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A I C F C H R O N I C L Ethe official magazine of the All India Chess Federation

Commonwealth Chess Championships 2015, New Delhi

GM Abhijeet Gupta Champion

WGM Padmini RoutWomen Champion

29th National Under-9 Chess Boys and Girls Championships, Ahmedabad

Pranav.VOpen Champion

Darsana.M.SGirl’s Champion

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Ever since a new set of office bearers put the affairs of the Federation on the right track in 2005 the need for an official magazine was felt

and I learn it was in April 2007 the first issue of ‘AICF Chronicle’ rolled out with India’s first International Master Manuel Aaron as its Editor. The official magazine, I perceive, not only reflects the activities of the Federation in promoting the game of chess in the country but is also a reliable record of important chess events, both national and international, and achievements of our players such as winning in various tournaments, securing FIDE titles and norms, for posterity. I am very glad to know that the 100th issue of AICF Chronicle will be brought out in July 2015 and I congratulate AICF team for achieving this milestone. I wish and hope its present Editor, C.G.S.Narayanan, a FIDE master for chess composition, will continue the good work initiated by Manuel Aaron so that the achievements of our players could be remembered by the chess fraternity in the years to come.

P.R.Venketrama RajaPresident, AICF

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AICF Chronicle scores a century! It just seemed like yesterday when a call from D.V.Sundar, the then Secretary, AICF roped me in to assist IM Manuel Aaron to bring out the first issue of AICF Chronicle in April 2007. Eight years have flown by since then and Chronicle

proudly has reached the significant milestone, the hundredth issue, in July 2015, thanks to the efforts of all those who contributed. The format, content and publishing method has changed over the years in consonance with the increase in the popularity of the game, tremendous achievements of our players and the manifold increase in the FIDE rated tournaments. But the underlying spirit of serving the chess fraternity remains unchanged as we earnestly take the path towards the next hundred.

Coming to the core contents of this issue, Anand continued his good form in Norway Chess 2015 from where he left off in Gashimov Memorial. He finished a close second to Topalov and beat Word Champion Carlsen in the fourth round. WIM K.Jennitha Anto did India proud striking gold for women for a third time in the 15th IPCA held in Slovakia. A brief report on these tournaments along with two of Anand’s winning games are featured in the centre pages.

In the Commonwealth Chess Championships held in New Delhi Abhijeet Gupta emerged Champion and WGM Padmini Rout won the women title. Tamilnadu kids Pranav and Darsana won the Under-9 Boys and Girls titles respectively in the National Under-9 Chess Championships held by Gujarat State Chess Association. Reports and final standings of these events along with those of FIDE rated tournaments held in June 2015 are presented in this issue. Serbian GM Boris Kostich is featured in the ‘Masters of the past’ series.

C.G.S.Narayanan

Inside….Commonwealth Championship 2015,New DelhiAbhijeet Gupta is Commonwealth Championby IA R.Srivatsan, Chief Arbiter 5

8th Mumbai Mayor’s Cup Open ,Mumbai…GM Krastiv Martyn wins Mumabi Mayor Cup 10

8th KiiT International Chess Festival 2015,Bhubaneswar....

Sandipan Chanda annexes title

by IA Nitin Shenvi, Chief Arbiter 14

29th National Under-9 Boys and Girls Championships, Ahmedabad

Pranav and Darsana win titles

IA V Vijayaraghavan, Chief Arbiter 19

1st Medha All India FIDE Rating Chess Tournament , Palakol….

Krishna Teja wins title

by S.Subba Raju FA, Chief Arbiter 22

2ndMineral Open Fide rating ChessTournament, Vadodara…

Gusain Himal is Champion

by IA Ambrish C Joshi, Chief Arbiter 28

Nalinikanta Mohanty Memorial FIDE Rating Odisha State Women Tournament

Smaraki Mohanty wins title

IA Suresh Chandra Sahoo, Chief Arbiter 30

16th National Cities Team Chess Championship 2015

Bangalore City wins team title

IA R.C.Chatterjee, Chief Arbiter 32

The First Grandmasters in the World

by Vijay D. Pandit 33

Selected games from Commomwealth Chess 2015,Delhi

Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron 34

Problem World

10th WCCT themes-2 40

Tactics from master games

by S.Krishnan 42

Test your endgame 43

by C.G.S.Narayanan

Masters of the past-54 Boris Kostich 44

Know your GM

Aravindh Chidambaram Vr 47

Know your Arbiter

R.Anantharam 48

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Dear Mr C.G.S.Narayanan,

Congratulations to you and the AICF team for completing 100 issues of AICF Chronicle, the flagship magazine of the All India Chess Federation.

I, as Hon.Secretary of the Federation, recall in 2007 requesting India's first International Master, nine times National Champion and decorated with Arjuna awrd in 1961 when Government of India introduced the highest civilian Awards for Sports persons, Mr Manuel Aaron to kindly help us to bring out a magazine which will reflect our thoughts and action. I am grateful to him for doing an excellent job with the assistance of his then Deputy Editor C.G.S.Narayanan(the present Editor) to have brought out the AICF Chronicle which has stood the test of time.

What is commendable is that the issue has not skipped its dates and are available on AICF website as e-magazine. I am sure all stake holders are benefited by its content and the magazine serves the purpose for which it was started.

I wish the Editor and all other office bearers of the Federation and the members best of luck.Regards,

D V SundarVice President,FIDE

AICF Chronicle: 100 Not Out

For a man, to live a hundred years, is an achievement. For a chess magazine to bring out 100 monthly issues without failing, is indeed

an achievement.

All over the world, many new chess magazines appear with great fanfare and hopes of serving its clientele with distinction. But often, the second issue itself does not see the light of day. The “Indian Chess Magazine” was brought out four times (!) independently by different chess lovers from different places. First,T.A.Krishnamachari brought it out in 1930 from Madras but failed to bring out its third issue! The second Indian Chess Magazine was by R.C.S.Iyer, also from Madras. It lasted longer, from 1933 to 1936. The third was by C.L.Bedi from Poona and then Hyderabad from 1949 to 1951. The fourth was produced from Bombay by Mark W Nelson from 1964 to 1967. When the AICF decided to bring out a chess monthly in 2007, there was a big choice of names. The then AICF President, Mr N.Srinivasan, chose “AICF Chronicle” and that is how we got our name. That the AICF Chronicle which began in 2007 with Manuel Aaron as its editor has completed 100 issues is no surprise as it is produced by the All India Chess Federation, not by a private individual. The editor of the Chronicle is now C.G.S.Narayanan, an internationally famous problem composer. The change in the Secretary-ship of the AICF has not affected the regularity with which the Chronicle is produced every month.

Generally, the magazine of a country grows along with its chess players. The more the players are successful, the stronger grows the magazine as it reports positively on the achievements of its players. By reading the successes of players in the AICF Chronicle, debutants and unknown chess lovers are inspired to emulate them and become strong players.

A monthly chess magazine is a true recorder of chess history. What happens today, even the most significant of events, is forgotten in the passage of time. But a magazine faithfully portrays what happens, when it happens, and is therefore factual and error-free. Much of old Indian Chess History has passed into oblivion because there was no magazine to record them and preserve them for posterity.

In the distant past, there were hardly any chess tournaments as there was no central chess organisation to lay down the rules of the game. Players therefore composed chess problems of

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The Commonwealth Chess Championships 2015 was organised by Delhi Chess Associa-tion at Hotel Park Plaza, Shahdara, New Delh. A total number of 564 players from eleven federations, including 17 GMs, 22 IMs, 6 WGMS, 8 WIMs, 10 FMS and 9WFMs took part in the mega event. The championship had GM Abhijeet Gupta from India as the top seed. The Championship was conducted as two different categories. Open section and Category section for Under 8, 10, 12, 14 & 16 for Open and Girls separately. Open section was conducted 9 rounds Swiss system and for the category section had 8 rounds swiss system with a time control of 90 minutes each with an increment of 30 seconds per move.

Grandmaster and former world junior cham-pion Abhijeet Gupta won the Commonwealth Chess Championship after settling for a quick draw with Arghyadip Das in the ninth and fi-nal round that concluded on 30th June 2015.Gupta a winner of this event in 2014, regained the crown with a very impressive eight points out of a possible nine, winning the first seven games in the championship and drawing the last two with utmost ease.

Arghyadip Das came second winning the silver ahead of M R Lalith Babu who won his game to win the Bronze medal.In the Women’s section, Padmini Rout, S Vijayalakshmi and S Meen-akshi all won their games to win the medals.As the tie was resolved Rout won the gold, Vijayalakshmi won silver while Meenakshi wont he bronze. Both Vijayalakshmi and Meenakshi wont he last six games in the championship.

In the penultimate round Abhijeet Gupta inched closer to regaining the Champion-

ship after settling for a quick draw with fel-low Grandmaster Deepan Chakkravarthy in the eighth and penultimate round.With 7.5 points from eight rounds, Gupta was a half point ahead of nearest contender Arghyadip Das who accounted for Grandmaster Abhijit Kunte.

Sahaj Grover in another upset result for the latter in the championship. In another interesting game, Ravi Teja drew with S L Narayanan.

For the Women medal the battle heated up on expected lines as S Vijayalakshmi and her sister S Meenakshi scored their fifth victory on the trot in the championship to reach six points apiece. This score now is enough to match early-leader Padmini Rout who played out a draw in this round.

While Rout, Vijayalakshmi and Meenakshi remained the front runners for the three medals, International Master Tania Sachdev also got in to a catch-up mode at the expense of talented youngster Ivana Maria Furtado. Tania moved to 5.5 points with her third straight win in the championship.

Among the Women, Padmini Rout remained on course for gold medal after she was held to a draw by C R GKrishna. With 5.5 points in her kitty, Padmini enjoyed a half point lead over other women players.

In the fourth round GM Konery Humpy lost her game on time to IM Himanshu Sharma. GM Abhijit Kunte and GM Ankit R. Rajpara split the point with Harsha Bharathakoti and N. Sanjay. In the fifth round IM Padmini Rout

Abhijeet Gupta is Commonwealth ChampionIA R.Srivatsan, Chief Arbiter

incredible beauty and unbelievable complexity. Trivengadacharya Shastree (1764?-1826?) of Tirupati composed many problems some of which were published in 1814 from Bombay under the title “Essays on Chess”While Trivengadacharya is acknowledged world-wide as a great composer of chess problems there were many gifted Indians who did not attract the public attention as Trivengadacharya did.

One such genius was Devki Nandan Sharma who moved to Nathdwara in Rajasthan from Mathura and was a contemporary of the outstanding Indian champion, Kishan Lal Sarda (1879-1934). A deeply religious individual who shunned publicity, Sharma was such a reputed player that many travelled vast distances to Nathdwara to play shatranj with him. But nobody could defeat him.I reproduce the following problem found on Page 127 in Indian Chess History. It shows Devki Nandan Sharma’s amazing ten mover, where the stipulation is White to play, or Black to play, mates in 10 moves, with the last three moves being pawn checks!After enjoying this problem one will never doubt the ingenuity of our ancestors over the 64 squares.

Devki Nandan SharmaShatranj Saroj, c.1925

White mates in 10White to play and mate in ten moves, with the condition that the last three moves (8th 9th and 10th) should be by pawns giving check and mating on the 10th move. The same position could also be solved with black to play and mating in 10 moves with the same condition that the last three moves (8th 9th and 10th) should be by pawns 1.Rb8+ Ka7 2.Nb5+ Nxb5 3.Ra8+ Kxa8 4.Rb8+ Ka7 5.Ra8+ Kxa8 6.Nb6+ Bxb6 7.Qb7+ Qxb7+ 8.axb7+ Ka7 9.axb6+ Ka6 10.axb5# 1–0

Devki Nandan Sharma Shatranj Saroj, c.1925

Black mates in 10

1...Bd5+ Now all white moves are forced 2.Kxc5 Nd3+ 3.Kd4 Ne6+ 4.Ke3 Nxb4+ 5.Kd2 Qc2+ 6.Ke1 Ra1+ 7.Bc1 Nd3+ 8.Kf1 g2+ 9.Kg1 f2+ 10.Kh2 g3# 0–1

May the AICF Chronicle last forever so that our achievements recorded in 2015 could be seen even after a hundred years.

Manuel Aaron,India’s first International Master

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and IM Md. Minhaz Uddin of Bangladesh were lost their games S. Ajay Krishna and P. Mi-chelle Catherina. GM Abhijeet Gupta became the sole leader with 5 points at the end of the fifth round with 5 points. He dominated after that and stretched the lead with one point. He took two quick draws on the 8th and ninth round against Deepan Chakravar-thy and IM Arghyadip Das and became the Champion with 8 points. IM Arghyadip Das and GM M.R. Lalith Babu bagged the Silver and Bronze Medal.

Ms. Padmini Rout Won the Gold Medal in the Women’s section. Sisters Mrs.S. Vijayalak-shmi and S.Meenakshi won the Silver and Bronze medal respectively. In the Senior Section WIM Hamid Rani of Bangladesh won the Gold Medal followed by Dave Shiv Shan-karof India and Lim Kian Hwa of Malaysia for Silver and Bronze medals.

In the Category events Divya Deshmukh won the gold medal with full 8 points in under 10 girls section. In under 14 Open FM Mitrabha Guha won the Gold Medal convincingly with 7 points. In under 12 open it was a two way tie with 7 points between Koustav Chatterjee and Aronyak Ghosh and Koustav won the Gold medal with a better tie-break score.

Shri. Ashok Chauhan, Founder, Amity Uni-versity, inaugurated the championship on 22nd June 2015 in the presence of Shri. D V Sundar, Vice President, FIDE and Shri Bharat Singh, Chairman, Commonwealth Chess Association. On the final day, Shri. Ajit M Sharan, Secretary, Sports, Government of India, was the Chief guest Air Commander G. Amar Babu, VM, AOC Airforce Station, New Delhi, Group Captain J. Rajendra, VSM, CAO, Airforce Station, New Delhi , Shri Dhiraj Raghuvanshi, President, CAU, Shri. Bharat

Singh, Chairman, Commonwealth Chess Association, Shri. Luxman Wijesuriya, Secre-tary, Commonwealth Chess Association were also present and distributed the prizes. Mr. A.K. Verma, Secretary, Delhi Chess Associa-tion proposed vote of thanks. Final standings: OpenRk Name FED Pts1 GM Gupta Abhijeet IND 82 IM Das Arghyadip IND 7½3 GM Lalith Babu M.R. IND 7½4 GM Deepan Chakkravarthy J. IND 7½5 GM Sengupta Deep IND 76 IM Ramnath Bhuvanesh.R IND 77 GM Karthikeyan Murali IND 78 GM Aravindh Chithambaram IND 79 IM Padmini Rout IND 710 IM Md Minhaz Uddin BAN 711 IM Vijayalakshmi S IND 712 WGM Meenakshi S IND 713 Visakh Nr IND 6½14 GM Kunte Abhijit IND 6½15 IM Akash G IND 6½16 GM Ankit R. Rajpara IND 6½17 Sanjay N. IND 6½18 IM Nitin S. IND 6½19 GM Sriram Jha IND 6½20 GM Rahman Ziaur BAN 6½21 IM Ravi Teja S. IND 6½22 IM Krishna C.R.G. IND 6½23 Siva Mahadevan IND 6½24 Yashas D. IND 6½25 FM Mehar Chinna Reddy CH IND 6½26 Lakshmi Narayanan M V IND 6½27 IM Rathnakaran K. IND 6½28 Singh Y. Dhanabir IND 6½29 GM Neelotpal Das IND 6½30 Kumar Gaurav IND 6½31 Vignesh Nr IND 632 GM Grover Sahaj IND 633 GM Murshed Niaz BAN 634 FM Van Der Nat Nicholas RSA 635 FM K. Praneeth Surya IND 636 IM S L Narayanan IND 637 Michelle Catherina P IND 638 Saurabh Anand IND 6

39 Dhananjay IND 640 Jayakumaar S IND 641 Lokesh N. IND 642 FM Raghunandan K S IND 643 GM Laxman R.R. IND 644 FM Ahmed Sk. Nasir BAN 645 Sai Vishwesh.C IND 646 Rajdeep Sarkar IND 647 Iniyan P IND 648 Prasannaa.S IND 649 Sammed Jaykumar Shete IND 650 Bhatt Jalpan IND 651 IM Himanshu Sharma IND 5½52 Shailesh Dravid IND 5½53 Athul Krishna S IND 5½54 Krishna Teja N IND 5½55 IM Phiri Richmond ZAM 5½56 Arpan Das IND 5½57 Harikrishnan.A.Ra IND 5½58 Harsha Bharathakoti IND 5½59 Hemant Sharma (del) IND 5½60 IM Sardana Rishi AUS 5½61 Srinath Rao S.V. IND 5½62 Gusain Himal IND 5½63 CM Nihal Sarin IND 5½64 Gajwa Ankit IND 5½65 Thanki Hemal Karsanji IND 5½66 FM Ram Aravind L N IND 5½67 IM Mohota Nisha IND 5½68 Navalgund Niranjan IND 5½69 Srijit Paul IND 5½70 WGM Gomes Mary Ann IND 5½71 WIM Ivana Maria Furtado IND 5½72 WGM Kulkarni Bhakti IND 5½73 WGM Soumya Swaminathan IND 5½74 WFM Vaishali R IND 5½75 IM Tania Sachdev IND 5½76 Gandhi Anish IND 5½77 Arjun Kalyan IND 5½78 Pardeep Arora IND 5½79 Arvind Shastry IND 5½80 IM Van Den Heever Donovan RSA 5½81 Gurung Rakesh IND 5½82 Sumit Grover IND 5½83 CM Nitish Belurkar IND 5½84 WIM Nandhidhaa Pv IND 5½85 WFM Srija Seshadri IND 5½

