'Chess mysteries of Sherlock Holmes'
87 Ashesh Keni GOA 5 Robert Smullyan presents his retros in an
88 Milind Gauns PON 5 entertaining way and here is one with an
89 Swera Ana Braganza GOA 5 imaginative story spun around it.
90 Bhobe Ved GOA 5
"Today we came across Lord Ashley and his wife
91 Khandeparkar Mohit PON 5
at a game of chess. Lady Ashley is a great chess
92 Pranav Prakash Naik GOA 5
enthusiast and her skill is at least equal to that of
93 Khan Faiziya GOA 5
her husband.
94 Raikar Aman Umakant PON 5
95 Apurva Naik PON 5 "Ah, Good morning, Holmes" said Lord Ashley at
96 Suyash Pai PON 5 our approach."We are in the midst of a most
97 Anand Kurtiker PON 5 unusual game. No piece has moved from a
98 Leon Mendonca GOA 5 white square to a black square nor from a
99 Alaina J J Pereira GOA 5 black square to white square."
100 Sahakari Virendra PON 5
101 Kshaunish Naik GOA 5
102 Naik Shvesh S GOA 5
103 Chodankar Akash PON 5
104 Sharath Shambhag GOA 5
105 Ghosarwadkar Pushparaj GOA 5
106 Mangesh Sagar Sakordekar PON 5
107 Varun R Shastry PON 5
108 Talaulikar A Vijay Kumar PON 5
109 Fadte Rudresh GOA 5
110 Goankar Shambhavi GOA 5
111 Sawant Vignesh PON 5
112 Dhanavi Ulhas Fondekar GOA 5
"Ah, a monochromatic game", replied Holmes.
113 Kamath Nitish PON 5
114 Chavan Pankaj PON 5 Is that what you call it? Well, this is the only type
115 Naik Kunal Ramnath PON 4.5 of game Lady Ashley and I ever play. But this
116 Bale Ashwin Anand PON 4.5 particular game, quite aside from being
117 Saish Ulhas Fondekar GOA 4.5 monochromatic, has been highly unusual."
118 Naik Mayuresh GOA 4.5 Holme studied the position."Whose move is it?"
119 Sakordekar Nandan Sagar PON 4.5 he inquired. "It is mine" replied Lord Ashley who
120 Mahale Saish Hanuman GOA 4.5 was playing white.
121 Prabhu Saurabh PON 4.5 "Then it is indeed a remarkable game" replied
122 Naik Vrunda V GOA 4.5 Holmes."For one thing I perceive a promotion
123 Dhruv Vinayak Patil GOA 4.5 has been made. For another, a pawn has been
124 Shirodkar Adinath Jayant PON 4.5 captured en passant ".
125 Sanat Borkar GOA 4.5
"Astounding!" said Lady Ashley. I too was
126 Bharadwaj Rahul PON 4.5
astounded when Holmes explained the solution.
127 Colaso Vernon GOA 4.5
And even after hearing the solution, I am still
128 Shirodkar Aayush GOA 4.5
astounded!.
129 Dias Aston Antonio PON 4.5
(Solution on page 42)
130 Sumant Kumar L Koyande GOA 4.5

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Late Sharad Kunte Memorial FIDE Rating Rapid Chess,Pune…..

Tejas Bakre wins

GM Tejas Bakre of Ahmedabad scored 9 points tournament. In the Fourth Round Playing white
to emerge winner, while Pune player Abhimanyu Bakre demolished Siddhali Shetye, while IM Shardul
Puranik Finished second with 81/2 points at the Gagare playing with black outplayed Senior player
Late Sharad Gopal Kunte Memorial FIDE rating C.S.Unni(3pt); Siddhant Gaikwad also playing black
Rapid Chess tournament organized by the the scored a win over Chinmay Kulkarni(3pt).
City based Budhibal Kreeda Trust and sponsored
Other seven in lead included Railway player
by SGK Investments which concluded at the
Shashikant Kutwal, Sameer Kathmale of Sangli,
Manohar Mangal Karyalaya at Erandawane.
Aniruddha Deshpande of Pune, Anand Nadar,
Bakre who maintained a clean record after 9 Soham Dange and Atul DahaleThe tournament
rounds received top prize of Rs 15000, while was inaugurated at the hands of Abhijit Sharad
Puranik got Rs 10000 for his effort, Sameer kunte MD SGK Investments and Prachi Kunte,
Kathmale of Sangli Finished third with 8 points, Chairman of PDCC Niranjan Godbole presided over
while Chimay Kulkarni and Aniruddha Deshpande the function, Managing Trustee of Budhibal
finished 4th and 5th with 8 points. Kreeda Trust Prakash Kunte welcomed while Nitin
Shenvi conducted the proceedings
In the last match of the top board between Bakre
(8) and Soham Phadke (71/2) which ended in Final standings (first 120 placings only)
Rook and Pawn ending Bakre (8 points) had a Rk. Name Pts.
rook and 2 pawns in play, while Phadke had a 1 GM Bakre Tejas 9
rook on board, Bakre took an initiative to sacrifice 2 CM Puranik Abhimanyu 8.5
a pawn and set up the win. 3 Kathmale Sameer 8
4 Kulkarni Chinmay 8
The prizes were given away at the hands of 5 Deshpande Aniruddha 8
hands of Prachi Kunte and Abhijit Sharad Kunte 6 Shashikant Kutwal 7.5
MD SGK Investments and Mrs Sonali Deshpande 7 Phadke Sohan 7.5
of the Persistant Foundation,, Managing Trustee 8 Abhishek Kelkar 7.5
of Budhibal Kreeda Trust Prakash Kunte welcomed 9 Anand Nadar 7.5
while Nitin Shenvi conducted the proceedings 10 Raja Harshit 7.5
11 Ponkshe Sarang 7.5
Following are the other prizes:
12 Shenvi Mohit 7.5
Best Veteran GM Wagh 7 points, Best Ladies 13 FM Ramakrishna J. 7.5
Supriya Joshi 7 points, Best Under 19 Gajanan 14 Soham Datar 7.5
Jayde 7 points, Best Under 16 Nikhil Dixit 61/2, 15 Kiran Panditrao 7.5
Best Under 14 Akshay Nehete 61/2, Best under 16 FM Gagare Shardul 7
12 Gaurav Madkaikar 61/2, Best under 10 Aryan 17 Shetye Siddhali 7
Shah 6, Best under 8 Aditya Samant 5 points, 18 Dahale Atul 7
Best Underrated Player Manoj Khilwan 19 Gaikwad Siddhant 7
20 Niklesh Kumar Jain 7
Bakre and Eight others lead after fourth round: 21 Supriya Joshi 7
Grand Master Tejas Bakre, IM Shardul Ghagare 22 Gajanan Jayde 7
and Seven Others scored 4 points apiece after the 23 Godbole Atharva 7
24 Wagh G.M. 7
fourth round to lead the tables at the Late Sharad
25 Boricha Ketan 7
Gopal Kunte Memorial FIDE rating Rapid Chess

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26 Sirsat Shekhar V. 7 74 Dhruv Vinayak Joshi 6
27 Dongre Chandrakant 7 75 Gala Devansh 6
28 Dhiraj Patil 7 76 Madkar Aditya 6
29 Chitrak Naha 6.5 77 Ashar Grishma 5.5
30 Dixit Nikhil 6.5 78 Madkar Atharva 5.5
31 M Hemant Kumar 6.5 79 Somani Pravin 5.5
32 Shelke Sankarsha 6.5 80 Karmarkar Prakash 5.5
33 Bhogal Rupesh 6.5 81 Borse Pankaj 5.5
34 Unni C. S. 6.5 82 Karnik Bhavesh 5.5
35 Shreyas S Nikam 6.5 83 Kazi Nazir 5.5
36 Gupta Rajesh R.S. 6.5 84 Sandesh Mhatre 5.5
37 Mota Pankit 6.5 85 Mandnikar Atreya 5.5
38 Sapale Saloni 6.5 86 Waghmare Sushrut 5.5
39 Dandekar Amey 6.5 87 Paygude Vikram 5.5
40 Ganesh Deshpande 6.5 88 Dhananjay A. Pandit 5.5
41 Vaibhav Barahate 6.5 89 Kulkarni Prathamesh 5.5
42 Nehete Akshay S 6.5 90 Bakre Ashutosh 5.5
43 Madkaikar Gaurav S 6.5 91 Patwardhan Mohit 5.5
44 Bhagwat S.M. 6.5 92 Kothawade Shreyas 5.5
45 Wairagade Atharva 6.5 93 Shetye Shyam 5.5
46 Muchandikar Shrikant 6.5 94 Joshi Avani 5.5
47 Rohan Bharat Joshi 6.5
95 Jori Aditi 5.5
48 Gaurav Rajesh Zagade 6.5
96 Yeolekar Akshay 5.5
49 Joshi Nimita 6
97 Mathur Harshad 5.5
50 Dange Soham 6
98 Bharambe Bhavik C 5
51 Pruthu Deshpande 6
99 Karandikar Sameer 5
52 Munemane Ameya 6
100 Kawade Avadhut 5
53 Pandhare Swapnil 6
101 Dhoot Vinit 5
54 Amar Jyoti Kakoty 6
102 Bhat Yogesh 5
55 P Shashank Milind 6
103 Bhosale Anish 5
56 Khilwan Manoj 6
57 Dalvi Ayush 6 104 Bhagwat Heramb 5
58 Aryan Abhijeet Shah 6 105 Ghate Rajanikant 5
59 Gange Tanmayee 6 106 Jape Shubhankar 5
60 Nargundkar Ravindra 6 107 Tharayil Sudhir 5
61 Tankasale Pranav 6 108 Joshi Deven 5
62 Desai Jaykumar 6 109 Supnekar Milind 5
63 Ranade Hemant 6 110 Ojas Mahavir Karnavat 5
64 Mokashi Rohit 6 111 Devdikar Hrishikesh 5
65 Marathe Omkar 6 112 Jalpesh N Ashar 5
66 Deshpande Sarthak 6 113 Menon Madhumita 5
67 Aphale Kanaad 6 114 Kshirsagar Samadhan 5
68 Jain Aum 6 115 Nandu Amar 5
69 Ghyar Anup 6 116 Kousadikar Radha 5
70 Amle Sanjay 6 117 Sawant Mansi 5
71 Ahire Vaibhav 6 118 Anand Mrugank 5
72 Behere Ravi 6 119 Barge Pankaj 5
73 Wagle Aakash Abhay 6 120 Nimbalkar Kulwantsinh 5

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 The 3rd Homeland International Fide Rated Chess Tournament (Below 1600 rated), Chennai

Mahesh Kumar wins Homeland FIDE rated

The 3rd Homeland International Fide Rated Chess 10 K M K Ramanatha 7
Tournament for Below 1600 was organized by 11 S. Jeevanandam 7
King Chess Foundation from 15 Feb. to 17th Feb., 12 Raahul V S 7
2013 held at Hall of Chess, JN Stadium, Chennai- 13 Hussain S K 7
3. The event attracted by 416 players from 14 Awadh Chaitanya 7
15 Abhishek V 7
various parts of the country. Out of this 195
16 Khazeber R 7
players were rated. Second seed of the
17 Gowri Shankar A 7
tournament Mr. Mahesh Kumar K.K of Tamil Nadu 18 Varadharajan I. 7
won the title and he was undefeated in the 19 Muhammed Reja C 7
tournament and finished with 8.5 points out of 20 Swaminathan A 7
possible 9.He drew the final round with Unni 21 Upendra R 7
Krishnan T of Kerala, who finished fourth. 22 Amitesh Kumar Sinha 7
23 Pavan Kumar Y 7
The winner of this event got Rs.20,000/- as cash
24 Abirami S 6.5
award and the Winner's Trophy.
25 Sanjay Thiruvengadam 6.5
The Second and the Third place went to Girinath 26 Sai Ganesh S 6.5
B.S of Tamil Nadu and Baskar P of Pondicherry 27 Sharath Kumar T P 6.5
who scored 8 points each and got the trophies with 28 Bhaskar N S 6.5
the cash of Rs.10,000/- & Rs.8,000/- respectively. 29 Keerthivasan K 6.5
30 Pavan C 6.5
Biju K. Rajappan of Kerala came first in the Best 31 Pakkurti Vijay Kumar 6.5
Un-rated player and got Rs.1,100/- with the 32 Vinod S 6.5
trophy.Best Veteran Player award goes to K. 33 Roshin Romario 6.5
Dawood of Tamil Nadu got Rs.1,100/- with the 34 Arumugam N 6.5
trophy. Malleswari P of TN adjudged as Best 35 Vijay Shreeram P 6.5
Women player got Rs.1,100/- with the Trophy. 36 Biju K Rajappan 6.5
In each category (i.e.,U/8, U/10, U/12 & U/14 - 37 Vivek Ramanathan V 6.5
B & G) top 10 players received the trophies. Smt 38 Thiagarajan S 6.5
& Sri.Manikandaswamy gave away the prizes.The 39 Bhosale Shriraj 6.5
40 Rakshith N D 6
tournamernt was conducted smoothly by Chief
41 Stanley Jones W 6
Arbiter V.Ravikumar and his team of Arbiters.
42 Sonumon P S 6
Final standings 43 Siddharth S 6
Rk. Name Pts. 44 Vijay V.S. 6
1 Mahesh Kumar K K 8.5 45 Vallal A 6
2 Girinath B S 8 46 Vishnu Viswanathan P 6
3 Baskar P 8 47 Ashit Kumar Jha 6
4 Unnikrishnan T 7.5 48 Varun V 6
5 Suriya Kumar V K 7.5 49 Sharan Sridhar 6
6 Shivshankar Iyer S 7.5 50 Dawood.K 6
7 VInayagam m 7.5 51 Ramakrishnan T V 6
8 Santhosh V R 7 52 Karthik Kumar G 6
9 Veeravel Pandian S 7 53 Thomas Nidhin V V 6

