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

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Candidates 2018, Berlin

AICFB 13th National ‘A’ Chess Championship for the blind, Mumbai

GM Fabiano Caruana Winner

Kishan Gangolli Winner

Fifth title in a row!

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The second edition of Dalmia Cements All India Open FIDE Rating Chess Tournament 2018, organized by All Jharkhand Chess Association was held at Sarala Birla Public School, Mahilong from 26th to 31st March 2018. At the inaugural function the chief guest Manish Ranjan IAS Secretary, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sports & Youth Affairs Depart-ment, Govt. of Jharkhand inaugurated the tournament. Pradip Varma President AJCA & School Head Personnel & Admin, Pritam Sin-gh, CEO AJCA, Navjot Singh Alang, Secretary, RDCA, Paramjit Kaur, Principal SBPS and IM N.K. Mishra, Secretary AJCA also witnessed the opening ceremony.

Total 210 players from the various parts of the country including one Grand Master, one International Master and one Candi-date Master participated in the tournament played under swiss system and FIDE rules. The tournament having prize pool of Rs. 2, 00,000/- was played over 10 rounds in cat-egories unrated, rating from 1001 to 1300, from 1301 to 1600, from 1601 to 1900 and Veteran 60+ along with the main category.

From the first to the fourth round all the seeded players won their games easily but in the fifth round top seed IM Aragyadip Das was held at draw by 6th seed Shrutarshi Ray. In the sixth round IM Aragyadip Das split the point with CM Aronyak Gosh at second, third and fourth boards were also drawn while at the top board GM Saptarashi Roy Chowdhary bagged full point against kaustuv Kundu and attained sole lead with 6 points and main-tained the lead till eighth round by splitting the point in two consecutive rounds. In the

penultimate round GM Saptarashi Roy Chow-dhary again played a draw with IM Aragyadip Das while CM Aronyak Gosh, kaustuv Kundu and Arpan Das grabbed full point against their opponents and joined the lead with GM Saptarashi Roy Chowdhary with 7.5 points each. In the tenth and final round CM Aron-yak Gosh split the point with kaustuv Kundu while Arpan Das had a stunning victory over GM Saptarashi Roy Chowdhary to clinch the championship with 8.5 points to his credit. Although CM Aronyak Gosh, kaustuv Kundu, Shrutarshi Ray, IM Aragyadip Das, Priyanka Kumari and Routary Priyanka scored 8 points each but due to tie breaks score they stood from second to seventh respectively.

In the category unrated Tirth Shresth, in the category 1001 to 1300 Pradhan Anubhav, in the category 1301 to 1600 Ankit Kumar Singh, in the category 1601 to 1900 Debata Sarthak, in the category under 7 Boys Kush Mundhra, in Under 7 Girls Yashica Prerna Dadle, in the category under 9 Boys Panda Hrishikesh, in Under 9 Girls Advika Das, in the category under 11 Boys Ishant Kumar, in Under 11 Girls Arpita Kumari, in the category under 13 Boys Shounak Mazumder, in Under 13 Girls Marium Fatima, in the category under 15 Boys Sathwik Shivananda P.S, in Under 15 Girls Bhavya Verma and in veteran category Nihar Ranjan Banerjee were the winners.At the prize distribution function Chief Guest Sunil kumar Barnwal (IAS) Chief Secretary, CM Jharkhand distributed the cash prizes and trophies to the winners. Guest of Honour Rajiv Kumar Sinha, Deputy Manager Dalmia Cements, R.K. Singh, Registrar Sarla Birla University) Suresh Nath Naron (Secretary

2nd Dalmia Cements All India Open FIDE Rating Chess Tournament 2018

Arpan Das emerges Championby Hemant Sharma FA,Chief Arbiter

Inside……2nd Dalmia Cements FIDE Rating Tmt

Arpan Das emerges Champion

by Hemant Sharma FA,Chief Arbiter 1

16th KCA Open Fide Rated Tmt,Kottayam

Ram S Krishnan wins title

by L.R.Bhuvanaa Sai IA, Chief Arbiter 6

Maharashtra State Rapid and Blitz Selection

Nubairshah Shaikh and Om Kharola win titles

by Vitthal Madhav IA, Chief Arbiter 9

30th WB State U-11 Open & Girls Ch’ships, Kolkata

Alekhya Mukhopadhyay and

Sinthia Sarkar win titles

by Asit Baran Choudhury IA,Chief Arbiter 12

2nd Holi Cup Lakecity Open

FIDE Rating Tmt, Udaipur

FM Sauravh Kherdekar Wins at Udaipur

by IA Swapnil Bansod,Chief Arbiter 16

Puzzle of the month by C.G.S.Narayanan 20

Children Chess Festival 2018,

Cuddalore-A report

by IA Balaraman S , Chief Arbiter 21

Selected games from Delhi Open and

National Team Chess Championships

Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron 27

Problem World by C.G.S.Narayanan 41

Tactics fro master games

by S.Krishnan 42

Test your endgame

by C.G.S.Narayanan 43

Masters of the past-87-Raul Sanguineti 44

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From the Editor’s deskI tal ian-American grandmaster Fabiano Caruana, Winner of the Candidates Tournament 2018 at Berlin, is all set to challenge the reigning Champion Magnus Carlsen for the World title in London later this

year. Needing only a draw in the final round the Miami-born Caruana won with black pieces over Russia’s Alexander Grischuk to finish a clear first by a full point in the eight player double round robin Candidates.

India’s domination in Asian Youth Chess 2018 at Thailand was complete with a rich haul of 35 gold medals in Team and Individual events combined in all the three formats Classical, Rapid and Blitz to stand out as the most powerful chess country in Asia way ahead of the second placed Vietnam team which won 17 gold medals. Detailed reports with photographs will be featured in the next issue.

To keep pace with the ever growing Indian chess the need for quality arbiters and trainers was felt in order to take care of the increasing number of rated tournaments and players. The All India Chess Federation and FIDE Arbiters’ Commission with the support of Government of India's Ministry of Youth Affairs & Sports successfully organized a FIDE Arbiter's Seminar which was held at Manali, Himachal Pradesh and a FIDE Trainer seminar at Mohali, Punjab during March 2018.Reports on these two events are featured in the centre pages of this issue.

Selected games from Delhi Open and National Team Chess Championships held at Bhubaneswar annotated by IM Manuel Aaron are also presented in this issue. A pen portrait of Argentine Grandmaster Raul Sanguineti is featured in the ‘Masters of the past’ series.

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DDCA), Paramjeet Kaur (Principal Sarla Birla Public School), Pritam Singh (CEO AJCA ) IM Neeraj Mishra ( Secretary AJCA) were also present at the function. Final standings: Rk Name Pts1 Arpan Das 8½2 CM Aronyak Ghosh 83 Kaustuv Kundu 84 Shrutarshi Ray 85 IM Das Arghyadip 86 Priyanka Kumari 87 Routray Priyanka 88 GM Roy Chowdhury Saptarshi 7½9 Chakrabarti Tamal 7½10 Rupam Mukherjee 7½11 Biswal Sagar 7½12 Verma Sanjay 713 Mohanty Soyamsree 714 Siddhant Nath Jha 715 Kamal Kishore Debnath 716 Ankit Kumar Singh 717 Debata Sarthak 718 Abhirup Das 719 Kumar Utkarsh 720 Pradhan Anubhav 721 Swapnil Raj 722 Nihar Ranjan Banerjee 723 Marium Fatima 724 Shounak Mazumder 725 Aniruddh Chatterjee 6½26 Sudhakar Prem Dutt 6½27 Raja Bose 6½28 Abhay Narayan Tiwari 6½29 AIM Sathwik Shivananda P.S 6½30 Debanjan Ghosh 6½31 Mantosh Kumar 6½32 Nayak Satyam 6½33 Adreeja Sinha 6½34 Pratyush Kumar 6½35 Pramit Chanda 6½36 Lokesh Kumar 6½37 Tirth Shresth 6½38 Raj Aryan 6½39 Bakrewal Vinamra 6½

40 Atri Chakraborty 6½41 Ankush Kumar Singh 6½42 Nitin Kumar 6½43 Biranchi Kumar Sinha 6½44 Mukherjee Sanchit 645 Amit Paswan 646 Bhavya Verma 647 Dhritabrata Kundu 648 Supratim Ghosh 649 Priyangshu Gupta Bhaya 650 Rohit kumar 651 Singh Rishi 652 Panda Hrishikesh 653 Prateeti Gorai 654 Shruti Shreya 655 Banerjee Abhradeep 656 Sunil Kumar Singh 657 Ishant Kumar 658 Kundu Uttam 659 Sayon Kundu 660 Sayam Chakraborty 661 Aryaman V Verma 662 Yamijala Koulini 663 Om Narayan Bhuyan 664 Manauar Hussain 665 Amrit Sajan 666 Santanu Gupta Bhaya 667 Prem Kumar 668 Roushan Kumar 669 Deobrat Singh 5½70 Avinash Mishra 5½71 Prakhar Alok Chaudhary 5½72 Vivek Anand Chaudhary 5½73 Shaswata Paul 5½74 Barnwal Dhriti 5½75 Vikash Kumar Mehta 5½76 Bhanu Prakash Narayan 5½77 Aloukik Jaiswal 5½78 Shailesh Kumar 5½79 Mitra Subhanil 5½80 Verma Balkrishn 5½81 Gupta Saroj Prasad 5½82 Dev Anoop Kr Singh 5½83 Rishav Kumar 5½84 Kumar Aswini 5½

KNOW YOUR IM Nihal Sarin Nihal Sarin is a 13-year old chess prodigy from Thrissur, Kerala, India. He holds the title of International Master with two grandmaster norms and a rating of 2551. He is ranked No. 1 in the world in the under-14 category.

Nihal was born on 13 July 2004 at Thrissur. He started playing competitive chess as a seven-year-old in the middle of 2011. Nihal was formally taught chess by Mathew P. Joseph Pottoore, the school’s chess coach who instructed once a week in the beginning and later became the most influential person in Nihal's early chess development.

Nihal’s first big break came at the World Youth Chess Championship in the Under-10 category, which was held in Durban, South Africa in September 2014. He scored 9.0/11 to be crowned the Under-10 World Champion. For this achievement, he was conferred the Candidate Master title by FIDE. Right after his World Youth success in 2014, Nihal scored his first victory over a titled player IM Jonathan Westerberg of Sweden at the World Junior Championship 2014 in Pune, India.

In 2015, he won the silver medal in the Under-12 category of World Youth Chess Champion-ship at Greece starting as the 28th seed among 202 participants from 73 countries. In the last rounds of the tournament, Nihal successively defeated the top two seeds of his category: IM Awonder Liang in round seven, and FM NodirbekAbdusattorov (rated 2432) in round eight. He was conferred the FIDE Master title by the FIDE in the same year as he had crossed live Elo rating of 2300.

In February 2016, Nihal played his first International Open outside India, the prestigious Cappelle la Grande Open and registered his first International Master norm. In the process, he defeated a grandmaster for the first time in his career.At the Sunway Sitges Open 2016, Nihal registered his second International Master norm by scoring 5.5/9.His third International Norm was regis-tered in the Aeroflot Open 2017 held in February, where Nihal scored 5.5/9 as well, performing at 2539, to cross the 2400-mark and become an International Master. He scored his maiden Grand Master norm at the TV2 Fagernes International 2017,Norway.

In December 2017, at the World Youth Olympiad at Ahmedabad, Nihal played for India Green, helping the country secure a Silver medal. He also won an Individual Gold on board three. In 2017, Nihal increased his rating by 192 elo points to cross 2500 in rating with several grand-master scalps to his name. At Reykjavik Open 2018 held in March, Nihal scored 6.0/9 with a rating performance of 2668 to score his second GM norm.

Nihal is coached by E.P. Nirmal from 2013 on a regular basis, helping him develop from a raw talent to a rising player.Since 2016, Nihal began working independently on his game. He is occasionally coached by Ukrainian GM Dimitri Komarov from 2014 and GM Srinath Narayanan from 2016 until the present day. His early favourite was Alexander Alekhine.

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(L-R) Naresh Krishna S, Arbiter, Shaji P M,Secretaty, Alleppy, Govindan kutty M S,Secretary, Palakkad, Mr. Vijayakumar,Secretary, Pathanamthitta, Champion Ram S Krishnan ,BSNL receives the award from Rajesh Nattakom ,Secretary, Chess Association Kerala, Ammer, Kannan, Saju Manjaly(Ernakulam), IA Bhuvanaa Sai,Chief Arbiter, V. Rajaraman, Arbiter.

Anbhazhagan, Ezhumalai, Chief Guest, Smt.Shanthi, School admin, Dharamchand Jain School, Karuvambakkam, Mr.G.Karthikeyan, Winner, Balachander, Principal, Mr.Jinraj , chairman and Mr.S.Balaraman IA, Chief Arbiter

Shri Dhakshinamurthy Memorial Intl.FIDE Rated chess tournament,Tindivanam

16th KCA Open Fide Rated Chess Tournament,Kottayam

85 Rishu Raj 5½86 Raunak Gupta 5½87 Sankar Bhattacharya 5½88 Sashank Pandey 5½89 Kumar Ankit 5½90 Arpita Kumari 5½91 Riddhima Singh 5½92 Prince 5½93 Umesh Sona Tanty 594 Ashutosh Kumar 595 Aditya Sinha 596 Abhishek Kumar 597 Sharma Prahlad 598 Samyukta Gade 599 Smriti Rajesh Kumar 5100 Vijay Kumar Singh 5101 Adarsh Kumar 5102 Prabhat Kumar 5103 Ansh Kumar 5104 Ashutosh Bhardwaj 5105 Hardev Sahai 5106 Mrityunjay Choudhary 5107 Swastik Sur 5108 Nikhil Biyani 5109 Jatin Kumar 5110 Manav Daga 5111 Aastha Rani Bhuyan 5112 Ayushman Vats 5113 Gyan Mitra 5114 Advika Das 5115 Harshvi Matalia 5116 Krishna Tulsi 5117 Saumya Anshul 5118 Sahil 5119 Satish Kumar Barnwal 5120 Ankush Raj 4½121 Biplab Chandra Dalal 4½122 Bijay Kumar Sinha 4½123 Harsh Raj Pandey 4½124 Krishna Kumar Saw 4½125 Puspen Kumar Pore 4½126 Komal Kriti 4½127 Aditi Raj 4½128 Bani Kanta Nath 4½129 Shivansh Siddharth 4½

130 Atulya Kumar 4½131 Sachin Anand 4½132 Suraj Kumar Singh 4½133 Shochisha 4½134 Om Chaitanya Sharma 4½135 Pradeep Kumar 4½136 Priyanshu 4½137 Ankit Kumar Krissh 4½138 Omprakash 4½139 Jayshil Mohan Srivastava 4½140 Yash Wardhan Mundhra 4½141 Divya Gupta 4½142 Archit Mittal 4143 Parimi Anil Kumar 4144 Rahul kant 4145 Yogesh Agrawal 4146 Pratibha Singh 4147 Palak Bagla 4148 Advika Mohanty 4149 Ujjwal Saboo 4150 Subhang Raj 4151 Sneh Kumar 4152 Darshit Bagla 4153 Tejal Burman 4154 Naman Gaba 4155 Jiya 4156 Shreyash Jajodia 4157 Luvya Agarwal 4158 Harsh Raj Priyadarshi 4159 Kush Mundhra 4160 Aditya Tanmay Sharma 4161 Yash Raj Agrawal 4162 Vedika Sinha 4163 Ansh Pathak 3½164 Pranamya Adinath 3½165 Anushree Khetan 3½166 Satyam Vasistha 3½167 Aoisikha Mukherjee 3½168 Rutvi Raj 3½169 Debadrita Das 3½170 Manisha Ranjan 3½171 Yogita Bora 3½172 Amit Kumar R 3½173 Hrishik Sinha 3½174 Yashica Prerna Dadle 3½

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KCA’s 16th Open Fide Rated Chess Tour-nament was organized by Kottayam Chess Academy from 29th March to 1st

April 2018 at Mammen Mappillai Hall, Kottay-am. The participation of IM Shyaam Nikhil of ICF, 3 Fide Masters Matta Vinay Kumar, Ramakirshna J from AP and Vinoth Kumar M from TN added beauty to this tournament. A total of 365 players from 4 federations ( Iran, Kenya , USA & India) 3 union territories (Delhi,Goa and Pondicherry) and 10 states (Andhra, Bihar, Haryana,Jharkhand,Karna-taka,Kerala,Maharashtra, Telengana, Tamil-nadu and Uttar Pradesh) participated in the 8 round event.

