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6th Mayor Cup International Open Chess Tournament 2013, Mumbai….

Levan Pantsulaia wins Mayor Cup

The 6th Mayor Cup International Chess 3rd place along with two others Naidu and
Tournament 2013 started with a bang Manav Saxena.
at the newly build Air-condition Indoor
Games Stadium at National Sports Club of The prizes were given by chief Guest Shri.
India, Worli, Mumbai.A total of 513 players Subhash Desai M.L.A and Shri Jayantilal
participated and divided in 2 Groups A Shah President National Sports Club of
(Open) and B Group (Below 2100 Rating) India.

Largest Prize money of Rs.2150000/- Final Ranking: Group A

(Rupees Twenty One Lacs Fifty Thousand) Ran NameFED Pts
was given in this tournament 21 1 GM Pantsulaia Levan GEO 8½
Foreign Grandmasters out of a total 2 GM Mchedlishvili Mikheil GEO 8½
3 GM Amonatov Farrukh TJK 8½
of 25 Grandmasters from 12 countries
4 GM Andriasian Zaven ARM 8
participated in this mega event.GM Levon
5 GM Babujian Levon ARM 8
Babujian of Armenia and GM pantsulaia
6 GM Papin Vasily RUS 8
Levon of Georgia shot to early lead.
7 GM Zubarev Alexander UKR 8
By end of 6th Round top seed GM 8 IM Swayams Mishra IND 8
Mchedlishvili Mikheil and GM Pantsulaia 9 GM Akshayraj Kore IND 8
Levon both Georgians shot in the joint lead 10 IM Rathnakaran K. IND 7½
and continued on the top and maintained 11 GM Laxman R.R. IND 7½
their positions till the ninth Round. In the 12 GM Hoang Thanh Trang HUN 7½
9th Round GM Pantsulaia Levon shot in sole 13 IM Sangma Rahul IND 7
lead after Beating GM Zubarev of Ukraine. 14 IM Udeshi Aditya IND 7
15 S Lyna Narayanan IND 7
By round eleven, the last round, 2 GM’s 16 Kathmale Sameer IND 7
caught up with the leader and 3 players 17 GM Timoshenko Georgy UKR 7
tied for top spot. GM Levon Pantsulaia, GM 18 IM Rajesh V A V IND 7
Mchedlishvili and GM Amonatov of Taj iki 19 IM Karthikeyan P. IND 7
stan.GM Leven Pantsulaia of Georgia was 20 IM Ravichandran Siddharth IND 7
declared the winner of the 6th Mayor’s Cup 21 IM Shyam Nikil P. IND 7
International Open Chess Tournament on 22 GM Harutjunyan Gevorg ARM 7
better tie break. 23 GM Neelotpal Das IND 7
24 GM Ziatdinov Raset USA 7
In the Under 2100 Group Snehal Bhosale 25 Vignesh Nr IND 7
shot in the lead with 7 others at the end 26 Kulkarni Chinmay IND 7
of 4th Round. By 9th Round Ramkrishna 27 GM Malakhatko Vadim BEL 6½
Perumalia shot in the lead he was joined 28 IM Karthikeyan Murali IND 6½
by Snehal bhosale to the top after the last 29 GM Vaibhav Suri IND 6½
round both tied for top spot but Ramkrishna 30 GM Gagunashvili Merab GEO 6½
Perumalia was declared winner on better 31 IM Baghdasaryan Vahe ARM 6½
tie break.Veteran Kantilal Dave tied for 32 GM Kunte Abhijit IND 6½

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33 Gusain Himal IND 6½ 81 Madjidov Jasur UZB 5
34 IM Murali Krishnan B.T. IND 6½ 82 FM Ramakrishna J. IND 5
35 IM Himanshu Sharma IND 6½ 83 FM Thakur Akash IND 5
36 Visakh Nr IND 6½ 84 Nandhidhaa Pv IND 5
37 Banerjee Sushant IND 6½ 85 Ritviz Parab IND 5
38 GM Petrosian Davit G. ARM 6 86 Phadke Sohan IND 5
39 GM Fodor Tamas Jr. HUN 6 87 WFM Gevorgyan Maria ARM 5
40 IM Ramnath Bhuvanesh.R IND 6 88 Aradhya Garg IND 5
41 GM Hossain Enamul BAN 6 89 Rishi Sardana IND 5
42 IM Thejkumar M. S. IND 6 90 Dodeja Pawan IND 5
43 IM Ankit R. Rajpara IND 6 91 Chaithanyaa K.G. IND 5
44 GM Rahman Ziaur BAN 6 92 Shashikant Kutwal IND 5
45 Raghunandan K S IND 6 93 WGM Swathi Ghate IND 5
46 IM Kulkarni Vikramaditya IND 6 94 Audi Ameya IND 5
47 CM Puranik Abhimanyu IND 6 95 IM Shetty Rahul IND 4½
48 CM Prince Bajaj IND 6 96 Dahale Atul IND 4½
49 IM Konguvel Ponnuswamy IND 6 97 Niraj Saripalli IND 4½
50 WGM Kiran Manisha Mohanty IND 6 98 Babayan Armine ARM 4½
51 Deshpande Aniruddha IND 6 99 Siva Mahadevan IND 4½
52 FM Aravindh Chithambaram . IND 6 100 Chakravarthi Reddy M IND 4½
53 Gajwa Ankit IND 6 101 WCM Savant Riya IND 4½
54 Kulkarni Rakesh IND 6 102 WIM Thipsay Bagyashree Sathe IND 4½
55 Pradeep Kumar R.A. IND 6 103 FM Vinoth Kumar M. IND 4½
56 IM Gokhale Chandrashekhar IND 6 104 Zoar Haque Prodhan BAN 4½
57 IM Akshat Khamparia IND 6 105 Shetye Siddhali IND 4½
58 Abhilash Reddy M.L. IND 6 106 Iniyan P IND 4½
59 Navalgund Niranjan IND 6 107 WIM Ivana Maria Furtado IND 4½
60 Prasannaa.S IND 6 108 Islam Kazi Taherul BAN 4½
61 Akash Pc Iyer IND 5½ 109 WCM Gjergji Rozana ALB 4½
62 Pranav Vijay IND 5½ 110 Natarajan C. IND 4
63 IM Prasanna Raghuram Rao IND 5½ 111 Rohan Ahuja IND 4
64 FM Hasan Mehdi BAN 5½ 112 FM Harshal Shahi IND 4
65 Yohan J. IND 5½ 113 Kothari Swapnil IND 4
66 IM Babu N Sudhakar IND 5½ 114 Neelakantan Narayanan IND 4
67 Mithil Ajgaonkar IND 5½ 115 Raghav Bagri IND 4
68 Thakurta Soumya IND 5½ 116 Saravana Krishnan P. IND 3½
69 Mari Arul S. IND 5½ 117 Shweta Gole IND 3½
70 FM Sauravh Khherdekar IND 5½ 118 Visveshwar A IND 3½
71 FM Chatterjee Debaraj BAN 5½ 119 Dave Shiv Shankar IND 3½
72 FM Joshi Pankaj IND 5½ 120 Ponkshe Sarang IND 3½
73 Kumaran B IND 5½ 121 Savarkar Narendra IND 3½
74 Bartakke Amardeep S. IND 5½ 122 Abul Kashem BAN 3½
75 Wettasinha Vasanta SRI 5½ 123 Aman Swapan Shah IND 3½
76 GM Yagupov Igor RUS 5 124 Afzal Kazi Md. Mahbub BAN 3
77 Karthik V. Ap IND 5 125 Madjidov Irgash UZB 3
78 Patil Pratik IND 5 126 Joglekar Abhijit IND 2
79 Md Nubairshah Shaikh IND 5 127 Purushothaman T IND 2
80 IM Shivananda B.S. IND 5 128 Modi Divyam IND 2

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KNOW YOUR IM S. Nitin
S.Nitin (Born on 08.11.1992) started playing chess
at the age of four and was coached by his father
M.Senthilvel early in his career. Zaheer trained him in
the initial stages and later on few sessions of training
with GM R.B.Ramesh and FIDE Trainer K.Visweswaran
benefitted him immensely. He has won several
medals in international events such as World Youth
Olympiad, Asian Youth Championship, Asian Junior and
Commonwealth Championships. He was the member
of Gold winning team in world youth chess Olympiad
in 2007 Singapore where India made history winning
the Under-16 Olympiad title for the first time. He was National Under-12 Champion in
2004. He became FIDE Master in 2005 after winning Asian Youth and took IM title by
virtue of tying for the first place in Asian Junior Championship in 2010.He is a final year
student of SSN college of Engineering BE CSE .His other interests are table tennis and
football. He like open positions and attacking style of play and his favourite players
are Kasparov and Anand. His highest ELO rating was 2420 in Januay 2013. A list of his
notable achievements is given below.

National level :
National U-12 Chess Championship, 2004 Winner
SPIC Open Fide Rating Tournament 2004 Winner
National Boys Under -14 Championship, 2006 Silver
National Sub-Junior Chess Championship, 2006 Bronze
Palani All India Fide Rated Tournament, 2006 Winner
Chennai Adayar Times Fide Tournament 2008 Winner
National Under-17 Championships 2009 Bronze
3rd UKCA Cup held at Mangalore 2012 Runner-up
n 1st ACE International fide rated Ty Alappuzha 2012 Bronze
1st Blitz fide rated Championship held at Sivakasi 2012 Winner
3rd St.Joseph international Fide tournament 2013 Winner

International level
World Youth Olympiad Chess Championship Singapore, 2007 Gold
Asian Youth Chess Championship U-16 Boys Uzbekistan, 2007 Silver
Asian U-14 Boys Chess Championship Tehran 2006 Gold
Commonwealth Chess Championship in U-18 NewDelhi 2010 Gold
Commonwealth Chess championship U-20 Chennai 2012 Bronze
Parasvanath (below 2400) New-Delhi 2012 Winner

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 1st Teekay International FIDE Rated Chess Tournament,
Thoothukudi..

(L-R) Mr. John Bs Demel (Secretary,TDCA),Shri. C. S. Rajendran (Secretary, Kamaraj College,

Thoothukudi), Sa Kannan (Winner), Prof. T. Karpagavalli (Secretary,TeeKay Chess Centre),
Mr. Manuel Aaron IM, Dr. S. Vaseekaran (President,TeeKay Chess Centre), Mr. R. Prakash
Rajkumar (MD,Holycross Engineering College)

13th Adyar Times FIDE rated open chess tournament,

Chennai…

(L-R) Lion Seetharaman Selva Raj,President Lions Club of South Madras, Lion TS Sridharan,
P Saravana Krishnan (Winner), A D Ranjan, Publisher, Adyar Times, V. Hariharan, Gen. Secretary.
TNSCA, IM Manuel Aaron, S Paul Arokia Raj, Chief Arbiter, S Balaraman Joint Secretary, TNSCA
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129 Shah Jahnvi IND

39 1½ My Aditya 7½
130 GM Toufighi Homayoon 40
IRI 0 Pavan B N B 7½
131 IM Priyadharshan K. 41
IND 0 Gopalakrishnan K. 7½
132 IM Singh D.P. 42
IND 0 Vijay Kumar 7½
133 Momeni E. 43
IRI 0 Unni C. S. 7½
44 Gandhi Jay 7½
134 Joshi Govind Ballabh IND 0
45 Sumit Grover 7½
135 Kartik Arora IND
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0 Kranthi Kumar B. 7½
136 Mangesh C Parab IND
47 0 Gandhi Anish 7½
137 Maker Arhan IND
48 0 Vigneshwaran S 7½
138 Param Sheth 0 IND
49 Raees Ahmed A Q 7½
Group B-below 2100 50 Madhusoodanan K.R. 7½
Final ranking 51 Malla Nooka Raju 7½
Rk Name Pts 52 Govind Prabhu Mah 7½
1 Ramakrishna Perumalla 9½ 53 Bramhecha Divya 7
2 Snehal Bhosale 9½ 54 Mandhare Hemant Kumar 7
3 Dave Kantilal 9 55 Tamhankar Viraj 7
4 Lakshmi Sandeep NV 9 56 Saurabh Anand 7
5 Saxena Manav 9 57 Desai Jay Viral 7
6 Bhatt Jalpan 8½ 58 Gajengi Rajababu 7
7 Mitrabha Guha FM 8½ 59 Deliwala Arpit 7
8 Raghavendra V. 8½ 60 Srinath Rao S.V. 7
9 Negi Virender Singh 8 61 Harini S. 7
10 D Bala Chandra Prasad 8 62 Thanki Hemal Karsanji 7
11 Joshi Tejas 8 63 Kumar Gaurav 7
12 Yogit S 8 64 Vijeet Deliwala 7
13 Ritwan Sauntra 8 65 Harsh Mangesh Ghag 7
14 Trailokya Nanda 8 66 Atharvaa P Tayade 7
15 Pranavananda V 8 67 Kumthekar Shubham 7
16 Harikrishna. S. R. 8 68 Shukla Rahul 7
17 Lohana Kapil 8 69 Ghate V.N. 7
18 Konde Gaurav 8 70 Divya Garg 7
19 Dilip Das 8 71 Warude Satyam 7
20 Deep Kapoor 8 72 Sawant Shubhada 7
21 B Niladri Shekhar 8 73 Bakre Ashutosh 7
22 Roshan Rangarajan. 8 74 Poras Sanjay Kolgane 7
23 Rawal Shailesh 8 75 Mota Pankit 7
24 Arjun K. 8 76 Karthik Gopal G 7
25 Joshi Abhijeet 8 77 Nandhini Saripalli 7
26 Maulik Raval 8 78 Md.Aminismail Khadri 7
27 Chandak Shivam 8 79 Patil Samiksha 7
28 Bhambure Shantanu 7½ 80 Jadhav Onkar U 7
29 Aansh Gupta 7½ 81 Solanki Harsh 7
30 Satkar Chirag 7½ 82 Jayarathne M N G 7
31 Mohite Ranveer 7½ 83 Dafale Vaibhav 7
32 Shah Vishwa 7½ 84 Anusha N L V 6½
33 Shelke Sankarsha 7½ 85 Supriya Joshi 6½
34 Arjun Satheesh 7½ 86 Tanuj Dayal 6½
35 Nath Rupankar 7½ 87 Nanda Kumar T.S. 6½
36 Rathod Gopal Ashok 7½ 88 Wagh Suyog 6½
37 Joy Lazar M.A. 7½ 89 Prabhu Ajay P. 6½
38 Parnali S Dharia 7½ 90 Pimpalkhare Vedant 6½
91 Paranje P.M. 6½

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92 Dugar Ansh 6½ 144 Shreyam Mishra 6
93 Priya Vss 6½ 145 Kuber Chinmayee 6
94 Shreyas S Nikam 6½ 146 Anam Alpesh Laxmikant 6
95 Sirsat Shekhar V. 6½ 147 Kavya Srishti K 6
96 Chakrabarti Tamal 6½ 148 Ambardekar Harshavardhan 6
97 Dhamankar Satyen 6½ 149 Shivkumar Shyam 6
98 Shanmugavel S 6½ 150 Surana Khushi Shailendra 6
99 Thapa I B 6½ 151 Vaidya Kaiwalya 6
100 Nair Sanjeev 6½ 152 Dalvi Ayush 6
101 Soneji Janhavi 6½ 153 Balachandar Eshan 6
102 Ojas Kulkarni 6½ 154 Ishwar Ramteke 6
103 Bharambe Bhavik C 6½ 155 Shirish Khodwe 6
104 Kambli Pushkaraj 6½ 156 Shah Pujan 6
105 Adethya R 6½ 157 Aakash Jain 6
106 Gurbaxeesh Singh 6½ 158 Aditya Guhagarkar 6
107 Morvekar Kedar 6½ 159 Gandre Vibhav 6
108 Golvankar Dilip K 6½ 160 Amol Pratap 6
109 Jain Arnavv 6½ 161 Sanjeev Pitale 6
110 Avdhoot Lendhe 6½ 162 Waghmare Kunal 6
111 Aditya Lodha 6½ 163 Soham Sameer Palkar 6
112 Borkar Sanjay 6½ 164 Deshpande Aditya 6
113 Deodhar Vrushali Umesh 6½ 165 Audi Saiesh 6
114 Patel Mayur 6½ 166 Gajria Aashna 6
115 Rathi Yashvardhan 6½ 167 Ayush Gandhi 6
116 Meet Puri 6½ 168 Pradeep Pandya 6
117 Tajane Ganesh 6½ 169 Umesh M. Kulkarni 5½
118 Pednekar Kunjan 6½ 170 Dhiraj Patil 5½
119 Qadri Zakir 6½ 171 Milind Gode 5½
120 Om Kharola 6½ 172 Pendase Atul 5½
121 Ashutosh Kumar 6 173 Vedant Agarwal 5½
122 Gupta Rajesh R.S. 6 174 Bhogal Rupesh 5½
123 Nehete Akshay S 6 175 Gaurav Kumar (mah) 5½
124 Munemane Ameya 6 176 Sunil Vaidya 5½
125 Shrutarshi Ray 6 177 Mankar Vishwajit 5½
126 Jatin S N 6 178 Khadilkar L.P. 5½
127 Raghavan Muktesh 6 179 Waman Prashant 5½
128 Behere Ravi 6 180 Hingne Shirish 5½
129 Chandi Sachin 6 181 Vigneshraj Muthuram 5½
130 Madkar Atharva 6 182 Aryan Haribhau Kawade 5½
131 Sawardekar Pravin 6 183 Rathi Dhanashree 5½
132 Madkar Aditya 6 184 Dalvi Vedant 5½
133 Makwana Ashvin K 6 185 Shah Gargi 5½
134 Dhond Anup 6 186 Shanbhag Rahul 5½
135 Rokade Sudhakar 6 187 Adit Heerak Basu 5½
136 Sushrutha Reddy 6 188 Breasha Gupta 5½
137 Jadhav Shubham C 6 189 Kazi Nazir 5½
138 Shah Bhaven Jay 6 190 Shah Bhushan 5½
139 Chorge Mangesh 6 191 Bhoite Krishna 5½
140 Krishnater Kushager 6 192 Feroz M Mulla 5½
141 Rakesh Kohli 6 193 Ashar Grishma 5½
142 Thomre Abhishek 6 194 Talekar Aditya 5½
143 Pandey Ashish 6 195 Bhat Vineet 5½

