AICF CHRONICLE - India Chess Federation

AICF CHRONICLE
the official magazine of the All India Chess Federation
Volume : 8
Issue : 11
Price Rs. 25
May 2015
National Rapid & Blitz Chess Championship 2015, Rourkela
GM Debashis Das
National Rapid Champion
IM K.Ratnakaran
National Blitz Champion
AICF CHRONICLE
MAY 2015
Room No. 70,
Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium,
Chennai - 600 003.
Ph : 044-65144966 /Telefax : 044-25382121
E-mail : indianchessfed@gmail.com
Publisher: V. Hariharan
Editor
: C.G.S. Narayanan
Price: Monthly Rs.25 Annual Rs.300
Inside...
1st Physically Disabled National Individual Chess
Championship 2015,Trichy
Jennitha and Karthik win titles
IA Anantharam R, Chief Arbiter
1
2nd ACCF FIDE Rated Open , Calicut…
Shyam Nikhil wins
by L.R. Bhuvanaa Sai, IA, Chief Arbiter
2
Karnataka State Open FIDE Rated …
Shivananda is Champion
From the Editor’s desk
It is delightful news for Indian
chess fans that Vishy Anand
has broken into 2800 elo yet
again after 2011 and has also
climbed to the spot in ranking
behind World Champion Magnus
Carlsen after a four-year hiatus. His impressive
performance at the Gashimov Memorial Tourney
last month outclassing most of the young guns
speaks volumes about the resilience of this fivetime World Champion.
by Vasanth BH, Chief Arbiter7
Karnataka State U 13 Open FIDE Rated
Aditya Kalyani wins title
FASaleem Beig,Chief Arbiter9
Maharashtra State Open & Women FIDE Rating Nagpur
Pruthu Deshpande and Tejaswini Sagar win
IA Swapnil Bansod,Chief Arbiter
11
National Rapid & Blitz Chess Championship-2015,Rourkela
Debashis Das and Ratnakaran win titles
by Rajendra Shidore,IA,Chief Arbiter14
56th Odisha State Senior FIDE Rating,Puri…
Rakesh Kumar Nayak wins title
Suresh Chandra Sahoo, Chief Arbiter16
Late Motilalji Firodia Memorial FIDE Rating Ahmednagar
Sameer Kathmale is champion
by IA Nitin Shenvi,Chief Arbiter18
Dr. Hedgewar Fide Rated, New Delhi
Pravin Thipsay wins title
by IA Dharmendra Kumar,Chief Arbiter22
1st Thali Yuva Sangh Open FIDE Rating
Sinha Santosh Kumar is the winner
IA I G Parmar,Chief Arbiter
30
Selected games from National Team Chess
Championships,Goa & Kolkata GM Open
annotated by IM Manuel Aaron
Tactics from master games
32
By Srinivas Krishnan41
AICF Calendar48
Readers are invited to offer their feedback on the regular
features in the AICF Chronicle and are also invited to
send interesting articles, annotated games and chess
anecdotes to the Editor at ‘www.indianchessfed@gmail.
com’ or ‘cgsnarayanan@hotmail.com.
Our women team though missing out on a medal
finished a creditable fourth at the World Women
Team Chess Championship at Chengdu,China.
Harika Dronavalli and Koneru Humpy bagged
individual silver and bronze medals for their
performances on second and top boards
respectively. Our men team disappointed with a
lowly ninth placing. Reports on the World team
chess Championships with photographs are
featured in the centre pages of this isue.
Debashis Das won the rapid title and Ratnakaran
the Blitz at the National Rapid and Blitz
Championships held at the steel city,Rourkela.
Report on this National along with FIDE rated
tournaments held in April 2015 are presented
in this issue. Selected games are from National
Team Chess Championship and Kolkata GM
Open annotated by IM Manuel Aaron. GM Ludek
Pachman is featured in the ‘Masters of the past’
series.
C.G.S.Narayanan
1st Physically Disabled National Individual Chess Championship 2015,Trichy
Jennitha and Karthik win titles
IA Anantharam R, Chief Arbiter
Physically Disabled National Individual Chess Championship 2015, first of its kind in India was organised by Trichy District Physically Disabled Chess Association at Pavendhar
Bharathidasan College of Engineering and Technology, Trichy from 16th to 19th April 2015.
The seven round Swiss format tournament, with a time control of 90 minutes each and 30
seconds increment from move 1 was attended by 26 participants from five states – Tamil
Nadu, AP, Karnataka, Pondicherry and Maharashtra. Fide Master Venkata Krishna Karthik of
AP was the top seed followed by WIM and women world champion for physically disabled
person JennithaAnto of the host association.The tournament is of special importance, as
the physically disabled players exhibited their prowess. ShaileshNerlikar’s both legs are immobilised; he cannot even sit and has to play only by lying on the table. He has a rating of
1565! Many players needed assistants to record the moves and operate the clock.
In the inaugural round, top seed Venkata Krishna Karthik, who defeated a grandmaster
and many IMs in Serbia recently was stretched to the full distance by unrated Gunasekaran of TN before emerging victorious. In the second round, Annadurai of TN, rated 1572
was beaten by young Karnataka boy Samarth J Rao, who has to be carried by his father
everywhere and could not sit for a long time properly. At the end of fourth round, Karthik
had four points and JennithaAntohad 3.5 points.In the crucial clash between the top two
seeds, Jennitha subdued Karthik to surge ahead with 4.5 points, along with SathyaMoorthy
of Pondicherry. Jennitha had no difficulty in beating unrated Senthil Kumar in the sixth and
penultimate round, to emerge sole leader with 5.5 points, with Karthik on 5 points. Both
Jennitha and Karthik won their final round encounters with their respective opponents;
thus Jennitha winning the women title and Venkata Krishna Karthik, the men title and they
received Rs.10000 each. Samarth J Rao and Shailesh Nerlikar scored five points each and
better tiebreak score helped Samarth to finish second in the men section.Senthil Kumar has
secured rating in this tournament, and two others opened their account. The credit goes to
Samarth, who has earned about 115 rating points in this tournament.
Mr.V. Hariharan, General Secretary of TN State Chess Association and Secretary of AICF
distributed the prizes in the august presence of Dr.Arun MBBS., Managing Trustee, Pavendar
Bharathidasan Institutions and President of Tamil Nadu Physically Disabled Chess Association. Earlier on the first day, Dr.Arun inaugurated the tournament, in the presence of Mrs.
Uma Arun, Director of PBI and Mrs. MP Aamenabi, Vice President, TNPDCA.
Final placings:
1. Jennitha Anto K., 2.Venkata Krishna Karthik K , 3.Samarth J Rao, 4.Nerlikar Shailesh,
5. Sathya Moorthy, 6.Yesu Babuk, 7. Manikandan Rajangam, 8.Jahir Hussain.A,
9. Senthil Kumar Sundaram, 10. Uday Kumar Tummagunta.
AICF CHRONICLE
MAY 2015
1
2nd ACCF FIDE Rated Open Chess Tournament, Calicut…
1st Physically Disabled National Individual Championship 2015,Trichy
Shyam Nikhil wins
by L.R. Bhuvanaa Sai, IA, Chief Arbiter
The 2nd ACCF FIDE Rated Open Chess Tournament was inaugurated by Shri Purushan
Kadalundi, MLA,Kerala against the international master Shyam Nikhil of Tamilnadu at
New Nalanda hotel on 3rd April at 11 am.
Mr. Nirmal Das secretary of ACCF delivered
Welcome Address in the presence of the
chief guest shri Kamal Varadhu, president of
press club and Shri Preman, the president of
Anand Chess and Cultural Forum. With the
total prize fund of 1, 63,500 this event attracted 331 participants from 2 federations,
(India and England) 8 states, union territory (Pondicherry), special units like BSNL,
ICF and LIC which includes 3 International
Masters, a Fide master, a women fide master
and 2 candidate masters.
Top seed players sailed smoothly to the
2nd round. In 2nd round 15 years old boy
Narendran of TN drew with IM Ramanathan
Balasubramanian. 11 players shared their
lead with full points at the end of 4th round.
During 7thround 7 players led the top tables
with 5.5 points each. After this round IM
Shyam Nikhil took sole lead and maintained
in the next round also. At the end of penultimate round Shyam, IM Praveen Kumar
and Phoobalan of ICF and Fide Master Maheswaran of TN were the joint leaders with
7 points each. In final round Shyam Nikhil
beat Phooblan of ICF and won the 2nd ACCF
Open fide rating chess tournament title with
8 points. The champion bagged Rs. 25,000
cash award with trophy. Praveen Kumar of
ICF and Maheswaran of TN drew with each
other with 7.5 points each. Better tie break
2
AICF CHRONICLE
MAY 2015
helped Maheswaran to finish 2nd place and
received 15,000 cash award with trophy.
Ram S Krishnan of BSNL beat Gavi Siddaya
of Karnataka and finished 3rd spot with 7.5
points and received 10,000 cash award with
trophy. T.J Suresh Kumar, treasurer, Chess
Association Kerala distributed the prizes to
the winners.
Final standings: Rk Name
1 Shyam Nikil P IM
2 Maheswaran P FM
3 Ram S. Krishnan
4 Lakshmi Narayanan Mv
5 Praveen Kumar C IM
6 Visveshwar A
7 Subramanian Pl
8 Prakashram R
9 Arjun Satheesh
10 Kunal M.
11 Mohammed Dilshad
12 Phoobalan P.
13 Iniyan P
14 Anilkumar O.T.
15 Jos Paul Davis
16 Chandar Raju
17 Akhilan E M
18Prasannaa.S
19 Arjun K.
20 Varma Shabdhik
21 Athul Krishna S
22 Sreekumar P.
23 RBalasubramaniam IM
24 Raju O A
25 Subramanian R M
26 Arjun Kalyan
27 Arjun Adappa
28 Gavi Siddayya
29 Santoshkashyap Hg
Pts
8
7½
7½
7½
7½
7½
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
6½
6½
6½
6½
6½
6½
6½
6½
6½
6½
6½
6½
6½
6½
Champion Venkata Krishna Karthik receives prize from Mr. V. Hariharan,Secretary, AICF
Women champion WIM Jennitha Anto receives the trophy from Mr.V. Hariharan,Secretary, AICF
3
Dr. Hedgewar Fide Rated Chess Tournament, New Delhi
(from left to right) Prabhat Kumar of Prabhat Publication Delhi , Chief Guest Gen. V.K.Singh
, MoS EA Simmy Jain , Chairman , Org. Committee and Wg. Comr. J. Rajendra
(From left to right) Vijay Kumar , DD Sports , Dharmendra Kumar, Chief Arbiter, Shweta Bahal,
Deepa, Prabhat Kumar, Arun Jain, Winner GM Pravin Thipsay, Simmy Jain, Shirish Jain, Pammi
Jain, Purnima Goel, A.K. Verma, Secretary, DCA
4
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
59
60
61
62
63
64
65
66
67
68
69
70
71
72
73
74
75
76
Gukesh D
Sanjay S Pillai
Balasubramanian A.
Bindu Saritha K WFM
Dheekshith Kumar R
Vincent Dave
Mohanan U.C.
Jagadeesh A.K.
Anand Nadar
Sriram B
Marthandan K U
Meghna C H
Banjan Priyadarshan
Bhagya Jayesh
Likhit Chilukuri
Jai Aditya D
Krithigga K
ManuDavid Suthandram Muthukumar C P
Aji Kumar A
Harshavardhan G B
Sreeraman Namboodiri Thorat Aishwarya
Selvamurugan B
Rajeev V.M.