6 players shared their lead with full points after 5 rounds. Shyaam couldn’t continue his good run in sixth round due to lost on time to Ram S Krishnan of BSNL. Kunal had a win against Bharath Kumar Reddy Poluri on second table. Ram and Kunal were the leaders with 6 points each. Prasaanna, Mat-ta Vinaykumar, Sri Sai Baswanth and S S Manigandan scored 5.5 points each at the end of sixth round. In the clash between Ram and Kunal, Ram conquered the second seeded player Kunal in 36 moves and took sole lead with perfect score of 7 points af-ter the penultimate round. FM Matta Vinay Kumar of Andhra Bank was the only player scored 6.5 points. In the final round Ram S Krishnan, BSNL had a formal draw against Andhra Bank Player FM Matta Vinay Kumar to win the KCA’s 16th Open fide rated Chess Tournament and cash award 50,000 with a beautiful trophy. Matta Vinaykumar secured second place. The tournament concluded in a grand manner with the wonderful co-oper-

ation of the players and parents and with the support of experienced arbiters team.Final standings: Rk Name Pts 1 Ram S. Krishnan 7½ 2 Matta Vinay Kumar FM 7 3 Bharat Kumar Reddy Poluri 7 4 Vinoth Kumar M FM 7 5 Kunal M. 6½ 6 Shyaamnikhil P IM 6½ 7 Marthandan K U 6½ 8 Swaraj Palit 6½ 9 Manigandan S S 6½ 10 Balkishan A. 6½ 11 Vinodh Kumar B. 6½ 12 Abhinessh S 6½ 13 Kabhilan S 6½ 14 Ajith M.P. 6½ 15 Prahalad B 6½ 16 Bhat Sanjay 6½ 17 Prasannaa.S 6 18 Ramakrishna J. FM 6 19 Rohit Ramanan T G 6 20 Vijay Anand M. 6 21 Saranya Y 6 22 Salil Kumar D. 6 23 Mushini Ajay 6 24 Sooraj M R 6 25 Ganesan K. 6 26 Ravi Kumar K 6 27 Senthil Kumaran T.H. 6 28 Suganthan S 6 29 Dhanasekar K. 5½ 30 Dharmaraj P. 5½ 31 Sriram B 5½ 32 Sathya Giri V 5½ 33 Kathiravan M. 5½ 34 Naveen Giri 5½ 35 Aravinth Shanmugam S 5½ 36 Dhanush Ragav 5½ 37 Mohanan U.C. 5½ 38 Hermon Dain Saldanha 5½

39 Harshad S 5½ 40 Avinash Hari 5½ 41 Farhaan M 5½ 42 Tajane Ganesh 5½ 43 Badri Narayan B 5½ 44 Theju K V 5½ 45 Madhusoodanan K.R. 5½ 46 Sibi Visal R 5½ 47 Selvamurugan B 5½ 48 Vishwa Bala Kumaran M 5½ 49 Arul Anandh S P K 5½ 50 Shanjay Krishnaa Sathiskumar 5½ 51 Vaishant Kumar Gangwani 5½ 52 Tejes Suresh Kumar 5½ 53 Raju O A 5½ 54 Binoy Chacko 5½ 55 Srikrishnan P 5½ 56 Navodith V Bhat 5½ 57 Pathrose C.T 5½ 58 Charles J 5½ 59 Yogesh Bharat Mahamuni 5½ 60 Sasikumar N 5½ 61 Bhaskar N S 5½ 62 Mohith R 5½ 63 Muthu Paramaguru M 5½ 64 Yogeshwaran S A 5½ 65 Venkatesan B 5½ 66 M Tulasi Ram Kumar 5½ 67 Sri Sai Baswanth P 5 68 Nithish Muthukumaran 5 69 Vishwanath Kannam 5 70 Phatak Aanjaneya 5 71 Rohan Kailash B 5 72 Gopinath Parthasarathy 5 73 Nawin J J 5 74 Ranjith R.K. 5 75 Sivaa G M 5 76 Suresh Kolavapalli 5 77 Devesh Anand Naik 5 78 Praveen Kamath 5 79 Swarnamala B 5 80 Alwin Biby 5 81 Gabriel B M 5 82 Nijai Giri 5 83 Dharani Srinivas K B 5 84 Sanil S 5 85 Satheesh M 5

86 Muhammed Reja C 5 87 Saket Kumar 5 88 Eldho Skaria 5 89 Prince Mundakayam 5 90 Aswin.P.G 5 91 Susheel Reddy P 5 92 Aravind Matthews A C T 5 93 Kanishk S K 5 94 Sri Santhosh D 5 95 Anil Thungesh 5 96 Dinesh K 5 97 Nishad A 5 98 Borse Pankaj 5 99 Jayasangar T 5 100 Arjun Sidharth S 5 101 Praveen Kumar Gunasekaran 5 102 Bhagwat Heramb 5 103 Sathishkumar L 5 104 Kamble Dipankar 5 105 Sumesh Kabeer 5 106 Sajan Issac 5 107 Sivasubramanian S 5 108 Nitin M Pai 4½ 109 S. Jeevanandam 4½ 110 Prashanth J Naik 4½ 111 Sayu P S 4½ 112 Subramanian T.V. 4½ 113 Sanjeev M 4½ 114 Subramanian V 4½ 115 Anil Kumar S 4½ 116 Alex C Joy 4½ 117 Eshwanth Dev Kumar J 4½ 118 Lenin A G 4½ 119 Satheesh Kumar G 4½ 120 Vinoth M 4½ 121 Raghu Ram Reddy Seelam 4½ 122 Mahendran K 4½ 123 Joshi Tejas 4½ 124 Iniyan Sivakumar 4½ 125 Jeyanth R 4½ 126 Pavan C 4½ 127 Saravanan A 4½ 128 Anand Babu P 4½ 129 Priyanka Bhatt 4½ 130 Mani Bharathy 4½ 131 Raaghav Rajesh 4½ 132 Anselm Flavian Paul 4½

16th KCA Open Fide Rated Chess Tournament,Kottayam

Ram S Krishnan wins title by L.R.Bhuvanaa Sai IA, Chief Arbiter

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180 Prasath K R 4 181 Lekshanth M 4 182 Ramakrishnan V 4 183 Jeyasurya Umashankar R 4 184 Unnikrishnan B 4 185 Vishnu Sridhar 4 186 Patil T S 4 187 Arjun Kumar S 4 188 Suhaib Ahmad 4 189 Jayakrishna H 4 190 Vinoth Naveen Jose R 4 191 Aji Kumar A 4 192 Sunildutt 4 193 Sidharth Rajeev 4 194 Balaji S 4 195 Ashvin Venkat G 4 196 Pankaj Bhat 4 197 Muthu P 4 198 Greeshma Anand Dhumal 4 199 Anirudh Ra 4 200 Janakiraman R 4 201 Rajan K.N. 4 202 Varun Rajesh Nandanam 4 203 Midilesh Ms 4 204 Siva Vamsikrishna 4 205 Sumit Kumar 4 206 Abimanyu M 4 207 Niranjan Sreejithmon 4 208 Hariharan Gandhi 4 209 Rijo Mathew 4 210 Bharath Bhushan Reddy N 4 211 Arun Prasath P 4 212 Akshaya R.S. 4 213 Vishnu Namboothiri M V 4 214 Dravid T 4 215 Benatin Britto Hamlet Raj 3½ 216 Vel Murugan B 3½ 217 Madhavan R Munjanattu 3½ 218 Abi A 3½ 219 Ahalya A 3½ 220 Kesavan G 3½ 221 Divya Teja P 3½ 222 Thulaseedharan K 3½ 223 Heera P 3½ 224 Binu Sebastian 3½ 225 Jaidambareesh N R 3½ 226 Jayakumar P K 3½

The Maharashtra State Rapid Rating Cham-pionship witnessed a response of total 195 players with IM Nubairshah Shaikh as the top seed followed by FM Anand Nadar. In the fourth round FM Anand Nadar was held to a draw by the local lad Om Kharola whith only 6 players leading with 4 points. In sixth Round the game on the top board, between IM Nubairshah Shaikh and Suyog Wagh both leaders with 5 points, ended in a draw.

In seventh round IM Nubairshah Shaikh gained a lead of half point over Suyog Wagh. But in the eighth round Vedant Panesar held him to a draw whereas Suyog defeated Ve-dant Vekhande to join Nubair with 7 points. Although both won the last round Nubair won the championship with a better tie break. Suyog Wagh of Aurangabad was placed second . Both will represent Maharashtra at National Rapid Chess Championship 2018.

In the Blitz championship there were 82 entries with IM Vikramaditya Kulkarni as a top seed followed by IM Nubairshah Shaikh and FM Anand Nadar. In the third Round Vedant Panesar surprised everyone by a draw with IM Nubairshah Shaikh. At the end of 5th round IM Vikramaditya Kulkarni and FM Anand Nadar Emerged as leaders with 5 points each. Both agreed for a draw in the 6th round continuing their lead of half point over others, whereas IM Nubair faced a defeat at the hands of Ketan Boricha.

In eighth round both the leaders viz IM Vikramaditya Kulkarni and FM Anand Nadar faced defeats at the hands of Om Kharola and IM Nubairshah respectively. With Om Kharola having a lead of half points over others be-

fore the start of the penultimate round won the tough game against Chandratreya Pra-chiti emerging as the winner of Maharashtra State Blitz Champion. This is the first time IM Nubairshah came 2nd in any state Champi-onship he has participated.Both Om Kharola and IM Nubair will represent Maharashtra at National Blitz Chess Championship 2018.Final standings:Rapid Rk Name Pts1 IM Md Nubairshah Shaikh 82 Wagh Suyog 83 Panesar Vedant 7½4 Aarav Dengla 75 Mishra Sanjeev 76 FM Anand Nadar 77 Shah Jeet 78 Patil Ketan 79 Chandratreya Prachiti 710 Om Kharola 6½11 Nikam Sudhanshu 6½12 Soni Deepak R 6½13 Nagare Akhilesh 6½14 Upadhyay R 6½15 Rahul Lamba 6½16 Kadam Om Manish 6½17 Nikam Ravindra 6½18 Vinay Vijaykumar 6½19 Lekh Mithawala 6½20 Gawde Prathmesh 6½21 Gupta Rajesh R.S. 6½22 Butala Krish 6½23 Yadav Aakashkumar 6½24 Redij Aniket 625 Bartakke Aditya 626 Vedant Nitin Vekhande 627 Shah Devansh 628 Prasad Sachin 629 Vakil Akhtar 630 Punia Yuvraj 631 Aarav Lakhani 632 Kale Aditya 6

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Nubairshah Shaikh and Om Kharola win titlesby Vitthal Madhav IA, Chief Arbiter

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80 Kadakia Veer 581 Phene Ojas 582 Iyer Arvind 583 Bohra Kanishk 584 Gogate Yash 4½85 Darsh Shetty 4½86 Parab Ram Vishal 4½87 Jagesia Daksh 4½88 Gada Om 4½89 Nipun Dangche 4½90 Chopra Karan 4½91 Kunder Pratik 4½92 Rajveer Pinkesh Nahar 4½93 Khadilkar Shourya 4½94 Salvi Aarush 4½95 Hatvalne Swarali 4½96 Nihalani Moksh 4½97 Andhere Omkar 4½98 Tamboskar Shourya 4½99 Bhandari Agastya 4½100 Aashay R Kher 4½101 Iyer A N 4½102 Gupta Ankita 4½103 Vasudeva Varun 4½104 Wagle Rajas 4½105 Manna Sachita 4½106 Iyer Aarav 4½107 Shah Neel Prakash 4½108 Thite Rahul 4109 Kapadia Prisha 4110 Rajesh Aditya 4111 Chitaliya Nevil 4112 Aditya Kunal Patil 4113 Rane Viraj 4114 Bhatia Daksh 4115 Gupta Ananya Vikas 4116 Shirke Omkar 4117 Patel Darsh 4118 Vartak Parth 4119 Talwelkar Shreyas 4120 Alaukik Sinha 4121 Bhatia Kiran 4122 Yash Uday Sane 4123 Gala Vansh Rasik 4124 Solanki Harsh Rupesh 4125 Newar Medhaansh 4126 Ashay Jayesh Mayekar 4

127 Dabhade Arnav 4128 Kolwankar Swapnil 4129 Gupta Ronika 4130 Varun K Menda 4131 Rounaiv Rana 4132 Arya Saranathan 4133 Ramanan Vedhika 4134 Gogte Soumil 4135 Mehta Aarav Bhaven 4136 Remani Advaith 3½137 Krishna Bhatt 3½138 Nalawade Om 3½139 Patil Shreyash Dhanraj 3½140 Dharmadhikari Aryan 3½141 Gandhi Vedant 3½142 Baliga Gaurish 3½143 Lohakare Pratham 3½144 Shambharkar Richie 3½145 Varadkar Neel 3½146 Atharva Mehta 3½147 Chauhan Janmesh 3½148 Anirudh Satish 3½149 Sakhardande Harsh 3½150 Jain Ojes 3151 Talwelkar Gargi 3152 Iksha Soni 3153 Verma Vivaan 3154 Dadrewalla Khushnaz 3155 Anaidaa Santosh 3156 Vedant Biyani 3157 Tendulkar Heemanshi 3158 Shah Purvaan 3159 Nysha K Vhatwar 3160 Ishaan A Tendolkar 3161 Vir Nagpal 3162 Sabat Shrihan 3163 Contractor Vivana 3164 Jajal Veer 3165 Vyom Shivmath 3166 Iyer Advait 3167 Shajumon Ashlin 3168 Pheron 3169 Raut Anand 3170 Vora Ananya 2½171 Shreya Iyer 2½172 Gauri Saraswat 2½173 Yashvardhan Iyer 2½

174 Remani Ganesh 2175 Remani Agastya 2176 Nagarkatte Saina 2177 Pawar Sarah 2178 Vij Aarush 2179 Rathi Arpita 2180 Patnaik Udeep 2181 Arham Mehta 2182 Chayani Aditi 2183 Anaishaa Pinkesh Nahar 2184 Bhandari Arjun 2185 Aaradhya Lad 1½186 Vohra Devansh 1187 Garv Kuldeep Vhatwar 1188 Bagchi Jayorit 0189 Pawar Rahul 0190 CM Bhagat Kush 0191 Kotak Sagar A 0192 Bhatwadekar Aarya 0193 Desai Rujula 0194 Nilange Arul 0195 Nilange Arush 0

Final ranking:Blitz Rk Name Pts 1 Om Kharola 8 2 IM Mohammad Nubairshah S 7½ 3 Wagh Suyog 7½ 4 Nagare Akhilesh 7 5 Rahul Lamba 7 6 FM Anand Nadar 6½ 7 IM Kulkarni Vikramaditya 6½ 8 Lekh Mithawala 6½ 9 Chandratreya Prachiti 6½ 10 Kadam Om Manish 6½ 11 Nikam Ravindra 6 12 Vedant Nitin Vekhande 6 13 Nikam Sudhanshu 6 14 Prabhu Ajay P. 6 15 Suthar Pradip 6 16 Patil Ketan 6 17 Redij Aniket 6 18 Panesar Vedant 6 19 Boricha Ketan 5½ 20 Vinay Vijaykumar 5½ 21 Gupta Rajesh R.S. 5½ 22 Butala Krish 5½

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The 30th WB State Age Gr. (U-11 Boys & Girls) Chess Championship 2018 organized by North 24 PGS District Chess Association held at Kalakakoli, Clive House, Nager Bazar, Kolkata, from 29th to 31st March 2018 . The Tournament was inaugurated by Avijit Mitra, Councilor, South Dumdum Municipality, Dr. Ananda Bagchi, by making the customary first move on the board in the presence of Debasish Barua, Secretary, North 24 PGS Dist. Chess Association. A total 254 players (191 for Open Category & 67 for Girls Category Rated players) from the various districts from remote corner of the state have taken part in the tournament in which 49 rated in Open Section and 16 in Girls . The playing hall was fully air-conditioned and very good atmosphere for the players with sufficient toilet facilities. As per AICF guidelines I have checked aicf registration and found all paid.

