AICF CHRONICLE

the official magazine of the All India Chess Federation

Volume : 13 Issue : 7 Price Rs. 25 February 2019

17th Delhi Open International Open 11th Chennai Open International GM Chess
GM Chess Tournament, Delhi Tournament, Chennai 2019

GM Levan Pantsulaia
(Georgia)
Winner

14th AICFB National “A” Chess Velammal- AICF Women International Grandmaster
Championship 2019, Nagpur Round Robin Tournament 2019, Chennai

Kishan Gangolli WIM Divya Deshmukh

(Karnataka) (Maharashtra)
Champion Winner
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Inside…. checks to escape a deadly checkmate.
17th Delhi International Open Grandmasters Tmt,,New Delhi
Levan Pantsulaia of Georgia is winner
by I.A. Vasanth B.H., Chief Arbiter 1
11th Chennai Open International Grandmaster Tmt
Levan Pantsulaia wins Chennai GM Open
by IA M..Manjunatha, Chief Arbiter 7
IIFL Wealth Open Fide rating chess tournament, Mumbai…
Samrat Ghorai of WB wins IIFL Open Rating
By IA Swapnil Bansod, Chief Arbiter 11
1st J.J. Trophy All India Open FIDE Rating Rapid &Blitz , Indore
Prasannaa wins both Rapid and Blitz titles
by IA Pravin Pantawane,Chief Arbiter 14
4th DDCA All India FIDE Rated below 1600,Hubballi
Rakesh N of Karnataka is winner
by I.A. Vasanth B.H., Chief Arbiter 17
19th North Eastern States Fide Rating Championship, Sikkim
Rahul Gurung wins title
by IA Dharmendra Kumar,Chief Arbiter 20
14th AICFB National “A” Ch’ship for visually
challenged , Nagpur aegis of All India Chess Federation attracted 40 participants.
Kishan Gangolli lifts title for the 6th consecutive time
by IA Manjunatha. M, Chief Arbiter 27
Problem World:Model mates by CGSNarayanan 28
Selected games from Delhi Open
Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron 30
Tactics from master games by S.Krishnan 42
Test your endgame by C.G.S.Narayanan 43
Masters of the past-96: Malik Mir Sultan Khan 44
AICF Calendar 48
From the Editor’s Desk
India’s young Grandmaster Karthikeyan
Murali had a fine run in the Gibraltar
Masters 2019, a premier event in the world
where elite players took part. He outplayed
the top seed GM Maxime Vachier Lagrave
in the last round to finish second and carried
home his career best prize money.
AICF International Women Grandmaster round robin league,
a welcome initiative by the Federation providing WGM norm-
making opportunities to WIMs in Indian conditions, has started
yielding results. The fourth edition Velammal-AICF International
Women Grandmaster Round Robin league held in Chennai,
organized by Tamilnadu State Chess Association and title
sponsored by Velammal Group of Institutions was won by
young WIM Divya Deshmukh of Maharashtra who also made
WGM and IM norms. Miitchell Catherina of Tamilnadu who
finished second runner-up in the event secured a WGM norm.
These events are covered in the centre pages of this issue.
Delhi GM Open is gaining in popularity by the year. The 17th
edition drew a massive 2812 participants at the Delhi GM Open
tournament 2019, in all the three categories put together, with
an equally awesome 1.01 crore as prize money. GM Levan
Pantsulaia of Georgia won the event. Felicitation to D.Gukesh,
World’s youngest Grandmaster, added colour to the inaugural
day function of Chennai GM Open. GM Pantsulaia emerged
Champion yet again bagging the Dr.N.Mahaligam Trophy.
Twelve year old Pranesh M of Tamilnadu made his iM norm
in this event. Kishan Gangolli of Karnataka won the AICFB
National A for the visually challenged, held in Nagpur,for the
sixth consecutive time.
A three-day FIDE Trainer’s Seminar organized by Tamil Nadu
State Chess Association early last month in Chennai under the
Renowned trainers for the seminar were Grandmaster
R.B.Ramesh and International Master Vishal Sareen.
IM Manuel Aaron annotates selected games from Delhi GM
Open in this issue.Chess maestro Malik Mir Sultan Khan is
featured in the ‘Masters of the past’ series.
C.G.S.Narayanan
Readers are invited to offer their feedback on the
regular features in the AICF Chronicle and are
also invited to send interesting articles, annotated
games and chess anecdotes to the Editor at ‘www.
indianchessfed@gmail.com’ or ‘cgsnarayanan
@hotmail.com.
17th Delhi International Open Grandmasters Chess Tournament,New Delhi
Levan Pantsulaia of Georgia is winner
by I.A. Vasanth B.H., Chief Arbiter
17thDelhi International Grandmaster Open
Chess Tournament organized by Delhi Chess
Association under the aegis of All India Chess
Federation from 9th to 16th January 2019 at
Indira Gandhi Indoor Stadium, New Delhi.
The festival consisted of three categories,
A, B & C with a total cash prize fund of a
breath-taking Rs. 1,01,00,000/-. A total of
323 players from 21 countries, which includ-
ed 29 Grandmasters, 34 International Mas-
ters took part in the premier section while in
the Category ‘B’ for the players below 1899
international rating which took place simulta-
neously with the premier section attracted a
total number of 959 players from 10 federa-
tions. In the category ‘C’, the record books
have been rewritten again as the event had
the participation of 1530 players and carried
a total prize money of Rs. 33,00,000/- (Ru-
pees Thirty-three Lakhs).
The17th edition of Delhi International Open
Chess Tournament Category A startedwith a
surprising start as National U-09 Champion
Ilamparthi A.R. of Tamil Nadu, rated 1920,
defeated twenty-sixth seed GM-elect Harsha
Bharathakoti in the opening round. Twentieth
seed GM Karthik Venkatraman, rated 2515,
was held to a draw by unheralded Srikanth
K. of the Indian Air Force, rated 1932. West
Bengal’s Samriddhaa Ghosh also started the
tournament on a positive note as she held
International Master Vignesh N. R to a draw.
Bihar’s youngster Saurabh Anand held fourth
seed and local favorite Grandmaster Vaibhav
Suri in the second round of Category A. It
was a Caro-Kann opening wherein Saurabh
equalised without much ado and went about
pushing further on the Kingside. Highest rat-
ed Indian Vaibhav Suri soon gave perpetual
In the third round, Neelash had managed to
outwit Austrian International Master Gajek
Radoslaw, rated 2481 and defeated Grand-
master Karen Movsziszian of Armenia, rated
2514, in the fourth round.
The Category ‘B’ of the big festival ended
on 12th January 2019 with Dhanush Ragav
N S of Tamil Nadu bagging the first prize of
Rs. 3,01,000/-. Prakash Yadav of Madhya
Pradesh finished second and won Rs.
2,01,000/- while Yadav Prem Gopal of Maha-
rashtra was declared third place winner that
was worth one lakh one thousand rupees.
In the seventh round, GM Diptayan Ghosh
won in just 7 moves after the Bangladeshi
Grandmaster Ziaur Rahman made a costly
mistake. The game turned out be the fastest
game to get over in round 7.Ziaur played
the innocuous looking pawn move c2-c4 on
move 6. Diptayan immediately captured the
pawn—attacking the light-squared Bishop
and threatening Qa5+ discovered Check.
Ziaur resigned on the next move.
Twenty-two year old Iranian Grandmaster
Mosadeghpour Masoud pulled ahead of the
field with a finely crafted victory over Tran
Tuan Minh of Vietnam in the eighth round.
Playing with white pieces in Sicilian Najdorf
Bg5 variation which lasted 33 moves, Ma-
soud, rated 2517 got better of Grandmaster
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Tran Tuan Minh, rated 2541. Tran obtained
a small advantage after making exchange
sacrifice of his rook for knight on the 23rd
move. Later he landed in a piece-down po-
sition, prompting him to resign.
Gukesh D of Tamilnadu secured 7 points in
nine rounds to become the second youngest
grandmaster in chess history, behind Sergey
Karjakin of Russia but ahead of Javokhir
Sindarov of Uzbekistan. He won his game
in the ninth round against Dinesh Sharma
rated 2303.
There were norms galore at the tournament.
International Masters Gukesh D and Visakh
NR secured GM norms while Aditya Mittal,
Saurabh Ananad, Bharat Kumar Reddy and
Neelash Saha scored IM Norms respectively.
Bommini Mounika Akshaya of Andhra Pradesh
scored a Women’s International Mast`er
norm.
Third seed Grandmaster Levan Pantsulaia
of Georgia won the 17th Delhi International
Chess tournament 2019 after settling for a
quick draw with Grandmaster S.L Narayanan
in the final round. It was a seven way tie at
the top between Levan Pantsulaia (Geor-
gia), Mosadeghpour Masoud (Iran), Stupak
Kirill (Belarus), Amonatov Farrukh (Tajik-
istan), Diptayan Ghosh, Abhijeet Gupta, and
Narayanan.S.L on eight points apiece in the
event but Levan was declared the winner
based on his better tiebreak.
In Category ‘C’, Bir Kumar of Bihar won the
first prize. Scoring 9.5 points out of a possi-
ble ten, Bir Kumar stayed a half point ahead
of Nischay Sharma of Madhya Pradesh and
Rishi R of Tamil Nadu who both tied for the
second spot on nine points but the former
was declared the runner-up based on his
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better tiebreak. 11th Chennai Open International Grand Master Chess Tournament for Sakthi Group
Final ranking:Category A Dr. N.Mahalingam Trophy
Rk Name FED Pts
1 GM Pantsulaia Levan GEO 8
2 GM Mosadeghpour Masoud IRI 8
3 GM Stupak Kirill BLR 8
4 GM Amonatov Farrukh TJK 8
5 GM Ghosh Diptayan IND 8
6 GM Gupta Abhijeet IND 8
7 GM Narayanan.S.L IND 8
8 GM Ghaem Maghami Ehsan IRI 7½
9 GM Predke Alexandr RUS 7½
10 GM Tran Tuan Minh VIE 7½
11 GM Deepan Chakkravarthy J. IND 7½
12 GM Swapnil S. Dhopade IND 7½
13 IM Harsha Bharathakoti IND 7½
14 Pranav V IND 7½
15 IM Gukesh D IND 7 GM elect D.Gukesh felicitated
16 GM Debashis Das IND 7 (L-R) Stephen Balasamy, Hon.Secretary TNSCA, , Shri Jai, Executive, Novotel & IBIS Hotels OMR,
17 GM Erigaisi Arjun IND 7 Chennai,B.Murugavel, Vice President TNSCA, K.Kailasanathan, MD, Microsense,GM elect D.Gukesh,
18 IM Visakh N R IND 7 IM Manuel Aaron, D.V.Sundar, Hon.Vice President FIDE, S.Hariharan, Former Secretary TNSCA,
19 IM Vignesh N R IND 7 Frederic Friedel, Co-founder, Chess Base,Prof.R.Anantharam, International Arbiter
20 GM Aleksandrov Aleksej BLR 7
21 GM Rozum Ivan RUS 7
22 GM Movsziszian Karen ARM 7
23 CM Aditya Mittal IND 7
24 IM Md Nubairshah Shaikh IND 7
25 GM Lugovskoy Maxim RUS 7
26 IM Muthaiah Al IND 7
27 GM Paichadze Luka GEO 7
28 FM Shailesh Dravid IND 7
29 IM Karthikeyan P. IND 7
30 IM Khusenkhojaev Md TJK 7
31 Sammed Jaykumar Shete I ND 7
32 GM Karthikeyan Murali IND 7
33 IM Praveen Kumar C IND 7
34 Grahesh Y IND 7
35 WIM D ivya Deshmukh IND 7
36 GM Rahman Ziaur BAN 6½
37 GM Popov Ivan RUS 6½
38 IM Girish A. Koushik IND 6½ (L-R) IA R.R.Vasudevan (partly seen), GM Alexandr Predke of Russia (making the first move), Stephen
39 IM Ameir Moheb EGY 6½ Balasamy, Hon.Secretary TNSCA, B.Murugavel, Vice President TNSCA, GM elect D.Gukesh, D.V.Sundar,
Hon.Vice President FIDE, Frederic Friedel, Co-founder, Chess Base,IM Manuel Aaron
40 GM Dzhumaev Marat UZB 6½
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Dr. N.Mahalingam Trophy
Chief Guest IM Manuel Aaron addressing the gathering during the PD function.Others in
the picture(L-R) Stephen Balasamy, Hon.Secretary TNSCA, B.Murugavel, Vice President
TNSCA, D.V.Sundar, Hon.Vice President FIDE, Shri Jai, Executive, Novotel & IBIS Hotels OMR,
Prof.R.Anantharam, International Arbiter and M.Manjunath, Chief Arbiter
IA R.R.Vasudevan, Press Officer, Stephen Balasamy, Hon.Secretary TNSCA, D.V.Sundar, Hon.Vice
President FIDE, B.Murugavel, Vice President TNSCA, IM Manuel Aaron, Pantsulaia Levan of
Georgia (Winner) Shri Jai, Executive, Novotel & IBIS Hotels OMR, Chennai and Prof.R.Anantharam,
International Arbiter
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41 IM Gusain Himal IND 6½ 86 Singh S. Vikramjit IND 6
42 WGM Kurbonboeva Sarvinoz UZB 6½ 87 WIM Varga Klara HUN 6
43 IM Shyaamnikhil P IND 6½ 88 Sri Sai Baswanth P IND 6
44 IM Das Sayantan IND 6½ 89 Mahindrakar Indrajeet IND 6
45 FM Gajwa Ankit IND 6½ 90 CM Nikhil Magizhnan IND 6
46 GM Thipsay Praveen M IND 6½ 91 Souhardo Basak IND 6
47 IM Saravana Krishnan P. IND 6½ 92 Saptorshi Gupta IND 6
48 IM Rathnakaran K. IND 6½ 93 Sibi Visal R IND 6
49 GM Czebe Attila HUN 6½ 94 Sanskriti Goyal IND 6
50 IM Sardana Rishi AUS 6½ 95 Rupesh Ranjan IND 6
51 FM Wagh Suyog IND 6½ 96 Patil Pratik IND 5½
52 IM Kathmale Sameer IND 6½ 97 IM Kulkarni Vikramaditya IND 5½
53 Saurabh Anand IND 6½ 98 Nayak Rajesh IND 5½
54 FM Navalgund Niranjan IND 6½ 99 IM Sidhant Mohapatra IND 5½
55 IM Gajek Radoslaw AUT 6½ 100WGMSwati Ghate IND 5½
56 GM Karthik Venkataraman IND 6½
57 WIM F ranco Valencia Angela COL 6½ Final ranking: Category B
58 IM Sangma Rahul IND 6½ Rk Name Pts
59 Jay Kundaliya IND 6½ 1 Dhanush Ragav N S 9
60 Koustav Chatterjee IND 6½ 2 Prakash Yadav 9
61 Choudhary Jitendra K IND 6½ 3 Yadav Prem Gopal 8½
62 IM Nitin S. IND 6½ 4 Sham R 8½
63 FM M Fahad Rahman BAN 6½ 5 Deepak Batra 8½
64 Alan Diviya Raj IND 6½ 6 Praloy Sahoo 8½
65 Neelash Saha IND 6 7 Sharsha Backer 8
66 IM Sharma Dinesh K. IND 6 8 Manu M 8
67 Sahoo Utkal Ranjan IND 6 9 Koustav Chakraborty 8
68 Bharat Kumar Reddy P IND 6 10 Sai Kiran Y 8
69 GM Ziatdinov Raset USA 6 11 Heikrujam Jacky Singh 8
70 Prasannaa.S IND 6 12 Dhanasekar K. 8
71 GM Manik Mikulas SVK 6 13 Srujan Keerthan Solletti 8
72 WFM Bommini Mounika A IND 6 14 Vishnu Devyadav 8
73 IM Siva Mahadevan IND 6 15 Deepak Rai 8
74 CM Rohith Krishna S IND 6 16 AIM Baig Akram 8
75 WFM Arpita Mukherjee IND 6 17 AGMShivasubramanian R 8
76 WIM Vantika Agrawal IND 6 18 Rathi Dhanashree 8
77 CM Aronyak Ghosh IND 6 19 Deepak Singh 8
78 IM Nguyen Van Huy VIE 6 20 Anmol Bhagat 8
79 Lokesh N. IND 6 21 Rohit Ramanan T G 8
80 Pimpalkhare Vedant IND 6 22 Chudasama Ankit 8
81 GM Deviatkin Andrei RUS 6 23 Pushpendra 8
82 Siddarth M IND 6 24 Devi Das Suresh Pai 8
83 IM Tran Minh Thang VIE 6 25 Himanshu Moudgil 8
84 WIM S rija Seshadri IND 6 26 Paramasivam M. 8
85 Bhattacharyya Soham IND 6 27 Anwar N K 7½
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28 AIM Aryan 7½ 20 Jani Kushal R 8 11th Chennai Open International Grand Master Chess Tournament 2019
29 Selvamurugan B 7½ 21 Neeraj Sah 8
for Sakthi Group Dr. N.Mahalingam Trophy
30 Warude Satyam 7½ 22 Nivedan Bhardwaj 8
31 Sanchit Anand 7½ 23 Vishwanath Purohit 8 Levan Pantsulaia wins Chennai GM Open
32 Iqbal Amad Mogal 7½ 24 Dhruvin Sajnani 8
by IA M.Mnjunatha, Chief Arbiter
33 Haribabu Sharma 7½ 25 Suman Maity 8
34 Saurabh Lokhande 7½ 26 Prem Anantha Rajan V. 8
GM Pantsulaia Levan of Georgia with 8.5 wins & equal number draws, Predke tied for
35 Tajane Ganesh 7½ 27 Raghu Ram Reddy S 8
36 Rohan Bharat Joshi 7½ 28 Gaurav Danu 8
points emerged the Champion after the the 7th spot logging 7.5 points.
37 Katiyar Prashant 7½ 29 Anukarssa Dutta 8 tenth and final round in the 11th Chennai
38 Abdul Majeed N. 7½ 30 Shahab Uddin 8 Open International Grandmaster Chess On the brighter side, 12-year-old Pranesh
39 Vinayak V P 7½ 31 Rajiv A 8 tournament 2019 for Sakthi Group Dr N Ma- M secured his maiden International Master
40 Dileep Tripathi 7½ 32 Ranade Mayank 8 halingam Trophy at Novotel IBIS OMR Hotel, Norm defeating Grandmaster Erigaisi Arjun
41 Chavan Nameet 7½ 33 Anil M 8 Chennai on Friday 25th January, 2019. In in the ninth round. Karaikudi based Pranesh
42 Ravi Kant Tiwari 7½ 34 Piyush Narsikar 8 the crucial final round, Pantsulaia drew with required a draw for his International Master
43 Adireddy Tarun 7½ 35 Rajendra Singh 8 top seed GM Predke Alexandr of Russia, Norm, but went on to defeat Erigaisi Arjun in
44 AFM Pawar Harshit 7½ 36 Singh Subham Kumar 8 moving to 8.5 points. The draw propelled a Sicilian game that lasted 62 moves.
45 Chauhan Narayan 7½ 37 Nagasri Saikanth 8 the Georgian to clear first. This follows
46 Aditya P Melani 7½ 38 Satheesh M 8 Pantsulaia's title triumph at Delhi Open last Earlier, the tournament moving little outside
47 Ravi Kumar Gautam 7½ 39 Rathod Sachin 8 fortnight, giving him back-to-back ti- the city for a bigger venue, saw a grand
48 Jashanpreet 7½ 40 Gaumit Kauts 8 tles, a great start for 2019. The Georgian opening ceremony at Novotel IBIS OMR Ho-
49 Athokpam K Singh 7½ 41 Soni Deepak R 8 would take home the winner's cheque of tel, Sholinganallur, Chennai on Friday 18th
50 Falgun D Purohit 7½ 42 Hadkar Sanman 7½ Rs.3,00,000 (Rupees Three lakhs only) along January, 2019. The inauguration also saw the
43 Md Imran 7½ with the handsome Sakthi Group Dr N Ma- felicitation of Grandmaster Elect D Gukesh,
Final ranking: Category C 44 Suresh Garg 7½ halingam Trophy. by Tamil Nadu State Chess Association and
Rk Name Pts 45 Manikandan Tayalan 7½ his sponsor M/s Microsense. TNSCA gave
1 Bir Kumar 9½ 46 Badgujar Vaibhav 7½ Sharing the second spot with 8.0 points were the prodigy a cash award of Rs 30,000 while
2 Nischay Sharma 9 47 Jain Hardik 7½ five Grandmasters viz., Popov Ivan (Russia), Mr S Kailasanathan, MD, Microsense gave a
3 Rishi R 9 48 Sailesh R 7½ Aleksandrov Aleksej (Belarus), Paichadze cheque of Rs.1,00,000 to Master Gukesh.
4 Akhil B V S 9 49 Bhargav Yarnagula 7½
Luka (Georgia), Megaranto Susanto (Indone- Present in the dais were Mr Frederic Friedel,
5 Dhruv Phukan 9 50 Manna Chiranjit 7½
sia) and Rozum Ivan (Russia). The top seeds Co-founder, Chess Base, Mr S Kailasanathan,
6 Romit Verma 9 51 Lokendra Rohit 7½
had their say in the final round, as all the MD, Microsense, Mr D V Sundar, Vice Pres-
7 Marium Fatima 8½ 52 Athokpam Keshorchandra Singh 7½
decisive games in the top ten boards went ident, FIDE, Mr Stephen Balasamy P, Gen.
8 Khagokpam Bishwajit S 8½ 53 Prithwi Sinha 7½
in favor of the higher rated player Secretary, Tamil Nadu State Chess Associ-
9 Sreehith Reddy R 8½ 54 Afinu Shifan M 7½
ation, International Arbiter R Anantharam,
10 Parekh Vishrut 8½ 55 Ashish Kumar Sao 7½
11 Thomas Valiyaprambil 8½ 56 Subhankar Das 7½
After five rounds at the mid-way mark, GM Mr B Murugavel, Vice President, Tamil Nadu
12 Mahendar B 8½ 57 Sharma Tushar B 7½ Lugovskoy Maxim (Russia) and IM Shyaam- State Chess Association and Chief Arbiter
13 Avhad Prajwal 8½ 58 Koli Akash 7½ nikhil P (India) led the table with 5/5 score. Manjunatha M. The prestigious event was
14 Sujeet Kumar Chaudhary 8½ 59 Mohammad Sameed 7½ Subsequent rounds saw change in leader as inaugurated by a ceremonial first move be-
15 Rajat Yadav 8 60 Vijendra Kumar 7½ Pantsulaia toppled Lugovskoy in the penul- tween International Master Manuel Aaron
16 Ram Vyas 8 61 Adalja Vanssh A 7½ timate round and held on to the lead till the and top seed Grandmaster AlexandrPredke
17 Karthikeyan G 8 62 AFM Arul Prakash N 7½ end. Top seed Grandmaster Alexandr Predke of Russia.The ten round Swiss league tour-
18 Satheesh Kumar G 8 63 Syed Umair Hasan 7½ of Russia, remained undefeated, but found nament has a prize fund of Rs.15 lakhs, with
19 Dhuliya Shubham 8 64 Harsh Pareshbhai Ruparel 7½ himself bogged with multiple draws. With five the winner taking a handsome trophy along