86 FM Praggnanandhaa R IND 5½87 GM Roy Chowdhury Saptarshi IND 588 Sekar B IND 589 D Bala Chandra Prasad IND 590 WIM Pratyusha Bodda IND 591 IM Akshat Khamparia IND 592 Aurangabadkar Prasad IND 593 Abhilash Reddy M.L. IND 594 WGM Swathi Ghate IND 595 WFM Saranya J IND 596 Sai Agni Jeevitesh J IND 597 Erigaisi Arjun IND 598 Ajay Krishna S IND 599 Mota Pankit IND 5100 IM Chakravarthi Reddy M IND 5101 Rakesh Kumar Nayak IND 5102 Sharma Vibhav IND 5103 Ganesh R IND 5104 Shelke Sankarsha IND 5105 WIM Thipsay Bagyashree Sathe IND 5106 Harsh Mangesh Ghag IND 5107 Selvabharathy T IND 5108 Shweta Gole IND 5109 Joshi Govind Ballabh IND 5110 Subhayan Kundu IND 5111 Vipul Subhashi IND 5112 Anand Nadar IND 5113 Muthaiah Al IND 5114 Patil Pratik IND 5115 Madhurima Shekhar IND 5116 Jyothilal N. IND 5117 Ganguly Ritabroto IND 5118 WFM Monnisha Gk IND 5119 Nandan Buragohain IND 5120 Dhanush Bharadwaj IND 5121 Abhinav Gola IND 5122 Ojas Kulkarni IND 5123 Hemanth Raam IND 5124 WIM Hamid Rani BAN 5125 Kadav Omkar IND 5126 WGM Kiran Manisha Mohanty IND 4½127 Ashutosh Kumar IND 4½128 IM Saptarshi Roy IND 4½129 Majumdar Chandrasish IND 4½130 Arjun K IND 4½131 Abhishek Das IND 4½132 Aaditya Jagadeesh IND 4½

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133 Soham Datar IND 4½134 Arjun Satheesh IND 4½135 Alahakoon Isuru SRI 4½136 Senthil Maran K IND 4½137 IM Lodhi Mahmood PAK 4½138 Choudhary Jitendra Kumar IND 4½139 FM Matta Vinay Kumar IND 4½140 FM Oberholzer Francois RSA 4½141 Anustoop Biswas IND 4½142 Sharma Pankaj IND 4½143 Soham Das IND 4½144 Darpan Inani IND 4½145 WFM Mahalakshmi M IND 4½146 Didwania Vishal IND 4½147 WFM Tarini Goyal IND 4½148 WIM Parnali S Dharia IND 4½149 Chakravarthy Y V K IND 4½150 Toshali V IND 4½151 Arka Sengupta IND 4½152 IM Weerawardane Romesh SRI 4½153 Kaushik Shubham IND 4½154 Kishan Gangolli IND 4½155 Ishaan Bansal IND 4½156 Nair Sanjeev IND 4½157 Kumthekar Shubham IND 4½158 Panesar Vedant IND 4½159 Satkar Chirag IND 4½160 Divya Lakshmi R IND 4½161 Raunak Mondal IND 4½162 Barath M IND 4½163 Debashish Dutta IND 4½164 Gukesh D IND 4½165 Santanu Borpatra Gohain IND 4½166 Ashar Grishma IND 4½167 Pranav V IND 4½168 Arjun Adappa IND 4½169 Sanjeet Manohar IND 4½170 Prithu Gupta IND 4½171 FM Tiwari Ashwani IND 4½172 Deepak Katiyar IND 4173 WCM Ananya Suresh IND 4174 Saksham Rautela IND 4175 Aansh Gupta IND 4176 Aditya Basu IND 4177 Isha Sharma IND 4178 Manush Shah IND 4179 Ritam Nag IND 4

180 Saptorshi Gupta IND 4181 Harikrishnan A IND 4182 Rohit Vassan S IND 4183 Likhit Chilukuri IND 4184 Gowtham K K IND 4185 Joshi Abhijeet IND 4186 WCM Tejaswini Sagar IND 4187 Shenvi Pratik IND 4188 Vakil Akhtara IND 4189 Sudarshan Malga IND 4190 Sadhu S Adithya IND 4191 Das Susobhit IND 4192 Krithigga K IND 4193 Rajesh Kumar Nayak IND 4194 Nehete Akshay S IND 4195 Shivam Verma IND 4196 WIM Solomons Anzel RSA 4197 Nishant Malhotra IND 4198 Akil A S J IND 4199 Shreyas S Nikam IND 4200 Vardan Nagpal IND 4201 Sanjay S Pillai IND 4202 WFM Arpita Mukherjee IND 4203 Prabhugaonkar Aditee Aman IND 4204 Weerasinghe C C SRI 4205 Ajish A IND 4206 Shubham Shukla IND 3½207 Adhithya S IND 3½208 Kamdar Udit IND 3½209 Manu David Suthandram R IND 3½210 Jaspreet Singh IND 3½211 Godbole Atharva IND 3½212 Manu M IND 3½213 Shah Rutvi IND 3½214 Jagdeep Singh Sudan IND 3½215 Shegaonkar Akshay IND 3½216 Arijith M IND 3½217 Ankitha Goud Palle IND 3½218 Swarup Dey Sarkar IND 3½219 WFM February Jesse Nikki RSA 3½220 Priyamvada Karamcheti IND 3½221 Harshini A IND 3½222 Anshul Mehta IND 3½223 Rajarshi Dutta IND 3½224 CM Modi Sachin RSA 3½225 Arpan Das (jr) IND 3½226 Kumar Naveen IND 3½

227 Jatinder Kapoor IND 3½228 Kolver Chris RSA 3½229 Dave Sneh IND 3½230 Dushyant Sharma IND 3½231 Dave Shiv Shankar IND 3½232 Beling Ricardo RSA 3½233 Lim Kian Hwa MAS 3½234 Devanshi Rathi IND 3½235 Bathula Abhinav Reddy IND 3½236 Hanif Mollah BAN 3½237 Vidya Sagar J.B.M. IND 3½238 Gopikrishna N. IND 3½239 Kavisha S Shah IND 3½240 Dutta Debarghya IND 3½241 Waqas Ahmad Chaudhary PAK 3½242 GM Koneru Humpy IND 3243 CM Milligan Helen NZL 3244 Sahil Tickoo IND 3245 T Banuka Neranjan SRI 3246 Vikash Nishad IND 3247 Panda Raj Santosh IND 3248 Rana Sufyan PAK 3249 Kumar Prabhat IND 3250 Samuel Caleb RSA 3 Medal WinnersOpen Title Name Medal PtsGM Gupta Abhijeet Gold 8IM Das Arghyadip Silver 7½GM Lalith Babu M.R. Bronze 7½Women IM Padmini Rout Gold 7IM Vijayalakshmi S Silver 7WGM Meenakshi S Bronze 7Seniors WIM Hamid Rani (Ban) Gold 5 Dave Shiv Shankar Silver 3½ Lim Kian Hwa (Mas) Bronze 3½Under 20 Open GM Karthikeyan Murali Gold 7GM Aravindh Chithambaram Silver 7IM Akash G Bronze 6½Under20 Girls Michelle Catherina P Gold 6WFM Vaishali R Silver 5½WIM Nandhidhaa Pv Bronze 5½Under18 Open

Visakh Nr Gold 6½ Siva Mahadevan Silver 6½ Kumar Gaurav Bronze 6½Under18 Girls WIM Ivana Maria Furtado Gold 5½WFM Srija Seshadri Silver 5½WIM Pratyusha Bodda Bronze 5Under16 Open CM Sharang Sanjeev Kapoor Gold 6½ Barath Kalyan M Silver 6 Kane Samvid Bronze 6Under16 Girls Aakanksha Hagawane Gold 6½WFM Chitlange Sakshi Silver 6WCM Sapale Saloni Bronze 5½Under14 Open FM Mitrabha Guha Gold 7 Neelash Saha Silver 6 Rahul Srivatshav P Bronze 5½Under 14 Girls Bhanot Stuti Gold 6½ Vantika Agrawal Silver 6 Harshita Guddanti Bronze 5½Under 12 Open Koustav Chatterjee Gold 7CM Aronyak Ghosh Silver 7FM Md Fahad Rahman(Ban)Bronze 6Under 12 Girls Mrudul Dehankar Gold 7WCM Salonika Saina Silver 6½WFM Lakshmi C Bronze 5½Under 10 Open Sadhwani Raunak Gold 7 Sreeshwan MaralakshikariSilver 6 Mahitosh Dey Bronze 5½Under 10 Girls WFM Divya Deshmukh Gold 8 Bhagyashree Patil Silver 6½ Rakshitta Ravi Bronze 6Under 8 Open Shahil Dey Gold 6½ Garv Rai Silver 6½ Tanmay Jain Bronze 5½Under 8 Girls Prathivya Gupta Gold 7 Anishka Vikram Silver 6½ Sanudula Dahamdi(Sri) Bronze 6

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The 8th edition of prestigious Mumbai Mayor’s Cup International Open Chess Tournament organised by Venus Chess Academy was held at Goregoan Sports Club, Mumbai from 02-09 June 2015. The event was held in three different cat-egories; namely ‘A’ for players above 2000, category ‘B’ for players between 1600 to 1999 and ‘C’ category for players below 1600. Matches in all categories played under Swiss System with 10 round each with a time con-trol of 90 Minutes + 30 second increment for Category ‘A’ event while B & C had the time control of 60 Minutes + 30 second increment.The category ‘A’ event attracted 147 players from 11 countries including 18 Grandmas-ters, 1 Women Grandmaster, 16 International Master, 4 Women International Master, 4 Fide Masters, 6 Women Fide Masters, for a total of 51 titled players. The ‘B’ & ‘C’ category attracted 224 and 415 players respectively. The total prize pool of the event was 24 lakh.There was no formal inauguration for the event and players moved to the business mode from round 1 itself.All the three categories witnessed grueling battles over chequered board for 8 days and produced exciting moments to chess buffs.

‘A’ Category Tournament:The Grandmaster’s category was won by GM Krastiv Martyn from Ukraine who edged out Georgian, GM Luka Paichadze on a better tie-break. Krastiv took home the winner’s purse of Rs.3 Lakhs from a prize pool of Rs.11 Lakhs and the glittering LIC Chairman’s trophy. GM Luka Paichadze had to content with a cash prize of Rs.2 Lakhs while GM Nguyen Duc Hoa from Vietnam was awarded Rs.1 Lakh

for securing the 3rd position.The prize for the best women player was won by WFM Rucha Pujari while Abhimanyu Puranik, Rohan Ahuja and Siva Mahadevan were able to secure their International Mas-ters norm.

‘B’ Category Tournament:In the ‘B’ category tournament, which was won by 11-year old player, Sankarsha Shelke from Maharashtra who became richer by Rs.1,00,000. The 2nd and 3rd prize was bagged by Aishwin Daniel of Madhya Pradesh and Siddhant Gaikwad of Maharashtra re-spectively. Both these players were awarded Rs.75,000 and Rs.50,000/- from a total prize pool of Rs.7,70,000/-‘C’ Category Tournament:The ‘C’ category tournament was won by Manoj Borse from Maharashtra who became richer by Rs.1,00,000. The 2nd and 3rd prize was bagged by Aryan Polakhare, also from Maharashtra while Abid Ali Mujawar from Kar-natka secured 3rd position. Both these play-ers were awarded Rs.75,000 and Rs.50,000/- from a total prize pool of Rs.5,30,000/-.At a colourful closing ceremony, Shri. Gopal Shetty, Honourble Member of Parliament from Mumbai (North) gave away the prizes in presence of Shri. Jairaj Phatak, Patrol MCA; Smt. Savita Dutta, President Rotary Club Mumbai South, Shri. Bhargoida, Chairman Goregaon Sports Club, Shri. Kapil Saxena, Jt Secretary AICF and Shri. R M Dongre, Treasurer AICF. 8th Mumbai Mayor's Cup (Cat 'A')Final ranking Rk Name Pts1 Kravtsiv Martyn 8

2 Paichadze Luka 83 Nguyen Duc Hoa 7½4 Zubov Alexander 7½5 Kokarev Dmitry 76 Laxman R.R. 77 Priyadharshan K. 78 Mchedlishvili Mikheil 79 Smirnov Pavel 710 Sivuk Vitaly 711 Puranik Abhimanyu 712 Azaladze Shota 713 Aleksandrov Aleksej 714 Gagunashvili Merab 715 Abdulla Al-Rakib 716 Rahman Ziaur 6½17 Nitin S. 6½18 Md Nubairshah Shaikh 6½19 Sanjay N. 6½20 Karthikeyan P. 6½21 Debashis Das 6½22 Ravi Teja S. 6½23 Pantsulaia Levan 6½24 Kulkarni Rakesh 6½25 Hossain Enamul 6½26 Swapnil S. Dhopade 6½27 Deepan Chakkravarthy J. 6½28 Ram S. Krishnan 6½29 Visakh Nr 6½30 Siva Mahadevan 631 Prasanna R Rao 632 Rohan Ahuja 633 Vignesh Nr 634 K. Praneeth Surya 635 Deshpande Aniruddha 636 Swayams Mishra 637 Harsha Bharathakoti 638 Semcesen Daniel 639 Akash Pc Iyer 640 Sangma Rahul 641 Shivananda B.S. 642 Bartakke Amardeep S. 643 Abhilash Reddy M.L. 644 Pujari Rucha 645 Kumar Gaurav 646 Kulkarni Bhakti 5½47 Muthaiah Al 5½48 Sammed Jaykumar Shete 5½

49 Ashwath R. 5½50 Vaishali R 5½51 Mahalakshmi M 5½52 Hemant Sharma (del) 5½53 Dimakiling Oliver 5½54 Jayakumaar S 5½55 Erigaisi Arjun 5½56 Himanshu Sharma 5½57 Deshmukh Anup 5½58 Varshini V 5½59 Sanjeev Kumar 5½60 Praveen Kumar C. 561 Praggnanandhaa R 562 Ivana Maria Furtado 563 Raghunandan KS 564 Sahoo Utkal Ranjan 565 Senthil Maran K 566 Iniyan P 567 Raja Harshit 568 Priyanka K 569 Bhambure Shantanu 570 Korniyuk Mariya 571 Patil Pratik 572 Satkar Chirag 573 Anand Nadar 574 Krishna Teja N 575 Rakesh Kumar Jena 576 Audi Ameya 577 Darpan Inani 578 Gandhi Anish 579 Sudarshan Malga 4½80 Chandar Raju 4½81 Sa Kannan 4½82 Ajay Krishna S 4½83 Arjun Adappa 4½84 Gokhale Chandrashekhar 4½85 Wagh Suyog 4½86 Shweta Gole 4½87 Harikrishnan.A.Ra 4½88 ThipsayBagyashreeSathe 4½89 Gugulashvili Tamaz 4½90 Kothari Swapnil 4½91 Aradhya Garg 4½92 Kulkarni Vinayak 4½93 Pruthu Deshpande 4½94 Saurabh Anand 4½95 Dhanush Bharadwaj 4½

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GM Krastiv Martyn wins Mumabi Mayor Cup

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96 Supriya Joshi 4½97 Manush Shah 4½98 Kumthekar Shubham 4½99 Shah Vishwa 4½100 Gajengi Rajababu 4½Final ranking: (Cat 'B')Rk Name Pts1 Shelke Sankarsha 82 Aishwin Daniel 83 Gaikwad Siddhant 84 Kamdar Udit 85 Modi Kunal 86 Soham Datar 7½7 Barath Kalyan M 7½8 Ojas Kulkarni 7½9 Mohammed Dilshad 7½10 Gupta Atit 7½11 Divya Deshmukh 7½12 Atharvaa P Tayade 713 Verma Rahul 714 Shyam Sundar T. 715 Anustoop Biswas 716 Mehta Ronak 717 Dangmei Bosco 718 Abijit Mistry 719 Patil Ketan 720 Deshmukh Nachiket 721 Tarun V Kanth 722 Deshpande Abhishek 723 Deliwala Arpit 724 Singh Soram Rahul 6½25 Jenil Shah 6½26 Govind Prabhu Mah 6½27 Rohan Bharat Joshi 6½28 Inamdar Sameer 6½29 Morvekar Kedar 6½30 Bhogal Rupesh 6½31 Venkata Sai Suraj S 6½32 Aditya Mittal 6½33 Nair Sanjeev 6½34 Solkar G.D 6½35 Vrandesh Parekh 6½36 Raees Ahmed A Q 6½37 Shreyash A Kulkarni 6½38 Kadam Nikhil 6½39 Dileep Tripathi 6½40 G Rajesh Zagade 6½

