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G.H.Raisoni 38th National Sub-Junior Chess Championship 2012, Nagpur & Runwal's 29th National U-15 Girls Chess Championship, Mumbai

G.H.Raisoni 38th National Sub-Junior Chess Championship 2012, Nagpur & Runwal's 29th National U-15 Girls Chess Championship, Mumbai

42nd National Junior Chess Championship & 27th National Junior Girls Chess Championship, Ajmer…

42nd National Junior Chess Championship & 27th National Junior Girls Chess Championship, Ajmer…

October 2012

G.H.Raisoni 38th National Sub-Junior 2012, Nagpur…Sayantan Das is Sub Junior Champ 01R.N.Shriwas, Secretary, VCA

29th National Sub Junior Girls Championship Mumbai…Srija Seshadri emerges National Sub Junior Girls Champion 05

42nd National Junior Championship & 27th National Junior Girls Championship, Ajmer…Sahaj, Rucha win National Junior 08R.S.Tiwari ,Chief Arbiter IA & P.K.Gupta,Dy.Chief Arbiter

3rd UKCA Cup All India Open FIDE Rated tournament Ratnakaran clinches title 11Vasanth BH, Chief Arbiter

3rd Modern School International Rating, Chennai….Yogit wins Modern School Rated Open 13by IA V.Ravichandran

1st Keshabananda Das Memorial fide Rating, 2012…Vidit Santosh Gujrathi wins title 14

25th Silver jubilee SPIC FIDE Rated, Tuticorin…..Maheswaran Clinches SPIC FIDE Rated Title 17By IA M.Ephrame,Chief Arbiter

Selected games from National Junior, Ajmer 20Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron

In the Problem World 38Pickaninny and Albinoby C.G.S.Narayanan

Tactics from master games 40by S.Krishnan

Test your endgame 41by K.Muralimohan, FIDE Instructor

Masters of the past-22 42Edgard Colle

AICF Calendar 48

Psychology plays a pivotal role in teaching chess to children. Kevin O'Connell, Executive Secretary, FIDE-CIS, amply covered this aspect in his lectures at 'Chess in Schools' Seminar at Chennai, the

first of its kind held in India.

G. Akash, a XI Standard student from Jawahar Vidyalaya, Chennai, became the youngest ever to win the National Premier title at Kolkata. Tamilnadu kids Ram Aravind and Lakshmi won the National Under-9 titles at Ahmedabad. Due to space constraints reports, final standings and games of National premier and National Under-9 events will be featured in the next issue.

Elsewhere at Bilbao,Spain the battle of young stars hot up in the second leg of Grand Slam Masters. Numero Uno Magnus Carlsen won the title outplaying chess prodigy Fabiano Caruana in the blitz Play-Off and the Norwegian chess genius is now inching closer to the best ever rating in chess history-2851 held by Kasparov.GM Koneru Humpy had a satisfying win in the final leg of 2011-12 Grand Prix at Ankara,Turkey to finish second overall in this FIDE Grand Prix series. The reports on these events are featured in the centre pages.

Reports on National Sub-junior and National Junior Championships along with two other FIDE rated tournaments held in Mangalore and Thoothukudi are presented in this issue. The theme involving intensive play of the lowly ranked pawns is featured in 'The Problem World'. Edgard Colle, who expounded the famous Colle system, is featured in the 'Masters of the past series'.

OCTOBER 20121

Vidarbha Chess Association, Nagpur organized38th National Sub- Junior (U-15) open ChessChampionship-2012, under the aegis ofMaharashtra Chess Association, from 16thSeptember to 25th September 2012 at Nagpur.The Championship was held on behalf of All IndiaChess Federation at Naivedhyam CelebrationCenter, North Ambazari Road, Nagpur.

Raisoni Group of Nagpur, who are well known inpromotion of Education, Sports & Culture in allover India, had sponsored this tournament. Mr.Sunil Raisoni, Director, Raisoni Group, gladlyaccepted our proposal & sponsored thechampionship in memory of his father LateG.H.Raisoni. Hence the championship was titled"G.H. Raisoni National Sub-Junior (U-15) OpenChess Championship-2012"

In all 118 players from all over India hadparticipated in the championship which included101 ELO rated players. The outstation players,officials and accompanying persons were providedwith the accommodation at MLA Hostel. Theplayers selected from the participating State unitsand the Managers of all such State units wereprovided with free accommodation and foodallowance of Rs. 900/- each, as per the AICFguidelines. The sponsor provided us with threebuses to transport the participants from MLAHostel to the playing venue and back.

The venue, "Naivedhyam Celebration Center" wasmade available to us by Mr. Dilip Kamdar, partnerNaivedhyam Group, at a very meagre rate. Theentire hall was air conditioned and had every facilityof high stature. He extended every possible helpto make the players and their accompanyingpersons happy & comfortable.

The inaugural function of the tournament washeld on 16th September 2012 at the Venue at 6p.m. Mr Kishor Kanhere, Trustee, Nagpur

Improvement Trust, was the Chief guest of thefunction and Mr. Hemant Sonare, Vice President,Raisoni Group was the Guest of honour. MrsKundatai Vijaykar, President, Vidarbha ChessAssociation, presided over the function. The otherdignitaries present on the dais were Mr. ManojItkelwar, Working President, VCA, Adv. ArvindBade, Mr. Dilip Pagay, Secretary, MCA, Mr.R.N.Shriwas, Secretary, VCA and Mr. Dilip Kamdarof Naivedhyam Group.

Ku. Divya Deshmukh, National Champion inUnder 7 Girls of 2012, Ku. Divya Garg and Mst.Ayush Jugele who won medals in World Youthchess championship held at Singapore werefelicitated at the hands of Mr. Kanhere, the chiefguest and Mr. Hemant Sonare, the guest ofhonour.The programme was conducted by Mr.K.K.Barat, Teasurer. VCA who also proposed thevote of thanks.

The inaugural function was followed by Managers/Players meeting. Mr. Debasish Barua, the ChiefArbiter conducted the meeting. The others presentin the meeting were Mr. Swapnil Bansod, Dy, ChiefArbiter, Mr. Mnaoj Itkelwar, Working President, VCAand Mr. K.K.Barat, the treasurer, VCA.

The 1st round was delayed due to someunforeseen situation arose due to sudden nonsupply of water by city corporation. Theparticipants could not get ready till the organizersmanaged to provide them with this basic need.So only one round could be held on 17thSeptember 2012 i.e on first day instead of tworounds as declared earlier. Accordingly subsequentrounds were rescheduled and two rounds wereheld on 20th September 2012 so as to completethe championship within the scheduled period.From second day onwards of the tournamentwent on smoothly without any hurdle till itsconclusion. Mr. Debasish Barua IA, the chiefarbiter, his deputy Mr. Swapnil Bansod IA, national

G.H.Raisoni 38th National Sub-Junior Chess Championship 2012, Nagpur…

Sayantan Das is Sub Junior ChampR.N.Shriwas, Secretary, VCA

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arbiter, Mr. Umesh Panbude and the officials andvolunteers in the tournament hall workedexcellently. The tournament was concludedwithout any dispute or protest. The players, theirrelatives and officials fully cooperated with theorganizers for the smooth conduction of thetournament. Mr. Vijayraghavan was excellent onmonroi and top 20 tables were shown live oninternet. FIDE Master Sayantan Das of WestBengal won the National Sub-Junior Championshipwith a final round victory over Vignesh Nr atNagpur on September 25, 2012.Sayantan is aformer world age group champion in 2008. Hestarted as the third seed behind team-mateDiptayan Ghosh and second seed Shardul Gagare.But won with two final round wins to outscore therest in the 118-player 11-round competition.

Sayantan gains close to nine Elo from thiscompetition. He suffered one defeat to VisakhNr in the fourth round. Strange, he did not faceDiptayan Ghosh who finished second. Diptayanremained undefeated but drew World U-12champion Karthikeyan Murali in the final roundwhile Sayantan won and went ahead.

The top players will represent India in the 2013World Under-16 championship at Al-Ain and inthe Asian Youth Championship. Sayantan Daswas followed by top seed Mst. Diptayan Ghosh,also from West Bengal as 1st Runner-up andMst. Karthikeyan Murali from Tamil Nadu as the2nd Runner-up. Total Rs. 1,00,000/- cash prizeswere awarded to first 20 players. Trophies werealso awarded to first three players.

The prize distribution ceremony was held on thelast day i.e. on 25th September 2012 at 4 p.mat the venue. Mr. Baba Dawre, Proprietor, BabaTravels, was the Chief Guest and Mr. HemantSonare, Vice President, Raisoni Group, was theGuest of Honour. Mr. Vinod Kumar Trivedi,President, Nagpur District Chess Associationpresided over the function. The other dignitariespresent on the dais were Mr. Mnaoj Itkelwar,Working President, VCA, Mr. Dilip Kamdar, Chiefof Naivedhyam Group, Mr. Dilip Pagay, Hon.

Secretary MCA & Mr. Debasish Barua, the ChiefArbiter. The function was conducted by Mr.K.K.Barat, Treasurer, VCA. Mr. Barat declaredthe prizes and also proposed the vote of thanks.

M/s R.N.Shriwas, Secretary, VCA, Swapnil Bansod,Dy. Chief Arbiter, Umesh Panbude, the Arbiter,Vijayraghavan, V - Tech chief, Praveen Pantawne,Deepak Patrikar, Aditya Kakpure and Mrs. SheetalPanbude were also prominently present on theoccasion.All the participants were issued merit-cum-participation certificates. All the participants, theirrelatives, officials and others appreciated thearrangements and hospitality of the organizers.

Puzzle of the monthby C.G.S.Narayanan

Robert SmullyanSchach mit Sherlock Holmes 1979

What is the invisible piece at h4?

In the retro analytical problem above it isseen that black king is in check fromWRd7.You must find white's last move whichresulted in this check and also as to whatblack piece was captured on d8 to start with.Then start working out the captures blackpawns must have made to reach this position.By logical deduction you CAN find the invisiblepiece at h4! (Try to solve this Sherlock Holmesmystery(!) before looking up at the

(Solution on page 13)

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Rahul Sangma (born on 21st May, 1989) learnt chess at the age of eight watching his cousins play .Emerging from a small town Chhapra, Bihar, his early success was when he finished joint 2nd in first National U-9 in 1997 and Champion in the next National U-9 in 1998, which enabled him to take part in World U-10 at Spain. After that he won several State level tournaments, National level tournaments and other Open tournaments. A list of his notable achievements is given below. His other interests are playing football, Table-Tennis, Skating, Reading and listening to songs. He took a bachelor's degree in Commerce from Delhi University and later joined Western Railways and

posted in Indore. He had learnt a lot from the games of legends like Bobby Fischer, Anatoly Karpov and Garry Kasparov. He had no personal coach yet. He likes to play actively mostly in strategical and technical manner and likes endgames a lot. He achieved International Master Title in 2010,His first norm came at Commonwealth 2008 at Nagpur where he beat among others GM Nigel Short in a fighting game, the second norm at GM Open 2009 at Bhubaneswar and the third at 47th National 'A' 2009 at Mumbai.His current Elo rating is 2345. His ambition is to achieve Grandmaster title soon.

Important Tournament Achievements:st12th National Children's U-9 Championship Ahmadabad 1998 1 nd4th National U-12 Rapid Championship Calicut 1999 2 rd5th National U-12 Boys Rapid Championship Aurangabad 2000 3stU-14 All India Open Tournament Aurangabad 2000 1stStandard Chartered Bank Schools Tournament Bangladesh 2002 1 rd16th National U-13 Championship Kolkata 2002 3 st16th The Telegraph Schools' Championship Kolkata 2003 1stStandard Chartered Bank Schools Tournament Bangladesh 2003 1rd2nd National Sub-Junior Super League Championship Calicut 2004 3 rd30th National Sub-Junior Championship Calicut 2004 3 stNational Rapid Under-16 Boys Championship Calicut 2004 1

th rd35 National Junior Championship Sivakasi 2005 3 ndJSG Heritage Rating Open Tournament Jaipur 2007 2rd1st International Fide Rating Tournament Chakradharpur 2007 3

th st5 G H Raisoni Memorial Fide Rating Tournament Nagpur 2008 1 rdSri CS Sharma Memorial Fide Rating Tournament Delhi 2009 3 st1st Kota International Fide Rating Tournament Kota 2009 1 nd6th GH Raisoni Memorial Fide Rating Tournament Nagpur 2009 2 rdNorth East Zone Inter University(Captain) Kolkata 2010 3 ndAll India Inter-University Championship (Captain) Kolkata 2010 2st7th GH Raisoni Rating Tournament Nagpur 2010 1st10th Adyar Times Rating Tournament Chennai 2010 1st20th National U-25 Indore 2011 1 ndRajiv Gandhi Memorial All India Open Rating Delhi 2012 2 ndNDMC All India Rating Hyderabad 2012 2 nd25th All India Inter - Railway Championship Mysore 2012 2

Rahul SangmaKNOW YOUR IM

th25 Silver jubilee SPIC FIDE Rated Open, Tuticorin…

st1 Keshabananda Das Memorial fide Rating Championship 2012…

(L-R) Jeyaseelan Rathinam, Treasurer Tuticorin Dist Chess Assosiation, Ephrame, Chief Arbiter, Maheswaran, Winner SPIC Trophy, S Venkataraman,GM (Materials), Amirtha Rathna Kumar SE (TNEB), International Master Manuel Aaron, Arjuna Award Winner, V.S.Narasimhan, Secretary Tuticorin Dist Chess Assosiation, Prem Sundar , President , SPIC Central Sports Council

(L to R) Manoj Kumar Panigrahi, Jt Secy All Orissa Chess Association; Vidit Santosh Gujurati, IM (Champion), L.I. Parija, IAS (Rtd.) Ex-Chief Secretary, Govt. of Odisha; Subhakanta Das, Architect (2nd Son of Keshabananda Das)

OCTOBER 20125

Runwal's 29th National U-15 Girls ChessChampionship was organized at Valia CollegeAndheri ( W) which saw a response of 72 entriesfrom 14 different states. This is the first timethe boys and the girls tournament was conductedseparately at two different places in Maharashtra.WFMs vis M.Mahalaxmi , WFM Srija Seshadri,WFM Monisha GK were the part of this event. 4Selected players from each state along with thewinner of last year U-13 and U-11 can play thistournament. The tournament had 11 rounds.

In a gripping final round encounter Woman FIDEMaster Srija Seshadri of Tamil Nadu overcame herstate-mate V Shvetha to emerge the Champion atRunwal's 29th National Sub Junior Girls ChessChampionship 2012 that concluded atCosmopolitan's Valia College, Andheri (West),Mumbai . Srija Seshadri logged in 9.0 points fromeleven rounds. Srija lost one game to Parnali Dhariaof Maharashtra and drew state mates Monnishaand Ashwini and won the remaining eight games.

Srija started as the third seed with 1964 and isgaining about 25.5 Elo points for this brilliantperformance. She did not get to play the topseed M Mahalakshmi who had a disastrous showlosing 40 Elo. Srija is trained by the NLC playersat Neyveli and has IM K. Murugan as advisor.

Srija playing with white pieces opted for Yugoslavattack against the Sicilian defense of Shvetha.Shvetha made a mistake by sacrificing a rook fora pawn allowing the Srija to have extra Knight.Although Shvetha was having 3 pawns as thecompensation for the piece, she lost all one byone and accepted her defeat in 55 moves.

Parnali Dharia (ELO 1888) of Maharashtra misseda chance of winning the game against SunyasaktaSatpathy (ELO 1917) of Orissa. In the Queen'sGambit Declined game the game was almostequal ti l l 18th move. In the next move

Sunyasakta made a wrong move of pawn allowingwhite to take a slight advantage. Again on 33rdmove she made a blunder where Parnali couldhave easily won. But then a mistake by Parnalilead to a draw in 45 moves.