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196 Parab Ridayesh 5½ 248 Vyas Nidhish 5
197 Pitkar Ashutosh 5½ 249 Pragadesh P 5
198 Sheth Divyanshu 5½ 250 Shreyas Ghadi 5
199 Rao Aashray 5½ 251 Nemlekar Atul 5
200 Dnyaneshwar S Gharge 5½ 252 Pilankar Aniket 5
201 Goenka Shrivar 5½ 253 Patil Aditya 5
202 Kolambe Yash 5½ 254 Ghelani Dhairya 5
203 Vanjale Prasad Prakash 5½ 255 Shruti Arvind Rathi 5
204 Anmol Agarwal 5½ 256 Godkar Apurva 5
205 Ekisha Basu 5½ 257 Sagar Mahadev Mungurdekar (bli 5
206 Adishree Krishnan 5½ 258 Mhaskar Sarvesh 5
207 Kulkarni Saurabh P 5½ 259 Garima Gaurav 5
208 Joshi Abhijeet M 5½ 260 Nakhawa Sahil 5
209 Salunkhe Shlok 5½ 261 Pandya Hansal 5
210 Joshi Sunil 5½ 262 David Avril R 5
211 Venkatakrishnan V K 5½ 263 Correa Swebert 5
212 Wagle Aakash Abhay 5½ 264 Parab Devang 5
213 Bhayani Kshitij 5½ 265 Borkar Yashwant 5
214 Chirantan C Mesariya (blind) 5½ 266 Shah Shilpa 5
215 Shah Yash B 5½ 267 Bhuta Hriday 5
216 Gargare Prathmesh 5½ 268 Adhawade Tanvi 5
217 Raghavan Medha 5½ 269 Warang Atharwa 4½
218 Begum Ashiya 5½ 270 Kamath Rajesh 4½
219 Dhanve Pravin 5 271 Jaisingh Anugraha 4½
220 Ankit Bhattacharya 5 272 Brahmaiah V.J 4½
221 Pratik S Risbud 5 273 Kulkarni Rohit K 4½
222 Gorde Dattatray 5 274 Prakash Gupte 4½
223 Devesh Mukherjee 5 275 Karnavat Samyak 4½
224 Iyer A N 5 276 Sandesh Mhatre 4½
225 Gupta Niti 5 277 Walimbe Varun 4½
226 Ankur Mahesh Gokhale 5 278 Kohli Mehul 4½
227 Sujit J Chudasama (blind) 5 279 Pawar Rahul 4½
228 Kabir Belgikar 5 280 Raval Dilip 4½
229 Balasubarmanian Balaji 5 281 Lokare Yash 4½
230 Jadhav Vaibhavi 5 282 Pangshe Laukik 4½
231 Pulekar D.B. 5 283 Jain Shubham 4½
232 Gala Devansh 5 284 Samant Aditya S 4½
233 Bheri Yaswanth 5 285 Zia Tahsin Tajwar 4½
234 Dhingra Abhishek 5 286 Shah Jiya 4½
235 Gawand Nihar 5 287 Rishabh Chandrashekhar Gokhale 4½
236 Kalnad Dilip 5 288 Gupta Shourya 4½
237 Kandalgaonkar D.N 5 289 Chachad Himanshu 4½
238 Mankar Yugandhar 5 290 Arya Nirag Shah 4½
239 Vinay Kamath 5 291 Shreya Arvind Rathi 4½
240 Aditi P Iyer 5 292 Shah Sparsh 4½
241 Parekh Saumya 5 293 Faiz Khan 4½
242 Jain Mihir 5 294 Ashwin Bakre 4½
243 Chitre Ameya 5 295 Turai Akhilbabu 4½
244 Jasmeher Singh Kathuria 5 296 Vasa Karan 4½
245 Danait Ved 5 297 Shah Kinnari K 4½
246 Ojas Mahavir Karnavat 5 298 Dhruv G Kulkarni 4½
247 Karekar Shubham 5 299 Dongare Lalit 4½

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300 Pandey Aditya 4½ 352 Chachad Lokesh 3½
301 Dalal Hemakshi 4½ 353 Daga Vyomesh 3
302 Bhat Sujay 4½ 354 Shah Yesha 3
303 Singh Gurmeher 4 355 Shreyas Gujaran 3
304 Shanbhag Surucha 4 356 Patil Abhishek U 3
305 Sawant Varad 4 357 Prabhanjan Badkas 3
306 Himay Kapadia 4 358 Kothavade Sohum 3
307 Shah Devarsh 4 359 Rane Mihir 3
308 Dabhie Pravin 4 360 Basu Aishi 3
309 Raut S M 4 361 Pandey Abhishek Brajesh 3
310 Gala Neer 4 362 Satav Parth 3
311 Jojo K L 4 363 Aarav Maru 3
312 Khandelwal Krisha 4 364 Sharma Alisha 3
313 Hetvi Pethad 4 365 Jairaj Aakanksha 3
314 Nemlekar Anjali 4 366 Saypuri Srithan 3
315 Vartak Akshay Rahul 4 367 Khandelwal Chirag 3
316 Kenkare S H 4 368 Dhore Shree R 3
317 Vora Diya 4 369 Karra Abhinav 2½
318 Piya Saxena 4 370 Shah Monique 2½
319 Dipnaik Ayush 4 371 Shah Aryan Sameer 2½
320 Khandelwal Khushi 4 372 Ynez D 2½
321 Kamble Aniket 4 373 Ukey Avin 2½
322 Menon Anoushka 4 374 Dr Dilip Deliwala 2
323 Kumbhar Tejas R 4 375 Ananya Rishi Gupta 2
324 Ghosh Ishaat 4 376 Bagul Hemant S 2
325 Vijay Karia 4 377 Doke Ovi 2
326 Menon Madhumita 4 378 Salunke Vaibhav 2
327 Raninga Suryaansh 4 379 Kuknur Ved 2
328 Patil Sachin D 4 380 Rathi Aditya Arvind 2
329 Sunay Jhaveri 4 381 Vispute Mayur 1½
330 Kadam Ravindra 4 382 Rambhiya Krish 1
331 Mhatre Rahat Rahul 4 383 Samya Rishi Gupta ½
332 Vora Jainam 4 384 Aparajita Gochhikar 0
333 Rao Harsh 4 385 Gagandeepsingh 0
334 Raninga Mahek 4 386 Dishant Jain 0
335 Yuti Mayur Patel 4 387 Thakur Ameya 0
336 Gavade Atharv 4 388 Mohite Ramesh 0
337 Shah Mann 4 389 Patil Abhishek 0
338 Joshi Advait 4 390 Baid Jiyaa 0
339 Sanika Kedar Oke 3½ 391 Bhute Yugandhar 0
340 Ashika Bakre 3½ 392 Guha Sujata 0
341 Late Pradip 3½ 393 Jaypesh Ashar 0
342 Shah Krish 3½ 394 Krishna S A 0
343 Dolas Hrushikesh 3½ 395 Mankar Samidha 0
344 Majithi Chinmay 3½ 396 Nair Sashikumar 0
345 Kriti Mayur Patel 3½ 397 Raghubir Singh 0
346 Shah Sameer D 3½ 398 Rane Rajiv 0
347 Mehta Ayush 3½ 399 Rathi Aditya 0
348 Sakseria Anupriya 3½ 400 Ray Sameer Kumar 0
349 Gada Kripa 3½ 401 Samtani Manish 0
350 Merchant Rayyan 3½ 402 Senthilkumaran R P 0
351 Basu Aanjisnu 3½ 403 Varkante Hemant 0
404 Vaze Atharva Ajay 0

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43rd National Junior & 28th National Junior (U-19) Girls Chess Championship-
2013,Lucknow……

Sayantan Das and Ivana Furtado

new National Junior champions
by IA Dharmendra Kumar, Chief Arbiter

Sayantan Das of west Bengal and Ivana everyone witnessed the championship. 108
Maria Furtado of Goa has lifted the players in open and 69 in girls participated
winner trophy of 43rd National Junior & in this championship.
28th National Junior (U-19) Girls Chess
Championship-2013 held at Bora Institute Championship was inaugurated by Anurag
of Management sciences , Lucknow. After Yadav , leader of Samajvadi Party in colour
defeating 5th seed FM Arvind Chithambram full function . He played a inaugural move
of TN in 6th Round , he showed his with WIM M Mahalaxmi of TN FM Arvindh
excellence by maintaining his lead till Chidhambram .G. K. Dixit , Vice-president
the last round where he was ahead of of Eldeco Group was the chief guest during
half point with others. In the last round , the closing ceremony and he gave away
sayantan with white pieces signed a peace the prizes to the winners along with Dr.
treaty with top seed S.L.Naraynan of Kerla Neeraj Bora , Chairman of Bora Group of
. Narayanan , opted Sicilian with black , Institution . As he was also chairman of
couldn’t found any key to get full point and organizing committee , preside over the
signed the treaty after making 33rd move. function . Chief Arbiter Dharmendra Kumar
FM Arvindh Chithambaram ,after losing has delivered the championship report.
his game against Sayantan , again back in A.K.Raizada , organizing secretary and
race and with 9 point , he finished runner Hony. Secretary of UPCSA has welcomed
up . 2ND runner up was IM Prasanna Rao of the guest , players and officials while event
Maharshtra. administrator Sayeed Ahmed delivered the
vote of thanks .
In girls , Ivana Maria Furtado of Goa named
the title this year with 9 point . Two players National Junior Open :
were in same score bracket (9) ,Ivana of Final Ranking
Goa and Rucha of Maharshtra , but with
better tie-break , Ivana placed her self on Rk. Name City Pts.
Golden step of victory stand . Rucha , who 1 FM Das Sayantan WB 9.5
won last 3 consecutive game and score 2 FM Aravindh ChithambaramVr. TN 9
same point as Ivana and finished 2nd place 3 IM Prasanna Raghuram Rao MAH 8
. Michelle Catherina of TN with 8.5 point 4 Sunilduth Lyna Narayanan KER 8
finished 3rd place . 5 Lokesh P. TN 7.5
11 round swiss championship for both 6 Visakh Nr TN 7.5
National Junior & National Junior Girls 7 Padhya Saumil MAH 7.5
was organized in the premises of Bora 8 Patil Pratik MAH 7.5
Institute of Management sciences , 9 K. Praneeth Surya AP 7.5
Lucknow . Surrounded by green plantation 10 Gireman Ja TN 7.5
in the month of monsoon was pleasant for

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11 Akash Pc Iyer TN 7.5 53 Bose Sayan WB 5.5
12 Gahan M.G. KAR 7.5 54 Raghav Srivathsav V AP 5.5
13 Navalgund Niranjan TN 7.5 55 Gurung Rakesh SIK 5.5
14 Mithil Ajgaonkar MAH 7 56 Aurangabadkar Prasad MAH 5.5
15 Jaswant G TN 7 57 Lakshmi Krishna Bhushan AP 5.5
16 CM Prince Bajaj DEL 7 58 Baivab Mishra ODI 5.5
17 D Bala Chandra Prasad AP 7 59 Abhijith M. KER 5.5
18 Mohammad Ashraf ODI 7 60 Tamang Thendup SIK 5.5
19 Vignesh Nr TN 7 61 Shreeshan S KAR 5
20 Niraj Saripalli GOA 7 62 Subramanian R M TN 5
21 Majumdar Chandrasish WB 7 63 Satya Sekhar Mitra WB 5
22 Antonio Viani D’cunha KAR 7 64 Singh Nishit MAH 5
23 Chakravarthi Reddy M AP 7 65 Sammed Jaykumar Shete MAH 5
24 Krishna Teja N AP 6.5 66 Saksham Rautela UTK 5
25 Yohan J. KER 6.5 67 Waghela Dhairya Pankaj MAH 5
26 Harsha Bharathakoti AP 6.5 68 Ayush Pandey UP 5
27 Roshan Rangarajan. MAH 6.5 69 Lawaniya Eshan UP 5
28 Gajwa Ankit MP 6.5 70 Ashish Raj BIH 5
29 Harihara Sudan M TN 6.5 71 Devashish Kumar BIH 5
30 Arjun Satheesh KER 6.5 72 Shubham Shukla PUN 4.5
31 Chaithanyaa K.G. TN 6.5 73 Pallav Maheshwari RAJ 4.5
32 Yashas D. KAR 6.5 74 Deepak K S KER 4.5
33 Kumar Atul UP 6.5 75 Manjeet Poonia HAR 4.5
34 Gandhi Anish MAH 6 76 Ashish Goyal PUN 4.5
35 Rakesh Kumar Nayak ODI 6 77 Anand E MAN 4.5
36 Ganesh P TN 6 78 Dubey Sanchay UP 4.5
37 Vasantha Ruba Varman TN 6 79 Ankit Kundra AP 4.5
38 FM Harshal Shahi DEL 6 80 Romit Verma HP 4.5
39 Aishwin Daniel MP 6 81 Deepak Batra PUN 4
40 Yogesh Gautam HAR 6 82 Jatin Panwar HAR 4
41 Darpan Inani AICF 6 83 Meet Puri MAH 4
42 Shubham Bhaskar HAR 6 84 Abhiveer Arjun DEL 4
43 Vikash Kumar Dwivedi BIH 6 85 Dave Sneh GUJ 4
44 Akil A S J TN 5.5 86 Udit Raj Saxena UP 4
45 Yogit S TN 5.5 87 Shashwat Malik HAR 4
46 Debarshi Mukherjee WB 5.5 88 Devansh Sharma UP 4
47 Kaushik Shubham HAR 5.5 89 Jaiswal Shubham UP 4
48 Soham Datar MAH 5.5 90 Bora Vatsal UP 4
49 Manan Rai DEL 5.5 91 Seram Utamjit Meitei MAN 3.5
50 Anchit Vyas MP 5.5 92 Gautam Keshari CHA 3.5
51 Harsh Himanshu BIH 5.5 93 Mishra Sarthak ODI 3.5
52 Ganesh R TN 5.5 94 Charan Krishn UP 3.5

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95 Asif Hussain Akhtar AP 3.5 26 Bala Kannamma.P TN 5.5
96 Jayesh Ranjan WB 3.5 27 Hinduja Reddy AP 5.5
97 Abhimanyu Mishra HP 3.5 28 Sandya M TN 5.5
98 Dheeraj Sharma HP 3.5 29 Lotlikar Priya MAH 5.5
99 Rajorshi Ray UP 3.5 30 Akshita D TN 5.5
100 Vinayak Vishawakarma CHA 3 31 Radhika Garg UP 5.5
101 Srikrishna G AP 3 32 Hema Priya N TN 5.5
102 Shaik Md Azahar Hussain 2 33 Krushna Mishra ODI 5.5
103 Tushar HP 2 34 Vaishnavi Thakur HAR 5.5
104 Tanishk Shukla 1.5 35 Nandhini Saripalli GOA 5.5
105 P Surajkanta Sharma 0 36 Parvathy S.L KER 5.5
106 IM Ankit R Rajpara GUJ 0 37 Neelima A George KER 5.5
107 Avinya Mohan Singh 0 38 Pratyusha Bodda AP 5
108 Suresh Yadav 0 39 Thamaraiselvi P TN 5
40 Arushi Kotwal J&K 5
Final Ranking: 41 Rhytham Bhatia PUN 5
National Junior Girls 42 Gole Vaishnavi MAH 5
43 Kavya M Rao KAR 5
Rk. Name City Pts.
44 Kajal Jagroshan PUN 5
1 WIM Ivana Maria Furtado GOA 9
45 Sharma Sharmishtha MP 4.5
2 WFM Pujari Rucha MAH 9
46 Vaibhavi Thakur HAR 4.5
3 Michelle Catherina P TN 8.5
47 Sanskriti Goyal UP 4.5
4 WFM Mahalakshmi M TN 8
48 Kavya Srishti K AP 4.5
5 Supriya Joshi MAH 7.5
49 Inderpreet Kaur PUN 4.5
6 Parnali S Dharia MAH 7.5
50 Jaiswal Ayushi UP 4.5
7 Anigani Kavya AP 7.5
51 Thahreem Fathima KER 4.5
8 WFM Monnisha Gk TN 7 52 Panda Pratyusha ODI 4.5
9 WFM Saranya J TN 7 53 Gauri Suri HAR 4
10 Anusha N L V AP 7 54 Chhatri Indu MP 4
11 Meenu Priya. Se TN 7 55 Kaur Amarjeet PUN 4
12 Varshini V TN 6.5 56 Himanshi Choubey MP 4
13 Madhurima Shekhar DEL 6.5 57 Anamika Rani Vaishnav CHA 3
14 Lasya.G AP 6.5 58 Shivani UP 3
15 Shristi J. Shetty KAR 6.5 59 Arsha Verma Sanjay HP 3
16 Priya Vss AP 6.5 60 Aditi Navneet Patial HP 1.5
17 Anjana Krishna S KER 6.5 61 Tanmayee M 1
18 Sunyasakta Satpathy ODI 6.5 62 Banty Yadav 1
19 WFM Srija Seshadri TN 6.5 63 Parul Mukesh Kumar HP 1
20 Vantika Agrawal DEL 6.5 64 Supriti Bhargava 0.5
21 Nandhidhaa Pv TN 6 65 Ngangom N Chanu 0
22 Shweta Gole MAH 6 66 Mishra Riya 0
23 Smaraki Mohanty ODI 6 67 Arunima Kalra 0
24 Sarkar Arna WB 6 68 Ngangom N Chanu 0
25 Akshaya Nandakumar TN 5.5 69 Richy Akoijam 0

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13th Adyar Times FIDE rated open chess tournament,Chennai…..