41 Gupta Rajesh R.S. 6½42 Vigneshwaran S 6½43 Aditya Guhagarkar 6½44 D Chandrashekar 6½45 Jadhav Vaibhavi 6½46 Sudarshan Bhat 647 Hapse Shreyas 648 Kulkarni Saurabh P 649 Parikh Kairav 650 Patil Ketan Anil 651 Mota Pankit 652 Jitendra Kumar J 653 Sharma Avinash 654 Kamble Kiran 655 Milind Gode 656 S Khushi Shailendra 657 Ayush Bhai Mehta 658 Sai Kiran Y 659 Vishesh Agrawal 660 Chandi Sachin 661 Rahul Bharadwaj B 662 Giri Abhishek 663 Golam Amol 664 C Bhalchandra 665 Kuber Chinmayee 666 Munna Das Bairagi 667 Sai Shravan R 5½68 Tamhankar Siddhant 5½69 Dhanashree Pandit 5½70 Nadkarni Shreyas 5½71 Santanu Das 5½72 Prameya Garge 5½73 Kakade Atul 5½74 Jaisingh Anugraha 5½75 Prabhugaonkar Aditee 5½76 Rohnit G Amin 5½77 Arvind Ramnath Iyer 5½78 Nirgun Keval 5½79 Samant Aditya S 5½80 Om Kharola 5½81 Vinay Vijaykumar 5½82 Chandan Palash N 5½83 Soham Sameer Palkar 5½84 Jeswani Saransh 5½85 Bhagyashree Patil 5½86 Kamdar Aparva 5½87 Rohith Krishna S 5½

88 Tayyeb Asif Md 5½89 Jain Kashish Manoj 5½90 Arun R 5½91 Nivedan Bhardwaj 5½92 Garima Gaurav 5½93 Kasar Prashant 5½94 Shukla Shishir 5½95 Golvankar Dilip K 5½96 Dhannawat Chakshu 5½97 Krishna Malay 5½98 Polakhare Aryan 5½99 Sanghai Dhruv 5½100 Iyer A N 5½Final ranking (Cat 'C')Rk Name Pts1 Borase Manoj 92 Polakhare Aryan 93 Abid Ali Mujawar 8½4 Vishwanath Kannam 85 Rohith Krishna S 86 Dhoot Vinit 87 Bandekar Aditya 88 Chevli Miral 89 Doshi Sanket 810 Sarvaliya Niraj 811 Kokitkar Harsh 7½12 Umer S.M 7½13 Jain Aum 7½14 Basant N 7½15 Kulkarni Saurabh P 7½16 Dere Pushkar 7½17 Gourav Barik 7½18 Sumeet Chorghade 7½19 Solanki Harsh 7½20 Soham Sameer Palkar 7½21 S Khushi Shailendra 7½22 Jain Saankulp 7½23 Rathi Dhanashree 7½24 Audi Saiesh 7½25 Parekh Saumya 726 Chavda Suresh 727 Chulet Mayank L 728 Talekar Aditya 729 Kulkarni Vihang 730 Ghelani Dhairya 731 Giri Abhishek 732 Wankhede Avishkar 7

33 Kulkarni Aakash 734 Meet Puri 735 Narvekar Pruthviraj 736 Abhinav Ajit Baone 737 Hirani Raj 738 Joshi Mihir 739 Kabir Belgikar 740 Kadam Abhishek 741 Apte Tanvi 742 Chourasiya Hemant 743 Chudasama Ankit 744 Purohit Sarang 745 Venkata Sai Suraj S 746 Nagargoje Dhananjay 747 Vishal Thorat 748 Md Latif Sheikh Kadir 749 Gaikwad Vishal 750 Chorge Mangesh 6½51 Stephen Raj A 6½52 Kapadi Yash 6½53 Paritosh Malvi 6½54 Kawade Avadhut 6½55 Nitin M Pai 6½56 Aditya Savalkar 6½57 Eesha Ajay Sarda 6½58 M Nimish Prakash 6½59 Bhojwani Ravi 6½60 Vaidya Omatharv 6½61 Srikalyan S B 6½62 Gouravkumar Nanwani 6½63 Chavan Pratap 6½64 Mahajan Akash 6½65 Ranjith Kaliyarasan 6½66 Jha Kishor 6½67 Jaeel Atharva 6½68 Kothawade Shreyas 6½69 Vineesh P S 6½70 Patil Ganesh 6½71 Bhanushali Dr. Mehul 6½72 Vaidya Prasad 6½73 Dhruv G Kulkarni 6½74 Nadar Vinesh 6½75 Raghavan Muktesh 6½76 Sheth Shemal Ketan 6½77 Bhagare Abhishek 6½78 Pratik S Risbud 6½79 Nemlekar Suresh 6½

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All Odisha Chess Association (AOCA) in as-sociation with KiiT University conducted 8th KiiT International Chess Festival 2015 at KiiT International School, Patia, Bhubneswar, Odisha. This event was organized by promi-nent chess players and key personalities of various Chess activities in Odisha and at AICF levels IM Sekhar Chandra Sahu, Vice President, AICF; President, AOCA, Mr. Ranjan Mohanty, Vice President AOCA, Vivek Kumar Tibarewal, Hon. Secretary, AOCA, Mr. Manoj Kumar Panigrahy, Joint Secretary, AOCA, Shri K. K Sharma, Shri G. C. Mohaptra, Mr. Saroj Kishore Behera, Mr. Subhasis Patnaik, & IA Suresh Chandra Sahoo accompanied by other chess players and sportsmen from KiiT International School like Shri Gaganendu Dash, Sports Officer KiiT and his team in-cludes hostel, food, security, transport, etc. The tournament was played from 24th May to 31st May 2015 and conducted in the Swiss League format, comprising 10 rounds, with two rounds two days else one round for elite category and for Platinum (24th May to 27th May 2015) and Premium (28th May to 31st May 2015) three rounds for three days and one round on last day. The time control for the elite category was 90 minutes to each player whereas 60 minutes in other catego-ries along with 30 second increment per move from first move. Chief Guest of the inaugural function Prof. Achyuta Samanta, Founder, KIIT & KISS along with other guest Sri Priya-darshi Mishra, Honourable MLA Bhubaneswar (North) Odisha, Sri Sekhar Chandra Sahu, Vice-President, AICF & President, AOCA, Sri Ranjan Mohanty, Vice President, AOCA, Vivek

Kumar Tibarewal, Honorary Secretary, AOCA and Sri Subasis Patnaik, E.C. Member, AOCA were present on the dais. The function began with lighting of sacred lamp by the guests and the honourable members on the dais. The speakers on the occasion expressed deep gratitude and sincere appreciation towards Dr. Achyuta Samanta, Founder KiiT & KISS for patronising this International Chess Event and extending all hospitality to the World Class Players and Odisha team. For this event along with KiiT, co-sponsored by Odisha Min-ing Corporation. While expressing his thought SamantaJi said that local talents IM Swayams Mishra, WGM Kiran Manisha Mohanty, Utkal Ranjan Sahoo, Sidhant Mohapatra, Moham-mad Ashraf, Rakesh Kumar Jena, Rajendra Kumar Sahoo, Rakesh Kumar Nayak, Baivab Mishra, Rakesh Nayak and Rabindra Kumar Ojha would get a wonderful opportunity to display their talents in local conditions help them for norms, increase ELO ratings and also get much needed exposure to build up their careers.In the Elite category out of 140 players 23 Grand master, 2 Women Grand Master, 24 International Master, 1 Women International Master, 7 Fide Masters, 8 Women Fide Mas-ters and 6 Candidate Masters took part out of which 139 rated player and a unrated player from USA. In this total 17 federations took part.In the elite category rating average of rated players was 2242. The top seed in elite category was from Russia GM Kokarev Dmitry having ELO rating 2635. Whereas in Platinum Category total participants were 257 out of which, 1 Women Fide Master, 2

Women Candidate Master along with total 37 women players total rated players were 226 and rated players rating average was 1599. In this event the top seed was Mohammed Dilshad of Kerala with ELO rating of 1993. In this category other than India two more federations took part namely Singapore and Bangladesh. In the penultimate round of Platinum section Rishabh Nishad of UP scored 8½ points took 1point lead on nearest rivals Soham Datar and Singh Soram Rahul. In 9th round Elite section top three boards ended in a draw with Sandipan Chanda scoring 7 and still main-taining the lead with ½ points. In Premium Section Ashwani Kumar Grover won against Ashok B levelling the field as both of them had now scored 8 points but were closely fol-lowed by 4 other players scoring 7.5 points.Final round in the Platinum category, on 1st board a leader from yesterday Rishabh Ni-shad lost with Soham Datar, wheras Singh Soram Rahul overpowered Sankarsha Shelke. Rishabh Nishad, Soham Datar and Singh Soram Rahul scored 8½ points and champion was decided using Buchholz system.Rishabh won the championship wheras Soham Datar was runner up in this category received Rs. 50000 and Rs. 40000 respectively along with glittering trophies. Final Round in the Elite Category saw an in-teresting match on the first Board as the win-ner would have outright won the competition whereas a draw on the top board would have led to 5 people sharing the First Place. In this crucial encounter Sandipan Chanda won against Himanshu Sharma thereby winning the Champion’s Purse of Rs. 3,00,000/- The second place was won by GM Smirnov Pavel winning Rs. 2,00,000/-, both accompanied with Championship Mementos.In the Final round of Premium section Ash-wani Kumar won against Sudip Kumar Nath

and won the First Place convincingly. Sec-ond Place was won by an Unrated player from Tamil Nadu V R Prakash. Both of them received Rs. 50000/- and Rs. 40000/- re-spectively.The tournament was completed in peaceful manner and no appeal arose. Seeing the nature of this event created three Appeals Committees. In Elite category GM Kokarev Dimitry of Russia, GM Zubov Alexander of Ukraine, GM Aleksandrov Aleksej of Belarus, GM Gagunashvili Merab of Georgia and GM Sandeepan Chanda of India as the main members and GM Ziaur Rahman of Bangla-desh and GM Nguyen Duc Hoa of Vietnam as reserve members. Similarly in Platinum category main appeal committee members were Mr. Kaushik Shubham of Haryana, Mr. Soham Datar of Maharashtra, Mr. Binayak Rath of Odisha, Mr. Rishabh Nishad of Uttar Pradesh and Mr. Anchit Vyas of Madhya Pradesh, whereas reserve members were Mr. Soram Rahul Singh of Assam & Mr. Pankaj Sharma of Punjab. In premium category, main members were Mr. Swapnil Raj o f Uttar Pradesh, Mr. Arjun B of Tamil Nadu, Mr. Ashwani Kumar Grover of Punjab, Mr. Sudip Kumar Nath of West Bengal and Mr. Sujithkar Meethale Chalil of Kerala where reserve members were Mr. Pradip Chandra Panda of Odisha and Mr. Varun Sharma of Madhya Pradesh.The Platinum event was a real boon for many players, as many of them gained consider-able ELO rating of 100 or above. Special mention has to be made of Mishra, Anisha increased their rating by 216. Whereas, Neha Srinibash D (163 pts.), Nayak Sajan Kumar (150 pts.), Ashok B (146 pts.), Badamundi Tapan (145 pts.), Samantaray Aryan Arnav (136 pts.), Girish Dakliya Yogesh (105 pts.), Wagle Aakash Abhay (102 pts.) and Subha-sis Barik (100 pts.) increased their ELO rat-

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ings as shown. Special mention in premium category has to be made of Manish Kumar (2006) gained 202 ELO points and in elite category CM Nihal Sarin increased rating by 152 ELO points. Norms in Elite Category were Achieved by IM Himanshu Sharma (GM Norm), Harsha Bharathkoti, Vignesh Nr and Visakh Nr (all IM Norm), and Harini S and Vaishali R (WIM Norm). Besides this Monnisha GK and Visakh Nr both had crossed respective Live Rating required for their titles.The prize distribution of this Mega Event was done by Shri Bharat Singh Chauhan, CEO, AICF along with members of organizing com-mittee which included Mr. Sekhar Chandra Sahu VP, AICF along with Dr. Achyuta Samant (Founder, KIIT and KISS), Shri Vivek Kumar Tibarewal (Hon. Secretary, AOCA), Shri KK Sharma and Shri GC Mohapatra (Both Execu-tive Members, AOCA) and others.Final Standing of Elite SectionRk Name FED Pts1 GM Sandipan Chanda IND 82 GM Smirnov Pavel RUS 7½3 GM Mchedlishvili Mikheil GEO 7½4 GM Aleksandrov Aleksej BLR 7½5 GM Zubov Alexander UKR 76 GM Pantsulaia Levan GEO 77 GM Paichadze Luka GEO 78 GM Hossain Enamul BAN 79 GM Karthikeyan Murali IND 710 IM Sunilduth Lyna Narayanan IND 711 IM Himanshu Sharma IND 712 GM Gagunashvili Merab GEO 713 GM Kravtsiv Martyn UKR 6½14 GM Lalith Babu M.R. IND 6½15 IM Ghosh Diptayan IND 6½16 GM Aravindh Chithambaram IND 6½17 IM Swayams Mishra IND 6½18 GM Rahman Ziaur BAN 6½19 GM Deepan Chakkravarthy J. IND 6½20 IM Sardana Rishi AUS 6½21 IM Nitin S. IND 6½22 IM Rathnakaran K. IND 6½

23 Vignesh Nr IND 6½24 Sai Vishwesh.C IND 6½25 IM Priyadharshan K. IND 6½26 Harsha Bharathakoti IND 627 GM Nguyen Duc Hoa VIE 628 Visakh Nr IND 629 IM Azaladze Shota GEO 630 IM Ravi Teja S. IND 631 GM Laxman R.R. IND 632 IM Girinath P.D.S. IND 633 IM Shyam Nikil P. IND 634 GM Kokarev Dmitry RUS 635 GM Sivuk Vitaly UKR 636 IM Ramnath Bhuvanesh.R IND 637 GM Debashis Das IND 638 CM Puranik Abhimanyu IND 639 IM Murali Krishnan B T IND 640 Hemant Sharma (del) IND 5½41 Kunal M. IND 5½42 FM Mehar Chinna Reddy C.H. IND 5½43 GM Semcesen Daniel SWE 5½44 IM Karthikeyan P. IND 5½45 WIM Pratyusha Bodda IND 5½46 CM Nihal Sarin IND 5½47 IM Dimakiling Oliver PHI 5½48 IM Rajesh V A V IND 5½49 IM Lahiri Atanu IND 5½50 Sammed Jaykumar Shete IND 5½51 Patil Pratik IND 5½52 Senthil Maran K IND 5½53 Hirthickkesh Pr IND 5½54 FM Rakesh Kumar Jena IND 5½55 IM Sangma Rahul IND 5½56 WGM Kulkarni Bhakti IND 5½57 FM Sai Krishna G.V. IND 5½58 Ajay Krishna S IND 5½59 Erigaisi Arjun IND 5½60 Siva Mahadevan IND 5½61 GM Abdulla Al-Rakib BAN 562 WFM Vaishali R IND 563 Sidhant Mohapatra IND 564 Harini S. IND 565 Lakshmi NarayananM V IND 566 IM Konguvel Ponnuswamy IND 567 Aradhya Garg IND 568 Raja Harshit IND 569 DBala Chandra Prasad IND 5

70 Iniyan P IND 571 Yogit S IND 572 FM Praggnanandhaa R IND 573 Harikrishnan.A.Ra IND 574 Shailesh Dravid IND 575 Rakesh Kumar Nayak IND 576 Lokesh P. IND 577 Muthaiah Al IND 578 FM Rahman Syed Mahfuzur BAN 579 Alahakoon Isuru SRI 580 Jayakumaar S IND 581 Saurabh Anand IND 582 Nayak Biswajit IND 583 Gurung Rakesh IND 584 Godbole Atharva IND 585 Sahoo Utkal Ranjan IND 4½86 Mohammad Ashraf IND 4½87 IM Deshmukh Anup IND 4½88 Sa Kannan IND 4½89 FM Raghunandan K S IND 4½90 Vignesh B IND 4½91 Ritviz Parab IND 4½92 WFM Arpita Mukherjee IND 4½93 Swain Ashirwad IND 4½94 Arjun Kalyan IND 4½95 WFM Mahalakshmi M IND 4½96 Kulkarni Vinayak IND 4½97 Sahu Rajendra Kumar IND 4½98 Rabindra Kumar Ojha IND 4½99 IM Gagare Shardul IND 4100 FM Ram Aravind L N IND 4101 GM Ziatdinov Raset USA 4102 Srinath Rao S.V. IND 4103 Neelash Saha IND 4104 WGM Kiran Manisha Mohanty IND 4105 WFM Monnisha Gk IND 4106 Baivab Mishra IND 4107 Rahul Srivatshav P IND 4108 Priyanka Nutakki IND 4109 Bartakke Amardeep S. IND 4110 Gavi Siddayya IND 4111 CM Nitish Belurkar IND 4112 WFM Tarini Goyal IND 4113 WFM Varshini V IND 4114 Kumar Gaurav IND 4115 Abhishek Das IND 3½116 IM Chakravarthi Reddy M IND 3½