On the third board Divya Laxmi (ELO 1763) playingwith WFM Monisha GK (ELO 1941) both Tamilnaduopted for Spanish opening, closedvariation.although Divya laxmi was almost 200points low in rating compared to her opponent,the game was equal till 53 moves. On the 54thmove instead of offering the exchange of rooks.Divya played another move which gave a slightadvantage to Monisha. Monisha on 56th movemade a temporary sacrifice of her rook to get afree knight and then won the game in 66 moves.

Srija won the winner's purse of Rs. 22000 alongwith a beautiful trophy awarded by the BombayChess Association under the auspices ofMaharashtra Chess Association and All IndiaChess Federation. Following the champion closelywas Woman FIDE Master G K Monnisha (TamilNadu) at 8.5 points, who took the runner-up spot.Sharing the third place a further half a point behindwere Sunyasakta Satpathy (Orissa), Parnali SDharia (Maharashtra) and Savant Riya (Goa)respectively.The top finishers will represent Indiain the 2013 World Under-16 Girl Championshipand Asian Under-16 Girls Championship.

The 75 player eleven round event concluded withcash awards amounting to Rs. 1,00,000 (RupeesOne Lakh only) being distributed to the top 18players, by title sponsors RUNWAL group.

Earlier at the end of 6th round four players, vizWFM Srija Sheshadri, Sunyasakta Satpathy,Ashwini U , Sandhya M led with 5 points, followedby 5 players with 4.5 points.In the 5th roundonly 3 players viz WFM Monisha GK, Ashwini Uand Aarathi G were the leaders with 4.5 points.

29th National Sub Junior Girls Chess Championship 2012, Mumbai…..

Srija Seshadri emerges National Sub Junior Girls Champion

OCTOBER 20126

Final standings :Rk. Name Club Pt.1 Das Sayantan FM WB 92 Ghosh Diptayan FM WB 8½3 Karthikeyan Murali TN 8½4 Gireman Ja TN 8½5 Gagare Shardul FM MAH 86 Sidhant Mohapatra ORI 87 Aravindh Chithambaram Vr FM. TN 7½8 Narayanan.S.L KER 7½9 Vignesh Nr TN 7½10 Kumaran B TN 7½11 Ritviz Parab GOA 7½12 K. Praneeth Surya AP 7½13 Md Nubairshah Shaikh MAH 7½14 Pranav Vijay TN 7½15 Akash Pc Iyer TN 7½16 Rishi Sardana DEL 717 Visakh Nr TN 718 Rakesh Kumar Jena FM ORI 719 Krishna Teja N AP 720 Satkar Chirag MAH 721 Gajwa Ankit MP 722 Yogit S TN 723 Rohan Ahuja GOA 724 Abhishek A KER 725 Debankan Dhara WB 6½26 Puranik Abhimanyu CM MAH 6½27 Lakshmi K Bhushan D AP 6½28 Rajarishi Karthi TN 6½29 Harshal Shahi FM DEL 6½30 Shailesh Dravid MAH 6½31 Gaikwad Siddhant MAH 6½32 Visveshwar A TN 6½33 Satvik M. KAR 6½34 Dhananjay S CG 6½35 Aditya Chowdhury WB 6½36 Sayan Sen WB 6½37 Dixit Nikhil MAH 6½38 Kapil Pawse GOA 6½39 Aradhya Garg DEL 6½40 Kumar Gaurav BIH 641 Vasantha Ruba Varman TN 642 Nitish Belurkar CM GOA 6

43 Ayush Garg RAJ 644 Aurangabadkar Prasad MAH 645 Sai Agni Jeevitesh J AP 646 Kumar Atul UP 647 Kamdar Udit GUJ 648 Suresh Krishna S PON 649 Akil A S J TN 650 Cheela Naga Sampath AP 651 Nikhil R. Umesh KAR 652 Teja Suresh M AP 653 Varun V AP 5½54 Das Susobhit ORI 5½55 Kapil Ghatwai MAH 5½56 Raja Harshit MAH 5½57 Saptorshi Gupta WB 5½58 Rohan Sen WB 5½59 Adethya R MAH 5½60 Shivam Verma BIH 5½61 Matta B Vignesh Reddy AP 5½62 Dinesh Annamalai PON 5½63 Chandak Shubh MAH 5½64 Aryan Haribhau Kawade MAH 5½65 Dhiren T AP 5½66 Ishaan Bansal PUN 5½67 Rohit S PON 5½68 Godbole Shantanu MAH 5½69 Erigaisi Arjun AP 570 Suyan Belurkar GOA 571 Divyanshu Hasija HAR 572 Rajas Chari GOA 573 Dhoke Arnav MAH 574 Mandnikar Atreya MAH 575 Saumil Nair GUJ 576 Shah Nimit GUJ 577 Dharmadhikari Siddhesh MAH 578 Walimbe Varun MAH 579 Sunny Bagga CG 580 Priyadarshi Alok BIH 581 Pravin Kumar C CG 4½82 Aurindom Bhattacharyya MAH 4½83 Sankalp Gupta MAH 4½84 Om Vinay Vitalkar MAH 4½85 Wairagade Atharva MAH 4½86 Shashwat Chakraborty CG 4½

OCTOBER 20127

87 Sharma Amit Kumar JHAR 4½88 Jagdeep Singh Sudan DEL 4½89 Himank Bansal DEL 4½90 Sharang Sanjeev Kapoor MAH 4½91 Bhajne Atharva MAH 4½92 Bilpe Abhijeet MAH 4½93 Palaskar Rutwik MAH 4½94 Nagarkar Anshul MAH 4½95 Jain Ajinkya MAH 4½96 Agarwal Mudit MP 497 Gawand Nihar MAH 498 Lawaniya Eshan UP 499 Kushagra Divyam BIH 4100 Dave Sneh GUJ 4101 Deshmukh Aditi MAH 4102 Sanil Upasani MAH 4103 Thakur Shivam MAH 4104 Ambawade Mitesh MAH 4105 Pushkar A Chouganjkar MAH 4106 Yash Ingolikar MAH 3½107 Vishwanath Vivek AP 3½108 Ranade Piyush MAH 3½109 Limaye Omkar MAH 3½110 Akash A Satpathy MAH 3½111 Sharma Vikash Kumar JHAR 3½112 Dudhate Sankarshan MAH 3113 Budhraja Param MAH 3114 Selgaonkar Soham MAH 2115 Soren Nikhil JHAR 2116 Aryan Khurana MAH 1½117 Dhakar Yogesh Kumar RAJ 1½118 Shah Kushal GUJ 0National Sub Junior Girls(Under-15)1 Srija Seshadri WFM TN 92 Monnisha Gk WFM TN 8½3 Sunyasakta Satpathy ORI 84 Parnali S Dharia MAH 85 Savant Riya WCM GOA 86 Saranya Y TN 7½7 Vaishali R TN 7½8 Lasya G AP 7½9 Soneji Janhavi MAH 7½10 Meenu Priya. Se TN 7½11 Ashwini U TN 7

12 Shvetha V TN 713 Dharani Sree R TN 714 Aarthi G TN 715 Divya Lakshmi R TN 716 Varshini V TN 6½17 Sandya M TN 6½18 Mahalakshmi M WFM TN 6½19 Chandreyee Hajra WB 6½20 Smaraki Mohanty ORI 6½21 Meghna C H KER 6½22 Kavitha P L TN 6½23 Divya Garg MAH 624 Shweta Priyadarshini UP 625 Shalon Joanne Pais KAR 626 Dhanashree Pandit MAH 627 Gangamma B.N. KAR 628 Harshita Guddanti AP 629 Deekshidha P S TN 630 Toshali V AP 631 Thamaraiselvi P TN 5½32 Meera D TN 5½33 Manasa H R KAR 5½34 Harivardhini I TN 5½35 Angira Choudhuri WB 5½36 Akhade Vaishnavi MAH 5½37 Kavya Srishti K AP 5½38 Sapale Saloni MAH 5½39 Nerkar Chitrana MAH 5½40 Aasha C R TN 5½41 Salini R AP 5½42 Shoumi Mukerjee MAH 543 Jadhav Vaibhavi MAH 544 Vani S Indrali KAR 545 Makhija Aashna MAH 546 Breasha Gupta MAH 547 Gange Tanmayee MAH 548 Nishi Mahalaxmi Iyer WB 549 Shah Vishwa MAH 550 Thorat Aishwarya GOA 551 Matta Theja Sahhethhe AP 552 Vora Diya MAH 553 Akankhya Dash JHA 4½54 Gajria Aashna MAH 4½55 Aasa Deepika K AP 4½

OCTOBER 20128

42nd National Junior Chess Championship & 27th National Junior Girls Chess Championship, Ajmer…

Sahaj, Rucha win National JuniorR.S.Tiwari ,Chief Arbiter IA & P.K.Gupta,Dy.Chief Arbiter

Top seed Sahaj Grover of Delhi and Rucha Pujariof Maharashtra won the National Junior ChessChampionships that concluded at Ajmer inRajasthan on September 11. The 27th NationalJunior Girls Championship was won by Rucha Pujariof Kolhapur, ahead of top seed Woman GrandMaster Padmini Rout. She did it by finising aheadof the field by 9/11.

The 11 round Swiss competition for National Juniortitle was exceptionally strong as among 93participants from all over country were 6 IMs, 3FMs and 85 rated players. The race for title,however, was confined to top 10 seeded players.The defending champion Arvindh Chithambaramcould not retain his title and had to be contentwith 22nd place. He drew with 3rd placed IM ViditSantosh Gujrathi, 4th placed IM Debashish Dasin third and fourth round respectively. His drawwith 41st placed Yohan J pushed him down inthe standing after 5th round. In 7th round helost to IM Sahaj Grover but made comeback onfront row winning 8th and drawing 9th round. Hisloss in 10th round to IM R Bhuvnesh eliminatedall chances for a podium finish.

Champion Sahaj played as per his classthroughout the tournament but faltered in 4thround and lost to IM Aditya Udeshi. This lossmade him wise to play his rest of the tournamentwith utmost caution and expertise. His draw withIM N. Srinath and IM Vidit in 8th and 9th roundcan be viewed as an act of remaining in a strikingdistance of the title. Sahaj strategy paid off andin final round if he could win against NationalChallengers Champion Debashish Das and Viditdrew with IM Ramnath Bhuvnesh title could behis. It happened and Sahaj playing at his bestcrushed Debashis defence with surprising ease.IM N. Srinath clinched 2nd place. Remainingunbeaten he scored 8 points, 6 draws and 5wins. IM Vidit Gujrathi won 3rd position and alsoremained unbeaten.

Winning National Junior Title is ambition of everyplayer because past shows that it is step towardscontinental and world Junior titles. The NationalJunior championship of any country is the mostimportant championship as it represents areservoir of finest young talents the countrypossesses. From here they go to represent theircountries in outside world. Quite a few participantlike Anurag Mhammal of Goa, Diptyan Ghosh ofWB, GA Stany of Karnatak, Himal Gossain ofChandigarh, Ramnath Bhuvnesh, U.R. Sahoo ofOrissa and Kathmale sameer of Maharashtramade their presence felt in the championship.Thechampionship brought unprecedented rains toAjmer and almost all the rounds were played indrenched atmosphere. Weather was cool andclear against normal hot and dusty weather.

27th National Junior (U-19) Girls ChessChampionship

Rucha Pujari of Maharashtra annexed the NationalJunior Girls Title by drawing her11th and final roundagainst J.Saranya of Tamilnadu scoring 9/11 points.Rucha was unbeaten till 10th round when she lostto G.K.Monnisha who uultimately finished on 3rdplace. Rucha won 8 games, drew 2 and lost one.Her victory over WGM Padmini Rout in 4th roundvirtually put her on road to winning the title. Shenot only eliminated strong contenders but also heldthe sole lead throughout the tournament.

J.Saranya's unexpected loss to 16th placedMadhurima Shekhar of Delhi In 4th round gave setback to her ambition for a title. Although Saranyarallied with hat-trick of victories in next three roundsbut her inability to make dent in Rucha's fort dashedher hope of claiming the title. She ended runnerup. Another strong contender Padmini Rout's lossto Rucha in 4th and PV Nandidhaa in 10th roundand her draw against Madhurima Shekhar of Delhiwere mainly the reasons for depriving her of thetitle which she so richly deserved.

OCTOBER 20129

Home favourite Sonakshi Rathod of Rajasthanplayed the tournament suffering from back pain.Losing her concentration she faltered against 36thplaced Manasa HR in 5th round and lost. Herloss against Sunyasakta satpathy in 7th roundand Akshaya Nandkumar in 9th round sealed herfate. Another contender WFM R.Bharathi lost therace facing defeats in 8th and 10th round at thehands of WGM Padmini Rout and WFM J.Saranyarespectively.

Several young girls out of a field of 56 participantsfrom 19 states caught the attention of the sportsloving crowd of Ajmer for their superb fights overthe board against fancied players. BalaKannamma P, Ashwani U, WCM Riya Sawant,Shrishty J Shetty, Varshini V, Madhurima Shekharand Sunyasakta Satpathy displayed great promiseof being future woman international masters. ForPratyusha Bodda, third seed, it was not so luckytournament as she scored 5.5 points out ofpossible 11 and lost valuable 47.7 Elo points.

The top two seeds in the 42nd National Juniorwas IM Sahaj Grover and IM Vidit Gujrath,both former world age group champions. Sahajsuffered an early defeat to Aditya Udeshiof Mumbai but recovered well to win a strongfield with 8.5/11.

Sahaj won the last two rounds to overtake secondseed Vidit Gujrathi of Nasik and Diptayan Ghoshof Kolkata. The second spot was shared by sixplayers on eight points and one can guage theintensity of thecontest.Sahaj does not lose Elolike fellow Delhi GM Vaibhav Suri did while playingand winning the National U-17 title earlier this year.Sahaj gains 1.8 Elo in fact. The positive policy ofthe AICF has brought these big stars to competein the Nationals since this is the route to selectionto the World and Asian Junior. Asian Juniorchampion N. Srinath only managed to finishsecond in this edition. International Arbiter R.S.Tiwari of Delhi was the Chief Arbiter. The eventran at the Indoor Stadium near Patel Maidan,Ajmer and was organised by the Ajmer DistrictChess Association on behalf of AICF.