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54 Saravanan S (1971) 6 102 Vishwak S 5.5
55 Pulkit Rathi V 6 103 Shyam Sundar M 5.5
56 Venkatesh K 6 104 Hariharan S 5.5
57 MDavid Suthandram R 6 105 Kamalanathan R 5.5
58 Raj Kumar R 6 106 Karpagakumar S V S 5.5
59 Arvind S 6 107 Gokul U 5.5
60 Vamsi Krishna B 6 108 Rajarathinam P D 5.5
61 Aswin Kumar B S 6 109 Alagu Subramanian 5.5
62 Balasubramaniam M 6 110 Mohanan A 5.5
63 Shreenath M 6 111 Suresh R 5.5
64 Kumar T 6 112 Vishweshwaran K 5.5
65 Singh Vimlesh Kumar 6 113 Mugunthakumar P.K 5.5
66 F Md Bashiruddin 6 114 Girish Kumar S 5.5
67 Aditya M 6 115 Hasan M 5.5
68 Bhosale Shruti 6 116 Suresh Kumar R 5.5
69 Sukumar.S 6 117 Vara Prasad M S S 5.5
70 Mckenzie Lionel Joseph 6 118 Raju G 5
71 Aswin S 6 119 Anbarasan S 5
120 Kamal G 5
72 Manjunath D Naik 6
121 Suresh Agarwal 5
73 Benny Thomas 6
122 Danush Athithya K S T 5
74 Selvamuthu K 6
123 Rahul Raaj A 5
75 Sai Krishna S 6
124 Bala Subramaniyan R 5
76 Senthamizh Yazhini S 6
125 Vinod Kumar KV 5
77 Rahul Bharadwaj B 6
126 Jayakumar P K 5
78 Jeevan C 6
127 Abdul Basheer K M 5
79 Kiran Kumar G 6 128 Ashwin Kumaar M 5
80 Sheshashayan M V 6 129 Senthil Kumar V 5
81 Dash S S 6 130 Vinoth Kumar M 5
82 Lathecka Sai M.A. 5.5 131 Srinivasan R 5
83 Prajwalesh 5.5 132 Venkat Reddy S 5
84 Mohan Ram Sridhar 5.5 133 Vishnu Ram M 5
85 Swaminathan.M 5.5 134 Muhammed Musthafa 5
86 Kharunya C.S. 5.5 135 Mugesh B 5
87 Ramesh R 5.5 136 Harshan H 5
88 Rangesh N D 5.5 137 Alexander P 5
89 Balakrishnan S. 5.5 138 Selvan M 5
90 Prasant N Nayagam 5.5 139 Ganesh Samarth C A 5
91 Swarnamala B 5.5 140 Gnanasekar A 5
92 Hariharan V 5.5 141 Eramasubramaniam R 5
93 Bhagwat S.M. 5.5 142 Keerthi V 5
94 Dharshan P 5.5 143 Sai Ganesh R 5
95 Bagat Singh P 5.5 144 Pranav P 5
96 Tarun R 5.5 145 Darshana Balakrishnan 5
97 Muraleedharan V K 5.5 146 Balasubramaniam H 5
98 Elayaraja N G 5.5 147 Sivaa G M 5
99 I Ashok Kumar 5.5 148 Karthik R (1993) 5
100 Ebenezer Rajakumar D 5.5 149 Bhargavan S 5
101 Sumit Samantray 5.5 150 Ithal H L Rajath 5

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Raghav's Foundation 1st International Fide Rating Chess Tournament (Below 2000),Hyderabad

Venkata Ramana wins title

Raghav's Foundation 1st International Fide Raghav's Foundation is a Trust formed with
Rating Chess Tournament (Below 2000) was eminent personalities as Trustees. Trust
held at Hyderabad from 7th to 10th February formed to develop chess career of V.Raghav
2013 at Sundarayya Vignana Kendram, Srivathsav, Guinness World Record & 6 Limca
Gachibowli X Road, Hyderabad. A total of 245 Wo r l d Re c o r d s H o l d e r, a n d h i s s i s t e r
players participated from 9 states. Mr. Venkata V.Vathsalya, decided to conduct this event as
Ramana P. (1785 rated-A.P.) became the its annual event. Trust provided Free Lunch to
Champion of the Tournament. He won 8 points the players but parents also utilised this facility.
out of 9. Guinness World Record & 6 Limca We c o n d u c t e d t h i s To u r n e y i n g o o d
World Records Holder V.Raghav Srivathsav atmosphere. We followed minute to minute
(1773 A.P.) and Mr. Malla Nukaraju (1982- A.P.) shedule as we decided in the players meeting.
were tied for 2nd place with 7.5 points each Parents and players cooperated with organizers.
out of 9. But in the Buchholz Mr. Nukaraju Final standings (first 130 placings only)
won 2nd place and Master V.Raghav Srivathsav Rk. Name Pts.
the 3rd place. Mr. Venkata Ramana increased 1 Venkataramana P 8
his Rating points 50.7. Mr. Nukaraju increased 2 Malla Nooka Raju 7.5
8.9 rating points and V.Raghav Srivathsav 3 Raghav Srivathsav V 7.5
increased 53.7 rating points in this Tournament. 4 Kranti Kumar P. 7.5
Innaugural function of the Raghav's Foundation 5 Saurabh Anand 7
1st International Fide Rating Chess Tournament 6 Sai Agni Jeevitesh J 7
7 Sumit Grover 7
(Below 2000) held on 7th February 2013 at 10.30
8 Iyappan P 7
a.m. at Venue. Famous Cine Actor, Jayabheri
9 D. Ashraf Subhani 7
Group of Companies Chairman Mr. Muralimohan
10 Kumar Gaurav 7
attended as Chief Guest. Tourney Sponsorer 11 Godavarthi Chiranjeevi 7
Indian Overseas Bank CRM. Mr. Swaminathan 12 Vishwanath Prasad 7
released the Chess Tournament Momento and 13 Dalal Ashutosh 7
Hyderabad International Airport CEO, GMR Group 14 Joshi Abhijeet 7
Mr. Vikram Jai Singhani were make the First 15 Surya Narayana.M 6.5
moves. Tourney Organizing Secretary V.Shyam 16 Kulkarni Vinayak 6.5
Sundar also address the gathering. 17 Anand Naik B 6.5
18 Dangmei Bosco 6.5
Validictory Function of the Raghav's Foundation 1st
19 Duvvala Suresh 6.5
International Fide Rating Chess Tournament (Below
20 Mohapatra G.C. 6.5
2000) held on 10th February 2013 at 3.00 p.m. at
21 Rajashekar B 6.5
Venue. Indian Badminton Chief Coach Mr. 22 Darshan V P S 6.5
Gopichand attended as Chief Guest and presented 23 Mohammed Fawaz 6.5
Prizes to Top Three Winners of the Tournament 24 Khan S 6
along with World Body Building Champion Mr. 25 Bharat Kumar Reddy Poluri 6
Mirmohthe Sham, Mr. Appaji, Director General to 26 Syed Muhammad Hussain 6
the Govt. Of India and V.Shyam Sundar, Organizing 27 Raju K.S.R.M. 6
Secretary on the dais. Mirmohthe Sham and Mr. 28 Harsh Mangesh Ghag 6
Appaji presented Prizes to the winners of Top 4th 29 Ajeesh Antony 6
to 10th places and other winners. 30 Sandip Dey 6

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31 Himanshu Chabda 6 81 Praveen Veeramalla 5
32 Toshali V 6 82 Gurromkonda Tarosh 5
33 Krishna Karthik N 6 83 Doshi Moksh Amitbhai 5
34 K Ashleesh 6 84 Katiyar Prashant 5
35 Subhash Kumar M 6 85 Akshay Sharma 5
36 Perumallu K. 6 86 Satyanarayana Raju D S 5
37 Rupesh Ranjan 6 87 My Aditya 5
38 Adethya R 6 88 Arrun S. 5
39 Rohith Svs 6 89 Bharsakale, Rahul 5
40 Mohd Khaja Abdul Latheef S 6 90 Nicy Vennela M 5
41 Bala Srinivasa Rao Ganji 6 91 Anand K V 5
42 Prabhat Koutha 6 92 Prasanna Arpita Ch. 5
43 Kandi Ravi 6 93 Srinivas Ch 5
44 Ramchandar Rao D 6 94 Garima Gaurav 5
45 Sonkalan Bharati 6 95 Vignesh 5
46 Durga Prasad V 6 96 Durga Prasad P V 5
47 Harshita Guddanti 6 97 Govardhan Mitra P 5
48 Ravikumar M 6 98 Waheed M A 5
49 Anigani Kavya 6 99 Bharath Bhushan Reddy N 5
50 Dalai Khitindra Prateem 6 100 Vishwanath Vivek 5
51 Mahender Marri 6 101 Goguloth Malsur 5
52 Md Anwar 6 102 Nazeer Basha G 5
53 Hamirwasia Vivek 6 103 Naveen R 5
54 Cheela Naga Sampath 6 104 Imran Hussain 5
55 Satyanarayana M 5.5 105 Vijay Kumar Meesala 5
56 Ajith M.P. 5.5 106 Vilok V Gadwal 5
57 Yashaskara Jois K.R 5.5 107 Saumitra Verma 4.5
58 Balaguru T 5.5 108 Venkat Reddy S 4.5
59 Mandula Rajeev 5.5 109 Chattopadhyay D 4.5
60 Shaik Sydulu 5.5 110 Ashutosh Kumar 4.5
61 Rama Anjaneyulu R V S S 5.5 111 Diwakar V U 4.5
62 Naga Shashank D 5.5 112 Vibhav Gadwal 4.5
63 Avi Jaiswal 5.5 113 Shakeel Ahmed 4.5
64 Jatin S N 5.5 114 Shaik Riyaz 4.5
65 M Tulasi Ram Kumar 5.5 115 Lalakasyap Satakarni 4.5
66 Raja Srinivas T 5.5 116 Harisurya B Gundepudi 4.5
67 Pathak Anshu Kr 5.5 117 Jena Sanjkeet 4.5
68 Srikar Yerrabati 5.5 118 Bheri Yaswanth 4.5
69 Rishiraj K 5.5 119 N B Rao 4.5
70 Karthik Kumar Pradeep 5.5 120 Manas Khadke 4.5
71 Shiek Fayaz 5 121 Yella Manikanta 4.5
72 Raja Rithvik R 5 122 Sabbi Sree Rohitha 4.5
73 D.K. Chopra 5 123 Srikanth Kharrn 4.5
74 Ravi Kumar K 5 124 Gopal Reddy B 4.5
75 Satyajit Sarkar 5 125 Kampani Shiv 4.5
76 Harshavardhan Reddy G 5 126 Makhija Aashna 4.5
77 Sunil Vaidya 5 127 Mahendar B 4.5
78 Chitlange Sakshi 5 128 Rajarshi A 4.5
79 Pavan Kumar Y 5 129 Sasikanth R 4.5
80 Salman K 5 130 Deepak C 4.5

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6th North East Chess Championship,Imphal….

Santanu retains title of NE Championship

by IA Dharmendra Kumar,Chief Arbiter
6th edition of North east Championship was Santanu Borpatra Gohain of Assam retained his
organized at Imphal, Manipur by Imphal west title of NE Championship 2nd time in a row. Started
district chess association on behalf of Manipur as 4th seed but finished first !! Promising one,
Chess Association from February 28 t0 March 7, santanu, started slow as he scored 3.5 in first 5
2013. Venue was beautiful sports complex of game but 2nd half proved full of score and helped
Imphal known as Kuhmanlampak (Kangshang). him to lift the trophy as he scored 5/5 !! 2nd
place went to Chakrilombi Singh of Manipur who
In the morning of 28 February, managers meeting
tied up with santanu as they both had same
held in presence of all the managers of concerning
score 8.5/10 and but Buchholz decided the winner
state, Chief Arbiter Dharmendra Kumar and
Mr.R.Ralte, President of North-East Chess forum and runner. About the organization, player- turned
and discussed and decided the important technical organizer L. Atembi and his team tried his best
things and regulations for the championship. to balance the organization from every angle.
Their effort to resolve every discomfort of players
In the afternoon it was a grand inaugural and accompanying persons deserves
ceremony followed by beautiful cultural program appreciation. Although this event was organized
performed by local Manipuri artiste. Dr. by them at very short notice it was up to
N.Dwijamani Singh, President of Pioneer Chess mark.Tournament was conducted smoothly as
Academy & well known social worker inaugurated there were no dispute or protest and the decorum
the event by playing a game with Mr.Baldev of tournament hall was absolutely maintained by
Sharma, President of Imphal west district chess the arbiters. Chief Arbiter was ably assisted by
association in presence of Mrs. S.Nirmalata Devi, arbiters from north -eastern states namely
District youth affair &sports officer. As it was Mahendra Dhakal (Sikkim), TH Biju
decided in managers meeting, total no. of round Singh(Meghalaya), Manik Datta(Assam), Wikiye
was 10 for 137 players including 56 Fide rated Sumi(Nagaland) and Y.Dhanbir Singh(Manipur).
from all eight state of North -East. Notable was
the participation of young players. 28 players Final standings: (first 120 placings only)
Rk. Name Club Pts.
belonged to U-15 age group ! Their presence
1 Santanu Borpatra Gohain Asm 8½
was indication of chess popularity in North-East. 2 Chakrilombi Singh A. Man 8½
Tournament hall, accommodation for players and 3 Naorem Shantikumar Man 8
officials and food arrangement within the campus 4 Imtiaz Islam Bora Asm 7½
5 Premjit Singh S. Man 7½
were excellent. It was much convenient for players
6 Baruah Utpal Asm 7½
to arrive on time and maintain the "Zero tolerance". 7 Khumukcham S Singh Man 7½
Month of February was so pleasant and 8 Yengkhom Pritam K Singh Man 7
comfortable for players and officials. Schedule was 9 Apollosana M Rajkumar Man 7
not hectic at all as 3 days double round and 4 days 10 Singh Soram Rahul Asm 7
single. 5th February was rest day and a sight seen 11 Singh Ningthoujam Kishan Man 7
program was conducted by the organizer to very 12 Lulwang Thounaojam G Man 7
famous Loktak lake of Manipur and some other 13 Gurumayum Inao Sharma Man 7
14 Rijied Katrai Meg 7
tourist places. In all, everybody enjoyed their stay 15 Kevilekho Zumvu Nag 7
at Imphal. The motto of game to spread friendship 16 Dupit Tabu Ap 7
and love among the people was succeeded. 17 Gurung Rakesh Sik 7