Arijith M
Harikrishnan A Martin Samuel
Sishir B
Santhosh David
Chujeeth Vignesh A
Vinay Thomas Abraham
Dhanasekar K.
Sachin Pradeep
Rahul Bharadwaj B
Ajeesh Antony
Srihari L R
Nithin Babu
Karan J P
Muhammed Shibily N
Poojakanth M.
Deepak K
Isha Sharma
Sreehari G
Madhusoodanan K.R.
John P B
Narendhiran R
6½
6½
6½
6½
6½
6½
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
77 Jayakrishnan P
78 Nitin Shankar Madhu
79 Akash K A
80 Abhiram Sudheesh
81 Eswar Theagarajan
82 Panaiappan S
83 Prabhugaonkar A Aman
84 Rajashakkthivel K K
85 Subramanian V
86 Vaishnav S
87 Adhi Dev K P
88 Dev Shah CM
89 Shah Rishab
90 Prem Krishna N
91 Naveen Kumar T
92 Jibin Varghese John
93 Gautham B
94 Thorat Sanjay
95 Varadharajan S
96 Sibi Visal R
97 Pranav V
98 Jain Aum
99 V Sankaran Brahmaha
100S. Jeevanandam
101Vishnu Ram M
102Shourya Jain
103Avi Jaiswal
104Vathan P H
105Eldho Skaria
106Ithal H L Rajath
107Chandran T.
108Arvind Ramnath Iyer
109Krishna M K Ramanatha
110Swarnamala B
111Neeraj Kumar
112Shreyas Pavan
113Sudheer K B
114Aswin B S
115Ruhaan Mahindru
116Pooja S (2002)
117Senbabu M B
118A C Santhalaya
119Abhiram T
120Subramanian T.V.
121Amisha Arunjay Kumar
122Patil Ketan
123Praveen Kumar G
AICF CHRONICLE
MAY 2015
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
124Rohit Sasidharan
125Nachiketh Adiga
126Adwait Meethal
127Arunachalam Shivaa T 128Swaroopa E T
129Megha K
130Chandramohan K
131Shirodkar Aayush
132Sarath K
133Ashmit Arunjay Kumar
134Sujithraj U Mallan
135Gowtham T S
136Shivani Madhu
137Harshad S
138Afinu Shifan M
139Rakshitta Ravi
140Dawood.K
141Rohit S
142Muralidharan M
143Manika Kesavan
144Niranjan Rajeev
145Gokul N
146Abdul Nazer K
147Ramakrishnan T V
148Razan P
149Denil James
150Manoranjan Kelad
151Govindarajan Suganthi
152Abhiram C Nath
153Murugappan S P
154Shane V Jose
155Jamal Muhammad M
156Mohammed Salih Pk
157Pranav Anand
158Nikhil Magizhnan CM
159Digvijay Sunil
160V Sankaran Swaha
161Gowrichander U
162Vaheeb Shafi Hassan K
163K N Nidhin
164Chirag Mudraje
165Madhavan G
166Kaushik M Khedekar
167Gautham Prasanth
168Tejas Cavale
169John Veny Akkarakarn
170Vasundhara P.
6
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
4½
4½
4½
4½
4½
4½
4½
4½
4½
4½
4½
4½
4½
4½
4½
4½
4½
4½
4½
4½
AICF CHRONICLE
MAY 2015
171Rithunandan R
172Jayanth R J R
173Hiranmayi K
174Dhanesh P H
175Jacob Ragland A
176Guruprasad Gopinath
177Karunakara Menon K
178B Gayatri Harshad
179P Krishna Mukkolath
180Sidharthan C P
181Satheesh A S
182Sreevijay Sunil
183Fathima Abdeen
184Vivekraj
185Rethish Puthanpurayil
186Santhosh S
187Saraf T M
188Abdurahiman Elangoli
189Abhishek T M
190Adhithya C K
191Jithu S Nair
192Moir Donald
193Kamalakannan S
194Murali N P
195Prabhakaran K
196Devathma D
197Rithwik Maya Rajesh
198Subash Aravind B
199Ridhan M Feroz
200Vinothkumar R
201Narendran Gouthaman
202Aswin S
203Goutham Krishna G
204Swetha K
205Mohana R
206Revathi Jyothish
207Harikrishnan S B
208Sharsha Backer
209Shashank S L
210Krishnakumar Arulraj
211Sidharth D
212Aswanth S Kumar
213Deepthi Lakshmi K
214Rao Harsh
215Adeena Arjun
216Dhruv Easwar
217Siri Sharma
4½
4½
4½
4½
4½
4½
4½
4½
4½
4½
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
Karnataka State Open FIDE Rated Chess Championship 2015…
Shivananda is Champion
by Vasanth BH, Chief Arbiter
Karnataka State Open FIDE Rated Chess
Championship 2015 was organised by Karnataka School of Chess, Bangalore, under
the auspices of United Karnataka Chess Association at Kempegowda Hall, Malleswaram
Association, Malleswaram Bangalore from
15-19th April 2015. The championship was
inaugurated by great chess lover and Patron
of United Karnataka Chess Association Mr
Achuthananda Reddy.
A total of 260 players from different parts of
Karnataka participated in this championship,
out of which 135 were International rated
player. International Master Shivananda BS
(ELO Rating 2302) was top seed followed by
FIDE Master Raghunandan K S (2301), Sanjay N (2298), Arvind Shastry (2235), Sriram
Sarja (2169).
At the end of the championship, IM Shivananda BS and Mr N Sanjay scored 7 points
each. Based on better tie break score, IM
Shivananda was adjudged as Champion and
Sanjay was declared second. Mr Arvind Shastry, Prachura PP and other six players score
five and half points out of maximum possible
8 points. Bansed the tie break, Arvind Shastry was third and Prachura PP was place 4th
place respectively.
Mr Arvind Shastry, Secretary, United Karnataka Chess Association, Mr Nagendra
Muralidhar, Secretary, Mysore District Chess
Association, Mr Raghavendra Founder Director, Karnataka School of Chess, International
Master Shivananda B S distributed the prizes.
Final standings:
Rk Name
1 Shivananda B.S IM
Pts
7
2 Sanjay N.
3 Arvind Shastry
4 Prachura P.P.
5 Sriram Sarja
6 Manjunath J.
7 Shreeshan S
8 Aditya Chakraborty
9 Varma Shabdhik
10 Darshan V P S
11 Raghunandan K S FM
12 Kishan Gangolli
13 Santoshkashyap Hg
14 Raghavendra V.
15 Arjun Adappa
16 Parthasarathy R
17 Yashaskara Jois K.R
18 Ojas Kulkarni
19 Raju M.
20 Jagadish P
21 Likhit Chilukuri
22 Sugyan Prakash Maharaj
23 Dhrikshu K Vasant
24 Varun Anant
25 Andria L D`souza
26 Gavi Siddayya
27 Sushrutha Reddy
28 Manasa H R
29 Aman Chandra
30Vivekraj
31 Shyama Krishna S
32 Sriram Udhayakumar
33 Sharan Rao
34 Hariharan Subramony
35 Shalon Joanne Pais
36 Aravinda B R
37 Yajaman Aditya
38 Saket Kumar
39 Iyengar Sharanya WCM
40 Shashank S Mayya
41 Nandan Hegde
AICF CHRONICLE
MAY 2015
7
6½
6½
6½
6½
6½
6½
6½
6½
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
7
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
59
60
61
62
63
64
65
66
67
68
69
70
71
72
73
74
75
76
77
78
79
80
81
82
83
84
85
86
87
88
Supreeth Mohan
Ankit Payal
Thyagaraj M T
Pereira Asim Anthony
Siddharth Murali
Tulsi M
Raghavendra K T
Dubey Amit Kumar
Harish Bn
Muniraju Narayanappa
Ithal H L Rajath
K R Bhat
Chaithanya Ganesh
Nikhilesh Prabhakar
Karthikay C
Abhinav Bhatt
Svatejas Shivakumar
Pranav Anand
Nachiketh Adiga
Venu Madhav P L
Shree Krishna Pranama
Ruthvik R
Ananya Arumbakkam
Amaey Advait
Raghuraman N. R.
Adithya Narayanan
Pramod D Kayasth
Rajat Dhruva Ravindra
Karthik Jagannath
Banthiya Rishabh
Yogesha K S
Ritwik Vasudev Bilgi
Shreyas Pavan
Kanishka Basu
Navodith V Bhat
Gaurav Sharma
Bal Govind
Komal Srivatsav Sajja
Shashidhar Rai B
Sudarshan Bhat
Shivanth M
Sheshashayan M V
Sreedhara K T
Ritesh Dharmatti
Shyam Sunder H S
Mahalinga Gowthama
Sathish Hemant
8
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
4½
4½
4½
4½
4½
4½
4½
4½
4½
4½
4½
4½
4½
4½
4½
AICF CHRONICLE
MAY 2015
89 Shalmika K Jain
90 Akshat Shisodia
91 Shaunak Geetprasad
92 Nidhi Shenoy
93 Shreekanth N
94 Chirag S Agile
95 Adarsh Narayanan
96 Srinivas Murthy N
97 Aryan Rajesh Jain
98 Kaushik J
99 Aravindakshan Su
100Panchami Shenoy K
101Satvik Tripathi
102Chiranjan Kumarr K S
103Lakshvant B
104Prajwal M Joshi
105Harishankar S
106Kaushik G Iyer
107Vedanth Reddy
108Anmol S
109Raghav Srinivas
110Khandelwal Anshul
111Manya Hegde
112Bhagyashree G Patil
113Preetham Gangadhar
114Tejas Cavale
115Rohit Kamath S
116Umesh K M
117Vishwas Jamadagni
118Tanmay Srinath
119Shripad K V
120Varun A Bharadwaj
121Sheshadri L
122Achal P Shetty
123Aakash Rajan
124Saathvick R Shankar
125Chinua Pailoor
126Anjaneyulu Movva
127Agrawal Arnav
128Anudeep K S
129Anjali G Malali
130Kalki Eshwar D
131Prajwal Gupta C R
132Anusha T
133Bhoomish P
134Abhay B Bhandarkar
135Shivshankar B Anehosur
4½
4½
4½
4½
4½
4½
4½
4½
4½
4½
4½
4½
4½
4½
4½
4½
4½
4½
4½
4½
4½
4½
4½
4½
4½
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
Karnataka State U 13 Open FIDE Rated Chess Championship 2015….
Aditya Kalyani wins title
FASaleem Beig,Chief Arbiter
Karnataka State U 13 Open FIDE Rated Chess
Championship 2015 was conducted from 20th
to 23rd April 2015. The 4 day tournament attracted 174 entries and was conducted in a 9
round Swiss format, with two rounds on day
1, 3 rounds on day 2 and day 3 and 1 round
on day 4. The event carried a prize pool of
Rs.34, 500 in cash. And lunch provided two
days for children ,Certificates given for all
Participants. Guests are mr.Aravind Shasthri
secretary of Karnataka UKCA, And Gurukul’S
Sports Manager with A.Chidanand BRDCA
Secretary given the Prizes to Prize Winners
60 players were FIDE Rated and 14 players
were female. The event was organized by
BRDCA talents. Aditya B Kalyani scored 7½
points out of 9 and clinched the championship
with a better buccholz, Bangalore, Karnataka. The event attracted local players and
benefited local.