Final standings:Rk. Name Pt.1 GM Grover Sahaj 8½2 IM Narayanan Srinath 83 IM Vidit Santosh Gujrathi 84 IM Debashis Das 85 FM Anurag Mhamal 86 FM Ghosh Diptayan 87 Stany G A 88 IM Ramnath Bhuvanesh R 7½9 Sahoo Utkal Ranjan 7½10 Kathmale Sameer 7½11 Vignesh Nr 7½12 Abhilash Reddy M L 7½13 Ankit R Rajpara 714 Gusain Himal 715 Patil Pratik 716 Karthikeyan Murali 717 Kumar Gaurav 718 Nishant Malhotra 719 Kulkarni Rakesh 6½20 IM Udeshi Aditya 6½21 Krishna Teja N 6½22 FM Aravind chithambaram Vr 6½23 Padhya Saumil 6½24 Lokesh P 6½25 Chakravarthi Reddy M 6½26 Gahan M G 6½27 Ganesh R 6½28 Nishvin J 6½29 Manigandan S S 630 Uma Maheswaran p 631 Harihara Sudan M 632 Nayak Biswajit 633 Balkishan A 634 Jaswant G 635 Vibhor Sharma 636 Rishi Thariani 637 Prabhat Koutha 638 Raju S 639 Lakshmi K Bhushan D 640 Vasantha Ruba Varman 5½41 Yohan J 5½42 Rathore Mahendra Singh 5½43 Gajwa Ankit 5½44 Navalgund Niranjan 5½45 Osama Salim 5½46 Arjun Satheesh 5½47 Gandhi Anish 5½48 Nishant Kumar 5½

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49 Aryan 5½50 Arjun K 5½51 Saurabh Anand 5½52 Ganesh P 5½53 Anuj Gandhi 5½54 Sanjeet Manohar 5½55 Saurabh Mandal 556 Sheikh Shaban 557 Prasannaa S 558 Vaisnav M 559 Athish K 560 Visveshwar A 561 Goenka Saumya Sanjay 562 Gaurav Kumar 563 Hari Pragadish S B 564 Rupesh Ranjan 565 Satyam Kumar 566 Kaushik Shubham 567 Jatin S N 568 Sammed Jaykumar shete 4½69 Rajdip Das 4½70 Shubham Shukla 4½71 Anudeep V 4½72 Abhishek Tiwari 4½73 Pritom Nath 4½74 Mehta Jwalin 475 Visakh Nr 476 Ayush Garg 477 Dwivedi Umang 478 Nilesh Jindal 479 Harjap Singh 480 Jhujhar Singh 481 Shobit Kapoor 482 Mithu Pandey 483 Md Mueenudheen N 3½84 Gupta Arpit 3½85 Muhammed Shibily N 3½86 Vibhav Pamecha 3½87 Nirmalya Chakraborty 388 Srivastava Pranjal 389 Prudvi Raj P 390 Aditya Raj Singh Yadav 2½

Final standings: National Junior Girls1 WFM Pujari Rucha 92 WFM Saranya J 8½3 WFM Monnisha Gk 8½4 WGM Padmini Rout 7½5 Nandhidhaa Pv 7½6 WFM Bharathi R 7½

7 Michelle Catherina P 78 Bala Kannamma P 79 Sunyasakta Satpathy 710 Ashwini U 711 Akshaya Nandakumar 712 WCM Savant Riya 713 Shristi J Shetty 714 Varshini V 6½15 Rathore Sonakshi 6½16 Madhurima Shekhar 617 Roy Pallabi 618 Anjana Krishna S 619 Shweta Gole 620 Ananya S 621 Munot Surbhi 622 Manisha Masi 623 Sushmitha G 624 Pratyusha Bodda 5½25 Aparajita Gochhikar 5½26 Hema Priya N 5½27 Aarudhra Ganesh 5½28 Nirupama P 5½29 Vantika Agrawal 5½30 Visalatchi R 5½31 Supriya Joshi 5½32 Kavitha P L 5½33 Lotlikar Priya 5½34 Hinduja Reddy 5½35 Monika Sahu 5½36 Manasa H R 537 Kratica Shekhwat 538 Tasneem S K 539 Shubhani Kapoor 540 Akankhya Dash 541 Jagtap Vrushali 542 Inderpreet Kaur 543 Shah Rutvi 4½44 Sukanya Chari 4½45 Garima Gaurav 4½46 Ravneet Kaur 4½47 Rhytham Bhatia 448 Thahreem Fathima 449 Kapdekar Rutuja 450 Tamanna Panwar 451 Malika Handa 452 Anita 453 Dash Anannya 3½54 Harshita Sharma 1½55 Divyanshi Mathur 1½56 Joshi Nimita 0

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3rd UKCA Cup All India Open FIDE Rated chess tournament - 2012

Ratnakaran clinches titleVasanth BH, Chief Arbiter

3rd UKCA Cup All India Open FIDE Rated ChessTournament 2012 was inaugurated by SriRaghavendra Shastry, Managing Trustee of SriSharavu Maha Ganapathi Temple, Mangalore,conducted by United Karnataka Chess Associationunder the auspices of All India Chess Association.

The 9 round tournament started on 2nd Oct2012 and concluded on 6th Oct 2012. A total of150 players from different parts of the countryand from neighboring country participated out ofwhich 109 were FIDE Rated Players including 6International Masters. Madhav M S, Jointsecretary UKCA, Mr G R Venkatesh, RegionalGeneral Manager, The Hindu, English daily. Mr TA Nagendra, Vice President SKDCA, Mr M RVasudev, Director, Mangalore International Airport,Mangalore, Sri Raghavendra Shastry, ManagingTrustee of Sri Sharavu Maha Ganapathi Temple,Mangalore, M S Guraraj, President UKCA.ChessPlayer and Superintendent of Police fromNagaland cadre Mr Rajashekara N IPS washonored for his excellent commitment,involvement and success in his both chess andhis profession on the inaugural day.

IM Shyam Nikil was top seed with 2468 ELO Ratingfollowed by IM Thejkumar , IM Rathnakaran,IM Himanshu Sharma, IM Nitin S and IM DineshKumar Sharma.Grand master Norm Holder IMRatnakaran of Southern Railway leaped better inthe last few rounds to win this tournament. SevenPlayers Nitin, Kunal, Himanshu Sharma, Thejkumar, Dinesh Kumar Sharma, Shyam Nikil, RitvizParab scored 7 points each and placed accordinglywith tie break scores.To mention a few meritoriousplayers, Augustin from Karnataka, Rohan Ahujafrom Goa defeated the IMs. The tournamenthall was spacious. The organizer provided freeLunch and coffee/Tea for all the players andparents in all the five days.

Mr R Menon, Regional Manager, Indian OilCorporation was the Chief guest of Prizedistribution ceremony. Mr G R Venkatesh,Regional General Manager, The Hindu, Englishdaily. Mr T A Nagendra, Vice President SKDCA,Mr G R Shetty, Mr M R Vasudev, Director,Mangalore International Airport, Mr M S Gururaj,President UKCA, Mr Durgesh K, Treasurer, UKCAwere the other dignitaries on the dais and gaveaway the prizes.

(L -R) Durgesh K, Ratnakaran, G R Venkatesh,M RVasudev, Menon R, T A Nagendra, G Rshetty, M S Gururaj IA Vasanth BH was the ChiefArbiter, FA Promodraj Moree, Sumith Bhat,Kaushik R and Murali K were the team of Arbiter.

Final standings :Rk. Name Pt.1 IM Rathnakaran K. 7.52 IM Nitin S. 73 Kunal M. 74 IM Himanshu Sharma 75 IM Thejkumar M. S. 76 IM Sharma Dinesh K. 77 IM Shyam Nikil P. 78 Ritviz Parab 79 Kulkarni Chinmay 6.510 Augustin A 6.511 Lokesh N. 6.512 Praveen Prasad P. 6.513 Surendran N. 6.514 Sekar B 6.515 Anilkumar O.T. 6.516 Deshpande Aniruddha 617 Rohan Ahuja 618 Lakshmi Krishna Bhushan 619 Arjun Satheesh 620 Madhusoodanan K.R. 621 Gopalkrishna.P 622 Kulkarni Vinayak 623 Raghunandan K S 624 Sandhya G 625 Rajesh Vn 6

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26 Aditya Pai K 627 Rajeev V.M. 628 Abhishek A 5.529 Muralidharan R. 5.530 Gavi Siddayya 5.531 Audi Ameya 5.532 Raja Harshit 5.533 Chakravarthi Reddy M 5.534 Sachin Pradeep 5.535 Ajeesh Antony 5.536 Anirudh V.Bhat 5.537 Sushrutha Reddy 5.538 Jyothilal N. 5.539 Santoshkashyap Hg 5.540 Varma Shabdhik 5.541 Abhijit Manohar 5.542 Chopon Babu .R.K 5.543 Anantharam R U 5.544 Nandhini Saripalli 5.545 Advaith Rajendran I V 5.546 Sharan Rao 547 Rahul Srivatshav P 548 Priya Vss 549 Ravikant Sharma 550 Durgesh K 551 Marthandan K U 552 Anant Prabhudesai 553 Nelson Clement 554 Sanjeev Pitale 555 Yashaskara Jois K R 556 Krishna V Shinde 557 Avdhoot Lendhe 558 Tarun V Kanth 559 Ravindra Teja Muttineni 560 Muhammed Reja C 561 Thakur Ameya 562 Krishna Chaitanya G S 563 Ashwin R 564 Rajashekara N 565 Prathipa L 566 Meesala Vamsi Krishna 567 Ram Vishwanathan 568 Vivekraj 4.569 Unni C. S. 4.570 Matta Besh Vignesh Reddy 4.571 Senbabu M B 4.572 Thyagaraj M T 4.573 Bhagya Jayesh 4.574 Mammen K 4.575 Mahalingappa N C 4.5

76 Eulalia A J Pereira 4.577 Lyjesh M 4.578 Venkatesh Upadyaya Tv 4.579 Sachin Nayak K 4.580 Adesh Joshi 4.581 Rajeev S 4.582 Shreyash B S 4.583 Mandnikar Atreya 4.584 Priya Ranjan Das 4.585 Tulsi M 486 Gajanan Jayde 487 M Tulasi Ram Kumar 488 Thamizharasan J 489 Mohanan A 490 Prerna Jain 491 Sharma Jyoti Prakash 492 Singh Vimlesh Kumar 493 Isha Sharma 494 Akshay Aithal 495 Akash K Shetty 496 Karunanayake Mayuri 497 Manoj B Kulkarni 498 Prasad Govind 499 Arun Harishankar Tripathi 4100 Audi Saiesh 4101 Shreevatsa Acharya 4102 Shuvrangshu Jana 4103 Sakordekar Nandan Sagar 4104 Kaviyarasu V N 4105 Swathi K Bhat 4106 Sishir B 4107 Panchami Shenoy K 3.5108 Ravi Nagdev 3.5109 Goankar Shambhavi 3.5110 Niranjan Rajeev 3.5111 Sheshathri 3.5112 Gaonkar Vaishnavi 3.5113 Dilip Kumar Kaushik 3.5114 Vijay Sivakumar 3.5115 Alaina J J Pereira 3.5116 Siri Sharma 3.5117 Kumbhar Tejas R 3.5118 Sai Lokesh 3.5119 Suhas P Nidoni 3.5120 Gururaj Shetty 3121 Amoga Vigram P 3122 Ithal H L Rajath 3123 Shashank S Mayya 3124 Kambli Datta 3125 Krishna M K Ramanatha 3

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3rd Modern School International Rating Chess,Chennai….

Yogit wins Modern School Rated Openby IA V.Ravichandran

The 5thModern School International Fide RatingChess Championship for School students was heldat Modern Senior Secondary School from 06th to11th August 2012 for a prize pool of Rs.1, 00,000/-This Rating Chess Championship was organizedunder the auspices of Tamilnadu State ChessAssociation and All India Chess Federation Thevenue of the tournament was Sankara Hall,Modern Senior Secondary School, AG'S colony,Nanganallur, Chennai.

Main sponsor for this event was Modern SeniorSecondary School, Chennai and they providedfree lodging and Boarding to all players, freehospitality to officials, arbiters etc and alsosponsored the entire prize money ofRs.1,00,000/-This event attracted 257participants from Ireland, Bahrain, Abudhabi, UAEand also from various States like Andhra, Kerala,Karnataka, Pondichery, Maharastra also from allover districts in Tamilnadu Participation of nearly118 International rated players including topplayers like Women Fide masters GK Monnisha,C Lakshmi, International players like Akash P CIyer, B Kumaran,Vasantha Ruba Varman etc.,made the event stronger and so colourful. Thiswas the 5th time the School students Tournamentbeing organized as a FIDE Rated event inTamilnadu and this event was conducted as 10round Swiss format. Shri D T Sudharshan,Regional Officer, CBSE, Southern Regioninaugurated the championship in the presenceof International Master R Balasubramanian andSmt S Pattabiraman, Secretary,Modern Schoolon 6th August at 02:00pm.

In the sixth round B Kumaran outmaneuvered SaiViswesh in a miniature game and S Yoit defeated KAnshuman of Modern School. Both Kumaran andS Yogit were jointly leading the table with 6pointseach.Vasantha ruba varman and Ajay Krishan drewthe game.At the end of the Seventh round 4 players

B Kumaran,S Yogit, Ajay Krishnan and Vaisnav ofInfant Jesus School were leading with 6.5pointseach. Overnight leaders B Kumaran and S Yogitagreed for draw in an interesting battle.In the eighthround Kumaran tactically outplayed Ajay Krishnaand S Yogit won impressively against Vaisnav. BothKumaran and Yogit were on top spot with 7.5points

In the ninth and penultimate round S Yogit madean upset victory over topseeded Akash Iyer andjumped in to sole lead with 8.5points.Kumaran washeld to a draw by Vasantha Ruba varaman andfollowed the leader with 8points.In the final roundgiant killer Yogit made a peace treaty with Saiviswesh and clinched the coveted title with 9points.Kumaran finished runner up with 8.5points.Saiviswesh,Vasantha Ruba varman,Vaisnav and KAnshuman were scored 8points each and finishedthird to sixth respectively.

On the Prize giving ceremony Dr Mohana,Principal, Modern Senior Secondary Schoolwelcomed the gathering, Shri DV Sundar, VicePresident, FIDE was the Chief Guest anddistributed the prizes and Grand Master M RVenkatesh was the Guest of Honour.

Solution to ‘Puzzle of the Month’ on p 2The last move of white must have been cxd8N=R! The piececaptured at d8 could not have been a BQ or BR as it would bechecking the WK. It could not have been a BB either as it wascaptured on its original square f8.So it was a BNd8 which wascaptured. But then BNa1 must have been a promoted one andonly BPh7 could have promoted via g2.There are six white piecesmissing excluding the promoted WR standing at d8. BPb7(nowat a6) ,BPf7(now at c4) and BPh7(now as BNa1) account forfive captures of white pieces ALL ON white squares! So the WBon dark square is the only one yet to be captured. The piece onh4 cannot be a BR or BQ which would be checking the WK. Itcannot be a BB which could not have come out of f8 and the BNwas captured on d8. To use Holmes famous repartee:"Elementary my dear Watson, it is the WHITE BISHOP on darksquare which stands at h4!"

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1st Keshabananda Das Memorial fide Rating Chess Championship 2012…

Vidit Santosh Gujrathi wins title1st Keshabananda Das Memorial All India OpenFIDE Championship-2012, which started on 18thAug. and concluded on 23rd Aug. 2012, atBhubaneswar, was the most successful lyorganized FIDE rating chess tournament in Odishaso far. The above tournament was conductedby the Khordha District Chess Association underthe aegis of All Orissa Chess Association andguidance of All India Chess Federation. The eventwas held in a three star Hotel, Hotel Empires witha fully centralised A.C. Venue. Like manyInternational events, accommodation forparticipants was arranged in the same hotel, atthe venue. General support from NabaratnaCompany (NALCO) & Miniratna Company (MCL)in providing accommodation to star players madethe event very smooth & nice. All the participants& guardians highly appreciated the event &expressed their willingness to come again for thesecond edition of the event. The tournamentgot wide publicity in electronic and print media.

The tournament started on 18th Aug. 2012 whichhappens to be the birth day of Late SriKeshabananda Das whose memory thetournament had been named. Late SriKeshabananda was a multifaceted genius. Hewas a skilled painter and portrait maker. Heshowed interest in music, playing flute and wasa scholar par excellence. He died on dt. 17thMay 2000. He had lot of interest in sports andgames and his contribution towards the growthand spread of chess in Odisha is unparalled andexemplary. He was the founder member ofOdisha State Chess Association. He made manyeminent chess players of Odisha in his own hands.He was the first Odia to organize National - B in1974 at Bhubaneswar and National - A in 1975at Rourkela. He is the first writer on chess towrite a book in Odia about the nuances of theboard game for the benefits of chess lovers inOdisha in 1982. He had spent a fortune andmade untiring efforts to popularize chess in the

state. He was vice president of Odisha StateChess Association.