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18 Bangkim Singh Man 7 70 Raluk Dui Ap 5
19 Biswajit Nag Tri 7 71 Ningthoujam Boboycha Man 5
20 Sunachand Meetei Th. Man 6½ 72 Thokchom Samson Singh Man 5
21 Ningthem Oinam Man 6½ 73 Ningthoujam R Singh Man 5
22 Manoj Barua Asm 6½ 74 Pradhan Bhuwan Prakash Sik 5
23 Potsangbam J Singh Man 6½ 75 Vanlalchhanchhuaha Miz 5
24 Dangmei Bosco Man 6½ 76 Taba Anam Ap 5
25 Heikrujam Jacky Singh Man 6½ 77 Richard Mairembam Miz 5
26 Sushmita Lama Sik 6½ 78 Abemu N Man 5
27 Bipul Das Asm 6½ 79 Yumkhaibam Yaisina Devi Man 5
28 Lalnunsanga Miz 6½ 80 Davis Zoremsiama Miz 4½
29 Dharmeswar Pegu Asm 6 81 Singh Th. Nabachandra Man 4½
30 Singh Asem Romeo Man 6 82 Khangembam Premchandra Man 4½
31 Lallianmanga Miz 6 83 Meitei H Jogendra Man 4½
32 EShashikanta Singh Man 6 84 Tamar Nilling Ap 4½
33 Tamang Thendup Sik 6 85 Joram Ago Ap 4½
34 Thangchungnunga Miz 6 86 Ronald Soibam Man 4½
35 Shakespear L. Man 6 87 Pranisha Gurung Sik 4½
36 Shiny Das Tri 6 88 Nobleman Wanniang Meg 4½
37 Arambam Binit Singh Man 6 89 Binoy Singha Tri 4½
38 M Konjengbam Kunjabi Man 6 90 Tapi Shah Ap 4½
39 Pramod Bargohain Asm 6 91 Lalrinmawia Miz 4½
40 Singh Sinam Lawrence Man 6 92 Sayantika Nag Tri 4½
41 Wairokpam Bheem Singh Man 6 93 Gojendro Keisham Man 4
42 Ropfuvilie Nagi Nag 6 94 Devjit Khanikar Asm 4
43 Ningombam Herojit Meitei Man 5½ 95 Souradip Deb Tri 4
44 Singh Bhogen Rk Man 5½
96 Lalfakzuala Miz 4
45 Tokuho Awomi Nag 5½
97 Maibam O Khuman Man 4
46 Sukhavi Achumi Nag 5½
98 Jairaj Thapa Sik 4
47 Mahesh Power Yurembam Man 5½
99 Gilleon Khanglah Ropmay Meg 4
48 Singh Arjun M Man 5½
100 Lalremruata Miz 4
49 Sutnga H.D. Meg 5½
101 Disha Roy Tri 4
50 Yumkhaibam S Singh Man 5½
102 Chhetri Priya Sik 4
51 Gopeshwor Singh Man 5½
103 J. Lalrammawia Miz 4
52 H. Ibochouba Singh Man 5½
53 Jayanta Chutia Asm 5½ 104 Tamin Nampi Giasing Ap 4
54 Konsam Jiban Singh Man 5½ 105 Khaidem Kabi Singh Man 4
55 Delta S Man 5½ 106 Hongsha K Meg 4
56 Khoirom Somorjit Singh Man 5½ 107 Dilip Kumar Roy Tri 4
57 Meitei Deenesh Kh Man 5½ 108 Rai Ganesh Meg 4
58 Lepcha Johna Sik 5½ 109 Rai Sejal Sik 4
59 Gurung Rohit Sik 5 110 L.H. Zothanmawii Miz 4
60 Devi Moirangthem Danei Man 5 111 Kekjap Riba Ap 3½
61 Pratik Debnath Tri 5 112 N Goutam Singh Man 3½
62 Pahlira Miz 5 113 Jetaban Borthakur Asm 3½
63 Gurung Rahul Sik 5 114 Rai Chitiz Sik 3½
64 Sudhirsana Singh R.K. Man 5 115 Singh Mohan Prasad Sik 3½
65 M Rana Singh Man 5 116 Atom Alex Man 3½
66 Poudel Yemu Meg 5 117 Tilotama Sougaijam Man 3½
67 Gurung Pushpa Sik 5 118 Haradhan Ch. Roy Tri 3½
68 Sharma Durga Prasad Sik 5 119 MongyambaLeishangthem Man 3
69 Kshetrimayum M Singh Man 5 120 Sanajoba R K Man 3

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Bhopal International Rating Chess Tournament….

Arjun Tiwari Lifts Bhopal Intl. Rating

Arjun Tiwari of Railways stunned the several 10 Prasannaa.S TN 7½
renowned players and lifted the title of the Bhopal 11 Ram S. Krishnan TN 7
International Rating Chess Tournament that 12 Majumdar Shankar WB 7
concluded on 30.12.2013 at T.T. Nagar Stadium 13 FM Sauravh khherdekar MAH 7
Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh. 14 Abhishek Das JHAR 7
The tournament recognised by FIDE & AICF was 15 Santu Mondal WB 7
being organised under the ageis of sports & youth 16 Rajarishi Karthi TN 7
welfare department mp and Academy of Chess 17 Amardeep Tiwari MAH 7
Education Bhopal.Arjun won the 9th tound and 18 Gajwa Ankit MP 7
drew in the last roundpocketing a total of 8.5 19 Dave Kantilal RAJ 7
points won Rs.one lac. IM Rahul Sangma 8 points 20 Niklesh Kumar Jain MP 7
stood second won rs-60000/-,FM V.Vinod of TN.8 21 Karan Manish Jain UP 7
point secured 3rd Rs-30000/-AkaSH Thakur mah. 22 M Chandrasish WB 6½
8 point 4th Rs-20000/-,Rupankaar nath wb 8 23 FM Dutta Joydeep WB 6½
points Rs/-15000/-,Vikramjeet Singh MAN 8 points 24 Joshi Abhijeet MAH 6½
Rs12000/ 5th,IM Sapatrishi roy 8 point 6th Rs- 25 Alahakoon Isuru 6½
10000/,IM Himanshu Sharma 7th 8000/,Im 26 Mukund G. Bhatt GUJ 6½
AkshatKhamparia 8th 8000/Total Cash Prize of 27 Peiris T S S 6½
Rs.Four lac was given. 28 Sudarshan Malga MP 6½
From left-Nikleh Jain Tresurer, MP Chess, Kapil 29 Chakrabarti Tamal WB 6½
Saxena Hon.Sec MP Chess,A S Singdeo 30 Aaniq Kamani MP 6½
patron,Dr Shilendra Shrivastava (IPS) director 31 Divya Garg MAH 6½
Sports mp.D.K.Khara chief genrel manager 32 Sahil Tickoo HAR 6
State Bank Of India (sponsor of first prize),RK 33 Suraj Choudhary MP 6
Naidu Regional Director SAI,Dharmendra Kumar 34 Jitiya Sanjay D GUJ 6
IA with prize winner. 35 Mukesh Kumar Saxena MP 6
Final standings: 36 Kavisha S Shah GUJ 6
Rk. Name Club Pts. 37 Karthik K KER 6
1 Tiwari Arjun RLY 8½ 38 Jayesh M TN 6
2 IM Sangma Rahul DEL 8 39 Narayan Rai MP 6
3 FM Vinoth Kumar M. TN 8 40 Awadh Chaitanya MP 6
4 FM Thakur Akash MAH 8
This is the essential element that cannot be
5 Nath Rupankar WB 8
measured by any analysis or device, and I believe
6 Singh S. Vikramjit MAN 8
it's at the heart of success in all things: the power of
7 IM Saptarshi Roy WB 7½
intuition and the ability to harness and use it like a
8 IM Himanshu Sharma HAR 7½
master. - by Garry Kasparov
9 IM Akshat Khamparia MP 7½

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Selected games from compensation for the sacrificed rook.]
Chennai GM Open 2013, Chennai 26...Ne8 27.Kg1 Nf6 28.a4 Nxd5 [If
Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron 28...Ra8 29.Nb5 Rxa4 30.Nxd4 Rxd4
31.Rxd4 cxd4 32.Qe5 Qb6 33.g5]
Aleksandrov,Aleksei (2607) 29.Rxd4! Nxc3
Swapnil Dhopade (2474) [A59]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 c5 3.d5 b5 4.cxb5 a6

5.bxa6 g6 6.Nc3 Bxa6 7.e4 Bxf1
8.Kxf1 d6 9.g3 Bg7 10.Kg2 0–0 11.Nf3
Nbd7 12.h3 Qa5 13.Re1 Rfb8 14.e5
dxe5 15.Nxe5 Nxe5 16.Rxe5 Rb7
17.Qe2 Raa7 18.Qf3N [Boensch (2540)
- Khalifman (2655) 1997 went: 18.Bg5 h6
19.Bxf6 Bxf6 20.Re3 Bd4 21.Rd3 Qb4
22.Rd2 Bxc3 Draw] 18...Ne8 19.Re2 Nd6
20.g4 Nc4 21.Qd3 Qb4 22.Qg3 Rd7
23.Re4 Bd4 24.Bh6 Plans for white are
difficult to come by in this position. The text [Black loses by force after: 29...cxd4
offers a pawn but places his bishop in the 30.Qe5 Nf6 (30...f6 31.Qe6+ Kh8 32.Qf7
opponent’s castled position. 24...Qb7 mates.) 31.Qxf6!] 30.Rxd7 [White misses
[Accepting the pawn would lead to the brilliant back rank combination:
immediate defeat: 24...Nxb2? 25.Rxd4! 30.Rxe7!! which terminates the game
cxd4 (25...Qxd4?? 26.Qb8+ mates.) immediately.] 30...Nxe2+ 31.Kh2
26.Qe5 f6 27.Qe6+ Kh8 28.Qf7 and 29
Bg7 mates.] 25.Rd1

Black seems to be totally lost. But....

31...Qh1+!! A very spectacular move
25...Nd6? [25...f6!= would have given which turns the table and wins for black.
black a solid fortress where white could not this move drags the king into a vulnerable
penetrate despite his well-posted bishop on square whence the white queen could be
h6.] 26.Re2? [White misses 26.Rxe7! captured by check without loss of time.
Rxe7 27.Qxd6 Qd7 28.Qxd7 Raxd7 29.Kf3 32.Kxh1 Nxg3+ 33.fxg3 Rxd7 34.Be3
White’s knight and two pawns are adequate the bishop is now no match for the rook.

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34...c4 35.a5 Rd3 36.Bb6 [36.a6? Rxe3

37.a7 Re1+ 38.Kg2 Ra1–+] 36...Rd1+
37.Kg2 Rd2+ 38.Kf3 Rxb2 39.Ke4 c3
40.Kd3 c2 41.Kd2 Ra2 Black will gladly
exchange his c-pawn for white’s a-pawn
as he can easily win on the king-side.
42.Kc1 e5 43.g5 e4 44.h4 Kf8 45.Be3
Ke7 46.a6 Ke6 47.a7 Kd5 48.g4 Kc4
49.Kd2 [49.a8Q Rxa8 50.Kxc2 Ra2+
51.Kd1 Kd3 and black wins.] 49...Kb3
50.Bd4 Ra4 51.Kc1 White is mated after
51...Rxd4 52 a8Q Rd1# 0–1
29.Nxc6 [29.f4? Nc4³] 29...Qxc6
Kuderinov,K (2432) 30.Qxc6 Nxc6 31.f4 Na5 32.e5 [White
Lu Shanglei (2526) [D45] could have tried 32.Rd6 Re6 33.Rxe6
Rxe6 34.e5 Nc4 35.Bd5 Re7 36.Rc1 Rc7
1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.Nc3 e6 though many alternatives in between lead
5.e3 Nbd7 6.Qc2 Bd6 7.Bd3 0–0 8.0– only to equality.] 32...Nc4 33.Rd3 h5
0 dxc4 9.Bxc4 b5 10.Be2 Bb7 11.e4 34.Bd5 Rc7 35.Rc1 Kf8 36.a4 Rd8!
e5 12.dxe5 Nxe5 13.Bg5 h6 14.Bh4 37.axb5 axb5
Ng6 15.Bg3 [This is new. 15.Rad1 Qe7
16.Bxf6 Qxf6 17.e5 Bxe5 18.Ne4 Qe7
19.Nxe5 Nxe5 20.f4 Nc4 21.Bxc4 bxc4
22.Rfe1= Z Takac - S Savchenko 1996]
15...Bxg3 16.hxg3 Re8 17.Rad1 Qa5
18.a3 a6 19.Nh4 [19.b4? Qb6
(19...Qxa3! 20.Rb1 threat Rb3 trapping the
queen.) 20.Rd6 Rac8] 19...Nxh4 20.gxh4
Qc7 Despite his muzzled bishop, black is
better as he has plans of advancing c6-c5.
21.g3 [If 21.Nd5 Nxd5 22.exd5 Qe5!
23.dxc6 Bxc6 24.Qxc6 Qxe2³] 21...Re7
22.Bf3 Rae8 23.Bg2 Qb8 24.b4 Nd7 38.Be4 [White can win a pawn with 38.Rb1
[Black could unmask his bishop now with: Rb8 39.Rdb3 Rc5 40.Bxc4 Rxc4 41.Rxb5
24...c5 25.bxc5 Nxe4 26.Rfe1 Nxc3 Rc1+ 42.Rxc1 Rxb5 43.Rc7 Rb2 but it is
27.Rxe7 Rxe7=] 25.Ne2 c5 26.bxc5 Qc7 extremely hard to win the game as can
27.c6 Bxc6! Black easily gets around the ;be seen, 44.Kf1 g6 45.Rd7 Ke8 46.Rd6
pin on the c-file. 28.Nd4 Ne5! Ke7 47.Rf6 (white threatens f4-f5)
47...Rb5! 48.Kg2 Rc5 49.Kh3 Rd5 50.Rc6
My games with the 9th world champion (Tigran Rd2 and if now 51.g4? Rd3+=] 38...Rb8
Petrosian)broadened my understanding of chess. Had 39.Rb3 g6 40.Bd5 Rc5 41.Bf3 [41.Bxc4
it not been for these two defeats, I would possibly not Rbc8=] 41...Nd2 42.Rxc5 Nxb3 43.Rc7
have reached the top in chess. - by Garry Kasparov Nd4 44.Bd5 Ne6 45.Ra7 b4 46.Bb3=
Rc8 47.Kg2? [A crucial error which allows