Final ranking:
Rk Name
1 Aditya B Kalyani
2 Jagadish P
3 Manoj B Kulkarni
4 Shreyash A Kulkarni
5 Pankaj Bhat
6 Aryan Rajesh Jain
7 Shreyas Pavan
8 Nachiketh Adiga
9 Pranav Anand
10 Komal Srivatsav Sajja
11 Shree Krishna Pranama
12 Agrawal Arnav
13 Ritwik Vasudev Bilgi
14 Niranjan Rajeev
Pts
7½
7½
7½
7½
7
7
7
7
6½
6½
6½
6½
6½
6½
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53
54
Karthik Muruganantham
Venu Madhav P L
Pranav Kumar
Chaithanya Ganesh
Karthikay C
Preetham Gangadhar
Anirudh B S
Shreyas V.S.
Lakshvant B
Rithesh Bhat
Chiranjan Kumarr K S
Kruthik K S
Darshan J
Nikilesh G K
Kaushik G Iyer
Aneesh Aparanji
Tejas Cavale
Abhinav Bhatt
Deepthi Lakshmi K
Chirag Mudraje
Adithya Narayanan
Amaey Advait
Kalki Eshwar D
Vineeth Vishwanath
Karthik Sivaram Jasti
Aditya Somasundaram
Sumukha K Nayak
Jai Adithya S
Akash Somasundaram
Tusshar N B
Chinua Pailoor
Anmol S
Tejas Varma
H Rupesh Raghuvaran
Chava Govardhan
Chetan Prashanth
Anirudhh M K
Tanav Sudarshan
Aakash Rajan
Peter M Jose
AICF CHRONICLE
MAY 2015
6½
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5
5
5
9
55 Keshav Kothari
56 Srikant Nayak A
57 Ajitesh Kumara
58 Naidhruva S Bettadapur
59 Abhay B Bhandarkar
60 Rakesh N
61 Khandelwal Anshul
62 Prajwal P
63 Apoorv Indrajit Belgundi
64 P Surya Prasad Bhat
65 Kshitij Manjappa
66 Adarsh Narayanan
67 Vishruth U
68 Saathvick R Shankar
69 Aneesh Kiran
70 Rithvik M P
71 Ankit Loni
72 Pragy Narayan
73 Saigal Archit
74 Mohit Madiraju
75 Prajwal K M
76 Monosij Roy
77 Raju Prasad R
78 Panchami Sarpangala
79 Sriram Badrinarayan
80 Prajwal S
81 Anya Seth Syed
82 Poorvik M P
83 Rishabh Kumara
84 Akash I R
85 Satyendra G
86 Shefali A N
87 Pranitha S R
88 Shreyas Kannan
89 Tarun Varadharajan
90 Ayush J Yajaman
91 Keshav Malik Kapoor
92 Meghana S
93 Navodith V Bhat
94 Keshav Gorur Sriram
95 Pranava Shrisai Gande
96 Peeyush Rampal
97 Tharun B S
98 Sasmith A Suvarna
99 Preetham B S
100Nishanth Sathish
101Pratham Ajay
10
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
4½
4½
4½
4½
4½
4½
4½
4½
4½
4½
4½
4½
4½
4½
4½
4½
4½
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
AICF CHRONICLE
MAY 2015
102Shivaprasad V Tengli
103Krishna K Ravi
104Krishnaraj Patil
105Shivshankar B Anehosur
106Shanmukha K Nayak
107Rajath Menon
108Shashank J
109Megha M Hegde
110Aryan Surya S A
111Ruthvik Srikanth
112Swaroop B V
113Shraddha Somanath
114Tejas C K
115Niranjan Babu
116Ganapathi R Mysore
117Hriday Bhutada
118Vishal B Anehosur
119Aditya Prasanna Kumar
120Arhan Chethan Anand
121Bharath Kumar
122Patki Varudhini Sadananda
123Rishi Baskaran
124Bhanu Prakash H S
125Aditya E
126Sriram Balaji S
127Mohith V
128Chakravorty Soham
129Neeraj Kumar
130Anoushka Bhatt
131Akash M H
132Suchit Chebolu
133Eshan Bhatta
134Harsh Srivastava
135Ghanashyam M V
136Yuvan K
137Adityaa R
138Rithyu Ravindra
139Gagan C
140Shravani T R
141Shaamik A R
142Samrudh B S
143Pervaje Arjun Prasad Bhat
144Teshub Dinesh
145Adarsh A Toshniwal
146Kalyan Krishnappa
147Manasa Narayan
148Siddhant Vasan
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
3½
3½
3½
3½
3½
3½
3½
3½
3½
3½
3½
3½
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
Maharashtra State Open & Women FIDE Rating Tournament 2015,Nagpur
Pruthu Deshpande and Tejaswini Sagar win
IA Swapnil Bansod,Chief Arbiter
Maharashtra State Open and Women Fide
Rating Chess Tournament 2015 was organized by Nagpur Taluka Chess Association
under the aegis of Maharashtra Chess Association & Nagpur District Chess Association from 28th April to 2nd May 2015 at Dr.
Ambedkar College, Deeksha Bhoomi, Nagpur.
The total number of participants were 173
which included 138 players in open section
and 35 players in women section. There were
total 118 rated players including 1 FM, 1
WFM, 1 WCM. The venue was very good.
The tournament was inaugurated by Dr. P
C Pawar, Principal, Dr. Ambedkar College &
Institute of Research and Management. The
other dignitaries present were Shri. Manoj
Itkelwar, Vice President, Maharshtra Chess
Association, Shri. Dilip Pagay, Secretary Maharashtra Chess Association, Shri. K K Barat,
Secretary Nagpur District Chess Association,
IA Swapnil Bansod, Chief Arbiter.
In Open Section
16th Seed Pruthu Deshpande of Pune won
the tournament with ½ point margin over
his nearest rival Shailesh Dravid of Nagpur.
He already showed his determination to win
the tournament by beating the top seed FM
Saurabh Kherdekar of Nagpur in 5th Round,
later in last round he beat Sankalp Gupta of
Nagpur and remained unbeaten in the tournament and won the championship. Other
Upsets of the tournament were top seed FM
Saurabh Kherdekar held by local boy Saurabh
Lokhande in 3rd round game, while 2nd seed
Dilip Pagay of Nagpur lost to 8th seed Nishit
Singh of Aurangabad in 4th round.
In Women’s Section
Top seed WCM Tejaswini Sagar of Aurang-
abad won the tournament on better buchcholz score. She tied on 8 points with her
city mate WFM Mitali Patil and Divya Garg
of Nagpur. WFM Mitali Patil and Divya Garg
stood 2nd and 3rd respectively. All the top
3 players sharing the lead with each other
from round 7th to last round. In last round
game Tejaswini beat her opponent Eesha
Sarda while Mitali Patil and Divya Garg beat
Sonal Mandhana, Tanya Pande respectively.
Top 4 players from both group selected for
forthcoming National Challenger and National
Women Challenger. The total prize fund for
the event was Rs. 75000/-, in which Rs.
50000/- for open group and Rs. 25000/- for
women group.
The prizes were distributed at the hands of
Shri. Sandeep Joshi, Corporator Nagpur, in
the presence of Shri. Sudhir Fulzele, Director
Dr. Ambedkar College , Ms. Rajashree Datta,
Principal Somalwar School, Shri. A P Joshi,
Vice Principal, Dr. Ambedkar College, Shri.
Dilip Pagay, Secretary MCA, Shri. Swapnil
Bansod, Chief Arbiter and Shri. Sushant
Jumde, Organising Secretary.
Final ranking: Maharashtra State Open
Rk Name
1 Pruthu Deshpande
2 Shailesh Dravid
3 Sauravh Khherdekar FM
4 Patil Ketan
5 Gandhi Anish
6 Sammed Jaykumar Shete
7 Saurabh Lokhande
8 Sankalp Gupta
9 Dilip Pagay
10 Singh Nishit
AICF CHRONICLE
MAY 2015
Pts
8
7½
7½
7
6½
6½
6½
6½
6½
6½
11
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
Patil Priyanshu
Sadhwani Raunak
Om Vinay Vitalkar
Sivasubramanian R
Dahale Atul
Roneet Das
Patil Kiran
Krishnater Kushager
Gouravkumar Nanwani
Devansh Ratti
Palaskar Rutwik
Nahar Anish
Yash Ingolikar
Nagare Akhilesh
Raunak Godbole
Atharva Rakesh Bhede
Ghorghate Sahil
Satkar Chirag
Patil Mayur
Rohan Bharat Joshi
Shamkuwar Y. M.
Deogade Salil
Naresh Kantode
Vinay V. Barhanpure
Gupta Rajesh R.S.
Patil Rohit R
Sanil Upasani
Patil T S
Jeswani Saransh
Sapre Shreyas
Dewang Kalpesh
Swayam Uttam Aalewad
Dhanvij Ansh
Spandan P Seth
Yadav Satendrakumar
Nilesh Kevaldas Bankar
Deshmukh Nachiket
Tanuj M. Meshran
Pendsey Muktanand
Chandran T.
Vaishnav Paunikar
Laha S K
Deshpande Ishan M
Ramachandran. V
Saurav L Tembhare
Kohad Dipesh
Ahire Vaibhav
12
6½
6½
6½
6½
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
AICF CHRONICLE
MAY 2015
58 Shintre Neel
59 Dange Atharva
60 Sangai Samkit
61 Khopey Jay
62 Pophali Aryan S
63 Kushal R Karwa
64 Hardas Akhilesh
65 Chaoji Vikram
66 Zambad Aman
67 Borkar B C
68 K.K. Pandey
69 Pagay Shail
70 Dnyandeep Jadhav
71 Joshi Ved
72 Lonkar Parth
73 Joshi Kshitij D
74 Goyal Devansh
75 Aryan Khurana
76 Raut Rutvij
77 Dodeja Mann
78 Madke Viraj
79 Hirani Lakshya
80 Bhoyar Shreerang
81 Awghad Shyam
82 Kherdekar Arnav
83 Chandrani Shlok
84 Kalgaonkar S
85 Lohit Rushikesh
86 Moharir Aayush
87 Khan H K
88 Patil Siddhey
89 Chourasiya Sumukh
90 Shende Manthan
91 Suchak Adarsh
92 Javkhedkar Sarang
93 Gorghate Rushabh
94 Deogade Aryan
95 Demetrius D Souza
96 Borkar Nikhilanand
97 Yash Dhoke
98 Nirwan Saurabh
99 Shinde Rujul
100Bharadkar Shashwat
101Taori Yash
102Wairagade Khush
103Vekhande Shivam
104Mahore Archis
5
5
5
5
5
5
4½
4½
4½
4½
4½
4½
4½
4½
4½
4½
4½
4½
4½
4½
4½
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
3½
3½
3½
3½
3½
3½
3½
3½
105Chaoji Parth
106Ayalwar Manthan
107Juare Deep
108Sonkusre Om Sanjay
109Honmane Suyog
110Moholkar Amogh
Maharashtra FIDE Women
Final placings:
Rk Name
1 Tejaswini Sagar WCM
2 Patil Mitali Madhukar WFM
3 Divya Garg
4 Adane Narayani
5 Patil Samiksha
6 Nagalakshmi R
7 Anjali R. Sagar
8 Eesha Ajay Sarda
9 Pagay Shalaka
10 Sonal Mandhana
11 Tanya Pandey
12 Saloni Patel
13 Chansoriya Ketki
14 Dnynadha N Vitalkar
15 Thakare Seeya
16 Subhasmitha Sahoo
17 Palorkar Riddhi
18 Sagar Siya
19 Ismat Chimthanwala
20 Nusrat Chimtanawala
21 Gupta Niti
22 Gudsurkar Rekha
23 Patil Aditi G
24 Jhawar Preksha
25 Wairagade Rashi
26 Sharanya Vinayak Adane
27 Verma Riya
28 Belpande Shalaka
29 Maheshwari Krishna
30 Harde Sharyu
31 Deshmukh Keshar
32 Kumbhalkar Anisha
33 Deshmukh Kasturi
34 Gotefode Sneha
35 Anushka Heda
3½
3½
3½
3½
3½
3½
Pts
8
8
8
6
6
5½
5½
5½
5
5
5
5
5
5
4½
4½
4½
4½
4½
4½
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
3½
3
3
3
2
1
0
0
Puzzle of the month
by C.G.S.Narayanan
SPG (Short proof game) 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 each solution is unique.Separate
section for retros and proof games is introduced in the latest 10th WCCT announced.