A total Prize fund of Rs. 2,50,000/- (Two Lakh fiftythousand only) awarded to winners. Top 20 Playersgot a prize fund of Rs. 1,90,000/- ( One lakh nintythousand only). The tournament had been gracedby Hon'ble Minister for Sports and Youth AffairsOdisha Sj. Ramesh Majhi and Hon'ble High CourtJustice Sri Indrajit Mohanty in the inaugural function.Organising Secretary Sri Subhasis Patnaik aplaudedthe personality-traits of Late Shri Keshabnanda Dasin the opening function. Chief Guest Hon'ble ShriL.I. Parija, IAS (Former Chief Secretary, Odisha)had graced the valedictory ceremony. Sri SekharChandra Sahu, Vice President, All India ChessFederation, Sj. Abhishek Gupta, Chairman, RoundTable India BRT 53 and two sons of SriKeshabananda Das, Sj. Suryakanta Das and Sj.Subhakanta Das grace the valedictory and prizedistribution ceremony along with Chief Guest SriL.I. Parija. Sri Subhasis Patnaik gave vote of thanksand expressed his thanks to MARG Group Limitedwho was the main sponsor of the event. ShaktiSugars Limited, T S Alloys Limited., Gupta PowerInfrastructures Limited and Round Table India BRT53 were the associate sponsors.

The Total no. of participants from 10 states and 4Govt. Organisations was 191. The list is given asunder : Orissa1 31;Chandigarh 1;West Bengal17;Madhya Pradesh 1; Andhra Pradesh16; AndhraBank 2; Tamil Nadu 5;Railways 4; Maharastra 4;LIC4; Gurarat 3; PSBB 1;Delhi 2; Jharakhand 2 Out ofthe lot there were 17 titled players like GM, IM,WGM, FM WFM & WCM. With 1 Grandmaster, 9International Masters, 1 Woman Grandmaster, 5FIDE Masters, 1 Woman FIDE Master, 1 CandidateMaster and 119 FIDE rated players from all thenook & corner of India taking part. The top seedplayer for this tournament IM Vidit Santosh Gujrathibecame champion and got Rs. 50,000 and anattractive Trophy.

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Final standings :Rk. Name Pt.1 IM Vidit Santosh Gujrathi 82 Purushothaman T 83 IM Praveen Kumar C. 84 IM Lahiri Atanu 7½5 Gusain Himal 7½6 Praveen Prasad P. 7½7 IM Suvrajit Saha 7½8 IM Thejkumar M. S. 7½9 IM Swayams Mishra 7½10 FM Das Sayantan 7½11 FM Ramakrishna J. 7½12 Krishna C.R.G. 7½13 GM Sriram Jha 714 Chattarjee Laltu 715 Bhattacharya N Shekhar 716 Ravi Teja S. 717 IM Deshmukh Anup 718 Sidhant Mohapatra 719 IM Karthikeyan P. 720 WGM Swathi Ghate 721 Santu Mondal 722 Mallick Anjan 723 Pranavananda V 724 Sahoo Utkal Ranjan 6½25 Vignesh Nr 6½26 Visakh Nr 6½27 Pranav Vijay 6½28 Nath Rupankar 6½29 Roy Prantik 6½30 Pradip Ghosh 6½31 Majumdar Shankar 6½32 Chakrabarti Tamal 6½33 FM Mishra Soumyaranjan 6½34 Lakshmi Krishna Bhushan D 6½35 Malla Nooka Raju 6½36 Matta Vinay Kumar 6½37 Rabindra Kumar Ojha 6½38 FM Rakesh Kumar Jena 6½39 Subhransu Mohan Satpathy 6½40 FM Sankalp Baliarsingh 6½41 Hariketan G. Chitale 6½42 Mohanty Pabitra M 643 Anurag Jaiswal 644 Sahu Rajendra Kumar 645 Binayak Rath 646 Chakravarthi Reddy M 6

47 Samar Chatterjee 648 Sethi Gyana Ranjan 649 Dalai Khitindra Prateem 650 Avadhanulu A.S.M.S.S. 651 Behera Dillip 652 Pradhan Bhimasen 653 Ojha Pravat Kumar 654 Rudraksh Parida 655 Das Susobhit 656 Akankhya Kabi 657 Mishra Srinibas 658 Shaon Chowdhury 659 Sahoo Devendra Kumar 660 Dibakar Patnaik 661 Kar Satyabrata 662 Mishra Abhishek 663 Deepthamsh Reddy. M 5½64 Sugyan Prakash Maharaj 5½65 Pranab Kumar Patra 5½66 Bhaskar Sri Viswaroopanand 5½67 Sri Bijaya Kumar Dash 5½68 Siva Mahadevan 5½69 Senapaty Pramod Kumar 5½70 Swain Ashirwad 5½71 Samanta Singh Priyabrata 5½72 Sarma K.K. 5½73 Subhasis Barik 5½74 Lalitmohan Digal 5½75 Chattopadhyay D 5½76 Mishra Anwesha 5½77 Akhilesh Patnaik 5½78 Payal Mohanty 5½79 Sudarshan Gopal 5½80 Sahoo Swastik Sourav 5½81 Prasannakumar Nayak 5½82 Kuanr Asit Kumar 5½83 Nishi Mahalaxmi Iyer 5½84 Samal Ansuman 585 Amitansu Priyadarsan 586 M Tulasi Ram Kumar 587 Sahoo Dasharathi 588 Amlan Swain 589 Nabanita Pattanayak 590 WFM Bidhar Rutumbara 591 Gopal Ch Mahapatra 592 Ayush Bhai Mehta 593 Nagabhushanam D 594 Joy Anmol Rath 5

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95 Mishra Basneya 596 WCM Salonika Saina 597 Patra Biranchi Narayan 598 Sahu Ajay Kumar 599 Mahitosh Dey 5100 Karthik Reddy P 5101 Panda Bharat 5102 Sanika Sengupta 5103 Anil Bhoi 5104 Ganeriwal Sandeep Kumar 5105 Sahoo Sarbeswar 5106 Mohit Kamal Rath 5107 Ravi Kumar K.V.K 5108 Potluri Saye Srreezza 4½109 Sweta Senapaty 4½110 Khanda Soumya Sagnik 4½111 Martha Pravat Kumar 4½112 Pradhan Mohan Das 4½113 Choudhury Ashutosh 4½114 Satpathy Ashok Kumar 4½115 Adyasa Mahapatra 4½116 Sahu Tanuja 4½117 Ahmed S.Mumtaz 4½118 Pradhan Dibakar 4½119 Soumein Rajdev 4½120 Kumar Arvind 4½121 Shuban Saha 4½122 Mohanty Aditi 4½123 Himank Bansal 4½124 Bag G 4½125 Hota Sampanna 4½126 Sahoo Sangram Keshari 4½127 Rajanala Aradhya 4½128 Sahoo Sidhartha Shankar 4½129 Sahu Tuna 4½130 Harpal Himansu Sekhar 4131 Nayak Satya Sundar 4132 Prasanna Arpita Ch. 4133 Panda Chandra Sekhar 4134 Mohapatra Sarat 4135 Spandan P Seth 4136 Padhi Jyoti Ranjan 4137 Pattnayak Nilsu 4138 Alka Mahapatra 4139 Naik Anant Prava 4140 Jena Sanjkeet 4141 Sushree Sunayana Mishra 4142 Sahoo Soumya Prakash 4143 Padhi Abhijit 4

144 Mohapatra Shibanee 4145 Dash Sonam Swaroop 4146 Dash Abyaya Kumar 4147 Biswal Sumit 4148 Pati Bhagabat Prasad 4149 Panda Abhinandan 4150 Nayak Swayamsidh 4151 Chatterji Anantyoya 4152 Barun Pal 3½153 Nanda Shakti Prasad 3½154 Mishra Rupal 3½155 Mishra Abinash 3½156 Patra Diptesh Kumar 3½157 Paikaray Ashutosh 3½158 Mishra Soumya Ranjan 3½159 Mohanty Kaustuv 3½160 Samdani Sahil Sagar 3½161 Mahi Amit Doshi 3½162 Brahmbhatt Pradipbhai D. 3½163 Mallick Prasanjeet 3½164 Sanjay Kumar Mittal 3165 Bose Animesh 3166 Das Bighnesh 3167 Sahoo Ankita 3168 Swayasi Sthitaprajna 3169 Sahoo Vibek 3170 Parida Neel Kanth 3171 Nayak Adishree Anjum 3172 Paul Tomoghno 3173 Sairupa P 3174 Barad Anwesha 3175 Senapati Sarmistha 3176 Sandeep Mishra 3177 Pothal Ashutosh 3178 Panda Miracle 3179 Moharana Rabindra Kumar 2½180 Patra Ayush 2½181 Mishra Bishnu Mohan 2½182 Senapati Aadarsh 2½183 Smaran Pattnaik 2184 Padhy Deepanshu 2185 Rout Abinash 2186 Mishra Anisha 1½187 Dash Anmol 1½188 Rout Kandarpa 1189 Mantri Piyush Ranjan 1190 Bhoi Gunanidhi 0191 IM Singh D.P. 0192 Senapati Sukanta 0

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25th Silver jubilee celebration SPIC FIDE Rated Open tournament , Tuticorin…..

Maheswaran Clinches SPIC FIDE Rated TitleBy IA M.Ephrame,Chief Arbiter

Top seeded P. Maheswaran of VirudhunagarDistrict ensured a thrilling end to the 25th Silverjubilee celebration SPIC FIDE Rated Open Chesstournament at Spic Nagar, Tuticorin by drawingthe last round game against S S Manigandan ofMadurai in the tenth and final round at CommunityHall spic Nagar here on Monday and handed overthe chance to J.Nishwin of Kanyakumari who isalso one of the leader in the penultimate round.This made Nishwin with pressure and lost thelast round match against Ganesh Babu ofMadurai. The last round draw enabledMaheswaran to take his tally to eight points liftingthe Winner's trophy and pocketing a cash prizeof twenty five thousand rupees. Maheswaran,Manigandan, Ganesh Babu, O T Anikumar ofKerala and the young Inian of Erode with 8 pointstied for the first place but the better tie breakscore helped Maheswaran to win the title. S SManigandan became the runner-up of this event.

Sri R. Amirtha Rathna Kumar, SE (TNEB), gaveaway the prizes to the prize winners in a peacefulclosing ceremony. The Treasurer ThoothukudiDistrict Chess Association Mr. Jeyaseelan Rathinamwelcomed the gathering and Mr. NarasimhanSecretary Thoothukudi District Chess Associationproposed the Vote of thanks. Nine times nationalchampion, International Master Manuel Aaronattracted the audience by giving a wonderfulspeech about Leonard Barden and manyinformation about chess history.

Earlier, the 25th edition, the silver jubilee Spic FIDERated Chess Tournament got underway atCommunity Hall, Spic Nagar, Thoothukudi from25th September 2012. The event attracted 133Fide rated Chess players in action in a field of211 players from 4 states and one Union territoryPondicherry. Fide Master Maheswaran ofVirudhunagar District is the top seeded in this tenround swiss system tournament. The total prize

fund of the event was rupees one Lakh thirtythousand, out of which, Rs. 25000 thousand wasreserved for the winner.

At a colourful opening ceremony, Shri. A. PrathabanB.E., SE-TWAD Board, inaugurated the event bymaking the customary first move., Mr. SanjaySharmar, Chief Operating officer Spic, Thoothukudipresided the meeting in the presence ofMr. C. Chocklingam Head Site green Star Fertilizer.

IM Manuel Aaron from Chennai adds:"This was a fiercely fought tournament whenP.Balakannamma of Chennai surprisingly led with7/8 and raised hopes of becoming the second everfemale to win this event after Sai Meera achievedit in 2000.After losing the 9th and penultimate round,Balakannamma probably counted on an easyvictory against a 10-year old in the final round, butwas shocked by the sacrificial tactics of P.Iniyan.Aftersurviving the shock she tried to win at all cost andlost.Her Opponent Iniyan,a real talent, tied for thefirst.Balakannamma finished only 12th.There wasa big 5-way tie for first with 8 points each in this211- player tournament." In Non Medallist SectionJ.J. Bhuvanesh of Kanyakumari andS. Gnanapragasam of Krishnagiri shared the leadwith 8 points each at the end of penultimate round.Gnanapragasam beat Bhuvanesh in final round andbecame the Non - Medallist Champion. BharathKoushik of Kanchi district finished runner up.

Final standings :Rk. Name Pt.1 Maheswaran P FM 82 Manigandan S S 83 Anilkumar O.T. 84 Ganesh Babu S. 85 Iniyan P 86 Nishvin.J 7½7 Kunal M. 7½8 Gautham V 7½

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9 Muthukumar C P 7½10 Paramasivam M. 7½11 Shyam Sundar T. 7½12 Bala Kannamma.P 713 Eashwar.M 714 R Shanmugasundaram 715 Siva Mahadevan 716 Hari Pragadish S.B. 717 Noohu M.J. 718 Clifford Flair 719 Narendiran P 720 Mythireyan P 721 Vaibhav A 722 Gowri Shankar A 723 Hirthickkesh Pr 6½24 Vignesh B 6½25 Akash R 6½26 Sathyanarayanan S. 6½27 Dinesh A 6½28 Madhan Babu M 6½29 M Tulasi Ram Kumar 6½30 Barath Kalyan M 6½31 Vishwa Anand V 6½32 Sathya Giri V 6½33 Sankaranarayanan G 6½34 Senthil Maran K 6½35 Vaisalie K 6½36 Abishek I 6½37 Gomathi Nayagam S 6½38 Sa Kannan 639 Sasikumar N 640 Sri Sakthivel Murugan C 641 Arul Senthil B 642 Mani Bharathy 643 Prathish A 644 Abirama Srinithi G 645 Vignesh V 646 Vinothkumar T 647 Shankarasubbu B 648 Priyadharshni 649 Raman R. 650 Srinivasan V.G. 651 Raghu Raja Arora 652 Annie Gladys A 6

53 Priyanka K 654 Nambirajan T 655 S.A. Surya Kumar 656 Preethy P. 657 Koushik Muthesh P 658 Anantha Kumar M. 659 Balasankar M 660 Vinoth M 661 Hariharan M 662 Umashankar A 663 Narendran V 664 Jai Aditya D 665 Siva R 666 Bharath Srinivas G 667 Rathish T.J. 668 Jawahar K S 669 Swaminathan.M 670 Krishna Chaitanya G S 671 Vaisnav A 5½72 Arvind N 5½73 Aarthi V 5½74 Sundar Pranesh J S 5½75 Varshcine K 5½76 Prasant N Nayagam 5½77 Raghul Kumar J 5½78 Selvaraj Yesudasan V 5½79 Kathir Balaji K 5½80 Rishi Hariharan.S.N 5½81 Venkat Subramanian Rm 5½82 Keerthivasan K 5½83 Divya Charaneeshwar R 5½84 Ajay Kumaar.S 5½85 Nithese Krrishna V M 5½86 Md Gulam Raseen 5½87 Anandharaj K 5½88 Kalidass C. 589 Vishnu R V 590 Sanjay Snehal M S 591 Rahul Ganesh 592 Subramanian K 593 Ragul R 594 Sivaneswaran Chelliah 595 Sivasankar R 596 Thiripurasundaram N 5

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97 Siddharth P Jayan 598 Premkumar C 599 Krithigga K 5100 Jacob Ragland A 5101 Jeyakumar P 5102 Meikkum Pugal A 5103 Pawan Raghunathan 5104 Dhanush S 5105 Vishal R 5106 Shakthi Vishal J 5107 Aishwarya B 5108 Rohith S 5109 Sakthiram A 5110 Santhi M 5111 Murukaananth A 5112 Arivarasan M 5113 Vasantha Kumar M 5114 Kannan T 5115 Deepak Kumar R 5116 Sai Ganesh R 5117 Isha Godwin 5118 Sulthana A P M 5119 Manickammal D 4½120 Gurubalan S 4½121 Karthik T 4½122 Krishan 4½123 Edwin Dorairaj J 4½124 Harshavardhan S 4½125 Naren Akash R J 4½126 Sabapathi PS 4½127 Varun M 4½128 Lakshman K R 4½129 Muthu Hareeswaran S 4½130 Rajaganesh S K 4½131 Jasper Jothi P 4½132 Akkilesh P 4½133 Sudhir R 4½134 Dheekshith Kumar R 4½135 Ashwin Kumar M 4½136 Dinesh Kumar A 4½137 Adithya S 4½138 Mithun Anand V 4½139 Sukesh Ragav H 4½