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with a cash award of Rs.3 lakhs. The tour- 16 GM Stupak Kirill BLR 7
nament attracted 286 entries, comprising of 17 IM Tran Minh Thang VIE 7
65 titled players viz., 20 GMs, 3 WGMs, 28 18 IM Saravanan V. IND 7
IMs, 4 WIMs, 10 other title holders. 19 Pranesh M IND 7
20 GM Manik Mikulas SVK 7
21 GM Deepan Chakkravarthy J. IND 7
The Rs.15,00,000 (Rupees fifteen lakhs only)
22 IM Muthaiah Al IND 7
prize money tournament came to a glitter-
23 GM Neelotpal Das IND 7
ing end, as the trophy, certificate and cash 24 GM Laxman R.R. IND 7
prizes for 55 players were handed over to 25 GM Deviatkin Andrei RUS 7
he winners' by the Chief Guest India's first 26 WGM Babiy Olga UKR 7
International Master Manuel Aaron. Present 27 IM Padmini Rout IND 7
in the dais were Mr D V Sundar, Vice Pres- 28 IM Rajesh V A V IND 7
ident, FIDE, Mr Stephen Balasamy P, Gen. 29 Barath Kalyan M IND 7
Secretary, Tamil Nadu State Chess Associ- 30 FM Gajwa Ankit IND 7
ation, International Arbiter R Anantharam, 31 GM Sundararajan Kidambi IND 7
Mr B Murugavel, Vice President, Tamil Nadu 32 AGM Rathneesh R IND 7
State Chess Association and Chief Arbiter 33 IM Deshmukh Anup IND 7
Manjunatha M. 34 Saurabh Anand IND 6.5
35 IM Shyaamnikhil P IND 6.5
36 Sahoo Utkal Ranjan IND 6.5
I thank AICF & TNSCA for the opportunity giv-
37 Harshavardhan G B IND 6.5
en to me to officiate as Chief Arbiter in this 38 IM Akash G IND 6.5
tournament and to the Sakthi Group whose 39 Ritviz Parab IND 6.5
continued support is a pillar in the success of 40 IM Ameir Moheb EGY 6.5
the tournament. Special thanks to the team 41 IM Suvrajit Saha IND 6.5
of Arbiters and Volunteers who worked day 42 IM Gajek Radoslaw AUT 6.5
and night to make this tournament a grand 43 IM Rathnakaran K. IND 6.5
success. 44 IM Elgabry Mohsen EGY 6.5
45 Karthik Rajaa IND 6.5
Final Ranking 46 Samant Aditya S IND 6.5
Rk. Name FED Pt 47 IM Nitin S. IND 6.5
1 GM Pantsulaia Levan GEO 8.5 48 IM R.Balasubramaniam IND 6.5
2 GM Popov Ivan RUS 8 49 IM Ravichandran Siddharth IND 6.5
3 GM Aleksandrov Aleksej BLR 8 50 Sai Vishwesh.C IND 6
4 GM Paichadze Luka GEO 8 51 GM Erigaisi Arjun IND 6
5 GM Megaranto Susanto INA 8 52 Siddarth M IND 6
6 GM Rozum Ivan RUS 8 53 WGM Kurbonboeva Sarvinoz UZB 6
7 GM Lugovskoy Maxim RUS 7.5 54 IM Harikrishnan.A.Ra IND 6
8 GM Karthik Venkataraman IND 7.5 55 Shiva Pavan Teja Sharma IND 6
9 GM Predke Alexandr RUS 7.5 56 IM Konguvel Ponnuswamy IND 6
10 IM Girish A. Koushik IND 7.5 57 IM Shashikant Kutwal IND 6
11 IM Vignesh N R IND 7.5 58 GM Ziatdinov Raset USA 6
12 GM Tran Tuan Minh VIE 7.5 59 FM Vinoth Kumar M. IND 6
13 GM Czebe Attila HUN 7.5 60 Midilesh Ms IND 6
14 IM Khusenkhojaev M TJK 7.5 61 Senthil Maran K IND 6
15 IM Nguyen Van Huy VIE 7 62 FM Ramakrishna J. IND 6
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63 IM Sarwat Walaa EGY 6
64 WIM Varshini V IND 6
65 AGM Vignesh N IND 6
66 Dahale Atul IND 6
67 Adarsh Tripathi IND 6
68 FM Maheswaran P. IND 6
69 IM Gokhale Chandrashekhar IND 6
70 Rakesh Kumar Nayak IND 6
71 Kumar Gaurav IND 6
72 Debata Sarthak IND 6
73 WFM S aranya J IND 6
74 Souhardo Basak IND 6
75 Harshad S IND 6
76 Nitin Shankar Madhu IND 6
77 WIM Michelle Catherina P IND 6
78 Bala Kannamma P IND 6
79 Pranav V IND 6
80 IM Navin Kanna T.U. IND 6
81 AGM Sa Kannan IND 6
82 Md.Abzid Rahman BAN 6
83 Thrish Karthik IND 6
84 Savitha Shri B IND 6
85 Anilkumar O.T. IND 6
86 Sivan S Roshan IND 6
87 Ashutosh Kumar IND 6
88 Leeladhar Kachroo IND 6
89 WFM M eghna C H IND 6
90 Snehal Bhosale IND 6
91 Rohit S IND 6
92 CM Rajarishi Karthi IND 5.5
93 IM Hegde Ravi Gopal IND 5.5
94 Sradhanjali Jena IND 5.5
95 Mahindrakar Indrajeet IND 5.5
96 WGM Safranska Anda FRA 5.5
97 Parthasarathy R IND 5.5
98 WIM Chandreyee Hajra IND 5.5
99 Polakhare Aryan IND 5.5
100 Badri Narayan B IND 5.5
101 Jain Kashish Manoj IND 5.5
102 Chilukuri Sai Varshith IND 5.5
103 Dinesh Kumar J IND 5.5
104 Sreekar J S S IND 5.5
105 Sanjay Thiruvengadam IND 5.5
106 G Rishabh C IND 5.5
107 Vijay Shreeram P IND 5.5
108 Srihari L IND 5.5
109 Harsh Suresh IND 5.5
110 Ankitha Goud Palle IND 5.5
111 Sanjay D G IND 5.5
112 Abhinessh S IND 5.5
113 Masango Spencer ZIM 5.5
114 Anilkumar K.V. IND 5.5
115 Gaurav Rajesh Zagade IND 5.5
116 Sriram B IND 5.5
117 Vinay R Jumani IND 5.5
118 Sreyas Payyappat IND 5.5
119 Godson Merlin E IND 5.5
120 Nayanikaa Muralidharan I ND 5.5
121 Rebecca Jesumarian IND 5.5
122 Akshaya Rajaraman IND 5.5
123 Sooraj M R IND 5
124 Fathima Abdeen IND 5
125 Souradip Deb IND 5
126 WIM Varga Klara HUN 5
127 Adireddy Arjun IND 5
128 Rithvik Raja M IND 5
129 Yutesh P IND 5
130 Eldho Skaria IND 5
131 Aditya P Melani IND 5
132 Rindhiya V IND 5
133 AIM Sahib Singh IND 5
134 Deepak Raj R IND 5
135 Soham Dey IND 5
136 Vishwa Bala Kumaran M IND 5
137 Abinandhan R IND 5
138 Sathyanarayanan S. IND 5
139 Sathya Giri V IND 5
140 Sai Prasath A S IND 5
141 Yash Jyoti Bir IND 5
142 Genish Prakash J IND 5
143 Ayyappan P Santhana P IND 5
144 Ruban Sanjai M IND 5
145 Alagiri Sriram B IND 5
146 Niharika Ch IND 5
147 Asif Mohammad Tayyeb IND 5
148 Rohith S IND 5
149 Sriansh Das IND 5
150 Divyan T IND 5
151 Ashvin Venkat G IND 5
152 Aakash K P IND 5
153 Shivani Madhu IND 5
154 Samyak L IND 5
155 Kalyani B IND 5
156 Yashwant Annamalai IND 5
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157 Tejes Suresh Kumar IND 5
158 Samith Reddy I IND 5
159 AFM Sakthivel Heamish K IND 5
160 Dugar Chetan IND 5
161 Tina C IND 5
162 FM Srihari L R IND 4.5
163 Adireddy Tarun IND 4.5
164 Darpan Inani IND 4.5
165 Dhrupad Kashyap IND 4.5
166 Borgaonkar Akshay IND 4.5
167 Priansh Das IND 4.5
168 Sudarshan Bhat IND 4.5
169 Tamhankar Siddhant IND 4.5
170 Vengatesh Krishnan C IND 4.5
171 Antony Jesumarian L IND 4.5
172 Sivaa G M IND 4.5
173 Avinash Ramesh IND 4.5
174 WCM Chinnam Vyshnavi IND 4.5
175 Konatham Snehil IND 4.5
176 Aakash G IND 4.5
177 Arora Honi IND 4.5
178 Srikrishnan P IND 4.5
179 Tejaswini G IND 4.5
180 Nirmal L IND 4.5
181 Siddhant Gunwant D IND 4.5
182 Phatak Aanjaneya IND 4.5
183 Dhritabrata Kundu IND 4.5
184 Abhay B Bhandarkar IND 4.5
185 Sarveshwaran V IND 4.5
186 Thenamudhan B J IND 4.5
187 Kalghatgi Sameer IND 4.5
188 Suhaas A IND 4.5
189 Parikh Urvi IND 4.5
190 Sanjay Srinivasan R IND 4.5
191 Ramesh N IND 4.5
192 Karan Nilesh V B IND 4.5
193 Selvabharathy T IND 4
194 IM Sharma Dinesh K. IND 4
195 Bargava Narasimhan S IND 4
196 Dharani Kumar M S IND 4
197 Giri Abhishek IND 4
198 Triton Maxime FRA 4
199 Chirag Mudraje IND 4
200 Abel Saju Chazhoor IND 4
201 Sai Nikhil Y IND 4
202 Krishan A IND 4
203 Anupam M Sreekumar IND 4
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204 Rebut Paul FRA 4 IIFL Wealth Open Fide rating chess tournament, Mumbai…
205 Shravan Swaminathan IND 4
206 Madhavan R Munjanattu I ND 4 Samrat Ghorai of WB wins IIFL Open Rating
207 Muthu P IND 4 By IA Swapnil Bansod, Chief Arbiter
208 AIM Ashwin Sairam IND 4
209 Pragatheesh M IND 4
IIFL Wealth Open Fide rating chess tourna-
210 Vijayasubhasri S IND 4
211 Yash Abhijit Patil IND 4
ment, was held from 30th December 2018 The prizes were distributed at the hands
212 Kiruba Hari P IND 4 to 7th January, 2019, at World Trade center, of GM Vishwanathan Anand, 5 time World
213 Shreetu Bhavikbhai N IND 4 Mumbai, This event is parallel to the IIFL Champion. The other dignitaries present
214 Bharath Ravikumar IND 4 Wealth GM Event and a part of IIFL Wealth were Shri. D V Sundar, Vice President, FIDE,
215 Balkawade Sai IND 4 Chess Festival. The event was organized Shri. Bharat Singh Chauhan, Secretary All
216 Evrin Selvam FRA 4 by Indian Chess School and South Mumbai India Chess Federation, Shri. Ravindra Don-
217 Vaibhav Kalpaka IND 4 Chess Academy jointly together. The tour- gre, President Zone 3.2, Shri. Praful Zaveri,
218 Dhruv Khosla IND 4 nament attracted total 245 players from all Tournament Director and IA Swapnil Bansod
219 Daakshin Arun IND 4 over the India and players from 5 foreign Chief Arbiter.
220 Laoussing Mathis FRA 4 countries. There were in all 194 international
221 Mrithyunjay Mahadevan IND 4 fide rated players among the participants, The team of Arbiters was headed by Chief
222 Vignesh S L IND 4
which includes 2 WCM. Arbiter IA Swapnil Bansod and he was ably
223 Mummana Venkata R IND 4
assisted by IA Anandh Babu VL, Dy. Chief Ar-
224 Gokul Anand M IND 4
225 Dolisiyas Dash IND 4
After 9 gruelling days of top notch chess of biter, IA Prem Pandit, FA Sandesh Nagarnaik,
226 Asna Abdeen IND 4 IIFL Wealth Open Fide rating chess tourna- FA Gourav Kumar Ray, SNA Dipesh Ingawale,
227 Gowtham Ramamoorthy IND 4 ment, which concluded at World Trade Center, SNA Chinmay Thakurdesai, and SNA Herka
228 Arushi Srichandan IND 4 Mumbai, Samrat Ghorai of West Bengal won Raj (NEP).
229 Sindhusree K IND 4 the tournament with 8 points out of possi-
230 Harikrishna Raj A IND 4 ble 9. At the end of 5th round 3 share lead Final ranking
231 Aman George Thomas IND 4 with full score i.e. Sivasubramaniam R of Rk Name Club Pts
232 FM Aaryan Varshney IND 3.5 MAH, Vahadatin Davood of Iran and Aditya 1 Samrat Ghorai WB 8
233 Pranav K P IND 3.5 Gampa of TEL. Sivasubramaniam R lost his 2 Devesh Anand Naik GOA 7½
234 Jaivardhan Raj IND 3.5 6th round game to Sa Kannan. At the end 3 Aditya Varun Gampa TEL 7½
235 Srinivas Gopal Reddy K IND 3.5 of 7th round Samrat Ghorai share the lead 4 Sa Kannan TN 7½
235 Srinivas Gopal Reddy K IND 3.5 5 Vahdatian Davood IRI 7
with Sa Kannan with 6.5 each. Samrat beat
236 Agarwal Mukund H IND 3.5 6 Raghav Srivathsav V TEL 7
Sa Kannan in the 8th round game to take the
237 Vishal Ramprasad IND 3.5 7 Deepak Rai DEL 7
238 Aadith R IND 3.5
sole lead, he maintained his lead and won
the tournament with 8 points. In the last 8 Bhaskar N S TN 7
239 Krishna Kalyanasundaram IND 3.5 9 Leeladhar Kachroo HAR 7
240 Teerthala Abhinav IND 3.5 round game Sa Kannan of TN beat Raghav
10 Bharadia Yash RAJ 7
241 Ananth Ramdas IND 3.5 Srivastava V of Telangana. While on board
11 Sunil Vaidya MAH 7
242 Md. Masum Rahi BAN 3.5 5 Aditya Varun Gampa beat Abhineesh S to
12 Shreyas Ghadi MAH 7
243 Ganesh Sai Siddarth S IND 3.5 reach 7.5 points. Devesh Naik of Goa drew
13 Abhinessh S TN 6½
244 Srenigarajan IND 3.5 his last round game with Samrat Ghorai on
14 Kothari Swapnil MAH 6½
245 Ilakiyan M Xavier Jeen IND 3.5 top board. Devesh Naik of Goa, Aditya Varun
15 Shivasubramanian R MAH 6½
246 Venkata Sai Krishna VC IND 3.5 Gampa of TEL and Sa Kannan of TN tied for
247 Leela Maheswari B IND 3.5 16 Kapadi Yash MAH 6½
2nd spot with 7.5 each but tiebreak settle 17 Thatte Ashish P MAH 6½
248 Mukesh Kanna J K R IND 3.5 their position from 2nd to 4th respectively.
249 Mridav M IND 3.5 18 Arhan Chethan Anand KAR 6½
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19 Mayank Chakraborty ASS 6½ 64 Akshit Jha DEL 5½ 109 Gengaje Pratik MAH 4½ 154 Vihaan Dumir MAH 4
20 Barde Om GOA 6½ 65 Sangoi Hriday MAH 5½ 110 Nehete Arnav MAH 4½ 155 Shaurya Dinesh Sawlani MAH 4
21 Pingale Shivraj MAH 6½ 66 Rajbeer Ahmed TRI 5½ 111 Ananya Arumbakkam KAR 4½ 156 Mitra Shivank MAH 4
22 Bhagyashree Patil MAH 6½ 67 Tripathi Abhyudita MAH 5½ 112 Vaval Aaditi MAH 4½ 157 Jain Aryan S MAH 4
23 Shetye Shyam MAH 6½ 68 Rout Yashita ODI 5½ 113 Kriti Mayur Patel WCM MAH 4½ 158 Sri Rashmika M AP 4
24 Krishna Malay MAH 6½ 69 Vishal Shewale MAH 5½ 114 Sai Atchyut B TEL 4½ 159 Dandekar Amey MAH 4
25 Mishra Sanjeev MAH 6½ 70 Aditya Ramanathan MAH 5 115 Agarwal Mukund H GUJ 4½ 160 Rohan Shirish Joshi MAH 4
26 Tanuj Dayal MAH 6 71 Mokashi Rohit MAH 5 116 Shubham Rahul Kamble MAH 4½ 161 V Bhavishnu Sai Sivaji AP 4
27 Dhanvij Ansh MAH 6 72 Arjun Sidharth S PON 5 117 Rane Parnavi MAH 4½ 162 Ajay Swamy MAH 4
28 Apoorv Kamble KAR 6 73 Abhinav Dubey ASS 5 118 Gupta Eshaan MAH 4½ 163 Aditya Tripathy MAH 4
29 Rushyendra Chowdary K AP 6 74 Sadbhav Rautela UTT 5 119 Adreeja Sinha ASS 4½ 164 Borade Sagar MAH 4
30 Joglekar Abhijit MAH 6 75 Nayanikaa Muralidharan TN 5 120 Iyer A N MAH 4½ 165 Raut Meet MAH 4
31 Tamhankar Siddhant MAH 6 76 Shorya Lakshayjeet UP 5 121 Singh Kauts MAH 4½ 166 Bhandari Neel SGP 4
32 Pawar Harshit DEL 6 77 Mishra Rahul GUJ 5 122 Avathanshu Bhat MAH 4½ 167 Nipun Dangche MAH 4
33 Dhanashree Pandit MAH 6 78 Vinod Chaturvedi UP 5 123 Kshatriya Nitin Vekhande MAH 4½ 168 Sanjay Vilas Narvekar MAH 4
34 Kambli Pushkaraj MAH 6 79 Sarvade Mihiir MAH 5 124 Vedant Mistry MAH 4½ 169 Patil Vedang Pravin MAH 4
35 Bajaj Prakhar MP 6 80 Shashank Chakradhari MP 5 125 Keerthana B TN 4½ 170 Mahajan Akash MAH 3½
36 Shravan Swaminathan TN 6 81 Vivaan Vijay Saraogi MAH 5 126 Lasani H Kothari GUJ 4½ 171 Nanal Arnav MAH 3½
37 Sairaj Dilip Vernekar GOA 6 82 Borade Yash MAH 5 127 Sathi Akshaj Mayank AP 4½ 172 Mitank Maru MAH 3½
38 Anurag Panigrahi JHA 6 83 Golvankar Dilip K MAH 5 128 Amin Yashoraj MAH 4½ 173 Bhandari Arya Neel ENG 3½
39 Vedant Nitin Vekhande MAH 6 84 Thatavarthy Siva Suhas AP 5 129 Iyer Vivek MAH 4 174 Bhagyashree G Patil KAR 3½
40 Varshita Jain MP 6 85 Krishnan Ritvik MAH 5 130 Abhyuday Santhosh KAR 4 175 Iyer Aarav MAH 3½
41 Awade Pradeep MAH 6 86 Joel Paul G AP 5 131 Sawalakhe Jay MAH 4 176 Gala Vansh Rasik MAH 3½
42 Saketh Pedagandham AP 6 87 Makwana Devam GUJ 5 132 Singh Vibhav MAH 4 177 Bhadricha Shiv Chetan MAH 3½
43 Unni C. S. MAH 6 88 Renganayaki V KAR 5 133 Sai Mahati A TEL 4 178 Sureka Akshat MAH 3½
44 Boramanikar Tanisha S MAH 6 89 Gupta R K RAJ 5 134 Ghadge Harsh MAH 4 179 Tanay Zaveri MAH 3½
45 Amrit Raunak BIH 5½ 90 Shreyas Seshadri Nallore TN 5 135 Pandit Harsh MAH 4 180 Sawant Sanskruti MAH 3½
46 Negi Augustiya MAH 5½ 91 Aarush Uday Khanna DEL 5 136 Doshi Kewal MAH 4 181 Aditya Sriram DEL 3½
47 Ratnapriya K TN 5½ 92 Raghu Ram Reddy Seelam TEL 5 137 Dande Vyankatesh S MAH 4 182 Krishnan Trisha MAH 3½
48 Keshav Padmanabhan TN 5½ 93 Marium Fatima BIH 5 138 Suhaani Lohia WCM MAH 4 183 Vasudeva Varun MAH 3
49 Kohad Dipesh MAH 5½ 94 Isha Pritam Inamdar MAH 5 139 Prajapati Rahul Sunil MAH 4 184 Ramakrishnan K R TN 3
50 Deshpande Jatin N MAH 5½ 95 Yuti Mayur Patel MAH 5 140 Chavan Dakshayani Tushar MAH 4 185 Gaglani Dev MAH 3
51 Tejes Suresh Kumar KAR 5½ 96 Soumya Das WB 5 141 Kaushal Kishor Jaiswal MAH 4 186 Rajeev Kumar Nadar MAH 3
52 Adarsh Sanklecha CG 5½ 97 Swara Lakshmi S Nair KAR 5 142 Sohanganesh U Nikam MAH 4 187 Jain Hitansh MAH 3
53 Pawaar Sohum MAH 5½ 98 Bamboat Hrrehan MAH 5 143 Dhrithi Murgod KAR 4 188 Shreyas Ravindra Patil MAH 3
54 Jain Adi GUJ 5½ 99 Jain Kushagra MAH 5 144 Roy Aanya MAH 4 189 Vittanala S Saish AP 3
55 Adireddy Tarun TEL 5½ 100 Arsh Shah MAH 5 145 Pranab Maity MAH 4 190 Dhanawade Nitin MAH 3
56 Adireddy Arjun TEL 5½ 101 Minuzeer Bamboat MAH 5 146 Divekar Prathamesh MAH 4 191 Ghate Siddhant MAH 3
57 Sawant Akshay MAH 5½ 102 Adhikari Tanvi MAH 5 147 Singh Tanmay MAH 4 192 Madhav Menon MAH 3
58 Bheri Yaswanth AP 5½ 103 Laddha Yash Jayesh KAR 5 148 Medhansh Rathi KAR 4 193 G Jayesh Saitawadekar MAH 3
59 Dave Sneh GUJ 5½ 104 Kamble Dipankar MAH 5 149 Riddhika Kotia HAR 4 194 Rounaiv Rana MAH 3
60 Laddha Shubh Jayesh KAR 5½ 105 Mota Khant MAH 5 150 Dalal Nandish MAH 4 195 Siddhi Wankhede MAH 3
61 Sathish Chandra G TN 5½ 106 Kunder Pratik MAH 5 151 Mukesh Kumar J KAR 4 196 Machhi Jagdish MAH 3
62 Pednekar Ayush MAH 5½ 107 Krishnan Vishwanathan MAH 5 152 Arushi Srichandan ODI 4 197 Verma Vivaan MAH 3
63 Patil Ketan MAH 5½ 108 Sheikh Jahan MP 4½ 153 Sani Deshpande MAH 4 198 Ananay Gupta MAH 3