Saravana Krishnan annexes title

by S.Paul Arokiaraj,IA & Chief Arbiter

The Adyar Times FIDE rated open chess among the 158 participants. Three
tournament is a renowned annual event International Masters, four FIDE Masters
organized by the Tamil Nadu State Chess and one Woman FIDE Master complete the
Association in the month of July(Adi.This titled players in the line-up.
1.3 Lakhs prize fund event is sponsored
by Adyar Times a nighbourhood news ChakravorthI Reddy of Andhra Pradesh
paper and supported by Lions club of and P.Saravana Krishnan P of Tamil
South Madras.As many as 159 players Nadu were jointly leading the table with
representing 7 states including three 5.5 points at the end of sixth round. Six
players from outside India adorned this others namely RA Pradep Kumar, Sriram
year’s edition organized from July 25 to Sarja, R.Bala Subramaaniam, O T Anil
30 at Baplal Bhavan in the backdrop of Kumar, R.Ashwath and K V Shantaram
Tiruvanmiyur beach a famous beach in the are close on the heels of the leaders with
South Chennai. 5 points each.Chakravorthy Reddy of
Andhra Pradesh played a masterly end
In the nine round swiss event P.Saravana game against GM elect G.B.Prakash of
Krishnan of Kanchi district with an Indian Bank to score an impressive win
unbeaten score of 8 points stood clear first in 31 moves.In a game involving English
to lift the 13th Adyar Times Trophy and also opening,young Chakravorthy combined his
carried home a cash prize of Rs.25000/- bishop and knight to trap white’s queen.
.R.A.Pradeep Kumar of Chennai tallied 7.5 In the ensuing end game Chakravorthy
points and was the runner up.In a two brilliantly overpowered pair of bishops
way tie for the third place IM N.Sudhakar by his queen to pronounce a win.In the
Babu occupied the third place with 7 points queens gambit declined IM N.Sudhakar
on account of higher bucholtz score.In a Babu went down to Saravanarishnan in
glittering ceremony the champions were 58 moves. IM R.Balasubramaniam of ICF
felicitated by Mr.A.D.Ranjan,Publisher, proved his mettle with white pieces against
Adyar Times,Lion Seetharaman Selva black’s modern defense. Balasubramaniam
Raj,President Lions Club of South Madras cleverly prevented his opponent from
and Mr.Manuel Aaron,India’s first IM. castling and in the process of safeguarding
his own king Sai Viswesh lost an important
Earlier top seeded R A Pradeep Kumar pawn on the knight file
scored an easy win in the first round of
the 13th Adyar Times FIDE Rated Open Final Ranking
Chess Tournament-2013 at Chennai here
today. Sharing the lead with Pradeep were Rk Name Pts
IMs G B Prakash, Sudhakar Babu and R 1 Pradeep Kumar R.A. 7½
Balasubramaniam among others.In a minor 2 Saravana Krishnan P. 8
upset, second seeded P Saravana Krishnan 3 IM Prakash G B 7
was held to a draw by M Arun Kumar.Four 4 IM Babu N Sudhakar 7
nations including Ireland, Israel and the 5 Ram S. Krishnan 6½
United States of America are represented

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6 Kumaran B 6½ 49 Prudhvi Kumar V 4½
7 IM RBalasubramaniam 6½ 50 Adithya S 5½
8 Abhilash Reddy M.L. 6½ 51 Tawari Anuj 3
9 Ashwath R. 6½ 52 Girinath B S 0
10 Akash Pc Iyer 6½ 53 Senbabu M B 6
11 Sriram Sarja 6 54 Vigneshwaran S 5½
12 FM Raghunandan K S 6 55 Rahul S 5½
13 FM Vinoth Kumar M. 6½ 56 Thamaraiselvi P 5
14 Anilkumar O.T. 6½ 57 WFM Lakshmi C 5
15 Subramanian V 6 58 Kameswaran V. 4½
16 FM Shantharam K.V. 6½ 59 Tarun V Kanth 2½
17 Prachura P.P. 6½ 60 Kishore Kumar L S 4½
18 Zak Arad 5½ 61 Sachin Pradeep 4½
19 Chakravarthi Reddy 6½ 62 Saughanthika As 4½
20 FM Ram Aravind L N 6½ 63 Emil Sebastian 6
21 Ram Kumar V. 5 64 Harshini A 5
22 Sai Vishwesh.C 6½ 65 Niranjan R 5
23 Balkishan A. 6 66 Prakruthee A 5
24 Arun J 5½ 67 Janakiraman R 4
25 Abhishek A 6 68 B Abhinav Reddy 4
26 Gopalakrishnan K. 5 69 Vineeth Kumar B 5
27 Sa Kannan 5½ 70 Jatin S N 4
28 Aniruddh Aiyengar 5½ 71 A G Rajagopalan 2
29 Vivekanandan G. 3 72 Dileep Kumar R 6
30 Iniyan P 5 73 Akash Lal O 6
31 Harikrishnan.A.Ra 6 74 Yutesh P 5½
32 Aadhityaa M 5½ 75 Vijay Shreeram P 5
33 Obili Abhishek 4 76 Jain Arnavv 4½
31 Vaisnav M 5½ 77 Karmukilan S 4½
34 Jayakumar S 6 78 Nagaraj A. 4
35 Prajesh R 6 79 Upendra R 4½
36 Senthil Maran K 5½ 80 Karthik Raj C 5½
37 Aansh Gupta 5½ 81 M David Suthandram 5
38 Vignesh B 5 82 Routray B C 4½
39 Hemanth Raam 5½ 83 Arun Kumar M 2½
40 Jayesh M 5 84 H Samyuktha 4
41 Rohit Vassan S 0 85 Alan Diviya Raj 4½
42 Saranya Y 5½ 86 Aswin S 4½
43 Rajeev V.M. 5 87 Roshan Antony C 5
44 Aravind K 0 88 Jai Ganesh G Hvf 3
45 Karthick Narayanan 0 89 Mohan Ram Sridhar 4½
46 Sundar Ram T 4 90 Krishnamurthy S 5
47 Ambareesh. P 5 91 Arjun Kalyan 6
48 Ojas Kulkarni 5½

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92 Rakshith N D 4½
93 Moinudeen G 3½ Puzzle of the month
94 Krithigga K 4 by C.G.S.Narayanan
95 Vishwak S 4½
96 Arvind S 4 “In the repository of chess
97 Sai Kiran G V 0 techniques those involving the
98 Dheekshith Kumar R 5 endgame not only require familiarity
99 Nikhil R 5 with pieces as distinct from their
100 Kasinathan S 4½ legal powers but an acquaintance
acquired through vision leading to
101 Subalakshmi 4
methods more specific and difficult”
102 Balaji P 4 wrote Gerald Abrahams in his ‘Chess
103 Pallavi Bharadwaj 4½ Mind’. Endgame devices that may
104 Sujan M 4 be described as technical include
105 Praveen R 3 methods of winning and drawing
106 Baranidharan K 4 with limited resources such as two
107 Shyam Sundar M 0 knights and a pawn or with a knight
108 Kumar T 4 and a bishop though difficult. This
109 Rangesh N D 3 short study by the great exponent
110 Dharani Kumar M S 3½ of endgames goes to show that
111 B Chidambaram.C 4
mere knowledge that two knights
cannot win against a lone king is
112 Shafiq K 3½
not sufficient. It requires more
113 Nivetta T 4 board perception and ingenuity to
114 Dawood.K 3 reach beyond these technicalities. If
115 Krishnan C S 4½ the bishop is given up for its black
116 Sushmit Banerjee 2 counterpart, a draw is on the cards,
117 Pooja S (2002) 4½ but how?
118 Shreyanthi A 4
119 Shakthi Vishal J 5
Nadhishveli 1937
120 Dinesh Maran T 0
121 Sruthi B 3½
122 Malleswari P 4
123 R AMohanarangam 4
124 Shanmugam Pck 3
125 Sasidhar P 0
126 Raj Kamal S 4½
127 Sathyanarayanan V 4½
128 Ramkumar J 4
129 Vishal R V 4
130 K Vedant P 4
131 Ashish K Kuthagodu 4
132 Sidharth P G 4
133 Akash S (chettinad) 3½ White to play and draw
134 Yashavishree N 3½ (Solution on page 48)

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6th Modern School International Rating Chess Tournament (For below 2200
Rating), Chennai…..

Chakravarthy Reddy wins title

Ravichandran V,Tournament Director
The 6thModern School International Fide Master V Vishnu Prasanna and Shri S
Rating Chess Tournament for School Pattabiraman, Secretary, Modern School
students (for below 2200 Rating) was on 1st August at 10.00am.
held at Modern Senior Secondary School
from 01st to 04th August 2013 for a prize At the end of the Fifth Round four
pool of Rs.1, 00,000/-This Rating Chess players Akash P C Iyer of Modern School,
Tournament was organized very well by FM Praggnanandhaa R of Velammal,
Modern Senior Secondary School, under Chakravarthy Reddy of Nalanda School,
the auspices of Tamilnadu State Chess Andhra and M Sandhya of Velammal were
Association and All India Chess Federation jointly leading the table with 5 points each.
The venue of the tournament was “Sankara In the sixth round Top seeded Akash
Hall, Modern Senior Secondary School, P C Iyer showed the class in the middle
AG’S colony, Nanganallur, Chennai-61. game and scored over Asian Medalist
Main sponsor for this event was Modern FM Praggnanandhaa R in just 30moves
Senior Secondary School, Chennai and and Third seeded Chakravarthy Reddy
they provided free lodging and Boarding outplayed M Sandhya in an exciting battle.
to all players, free hospitality to officials, Both Akash P C Iyer and Chakravarthy
arbiters etc and also sponsored the entire Reddy were jointly leading with 6points.
prize money of Rs.1,00,000/-.
Chakravarthy Reddy of Andhra Pradesh
This event attracted 294 participants outplayed over night joint leader & top
from Korea, USA, Kenya, Bahrain, seeded Akash P C Iyer and jumped in to
Abudhabi, UAE and also from various sole lead with 7points at the end of the
States like Andhra, Kerala, Karnataka, seventh round. Akash P C Iyer opted
Orissa, Gujarat, Rajasthan, Pondichery, Grunfeld Indian defence against second
Maharastra also from all over districts seeded Chakravarthy Reddy and the game
in Tamilnadu Participation of nearly 144 landed in to complicated middle game. In
International rated players including top the Middle Game Chakravarthy made a
players like Fide masters Praggnanandhaa thematic rook sacrifice for a Bishop and
R( TN), FM Pendyala Rithvik(Kenya), FM Akash mishandled the position was check
Rakesh Kumar Jena(Ori), WFM C mated by Reddy in 25moves.11 players
Lakshmi, International players like Akash were on second spot with 6 points each.
P C Iyer,Sai Viswesh, Candidate Master
Pranav Sethilkumar (USA) made the event In the eighth round K Anshuman of
stronger and so colourful. This was the Modern School stopped the winning streak
6th time the School students Tournament of Chakravarthy Reddy and split the point.
being organized as a FIDE Rated event in Chakravarthy was leading with 7.5 points.
Tamilnadu and this event conducted as 10 Four players Akash PC Iyer, Hirthickkesh
round Swiss format Shri S Veeraraghavan, Pr, Neyveli, Prajesh R, Chennai and Akash
President, Modern School inaugurated R, Chennai were closely followed the
the Tournament in the presence Grand leaders with 7points eachIn the ninth and

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penultimate round Chakravarthy Reddy 7 Hirthickkesh Pr 8
defeated young Akash R in a double edged 8 Akash R 7.5
middle game and maintained the lead with 9 Prakashram R 7.5
8.5points.Akash P C Iyer was on second 10 Rohit Ramanan T G 7.5
spot with 8points. Four players Anshuman 11 Rahul S 7.5
K, Kumar S, FM Rakesh Kumar Jena and 12 Lakshmi C WFM 7.5
Sai Viswesh C were on third place with 7.5 13 Akash Lal O 7.5
points each 14 Abishek I 7.5
15 Sai Vishwesh.C 7.5
In the final round giant killer Chakravarthy 16 Alan Diviya Raj 7.5
Reddy of Andhra by his tenacious play drew 17 Vishwanath.T 7.5
the game and averted the defeat against 18 Saughanthika As 7.5
lesser rated Kumar in an inferior end game 19 Harikrishnan.A.Ra 7
and became richer by Rs2 5000 and won 20 Praggnanandhaa R FM 7
the glittering winner’s trophy. 21 Mohan Ram Sridhar 7
22 Desai Jay Viral 7
Akash P C Iyer outplayed his opponent 23 Ashwin R 7
Second seeded Sai Viswesh C of National 24 Pranav Senthilkumar CM 7
Public School in a miniature game and also 25 Prudhvi Kumar V 7
scored 9 points and tied with winner. He 26 Tarun V Kanth 7
clinched the Runner up title and received 27 Kasinathan S 7
the cash prize of Rs18000 and Trophy. 28 Vishwak S 7
Anshuman K, Prajesh R, Kumar S, FM 29 Santhosh V S 7
Rajesh Kumar Jena and Hirthickkesh Pr 30 Raahul V S 7
were scored 8points each and finished 31 Upendra R 7
third to seventh respectively on Tie breaks. 32 Niranjan R 7
33 Sandya M 6.5
At the Prize giving ceremony Dr Mohana, 34 Shvetha V 6.5
Principal, Modern Senior Secondary 35 Roshan Antony C 6.5
School welcomed the gathering, Shri DV 36 Ambareesh. P 6.5
Sundar, Vice President, FIDE and Shri 37 Priyadarshini V Dpi 6.5
V Hariharan, Secretary, All India Chess 38 Hariohm Varush 6.5
Federation jointly distributed the prizes. 39 Harshavardhan G B 6.5
Sri M Vijayakumar IA, Chief Arbiter, Fellow 40 Karthik Raj C 6.5
Arbiters, AICF, TNSCA and KDCA ensured 41 Tejasvi M 6.5
successful conduct of this event. 42 Madhan Babu M 6.5
43 Sharan Sridhar 6.5
Modern School FIDE Rated 44 Pranav P 6.5
45 Hari Madhavan N B 6.5
46 Karmukilan S 6.5
Final standings: 47 Arjun Kalyan 6.5
48 Vishwa R 6.5
Rk. Name Pts.
49 Nitin Shankar Madhu 6.5
1 Chakravarthi Reddy M 9
50 Salonika Saina WCM 6.5
2 Akash Pc Iyer 9
51 Preethika B 6.5
3 Anshuman K 8
52 B Chidambaram.C 6.5
4 Prajesh R 8
53 Rangesh P 6.5
5 Kumar S. 8
54 Dheekshith Kumar R 6.5
6 Rakesh Kumar Jena FM 8