The tournament was played under swiss system format 8 rounds for Open and 7 rounds for girls section . International chess set was used and digital chess clocks in every board.The organizers and players were very supportive and cooperated with each other. This is the first time that any WB State age group chess championship was conducted. At the end of final round games Alekhya Mukhopadhyay (7)became champion in Open Section by better tie break of Aayush Bhat-tacherjee (7) & Rachishnu Datta (7) placed second and third respectively. In the girls section Sinthia Sarkar(6.5)became cham-pion in girls section , Mrittika Mallick(5.5)

& Ankita Kundu(5.5) placed second & third respectively.

The tournament was going on smoothly throughout all the rounds. There were no disputes/protests placed before the Appeals’ Committee. All deputy Arbiters were worked hard during the whole tournament and mark the undisputed event. The Organisers pro-vided tiffin packets to all participants during the game.

In the valedictory ceremony Mr. Bratyo Basu, Hon’ble Minister in charge, department of Cultural & Information, Dr.Pachu Roy, Chair-man,SouthDumdum Municipality, Dr. Ananda Bagchi, Mr. Avijit Mitra, Councillor, SDDM and GM dibyendu Barua were present and distributed the prizes.

Final ranking:Open Rk Name Pts 1 Alekhya Mukhopadhyay 7 2 Aayush Bhattacherjee 7 3 Rachishnu Datta 7 4 Swarnoj Saha Talukdar 7 5 Srijak Sengupta 6½ 6 Atreya Nandy 6½ 7 Eshan Bhattacharjee 6½ 8 Sankalan Shah 6 9 Arkya Chatterjee 6 10 Shaunak Mallick 6 11 Aritrya Pal 6 12 Uddipan Roy 6 13 Shankhodip De 6 14 Dhrubajyoti Barman 6 15 Saanket Das 6 16 Oishik Kundu 6 17 Debadrito Banerjee 6

30th WB State Age Gr.(U-11 Open & Girls) Chess Championship, Kolkata

Alekhya Mukhopadhyay and Sinthia Sarkar win titlesby Asit Baran Choudhury IA,Chief Arbiter

18 Bratajit Mukherjee 6 19 Debaprabho Gorai 5½ 20 Snehil Raj Singh 5½ 21 Rupankar Kundu 5½ 22 Sayan Ghosh 5½ 23 Shreeyash Kejriwal 5½ 24 Indrava Banik 5½ 25 Debarghya Bhowmick 5½ 26 Sagnik Biswas 5½ 27 Archisman Patra 5½ 28 Shubhajit Roy 5½ 29 Souhardya Prosad Sinha 5½ 30 Soureen Bhattacharya 5½ 31 Sourjya Mukherjee 5 32 Judhajit Dutta Roy 5 33 Satadru Ash 5 34 Shresth Mahapatra 5 35 Debapriyo Saha 5 36 Sohom Chatterjee 5 37 Archisman Banerjee 5 38 Subham Bhattacharjee 5 39 Tuhin Shuvra Das 5 40 Projoy Jana 5 41 Ritam Kundu 5 42 Swapnadeep Kar 5 43 Tushar Bhunya 5 44 Debarpan Saha 5 45 Biraj Paul 5 46 Arnab Debnath 5 47 Rajdeep Dutta 5 48 Arghyadeep Acharya 5 49 Sagar Sinha 5 50 Satyamoy Ghosh 5 51 Ankit Ray 5 52 Arit Chakrobarty 5 53 Srijit Saha 5 54 Aarav Mehta 5 55 Aditya Raj Gupta 5 56 Ritojoy Mandal 4½ 57 Ritwik Datta Gupta 4½ 58 Adhyayan Banerjee 4½ 59 Tuhin Mondal 4½ 60 Baivab Chatterjee 4½

61 Banik Hrishikesh Kumar 4½ 62 Yug Desai 4½ 63 Swapneel Gupta 4½ 64 Swastik Roy 4½ 65 Rhitam Sadhukhan 4½ 66 Srijit Sardar 4½ 67 Subhaditya Das 4½ 68 Debaryo Basu 4½ 69 Arka Mitra 4½ 70 Srijan Chatterjee 4½ 71 Suvayu Chakraborty 4½ 72 Adrish Awon 4½ 73 Swapnil Ghosh 4½ 74 Ojash Jain 4½ 75 Gavish Jaiswal 4½ 76 Vanij Agarwal 4½ 77 Chandramouli Dey 4½ 78 Nilarnab Barman 4½ 79 Anwesan Mukherjee 4½ 80 Aaron Bhuimali 4½ 81 Suvraneel Ghosh 4½ 82 Sagnik Nandi 4½ 83 Suvayan Dey 4 84 Satyaki Dutta 4 85 Aranya Ghosh 4 86 Anirin Majumder 4 87 Ryan Mandal 4 88 Riddhiman Kundu 4 89 Debjyoti Das 4 90 Soumick Bandopadhyay 4 91 Aarav Sharma 4 92 Rangeet Majumdar 4 93 Swapnanil Kar 4 94 Rudrasish Som 4 95 Anjishnu Chatterjee 4 96 Arunodoy Chakraborty 4 97 Spandan Bhattacharyya 4 98 Ranit Maity 4 99 Tushnim Hazra 4 100 Somneel Chowbey 4 101 Shrijato Das 4 102 Sounak Biswas 4 103 Saptarshi Ghosh 4

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104 Rudra Jaiswara 4 105 Akshat Kumar Roy 4 106 Soumil Majumdar 4 107 Sirshak Das 4 108 Avideep Roy 4 109 Aviraj Chatterjee 4 110 Addhayan Ghosh 4 111 Aditya Kayet 4 112 Tanish Das 3½ 113 Aditya Mukherjee 3½ 114 Jatin Agarwalla 3½ 115 Mayukh Ganguly 3½ 116 Gairick Saha 3½ 117 Aanshu Jaiswara 3½ 118 Shreyan Das 3½ 119 Sabuj Roy 3½ 120 Ritoban Basu 3½ 121 K. Nimalan Karthikeyan 3½ 122 Priyanshu Das 3½ 123 Subhrajit Dey 3½ 124 Shatodru Das 3½ 125 Anuranan Nag 3½ 126 Saptarshi Talukdar 3½ 127 Muhammad Ali Moinuddin 3½ 128 Arnesh Giri 3½ 129 Syamantak Saha 3 130 Kaushal Golchha 3 131 Sarbartha Debnath 3 132 Aayushman Jha 3 133 Soumyadip Das 3 134 Soumyadeep Sanpui 3 135 Agnivo Chakraborty 3 136 Sourjo Ghosh 3 137 Soumyadeep Mitra 3 138 Agnija Das 3 139 Hemadri Biswas 3 140 Dhairya Khetan 3 141 Sagnik Dutta 3 142 Aritra Dey 3 143 Rohan Saha 3 144 Aarchit Chakravartty 3 145 Parijat Paul 3 146 Debraj Sengupta 3

147 Wriddhish Chakraborty 3 148 Debdoot Chowdhury 3 149 Swarnava Ghosh 3 150 Vignesh Dey 3 151 Tridipta Bhattacharyya 3 152 Rajarshi Ray 3 153 Debartha Joth 3 154 Abhirup Basu 3 155 Srijit Pal 3 156 Rudraksh Datta 3 157 Arya Sengupta 3 158 Sagnik Datta Gupta 2½ 159 Harsha Vardhan Chourasia 2½ 160 Tushar Kundu 2½ 161 Amitra Sudan Bhowmick 2½ 162 Soham Keshri 2½ 163 Adhrit Chatterjee 2½ 164 Arhat Chattopadhyay 2½ 165 Krishiv Vikram Agarwal 2½ 166 Saraswat Kolay 2½ 167 SK Tahmid Hossain 2½ 168 Debdeep Das 2½ 169 Ritam Halder 2 170 Om Das 2 171 Somsekhar Bhattacharyay 2 172 Abhirup Dey Sarkar 2 173 Dipayan Samanta 2 174 Abhigyan Roy 2 175 Srijan Das 2 176 Ramit Mitra 2 177 Shreyas Garg 2 178 Arunabha Das 2 179 Ranveer Singh 1½ 180 Meghadri Das 1½ 181 Venkatesh Das 1½ 182 Vardan Varma 1½ 183 Nirvaan Sahu 1 184 Yataarth Malpani 1 185 Satyaki Kumar Banik 1 186 Debjit Kali 0 187 Abir Nag 0 188 Arav Agrawal 0 189 Swarnil Roy 0

190 Srinjoy Banerjee 0 191 Anubhab Ray 0 Final ranking:Girls Rk Name Pts 1 Sinthia Sarkar 6½ 2 Mrittika Mallick 5½ 3 Ankita Kundu 5½ 4 Sneha Halder 5½ 5 Anwesha Saha 5½ 6 Jhinuk Dutta 5½ 7 Tanisha Chatterjee 5 8 Shreshtha Surai 5 9 Saparya Ghosh 4½ 10 Olivia Biswas 4½ 11 Anjistha Basak 4½ 12 Gargee Bose 4½ 13 Aarshiya Biswas 4½ 14 Anwesha Sur 4½ 15 Oiendrila Bhattacharya 4½ 16 Prena Mukherjee 4½ 17 Rupkatha Malakar 4½ 18 Soumeli Das 4½ 19 Prapti Moulik 4½ 20 Debapriya Manna 4 21 Arhashirsha Biswas 4 22 Auhona Chakraborty 4 23 Priyanjali Saha 4 24 Hiya Sengupta 4 25 Krittika Sinha 4 26 Ishani Mondal 3½ 27 Arnabi Sen 3½ 28 Panchali Dutta 3½ 29 Olivia Banerjee 3½ 30 Samadrita Mukherjee 3½ 31 Rajendrani Basu 3½ 32 Shabarni Datta 3½ 33 Adrita Mitra 3½ 34 Dwaram Likhita 3½ 35 Rajanya Ray 3½ 36 Biyas Banerjee 3½ 37 Manjita Mallick 3½ 38 Kangona Sinha 3½

39 Samriddhi Gharami 3 40 Samiya Singh 3 41 Ahana Dutta Roy 3 42 Kanyoka Banerjee 3 43 Reina Mandal 3 44 Mrigakshi Mazumder 3 45 Aishani Nag 3 46 Pratyasha Ghosh 3 47 Gunjan Mohta 3 48 Prokriti Roy 2½ 49 Sohini Lahiri 2½ 50 Ishani Chattopadhyay 2½ 51 Suneli Bera 2½ 52 Dhruvi Sha 2½ 53 Sneha Dey 2½ 54 Urvashi Baitha 2 55 Akansha Dey 2 56 Kashvi Chitlangia 2 57 Diya Ghosh 2 58 Shrijata Basak 2 59 Sharanya Maity 2 60 Tuhina Dey 1 61 Shrestha Chatterjee 1 62 Sahana Chakraborty 1 63 Sudakshina Basu 0

When Grand Masters play, they see the logic of their opponent's moves. One's moves may be so powerful that the oth-er may not be able to stop him, but the plan behind the moves will be clear. Not so with Fischer. His moves did not make sense - at least to all the rest of us they didn't. We were playing chess, Fischer was playing something else, call it what you will. Naturally, there would come a time when we finally would understand what those moves had been about. But by then it was too late. We were dead.

- Mark Taimanov

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The 2nd Holi Cup Lakecity Open FIDE Rat-ing Tournament was started on 29th March 2018 at Bhandari Darshak Mandap, Che-tak Circle, Udaipur, organized by Chess in Lakecity under aegis of All Rajputana Chess Association and All India Chess Federation. Managers and players meeting was ar-ranged just before the starting of tourna-ment. The other necessary technical mat-ters were decided and appeals committee was formed.This event was inaugurated by GM B. Adhiban & Shri. Chandra Singh Kothari, Mayor, Udaipur City, other dignitar-ies present were Shri. Rajeev Bharadwaj, President Chess in Lakecity, Shri. Ashok Bhargava, Secretary, ARCA, Shri. Paras Singhvi, President, Chamber of Commerce, FA Vikas Sahu, Secretary CIL & IA Swapnil Bansod Chief Arbiter.

FIDE title holders 2 IM, 1 FM, 1 CM, 317 fide rated players and 181 unrated players which totally 498 players took part in the prestigious chess tournament, from 16 states, 1 affiliated special units and 2 play-ers from USA and Scotland respectively.

Fourth seeded International Master Ra-manathan Balasubramanium of TN was held to a draw by a lower seeded Aparva Kam-dar of Gujarat during a fourth round game. At the end of 6th round two players were sharing the lead, FM Saurabh Kherdekar of RLYS, and Prakash Ram of Punjab with 6 pts. In the penultimate round FM Saurabh Kherdekar of RLYS beat his joint leader Prakash Ram of Punjab to take the sole

lead with 7pts. Saurabh and Santu Mondal of Del started their last round game with Dutch Defence, later in the queen end-game they agreed to split the point, with this half point Saurabh Kherdekar won the tournament with 7.5 points out of possible 8. Santu Mondal, IM Rahul Sangma, Su-mit Grover, Deepak Katiyar, Prakash Ram, Ketan Boricha, Sonakshi Rathore, Akash Tiwari and Samarth Gorai stood 2nd to 10th respectively.

This mega event has been completed successfully without a single dispute. The players and the managers were very much co-operative. All the arrangements like venue, accommodation, food etc. were excellent.The team of arbiter’s namely Dy Chief : IA Rajendra Teli, FA Vikas Sahu, FA Mohd. Mehmood, SNA Manish Chandalia, SNA Roopak Arora, and SNA Raghvendra Kumar Shukla were very much compe-tent and reacted in every condition with equipped technical knowledge.

It is my duty to thank Mr. Rajeev Bharadwaj tournament director of the event without him this event could not have been a grand success. I take this opportunity to thank Mr. Rajendra Teli, Mr. Vikas Sahu, Secretary, Chess in Lakecity for their tireless work, dedication and support to conclude this mega event with grand success. The tour-nament ended in a very peaceful manner without a single dispute. Organisers pro-vided writing pads to all the players and Arbiters which was a unique gesture and need to be reckoned in its true spirit. The

prize distribution ceremony was organized in a grand manner at the hands of Ms. Swati Agarwal, MD Hotel Radisson Blue, other guests present were Dr. Om Sahu, VP Chess in Lakecity, Mr.Shatrudhan Bandwal, Pres-ident Buddhibal Seva sansthan, Shri Prem Singh Shaktawat, Secretary BJP Udaipur, Mr. Aditya Shah, CEO G D Goenka, Mr. Ra-jeev Bhardwaj, President Chess in lakecity, Mr.Vikas sahu, Secretary, Chess in Lakecity. & IA Swapnil Bansod Chief Arbiter.