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 1st J.J. Trophy All India Open FIDE Rating RAPID Chess Tournament 2019
Prasannaa wins both Rapid and Blitz titles
by IA Pravin Pantawane,Chief Arbiter
1st J.J. Trophy All India Open FIDE Rating
RAPID Chess Tournament 2019 was organ-
ized by All Indore Chess Association & Sanjay
Kasliwar Memorial Chess Academy under the
aegis of Madhya Pradesh Chess Association
from 19th January to 20th January, 2019 at
J.J. Public School Khandwa Road, Post-Um-
rikheda Gram, Indore, MP. The Total Number
of participants was 180 for Rapid including 92
ELO Rated and 162 for Blitz Event including
80 ELO rated players.
The tournament was inaugurated by Mr.
Shailendra Pable, Vice President, All Indore
Chess Association, Mr. Anil Fatechandani,
President, All Indore Chess Association, Mr.
Piyush Zamindar, Mrs. Nutan Gawande, Prin-
cipal, J J Public School, Mr. Ritesh Fatechan-
dani, Ms Ruchika Fatechandani, IA Pravin
Pantawane, Chief Arbiter.
In Rapid Format –
2nd seed Prasannaa S. of Tamil Nadu became
the Champion at the 1st J.J. Trophy All India
Open FIDE Rating RAPID Chess Tournament
2019. He won the last round with Hiridik Ra-
jendran of Tamil nadu to score 8 points out of
9 Rounds. Prasannaa S of Tamilnadu, Hiritik
Rajendran of Tamil Nadu and Mraduhas Tripa-
thi of Madhya Pradesh tied for first place with
8 points each, but on better buchholz score
Prasannaa S swas declared the champion.
Hiritik Rajendra of Tamilnadu and Mraduhas
Tripathi from Madhya Pradesh won the 2nd
and 3rd place respectively. Top seed Arjun
Tiwari of Railway got 5th rank in the event.
In Blitz Format –
1st J.J. Trophy All India Open FIDE Rating
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BLITZ Chess Tournament 2019 was organized
by All Indore Chess Association & Sanjay
Kasliwar Memorial Chess Academy under the
aegis of Madhya Pradesh Chess Association
on 20th January, 2019 at J.J. Public School
Khandwa Road, Post-Umrikheda Gram, In-
dore, MP. The Total Number of participants
was 162 including 80 ELO Rated players.
Top seed Prasannaa S. of Tamil Nadu be-
came the champion at the 1st J.J. Trophy
All India Open FIDE Rating BLITZ Chess
Tournament 2019. He drew in the fourth
round with Dinesh Gupta of Indore, Madhye
Pradesh to score 8.5 points out of 9, Rupesh
Kant of Madhya Pradesh and Aishwin Daniel
both tied for 2nd place with 8 points each,
but on Direct Encounter and better buchholz
score Rupesh Kant won the 2nd Place and
3rd place respectively. Prakash Yadav of MP
and Rishabh Jain of MP won the 4th and 5th
place respectively.
The prizes were distributed at the hands of
Mr. Sajjan Singh Varma, Cabinet Minister,
Madhya Pradesh, Mr. Ramesh Chandwaney,
Mr. Manohar Dhawan, Mr. Anil Fatechan-
dani, President and Mr. Shailendra Pable,
Vice President, All Indore Chess Association,
Kishor Fatechandani, Ritesh Fatechandani,
Mrs. Nutan Gawande, Mr. Piyush Zamindar,
Tournament Secretary and Joint Secretary,
Madhya Pradesh Chess Association.
1st JJ Rapid Final standings: 44 Chouhan Kuldeep MP 5½ 89 Ankush Kumar Patel MP 4½
Rk Name Club Pts 45 Chavan Suresh Mah 5½ 90 Auditya Sharma MP 4½
1 Prasannaa.S TN 8 46 Devansh Panthi MP 5½ 91 Mukund Yadav UP 4½
2 Hiridik Rajendran TN 8 47 Anmol Degwekar MP 5½ 92 Soni Sourabh MP 4½
3 Mraduhas Tripathi MP 8 48 Lakshya Jain MP 5½
4 Hitesh S. Jariya MP 7½ 49 Shashank Maheshwari Del 5½
5 Tiwari Arjun Rly 7 50 Jyoti Kumar Del 5½
6 Shailesh Bise MP 7 51 Sujay Jain MP 5½
7 Shrivastav Hritik MP 7 52 Yadav R.C. MP 5½
8 Darsh Kansal MP 7 53 Nandwal Ankit MP 5½
9 Kant Rupesh MP 7 54 Chincholkar Aditya Mah 5
10 Singh Sukhpal MP 7 55 Tandon Dhruv MP 5
11 Ajay Virwani MP 6½ 56 Upadhyay Ayush MP 5
12 Prakhar Gupta (Mp) MP 6½ 57 Mishra Vivek MP 5
13 Ayush Sharma MP 6½ 58 Kavya Jain MP 5
14 Aishwin Daniel MP 6½ 59 Ujjawal Mishra MP 5
15 Atharva Tomar MP 6½ 60 Mohite Yogesh MP 5
16 Jain Jitendra MP 6½ 61 Yash Modi MP 5
17 Devang Bisani MP 6½ 62 Jayesh Khatri MP 5
18 Ahirwar Sanjay MP 6½ 63 Bharadwaja B MP 5
19 Bhogal Rupesh Mah 6½ 64 Jain Chidesh MP 5
20 Nema Anupam MP 6 65 Vairagade Anish Mah 5
21 Dadwani Sahil MP 6 66 Niket Jain MP 5
22 Borase Manoj Mah 6 67 Dudhani Jatin Rajesh MP 5
23 Cera Dagaria MP 6 68 Taksheel Dupare MP 5
24 Pandey Divya MP 6 69 Hade Shantanu Mah 5
25 Sanse Niraj MP 6 70 Gupta Aashita MP 5
26 Tawar Abhirajsingh MP 6 71 Ankel Gautam MP 5
27 Nitin Raghuvanshi MP 6 72 Rai Yash MP 5
28 Rai Amit MP 6 73 Batra Krishna MP 5
29 Jariya Mitansh MP 6 74 Akodia Nabhay MP 5
30 Singh Subham Kumar Bih 6 75 Asmit Mishra MP 5
31 Rishabh Jain MP 6 76 Neema Eshika MP 5
32 Tushar Kapoor Del 6 77 Yash Saxena Del 5
33 Rewansh Vaidya MP 6 78 Vikas Maheshwari MP 5
34 Navya Goyal MP 6 79 Chouksey Sarthak MP 5
35 Pahuja Sagar MP 6 80 Ishwar Ramteke Mah 4½
36 Tarun N MP 6 81 Londhe Prakhar MP 4½
37 Kumawat Ghanashyam Mah 6 82 Shah Krish G MP 4½
38 Amrit Raunak Bih 6 83 Choudhary Suresh MP 4½
39 Gupta Dinesh MP 5½ 84 Ravi Palsule MP 4½
40 Batham Avinash MP 5½ 85 Upadhyay Prashant Asm 4½
41 Yatharth Joshi MP 5½ 86 Kharchane Aamrapali Mah 4½
42 Chopade Saimira MP 5½ 87 Bhargava Kartik MP 4½
43 Prabhat Datre MP 5½ 88 Wahane Kunal Mah 4½
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93 Krishna Mandia MP 4½ 35 Kulshresth Tanmay MP 6 4th DDCA All India FIDE Rated below 1600,Hubballi
94 Nitin Ganesh T Kar 4 36 Sujay Jain MP 5½
95 Lakshya Kholi MP 4 37 Rai Amit 5½ Rakesh N of Karnataka is winner
96 Dhuliya Shubham MP 4 38 Tandon Dhruv MP 5½ by I.A. Vasanth B.H., Chief Arbiter
97 Bhambu Suman Raj 4 39 Amrit Raunak Bih 5½
98 Nigam Sanya MP 4 40 Cera Dagaria MP 5½ 4th DDCA All India FIDE Rated Below 1600 (1400) of Maharastra, Karthikeyan G(1418)
99 Aarav Porwal MP 4 41 Wahane Kunal 5½ Chess Tournament was organized by Dhar- from Tamilnadu, Vangala Prashanth (1403)
100 Sunil Panwar MP 4 42 Pahuja Sagar MP 5½ wad District Chess Association from 26th and Vishwanath Kanna (1391) from AP, Kes-
43 Jain Chidesh 5½ Jan to 28th Jan 2019 at NWKSRTC Kalyana havan G of Tamilnadu and Abhishek Ganiger
1st JJ Blitz Final ranking: 44 Bharadwaja B MP 5½ Mantap, Hubballi, Karnataka. (1391) from Karnataka were placed 3rd to
Rk Name Club Pts 45 Niket Jain MP 5½ 8th place based on tie break score.
1 Prasannaa.S TN 8½ 46 Tanvi Chandak MP 5½ The tournament was inaugurated by Dr
2 Kant Rupesh MP 8 47 Borase Manoj Mah 5 CH VSV Prasad, Managing Director, Swarna Dr Ch V S V Prasad, Managing Director, Swar-
3 Aishwin Daniel MP 8 48 Lakshya Jain MP 5
Group of companies, Hubli. MrChidanand na Group of companies, Hubballi was the
4 Prakash Yadav MP 7 49 Anmol Degwekar MP 5
A, Vice President, United Karnataka Chess chief guest of the prize distribution function.
5 Rishabh Jain MP 7 50 Sanse Niraj MP 5
Association, Mr Vinay Kurtkoti, Secretary, Grand Master Stany GA, Mr Aravind Shastry,
6 Batham Avinash MP 7 51 Atharva Tomar MP 5
Dharwad District Chess Association and Vice CEO, United Karnataka Chess Association,
7 Dadwani Sahil MP 7 52 Shah Krish G MP 5
President of United Karnataka Chess Associ- Mr.Shrikrishna Udupa, Vice President, United
8 Nema Anupam 7 53 Shashank Maheshwari 5
ation, MrMangalvedkar, President Dharwad Karnataka Chess Association, MrMangal-
9 Devang Bisani MP 7 54 Ankel Gautam MP 5
10 Shrivastav Hritik MP 7 55 Rewansh Vaidya MP 5
District Chess Association were the other vedkar, President, Dharwad District Chess
11 Ayush Sharma MP 6½ 56 Gupta Aashita MP 5 dignitaries on the dais. Association, Mr Vinay Kurtkoti, Secretary,
12 Gupta Dinesh MP 6½ 57 Taksheel Dupare MP 5 Dharwad District Chess Association and Vice
13 Tushar Kapoor Del 6½ 58 Vikas Maheshwari MP 5 A total of 635 players from across the coun- president of United Karnataka Chess Associ-
14 Ajay Virwani MP 6½ 59 Upadhyay Ayush MP 5 try participated in the Rs 150000 prize fund ation were the other dignitaries on the dais.
15 Hiridik Rajendran TN 6½ 60 Chouksey Sarthak 5 event out of which 284 were International
16 Mraduhas Tripathi MP 6½ 61 Prabhat Datre MP 5 rated players. Mr Aditya Ramesh (ELO Rating Final ranking
17 Darsh Kansal MP 6½ 62 Chopade Saimira MP 5 1593) from Tamilnadu was top seed followed Rk Name Pts
18 Shailesh Bise MP 6½ 63 Akodia Nabhay 5 by Devidas Suresh Pai (1581) from Karnata- 1 Rakesh N 8½
19 Tawar Abhirajsingh MP 6 64 Rathod Aadvik Singh 5 ka, Priyan R S( 1575) from Tamilnadu. 2 Priyan R S 8½
20 Prakhar Gupta (Mp) MP 6 65 Ujjawal Mishra 5 3 Patil Abhishek 8
21 Nandwal Ankit MP 6 66 Nigam Sanya MP 5 DDCA presented mementos to all the rated 4 Karthikeyan G 8
22 Nitin Raghuvanshi MP 6 67 Mithun Das Bairagi 5 players of Dharwad districts during the begin- 5 Vangala Prashanth 8
23 Singh Subham Kumar Bih 6 68 Upadhyay Prashant 5 ning of the round and felicitated Karnataka’s 6 Vishwanath Kannam 8
24 Navya Goyal MP 6 69 Batra Krishna 5 second Grand Master Stany GA during the 7 Kesavan G 8
25 Tarun N 6 70 Vairagade Anish Mah 5 prize distribution function. 8 Abhishek I Ganiger 8
26 Dheeraj Dubey 6 71 Mohite Yogesh MP 4½ 9 Aravindakshan Su 7½
27 Chincholkar Aditya Mah 6 72 Yash Saxena Del 4½ Twentieth seed Rakesh N (1475) of Karna- 10 Gopinath P 7½
28 Bhargava Kartik MP 6 73 Girish Gopinathrao Bodle Mah 4½ taka and 3rd seed Priyan R S (1575) of Ta- 11 Shirish Jayaprakash 7½
29 Ishwar Ramteke 6 74 Jain Jitendra 4½ mil Nadu scored eight and half points from 12 Srihari K R 7½
30 Chouhan Kuldeep MP 6 75 Purushaartharaj Singh P 4½ nine rounds, based on better tie break score 13 Pratik S Maragi 7
31 Bhogal Rupesh Mah 6 76 Mishra Vivek MP 4½ 14 Tawade Shridhar 7
Rakesh N was declared as winner of 4th DDCA
32 Yatharth Joshi MP 6 77 Lakshya Kholi MP 4½ 15 Khasbardar Soham 7
All India Open Below 1600 FIDE Rating Chess
33 Devansh Panthi 6 78 Yash Modi MP 4½ 16 Aryan Shamrao Raikar 7
Tournament. Six players with eight points
34 Rai Yash 6 79 Anklesh Bhalerao Mah 4½ 17 Gaude Sachin 7
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18 Patil Sharvil 7 61 Thejasvi N 6½ 104 Patil Divya 6 145 Pate Prerana 5½
19 AIM Karyasheel P 7 62 Aakash G Madiwalar 6½ 105 Subramanian T.V. 6 146 Advait Ratnakar Vibhute 5½
20 Devi Das Suresh Pai 7 63 Manish Kumar P 6½ 106 Avaneeshwar Guin 6 147 Jha Vipul 5½
21 Siddhesh Milind Marathe 7 64 AIM Raghavendra Naik 6½ 107 Raveesh Kote 6 148 Sudhakar Ganadinni 5½
22 Dhirendra Kumar Das 7 65 Ramanan M 6 108 Pranav Tukaram Gunake 6 149 Ethan Vaz 5½
23 Chiranth M D 7 66 Dhuliya Shubham 6 109 Jugan Sales Rodrigues 6 150 Nikhil Vikram K S 5½
24 Vinit K 7 67 Adithya Ramesh 6 110 Chaya C Poojari 6 151 Chandra Kumar C 5½
25 Pragy Narayan 7 68 Sri Krishna H V 6 111 Nitin Ganesh T 6 152 Aryam Bhowmik 5½
26 AIM Lakshith B Salian 7 69 Rajath Gururaj 6 112 Brahmaiah V.J 6 153 Salunke Pushkaraj 5½
27 Arifulla T Abdul Hameed 7 70 Sri Harish J 6 113 Asmita Avijit Ray 6 154 Varun Prabhakaran K S 5½
28 Karthik S 6½ 71 AIM Sathwik Shivananda P.S 6 114 Anoushka Bhatt 6 155 Anuj M D 5½
29 Venkatesan B 6½ 72 Dhananjay P Joshi 6 115 Thrushna Teja Illuru 6 156 Surya S S 5½
30 Rathish R 6½ 73 Sami M A 6 116 Khokate Saiprasad 6 157 Shreyas K Patil 5½
31 AFM Shashidhar B Rai 6½ 74 Yatharth Jain 6 117 Shrish S Amin 6 158 Kalal I 5½
32 Brijesh M 6½ 75 Manasa 6 118 Rishi R 5½ 159 Pratham P Sahasrabudhe 5½
33 Patil Harshal U 6½ 76 Ahirwar Sanjay 6 119 Viraj Prabhakar Shetti 5½ 160 Vihaan Venu Gopal 5½
34 Hari Charan G V 6½ 77 Gokula Vishnu R 6 120 Gote Kaustubh 5½ 161 Narayan Iyengar 5½
35 Nihal N Shetty 6½ 78 Siddharth Vezzu 6 121 Tanav Sudarshan 5½ 162 Dawood.K 5½
36 Jeevan Prakash N 6½ 79 Yogesh Bharat Mahamuni 6 122 Nazeer Basha G 5½
37 Aaazad G Acharya 6½ 80 Aravind Matthews A C T 6
123 Pandharpure Yash 5½
38 AIM Arunkumar B Budihal 6½ 81 Meghana S 6
124 Saravana Vel R 5½ Puzzle of the month
39 Sathwik Prabhu 6½ 82 Mhetre Prem 6 by C.G.S.Narayanan
40 Logesh V 6½ 83 Vishwa Dheep D N 6 125 Idigote Vinod 5½
41 Kulkarni Shrikant 6½ 84 Edrick Vaz 6 126 Vinay R Navali 5½ W. F. von Holzhausen
42 Vivaan Sunil Ballikar 6½ 85 Vijaykumar R P 6 127 Sequeira Alex 5½ Akademische Schachblätter, 1901
43 Patil Omkar U 6½ 86 Aashish Niranjan B 6 128 Naveen Rajan P 5½
44 Dhrikshu K Vasant 6½ 87 AIM Colaco Vernon Jesus 6 129 Dessai Purush Rajkaran 5½
45 Rudrashish Chakraborty 6½ 88 Yaseen Goodwala 6
130 Bhagwat S.M. 5½
46 Shriganesh 6½ 89 Kashid Prathmesh 6
131 Sparsh Gupta 5½
47 Druva Chipli 6½ 90 Thirthalli Shefali 6
48 Smriti Prabhuraj 6½ 91 WCM Shefali A N 6 132 Dinesh Rajachar 5½
49 Thejas M U 6½ 92 Nagvekar Sairudra 6 133 Sanvi Naik Gaonkar 5½
50 Ravindra Joshi 6½ 93 Abhiman Urs R 6 134 AFM Shivakumar D M 5½
51 Thippeswamy J 6½ 94 Sankalp Sundar 6 135 WCM Shriyana S Mallya 5½
52 Khan Raees Ahmed 6½ 95 Jayavardhan C S 6 136 Suvrat Acharya 5½
53 Ghouse Kamardeen D 6½ 96 Gagan B R 6
137 Ravi Palsule 5½
54 Sujay B M 6½ 97 Rangaswamy C N 6
138 Ashika M 5½
55 Tanisha Shital Gotadke 6½ 98 Sanikommu Manasvi 6 Mate in one!
56 Parab Rishikesh 6½ 99 Aditya Menon 6 139 Pannaga Y S 5½
57 Prajwal M Joshi 6½ 100 Patil Disha 6 140 Gaana Samrudhi K 5½
In the above position have a deep look
58 Mohitha V 6½ 101 Pednekar Sagar 6 141 Varun V Navali 5½
and find mate in one!
59 Prasada Rao G 6½ 102 Smiran Bhandari 6 142 Ridhyan Gupta 5½
60 Belgundkar Raghvendra 6½ 103 Chinmay Kowshik 6 143 Pranay Singh 5½
(Solution in P.48)
144 Sriram S N 5½