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the black pawn to move one step closer Kayumov,Dmitry (Uzb) (2415)
to queening. Best was: 47.Bxe6 fxe6 Lalith Babu,MR (2541) [B06]
48.Rb7 Rc4 leads to a draw as the passed
pawn is blocked on b4, not on b3 as 1.e4 g6 2.d4 Bg7 3.Nc3 c6 4.Nf3 d6
happens two moves later.] 47...Rc3 5.Be3 Nf6 6.Qd2 Bg4 7.Bh6 Bxh6
48.Bxe6 Now this move does not save 8.Qxh6 Bxf3 9.gxf3 Nbd7 10.0–0–0
white. 48...fxe6 49.Rb7 b3 Qa5 11.Qe3 0–0–0 12.Kb1 e6= This is
a new position and both players are on their
own and have to use their judgment.
13.Ne2 [White plans to relocate his knight
on b3. 13.h3 for f2-f4 and also 13 Rg1 for
Rg5 are possibilities.] 13...d5 14.Nc1
Rhe8 15.Nb3 Qb6 16.c4 Kb8 17.c5 Qc7
18.e5 Nh5 19.f4 [White could have tried
19.Qh6 Rh8 20.f4 with chances for both
sides.] 19...f6 20.Be2 Ng7 21.h4 Rg8
22.Bg4 Rdf8 Black threatens the opening
of the f-file with advantage. 23.Nc1 Qd8
24.Nd3 Qe7 25.Kc2 White plans a queen-
side attack with b2-b4. For such a purpose,
Black is better because of his advanced 25 Ka1 would have been better. 25...Rh8
passed pawn and the weakness of white’s 26.Kc3 Kc8 27.b4 b6 28.Rb1 Kb7 29.f3
g3 pawn. As the white rook must stay [29.Kd2 planning 30 b5 was better.]
on the b-file to prevent the black pawn 29...Rf7 30.h5?! fxe5 31.hxg6? [Better
from advancing, black has a clear plan - was: 31.fxe5 gxh5 32.Bxh5 Nf5 33.Qf2
to march his king towards the white rook Rg7 34.Bg4] 31...exf4 32.Nxf4 Rf6
with Kf8-e8-d8-c8. 33.Rxh7 Rg8 34.Re1 Nf8

50.Kh3 Ke8 51.Rg7 [If 51.Kh2 Kd8

52.Kh3 Kc8 53.Rb4 Kc7 The black king
will now shepherd his b-pawn to queen.]
51...Kd8 52.Rb7 [It is a simple win for
black after: 52.Rxg6? b2 53.Rg8+ Kc7
54.Rg7+ Kc6] 52...Kc8 53.Rb6 Kc7
54.Rb5 Kc6 55.Rb8 Kd5 56.Rb5+
Ke4 57.Rb6 Kf3 threatening 58...Kf2
and 59...Rxg3+ 58.Rxe6 [58.Rb7 Kf2
59.Kh2 Rxg3–+] 58...Rc1! Double
attack, threatening both 59... Rh1# and
59....b2. 0–1
Nowadays games immediately appear on the Internet 35.Rh6? [With his rook on the 7th rank
and thus the life of novelties is measured in hours. this was the time to strike. White can win
with: 35.Bxe6! Nfxe6 36.Nxe6 Rxg6
Modern professionals do not have the right to be
37.cxb6 Kxb6 (37...axb6?? 38.Nc5+ win
forgetful - it is 'life threatening'. - by Garry Kasparov
the queen.) 38.Nc5 Qxe3+ 39.Rxe3 Rg3
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 Ali Nihat Yazici, Chairman, FIDE CIS visits India
Ali Nihat Yazici, FIDE Vice president and Chairman FIDE CiS Commission, strongly
believes that the Indian players have got tremendous potential and the country, along
with China will be the potential leaders of world chess. Mr.Ali who was on his first visit to
India, was impressed with the infrastructure available here and said he would like to see
Goa hosting the Chess Olympiad in 2018 or 2020. He also praised the All India Chess
Federation (AICF) saying, “They are one of the best corporate federations in FIDE. What
they need to do is generate more members and raise funds. That's why we are here. We
would like to share the information with them “.
Pune, Maharashtra
Mr. Ali Nihat Yazici visited Pune on 17th and
18th February 2013 to promote and exchange
ideas about Chess in School Program. He was
accompanied by Mr. Ravindra Dongre,
Treasurer of AICF, Chairman of Maharashtra
Chess Association (MCA) and FIDE CiS
Commission Member. They were welcomed in
Pune by GM Abhijit Kunte, Commissioner of
MCA-CIS.
A function was arranged where Mr. Ali was the Mr.Ali Nihat Yazici being felicitated in a traditional way with a
shawl, a Puneri Pagadi and a citation(L-R): Prof. Dr. Satish
Guest of Honor on 17th February 2013 at the Thigale, Mr.Ram Jadhavrao, Mr.Ravindra Dongre, Treasurer,
AICF, GM Abhijit Kunte and Mr.Girish Chitale.
English Learning Institute of Symbiosis
(ELTIS). He was accompanied by Mr. Ravindra Dongre, GM Abhijit Kunte, Dr. Satish
Thigale, Director of MCA-CIS and FIDE CiS Commission Member, Mr. Girish Chitale,
Director of MCA-CIS and Mr. Ram Jadhavrao, Vice President of Pune District Chess Circle
(PDCC). The function was attended by the members of MCA, MCA-Chess in School and
PDCC.
Presentations about the 'Chess in School program of MCA' and the 'Problems faced
during the Chess in School Program in Maharashtra' were given by Mr. Girish Chitale and
Dr. Satish Thigale respectively. After Presentation of MCA, Mr. Ali spoke about the 'Chess
in School Experience of FIDE' and 'Expectations from the Affiliates'. All the members
were enthralled and learned a lot from the dynamic speech of Mr. Ali. An 'Open Discussion
Forum' took place where Mr. Ali answered the doubts and questions of the members.
On 18th February 2013, Mr. Ali along with Mr. Dongre and GM Abhijit Kunte visited Jnana
Prabodhini School and were welcomed by Mr. Milind Naik, Principal of Jnana Prabodhini
Prashala. The Chess in School program is being run in this school. Mr. Ali spoke to the
students and shared his experiences of Chess in School with them.

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On 19th February early
morning Ali visited
Suchitra Academy where
chess included in the
curriculum. The Director
of the school Mr. Praveen
Raju has organised a
special meeting with
children. Honestly two
questions were very
popular! Chess in School (L-R) A. Narasimha Rao, IM Lanka Ravi, Kanna Reddy, Secretary, AP Chess Association,
D.V.Sundar, Vice President FIDE, Mr.Rao, Sport and Youth Director, AP State, Mr.Ali Nihat Yazici,
and World Chess Vice President FIDE and CIS Chairman, A.Narasimha Reddy, President, AP Chess Association,
Bharat Singh, Secretary AICF and IA Major K.Shivaprasad
Championship Match in
India!! Ali visited Cyber Chess Academy of IM Lanka Ravi. We have spent a lot of time in
Academy, I had a chance to lose a few matches versus great talents of Cyber Chess
Academy. The Sport Director of AP State Mr. T.R.K.Rao, promised to do anything possible
to promote chess in the state The President of AP Chess Association Mr. A.Narasimha
Reddy,Chairman of the Bar Council and a great chess lover welcomed Mr.Ali. Then we
moved on to the meeting with chess people from Hyderabad, APCA. All Indian Chess
Federation has made a fantastic presentation.
Ali writes: “Here let me mention
AICF situation in the world
chess.The number of Indians in the
FIDE rating base is ever climbing.
In February 2013, the number in
the rating list is a massive figure of
29550. Which federations are
above and below India? France
33374 and Spain 30222 are above
and Germany 25945 and Russia
25224 are below. What are these
Roses in my hands, roses in my arms!
numbers? The FIDE rating file is an
indicator of things that are brewing. It simply indicates activity.The larger the number of
players, greater the possibility to create champions.The World Youth Chess
Championship success is also another healthy indicator of things that happen in Indian
chess.These numbers are so high due to the good ground set by the All India Chess
Federation for the players to excel in this sport. The activity of the All India Chess
Federation since 2005 has been player friendly and it is a role model organisation for
other nations to follow.
India has made biggest success by getting the 4th place in 40th Chess Olympiad with their
women team. AICF does have 31 GMs, 77 IMs, 8 WGMs and 19 WIMs. It is very clear with
this management India will fight fort the medals in both sections (Open and Women) in
Tromso 2014. On 20th February at the Opening ceremony of National Team Chess
Championships the Chef Guest was Honourable Minister for I.T. & Communications Mr.
Ponnala Lakshmaiah. Before the Opening Ceremony we had a chance to talk about Indian
CIS Project, and I have got a promise from Hon'ble Minister to give all necessary support”.
New Delhi
Mr.Ali writes “When Bharat and I
arrived in Delhi, as usual there were
flowers waiting for us at the terminal.
We were met by IM Vishal Sareen and
Mr. Ak Verma (General Secretary of
Delhi Chess Association). After a short
rest in the hotel it was the time to meet
Delhi Chess People at the dinner which
was attended by many journalists. I
have to mention that the media
attention during my visit to India was
Shri.Jitendra Singh, Hon'ble Minister of Sports and Youth, Government of
not less than what you may have seen India in conversation with Mr.Ali Nihat Yazici, Vice President FIDE and CIS
Chairman and Bharat Singh, Secretary AICF.
in Russia, Azerbaijan or Armenia.
After an introduction to the meeting, AICF made an official presentation, and I made a
similar one on behalf of FIDE.
On 1st February 2013 at around 11 am we met Sports and Youth Minister of India,
Mr.Jitendra Singh, who is a young and sophisticated Minister. The meeting went for 30
minutes, we were accompanied by the permanent secretary of Sport and Youth Ministry.
The main subjects as you may guess were CIS in India and World championship match.
For me it looks like India may host the next world chess championship match between
WCC GM Anand and his challenger. Let's wait and see. But for me the most important
achievement was to get the support of Hon'ble Minister for CIS project. We got an open
cheque and a large support there and we promised to prepare the AICF Master Plan very
soon. In two months we will make a presentation to the minister with all the details”.
Here I should mention the heroes of AICF, one by one:
Mr.DV Sundar (FIDE Vice President) is the leader of AICF. Sundar is a very good friend, a
retired person with experience and one of the most honest people I've ever met! Under
his leadership, Indian Chess has made a huge success. As I mentioned in the previous
articles, the most difficult task he managed during his leadership was to create such a
great team of AICF.
The next one is Mr.Bharat Singh. A huge guy with a huge heart. I know Bharat for many
years due to FIDE meetings and GAs. Bharat is a civil engineer and has his own private
company. His charisma and modesty makes him a very nice person. With his great
experience and love of chess, he has made big achievements not only in India but also in
his state of Delhi!
The third but not the least is Mr.R.M.Dongre from Mumbai. Dongre is also a councillor of
FIDE CIS Commission and the main person for chess in schools in India. He also has his
private company and another engineer working as volunteer for AICF and MCA. I am very
proud to have him in my team in FIDE CIS Commission.This Indian Troika, with many
more guys behind them, makes the difference, I guess!”.