Here is a position in which every piece
stands on its game array square. The main
point of this short proof game is the visual
effect and a kind of deceptive symmetry.
In spite of White and Black’s symmetrical
arrangement in the final position, the play
leading to it is non-symmetrical.
Joost de Heer
Probleemblad 2001
SPG in 6 moves
Find the six moves from the game array
to reach this position.
(Solution on page 48)
AICF CHRONICLE
MAY 2015
13
National Rapid & Blitz Chess Championship-2015,Rourkela
Debashis Das and Ratnakaran win titles
by Rajendra Shidore,IA,Chief Arbiter
National Rapid & Blitz Chess Championship-2015 was inaugurated by Hono ra b l e C h i e f G u e s t S r i P K P ra d h a n
GM(P&A),Rourkela Steel Plant, Mr.Raheman
Khan, GM(TS),RSP in the presence of Mrs.
Minati Mohapatra,DGM(sports),SAIL,RSP on
dated 26th April’2015 at the Rourkela Club,
Rourkela, Odisha.Rourkela is known as a
Steel City of India as well as of Odisha. This
city is 14TH green city of India when one &
only in Odisha.
This prestigious National Rating event was
successfully organized by Rourkela Steel
Plant, Rourkela under the aegis of All Odisha
Chess Association under the strong supervision of Mrs. Minati Mohapatra DGM(sports)
SAIL,RSP and other officials of All Odisha
Chess Association under the AICF event code
111535,111536/ODI/2015 and was recognized by AICF and FIDE.
In this event in-spite of less no of entry this
is strongest ever rapid & blitz chess event
held in India. Including 2 GM & 9 IM total 52
players from 9 states were participated in
this well organised event. At the end in Rapid
section top seed GM Debashis Das,Odisha &
in blitz section IM K Ratnakaran, of Kerala
became the champion of this national event.
1st time the new time control was introduced
in the National Rapid chess as 15 mints with
10 sec increment(world Rapid format) as
suggested by all the majority players & title
holders. We are thankful to AICF for sending
us new FIDE ids in time.
Top seed GM Debashis Das got champions
14
AICF CHRONICLE
MAY 2015
trophy with a prize money of Rs.50,000/- followed by Runners up IM Diptayan Ghosh a
Total Cash Prizes of Rs.25,000/-. In the blitz
section IM Ratnakaran K,Ker got the champions trophy with a total cash of Rs.20,000/-.
Total cash prizes was Rs.1,75,000/- in Rapid
section with Rs.75,000/- in Blitz section.
In the closing ceremony the Chief Guest was
Mr.G.S.Prasad,CEO, SAIL,RSP with Guest
of Honor Dr.A.K.Singh,Director i-c(M&HS)
SAIL,RSP, Mr.PK pradhan,GM i-c(P&A)
SAIL,RSP, Mr. R Khan GM (TS), Mr. Sitaram Pradahan GM(F & A) RSP, Mrs. Minati
mohapatra,DGM sports,RSP and respected
Mr Ranjan Mohanty, vice president AOCA.
Also I am very thankful to AICF for nominating me as Chief Arbiter and Mr Nihar Ranjan
Sasmal,IA of Odisha as Dy. Chief Arbiter
for this prestigious event. Organizers had
provided very good lodging, boarding and
transport facilities for all the players & officials. Weather condition during the event was
good for the players also the playing venue
was a A/C hall.No protest was lodged during
the entire tournament and tournament was
held in very smooth manner.
National Rapid: Final standings
Rk
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
GM
IM
GM
IM
IM
IM
IM
Name
Pts
Debashis Das
9½
Ghosh Diptayan
8½
Neelotpal Das
8
Rathnakaran K.
8
Satyapragyan Swayangsu 7½
Murali Krishnan B.T.
7
Sharma Dinesh K.
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
IM
IM
IM
IM
FM
Swapnil S. Dhopade
Das Arghyadip
D Bala Chandra Prasad
Deshmukh Anup
Suvrajit Saha
Srinath Rao S.V.
Sahoo Utkal Ranjan
Muthukumar C P
Debarshi Mukherjee
Mari Arul S.
Rakesh Kumar Jena
Sa Kannan
Singh Pritam
G Hema Chandra Mouli
Rahul Srivatshav P
Bose Sayan
Rajdeep Sarkar
Saurabh Mandal
Ram Charan
Das Susobhit
Bihari P.K.
Parichha Sk
Rakesh Kumar Nayak
Pvs Aravind
N.N.Behera
Samal Ansuman
Varma Vikrant
Mohanty Binikesh
Shashi Nand Kumar
Swain Diptanshu Ranjan
Valsan Kanavath
Atul Bihari Sharan
Routray Priyanka
Gobardhan Behera
Debata Sarthak
Panda Sidhanta
Mohanty Soyamsree
Dash Biswaswarup
Samal Aditya Ranjan
Das Samarth
Milind Kaushik
Basil Gouda
Sarthak Pujari
Panda Hrishikesh
Satwik Patnaik
7
7
7
6½
6½
6½
6½
6½
6½
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
5½
5½
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
4½
4½
4½
4½
4½
4½
4½
4
4
3½
3½
3
3
3
2½
½
National
Rk 1 IM
2 GM
3 IM
4 GM
5 6 IM
7 8 9 IM
10 11 12 FM
13 14 15 IM
16 IM
17 IM
18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 IM
26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 Blitz: Final standings
Name
Pt
Rathnakaran K.
8½
Neelotpal Das
8
Ghosh Diptayan
8
Debashis Das
7½
D Bala Chandra Prasad
7½
Satyapragyan Swayangsu 7½
Srinath Rao S.V.
7
Sahoo Utkal Ranjan
7
Suvrajit Saha
7
G Hema Chandra Mouli
6½
Debarshi Mukherjee
6½
Rakesh Kumar Jena
6½
Bose Sayan
6½
Rajdeep Sarkar
6½
Sharma Dinesh K.
6
Murali Krishnan B.T.
6
Swapnil S. Dhopade
6
Singh Pritam
6
Srivastava Pratyush
6
Rahul Srivatshav P
5½
Rakesh Kumar Nayak
5½
Ram Charan
5½
Pvs Aravind
5½
Swaraj Palit
5½
Deshmukh Anup
5
Das Susobhit
5
Swain Diptanshu Ranjan 5
Saurabh Mandal
5
Bihari P.K.
5
Mohanty Soyamsree
5
Panda Sidhanta
5
Valsan Kanavath
4
Ranjan Mohanty
4
Varma Vikrant
4
Routray Priyanka
4
Shashi Nand Kumar
3½
Sandeepta Kumar Dash 3
Milind Kaushik
2½
Basil Gouda
2
Chess is like a language, the top players
are very fluent at it. Talent can be
developed scientifically but you have to
find first what you are good at.
by.Anand
AICF CHRONICLE
MAY 2015
15
The 56th Odisha State Senior FIDE Rating Chess Championship,Puri…
Rakesh Kumar Nayak wins title
Suresh Chandra Sahoo, Chief Arbiter
The 56th Odisha State Senior FIDE Rating Chess Championship was organized by
District Chess Association of Puri from 8th
to 12th April 2015 at Gopandhu Ayurveda
Mahavidyalaya, Puri.The tournament was
inaugurated by Sj. Jayanta Kumar Sarangi,
Chairman, Puri Municipality., other dignitaries were Sj. Rabi Narayan Senapati, Sports
Officer, Puri, Sj. Gouri Shankar Singhari,
Social Worker, Puri, Sj. Pradyumna Mishra,
Vice-President, Dist. Chess Association of
Puri and Sj. Subhash Chandra Sahoo, Hony.
Secretary, Dist Chess Association of Puri
were present on the dias. With the total prize
fund of Rs. 50,000/- (Rupees fifty thousand
only) of the event attracted 142 participants
from 18 Districts (Angul–8, Bolangir–2,
Balasore-3, Cuttack–15, Dhenkanal-5, Ganjam-7, Jajpur-4, Jharsuguda-2, Khordha-25,
Kalahandi-2, Kendrapara-2, Koraput-6, Nuapara-2, Nayagarh-1, Puri-43, Sambalpur-2,
Subarnapur-1, Sundargarh-9) with two special units (KIIT – 02 & POSTAL - 02 ) with
Two FIDE Master &, one Women Candidate
Master, FIDE Master Rakesh Kumar Jena,
2292 (Jajpur) was the top seed. A total
of 105 Rated players participated.
Five players shared their lead with full
points at the end of 4th round and after
6th round only 2 players Baivab Mishra,
1999 & Rakesh Kumar Nayak, 2079 were
leading with (5.5), while only 7 players
led the top tables with 5 points. After 7th
Round Rakesh Kumar Nayak was the so
leader with 6.5 points & only 3 players were
leading WITH 6 points. At the end of round 9,
a 17 year boy (3rd in National U-13 in 2012)
16
AICF CHRONICLE
MAY 2015
Rakesh Kumar Nayak drew with FIDE Master Soumyaranjan Mishra and clinched the
Championship with a cash prize of `10,000/-.
FIDE Master Rakesh Jena became Runner-up
& ` 7,000/- & local boy Baivab Mishra, stood
3rd with ` 5,000/-.There were many upsets
started from the third round onwards.Out of
35 unrated players 17 players will get the
Rating in the month of May. Three players
Dikshant Das, 1358, Jagdish Barik, 1130 and
Nilsu Pattnaik, 1743, increased 151, 1112 &
105 in their rating respectively.
In the valedictory ceremony the Chief Guest
was Sj. Vivek Kumar Tibarewal, Hony. Secretary, All Odisha Chess Assocoiation, Other
dignitaries who graced the occasion on the
last day were Sri Ramesh Chandra Mohapatra, (Title Sponsor) Son of Late Laxmi
Priya Mohapatra, Sri Pradyumna Mishra,
Vice President, District Chess Association of Puri, Sri Manoj Kumar Panigrahi,
Jt Secy. District Chess Association & All
Odisha Chess Association, Sri Subhash
C h a n d r a S a h o o , S e c r e t a r y, D i s t r i c t
Chess Association of Puri. The Press
and Media covered the event very well.
Without any dispute the tournament
ended successfully.
I take this opportunity to thank District
Chess Association of Puri and All Odisha Chess Association for making such
tournament a Grand success, which will
go a long way in creating awareness
and popularising Chess in our State & for
giving a chance to play in Open FIDE Rating
tournament by paying a minimum of Rs.500.