140 Rajaraman S 4½141 Dinesh Maran T 4½142 Sivaram A 4½143 Madhan S 4½144 Vijay P 4145 Gayathri M 4146 Abilaash V 4147 Harish Kumaaran S 4148 Thamizharasan J 4149 Sankar R 4150 Saktheesh V 4151 Charan N 4152 Sathyaseelan C 4153 Yogeshwaran G 4154 Vairavan A N 4155 Keerthana Maran T 4156 Shanmugam C 4157 Siva B 4158 Keshore G 4159 Vasanth B 4160 Sujith Kumar A 4161 Kirubeswaran O R 4162 Sivaprakash ̀ N 4163 Jai Priya K 4164 Sruti L 4165 Saravanan Durga 4166 Giridharan P 4167 Sangeetha R 4168 Frank Richards 4169 Ramachandran S M 4170 Gnanasekar .G 3½171 Arjun Thangaraj R 3½172 Ramesh Krishnan Ar 3½173 Nandha Kumaran M 3½174 Aswin Kandasamy A R 3½175 Virgil Jebas J 3½176 Gokul S 3½177 Harish Sharma 3½178 Rowshith D 3½179 Rajesh K 3½180 Thesai Jebas J 3½

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Selected games fromNational Junior, Ajmer

Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron

Rucha,Pujari (2210)V,Varshini (1909)

1.d4 d5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.g3 e6 4.Bg2 Be75.0–0 0–0 6.b3 b6 7.c4 Bb7 8.Bb2Nbd7 9.Nbd2 c5 10.e3 Rc8 11.Rc1 Ne412.cxd5 [Often seen here is: 12.Nxe4dxe4 13.Nd2 f5 14.Qe2=] 12...exd513.Nxe4 dxe4 14.Nd2 f5 15.f3 cxd416.Bxd4 exf3 17.Bxf3 Ba6 18.Bd5+Kh8 19.Nc4 Nc5 20.Qf3 White’s positionis slightly better as her pieces dominate thecentral squares. 20...Qe8 21.Rfd1 Bxc4[Unfortunately black cannot challenge thestrong white bishop on d4: 21...Bf6??22.Nd6!] 22.Rxc4 Qg6 23.Rf1 Rcd8

# 24.b4 Everything has been made readyfor this pawn thrust. 24...Ne4 25.Rc6Qg5 26.Bxe4 fxe4 27.Qxe4 Now whitehas an extra pawn and a clear advantage.27...Rxf1+ 28.Kxf1 Qb5+ 29.Kg1 Rf8

Threatening 30...Qf1# 30.Rc4! [A veryclever retort for the mating threat. If30.Rc1 Qxb4 31.Rf1 and white has only aslight advantage.] 30...Bxb4 [If 30...Qxc4?31.Bxg7+ Kxg7 32.Qxc4 and white iswinning.; However, 30...Qd7 would nothave led to a quick catastrophe.] 31.Qd3!Threatening 32 Bxg7+ Kxg7 33 Rc7+winning the Queen through a discoveredattack. 31...Be7

# 32.Bxg7+! Kg8 [32...Kxg7 33.Rg4+Qg5 34.Qd4+ Kh6 35.Rxg5] 33.Bxf8Bxf8 34.Rg4+ 1–0

Riya Savant (1868)J Saranya (2140)

1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 g6 3.g3 Bg7 4.Bg2 0–05.0–0 d6 6.b3 c5 7.Bb2 cxd4 8.Nxd4d5 9.Na3 e5 10.Nf3 e4 11.Nd4 e3 12.f3

Russians have held the chess WorldChampionship in all but three of the past thirty-four years. Bobby is the man who will breakthat chain. Definitely. Maybe not in 1963,maybe not even in 1966, but eventually,for sure. -- Frank Brady

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The idea behind this is to deny the blackpieces access to the squares e4 and g4and eventually win the pawn on e3.

12...Re8 [12...a6 13.c4 Re8 14.Qc1 h5 andBlack won a tactical game in Panno 2510 -Milos 2530, 1990] 13.c4 b6 14.cxd5Nxd5 15.Nc4 Bb7 16.Nb5?! [Now that theblack pieces could not get to g4 or e4, whiteshould consider 16.f4 pinning the Nd5against the Bb7.] 16...Bxb2 17.Nxb2 a6µWhite’s Nb2 is misplaced and she has no goodstrategy against the thorn in her flesh, thepawn on e3. 18.Na3 Nc6 19.Re1 [Thoughblack stands better, white should try 19.f4 ]19...Qf6 20.Qxd5 Rad8! 21.Qc4 Qxb222.Qc1 Qf6 23.Nc4 b5! 24.Nb2 [If24.Nxe3 white gets into a vicious pin after24...Qd4 25.Kf2 Qb6 26.f4 Re7 black hasthe winning threat of 27...Rde8] 24...Rc825.Bh3 Rcd8

[An imaginative counter attack would be25...Nd4! 26.Bxc8 Rxc8 27.Qxe3 Nc228.Qd2 Qxb2 29.Rac1 Qxa2 30.e4 Qxb331.Re2 Qxf3 32.Rxc2 Rxc2 33.Qxc2 h5when black has great compensation forthe loss of her exchange.] 26.Bg2 Rd227.Nd3 [Not 27.Nd1? Nd4 28.Nc3 Rc2wins] 27...Nd4 28.Nf4 g5 29.Nh5 Qg630.g4 Rxe2

White’s foundation has been smashed.31.Qc3 Qb6! Black’s position is excellentand bristling with threats like Rxg2+fol lowed by Bxf3+ 32.Rad1 Bxf333.Rxd4 [If 33.Qxd4 Rxg2+ 34.Kf1Qxd4 35.Rxd4 e2+ wins for black.]33...Rxg2+ 34.Kf1 e2+ 35.Rxe2Rgxe2 36.Qxf3 Qxd4 37.Nf6+ Kh8!38.Nxe8 Qd1# 0–1

Michelle Catherina P (2079)J Shristi Shetty (1901)

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4Nf6 5.Nc3 e5 6.Ndb5 d6 7.Bg5 a68.Na3 b5 9.Nd5 Be7 10.Bxf6 Bxf611.c4 b4 12.Nc2 a5 13.g3 Bg5 14.h4Bh6 15.Bh3 Bxh3 16.Rxh3 Ne7 17.g4[An interesting idea though it hands overthe f4 square to the black bishop. 17.Rh1has been played in this position so far.]17...Nxd5 18.Qxd5 Bf4 19.Rd1 0–0!

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20.Qd3 [If 20.Qxd6 Qc8 and black getsback her lost pawn as both g4 and c4pawns are under attack.] 20...Qc821.Qe2 Ra6 22.b3 h5! Taking advantageof the unprotected rook on h3. 23.f3[Better was 23.Rh1 Qxg4 24.Qxg4 hxg425.Rg1 f5 26.exf5 Rxf5 27.Rxg4=]23...Qe6 24.Kf2 [When there is no clearway to make progress, one must postones pieces in good positions and wait toexploit any opportunity that might arise.Better therefore was: 24.Rd5 ] 24...Rb8

Black is planning ....a5-a4. 25.Ne3!Apparently this gives away a pawn, butwhite has a clever, hidden idea. 25...Bxe3+26.Qxe3 hxg4 27.Rg3! a4 [If 27...gxf328.Rdg1 g6 29.h5 and white has got a goodattack going at the cost of a pawn.]28.Rxg4 axb3 29.axb3 Ra2+ 30.Kg3Kf8 [White fears the ferocity of theapproaching storm on her castled positionand flees. Better was, 30...f6 31.Qd3 Rb632.h5 Kh7=] 31.Qg5 g6 32.h5 gxh533.Qxh5 Raa8 Black pulls back heraggressively placed rook to support herRb8 against the skewer threat by the whitequeen. [33...Qf6 put up a tougherresistance.] 34.Qg5 Ke8 35.c5! Thisthrust shatters black’s feeble defence.35...dxc5

36.Rd5! f6 Black is compelled to makemoves opening up her own position. Thethreat was 37 Rxe5. 37.Qh5+ Qf738.Rg8+ Ke7 39.Rd7+! Kxd740.Qxf7+ Kc6 41.Qxf6+ Kb542.Rxb8+ Rxb8 43.Qxe5 1–0

Sahaj Grover (2514)Aditya Udeshi (2357)

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.Bg5 h65.Bh4 c5 6.d5 d6 7.e3 Bxc3+ 8.bxc3e5 9.Qc2 Nbd7 10.Nf3 Qe7 11.Be2Kd8!? [A brand new idea! Usual here is11...Nf8 to be followed by g7-g5 and Ng6](See diagram)12.Nd2 g5 13.Bg3 e414.0–0 Kc7 15.f4 A result of black’scurious strategy. White has to castle onthe king-side and needs to open up thegame on the same side. 15...exf316.Rxf3 Nh5

A shot in the arm for Chess in Schools Programby Bharat Singh, Secretary, AICF

Mr.J.C.D.Prabhakar, the President of All India Chess Federation held discussions with Mr. Kevin O'Connell, Executive Secretary, Chess In Schools Commission of FIDE (World Chess Federation) today at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium where a three days seminar was conducted from 18th October 2012. During the discussion Mr.Prabhakar highlighted the keen interest shown by the Hon'ble Chief Minister Dr.J.Jayalalithaa, in promoting whole lot of sports and the game of chess in

particular in the State of Tamil Nadu. He informed him that she has introduced a very ambitious programme for school children who are 7 to 17 years of age and has made it mandatory for all the Government School children to learn the game. Efforts are already under way by the Tamil Nadu State Chess Association to equip the physical education teachers and other teachers from various schools with the knowledge of the game of chess so that they can teach the children in their respective schools.

The All India Chess Federation in its efforts to compliment the above decision of the Tamil Nadu Government decided to bring a foreign expert Mr. Kevin O'Connell, Executive Secretary, Chess in School Commission of FIDE (World Chess Federation) for giving lectures on training teachers and the art of introducing chess in schools.

Apart from Chennai, Mr. Kevin O'Connell will conduct seminars in two venues in India, the second part is from Oct 21-23 at Delhi and the final lecture is at Jalgaon in Maharashtra from Oct 26-28. These three seminars is certain to give a boost to chess in schools activity.There are around 26 well known trainers from Tamil Nadu who are attending this camp at Chennai. The benefits are going to be seen in the coming years.

The three day course was inaugurated by India's first International Master Manuel Aaron in the afternoon of Oct 18 at the Nehru Stadium in Chennai. D.V.Sundar, Vice President FIDE, visited during the course of the seminar, greeted each participant and introduced

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prominent coaches among them to Kevin O'Connell. The Seminar is likely to kindle and arm our trainers with plenty of methods so far not known to our trainers. India, the most active chess nation in the world is now training students in schools. More champions are sure to emerge from these initiatives by the All India Chess Federation.

Humpy wins Ankara FIDE Grand Prixby Arvind Aaron

The final leg of 2011-2012 FIDE Grand Prix was won by Koneru Humpy of Vijayawada at Ankara, capital of Turkey on September 28. 2012. The 12-player all-play-all event had a prize fund of Rs.28,00,000. The winner received about Rs.4.20 lakhs. The title deciding final round was as exciting as one anticipated. Humpy went for attack and crushed Monika Socko in 40 moves. Then, when Muzychuk drew Ruan Lufei, Humpy's title became clear on 8.5/11.

Humpy lost to Muzychuk, drew Zhao Xue, Cmilyte and Munguntuul and beat the rest. Muzychuk on the contrary remained solid and undefeated for second place on eight points. Zhao Xue of China was third with 7.5 points. Overtaking Muzychuk for the title meant a lot for Humpy. In the overall, six leg Grand Prix, Humpy finished second behind world champion Hou Yifan of China. Humpy overtook Muzychuk on points due to this title and finished second. Muzychuk, the World Women's No.2 ranked from Slovenia was third.

The six legs were held at Rostov, Shenzhen, Nalchik, Kazan, Jermuk and Ankara. Each player took part in four of them with the best three counting for the Grand Prix points. Hou Yifan won three events for maximum 480 points. Humpy won here at Ankara, tied for first at Kazan (Russia) with Muzychuk and took third in Jermuk (Armenia).Humpy would receive Euro 6,500 for winning this contest. She is sponsored and employed by ONGC. This performance should help her gain some Elo and stop the minor slide in the women's Elo rank. Humpy is down from the 2623 rating peak of 2009. Muzychuk and Hou Yifan have moved ahead of her in the rating scale. Olympiad super star Nadezhda Kosintseva is another future threat for Humpy. Victory in this edition should encourage her to win more.

Final placings: 1 GM Koneru Humpy (Ind) 8.5/11; 2 GM Anna Mucychuk (Slo) 8; 3 GM Zhao Xue (Chn) 7.5; 4-5. GM Viktoria Cmilyte (Ltu), WGM Ruan Lufei (Chn) 6.5 each; 6 IM Munguntuul Batkhuyag (Mgl) 6; 7 GM Tatiana Kosintseva (Rus) 5.5; 8 WGM Ju Wenjun (Chn) 5; 9 GM Antoaneta Stefanova (Bul) 4.5; 10 WGM Betul Yildiz (Tur) 3.5; 11 GM Monika Socko (Pol) 2.5; 12 WGM Kubra Ozturk (Tur) 2.

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Carlsen Wins Bilbao Masters

Magnus Carlsen of Norway won the Bilbao Masters by defeating Fabiano Caruana of Italy 2-0 in a tie-break playoff match at Bilbao, Spain on October 13, 2012.In the final round, Caruana took a quick draw against Vallejo with black while Carlsen drew Aronian with some difficulty. Anand and Karjakin drew after 45 electrifying moves from a Slav defence.

On the rating card, Caruana is gaining the most Elo. Carlsen is gaining also but little. Aronian, Anand, Karjakin and Vallejo are at the losing end of the Elo card.

The six player double all-play-all started at Sao Paulo in Brazil and concluded at Bilbao in Spain. At category 22 (Elo 2781), it will be the strongest event for some time. Ten of the 30 games ended decisively.

Final placings (classical): 1-2. F Caruana, M Carlsen 6.5/10 each; 3 L Aronian 5; 4-5. V Anand, S Karjakin 4.5 each; 6 Vallejo 3.

Tournament placings: 1-2. Carlsen, Caruana 17 each; 3 Aronian 11; 4 Karjakin 10; 5 Anand 9; 6 Vallejo 6.

World champion Viswanathan Anand and World No.1 ranked Magnus Carlsen of Norway fought a fifth round draw in the Bilbao Masters at Sao Paulo on September 29.After the end of the first all-play-all the category 22 (average Elo 2781) caravan moved to Bilbao in Spain for the second half. It was a six player double all-play-all.

Leader Fabiano Caruana of Italy had a great escape when he lost a rook for minor piece against Levon Aronian of Armenia and then went on to draw the game. All three games ended in fighting draws with Anand and Carlsen down to lone king versus lone king. After many years, Anand is competing in an event where his rating is below the average rating of the event. For his five draws, he had done better than expected score. In the next cycle, he will get three black and two white games at Bilbao.

Courtesy : fide.com

FIDE in its 83rd FIDE Congress at Istanbul approved Sahaj Grover and Vaibhav Suri of Delhi and M.R. Venkatesh of Chennai as Grand Masters. Bhakti Kulkarni of Goa became a Woman Grand Master.India has come a long way since Vishy Anand became our first Grand Master. He made his norms in the World Junior (by winning it) in the Philippines and at Coimbatore in 1987 and FIDE approved his title in March 1988.G.A. Stany of Karnataka and Ankit Rajpara of Gujarat became our teenaged International Masters. Purshottam Bhilare of Mumbai became an International Arbiter.