Caruana wins Zurich chess Challenge

Anand finishes second
World champion Viswanathan Anand defeated former world
champion Vladimir Kramnik of Russia to finish second in the
Zurich Chess Challenge that concluded in Switzerland on March
1, 2013.
In the four-player double all-play-all, Italy's Fabiano Caruana
defeated Anand and Gelfand in the second cycle to win with four
points from six games. After the first cycle, all six games had
ended in draws. Three decisive games happened in the event, all
in the second cycle. A draw would have been sufficient to win the
tournament, but Fabiano wanted more! In a quiet Catalan, he
maintained the two bishops and managed to win a pawn after Gelfand´s dubious 21…e5.
In the resulting endgame, he kept the pressure high until black eventually caved in.
Anand who lost to Caruana, bounced back in the final round by defeating Kramnik to take
the second place. In a solid Berlin-Ruy Lopez, Vladimir Kramnik launched an usual pawn
attack on the queenside. The position remained balanced until the Russian committed
the blunder of the tournament. Instead, he could have drawn quite easily with 20…Nxh3!
21.gxh3 Qd7 and a perpetual. Vishy Anand obviously seized the opportunity and moved
up to second place. Anand who sacrificed a rook for knight and lost his way against
Caruana earlier, prevailed this time with a similar sacrifice. He won two pieces for a rook
and won with ease.
Anand plays in the strongest event of all time at Norway from May 7, 2013. Anand had a
push performance as far as his rating goes from this Zurich event.
Final placings 1 Fabiano Caruana (Ita) 4/6; 2 Viswanathan Anand (Ind) 3; 3-4. Boris
Gelfand (Isr), Vladimir Kramnik (Rus) 2.5 each.
 Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron
Contd. from page 22
40.Kb3 The black king is in a mating net.
White will now try to get one of his two
rooks to b7 to mate. White is winning.]
35...Qc7 36.Nd3 Nxg6 37.Qg5 Ne8
38.Bxe6 Rg7 39.Bc8+ [White can go for
the throat with: 39.b5! bxc5 40.bxc6+ Kb8
41.Qxd5 cxd4+ 42.Qxd4 Re7 43.Nc5+-]
39...Qxc8 40.Rxe8 Qf5 41.Qxf5 Rxf5
42.Re3 After enjoying a tremendous
winning position, white now has to get back
to defending his extra pawn. 42...Ne7
43.a4 Rff7 44.b5? [44.Rhe6! Nf5
45.R3e5 Nh4 46.f4 would have preserved
62.Ka5? [White misses the draw with
his advantage.] 44...Nf5 45.bxc6+ Kc7
62.Rd8+ Ke5 63.Re8+ Kf4 64.Kc5 Rd1
46.cxb6+ axb6 47.Rhe6 Nxe3 The
65.Kxb4 Kxf3 66.Kc3= The white king gets
game is now equal. 48.Rxe3 Kd6 49.Kb4
under the passed pawn.] 62...Rd1
Rg1 50.Kb5 Rb1+ 51.Nb4 Rf4!³
63.Rxb4 Kc5! 64.Rb5+ Kc4 65.Rb4+
52.Rd3 Rb2‡
Kc5 66.Rb5+ Kd4 67.Kb6? [More
stubborn would be: 67.Rb3 Kc4 68.Rb4+
Kc3 69.Kb5 Ra1 70.f4 Ra8–+] 67...Rc1
68.f4 Ke4 69.Rc5! Rf1 [69...Rxc5?
70.Kxc5 d4 71.f5! d3 72.f6 draw.] 70.Kc6
d4 71.Rd5 d3 72.Kc5 Ke3 73.f5 d2 The
many errors that both players made in this
game could be attributed to the fast rate
of play at which modern chess
tournaments are played. 0–1

Kumaran,B (2222) Aravindh

Chithambaram,VR (2342) [D02]

White is in Zugwang. Any move by white 1.Nf3 d5 2.d4 Nf6 3.c4 e6 4.g3 Bb4+
would lose him material. 53.Rc3!? [The 5.Bd2 Be7 6.cxd5 exd5 7.Bg2 0–0
only move that does not immediately lose 8.0–0 c6 9.Nc3 Re8 10.Qc2 Nbd7
material would lead to a mating attack along 11.Bf4 Nf8 12.Rad1 Bd6 13.Bxd6
the a- and b-files by the black rooks: 53.a5 Qxd6= The game is equal with a faint edge
bxa5 54.Kxa5 Rf8! 55.Rc3 (55.c7 Kxc7 for black. 14.Rfe1 Ng6 15.Nd2 [15.e4
56.Rc3+ Kd7 57.Na6 Ra8 58.Ra3 Rbb8 Nxe4 16.Nxe4 dxe4 17.Rxe4 Rxe4
(58...Kc6 59.Rc3+ Kb7?? 60.Rc7#!) 18.Qxe4 Be6 19.a3 Rd8 Black’s forces are
59.Rc3 Rb7 threat .. .Rba7) 55...Ra8+ well posted.] 15...Bg4 16.Bf3? [Too
56.Kb5 Rb8+ 57.Ka5 Rb1–+] 53...Rxd4 passive! Better was: 16.h3 Be6 17.e4 Qb4
54.c7 Rbxb4+ 55.Ka6 Rxa4+ 56.Kb7 18.e5 Nd7 19.Nf1 Ne7 20.Ne3] 16...Qd7
[56.Kxb6?? Rdb4#] 56...Rac4! 57.c8Q 17.Na4 Bf5! 18.Qb3 Threat 19 Nc5.
Rxc8 58.Rxc8 b5! 59.Kb6 b4 60.Rd8+! 18...b6 19.Nc3 White realises that his
Ke7 61.Rb8 Kd6 game lacks prospects and plans to free

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himself by playing e2-e4. And black stops 28.Nxe3 Rxe3 29.Kf2 Re7] 25...Bh3!
him. 19...Bg4! 20.Na4? [This knight goes 26.Ng2? [Fianchettoing his knight was no
nowhere from a4. Better was: 20.Bg2 Re7 solution to his discomfiture. Temporarily, this
and black gets a good game by doubling knight could remain on e3. Again 26.Nc3
his rooks along the e-file.] 20...Re7 offered saving chances for white.] 26...Ne4
21.Rc1 [Better was to acknowledge his 27.Bxe4? [Yet again, white’s best was:
strategical error and bring back his knight 27.Nc3 ] 27...Rxe4 28.Nc3 With the knight
to c3: 21.Nc3 Bxf3 22.Nxf3 Rae8 23.Rc1 back in the game, white’s prospects
Qg4] 21...Rae8 22.Qc2 Re6 23.Red1 brighten. 28...Bxg2 29.Kxg2 Rg4? [A
[Though it flies against the principle of not typical aggressive move of a young talent.
exchanging off your fianchettoed bishop in But it should lead nowhere with correct play
the castled position, best here was: by white! Better was the quiet withdrawal
23.Bxg4 Nxg4 24.Nf3 Nf6 25.Nc3 when keeping all options with him. 29...R4e7 ]
white’s disadvantage is only minimal.] 30.e3!= hxg3 31.hxg3 Nh4+ 32.Kf1?
23...h5 [Such aggressive moves come
naturally to young players. Sometimes they
create a weakness in their own camp, or
sometimes, as here, they give the
opponent a chance to wriggle out of a bad
corner. Better was: 23...Bxf3 24.exf3 Re2
25.Nc3 R2e7µ] 24.Nf1? [Better was:
24.Bxg4 Nxg4 25.Nc3 h4 26.Nf3 when
black has to work afresh for an advantage.]
24...h4 [Better was: 24...Bxf3 25.exf3 h4
26.Nc3 hxg3 27.hxg3 Nh7! or 27...R6e7
with a clear advantage for black. Black has
complete control over the open e-file and
the weakened castled position of the white [Missing equality. Best was 32.Kh2= Re6
king to exploit.] 25.Ne3? 33.Rh1! Rh6 34.Kg1=] 32...Nf3? [Black
can win with the startling: 32...Rxe3!
33.Nxd5 (33.fxe3? Rxg3µ) 33...Rexg3
34.Qxc6 Rg1+µ] 33.Kg2 Nh4+ 34.Kf1
Nf5 [Again, black can win with: 34...Rxe3!!
] 35.Ne2 Rg6! Black defends his c6 and
threatens ...Rxe3! 36.Rd3 Rh6! 37.Ng1
[If 37.Ke1 Nd6! so that if 38.Qxc6 Rh1+
39.Kd2 Ne4+ 40.Kc2 Qxc6+ wins.]
37...Qe6 38.Rc3 Rh2! 39.Qd3

By the time a player becomes a Grandmaster, almost

all of his training time is dedicated to work on this
first phase. The opening is the only phase that holds
[Putting the cart before the horse. Though out the potential for true creativity and doing
no longer so good, white should still try: something entirely new. - by Garry Kasparov
25.Bxg4 Nxg4 26.Nc3 Rf6 27.f3 Ne3

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15...Ne7 16.bxc4 [16.Kd2 threatening

Kc3 and the c4 pawn was stronger.]
16...dxc4 17.Nd2 Nf5

[The significance of black’s earlier move

38...Rh2 is seen in the variation: 39.Rxc6
Nxe3+! 40.fxe3 Rxc2 41.R1xc2 Qxe3–+;
White is so concerned about his king and
[A fascinating alternative was: 17...Nd5
queen being forked by the knight that he
18.Nxc4 Rb4 19.Nd6 Bg4+ 20.Kd3 Nf4+
does not move his queen to a better square:
21.Ke4 Ne2 22.c4 Ke7 23.a3 Rb2 24.Ncb7
39.Qd1 c5 40.dxc5 bxc5 41.g4 and he can
Bc8 25.Nxc8+ Rxc8 when white is only
fight on, though his prospects are very grim.
slightly better.] 18.c3 Nd6 19.a4 Rb2
The move 39 Qd3 leads to an immediate
20.Rhb1 Rc2 21.Rb6! white has seen far
collapse.] 39...Nxg3+!! 40.Ke1 [If 40.fxg3
ahead. 21...Rxc3 [Black is blind to the tactic
Qf6+ 41.Ke1 Qf2+ 42.Kd1 Qxg1+ mates.] that is coming up. Better would have been
40...Ne4 41.R3c2 Qg4! 0–1 to postpone this capture in favour of placing
Gahan,M (2224) his pieces on the best squares, taking tactics
into account. 21...Ke7 22.Rxc6 Rd8 23.Ra3
Ratnakaran,K (2434) [C00]
Rc1 and though black is not out of danger
1.e4 e6 2.b3 c5 3.Bb2 Nc6 4.Nf3 d5 he can still try to wriggle out.] 22.Rxc6 Ke7
5.exd5 exd5 6.Bb5 Qe7+ 7.Qe2 a6?
[Spending a move to inflict doubled pawns
on himself was not quite judicious. Hess v
Sawatzki, 1992 went: 7...Qxe2+ 8.Kxe2
f6! 9.Re1 Bd6 10.Kf1+ Nge7= and
eventually 0–1] 8.Bxc6+ bxc6 9.Nc3
Qxe2+ Had he played this on the 7th
move a lot of problems could have been
avoided. 10.Kxe2 f6 11.Na4 Rb8
[Natural here is: 11...Bg4 12.h3 Bh5
13.Ba3 c4 14.Bc5!² (14.Nb6 Rd8=)
14...Kf7 15.bxc4 dxc4 16.Rhb1] 12.Ba3
Rb5 13.d4! [Not 13.c4? dxc4 14.bxc4 Ra5
15.Nb6 Rxa3 16.Nxc8 Kd8 17.Na7 with 23.Rxd6! This is what white had planned
chances for black. 17...Kc7 18.Rhb1] and black had missed. 23...Rc2 [If
13...c4 14.Bxf8 Kxf8 15.Nc5± with this 23...Kxd6 24.Nde4+ Kd5 25.Nxc3+ Kxd4
knight on c5, white has a clear advantage. 26.N3e4+-] 24.Rc6 c3 Black hopes to get

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back his lost piece with this pin, but it fails. Ncxe7 10.Qe2 b5 11.b3 cxb3 12.axb3
25.Nce4! Bf5 26.Nxc3 Rd8 27.d5 Kf8 0–0 13.Rc1 c6 14.Ne5 Qb6 15.Qc2 Ra7
[27...Rxd5?? 28.Nxd5+ is check!] 28.Nd1
Bd3+ [If 28...Rxd5 29.Rxc2 Bxc2 30.Ne3
Bd3+ 31.Kf3 and black is a knight down
for no compensation.] 29.Ke1 [Even after
the second best 29.Kxd3?! Rxc6 30.Ne3
white is still winning.] 29...Rxd5 30.Rxc2
Bxc2 31.Ne3 Re5 32.Ndc4 Re6

16.Nd3 [A fascinating variation which,

when correctly played, leads to equality is:
16.Nxc6 Nxc6 17.Bxd5 (17.Qxc6? Rc7
18.Qxb6 Rxc1+ (this tactic is known as
the Intermezzo) 19.Bf1 Nxb6) 17...Nb4
18.Qxc8! Nxd5 19.Rc6 Rc7! 20.Qxf8+
Kxf8 21.Rxb6 Rc1+ 22.Kg2 Nxb6 23.Rxa6
Rxb1 24.Rxb6 Rxb3=] 16...a5 17.Nc5 As
With an extra piece white wins easily. All
compensation for his pawn minus, white
he has to do is play carefully, activate his
has a good outpost for his knight on c5,
king and rook to win this game. The
17...Bd7 18.e4 Nb4 19.Qd2 Rd8
remaining moves are given without much
20.Qe3 Be8 21.Qc3 Ng6 22.Nd2 Nf8
comment. 33.Kd2 Be4 34.Kc3 g5
23.e5 f5 24.exf6 gxf6 25.Nde4 Nd5
35.Rd1 Ke7 36.a5 h5 37.f3 Bg6 38.g4 26.Qf3 Kg7 27.h4 h5 [27...Re7 to over-
hxg4 39.fxg4 Be4 40.Rd2 Rc6 41.Kd4 protect his e6 pawn even before white
Bh1 42.Rd1 Bf3 43.Rf1 Be2 44.Re1 plays Bg2-h3 merited consideration.]
Bxc4 45.Nxc4+ Kf7 46.Kd5 Rc7 28.Bh3 Re7 29.Kh1 Qc7 30.Na6 Qa7
47.Re6?! Rxc4! His last try. 48.Rxf6+! 31.Nac5 Bg6 32.Rg1! Qc7
Kxf6 49.Kxc4 Ke5 50.Kc5 Kf4 51.Kb6
Kxg4 52.Kxa6 Kh3 53.Kb6 g4 54.a6
Kxh2 55.a7 g3 56.a8Q g2 57.Qh8+
Kg3 58.Qe5+ Kf2 59.Qf4+ 1–0

Praveen Kumar,C1 (2305)

Aleksandrov,A (2607) [E04]

1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.g3 dxc4

5.Bg2 a6 6.0–0 Nc6 7.Bg5 Be7 8.e3
[Rotariu G vs Suta M, 1973: 8.Nbd2 Nxd4
9.Nxd4 Qxd4 10.Qc2 Qg4 11.Bf4 Nd5
12.Be5 eventually 0–1] 8...Nd5 9.Bxe7

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33.Rae1 [If 33.Rad1 e5 34.Rd2 exd4