117 Dhananjay IND 3½118 Ganguly Ritabroto IND 3½120 CM Kushagra Mohan IND 3½121 Nayak Rajesh IND 3½122 Prajesh R IND 3½123 Adhithya S IND 3½124 Manush Shah IND 3½125 Joshi Abhijeet IND 3½ CM Sharang Sanjeev Kapoor IND 3½126 WFM Srija Seshadri IND 3127 IM Krishna C.R.G. IND 3128 WFM Korniyuk Mariya UKR 3129 Kranti Kumar P. IND 3130 Gugulashvili Tamaz GEO 3131 Jyothilal N. IND 2½132 Aurangabadkar Prasad IND 2½133 Goura Hari Mohapatra IND 2134 Roy Pallabi IND 2135 Panda Vedic USA 2136 Hitesh S. Jariya IND 1½137 Nishant Malhotra IND 1½138 Md Monir Hossain BAN 0Final Standing of Platinum Section1 Rishabh Nishad UP 8½2 Soham Datar MAH 8½3 Singh Soram Rahul ASM 8½4 Pattnayak Nilsu ODI 85 Anand Nadar MAH 86 Smaraki Mohanty ODI 87 Panda Sambit ODI 88 Gurung Rahul SKM 7½9 Shelke Sankarsha MAH 7½10 Saptorshi Gupta WB 7½11 Sharma Pankaj PUN 7½12 Binayak Rath ODI 7½13 Kaushik Shubham HAR 7½14 Ritam Nag WB 715 Mohammed Dilshad KER 716 Abhishek Sarkar WB 717 Anustoop Biswas WB 718 Mishra Anisha ODI 719 Aparajita Gochhikar ODI 720 Subhayan Kundu WB 721 Om Vinay Vitalkar MAH 722 Samal Ansuman ODI 723 Sonkalan Bharati WB 724 Shegaonkar Akshay MAH 7

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25 Das Susobhit ODI 726 Vijay Shreeram P TN 727 Uma Maheswaran P TN 728 Ashok B AP 6½29 Tamang Thendup SKM 6½30 Sandip Dey WB 6½31 Subhasis Barik ODI 6½32 Anchit Vyas MP 6½33 Sai Kiran Y AP 6½34 Pvs Aravind TEL 6½35 Rajarshi Dutta WB 6½36 Raju S TN 6½37 Bidhar Rutumbara WFM ODI 6½38 Sarbojit Paul WB 6½39 Ray Biswajit ODI 6½40 Padhi Kamal Lochan ODI 6½41 Potluri Saye Srreezza TEL 6½42 Cheela Naga Sampath AP 6½43 Sahoo Dasharathi ODI 6½44 Mughaho Sumi NAG 6½45 Rohan Nag Chowdhury WB 646 Kaushik Nath WB 647 Tarun V Kanth TN 648 Harshavardhan G B TN 649 Mishra Anwesha ODI 650 Suvradeepta Das WB 6

Final Standing of Premium Section1 Ashwani Kumar Grover PUN 92 Prakash V R TN 8½3 Stephen Raj A TN 8½4 Ashok B AP 85 Ayush Pattanaik MP 86 Manish Kumar (2006) ODI 87 Pratik Das WB 88 Waghela Dhairya Pankaj MAH 7½9 Bodhisatya Pal WB 7½10 Rohan Nag Chowdhury WB 7½11 Shashi Nand Kumar BIH 7½12 Singh Vimlesh Kumar BIH 7½13 Divyanshu Gupta MP 7½14 Chandrahaas M C J AP 7½15 Dhanush Ragav TN 7½16 Sabat Prabhat Kiran ODI 7½17 Acharya Tapas WB 7½18 Swapnil Raj UP 719 Pathak Anshu Kr UP 7

20 Sambarta Banerjee WB 721 Sparsh Khandelwal CHT 722 Badamundi Tapan ODI 723 Debiprasad Sarkar WB 724 Deepak C AP 725 Sujithkar Meethale Chalil KER 726 Prasath K R TN 727 Adrian Sajjan WB 728 Deepak Batra PUN 729 Girish Dakliya Yogesh CHT 730 Raja Bose JHA 731 Patra Subhendu Kumar ODI 732 Abhijit Bhattacharjee WB 733 Binoy Chandra Jena ODI 734 Ravi Shanker UP 6½35 Sudip Kumar Nath WB 6½36 Pattnaik Bishal ODI 6½37 Gowrichander U TN 6½38 Swapan Ghosh WB 6½39 Panda Raj Santosh ODI 6½40 Shambo Dutta WB 6½41 Sweta Senapaty ODI 6½42 Souradip Deb TRP 6½43 Devansh Ratti MAH 6½44 Ranjit Bhoi ODI 6½45 Das Anindo Kumar UP 6½46 Vinayagam M TN 6½47 Arjun B TN 6½48 Kiran Kumar P J AP 6½49 Sahu Biswajit ODI 6½50 Tapas Mandal WB 6½51 Manash Bala WB 6½52 Mishra Anisha ODI 6½53 Siva Kumar Badireddy AP 6½54 Lochan Kumar Das ODI 6½55 Atul Srivatsa TN 6½56 Sharma Varun MP 6½57 Bhagyashree Patil MAH 6½58 Patnaik Shreyash Subham ODI 6½59 Bidisha Roy JHA 6½60 Sahoo Ankush ODI 6½61 Jitendra Kumar Jawahar BIH 6½

29th National Under 9 Chess Championships (Boys and Girls) was well organised by the Gujarat State Chess Association on behalf of All India Chess Federation at Sahkar Bhavan, Gujarat State Co-operative Bank, Naranpura, Ahmedabad from 11th to 19th June 2015. The 11 round Swiss format was a 9 day event carrying a prize fund of Rs.1.50 lakhs equally divided for open and girls section. The open section had 128 participants from 24 states with 5 Candidate Masters among them and in the girls section it was93 participants from 23 states and 1 WCM. The tournament was inaugurated by Shri Ajay Patel, Chairman, Gujarat State Co Operative Bank & President, GSCA.

The open section was quite competitive and it was literally a race between Gukesh of TN, Aditya Mittal of MAH, Sreeshan Maralakshikari of AP& Leon Luke Mendonca of Goa. Into the final round the above four were joined by V Pranav of TN who beat Sreeshan on the 2nd board to move on to 9 points. The top board game between Aditya and Mendonca ended in a draw after some tense moments. Nikhil Maghiznan beat the other leader Gukesh on the 3rd board to score 8.5 points and fin-ished runner up. This result helped Pranav to win the 29th National Championship for Under-9 Boys.

In the girls section it was all the way for M S Darsana of TN who propelled to 8/8 score. Darsana lost the10th round, but still drew the 11th round to take her tally to 9 points and win the Under-9 National Girls title. Krisha Khandelwal of Maharashtra beat Savithasree of TN and moved on to 9 points, but finished

runner up on tie break scores.The players were provided with a name board, carrying their name along with logos of sponsors. At the end of the event the participants were allowed to take it with them as a souvenir. The air-conditioned playing hall was accom-modating around 250 players with ample space to move. Good accommodation was provided by the organisers and the allocation were very well taken care by Brain Power Chess Academy. Especially the Xerox copies of top 20 boards of each section were pro-vided at nominal cost and it was observed parents were in queue for receiving the final round copy by 1.30 pm.

The co-arbiters executed their duties with care. The Volunteers from Brain Power Chess Academy, The staffs & Management of Guja-rat State Co-op Bank and Officials of Gujarat State Chess Association supported well for a memorable championship. The Prize distri-bution function was graced by Shri Sandeep Pradhan, Director General, Sports Authority of Gujarat,Shri D V Sundar, VP, FIDE, Ajay Patel, President,GSCA, Shri JayeshModi, VP, GSCA. The promotional activities and sup-port by the Gujarat State Government for sports was well explained by Shri Pradhan. The audience were captivated by the witty and persuasive speech of Shri D V Sundar and he crowned it with “Chess is an invest-ment rather an expenditure” statement to be greeted with a roaring applause. The digni-taries distributed the prizes for the winners.Under-9:Boys StandingsRk Name Club Pts1 Pranav V TN 92 Nikhil Magizhnan TN 8½

29th National Under-9 Chess Boys and Girls Championships, Ahmedabad

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3 Aditya Mittal MAH 8½4 Mendonca Leon Luke GOA 8½5 Gukesh D TN 86 Sreeshwan Maralakshikari TEL 87 Dixit Tharun Raja P TN 88 Vallabh Kavi MAH 89 Dev Shah MAH 810 Garv Rai DEL 811 Pasricha Jayan PUN 812 Jubin Jimmy KER 7½13 Shahil Dey ASM 7½14 Shah Jeet MAH 7½15 Arora Honi RAJ 7½16 Manish Kumar (2006) ODI 717 Prasmit Prayansu ODI 718 Hriday Dharmesh Sheth MAH 719 Pranesh M TN 720 Naik Shriram PUN 721 Mohanty Aditya Anurakta ODI 722 Krish Kedia WB 723 Tanmay Jain PUN 724 Pranay Venkatesh TEL 725 Mullick Raahil MAH 726 Sai Nikhil Y AP 727 Anubrata P Sahu ODI 728 V Sumant AP 729 Prraneeth Vuppala TEL 6½30 Pranav Anand KAR 6½31 Jayakrishna H TN 6½32 Pankaj Bhat KAR 6½33 Subhacharan M TN 6½34 Chandrani Shlok MAH 6½35 Aakash Rajan KAR 6½36 Shah Krish G MP 6½37 Arnav Kushwaha CHD 6½38 Makone Kaustubh MAH 639 Roshan S TN 640 Bhavyay Gupta DEL 641 Souhardo Basak WB 642 Sai Raj Gopal K AP 643 Arun Kataria RAJ 644 Yashas Pessi DEL 645 Dhanvij Ansh MAH 646 Dhritabrata Kundu WB 647 Avi Bhardwaj DEL 648 Santhosh S TN 649 Ashvin Sharma ASM 6

50 Jain Aryan S MAH 651 Ananmay Sharma GUJ 652 Hrishikesh R Raghuvaran KAR 653 Ishant Kumar JHAR 654 Arjun Sidharth S PUD 655 Kukreja Sankalp DEL 656 Colaco Reuben GOA 657 Aaryan Singh UP 5½58 Ayush J Yajaman KAR 5½59 Yatharth Jain KAR 5½60 Anurag Banerjee BIH 5½61 Tanmay Iyer CHAT 5½62 Swayam Gupta DEL 5½63 Sreekar J S S TEL 5½64 Vishal Sharma BIH 5½65 A Sowmyanatha Reddy TEL 5½66 Agastya Makkar HAR 5½67 Gowtham Reddy G AP 5½68 Subhranil Majumder TRI 5½69 Surya Charith P AP 5½70 Sarvaiya H Manishbhai GUJ 5½71 Aathish B Shetty KAR 5½72 Nikilesh G K KAR 5½73 Aryaveer Saxena RAJ 5½74 Shah Moxit J GUJ 5½75 Lanka Sri K Durgapras AP 5½76 Manav N Panchal GUJ 5½77 Boricha Yohan MAH 578 Akshit Jha MAH 579 Sairaj Dilip Vernekar GOA 580 Thrayambhakesh A PUD 581 Medhansh Saxena UP 582 Sidharth K KER 583 Nachiket Iyer GUJ 584 Pratyush Ranjan Dev CHAT 585 Pal Abhinav ODI 586 Aarush Patel GUJ 587 Gagan P AP 588 Bang Atharva MAH 589 Kshirsagar Ojus MAH 590 Aditya Bikram Paul WB 4½91 Doshi Vansh Vishal GUJ 4½92 Soham Nag TRI 4½93 Aditya Gupta MP 4½94 Hari Ramachandran S TN 4½95 Aaditya Mukherjee GUJ 4½96 Vora Arjun MAH 4½

97 Thaker Vishwam Jayesh GUJ 4½98 Thakkar Kathan K GUJ 4½99 Shah Divy Bhupesh GUJ 4½100 Parikh Kriday GUJ 4½101 Thakuria Rishiraj ASM 4½102 Shah Mann M GUJ 4103 Chaandhak P AP 4104 Jitabrata Nath ASM 4105 Garv Gaur HAR 4106 Dhanush Reddy A TEL 4107 Gambhava Zeel GUJ 4108 Soni Ram HAR 4109 Gupta Dewang J&K 4110 Dalal Vedant GUJ 4111 Adhiveer Kapuria DEL 4112 Devansh Panthi MP 4113 Dadhaniya Vedant GUJ 4114 Thakkar Krishiv GUJ 4115 Patel Kalshor GUJ 4116 Mehta Tirth R GUJ 3½117 Ayush Gupta J&K 3½118 Bhatt Aaryan GUJ 3½119 Adalja Vanssh A GUJ 3½120 Vaghela Dhruvsinh K GUJ 3½121 Arka Mitra WB 3122 Manas Ghiya GUJ 3123 Shaunak Chaudhury CHA 3124 Chaturvedi Prakhar GUJ 2½125 Maan Kukreja MAH 2126 Tiwari Mayank Bharat MAH 2127 Parmar H Ashwinbhai GUJ 2128 Gohil P Rajdeepsinh GUJ 0 Under-9:Girls Standings1 Darsana M S TN 92 Khandelwal Krisha MAH 93 Boramanikar Tanisha S MAH 84 Savitha Shri B TN 85 Shah Kritee GUJ 86 Meenatchi Rajam V TN 87 Yashavishree N TN 88 Kriti Mayur Patel MAH 89 Mahi Amit Doshi GUJ 7½10 Wankhade Sanskruti MAH 7½11 Sinthia Sarkar WB 7½12 Vincent Alaina MAH 7½13 Agrawal Aanya GUJ 7

14 Prathivya Gupta DEL 715 Kaamyaa Negi DEL 716 Anjana Devi G TN 717 Panda Miracle ODI 718 Srivastav Manishika KAR 719 Shivika Rohilla DEL 720 Sahithi Varshini M AP 6½21 Vishwa Vasnawala GUJ 6½22 Ananya Arumbakkam KAR 6½23 Harshini V TN 6½24 Pragyasha Goswami ASM 6½25 Sairupa P ODI 6½26 Sri Vidya Sambhavi R AP 6½27 Subashree R TN 6½28 Sanvi Naik Gaonkar GOA 6½29 Naik Sayuri GOA 6½30 Yash Jyoti Bir WB 6½31 Tejaswi R TN 6½32 Bhagyashree G Patil KAR 633 Adreeja Sinha ASM 634 Harshavardhini M.S. PUD 635 Amulya D AP 636 Aarushi Chatterjee CHAT 637 Shah Vrisha Parag MAH 638 Bhavana O TN 639 Patel Riddhi R GUJ 640 Sindhusree K TN 641 Sevitha Viju M TEL 5½42 Patil Shravani MAH 5½43 Aakanksha Patel GUJ 5½44 Palepu Samyuktha MAH 5½45 Akshaya R.S. TN 5½46 Prakash Vaishnavi UP 5½47 Wairagade Rashi MAH 5½48 Ankana Kabiraj JHA 5½49 Barik Bijayalaxmi ODI 5½50 Pragati Das WB 5½51 Fulzale Shrushti CHAN 5½52 Nibha Kumari BIH 5½53 Toshniwal Kanupriya GUJ 5½54 Adithi R TN 5½55 Manushri Deva TEL 556 Shah Viha MAH 557 Wankhede Mridini MAH 558 Nair Devika KER 559 Pillai Shreya S KER 560 Vora Ananya MAH 5

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The first Medha All India FIDE Rating Chess Tournament organized by Medha Chess As-sociation was held at Palakol from 12th to 15th June 2015.Top Seed N Krishna Teja of West Godavari District (Andhra Pradesh) won 1st Medha All India FIDE Rating Chess Tournament held at Sri C V Raman Polytech-nic, Palakol, West Godavari District, Andhra Pradesh. He scored 7.5 points from 8 rounds. V Varun of Hyderabad(Telangana) who also scored 7.5 tied with Krishna Teja for first place. Both Krishna Taja and Varun are undefeated and had only one draw between them in 6th round. Krishna Teja got prize money of Rs. 15,000/- and winner’s trophy. Varun received Rs. 10,000/- with runner up trophy. Total prize money of Rs. 1,00,000/- is distributed.

The event is attracted by 294 participants from Andhra Pradesh, Telangana,Tamil Nadu, West Bengal states and also a small representation from Andhra Bank and USA. In this four day event has team of three Fide Arbiters S Subba Raju(Hyderabad), G Venkat Kumar(Rajahmudry), V Srikanth (Vi-sakhapatnam).On the inaugural day Sri Angara Rammohan Rao, MLC, Govt.Whip declared open the event by playing first Move against Inter-national Master R Balasubrahmanyam of Tamilnadu. Sri M S Vasu, Secretary & Cor-respondent of Sri C V Raman Polytechnic; Sri Madasu Kishore, Secretary-West Godavari District Chess Assn; Sri Devaram Srihari, Secretary-A P Chess Assn; Sri P Lakshmi Narayana, President-Medha Chess Assn; Sri S Surya Rao, Secretary-Medha Chess Assn;

Sri M Ramprasad, Secretary & Correspon-dent- Montessoris School were present on the occasion.