Final ranking Rk Name Pts 1 FM Sauravh Khherdekar 7½ 2 Santu Mondal 7 3 IM Sangma Rahul 7 4 Sumit Grover 7 5 Deepak Katiyar 7 6 Prakash Ram 7 7 Boricha Ketan 7 8 Rathore Sonakshi 7 9 Akash Tiwari 7 10 Samrat Ghorai 7 11 Trivedi Karan R 6½ 12 Bhagyashree Patil 6½ 13 Chudasama Ankit 6½ 14 Punit Indora 6½ 15 Rahul Kumar 6½ 16 Falgun D Purohit 6½ 17 Kant Rupesh 6½ 18 Maulik Raval 6 19 AFM Pawar Harshit 6 20 IM R Balasubramaniam 6 21 Rishabh Nishad 6 22 Rohan Bharat Joshi 6 23 Patil Ketan 6 24 Mraduhas Tripathi 6 25 Shashi Prakash 6 26 Aashish Choudhary 6 27 Patil Rohit R 6 28 Venkatesh H 6

29 Ansh M Shah 6 30 Nitul Khare 6 31 AGM Chandrajeet Singh R 6 32 Sanjeet Manohar 6 33 Gupta Rajesh R.S. 6 34 Ayush Sharma 6 35 Rathore Mahendra Singh 6 36 Sanjay Sinha 6 37 Souhardo Basak 6 38 Dhruv Dak 6 39 Bardoliwala Nirmal 6 40 AGM Bhattacharya Arunava 6 41 Vikash Kumar Dwivedi 6 42 Ujjwal Deep 6 43 Naman Porwal 6 44 Medhansh Saxena 6 45 Uttam Prakash Sharma 6 46 Yadav Ashindra 6 47 Kamdar Abhay 6 48 Joshi Nilesh 6 49 AFM Nehete Arnav 6 50 Jain Adi 6 51 AIM Sahib Singh 6 52 Sathyanarayanan S. 5½ 53 Ananmay Sharma 5½ 54 Kamdar Aparva 5½ 55 Vikramaditya Mukhija 5½ 56 Gupta R K 5½ 57 Hriday Dharmesh Sheth 5½ 58 Tripathi D P 5½ 59 Ayush Lodha 5½ 60 Vashishtha Ankesh 5½ 61 Gautam Kataria 5½ 62 AIM Mandloi Mukesh 5½ 63 Bhawesh Pandiyar 5½ 64 CM Bhagat Kush 5½ 65 Khedkar Prasad 5½ 66 Boricha Yohan 5½ 67 Gopal Shah 5½ 68 Aashman Gupta 5½ 69 Atma Prakash 5½ 70 Aarav Lakhani 5½

The 2nd Holi Cup Lakecity Open FIDE Rating Tournament, Udaipur

FM Sauravh Kherdekar Wins at Udaipurby IA Swapnil Bansod,Chief Arbiter

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71 Shrivastav Hritik 5½ 72 Agrawal Aanya 5½ 73 Ashwani Kumar Grover 5½ 74 Johney Mandal 5½ 75 Vijendra Kumar 5½ 76 Sangeen Mandre 5½ 77 Dhruv Khosla 5½ 78 Raj Prakhar 5½ 79 Neeraj Sah 5½ 80 Shah Yesha 5½ 81 Rahul Singh 5½ 82 Kothari Pranit 5 83 AGM Bhogal Rupesh 5 84 Mohit Kumar Soni 5 85 Rawal Shailesh 5 86 Raj D Vyas 5 87 Patel Palak 5 88 Umer S.M 5 89 Jain Madhur 5 90 Aditya P Melani 5 91 Abhay Bandewar 5 92 Upadhyay Prince 5 93 Soumen Mondal 5 94 Babel T Divyanshu 5 95 Pardeshi Ajay 5 96 Sunny Bedi 5 97 Kholia Kishan 5 98 Babaria Rahil Pareshbhai 5 99 Rajendra Singh Rana 5 100 Kanani Parth R 5 101 Saxena Kunal Kant 5 102 Darsh Kansal 5 103 Awasthi Balgovind 5 104 Vikas Vyas 5 105 Vedant Nitin Vekhande 5 106 Raval Dipak 5 107 Maheshwari Prabhav 5 108 Bharadia Yash 5 109 Bhrigu Suryanarayan 5 110 Chaudhary Pallav 5 111 Suthar Pradip 5 112 Dadwani Sahil 5

113 Srivastava V.K. 5 114 Deepak Chaurasia 5 115 Govind Kumar Chandel 5 116 Chhabra Kunal 5 117 Mayank Srivastava 5 118 Om Ji Verma 5 119 Arnav Kushwaha 5 120 Joglekar Abhijit 5 121 Anjishnu Mondal 5 122 J M Baisakh 5 123 Bhatt Pradip P. 5 124 Srivastav R P 5 125 Varad Deepak Kabra 5 126 Borgaonkar Akshay 5 127 Arun Kataria 5 128 Jigna Joshi 5 129 Giridharan M 5 130 Sudhakar 5 131 Sharma Jyoti Prakash 5 132 Rao Vishwas 5 133 Ishwar Ramteke 5 134 Rituraj Singh 5 135 Dharmesh Sharma 5 136 Riyan Amit Shah 5 137 Haldankar Dhruv 5 138 Akshat Rawat 5 139 Goswami Sagargiri 5 140 Prem Singh Bhati 5 141 Mishra Aditya 5 142 Mevada Malay 5 143 Porwal Dhruv 5 144 Machchhar Kaniayalal 4½ 145 Dr Sanjay Date 4½ 146 Sanjib Ghosh 4½ 147 Chouhan N.C. 4½ 148 Kartik Bhandari 4½ 149 Durgesh Tiwari 4½ 150 Chinmay Danawat 4½ 151 Trivedi Gaurav V 4½ 152 Menon Padmanand 4½ 153 Sarvaiya H Manishbhai 4½ 154 Mahabir Parshad Verma 4½

155 Yajat Vyas 4½ 156 Kiyarra Sunil Khaturia 4½ 157 Rajagopalan 4½ 158 Mumukshu Mittal 4½ 159 Dwivedi Umang 4½ 160 Yash Tulapurkar 4½ 161 Abdul Azeem R 4½ 162 Shah Het D 4½ 163 Chavda Kathan B 4½ 164 Shashwat Dubey 4½ 165 Monika Sahu 4½ 166 Shlok Sivanarayan 4½ 167 Shinde Kunal 4½ 168 Amrit Raunak 4½ 169 Kalgaonkar S 4½ 170 AFM M Vikramaditya Jain 4½ 171 Tete Sandeep Barnad 4½ 172 Aum Nikunjkumar Desai 4½ 173 Solanki Abhishek 4½ 174 Piyush Kumar 4½ 175 Shamkuwar Y. M. 4½ 176 Purushotham Joshi 4½ 177 Dak Daksh 4½ 178 Aaditya Ranjan 4½ 179 Gaurav Tiwari 4½ 180 Shejal Sahil Sanjay 4½ 181 Hemant Arora 4½ 182 Bang Atharva 4½ 183 Saurabh Porwal 4½ 184 Kshatriya Nitin V 4½ 185 Ishan Ghosh (Siliguri) 4½ 186 Panchal Hiya 4½ 187 Kavya Jain 4½ 188 Tawar Abhirajsingh 4½ 189 Aggarwal Aayush 4½ 190 Dev Raj 4½ 191 Varshita Jain 4½ 192 Meghani Liyakat 4½ 193 Siddiqui Md. Sabir 4½ 194 Abhishek Sudhakar J 4½ 195 Swapnil Kothari 4½ 196 Mohammad Zubar 4

197 Kuril Atharv 4 198 Jani Kushal R 4 199 Bhagat Rajesh J 4 200 Mayurdhwajsinh A Jadav 4 201 Dukhande D S 4 202 Chopade Saimira 4 203 Vakil Akhtar 4 204 Yatharth Dangi 4 205 Hend Pravin 4 206 Aditya Kunal Patil 4 207 Sunil Vyas 4 208 Prakhar Chaplot 4 209 Chourasiya Hemant 4 210 Sharma Deepanshi 4 211 Gaurav Kathuria 4 212 Dhruv Kalani 4 213 AFM Nagarkatte Vedant 4 214 Patel Kushal 4 215 Khem Singh Bhati 4 216 Aashi Upadhyay 4 217 Garg Shivam 4 218 Anishka Vikram 4 219 Aarna Chugh 4 220 Arun Kumar Sharma 4 221 Goswami Rakeshnath 4 222 Arnav Dhamija 4 223 Parva B Thakkar 4 224 Tushar Chaudhary 4 225 Shivam Panchal 4 226 Thakor Sagarkumar V 4 227 Yash Srivastava 4 228 Aditya Maderana 4 229 Kargutkar N. J. 4 230 Harini R 4 231 Shah Divyang D 4 232 Hamendra Singh Makwana 4 233 Hingne Shirish 4 234 Mohammed Raoof 4 235 Prakhar Gupta (Mp) 4 236 Vanshika Sachdeva 4 237 Riya Tewari 4 238 Ishvi Aggarwal 4

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Children Chess Festival 2018, Cuddalore-A report by IA Balaraman S , Chief Arbiter

Edify School and Cuddalore Chess Academy jointly conducted the Guinness World Re-cord Children Chess Tournament under the aegis of Tamil Nadu State Chess Association and Cuddalore District Chess Association on 10th & 11th March, 2018 at Edify School, Vazhapattu, Cuddalore District. Every one will be glad to know that our Iconic Personality Super Grand Master Viswana-than Anand is the Brand Ambassador of the great Edify School spread across the country. Because of that goodwill, Edify School at Cuddalore, came out to popularize the brain Game of Chess at Cuddalore by erecting a mammoth pandhal, on the football Ground and Volley Ball Court to accommodate as many as 2500 players. Tables and chairs were systematically arranged. Water facility was available aplenty. Mobile Rest / Wash Rooms in the form of most modern cabin were made available. Even Fire Extinguish-ers and Ambulance vehicles were kept ready for the asking. The arrangements inside the Edify School were beyond compare, even to beat the standards of any National event. The District level Children Chess festival consisted of Eleven categories of Boys & Girls (21 Categories), Under-5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 Boys & Girls and Open. The Cash prize offered for Open was fixed at Rs.21,000/-. The total number of 1000 Trophies and Medals which were on the show, were all eye catching. Entry fee for children was fixed as low as Rs.20/- while no Entry Fee was charged for Govt. & Govt. aided Schools and Colleges. A total of 1720 play-ers, mostly from Govt. & Govt. aided Schools and Colleges participated. This is a historic moment for Cuddalore Chess as this tour-

nament proved to be a boon to every chess player from Govt. & Govt. aided Schools and Colleges in Cuddalore. “It is our honor to serve Cuddalore District chess players”, said Mr. Prem Kumar, the Secretary of Cuddalore Chess Academy.The function began with a prayer, followed by lighting of the sacred lamp (Kuthuvilakku) by the hands of distinguished guests and oth-er dignitaries on the dais. The tournament was inaugurated by Chairman and Managing Trustee of Edify School Mr. S. Srinivasan to mark the chess tournament traditions. FIDE Arbiter Sathiesh GG accompanied by 6 System Arbiters, 32 Sector Arbiters, 27 Assistant Arbiters, 22 School Staff and also many more volunteers worked for the smooth conduct and success of this mega tourna-ment. The tournament was played as per the Swiss format, comprising 7 rounds. The thinking time was fixed at 30 minutes each. All the participants wore face-mask of the illustrious iconic legend Viswanathan Anand while playing their games in that mammoth venue of this historic tournament. The proceedings of this mega event was keenly inspected by the officials of the World Record Research Foundation, who proudly declared this event as a WORLD RECORD. Certainly this is a matter of great pride and honour for our country, All India Chess Fed-eration and Tamil Nadu State Chess Associ-ation. During and after the tournament, not a single protest, nor any claim of appeal was raised by any of the participants before me in my capacity as the FIDE Arbiter, steering this mega tournament. It is a matter of great

239 Shlok Garg 4 240 Narayanan S.R 4 241 Yuvraj Soni 4 242 Anupam Dutta 4 243 Ashish Kumar 4 244 Pokharna Dhairya 4 245 Sawant G L 4 246 Gokul G.Pillai 4 247 Shah Krish G 4 248 Akshi Chhatwani 4 249 Anagha Yardi 4 250 Patel Trishul D 4 251 Chachcha Jaysukh 4 252 Atharva Srivastava 4 253 Ammar Habib 4 254 Prachi Bhushan 4 255 Shivika Saraogi 4 256 Khalash Alkesh 4 257 Lakhwani Nandani 4 258 Patel Jaymin J 4 259 Plavit Chandalia 4 260 Indrajeet Kumar 4 261 Vedant Mistry 4 262 Ankur Agarwal 4 263 Ashwini 4 264 Amit Kumar Yadav 4 265 Anirudh Sharma 4 266 Ravi Kumar 4 267 Samyak Dharewa 4 268 Patel Nihal Trishulkumar 4 269 Rashmi Priya 4 270 Hiya Garg 4 271 Charvi Patidar 4 272 Tarun N 4 273 Divya Prakash Tripathi 4 274 Pranay Chordia 4 275 Verma Vivaan 4 276 Choudhary Aaditya 4 277 Yachna Singh 4 278 Yuval Parmar 4 279 Guman Singh Rathore 4 280 Sanjaygiri Gauswami 3½

281 Deepak Rai 3½ 282 Mishra Rahul 3½ 283 Suraj Sahu 3½ 284 Mistry Tinaz Dinkoo 3½ 285 Garg Rushil 3½ 286 Tirth Jigna Doshi 3½

Puzzle of the monthby C.G.S.Narayanan

The shortest proof game (SPG) is a type of problem in which the task is to reconstruct a legal game. Starting from the opening array, the solver has to find the shortest possible game that leads to the diagram position. White and Black thus effectively cooperate to achieve this, and that the moves would not be sensible in a competitive game is considered irrelevant. SPGs are also characterised by their exact play – the move order in the solution is unique.

Short proof game in 4 moves(solution on page 48)

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satisfaction that not a single unforeseen in-cident took place either within the venue of the event, or outside. Spot certificate was issued by the World Record Authority which vouches for the fool-proof organization of the entire event right from the beginning. The prize distribution function began at 4.30 p.m on the concluding day i.e., 11th March. The Chairman and Managing Trustee of the Edify School Mr. S. Srinivasan presided over the function. Thiru M.C. Sampath, Hon'ble Minister for Industries, Government of Tamil Nadu, was the Chief Guest of the occasion, who gave away the prizes to the successful participants and Mrs. S. Indhumathi Srini-vasan, Director of Edify School delivered the vote of thanks. It is now my pleasant duty to thank sincerely Stephen Balasamy, the General Secretary of the Tamil Nadu State Chess Association, Mr. S. Sekar, President, CDCA; Mr. A. M. Balas-ubramaniyam, Secretary, CDCA; Mr. A. Ra-jangam, V P, CDCA; J. Murasoli Raja, patron, Cuddalore chess academy; Mr.T. Kalaiselvan, president, CCA; Mrs. K. Tamilselvi, Treasurer, CCA and S. Manikandan, VP, CCA. I also thank my Fellow Arbiters Mr. GG Sathiesh, Mrs. Parvathy, Mr. Vinoth Kumar, Mr.Ramesh, Mr. Raja Sekaran and Mr. Sankar for conducting the tournament smoothly without drawing a single protest from any quarter.I also thank the volunteers of the Cuddalore Chess Academy but for whose major support, my role as a Chief Arbiter of this magnum opus event would not have been successful. I am grateful to TNSCA for the honour and trust that they deposed on me to organize this World Record Chess Tournament.

ISC 2018- Indian solvers excelThe 14th International Solving Contest was organized by Tamilnadu State Chess Association at Chennai on 28.01.2018 under the aegis of World Federation for Chess Composition (WFCC).The event was organized simultaneously in all par-ticipating countries. There were three categories: one for experienced solvers. In this category solvers obtain rating points. The second category was intend-ed for weaker, inexperienced solvers. This second category was not open for solvers with a rating (or half-rating or non-active-rating) of more than 1700. The third category was intended for youngsters born after 31.12.2004. In India The event was conducted at two locations- Chennai and Bangalore.WFCC delegated C.G.S.Narayanan as local con-troller for Chennai. Mr.Sailesh was the controller at Bangalore.

The contest in the main category con-sisted of two rounds with six problems each.The second category consisted of two rounds with six problems each, i.e. for each round two ≠2, a 3≠, ≠n, EG and in one round a h≠ and in the other round a s≠. The youth category consisted of one round with six orthodox problems, i.e. four 2≠, a 3≠ and an EG. For each round, the solving time was two hours. There was also ranking for youngsters, seniors and female solvers. Divyalakshmi Rajagopal from Chennai won the second Category 2- finshed first overall, first in women solvers and first in Juniors.GM Karthikeyan Murali finished third in the tough Category one- juniors. Congratula-tions to the prize-winners! (Visit wfcc for problems, solutions,solver rating details)

Candidates 2018, Berlin

Fabiano Caruana is the Challenger

D.V.Sundar, Vice President FIDE (on the right) , presenting the medal to GM Fabiano

Caruana,Winner Candidates 2018. Ilya Merenzon, the CEO of Agon is on the left

Nobody deserved it more than Fabiano Caruana. He led right from the start at the Candi-dates 2018. He did have his hiccup in the twelfth round, losing to Karjakin, but he showed his mental toughness by beating Aronian in round 13 and Grischuk in the final round. With this he becomes the World Championship Challenger, the first American after Bobby Fischer in 1972. The match will be held in November 2018 in London.