35.Rxd4 f5 36.Bxf5? Qe5µ it is a double
attack.; Or, if 33.g4 hxg4 34.Bxg4 f5µ
35.Nxe6+ Nxe6 36.Bxf5 Ndf4 37.Bxg6
Nxd4 38.Qg4 Rf8 and the chances are
equal in this very wild position.] 33...Rde8
34.Nd3 Rf7 35.Nf4 Nxf4 36.gxf4 f5!
This blocks out all dangers to his king.
37.Nc5 Qd8 38.Qxc6 [38.Qxh5 looks
very dangerous for black but he emerges
with a slightly better position after
38...Qxd4] 38...Qxh4 39.Rg3 Qd8 [If
39...Ree7 40.Nd3 Kh7 41.Qxb5 Rb7
56...Rg7? [A strange miscalculation.
42.Qxa5 Rxb3 43.Qa8²] 40.Qxb5 Ree7
Probably black thought that white has only
41.Qd3 Kh7 42.Rge3 Material is level,
one move - to play Kxh4 - which would let
but white’s forces are more actively placed
him play on. After the obvious 56...Bh5+!
than white’s. 42...Rg7
57.Kh3 Rxf4 58.Qd6 Bxf3= the game
should end in a draw.] 57.Kh3! [If 57.Kxh4
Rh5+ 58.Kg3 Bb1+ 59.Kf2 Rh2 and
suddenly, it is black who has the
upperhand!] 57...Rgf7 58.Kg4 Rh5?
[58...Bh5+ 59.Kh3 Rxf4 is a draw.] 59.Kh3
Bf5+ 60.Kh2 Rd7 61.Qe3 h3 62.Bf1
Bg6 63.b5! This is the only pawn that could
be pushed and it is good enough.
63...Rhd5 64.Bxh3! Rg7 [Now black’s
position is beyond saving. If 64...Rd3
65.Qe5 Rd2+ 66.Kg3 Rg7 67.Bg4+-]
65.f5 Bxf5 66.Bxf5+ Rxf5 67.Qe4 Kg6
68.b6 Kf6 69.Qh4+ [69.b7?? Rh5+
[The black forces are confined to the top mates.] 69...Kg6 70.Kg3 Rb7 71.Qd4
right quarter of the board. If 42...Qd6 Rff7 72.f4 Kh7 73.Kh4 Kg8 74.f5 Rh7+
43.Re5 Nd7 44.Nxd7 Qxd7 45.Qe3 Rf6 [74...Rxf5? 75.Qg4++-] 75.Kg3 Rbg7+
46.d5! Bf7 and white has a clear 76.Kf3 Rh3+ 77.Ke2 Rg2+ 78.Kf1
advantage.] 43.Bg2 Be8 44.d5 exd5 Rgh2 79.Qd5+ Kh7 80.b7 Rh1+
45.Qxf5+ Bg6 46.Qxd5 Rxe3 [If 81.Kg2 R3h2+ 82.Kg3 Rh3+ 83.Kg4
46...Qxd5 47.Bxd5 Rc7 48.Ne6±] Rh4+ 84.Kg5 Rh5+ 85.Kf6 Rh6+
47.Qxd8 Rxe1+ 48.Kh2 White has two 86.Kf7 Rb1 87.f6 Rb6 After 88 Qd3+
rooks for his queen and pawn. This is Kh8 89 Qd8+ a rook is lost. 1–0
theoretically equal, but again, white’s
forces are more active and, as in life, Padmini Rout (2288)
activity is everything in chess . 48...Re8 Kayumov,Dmitry (Uzb) (2415) [C95]
49.Qxa5 Rf7 50.Qa4 Ree7 51.Qd4
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4
Ne6 52.Nxe6 Rxe6 53.b4 Ref6 Nf6 5.0–0 Be7 6.Re1 b5 7.Bb3 d6
54.Kg3 h4+ 55.Kg4 Rf5 56.f3 8.c3 0–0 9.h3 Nb8 10.d4 Nbd7

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11.Nbd2 Bb7 12.Bc2 Re8 13.Nf1 Bf8

14.Ng3 c6 15.Be3 Qc7 16.Nd2 [This
is new. Adams-Morozevich, 2007 went:
16.a4 Rad8 17.Qc1 h6 18.b3 Qb8
19.Rb1 Qc8 20.b4 drawn.] 16...d5! A
general rule is that when black is able
to play ...d5 without suffering any
serious disadvantage in an e2-d4
opening, he equalises the game.
17.dxe5 Nxe5= 18.f4 Nc4 19.Nxc4
dxc4 20.e5 Nd5 21.Qf3 [Abandoning
the g1–a7 dark diagonal to preserve the
bishop with 21.Bd2 is unthinkable as 35.Qf3! Qh2 Because of his doubled c-
black immediately gains a slight pawns black avoids the exchange of queens
advantage with 21...Rad8] 21...Nxe3 after which he will be practically a pawn
22.Qxe3 c5 23.Rad1 Rad8 24.Be4 down on the king-side in an ending which
Bxe4 25.Nxe4 h6 is probably lost. 36.Qd5+ Kf8 37.Kf3!
this vastly reduces the black queen’s
mobility. To get back into play he will have
to move to g1 and c1. 37...g5? 38.Qf5+
Kg7 39.Qe6 Bf8 40.fxg5 hxg5 41.Qe5+
Kf7 42.Qxg5 Qg1 43.Qd5+ Ke8
Diagram # 44.Qd1! With two extra
connected passed pawns on the king-side,
it makes sense to exchange off queens and
win without any excitement. If now 44...
Qh2, then 45 Qh1! forcing exchange of
queens. She can of course win more pawns
with 44 Qe6+ but that would let the black
queen escape from the prison and start
giving harassing checks. 1–0
Thanks to the knight on e4, white has a
slight edge in this position. 26.Nf2 From
this f2 square the knight plays an
extraordinary role in the further course of
the game. 26...Be7 27.g3 Rxd1 28.Rxd1
Rd8 [Also 28...Qa5 29.a3 Rd8=]
29.Rxd8+ Qxd8 30.h4 Qd5 31.Kf1 The
knight keeps the black queen away from
the key squares - h1, h3, d1, d3. 31...Bf8
32.Ke2 Qg2? [Black is looking for a win
and takes his queen into a dubious
situation. Better was 32...Qe6 and wait for
white to reveal her plans for further
progress.] 33.e6! Be7 34.exf7+ Kxf7 (Position after 43….Ke8)

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Karthikeyan Murali (2352) Vasantha

Ruba Varman (2045) [B47]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4

Nc6 5.Nc3 Qc7 6.Be2 a6 7.0–0 Nf6
8.Be3 Bb4 9.Na4 Bd6 10.g3 0–0
11.c4 Nxe4 12.Bf3 Nf6 13.c5 Be7
14.Re1 [Usual here is: 14.Rc1 ] 14...d6
15.cxd6 Bxd6 16.Rc1 Bd7

[24...Rbc8 was better.] 25.f4!+- Bxf4

26.gxf4! Qxf4 27.Rf1 Qd6 28.Bxb8
Rxb8 29.Qa7! f5 30.Qd7 Qc5+ 31.Kh1
Kh8 32.Qxe6 1–0

Rahman,Zia (2526)
Singh,DP (2257) [A40]

1.d4 b6 2.e4 Bb7 3.Bd3 g6 4.Nf3 Bg7

5.c3 d6 6.0–0 Nd7 7.Re1 e6 8.Nbd2
17.Nb6!? Rad8 [Black does not wish to Ne7 9.a4 a6 10.Nf1 [This is new. The
challenge the calculations of the former U– idea of taking this knight to c4 is usual.
12 World Champion and takes an 10.Qe2 0–0 11.Nc4 d5 12.exd5 Nxd5
apparently safe way. If 17...Qxb6 18.Nxc6 13.Bg5²] 10...c5 11.Bg5! With both of
Qxb2 19.Bd4 Qxa2 20.Re2 Qa3 21.Rc3 black’s central pawns not having advanced
Bxc6 22.Rxa3 Bxa3 23.Bxc6 bxc6 24.Bxf6 two squares, and the two black knights on
gxf6 25.Rd2= Black has enough e7 and d7, White does not have serious
compensation for the queen, but white’s problems in finding a plan. 11...h6 12.Bf4
queen and rook seem to have great cxd4 [12...e5! would have given white only
potential for causing havoc to the black a minimal advantage.] 13.cxd4 Nf6
forces.] 18.Nxd7 Qxd7 19.Nxc6 bxc6 14.Ng3 g5? [Black should castle now when
20.Bxc6 Qe7 21.Qa4! Rb8 22.Re2 white has no serious threat: 14...0–0
Black’s a6 pawn is defenceless. 22...h6 15.Rc1 Nc6 16.Bd2 Qe7] 15.Be3 g4
23.Qxa6 Ng4 24.Ba7! Qg5? 16.Nh4 h5 17.d5!

Enormous self-belief, intuition, the ability to take a

When your house is on fire, you can't be bothered risk at a critical moment and go in for a very
with the neighbors. Or, as we say in chess, if your dangerous play with counter-chances for the
King is under attack, don't worry about losing a pawn opponent - it is precisely these qualities that
on the queenside. - by Garry Kasparov distinguish great players. - by Garry Kasparov

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White wants black to move his e-pawn 30.Bb2! White has many dangerous
so that he could use the fr square for his threats like 31 Nc3, 31 Qd3 and 31 Ba3.
knights. 17...Nexd5?! [17...Nfg8 1–0
18.dxe6 fxe6 19.e5 Bxe5 20.Bg6+ Kd7
21.Be4 Kc7] 18.exd5 Nxd5 19.Nhf5 Phoobalan,P (2328)
Bxb2 20.Bd4 Bxa1 21.Bxa1 Kd7 [He Ramakrishna,J (2224) [E12]
will be mated in one move if 21...0–0??
22.Nh6#] 22.Bc4 Rc8 23.Bxd5 Bxd5 1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 e6 3.c4 b6 4.a3 Bb7
24.Ne4 Kc7 [If 24...exf5 25.Nf6+ Kc7 5.Nc3 d5 6.cxd5 Nxd5 7.Qc2 Nxc3
26.Nxd5+ Kb8 27.Bxh8 Qxh8 28.Nxb6 8.bxc3 c5 9.e4 Nc6 10.Be3 Rc8 11.Qa4
white wins.] 25.Nexd6 Rf8 cxd4 12.cxd4 Be7 13.Ba6 Bxa6
14.Qxa6 0–0 15.0–0 Na5 16.a4 [DV
Prasad v TS Ravi, 2000 went: 16.Rfd1 Qc7
17.d5 exd5 18.exd5 Rfd8 19.Rac1 Qb7
20.Qxb7 Nxb7 21.Rxc8 Rxc8=] 16...Nc4
17.Bf4 Bd6= 18.Bg5 Qd7 19.Rfc1 Na5
20.h4 h6 21.Be3 f5 22.exf5 Rxc1+
23.Rxc1 Rxf5 24.Qc8+ Qxc8 25.Rxc8+
Rf8 26.Rc2 As white controls the only
open file on the board his chances are very
slightly better. 26...Rf7 27.Bd2 Nb7
28.Rc8+ Rf8 29.Rc6 Rd8 30.Kf1 Kf7
31.Ke2 Ke7 32.Rc2 Kd7 33.h5! With
[If 25...exf5 26.Qxd5 Qxd6 27.Be5 wins this he fixes black’s king-side pawns on
the queen.] 26.Be5! Threatening a dark squares, the same colour as his
dangerous discovered check and forcing the bishop. In the future, his bishop would be
king to move back to the centre. 26...Kd7 able to exploit these pawns. 33...Rc8
27.Nxc8 Kxc8 28.Nd6+! Kd7 29.Ne4! 34.Rxc8 Kxc8 Black has managed to
Aiming to destroy the Bd5 which is the only exchange off rooks but white has the
defending piece of the black king stranded advantage as black’s g- and h-pawns have
in the centre. 29...f6 become liabilities. 35.Bc3 Nd8

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55...Kc5 56.c7 Qxf2+ 57.Ke7! black has

no checks and white queens his c-pawn.]
56.Qa7+! Kb5 57.c7 Qh1 58.Qb8+!
Ka5 59.c8Q Qh6+

36.d5! Bf8! 37.Ne5! Be7 [If 37...exd5

38.Ng6 Bd6 39.Bxg7 Nf7 40.Nh4 Be5
41.Bxe5 Nxe5 42.Nf5 Nf7 43.Kd3 Kd7
44.Kd4 Kc6 45.g4 and white is winning.]
38.Ng4! Bf8 39.Ne5 Be7 40.Nc6 Nxc6
41.dxc6 Bf6 42.Bxf6 gxf6 43.g4 e5 The white king now easily evades perpetual
checks. 60.Ke7 Qh7+ 61.Kd8 Qg8+
62.Kc7 Qc4+ 63.Kd8 Qg8+ 64.Kd7!
Qf7+ [If 64...Qd5+ 65.Ke7 and black has
no checks.] 65.Kd6 Qg6+ 66.Qe6!
Qd3+ 67.Qd5+ 1–0

Selected games from National Team

Chess Championships, Hyderabad

Laxman,R R (2443)
Ravi Teja,S (2265)

1.d4 c5 2.d5 f5 This variation has acquired

[If 43...Kc7 44.f4 Kxc6 45.g5 and the h- the fancy name, “Schmid Benoni” in recent
pawn queens.] 44.Kd3! White has years. But it was regularly played by Rentala
calculated this pawn ending to a nicety. Subrahmanyam (1908–1982) of Andhra
44...Kc7 45.Ke4 a6 46.Kf5 b5 47.axb5 in the 1950s and 1960s. Rentala also
axb5 48.Kxf6 b4 49.g5! hxg5 50.h6 b3 played the white pieces 1 f4 and 2 c4! 3.g3
51.h7 b2 52.h8Q b1Q 53.Qe8! The Nf6 4.Bg2 g6 5.c4 d6 6.Nc3 Bg7 7.Nh3
white king is beautifully shielded by the Nbd7 8.Nf4 [Iljushin, A vs Beznosikov, V
black pawns from harassing queen checks. 2003 went: 8.0–0 0–0 9.Qc2 Ne5 10.b3
53...Qe1 [After 53...Qd3 54.Qd7+ Qxd7 Rb8 11.Bb2 a6 12.a4 Bd7 13.Nf4
55.cxd7 Kxd7 56.Kxe5 the white king eventually drawn.] 8...Ne5 9.b3 [Better
captures the last black pawn and easily was: 9.Ne6 Bxe6 10.dxe6 Qc8 11.Nd5
queens his f-pawn.] 54.Qd7+ [54.Qxe5+ Nc6] 9...0–0 10.Qc2 a6 11.a4 Bd7
also wins absoloutely, but after many
12.0–0 Qe8 13.Bd2
moves.] 54...Kb6 55.Qb7+ Ka5 [If