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55 Bhuvan R 6.5 103 Ranjith Raj N M 5.5
56 Nishanth V G 6.5 104 Pravin A. 5.5
57 Avi Jaiswal 6.5 105 Abishek A 5.5
58 Karthikeyan L 6.5 106 Siddharth S 5.5
59 Soupraja S 6.5 107 Sriram S 5.5
60 Kamalesh P 6.5 108 Prerna Jain 5.5
61 Arthika R 6.5 109 L Ishwaryaa 5.5
62 Rindhiya V 6.5 110 Suresh Kumar R 5.5
63 Praveen Ramprakash 6.5 111 Barath Narayan S 5.5
64 Lakshman K R 6 112 Jayanth Reddy K 5.5
65 Sharan S 6 113 Ranadheer B J S K 5.5
66 Monicca G V 6 114 Harikrishnan Samyuktha 5.5
67 Rajesh Vasanthakumar 6 115 Badrinath V 5.5
68 Krishnan C S 6 116 Aravind Varadhan 5.5
69 Poorna Sri M.K 6 117 Aparjha S 5.5
70 Narendra Pallavan S 6 118 Rathneesh R 5.5
71 Ayushh R 6 119 Seralathan M 5.5
72 Poornima P R 6 120 Omesh M 5.5
73 Keerthana Maran T 6 121 Shyam Aravind B R 5.5
74 Kavimani S 6 122 Aishwarya S 5.5
75 Abinandhan R 6 123 Prravin Karthik M 5.5
76 Sindhu M 6 124 Sivashankar M 5.5
77 Dinesh Maran T 6 125 D Chaitnya Sai 5.5
78 Arputha Jasmine B A 6 126 Ram Kumar G M 5.5
79 Bala Kumar R 6 127 Prahalada Varadhan R 5.5
80 Frank Richards 6 128 Shree Krishna Pranama 5.5
81 Dharshan P 6 129 Prahadheeshwar C M 5
82 Mahalinga Gowthama 6 130 Sridhar V 5
83 Rohith S 6 131 Saichander C 5
84 Sivasubramanian R 6 132 Anirudh D Venkat 5
85 Ilakiya M K 6 133 Vamshi Bhargav P 5
86 Akkilesh P 6 134 Srijan J 5
87 Khiran S 6 135 Srinath B 5
88 Kaushika S G 6 136 Guru Vignesh A 5
89 Bhole Isha 6 137 Karthikeyan M 5
90 Pendyala Ritvik FM 6 138 Sharan K 5
91 Aravindakshan G A 6 139 Sai Pravarthika S 5
92 Nagalakshmi R 6 140 Santhosh Manikantan 5
93 Sadhu S Adithya 5.5 141 Shivashankari G 5
94 Suryachander E 5.5 142 Kaushik S 5
95 Kiruthika B 5.5 143 Prachi Bharti 5
96 Vishal Viswanathan 5.5 144 Pradharsan V 5
97 Vishal R V 5.5 145 Raghava Iyyappan 5
98 Srihari L R 5.5 146 Sona Preethy B R 5
99 Anannya Menkudle 5.5 147 Kamakshi K K 5
100 Mohnish J 5.5 148 Sai Balaji E 5
101 Nivetta T 5.5 149 Abhishek Ganesan 5
102 Karthikeyan G 5.5 150 Akshaya K S 5

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 40th National Women Challengers Chess Championship 2013,Thrissur…

Soumya Swaminathan wins title

The Sakthan Thampuran College of an in l presence of ShriShahulHameed,
Mathematics and Arts 40th National Asst Commissioner of Police,Thrissur and
Women’s Challenger was won by former Shri Rajesh , Secretary,Chess Association
world junior girls champion Soumya Kerala.The Chief Guest of the function
Swaminathan of Pune at Thrissur on August remarked wittily about the moves made in
3, 2013.Soumya started as the second politics rather on the board.He also lauded
seed and defeated the top seed Padmini the effort of officials for the improved
Rout to win the event by a clear one point chess activities in Thrissur District. Sri
margin. She suffered a defeat at the hands Rajesh , the newly elected Secretary of
of Nisha Mohota. CAK presented the reforms and activities
of the newly formed office beaming with
Three players, seeded in the top eight who confidence.
did not make the top eight include Kiran
Mohanty, B Pratyusha and Rucha Pujari. The event attracted 90 participants from
Three players from outside the top eight who 14 states and special units like PSPB,AAI,
qualified include G.K. Monnisha, Michelle LIC etc. The participation of 1 International
Catherina and Ivana Furtado.Former two- Master and 6 Women GM’s added flavor to
time world under-10 girls champion Ivana the event. WGM Padmini Rout of Orissa got
Furtado finished seventh and picked up the top billing owing to her ELO rating of
one of the eight qualifying slots. Seed 14 2332 followed by SoumyaSwaminathan of
Ivana also remained the only undefeated IOC.The lone IM of the event NishaMohota
player.This event was organised by the representing PSPB was among the
Chess Association of Thrissur from July 26 leaders until 7th round. She beat WGM
to August 3, 2013 at Kovilakam Residency, SoumyaSwaminathan in the 5th round
Thrissur. The chief arbiter was Nitin Shenvi from her favourite English opening when
and the tournament director was N.V. Soumya opened up prematurely to get
Balagopalan. her queen trapped. Nisha was involved in
draws and was in 2nd spot until her final
Chess Association Thrissur&S akthan round loss to Bhakti Kulkarni which put
Thampuran College of Mathematics her on 4th placeTop seed WGM Padmini
organized the 40th National Women Chess Rout of Odisha had a slow start and was
Challengers at Hotel Kovilakam Residency in the 2nd spot for most of the time. A 6th
a 3 star hotel inThrissur from 26th April round loss to GkMonnisha after erring in
to 3rd of August,2013.The 9 day event is an equal endgame and 10thround loss to
conducted in a 11 round Swiss format and WGM SoumyaSwaminathan sent a scare.
carries a prize pool of Rs.1.25 lakh and out Padmini was back in contention with a
of this Top Eight qualifiers will be eligible to quick win over Balakannamma in the final
play the oncoming National Premier Chess round to be placed at No.6 2nd seeded WGM
Championship at Kolkata. SoumyaSwaminathan of PSPB scored 4.5
The Championshipevent was inaugurated points out of the last 5 games and finished
by the former Kerala Speaker and Hon on 9 points to win the championship.
MLA,ThrissurShriTherambilRamakrishn She won her important games against

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PadminiRout ,SwathiGhate which made her to walk with title.Recent winner of the
Bronze Medal in the Asian Individual Event at Incheon,Seoul WGM Bhakti Kulkarni had
a spirited display in the last few rounds by scoring 4 points out of 5 rounds.
Final Ranking (Top 30 placings)

Rank Title Name Rtg Club Pts BH. BH. SB BH.

1 WGM SoumyaSwaminathan 2301 IOC 9 71½ 65 62.50 63½
2 WGM SwathiGhate 2226 LIC 8 70½ 65 52.00 61½
3 WGM Kulkarni Bhakti 2271 GOA 8 66 60½ 50.00 58½
4 IM MohotaNisha 2293 OIL 7½ 75 68½ 53.75 66
5 WFM MonnishaGk 2051 TN 7½ 72½ 67 49.25 63½
6 WGM Padmini Rout 2332 ORI 7½ 71½ 65 50.75 62½
7 WIM Ivana Maria Furtado 2080 GOA 7½ 70 65 48.25 61
8 Michelle Catherina P 2134 TN 7½ 70 64 50.25 62
9 PratyushaBodda 2180 AP 7½ 67½ 62 46.50 60
10 WGM KiranManishaMohanty 2259 LIC 7½ 65 59½ 46.25 57½
11 WFM Bharathi R. 2129 AAI 7½ 64½ 59 46.75 57
12 WGM RamaswamyAarthie 2091 AI 7½ 63½ 58 45.75 56
13 Ashwini U 1880 TN 7 69 63½ 44.00 61
14 WFM Saranya J 2147 TN 7 68½ 62½ 44.00 60½
15 WFM PujariRucha 2156 MAH 7 68 62 45.00 59
16 BakshiRutuja 1880 MAH 7 67½ 62½ 42.00 59½
17 Hinduja Reddy 1820 AP 7 64½ 59½ 37.25 56½
18 WFM Swati Mohota 2077 WB 7 61 57 35.50 52
19 BalaKannamma.P 2004 TN 7 57 53 37.75 49½
20 WFM Mahalakshmi M 2051 TN 6½ 75½ 69½ 44.50 66½
21 Lasya.G 2024 AP 6½ 70 64½ 42.50 62
22 ShetyeSiddhali 1955 MAH 6½ 67 61½ 37.75 58
23 WFM Vaishali R 2035 TN 6½ 66 60½ 39.00 57
24 Nimmy A.G. 2140 KER 6½ 65½ 60 40.00 58
25 WFM SrijaSeshadri 2008 TN 6½ 65½ 60 37.75 57½
26 Varshini V 1916 TN 6½ 64½ 60 35.25 57
27 WCM Savant Riya 1968 GOA 6½ 64½ 59½ 38.00 57
28 Supriya Joshi 1872 MAH 6½ 64 59 37.25 56
29 Harivardhini I 1623 TN 6½ 63 58 35.75 55½
30 Preethi R. 2005 TN 6 63 58 33.25 55½

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Sanjay Kasliwal Memorial All India FIDE rating (below 2000) Chess Tournament
Indore….

Shailesh Dravid is champion

The Tournament was organized by All Final Ranking

Indore Chess Association,Indore M.P. The
Rk Name Pts
total number of players 194 participated
1 Shailesh Dravid 8½
in the tournament in which 104 players
2 Sai Agni Jeevitesh J 8½
were international rated players.. Opening 3 Mulay Pratik 8
ceremony of the tournament concluded 4 Ashutosh Kumar 8
on 4th July 2013 in the presence of Chief 5 Diwan Rajesh 8
Guest Chief Guest, Mr.Ravindra Tiwari 6 Vijay Kumar 7½
(MPSEB) and Guest of Honour Mr. Ajit 7 Aishwin Daniel 7½
kumar Kasliwal(Patron). The tournament 8 Mota Pankit 7½
Hall was well furnished and the over all 9 Saurabh Anand 7½
arrangement of the venue was of high 10 Sumit Grover 7½
quality. All outstation players and parents 11 Kawaljeet Singh M 7½
were provided tea , snacks,lunch and 12 Modi Kunal 7½
dinner by the organizers.The tournament 13 S Jaykumar Shete 7
14 Anchit Vyas 7
was held in 10 rounds swiss league system.
15 Patil Jitendra 7
The tournament conducted very smoothly
16 Saket Kumar 7
& without any single protest. The president 17 Sudarshan Malga 7
Mr. F.Anil (Organizing Secretary ), Piyush 18 Anshul Kaushik 7
Zamindar and near about 15 members 19 Parag Ravindra Patil 7
of J.J.Public School Group and the Office 20 Himanshu Moudgil 7
bearers of All Indore Chess Association and 21 Sahil Tickoo 7
the team of local arbiters cooperated me 22 Kori Jagdeesh 7
very nicely for conducting the tournament. 23 Mishra Uttam 7
The prize distribution ceremony concluded 24 Banjan Priyadarshan 7
07th July 2013. 25 Gupta Dinesh 7
26 Ojas Gulhane 6½
Chief Guest Mr. Muktesh Singh, Director, 27 Patil Mayur 6½
Emerald Hight International School, 28 Pimpalkhare Vedant 6½
Guest of Honour And Mr. Ajit kumar 29 Gupta Atit 6½
Kasliwal(Patron) , F .Anil (Tournament 30 Dhiraj Patil 6½
Secretary) were present for the Prize 31 Jain Jitendra 6½
32 Chinmay Pathak 6½
Distribution function of the tournament.
33 Devesh Mukherjee 6½
From Maharashtra Mr. Shailesh Dravid 34 Sushant Manuja 6½
became the Champion with 8.5 points. Total 35 Ajinkya Ingale 6½
Two lack Fifty Thousand rupees cash prize 36 Joshi Gagan Deep 6½
were Distributed Among the prize winners, 37 Rishikesh Kesaria 6½
First ten prize winners got Trophy also. 38 Deepak Soni 6½
39 Sharma Avinash 6½
I’m out, now you’re the oldest! You’re the dinosaur 40 Shenvi Pratik 6
now! - (comments upon his own retirement) 41 Singh Balwinder 6
- Garry Kasparov on Anand 42 Chandan Mandal 6

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43 Rattan Tarun 6 94 Gokhroo Bharat 5
44 Kaushik Shubham 6 95 Tharayil Sudhir 5
45 Rohan Bharat Joshi 6 96 Katare Manohar Lal 5
46 Md KAbdul Latheef S 6 97 Shrivastav Hritik 5
47 Aryan 6 98 Devang Choudhary 5
48 Saxena Kunal Kant 6 99 Choudhary Suresh 5
49 Lokendra Kapoor 6 100 Palaskar Rutwik 5
50 Akshay Jain 6 101 Sharma Varun 5
51 Todwal Sudeep 6 102 Asthana B.S. 5
52 Thakur Diwan 6 103 Jain Ajit 5
53 Kushwah Kishore M. 6 104 Harshe Arvind 5
54 Dr Sanjay Date 6 105 Patel Aditi 5
55 Thomre Abhishek 6 106 Tanya Pandey 5
56 Adethya R 6 107 Malviya Aryaman 5
57 Doshi Moksh Amitbhai 6 108 Parakh Niyati 5
58 Tiwari O P 6 109 Jain Nityata 5
59 Rahul Jain 6 110 Azad Singh Verma 5
60 Shilimkar A Anil 6 111 Tanvi Bhave 5
61 Tayyeb Asif Md 6 112 Choudhury Yamuna 5
62 Meghna Upadhyay 6 113 Varma Kamal 4½
63 Shukla Shishir 5½ 114 Aaniq Kamani 4½
64 Suraj Jaiswal 5½ 115 Borse Umesh Suresh 4½
65 Dutta Aditya 5½ 116 Prasad Govind 4½
66 Kadam Nikhil 5½ 117 Borase Manoj 4½
67 Arpit Kumar Gupta 5½ 118 Verma Ayush 4½
68 Sharma Surendra 5½ 119 Aashna Khan 4½
69 Sharma Dhiraj 5½ 120 Jasneetsingh Baid 4½
70 Sarthak Kapoor 5½ 121 Saniya Jain 4½
71 Grover Aswani 5½ 122 Amur Khandelwal 4½
72 Devansh Ratti 5½ 123 Kshatriya Abhay 4½
73 Devang Bisani 5½ 124 Santosh Pal 4½
74 Ishwar Ramteke 5½ 125 Prakhar Gupta (mp) 4½
75 Saxena Mm 5½ 126 Baid Prabhijeet 4½
76 Kumar Naveen 5½ 127 Bhavi Bhansali 4½
77 Rajaram 5½ 128 Joshi Suyash 4
78 Rajak Rajman 5½ 129 Jain Swatantra 4
79 Sankalp Gupta 5 130 Atre Priyanshi 4
80 Salim Yoosuf 5 131 Rawat Rishabh 4
81 Rudraksh Agrawal 5 132 Dhakre Vivek 4
82 Subba Raju S. 5 133 B Pradipbhai D 4
83 Gurmeet Singh Bagga 5 134 Devpura Kartik 4
84 Deshmukh Vasant 5 135 Ahirwal Dinesh 4
85 Seth Dev 5 136 Atre Priyanka 4
86 Bhadoria Ajay 5 137 Agrawal Vinayak 4
87 Pandey Abhishek 5 138 Ahirwal Manish 4
88 Tiwari Vivek 5 139 Jain Ankur 4
89 Agarwal Mudit 5 140 Pukhraj Singh 4
90 Patil Priyanshu 5 141 Pranay Jain 4
91 Thaker Kautilya P 5 142 Sagar Medatwal 4
92 Kalbande Mayur 5 143 Sharma Jyoti Prakash 4
93 Pawan Kaushik 5 144 Sharma Divyansh 4