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 19th North Eastern States Fide Rating Chess Championship-2019, Sikkim
Rahul Gurung wins title
by IA Dharmendra Kumar,Chief Arbiter
19th North Eastern States Fide Rating Chess
Championship-2019 was organized by Sikkim
Chess Association from 29.1.2019 to 3.2.2019
at Manipal Hospital, 5th Mile Tadong, Sikkim.
The tourney Director was Mahendra Dhakal
Honorary Secretary, All ,J&K Chess Association.
The Chief Arbiter was International Arbiter
Dharmendra Kumar.
A total of 222 players participated in the event
out of which 95 were rated with 7 units taking
part. Tournament was played on open Swiss
system format and total number of rounds was
ten. Program used for the pairing was Swiss
manager and operated by the Chief Arbiter.
The time control was 90 minutes each with
an increment of 30secs from move no.1. As
per regulation published on AICF website and
confirmed during the technical meeting , fol-
lowing tiebreak were used i) Direct Encounter
ii) Buchholz Cut 1 iii) Buchholz iv) Sonneborn
Berger v) Greater number of wins.
Tournament hall was good, with enough space
for players , spectators and visiting dignitaries
. Single tables were provided for all the boards
which was very comfortable and appreciated
by players , parents and officials.
Chief Arbiter: IA Dharmendra Kumar was ably
assisted by Deputy Chief Arbiters FA Biju
Singh Th and FA Arun Singh M Arbiters NA
Taba Anam NA Bimola Prasad Lahon NA Amar
Bhandari NA Priyanka Nag.
Opening Ceremony: 6 days championship was
inaugurated by Chief Guest Mr. Timuti Basnett ,
MLA of Gangtok and Mr. Bharat Singh Chauhan
, Hony. Secretary , All India Chess Federation
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. Mr Timuti Basnett inaugurated the champi-
onship by making a ceremonial move on the
board with Mr.Chauhan. Mr.B. K. Roka, Presi-
dent, Sikkim Olympic Committee, Mr.Atanu La-
hiri,Jt. Secretary, AICF , Mr . Biju Singh Th , Jt.
Secretary, AICF , Mr. Dharmendra Kumar, Chief
Arbiter , Mr. Arun Singh M,Secretary,North East
Forum and Organising Secretary Mahendra
Dhakal were the other dignitaries present on
the dais .
Prize distribution ceremony was held in pres-
ence of Chief Guest Mr. B.K. Roka President ,
Sikkim Olympic Association , Guest of Honor
Mr. T P Ghimiray, AICF Jt. Secretary ,Mr.Biju
SinghTH , President of North east Foram Mr.
M Arun Singh, Chief Conservator of forest Mr.
Bhuwan Pradhan , Mr. Phurba Bhutiya and Mr.
Taba Anam. IA Dharmendra Kumar , Chief
Arbiter of the Championship presented the
tournament report. while Mr. Mahendra Dhakal,
Organizing Secretary and Hony Secretary of
Sikkim Chess Association delivered the vote
of thanks.
Four Fide Arbiter Norms were awarded to the
arbiters who rendered their services during
the championship and found satisfactory. NA
Taba Anam, NA Bimola Prasad Lahon, NA Amar
Bhandari, NA Priyanka Nag.
The Organizing team did excellent job and
everything was conducted in proper manner
The level of organization was certainly high-
ly commendable. Organizing Secretary cum
Tournament Director Mr. Mahendra Dhakal was
very active and instrumental in handling all the
organizational needs with his team.
19th North Eastern States Fide Rating Chess 35 Rishith Gupta 6.5
Championship-2019 was a well organized 36 Ngurthanzuala 6.5
tournament. All the necessary support was 37 Dhruv Phukan 6.5
provided to players and Arbiters team . Media 38 Tapir Mize 6.5
coverage was also very good. Associated dig- 39 Jitabrata Nath 6.5
40 Nabam Nikum 6.5
nitaries visited the tournament hall daily. All
41 Takhe Pai 6.5
participants were satisfied and had positive
42 Kani Genda 6.5
and satisfactory remarks to offer.
43 Panshul Dhangar 6.5
44 Sutnga H.D. 6
Final Ranking:
Rk. Name Pts.
45 Subhranil Majumder 6
1 Gurung Rahul 8.5
46 Vanrammawia Ngente 6
2 Gurung Rakesh 8.5
47 Biswajit Changmai 6
48 John Zonunthara Sailo 6
3 Singh Soram Rahul 8
49 Jutiaditya Kakoti 6
4 CM Shahil Dey 8
50 Pulakesh Sahu 6
5 Santanu Borpatra Gohain 8
51 Snehasish Das 6
6 Gurung Rohit 7.5
52 Vivek Rajkumar 6
7 Trailokya Nanda 7.5
53 Achitanga Kashyap 6
8 Nitish Das 7.5
54 Mayukh Abhigyan Das 6
9 Iftikar Alom Mazumdar 7.5
55 Abinash P Gogoi 6
10 Dupit Tabu 7.5
56 Mithun Pal 6
11 Silkam Sangma 7.5
57 Mridumoloy Das 6
12 Projit Phukon 7.5
58 Winee Thengal 6
13 Lalnunsanga 7.5
59 Karma Loday Bhutia 6
14 Das Monaj 7
60 Jigo Josam 6
15 Tamang Thendup 7
61 Kharbani Boney J 6
16 Hage Lasa Nado 7
62 Priansh Yajnik 6
17 Rajbeer Ahmed 7
63 Neeraj Tamuk 6
18 Barbith M Sangma 7
64 Shahil Rai 6
19 Rijied Katrai 7
65 Avigyan Ghosh 6
20 Raluk Dui 7
66 Zabdiel Diengdoh 6
21 Stephen Malsawmtluanga 7
67 Kevinson Jyrwa 5.5
22 Tadam Dupit 7
68 L Biren Singh 5.5
23 Neelabh Jyoti Borthakur 7
69 Arunika Ghosh 5.5
24 Chayan Palit 7
70 Gurung Pushpa 5.5
25 Tanisha A R Som 7
71 Gipolson Pahsyntiew 5.5
26 Abhishek Borthakur 7
72 Shail Chettri 5.5
27 Abhrojyoty Nath 7
28 Arshiya Das 7
73 Gupta Rick 5.5
29 Benedict B Shabong 6.5
74 Snehaal Roy 5.5
30 Punyo Appa 6.5
75 Acharya Leela Prasad 5.5
76 Biswajit Bharadwaj 5.5
31 Lalremruata 6.5
77 Zodinpuia 5.5
32 Sushmita Lama 6.5
78 Muskan Debnath 5.5
33 Sudhirsana Singh R.K. 6.5
79 Tage Tamer 5.5
34 Mano Raj Sarkar 6.5
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Tuton Datta
Sikha Das Gupta
5.5
5.5
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Pratik Kumar Prashad
Aity Lyne Diengdoh
5
5
GM Karthikeyan Murali takes second place in Gibraltar Masters
82 Targain Abel Pemsum 5.5 127 Brian C J L Marshilong 5
The 19-year-old grandmaster entered the tenth and
83 Rai Chitiz 5.5 128 Shaurya Srivastava 5
final round of the Gibraltar International Chess Fes-
84 Toko Taaj 5.5 129 Raja Basar 4.5
85 Jayden Th. Nonglait 5.5 130 Gautam Ch Rabha 4.5
tival yesterday with 7 points from a possible nine.
86 Shubhadip Debnath 5.5 131 Lalhumhima 4.5 He finished second at the Masters tournament with a
87 Amrendra Kumar Sharma 5.5 132 Rahul Chettri 4.5 brilliant win against the tournament top seed Maxime
88 Prashant Nepal 5.5 133 Morningstar Phawa 4.5 Vachier-Lagrave.
89 Jyotirmay Borah 5.5 134 Nangwanroi Wanshnong 4.5 The tournament was held in Caleta Hotel from Jan-
90 Swaraj Jyoti Neog 5.5 135 Abhishek Bordoloi 4.5 uary 23 to February 1, 2018, Gibraltar.
91 Anusha Chhetri 5.5 136 Pushpendra Kant Dhangar 4.5 Half a point ahead of Karthikeyan Murali was tourna-
92 Vanlalruatpuia 5.5 137 Abhiraj Parajuli 4.5 ment winner Vladislav Artemiev of Russia. Artemiev
93 Anju Sarkar 5.5 138 Rudraasis Chakraborty 4.5 finished the tournament on 8.5 points out of 10.
94 HURON Y BUAM 5.5 139 Norbu Wangyal Lama 4.5 Karthikeyan went home richer by £20,000 second prize, while Artemiev was awarded the
95 Roy Manoj Kumar 5 140 Lalhriatpuia H 4.5 £25,000 cheque for first prize.
96 Mackgroland N Marak 5 141 Md. Basrat Ali 4.5 The Chennai grandmaster showed great character and temperament as he produced out-
97 Rocky Nalo 5 142 Mebaaibor Ryngksai 4.5 standing performance to put it across three grandmasters rated above 2700. His efforts
98 Tinku Moni Das 5 143 Prachi Roy 4.5 have earned him a performance rating of 2747 which is an increase of 23 rating points.
99 Prakhar Dhangar 5 144 Mridul Mayank Jha 4.5
100 Tapojit Majumdar 5 145 Piyush Kumar Das 4.5
Velammal AICF Women International Grandmaster Round Robin Chess Tourna-
101 Sumer Dkhar 5 146 Aahan Pradhan 4.5
102 Thakur Monoj Lall 5 147 Nirwan Bikram Dangal 4.5 ment-2019, Chennai
103 Jyotshnav Talukdar 5 148 Yangchen Lama 4.5
104 Phurba Wangial Bhutia 5 149 Vashundhara Singh 4.5 Divya Deshmukh wins Round Robin Chess
105 Rahul Kumar Rout 5 150 Manthan Gupta 4 by IA Bhubvanaa Sai, Chief Arbiter
106 Yogesh Sharma 5 151 Ruso Ngopocho Rai 4
107 Bibek Bordoloi 5 152 Jishu Kashyap Baruah 4
Velammal AICF Women International Grandmaster
108 Kausal Sharma 5 153 Tunav Kumar Sharma 4
Round Robin Chess Tournament-2019 was organized by
109 T P Ghimiray 5 154 Iarilyne Diengdoh 4
Tamil Nadu State Chess Association from 28th January
110 Sherap Nima Tamang 5 155 Parashmita Ghosh 4
to 4th February 2019. Former National Champion WGM
111 Ishwar Thapa 5 156 Preeti Dhangar 4
Aarthie Ramaswamy inaugurated this event by making
112 Bittu Lama 5 157 Binayak Hazra 4
113 Devashish Subedi 5 158 Aaradhya Raj Adhikari 4
the first move against the top seed IM Munguntuul Bat-
114 Aradhya Raj Pokhrel 5 159 Samuel Khatri 4 khuyag of Mongolia here at Hotel Abu Sarovar Portico,
115 Emetna Limboo 5 160 Agranya Sharma 4 Kilpauk, Chennai on 28th January at 9.30 am in the
116 Nabam Katu 5 161 Shraddha Sharma 4 presence of Shri B Murugavel, Vice President, TNSCA,
117 Abhinav Kumar Jha 5 162 Rijwal Sharma 4 Shri Satish Kumar, General Manager, Hotel Abu Sarovar
118 Lawmsangzuala K 5 163 Tushar Sharma 4 Portico, Shri Stephen Balasamy P, Gen. Secretary, TN-
119 Sachit Sethi 5 164 Sudhanshu D'souza 4 SCA, Shri V Hariharan, former Secretary, AICF.
120 Abhiral Sharma 5 165 Mohak Das 4
121 Mewan P Diengdoh 5 166 Prem Kumar 4 The eleven round all-play-all event consisted of 6 wom-
122 Thomas Remsangzuala 5 167 Prashant Sharma 4 en international masters from India , 3 International
123 Dibyangana Kar 5 168 Harsha Chandak 4 Masters, 2 Women grandmasters and 1 Women Inter- WGM Aarthie Ramasamy
124 Arpan Tamang 5 169 Thokchom Preeti 4 national Master from Ukraine, Mongolia, Kazakhstan and makes the inaugural move
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Colombia. In the inaugural round Aakanksha Hagawane drew with the top seed Munguntuul ters a great opportunity to make their WGM Norms and complete their title requirements.
Batkhuyag of Mongolia. The Indian players Michelle and Divya drew with each other. Double This is the 3rd series of the tournament. The tournament concluded in a grand manner.
WGM Norm holder Varshini V went down to Babiy Olga of Ukraine. Babiy was the sole leader
with perfect score at the end of the 3rd round. In the next round Babiy lost to Mongolian Final ranking
Woman Grandmaster Uuriintuya Uurtsaikh in 34 moves. After 5th round Chennai based Rank Name Rtg FED Pts Res. SB Vict Vict
WIM Michelle Catherina beat Franco Valencia Angela of Colombia and took the sole lead 1 WIM Divya Deshmukh 2168 IND 8 0 38.25 7 3
with 4 points. Munkunthul, Divya and Olga followed her with 3.5 points each. 2 IM Osmak Iulija 2394 UKR 7½ 1 38.00 6 3
3 WIM Michelle Catherina P 2175 IND 7½ 0 35.25 6 4
At the end of the 6th round Former World Under 12 Champion Divya Deshmukh snatched 4 IM Munguntuul Batkhuyag 2428 MGL 7 0 34.25 5 1
the sole lead by two wins on a double round day. She maintained her lead in the next 5 WIM Aakanksha Hagawane 2259 IND 6½ 0 36.50 3 1
round also. The win took Michelle and Olga to top of the table with 5 points each. Divya 6 WGM Babiy Olga 2275 UKR 6 0 25.00 5 2
and Michelle hold good chances to achieve their women grandmaster norms. Double round 7 WGM Uuriintuya Uurtsaikh 2314 MGL 5½ 0 27.25 4 1
day was Divya’s day to achieve International master norm and women grandmaster norm. 8 IM Nakhbayeva Guliskhan 2336 KAZ 5 0 25.75 3 1
Michelle split the point with Aakanksha Hagawane and made her WGM norm. This is the 1st 9 WIM Sapale Saloni 2198 IND 4½ 0 19.75 2 2
norm for the both the players. 10 WIM Franco Valencia Angela
2107 COL 3½ 0 19.25 2 2
11 WIM Varshini V 2171 IND 3 0 14.00 1 0
In the tenth round Michelle defeated Chan- 12 WIM Chandreyee Hajra 1925 IND 2 0 8.25 1 1
dreyee Hajra and took sole lead with 7.5
points. In other games, top seed Inter-
national Master Munguntuul Batkhuyag
of Mongolia went down to her team-mate
Uuriintuya Uurtsaikh. Colombia's Franco
Valencia Angela stunned higher rated Osmak
Iulija of Ukraine. In the final round WIM
Divya Deshmukh defeated Chandreyee Ha-
jra and clinched the title with 8 points. In the
tough battle between Michelle and osmak,
the result was favourable to the IM osmak.
She was the first runner-up of this event
with 7.5 points. WIM Michelle Catherina P
was the second runner-up with 7.5 points.