After the first leg at Sao Paulo

FIDE approves three more GMs for India

Vishwanathan Anand : Chess Develops Analytical Skills

He is considered one of the greatest chess talents to ever play the sport. The current undisputed world champion of chess and bearer of the title of “Grandmaster” for 24 years, Viswanathan Anand has maintained his spot as the sport's top-ranked player since 2007. A five-time winner of the World Chess Championship, Anand made his first trip to the United States in 17 years to instruct a group of young chess players Aug. 13 at a seminar and tutorial organized by Metropolitan Chess, Inc., which took place

Aug. 9-13 and which included more than 100 young chess players, including Sam Sevian, the top-ranked chess player in the World U12 division. Leading a tutorial to teach a handful of “youngsters” a few tricks of the game, Anand was quite impressed with the talent he saw at the Metropolitan Chess camp event.

Anand, who was brought to the seminar by Metropolitan Chess, Inc., and its founder, Indian American Ankit Gupta, noted how much chess has progressed since his “young days” in the sport.“It was the first time I was working with such a strong talent base outside India. I thoroughly enjoyed interacting with them,” Anand told India-West in an exclusive interview.

“The level was pretty high, and I hope that in a few years we will see some of these youngsters playing events internationally. It was nice to see the way chess is taught and understood has changed greatly. In my young days, camps like this one held by Metropolitan Chess, Inc., would have been very hard to conduct. The psychological aspects of preparation were particularly interesting.”He added that there are certain attributes that become immediately apparent from a solid chess player, irrespective of age.

“Chess is seen as a game that is an excellent tool to help develop and shape young minds. It teaches children and adults to compete in a just manner,” Anand told India-West. “It also helps develop analytical skills. Various studies that I have been involved in chess and education have shown children who play chess show better academic progress.”

“Chess has evolved a lot since my last visit. You can see a lot of talent amongst the 12-20 age groups. Internationally, too, we see a lot of new countries like China and India becoming big chess powerhouses,” he pointed out. Anand noted that ever since he earned the title of Grandmaster, India has produced some of the world's best chess players, with both men and women making significant strides in gaining international recognition.

“When I started playing chess we had no grandmasters. Now we add about two grandmasters a year. We have two to three players who could easily be in the top 100 very soon,” he said. “In the women's category, we already have a top player in Koneru, Humpy and Dronavalli, Harika. I hope they would be able to become women world champions soon.”Anand is, meanwhile, actively involved in developing the game amongst India's youth, including his affiliation with the training company NIIT and its chess-themed Mind Champions Academy.Courtesy : Parimal M. Rohit, Special to India-West photo by Chris Roberts & Tim Hanks and

Metropolitan Chess, Inc.

Three winners in the first Grand Prix in LondonTopalov, Gelfand and Mamedyarov!

Before the last round the Azeri player was leading with half a point ahead of Topalov, Grischuk and Gelfand but the draw in the last round by Mamedyarov gave a chance to the others to catch him at the top. Veselin Topalov managed to win with black against Anish Giri and Boris Gelfand won with the w h i t e p i e c e s a g a i n s t R u s t a m Kasimdzhanov. Alexander Grischuk faltered at the end and could only draw against Nakamura.

In the 11th round all the eyes were on the leader of the tournament Shakhriyar Mamedyarov. Obviously, the Azeri played for the draw to secure at least a tie for first place with a peaceful variation of the Nimzo Indian. Step by step, both players exchanged the pieces and the knight's endgame was equal from the very beginning.

Many quick exchanges were made in the game between Topalov and Giri. After twenty minutes of play, there was rook+bishop+knight endgame on the board. Everyone could expect a quick draw but Topalov started to play for the win. The 41st move of Anish was a mistake but his position was already difficult. The two black pawns e5-f5 looked unstoppable and Anish Giri could not hold the position.

Michael Adams decided to play safely today, using 3.Bb5+ against the Sicilian of Dominguez, and more exactly a form of Maroczy Bind. Dominguez found a way to equalize by opening the centre with 14…d5! Position was symmetrical without any real perspective for any side. Pieces were exchanged and the draw was agreed.

Nakamura showed again his fighting spirit, playing the Sicilian Dragon against Alexander Grischuk. The Russian player accepted the challenge, entering in the main sharp line. There was never a real danger on the black's king and the tension was about the “c” file. After exchanging rooks, the position became equal and players repeated the moves. Draw.

Ivanchuk probably surprised his opponent by playing the Sozin attack. Wang Hao got a worse position after the opening and was force to give up his pair of bishops quickly. The a6 pawn became also weak and black couldn't avoid the space domination. The attack seemed very promising but Wang Hao played few accurate moves, forcing the draw repetition.

Boris Gelfand went for the Moscow variation of the Slav defence against Kasimdzhanov. Boris made a courageous decision with 14.b4 giving up an exchange in purpose. In compensation, white had a very strong pawn's centre on “b4-c4-c5”. Rustam had to lose some tempi with his bishop from a4 to c2, and meanwhile white was pressuring. 31…Rf-a8? was the decisive mistake, which gave away the b7 pawn. Position became too difficult to defend and Boris, by winning his last game, is finally sharing the first place!

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[16...g4 17.Rf2 Qxe3 18.Bf4 Qe7 19.Raf1=]17.Ne4 Nxg3 18.Nxg3 Ne5 [Also possiblewas: 18...g4 19.Nf5 Qg5 20.Rf2 Ne5³]19.Rf2 g4 This is a necessary prelude toh6-h5, starting an attack on the king-side.Incidentally, black limits the scope of the whiteforces which have a tremendous control ofthe f-file in general and over the f5 square inparticular. Black’s compensation for thebackward f7 pawn is his centrally placedknight on e5. 20.Raf1 h5= 21.Qe4 Bd722.Nf5 Bxf5 23.Rxf5 White threatens 24Rxf7 as the knight is pinned against thequeen. 23...Rae8 24.Bd1 Qf8 25.Qf4 [Ifwhite proceeds according to his plan andplays 25.Ba4? (there follows the ambush)25...Nf3+! 26.gxf3 Rxe4 27.fxe4µ]25...Qh6 26.Rf6 Qg7 [Black hastremendous faith in his knight and avoids theexchange of queens which was not bad:26...Qxf4 27.exf4 Nxc4 28.Rxf7+ Kc829.Bb3 Nd2 30.Rd1 Ne4=] 27.Bc2 Re728.Rf5 white tries to invade black’sweakened king-side with Rg5. He must alsobe having ideas of sacrificing the exchangewith Rxe5 at an opportune moment.28...Qh6 29.Qf2 White has lots ofconfidence on his absolute control of the f-file. 29...h4 30.Qf4 h3! Black’s knight isgetting ambitious. He wants a toehold onf3! 31.Rf6 [If 31.g3 Qxf4 32.R1xf4 Rg8 andblack’s positional ascendancy is evident.]31...Qxf4 32.R1xf4 hxg2 33.Kxg2 Ree8After the exchange of queens the possibilityof a sacrificial attack on f7 or e5 has beenvastly reduced and the rook moves over toattack along the semi-open h-file. 34.R6f5[If 34.Bd1 Rh4 with Reh8 to follow givesblack a winning position.] 34...Rh3 35.Bd1Reh8 36.Rxe5 Finally, white sacrifices one5, but it is too late with the black rooksknocking on his door. 36...dxe5 37.Rxf7+Kb8 38.Bxg4 Rxh2+ 39.Kf3 Rxa240.Ke4 Now white’s hopes of salvation lieon his more active king position and hispassed d-pawn.

40...a5 41.d6 a4 42.Kxe5 a3 43.Rf1 [If43.d7 Kc7 and there is no danger to black.]43...Rb2 44.Ra1 a2 45.Kf6 Rg2 46.Be6Rh6+ 47.Ke5 Rgg6! 48.Bf5 Rg2 49.Be6Rgg6 50.Bf5 Rg2 [50...Rxd6 51.Rxa2 Rd152.e4 and though black should win, there is along battle ahead.] 51.Be6 Rb2 52.Bf5 Rd253.Be6 Rh5+ Black is angling to capturewhite’s d6 pawn without giving up his a2 pawn.54.Bf5 Rh6 55.Be6 Rg6 56.Bd5 Re2[White still has resources left to fight it outafter: 56...Rb2 57.Be6 Rgg2 58.Kf6 Rb1 59.d7Kc7 60.Ke7 Rg7+ 61.Ke8 Rxd7 62.Rxa2 Rd8+63.Ke7 Re1 64.Ra5! Rd3 65.Rxc5+ andthough black is winning, there is a long grindahead.] 57.e4 Rb2 58.Rf1? [This loses byforce. He could put up a stubborn fight with:58.Be6 Rgg2 59.Kf6 Rb1 60.d7 Kc7 61.Ke7Rg7+ 62.Ke8 Rxd7 63.Rxa2 and black has tocontend with white planting his bishop on e4.]

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58...Rxd6! 59.Kxd6 Rb1 60.Rf8+ Ka761.e5 a1Q 62.e6 Rb6+ 63.Kd7 Qa4+64.Kc7 Qa5 [A simpler road to victory was:64...Rxe6! 65.Bxe6 Qc6+ 66.Kd8 Qxe6]65.Kd7 Qa6 [A very strange move to win!If 65...Qxc3 66.e7 Qh3+ 67.Kc7 Qh2+68.Kd7 Qd6+ 69.Ke8 Rb1 white cannot lastlong under this criss cross attack.] 66.e7Rd6+ 67.Kc8 Kb6!! A very entertaininggame, from black’s perspective. 0–1

Rakesh Kulkarni (2287)Srinath Narayanan (2438)

1.e4 c5 2.b4 The Wing Gambit againstthe Sicil ian Defence. It used to beregularly played by Ravi Dandekar in theNational “A” Championship in Ahmedabad1973 2...cxb4 3.a3 d5 4.exd5 Qxd55.Nf3 e5 6.c4 Qe6 7.Bd3 e4!? [This isa new move here. Previously, playershave proceeded cautiously in this positionwith: 7...Nf6 8.0–0 Nc6 9.Re1 Bd610.axb4 Nxb4 11.Bf1 0–0] 8.0–0 Qf6!Diagram # This is a double attack. Thequeen steps out of the e-file where itcould be pinned by the rook andsimultaneously attacks the unprotectedrook on a1. But is this wise? Black hasbeen moving only his queen whilst all ofhis minor pieces are on their orginalsquares which goes against the principlesof speedy development.

9.Re1 Qxa1 10.Bxe4 Be7 11.d4 [If11.Qb3 Qf6 12.axb4 Nc6 13.b5 Nd814.Bb2 Qh6 and white does not haveenough compensation for his rook minus.]11...bxa3 12.Nxa3 [12.Qb3 was a betterattempt to trap the adventurous queen.]12...Nf6 13.Bb1 Nc6 14.Rxe7+ [14.d50–0! 15.Qb3 Na5 16.Qa4 Qc3 17.Rxe7Qxc1+ 18.Re1 Qc3 19.Nb5 Bd7 20.Nxc3Bxa4 21.Nxa4 Nxc4 and black has rookand pawn for his bishop.] 14...Nxe715.Qb3 White has given up two rooks fora bishop with the hope of trapping the blackqueen. 15...b5! Black is doing everythingin his power to extricate his queen fromthe trap and white is determined to grabthe queen. 16.Bb2 bxc4 17.Qc2 Bf5!18.Qa4+ Bd7 19.Qc2 Bf5 20.Qa4+ Bd721.Qc2 Qxb1+ Black has repeated movesto gain time on his clock. Probably, whitewas content with a draw, but not blackwho wants to win. So, we are treated tosome more exciting chess. 22.Qxb1

22...Rc8! Black has two rooks and a pawnfor his queen and with sharp play gets awinning position. 23.Qe1 Nfd5 With thed4 pawn blockaded, black now has to takecare of walking his king out of the pin alongthe e-file. 24.Ne5 c3! 25.Bc1 Be626.Nd3 0–0 27.Nc5 Bf5 28.h3 Bg629.Kh2 Nc6 30.Qd1 [Not 30.Nb5? Nxd4!31.Nxc3 Rxc5 black wins easily.]

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30...Rfe8 31.Qb3 Ncb4 [If 31...Red832.Bg5 Nxd4 33.Qc4 Nb6 34.Qxc3 Rd5–+] 32.Nb5 c2 33.Nd6 Re1! 34.Bd2[34.Nxc8 Rxc1 35.Ne7+ Nxe7 36.Qxb4Rb1 37.Qa5 Kh8! wins, as after 38 Qd8+is answered by 38...Ng8.] 34...Rd835.Qc4 [The Re1 is taboo because, if35.Bxe1?? c1Q] 35...Rd1 36.Nb3 [If36.Ndb7 Rb8 37.Qe2 Nc3! 38.Qe5 Nc6+-] 36...a5?! [Better: 36...h5 ] 37.Nb7 Rb838.N7xa5 h5 After this the Rb8 is free tomove up the board without fearing a back-rank mate. 39.Nb7 (See Diagram)39...Rxb7!! 40.Qc8+ Kh7 41.Qxb7Rxd2! 42.Qc8 Rxf2 43.Qc4 Rxg2+! Thefinal stroke. If now 44 Kxg2 Ne3+ forksking and queen. A great tactical gameworth playing over and studying. 0–1

(Position after 39.Nb7)

Utkal Ranjan Sahoo (2226)G A Stany (2403)

1.e4 e5 2.Nc3 Nc6 3.g3 Bc5 4.Bg2 a6Played with the intention of preserving hisBc5 in case of Nc3-a4. The white set-up ispassive. 5.Nge2 d6 6.Nd5 f5 [Usual hereis 6...Nf6 but the passive white set upinspires black to try something veryaggressive.]

7.d3 Nge7= 8.Bg5 fxe4 9.d4 exd4[9...Bxd4 10.Nxd4 exd4 11.Bxe4² andwhite can collect the d4 pawn any timebecause of the pin on the Ne7.] 10.Bxe4Qd7 11.Nef4 0–0 12.0–0 [Better was:12.Qd3 Ng6 13.Qb3 Rf7 14.Nxg6 hxg615.0–0–0²] 12...Nf5 13.Qh5 Qf7[13...Rf7 was safer. But the text lures whiteinto an unwise combination.]

14.Nf6+? gxf6 15.Bd5 fxg5 16.Qxg5+Kh8 17.Bxf7 Rxf7 Three minor pieces fora queen is roughly equal. The valuation willdepend, as always, on the activity orinactivity of the pieces concerned. In thisposition black seems to have no problemwith his pieces which are active. 18.Qh5Ne5 19.Rfe1 [If 19.Nd3! Ng7 20.Qh6 Bf5and black is on the road to victory.]19...Ng7 20.Qh6 Nf3+ 21.Kg2 Nxe1+22.Rxe1 Bf5 23.Nd3 Raf8 24.Nxc5

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Every exchange takes black closer to victory.But white hardly has a worthwhile plan tostem the tide. 24...dxc5 25.Qd2 Bg6 26.f4Nf5! 27.g4 Ne3+ 28.Rxe3 White hasnothing better. 28...dxe3 29.Qc3+ Kg830.f5 White gets back a bishop, but thepassed pawn on e3 spells the doom for white.