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145 Paras Narang 4
146 Bajpai N.K 4
147 Jain Aruj 4
148 Yash Dhoke 4
149 Mehta Tanmay 4
150 Priyanka Gajbhiye 4
151 Solanki Narendra 4
152 Bhattad Mohak 4
153 G Abhishek 3½
154 Chaturvedi Gaurav 3½
155 Sanjeev Vekta 3½
156 Patel Devang 3½
157 Rathore Divyanshu 3½
158 Dhoke Manan 3½
159 Vaghmarey Nikhil 3½ (position after 29.d6)
160 Shah Sushrut 3½
161 Daga Kushal Anand 3½ 30.Qg4 h5 31.Qe2 Nb3 32.d7 Nd4
162 Katole Ritik 3½ 33.Rxd4™ Or else ...Qxd7 will win
163 Arya Nirag Shah 3½ for black. 33...Bxd4 34.d8Q+ Rxd8
164 Kanika Joshi 3½ 35.Bxd8 Qd5 centralising the queen
165 Yatharth Joshi 3½ and showing who is boss. 36.Be7 c3
166 Jati Manas 3½ 37.Bb4 a5 38.Be7 e3+! 39.f3 Bc5!
167 Pal Nikhil 3½ 40.Bxc5 Qxc5 41.Qc2 Diagram #
168 Joshi Chinmay V 3
169 Bhadoria Abhigyan 3
170 Baviskar Rupesh 3
171 Yug Kataria 3
172 Jadon Shyam Singh 3
173 Deeva Bidasaria 3
174 Gosavi Khushi 3
175 Grover Karan 3
176 Singh Vishnu Pratap 3
177 Bansod Siddhi 3
178 Agrwal Aayush 3
179 Nigam Sanya 3
180 Mistri Aakash 2½
181 Malviya Shashank 2½
182 Parekh Aryaman 2½
183 Sohani Aanchal 2½ 41...e2! A well-calculated sacrifice
184 Nalwade Hemant 2 which wins immediately. 42.Qxe2 c2
185 Shukla Atharva 2 43.Qe8+ Kg7 0–1
186 Kshetrapal Akshay 2
187 Sheikh Nazma 2 Look at the catastrophic record Vishy Anand has
188 B Venkat Suprabath 2 against Garry Kasparov. Kasparov managed to
189 Upadhyay Prashant 1½ beat him almost everywhere they played, even
190 Nigam Amit 1 though Vishy Anand has belonged to the absolute
191 Kumar Pramod 0
192 Dubey Jitendra 0 top players in the world for fifteen years. This dif-
193 Kishore Abhishek 0 ference cannot be explained purely in chess terms,
194 Solanki Aanchal 0 there must have been some psychology.
- Vladimir Kramnik

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 India regains World Youth Olympiad title
by Arvind Aaron

India thrashed Iran 3.5-0.5 in the final

round to win the World Youth Chess
Olympiad at Chongqing in China on July
29, 2013.India started as the second seed
and scored an important win against the
favourites Russians. India are winning this
prestigious team event for the third time.
India had won the event previously at
Singapore 2007 and Turkey 2008.Indian
scorers in board order: Shardul Gagare
6/9, Karthikeyan Murali 6.5/10, Diptayan
Ghosh 8.5/10, Sayantan Das 7.5/9 and
Ja Gireman 2/2. India won eight matches (L-R): Sayantan Das, K.Visweshwaran ( Coach ), Shardul
and drew two to win the title by a slender Gagare, Karthikeyan Murali, Ja.Gireman, Diptayan Ghosh
one point margin.
Indian coach K Visweswaran played an important role in fielding and training the players.
He was also behind the success of the team in 2007 at Singapore.To defeat and finish
ahead of Russia is no easy task in chess. India’s talent and power was on display in
this event. India drew Turkey and Hungary.The Youth Olympiad is for players below 16
and this success should translate to bigger success in the future like the World Team
Championships and Chess Olympiads.
Final placings: 1 India 18; 2 Russia 17; 3-4. Turkey, Hungary 15 each; 5-8. China-1,
USA-2, SCWY Chess Training Center, Iran 14 each...72 teams.
Earlier after India were held to a 2-2 draw by Hungary our team came back strong to
defeat Kazakhstan 4-0 in the eighth round to maintain the lead in the World Youth Chess
Olympiad at Chongqing in China on July 27.In the morning session, all four games were
drawn. In the afternoon session, all four of our best players were fielded by coach K
Visweswaran and all of them won.Shardul Gagare, Karthikeyan Murali, Diptayan Ghosh
and Sayantan Das won and weer all set
to face China-1 in a crucial possibly title
deciding encounter on July 28. The event
concluded on Monday,29th July 2013
with the tenth round.

Standings: 1 India 14; 2-4. China-1,

China-2, Russia 13 points; 5-6. Iran,
SCWY Chess Training Center 12 each.

India continued to march ahead in the

ninth round against China -1. India won
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by the classical method of winning on the two white boards and drew the black boards
to win by a healthy 3-1 margin. India maintained its slender half point lead with 16
points.India won seven matches and drew two and have remained undefeated thus far.
In the second place are Russia on 15 and Iran on 14. India faces Iran in the last round.
A victory will give India its third title in this event. India won at Singapore 2007 and at
Turkey in 2008.The two winners for India were Karthikeyan Murali and Sayantan Das in
the second and fourth boards.Russia swept 4-0 and is half a point behind India in the
match points table.

India sweeps podium at Port Elizabeth

Indians swept the podium in the Commonwealth Chess Championship that concluded at
The Boardwalk Hotel, Port Elizabeth in South Africa on July 14, 2013.

Former world junior champion Abhijeet Gupta of Delhi won the Commonwealth
Championship with nine points from eleven games. He remained undefeated. Players
outside the Commonwealth, Fedorchuk and Tiviakov took the second and third place in
the Open event.

So, two players from India, Dibyendu Barua

of Kolkata and M.R.Lalith Babu of Vijayawada
took the silver and bronze medals. Barua
was leading with 8/9 but a penultimate
round defeat to Fedorchuk pushed him out
of title contention.

Indian national champion G Akash of

Chennai was the only untitled player in the
top 10 bagging the Commonwealth Junior
title on 8.5/11.IA Gunther van den Bergh of
South Africa was the chief arbiter. The event
ran from July 6-14, 2013.

In the main section, a total of 314 players from 17 nations took part. Of that India
were the second biggest group. South Africa has 248 players, followed by India 19 and
Botswana 15 and Zambia 8, etc. Besides this, they also had a “B” section and a Blitz
section.

Final placings (tie-break order): 1-3. GM Abhijeet Gupta (Ind), GM Sergey Fedorchuk
(Ukr), GM Sergei Tiviakov (Ned) 9/11 each; 4-10. GM Dibyendu Barua (Ind), GM M.R.
Lalith Babu (Ind), GM Vladislav Tkachiev (Fra), G. Akash (Ind), IM Jovanka Houska
(Eng), WGM Soumya Swaminathan (Ind), IM Elijah Emojog (Uga) 8.5 each…314 players.

Courtesy : www.fide.com

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 GM Sethuraman wins at Leiden
GM Sethuraman won the 7th Leiden International Chess
Tournament at Leiden, Netherlands (july 12-21,2013)
. He scored 7.5 points out of 9 rounds. Last round he
won against England Grand Master David Howell (rating
2639) .13 countries participated. He is increasing 14
ELO Points from this tournament. Next he plays Dutch
Open from July 23. India’s GM Deepsen Gupta finished
Runner up

The seventh edition of the Leiden Chess Tournament on

mutual result (tournament rule) won by Sethuraman.
This young master was already in Leiden, when he was
part of the Indian youth teams in 2009. He went along
with his compatriot Deep Sengupta in the final round
with 6.5 points (out of eight) and - as Deep - they went back to full! A large group of
huge combative masters in the final round. That is sometimes different. Which are
looked with one eye to the prize fund and follow suddenly short draws. Not with the
LCT lineup this year: in all rounds tremendous fighting spirit.

To name but a few results in a row to set. Besides the two leaders with 6.5 points
a large group of 6 and 5.5 pointers with under many title holders. Sethuraman
won his final game of outgoing titleholder David Howell, who according to him
halfway through his party has missed big advantage. Several opportunities He put
not in a great shape, Howell said afterwards. Deep Sengupta won IM Bernal Moro
(Spa) and was shared first (second on tie-break) and Leader Dorper Predrag Nikolic
(BIH) defeated black the neighborhoods in good shape Peter Prohaszka (Hon) and
therefore was all winner of the bronze. Three large cash prizes for this trio of gold,
silver and bronze. Every single one of players who went before. Behind the places 4
t / m 11 still eight players (6 points) still a nice sum of money could distribute. The
Leiden master Erik van den Doel did his best in this field, but would end up with a
bad bar lock (two defeats) in 21st place.

In the B group (amateurs) three players finished on 7 points; Marco de Mooij (LSG),
Franky Deketelaere (Bel) and Jan van der Knaap (Philidor Leiden). The Belgian was
very glad we had guided him for the tournament of the A to B group because his
rating was not sufficient. Eventually De Mooij was winner of the B group .In this
international tournament held four people took titles. The LSG’er Arthur Pijpers
scored an international master (IM) title and the English Sabrina Chevannes scored
a master title for women (WIM). Additionally reached umpire Arthur Schuering still
two titles to his assistants Vincent Schenkelaars and Chris de Weert. They both
received a FIDE arbiter title (FA).
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 Jenitha Anto is IPCA Champion
India’s K. Jennitha Anto became the World chess champion for the disabled after winning
the 13th IPCA World women’s individual championship in Velke Losiny, Czech Republic
last month.Jennitha competed in a combined group with men and became the highest
scorer among the women players and was awarded the IPCA Women’s Chess Title.From
her nine games, Jennitha won three games, drew three and lost three to score 4.5
points. Two Russian women tied with Jennitha on points but the higher buchcholz score
helped Jennitha win the title.Jennitha had been coached by IM Raja Ravi Sekhar in the
past. Following an accident to her father Kanickai Irudayaraj in 2012, the family became
immobilised and her father turned into a coach using chess books as study material.

The Czech Republic event attracted 49 physically

challenged players of fifteen countries of the three
continents: Africa, Asia and Europe. Jennitha being
a wheel chair player participated in Fide A category
and almost all the players are international rated
players. Nearly nine title holders participated in
this championship, five IM’s, one FM, one WFM
and Two WCM’s. More than 25 wheel chair players
participated. On the whole the tournament was
a tough event.The triumph was more special for
Jennitha as she also became a Woman International
Master (WIM). The new WIM title would allow her
direct entry into many National events for women,
except the premier tournament.

The event attracted 49 physically challenged

players from 15 countries.

Jennitha, being a wheel-chair player, participated in the FIDE A Category — where

almost all the players were international rated players. Nearly nine title holders — five
IMs, one FM, one WFM and Two WCM’s — participated in this championship. More than
25 wheel-chair players also took part in the tournament.

The new WIM title would allow her direct entry to many of the National events for
women except the premier. A strong player, Jennitha is poised to attract more attention
as she is the World Women’s IPCA champion.

Final standings of Women:

Gold: WCM K.Jennitha Anto (India), Silver: WFM Galina Malnik (Russia), Bronze: WCM
Marina Kaydanovich (Russia)

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 Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron
Selected games from Mumbai Mayor’s to stay on h8 preventing white’s Rxh7.
Cup, Mumbai 35.Kf1 Rc8! 36.Ne1 Nf6 After this
white’s rook on h6 is misplaced. Black has
Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron a slight advantage. 37.f3 with the idea
g3-g4-g5 and Rxh7. 37...d4 38.Rh4 [If
Petrosian,DG (ARM) (2436) white goes ahead with his plan of driving
Malakhatko,Vadim (Bel) (2552) away the Nf6 and capturing h7 black will
gain the upper hand: 38.g4 Rc3 39.g5
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4
Nd5 40.Rxh7 Ne3+ 41.Ke2 Nxc2 when
e6 5.Nc3 Qc7 6.Be3 a6 7.Qf3 Nxd4
black has superior endgame prospects.]
[As a general rule, one should avoid
38...Ke5 39.Ke2 h5 the game is equal
exchanging pieces that would bring the
opponent’s pieces into the game. Bettter though black’s pieces seem to be posted
here was: 7...Nf6 ] 8.Bxd4 Ne7 9.Qg3 better. His rook is on a semi-open file
[9.Qe3 threatening 10 Bb6 making black’s targeting white’s backward c2 pawn while
position extremely cramped was a good white’s rook is now misplaced on h4 and
alternative. 9...b5 10.Bd3] 9...Qxg3 is looking for a role to play. 40.Nd3+
10.hxg3 With the exchanging off of Kd5 41.Kd2 g5! 42.Rh1 Re8 43.Nb2
the queens, the dark squares on black’s The knight is bound for c4 from where it
queen-side are vulnerable and white is will attack the a5 pawn. 43...g4 44.Nc4
threatening 11 Bb6 cramping white. So Rg8! Instead of passively defending his
black’s next move is understandable. 10... a5 pawn, black abandons it and targets
b5 11.Bc5 Nc6 12.Bxf8 Kxf8 13.a4 b4 white’s g3. 45.Re1! [In a slightly inferior
14.Nd1 Bb7 15.Ne3 Ke7 16.0–0–0 position, white seeks counter-attack. If
d6 17.Rh5 Rad8 18.Nc4 g6 19.Rh6 here, 45.fxg4? Rxg4 and black is on top.]
a5 20.Be2 d5 21.exd5 Rxd5 22.Rxd5 45...gxf3 46.Re5+ Kc6 47.gxf3 Rxg3
exd5 23.Nd2 Nd4 24.Bf3 Bc6 25.b3 48.Rf5 Nd7 49.Nxa5+ Kd6 50.Nc4+?!
Bb7 26.Rh4 Nf5 27.Rh1 Nd4 [27...Kf6 [White should take the initiative with:
preparing to manouvre his knight via e7 50.Kd3! and threaten black’s unconnected
if necessary was better.] 28.Bd1 Kd6 pawns. Bringing the knight back into the
29.Nf3 Ne6 30.Rh6 Ba6 31.Kd2 Nc5 game could have been postponed.] 50...
32.Be2 Ne4+ 33.Ke1 Bxe2 34.Kxe2 Ke6 51.Rxh5 Rxf3 White’s position is
better as he has an outside passed pawn
on the a-file, and he could attack black’s
b4 pawn with Rb5, his own pawns being
compact. But with reduced material left
on the board chances of a draw are good.
52.a5 Rf1 Diagram # 53.Rh4 [Stronger
was: 53.Rb5! This looks dangerous as it
allows black’s f-pawn an unhindered run.
It also requires lengthy calculation and
white might not have had enough time
on his clock at this stage of the game.
53...Ra1 54.Rxb4 f5 55.Rb5 f4 56.Ke2 Rc1
57.Kf3 Rf1+ 58.Ke4 Nf6+ 59.Kxd4 Rd1+
Diagram # 34...Re8! Inventive play 60.Kc5 f3 61.Ne3 Ne4+ (61...f2 62.Rb6+
getting his rook out of the necessity

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Ke5 63.Rxf6 Kxf6 64.Ng4+ Ke6 65.Nxf2
Rd2 66.Nd3 Rxc2+ 67.Kb6 Rc3 68.Nc5+

69...Nd7 [Probably drawing would be: 69...

Na6! 70.Ne3 Kb6 71.Nd5+ Ka5 72.Nf4 Kb6
73.Nd3 Ka5 If white can contrive to get this
(position after 52…Rf1) position with black to play, he is winning.
However as he cannot lose, or gain, a
Kd5 69.b4 Rc4 70.Na6 and white should move with his knight the winning attempt
win with careful play.) 62.Kb4 Ra1 63.Rf5 fails. The white knight can roam all over
f2 64.Rf4! Ke5 65.Rf8! Kd4 (65...Nf6 leads the board, but the black king would move
to the same combination: 66.Rxf6! Kxf6 between a5 and b6, marking time! The only
67.Ng4+ Ke6 68.Nxf2 Ra2 69.Nd3 Rxc2 way for white to try for a win would be to
70.Kb5 etc. as already seen) 66.Nd1!! manouvre his king to get this position with
(this brilliant resource wins for white.) black to play. But any move by the white
66...Rxd1 67.Rd8+ Ke3 68.Rxd1 Ke2 king would allow Ka5-b5 and white would
69.Ra1 and white wins.] 53...Ne5 54.Rxd4 be frustrated. From our childhood we have
Nf3+ 55.Ke2 Nxd4+ 56.Kxf1 Kd7= [If learned that a knight posted on the edge of
56...Nxc2? 57.a6! and the pawn cannot the board is weak and it ought to be posted
be stopped from queening.] 57.Ne3 Kc6 at, or near, the centre for effectiveness.
58.Ke1 Kb5 59.Kd2 Nc6 [If 59...Kxa5 But in the present position, the knight is
60.Nc4+ Kb5 61.Nd6+ Kc5 62.Nxf7 and doing his job well from a6, defending his
white has winning chances.] 60.Nc4 f5 b4 pawn and not allowing the white king
61.Ke3 f4+?! 62.Kxf4 Nd4 63.Ne3 Probably to c5. 74.Nc5 Nc7 75.Nb7+ Kb6 76.Nd6
black overlooked this defensive move. Na6 77.Ne4 Ka5 78.Nc5 Nb8 79.Nd3 Na6
Sometimes a knight going backward to and we are back to the same position with
defend escapes the attention of players in white to play - and no progress! Perhaps,
the heat of battle. 63...Kxa5 64.Ke4 Nc6 white does have a win in this position, but
65.Kd5 Kb5 66.Nf5 Now with a favourable whether it could be found in practical play
king position, white is sitting on top of the with the clock ticking away the seconds
world. 66...Nb8 67.Nd4+ Kb6 68.Kc4 Ka5 is very doubtful.] 70.Nd6 Ne5+ 71.Kc5
[Black’s best defence appears to be: 68... Nd7+ 72.Kc4 Ne5+? [The black knight is
Na6 69.Ne2 Kc6 70.Nf4 Kb6 71.Nd3 Ka5 enjoying the great open spaces, but what
and white finds it difficult to make any about his pawn on b4? Better was: 72...
progress.] 69.Nf5 Diagram # Nb8 73.Kc5 Na6+ 74.Kc6 Nb8+ 75.Kb7
Na6 76.Nc4+ Kb5 and white has not made