In the valedictory function Chief Guest Sri Meka Seshubabu,MLC, Sri Y D Rama Rao, President-AP Chess Assn and Dr. Bobji, Ex-MLC has distributed the prizes. Sri Y Praveen, Treasurer AP Chess Assn; . Sri M S Vasu, Secretary & Correspondent of Sri C V Raman Polytechnic; Sri Madasu Kishore, Secretary-West Godavari District Chess Assn; Sri De-varam Srihari, Secretary-A P Chess Assn; Sri P Lakshmi Narayana, President-Medha Chess Assn; Sri S Surya Rao, Secretary-Medha Chess Assn; Sri M Ramprasad, Secretary & Correspondent- Montessoris School also present.Final ranking Rk Name Pts1 Krishna Teja N 7½2 Varun V 7½3 Lakshmanrao D. 74 Mahesh Kumar K 75 G Hema Chandra Mouli 6½6 Ankan Roy 6½7 Harshini A 6½8 Ramakrishna J. 6½9 K Ashleesh 6½10 Srivastava Pratyush 6½11 R Balasubramaniam 612 Srinivasa Rao G.V. 613 Chaintanya Sairam Mogili 614 Meruga Shanmukha R 615 Chakravarthi S.V.C. 616 Aravind Babu L 617 Gopinath M 618 Musini Ajay 619 Nitheesh Pothireddy 6

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Krishna Teja wins titleby S.Subba Raju FA, Chief Arbiter

Topalov wins Norway 2015Anand draws Topalov, finishes second

by Arvind AaronFormer five-time world chess champion Viswanathan Anand drew Veselin Topalov in the final round to finish runner-up and undefeated in the Norway Chess 2015 that concluded with the ninth and final round on 25th June2015.The Topalov versus Anand game ended in a draw after just 18 moves by repetition. Topalov did not want to press. Given that Anand played within two weeks of his mother’s passing away, it was an extraordinary result for him.Carlsen who had been gaining

ratings after every event is now taking a beating. He loses 23 Elo from the event after the last round defeat to his trainer and countryman Hammer. Anand will also overtake Caruana into the No.2 rating in the July 1, 2015 FIDE rating list.Anand is gaining twelve Elo from this contest. He won three games and drew six to remain undefeated. He has had a good run this year and should be continuing this into the rest of his engagements.Anand played the Queen’s Gambit declined with the black pieces and the players repeated the position with bishop moves to make a draw. Topalov is gaining 18 Elo from this 2946 rating performance.Final placings: 1 V Topalov (Bul) 6.5/9; 2 V Anand (Ind) 6; 3 H Nakamura (USA) 6; 4 Anish Giri (Ned) 5.5; 5 F Caruana (Ita) 4; 6 M Vachier-Lagrave (Fra) 4; 7 M Carlsen (Nor) 3.5; 8 A Grischuk (Rus) 3.5; 9 L Aronian (Arm) 3; 10 J L Hammer (Nor) 3.

Anand crushes Vachier-LagraveFive time former world champion Viswanathan Anand scored his second win to move to the joint second place with four points.The older players were the only winners on 19th june. Former world champion Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria widened his lead to 1.5 points when Russia’s Alexander Grischuk fell after good opening play.Topalov leads with 5½ points. Anand and Hikaru Nakamura of USA are on 4 points. Anand won with a sparkling bishop sacrifice. The attacking genius from Chennai tore through black’s Sicilian to win a queen for two minor pieces.Anand and Topalov, the two oldest players in this 10-player field were the only winners. Rest of the games were drawn.

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Anand, Viswanathan (2804)Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime (2723) [B90]3rd Norway Chess 2015 Stavanger NOR (6.2), 22.06.2015[Ramirez Alvarez,Alejandro]1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.h3 e6 7.g4 h6 8.Bg2 Nc6 9.Be3 Be7 10.f4 Nd7 11.0–0 Nxd4 12.Qxd4 0–0 13.Qd2 Rb8 14.Ne2 b5 15.Rad1 Qc7 16.f5 Nf6 17.Ng3 So far we have been following the game between Navara, D - Grischuk, A in the 2014 Tromso Olympiad. That thrilling game ended in a draw after 17...Re8, but in the annotations to that game for ChessBase Magazine by Igor Stohl, he mentioned the possibility of playing Bb7 in this position. 17...Bb7 18.Kh1

an interesting idea. Black has a few options in this position. [18.Bxh6 was considered by Stohl. You can look at those annotations in your CBM, or simply in your MegaBase 2015! There are many variations and tactical nuances. 18...gxh6 19.Qxh6 d5 20.g5 Qxg3 21.Rd3 Bc5+! 22.Kh1 Be3! Is a key point of the position. It will be obvious why soon.] 18...Rbd8? Already the losing blunder. The variations after Bxh6 now work without a problem. [18...Kh7 looks unnatural but does defend against Bxh6, so it is worth a try.; 18...d5 looks the main line here, for example 19.e5! the point 19...Qxe5 20.Bf4 Qxb2 21.Bxb8 Rxb8 Black finds himself down

the exchange, but he has two pawns for it. Perhaps White's initiative here is enough for an advantage, but more practical tests will be needed.] 19.Bxh6 gxh6 20.Qxh6 d5 What else? Without this breakthrough Black's position will just get annihilated on the kingside. 21.g5! Excellent calculation from Anand, identifying the differences in the position. 21...Qxg3 22.Rd3 Now there is no possibility to play Bc5+, as the move is not check! Black is toast. 22...Nh5 [22...Nxe4 23.f6! Bxf6 (23...Qxg5 24.Qxg5+ Nxg5 25.fxe7 will leave White up the exchange after recovering taking a rook next move, but more importantly the knight on g5 is hanging to the pin on the g-file in too many variations.) 24.Bxe4 threatening mate on h7 24...dxe4 25.Rxg3 and Black is simply down too much material. The pair of bishops is nothing compared to the queen. However this was MVL's best chance.; 22...Qe5 23.gxf6 Bxf6 24.Rf4 and the rook lift is absolutely deadly. Now rg4 next move wins the game. 24...Bg7 25.Rg3+-] 23.g6! An important move to find. 23...fxg6 24.fxg6 Rxf1+ 25.Bxf1 Nf6 what else? Without this move Black is powerless against Qh7+ and Qh8 mate. 26.Rxg3 dxe4 27.Be2

White's position is not only crushing, he has plenty of extra material. 27...e3+ 28.Kg1 Bc5 29.Kf1 1–0

Anand defeats Carlsen in the fourth round

Former five time world chess champion Viswanathan Anand defeated world champion Magnus Carlsen of Norway in the fourth round to register his first victory. Anand is on 2.5/4 in this 10-player Norway Chess 2015 event.The two older players had their day in Norway on June 19. The other, Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria defeated Levon Aronian of Armenia in a queen’s gambit Ragozin to move into sole lead on 3.5/4. Five rounds remain to be played.In the last five rounds, Anand still had three black games and two white games. In the first four, he enjoyed three white games. “I misjudged the position and followed that by horrible play,” said Carlsen who lost his third game. Carlsen was without a victory.Organisers had apologised to the players and Carlsen about the change in time control. Carlsen who plays with a high degree of risk, is more exposed when he starts to lose. He wants to make a comeback and pays that price. This aspect of chess can be compared to gambling. A 0.5/4 should be an all-time low score for any world champion in a classical chess.The problem started for Carlsen on move 27 when he had to do something on the queen side before white pushes on his king side. Carlsen sacrificed one pawn. Anand sacrificed

an exchange. Anand took back two exchanges and won on move 47.The standings after four rounds: 1 V Topalov (Bul) 3.5/4; 2 H Nakamura (USA) 3; 3-4. V Anand (Ind), A Giri (Ned) 2.5 each; 5-7. F Caruana (Ita), A Grischuk (Rus), M Vachier-Lagrave (Fra) 2 each; 8-9. L Aronian (Arm), Jon Ludvig Hammer (Nor) 1 each; 10 M Carlsen (Nor) 0.5.

V.Anand – M. Carlsen, Norway chess 2015

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.0–0 Be7 6.d3 d6 7.c3 0–0 8.Nbd2 Re8 9.Re1 b5 10.Bc2 Bf8 11.Nf1 g6 12.h3 Bb7 13.Ng3 Nb8 14.d4 Nbd7 15.a4 c5 16.d5 c4 17.Bg5 Bg7 18.Qd2 Rb8 19.Nh2! (Applying pressure to f6 and h6)

19...Bc8 20.Ng4 (“I was kicking myself for not taking on b5 first” – Anand. Now Carlsen secures counterplay on the b-file ) 20...Nc5 21.Nh6+ Bxh6 (If 21...Kf8 22.Re3! and Rf3 with a very awkward pin) 22.Bxh6 bxa4 23.Ra2 a3! 24.bxa3 Nfd7 (24...Rb3 25.Bg5!) 25.f4 (The computer prefers Black here, whereas my human assessment is that Black’s position is critical)25...a5?! (25...exf4 26.Qxf4 Qf6 27.Qe3 Ne5 makes a fight of it. Black can play Rb3 next) 26.Rf1 f6 27.f5! Nd3 28.Bxd3 cxd3 29.Qd1! Re7 30.Raf2 Rf7 31.Qxd3 Nc5 32.Qf3 Ba6 33.Qg4!

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67 Muralinadh K. 568 Rama Krishna G 569 Hemanth Kumar M 570 Charishma Yadav Palla 571 Suryanaraya Swamy M 572 Saketh B 573 R Venkata Raghunandan 574 Soundarya Kumar Pradhan 575 Neel Venkat Yerramilli 576 Anand K 577 Trinadharao S 578 Surya Mouli Ullangi 579 Koteswara Rao K. 580 Shanmukha Teja P 581 Sahithya G 582 Neeraj Anirudh K 583 M Tulasi Ram Kumar 584 Ramakrishna A 585 Kanthi Kiran Katarapu 586 Praneetha K 587 Vidya Sagar J.B.M. 588 C B Surya Bangaru Raju 589 Dara Divya 590 Venkata Satya Pranav G 591 Ravi Teja Kanakala 592 Durga Surya Krishna Teja 593 Karmakar Ramen 4½94 Eswar Sai Akhlil Ch 4½95 Prudhvi Krishna M 4½96 Aravind Kumar E 4½97 Avinash Vvus 4½98 Srinivasa Rao Tummalapali 4½99 Alekhya B 4½100 Swathi Y 4½101 Chaitanya Srihari Y 4½102 Chinnam Vyshnavi 4½103 Lasya Mayukha N 4½104 Abhinav Chandra Kodali 4½105 Martin Luther K. 4½106 Sai Yaswanth G V 4½107 Rama Mohan Rao N 4½

(Black is lost – the attacking pieces outweigh the defenders and the knight is excellent at close quarters) 33...g5(33...Bc8 34.Qh4 ) 34.h4 Bxf1 35.Rxf1 Qd7 36.hxg5 fxg5 37.Qh5 (Or 37.Bxg5 Rg7 38.Nh5 ) 37...Kh8 38.f6 Rg8 39.Bg7+ Rfxg7 40.fxg7+ Qxg7 41.Nf5!

Winning. For today’s puzzle, how would Anand have continued after 41...Qd7 or 41...Qf6? 41...Qg6 42.Qxg6 Rxg6 43.Ne7 Kg7 (43...Rh6 44.Rf8+ Kg7 45.Rc8! Kf7 46.Nf5 Rg6 47.Nxd6+ Rxd6 48.Rxc5) 44.Nxg6 Kxg6 45.Rf8 a4 (45...Nxe4 46.Ra8 Nxc3 47.Rxa5 and the a-pawn advances) 46.c4 h5 47.Kf2 Nxe4+ 48.Ke3 Nc5 49.Rd8 1-0

Jennitha Anto wins Gold third timeby Arvind Aaron

Woman International Master K Jennitha Anto of Tamil Nadu, won the 15th IPCA World Individual Chess Championship that concluded at Bratislava, Slovakia. In the combined event for the disabled, Jennitha won three, lost three and drew three to score 4.5 points from her nine games. Overall, in the Open (men and women) event, Jennitha, the wheelchair player from India finished seventeenth among 38 players to be the top finisher among women and win the gold medal.

Jennitha Anto won this crown first in 2013 and this is her third gold medal. This time she was lucky as three players scored the same 4.5 points but her tie-break score was higher. Chennai’s FIDE Trainer K Visweswaran is her coach.After the final round, a 10-board World v Russia match took place. Jennitha Anto was picked to represent the World team. She beat her Russian opponent and helped the World Team to win by a huge 6.5-3.5 margin.The medal winners: 1 WIM K Jennitha Anto 4.5/; 2 Sataveva Lana (Rus) 4.5; 3 WIM Galina Melnik (Rus) 4.5.

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2ndMineral Open Fide rating ChessTourna-ment 2015was held at the Hotel Surya, Sayajiganj, Vadodara, Gujarat from 11thto 15th June 2015. In this tournament, a total of 213 players had participated, comprising 146 Rated players and 1 International Mas-ter.The tournament had 9 rounds, with two rounds / day, and a single round on last day.Hard fought victories over higher rated play-ers draws were witnessed in the tournament, culminating in the emergence of Gusain Hi-mal (Chandigarh) ,who secured 8.5 points, as the Champion of this event, followed byJwalin Mehta (Guj) secured 8.0 point as Runners-up. The total of Rs.2.5 lacs cash prizes had awarded to achievers with beautiful trophy to champion with Rs. 35,000 of cash prize and under category children players of Age 8,10,12and 16. In addition to that organizer encouraged by providing a prize to top ten in rating below 2000 and Best top five unrated playerof the event. The local Vadodara play-ers has also awarded with special prizes in under 8,10,12 & 16 categories.

Accommodation was available in the same and nearby hotels so as even in tight sched-ule, players reached at venue before time & easily followed the time schedule. An A/C tournament hall gave the great satisfaction to players. And a delicious variety of food was the great satisfactory for the outside players who are staying in the hotel. Mineral chess Academy had the privilege of conducting this tournament 2nd time with all satisfac-tory level in all area for players.Kudos to Mr. PruthvirajLeuva(Tournament Director) & Mr.

2ndMineral Open Fide rating ChessTournament, Vadodara…

Gusain Himal is Championby IA Ambrish C Joshi, Chief Arbiter

Sunil Manohar (President of academy) who work hard and fulfil all the requirements of the players for the success of the tourna-ment. The players and parents were very happy with the amenities and facilities pro-vided by the organizer.

The team of the chief Arbiter was always on the four corner of the hall with eagle eye for technical support by IA, Ambrish C.Joshi , Nihar Ranjan Sasmal(IA), Memood, Yogeshdongre&H.L.Patel. Thanks all the play-ers for not arising a single Appeal during the tournament .Once again thanks to one and all. Rk Name Pts1 Gusain Himal 8½2 Mehta Jwalin 83 Jay Kundalia 7½4 Mota Pankit 75 Dixit Nikhil 76 Nair Sanjeev 77 Nirav Y. Rajasuba 78 Trivedi Karan R 79 Dhruvik Shah 6½10 Snehal Bhosale 6½11 Dave Kantilal 6½12 Kane Samvid 6½13 Didwania Vishal 6½14 Jeet Jain 6½15 Bhogal Rupesh 6½16 Parikh Kairav 6½17 Maulik Raval 6½18 Vijay Anand M. 6½19 Jeel Shah 6½20 Harsh Mangesh Ghag 6½21 Sanjeet Manohar 6½22 Gopal Rathod 623 Deshpande Abhishek 6

24 Mehta Naitik R 625 Pimpalkhare Vedant 626 Gupta Rajesh R.S. 627 Ajinkya Pingale 628 Pankaj Gandhi 629 Kakkad Jeet 630 Raichura Niyant 631 Deodhar Vrushali Umesh 632 Shibin K Benny 633 Shah Rutvi 634 Kambli Pushkaraj 635 Chudasama Ankit 636 Amit Panchal 637 Milind Parle 638 Anandha Venkatesan 639 Anuj Shrivatri 640 Shegaonkar Akshay 641 Anam Alpesh Laxmikant 642 Gajengi Rajababu 5½43 Dave Sneh 5½44 Rawal Shailesh 5½45 Joy Pankaj Shah 5½46 Patel Vivek 5½47 Narke Ajinkya 5½48 Nagare Akhilesh 5½49 Kandke Sachin 5½50 Deshmukh Nachiket 5½51 Shashi Kumar Goswami 5½52 Kadav Omkar 5½53 Gokulraj K 5½54 Kavisha S Shah 5½55 Jaeel Atharva 5½56 Parth M Shah 5½57 Pandhare Swapnil 5½58 Menon Padmanand 5½59 Saranya Y 560 Sangma Rahul IM 561 Shah Yash B 562 Dharmendra Mojidra 563 Rahim Lakhani 564 Shenvi Pratik 565 Shuban Saha 566 Ansh M Shah 567 Kumtakar Deepak 568 Gohil Vishal 569 Vishal Vala 570 Falgun D Purohit 5

71 Parikh Pratham 572 Vivek N Vala 573 Monish C S 574 Shreyam Mishra 575 Suryavanshi Brijesh M 576 Machchhar Ravi 577 Shaival Patwa 578 Mehta Vansh Himanshu 579 Damani Malay 580 Dr Sanjay Date 581 Vaidya Kaiwalya 582 Desai Janam 583 Vyas H N 584 Parikh Vivek Tarak 585 Ghate Rajanikant 586 Parmar Bharat 587 Prashant Salunke 588 Parekh Daksh 589 Rajan S D 590 Mahendra M Parmar 591 Dr. Amitkumar Patel 592 Varshil Yagnik 593 Kamdar Aparva 4½94 Neel Thomas 4½95 V Chandrasekaran 4½96 Shah Hard Nikeshkumar 4½97 Bhatt Pradip P. 4½98 Parmar Jay 4½99 Kapadia Harshad 4½100 Shinde Kunal 4½101 Patel Rut 4½102 Lasani H Kothari 4½103 Patel Kaushal 4½104 Munna Das Bairagi 4½105 Trivedi Pranshu Harit 4½106 Dabhi Sangeet H 4½107 Dwivedi Umang 4½108 Dhruvin Sajnani 4½109 Gohil Yashpalsinh 4½110 Bokade Chinmay 4½111 Mahek J Hinhoriya 4½112 Aaditya N Pandya 4½113 Thadani Vishal 4½114 Ahuja Mahendra 4½115 Rawat Dhanpal Singh 4½116 Aditya P Melani 4½117 Shah Shivam Pranav 4½

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Nalinikanta Mohanty Memorial FIDE Rating Odisha State Women Chess Tournament was organized by Kendrapara District Chess As-sociation under the aegis of Odisha Chess Association and co-sponsored by Odisha Mining Corporation Limited from 9th to 11th June 2015.Odisha State Women Chess Tournament is the 1st Rating tournament in Odisha, selection match of women with an entry fee of rupees one hundred only (low-est entry fee for FIDE Rating tournament). A man who was a player-cum-arbiter(Senior National Arbiter) – cum – coach, proved him-self as an organizer by conducting 3 events (in January All Odisha Open tournament (Prize money of Rs. 50,000/-), in the month of June Women Rating & State Sub Junior (U-15) Open & Girls selection match) within 6 months. I would like to thank Mr. Bhabesh Mohanty, and his entire team of newly born Kendrapara District Chess Association for making it a grand success.