Fabiano Caruana was so close to becoming a challenger in 2016, but lost the last round to Sergey Karjakin. He had to wait two years, but he finally did deliver. Many of the people had Aronian as their favourite prior to the start of the Candidates 2018. Caruana is a great player but he lacks in him the quality to win an event like the Candidates, is what many said. Caruana maintained his lead right from the start until round 11. In round 12, he had a big accident in round against Karjakin. People started to feel that Karjakin would once again earn a rematch against Carlsen as the momentum was with the Russian. Caruana came back strongly and beat Levon Aronian in the penultimate round and Alexander Grischuk in the last round to win the Candidates 2018.

What was extremely impressive about Fabiano is the fact that he kept his cool in the last round and brought home the full point. At some point the games had already ended in draws between Kramnik and Mamedyarov and also Karjakin versus Ding Liren. A draw would have been sufficient for Caruana to win the Candidates. But he played on and won the last round. What is it that makes Caruana a dangerous opponent for Carlsen," asked Daniel King to Kasimdzhanov. "Well, he has me!" was Rustam's reply. Surely Kasimdzhanov is a huge as-set to Fabiano and with his experience of working for Anand in the past, he will ensure that Carlsen has a hard time in this World Championship Match. courtesy:chessbase india

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Participants,officials,Lecturers with Hon’le Minister of Sports.Himachal Pradesh

Central Council Meeting 24.3.2018 – decisions

The All India Chess Federation announced several important decisions taken by Central Council Meeting at New Delhi on 24th of March 2018.

In a historic move, the World Youth Chess Championship will be taking place at Nagpur, Mahar-ashtra in 2019. Further, the AICF Secretary said that World Junior Chess championship 2019 will be held at New Delhi in 2019.

The Central Council Meeting approved the inclusion of the World Women No-4 Grandmaster Koneru Humpy in the Indian Women Team for the forthcoming Chess Olympiad at Tbilisi in September 2018.

As per the recent Guidelines of FIDE Central Council Meeting, AICF has banned the use of Wrist Watches while playing any official National Chess championship and FIDE Rated events henceforth.

It was also decided that agreed draws in official National Chess Championships before completion of 30 moves will not be permitted.

A Three-member committee comprising of GM RB Ramesh, IM Sekhar Chandra Sahu and IM Neeraj Mishra was formed to select Women Players for the proposed category Women Chess Tournament in June 2018.

It was confirmed that India-China summit 2019 will be conducted by AICF.AICF remarked that the Indian Chess team (for forthcoming Chess Olympiad) has been highly motivated by the presence of Five-time World Champion Viswanathan Anand in the Pre-Olympiad Coaching Camp concluded at New Delhi two days back.

A Workshop for all the office bearers of various State Chess bodies of India was held to appraise the necessity for bringing a lot of reforms. Three Well known persons, including national Chess Coach GM Ramesh, Parth Narang, AICF Treasurer Kishor M Bandekar gave extensive lecturers to motivate & educate on various Chess subjects.

Every month starting from May, there will be Grandmaster Coaching Webinars on AICF Official Website. All chess players from India, registered with the AICF will be eligible to be a part of the webinars. The Federation is preparing to rope in former World Champion Viswanathan Anand to broadcast online chess lessons for 2 hours duration every month. The webinars will be viewed by millions of youngsters.

In yet another major decision, the federation decided to suspend All Bihar Chess Association pending inquiry for making serious lapses in their functioning. An Ad-hoc body will be framed by the AICF to run the day to day functions of all official Bihar State Chess Tournaments.

Arbiters' training seminar in Manali-report by IA M.S.Gopakumar

Altogether thirty-three participants from Jammu&Kashmir, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Chandigarh and Rajasthan participated in this three-day event which was organized by the AICF and FIDE Arbiters’ Commission with the support of Government of India's Ministry of Youth Affairs & Sports. IA Gopakumar M.S was the Chief Lecturer of the seminar and he was assisted by International Arbiter Swapnil Bansod.

One might not think there would be many disputes in the game of chess but there are cases which require a thorough knowledge of the rules and the wisdom to implement the call correctly and that's where arbiters come to rescue. The topics which were covered in this three-day seminar were laws of chess, rating regulations, title regulations, arbiter regulations, competition rules, tiebreaks, pair-ing regulations, anti-cheating regulations and much more. The participants were very enthusiastic, inquisitive and I received a lot of inputs from them. Each one enjoyed very much being a part of this seminar.

The participants also wrote an examination which was conducted on the final day of the seminar and the results will be published by FIDE Arbiter's Commission in two weeks' time. India will have fresh new arbiters within two weeks.Hon’ble Minister for Sports Government of Himachal Pradesh Mr. Govind Singh was a part of the closing ceremony addressing all the participants. He also felicitated the lecturers and the participants with the famous traditional ‘Kullu Caps’.

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Selected games from Delhi GM Open 2018Annotated by IM Manuel AaronSammed Jaykumar,Shete (2337)Rozum,Ivan (GM (2595) [B12]

If one goes through this game one might think that the names of the two players had been inverted. No! The little known, untitled, 19-year old Indian, plays like an experienced Grandmaster! 1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.e5 Bf5 4.Nf3 e6 5.Be2 Nd7 6.0–0 Bb4 7.c3 Ba5 8.b4 Bc7N 9.a4 f6 10.Bf4 Ne7 11.Bg3 Ng6 12.exf6 Nxf6 13.Nbd2 0–0 14.Re1 Nh5 15.Bxc7 Qxc7 16.a5 Rae8 17.Bf1 Nf6 [If 17...Nhf4 18.g3 Nh3+ 19.Bxh3 Bxh3 20.Ng5 Bf5 21.Qh5 h6 22.Nh3 Nh8=] 18.Ne5 Nxe5 19.dxe5 Ng4 20.Qe2 c5 21.h3 Nh6 22.Qe3 Rc8 23.Nb3 cxb4 24.cxb4 Qe7 25.b5 Diagram #

[Though white plays this game exceptionally well, like a grandmaster, here he misses the much stronger: 25.Qxa7 Qxb4 26.Nd4 Rc5 (26...Qc5 27.Qxc5 Rxc5 28.g4+-) 27.Red1 Rfc8 28.g4 Bc2 29.a6 bxa6 30.Nxe6+-] 25...Bc2 26.Nd4! Bg6 27.Rac1 White's advantage derives from his well placed knight on d4 which obliges the black queen to remain on e7, defending e6. Also the

white queen's xray attack on a7 is signif-icant as black cannot play the natural .... Nf5 because of Nxf5 and Qxa7. 27...Nf7 28.a6! This secures the key c6 square for his pieces. 28...b6 29.Rxc8 Rxc8 30.Rc1! Rc7 [30...Rxc1? 31.Qxc1 Nd8 (31...Nxe5 32.Qc8+ Kf7 33.Qb8 Kf6 34.Nc6 Nxc6 35.bxc6+-) 32.Qc8 Be8 33.Nc6+- Black is crushed.] 31.Rc6!? Diagram #

[Like the former world champion Tigran Petrosian, white enjoys circling the black forces and crushing him rather than go for the direct win with: 31.Rxc7 Qxc7 32.Nxe6 Qxe5 33.Qxe5 Nxe5 34.Nd4 Be8 35.g3! for 36 Bg2 targeting d5 with ad-vantage.] 31...Nd8 [31...Rxc6 32.Nxc6 Qc7 33.Qa3 Be4 34.f3 Bb1 35.Qe7! Qxe7 36.Nxe7+ Kf8 37.Nc6+-] 32.Rd6 Be8 33.Be2 [White is so keen on positionally crushing his opponent that he misses the tactical stroke: 33.Rxd8! Qxd8 34.Nxe6 Qd7 35.Nxc7 Qxc7 36.e6+-] 33...Bd7 34.Bg4! Rc4 35.Kh2 g6 36.Be2 Rc7 37.Bg4 Kg7 [He should repeat 37...Rc4 and find out what improvement white has. But even though his position is cramped and backward, the Russian GM does not want the game to slip into a draw, he still hopes to win!] 38.Qg3 Rc4 Diagram #

The Himachal Pradesh State Chess Association Secretary Shri. Sudarshan Kumar and his team put meticulous efforts for making the seminar a memorable one for the participants and the lecturers. AICF is leaving no stone unturned and we congratulate them for all their efforts and initiatives that they have been taking in the recent past.

FIDE Trainers’ Seminar, Mohali 2018FIDE Trainers’ Seminar was organised at Learning Paths School, Mohali from 4th to 6th March 2018 under the aegis of Sports Authority of India and All India Chess Federation. Forty participants from Jammu & Kashmir, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Chandigarh and Rajasthan participated in the event. FIDE Senior Trainers GM R.B Ramesh and IM Vishal Sareen were the lecturers of this three-day seminar.

GM R.B.Ramesh delivering lecture

There were 40 coaches from 8 different states from North India. Along with the trainers’ seminar, there was also a coaching camp for the local kids which was well received. The coaches asked many questions related to the problems they face while coaching their students. It was a good learning experience for all of us.”

At the end of the seminar, an examination was conducted. According to the performance, various Trainer Titles will be awarded to participants by FIDE Trainers Commission with the approval of FIDE Presidential Board.This is the second such initiative by All India Chess Federation to pro-duce more number of FIDE Titled Trainers in India. The seminar conducted free of cost to the participants with boarding, lodging and FIDE Fee. The first one was conducted at Guwahati for the personnel belong to North-Eastern States & Andaman. Now northern states of India were covered through Mohali seminar and All India Chess Federation is aiming for more number of such seminars at other parts of the country.Additionally, a special coaching camp for a group of 30 promising children from Punjab and Chandigarh was held simultaneous to hone the skills of the upcoming talents.During the closing ceremony, Shri. Bharat Singh Chauhan, Hony Secretary All India Chess Federation kick-started the Chess in School programme of Jammu & Kashmir, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Chandigarh and Rajasthan.

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[21...Ra8 squashing whatever dreams white might have of playing a5-a6, breaking up black's queen-side, was preferable.] 22.Nc3 Now starts a merry dance between the white knight and the black bishop which should have ended the game in draw by repetition of moves! 22...Bf6 23.Na4 Bd8 24.Nc3 Bf6 25.Na4 Before making her next move, Bd8, black could have claimed a draw by a three fold repetition of moves saying she was going to play ...Bd8! 25...Bd8 26.e3 Bc7 27.Rc1 g6? Diagram #

[Black's sense of danger deserts her at a critical point in the game. She should have played 27...Ra8 or 27... Rb8 to avert white's threat of 28 a5-a6 breaking up black's queen-side pawn structure.] 28.a6!± Ra8 29.b5 cxb5 30.Nc5! Bd6 [If 30...Nxc5 31.Rxc5 Bd6 32.axb7 Rb8 33.Rxb5+-] 31.axb7 Rb8 32.Nxe6 fxe6 33.Rc6 Bf8 34.Rxe6! Kg7 [34...Rxb7? 35.Bxd5+- wherever the black rook flees, the white rook will hunt it down with a discovered check.] 35.Bxd5 b4 36.e4! Rd8 37.Rc6 1–0

Tiviakov,Sergei (GM (2584) Harsha,Bharathakoti (IM) (2451) [B47]Tiviakov, 45, is a grandmaster who has played in the Olympiads for two countries for Russia till 1997 and post 1997 for Holland.

Harsha Bharathakoti, born 2000, is one of our future Grandmaster hopes. He has won two National Championships, the U13 in 2013 and the National Junior in 2017. 1.e4 c5 2.Nc3 e6 3.Nge2 Nc6 4.d4 cxd4 5.Nxd4 Qc7 6.g3 The Sicilian Taimanov variation. 6...a6 7.Bg2 Nge7 8.Nb3 Ne5 9.0–0 b5 10.f4 Nc4 11.Nd4= [A game in the American Continental Ch, 2003, between Campora D, 2510, and Granda Zuniga, 2641, went: 11.a4 b4 12.Ne2 Bb7 13.Qd3 g5 14.fxg5 Ng6 15.Nf4 Nge5 16.Qe2 h6 17.Nd3 hxg5 18.Bxg5 Be7 19.Bf4 .... 80. Draw] 11...Nc6 12.Nxc6 Qxc6 13.e5 Qb6+ 14.Kh1 Bb7= 15.Ne4 Bd5?! [This awkward move hands over the initiative to white. Black can gain a slight advantage with: 15...d5! 16.exd6 Nxd6 17.Be3! Qc7! 18.Nxd6+ Bxd6 19.Bxb7 Qxb7+ 20.Kg1 Rd8 21.Qh5 0–0 22.Rae1 Rfe8 23.c3³] 16.b3² Qc6 17.Qe2 Nb6 18.Bb2 Rc8 19.Rac1 Be7 20.f5 exf5

Diagram # 21.Nd6+! Bxd6 [This leads to a quick defeat. More stubborn was to give up the rook for the dangerous knight with: 21...Kf8 22.Nxc8 Nxc8 23.Rxf5+-] 22.exd6+ Kf8 23.Qe7+ Kg8 24.Rxf5 Bxg2+ 25.Kg1 Bd5 26.Rg5! Qc5+ 27.Kf1!

39.Bxe6! A tactical finish to a positionally played game which wins the exchange five moves later. 39...Bxe6 40.Rxe6! Qf8 [If 40...Nxe6?? 41.Nf5++- wins the queen.] 41.Rf6 Qe8 42.Nf5+ Kg8 43.Nd6! Qe7 44.Nxc4 dxc4 45.f4 Qc5 46.f5! White announces that the game is not over with the win of the exchange, it continues with greater vigour! 46...c3 47.fxg6 h6 48.g7! Nf7 49.Rxf7! 1–0

Deepan,Chakkravarthy (2475)Pratyusha,Bodda (2162) [A07]

This game can be called a game of repeti-tions, the first one on the 9th move being absolutely atrocious, ridiculous and wanton! Perhaps Deepan wanted to show that he could sacrifice two moves in the opening against a Woman International Master and still win. Pratyusha probably did not want those two gifted moves and returns the com-pliment immediately, playing her bishop back and forth! This reminds us of Bobby Fischer who once challenged any female player to a match where he would play without a knight. However, when the Soviets showed interest in such a match it is said that Fischer went into a huddle looking up the games of the best Soviet women players and decided not to pursue the boast. Experts at that time said,

"Fischer is Fischer! But a knight is a knight!!" The second repetition which happens from the 21st to the 25th moves should have end-ed in a draw by repetition, had black claimed a draw. But she does not and goes on to lose the game! Deepan Chakkravarthy, 31, is a Tamil Nadu grandmaster who is a born co-median around whom there could never be a dull moment! And black, as far as I know, is a serious 21–year old WIM from Andhra. 1.Nf3 d5 2.g3 Bg4 3.Bg2 c6 4.0–0 Nd7 5.d4 Ngf6 6.c4 e6 7.Qb3 Qb6 8.Nc3 Be7 9.Nb1?