30...Re8! 31.fxg6 hxg6 32.Qd3 Kh733.Qd5 Ree7 Nobody can stop the e-pawn.34.Qd1 e2 35.Qe1 Kg8! [Why give somehopes to white with: 35...Rf1 36.Qh4+ Kg837.Qxe7 e1Q though it still wins for black?] 0–1

Rucha Pujari (2210)Padmini Rout (2328)

1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 g6 3.g3 Bg7 4.Bg2 0–05.0–0 d6 6.c4 Nc6 7.Nc3 a6 8.d5 Na59.Nd2 c5 10.Qc2 b5 11.cxb5 axb512.Nxb5 Ba6 13.Nc3

13...Ng4?!± [More usual is 13...Qc7 tobe followed up with a build up of the rooksalong the half-open b-file.] 14.h3 Ne515.b3 Qc7 16.Rb1 Rfb8 17.Re1 Rb418.a3 Rbb8 19.Nd1 Ra7 20.Kh2 Rab721.f4 Nd7 The knight finally gets to thesquare it should have gone to in the firstplace. By taking a circuitous route it hasprovoked the white pawns to advance tothreatening levels in the centre. 22.e4 Rb6

If this rook were on b7, then, if white playse4-e5, she cannot capture de5 for fear ofd5-d6 hitting at the queen and the Rb7.But, losing the exchange for white’s white-square bishop and a couple of pawns wasto be welcomed by black in such a situation.23.Nc3 Qa7 24.Na2 Qb7 25.b4 cxb426.Rxb4 Rc8 27.Qb1 Rxb4 28.Nxb4Bc3 29.e5

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29...Qb6 [Better was: 29...Nc4 30.e6Nc5 31.Qc2 Bxb4 32.axb4 Qxb433.exf7+ Kxf7 34.Nf3 Ke8 35.Qa2 Qc3and white has only a sl ight spaceadvantage.] 30.exd6 exd6 31.Re7 Nf632.Bb2 Qf2 [If 32...Qd4 33.Bxc3 Rxc334.Nxa6 Qxd2 35.Qb8+ Kg7 36.Nc7 Rc237.Ne6+ Kh6 38.Qf8+ Kh5 39.Ng7+ Kh640.Nf5+ Kh5 41.Qh6#] 33.Nxa6 Qxd234.Bxc3 Qxc3 35.Qb4 Rc4?

[This is tame and pointless, as though blackhas already mentally given up the struggle.35...Qd3 36.Nc7 Nc4 and black could fighton.] 36.Qxd6 Nb3 37.Rb7 Kg7 38.Qe7Too simple. 38...Nh5 39.Qxf7+ Kh6 1–0

Aravindh Chithambaram,Vr (2270)Sahaj,Grover (2514)

1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.e5 c5 5.a3Bxc3+ 6.bxc3 Ne7 7.Qg4 cxd4 8.Qxg7Rg8 9.Qxh7 Qc7 10.Ne2 dxc3 11.f4Nbc6 12.Qd3 d4 13.Nxd4 Nxd4 14.Qxd4Bd7 15.Rb1 Nf5 16.Qf2 Bc6 17.Rg1 0–0–0 18.Bd3 [It is worth investigating theramifications of 18.Qxa7 which is apparentlygood for white, but yet not played byanybody so far.] 18...Kb8 [Nearly 50 yearsago the game Liberzon-Pietzch went:18...Qa5 and was drawn eventually.l]19.Rb4 Qd7± 20.Qc5?! [This abandons theg2 pawn and makes way for the black forcesto invade his king-side. Better was: 20.Rc4

getting rid of the thorn on c3.] 20...Bxg2=21.Kf2 [Better was: 21.Be3 Nxe3 22.Qxe3Bd5 23.Rg5=; Or if 21.Qxc3 Qe7! black hasa great advantage as his threat Qh4+ is hardto parry.] 21...Rc8 22.Qa5 Bc6 While hisking-side is open, white has no attack onthe queen-side. Therefore, black has a solidadvantage. 23.Rxg8 [If 23.Rg5 Rh8!targeting h2 is clearly good for black.]23...Rxg8 24.Qc5 Qd8! Planning Qh4+next. 25.Bxf5 By capturing this knight whiteis getting access for his king to flee via e3.25...Qh4+ 26.Ke2 a5! [If 26...Qh5+27.Kd3 Qd1+ 28.Kxc3 Qxc1 29.Qd6+ Ka830.Be4 Qxa3+ 31.Kd2 Bxe4 32.Rxe4Qxd6+ 33.exd6 the rook ending is equal.]

27.Qxc6 Qxh2+ 28.Kd3 Rd8+ [If28...axb4 29.Qd6+ Ka8 30.Be4 Rg3+31.Kc4 Qe2+ 32.Bd3 Qe1 33.Qd8+draws.] 29.Kc4 axb4 30.Qb6 Rc8+

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31.Kb3? [White misses 31.Kxb4 exf532.Be3 Qxc2 (32...Qh1 33.Qa7+ Kc734.Qb6+ Kd7 35.Qd6+ Ke8 36.Bc5 Qb1+37.Kxc3 and now black must give perpetualcheck to avoid getting mated on e7.)33.Qa7+ Kc7 34.Qb6+ Kd7 35.e6+ fxe636.Qd4+ Ke7 37.Qg7+ and black cannotescape perpetual check.] 31...Qh1 32.Be3Qd5+! 33.Ka4 [33.Kxb4?? leads to a prettymate. 33...Rc4+ 34.Kb3 Rc5+ 35.Ka4 Qc4+36.Qb4 Ra5+ 37.Kxa5 Qa6#] 33...exf5!34.axb4 Rc6 35.Qa7+ Kc7 White has toexchange queens. 36.Qa5+ Qxa5+37.bxa5 Rc4+! 38.Kb3 Re4

39.Bf2 [If 39.Bc1 Re1! 40.Ba3 Rf1 41.Bd6+Kc6 42.Bb8 Kb5 (Or, if 42...Rxf4 43.e6 Rh4!44.exf7 Rh8 also wins for black.) 43.Kxc3Rxf4] 39...Kc6 [Also winning was theblunder-like: 39...Rxf4 40.e6 Kd8! (Or if40...fxe6 41.Bg3 e5 42.Bxf4 exf4 43.Kxc3Kc6 and the king and pawn ending is wonfor black.) ] 40.Bg3 Re3 41.Bh4 Rf342.Bg5 Kb5 43.Bd8 Rxf4 44.Bc7 Rb4+!45.Ka3 [45.Kxc3?? Rc4+ wins the bishop.]45...f4 46.a6 bxa6 0–1

Himal,Gusain (2335)Vidit Gujrathi (2500)

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4e6 5.Nc3 Qc7 6.Be2 a6 7.Be3 Nf6 8.a3b5 9.0–0 Bb7 10.Nxc6 Bxc6 11.Bd3 h512.h3 Qb7 13.f3 d5 [13...b4 14.Ne2 d5has been played earlier.] 14.e5 Nd715.Bd4 g5 16.b4 [16.f4 opening up thef-file would give white a small advantage.]16...Qc7 17.Qe2 Bb7 18.Rae1 Thismove indicates that white is planning f3-f4with the backing of his rook on f1. But thewhite pawn remains on f3 for ages.18...Nb8 19.Qe3 Nc6 20.Bb6 Qe7 Aftermaking so many pawn moves and notcompleting his development, black is in amess and could be blown away by avigorous attack.

21.Bxb5?! [A speculative sacrifice whichrequires razor sharp reflexes and accuracy.Better was 21.f4 g4 22.Qg3 gxh3 23.Qxh3h4 24.f5 with excellent attacking chancesfor white.] 21...axb5 22.Nxb5 Kd723.Nd6?

Since all these books so distort what I consider to bethe true Bobby, I've become skeptical about chessbiography. A hundred years from now no one's goingto have the slightest idea what Bobby Fischer was likebecause very few people today have a true idea ofhim. -- Ed Edmondson

There is little doubt that the Soviet Chess Federationhad been severely embarrassed by Fischer's victoryover their boy in 1972 and in view of the long-standing Fischer-USSR conflict were unlikely toagree to anything suggested by the "American".-- Nigel Davies

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[Controlling key squares is more importantthan occupying them. With the black kingon d7, the logical course of the attackshould be: 23.c4! Nxb4 24.axb4 Qxb425.Rb1 Qa4 26.cxd5 Bxd5 27.Rfc1 Rc828.Rxc8 Kxc8 29.Rc1+ and black cannotoffer any more resistance.] 23...Ba6!24.Rf2 [If 24.b5?! Nxe5! 25.Bc5 Nc426.Nxc4 Qxc5 27.Ne5+ Ke8 28.bxa6Qxe3+ 29.Rxe3 Bc5 and black wins.]24...Nxe5 25.Bc5 [If 25.Qxe5 f6 26.Qc3Qxd6 27.Qxf6 Be7 28.Qd4 Qf4 and withan extra bishop, black is on the road tovictory.]

25...Qxd6?! [There was no need for thissacrifice as he has a good and soundalternative to win: 25...Qf6! 26.f4 Bxd627.fxe5 Bxc5 28.Qxc5 Qe7 and black iswinning.] 26.Bxd6 Bxd6 27.Qxg5 Nc4

28.Qf6 Raf8 29.Rfe2?! [Again, 29.f4Rhg8 30.Rf3 and white’s queen and twopawns are clearly superior to black’s threeminor pieces.] 29...Nxa3 30.Qd4[Perhaps white had planned 30.Rxe6 fxe631.Qxe6+ and he has nothing for his rookafter 31...Kc6 Meanwhile the rook perisheson e2.] 30...Bxe2 31.Rxe2 Nc4 32.c3Bc7! 33.Qf6 Bb6+ 34.Kh1 Nd6! With theknight admirably placed, defending f7, theblack rooks are free to invade the whiteposition. 35.Ra2 Ra8 36.Rxa8 Rxa837.g4 White places his hopes on his h-pawn, but the three black pieces quicklyhunt down the king. 37...hxg4 38.fxg4Ra1+ 39.Kg2 Ra2+ 40.Kh1 [40.Kg3?Ne4+ wins the queen.; 40.Kf1 Rf2+41.Qxf2 Bxf2 42.Kxf2 Ne4+–+] 40...Rf2with this move, black seals the king in hiscorner and quickly weaves a mating netaround him. 41.Qe5 Rf1+ 42.Kg2 Rf2+43.Kh1 [43.Kg3 Ne4+ 44.Kh4 Rf3 blackwins.] 43...Ne4 44.Qb8 Rf1+ 45.Kg2Rf2+ 46.Kh1 Bc7 47.Qb5+ Kd8 48.c4Rf1+ 49.Kg2 Rf2+ 50.Kh1 Bh2!

# To stop mate by 51...Ng3# white willhave to give perpetual check which will befrustrated by taking the king to e7 and f8:51 Qb6+ Ke8 52 Qc6+ Ke7 53 Qb7+ Kf854 Qc8+ Kg7 No check! 0–1

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G A Stany (2403)Diptayan,Ghosh (2413)

1.Nf3 c5 2.e4 e6 3.c3 Nf6 4.e5 Nd55.d4 cxd4 6.cxd4 b6 7.Nc3 Bb7 8.Bd3Be7 9.Qe2 Qc8 10.Bd2 Nb4

[This is a new move here. So far in thisposition the popular move has been:10...Ba6 to exchange off white’s stronglight square bishop.] 11.Bb1 [11.Rc1threatening a discovered attack on thequeen was to be considered here.]11...Ba6 12.Qe4 Qc6 13.Qg4 [White isprobably thinking of a king-side attack. Itwas best for him to stabilise his king’ssituation before going for aggressive play.He should play 13.Qe3 and then drive awaythe Nb4.] 13...g6 14.Bg5 Nd5 15.Nxd5[Better was 15.Bxe7 Nxc3 16.Ba3 Nxb117.Rxb1 Qc2 18.Nd2=] 15...exd5!

16.a4? [Probably, white saw 16.Bxe7??Qc1#! and panicked. Otherwise it is hardto explain 16 a4?; The only move to savewhite was: 16.Kd1 Qb5 17.Kc1 0–018.Ne1 Rc8+ 19.Bc2 Bxg5+ 20.Qxg5 Nc6and black is better as white is yet to getout of the mess along the c-file.] 16...Qc4!This quiet move threatening mate on e2 isdevastating. White cannot find asatisfactory defence. 17.Kd1 [The onlymove. 17.Nd2?? Qc1+; Or if 17.Ng1 Bb4+18.Kd1 Qf1+ 19.Kc2 Bd3+ 20.Kb3 Bc4+21.Kxb4 Qe1+ 22.Ka3 b5! mates.]17...Qe2+ 18.Kc1 0–0! 19.Bd2 [Awhirlwind mate comes after: 19.Bxe7Rc8+ 20.Bc5 bxc5 wins.] 19...Rc8+20.Bc3 Bb4 21.Re1 Qxf2 22.Qg3

22...Bxc3! 23.Qxf2 Bxe1+ 0–1

Selected games fromNational Women Challenger, Delhi

Rucha Pujari (2210)Vaishnavi Thakur (1530)

1.d4 d5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.g3 Bf5 4.Bg2 e65.0–0 c5 6.b3 Nc6 7.Bb2 cxd4 8.Nxd4Nxd4 9.Bxd4 Rc8 10.c4 [This sparksviolence of a rare order. Usually played hereis 10.c3 ] 10...dxc4 11.Bxb7 Rc7 12.Ba6Threatening Bb5+ and also the black pawnon c4. 12...Bh3

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This bishop threatens to make merry whenits white counterpart is away. But this moveinspires white to play like Tal, sacrificing leftand right. 13.Bxf6! Qxf6 [13...Qxd114.Rxd1 gxf6 15.bxc4±] 14.Bb5+! Ke715.Nd2! Bxf1 [15...Qf5 16.Nxc4 Qd517.Qxd5 exd5 18.Ne3 Rc5 19.Rfd1 Rxb520.Nxd5+ Rxd5 (20...Kd8 21.Nc3+ winsthe rook.; 20...Kd6 or any other king moveloses the Bh3 through a discovered check.21.Nf4+) 21.Rxd5 and white has rook andtwo pawns for black’s bishops.] 16.Nxc4!threatening mate with Qd6. 16...e5 Lateraldefence against the threat of 18 Qd6#17.Ne3 Qe6 [17...Qd6?? 18.Nf5++-]18.Nd5+ Kd8 19.Nxc7+ Kxc7 20.Rc1+White gets her pieces into play at everyopportunity disdaining to capture the blackbishop on f1. 20...Kb7

21.Qd8! Bd6 [If 21...Ba3 white wins withher original plan of 22.Qc7+ Ka8 23.Bc6+]22.Qxh8 Bh3 23.Bc6+! Ka6 24.Qa8!!White’s threat is 25 Qb5+ Ka5 26 Qb5#24...Qe7 (See diagram) 25.Bb7+!!Another beautiful move! 25...Kb5 [If25...Qxb7 26.Rc6+!] 26.Qxa7 Bd727.Qa6+ Kb4 28.Rc4# Fireworks of ahigh order in the very first round! 1–0

Michelle Catherina,P (2079)Anjana Krishna (1881)

1.e4 d5 2.exd5 Qxd5 3.Nc3 Qd6 4.d4c6 5.Bc4 Nf6 6.Nge2 Be6 7.Bf4 Qd78.Bxe6 Qxe6 9.0–0 Nbd7 [A new move.9...Qd7 has been played before.] 10.Re1Nb6 11.Be5 Nc4 12.Ng3 Nxe5 13.dxe5Nd7 14.Qd4 [From general considerationsit is not advisable to open up the g1–a7diagonal as white does not have a darksquare bishop whereas black has. 14.f4 (withthe threat of f5 is tempting for white.) 14...0–0–0 15.Qf3 Qc4 16.Rad1 e6 17.Nge4 Be7²]14...g6 15.Rad1 Bg7 16.f4 Nb6 17.Nge40–0 18.Nc5 Qc8 white is improving herdomination, move by move. 19.Qb4 Qc720.Rd3 e6 21.Rd6 [If 21.N3e4 Rfd822.Nd6 Bf8 23.Qd4 Rab8± and black doesnot seem to have any prospects of breakingfree of white’s grip.] 21...Rfb8 22.N3e4Nd5 23.Qd2 Bf8 (See diagram nextcoloumn) 24.c4 Nb6 25.Rd4 [After25.Qc3! Be7 (Accepting the exchange

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sacrifice would lose after: 25...Bxd626.exd6 Qd8 27.Nf6+ Kf8 28.Nh5 whenwhite has the nasty threat of 29 Qh8#)26.Red1 white has a clear advantage.]25...Rd8 26.b3 a5 [She could ease herposition with 26...Rxd4 27.Qxd4

Rd8] 27.Rd1 Rxd4 28.Qxd4 Be729.Qe3 a4 30.Nf6+ Bxf6 31.exf6 axb332.axb3? [The interrogation mark is toindicate that a much stronger move wasavailable. White misses immediate victorywith: 32.f5 when the threat of 33 Qh6and 34 Qg7# cannot be easily parried.]32...Kh8 33.f5 gxf5

34.Nxb7!! A dramatic move to deflect theblack queen from d8. 34...f4 [34...Qxb7If 35.Qh6 Rg8 36.Rd8! and whether blackcaptures the rook or no, white mates next

move with Qg7#.] 35.Qd3? [Thisoverlooks the opponent’s resource. Theway to win was: 35.Qd4 e5 36.Qd6 Qxd637.Rxd6 e4 38.Nd8 h6 39.Nxf7+ Kh740.Ne5 winning.] 35...f3?