Cash Prizes to the tune of Rs. 750000 (Ru-

pees Seven Lakhs fifty thousand only) were
distributed by Chief Guest R Anantharam,
Chairman Arbiter's Commission, AICF. In
the presence of International Master Ma-
nuel Aaron, Shri D V Sundar, Vice President,
FIDE, Shri Stephen Balasamy P, Gen. Sec- FIDE Trainer’s Seminar, Chennai
WIM Divya Deshmukh receiving the trophy
retary, Tamil Nadu State Chess Association, The FIDE Trainer’s Seminar, held from 1st to 3rd Feb 2019, was organized by Tamil Nadu
from the Chief Guest R.Anantharam,Interna-
Shri B Murugavel, Vice President, Tamil Nadu State Chess Association under the aegis of All India Chess Federation at Hotel Abu Sarovar
tional Arbiter.D.V.Sundar, Hon.Vice President
State Chess Association. AICF took initiative Portico, Chennai.
and Stephen Balasamy, Secretary,TNSCA are
and offer Indian Woman International Mas-
also seen
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 The FIDE Trainer Seminar was a 14th AICFB National “A” Chess Championship 2019, Nagpur
three-day event, that identified
the skill sets of the chess trainers Kishan Gangolli lifts title for the 6th consecutive time
in the sub-continent. The candi- by IA Manjunatha. M, Chief Arbiter
dates will be awarded one of the
four titles viz., FIDE Trainer, FIDE The 14th AICFB National “A” Chess Championship for the Visually Challenged 2019 was inau-
Instructor, National Instructor gurated on 05/01/2019 at MLA hostel, civil lines, Nagpur, Maharashtra. The 9 days tournament
& Developmental Instructor.The was organized by All India Chess Federation for the blind, co-supported by Hindustan Petroleum
instructors for the seminar were and Union Bank of India. Sri Manoj Itkelwar, Vice President, AICF inaugurated the championship
Grandmaster R B Ramesh and In- in the presence of Sri Anup Deshmukh, International Master, Dr.Manish Thool General secretary
ternational Master Vishal Sareen. AICFB, Sri Swapnil Shah Treasurer AICFB. This elite chess championship happens to be the
A former British and Common- apex one in which the top fourteen selected players from National “B” are vying for honours.
wealth Champion, Ramesh has Five times consecutive National “A” Champion for Visually Challenged Kishan Gangolli of KAR
been the chief coach of the Indian was the top seeded player of the tournament with ELO of 2008. This tournament was conducted
team for the past decade. He then in Round Robin system with 13 rounds. The top 4 players from this tournament will represent
led bronze-medal winning Indian team in the Chess Olympiad 2014 at Tromso, Norway. the country in the forthcoming World Individual Chess Championship for the Blind and Visually
Impaired 2019 to be held in Cagliari, Italy from 5th to 15th April, 2019.
International Master Vishal Sareen, has been a training a number of successful Grandmas-
ters and International Masters for the past two decades. Champions from his stable include Aryan B Joshi took the lead from the fourth round he was closely chased by defending Champion
Abhijeet Gupta, Sahaj Grover, Tania Sachdev to name a few. Kishan Gangolli and Patra Subhendu Kumar. The tournament became interesting in the fifth round
The seminar was inaugurated by Shri Bharat Singh Chauhan, Hon. Secretary, AICF. Present when Aryan B Joshi faced Patra Subhendu. Patra Subhendu defeated Aryan and jointly led the
in the dais were Shri D V Sundar, Vice President FIDE & AICF, Naresh Sharma, Joint Secre- race with Kishan Gangolli. The tournament became more and more interesting concerning the
tary, AICF, A K Verma, Secretary, Delhi Chess Association, Grandmaster R B Ramesh and title in the ninth round when Patra Subhendu and Kishan Gangolli faced each other Subhendu
International Master Vishal Sareen. required a win to threaten Kishan’s title. The match saw change of fortunes Patra had a good
position and Kishan fought hard and proved his supremacy. There after Kishan maintained his
Inaugurating the Seminar, Shri Bharat lead and took a draw in the last round to better his own record of winning clinch the title for
Singh Chauhan, Hon. Secretary, AICF said, the sixth time consecutively. The young talents of India performed well in the tournament and
“This event sponsored by the Government created several upsets to be the part of Indian team.
of India is a measure to encourage and un-
earth more chess talents, who go to produce Kishan Gangolli,Patra Subhendu,Aryan B Joshi and Krishna Udupa by virtue of finishing in the
champions”. top four will represent the country in the forthcoming World Individual Chess Championship for
Speaking on the occasion, Shri D V Sundar, the Blind and Visually Impaired 2019 to be held in Cagliari, Italy from 5th to 15th April, 2019.
Vice President, FIDE & AICF added, “This Marimuthu K, who showed phenomenal chess throughout the tournament missed the flight to
FIDE Trainer’s Seminar is a great opportu- Italy by a whisker finishing 5th.The prize distribution ceremony was presided over by Sri Dilip
nity for the candidates to train themselves Pagay senior chess player.Other dignitaries on the dais were IM Anup Deshmukh, Sri Swapnil
under renowned trainers viz., Grandmaster Shah treasurer AICFB and Dr Manish Thool secretary AICFB. Dignitaries awarded prizes to
R B Ramesh and International Master Vishal winners and participants.
Sareen, who both have produced a number
of champions from their stable.” Final standings: 1.Kishan Gangolli (Kar)10;2.Patra Subhendu Kumar(Odi) 9½; 3.Aryan B
The three-day Seminar, which had attracted Joshi(Mah)9½;4.Krishna Udupa (Kar) 9; 5.Marimuthu K(T N)8½; 6.Makwana Ashvin K (Guj)8;7.
40 participants, including Grandmaster Pri- Soundarya Kumar Pradhan(Odi)7½;8.Prachurya Kumar Pradhan (Odi)7;9.Shashidhar KM
yadarshan Kannappan, International Masters D V Prasad, C S Gokhale, Woman Grandmaster (Kar)5;10.Swapanil Shah(Mah) 5; 11.Kavlekar Sanjay R (Goa)4½;12.Patil Shirish (Mah)4½;13.
Aarthie Ramaswamy to name a few, concluded on Sunday 3rd Feb 2019. Waghmare Sachin Lahu(Mah)3;14.Hariharan Gandhi(TN).

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Problem World
Model mates
by C.G.S.Narayanan
A model mate is a mating position in which no
square in the black king’s field is guarded more
than once by white and no square is guarded by
white and simultaneously blocked by black, and
in which all the white men on the board, with the
exception of king and pawns, play some active
part in the mate by guarding squares. The inter-
est in a model-mate problem lies in the attractive
mating positions.
The two mover below holds a unique record
of eight distinct model mates distributed in a
perfect pattern by the dual avoidance of four
pairs of black captures but with only four dif-
ferent mating moves.
Edgar Holladay
2 Prize, The Problemist 1965
B.J.de C Andrade
The Tablet 1957
Mate in two moves
Key 1.Ng4! (Ne3,Ne6,Nf4)
1…axb3 2.Ne3;1…Nxf3 2.Nf6
1…Qf7 2.Nf4;1…Rxc8 2.Ne7
1…Nxg4 2.e4
There is more scope for model mates in the
three and longer movers where they are com-
bined with strategic content.
G.Heathcote
I Pr, Bristol Mercury 1890
1... Nc4 2. Sxc6+Kxd5 3. Qh1#
1... Kxd5 2. Qd3+Ke5 3. Bd6#
1. ... Kc3 2. Bb4+Kd4 3. Qe4#
Echo models are featured in the four-mover
given below. The key is 1.Bf5!
If 1…Kf3 then 2.Kg1 Ke2 3.Bc2 Kf3 4.Bd1,
a model mate. The solver should note the rel-
ative positions of the white rook and bishops
before considering the second variation. The
reason is that after 1….Kf1 2.Bg4 Kf2 3.Bd2
Kg3 4.Be1,the position of the three pieces in
question is echoed.
O.Wurzburg
1st Pr,Cheney Miniature Ty 1937
1…Bxg2 2.Qe2+ Kd5 3.Nxb4 mate
1…Bd3 2.Qe8+ Kd5 3.Nd3 mate
1…Kd5 2.Qf7+ Kc6 3.Nd4 mate
In all these three variations the need to guard
c6,b5 and c4 are subtly used.
Now on to models with slender material.The
key 1.Be4! has a short threat
L.I.Kubbel
3 Com, Cheney Miniature Ty 1937
Mate in three moves
1….Ne5 2.Rg8 N any Rg6
1…Ne7 2.Bh7 N any 3.Rg6

Mate in four moves It is interesting to note that white has to avoid

Mate in two moves
Key 1.Nd5! (2.Bd7,Bf7,Nc7,c7)
1….Bxd5 2.Bd7;1,,,Rxd5 2.Bf7
1…Qxe6 2.Nc7;1..Nxe6 2.f7
1…Rxf6 2.Bd7;1…Nxf6 2.Bf7
1…Nxe5 2.Nc7;1…Bxe5 2.f7
The definition of model mate is slightly relaxed
to include pin mates as well which are called
‘pin models’.Five pin models are shown in the
second problem below. The four WN mates and
the lone mate by the WPe2 complete the pin
mate count.
Echoed lines in which the king ends up on closure of a white line as a waiting move.
squares of different colours, as here, are Now finally a 5-piece threer showing model
known as Chameleon echoes.Yet another mates for solving
echo-model is given below for study. R.Asplund
W.A.Shinkman Schach Echo 1960
I Pr, St.John’s Globe 1891
Mate in three moves
In the diagram above, after the good flight
giving key 1.Bd5!, the defences 1…cxd5 and
Nc4 lead to model mates
where each square in the king field is guarded
only once. The variation
Key:1. Bd5! [2.Qe4+Kc3 3. Bb4#]
1... cxd5 2. Nb5+ Kc4 3. Qf1#
(2... Ke5 3. Bd6) Mate in three moves Mate in three moves
1... c5 2. Bxf6+Kxd5 3. Qd3# Key move 1.Kg5! (2.Qf3 Ke5 3.Qf5) (solution on page 48)