What is this, the latest from a modern Rus-sian chess theory factory? Or has the grand-master made some bet that he could waste a couple of moves in the opening and still defeat his WIM opponent?! Bobby Fischer once made an offer that he could beat any female player in the world giving the odds of a knight? 9...Bf8? [This retreat is equally incomprehensible! Probably, black declines the grandmaster's goofy generosity with her own! Better was: 9...Qxb3 10.axb3 0–0 11.Nc3 Bf5³] 10.Nc3 Be7 Back to normal, the game resumes! 11.c5 Qxb3 12.axb3 0–0 [Black has a slight edge after 12...Bxf3! 13.Bxf3 e5 14.e3 a6] 13.b4 [Better was: 13.Bf4 making the freeing e6-e5 hard-er.] 13...Bxf3 14.Bxf3 e5 15.Be3 exd4 16.Bxd4 a5! 17.Rxa5 Rxa5 18.bxa5 Nxc5 19.b4! Ne6 20.Bxf6 Bxf6 21.Na4 Bd8

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Diagram #[After 27.Kf1! g6 (There is no other way to prevent Rxg7#) 28.Qf6 Kf8 29.Qxh8#] 1–0

Tukhaev,Adam (GM Ukr) (2570)Mohammad,Nubairshah Shaikh (2380) [B12]1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.e5 The Advance Variation in the Caro-Kann. 3...c5 4.Nf3 cxd4 5.Nxd4 e6 6.Nd2 [Karthikeyan Murali, 2498, vs Swapnil Dhopade 2497, 53rd National Cham-pionship, Tiruvarur, 2015, went: 6.c4 Bc5 7.Nb3 Bb6 8.cxd5 exd5 9.Nc3 Ne7 10.Bb5+ Nbc6 11.0–0 0–0 12.Re1 d4 13.Na4 ..... 55. 1–0] 6...Nc6 7.N2f3 Bc5 8.c3 f6 9.b4?! [It was best to conduct the game in a bold, aggressive manner: 9.Bd3! Nge7 10.Be3 Bb6 11.exf6 gxf6 12.Nd2] 9...Bb6 10.b5 Nxe5 11.Nxe5 fxe5 12.Qh5+ g6 13.Qxe5 Nf6 14.Ba3 [The writing is already on the wall for white. If 14.Nxe6?! Qe7 15.Bg5 (If 15.Ng7+? Kf7 16.Qxe7+ Kxe7 and the white knight has no exit!) 15...Rf8 16.Ng7+ Kf7 17.Qxe7+ Kxe7 18.Be2 Kf7 19.Bh6 Ng8–+] 14...Kf7! 15.f3 [15.Bd3= was the natural move here.] 15...Re8 16.Be2 Bc7 17.Qe3 e5! Bold and natural. One must try at all times to unsettle the opponent by aggressive play. After this move, the Bishop on c8 is no longer a caged canary. 18.Nb3 d4!? black sacrifices a pawn and takes the initiative. He will not let white

castle! 19.cxd4 exd4 20.Qxd4 Bd7

Diagram # 21.Kf2 [As white cannot castle because his Be2 will hang he decides to sacrifice the exchange. Best appears to be: 21.Qd3 Bb6 22.Rd1 Rc8 23.Bb2 Qe7 24.Bxf6 (the idea behind the exchange is to secure the e4 square for his knight) 24...Kxf6 25.Qd6+ (if 25.Nd2? Qc5! 26.Rf1 (now white threatens 27 Ne4+) 26...Ba5! 27.Qxd7 Rcd8 and white has the unpleas-ant choice of sacrificing his queen for either of black's rooks.) 25...Qxd6 26.Rxd6+ Be6 27.Nd4 Bxd4 28.Rxd4 Bc4 29.Rd2 Bxb5 30.Kf2 Bxe2 31.Rxe2 Rxe2+ 32.Kxe2 Rc2+–+] 21...Be5 22.Qd2 Bxa1 23.Rxa1 Rc8 24.Rc1 Rxc1 25.Bxc1 Qb6+

Diagram # 26.Nd4 [If 26.Kf1 Bxb5 27.Nd4 Bxe2+ 28.Nxe2 Qc6 and black should win as he has a rook for knight in an otherwise normal position with no coun-ter-play for white.] 26...Qc5 27.Bb2 Be6 28.a4 Bc4 29.Bd1 [If 29.Bxc4+ Qxc4 30.a5 Nd5 31.Kg1 Re3µ and white's position is looking increasingly precarious.] 29...b6 30.h4 Kg8 31.Qg5? [Black's previous move withdrawing his king to g8 and leaving his Nf6 unprotected, lures white to attack it, not realising that black would abandon the knight and threaten a deadly double attack. Better was: 31.Kg1 Nh5 32.Bc3 Rd8 33.Kh2 Qe5+ 34.Kg1 Nf4] 31...Qb4!

Diagram # Though white has got his three minor pieces within sight of his king, he is curiously helpless against the dual threats of 32...Qe1# and 32....Qxb2+. 0–1

Roy Chowdhury,Saptarshi (GM) (2318) - Nguyen Duc Hoa,(GM Vie) (2490) [A48]

1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 g6 3.Nbd2 Bg7 4.e4 d6 The Opening has transposed to a Pirc De-fence, Classical system. 5.c3 0–0 6.Bc4 Nxe4 7.Nxe4 d5 8.Bd3 dxe4 9.Bxe4 Nd7 10.0–0 c5 11.Bc2 Qc7N 12.Re1 cxd4 [It is understandable that black wants to complete the development of his queen-side but he

could have postponed it for: 12...Re8 which gives black a few options.] 13.Nxd4 Nc5 14.Qe2 Bd7? [This move conceals an ele-mentary trap which would sink an amateur, for if 15 Qxe7?? Rfe8! would win material because of the unprotected white rook on e1. Better was: 14...e5 15.Nb3 Be6= with easy equality.] 15.Nb5 Qc6 [Somewhat better was: 15...Qb6 16.a4 a6 17.Nd4 Rac8 18.a5 Qf6 and if now 19.Qxe7?? Rfe8 and the unprotected Re1 is lost.] 16.Nd4 Qb6 17.Nb3 Na4 18.Nd2 [18.Be3 Qc6 19.Bd3 Rfd8 20.Rad1 was another way to keep his advantage.] 18...e5 19.Nc4 Qc7 20.Ne3= Nb6 21.Bb3 Bc6 22.Ng4 h5! 23.Nh6+?! [With this move white plays for glory in a wild game. 23.Ne3 would have offered equal chances with no risk.] 23...Kh7

Diagram # 24.Nf5 This is no surprise as his previous move had burnt his boat! 24...gxf5 25.Qxh5+ Kg8 26.Bh6 Qd6 27.Bxg7 Kxg7 28.Re3 The natural follow up to his sacrificial play. 28...Bd5 [28...f4? (to pre-vent 29 Rg3+) 29.Rxe5+-] 29.Rd1! [If 29.Rg3+ Kf6 and the black king escapes from the horrors of his devastated king-side.] 29...Rad8 30.Bxd5 Nxd5 Diagram # 31.Rxd5! Qg6 [The only way to stay in the game. Not 31...Qxd5?? 32.Qg5+! Kh7

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33.Rh3#] 32.Qxg6+ fxg6 33.Rexe5 Rfe8 [Two pawns down, black should try for some complications with: 33...f4 though white should win.] 34.Kf1 Kf6 35.Rxe8 Rxd5 36.Ke2 In rook endings, it is important not to allow your opponent's rook to penetrate your position. 36...a5 37.b3 g5 38.h3 Rc5 39.c4 a4 40.Rd8 [40.Kd3! was a stronger move that would demoralize black still more.] 40...axb3 41.axb3 Re5+ 42.Kd2! This pre-vents the black rook from getting to e2 or e1 and creating nuisance. 42...Ra5 Diagram #

43.Rd5! Ra2+ [The pawn ending is lost after: 43...Rxd5+ 44.cxd5 Ke5 45.Ke3 Kxd5 46.f4! gxf4+ 47.Kxf4 Ke6 48.Kg5+-] 44.Ke3! Ra1 45.Rb5! Re1+ 46.Kf3 Re7 47.g3 Black resigns as white is threatening to create a passed pawn on the h-file which would overwhelm black. 1–0

Horvath,Adam (GM Hun) (2484) Akash Pc,Iyer (IM) (2415) [B67]

This game is a good example of how to at-tack an uncastled king. 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 Nc6 6.Bg5 e6 7.Qd2 a6 8.0–0–0 Bd7 9.f3 Qc7 10.Kb1 Be7 11.h4 h6 12.Be3 Na5N [12...h5 13.Bg5 Rb8 was unsuccessfully tried in a Spanish Championship game in 2000.] 13.g4 b5 14.Bd3 Nc4 15.Bxc4 bxc4= 16.g5 Diagram #

16...Nh5? [Black seems to have a penchant for playing his knights to the edge of the board in this game. This second knight move takes him closer to disaster. Better was: 16...Ng8! 17.Rhg1 Rb8 18.gxh6 gxh6 19.Bf2= Though Black has not castled he has a com-fortable game with no exploitable weak-nesses.]17.gxh6 gxh6 18.Rhg1! Rb8 [An horrible alternative was: 18...Bxh4? 19.Qh2 Qd8 20.Nde2!+- Black is in a big mess with a knight and bishop perilously perched along the h-file and his d6 pawn beyond saving.] 19.Ka1 Qb7 20.Rb1 Bf8 This is the only way black can defend his h6 pawn. 21.Nde2! Having completely secured his castled posi-tion, white now turns his attention to the un-castled black king. 21...Qc6 22.f4!? Under tension, black would have been wondering

whether f4-f5 is being threatened or e4-e5. 22...Be7 23.f5?! [This allows the black knight on h5 to return to the centre of activities. Stronger was: 23.Bd4! Nf6 24.e5 dxe5 25.Bxe5 Rd8 (25...Rb7 26.Qd4 Bc5 27.Bxf6 Bxd4 28.Nxd4+-) 26.Qd4 Bc8 27.Bxf6! Rxd4 28.Nxd4 Qb7 29.Bxh8+-] 23...Nf6 24.fxe6 [Stronger was: 24.Bxh6! Nxe4 25.Nxe4 Qxe4 26.Bg7 Rg8 27.f6 Bd8 28.Nc3 Qf5 29.Qxd6+-] 24...fxe6 25.Nd4 Qb7 [25...Nxe4?? 26.Qg2!+-] 26.Bxh6² Now, this does not carry the punch it would have had on the 24th move. 26...Nxe4 27.Qe3 [White wants to keep supporting his Bh6. However, both 27 Qg2 and 27.Qe2! (sacrificing his bishop and targeting the Ne4 and threatening Qh5+), were stronger. The text does not have access to a queen check on the h5-e8 diagonal. 27...Rxh6 28.Nxe4 Kd8 29.Qxc4! Bf8 (29...Qxe4 30.Rg8+ Be8 31.Nc6+ Kc7 32.Qxe4 wins the Q) 30.Ng5!+-] 27...Nc5 28.Bg5! Diagram # A very good move! When a king is caught in the centre, uncastled, removing or exchanging off of his defensive forces around him is a good preliminary. It is fun attacking the defenceless king.

28...Rf8 [If 28...Bf8 29.Bf6 Rh5 30.Rg8 (30.Qg3?! Bc8!) 30...e5 31.Bg7 Kf7 32.Rxf8+ Rxf8 33.Rf1+! Kxg7 34.Qg1+ (34.Qg3+ (second best) 34...Kh7 35.Rxf8 Qh1+! 36.Nb1 Qd5±) 34...Kh6 35.Rxf8+-] 29.Bxe7

Kxe7 30.Qg5++- In battles where the major pieces, the queens and rooks, are involved diagonal checks are often most effective. 30...Ke8 31.Qh6 A clever move preventing the black king's flight to d8 and at the same time threatening Rg7. However, another win-ning idea was 31 b4 releasing his Rb1 from guard duty against mate on b2 and bringing it to f1 which would practically terminate the game almost immediately. 31...Qb6 32.Nf3 [If 32.Rg7? Kd8 black gets a new life escap-ing from the mating net in the centre.] 32...Qd8?? Diagram #

[This is the only move that loses instantly! The material on the board is absolutely level. The only difference is in the position. Without any question, white is on top. But white is not winning yet and a resourceful and stubborn defence might still save the game. Black should try: 32...Bc8± ] 33.Qh5+ [After 33.Qh5+ Rf7 34.Rg8+ Ke7 35.Qg5+ (35.Rxd8 is simpler, slower.) 35...Rf6 36.Rg7+ Kf8 37.Rh7! wins.] 1–0

Deepan,Chakkravarthy (2475) Naid-itsch,A (Aze) (2701) [C75]

This is a delightful tactical game where black's attack is met by a inspired defence. As the game nears the end, the heavy pieces

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Diagram # [To many players, including my-self, the move .... f5 is like a red rag to a bull. The weakness of the square e6 is alluring and they gun for glory! Safer was: 12.Nxc4 Nf6 13.Bg5 Nxe4 14.Bxe4 fxe4 15.Nfd2=] 12...Nf6 13.Nxc4 h6 14.Ne6 Bxe6 15.dxe6 Nxe4 16.Bxe4 fxe4 In all likelihood, black had deeply analysed this at home and con-cluded that in the worst case scenario, it would be an equal game. 17.Qa4+ c6= [Fritz analyses: 17...Kf8! 18.f3 exf3 19.Rxf3+ Kg8 20.Rf7 d5 21.Qb4 Nf5 22.Rd7 Qh4 23.Rxd5 Nd4 as winning for black, but I feel that any slight inaccuracy in this variation can tactically finish off black.] 18.Qb4?! [This is a poor choice that increases the tactical capabilities of the black forces. Better was 18.Qa3 (keeping the option of Qg3 attacking g6, or 18 Bd2) 18...c5 19.Rd1 Nf5 20.Be3 Nd4 21.Bxd4 exd4 22.Qg3! 0–0 23.Nxd6 Qc7 24.Nxe4 Qxg3 25.hxg3 Rfc8 26.b3= with a slight edge for white.] 18...Nf5 19.g4

Rb8 20.Qa3 d5 [This is the only move to avoid being butchered in his bed! If 20...Nd4 21.Nxd6+ Kf8 22.Nf7++-] 21.gxf5 dxc4 22.Be3! Qe7 23.Qxa6 [23.Bc5? Qg5+ 24.Kh1 Qxf5 25.Qxa6 Qf3+ (if 25...Qxe6? 26.Qa7 is a winning double attack.) 26.Kg1 Qg4+ draws.] 23...0–0² 24.Qxc4 gxf5 25.Bc5 Qh4 26.e7+! Rf7 27.Kh1 Qh5 Threatening ...Qf3+, Qg4+ drawing, as well as defending his Rf7. 28.Rg1 Kh7 29.Rg3 Avoids 29....Qf3+ and threatens 30 Rag1 winning. 29...e3 30.Qe6 Multiple threats: 31 e8Q, 31 Qxc6 and also anticipating black's f5-f4. 30...f4!

Diagram # 31.Rh3 Rf6! 32.Qd7 [Also good was: 32.Qxf6 Qxh3 33.Qxc6 exf2 34.Bxf2 Qh5 35.Rg1 Re8 36.Bc5+-] 32...Qf7! A good move that gives black good chances of coun-ter-attack via Qc4 and Qe4+ 33.fxe3? [This gives some scope for white to fight back. More accurate was: 33.Qd3+ Rg6 34.fxe3 Qe6 35.exf4 e4 36.Qe3 Bxb2 37.Re1 (37.Rb1 Bd4! 38.Rxb8 Bxe3! 39.Bxe3 Qxh3? 40.Rh8+ Kxh8 41.e8Q+ Kh7 42.Qe7+! Rg7 43.Qxe4+ draw by perpetual check.) 37...Qf5 38.Rg3 Re6±] 33...Qc4! (threatening the winning 34....Qe4+) 34.exf4 Qe4+ 35.Kg1 exf4 36.Rb3 [Trying to pin the black queen is suicidal: 36.Qd3?? Rg6+! 37.Kf1 (37.Kf2 Rxb2+) 37...Qh1+ 38.Ke2 Rxb2++-] 36...Rg6+ 37.Kf1 Qh1+ 38.Ke2 Qe4+ 39.Kd1 Rxb3 From the diagrammed position, try

to calculate the mate without moving the pieces. 40.e8Q

Diagram # 40...Rd3+! 41.Kc1 Qc4+! [Af-ter 41...Qc4+! 42.Kb1 Rxd7 43.Qxd7 Qe4+! 44.Kc1 Rg2–+] 0–1

Selected games from 38th National Team Ch’ships, BubaneshwarAnnotated by IM Manuel Aaron

Karthikeyan,Murali (2585) Sahoo,Utkal Ranjan (2252) [C84]

This is a well played positional game by 19-year old GM Karthikeyan Murali who was National Champion in 2015 and 2016. At 22 Utkal Ranjan Sahoo is one of Odisha's talent-ed youngsters who showed much promise a couple of years back. 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.0–0 Be7 6.d3 b5 7.Bb3 d6 8.a3 0–0 9.h3 [This is varying from the 2016 New York World Chp Match game Karjakin vs Carlsen: 9.Nc3 Na5 10.Ba2 Be6 11.d4 Bxa2 12.Rxa2 Re8 Drawn after 30 moves.] 9...Be6 10.Bxe6 fxe6 11.Be3 Qe8 12.Nbd2 Nh5 13.c3 Qg6 Diagram #

[Both players have seen that black's occu-pation of the f-file is not important: 13...Nf4 14.Bxf4 Rxf4 15.a4 b4 16.Qb3 Rf6 17.cxb4 Rb8 18.b5 Nd4 19.Nxd4 exd4 20.Qc4 axb5 21.axb5 Rxb5 22.Qxc7 Rxb2 23.Nc4 Rb3 24.Rfb1±] 14.a4 b4 15.Qb3 Rfb8 16.Qc2 [White is angling for a quiet positional ad-vantage with play in the centre. If 16.a5 Nd8 (if 16...bxc3 17.Qxc3 Qe8 18.Rfd1²) 17.Qc4 c5=] 16...Rb7 17.d4! bxc3 18.bxc3 exd4 19.Nxd4! Nxd4 20.cxd4 Rab8

Diagram # [If black tries to get rid of his passive bishop, he has to pay dearly: 20...Bg5 21.Qc6! Rab8 22.Rfb1 Rxb1+ 23.Rxb1 Rxb1+ 24.Nxb1 Bxe3 25.fxe3 h6 26.Nd2² As black's queen-side pawns are scattered and easy prey for the white queen, his posi-tional advantage is clear.] 21.Rab1! Rxb1 22.Rxb1 Rxb1+ 23.Qxb1 Qe8 24.Qc2 Qd7 25.Qc4± White is completely dominating.