The expectance of total strength was mini-mum of 50. Unfortunately, the actual partici-pants were only 23. The causes are many. Recently a Mega Chess event was held at KIIT (8th KIIT International Chess Festival of 3 Category of 740 participants). State (U-11) (188 participants) ended on 07th June. Few players have started their journey for National U-9, at Ahmedabad, Gujarat. Many players/parents were afraid of losing Ratings and also the hot climate.

At the inaugural ceremony held on 9th June 2015 the following dignitaries were present.

Chief Guest, Subhasis Patnaik, Executive Member, All Odisha Chess Association,Guests of Honour Sri Rakesh Mohanty, Social Worker,Chief Speaker Sri Debendra Kumar Mishra, Principal, D.S. Law College,Sri Had-ibandhu Singh, Chief Advisor, Kendrapara District Chess Association,Sri Bhabesh Mo-hanty, Hon. Secretary, Kendrapara District Chess Association,Sri Smruti Ranjan Nayak, Executive Member, Kendrapara District Chess Association

In the 2nd round in board no.2 Sreejita Khun-tia, 1285 a 13 year girl beat International medal holder Sunyasakta Satpathy, 1794 (highest ELO 1954). In 4th Round board no.3 Anoushkaa Mohanty, 1257 drew with Akankhya Kabi, 1688 (highest 1781). At the end of round 6, Top seed and Odisha 3rd Rank in Women Smaraki Mohanty clinched the Championship with 6 points & a cash prize of ` 1,800/- . WFM Rutumbara Bidhar became Runner-up with `1,350/-.

Out of 14 unrated players no one will get the Rating in the month of July. Smaraki Mohanty, 1841; Sreejita Khuntia, 1285, WFM Rutum-bara Bidhar, 1785, & Anoushkaa Mohanty, 1257 increased 40, 21, 16 & 14 in their rat-ing respectively. Sunyasakta Satpathy, 1794, Akankhya Kabi, 1688, Gitashree Biswal, 1363 & Tanvi Mallick lose -57, -22, -6 & - 6 from their rating.

In the valedictory ceremony the Chief Guest was Sri Anshuman Mohanty, M.L.A., Rajnagar Constituency (Son of Late Nalinikanta Mo-

Nalinikanta Mohanty Memorial FIDE Rating Odisha State Women Chess Tournament

Smaraki Mohanty wins titleIA Suresh Chandra Sahoo, Chief Arbiter

hanty). Other dignitaries who graced the oc-casion on the last day were Choudhury Rabin-dranath Routray, Social Worker, Sj. Debendra Kumar Mishra, Principal, D.S. Law College, Chief Speaker Sj. Subhasis Patnaik, Executive Member, All Odisha Chess Association, Sj. Manoj Parida, Secretary, Jajpur United Chess Association; Sri Hadibandhu Singh, Chief Advisor, Kendrapara District Chess Associa-tion; Sri Bhabesh Mohanty, Hon. Secretary, Kendrapara District Chess Association. The Press and Media covered the event very well. Without any dispute the tournament ended successfully.The Chief Arbiter for the Event was International Arbiter Suresh Chandra Sa-hoo ably assisted by Senior National Arbiter Bhabesh Mohanty of Odisha.Final standingsRk Name Pts1 Smaraki Mohanty 62 Bidhar Rutumbara WFM53 Akankhya Kabi 4½4 Mohanty Anoushkaa 4½5 Krushna Mishra 46 Biswal Gitashree 47 Sunyasakta Satpathy 48 Mishra Sonali 3½9 Khuntia Shreejita 310 Jena Suhana 311 Ananya Anamika 312 Singh Ankita 313 Mallick Tanvi 314 Behera Sarita 315 Singh Nikita 2½16 Anuska P Mohanty 2½17 Mohanty A Anindita 2½18 Mishra Anjali 219 Dibyashrita Swain 220 Biswal Pallishree 221 Rout Niraja 222 Biswal Pushpalata 123 Mishra Susmita 1

Puzzle of the monthby C.G.S.Narayanan

Finding the last move is one of the popular retro conditions put to use in many interesting problems. In the dia-gram below it is not given as to whose turn it is to move.The solver has to find the sequence of moves which led to the position.

Werner KeynDie Schwalbe 1980

Last move?(Solution on page 46)

The great mobility of the King forms one of the chief characteristics of all endgame strategy. In the middlegame the King is a mere "super", in the endgame on the other hand - on of the "principals". We must therefore develop him, bring him nearer to the fighting line. *******Another of Rubinstein's characteristic features is his dislike for melodramatics. Empty rhetoric and pretentious moves alike shock him to the core!

- Aaron Nimzowitsch

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The 16th National Cities Team Chess Championship 2015 organized by Goa Chess Association and Canacona Sports Academy in association with Sports Authority of Goa, on behalf of All India Chess Federation from 14th to 18th June 2015 JLN Stadium Hall, Fatorda, Margoa, Goa.

Managers Meeting started on 14th June 2015 at 10:30 am at the venue under the chairmanship of Mr.R.C.Chatterjee, IA,Chief Arbiter, Mr.Kishor M Bandekar,Organising Secretary & Secretary of Goa Chess Association ,Mr. Ashesh Keni,President of Salcete Taluka Chess Association & Tourna-ment Director, Mr.Ramdas Sawant,treasurer, GCA & Asst Arbiter Sanjan Kavlekar, Mr.Damodar Zambanlikar, liason Officer and Asst. arbiter,Mr.Swapnil Hoble,Asst.Arbiter were present on the dias where all the necessary technical matter discussed and Appeals Committee was formed.

At the opening ceremony International Masters in the tournament and other dignitaries par-ticipated in the lighting of the lamp and the first round commenced immediately thereafter.Total 20 teams from 14 different cities among which 90 players including 3IM, 74 Fide Rated Players participated in the Championship.Time control 90 minutes with 30 seconds increment from move no.1. All the boards provided with DGT Clocks, Tournament Hall is fully A/C & good in all aspects.

After a tough fight Bangalore city team consisting of IM Thejkumar MS, IM Himanshu Sharma, IM Stany GA, N Sanjay and M Satvik became the champion.Arbiters team headed by Mr. Chat-terjee ,IA Chief Arbiter,Mr.Anandh Babu VL,FA-Dy Chief Arbiter, Arbiter Mrs.Jostna Saripalli FA,Mr.Sanjay Kavlekar R NA and Mr.Swapnil Hoble, Asst Arbiter conducted the tournament successfully without a single appeal and dispute.

All the arbiters performed their duty sincerely and satisfactorily.Goa Chess Association, Or-ganizer of the championship has so many dedicated personalities Like Mr.Vinay Tendulkar, President of GCA, Mr.Ashesh Keni,President, Salcete Taluka Chess Association, Mr.Shairendra Naik ,Jt.Secretary,GCA, Mrs.Namrata Shetye, Mr.Ramdas Sawant,Treasurer,GCA, Mr.Damodar Zambanilkar, Mr.Swapnil Hoble under the leadership of Mr.Kishor M Bandekar,Secreatary GCA and Organizing Secretary of the Championship, Organized the championship in an exceptional manner.Prize Distribution ceremony held on 18th June at 04:00 PM at the venue.Final Ranking of the Teams Rank Team Gam. Win Drew Lost MP Pts.1 Bangalore City Team 7 7 0 0 14 26½2 Calicut City-Kerala 7 5 0 2 10 203 Ponda City A- Goa 7 5 0 2 10 16½4 Madgaon City C-Goa 7 4 1 2 9 16½5 Ludhiana City-Punjab 7 4 1 2 9 156 Kolkata City-West Bengal 7 4 0 3 8 16½7 Indore City-Madhya Pradesh 7 4 0 3 8 158 Cochin City-Kerala 7 4 0 3 8 14½9 Madgaon City D-Goa 7 4 0 3 8 1410 Vasco da Gama City 2-Goa 7 4 0 3 8 12½

16th National Cities Team Chess Championship 2015

Bangalore City wins team titleIA R.C.Chatterjee, Chief Arbiter

The First Grandmasters in the Worldby Vijay D. Pandit

FIDE created the prestigious title of “Grandmaster of chess” in 1950 and it bestowed upon this title for the first time directly on the following 27 leading chess players in the world.

1 Dr Max Euwe (Ned) 1901-19812 Dr Reuben Fine (USA) 1914-19933 Paul Keres (USSR) 916-19754 Samuel Reshevsky (USA) 1911-19925 Vassily Smyslov (USSR) 1921-20106 David Bronstein (USSR) 1924-20067 Laszlo Szabo (Hun) 1917-19988 Isaac Boleslavsky (USSR) 1919-19779 Alexander Kotov (USSR) 1913-198110 Andor A. Lilienthal (USSR) 1911-201011 Salo Flohr (USSR) 1908-198312 Igor Bonderavsky (USSR) 1913-197913 Miguel Najdorf (Arg) 1910-199714 Gideon Stahlberg (Swe) 1908-196715 Mikhail Botvinnik (USSR) 1911-199516 V.V.Ragozin (USSR) 1908-196217 Gregory Levenfish (USSR) 1889-196118 Dr O.S.Bernstein ((Fra) 1882-196219 Oldrich Duras (Czecho) 1882-195720 Ernst Gruenfeld (Austria) 1893-196221 Geza Maroczy (Hun) 1870-195122 Jaques Mieses (Eng) 1865-195423 Akiba Rubinstein (Pol) 1882-196124 Dr S G Tartakower (Fra) 1887-195625 Dr Milan Vidmar (Yugo) 1885-196226 Friedrich Saemisch (WG) 1896-197527 Boris Kostich (Yugo) 1887-1963

Nos.1 to 14 were due to compete in the then inaugural Candidate Tournament (at Budapest, Hungary in April-May 1950, wherein Bronstein emerged as the Challenger) while No.15 (Botvinnik) was the then reigning World Chess Champion. The remaining players were selected on the basis of their known strength and performance in international tournaments/matches.It may be noted that Boris Kostich of Yugoslavia had visited India in 1925.FIDE had decided not to award the Grandmaster title posthumously. World-class players who died prior to 1950, including World Champions Steinitz (d.1900), Lasker (d.1941), Capablanca (d.1942), and Alekhine (d.1946), therefore never received the title

It is sad that FIDE did not include Mir Sultan Khan for the honour. One of the reasons might be that in 1950 neither India nor Pakistan were in a position to take up such matter with Fide.

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Selected games from Commomwealth Chess 2015,Delhi

Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron

Gupta,Abhijeet (2605) Praneeth, Surya (2305) [E83]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.f3 This is the Samisch Attack against the Kings Indian Defence which had been very popular in the 1970s. 5...0–0 6.Nge2 Nc6 7.Be3 a6 8.Qd2 Na5 9.Nf4

[Hundreds of games were played some 20 years ago with the move 9 Nc1 here, the idea being to challenge the Na5 with Nb3. E.Ermenkov (2454) - S.Khader (2362) , 2002 went: 9.Nc1 Nd7 10.Be2 c5 11.Nb3 Nxb3 12.axb3 cxd4 13.Bxd4 Nc5 In the actu-al game, Ermenkov won.]9...b5 10.h4!? With his knight on f4, white thinks the best way to attack would be down the h-file. In the process he sacrifices his c4 pawn. 10...Nxc4 11.Bxc4 bxc4 White makes no attempt to capture the black pawn on c4. He willingly remains a pawn down as the momentum that he gets for the king-side attack is excellent com-pensation. 12.0–0–0 c6 13.h5! Qa5 14.g4!?

14...e5 [If 14...Rb8 15.g5 Nd7 and white has good attacking chances.(15...Qxg5?? 16.Nxg6 wins) ] 15.Nfe2 Be6 16.Bh6 Ra7? [Better was 16...Qc7 with a slight ad-vantage for white, but not 16...Rfb8? 17.Bxg7 Kxg7 18.hxg6 fxg6 19.Qh6+ Kg8 20.g5 Nh5 21.Rxh5! gxh5 22.Qxe6++-] 17.Bxg7 Kxg7 18.dxe5 dxe5 [Black is simply lost after: 18...Qxe5 19.hxg6 fxg6 20.Qxd6+-] 19.Qg5! Ne8 [19...h6 appears at first sight to be a good defence, but with 20.Qe3 attack-ing the unprotected rook on a7, white gets the necessary momentum to carry out his at-tack on black's weakened king-side: 20...Rd7 21.Rxd7 Bxd7 22.hxg6 winning for white.] 20.Nf4! An excellent move utilising the pin of black's e5 pawn against his unproteced queen on a5. 20...Bc8 21.hxg6!

[After 21.hxg6 fxg6 (21...hxg6 22.Nh5+ Kg8 23.Nf6+ Nxf6 24.Qxf6) 22.Rxh7+! this stroke

totally crushes black. 22...Kxh7 23.Qxg6+ Kh8 24.Rh1+ mates.] 1–0

Karthikeyan,Murali (2502) Vipul,S (2152) [C50]1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.0–0 Nf6 5.d3 0–0 6.c3 d6 7.Bg5 Ne7 8.Nh4 d5 9.exd5 Nfxd5 10.b4 f6 11.Bxf6 [Somewhat better was: 11.bxc5 fxg5 12.Nf3 Ng6 13.Re1 Bg4 14.Nbd2 Kh8 15.Qb3 Ndf4 16.Qxb7 Nxd3 17.Bxd3 Qxd3 18.Qe4 Nf4 19.Nxg5 Black's problem in this variation was defending his e5 and g5 pawns.] 11...Rxf6 12.bxc5 Kh8

13.Nd2? [This gives away the c3 pawn and then has to fight long to recover it with a faint advantage.. It was best to take the attack to black straightaway without giving away c3: 13.Re1 Nc6 14.Nf3 Bg4 15.Nbd2 Rg6 (15...Nxc3 16.Qb3 and the knight is lost.) 16.Qc2± White has a big positional advantage due to his pressure on e5, d5 and b7. The imme-diate threat is 17 Nxe5 as the knight is no longer pinned.] 13...Nxc3! 14.Qe1 Ng6? [Often, developing a hitherto undeveloped piece would help a player face complications boldly. Here leading to an equal game would be: 14...Be6 15.Qxe5 Bxc4 16.Qxc3 Bxd3 17.Rfe1 Ng6=] 15.Nxg6+ Rxg6 16.Nf3!± White is simultaneously attacking the pawn on e5 and the knight on c3. 16...Nd5 17.Nxe5 Rf6

18.Rb1! Developing his Ra1 and requiring black to defend his b7 as otherwise his bishop cannot move. It is such moves that ultimately combine to put pressure on the opponent and force him into errors. 18...Rb8 19.Qa5! Surprisingly, black's queen-side is very vul-nerable and white is quick to exploit it. 19...a6 [This leads to a forced loss. But no better was: 19...Be6 20.Qxa7 Rf8] 20.Bxd5! b6 [The only move that can put up a semblance of a fight. If 20...Qxd5 21.Qxc7 Ra8 22.Rfe1 and white wins.] 21.cxb6! cxb6 22.Nf7+!

22...Rxf7 23.Bxf7 bxa5 24.Rxb8 [Af-ter 24.Rxb8 Qc7 25.Re1 g5 26.Rxc8+ Qxc8 27.Re8+ white wins.] 1–0Kunte,A (2483)Vaishali,R (2256) [D78]1.Nf3 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.g3 Bg7 4.Bg2 0–0 5.d4 c6 6.0–0 d5 7.Qb3 dxc4 8.Qxc4 Be6 9.Qb4 Qb6 10.Qxe7 Re8 [10...Na6

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has been played with success here.] 11.Qd6 Na6 12.Nc3 Rad8 13.Qf4 Nb4 14.Qh4

14...Bg4?! [14...Nc2! 15.Rb1 Nxd4 16.Nxd4 Qxd4 17.e4 Ng4 18.h3 Ne5 19.Be3 Qb4 and if now 20.Bxa7? c5–+ and white's bishop is in trouble.] 15.Bg5 Bxf3 16.Bxf3 Rxd4= 17.e4 Nfd5 [The wrong knight! Better was: 17...Nbd5! 18.Nxd5 cxd5 19.Be3 Nxe4 20.Bxe4 dxe4 21.Bxd4 Bxd4 22.Rae1 e3=] 18.Ne2 [18.Nxd5 cxd5 19.Be3 dxe4 20.Rad1 Nc2 21.Bxd4 Nxd4 22.Bg2= (22.Bxe4? Bf6 23.Qg4 h5–+) ] 18...Rd3 19.exd5 Rxf3 20.d6 f6? Diagram # [A move like this which opens up an important diagonal against her own king could be hardly good. Black misses an important variation that could take her to victory. Win-ning was: 20...Rxf2 21.d7 Rfxe2+ 22.Kh1 Rf8 23.d8Q Rxd8 24.Bxd8 Qb5 25.Rad1 Nd3 and the two threats of ...Qd5+ as well as ...Nf2+ cannot be parried.]