Final ranking: Rk Name
1 Rakesh Kumar Nayak
2 Rakesh Kumar Jena FM
3 Baivab Mishra
4 Mishra Soumyaranjan FM
5 Nayak Rajesh
6 Bhaskar Sri Viswaroopanand
7 Mahesh Prasad Sethi
8 Swain Ashirwad
9 Das Susobhit
10 Samal Ansuman
11 Padhi Kamal Lochan
12 Johnson Sahoo
13 Salonika Saina WCM
14 Guruprasad Bhatta
15 Panigrahi Manoj Kumar
16 Pattnayak Nilsu
17 Pranab Kumar Patra
18 Sumit Kumar Banerjee
19 Rath Hrusikesh
20 Panda Sambit
21 Behera Dillip
22Rudranarayan
23 Smaraki Mohanty
24 Swain Diptanshu Ranjan
25 Jena Binayak
26 Rabindra Kumar Ojha
27 Patra Subhendu Kumar
28 Soundarya Kumar Pradhan
29N.N.Behera
30 Dikshant Dash
31 Mishra Srinibas
32 Sahoo Ankush
33 Sradhanjali Jena
34 Sahoo Soumya Ranjan
35 Pradhan Mohan Das
36 Prachurya Kumar Pradhan
37 Mishra Om
38 Gopal Ch Mahapatra
39 Mishra Anwesha
40 Mohapatra G.C.
41 Sahoo A Sudip Kumar
42 Kar Satyabrata
43 Mahitosh Dey
44 Pradip Kumar Bisoyi
45 Nayak Biswajit
Pts
7½
7½
7½
7½
7
7
7
6½
6½
6½
6½
6½
6½
6½
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5
5
5
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
59
60
61
62
63
64
65
66
67
68
69
70
71
72
73
74
75
76
77
78
79
80
81
82
83
84
85
86
87
88
89
90
91
92
Pattnaik Bishal
Gobardhan Behera
Sudhir Kumar Behera
Prasannakumar Nayak
Biswal Gitashree
Lalitmohan Digal
Patro Yasoman
Samantaray Aryan Arnav
Choudhuri Kumar Naik
Barik Jagdish
Dash Shrimay
Sahu Bibek Kumar
Sahoo Sangram Keshari
Jayadeba Patel
Bag G5
Sahoo Dasharathi
Sourav Mohanty
Mishra Abinash
Lochan Kumar Das
Sahu Aswini Kumar
Mohanty Swaraj Sanket
Sahu Ajay Kumar
Sahu Susant Kumar
Parichha Sk
Narayan Das
Rout Kandarpa
Ezaz Ahamed S K
Panda Chandra Sekhar
Panda Raj Santosh
Manish Kumar (2006)
Mishra Anisha
Bhoi Gunanidhi
Dash Gagan Behari
Sethi Ankit Kumar
Pradhan Guru Nath
Mohanty Anoushkaa
Padhi Jyoti Ranjan
Jyotsna M
Biswal Subhradeep
Atanu Panda
Mishra Siddharth
Anil Bhoi
Mandal Dillip Kumar
Guru Nirmal Chandra
Ravi Kumar N
Das Bighnesh
Sahoo Sudeep Kumar
AICF CHRONICLE
MAY 2015
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
4½
4½
4½
4½
4½
4½
4½
4½
4½
4½
4½
4½
4½
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
17
Late Motilalji Firodia Memorial FIDE Rating Chess Tournament, Ahmednagar
Sameer Kathmale is champion
by IA Nitin Shenvi
D.L.B. Bahuuddeshiya Vikas Pratishthan,
Ahmednagar conducted the Late Motilalji
Firodia Memorial FIDE Rating Chess Tournament at Saptak Sadan, Near Pankaj Lodge,
Khist Lane, Ahmednagar, Maharashtra, which
is one of the central place in Kapadbazar area
in Ahmednagar. This event was organized by
prominent chess players and key personalities of various Chess activities in Ahmednagar
viz. Mr. Yashwant Bapat, Dr. Gagare, Mr.
Firodia accompanied by other chess players
like Y. M. Kamble, etc. The event was played
from 22nd to 26th April, 2015 and conducted
in the Swiss League format, comprising 10
rounds, with two rounds on every day. The
time control for the game was 90 minutes to
each player with an increment of 30 seconds
per move from first move.
The event was inaugurated by Ukranian GM
Alexander Goloschopo accompanied by other
dignitaries on dais local favorite IM Shardul
Gagare, Shri Narendra firodia President
Ahmednagar District Chess Circle (ADCC)
& Shantikumarji Firodia Memorial Foundation, Shri Yashwant Bapat Secretary ADCC
& President D.L.B. Bahuuddeshiya Vikas
Pratishthan and myself Chief Arbiter of this
event. Inaugeral match between Shri Narendra Firodia and GM Alexander ended in
draw. In this event 222 players out of which
118 were rated having rating average 1452,
with players coming from nearly all parts of
Maharashtra. The championship was being
led by a IM & a WCM including eleven players above 1800 rating. IM Sameer Kathmale
of Sangli, with a rating of 2289 was the top
seeds in this event.The upset started right
18
AICF CHRONICLE
MAY 2015
from the first round, as the unrated Chhallani
Abhishek of Nashik outwitted Bhogal Rupesh
of Mumbai. Similarly, unrated Jadhav Omkar
S of Pune defeated More
Amit of Raigad, unrated Patil Harshal of Nashik won against Bhoite Krishna of Pune, unrated Rathod Abha of Pune earned one point
from Kothari Pranit of Ahmednagar, Rohra
Harsh of Thane defeated Modak Mangesh of
Ratnagiri,
unrated Salve Siddhant outwitted WCM
Wankhade Sanskruti of Akola, unrated
Samplewala Ebrahim of Palghar won against
Mane Shreyanshu of Satara, unrated Shelke
Sanket of Ahmednagar defeated Dhumal
Amit of Pune, unrated Tolani Diksha of Thane
outwitted Torvekar Girish of Ahmednagar,
unrated Vikam Chintan of Pune won against
Kalkar Anurag of Nashik, unrated Wangikar
Aashay of Pune scored win against Aryan
Khurana of Nagpur.
In 2nd round, Somvanshi Prashant of Pune
outwitted Nishant Deoram Wanjari of Bhandara, Dange Atharva of Aurangabad defeated
Joshi Sunil of Ahmednagar, Kherdekar Arnav
of Nagpur won against Limaye Vedant of Pune
all with nearly 300 points ELO difference,
unrated Jadhav Omkar S of Pune earned one
point from Kamble Balbhim of Ahmednagar,
unrated Hurkude Shrinath of Aurangabad
outwitted Modak Mangesh of Ratnagiri, unrated Jadhav Viraj of Pune defeated Torvekar
Girish of Ahmednagar, and unrated Kulkarni
Purva of Thane defeated Sarang Nair of Pune.
In 3rd round, Gugale Sunny of Ahmednagar
lost with Kulkarni Aakash of pune, Nagargoje Dhananjay of Pune defeated Banjan
Priyadarshan of Mumbai Suburban, Pawar
Rahul of Thane outwitted Tanuj M. Meshran
of Bhandara, Nankar Pranav of Aurangabad
won against Shirke Pradeep of Raigad, Gupta
Shllok of Pune prevailed Kamble Balbhim of
Ahmednagar with nearly 300 ELO points difference, unrated Chhabra Aakash of Thane
defeated Shinde Nitin of Pune, unrated Dongaonkar Indraneel of mravati won against
Bhoite Krishna of Pune, unrated Halkude
Nagnath of Pune won against Kulkarni Ayush
A of Beed, unrated Godbole Gautam of Pune
won against Hurkude Shrinath of Aurangabad, unrated Nair Prajit of pune won against
Kale Sujal of Aurangabad, unrated Wankhade
Bharati of Akola won against Dhamane Yash
of Nashik, unrated Tolani Diksha, Wangikar
Aashay, Wankhade Sanghadas won against
Raul Sumit, Killedar Nirav, Phadnis Adwait
respectively. At the end of 3rd round 20 players scoring 3 points each took ½ points lead
on nearest rivals.
In 4th round, Kathmale Sameer, Kulkarni
Chinmay, Verma Rahul, Gandhi Anish, Mulay
Pratik, Soham Datar and Kadav Omkar were
leading with four points each. In this round,
Joshi Nikhil, Menon Padmanand & Pawar Rahul drew with ELO difference of more than
300 points Jaiswar Shailesh, Wagh Suyog &
Patil Jitendra respectively.
At the end of fifth round Kathmale Sameer,
Kulkarni Chinmay & Kadav Omkar took joint
lead of ½ point with individual score of five
points. Kadav Omkar of Satara won against
Dahale Atul of Pune having ELO difference
of around 200 points. The unrated players
namely Jadhav Omkar S, Wangikar Aashay,
Chhallani Abhishek, Patil Harshal, Vikam
Chintan, Hurkude Shrinath, Tolani Diksha, &
Kulkarni Purva completed five rated players
with rating average and rating performance
above 1000 ELO points.
In 6th round, on 2nd board Jaiswar Shailesh
outwitted Kulkarni Chinmay and forced him
to resign the game in 52 moves eventhough
tha rating difference is nearly 200 ELO points.
Sameer Kathmale became the sole leader
with six points in pocket beating Omkar Kadav. Sameer is followed by Jaiswar Shailesh,
Wagh Suyog and Verma Rahul with 5½ points
each. Seven unrated participants other than
above eight players able to cross 1000 ELO
point mark.
At the end of 7th round Kathmale Sameer
played against Verma Rahul on first board
which ended in draw, while Wagh Suyog
played against Jaiswar Shailesh on second
board and in crucial position, Suyog lost
in calculation game resulted in favour of
Shailesh. After this round Sameer KAthmale
and Shailesh Jaiswar took joint lead scoring
6½ points each with ½ point lead on nearest
rivals namely Verma Rahul, Kulkarni Chinmay, Gandhi Anish, and Sankarsh Shelke
local favourite. Total Eighteen unrated managed to cross 1000 ELO point mark.
At the end of quarter final round Kathmale
Sameer played against Shailesh Jaiswar on
first board which ended in draw, while Chinmay Kulkarni played against Verma Rahul
on second board game resulted in favour of
Chinmay. After this round Sameer Kathmale,
Chinmay Kulkarni and Shailesh Jaiswar took
joint lead scoring 7 points each with ½ point
lead on nearest rivals viz. Gandhi Anish,
Sankarsh Shelke, Atul Dahale, Wagh Suyog,
Mulay Pratik, Soham Datar, and Nagare Akhilesh. Total Twenty-three managed to cross
over 1000 ELO point mark.
AICF CHRONICLE
MAY 2015
19
In penultimate round (9th) Sameer won
against Chinmay while on 2nd board Pratik
Mulay won against Shailesh made Sameer
the sole leader. Final round in this event on
first board Suyog drew with Sameer even
though this result does not affect the Champion of the event.
The tournament was completed in peaceful
manner and no appeals arose. The Appeals
Committee members consisting of IM Sameer
Kathmale
of Sangli, Chinmay Kulkarni of
Pune, Jitendra Patil of Nandurbar as the main
members and Sunny Gugale of Ahmednagar
& Mohit Ladhe of Thane as reserve members.
The championship was a real boon for many
players, as many of them gained considerable ELO rating of 100 or above. Special
mention has to be made of Pranav Nankar
(Aurangabad) & Rushikesh Oke (Aurangabad)
increased their rating by 124 and 110 points
respectively. In open section out of 104 unrated participants, 32 participants became
rated players.