[Probably black has mentally given up her gameas lost or she did not have time on her clock. Inchess, ‘never say die’. Here black misses a veryclever saving resource: 35...Nd5!! 36.cxd5 cxd5!With the d-file blocked, the knight has no escapeand her queen must come to her rescue andget pinned in the bargain! 37.Qb5 Rb8 38.Ra1Qe5 (Also 38...f3! could give black somechances!) 39.Rf1 Qc7 draws through repetition.]36.Qd8+ Rxd8 37.Rxd8+ Qxd8 38.Nxd8Kg8 39.Nxc6 fxg2?! [39...Nd7 to remove thef6 thorn in her flesh was preferable.] 40.Ne5Kf8 41.Kxg2 Black is now totally lost. 41...Na842.b4 Nb6 43.b5 Na4 44.Kf3 Ke8 45.Ke3Kf8 46.Kd4 Nb6 47.c5 Nd5 48.b6 1–0

I consider Fischer to be one of the greatest openingexperts ever. His adventures with the Poison PawnNajdorf Sicilian are amazing, legendary in my mind.He challenged the world to out analyze him, theyknew he would play that variation, many preparedspecial novelties against him, and still he consistentlywon with that risky line. Only Polugaevsky comes tomind in analyzing an opening to the level Fischerdid, the Polugaevsky variation of the Najdorf Sicilian.-- Keith Hayward

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A G Nimmy (2195)Amruta Mokal (2073)

29...Nc7 With two extra pawns and adominating rook on the 7th rank, black shouldwin as a matter of course. But watch whathappens! 30.Re3 Nc4 31.Rd3 e5–+Though this pawn move is winning, it laysthe foundation for her future difficulties. Blackshould take steps to secure her king positionwith either h6 or g6 and not present blackwith an immediate object for attack. 32.h3Ne6 [It was best to make secure her king’sposition with 32...g6 33.Re1 Rf7 34.Nxe5Re7 35.Rd8+ Kg7 36.Nf3 Rxe1+ 37.Nxe1Rc1 38.Rd7+ Kh6 and black is winning.]33.Re1 Nc5 [Best for black was: 33...Rf834.Nxe5 Nf4 35.Rf3 Nxg2 36.Rxf8+ Kxf837.Rf1+ Ke8 38.Nxc4 bxc4 and black shouldwin this ending.] 34.Rd5 e4 [Better wouldhave been 34...Nb3 35.Nxe5 Rd2 as shewould avert all danger and make one step inthe direction of simplifying the game andwinning it.] 35.Ng5 h6! [It is better to getrid of the mate threat hanging over your headand chase the knight. If 35...Nd3 36.Nh5Nxe1 37.Nxf4 Rd2 38.Rc5 and though blackstill has the advantage she does not have aclear win.] 36.Rxc5 hxg5 37.Nxe4 Nxa338.Rxg5 Kh7? [This is not a happy idea.Black has everything under control after:38...Rc6 39.g3 (black was threatening39...Re6) 39...Rf8–+] 39.Nd6

39...Kh6? [Probably black was in timetrouble and, with the game slipping awayfrom her, she feared that the white knightwas entering the attack. This was the timefor her rook to fall back for defence. Sheprobably attacked the rook with her king togain time on the clock. Though the rook flees,it goes to a square attacking the black knightgaining time for her other rook to get intothe attack. 39...Rc7 preventing 40 Re7 wasimportant.] 40.Rg3 b4 41.Re6++- Kh7[If 41...Kh5 42.Reg6 (42.Re8 g5!=) 42...Rc543.Rxg7 and white wins.] 42.Re7 Kg8[Played under the wrong notion that her kingwas safer on f8 than on h8. Though still losingbetter was: 42...Kh8 43.Rexg7 Rf8 44.Nf7+Rxf7 45.Rxf7 Rc4 46.Rf6+-] 43.Rgxg7+Kf8 44.Rh7! Threatening 45 Re8# 44...Kg845.Reg7+ Kf8 46.Rb7 Kg8 47.Ne8!

White is threatening 48 Rbg7+ Kf8 49Rh8# A great escape for white! 1–0

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In the Problem World

Pickaninny and Albinoby C.G.S.Narayanan

In problems the pawns are generally usedfor guarding squares , plugging king’s escapesquares, avoidance of checks to both thekings, prevention of certain mates and alsofor cook stopping. But the movement ofpawn from its initial square can provideinteresting play. The four moves of a singleblack pawn from its initial square on theseventh rank collectively contribute to a‘Pickaninny’. In the first example A belowafter the key move which grants two flightsthe play revolves around the BPf7.

A Jan Mortensen & V.F.RudenkoI Pr, Kongres Mostva 1961

Mate in two movesKey:1.Qe3!! waiting

1…fxe6 2.Nd7;1…f6 2.Nd3; 1…fxg6 2.Qg5;1…f5 2.Qc3.Mates after the ‘Pickaninny’ by f7.

The second B shows a Pickaninny in three-mover. After the key 1.Be6! it is zugzwangand black pawn d7 has to move and all thefour moves lead to distinct second movecontinuations.

B H.HultbergSchachvarlden 1944

Mate in three moves

1…dxc6 2.Kxc6 Kb1 3.Qb2; 1…d6 2.Kxd6Kb1 3.Qb2; 1…dxe6 2.Be5 Kb1 3.Qb2;1…d5 2.Bd4 Kb1 3.Qb2

C L.Larsen2nd HM BCF 1968/69

Mate in three moves

In C is a complex problem which combinesPickaninny with plus flights of the black king(the four lateral moves of the king).

The Key 1.Qd8! threatens 2.exf7+ Be63.Qd4. After 1..fxg6 2.Rf5+ forces BK tof5 and Bh3 mates as BP self-blocks g6.BPf7interferes with BBg7 to permit 3.Rf5 after1…f6 2.Qxd5+.1…f5 leads to another self-block 2.Rxe4+ Kxe4 3.Bg2 and finally1…fxe6 leads to sac of the other rook2.Rxe6+ Kxe6 3.Qe8. Now we come to

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problems involving the four moves of awhite pawn from its intial square on thesecond rank termed ‘Albino’

D E.WoodardPittsburgh Gazette Times 1915

Mate in two moves

D is a simple illustration of Albino in two-mover where white pawn f2 delivers fourwhite mates.Key 1.Kg7!! waiting1…Re32.fxe3; 1…Rg3+ 2.fxg3; 1…Rf4 2.f3 and1…Rxf5 2.f4

E B.LindgrenStockholm Tidningen 1944

Mate in three moves

In the Albino in the three-mover E the fourmoves of WP are only second movecontinuations and not mates as in two-mover.Key 1.Ne3! waiting1…Bc8 2.g4 any 3.Qg2;1…Bxf3 2.gxf3 Kg13.Qg2; 1…Bh3 2.gxh3 Kg1 3.Qg2

F Jan Hannelius I Pr, Ohqvist 1950

Mate in three movesIn F there are three tries by the WPe2 whichcome in the way of WN mates and the keycompletes the Albino.1.exd3?(threat 2.Rb1 3.Qf1)1…Nd6! As2.Nd3 followed by 3.Nf4 is notpossible.Similarly 1.exf3? Nd8! (2.Nf3 and3.Nh4?)1.e3? Nc5! (2.Nc4 followed by3.Ne3?) So the key which does not affectthe knight mates is 1.e4!! (2.Rb1 3Qf1)

G G.H.Drese2 Pr, Tidschrift vs KNSB 1935

Mate in three moves

G is a rare combination of Albino andPickaninny. The four moves of BPe7 arecountered by four moves of WPf2.Key1.Bd3! 1…exd6 2.f3;exf6 2.f4; 1…e6 2.fxe33.Bc4; 1…e5 2.fxg3 3.Be4 Remarkable con-struction just outside meredith

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Tactics from master gamesby S.Krishnan

White to play and win White to play and win

Black to play and win White to play and win

White to play and win White to play and winSolutions on page 43

1. 2.

3. 4.

5. 6.

White to play and win in all the above six positions

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Test your endgameby K.Muralimohan, FIDE Instructor

1. 2.

3. 4.

5. 6.

Solutions on page 43

All the endings are by Tigran Gorgiev

White to play and win in all the above six endings

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Masters of the past-22 Edgard Colle

Edgard Colle (Ghent, Belgium 18 May 1897 -20 April 1932) was a Belgian chess master. Hescored excellent results in major internationaltournaments, including first at Amsterdam 1926,ahead of Savielly Tartakower and future worldchampion Max Euwe; first at Meran 1926, aheadof Esteban Canal; and first at Scarborough 1930,ahead of Maróczy and Rubinstein.

He won the Belgian championship in 1922,1924 and 1926-1929. His internationalbreakthrough was in Scheveningen 1923before a.o. Euwe. In 1924, he came third inthe unofficial Paris Olympiad.

1926 was perhaps his best year. He won inAmsterdam (ahead of Tartakower and Euwe)and in Merano (ahead of Spielmann, Tartakower,Yates). Apart of these successes, he alsomanaged to finish second in Weston Super-Mare. Afterwards, he participated in manyinternational tournaments. This resulted in avictory in Scarborough 1927, Hastings 1928/29, Scarborough 1930.

Colle's playing career was hampered by illhealth. Colle is remembered today primarily forhis introduction of the chess opening nowknown as the Colle System: 1.d4 d5 2.Nf3 Nf63.e3. White normally follows up with Bd3, 0-0,and Nbd2, playing for a central pawn breakwith e4. The opening is in effect a reversedSemi-Slav Defense. In response to ...c5 byBlack, White typically plays c3. The ColleSystem was most often played in the late1920s and 1930s. Colle himself played it from1925 until his death in 1932. He won manygames with the opening, including a numberof brilliancies. Colle-O'Hanlon, Nice 1930,featuring one of the best-known examples ofa Greek gift sacrifice, is especially famous.

The opening gained popularity, especially in theUnited States, through the efforts of Belgian-American International Master George

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Koltanowski, who remainedfaithful to it throughout hislong career, and wroteseveral books on i t .Koltanowski said he playedthe opening as a tribute tohis friend Colle. The openingis sometimes referred to asthe Colle-Koltanowski.

The Colle System fell out offavor in high-level play as good defenses werefound for Black. Chess theory today regards it assafe but somewhat passive. However, becauseof its solid pawn structure, logical piece placement,and coherent strategic aims, the opening is oftentaught to novice players as a safe and dependableway to reach a playable middlegame.He is mostknown for the Colle-opening: 1.d4 d5 2.Nf3 Nf63.e3 e6 4.Bd3 c5. He is also well known for the'Greek gift sacrifice' in the game below:

Edgar Colle - John O'HanlonNice, France 19301.d4 d5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.e3 c5 4.c3 e6 5.Bd3 Bd66.Nbd2 Nbd7 7.0-0 0-0 8.Re1 Re8 9.e4 dxe410.Nxe4 Nxe4 11.Bxe4 cxd4 12.Bxh7+

(Position after 12.Bxh7+)

Kxh7 13.Ng5+ Kg6 14.h4 Rh8 15.Rxe6+ Nf616.h5+ Kh6 17.Rxd6 Qa5 18.Nxf7+ Kh719.Ng5+ Kg8 20.Qb3+ 1-0

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Solutions to ‘Tactics from master games’on p40

Severiukhina,Zoja (2337)Romanko, Marina (2420) [B12]62nd ch-RUS HL w Tyumen RUS (6),21.06.2012

Position after 25th move. White to play.26.Rxf4! gxf4 27.Bxh7+ Kxh728.Qh3+ Kg8 [28...Kg6 29.Qh5#]29.Qh8+ Kf7 30.Qg7+ Ke6 31.Bc5!Qh4 32.Qg6+ Ke5 [32...Kd7 33.Qd6#]33.Bd6+ [33.Bd6+ Kd4 34.Qd3#] 1–0

Hou Yifan (2639)Bu Xiangzhi (2668) [C26]TCh-CHN 2012 Taizhou CHN (5),27.06.2012

Position after White’s 26th move. Black toplay. 26...Nf4!–+ 27.dxe5 [27.Qf7 Qxc528.dxc5 Ne2+ 29.Kb1 Rxd1#] 27...Ne2+28.Kb1 Rxd1# 0–1

Malakhov,Vladimir (2705)Salgado Lopez,Ivan (2621) [A10]13th EICC Plovdiv BUL (5), 24.03.2012

Position after 24th move. White to play.25.Bc6!! [25.Bc6 Qxc6 26.Rxd6!] 1–0

Naiditsch,Arkadij (2702)Sokolov,Ivan (2653) [C84]13th EICC Plovdiv BUL (6), 25.03.2012

Position after 26th move.White to play.27.Bxg6!! Rxd1+ 28.Rxd1 hxg629.Rxd6+- Qc7 [29...Qxd6 30.Nf7++-] 30.Rxg6 Ra6 31.Rxa6 bxa632.Qh5+ Kg8 33.Qh7+ Kf8 [33...Kf834.Ne6++-] 1–0

Dreev,Aleksey (2698)Brkic,Ante (2587) [D80]

13th EICC Plovdiv BUL (7), 27.03.2012

Position after 29th move.White to play.30.Rxb7! Kxb7 31.Rb1+ Ka8 [31...Kc832.c6 Nc5 33.Bb4+-] 32.d6 c6 33.dxe7Re8 34.Bxe6 fxe6 35.Rb4 Rxe736.Rg4+- 1–0

Nisipeanu,Liviu-Dieter (2643)Areshchenko,Alexander (2688) [D80]13th EICC Plovdiv BUL (9), 29.03.2012

Position after 30th move.White to play.31.Rxf8! [31.Rxf8 Kxf8 32.Qh6+ Ke8(32...Kg8 33.Qxg6+ Kh8 34.Bxf7 Qb835.Qh6+ Nh7 36.Bg6 Qg8 37.Rc8+-)33.Bb5+ Qxb5 34.Qh8+ Kd7 35.Qc8#]1–0

Solutions to ‘Test your endgame’ on page 41

Tigran Gorgiev

1 1.b6+ Kxb6 2.Rxd6 Bg3+ 3.Kxg3Ne4+ 4.Kf3 Nxd6 5.c5+ Kxc5 6.Bf8Kd5 7.Nf4+ Ke5 8.Bg7#

2 1.Na7+ Kb8 2.N7c6+ Kc8 3.Ne7+ Kb84.Nac6+ Ka8 5.b7+ Kxb7 6.Nxd8+ Kc77.Ne6+ Kd6 8.Nc8+ Kxe6 9.Bb3#

3 1.Nd3+ Kc4 2.Bd5+ Kxd5 3.Nb4+ Kc44.Nxa2 Kb3 5.Nc1+ Kb2 6.Nd2 Bd8+7.Kc6 Kxc1 8.Kd7 Bh4 9.Nf3+ wins

4 1.Be5+ Kxe5 2.c7 Be6+ 3.Kg5 d64.Nc6#

5 1.g6 Nh4 2.Ng7+ Kg5 3.Nge6+ Kh64.g7 Nf5+ 5.Kg4 Nxg7 6.Nd4 Ne67.Nf5#

6 1.Bf4 Bxf4 2.Nxh5+ Kg6 3.Nxf4+Kg5 4.Nd5 Ba4+ 5.Kc5 Kxg4 6.Kb4Be8 7.Nf6+

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