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any progress.] 73.Kd5 Nd7 [A better idea the advantage by 13...Rd8! 14.Qc2 f5³)
was 73...Nf3 74.Kc5 Ne1 75.Nc4+ Ka6 14.Ne5!! Qxg2 15.Qd7+ Kf8 16.Qxf7#]
76.Ne3 Ka5 77.Kc4 Nf3 78.Nd5 Ne5+ 13...0–0–0 14.Qc2 Diagram #
79.Kd4 Nd7 80.Kc4 Ne5+ repeating.]
74.Nf5 Nf6+ [74...Nb8!] 75.Kc6! the
knight has been caught on the wrong foot.
It cannot come back to defend b4 or attack
c2. 75...Ng4 76.Nd4 Ne5+ 77.Kd6 [77.
Kd6 Nf7+ 78.Kc5 White is going to play
79 Nc6+ and capture the g4 pawn. The
black knight is helpless to stop this. This
is a very instructive knight ending.] 1–0
Gagunashvili,M (Geo) (2592)
Shivananda,B.S (2382) [E60]
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.f3 e5 4.dxe5 Nh5
5.g3 Nc6 6.f4 d6 7.Bg2 Be6 8.exd6 [The white king is caught in the centre and
[This is new. D Magalashvili v B Predojevic walks into a tactical stroke. If now, 14.0–
2003 went: 8.Bxc6+ bxc6 9.Qa4 dxe5 0? Bxc3 15.bxc3 Bxe2–+] 14...Bd3!!
10.Qxc6+ Bd7 11.Qe4 Nf6 12.Qxe5+ Be7 15.Qd1 Rhe8! Black must be thrilled to
13.b3 0–0 14.Bb2 Re8 and eventually 0–1] achieve such a crushing position against
8...Bxd6 9.Nf3 [If 9.b3? Qf6! and white the Georgian GM. 16.0–0 [After 16.e3
loses a knight.; However, better for white Bc5 17.Ne5 Nxe5 18.fxe5 Qxe5 19.Qf3
was: 9.Nd2 Qd7 10.Ne4 Bxc4 11.Nxd6+ c6 20.0–0–0 f5–+ black is winning.] 16...
cxd6 12.Nf3 0–0 13.0–0 Rfe8 14.Re1] Bxe2 17.Qxe2 Qxe2 18.Nxe2 Rxe2
9...Bxc4 10.Nbd2 Ba6= 11.Ne4 Bb4+ 19.Bc3 [If 19.Bxb4 Nxb4 20.a3 Nc2
12.Bd2 [This is a natural move, moving 21.Rac1 Ne3 22.Rf2 Rxf2 23.Kxf2 Nd1+
his undeveloped bishop. If 12.Nfd2 f5 24.Ke2 Nxb2 25.Ng5 Re8+ 26.Kd2 f6
13.Nc3 Qd7 and black’s prospects are 27.Nf7 Kb8 28.Bxb7 Kxb7 29.Rb1 Re7
brighter.] 12...Qe7 30.Rxb2+ Kc8 31.Nh6 f5 Black’s advantage
lies in the cornered white knight and his
extra c-pawn.] 19...Bxc3 20.bxc3 Nf6!
21.Rab1!?

Diagram # 13.Nc3 [Playing for an unwise

trap is: 13.Bc3 offering the knight on
e4, for if now: 13...Qxe4? (black takes

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Diagram # A good psychological move, not 27...Nf3+?? 28.Bxf3 Rxd1+ 29.Bxd1)
suggesting veiled threats against b7. 21... ] 27...c6! 28.Bxf7 Nf3+ 29.Kf2 Nxe5
Rc2 [A good alternative was: 21...Rxa2 30.Ke3 Rd8! 31.Rf1 Nxf7 32.Rxf7 Rd7
22.Ne5 Nd5 23.Nxf7 Rxg2+ 24.Kxg2 Rd7 33.Rxd7 [White is so impressed by black’s
25.Ne5 Nxe5 26.fxe5 Ne3+ 27.Kh3 Nxf1 play that he does not want to prolong the
28.Rxf1 Re7 black has a winning rook game by playing 33.Rf8+ ] 33...Kxd7 0–1
ending.; However, stronger was 21...
Nd5! which puts one more hurdle between
Vaibhav Suri (2535)
white’s bishop and his b7 pawn and himself
Aravindh,Chithambaram VR (2328)
threatening Nxc3 and Ne3 was nearly
[B33]
winning.] 22.Rbc1 Rxc1 [It is natural
for black to assume that every exchange
took him nearer to victory as he has an 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4
extra pawn. But to be considered was: Nf6 5.Nc3 e5 6.Ndb5 d6 7.Bg5 a6 8.Na3
22...Rxa2! which would put him in a still b5 9.Nd5 Be7 10.Bxf6 Bxf6 11.c4 b4
stronger position. But black thinks that he 12.Nc2 0–0 13.Be2 Bg5 14.0–0 Qa5
should head for victory without affording [Innovation? The natural move here is: 14...
white the possibility of any fight back. In a5 But the queen is moving on immediately
the light of this, the remaining moves are to c5, an apparently good square. However,
easy to understand.] 23.Rxc1 Ne4 24.Ne5 these two queen moves at the cost of
[24.Ng5 Nxg5 25.fxg5 Rd6 26.Bxc6 white’s development are a luxury which white
last attempt at counter-play, aiming at the punishes with exceptionally good positional
f7 and h7 pawns. 26...Rxc6 27.Rf1 Rxc3 play.] 15.b3 Qc5 [Better was 15...Be6
28.Rxf7 Rc1+ 29.Kg2 Rc2+ 30.Kh3 Rxa2 when white has only a slight advantage.
31.Rxh7 b5! He plans to defend his key g6 16.a3! bxa3 17.Rxa3 Qd8²] 16.a3! bxa3
pawn with Ra6 and push his queen side An unfortunate necessity as he cannot
pawns.] 24...Nxe5 25.fxe5 Nd2 26.c4 play 16...a5 as his Ra8 is unprotected.
Rd4 27.Bd5 17.b4! Qa7 18.Rxa3 Diagram # 18...Ne7
19.Nc3! Qb6 [19...Rd8 20.c5 Bb7 21.Bc4!]

Diagram # [A good attempt at counter-

play. How is black going to defend his key (position after 18.Rxa3)
f7 pawn? If 27.Rd1 c5! (This wins, but

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20.Nb5! Black’s d6 pawn is under trouble. loses patience. Probably he was short of
20...Bg4 [White’s Nb5 is a pain in the neck time. Better was to continue the war of
for black. To get rid of it, he has to hand nerves with: 32...Bf4 33.g3 Bd6 34.Qb6
over the advantage of the two bishops to Qd7 35.Bb5 Qc8 36.Qd4 Qb8 37.Be2 Nxd5!
white and still remain under pressure. If and black still has some tricks left in his
20...Rd8 21.c5 Qc6 (21...dxc5 22.bxc5 bag.] 33.d6 exf2+ 34.Kxf2! Qc3
Rxd1 23.Rxd1 Bg4 24.cxb6!) 22.Nxd6 Be6
23.Bxa6 Rxa6 24.b5 Rxa3 25.bxc6 Rc3
26.c7!+-] 21.Bxg4 axb5 22.cxb5 Rad8
23.Ra6 Qb8 24.Bf3! Otherwise black
could play the liberating 24...d5. 24...d5
[If 24...Qxb5 25.Rxd6 Rc8 26.Be2 Qb8²]
25.exd5 Qxb5 26.Ra5 Qb8 this prevents
d5-d6 and also watches over his e5 pawn
which would come under attack. 27.Qe2 f5
28.Qb5! Qd6 [If 28...Qxb5 29.Rxb5 Nc8
30.Re1 e4 31.Be2 Bf6 32.Ne3 Nd6 33.Rb6
Bd4 34.Rc6 and white is winning thanks
to his active pieces and extra pawn.; or if
28...Qc7 29.Qc5±] 29.Ra6 Qc7 30.Na3
e4 31.Be2 Kh8 [Black could try 31...Rf6 Diagram # 35.Qc5! Magically, white seems
32.Rd1 fighting for the control of the key d6 to have his pieces on the right squares for
square. 32...Bf4 33.Rxf6 gxf6 (33...Bxh2+ both defence and attack. 35...Qb2 36.Nc4
34.Kh1 gxf6 35.g3+-) 34.Kh1!±; A major Qc2 37.dxe7! Bxe7 38.Qxe7 Rde8
alternative for black is: 31...Nc8 32.Qc6 39.Ne3! This denies black the possibility
Qe7 33.Qc5 Nd6 34.Nc4 Bf4 35.b5 Rd7 of capturing the Be2. 39...Qb2 40.Qc5 f4
36.g3 Be5 37.Rb1 f4? 38.Bg4!+-] 32.Rd1! 41.Nc2! For every black threat white has
With this move, all the white forces are set a fine counter! 41...Rc8 42.Rc6! Triumph
advance the d5 pawn. Desperately black of good positional play. 1–0
seeks a vain counter attack. 32...e3?
Shyam,N (2408)
Visakh,NR (2243) [B23]

1.e4 c5 2.Nc3 e6 3.f4 Nc6 4.Nf3 d5

5.Bb5 Nge7 6.0–0 d4 7.Ne2 a6 8.Bxc6+
Nxc6 9.d3 Be7 10.e5 [Here, 10.Ne5 has
been successfully tried earlier.] 10...b5
11.Ng3 Bb7 12.Qe2 Qd5 13.a4 0–0–0
Black has a bold perspective of this game.
But castling on the queen-side is carrying
aggression too far! Better was 0–0. 14.Bd2
[14.axb5 This gives black the option of
closing the queen-side with 14...b4 and
Diagram # [Under sustained pressure and
making the task of targeting the black king
strong middle-game play by white, black

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more difficult. Better was: 14...axb5 15.f5] to have some compensation for the loss of a
14...h5 [14...b4=] 15.Ne4 f5 [Again, pawn, but with imaginative endgame play,
15...b4= ] 16.exf6 [A good alternative white dispels black’s illusions of equality.
was: 16.Neg5 Rdf8 17.axb5 axb5 18.c4! 26.g6! e4 27.g7 This advanced passed
this move is possible because the Rd8 has pawn is worth several ordinary pawns.
moved to f8 and there is no pressure on 27...Rhg8 28.Nh4 e3 29.Nxf5 Re5 [29...
d3. 18...dxc3 19.bxc3 white has a clear exd2?? 30.Rxe8+ Rxe8 31.Nd6+] 30.Bxe3
advantage.] 16...gxf6 17.axb5 at last! Diagram #
17...axb5 18.Nh4 Rhg8

Diagram # 19.h3 [If 19.f5 Rg4 20.g3 30...Rxf5 [Better was: 30...dxe3 31.Nxe3
Rdg8 21.Ng6 R4xg6 22.fxg6 f5 23.Rfe1 Rxg7 and black who has three pawns for his
fxe4 24.dxe4 Qe5 (24...Qc4 25.Qxh5 Qxc2 bishop has the better chances of winning.]
26.Bf4³ though anything could happen in 31.Bh6 Rh5? This is premature. He should
this wild position.) 25.Bf4 Qf6 26.Qxh5 first improve his king position with 31 Kd7
Qxg6µ] 19...f5 20.Ng5 Rde8 21.Rfe1 [Not so that white’s counter of playing his rook
21.Qxe6+? Qxe6 22.Nxe6 Bxh4–+] 21... to f8 will not happen with check 32.Rf1!
Bf6?! [Hoping to exploit the unprotected Rd8? [Black is not sure that his knight and
status of the Nh4 in case white targets on bishop would be able to handle the rook and
the backward e6 pawn. But white lets e6 two pawns in the following variation: 32...
alone and waits for black to capture on g5. Rxh6 33.Rf8+ Kd7 34.Rxg8 Rg6 35.g4 Ne7
Better was: 21...Bxg5 22.fxg5 Kd7 23.Kh2 36.Rf8 Rxg7 37.Ra5 Bc6 38.c4²] 33.Rf7??
c4=] 22.Qxh5! Probably black thought that [After an intense game white blunders. And
this move was impossible because his Nh4 as black returns the compliment next move,
would would fall through an X-ray attack. maybe both were in time trouble. Or was
But the Nh4 leads a charmed existence and this move a slip of the hand, playing the
wins the day. 22...Bxg5 [If 22...Rh8 23.Qf3 rook to f7 instead of f8? 33.Rf8! Ne7 34.Bd2
as in the game.] 23.fxg5 Rh8 24.Qf3! with the winning threat of 35 Ba5! 34...b4
Qxf3 [24...Rxh4? 25.Qxd5 exd5 26.Rxe8+ 35.Re1 white wins.] 33...Ne7 34.Rf8??
and white wins.] 25.Nxf3 e5 Black appears Rxh6! 35.Re1

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Diagram # 35...Bd5?? [Probably both Diagram # 17.Nxd5! In such positions this

players were in time trouble. This is the is a standard sacrifice and is given as an
move that lost for black. Winning for him illustration of a double attack in most text
was: 35...Ng8! 36.Ree8 Rxe8 37.Rxe8+ books. 17...Qxe5 [If 17...exd5 18.Qxd5+
Kc7 38.Rxg8 Rg6 39.h4 Bd5 and after Kh8 19.Qxa8+-] 18.Ne7+ Kh8 [As black
the capture of his g-pawn, white is lost.] is heading for a piece down ending, he
36.Rxe7 Ba2 [After 36...Rg6 37.g4 Rg5 could slightly improve his chances in this
38.Kh2 c4 39.Kg3 to be followed by h3-h4 lost position with 18...Kf7 19.Nxc8 Qxd4
and Kf4 winning for white.] 37.b3 Rg6 1–0 20.Rxd4 Ne5 21.Nd6+ Ke7 Black is a bishop
down and is indeed lost, but his pieces are
Kore,Akshayraj (2508) Natarajan,C better placed than in the game with his
(2214) [C11] King on e7 instead of on h8 and a threat of
Rad8 winning back a piece.] 19.Nxc8 This
1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.e5 Nfd7 5.f4 wins a bishop for no compensation. 19...
c5 6.Nf3 Nc6 7.Be3 cxd4 8.Nxd4 Bc5 Raxc8 20.Qxd7 Qc5 21.Bd3 b4 22.Qxe6
9.Qd2 a6 10.0–0–0 0–0 11.Kb1 Nxd4 a5 23.Qe4 g6 24.Rhe1
12.Bxd4 Qc7 13.Bxc5 Nxc5 14.Qd4 b5
15.f5 [15.Be2 would have kept all options
open for white in this position where he has
chances of a king-side attack.] 15...Nd7??
An incomprehensible, backward move which
hands over the game to white. 15...Bb7=
was a natural move which would occur to
any player after having just played ... .b5.
Black could also play 15...Rb8 threatening
a pawn storm on the queen-side when we
would have had an exciting game with the
players attacking on opposite wings. But he
probably thought that this backward knight
Diagram # The threat is to exchange
move would force white to play defensively
queens with 25 Qe5+ 1–0
with 16 Re1. 16.fxe6! fxe6

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1st Teekay International FIDE Rated Chess Tournament,Thoothukudi..