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Selected games from Delhi GM dark-square bishop and white would find it
easy to penetrate his castled position with
exchange of queens.. Stronger was: 37.Qd2
Bc8 38.h4 Ne6 39.d5 Ng7 (or 39...cxd5?
up to date in modern chess theory. Thipsay
started his chess career playing for B.Varma's
Open, New Delhi his active bishops.] 40.Bxf6 Ng7 41.Qd4 Bf5 42.Bxg7 Bxc2 CRPF till he joined the Union Bank of India.
43.Bh6 f6 44.Qxa7!) 40.Bb4 Qc7 (40...c5 In contrast, J Deepan Chakkravarthy, born
Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron
41.Ba3 and c5 would soon fall.) 41.d6 Qd7 1987, is from Madurai, a city steeped in chess
42.Qd4+-] 37...Qe6 38.Qxe6 Bxe6 39.Bb3 tradition. He has won two age-limited Nation-
Predke,Alexandr (Rus) (2620) Rah-
[39.Bd3 f5 and ....Ne4 with play for black.] als and the last National "B" held in 2017.
man,Ziaur (Ban) (2470) [B15]
39...Ne4 40.Bb4 f5 41.d5! white's extra In the National "A" he came close to winning
pawn finally wins. 41...cxd5 42.cxd5 Bd7 in 2004 and 2005 but was baulked of it by
1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 dxe4 4.Nxe4 Nf6
43.Bc2 threatening g3-g4. 43...Kg7 44.g4 Surya Sekhar Ganguly who won the cham-
5.Nxf6+ exf6 6.c3 Bd6 7.Bd3 0–0 8.Qc2
Kf6 45.gxf5 Kxf5 [#] pionships six times in a row! Deepan is very
Re8+ 9.Ne2 h5?! This is a new move and
good company as he wise-cracks and makes
seems to be a bad idea which eventually
jokes all the time. He works for the Railways.
loses the game as black is unable to use it
In this tense game, Deepan won. Does it
as an attacking weapon and needs to keep
make him a better player than Praveen? No
defending it. Better was 9...h6= 10.0–0 Nd7
comparison! Sultan Khan (1905–1966) when
11.Ng3 Qc7 [If 11...h4 12.Nf5 Qc7 13.Nxd6
30.Qxh5! Ng5 [If 30...Qxg3?? 31.Bh7+! Kf8 asked which world champion, Capablanca or
Qxd6 14.h3] 12.h3 [White misses an ex-
32.Bb4+ c5 33.Bxc5+ Re7 34.Bc2! mating.] Alekhine, was the stronger player, as he had
cellent game with: 12.Nxh5 Bxh2+ 13.Kh1
31.Kh2 Qd6 32.Bc2 Rxe2 33.Rxe2 Re8 played both, replied "Champions lose through
Bd6 14.Bh6! gxh6 15.Bc4± White has a huge
34.Rxe8+ Bxe8 35.Qe2 [Still stronger over-age. They are not one much superior
advantage with his threat of 16. Qg6+ win-
was: 35.h4! Ne6 36.c5 Qd7 37.Qh7+ Kf8 to the other!" (See page 353, Indian Chess
ning.] 12...Bxg3 13.fxg3 Nf8 [If 13...Qxg3?
38.Bb3 Ke7 (38...Nxd4? leads to a clever History pb. 2014. 1.e4 g6 2.d4 Bg7 3.Nc3
14.Bf4 Qh4 15.Bh7+ Kh8 16.g3 Qxh3 17.Bf5
mating sequence: 39.Qh8+ Ke7 40.Qxg7 a6 4.Nf3 d6 5.h3 b5 6.Be3 Nd7 7.d5 [In
Re2! 18.Qxe2 Qxf5 19.Qe8+ Kh7 20.Qxf7±]
Nxb3 41.Qxf6+ Kf8 42.Qh6+! Ke7 43.Qg5+ [If 45...gxf5 46.h4! and black will have to appearance, this move looks aggressive.
14.Bf4 Qd8 15.Qf2 Be6 16.c4 Qa5!?
Kf8 (43...Ke6 44.Qe5#) 44.Bg7+ mates.) worry over one more white passed pawn.] But an expanded centre often becomes an
[A much better try was: 16...Ng6 17.Be3
39.Bc4+- Black is a pawn down and still in a 46.Bd6!! A beautiful finish. The black king inspiration for a counter attacking opponent.
Ne5 18.dxe5 Qxd3 19.exf6 Bxc4 20.Rfe1
vicious bind.] 35...Bd7 36.Qd3 [#] cannot move to any square without aban- One of the many options for white was:
gxf6 21.Qxf6 Re6 (21...Rxe3?? 22.Qg5++-
doning his knight and white is threatening 7.a4! b4 8.Nd5 Bb7 9.Nxb4 Bxe4 10.Ng5 c5
) 22.Qf4=] 17.Bd2± Qb6 18.Bc3 Rad8
g2-g4+ 1–0 11.Bc4!±] 7...Bb7 8.Nd4 Ngf6 9.Bd3 0–0
19.Rad1 Qc7 20.b3 [There was little point
10.f4 [With his knight installed in the central
in doubling his queen and rook on the f-file,
Thipsay,Praveen M (2405) Deepan,Chak- d4 square, white probably feels like being on
attacking the solidly defended f6. Best was
kravarthy J (2543) [B06] the top of the world and continues aggres-
to focus on the e-file with: 20.Rfe1 Ng6
sively. More prudent was:. 10.0–0 Re8 11.a4
21.Re3 b5 22.Rde1! Ne7 23.b3±] 20...b5
The two players in this game are both Grand- b4 12.Nce2=] 10...Nc5! Black threatens ....
21.Qf3 bxc4 22.bxc4 Qd6 23.Rd2 Qa3
masters but belong to two different gener- b5-b4 winning the e4 pawn. 11.b4 [11.Nb3
24.Rc2 Qd6 25.Rcf2 Ng6 26.Kh1 Qc7
ations. Praveen Thipsay is the oldest GM in b4 12.Nxc5 dxc5 13.Na4 c4! 14.Bxc4 Nxe4³]
27.Re2 Nf8 28.Rfe1 Bd7 29.Be4 Ne6?
India. Born in 1959, he became an IM in 11...Ncxe4 12.Bxe4 Nxe4 13.Nxe4 Bxd5
[#] [This loses quickly. A better defence was:
1983 when his burly, jovial opponent, Deepan 14.Ng5 [14.Nc3 Bxg2µ] 14...c5 [White could
29...f5 30.Bc2 Rxe2 31.Rxe2 Be6 32.Bb3±
Chakkravarthy was not even born! Thipsay be troubled more by: 14...Bxg2 15.Rg1 Bb7
Black is offering his unprotected h-pawn in
36...g6 37.Qe3 [This move allows black belonged to the era of Anand and Barua when 16.Kf2 Qc8µ] 15.Nf5 gxf5! [The rook can
exchange for white's g3 pawn. If he protects
to ease his position with the exchange of FIDE titles were very very hard to obtain. wait. If 15...Bxa1 16.Nh6+ Kg7 17.Qxa1+
his h5 pawn with g7-g6, his castled king-side
queens. Probably white chose a slower but Thipsay won the National "A" championship f6 18.f5! Qc7³] 16.Qxd5 h6 17.Qxf5 hxg5
would become very weak along the dark
safer road to victory in the ending with the seven times and was a feared player who was 18.Qxg5 e5!? [Suddenly material is level
squares, g7 and h6, as he does not have a