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Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron25...a5 26.d5!+- Kf7 [Black cannot afford to close the centre for if 26...e5 27.Nb3+- and a5 falls.] 27.Nb3 [Even stronger was: 27.Nf3 g6 28.Nd4 exd5 29.Qxd5+ Ke8 30.Qg8+ Bf8 31.Ne6 Qf7 32.Qxf7+ Kxf7 33.Nxc7+-] 27...Nf6 28.Nxa5 exd5 29.exd5 Qf5 30.Nc6! White knows that his a-pawn is a strong candidate to win this game and makes way for its advance, sacrificing his d-pawn. 30...Qxd5 31.Qxd5+ Nxd5 32.a5! Nc3 [If 32...Nxe3 33.fxe3 and black's bishop cannot con-trol the key a7 square which white's passed pawn would cross in just two more moves.] 33.a6 Nb5 34.Nxe7 The simplest way to win. 34...Kxe7 35.a7 Nxa7 36.Bxa7 c5 37.Kf1 There were other attractive moves like 37 f4, but white wants to make absolutely sure that there is no mishap anywhere! 37...Kd7 Diagram #

38.Bb8! [Played with great precision and an eye out for lurking danger! If here 38.Ke2? Kc7! 39.Kd3 Kb7 40.Bxc5 dxc5 41.Kc4 Kc6 and the game should be drawn.] 38...Kc6 39.Ke2 d5 40.Kd3 Kb5 41.f4 g6 42.Bd6 d4 43.Be7 Kc6 44.Kc4 1–0

Sharma,Dinesh K (2238) Deepan,Chak-kravarthy J (2516)

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6

5.Nc3 a6 6.Be3 e6 7.f3 b5 8.g4 Nfd7 9.Qd2 Nb6 10.0–0–0 N8d7 11.Ndxb5 axb5 12.Nxb5 Be7N [This move had been, in all probability, well researched by black who displays original ideas. 12...Ba6 was successfully tried by J.Borisek, 2506, in the 2007 Vidmar Memorial against B.Jeran, 2153.] 13.Nxd6+ Kf8 14.Kb1 Ba6 15.b3 Qb8 16.c4 Ne5 17.Nb5 Diagram #

17...h5 [Highly exciting play follows: 17...Nxf3!? 18.Qf2 attacks both knights forcing one of them to sacrifice himself! 18...Nxc4 19.Bxc4 Ne5 20.Bc5 Bxb5 21.Bxe7+ Kxe7 22.Qc5+ Kf6 23.Bxb5 (23.Qxb5 Qc7=) 23...Rc8 24.Rhf1+ Kg6 25.Qe7 Ra7! (25...Qxb5 26.Rxf7! Rc1+! (or 26...Nxf7 27.Qxe6+ Kg5 28.Qxf7! Kh6 29.h4! (threat 30 Qf4+ mating!)) 27.Rxc1 Qd3+ 28.Rc2 Qd1+ 29.Rc1 Qd3+=) 26.Qh4 h6³] 18.f4 Bxb5 [If 18...Nxg4 19.Bd4 Bxb5 20.cxb5 e5 21.h3 exd4 22.hxg4 h4 23.Qxd4 Qc7 24.Bg2 Rd8 25.Qe3µ White has three pawns for the knight, but as they are all on the queen-side where he has cas-tled, he cannot advance them in the mid-dle-game. He has to wait for the reduction of pieces on the board and that could take a long, long time. Though black's Rh8 is not in play, it has the prospect of entering the

game via h6. Considering all these factors, black's chances of winning outweigh white's of drawing.] 19.cxb5 Nxg4 20.Bd4

Diagram # 20...e5! 21.fxe5?! [21.h3 as shown in the analysis to the 18th move was better.] 21...Nxe5 22.Qf2 Nbd7 23.Rg1 [If 23.Bc4 Rh6! 24.Rhg1 Rf6 25.Qc2 g6µ Black has a solid position and on the road to victory.] 23...Rh6 24.Bh3 Rf6 25.Qg3 Rg6 26.Qc3 Rxg1 27.Rxg1–+ Qxb5! [This is stronger than 27...Bf6 which also wins: 28.Bxd7 Nxd7 29.Bxf6 Nxf6 30.Qc5+ Kg8 and black's last try to gain perpetual check fails: 31.Rxg7+!? Kxg7 32.Qg5+ Kf8 33.Qxf6 Qb7 34.Qh8+ Ke7 35.Qe5+ Kd7 36.Qf5+ Kd6! 37.Qf6+ Kc5 and black has no perpetual check.] 28.Bxd7 Nxd7 29.Bxg7+ Ke8 White's extra pawns are far, far away from the eighth rank. 30.Qc2 Qc5 31.Qxc5 Nxc5 32.Bd4 Nxe4 33.Rg8+ Bf8 34.Rh8 [If 34.Bg7 Ke7 35.Rh8 (35.Bxf8+ Rxf8–+) 35...f5 36.Bxf8+ Rxf8 37.Rxh5 Ke6–+ Black's last pawn wins the game.] 34...Rd8 35.Bb2 Rd5 36.a4 Rd1+ 37.Ka2 Rd2 Diagram #

[Maybe white lost on time here as this is not yet a resignable position. After 37...Rd2 38.Kb1! (38.Rxh5?? Nc3+ 39.Ka1 Rd1+ 40.Bc1 Ba3! mates.) 38...Ke7 39.Ba3+ Nd6! 40.Rxh5 Bg7 41.a5 Black's material advan-tage may not be enough to win. For exam-ple, after 41...Ke6 42.Bxd6 Kxd6 43.Rh7 Rb2+ 44.Kc1 Rg2 45.b4 the battle is still on.] 0–1

Gopal,G.N (2593) Sudhakar,Prem Dutt (1737) [B27]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 g6 3.c3 Bg7 4.d4 cxd4 5.cxd4 d5 6.e5 Bg4 7.Bb5+ Nd7 8.Nbd2 a6 9.Bd3 e6 10.h3 Bxf3 11.Nxf3 Ne7 12.0–0 Nc6 [Vovsha, 2442, vs Wojtkiewicz, 2564, New York Rapid, 2004 went: 12...Qb6 13.Be3 0–0 14.Qd2 Nc6 15.h4 Qb4 16.Qe2 f6 17.exf6 Nxf6 18.Ng5 Rae8 .... 64.0–1] 13.Re1 0–0 14.h4 Qb6 15.Be3 h5? [This irreparably weakens black's castled position encouraging combinative play by white. Bet-ter was to use one of the French Defense's basic ideas: attack white's apex pawn with: 15...f6 16.exf6 Nxf6 17.Ng5 Rae8 18.Rc1 Re7÷ (18...Nxd4?? 19.Bxg6+-) ] 16.Ng5 Nb4? [This second weak move in a row is guaranteed to lose. It would have been good if it had resulted in the white bishop moving

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Diagram # He intends 18...Nf8 to strength-en his g6, but it is too late! 18.Nxf7!! Kxf7 19.Qf3+ Kg8 20.Bxg6+- Not only is 21 Bxe8 threatened, but also 21 Qxh5. 20...Re7 21.Bg5 Nf8 22.Bxe7 Nxg6

Diagram # 23.Bf6?! [One can understand white's idea of directly finishing off black on the king-side. But easier, and precise, was: 23.Bc5!

Qb5 24.a4! Qa5 25.Rec1 (25.Qxh5 Nf4 26.Qg4 Nbd3 27.b4 Qc7 28.Re3+-) 25...Nxh4 26.Qg3 Nf5 27.Qg6 Amazingly, 28 Qxe6+ cannot be prevented!] 23...Rf8? [Black misses his chance to attain equality with: 23...Bxf6! 24.Qxf6 Kh7= If any body has a slight advantage in this position, it is black!] 24.Qxh5 Bxf6 25.Qxg6+ Bg7 26.Rad1 White's simple plan is h4-h5-h6. 26...Qc6 Diagram #

27.a3! Qc2 [If 27...Nc2? 28.Rc1 and the knight is pinned against the queen and should be lost.] 28.Qxc2 [Also winning was: 28.Qxe6+ Kh7 29.Rf1 Nc6 30.f4+-] 28...Nxc2 29.Re2! The knight has no escape! 29...Nxd4 30.Rxd4 Rc8 31.g3 Rc1+ 32.Kg2 b5 33.f4 Bf8 34.f5! Bc5 35.Rg4+ Kf8 36.fxe6 Ke7 37.h5 Kxe6 38.h6 Rd1 1–0

Meenakshi,Subbaraman WGM (2193) Aparajita,Gochhikar CM (1740) [D30]1.d4 d5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.c4 c6 4.e3 e6 5.b3 Bb4+ 6.Nbd2 Nbd7 7.Bd3 Qc7 [Aronian 2744 vs Van Wely, Amber Rapid, 2007 went: 7...e5 8.dxe5 Bc3 9.exf6 Bxa1 10.fxg7 Bxg7 .... 53. Draw] 8.Bb2 0–0 9.a3 Bxd2+ 10.Qxd2 Re8 [10...Rd8 threatening 11....dxc4 and later ... e5 was a better plan.] 11.0–0 Diagram #

11...h6? On general principles, one should not move the pawns in ones castled posi-tion as it would weaken his pawn structure and present the opponent with objects for attack. Bettter were ....b6 as well as ....a5 though white would still be better. 12.Rac1 a5 13.Ne5 [This early skirmish in the centre gives some breathing space for black. Better was 13.Qc2! which would have given white a firm advantage.] 13...Nxe5 14.dxe5 Nd7 [If 14...dxc4 15.Bxc4 Rd8 16.Qe2 Nd7 17.Rfd1! Nb6 18.Bd3 Nd5 19.Bb1 with a great advantage for white.] 15.f4 [Better was the more orthodox, patient 15.Qc3 which would make black feel suffocated and imagine all kinds of strangulation!] 15...Nc5 16.Bc2 dxc4 [16...Rd8 17.Bd4 dxc4 18.bxc4 b6 when white's position has lost some of its teeth!] 17.bxc4 Rd8 18.Bd4 b6 19.Qe2 Ba6 [Better was 19...Nd7 for ....Nf8 and eventually ....g6 putting up a solid defence to his king.] 20.Rf3! Diagram

With both of her bishops already pointing at white's king-side, the rook also joins in for a massive attack. 20...Nd7 21.Rg3 Nf8 22.Qg4 g6 23.Qh4 White's pieces are bristling with threats, the main one being f4-f5 giving life to his muzzled Bd4. 23...Kg7 24.f5+- exf5 25.e6+ Rxd4 26.Qxd4+ Kh7 27.Bxf5! Nxe6 28.Bxe6 fxe6 29.Qe4 Qg7 [If 29...Qf7? 30.Rf1 Qg7 31.Rxg6 Qxg6 32.Rf7++-] 30.h4! h5 31.Rg5 (threat 32. Rxh5+) 31...Kh6 32.Qxc6 With the game safely in her pocket, white goes pawn pick-ing! 32...Rf8 33.Qxb6 Qf6 Black threatens perpetual checks with Qf2+ and Qxh4+. 34.Qd4! Diagram # 34...Qf2+ 35.Kh2 Bb7 36.Rg3 Kh7 37.Rb1 Bc6 38.Rb2 [As the black queen has been rendered toothless, white need not chase it away. Better was to go for fresh conquests with the

simple: 38.Rb6! Be8 39.Rxe6+-] 38...Qf5 39.Rb6 e5 40.Qd6 Be4 41.Rb5 Re8 42.Rxa5 1–0

Padmini,Rout (2325) Vijayalaksh-mi,Subbaraman (2352)

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 e5 5.Nb5 d6 6.c4 Be7 7.N1c3 a6 8.Na3 Be6 9.Bd3 Rc8 10.0–0 Nf6 11.b3 This is a pop-ular variation in the Sicilian Defence known

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Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron Annotated by IM Manuel Aaronas the Lowenthal and Kalashnikov line. 11...Nb4 12.Bb2N Nd7 13.Nc2 Nxc2 14.Qxc2 0–0 15.Rad1 Qa5 16.Qd2 Moving away the queen from the c-file where a black rook is likely to strike by b7-b5 and planning the stroke Nd5! 16...Rfd8 17.Bb1

Diagram # 17...Bf8 [Worth considering here was the traditional way of attacking white's Maroczy Bind set up against the Si-cilian Defence with: 17...b5 18.cxb5 axb5 19.Nd5 Qxd2 20.Nxe7+ Kf8 21.Ng6+ hxg6 22.Rxd2 Ke7=] 18.Qe2 Nf6 19.Nd5 Bxd5 20.exd5 Qc5 21.Kh1! White's intentions are clear. She is going to launch a king-side attack starting with f2-f4 21...Re8 22.f4 Nd7 23.Qg4 Rc7 [23...Qc7 24.Rde1 Rcd8 25.Bf5 h6 26.Re2 Nf6 27.Qf3 b5 28.Bd3 Qb8 29.Bc3± White has more space and the freer game.] 24.Bf5 Nf6 25.Qh4 h6 26.fxe5 dxe5 27.Bb1 Nh7 28.Qh5 Bd6 29.Qg4 b5 30.Bc1 Kh8 31.Qe4 Nf8 32.Be3 Qb4 33.Bd3 Qa5 Diagram #

34.c5! Qxa2 [Black must give up the bishop for if 34...Bxc5 35.Bxc5 Rxc5 36.Rxf7 Kg8 37.Rdf1+- White threatens 38 Rxf8+ and 39 Qh7#; or 34...Be7 35.Rxf7! for Rxf8+ and Qh7#] 35.cxd6 Rd7 36.b4 Kg8 37.Bc5 g6 38.Qg4 Kh7 Facing the might of Black's combined forces, and pushed into a corner, black no longer has any saving move. A lesser player would look for a painless way of end-ing the game, but not Vijayalakshmi who is famed for her stubbornness and never-say-die attitude in the face of intense pressure. 39.Qe2!

Diagram # white wants to exchange off the black queen as that is the only black piece in the game now. Understandably, black avoids it and lands her queen in her half of the board giving company to her other non-functioning pieces. 39...Qb3 40.Bc2 Qc3 41.Rd3 Qc4 42.Bb3 Qh4 43.Rh3 Qd8 Back to square 1. 44.Qe3 h5 45.g4! The final blow. 1–0

Problem Worldby C.G.S.Narayanan

Holst promotionThe promotions in problem chess, both by white and black, follow the general rules of the game but the choice of black promotion is only between a queen (which combines the powers of rook and bishop) and knight. On similar lines, promotions to WQ or WB after a black defence is not considered a dual. In Holst theme, a threat is defeated initially by a specific promotion of a black pawn. The foreplan forces the promotion of this black Pawn to a different piece, so that the original defence is no longer available.The diagram below is a lucid example where an initial try 1.Rc3? inducing threat Ba7 is defeated by 1…a1=Q!