21.d7! Rd8 22.Qe4 fxg5 23.Qxf3 Rxd7 The skirmish is over and white has won the exchange at the cost of a pawn. 24.Nc3 Nc2? [Black overlooks the long term effect of her 20....f6? making her king vulneraable along the a2-g8 diagonal. Better was: 24...Rf7 25.Qe2 Qc5 white is better, but not winning.] 25.Qe4! Diagram # White threatens the knight on c2 and the rook via 26 Qe8+. Black tries to save both, but white's well co-ordinated forces win splendidly.

25...Rd2 [Black is lost. The alternative here was: 25...Nxa1 26.Qe8+ Bf8 27.Qxd7 Qxb2 28.Qe6+ Kg7 29.Qe5+ Kh6 30.h4 gxh4 31.Rd1! with a mating attack.] 26.Rad1! Qd4 [26...Rxd1 27.Qe8+ Bf8 28.Qe6+ Kg7 29.Rxd1 and the white forces with an extra rook are well set to mate quickly.] 27.Rxd2! Qxd2 28.Rd1!! Traps the queen and wins instantly. Note that white did not give a single check along the a2-g8 diagonal, but the threat of the queen getting on the di-agonal coloured the actual play. The decisive mistake was 20....f6?? 1–0

Grover,S (2509)Nitin,S (2357) [B81]1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 e6 6.g4 The Keres Attack in the Sicil-ian Scheveningen system. 6...h6 7.h3 Nc6

8.Be3 a6 9.Bg2 Ne5 10.Qe2 Qc7 11.f4 Nc4 12.0–0–0 Nxe3 [D.Sadvakasov (2629) v K. Kulaots (2558) 2006 went: 12...Bd7 13.Kb1 Nxe3 14.Qxe3 0–0–0 15.Rd3 Kb8 16.e5 dxe5 17.fxe5 Nh7± White won.] 13.Qxe3 Be7 14.Rhe1 Bd7 15.Qf2

15...Rc8 [Probably black feared a pawn storm if he castled on the king-side. But with white’s dark square bishop already exchanged off there was no need for such a concern. 15...0–0 16.g5 (16.e5 Ne8=) 16...hxg5 17.fxg5 Ne8=] 16.Kb1 Qb6?! [This move has the threat of 17...Rxc3. However, better was to castle now: 16...0–0 17.Rd3 b5=] 17.Qg3 Rc4 18.Qd3! Rc7 19.e5 [The typical knight sacrifice on d5 against the uncastled king in the Sicilian does not work here: 19.Nd5? exd5 20.exd5 Bc8–+ black is poised to castle and stay a knight ahead without any disadvantage.] 19...dxe5 20.fxe5 Bb4 21.Nxe6!? Diagram #

21...Rxc3? [A combination of extraordinary depth. If black accepts this dangerous sac-rifice and calculates well, he can survive as the following variations show. 21...fxe6 22.Qg6+ Kd8 23.Na4 Qf2 24.c3 Nd5 25.Bxd5 exd5 26.Rf1 Qg2 27.cxb4 Bxa4 28.Qd6+! Kc8 29.Rf8+ Be8! 30.Qe6+ Kb8 31.Qxe8+ Ka7 32.Qb8+ Kb6 33.Ka1 Qe2! (33...Rxf8 34.Qxf8 Ka7²) 34.Qxc7+™ (34.Rdf1?? Qxf1+!–+) 34...Kxc7 35.Rc1+ Kd7 36.Rxh8 Qxe5=; However, 21...Qxe6? 22.exf6 and the queen is lost.; or, 21...Bxe6?? 22.Qd8#] 22.Qd4! One requires courage and calculation to make such a quiet move in the midst of such violent play with pieces hanging all over the board! 22...Qxd4 23.Nxg7+! The knight is bound to die. So kick away a pawn as it goes out of play! 23...Kf8 24.Rxd4 Diagram # White’s plus point in the various complica-tions is that the Nf6 is hanging since the 20th move.

24...Rg3 [Black’s game is beyond sav-ing. If 24...Rc7 25.Rxb4 Kxg7 26.exf6+ Kxf6 27.Rf4+ Kg6 28.Re7!+-; Or, 24...Bc5 25.Rdd1! Kxg7 26.exf6+ Kxf6 27.Rxd7 Rg3 28.Bxb7 Rxh3 29.Bxa6+-] 25.exf6 Bxe1 [Or, if 25...Rxg2 26.Rxd7 Kg8 27.c3 Bc5 28.Re5 Bf8 29.Re8+-] 26.Rxd7 Ba5 27.Re7 If 28...Kg8 29 Re8+ Kh7 30 Be4# 1–0

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Karthikeyan,Murali (2502)Van der Nat,Nicholas (RSA) (2348) [B31]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 g6 4.0–0 Bg7 5.Bxc6 dxc6 6.d3 Nf6 7.h3 Nd7 8.a4 a5 9.Nbd2 0–0 10.Nc4 e5 11.Nh2 11 Bd2 and 11 Bg5 have been played here before. 11...b5 12.Na3 Ba6 13.Bd2 This move has the purpose of forcing black to commit his queen to the defence o his a5 pawn or to push the b-pawn conceding Nac4. 13...Qc7 14.Qe1 Qb7 15.b3 [White naturally does not wish to capture on a5 and let his bishop idle on that useless square. If 15.Bxa5 b4 16.Nb1 Bxd3 17.cxd3 Rxa5=] 15...Rfc8? This move, placing his rook behind his two doubled pawns on the c-file does not seem to be wise. Also, why assemble five of his six pieces on the queen-side with no prospects of action? A better plan seems to be f7-f5 and bring his forces back to the king-side. 16.Ng4 Nf8 Already, white has a slight advantage. Here 17 Bh6 or 17 Bg5 are indicated. But white goes for adventure and thrill. 17.f4!?

17...exf4 18.Rxf4! This offers his rook on a1 for black’s only active piece on the board, the Bg7. 18...b4 19.Nc4 Bxc4 20.bxc4 h5?! [Black loses immediately if he grabs the exchange with 20...Bxa1 21.Qxa1

h5 (21...f5?? 22.Nh6#) 22.Nf6+ Kh8 23.Ne8+ f6 24.Qxf6+ Kh7 25.Qxf8 Rxe8 26.Rf7+–+; Best for black would be rush his pieces back to the king-side with: 20...Nd7 21.Rf1 Rf8 and white is better but not winning.] 21.Nf6+ Kh8 22.Qe2 Nh7 [If 22...Nd7 23.e5 Qc7 24.Re1±] 23.e5 Qe7 24.Re1 Bxf6 25.exf6 Qxe2 26.Rxe2 Re8 27.Re7 Kg8 Black has retrieved the situation to a great extent. A few more careful moves and he would have equalised. 28.Be3 Nxf6 29.Bxc5 Rxe7 30.Bxe7 Nd7 Diagram # 31.c5?! [Not the best choice. Better was: 31.Rd4 Nb6 32.Rd8+ Rxd8 33.Bxd8 Nxa4 34.Bxa5 c5 35.d4 cxd4 36.Bxb4 f5 37.Kf2 and the game is equal though white’s chances with his passed pawn are better.]

(Position after 30…Nd7)31...Re8 32.Bd6 Re2 33.Rc4 Re1+ Black has become ambitious with the turn of events. He wants to win! 34.Kh2 Ra1? and he underestimates white’s resources in attack on the king-side. 35.Re4± White brilliantly demonstrates that without the rook, the black knight is defenceless. 35...Ra2 36.Re7! Nf6 37.Be5! Kg7 [If 37...Nd5 38.Re8+ Kh7 39.Rh8#] 38.Rc7 Rxc2 39.Rxc6 Rf2

40.Rxf6! A neat conclusion to a neatly played game. 40...Rxf6 41.c6! White’s c-pawn can-not be stopped from queening.1–0

Gupta,Abhijeet (2605)Karthikeyan,Murali (2502) [E06]1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.g3 Be7 5.Bg2 0–0 6.0–0 dxc4 7.Qc2 a6 8.a4 Bd7 9.Qxc4 Bc6 10.Bf4 a5 11.Nc3 Na6 12.Rac1 Bxf3 13.Bxf3 c6 14.e4 Nb4 15.Rfd1 Rc8 16.Qb3 [This is new. Joel Lautier (2645) vs M.Adams (2660), 1995 went: 16.Qe2 Re8 17.h4 h6 18.Bg2 Qb6 19.Be3 Qd8 20.Bh3 Bf8 21.Qf3² White won ultimately.] 16...Nd7 [An alternative is 16...Qb6 17.h3 Rfe8 18.Be3 Qd8 19.Kg2² It is not clear what white’s plan is.] 17.h4 c5 18.Nb5 cxd4 19.Bc7

19...Rxc7 [The only alternative is: 19...Qe8 20.Nd6 Bxd6 21.Bxd6 and black loses

the exchange.] 20.Rxc7 Nc5 The white rook cannot get back home, but he always has the choice of sacrificing himself and give equal-ity to black. He is in a good situation, either win, or draw. 21.Qc4 Nc6 22.Bg2 d3 [If 22...e5 23.Rc1 threatening 24 Rxe7! and 25 Qxc5 winning a piece would win for white.] 23.b3 Bd6 Diagram # 24.Rc8! Qe7 [If 24...Qxc8 25.Nxd6 and 26 Qxc5 wins for white.] 25.Nxd6 Qxd6 26.e5 Qxe5 27.Rxf8+ Kxf8 28.Bxc6 bxc6 29.b4 Nxa4 Diagram # [Black is losing but he can put up a stubborn though

(Position after 23…Bd6)losing battle with: 29...axb4 30.Qxb4 Ke8! 31.Rc1 Qd6! 32.a5 (32.Qxc5?? Qxc5 33.Rxc5 d2–+; 32.Rxc5 d2–+) 32...Ke7 33.a6]

(Position after 29….Nxa4)30.Qxd3 g6 31.bxa5 Nc5 [If 31...Qxa5 32.Qa3+ c5 33.Ra1+-] 32.Qd6+ After 32...Qxd6 33 Rxd6 if 33....Nb7, 34 a6! wins. 1–0

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Problem World

10th WCCT themes-2The World Chess Composition Tournament is a long-established team event organized by the World Federation for Chess Composition enabling composers from all over the world to compete at international level with new chess problems and studies on set themes. Nine such tournaments have been held to date, with enthusiastic worldwide participation. The 10th WCCT has now announced themes for different sections, In continuation of the themes for two and three-movers presented in the last issue the theme for more-movers with examples are given below.

Section C-: MoremoversTheme: In a variation of a moremover (‡n, n>=4) there is a sequential play of at least two different direct white batteries. Two (or more) different rear battery pieces must be used. In the diagram posi-tion there should not be more than one white bat-tery aimed at the black king.

Yakov Vladimirov1 Pr Odessa 1964

Mate in four (15+10)1.Kd8! [2.Rd6+ Ne6+/Nf7+ 3.Q×N+ Qd5 4.Q×d5‡]1…Ng~ 2.Rd7+ K×b5 3.Rd5+ Kc4 4.Bb5‡1…Ne4 2.Rc5+ K×d4 3.Rd5+ Kc4 4.Rd4‡1…Nge6+ 2.Q×e6 Qg8 3.Rc5+ K×d4 4.Rc4‡1…Nf7+ 2.Q×f7 Qg8 3.Q×c7+ B×c7+ 4.R×c7

Yakov Vladimirov2 Pr Shakhmatnaya Moskva’66

Mate in seven (11+14)1.Rh4! [2.N×d7+ Kd3 3.Nde5+ Kd4 4.Kc6 Qg1 5.Nf3+ Kd3 6.Nd6+ Ke3 7.Nf5‡;4… Bg3 5.Ng4+ Kd3 6.Nd6+ Kd2 7.N×e4 ] 1…Bg3/B×h4 2.Ng4+ Kd3 3.N×b6+ Kd2 4.Nc4+ Kd3 5.Nge5+ Kd4 6.N×d7+ Kd3 7.Nc5‡1…Qg1 2.Nf3+ Kd3 3.N×a5+ Ke3 4.Nc4+ Kd35.Nfe5+ Kd4 6.Nc6+ Kd3 7.N×b4

Wieland BruchSiegfried Brehmer

2 Pr Die Schwalbe 1994

Mate in four (12+13)1.Nc7+? 1.Nb4+?

1.Bg4! [2.B×f3+ Ne4 3.B×e4‡]1…Ne4 2.Nc7+ K×d6 3.Na6+ Kd5 4.Nb4+ K×d4 5.Nc2+ Kd5 6.Rd4+ B×d4 7.Nb4‡ 1…e5 2.Nb4+ K×d4 3.Na6+ Kd5 4.Nc7+ K×d6 5.Ne8+ Kd5 6.Qd6+ R×d6 7.Nc7

Bo Lindgren2 Pr Probleemblad 2000

Mate in twelve (11+13)

1.Rc2? Kd3!, 1. Kc2? Ke4!1.Bc2! Kc4 2.Bf5+ Kd4 3.Kc2 Kc4 4.Kd1+ Kd4 5.Bc2 Kc4 6.Bb1+ Kd4 7.Rc2 Kd3 8.Rc5+ Kd4 9.Kc2 Ke4 10.Kc3+ K×f4 11.R×d5 R×d2 12.Rf5

Yakov Vladimirov1 Pr Memorial N. Macleod 1994

Mate in seventeen (9+8)1.Bc1 Kc5 2.Be3+ Kc6 3.Bf4 Kc5 4.Rf5+ Kc6 5.Be5 Kc5 6.Bh2+ Kc6 7.Rf6 Kc5 8.Bg1+ Kc6 9.e3 Kc5 10.e4+ Kc6 11.Bh2 Kc5 12.Rf5+ Kc6 13.e5 Kc5 14.Bg1+ Kc6 15.Rf2 Kc516.Rf8+ Kc6 17.Rc8 mate

Marcel TribowskiYuri Arefiev

2 Pr Probleemblad 1996

Mate in seven (11+11)

1.h7! [2.h×g8Q]1…Q×h7 2.Rd3+ Kc4 3.Re3+ Kd4 4.Bb5 Qh3 5.Be5+ Kc56.Bg3+ Kd4 7.Rd3‡1…N×h7 2.Be5+ Kc5 3.Bf4+ Kd4 4.Rb5 Qh2 5.Rd3+ Kc4 6.Rg3+ Kd4 7.Be5

What is the best move to begin a game? At one time the masters began automatically with 1.e4, then they switched to 1.d4. Paul Morphy, considered by many critics the greatest genius that ever lived, never played 1.d4.In contrast Ernest Grunfeld,one of the greatest au-thorities on opening pla, ventured on 1.e4 only once in his entire tourna-ment career(against Capablanca at Karlsbad 1929).Whenasked why he avoided 1.e4 he answered”I never make a mistake in the opening!”

- from The Fireside book Chess’ by Irving Chernev& Fred Reinfeld

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Tactics from master games by S.Krishnan

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

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

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

                    (Solutions on page )

Test your endgame by C.G.S.Narayanan

A.Hilderband 1969 Heimo Lilja 1969

1. 2.