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and black offers the exchange of queens as
he will have the initiative in the ending. How-
ever much stronger was: 18...cxb4 19.0–0
Rc8] 19.Qxd8 Rfxd8 Black now threatens
the double attack ... exf4! 20.0–0–0! cxb4
21.Rd5 Rac8 22.Kb1 [Better was the nat-
ural continuation: 22.Rhd1 Rc6 23.fxe5 Rdc8
24.Rxd6 Rxc2+ 25.Kb1 Rxg2 26.Bd4 a5]
22...Rc4 23.f5?! [Better was: 23.Rf1 exf4
24.Bxf4 Re8! 25.Bxd6 (25.Rxd6?? Rxf4!)
25...Re2 26.Rg5! Kh7 27.g4 Rce4 (27...Rcxc2
28.Bf8!= check this out yourself!) 28.Rd5
Kg6³] 23...e4 24.Bg5 [24.Rhd1! would have
left black with only a slight advantage.] 24...
Rdc8 25.f6 [#]
25...R8c5? [This offers white the chance
to equalise the game. Better was: 25...Bh8!
26.Rxd6 Rxc2 27.g4 R8c6 28.Re1 Rxd6
29.Kxc2 Rd4³] 26.Rhd1 [White misses:
26.Rxc5! Rxc5 27.Be3! Rc3 28.Bd2! Bxf6!
29.Bxc3 bxc3= White has a rook for bishop and
two pawns.] 26...Bf8 Thus black gets back his
advantage! 27.Be3 Rxd5 28.Rxd5 Kh7 [The
easier road to victory was: 28...Rc3 29.Rg5+
Kh7 30.Bd4 Bh6! 31.Bxc3 Bxg5 32.Bxb4 d5!
(32...e3? 33.Be1!µ) 33.Kb2 Kg6–+] 29.Rh5+
Kg6 [29...Kg8 30.Rd5] 30.Rh8 Rc8 31.Bd4
[Perhaps white was thinking classically when
making this 'centralising' move. Better was:
31.Bh6! Bxh6 32.Rxc8 Bf4! and black's ad-
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vantage is only minimal.] 31...Re8! Now the
threat of e4-e3 hoodwinks white into handing
over his key f6 pawn, and the game. 32.Be3?
[#] [Black's threat of e4-e3 was only su-
perficial and not real. Probably it was a bluff
to trick an opponent in time trouble! As the
black rook is overloaded with the defence
of his bishop and e-pawn, White can reach
equality by ignoring it and continuing: 32.h4!
e3 33.h5+ Kg5 34.Bxe3+! Rxe3 35.Rxf8
Kxf6 36.Ra8=] 32...Kxf6–+ 33.Kc1 Kg7
34.Bd4+ f6 35.Rh5 Kg6 36.g4 e3 37.Kd1
e2+! 38.Ke1 Black has calculated a flawless
mating sequence with his bishop which is in-
structive. 38...Bh6! Threat is ....Bd2+, Kxd2,
e1–Q. 39.Bf2 Bc1!! [#] 0–1
Harsha,Bharathakoti(IM Tel) (2481)
- Ilamparthi,A R. (TN) (1920) [A45]
Nineteen year old Harsha Bharathakoti
from Telengana has won the National U–13
and U–19 Championships and became
an IM in 2017. His Tamil Nadu opponent,
10–year old A.R.Ilamparthi whose only
claim to fame is having won the National
Schools U-7 Championship in 2016, plays
this game as though he is unaware of the
achievements of his famous opponent.
At the same time he plays with great re-
sponsibility, denying any chances to his
opponent. 1.d4 Nf6 2.Bg5 g6 3.Bxf6
exf6 4.e3 Bg7 5.g3 0–0 6.Bg2 d5
7.Ne2 c6 8.Nd2 Be6 9.0–0 Nd7 10.Nf4
f5 11.Rc1N Nf6 12.c4 Ne4 13.cxd5
cxd5 14.Nb3 b6= 15.Qe2 Rc8 16.Qb5
Qd6! 17.Qa6 Qd7! Black plays patient,
defensive chess of a high order, not al-
loiwing white any advantage. 18.Rfe1=
Bh6 19.Rf1 Bg7 20.Rfe1 Bh6 A tacit
draw offer. 21.Nd3 Bg7
[#] [Black is steadfast in his aim of frus-
trating white and denying him any faint
chance whatsoever! However, he could
keep his chances intact and try to make
white go wrong with: 21...f6! 22.Nf4 Bf7
23.Bf1 Nd6 and if now 24.Bd3 Nc4]
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22.Na1? [Though fundamentally there
is nothing seriously wrong with this
move, cornering your own knight in the
middle-game looks terrible! Better was:
22.Nf4 Bf6 23.Bf1=] 22...Rc4 23.Rxc4
dxc4 24.Nf4 c3!? [Better 24...b5 25.Nc2
Rb8= Black has a faint edge.] 25.Nxe6!
fxe6 26.bxc3 [Better was: 26.Bxe4 cxb2
27.Bf3 bxa1Q 28.Rxa1 Rc8 29.Rd1=] 26...
Nxc3 27.Rc1 Rc8! Threat 28...Ne2+!
28.Nb3 e5 29.dxe5 Bxe5 30.Bf3 Kg7
31.Kg2 g5! At last black plays the move
expected of a 10–year old to seize the
initiative. He must have exhibited great
self-restraint in making such "Jai Ho!"
moves earlier. 32.Kh1 Rd8 33.Nd4 [With
this move, white tries to infuse life into
his dull position by trading his e-pawn
for black's a-pawn. To be considered here
was: 33.Qc4 ] 33...Bxd4 34.exd4 Qxd4
35.Qxa7+ [White's focus has been so
much on capturing a7 with check that he
does not see a different road to attack
with: 35.Qa3! g4 36.Rxc3 gxf3 37.Qe7+
Kg8 38.Rxf3 Qd5 39.Qg5+ Kh8 40.Qf6+
(40.Kg2 Rf8 41.h4²) 40...Kg8 41.Kg2 Rf8
42.Qg5+ Kh8 43.h4²] 35...Rd7 36.Qb8?
[It was best to focus on the knight with:
36.Qa3 Ne4 37.Bxe4 fxe4 38.Kg2 g4=]
36...g4!
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[#] 37.Bg2 [If 37.Bb7 Nd1! 38.Rc8 Nxf2+
39.Kg2 Nh3 40.Rg8+ Kh6µ] 37...Nd1!!–+
Curiously, while the seemingly well-protect-
ed white king falls to a mating attack with
38....Nf2+, white does not even get a check
against the exposed black king. 38.h4 gxh3
39.Bf3 Nxf2+ 40.Kh2 Ng4+ 41.Kxh3
Qd2! Now black mates by force. 42.Bxg4
fxg4+ 43.Kxg4 Qe2+! [#]
[43...Qe2+! 44.Kh4 (or 44.Kh3 Qh5+ 45.Kg2
Rd2+ 46.Kg1 Qh2+ 47.Kf1 Qh1#) 44...h5!
45.Qf4 (45.Kh3 Qg4+ 46.Kh2 Rd2+ 47.Kg1
Qd4+ mates.) 45...Qh2+ 46.Kg5 Rd5+–+]
0–1
Kadam,Om Manish (CM MH) (1944) -
Karthikeyan,Murali (GM TN) (2570)
[A01]
1.b3 e5 2.Bb2 d6 3.c4 Nc6 4.e3 g6 5.g3
Bg7 6.Bg2 Nge7 7.Ne2N h5 This aggres-
sive method of play is often opted for when
white has not played Nf3. 8.d4 exd4 9.Nxd4
White is threatening 10. Nxc6 and 11.Bxg7
winning. 9...Ne5 10.Nc3 h4 11.Qe2 [#]
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[Better was: 11.f4! Bg4 12.Qd2 hxg3 13.fxe5
dxe5 14.Nf3 e4 15.Nd4 c5=] 11...c5! this
drives the knight away from the critical f3
square. 12.Nc2 Bg4! 13.f3 h3! 14.fxg4 hxg2
15.Qxg2 Nd3+! 16.Kd2 Nxb2 17.Rab1 [#]
It looks as though white gets back his piece by
trapping the knight. But now comes the killing
blow. 17...Qa5! [After 17...Qa5! 18.b4 cxb4
19.Qxb7 bxc3+ 20.Ke2 Qd8–+ white has lost
a knight and bishop for nothing.] 0–1
Erigaisi,Arjun (GM Tel) (2548) Vijay,-
Kumar (HP) (1943) [E73]
Erigaisi Arjun, born 3 Sep 2003 became a
FIDE Master in 2017 and achieved the titles
of both IM and GM in 2018. He is one of
the youngest, and brightest, grandmasters
of modern India. 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3
Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.Be2 e5 6.d5 Nbd7 7.h4
Nc5 8.Bf3= a5 9.h5 h6 10.hxg6 fxg6
11.Be3 b6 12.Rb1 Bd7 [An alternate plan
was to take the attack to white with: 12...h5
13.Nge2 Bd7 14.Qc2 h4 15.a3 a4=] 13.b3
Qc8 14.a3 Qa6 15.Nge2 [15.b4? axb4
16.axb4 Qxc4 17.bxc5 Qxc3+ 18.Bd2 Qxc5
19.Rc1 Qd4 20.Ne2 Qa4µ] 15...a4?! 16.b4
Nb3
[#] Though the knight is well ensconced on
b3, his a-pawn is continuously under threat
in many variations and leads to his event;
ual defeat. 17.Qd3 Ng4 [Black cannot castle
because of: 17...0–0 18.Bxh6 Bxh6 19.Rxh6
Kg7 20.Rh2] 18.Bxg4 Bxg4 19.Nb5 Bxe2
[After this move, black is losing. If 19...Rc8
20.Nec3 Bd7 21.0–0 0–0 22.Nxa4! Qxa4
23.Rxb3± White has a winning extra pawn.]
20.Qxe2 Qc8 [#]
Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron
[If 20...Rc8 21.Qg4!+- as white has multiple
threats while the black queen is excluded
from the theatre of operations.] 21.Bxb6!!
Rb8 [The only move to keep playing. If 21...
cxb6?? 22.Nxd6+] 22.Nxc7+ Kf7 23.Qe3
Nd4 24.Bxd4 Qxc7 [24...exd4 25.Qf4+
Ke7 26.Ne6 Be5 27.Qd2 Qxc4 28.Rc1 Qb3
29.Rxh6 and the black king falls to a pin-
cer attack from both sides.] 25.Bb2! Qxc4
26.Rc1 Qa2 27.Rc7+ Kg8 [#]
28.0–0!! Kh7 [If 28...Qxb2?? 29.Qa7!+- a
double attack that would quickly lead to
mate.] 29.Qc3! The black queen can flee his
jail on a2 only at the cost of his a-pawn. 29...
Rhf8 30.Ra1 Qb3 31.Qxb3 [After 31.Qxb3
axb3 32.Rac1 intending 33 Rc3 and 34 Rxb3
winning. It is chess made easy!] 1–0
Sardana,Rishi (IM Aus) (2398) Pantsu-
laia,Levan (GM Geo) (2597) [B11]
1.e4 c6 2.Nc3 d5 3.Nf3 Bg4 4.h3 Bh5
5.exd5 cxd5 6.Bb5+ Nc6 7.g4 Bg6 8.Ne5
Rc8 9.d4 e6 10.Qe2 Bb4 11.h4! Nge7 [#]
“The beauty of chess is it can be whatever
you want it to be. It transcends language,
age, race, religion, politics, gender, and
socioeconomic background. Whatever your
circumstances, anyone can enjoy a good
fight to the death over the chess board.”
-Simon Williams
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12.h5! Be4 13.f3 [#]13...0–0! 14.Nxc6
[If 14.fxe4?? Nxd4! 15.Qd3 dxe4 16.Qxe4
f5 17.Qd3 Qd5!–+] 14...Nxc6 15.Be3 [If
15.Bxc6 Rxc6 16.Kd1 (16.fxe4 Rxc3! 17.Kd1
dxe4!) 16...Bxc3 17.bxc3 Rxc3 18.fxe4
Qb6 19.Be3 dxe4 20.h6 g6 21.Re1² Black
has two pawns for his bishop and the na-
ture of white's huddled forces in the centre
give hopes for Black.] 15...Qa5 16.Bxc6
[Much stronger was: 16.0–0 Bxc3 17.bxc3
Qxc3 18.Bxc6 Rxc6 19.fxe4 dxe4 20.Rab1
b6 21.Rbc1±] 16...Bxc3+ 17.bxc3 Qxc3+
18.Kf2 Rxc6 19.fxe4 f5!? [This attractive
move, opening up the f-file for his rook on
to the uncastled white king, has been played
many times before. But here it meets with a
new treatment from the Australian IM of In-
dian origin. Better was: 19...dxe4 20.Rac1
f5 21.gxf5 Rxf5+ 22.Kg2 Ra6 23.Rh4²
and white's extra bishop may find it difficult
to make a difference to the game as his king
has no pawn cover.] 20.exf5N exf5 21.gxf5
Rxf5+ 22.Kg2± Re6 [#]
Unlike other games in which lucre is the
end and aim, chess recommends itself to
the wise by the fact that its mimic battles
are fought for no prize but honor. It is em-
inently and emphatically the philosopher’s
game.”
– Paul Morphy
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[If 22...Qxc2 23.Qxc2 Rxc2+ 24.Kg3 b5
25.Rhc1 Re2 (or 25...Rc4 26.Kg4 Rf8 27.Rxc4
bxc4 28.Rb1+-) 26.Re1 Rc2 27.Bf4 Rxh5
28.Kg4 g6 29.Re8+ Kf7 30.Ra8+-] 23.Rae1!
After this simple defence to his bishop on e3
black finds that he has deployed his pieces to
their best and he is still unable to trouble the
white bishop. 23...Qc8 [If 23...Rc6 24.Rhf1
Rxf1 25.Rxf1 Qxc2 26.Bd2!+- white threat-
ens 27. Qe8#] 24.Rh3!+- Rg5+ 25.Rg3
[Not 25.Bxg5?? Rxe2+ 26.Rxe2 Qg4+ and
white loses one of his two rooks.] 25...
Rxg3+ 26.Kxg3 Qc3 27.Qd2! Qa3 28.c3!
This shuts up black's chances for ever! 28...
Rc6 29.Rc1 Qe7 30.Bg5 Qf7 31.Qf4! Qd7
32.Re1!! [#]
32...h6 33.Re7! Rxc3+ 34.Kf2 Rc2+
35.Kg1 With his king and queen both under
attack and with no further checks left it is
time to give up the game. 1–0
Kulkarni,Vikramaditya IM Rly (2345)
- Pantsulaia,Levan (GM Geo) (2597)
[A35]
1.c4 c5 2.Nc3 Nc6 3.Nf3 g6 4.e3 Bg7 5.d4
d6 6.d5 Na5 7.e4 Nf6 8.h3 0–0 9.Bd3 a6
10.0–0 Rb8 [Franco Ocampos - Pinheiro, Dos
Hermanas, 2000 went: 10...b5 11.cxb5 c4
12.Bc2 axb5 13.a3 Nb3 14.Bxb3 b4! 15.Bc2
bxc3 16.bxc3 Nd7 ....49 Draw.] 11.Qe2 e6
12.dxe6 Bxe6 13.Rd1 Re8 14.Bf4 Nh5
15.Bg5 Qc8?! [If black was planning a bish-
op sacrifice on h3, equally good was: 15...
Qd7! 16.Rac1 Nc6 17.b3 b5 18.cxb5 Nd4
19.Nxd4 cxd4 20.Nb1 d5 21.bxa6 h6 22.g4
hxg5 23.gxh5 Bxh3 24.hxg6 fxg6 25.Nd2
Be5=] 16.Rac1² Nc6 17.Nd5 b5 18.b3
Na5 19.Nc3 Nc6 20.Nd5 [#]
20...Bxh3!? This is a real sacrifice, not based
on precise calculation. Black takes a gamble
sacrificing a bishop for two pawns with no
clear outcome. 21.cxb5? [When an opponent
makes a pawn sacrifice, there are times when
your calculations do not tell you whether
you should accept it or not. In such cases,
accept the sacrifice! It is better to face a
position with an extra pawn than without an
Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron
extra pawn! Here, best was: 21.gxh3!? Qxh3
22.Be3 Be5= One plan for black here could be
....f7-f5.] 21...axb5 22.Nf4 [White gets one
last chance to accept the bishop sacfice and
reach an almost level ending with: 22.gxh3!
Qxh3 23.Qe3 Qg4+ (White was threatening
24. Nh2!) 24.Kh2 Ne5 25.Nxe5 Bxe5+
26.Kh1 Bd4 27.Rg1 Bxe3 28.Rxg4 Bxc1
29.Bxc1² Black has the equivalent of rook
and two pawns for two bishops.] 22...Bg4
23.Nxh5 Nd4!! [#]
24.Nxd4? [White probably wanted to sur-
prise his opponent by this queen sac. Better
was: 24.Qe3 Bxh5 25.Nxd4 Bxd4 26.Qd2
Bxd1 27.Rxd1–+ White is only the exchange
and a pawn down and could hope for a turn-
around.]24...Bxe2 25.Nxg7 [Comparative-
ly better though still losing was: 25.Bxe2
Bxd4 26.Rxd4 gxh5 27.Rxd6–+] 25...Bxd1
26.Nxe8 Qxe8 27.Nxb5 Bg4 The skirmish
is over leaving white with a bishop and knight
for black's queen. 28.a4 [28.Nxd6?? Qe5!
and one of the two white pieces fall.] 28...
Qe5 29.Be3 Be6 30.Rb1 g5 This prevents
f2-f4, though that was not such a big threat.
Frustrating your opponent's intentions during
a game is often a good psychological ploy in
winning the game. 31.Bd2 threat 32. Bc3.
31...d5 32.Bc3 d4 33.Ba5 Rb7 34.Bd2 h6
35.Ba5 h5 36.Bd8 h4 37.a5 [#]
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37...Qb8! a winning double attack that
puts an end to white's agony, 38.a6 Rxb5
39.Bxb5 Qxb5 40.a7 Qa6 41.Bb6 White is
prolonging the game as best as he could,
but the outcome is beyond any doubt.. 41...
d3! 42.Bxc5 Bc8 43.Be3 g4 44.Rc1 Bb7
45.Rc5 f6! 46.Rc4 Qa1+ 47.Kh2 [If 47.Rc1
Qa2–+] 47...Qe5+ 48.Kg1 g3 49.f3 d2!
Now white's back rank collapses. 50.Bxd2
Qa1+ 51.Rc1 Qd4+ 0–1
Movsziszian,Karen (GM Arm) (2514) -
Neelash,Saha (WB) (2300) [B20]
Movsziszian is a 56 year old Armenian Grand-
master. Neelash Saha, 17, has won the Na-
tional U–13 Championship in 2015. As early
as the 13th move, Saha throws a spanner in
the grandmaster's works and sets the tone
for an all-out-attack game. He refuses to back
away his threatened knight and brings the
other knight into the fray. As expected by the
GM, Saha makes a mistake in the early part
of the endgame when he voluntarily surren-
ders his rook for a knight. Then he fights with
great determination helped by a natural un-
derstanding of the endgame to score a great
victory. In this tournament he impressed by
scoring 1.5 points from the 3 GMs he played
and 2.5 from the 5 IMs he met. Enjoy! 1.e4
c5 2.d3 Nc6 3.g3 g6 4.Bg2 Bg7 5.f4 d6
6.Nh3 Nf6 7.0–0! Bg4 8.Qe1 Nd4 9.Rf2
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Qd7 10.Qf1 h5 11.Ng5?! [Just following
the general principles of the game, is often
sufficient to unnerve an ambitious young
opponent. Here, the veteran grandmaster
no doubt lets his youthful opponent all the
play, hoping that he would eventually go
astray. Better was to throw back the knight
from its central perch and develop his own
pieces with: 11.c3! Nc6 12.Nd2³] 11...h4
12.gxh4 Rxh4 13.c3 [#] 13...Nh5!? [13...
Nc6 would leave a small advantage for black,
but black is looking for more, come what
may!] 14.cxd4 Bxd4 15.Nd2 [15.Nc3 f6
16.Nf3 Bxf3 17.Bxf3 Nxf4 18.Bxf4 Rxf4
19.Qg2 g5= Black has an edge.] 15...Nxf4
16.Ndf3 Bxf3 17.Nxf3 Bxf2+ 18.Qxf2
Nh3+ 19.Bxh3 Rxh3 Black is better as he
has the equivalent of a rook and two pawns
for a knight and bishop. 20.Bf4 [If 20.Ng5
Qg4+ 21.Kh1 Qd1+ 22.Kg2 Rxd3! 23.Qxf7+
Kd7 and black's second rook will quickly
join in the attack against white's exposed
king.] 20...Qg4+ 21.Bg3 f5 22.exf5 gxf5
23.Nd2 The only way to prevent f5-f4
winning the bishop. 23...e5 24.Qf3 Qxf3
25.Nxf3 Probably the veteran thought
that the exchange of queens would make
his task of salvaging the game easy. But
he is mistaken. 25...Kd7 26.Kg2 Rh5
27.h4 Rg8 28.Ng5 Rhxg5? [Is what the
grandmaster had hoped, happening?
Black unwisely gives back the exchange
for just one pawn and a slightly better
position. With the king-side firmly under
his control, he should explore the queen-
side with 28...b5 ] 29.hxg5 Rxg5 30.Kf3
Rg4= For his bishop minus, black has
three pawns but the game is now very
difficult to win. 31.b3 Ke6 32.Rh1 Rg7
33.Rh6+ Kd5 34.Rf6 f4 35.Bf2 b5 36.Rf8
Rh7 37.Ra8 Rc7 38.Bg1 Rg7 39.Bf2 Rh7
40.Rd8 Kc6 41.Ra8 Kb7 42.Rd8 Kc7
43.Ra8 Kc6 44.Rc8+ Kd5 45.Ra8 b4 [#]
46.Rd8? [46.Ke2 or 46, Kg2 would have
kept the draw. The white rook should con-
tinue surveillance of the a7 pawn so that the
black rook is chained to its defence.] 46...
Rh1 47.Rd7 Rd1 48.Ke2 Rb1 49.Rxa7
Rb2+ 50.Ke1 [If 50.Kf3 Rd2 51.Ra8 Rxd3+
52.Ke2 e4] 50...f3 51.Bh4 [White thinks
that if he moves his bishop away from the
second rank, his chances of saving the game
would be better. Better was: 51.Ra8 Re2+
52.Kf1 Rd2 53.Bg1 Rxd3 54.Ke1 Rc3] 51...
Re2+ 52.Kd1 Rh2–+ 53.Bg3 Rg2! 54.Bh4
Kd4! In the endgame the king is a fighting
piece and should be used aggressively as
here. 55.Rd7 d5 56.Ke1 Ke3!! 57.Kf1
[57.Rxd5?? Rg1#] 57...Rxa2 58.Bg5+
[58.Rxd5 Ra1+ 59.Be1 f2 60.Rxe5+ Kd4!
61.Re4+ Kxd3 and white cannot survive the
double threat to his rook and bishop.] 58...
Kd4 59.Bh4 Ra1+ 60.Kf2 [#]
Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron
60...Rd1! Black plays the ending beautiful-
ly. 61.Kxf3 Rxd3+ 62.Ke2 Rxb3 63.Rg7 Kc4
64.Bf6 d4! 65.Re7 [65.Bxe5?? Re3+ wins the
bishop.] 65...Re3+ 66.Kf2 b3! 0–1
Gajwa,Ankit (FM MP) (2263) Karthikey-
an,P (IM Rly) (2457) [C96]
P.Karthikeyan is a Tamil Nadu IM playing for
the Railways. With a rating of 2457 he is try-
ing to get Grandmaster norms to become a
GM. FIDE Master Ankit Gajwa is an upcoming
player from Madhya Pradesh which does not
have many chess heroes and till the recent
advent of the Bhopal International Open,
not many great tournaments. Naturally, in
this game Karthikeyan is looking for an easy
victory over Gajwa and, out of the opening,
Gajwa indeed gives much hopes for the IM.
However, Gajwa plays his own brand of ac-
tive, aggressive chess and downs the GM as-
pirant. This was Karthikeyan's only defeat in
this tournament. 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5
a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.0–0 Be7 6.Re1 b5 7.Bb3
d6 8.c3 0–0 9.h3 Na5 10.Bc2 c5 11.d4
Nd7 12.Nbd2 exd4 13.cxd4 Re8 14.Nf1
Nc6 15.d5N Nce5 16.N3h2 He plans to kick
the Ne5 away with f2-f4. 16...Bh4 17.g3 Bf6
18.f4 Nc4 19.Rb1 Bd4+ 20.Kg2 f5?! [This
move was no doubt inspired by white's un-
orthodox play, moving his king-side pawns
as a wave. Better was: 20...g6= ] 21.Nf3
Bf6 22.exf5 Bb7
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[#] 23.Re6! Well played! White has a good
idea of what he wants to achieve in the
next few moves. 23...Nf8 24.g4?! [White
is in the mood for a romantic attack.
However, 24.Rxe8! Qxe8 25.g4± gives
white many winning options.] 24...Nxe6
25.fxe6 Bd4! Black goes to work imme-
diately to capture d5 and then e6. White
could have overlooked this defensive
plan. 26.b3 Nb6 27.Qd3! g6 28.Nxd4
Nxd5 29.Nf3 Qf6 [If 29...Rxe6 30.f5
Nb4 31.Qd1 Nxc2 32.fxe6 Nd4] 30.f5
gxf5 31.Qxf5 [Or 31.gxf5 Nb4 32.Qd2
Nxc2 33.Qxc2 Rxe6 34.Ng3 Rf8 35.Kh2
Bxf3 36.fxe6 Qxe6 37.Bb2±] 31...Qxf5
32.Bxf5 [Also playable was: 32.gxf5
Nb4 33.Rb2 Nxc2 34.Rxc2 Be4 35.Ne3!!
Bxc2 36.Nxc2+-] 32...Nc7 33.Kf2 Nxe6
34.Ng3 [Much stronger was: 34.Ng5!!
Nxg5 35.Bxg5 Be4 36.Rd1!+-] 34...Bxf3
35.Kxf3 Nd4+ 36.Kf2 Nxf5 37.Nxf5
Re4 38.Be3
[#] 38...c4 [If 38...Rae8 39.Rd1 R8e6
40.Kf3 R4e5 41.Bf2±] 39.Nxd6 Re6
40.Nf5 cxb3 41.axb3 h5 42.Rd1 hxg4
43.hxg4 a5 44.Rd7 Rc8?? Black blun-
ders, just as white begins to weave a mat-
ing net against his king. 45.Ne7+ 1–0
Grahesh,Y (AP) (1992) Vaibhav,Suri
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(GM Del) (2590) [A22]
Vaibhav Suri, born 1997, became a grand-
master in 2012 at 15, the same age as
Fischer when he became a GM completing
three GM norms. In 2012 he also won the
National U–17 Championship. His oppo-
nent Y.Grahesh, born in 2000, is from AP
and is three years younger. He won the
National U-7 in 2007 and the U-9 in 2009.
Though at present he is far, far from the
IM rating of 2400, he gives an almost
equal fight to the Delhi grandmaster. En-
joy this thrilling game! 1.c4 e5 2.Nc3
Nf6 3.g3 d5 4.cxd5 Nxd5 5.Bg2 Nb6
6.d3 Be7 7.a3 0–0 8.b4 Nc6 9.Nf3 Be6
10.0–0 a5 11.b5 Nd4 12.Nxd4 exd4
13.Na4 Bd5 14.Bh3 Re8 15.Bb2 c5
16.bxc6 Bxc6 17.Nxb6 Qxb6 18.Rb1
Qb5 19.Bg2 Bxg2 20.Kxg2 Qd5+
21.Kg1 Bc5 22.Qd2 b6 23.Rbc1 Re6
This is the key move in black's attack on
white's castled position. 24.Rfe1 Rae8
25.Rc2 h5!
[#] [There is yet another way of attacking
white's castled position, using the pieces
instead of the pawns which could per-
chance bring his king under threat.. Here,
the alternative is: 25...Rh6!? 26.h4 Rf6
27.Qg5 Rf5 28.Qd2 Qd6 29.Rb1 Re3!!
threatening both ....Rxg3+ and also ....
Rxf2.] 26.h4 This is forced for otherwise
black is going to advance h5-h4-h3. 26...
Rg6 27.Qf4 Rg4 28.Qc7 g5 [Somewhat
stronger was: 28...Re6 29.Bc1 Reg6
30.Bg5 f6 31.f3! fxg5 32.fxg4 gxh4
33.Qc8+ Kh7 34.Qf5 Qxf5 35.gxf5
Rxg3+ 36.Kh1 Bxa3µ White has ample
compensation for his exchange sacrifice.]
29.hxg5 h4! 30.Bc1! [If 30.Kh2 hxg3+
31.fxg3 Bd6 32.e4 dxe3–+] 30...h3!
31.f3 Bd6! Now all the black forces are
focused on the white king. 32.Qc6 Rxg3+
33.Kh1 Qe5 Threat 34....Rxf3! for 35....
Qh2# 34.f4 White is putting up a great re-
sistance. Material is level but the balooned
up king-side pawns of white and a black
rook on g3 mean danger is around the
corner for white. 34...Qe7 [34...Qe6 was
better.] 35.Rg1 Rxg1+ 36.Kxg1 Rb8?!
[He places the rook in a safe square as
he wishes to move his queen. Better was:
36...Qe6 ] 37.a4 Qe6 [#]
38.Qf3 [White misses the strongest de-
fence: 38.Qe4! Qg4+ 39.Kh2 b5 40.g6!
Qxg6 (40...fxg6 41.Rc6 Rd8 42.axb5 Kf7
43.Qd5+ Ke7=) 41.Qxg6+ fxg6 42.Rc6
Bb4=] 38...Qb3! 39.Rc6? [Better was:
39.Qc6 Bc5–+ 40.Rd2 Bb4 41.Rb2 Qd1+
42.Kh2³] 39...Qd1+ 40.Kh2 [40.Kf2??
h2!] 40...Re8!–+ [#]
41.Qxh3 [If 41.g6 Rxe2+ 42.Kxh3 Re3!!]
Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron
41...Qxe2+ 42.Qg2 Qxd3! 43.Rc2 [43.
Rxd6?? Re2–+] 43...Qf5 44.Rf2 Kg7!
Black tries to get at the white king through
the h-file. 45.Qf3 Bc5 [Faster was: 45...
Rh8+! 46.Kg2 Rh4–+] 46.Bd2 Rh8+
47.Kg1 [If 47.Kg2 Qh7!! for 48....Qh1+
mating.] 47...Rh3 48.Qa8 Qg4+! 49.Kf1
Qd1+ 50.Be1 Re3! Now it is totally, to-
tally lost. 51.Kg2 Rxe1 0–1
It is a well known phenomenon that
the same amateur who can conduct
the middle game quite creditably, is
usually perfectly helpless in the end
game. One of the principal requisites of
good chess is the ability to treat both
the middle and end game equally well.
How vain are our fears! I thought to
myself. Sometimes we fear that which
our opponent (or fate) had never even
considered! After this, then, is it any
longer worthwhile to rack one’s brain
to find new ghosts to fear? No, indeed:
All hail optimism! - upon playing Her-
manis Mattison after he overlooked an
unusual knight manouevre.
Chess strategy as such today is still in
its diapers, despite Tarrasch’s state-
ment ‘We live today in a beautiful
time of progress in all fields’. Not even
the slightest attempt has been made
to explore and formulate the laws of
chess strategy.
Giving up the center must not here be
regarded as illogical. Was happiness
no happiness because it endured for
just a short time? One cannot always
be happy.
- Aron Nimzowitsch
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 Tactics from master games Test your endgame
by S.Krishnan by C.G.S.Narayanan