Final Ranking :
Rk
NamePts
1 Kathmale Sameer IM
8½
2 Jaiswar Shailesh
8
3 Shelke Sankarsha
8
4 Wagh Suyog
8
5 Gandhi Anish
8
6 Mulay Pratik
8
7 Soham Datar
7½
8 Kulkarni Chinmay
7½
9 Nagare Akhilesh
7½
10 Patil Jitendra
7½
11 Menon Padmanand
7½
12 Dahale Atul
7½
13 Joshi Mihir
7½
14 Verma Rahul
7
15 Pate Machindra
7
16 Gugale Sunny
7
17 Patil Samiksha
7
20
AICF CHRONICLE
MAY 2015
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
Vaidya Kaiwalya
Sourabh Bhange
Giri Abhishek
Kulkarni Aakash
Telang Yashwant
Vikam Chintan
Jaiswal Prince
Pogul Yuvraj
Kadav Omkar
Nirgun Keval
Nagargoje Dhananjay
Chandran T.
Joshi Nikhil
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
6½
6½
6½
6½
6½
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
Ladhe Mohit
Dhagdhage Shashank
Pawar Rahul
Gorde Dattatray
Borse Pankaj
Roneet Das
Siddha Suyash
Kapadi Yash
Limaye Vedant
Shelke Omkar
Chhallani Abhishek
Ghumare Anil P
Soman Saharsha
Borase Manoj
Joshi Abhijeet M
Banjan Priyadarshan
Tanuj M. Meshran
Bilpe Abhijeet
Chavan Nameet
Shimpi Rushikesh
Bhogal Rupesh
Kamalnayan Deshmuk
Spandan P Seth
Sarvankar Girish
Vijay Jhanwar
Muchandikar Shrikant
Nishant Deoram Wanjari
Wagh Varun
6½
6½
6½
6½
6½
6½
6½
6½
6½
6½
6½
6½
6½
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
59
60
61
62
63
64
65
66
67
68
69
70
71
72
73
74
75
76
77
78
79
80
81
82
83
84
Awade Pradeep
Bhatawdekar Ved
Chothe Sadanand
Wagh Shubham
Basant N
Phadnis Adwait
Jain Kashish Manoj
Shirke Pradeep
Kulkarni Ayush A
Adam Rajat
Nankar Pranav
Thakare Seeya
Gouravkumar Nanwani
Nikam Sudhanshu
Patodi Samyak
Satbhai Mohanish
Datar Amogh
Boramanikar Tanisha S
Raktade Rohan
Oke Rushikesh
Chhabra Aakash
Somvanshi Prashant
Kandi Utkarsh
Godambe Ritesh
Shinde Kunal
Deshmukh Varun
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
100Dhadge Yash
101Shinde Nitin
102Wangikar Aashay
103D Souza Ynez
104Deshpande Jatin N
105Mungase Amol
106Jaiswal Shubham Rajendra
107More Amit
108Somwanshi Nathu
109Kale Sujal
110Wankhade Bharati
111Ahale Saurabh
112Dange Atharva
113Patil Harshal
114Modak Mangesh
115Samplewala Ebrahim
116Kalkar Anurag
117Bothikar Tegas
118Pawar Harish
119Dagadkhair Saurav
120Subramanian Shreyas
121Rudrapratap Satish Ghatge
122Sheth Siddhi
123Tandale Pravin
124Dhumal Amit
125Sasne Ashok
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
4½
4½
85
86
87
88
89
90
91
92
93
94
95
96
97
98
99
Killedar Nirav
Halkude Nagnath
Aum Chordia
Mane Shreyanshu
Kulkarni Purva
Dhamane Yash
Mrunal Manish Lalwani
Raul Sumit
Soni Piyush
Bhoite Krishna
Chandurkar Bhalchandra
Makone Kaustubh
Siddhesh Kitkaru
Kothari Pranit
Bendre Aman
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5
5
5
5
5
126Apte Dhaivat
127Lasaroda Prince
128Saurav L Tembhare
129Gupta Shllok
130Nair Prajit
131Godbole Gautam
132Ghanwat Abhaysinh
133Aryan Khurana
134Hurkude Shrinath
135Joshi Sunil
136Wankhade Sanskruti
137Jagdale Shivendra
138Mahale Tanmay
139Kunte Amogh
140Prerana Gholap
4½
4½
4½
4½
4½
4½
4½
4½
4½
4½
4½
4½
4½
4½
4½
AICF CHRONICLE
MAY 2015
21
World Women’s Team Chess Championship, Chengdu
Dr. Hedgewar Fide Rated Chess Tournament, New Delhi
Georgia wins Women’s World Team Chess Championship
Pravin Thipsay wins title
by IA Dharmendra Kumar,Chief Arbiter
Dr. Hedgewar Fide Rated Chess Tournament was organized this time in Thyagraj Stadium New Delhi. The spacious
venue was well decorated and furnished.
Analysis room media room , lounge for V.I.P.
and refreshment area were available.
251 players including 155 rated players participated in this tournament 20 title players
were appeared in this tournament Including
4 GM and 8 IM The Tournament schedule
was slightly change as decided in players
meeting Total no. of round was 9 and except
last day everyday double round.Tournament
was played on open Swiss system format.
Program used for the pairing was Swiss
manager and time control was 90 minutes
with 30 sec. increment from move 1.It was
decided during the technical meeting that
default time will be 30 minutes . During the
technical Meeting, it was decided and confirm
to use following tiebreak , The Buchholz 1 )
Cut1, 2) Cut2 3) SB 4)Median Buchholz 5)
Sum of Buchholz.
On April 27th , the first round commenced
. Separate seating gallery for all the parents and spectators were provided. All basic
facilities were provided by the Organizers in
the playing venue i.e. water, coffee and tea
for the players and officials, W.C., smoking
area, analysis area.
Grand colourful opening ceremony was held
on April 27th . Tournament was Inaugurated
by Gen. V.K.Singh , Minister of state for External affair , Govt. of India In presence of
Wing Comdr. J. Rajendra , Prabhat Kumar and
Mrs. Simmy Jain , Chairman Org . Committee . Mr. Singh made an inaugural move and
declared tournament formally open . During
his speech , he appreciated a lot to organization . Other dignitaries presents on the
occasion was A.K.Verma , Hony. Secreatry ,
DCA , R. S. Tiwari , Org. Secreatry , Shirish
Jain,co-coordinator of the tournament. First
round results were on the expected lines and
nothing special to be mention.
Second round had something that Ankit sen
(1735) of U.P. and Mendonca Leon Luke
(1699) OF Goa held IM elect Ravi Teja and
National U-17 Champion Aradhya Garg respectively.
Third round of course had big news for media
when Arpan Das of W.B. defeated GM Sahaj
Grover. In other hand , GM Sriram Jha , IM
Himanshu Sharma and IM Rahul Sangma
were forced to draw their games against Anurag Jaiswal(WB) , Sumit Grover(J&K) and K.
Arvind(TN) respectively. After 3rd round , 22
players joined the top score bracket as 3/3.
Fourth round:Rating difference of first 10
board was around 200 and results was almost expected , either win or drew for higher
rated player. But board # 11 had news which
may not as much big but it was notable that
Abhishek Das, An IM elect of Jharkhand , lost
his 3rd round game against Dhruv Kakkar , a
player who had 741 less Elo points than him !!
At the end of 4th round , there were 6 players with 4/4. On board # 1 , IM Somak Palit
defeated to Sai Agni Jeevitesh while board
# 2 ended in drew where IM Chakravarthi
( contd on p.27 )
22
AICF CHRONICLE
MAY 2015
Women’s World Team Chess Championship 2015
was held in Chengdu,China from 16th April
2015 to 28th April 2015. Georgia won Women’s
World Team Chess Championship 2015. Georgia
concluded the event in style, by defeating the
host country and three-times world champions
China. The decisive game of the match was Meri
Arabidze’s fine victory on the second board. From
the early opening stage the Georgian put a strong
pressure on her opponent Shen Yang, won a
pawn and went on to convert into full point. The
remaining three games were drawn.
Georgia took the gold medal with 17 match points,
conceding only one tie to Russia. Bela Khotenashvili was by far the best top board, scoring
7,5/9 points for a 2699-elo performance. Meri Arabidze was the best 3rd board with 6/7. China
is third with 11 match points, claiming the bronze.
Still holding a hope for the gold medal in case of Georgia’s failure in the final round, Russia
put up a powerful performance against USA, convincingly winning the match 3,5-0,5.Katerina
Nemcova was the only to hold a draw, against the world championship finalist Natalija Pogonina.
Olga Girya, playing as the 5th board, was the top performer of the event with 6,5/7 points or
92,9%.
Russia won the silver medal, with equal sum of individual points as Georgia, 25 each, but only
15 match points, having conceded ties to Kazakhstan and Armenia.
Ukraine won 3,5-0,5 against Egypt, but Shrook Wafa, earning on the experience of participating in
recent Women’s World Championship in Sochi, played an inspired game against Inna Gaponenko
and nearly defeated the much higher rated opponent. Gaponenko managed to salvage a draw.
Armenia started the match against India without its top player Elina Danielian. Nevertheless, her
replacement Lilit Mkrtchian won a fine game against the top rated player in the championship
Humpy Koneru.
However, India showed strength on the lower boards and emerged victorious 3-1. Poland
and Kazakhstan exchanged blows to finish their match in a 2-2 tie. The top two boards were
drawn. Kazakhstan assumed the lead after Gulmira Dauletova won against the World University
Champion Klaudia Kulon. Karina Szczepkowska-Horowska leveled the score by defeating
Guliskhan Nakhbayeva.
Final placings: 1.Georgia 2.Russia 3.China 4.India 5.Ukraine 6.Kazakhstan 7.Armenia 8.Poland
9.United States 10.Egypt.
23
The opening ceremony of the Women’s World Team Chess Championship 2015 took place in the
hall of the Wang Jiang Hotel on the 18th of April.The ceremony was attended by Vice Mayor of
Chengdu Government, Mr. Fu.Yonglin, the director of Chengdu sports bureau, Ms.Tan Xuejun,
Deputy Director of Chengdu Sports Bureau, Mr. Gao Wei, General secretary of CCA, Mr. Ye
Jiangchuan, FIDE Vice President and Chairman of Appeals Committee, D.V. Sundar, President
of Georgian Chess Federation and member of Appeals Commitee, Giya Giorgadze, players,
captains and other guests.
At the start of the ceremony Vice Mayor of Chengdu Government, Mr. Fu.Yonglin welcomed all
players and team leaders in Chengdu.FIDE Vice-President D.V. Sundar expresses his gratitude
to the organizers for hosting the WWTCC and FIDE Presidential Board Meeting in Chengdu and
wished good luck to all players. IM Shen Yang delivered her speech on behalf of the Women’s
National Team of China. The Chief Arbiter of the tournament Panagiotis Nikolopoulos conducted
the ceremony of drawing of lots. The top players from each team were invited to the stage and
proposed to choose a toy of panda, one of the most recognized animals from China, regarded
as a symbol for friendship and peace.
Harika and Humpy win medals
The Indian women team just missed out
on a podium finish and finished fourth with
ten points, one point behind the bronze
medal winner,China,after their final round
win over Armenia. Considering that India
entered as a wild card entry it is a decent
show by the Indian women. Dronavalli
Harika and Koneru Humpy clinched came
up with fine individual performances to
win silver and bronze (on second and top
board) respectively.