J.Fritz4 Pr, Praca 1950

Mate in three movesAfter key 1.Rb3! white threatens discovered check 2.Ba5+ followed by 3.Bh3.Now the defence 1…a1=N controls the battery but lets in the original 2.Rc3! followed by 3.Ba7.The classic miniature below doubles the Holst theme with ease. 1.Rc8?(2.Rc3 is met by 1…e1Q! and 1.Rd8?(2.Rd3) is countered by 1…e1N!. The key 1.Rg8!(2.Rg3) induces a knight promotion on f1.After 1…f1N 2.Rd8 will now work as 2….e1N is followed by 3.Rc8 (4.Rc3).A logical problem with two consecutive foreplans after which

the main line succeeds. E.M.H.Guttmann

Miniatures Startegiques 1935

Mate in four movesIn the third problem below the white king while unpinning WNd5 has to decide on the square to which it has to move and BPb2 provides Holst interest.

G.ZahodjakinI Prize, Rochade(Miniatures)1980

Mate in three movesKey 1.Kc3 ! threat:2.Nc7 1...b1=N+ 2.Kb4 threat:3.Nc72...Qxd5 3.Bxd5 #2...Qf8+ 3.Ne71...Qg3+2.Ne3 1...Qg7 2.Nf6+2...Qb7 3.Qxb7 1...Qh8 +2.Nf6White forces the black check by the black knight on b1 and then moves to a square safe from further checks from the promoted piece.

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Tactics from master games by S.Krishnan

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

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

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

(solutions on p.47)

Test your endgame by C.G.S.Narayanan

V&M Platov 1906 C.J.deFeijter 1932

1. 2. Ph.Stamma 1937 W.Prokurowski 1965

3. 4. Yochanan Afek 1973 H.Rinck 1923

5. 6.

White to play and win in all the six endings above (Solutions on page 47)

 

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2nd Dalmia Cements All India Open FIDE Rating Chess Tournament 2018, Mahilong

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(L-R) Pritam Singh (CEO,AJCA),IM Neeraj Kumar Mishra (Secretary, AJCA) Paramjit Kaur (Principal SBPS), Pradip Verma (President, AJCA) Manish Ranjan IAS (Sports Secretary Jharkand Government) GM Saptarshi Roy Chowdhury,Navjot Alang (Secretary, RDCA),Ashish Kumar Dwivedi, Narahari Das (Chief Accountant, SBPS)

Suresh Nath Narone, Deepak Kumar, Arpan Das,Winner, Chief Guest Sunil Kumar Barnwal (IAS) Chief Secretary Jharkhand,Pradip Verma (President,AJCA),Anil Singh, Rajiv Kumar Sinha (Dy.Manager ,Dalmia Cemia Cements)

Masters of the past-87 Raul Sanguineti

Raúl Carlos Sanguineti (1933-2000) was an Argentine chess Grandmaster. He won the Argentine Chess Championship seven times, in 1956, 1957, 1962, 1965, 1968, 1973 and 1974. Raúl Sanguineti played for Argentina in seven Chess Olympiads. He won two individual gold medals at Moscow 1956 and Varna 1962, and two team bronze medals at Munich 1958 and Varna 1962. In total, he represented his country in seven Olympiads with an aggregate of over 70 per cent . He played in the World Chess Champi-onship Interzonals at Portorož 1958 and Biel 1976.Important tournament victories included São Paulo 1957, Bariloche1960, Buenos Aires (Club Argentino) 1963, Punte del Este 1964, Buenos Aires Open 1968, Fortaleza Zonal 1975, Mar del Plata1976, Buenos Aires 1977, and Santos Lugares 1977. During his competitive career, which ran from 1954 to 1977, he very

rarely finished in the bottom half of the tournament table. In 1980 he won the Konex Award as one of the 5 best chess players of the decade in his country.

Sanguineti began his high-level tournament career at the 1954 Buenos Aires Zonal tournament in Mar del Plata, with a fine mid-place (tie for 7-9th place) finish of 10.5/20. He improved the next year, 1955, with an excellent tie for fourth place at the Argentine Championship at Buenos Aires, where he scored 12/19. Next was the very strong Buenos Aires 1955 event, which featured star Grandmasters Borislav Ivkov, Svetozar Gligorić, Herman Pilnik and Laszlo Szabo, and he could only make 7.5/17 for 13th. But he followed this up with a much better result of third at the annual Mar del Plata International of 1956, which often attracted many of the world's best players during the 1950s and 1960s. There he scored 10.5/15 (tie for 3rd-4th).

Those strong performances earned him selection to the powerful national team, which was one of the world's top teams in the 1950s and 1960s. For example, Argentina finished second and earned team silver team medals at three straight Olympiads: Dubrovnik 1950, Helsinki 1952, and Amsterdam 1954. For Moscow 1956, Sanguineti made his debut on the first reserve board, and played sensationally to win the gold medal with a score of 9/11. Argentina finished fourth.

He played for Argentina at the 1958 World Students' Olympiad at Varna on board two, scoring 6/10. The Interzonal at Portorož was next, and although he failed to qualify further, he scored respectively from the strong field, with 10/20, to place 14th out of 21. On the same trip, he played for Argentina at the 1958 Munich Olympiad, again as first reserve, and scored 9.5/15. Argentina won the team bronze medals with a third-place finish.

By January 1965, Sanguineti had reached a chessmetrics rating of 2677, good for #18 in the world. He had performed at 2699 at Varna 1962. With a 2600 performance generally denot-ing grandmaster standard, it seemed quite clear that Sanguineti deserved a promotion to the higher title, based upon his consistently strong results in good calibre events.He was selected again for Argentina at the Lugano 1968 Olympiad, earning a promotion to board three, where he scored well with 11.5/16.FIDE, the World Chess Federation, awarded him the Grandmaster title in 1982. He died in Buenos Aires at age 67.

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West Bengal Under-11 Championships 2018, Kolkata

Alekhya Mukhopadhyay Receiving Champion Trophy(Girls) from Mr. Bratyo Basu,MIC,WB State & GM Dibyendu Barua

Sinthia Sarkar Receiving Champion Trophy(Girls) from Mr. Bratyo Basu,MIC,WB State & GM Dibyendu Barua

Solutions to ‘Tactics from master games’ on page 421.Jarmula,Lukasz (2498) Saydaliev,Saidakbar (2349) [E04]Moscow Moscow (5.24), 24.02.2018White to play. 23.Rxc8! Rxc8 24.Nf6+! gxf6 25.Qf3 (Threatening 26.Qg4Ch and 27.Qh5.- mate to follow.) If 25...Kh8 26.Qh5 Black cannot avoid mate. 1–02.Triantos,Konstantinos (2062)Markidis,K (2372) [C07]4th Vardaris Open 2018 Thessaloniki GRE (4.4), 17.02.2018Black to play. 22...Bd3! 23.Qd1 [23.Qxd3 Nxf3+ 24.Qxf3 Qxa1+–+; 23.Qe1 Nc2–+; 23.Qc1 Ne2+–+] 23...Be2 24.Qe1 [24.Qb1 Nc2 25.Qxc2 Qxa1+–+] 24...Bxf3 24...Bxf3 25.Nxf3 Nc2–+]0–13.Morozevich,A (2665) Nozdrachev,L (2410) [C65]RUS Rapid GP Serpukhov Serpukhov RUS (6.10), 23.02.2018White to play. 27.Bxd5+! [Rc6, Re8] 27...Qxd5 [27...Nxd5 28.Qxg7#] 28.Rxe8+ Kh7 [28...Nxe8 29.Qxd5++-; 28...Kf7 29.Rb8+-] 29.Qxd5+- 1–04.Kobalia,M (2599)Vastrukhin,O (2409) [C09]Kolomna Rapid 2018 Moscow RUS (4.2), 16.02.2018White to play. 20.Qxg6! Threatening 21.Qh7Ch followed by 22.Qh8 mate 20...fxg5 21.Re7 Nxe7 22.Qxb6 Kh7 23.Qxb7 Ng6 24.Rd1+- 1–05.Anand,V (2776)Grischuk,A (2767) [B31]11th Tal Mem Rapid 2018 Moscow RUS (8), 04.03.2018White to play. 27.Ng5+!! hxg5 28.Rxf7+ Qxf7 [28...Rg7 29.Qxe6+-] 29.hxg5+ Kg7 [29...Kg6 30.Qh6#] 30.Qh6# 1–0

6.Stany,G (2494) Mastalerz,X (2252) [C05]34th Cappelle Open 2018 Cappelle la Grande FRA (2.9), 04.03.2018White to play 19.Rf6! Nd7 [19...Na4 20.Bxa4 Rxa4 21.Nh5+-; 19...gxf6 20.Qxh6 threat-ening 21.Nh5 followed by mate. 20...Nf5 21.Nhxf5 Bxf5 22.Nh5 Wins] 20.Rxh6 g6 [20...Ra6 21.Nh5 Bg4 22.Bh7+ Kh8 23.Qg5! Bxh5 24.Bg6+ Kg8 25.Rh8+ Kxh8 26.Qxh5+ Kg8 27.Qh7#; 20...f6 21.Bh7+ Kf7 (21...Kh8 22.Bf5+ Kg8 23.Bxe6++-) 22.Nh5 Ra6 (22...gxh6 23.Qxh6 Ke8 24.Ng7+ Kf7 25.Rf1 Win-ning) 23.exf6 Nxf6 24.Nxg7‚ Kxg7 25.Qg5+ Kf7 26.Rxf6++-] 21.Rh8+! Kxh8 22.Qh6+ Kg8 23.Nh5 [23.Nh5 gxh5 (23...Nf5 24.Nxf5 Wins) 24.Qh7#] 1–0

Solutions to ‘Test your endgame’ on page 431.V&M Platov 19061.c6 b3 (1…Bc3 2.Bf4 wins) 2.c7 Bg3+ (2…b2 3.c8Q b1Q 4.Qf5+) 3.Kxg3 b2 4.c8B (4.c8Q? b1Q 5.Qf5+ Ke2 and both 6.Qxb1 and Qxg4+ Ke1 will leave white with only a draw) Ke4 (4….Kc2 5.Bf5+ Kb3 6.Bb1) 5.Kxg4 wins.2.C.J.deFeijter 19321.Ng8 Bf5 2.Ne7 Be6 3.Ng6+ Kxh7 4.Nf8+wins3.Ph.Stamma 19371.Bd4 Kxd4 2.b8Q g1Q 3.Qb6+ 4.W.Proskurowski 19651.e7 b1Q 2.e8Q Qh7 3.Kc8 Qg7 4.Qd8 Qf7 5.Qh8 Qe7 6.Qg8 Qd6 7.axb7# 5.Yochanan Afek 19731.e5 Bxe5 2.Ke4 Ne6 3.Kxe5 Nf8 4.h8N Kc5 5.Kf6 Kd6 6.Nf7+ Kc7 7.Ne5 Nh7+ 8.Ke7 Ng5 9.Bf5 6.H.Rinck 19231.Bh6+ Ke8 2.Bg7 c2 3.Ke6 Kd8 4.Rb8+ Kc7 5.Be5+ Kc6 6.Rxg8 c1Q 7.Rc8+

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AICF Calendar April 2018

Asian Youth Ch’ships U 8,10,12,14,16 and 18 31 Mar - 10 Apr Chiangmai Thailand 1st TCS FIDE Rated open 02 Apr - 07 Apr Hisar,Haryana 3rd Don Bosco FIDE Rated 07 Apr - 10 Apr Irinjalakuda,KL 2nd Sri Anand Wings Open FIDE Rating 1500 13 Apr - 15 Apr Guntur Karnataka State Rated Open Championship 14 Apr - 18 Apr Koramangala 2nd Sardar Prakash Singh Memorial FIDE Rated 17 Apr - 22 Apr Sonipat, Haryana 1st ARMS Open Rapid FIDE Rating 21 Apr - 22 Apr Thane TN State Open Chess Championship 26 Apr - 30 Apr Dharmapuri 4 Queens 1st open FIDE Chess Tournament 28 Apr - 01 May Ernakulam 1st IGMSA All India Open FIDE Rating Tmt 29 Apr - 04 May Secunderabad, Telangana National Rapid and blitz 2018 02 May - 06 May Ahmedabad,Gujarat KCA 17th below 1400 FIDE Rating 04 May - 06 May Kottayam Late Bharatbai Halkude Mem.st FIDE Rating 05 May - 10 May Pune 2nd IGMSA All India Tournament Below 1500 05 May - 07 May Secunderabad, Telanga Chess in Lakecity FIDE Rating below 1700 08 May - 10 May Udaipur, Late Bharatbai Halkude Mem FIDE Rating 1600 11 May - 13 May Pune TN State Under - 11 Open & Girls - 2018 11 May - 15 May KanchipuramKasparov below 1600 FIDE Rated 12 May - 14 May ThrissurKolkata Intl.Grandmaster Open tournament 14 May - 22 May KolkataTN State Under - 17 Open & Girls - 2018 16 May - 20 May NagercoilOdisha Open GM Chess Tmt 2018 24 May -31 May Bhubaneshwar11th Mayor's Cup International GM event 03 Jun - 10 Jun Mumbai, 32nd National Under - 13 ( Open & Girls ) 2018 14 Jun - 22 Jun Ahmedabad, Gujarat AICF Women Round Robin 14 Jun - 21 Jun Mumbai . Gandhi - Kamaraj Mem. FIDE Rating below 1600 15 Jun - 17 Jun Chennai Chess in Lakecity FIDE Rating Rapid 23 Jun - 24 Jun Udaipur,RJ Commonwealth Chess Championship 2018 25 Jun - 04 Jul Delhi-32 29th Cusat FIDE Rating 28 Jun - 01 Jul Kochi ,Kerala 4 Queens 1st below 1500 FIDE Chess Tmt 13 Jul - 15 Jul Ernakulam, All India Below 1500 FIDE Rating 14 Jul - 16 Jul Hyderabad National Under - 7 ( Open & Girls ) 2018 16 Jul - 24 Jul Mandya, Karnataka

Solution to ‘Puzzle of the month’ on page 20 1.Nc3 d5 2.Nxd5 f6 3.Nxf6+ Kf7 4.Ne8 Kxe8

(L-R) : Dr. Om Sahu, VP Chess in Lakecity, Mr.Shatrudhan Bandwal, President Buddhibal Seva sansthan, Shri Prem Singh Shaktawat, Secretary BJP Udaipur, Ms. Swati Agarwal, MD Hotel Radisson Blue , Mr. Aditya Shah, CEO G D Goenka, Mr. Rajeev Bhardwaj, President Chess in lakecity, Mr.Vikas sahu, Secretary Chess in Lakecity, Standing: All Winners with Chief Arbiter IA Swapnil Bansod (extreme right)

Shri.M.C. Sampath, Hon'ble Minister for Industries, Government of Tamil Nadu Presenting the Assist World Record to Shri.S.Srinivasan, Chairman and Managing Trustee of Edify School, Cuddalore (L-R) Smt. S. Indhumathi Srinivasan, Director, Edify School, Shri S. Srinivasan, Chairman and Managing Trustee, Shri M.C. Sampath, Hon'ble Minister for Industries, Government of Tamil Nadu, IA Balaraman S, Chief Arbiter of the Tournament and Shri.Sanjan, Principal, Edify School.

The 2nd Holi Cup Lakecity Open FIDE Rating Tournament, Udaipur

FM Sauravh Kherdekar receiving the trophy from Ms. Swati Agarwal, MD Hotel Radisson Blue

(L-R) Shri. Chandra Singh Kothari, Mayor, Udaipur City, making move on board, opp- GM B Adhiban, Shri, Rajiv Bharadwaj, Shri Vikas Sahu, Shri. Ashok Bhargawa are looking on