Genrykh Kasparyan1959 A.Kopnin 1959

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

Roger Misiaen 1959 Genrykh Kasparyan 1959

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

Dr.Jindrich Fritz 1961 A.Gurvich 1960

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

(solutions on p.47) White to play and win in all the six endings above
(Solution on page 47)

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Masters of the past-96 Malik Mir Sultan Khan
14th AICFB National “A” Chess Championship 2019, Nagpur
Malik Mir Sultan Khan (1905 – 1966) was the strongest chess master of his
time from Asia. He was a manservant from British India who travelled with
his master, Colonel Nawab Sir Umar Hayat Khan, to Britain, where he took the
chess world by storm.
In an international chess career of less than five years (1929–33), he won the
British Chess Championship three times in four tries (1929, 1932, 1933), and
had tournament and match results that put him among the top ten players in
the world. Sir Umar then brought him back to his homeland, where he gave
up chess and returned to his humble life. He has been called "perhaps the greatest natural
player of modern times". He was generally recognised as a grandmaster, but when FIDE took
over control of chess, he was forgotten. At the FIDE 1948 meeting, a number of former players
were given retrospective titles, but not Khan.

Sultan Khan learned the Indian form of chess from his father at the age of nine. This was a form
of chess which was similar to modern chess, but still had some features of the old Arabic chess.
The main feature was that pawns did not move two squares on their first move. Therefore, the
role of opening theory was less important, and games developed more slowly.
Standing (L-R):IA Pravin Pantwane,Sri Balchandra Joshi, Sri Swapnil Shah, Dr Manish
By the time Sultan Khan was 21 he was the strongest player in the Punjab. At that time, Sir Thool,Sri Dilip Pagay,Manoj Itkelwar,IM Anup Deshmukh, IA Manjunatha M
Umar took him into his household with the idea of teaching him the European version of the Sitting(L-R) Kishan Gangolli, Patra Subhendu, Aryan B Joshi, Krishna Udupa
game and introducing him to European master chess. In 1928, he won the all-India champi-
onship, scoring eight wins, one draw, and no losses. 4th DDCA All India FIDE Rated below 1600,Hubballi, Karnataka
After some training with British masters, Khan entered the British Chess Championship. To
everyone's surprise, he won. Next year, in May 1930, Sultan Khan began an international chess
career in which he defeated many of the world's leading players. His best results were second to
Savielly Tartakower at Liège 1930; third at the Hastings International Chess Congress 1930–31
behind future World Champion Max Euwe and former World Champion José Raúl Capablanca;
fourth at Hastings 1931–32; fourth at Bern 1932; and a tie for third with at London 1932, be-
hind World Champion Alexander Alekhine and Salo Flohr.

Sultan Khan again won the British Championship in 1932 and 1933. In matches he defeated
Tartakower in 1931 and narrowly lost to Flohr in 1932.

Sultan Khan played three times on first board for England at Chess Olympiads. At the 3rd Chess
Olympiad, Hamburg 1930, he scored nine wins, four draws, and four losses (64.7%). At the
4th Chess Olympiad, Prague 1931, he faced a much stronger field. He had an outstanding re-
sult, scoring eight wins, seven draws, and two losses (67.6%). This included wins against Flohr
and Akiba Rubinstein, and draws with Alekhine, Kashdan, Ernst Grünfeld, Gideon Ståhlberg,
and Efim Bogolyubov. In December 1933, Sir Umar took him back to India. In 1935, he won
a match against V.K. Khadilkar, yielding just one draw in ten games. After that, he was never (L-R ) Vinay Kurtkoti, Secretary, Dharwad District Chess Association, Aravind Shastry, CEO, UKA, GM Stany
heard of by the chess world again. G A, Priyan RS, Rakesh N, Abhishek Patil, Dr Ch PSV Prasad, Srikrishna Udupa, Mangalvedkar
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 Solutions to ‘Tactics from master games’
1st JJ Trophy All India Open FIDE Rating Rapid and Blitz Tournament Indore, Madhya Pradesh on page 42
by S.Krishnan
1.Gordon,S (2544)Ris,R (2450) Daventry
ENG Daventry ENG (2.7), 11.11.2018
Black to play. 24...Nxg3! 25.hxg3 Qxg3+ 26.Kh1
Rxc1 27.Qxc1 [27.Rxc1 Rxe3 28.Rg1 (28.Bxd5
Bxf4–+) 28...Qf2 29.Qd1 (29.Qc1 g6–+) 29...
g6 30.Qc2 Bg2+ 31.Bxg2 Qh4+ 32.Bh3 Rxh3+
33.Kg2 Rh2+ Wins] 27...Bxf4 28.Re2 [28.Qd2
Bg2+ 29.Qxg2 (29.Bxg2 Qh2#) 29...Qxe1+–+]
28...Bg2+ 29.Rxg2 Qh3+ 30.Kg1 Bxe3+ 0–1
2. Sasikiran,Krishnan (2673) Sadhwan-
i,Raunak (2434) [B12]
Sunway Sitges Open 2018 Sitges ESP (6.5),
19.12.2018
White to play. 16.a4! b4 [16...Qc7 17.a5 Qxe5
18.Bxb5+ Nc6 19.a6! Qxg5 20.axb7+-; 16...Qd8
17.Bxb5+] 17.cxb4 Qxb4 [17...Qc7 18.Rc1+-
; 17...Qa8 18.a5 Nc6 19.Qa4+-] 18.a5 Nc6
[18...h6 19.Bb5+ Kd8 20.a6 bxa6 21.Rxa6
Left to Right (Standing) :- Piyush Zamindar, Arjun Tiwari, Hiritik Rajendran, Mraduhas Tripathi, Prasannaa hxg5 22.Qa1! threatening 22.Rd6 Ch 22...Ng8
S, Ritesh Fatechandani. Sitting : - Sanjan Singh Varma, Ramesh Chandwaney, Manohar Dhawan, Kishor 23.Nc6+ Rxc6 24.Rxc6 Qxb5 25.Qa8+ Kd7 (25...
Fatechandani, Anil Fatechandani (Center), Mrs. Nutan Gawande. Winner Rapid and Blitz Rating Chess Ke7 26.Qa7+ Kd8 27.Qc7+ Ke8 28.Qc8+ Ke7
29.Rc7+) 26.Qc8+ Ke7 27.Rc7+] 19.Ra4! Qb2
Tournament Prasannaa S of Tamilnadu
20.a6! Nxd4? [20...Bc5 21.axb7 Qxb7 22.Ba6
Qb8 23.Bxc8 Nxd4 (23...Qxc8 24.Nxc6 Qxc6
19th North Eastern States Fide Rating Chess Championship, Sikkim 25.Qb3 0–0 26.Rc1+-) 24.Rxd4 0–0 25.Ba6 Qxe5
26.Be3+-] 21.Qxd4 Ba3 [21...Qxd4 22.Bb5+ Rc6
23.axb7+-] 22.Qxb2 Bxb2 23.Bb5+ Kf8 24.axb7
Rb8 25.Ra8 Bxe5 26.Rxb8+ Bxb8 27.Rc1 1–0
3. Esipenko,Andrey (2584) Saduakassova,D
(2472) [C42]
81st Tata Steel GpB Wijk aan Zee NED (12.7),
26.01.2019
White to play. 22.Rde1! Nd7 [22...Ke7 23.g6
Kd7 24.gxf7+-; 22...Kg8 23.Bf4 Qd7 24.Qh5
Kf8 25.Qh8+ Ke7 26.Qxg7 Wins; 22...Bc7 23.g6
f6 24.Qh3 Bg8 25.Qh8 (Idea 26.Bh6) 25...Rxe1
26.Rxe1 Qb4 27.c3 Wins; 22...Nc4 23.Rh8+ Ke7
24.Bxe6 fxe6 25.g6 Kd7 26.Rxe8 Na3+ 27.bxa3
Qb6+ 28.Ka1 Bf6+ 29.Qxf6 gxf6 30.Rxa8 Qxf2
31.g7 Qxe1 32.Kb1 Wins] 23.Rh8+ Ke7 24.Rxe6+
[24.Rxe6+ fxe6 25.Rxe8+ Kf7 (25...Kxe8 26.Bg6+
Ke7 27.Qf7#) 26.Qh5+ g6 27.Qxg6#] 1–0
4. Maze,S (2596)
Gutierrez Olivares,D (2320) [B23]
Gibraltar Masters 2019 Caleta ENG (1.38),
22.01.2019
(From Left to right) :Chief Arbiter IA Dharmendra Kumar , Chief Guest B K Roka , President , Sikkim White to play. 11.Nd5! exd5 [11...Nxd5 12.exd5
Olympic Association , Rakesh Gurung , (first runner up )Rahul Gurung(Champion),Rahul Soram Singh(2nd e5 13.Bd2 a5 (13...Be7 14.Nf5‚) 14.Nb5 Qd7
runner up) and Mahendra Dhakal , Hony Secretary , Sikkim Chess Association. Rank Name Rtg Club (14...Qb6 15.c4+-) 15.f4‚] 12.exd5+ Kd8
46
[12...Kd7 13.Bg5 Qc4 (13...Be7 14.Nf5; 13...
h6 14.Bxf6 gxf6 15.Qe2‚) 14.c3 b3 (14...bxc3
15.Rc1+-) 15.Bxf6 gxf6 16.Qg4+ Kc7 17.Ne6+
fxe6 18.Qxc4+] 13.Bg5 Be7 [13...Nbd7 14.c3+-
; 13...h6 14.Bxf6+ gxf6 15.Qe2 Bg7 16.Nf5+-]
14.Nf5 Re8 15.Nxg7 Rg8 16.Qd4 Nbd7 17.Rxe7
Kxe7 18.Nf5+ Kf8 19.Bxf6+- 1–0
5. Vidit,S (2702) - Mamedyarov,S (2817)
[D02]
Tata Steel India Blitz Kolkata IND (12.2),
14.11.2018
Black to play. 20...dxc2 [More convincing is 20...
Qa4 21.Nb3 Qc4 22.Na1 (22.Rd2 Nxb3+) 22...
Bxe4 23.Qd2 (23.Rd2 Rxd8) 23...Qa2–+] 21.Kxc2
Qd3+ 22.Kc1 Bxe4 23.Qxe4 Nxe4 24.Rh3 [24.
Nxe4 Qc4+ 25.Nc3 Rxd8–+ 26.Rxd8+ Kxd8–+]
24...Qe2 25.Nxe4 Rxd8 26.Rxd8+ Kxd8–+ 0–1
6. Srinath,R (2357) Ghannoum,M (2280)
[C55]
FSGM November 2018 Budapest HUN (2.1),
04.11.2018
White to play. 20.Qxe5! Bxe5 21.Nxe5 Qf6 [21...
Kg8 22.hxg4 hxg4 23.Nxg4+-] 22.hxg4 Re8 [22...
hxg4 23.Nxg4 Qg5 24.Ne5+-; 22...Rf8 23.Re2+-]
23.g5 Qf5 24.Nf3+- White won in 41 moves. 1–0
Solutions to ‘Test your endgame’ on p.43
1.G.Kasparyan, 2 Pr,Tidkrift KNSB 1959
1.a6 Nb6 2.a7 Na8 3.Rb8 Ba1 4.Ke2 Kc6
5.Kd3 Kc5 6.Ke3 Kc6 7.Ke4 Nc7 8.Rc8 Kb7
9.Rxc7+ Ka8 10.Kd5 Bf6 11.Kc4 Bg5 12.Kb5
Be3 13.Ka6
2. A.Kopnin,I prize, New Statesman 1959
1.Rb4+ Ka5 2.Rf4 Be6 3.Rf6 Bd7 4.Rd6 Be6
5.Rc6 Ka4 6.Nd4 Bf7 7.Rb6 Be8 8.Rb8 Bd7
9.Rb7 Bc8 10.Rc7 Ba6 11.Rc6 Bd3 12.Rc3 Bf1
13.Rc1 Bd3 14.Kc3
3.Roer Missiaen,I Pr, Tidkrift KNSB 1959
1.h7 Bb2 2.Ra7 Bc2 3.Ra2 Bxh7 4.Rxb2 Kh3
5.Rb6 Kg2 6.Rd6 Kf1 7.Ke3 Kg2 8.Rd5 Bb1
9.Rb5 Bh7 10.Rg5+ Kf1 11.Rh5 Bg6 12.Rh6 Be8
13.Kf3 Kg1 14.Kg3 Kf1 15.Rf6+ Kg1 16.Re6
4. G.Kasparyan,Shakmati 1959
1.Be6+ Kb1 2.Kh5 Kc2 3.Rc8+ Kd1 4.Bg4+
Ke1 5.Bf5 Kd1 6.Bc2 Kc1 7.Bb3+ Kb1 8.Be6
Ka1 9.Ta8+ Kb1 10.Ra5 Kc2 11.Rc5+ Kd1
12.Bg4+ Ke1 13.Bf5 Kd1 14.Bc2+ Kc1 15.Bd3+
Kd1 16.Rxg5+
5.Dr.J. Fritz, I pr,Svobodne slovo,1961
1.Bh1 Rxh1 2.a8Q Rd1 3.Qh1 Rxh1 4.a7 Rd1
5.a8Q+Kb5 6.Qb8+
6.A.Gurvich,1960
1.Rab6 Qa8 2.Rc8+ Qxc8 3.Rb3 Qa8 4.Re3+
Kd8 5.Kf8
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Solution to ‘Puzzle of the month’ on page 19 : From the diagram it is seen that white has
moved last and so it is black’s turn to move and white mates in one.1…Kxa7 2.b8N;1…Kxc7
2.bxa8N and 1…Rxa7 2.Rc8
Solution to problem for solving in ‘Model mates’ on page 29: Key: 1.Bg7! (2.Bxa1 Category C: Bharat Singh Chauhan, Mr Chadda, Advocate, Supreme court, Rishi R, Mr Satyajit
3.Qg7) 1…Bxg7 2.Qe6+ Kf8 3.Qe8 Sanskrit, Administrator, Indira Gandhi Indoor Stadium, New Delhi, Bir Kumar, Nischay Sharma
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Levan Pantsulaia of Georgia receiving the trophy from Bharat Singh, Honorary Secretary, AICF

Category A: GM Mosadeghpour Masoud (Iran), Mr Chadda, Advocate, Supreme Court, Bharat

Singh Chauhan, GM Pantsulaia Levan, Georgia, GM Stupak Kirill (Belarus)