Sa Kannan wins title

by M. Ephrame IA, Chief Arbiter

One hundred and seventy two players place with Kannnan and Praggnanandhaa.
from southern states of India participated Better tiebreak favoured Sa Kannan to
in the 1International FIDE Rated Chess clinch the title followed by Vishwa and
Tournament (below 2000), organised Praggnanandhaa.
by Teekay Chess Academy at Holy Cross
Engineering College, Thoothukudi from 12 Dr. Shalini Punithavathani, Principal,
Government College of Engineering,
Aruppukottai was the top seeded player, Tirunelveli inaugurated the tournament
followed by AC. Siva of Nagercoil. Asian in the presence of Sri. DSK Rajarathinam,
Under 8 champion R. Praggnanandhaa of Correspondent, Holy Cross Engineering
Bloom Chess Academy, Thiruvallur was the College. IM Manuel Aaron, nine time
cynosure of all eyes. national chess champion was the guest of
honour and Sri. CS. Rajendran, Secretary,
In the second round, thirteen year old Kamarajar College, Thoothukudi was a
former under 11 national champion A. special guest.
Prathish of Madurai was shocked by S.
Abhishek of Nagercoil and S. Vigneshwaran
of Namakkal, winner of a rated tournament Final standings:
at Surat was held to a draw by Krishna MK Rk Name Pts
Ramanatha of AP. Series of upsets, including 1 Sa Kannan 7½
the toppling of the top seed Paramasivam 2 Vishwa Anand V 7½
by the local boy V. Vishwa Anand was the 3 Praggnanandhaa R 7½
order of the third round. Vishwa raised the 4 Uma Maheswaran P 7
hopes of the Thoothukudi followers, by 5 Paramasivam M. 7
leading with a perfect score of 5.0 in five 6 Muthukumar C P 7
rounds, along with P. Uma Maheswaran of 7 Girinath B S 7
Madurai, a student of PSNA Engineering. 8 Anand Naik B 7
Uma defeated Vishwa in the sixth round 9 Prathish A 7
to emerge sole leader, but SA Kannan 10 Visalatchi R 6½
of Karaikudi snatched the lead by 11 Vigneshwaran S 6½
defeating him in the seventh round and 12 Shakthi Vishal J 6½
Paramasivam, Praggnanandhaa, Vishwa 13 Amith A 6½
and Uma were at a striking distance. 14 Saket Kumar 6½
Vishwa continued his fine run to hold Sa 15 Narendran V 6½
Kannan and Praggnanadhaa defeated 16 Ekantharaju 6½
Uma Maheswaran, culminating in a clash 17 Ambareesh. P 6
between two leaders in the climax round. 18 Sathya Giri V 6
Praggnanandhaa missed winning chances 19 Vishnu Priya T 6
to settle for a draw with Kannan. Vishwa 20 Prasant N Nayagam 6
also won the tournament to tie for the first 21 Shri Bharath B 6

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22 Rajeev V.M. 6 67 Gokul S 5
23 Dharani Kumar M S 6 68 Antony Kings As 5
24 Tarun V Kanth 6 69 Swaminathan A 5
25 Guhan Ram Shankar 6 70 Rooswelt 5
26 Dony K V 6 71 Robin Chithambaranathan 5
27 Roshan Antony C 6 72 Kirthik Roson M 5
28 Subalakshmi 6 73 Lakshmi Prabha P 5
29 Senthil Kumar V 6 74 Shaaru Dharshini A 5
30 Anandharaj K 6 75 Manjunath Bhat 5
31 Yogesh Kumar A 6 76 Shyam Ramachandran 5
32 Praveen Srinivasan 6 77 Dharshana Vijayan 5
33 Muralidharan R. 5½ 78 Abhishek S 4½
34 Siva A C 5½ 79 Hari Varshan S R 4½
35 Dhanush Bharadwaj 5½ 80 Meenakshi Sundaram G 4½
36 Niranjan R 5½ 81 Vishaal S 4½
37 Rathish T.J. 5½ 82 Raj A 4½
38 Aswin Kumar B S 5½ 83 Pranav Krishna S 4½
39 Pranav P 5½ 84 Gowsic B 4½
40 Thiripurasundaram N 5½ 85 Moorthi M 4½
41 Prakash Nathan S 5½ 86 Sabari Kirishna Pc 4½
42 Chinnadurai S. 5½ 87 Yamuna S 4½
43 Gurubalan S 5½ 88 Naresh Krishna S 4½
44 Karthick Babu R 5½ 89 Dalton Griffin Sam Emmanuel 4½
45 Amarnath S J 5½ 90 Sivaprakash N 4½
46 Murugesa Pandian P 5½ 91 Gogul Rajaram A 4½
47 Akash Sivaram D 5½ 92 Gowri M 4½
48 Charan N 5½ 93 Suresh Kumar Ashok 4½
49 Solomon Rathna Sekaran 5 94 Nevedha K 4½
50 Raahul V S 5 95 Arun R 4
51 Merryston David Scanny 5 96 Karthic Chinthan P 4
52 Karunakaran V 5 97 Santo Wilbert 4
53 Dharshan P 5 98 Ragul Kannan Pandiaraj 4
54 Nanda Pradeesh N 5 99 Bharath Raja Ram A 4
55 Krishna M K Ramanatha 5 100 Ramachandran S M 4
56 Godson Merlin E 5 101 Ganesh Chockalingam Pillai 4
57 Gayathri M 5 102 Narendiran Raveendiran 4
58 Sundararajan S 5 103 Dinesh Kumar A 4
59 Suryakanth C 5 104 Jaya Suriyah Ayyappan 4
60 Virgil Jebas J 5 105 Vinit Murugesan 4
61 Jacob Ragland A 5 106 Jambuheswaran Srinivasan 4
62 Agash Raj James 5 107 Mathavaraj S 4
63 Arun Kumar P 5 108 Nithin David J 4
64 Philip Benis Jeyaraj J 5 109 Aditya Radhakrishnan M 4
65 Roshan R 5 110 Muthu Rakesh Babu 4
66 Mega R 5

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 Tactics from master games
by S.Krishnan

1. 2.
Black to play and win White to play and win

Black to play and win White to play and win

3. 4.
White to play and win White to play and win

White to play and win White to play and win

5. 6.
White to play and win White to play and win

(Solution on page 41)

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 Test your endgame
By C.G.S.Narayanan
Yehuda Hoch 1995 H. Rinck 1922

Yehuda Hoch 1995 H. Rinck 1922

1 2
White to play and draw White to play and win
S.Osintsev 1992 G.Kasparyan 1953

White to play and draw White to play and win

S.Osintsev 1992 G.Kasparyan 1953

3 4
White to play and draw White to play and win
Ph.Stamma 1737 H.Weenink 1919

White to play and win White to play and win

Ph.Stamma 1737 H.Weenink 1919

5 6
White to play and win White to play and win
(Solutions on page 42)

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selected games from National Junior
annotated by IM Manuel Aaron
S L Narayanan (2415)
Mithil, Ajgaonkar (2198)
1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.e5 c5 4.dxc5 Nc6 5.Nf3
e6 6.Be3 Nge7 7.c3 Nf5 8.Qd2?! [This is
a very odd move. Staudner-Rogetzer, 1997
went: 8.Bd4 Nfxd4 9.cxd4 b6 10.b4 bxc5
11.bxc5 Qa5+ 12.Qd2 Qxd2+ 13.Nbxd2±]
8...Qc7 [Black could try to remove the Nf3
so that he could get at white’s extra pawn
on e5 with: 8...Nh4 9.Nxh4 Qxh4 10.Bb5 23.Nf2 [White unwisely shies away from
Bd7 11.Bxc6 Bxc6 12.Qd4 Qh5] 9.Bd4 b6 the logical 23.Ne3 Nxe3 24.Qxe3 Rfc8
10.cxb6 axb6 25.Rfc1 Rc4 26.Rxc4 dxc4 27.Qc3 b5=]
23...Rfc8 Diagram # 24.g4?! [White
underestimates black’s chances on the c-file
and goes for an attack which is simply not
there! Better was: 24.Rfc1= challenging
the only open file on the board.] 24...hxg4
25.Nxg4 Rc4!³ White’s d-pawn is beyond
saving. 26.Qh3 Rac8 [There was no need
to delay: 26...Rxd4 ] 27.Kh1 Qd8 28.Rg1
Rc3 29.Nf6+ Kf8 30.Qh7 The black king
has a perfect fortress around him. 30...Ke7
31.Nh5 Rh3!

Diagram # 11.Bb5 [If 11.Bd3 Nfxd4

12.cxd4 Nb4 13.Nc3 Nxd3+ 14.Qxd3 Ba6
15.Qc2 Be7 16.Qa4+ Qd7 17.Qxd7+ Kxd7
18.Kd2 and white has a minimal advantage
thanks to his extra pawn. However, black’s
two bishops would make the extra pawn
sweat.] 11...Bc5 12.0–0 0–0 13.Bd3?!
[Unfortunately this solves for black the
traditional problem with his Queen’s bishop.
Better was 13.Rc1 so that he could preserve
his white square bishop for active duty on
the king-side.] 13...Ba6! [If 13...Bxd4
14.cxd4 Ncxd4 15.Nxd4 Nxd4 16.Bxh7+ Diagram # the white queen is jailed on h7!!
Kxh7 17.Qxd4 Ba6 18.Re1±] 14.Bxa6 32.Ra2 Qh8? [Black makes his opponent
Rxa6 15.b4 Nfxd4 16.Nxd4 Bxd4 breathe a little easier! He should let alone
17.cxd4 Ra4 18.a3! Qd7 [Not 18...Rfa8?
19.Nc3! Rxa3?? 20.Rxa3 Rxa3 21.Nb5+-; the white queen on h7 and continue to
or 18...Nxb4? 19.Nc3!+-] 19.Nc3 Raa8 use his queen powerfully with: 32...Qc7!
20.f4 Ne7 21.Qd3 h5 He is planning .... 33.Rxg7 white has nothing else to try.
Nf5. 22.Nd1 Nf5 Diagram #

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33...Nxg7 34.Qxg7 Rxh5 35.Qf6+ Kf8 and 15.a3 b6 16.b4 Qa6 17.Bf1 [17.Rd6 bxc5
black has an extra rook.] 33.Qxh8 Rxh8 18.bxc5 Qb7 19.Bf1] 17...Bc4 [17...Qb7
34.Nxg7 Ng3+ 35.Rxg3 Rxg3 It looks was better.] 18.b5?! cxb5 19.Bxc4 bxc4
as though the white knight is trapped. 20.Nd5 [If 20.c6 Nf6 21.Rxd8 Rxd8 22.Rb1
36.f5! Probably black overlooked this white Qc8= (22...Qxa3 23.Nb5 Qe7 24.Qxc4²)
resource. But black is still winning. 36... 23.Qa4=] 20...Ne6
Kd7! [36...Rxg7? 37.f6+ and white wins.]
37.f6 Rd3–+ Now the knight on g7 has
no move! 38.a4 Rxd4 39.a5 Ra8 [Also
winning was: 39...b5 40.a6 Rxb4 41.Kg2
Ra4!] 40.Rb2 bxa5 41.bxa5 Rxa5

Diagram # 21.Ng5? [A grievous error which

loses to a serious disadvantage. Better
was: 21.c6 Nf6 22.Rac1 Qxa3 23.Qxc4
with approximate equality.] 21...Ndxc5!
Diagram # 42.Kg2 [Not 42.Rb7+? Kc6 22.Bxc5 [If 22.Nxe6 Nxe6 23.Rac1 with
43.Rxf7?? Rd2 mates.] 42...Ra7 43.Kg3 two extra pawns, black is winning.] 22...
[If white tries to get his knight back into Nxg5 23.Be7 Nf3+ 24.Kg2 Nd4–+ With
the game with 43.Nh5 Re4 and e5 falls.] two extra pawns and a dominating knight
43...Re4 44.h4 Ra3+ 45.Kg2 Rg4+ on the central d4 square, black is willing
46.Kf2 Rxh4 47.Kg2 [If 47.Rb7+ Kc6 and to give up the exchange. 25.Qd2? Rxd5
the rook must scurry back to avoid being 26.exd5 White had probably hoped to
mated by the two black rooks.] 47...Re4! advance this pawn to d6 next move, but....
48.Kf2 Ra7! Securing his own king position 26...Qb7! 27.Qe3 White’s position has
as white’s pawn on e5 cannot run away been going from bad to worse. This move
49.Rb8 Rxe5 50.Rf8 Kc6 51.Rc8+ Rc7 has the obvious trap: 27.. .Qxe7 28 Rxd4!
52.Re8 Rd7 0–1. 27...Nc2! 28.Qf3 Nxa1 29.d6 Diagram
Visakh,Nr (2217)K.Praneeth Surya # 29...e4! [Also winning was: 29...Qxf3+
(2226) [E69] 30.Kxf3 Nc2 31.d7 Nd4+! 32.Ke4 Ne6 when
black will cheerfully give up his knight for
1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 g6 3.c4 Bg7 4.g3 0–0 white’s advanced passed pawn and win the
5.Bg2 d6 6.0–0 c6 7.Nc3 Qa5 8.e4 e5 three pawn-up ending easily.
9.h3 Nbd7 10.dxe5 dxe5 11.Be3 Rd8
12.Qc2 Nf8 13.Rfd1 Be6 14.c5 N6d7 contd. on page 22.

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Masters of the past -32 Ernst Karl Falkbeer
Ernst Karl Falkbeer (June 27, 1819 – December 14, 1885) was a
German-speaking chess master and journalist from Austria-Hungary.
Born in Brünn, a town that in 1819 belonged to the Habsburgian Austria,
and which today is known as Brno in the Czech Republic, Falkbeer moved
to Vienna to study law, but ended up becoming a journalist. During
the European Revolutions of 1848, he fled Vienna for Germany. He
played chess with German masters Adolf Anderssen and Jean
Dufresne in Leipzig, Berlin, Dresden, and Bremen.

In 1853 Falkbeer was allowed to return to Vienna. Two years later, in

January 1855, he started the first Austrian chess magazine,Wiener
Schachzeitung, which lasted only a few months. He went to London
where he played two matches against Henry Bird. Falkbeer lost the 1856 match (+1 −2),
but won the 1856/7 match (+5 −4 =4). At the Birmingham 1858 knockout tournament he
beat Saint-Amantin round two (+2 −1), but lost in the round four final to Johann Löwenthal (+1
−3 =4) to finish second.

Falkbeer edited a chess column for The Sunday Times from April 1857 to November 1859.
He returned to Vienna in 1864, later writing a chess column in Neue Illustrierte Zeitung from
1877 to 1885. He died in Vienna on December 14, 1885.

Falkbeer is more famous for his contributions to chess theory than for his individual play. He
introduced the Falkbeer Countergambit, still considered one of the main lines in the King’s
Gambit Declined. Siegbert Tarrasch held the view that Falkbeer’s Countergambit refuted the
King’s Gambit entirely. In fact King’s Gambit was a common chess opening until Falkbeer’s
counter-gambit became commonly known in the chess world. If accepted, quite a few
interesting variants of King’s Gambit, for instance the Muzio Gambit, may appear. But after
the invention of Falkbeer all variants of King’s Gambit has been reduced to only seldom
being played and only at lower levels. No other “new” opening move - in any kind of chess-
opening theory has had such a profound influence on the game of chess after the invention
of Falkbeer’s Counter Gambit. Herr Ernest Falkbeer was for many years a notable figure in
London chess circles. He played two or three matches with Mr. H. E. Bird, each scoring in
the aggregate an equal number of games. In 1858 he took part in the grand tournament in
Birmingham, and gained the second prize, Loewenthal winning the first.

Falkbeer was a very rapid player, original, daring and imaginative. He could be sound when
he liked, but he did not covet soundness. He delighted to be fireworky, and courted above all
things the admiration of the spectators. As an analyst he occupied a high position. Falkbeer
invented many clever and valuable moves in the openings, notably pawn to king’s fifth for
the third move in the King’s Gambit, evaded by pawn to queen’s fourth. Referring to which
invention, Staunton says: “It is certainly an embarrasing move for the first player; for it
proves not merely a defence, but a counter-attack of considerable power.