World Team Chess Championship, Armenia
F
China is the World Champion
rom 18-29th April, 2015 The Armenian Chess Federation under the auspices of FIDE hosted
The World Team Chess Championship in the resort town of Tsaghkadzor. The tournament
was held at Golden Palace Hotel Resort & Spa where on 18th April at 19:00 (local time)
the opening ceremony of the championship took place. According to FIDE Regulations and the
decision of FIDE President the following Federations participated in the championship: Russia,
China, Hungary, India, USA, Egypt, Ukraine, Armenia, Cuba, Israel. The ceremony was honored
by the presence of President of the Republic of Armenia, who doubles as the President of the
Armenian Chess Federation, Serzh Sargsyan, FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, a number of
state officials and the delegates of 10 participant countries.
24
An amazing mime show, commemorating the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide,
was performed for the guests of the championship urging the entire world to never repeat such
an immense crime and live in peace and solidarity
Olympiad champions China defeated India 3-1 in the final round to win the World Team Chess
Championship that concluded at Armenia on April 28, 2015.India suffered defeats on the white
boards of Sethuraman and Deep Sengupta. Harikrishnan and Sasikiran drew with the black
pieces in the top and third boards.
Two defeats in the last two rounds cost India dearly in the placings scale. India stayed on seven
points and were pushed to ninth place. India had finished third at best in this edition many
years back when China withdrew in the last moment and India was given their slot.
This win for China is a confirmation of the new super power in team chess. They had won the
Chess Olympiad for the first time in August 2014 at Tromso, Norway.
Ukraine was in the title race but defeat to low rated USA cost them the gold medals. Ukraine
scored 12 match points, three points behind China. China remained undefeated, winning six
matches and drawing three for the maiden title.
India won three matches, lost five and drew one for seven points. Three players, Sethuraman
(-16.5), Sasikiran (-7.9) and Deep Sengupta (-4.9) are losing while Harikrishna (+2.2) and
Vidit Gujrathi (+13) are gaining Elo.
The scores: Harikrishna 5/9, Sethuraman 2.5/9, Sasikiran 3/8, Vidit Gujrathi 4.5/7 and Deep
Sengupta 1/3. Four defeats in the last five games should be a shock to coach Grand Master
R.B. Ramesh. India had finished with the bronze medal at Tromso 2014.
The results (round 8): India lost to Armenia 1.5-2.5; Egypt lost to Russia 0.5-3.5; Israel drew
25
Hungary 2-2; Ukraine lost to USA 1.5-2.5; Cuba lost to China 1-3.
The results (round 9): China beat India 3-1; USA beat Cuba 3-1; Hungary drew Ukraine 2-2;
Russia beat Israel 2.5-1.5; Armenia beat Egypt 2.5-1.5.
Final placings:1.China2.Ukraine3.Armenia 4.Russia 5.USA 6.Hungary 7.Israel 8.Cuba 9.India
10.Egypt
The Ukrainian team ended its match with Hungary in a draw and took the 2nd place. In order
to get bronze medals the Armenian team should win the Egyptians and they fulfilled their task
defeating the opponent with the score 2.5 : 1.5. The team of the USA showing successful game at
the end of the tournament ended the match with Cuba with victory . The Americans took victory
with the score 3 : 1 and sharing the 4 - 5th places with the Russian team with additional indexes
took the 5th place. The team of Russia taken the 4th place took victory over Israel with the score
2.5 : 1.5.
Earlier in the seventh round Vidit Gujrathi scored an important victory over Ortiz Suarez on the fourth
board to help India defeat Cuba 2.5-1.5 . In the match featuring the leaders, Vassily Ivanchuk's
win for Ukraine was neutralised by Bu's win for China in the third board. China and Ukraine drew
2-2 to stay way ahead of the rest in this 10-team contest. They were leading with 11 points. India
and other teams were sharing the third place with seven match points.India won three matches
and lost three and drew one. India had at best won the bronze medal in this event. Grand Master
R.B. Ramesh is the coach of the Indian team.
Deep Sengupta is likely to be rested for the last
few games.
The only undefeated team is Olympiad
champions China. Four of their five players are
undefeated. They have given a solid display.
Sunday was a decisive round and saw many
narrow 2.5-1.5 margin scores. Russia was
beaten by Armenia, Hungary beat Egypt
and USA beat Israel by the narrow 2.5-1.5
margins.
Standings after round seven: 1-2. China, Ukraine 11 each; 3-7 India, Cuba, Israel, Armenia,
Hungary 7 each; 8-9. Russia, USA 6 each; 10 Egypt 1.
India made a comeback to defeat Hungary 2.5-1.5 in the fourth round of the World Team Chess
Championship on April 22, 2015.Vidit Gujrathi gave India the full points in the fourth board
when he beat Richard Rapport with the black pieces. Harikrishna, Sethuraman and Sasikiran
played draws against Leko, Erdos and Almasi. Cuba leads with seven match points and are
followed by China on six points. India is in third place along with Israel on five points. In the
four rounds, India won two matches, lost one and drew one.
The results (round four): India beat Hungary 2.5-1.5; Russia drew USA 2-2; Armenia lost to
China 0.5-3.5; Egypt lost to Cuba 1-3; Israel lost to Ukraine 1.5-2.5.
26
( contd from p.22 )
Reddy and GM Saptarshi Roy Chowdhury
signed the peace treaty. Board # 3 was a big
upset when GM Thipsay resigned his game
against Dhruv Kakkar in 87 moves but this
game was under complain as Dhruv was using electronic device and after the game complain was found correct and point awarded
to GM Pravin thipsay.
Sixth round: At the start of 6th round , only
two players were jointly leading the tournament , GM Pravin Thipsay and IM Somak
Palit, as they both had 5/5 . They paired
together in round no. 6 . A 56 year veteran
GM from Mumbai finally defeated to Somak
and became sole leader with 6/6/ at the end
of round . On the board # 2 and #3 , IM Saptarishi Roy and IM Elect Ravi Teja defeated to
IM V.A.V. Rajesh and IM Himanshu Sharma
respectively and joined the 2nd top score
bracket as they both had 5.5/6 .
Seventh round: As sole leader , GM
Thipsay preferred to preserve his energy for
evening round and agreed for drew with IM
Saptarshi Roy on board # 1 . At the same
time , GM Sahaj Grover , playing on board
#2, tried to get full point against Ravi Teja but
position over the board was not good enough
to do so and decided to share the point. But
the board #3 had interesting result of course
where young talent from Bihar Kumar Gaurav
defeated to IM Somak Palit and join the 2nd
top score bracket 6/7 along with 5 others.
Eighth round:
With 6.5 point , GM Pravin
Thipsay was sole leader and on 2nd spot 6
others players were ready to challenge him.
But the 1st board between GM Thipsay and
Ravi Teja ended in drew , finally. While on
board #2 & #3 IM Saptarshi Roy and Himal
Gussain defeated IM Chakravarthi Reddy
and Kumar Gaurav respectively which helped
them to join elite class with Thipsay as they
all had 7 point.
Ninth round:First three board ended in drew
while on board #4 GM Sahaj Grover defeated
IM V.A.V. Rajesh and all these results produced four players with 7.5 point each.
Ram Madhav, Rashtriya Mahasachiv, Bhartiya
Janta Party was the Chief guest in closing
ceremony . He attended the function and
spent an hour with players and officials. He
appreciated a lot to organization and offered
his support to chess at any time. “ In my
opinion ,chess is the best mental instrument
and all the students must play this game ”,
said Madhab in his speech during the game.
He congratulated to all the winners and appreciated all the participants for their presence in this tournament named Dr. Hedgewar
Fide Rated Chess Tournament. He witnessed
blindfold chess exhibition in reverse order
performed by Raghav Srivatsava of Telangana and wished him bright future in the game
of Chess. Other dignitaries presents on this
auspicious occasion were Arun Jain, Prabhat
Kumar, MD Prabhat Publication , Simmy Jain,
Chairperson , Org. Committee , A,K,Verma,
Hony Secretary , DCA, R.S.Tiwari, Org.
Secretary ,Purnima Goel, Secretary, BRICS
Forum, India , IA Dharmendra Kumar, Chief
Arbiter.
Finally my special thanks are due to all the
arbiters who assisted me to conduct this
event successfully.
Final standings:
Rk
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
GM
IM
GM
IM
IM
Name
Thipsay Praveen M
Saptarshi Roy
Gusain Himal
Grover Sahaj
Ravi Teja S.
Himanshu Sharma
Lahiri Atanu
AICF CHRONICLE
MAY 2015
Pts
7½
7½
7½
7½
7
7
7
27
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53
54
IM
FM
GM
IM
IM
GM
CM
FM
IM
WFM
28
Palit Somak
7
Thakur Akash
7
Sriram Jha
7
Sangma Rahul
7
Chakravarthi Reddy M
6½
Roy Chowdhury Saptarshi 6½
Prince Bajaj
6½
Kumar Gaurav
6½
Kaustuv Kundu
6½
Patil Pratik
6½
Mitrabha Guha
6½
Aradhya Garg
6½
Pradip Ghosh
6½
Raghav Srivathsav V
6½
Diwan Rajesh
6½
Sai Agni Jeevitesh J
6
Arpan Das
6
Rajesh V A V
6
Hemant Sharma (del)
6
Joshi Govind Ballabh
6
Singh Arvinder Preet
6
Nishant Malhotra
6
Santu Mondal
6
Sumit Grover
6
Anurag Jaiswal
6
Shubham Shukla
6
Deepak Katiyar
6
Abhishek Das
6
Vantika Agrawal
6
Verma H.S.
6
Ojas Kulkarni
6
Arindam Mukherjee
6
Kaushik Shubham
6
Sanskriti Goyal
6
Lawaniya Eshan
6
Soham Das
6
Sonkalan Bharati
6
Ashutosh Kumar
6
Chandreyee Hajra
6
Mahitosh Dey
6
Raghav Bagri
6
Aneek Das
6
Dubey Sanchay
5½
Bhattacharya Niladri Shekhar5½
Aansh Gupta
5½
Dony K V
5½
Tarini Goyal
5½
AICF CHRONICLE
MAY 2015
55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 CM
67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 CM
79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 CM
91 92 93 94 95 96 CM
97 98 99 100 101 Akash Lal O
Saranya Y
Saurabh Anand
Jagdeep Singh Sudan
Abhay Bandewar
Vijay Anand M.
Saptorshi Gupta
Deepak Rai
Avhra Biswas
Arvind Kumar Mishra
Samant Aditya S
Nikhil Magizhnan
Arun Wahi
Aravind K
Roop Saurav
Ankit Sen
Ganguly Ritabroto
Sudarshan Mitra
Raunak Mondal
Vikrant Jaglan
Jatinder Kapoor
Aan Sikka
Saksham Rautela
Mendonca Leon Luke
Shashi Raj Saxena
Vardan Nagpal
Dave Shiv Shankar
Bhagyashree Patil
Sunil Vaidya
Kaur Palkin
Rajarshi Dutta
Domnic Xavier R S
Bhavyay Gupta
Anshul Mehta
Garima Gaurav
Dev Shah
Afaq Haider
Mayank Soni
Nitheesh Pothireddy
Tayyeb Asif Mohmamad
Shatrughan Kaushik
Karthik Kumar Pradeep
Pradeep Kumar Nag
Sandeep Kumar
Kush Kalra
Archi Agrawal
Oshan Modi
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 Rishit Thakur
Vijay Yadav
Simrandeep Singh
Om Batra
Rajesh Kumar Nath
Jaskeerat Singh
Chitrang Natu
Garv Rai
Nithish Kumar S
Vivek Prakash Mishra
Manya Bagla
Ritvik Gupta
Negi Virender Singh
Somdatt
Tiwari O P
Aaryan Varshney
Prithu Gupta
Dinesh Kumar Gupta
Shanya Mishra
Jain Piyush
Anmol Singh Kohli
Fulzale Shrushti
Manjali Bhardwaj
Dhruv Kakkar
Sachinder
Rushil Gupta
Mishra Ravi Pratap
Devanshi Rathi
Anish Srivastava
Kapil Gupta
Sonu Kumar
Swayam Gupta
Agastya Makkar
Jyoti Kumar
Raghul Adhitya Pj
Amritansh Saraf
Sarvadh Sathiaram
Shetye Shyam
Gaurang Hari singh
Rajagopalan
Shubham Rastogi
Rajan BL
Akshat Jha
Avi Walia
Rahul Yadav
Palak Jain
Ashish Kumar Dahiya 5
5
5
4½
4½
4½
4½
4½
4½
4½
4½
4½
4½
4½
4½
4½
4½
4½
4½
4½
4½
4½
4½
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 Manish Thapa
4
Ankur Rajvanshi
4
Saurabh Singh
4
D Krishnasri
4
D Kavyasri
4
Shivom Sood
4
Akshay Panchal
4
Rahul Phull
4
Shyam sundar 4
Rishab Goel
4
Vishesh Agrawal
3½
Shashank Gupta Blind
3½
Utsab Chatterjee
3½
Dipu Jacob
3½
Somender BL
3½
Ankit Naudiyal
3½
Satvik Kalra
3½
Haleshwarayya H.M.