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[Better was to stall black’s b7-b5 with Abhijeet,Gupta (2612)

13.a5 Qd8 14.Bb2 b5 15.axb6 Qxb6 Satyapragyan,Swayangsu (2472)
16.Na4 Qc7 17.Bxe5 dxe5 18.d6 exd6
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 Bb4+ 4.Nbd2
19.Nd5 Nxd5 20.Bxd5+ with advantage
b6 5.a3 Bxd2+ 6.Bxd2 Bb7 7.g3 d6
for white.] 13...Rb8 14.Rae1 Kh8
8.Bg2 Nbd7 9.0–0 0–0 10.Bc3 [White is
15.h4?! [It was best for white to challenge
willing to part with his dark square bishop.
black’s best placed piece, the knight on e5
Tukmakov-Gipslis, 1970 was eventually
with: 15.Nd3 ] 15...h6 16.e4 g5!
drawn after: 10.Qc2 Qe7 11.Bc3 c5
17.Nd3 [Too late now would be: 17.Ne6 12.dxc5 dxc5 13.Rfd1 Rfd8 14.Rd2 Nf8=
Bxe6 18.dxe6 fxe4 19.Nxe4 gxh4 20.Nxf6 (14...Ne4? 15.Ng5!) ] 10...Qe7 11.d5 Ne4
Rxf6 21.f4 Nc6 with a clear advantage to [If 11...exd5 12.Nd4 c5 13.Nf5 Qe6
black.] 17...Nfg4 18.Nxe5? [Though 14.Ne3=] 12.Rc1 Nxc3 13.Rxc3 e5=
black would be still better, preferable here 14.Nd2 f5 This is black’s first move in his
was: 18.Nc1 gxh4 19.f3 Nf6] 18...Bxe5 strategy to attack on the king-side. 15.Qc2
19.exf5 [19.hxg5?? Qh5 black mates in An elastic move, clearing the first rank to
three moves.] 19...gxh4 20.Ne4 Qh5! be able to play his king rook to a1 or b1
Black is now winning with the threat of and at the same time keeping an eye on
h4xg3 and Qh2#. 21.f3 hxg3! 22.Bh3 black’s king-side play. 15...a5 The idea is
Qxh3 23.Bc3 Nf2! to advance a5-a4 and cripple white’s queen-
side pawns. 16.b4 this was forced, to
After 23...Nf2 24.Bxe5+ dxe5 25.Rxf2 prevent a5-a4. 16...Kh8 Black takes it
gxf2+ 26.Nxf2 (26.Kxf2 Qh2+ skewers easy, content that white’s c4-c5 would lose
the queen.; 26.Qxf2 Rg8+) 26...Rg8+ him a pawn and 17 bxa5 Rxa5 would be
27.Ng4 Qxf3 black wins.] 0–1 good for himself. 17.Rb1 Qf7

Any experienced player knows how a change My opponent is Short and the match will be short. -
in the character of the play influences your Garry's quip before his 1993 PCA World Championship
psychological mood. - by Garry Kasparov match with Nigel Short - by Garry Kasparov

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18.Nb3 [Premature would be: 18.c5 (Position after 27.Rb3)

axb4 19.axb4 (19.c6 bxc3 20.cxb7 Rxa3
21.Nc4 Ra7–+) 19...dxc5 20.bxc5 Bxd5 28.b6 [Also good was: 28.Bf3 Ra4 29.b6
21.cxb6 cxb6 22.Bxd5 Qxd5 23.Rc7 cxb6 30.Rxb6] 28...cxb6 29.Rxb6 f4!
Qe6µ] 18...axb4 19.axb4 Ra3 20.Rd1 30.Rb8 Rg6 [If 30...fxg3 31.fxg3 Rg6
Over-protecting d5 as he is planning the (31...Qf2+ 32.Kh1 and white now
puh c4-c5. 20...Nb8 [Played under the threatens the winning 33 Rf1!) 32.Rf1 Rf6
wrong belief that ....Na6 next will force 33.Rxf6 Qxf6 34.e4 Qg5 35.Rb3 Qg4
white to advance his b-pawn and suffer 36.Qc2 and the position is good for white
a disadvantage. Better were: 20...Rfa8 as he has taken care of all of black’s
taking control of the only open file on threats and now has an advanced passed
the board and 20 Qh4 for an initiative on pawn on c6.] 31.Ra1 h5
the king’s flank were both equal.] 21.c5
Na6 [Better was to avoid his bishop being
buried in c8 and move: 21...Ba6 22.Rc1
Qg6=] 22.Qb2 Ra4 23.c6 Bc8 24.b5
Though the computer evaluation for such
a position is = we know from quite a few
games from chess history that this
position is bad for black. After controlling
the open a-file, White sometimes
sacrifices a piece on d6 or b6 to turn his
c-pawn into a passed pawn with
dangerous consequences for black.
24...Nc5 25.Nxc5 bxc5 26.Ra3! Rb4
27.Rb3 27...Rg4 [Black tries to take his
rook to the king-side for his threatened 32.Qb7!! Qf5 [32...Bxb7 33.Rxf8+ Qxf8
attack. The trouble with this idea is that 34.cxb7 and the threat of 35 Ra8 wins.
if the attack does not happen, then the Note that the black rook on g6 is out of
rook is misplaced on g6 or h6 and takes play.] 33.Qb1!! [33.Qb1 Qxb1+ 34.Raxb1
time to get back into active play. Better Rgf6 35.Ra1 Kg8 36.Raa8 Bf5 37.c7 and
was: 27...Rxb3 28.Qxb3 f4 29.Ra1 Bg4 the threat of 38 c8Q! wins a bishop.] 1–0
30.f3 Bc8]

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 Tactics from master games
by S.Krishnan

1. 2.

Black totoplay
White playand winwin
and White
Whitetotoplay and
play winwin
and

3. 4.
Black to
Black toplay
playand
andwin
win Black
Whitetoto
play andand
play winwin

5. 6.

White to play and win Black to play and win

White to play and win White to play and win
Solutions on page 41

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 Test your endgame
K.Muralimohan, FIDE Instructor

V & M Platov 1914 A.Sobey 1995

1. 2.

F.Prokop 1923 E.Markov 1935

3. 4.

J.Berger 1890 C.Heller 1873

5. 6.

White to play and win in all the six endings above Solutions on page 41

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Masters of the past-27 Howard Staunton

Howard Staunton (1810 - 22 June 1874) was an English chess master

who is generally regarded as having been the world's strongest player from
1843 to 1851, largely as a result of his 1843 victory over Saint-Amant. He
was the principal organiser of the first international chess tournament in
1851, which made England the world's leading chess centre and caused
Adolf Anderssen to be recognised as the world's strongest player.
From 1840 onwards he became a leading chess commentator, and
won matches against top players of the 1840s. In 1847 he entered a
parallel career as a Shakespearean scholar. Ill health and his two writing
careers led him to give up competitive chess after 1851. Modern
commentators consider Staunton's understanding of positional play to
have been far ahead of his contemporaries. His chess articles and books were widely read and
encouraged the development of chess in the United Kingdom, and his Chess-Player's Handbook
(1847) was a reference for decades. The chess openings the English Opening and Staunton
Gambit were named for his advocacy of them. Several modern commentators regard Staunton
as de facto World Champion after his match victory over Saint-Amant, although that title did not
yet formally exist. In 1845 Staunton began a chess column for the Illustrated London News,
which became the most influential chess column in the world and which he continued for the rest
of his life. Most of his later life was occupied in writing about Shakespeare. When he died suddenly
of heart disease, on 22 June 1874, he was at his desk writing one of these papers. At the same
time he was also working on his last chess book, Chess: Theory and Practice, which was
published posthumously in 1876.
Twentieth-century opinions of Staunton's play varied enormously. Savielly Tartakower wrote,
"A remarkable feature of Staunton's play is the number of ultra-modern ideas with which he
was familiar, e.g. the restricted centre, the fianchetto development, bilateral work, the theory
of the local engagement, etc., and, last but not least, the English Opening (sometimes called
the Staunton Opening)." Garry Kasparov considered Staunton "by the early 1840s... superior
to all his rivals". Bobby Fischer opined that "Staunton was the most profound opening analyst
of all time. He was more theorist than player, but nonetheless he was the strongest player of
his day... In addition, he understood all of the positional concepts which modern players hold
dear, and thus - with Steinitz - must be considered the first modern player."
Although he introduced the English Opening, it has been called "really a twentieth-century
invention" that only became fully respectable after future World Champion Mikhail Botvinnik
began playing it in the 1930s. Similarly, although he was an early champion of the Sicilian
Defense, which is today the most popular opening, and the most successful response to
1.e4, he seems to have had little influence on how the Staunton introduced the Staunton
Gambit against the Dutch Defense (1.d4 f5 2.e4!?). Although it was once a feared attacking
line, it has been out of favor since the mid-1920s, and is thought to "offer White equality at
best". Staunton also analyzed a different gambit approach to the Dutch, 2.h3 followed by g4.
Staunton also advocated the Ponziani Opening 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.c3, which was often
called "Staunton's Opening".
Courtesy : Wikepedia

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Solutions to ‘Tactics from master games’on p38 Position after White’s 28th move. Black to
play. 28...Qxh3! 29.Bxf6 [29.Qe2 Ng4
1 Anand,Viswanathan (2775) 30.Qf3 Rxa2–+] 29...gxf6! [29...gxf6
Adams,Michael (2710) [A29] 30.Qxf6 Qh2+! 31.Kf1 (31.Kxh2 Ng4+–
4th London Chess Classic London ENG +) 31...Qh1+ 32.Ke2 Rxa2+ 33.Rxa2
(6.3),07.12.2012 Rxa2+ 34.Rd2 (34.Kd3 Qb1+ 35.Kd4
(35.Kc3 Qb2+ 36.Kd3 Qxf6–+) 35...Rd2+
Position after white’s 41st move. Black to
36.Kc5 Rxd7–+) 34...Rxd2+ 35.Kxd2
play. 41...Qd1!!–+ 42.Qh6 [Or 42.Bxe6
Qd5+ 36.Kc3 Ng4–+] 0–1
Ra1 43.Bxf7+ Kg7! Wins; 42.Bf1 Bh3+
43.Kxh3 Qxf1+ 44.Kh2 Rxf2+] 5. Hausrath,Daniel (2483)
42...Bh3+! [42...Bh3+ 43.Kxh3 (43.Kh2 Schiffer,Kai-Uwe (2300) [A07]
Rxf2+ 44.Kxh3 Qh1#) 43...Qh1#] 0–1 Groningen Open A Groningen NED (2.9),
22.12.2012
2. Radjabov,Teimour (2793)
Morozevich,Alexander (2748) [D35] Position after 24th move. White to play.
25.Bb6! Be7 [25...axb6 26.a7 Rxa7
SportAccord Blitz Men 2012 Beijing CHN
27.Rxa7+-] 26.Ra5 Bxf6 27.Bxc7+
(7.8), 16.12.2012
Kxc7 28.exf6+- 1–0
Position after 28th move.White to play.
29.Nxf6+! gxf6 30.Qg6+ Kf8 [30...Qg7 6. Van Kampen,Robin (2570)
31.Qxe8++-] 31.Bxf6+- Qc7 [31...Qd7 Ernst,Sipke (2562) [C97]
32.Qxh6+ Kf7 33.Qg7+ Ke6 34.Qg4+ Kd6 Groningen Open A Groningen NED (6.1),
35.Be5+ Rxe5 36.dxe5+ Kc7 37.Qxb4+- 27.12.2012
] 32.Qxh6+ Kg8 33.Qh8+ [33.Qh8+ Kf7
Position after White’s 49th move. Black to
34.Qg7+ Ke6 35.Qxc7+-] 1–0
play. 49...Re2+! 50.Kxe2 [50.Kf3 Qxg2+
3. Hou Yifan (2606) Cmilyte, 51.Kf4 Re4#] 50...Qxg2+ 51.Ke3
Viktorija (2524) [B77] Rxh3+ 52.Kd4 [52.Kf4 Rh4+ 53.Ke3
Re4#] 52...Rh4+ 53.Ke3 Re4# 0–1
SportAccord Blitz Women 2012 Beijing
CHN (7.7), 16.12.2012 Solutions to ‘Test your endgame’ on page 39
Position after White’s 23rd move. Black to
V. & M. Platov
play. 23...Nxd5! 24.Rxd5 [24.Rd3 Bxc3
Sbornik etyudov, 1914
25.bxc3 Nb4+–+] 24...Rxb2+!–+
25.Kd1 [25.Kxb2 Bxc3+ 26.Kc2 Bxe1+– 1 Bc1+/i Kg6/ii 2 d6/iii cxd6 3 Bf4/iv
+] 25...Rxc3 26.Rxe7 Bh6 27.Ke1 c4 4 Bxd6 and wins.
Rxg2 28.Re2 [28.Bd1 Rc1! 29.Re4 a) i) White improves the position of his
29.Rxd6 Rg1+ 30.Ke2 Rb1 31.Red7 bishop and at the same time forestalls the
(31.Bc2 Rg2+–+; 31.Ba4 Rge1+ 32.Kd3 move 1...g5+. If he begins with 1 d6?,
Rxe7–+) 31...Rb2+ 32.Kd3 Rxd1+–+; b) Black counters with 1...g5+ and 2...cxd6.
29.Rd4 Bg5 30.Kf1 Rxh2–+; 29...Rxh2– ii) 1...Kh7 2 Bg5/v Kg8 3 Bd8 Kf7/vi 4
+] 28...Rc1+ 29.Rd1 Rg1+ 0–1 Bxc7 Ke7 5 b6 Kd7 6 Bh2 Kc8 7 d6 wins.
1...Nxc1 2 d6/vii cxd6 3 b6 wins.
4. Murshed,Niaz (2464) Short,Nigel D
iii) 2 Bf4? Nxf4 3 d6 Nc6 wins.
(2692) [A43]
iv) 3 b6? Is no good in view of the
World Cities Team GpA Al-Ain UAE (2.1),
23.12.2012 continuation 3...Ne5 4 Bf4 Nd 5 b7 d5 etc.