Werner Issler 1970 Gerbtsman & Pogosjanc1966

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A.Hilderband 1970 Eugenio Onate 1970

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White to play and win in all the six endings above (Solution on page ) 45 45

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Solution to ‘Tactics from masters’ on page 42

1.Parligras,M (2587) Scripcaru,George-Daniel (2223) Calimanesti-Caciulata ROU Calimanesti-Caciulata ROU (1.3), 18.04.2015Position after 23rd move.White to play. 24.Rxg6+! Kh8 [24...Kxg6 25.Qg3+ Kf5 (25...Kh7 26.Qxh4+ Kg8 (26...Kg7 27.Rg1+) 27.Rg1+ Kf8 28.Qh8#) 26.Bd3+ Ke6 27.Bc4+ Kf5 28.Qg5+ Ke4 29.Bd5#; 24...fxg6 25.Qe7+ Kh6 (25...Kg8 26.Bc4+; 25...Kh8 26.Qxh4+) 26.Qxh4+ Kg7 27.Qe7+ Kg8 28.Bc4+ Kh8 29.Rh1#] 25.Qe7 Rh7 26.Rgg1 [26.Rgg1‡ Black is in zugzwang 26...Rg7 (26...f6 27.Qxh7+ Kxh7 28.Rg3 idea Rhi #) 27.Qh4+ Kg8 (27...Rh7 28.Qxh7+ Kxh7 29.Rg5 Mate with Rh1 cannot be avoided.) 28.Rxg7+ Kxg7 29.Rg1+] 1–02. Khatoev,E (2427)Yuffa,D (2471) ch-RUS Juniors 2015 Loo RUS (3.3), 23.04.2015Position after white's 38th move. Black to play. 38...Bg4! 39.Qxg4 [39.Qd3 Qe5! 40.hxg4 Qg5 41.g3 Qxg4 42.Kh2 (42.Rh2 fxg3–+) 42...Be3 43.gxf4 Qg1+ 44.Kh3 Bxf4–+; 39.Qxf4 g5–+] 39...Rxf1+ 40.Kh2 Bg1+ 41.Kh1 Bf2+ 42.Kh2 Bg3+ 0–13. Kupreichik,V (2373) Pushkov,N (2302) [C02]15th ch-Euro Seniors +65 Eretria GRE (6.2), 04.05.2015Position after 32nd move. White to play. 33.Nxf5! exf5 34.e6 [34.e6 Threatening mate with 34. Qe5 ch 34...Qf6 (34...h6 35.exd7 Kh7 (35...Qxd7 36.Qxc5) 36.Qg3 Qf7 37.d8Q) 35.exd7 Qxc3+ 36.Ke2 Qb2+ 37.Kf3 Rc3+ 38.Kg2 White wins] 1–04. Socko,B (2623)Brunello,S (2540) [C53]47th Italian Teams 2015 Civitanova Marche ITA (4.2), 01.05.2015Position after 29th move.White to play. 30.Nf5+! gxf5 [30...Kh7 31.Qh4+ Kg8 32.Nh6+ Wins the Queen.;

30...Nxf5 31.exf5 Re7 (31...gxf5 32.Qxf5 Idea Rg4-h4 or Ra4-gh4 32...Qh5 33.Qxe6 Rf8) 32.fxg6 Qe6 (32...Qg7 33.Qh4#) 33.Qh4+ Kg7 34.Qh7+ Kf8 35.g7+ Wins] 31.exf5 Rc6 [31...Nxf5 32.Qxf5+-] 32.Ra4! Rd2 [32...e4 33.Qf4+ Kh5 (33...Kh7 34.Qh4+) 34.Rxe4 Wins] 33.Qg7+! 1–05. Motylev,A (2653) - Najer,E (2634) [B11]TCh-RUS Men 2015 Sochi RUS (6.2), 06.05.2015Position after White's 27th move. Black to play. 27...Rxc4+! 28.dxc4 [28.Kb1 Qxd1+–+] 28...Rc3+ 29.bxc3 [29.Kb1 Qxd1+ 30.Ka2 Rc1 Wins] 29...Ba3+ [29...Ba3+ 30.Kd2 Qxc3+ 31.Ke2 Qe3#] 0–16. Nepomniachtchi,I (2714) Sjugirov,S (2669) [B90]TCh-RUS Men 2015 Sochi RUS (7.3), 07.05.2015Position after 34th move.White to play. 35.Qxd6! [%csl Rh8] [%cal Gd6f8,Gd6d8][35.Qxd6! Rxd6 (35...Bxd6 36.fxg7#) 36.fxg7+ Bxg7 37.Rf8#] 1–0

Solutions to ‘Test your endgame’ on page 43

1.Hilderband,I Pr, Lommer JT1969 1.Nd1 Bb3 2.Rxc3 Bxd1+ 3.Kd2 Nf7,Ne6 4.Ra3, Rh3 wins2.Heimo Lilja, 3 Pr,Magyar Sakkelet 19691.Kg7 Ra8 2.Be7+ Kxc4 3.Bf8 Ra1 4.h8Q Rh1 5.Qg8+ Bd5 6.e6 Rg1+ 7.Kf6 RxQ 8.e7 wins3.Werner Issler,3Pr,New Statesman, 19701.Kf7 Be2 2.Ke7 Bh5 3.Be8 g4 4.Bxh5 g3 5.Bf3 Kxf3 6.f7 g2 7.h8Q+ wins4. Gerbtsman & Pogosjanc 19661.c7 b5+ 2.axb5 Kb7 3.b6 Kxb6 4.c8N+ Ka6 5.Ra7#5.Alexander Hilderband 5th Pl,WCCT 19701.Rxh7 Rf8 2.g7 Rg8 3.Rh8 f5+ 4.Kxf5 Kf7 5.Rxg8 Kxg8 6.Kf6 wins6.Eugenio Onate, I pr Lommer JT 19701.h6 Be4 2.Be6 Kc3 3.Bd7 Kc4 4.Bxc6 Bh7 5.Bxb7 Kc5 6.Be4 Bg8+ 7.Bd5 Kxd5 8.h7 Bxh7 9.b7 wins

Masters of the past-54 Boris KostichBorislav Kostich (1887- 1963) was a Serbian chess grandmaster from Vršac, then in the Austro-Hungarian Empire (now Serbia).He learned the game around the age of ten and made rapid prog-ress while studying Oriental Trade in Budapest. He also spent time in Vienna, the chess capital of the day, and this enabled him to get the high level practice necessary to take his game to the next level.In 1910 he moved to Cologne and from there, travelled and toured extensively, mainly in the Americas, playing matches against local champions and exhibiting his legendary skills as a player of simulta-neous blindfold chess. At New York in 1916, he once played twenty opponents without sight of a board and won nineteen games and drew one, while engaging in polite conversation with opponents and spectators.Kostic played more formal matches against Frank Marshall, Jackson

Showalter, and Paul Leonhardt, and won them all. At Havana in 1919 however, this im-pressive winning streak came to an abrupt end with a 5–0 loss to Capablanca. Capablanca wrote that his own career peaked with this match. Kostic also played tournaments while in the United States, including New York 1916, Chicago 1918 and New York 1918, where he finished second behind Capablanca.On the European circuit, he won at Stockholm 1913, finished second at Hastings 1919 and won at Hastings 1921/1922. At Trencianske Teplice1928, he won ahead of Szabo and Tartakower. At Bled 1931, he finished in tenth place, but nevertheless outscored such lu-minaries asMaróczy, Colle and Pirc - the tournament was, at the time, regarded as one of the strongest in history. At Bucharest 1932, he won the title ofRomanian champion. At Belgrade 1935, he shared the title of Yugoslav champion with Pirc, and went on to become sole champion in 1938. He was a clear winner at Ljubljana the same year.From 1923–26, Kostic travelled all over the world, including Australasia, the Far East, Af-rica, India, and Siberia, demonstrating his exceptional skills, generating interest in chess and forging new links with people across the globe. He was undoubtedly a brilliant publicist and ambassador for the game, although this probably prevented him from realizing his full potential as a player.In the late 1920s, he made a return trip to the Americas. He represented Yugoslavia in four Chess Olympiads (London 1927, Prague 1931,Warsaw 1935, and Stockholm 1937), and in the 3rd unofficial Chess Olympiad at Munich 1936.During World War II, Kostić (Orthodox Christian) was imprisoned in a concentration camp by a Nazi SS commander Schiller because he declined to participate in tournaments called "Free Europa" and to glorify the Nazi regime. Afterwards, he played chess only in a more minor capacity. His final appearance was at the Zürich veterans tournament of 1962, which he won. Kostic was awarded the Grandmaster title by FIDE in 1950, on its inaugural list. He died in Belgrade in 1963, aged 76.

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AICF Calendar July 2015GTC Chess Classic 2015 22Jul15-26Jul15 Guwahati,AssamNational Junior Boys & Girls Championships 23 Jul15-31 Jul15 TamilnaduAll India Open FIDE Rating 25Jun15-29Jun15 Nasik, MaharashtraAll India Open FIDE Rated Rapid 25Jul15-26Jul15 HubliLaxmikant ItkelwarMem.U-15 Open &Girls 01Aug15-05Aug15 NagpurAsian Continental Championship 01Aug15-13Aug15 Al Ain, UAE8th Modern FIDE FRating for School children 01Aug15-05Aug15 Nanganallur, Chennai1st Ratanlal Kedia Mem.FIDE Rated Open 02Aug15-06Jun15 Siliguri,AssamAsian Youth U-8.10,12,14,16,18 Chess 03Aug15-11Aug15 Seoul, South Korea1st KCA FIDE rating 12Aug15-16Aug15 KanchipuramPCPF Under 1800 FIDE Rated 13 Aug15- 16Aug15 Delhi2nd Sailesh Chandra Dhar Mem.Open 14 Aug15-18Aug15 Guwahati 3rd Window Open below 1600 15Aug15-17Jun15 KeralaNational Challenger Chess 16Aug15-27Aug15 NagpurNational Under-7 Boys&Girls 17Aug15-25Aug15 ChennaiWorld Youth Under-16 Olympiad 19Aug15-29Aug15 Mongolia1st WB FIDE Rated Rapid 22Aug15-23Aug15 Kolkata1st WB FIDE Rated Blitz chess 23Aug15-23Aug15 Kolkata1st International FIDE Rated Open 29Aug15-30Aug15 PuducherryNational Under-13 Boys & Girls Ch’ships 30Aug15-07 Sep 15 Gurgaon,HaryanaWorld Junior Under 20 Championships 01Sep15-16Sep15 Khanty MansiyskSaharanpur FIDE Rating Open 09Aug15-14Aug15 Saharanpur,UP4th Keshabananda Das Memorial 11Sep15-17Sep15 Bhubaneswar,OdishaTamilnadu Under17 Boys&Girls FIDE Rated 13Sep15-17Sep15 Vandalur, TNNational Under 15 Boys&Girls Ch.’ships 21Sep15-29Sep15 Jammu

Know your GM Aravindh Chithambaram Vr Aravindh Chithambaram Vr, born 9th November, 1999, started playing chess at the age of eight and his first title came in the National Under-11 championship in Chennai. His coaches initially were K.R.Prasad and Ghouse Kamarudheen. Aravindh playing for the Indian Youth Olympiad team went past 2500 rating to complete the Grandmaster requirement at Gyor, Hungary to become Tamil Nadu's youngest Grandmaster, over-taking S P Sethuraman, who held the record previously. Aravindh Chithambaram's rating performance of ELO 2683 was the highest among the Indians in Hungary where he scored 8 points in 9 rounds taking India to the World Youth team Gold medal. Fourteen-year-old Aravindh won Chennai Grandmaster International Open Chess tournament held in celebra-tion of the FIDE World Championship Match 2013 at Nehru Stadium, Chennai.

Aravindh Chithambaram who has National titles in Under 11, 13 ,15 & 19 titles under his belt, was also an Under-14 silver medalist at the World Youth Chess Championship 2012 at Slovenia. He is being coached by Indian Olympiad team coach Grandmaster R.B. Ra-mesh since 2012. His path to Grandmaster title was a stunning one, as he completed his requirement in 12 months time starting from November 2013 with Chennai GM Open title where he took his maiden GM norm, His second GM norm came in the Malaysian Open GM tournament in April 2014 where he tied for the second place and his final GM norm came in a spectacular fashion when he defeated GM Alexei Shirov and finished eighth at the Riga technical University Open in Latvia in 2014. Aravindh receives scholarship from from ONGC. He was also supported by Murugappa Group and Chess Gurukul Trust in 2014 to play in European Tournaments. He was awarded FM title in 2011, IM title in 2014 and the GM title in 2015. The following are some of the notable achievements of this tiny GM who is an exciting prospect to come on to the Indian chess scene.

National Under-11 Championships 2010 Chennai WinnerNational Under-13 Championships 2011 Delhi WinnerNational Under-19 Championships 2011 Goa Winner Asian Chess Championships 2011 Philippines Joint firstWorld Youth Under-14 Ch’ships 2012 Slovenia SilverCommonwealth Chess-Under14 2012 Chennai WinnerAsian Chess Championships-U-20 2012 Uzbekistan FourthAsian Chess Championships U-14 2013 Iran FirstInternational GM Open 2013 Chennai FirstGained 1st IM Norm & 1st GM NormNational Under-15 Championship 2014 Kerala WinnerCommonwealth Chess U-16 2014 Scotland FirstWorld Youth Under-16 category 2014 South Africa SilverAsian Chess Championship Under16 2014 Delhi ThirdWorld Under-16 Olympiad team 2014 Hungary GoldAlso won gold for individual board prize in the World Olympiad.

Solution to ‘puzzle of the month’ on page 31 : Here the last two (half) moves can be precisely deter-mined. White has to be on move and his last move was Ka8xQb8, and the move before was Qd8xNb8+. The black piece capturing on b8 could not have been a rook, and it could not have come from c8 or a8, as then a last black move is missing.

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(L-R) KK Sharma, EC, Sekhar Sahu, IM, Dr Achyuta Samanta, Founder KIIT and KISS Champion Sandipan Chanda, Bharat Singh Chouhan, CEO, AICF, Vivek Kumar Tibarewal, Secy AOCA

(L-R) GC Mohapatra, Sekhar Ch Sahoo, (3rd) Singh Soram Rahul, Monalisa Kar, (Winner) Rishabh Nishad, (Runner - up) Soham Datar, Gaganendu Das

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Know your Arbiter R.Anantharam

Shri.R.Anantharam, aged 66, is India’s only ‘A’ grade International Arbiter who is widely regarded for his profound knowledge of rules of the game. A retired professor of Chemistry from Ayya Nadar Janaki Ammal College in Sivakasi, Tamilnadu, Anantharam was the first Indian to serve as Chief Arbiter in World Championships- World Junior in 2011 and 2014, World Blind Team Championship in 2012 and World Schools Championship in 2008.He has also served as Chief Arbiter in nine Asian and three Commonwealth Chess Championships. His other credentials are listed below:

Councillor, Arbiter’s Commission, World Chess FederationChairman, Arbiter’s Commission, All India Chess FederationMember, Qualification Commission, World Chess FederationMember, SPP(Pairings) Commission, World Chess FederationOrganizing Committee Member, FIDE World Championship Match 2013

Sector referee–World Chess Olympiad 2014, NorwayDeputy Chief Arbiter-World Youth Championships in Turkey 2007, 2009 and Vietnam 2008Technical Official-in Asian games,China 2010,World Mind Sports,China 2008, Asian Cities,Indonesia, Asian Indoor games, China 2007, Vietnam 2009, World Cities Champion-ships, Al Ain 2012Arbiter- in Chess Olympiads- Germany 2008, Russia 2010 and Turkey 2012Chief Arbiter- India China Summit 2015Deputy Chief Arbiter- Asian Team Championships 2007 and Asian Youth, Iran 2008,Philip-pines 2011, Commonwealth Chess Championship,South Africa 2011Arbiter in World Junior 1998, Asian ZonalsChief Indian delegate-World Youth Chess Championship Brazil, 1995Indian team manager-British Chess Championships, Torquay, UK, 2002Besides these, in India he was Chief Arbiter for 15 International GM tournaments, 26 Na-tional Chess Championships, 29 FIDE rated tournaments and 54 State Chess Championships.He was lecturer for 26 seminars and refresher courses for FIDE Arbiters, Senior Arbiters and State Arbiters.He has organizing Secretary of Asian Junior Chess Championship, Sivakasi 1979Organized three National Championships and 37 State Champiomnships.He has also orga-nized two unique State Championships in ‘Chess 960’,one State level Chess festival featur-ing 8 chess variants and a state level Basque Chess tournament.

Among his activities other than chess he had been a commentator for live games in badminton,basketball and hockey in Doordarshan and AIR.A keen basketball player who represented Madurai Kamaraj University in 1969 he was Organizing Secretary of All India Basketball Tournaments between 1979 and 1998 and Federation Cup 1995.He organized an international friendly match between a US team and Tamilnadu team in 1980. He has published six research articles in international journals.

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Commonwealth Chess Championship, New Delhi 2015Medallists on the podium

1.Gupta Abhijeet GOLD (IND), 2.Das Arghyadip SILVER (IND), 3.Lalith Babu M.R. BRONZE (IND)

1.Padmini Rout GOLD (IND),2. Vijaya lakshmi Subbaraman SILVER (IND), 3. Meenakshi Subbaraman BRONZE (IND)

1.Hamid Rani GOLD (BAN),2.Dave Shiv Shankar SILVER (IND), 3.Lim Kian Hwa BRONZE (MAS)

8th Mumbai Mayor’s Cup International Open Chess Tournament,Mumbai…

Top board action from Category A

Winner Category A, Grandmaster Kravtsiv Martyn of Ukraine receiving Winner’s trophy from Shri. Gopal Shetty, Member of Parliament while Shri. Bargodia, Chairman Goregaon Sports Club; Shri. RM Dongre, Treasurer AICF; Shri. Jairaj Phatak, Patron MCA; Smt. Savita Dutta, President Rotary Club South Mumbai and Shri. Kapil Saxena, Jt Secretary AICF looks on.

Champion of Category B event Shelke Sankarsha of Maharashtra receiving trophy, cash award and certificate from Shri. Rattan Poddar, Executive Member of Goregaon Sports Club in presence of Shri. Kapil Saxena, Joint Secretary AICF; Shri. R M Donge, Treasurer AICF; Captain Ashirwad Nagare of Indian Army and International Arbiter MS Gopakumar, Chief Arbiter.

Winner in Category C, Manoj Borse from Maharashtra receiving trophy from Shri. Gopal Shetty, Member of Parliament Shri. RM Dongre, Treasurer AICF and other guests AICF looks on.

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29th National Under-9 Chess Boys and Girls Championships, Ahmedabad

Jayesh Modi, Vice President, Gujarat State Chess Association, Ajay Patel, President GSCA & Chairman, Gujarat State Co Operative Bank ,Bhavesh Patel, Secretary,GSCA, Mayur Patel, Vice President GSCA with top seeded player

M.S.Darsana receiving the trophy from Ajay Patel, President GSCA & Chairman, Gujarat State Co Operative Bank . D.V.Sundar, Vice President, FIDE is on the right.

V.Pranav receiving the trophy from Ajay Patel, President GSCA & Chairman, Gujarat State Co Operative Bank . D.V.Sundar, Vice President, FIDE is on the right.

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