He was a good and pleasant talker, smart in repartee, witty in comment, and intensely
appreciative of a joke, whether his own or another man’s. In 1864 he left London and
returned to Vienna, where he became the sub-editor of one of the leading journals. For many
years he had abandoned the practise of his once darling pastime, and this may account in
some measure for his premature decease in his sixtieth year. He died at Vienna in 1886.
Courtesy: Wikepedia

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Solutions to ‘Tactics from 33.Nxe7+ Rxe7 34.Qc8+ Bf8 35.Rb8+-
Master games’ on page 36 ] 31.Rb8! [31.Rb8 Qxc1 32.Rxe8+ Bf8
33.Rxc1+-] 1–0
1. Zilka,S (2529) - Kummer, 4. Sjugirov,Sanan (2646)
Hel (2353) [D17] Blomqvist,Erik (2465) [B47]
TCh-AUT 2 East 2012–13 Austria AUT 29th Open Cappelle la Grande FRA (3.8),
(11.1), 07.04.2013 25.02.2013
Position after White’s 21st move. Black to Position after 32nd move. 33.Qb3!+-
play. 21...Nxe4! [21...Nxe4! Diagram # Qxg5 [33...0–0 34.Rxd6++-; 33...Qe6
22.Rxd8+ (22.Qxb6 Nxc3+ 23.Kc1 (23.Ka1 34.Qxb7+-] 34.Qxb7 Qh5 [34...Rc7
Rxd1#) 23...Rxd1#) 22...Rxd8 23.Qxb6 35.Qa8+ Qd8 36.Rxe5++- Re7 37.Qxd8+
(23.Qc1 Nxc3+ 24.Ka1 Rd1+-) 23...Nxc3+ Kxd8 38.Rxd6++-] 35.Qxc6+ Kf7 36.
24.Kc1 Na2#] 0–1 Rxd6 1–0
2.Kazhgaleyev,M (2594) - 5. Frolyanov,Dmitry (2563) -
Khamrakulov,D (2429) [E15] Kokarev,Dmitry (2635) [B15]
7th Agzamov Memorial Tashkent UZB (8), Aeroflot Open Rapid KO Moscow RUS (2.1),
21.04.2013 15.02.2013
Position after 17th move.White to play. Position after 26th move.White to play
18.e4!! Bxe4 [18...Bc4? 19.b3] 19.Ng5! 27.Nh6+!+- Bxh6 28.Qxg6+ Kf8 [28...
hxg5 [19...Bxc2 20.Bxb7+-] 20.Bxe4+- Bg7 29.Qxe6+] 29.Qxh6+ Ke7 [29...Kf7
d5 21.Rc7 Qb6 22.Bh7+ Kh8 23.Bd3 30.Bh5+ Ke7 31.Rxf5 exf5 32.Qg5+ Kf8
Threatening 24.Rxf7 23...Na6 24.Qe2 Kg8 33.Qd8+ Kg7 34.Rg1+ Mates] 30.Qh4+
[24...g6 25.R7c6 Qb7 26.Qe5+ Kg8 (26... Kf8 [30...Ke8 31.Bh5++-] 31.Qd8+ [31.
Kh7 27.Qf6+-) 27.Bxg6! fxg6 28.Qxe6+ Qd8+ Kg7 (31...Kf7 32.Bh5+ Kg7 33.Rg1+)
Qf7 (28...Rf7 29.Qxg6++-) 29.Qxg6+ 32.Rg1+ Mates] 1–0
Qxg6 30.Rxg6+ Kf7 31.Rxa6+-] 25.R7c6
6.Jones,Gawain C (2637) -
Qa5 [25...Qb7 26.Qh5+-] 26.Qh5 Rfd8
Isaksson,Per (2016) [C10]
27.Rxa6! Qxa6 28.Qh7+ [28.Qh7+ Kf8
29.Rc7+-] 1–0 Reykjavik Open 2013 Reykjavik ISL (1.13),
19.02.2013
3. Kramnik,Vladimir (2810)
Radjabov,Teimour (2793) [E60] Position after 27th move.White to play.
FIDE Candidates London ENG (11.4), 28.Qh6+! Qg7 [28...Kg8 29.Bxe7 Rxe7
28.03.2013 30.Qh7+ Kf8 31.Qh8+ Qxh8 32.Rxh8+ Kg7
33.Rxd8+-] 29.Bxe7+ Rxe7 30.Qh8+!
Position after 28th move.White to play.
Qg8 31.Qf6+- 1–0
29.e5! Nd5 [29...Nh5 30.g4+-] 30.Rb2!
Qa3 [30...Qa4 31.Bxd5! Rxd5 32.Rb4! Qa2

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Solutions to ‘Test your 4.Qxd4/iv f2 5.Qf6 f1Q 6.Qxf1 c2+ 7.Nc3
endgame’ on page 37 mate.
1.Yehuda Hoch (Israel) i) 1.e8Q? Bxe3 2.Qxe3 Kb2 3.Qxd4 c3
draws.
5th prize “Gambit” 1994-95
ii) Ne2+ 3.Kh7 c3 4.Qe4 f2 5.Qxe2 f1Q
White to play and win 6.Nxc3+ wins.
1.cxb6 Rc7/i 2.b7 Rxc6 3.Ka7/ii Rc7 4.Kb6 iii) 3.Qb8? Nc6 4.Qa8+ Kb1 5.Qxc6 c2+.
(Ka6) Rxb7+ 5.Kxb7 Kd7 6.Nh1/iii Kd6
7.Kc8 (Kb6? Kd5;) Kc6 8.Kd8 Kd6 9.Ke8 4.Genrikh Kasparyan
Ke6 10.Kf8 Kf6 11.Kg8 Kg6 12.Kh8/iv Kh6 Shakhmaty v SSSR 1953
13.Nf2 Kg5 14.g3 Kf5 4th commendation
15.Kg7 (Kh7) Ke5 16.Ng4+ wins. White to play and win
i) Rg7 2.b7 Rxg3 3.b8Q+ Ke7 4.Qh8. Or Rd3 1.Rf8+ Ke7/i 2.Re8+ Kd7 3.Rd8+ Kc7
2.c7+ Kd7 3.b7 Ra3+ 4.Kb8 Rxg3 5.c8Q+. 4.Rc8+ Kb7 5.Rb8+ Ka7 6.Ra8+ Kb7/ii
ii) The play here is about obtaining the 7.hRb8+ Kc7 8.Rc8+/iii
opposition with the White Kd7/iv 9.Rd8+ Ke7 10.Re8+ Kf7 11.Rf8+
King on b7 rather than on a7. 3.b8Q+? Rc8 Kg7 12.Rg8+ Kh7 13.Rxa3, and the capture
4.Qxc8+/v Kxc8 5.Ka7 Kc7 6.Ka6 Kc6 7.Ka5 wins only now because the reply to c3-c2 is
Kc5 8.Nh1 Kc4 9.Ka4/vi Kd3 10.Kb3 Ke2 capture on the h3 square with check.
11.g4 Kf3 12.g5 Kg2 13.g6 Kxh1 draw. It is i) The manoeuvre of the white rooks that
also possible to play here 5.Nh1 Kc7 6.Ka7 we now see will be familiar from 069. The
Kc6 7.Kb8 Kd5 8.Kb7 Kd4 9.Kb6 Kd3 drawn. logic behind the black king’s traverse is not
iii) 6.Kb6? Kd6 7.Nh1 Kd5 8.Kb5 Kd4 9.Kb4 to let the white rook quit the h-file with
Kd3 10. Kc5 Ke2draw. gain of time. This is why Black avoids, for
example, Kg7 2.hRg8+ Kh7 3.Nc2, when
iv) 12.Nf2? Kf5 13.g3 Ke6 14.Kh7 Kd5 15.g4
White wins.
Kd4 16.g5 Ke3 17.Nh1 Kf3 draw.
v) Or 4.Kb7 Rxb8+ 5.Kxb8 Kd7 6.Kb7 Kd6 ii) iii) It is too soon to capture: 8.Rxa3?
7.Kc8 (Nh1,Kd7;) Ke5 8.Kd7 Kf4 9.Nh1 Ke3 c2!, for example 9.Kxh3 c1Q 10.bRa8 c3
10.Ke6 Ke2 11.g4 Kf3 drawn. 11.Ra2 Qe3+ 12.Kg2 Qd2+ 13.Kf1 Qd3+
14.Ke1 Qe3+ 15.Kd1 Qd3+ 16.Kc1 Qf1+
vi) 9.Kb6 Kb4 10.Kc6 Kc4, draw. 17.Kc2 Qe2+ 18.Kxc3 Qe3+ 19.Kb2 Qd4+,
2.H. Rinck when the white king has no escape from
the checks.
“Revue suisse d’echecs” 1922
iv) Kb7 9.aRb8+ Ka7 10.Nc2 wins.
White to play and win
5. Ph. Stamma 1737
1 a4 Kb3 2 a5 Kc3/i 3 Kg1 Kd4 4 a6 Ke3 5
Kf1 and wins. White to play and win
i) 2...Kc4 3 a6 Kd3 4 a7 f2 5 a8Q f1Q 6 1 Bd4 Kxd4 2 b8Q g1Q 3 Qb6+ and wins.
Qa6+ wins. 6. H. Weenink
3.Osintsev 1st place XI Russian Federation “Algemeen Handelsblad” 1919
Team Championship 1992
White to play and win
White to play and win
1 Rh1+ Kb2 2 Rh3 a1Q 3 Rxb3+ Ka2 4 Kc2
1.Nd1/i Bb2 2.e8Q c3/ii 3.Qa4+/iii Kb1 Qd4 5 Rc3+ and wins.

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 1st Supermind All India FIDE Rated Chandra
Shekher Memorial Chess Championship
Organized by

Supermind Chess Academy

AICF event code: 83853/DEL/2013

Date: 12th to 15th September 2013

Venue:
Chandrasekhar Bhavan
13-B,Rouse Avenue, Vishnu Digamber
Marg,opp. Deen Dayal handicapped institute ITO Delhi.

Total Prize Fund: Rs.3,00,000

Special attraction:those who will send the entry fee before 15th august
2013 will be eligible for a lucky draw to win a mobile phone during
the tournament.
Entries may be directly deposited favoring Super Mind Chess Academy,
A/C-16037630000479 HDFC Bank, Noida Sector 51 Branch payable
at Noida.
Address for sending the entries by post is Mr. Ankur Arora, First Floor H
27,Sector 27 Noida 201301. All entries need to be mailed to ankur@
lafitnesse.com & [email protected]

In emergency please contact:

Mr. Raj Kumar FA, (Org.Secretary) +91-9718842592/9015976200
Mr. Satyendra Srivastava, Registration +91-9953719830
Mr. A. K. Verma, Chairman Organizing Committee +91-9891468906
Mr. Ankur Arora, Tournament Director +91-9899969806
For details of prizes and entry fee visit

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1st All India FIDE Rated chess Tournament in
Wayanad, Kerala
(below 1900)

AICF Event code: 80126/KER/2013

Organized by
Wayanad Chess Academy,Sulthan Bathery

Date: From 20.9.2013 to 23.9.2013

Venue:
Hotel Isaac’s Regency
Sulthan Bathery, Waynad, Kerala

Total Prize Fund: Rs.1, 25,000

Entry fee may be sent by DD or net banking
Net Banking account No.32891855715 SBI,S Bathery
ISFC Code: SBIN0005099, Name : Jaison K Jose

Demand Draft favouring Jaison K Jose, Hotel Issac’s Regency

Sulthan Bathery, Wayanad, Kerala – 673592

Contact persons:

Sadasivan C.K : 09495143397

Ramesh .R : 09744056901
Santhosh V.R : 09605020305
Jaison Richard : 09847034359
Vineesh P.S : 09446350145
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For details of prize money and entry fee visit
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 Sanjay Kasliwal Memorial All India FIDE rating
(below 2000) Chess Tournament, Indore….

From left to right : Dr.Ajit Kumar Singh Kasliwal, Shailendra Pable, J.L. Suri, Bharat
Choughle, F.Anil, Chief Guest, Mr. Ravindra Tiwari

Middle row: From (L-R): Mr. Muktesh Singh,Chief Guest, Dr. Ajit Kumar Singh Kasliwal,
Arnav Jain, Mrs. Jain, J.L. Suri, F.Anil
Front row: (L-R)3rd prize winner Mulay Pratik, 2nd Prize Winner Sai Agni Jeevitesh
1st Prize Winneer Shailesh Dravid
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 6th Modern School International Rating Chess
Tournament, (For below 2200 Rating), Chennai…..

(L-R) Standing:- Sri P.V. Inbasekaran, Member, MSSS, Sri S. Pattabiram, Secretary,
Modern School, Dr. (Smt) K. Mohana, Principal,Prof. S. Veeraraghavan, President,
Modern School, Sri V. Ravichandran, FIDE Trainer & Sri M Vijayakumar,Chief Arbiter.
Sitting GM V. Vishnu Prasanna & Akash PC Iyer (Top seed)

(L-R) Sri V. Ravichandran, Sri K R Seshadri, Vice President, KDCA (Partially seen), Sri M
Muthukumar, Jt Secretary, TNSCA, Sri R Balakrishnan, Secretary, KDCA, Sri Hariharan,
Secretary, AICF, Prof. S. Veeraraghavan, President, Modern School, Winner Chakravarthi
Reddy M ,Sri D.V. Sundar, Vice President, FIDE, Sri S.Pattabiraman, Secretary, Modern
School, Dr.(Smt) K.Mohana, Principal & Sri M.Vijayakumar, Chief Arbiter
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2nd Malappuram Chess Foundation All India
FIDE Rating Chess Tournament
(below 1600 & unrated)

AICF Event code:82627/KER/2013

Date: 27th to 29th September 2013

Venue: Trust Plaza Auditorium, Tirur
Total prize money: Rs.1,51,000
1st prize Rs.20,000 + Trophy
Total prizes 100
50 cash prizes and 50 trophies

Entry fee may be paid on-line or by DD

On-line net banking A/c No.32639849010
State Bank of India Branch, Tirur
IFSE Code:SBIN0000262
Name. Jamal Mohamed M

Contact persons:

Jamal Mohamed.M 09946820564

Rajesh K 08111963701
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For details of prizes and entry fee visit

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 AICF Calendar Aug 2013
United Friends Sports Club - Rapid Aug 24 -25 Aug Pune
4th AIM FIDE Rated below 1800 Aug 24 -27 Aug Namakkal
National Women Premier Aug 25 -05 Sep West Bengal
2nd KCM International FIDE Rated Open Aug28 -01 Sep Coimbatore
Asian Schools Championships & U5 Kindergarten Aug 29 -04 Sep Colombo
Women’s FIDE Grand Prix Series Aug 31-14 Sep China
National Under-11 (Open and Girls) Sep 01 – 10 Sep Delhi
06 KCF FIDE Rated (below 1600) Sep 06 – 08 Sep Chennai,TN
Tirth Chess Club FIDE rating Open-Rapid Sep 07 – 08 Sep Ahmedabad
Tirth Chess Club FIDE rating Open-Blitz Sep 09 – 09 Sep Ahmedabad
GM Tournament Sep 10 – 19 Sep Andhra Pradesh
1st Supermind All India FIDE Rated
Chandrasekhar Memorial below 1999 Sep 12 – 15 Sep Delhi
World Junior U-20 Championship Sep 15 – 30 Sep Antalya, Turkey
1st Wynad FIDE Rated Open(below 1900) Sep 20 – 23 Sep Kerala
26th FIDE Rated Ty below 2000 Sep 22 -25 Sep Tuticorin, TN
2nd Malappuram Chess Foundation(rated below 1600) Sep 27 – 29 Sep Malappuram,Kerala
National Under-25 Championship Oct 01 – 10 Oct Kerala
Tirth Chess Club FIDE Rating below 2000 Oct 02 – 06 Oct Ahmedabad
Memory Max 1st FIDE rated Open below 2200 Oct 02 -05 Oct Chennai, TN
1st Kashmir Open FIDE Rated below 2000 Oct 03 – 06 Oct J&K
1st CSCA FIDE rated below 1900 Oct 07 -11 Oct New Delhi
07 KCF FIDE Rated below 1600 Oct 11 – 13 Oct Chennai, TN
National Challengers Oct 12 - 21 Oct Madhya Pradesh
Category Tournament Men for AICF Cup Oct 12 – 22 Oct Maharashtra
2nd ACE FIDE rated below 2000 Oct 13 – 16 Oct Alappuzha,Kerala
Nagpur International Open Oct 16 – 24 Oct Nagpur
Vins CCE Kanyakumari FIDE rated below 2000 Oct 18 – 21 Oct Kanyakumari
Category Tournament Women for AICF Cup Oct 24 – 03 Nov Tamilnadu
6th edition of RSC FIDE Rating Oct 25 – 29 Oct Cochin, Kerala
National Under-9 (Open and girls) Ch’ship Oct 08 – 17 Nov Chennai, TN
World Championship match-Anand vs Calsen Nov 06 – 26 Nov Chennai,TN
Tirth Chess Club FIDE Rating below 2200 Nov 13 – 17 Nov Ahmedabad

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Solution to ‘Puzzle of the month’ on page 14 )
In the very first move surprisingly the lovely white pawn is sacrificed and white watches its
capture with interest.1.e7! If 1…Ncxe7 2.Be5,Bg1 3.Bd4, Bh2 4.Be5 and draws by opposing and
eliminating the bishop. But if 1…Ngxe7 2.Bh6+(now if 2…Kc2 or Kc3 white resorts to the same
manouvre with 3.Bf4,Bg1 4.Be3,Bh2 etc.,) 2…Ke2! 3.Bf4 (same idea? Certainly not) 3…Bg1
4.Be3!! The lone bishop is also sacrificed and it is stalemate in the centre!.A brilliant shift from
the technical to the innovative.

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 40th National Women Challengers Chess
Championship 2013,Thrissur…

WGM Soumya Swaminathan receiving prize from M S Jaya , Collector of Thrissur District.
Flanked to her right is Mrs Subi Babu, Dy Mayor , Thrissur Corporation.

The eight qualifiers:

(L-R) Mitchelle Catherina, IM Nisha Mohota, WGM Bakthi Kulkarni, WGM Sowmya
Swaminathan , National Challenger, WGM Swathi Ghate, WGM Padmini Rout, WFM
G.K.Monnisha and WIM Ivana Maria Furtado

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 43rd National Junior & 28th National Junior (U-19)
Girls Chess Championship-2013,Lucknow……

(L-R) Anurag Yadav , Leader of

Samajwadi Party making inaugural
move with WFM M. Mahalaxmi of T.N.
A.K.Raizada , Hony. Secretary UPCSA
,Dr. Neeraj Bora , Head of Bora
Group of Institution and Chief Arbiter
Dharmendra Kumar.

(L-R) Dr. Neeraj Bora , Ivana Maria

Furtado ( winner of National junior
Girls), Sayantan Das (winner of
National Junior) and
G.K.Dixit Vice-president of
Eldeco Housing Group .

(L –R) Michelle Catherina,

Rucha Pujari, Ivana Maria
Furtado, Sayantan Das, Arvindh
Chithambram and Prasanna Rao.
(back row) IA Dharmendra Kumar,
Dr. Neeraj Bora, G.K.Dixit and
A.K.Raizada.

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