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v) 2 d6? cxd6 3 Bf4 Nxf4 4 b6 Ng6+ wins. Solution to ‘Puzzle of the Month’ on page 10
vi) 3...Nf4 4 d6 cxd6 5 b6 Ng6+ 6 Kxh5 In monochromatic chess the only way the black
Ne5 7 b7 Nc6 8 Be7 d5 9 Bxc5 wins. king could have escaped from its home square is
vii) 2 b6? cxb6 3 d6 Ne2 4 d7 g5+ 5 Kh3 by castling on the king's side(only then the BRh8
Nf4+ wins. would land on the same coloured square on f8)
and then coming out via h7.This means that
A. Sobey 2nd Comm.
Black's last move was not with pawn at h5 from
“Schakend Nederland” 1995
either h7 or g6, because then it would have
1.Re7 Nf6 2.Rf7 Ne4 3.Ke3 Bg8/i hemmed in the black king. Therefore black's last
4.Rg7/ii Bd5 5.Kd4 Ba8 6.Rg6 Nd2/iii move was with the black king coming from b3.It
7.Rb6 Ka5 8.Rb2 Nf3 9.Kc5 wins. just moved out of check from the white queen.
i) 3...Bg6 4.Rg7 Bf5 5.Ne7 Nd6 6.Rg5 How did the queen give this check? Not by having
ii) 4.Rf5? Ka6 5.Ne7 Bb3 6.Kd4 Kb6 7.Nd5 moved from c2,d3 or d5, where it would have
Bxd5 or 4.Rb7? Kc5 5.Rc7 Kd5 6.Ne7 Kd6 checked the king. The only possibility is that the
7.Ra7 Nf6 8.Nxg8 Nxg8 black king has just captured a White rook on a2
which previously moved from c2, discovering
iii) 6...Nf2 7.Rb6 Ka5 8.Rb2 or 6...Ka5
check from the king. So before the last move,
7.Nb6 Bb7 8.Nc4 Ka49.Rb6 Ba8 10.Ra6
there was white rook on a2.Now in a
or 6...Kb4 7.Ra6 Bb7 8.Rb6
monochromatic game an original white rook can
F. Prokop, Prager Presse, 1923 never get to an even numbered row, since it can
1 Qc6+ Kd8 2 Nd5 Qg3+ 3 Kf8 Qe5 4 move forward or backward only an even number
Nf6 Qe7+ 5 Kg8 Qa7 6 Nd5 Qb8 7 Qe6 of squares at a time. Therefore the white rook
Qa7 8 Qd6+ Qd7 9 Qf6+ and wins. just captured on a2 is a promoted one, which
means a white pawn from a white square has
E.Markov 1935
promoted.For a pawn to reach the eighth square
1st commendation Lebedkin Memorial in a monochromatic game it must make a
Tourney minimum of four captures(assuming it moves
1.g7 Rgl 2.g8Q Rxg8+ 3.Bxg8 Na6 two squares on its first move, rather than making
4.Bc4 Nc5 5.Nc3 Kg2 6.Kc7 Kf3 7.Kc6 a capture, otherwise it must make six captures.)
Ne4 8.Bd5 Ke3 9.Nxe4 wins. However it could have captured only three pieces,
namely the pawn from b7, the bishop from c8
J. Berger
and the rook from a8.All other missing black pieces
“Theorie & Praxis” 1890
are from black squares (except of course the
1 Kc5/i Ke7/ii 2 Kc6 Kxe8 3 a6 Bf2 4 BN at g8 which never moved) Therefore the
b5 g4 5 b6 g3 6 a7 g2 7 a8Q+ Ke7 8 promoting white pawn must have captured on a
Qa3+ Ke8 9 b7 and wins. black square! The only way this can happen is
i) 1 a6 Bf2. by making capture en passant.More specifically
ii) 1...g4 2 Kc6 g3 3 Bd7+ Ke7 4 Bh3 Kd8 what must have happened was this: The
5 a6 Bf2 6 b5 and wins. promoting white pawn came from a2 or c2,
C. Heller 1873 moved two squares on it first move, then
captured a piece on b5 and then made a capture
1 d7 c1Q 2 d8Q Qxc6 3 Ng6+ Ke4 4 en passant on a6 or c6, then another capture
Qh4+ Ke3 5 Qe1+ Kd4 6 Qg1+ and on b7, and then its final capture on a8 or c8.
wins.

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 State level lightning chess tournament organized in
th
celebration of 65 birthday of Hon'ble Chief Minister of Tamilnadu
(sponsored by J.C.D.Prabhakar, President AICF and organized by TNSCA)

J.C.D.Prabhakar, President AICF addressing the gathering. (L-R) K.Muralimohan,

Shri.N.Balaganga, MP lighting the traditional 'kuthuvilakku'
Secretary TNSCA, D.V.Sundar, Vice President FIDE, N.Balaganaga, MP,
Bharath Singh Chauhan, Secretary AICF and R.M.Dongre,Treasurer AICF

Shri.N.Balaganga, MP inaugurating the tournament Players in action! Bharath Singh and R.M.Dongre
making the first move against a young participant play as President AICF watches.

Shri Saidai Duraisamy, Hon'ble Worshipful Mayor, Chennai Corporation, JCD Prabhakar, MLA., and President, AICF, Shri Saidai Duraisamy,
Tmt. B. Valarmathi, Hon'ble Minister for Social Welfare and Nutritious Hon'ble Worshipful Mayor, Chennai Corporation, Tmt. B. Valarmathi,
Noon Meal Programme, N.R. Visakh (Winner:Men) JCD Prabhakar, Hon'ble Minister for Social Welfare and Nutritious Noon Meal Programme,
MLA., and President, AICF, D.V. Sundar, Vice President, FIDE IM S. Vijayalakshmi (Winner:Women) D.V. Sundar, Vice President, FIDE
 Late Narayan Nigalye Memorial All India FIDE Rating
Open Rapid Chess Tournament 2013, Ponda…..

Standing Left to Right:- Arvind Mhamal (Secretary, Goa Chess Association),

Amogh Namshiker (Secretary, Ponda Taluka Chess Association), Shantanu Gauns
(Member, Ponda Taluka Chess Association), Sagar Sakordekar (President, Ponda
Taluka Chess Association), Ashesh Keni (President, Goa Chess Association),
Avdhut Kamat (Principal, GVM HSS) and Vasanth B.H.(Chief Arbiter)

Left to Right:- Ashesh Keni (President, Goa Chess Association), Chief Guest
Sandip Nigalye (M.D., Raj Housing Development), Sagar Sakordekar
(President, Ponda Taluka Chess Association) and Mohandas Bakhale (Guest
of Honour), Winner Chinmay Kulkarni
 Shri. Jagannathji Shinde Trophy Open
International Chess Tournament
Sponsored by
Maharashtra State Chemist and Druggist Association &
Solapur District Chemist and Druggist Association

Organized by
Shri.Ramajagdish Bahuddeshiya Mahila Utkarsh Samstha
Under the auspices Solapur District Chess Association,
SMCA, MCA on behalf of All India Chess Federation

Date: 11th to 15th April 2013

Venue:
Kiledar Mangal Karyalaya
Aasara Chowk, Hotgi Road, Solapur

Total prizes: Rs.1,80,000

Entry fee may be sent by DD/Multicity cheque before 31st March
favouring Shri.Ramajagdish Bahuddeshiya Mahila Utkarsh
Samstha c/o Sharad Naik, Secretary, payable at Solapur to:
51/C, Indiranagar Vijapur Road,Solapur 413004

For details contact

Bhagyadaya Lalurkar 94204 59184
Viswanath Khandekar 98503 35357
Madhav 99230 32231
S.S.Joshi 97667 50607
Amal Kulkarni 99602 13845

For details of prize money and entry fee visit

www.aicf.in

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 AICF Calendar March 2013
(confirmed dates are in bold print)
Asian Junior U-20 Championship 2013 Mar 31 - 07 Apr Sharjah,UAE
AACA Intl.FIDE Rated (below 2200) Apr 02- 06 Apr Assam
Indore Open 2013 Intl Rated(for MP players) Apr 08- 12 Apr Indore,MP
Maharashtra Open FIDE Rated Apr 10- 14 Apr Mumbai, MAH
Muzaffarpur FIDE Rated Apr 10- 14 Apr Muzaffarpur,Bihar
Shri Jaganathji Shinde Trophy FIDE rated Apr 11 -15 Apr Solapur, MAH
Sunita Singh Memorial FIDE Rating Apr 13 - 18 Apr Indore, MP
3rd Bhola Infratech All India School Ty Apr 13 - 17 Apr Bubaneshwar
2nd All India WBCWA FIDE rated Rapid Ty Apr 13 - 14 Apr Kolkata, WB
3rd MDCA All India FIDE Rated Apr 15 - 19 Apr Mysore
5th Jugal Kishore Newatia Mem.Ty(below 2200) Apr 18 - 23 Apr Guwahati,Assam
Delhi State Open FIDE Rated Apr 20 - 25 Apr New Delhi
4th FIDE Rated Tournament(below 1600) Apr 20 - 22 Apr Kottayam,Kerala
Maharashtra Chess League Apr 21 - 28 Apr Pune, MAH
World Amateur Championship Apr 21 - 30 Apr Lasi, Romania
Jain FIDE Rated Tournament Apr 21 - 25 Apr Ahmednagar,MAH
6th Thrissur Intl.FIDE Rated Apr 24 - 28 Apr Thrissur,Kerala
Maharashtra Chess League Apr 24 - 30 Apr Pune, MAH
1st One Goal Chess Academy Rapid FIDE rated Apr 27 - 28 Apr Secunderabad
Mastermind 3rd FIDE rated below 1800 Apr 28 - 01 May Calicut
National Under-7 Boys & Girls Ch'ship May 01- 09 May Pune, Maharashtra
National Under-17 Boys & Girls Ch'ship May 01- 09 May Assam
Sou Meenatai Shirgaokar FIDE Rated May 01- 05 May Maharashtra
Shri Babukaka Shrigaokar FIDE Rated Open May 06 -12 May Maharashtra
World Schools Individual Championship May 06 -15 May Halkidiki, Greece
24th Cusat Intl.Rating Tournament May 09 -13 May Kerala
Sri Prakash FIDE Rated (below 2000) May 09 - 13 May Tuni, AP
Fun Point (under 2000) FIDE Rating May 14 - 18 May Ahmedabad,Gujarat
Sri Viswasanthi Intl.FIDE rated(below 2300) May15 - 18 May Vuyyuru, AP
5th BCA Intl.FIDE Rating (below 2000) May 15 - 18May Kolkata, WB
Brain Power Open Blitz FIDE Rated May 18 - 18 May Ahmedabad, Gujarat
5th KIIT Intl.Chess Festival May 20 - 27 May Bubaneshwar
World Rapid and Blitz May 22 - 05 Jun Khanty-Mansyisk
6th Mayor Cup Intl.Open May 29 - 06 Jun Mumbai, MAH

For more information, details, confirmation of dates refer to website:indianchessfed.org

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Tariff for advertisement : Monthly (in Rs.) Annual (in Rs.)
Back Cover (Colour) 15,000 1,20,000
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Full Page Inside (Colour) 7,000 60,000
Full Page Inside (Black & White) 5,000 45,000
Half Page Inside (Black & White) 3,000 30,000

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 6th North East Chess Championship,Imphal….

Manipuri artiste performing during opening

ceremony

Dr. N.Dwijamani Singh, President of

Pioneer Chess Academy & well known
social worker inaugurated the event by
playing a game with Mr.Baldev Sharma,
President of Imphal west district chess

(From left) : L.Imocha ,Senior player and

Mentor of the organisation ,first runner up
Chakrilombi Singh A. of Manipur, Winner
Santanu Borpatra Gohain of Assam, Chief
guest Mr.P.Dhankumar , IPS, Chairman,
Board of secondory education , Manipur ,
Chief Arbiter Mr.Dharmendra Kumar , 2nd
runner up Naorem ShantiKumar of Manipur
and Mr.L.Atambi ,Org.Secretary.
 National Team Chess Championship, Hyderabad……..

Shri Ponnala Lakshmaiah, Honorable Minister for Information Technology

& Communications makes the inaugural move against IM Dronavalli
Harika.A.Narasimha Reddy,President AP Chess Association, Mr. Ali Nihat
Yazici (Turkey) Vice-President FIDE& CIS Chairman, Bharat Singh
Chauhan, Hon.Secretary,AICF, Shri G.Vinod, President, Hyderabad
Cricket Association, Shri D.V Sundar, Vice-President, FIDE, Dr. T.R.K Rao,
IRTS, Vice-Chairman & Managing Director-SAAP look on.
Bhopal International Rating Chess Tournament….

(L-R) Nikleh Jain Tresurar MP Chess.Kapil Saxena Hon. Secretary, MP Chess, A S

Singdeo patron,Dr Shilendra Shrivastava (IPS) director Sports MP D.K.Khara
chief genrel manager State Bank Of India (sponsrur of first prize)RK Naidu
Regional Director SAI,, Arjun Tiwari, Winner, Dharmendra Kumar IA