3½
Bhupender Bharti
3½
Satyaprakash Shrivatsava 3½
Balaji D
3½
Pasupulati Saphal
3½
Rajveer Singh Kochar
3½
Rakesh 3½
Chaitanya Kumar
3½
Vairavan N
3½
Yudhisthir Singh
3
Atul Kumar
3
Jagdish Chander
3
Ajay KumarTripathi
3
Bhumi
3
Kumar Gaurav Makhnotra 3
Krish Aggarwal
3
Arjun
3
Shashidharan Sharma
3
Parth
3
Narendra Kumar
3
Ajay
3
Rajan GLT
3
Sandeep Kumar
3
Yashavijain
3
Navdeep Rinwa
3
Surya Bhushan Kumar
3
Naba Kamal Bhuyan
3
Vishal Tripathi
3
Varun
3
Rajaram
3
AICF CHRONICLE
MAY 2015
29
1st Thali Yuva Sangh Open FIDE Rating Chess Tournament – 2015
Sinha Santosh Kumar is the winner
IA I G Parmar,Chief Arbiter
1st Thali Yuva Sangh Open FIDE Rating Chess
Tournament 2015 at Ahmedabad, Gujarat
had a colourful start at the sprawling lawns
of Rifle Clubin Ahmedabad on Saturday, 25th
April, 2015. Prominent dignitaries including Mr. Sunil Bohara, President,Thali Yuva
Sangh, Bhavesh Patel Hon. Secretary GSCA,
Mayur Patel [Vice-President GSCA], Joy
Chauhan (Managaing Director, Tirth Chess
Club) Prakash Baid, President of Chanakya
Chess Academy, IA Indubhai Parmar (Chief
Arbter), Vimal Srivastava were present on
inauguration function. This event was well
organized by Tirth Chess Club and Chanakya
Chess Academy & Co-Sponsor Rifle Club of
Ahmedabad, on behalf of Gujarat State Chess
Association under the aegis of All India Chess
Federation.
1st Thali Yuva Sangh Open FIDE Rating
Chess Tournament will be remembered in
more than one way.For the first time 98
rated players, two blind players, one handicap player and 80 below 13 Category players
were in action in this tournament.
The Tournament attracted a number of 230
players aged between seven to 68 years old,
from all over India, namely Maharashtra,
Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, M.P.
& Gujarat. The event was conducted in 9 round
Swiss format with a total Cash Prize of Rs
1,00,000 & Trophy including 80 Children
Consolation Trophies.Based on the BH score
Sinha Santosh Kumar (Elo Rating 2099)of
Gujarat emerged winner with a better BH
score of 50.5 with 8 points, while Thanki
Hemal Karsanji (Elo rating 2119) of BSNL,
Gujarat was placed second with a score of
7.5 BH Score [54] points. Badavath Anand
30
AICF CHRONICLE
MAY 2015
(Ele Rating 1882) of Rly emerged on third
position with 7.5 BH Score 51.5 points. 68
year old Veterans’ player Mr. S.R.Narayanan
of Gujarat displayed excellent skills against
his rated opponents and secured 6 points out
of 9 rounds.
The organizer Joy Chauhan Managing Director (TCC) and Prakash Baid, President (CCA)
did an excellent job in making this event a
memorable one. About 24 players from Rajasthan participated in this tournament which
included Rajendra Teli and Rachit Jain.
Mr. Bhavesh Patel (Hon.Secretary – GSCA),
Executive Committee member of Rifle Club
Mr. Barotji, Sponsor of Thali Yuva Sangh
Secretary of Vijay Nahata, Joy Chauhan
(MD – TCC), President of CCA Mr. Prakash
Baid, Dipak Vyas (CCA), Rajeshkumar Trivedi
(CCA) awarded the Cash prizes & trophy in
the Valedictory function. My sincere thanks
goes to my Dy Arbiters Mr. Dilip Raval from
Mumbai, & Mr.Rajendra Teli from Rajasthan
and other arbiters/official Mr. Vimal Srivastava, for their excellent co-operation and
skilful handling of the disputes and made
this event a grand success.I also thank All
India Chess Federation for giving me an opportunity to serve as Chief Arbiter.
Final Ranking after 9 Rounds
Rk.Name
1 Sinha Santosh Kumar 2 Thanki Hemal Karsanji 3 Badavath Anand 4 Mraduhas Tripathi 5 Chauhan Joy 6 Maulik Raval 7 Doshi Moksh Amitbhai 8 Sadhu N Vishal 9 Riyazkhan Pts. 8
7.5
7.5
7.5
7.5
7
7
7
7
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53
54
55
56
Rawal Shailesh Chandrajeet Singh R Makhija Aashna Pathan Zafar Falgun D Purohit Dr Hitesh Vasanwala Prajapati Rakesh Dinesh Sinha Pradeep Pandya Koradia G V Dave Kantilal Deota Snehil S Jigna Joshi Dutta Debarghya Mayurdhwajsinh A Jadav Chudasama Ankit Vrandesh Parekh P Abdul Karimbahi Shah Dilip Parikh Kairav Dhruv Dak Mulherkar Siddharth Sanghavi Naitik Narayanan S.R Dabhi Sangeet H Gourav Barik Chauhan P M Babel T Divyanshu Panchal Tisha N Chavada Rajendrasinh Parth A Raval Bhatt Palak K Shah Akanksha Raj D Vyas Jain Adi Samdani Sahil Sagar Joshi Deep Dabhi Geet H S Brijesh Mohan Shah Ashok Hiralal Gajjar Jaswant G Totlani Varun Bhatt Swayam Shah Riddhesh Chinmay Jain Arun Kataria Agrawal Uttaransh 7
7
7
7
6.5
6.5
6.5
6.5
6.5
6.5
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
5.5
5.5
5.5
5.5
5.5
5.5
5.5
5.5
5.5
5.5
5.5
5.5
57
58
59
60
61
62
63
64
65
66
67
68
69
70
71
72
73
74
75
Kohle Anushka Agrawal Anay Sanjay Davda Shah Mihir Prajapati Manish Agrawal Vaibhav Bhawesh Pandiyar Shah Het D Laheri Nitya Sharma Harsh Yogesh Shriom Revankar Bhagat Rajesh J Aditya P Melani Thakkar Dipen Shah Saumya Shah Manav Hiren Kartik Bhandari Vishwa Vasnawala Priyanshu Baid 5.5
5.5
5.5
5.5
5.5
5.5
5.5
5.5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
L.K.Ganga Bai
passes away
Tamil Nadu's pioneering
woman chess player L.K.
Ganga Bai died in Chennai on 14th May
2015. She was 92.Bai, retired school
headmistress, had won the Tamil
Nadu State Women's Championship
three times in 1970, 1974 and 1977,
said the Tamil Nadu Chess Association. She played in several National
Women's championships including
one hosted in then Madras for the first
time in March 1979 at the Integral
Coach Factory. Ganga Bai comes from
a family of chess players.Her brother
L.K. Ramachandran was also a prominent National player of the 1960s and
1970s. She had received the Best
Teacher Award from Chief Minister
M.G.Ramachandran.
AICF CHRONICLE
MAY 2015
31
Selected games from National Team
Chess Championships,Goa
Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron
Roy Chowdhury,Saptarshi (Rly B)
Dodeja,Pawan (MCA Senior) [C54]
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.c3 Nf6
5.d3 a6 6.Bb3 Ba7 7.0–0 d6 8.Nbd2 Ne7
9.Re1 Ng6 10.Nf1 0–0 11.h3 Be6 12.d4
Qc8 13.Ng3 h6 14.Bc2 c5 15.d5 [This
closing of the centre is a big change from ac-
black's game.] 21.bxc3 c4 [Another possibility
was: 21...Nh5 22.e5 c4 23.exd6 Bc5 24.Rad1±]
22.Qxf4 Qc5 23.Qd2 There were other ways to
defend f2 like, 23 Ne3 and 23 Ned2. But white
already has a plan of advancing e4-e5 and therefore protects d5 in advance with his queen. 23...
Rfe8 24.Ng3 Rab8 25.Rab1 Bb6
Diagram # [30...Qd6] 31.Rxb5!! A winning
sacrifice which has been well calculated to the
end. 31...Rxe4 [If 31...Rxd2? 32.Rxe8+ Qf8
33.Rxf8+ Kxf8 34.Rxb6 Rxc2 35.Rxa6 Rxc3
36.Ne3+-] 32.Rxc5 Rxd2 33.Rc8+ Kh7
34.Bxe4+ g6
cepted strategy in this position. 15.Be3 and
15 Qd3 have been seen here.] 15...Bd7=
16.c4 b5 17.Be3
17...Nf4?! [Black misses white's idea behind
17 Be3 which is, if 17...bxc4 18.Nd2 to capture
19 Nxc4 next move with a good position where
the two black bishops have no play; Black
should therefore refuse to have his bishop
buried on a7 and play 17...Bb6 18.Bd3 Ba5
19.Nd2 Re8 with an equal game.] 18.Bxf4
exf4 19.Nf1 bxc4 20.Qd2 [This offers
black some chances of counter-play which he
misses. After 20.N3d2 intending to capture on
c4 with his knight, white has a fine game.]
20...c3 [20...Bb6 21.Qxf4 Ba5 22.Rec1 c3
23.b3 Re8 would have put some more life into
32
AICF CHRONICLE
MAY 2015
[Better was: 25...Qa3 26.Rxb8 Bxb8 27.Rb1
Bc7 (27...Qxa2?? 28.e5! dxe5 29.Bh7+ Kxh7
30.Qxa2 white wins the queen.) 28.Nd4 Ba5 and
white's advantage is small.] 26.e5!! this plunges
the game into intense tactical play where white
has the upperhand. 26...dxe5 27.Nxe5 white's
d5 pawn is immune from capture by the Nf6 as
black's Bd7 will be without support. 27...Bb5
28.Ne4! Nxe4 [28...Qxd5?? 29.Nxf6+ gxf6
30.Qxd5+-] 29.Rxe4 Rbd8 30.Ng4 [Still stronger was: 30.Qf4! Qxd5 31.Rd1] 30...Rxd5?
35.Rc6! [One must be very careful at all times,
especially while winning. If 35.Rb8?? Rd1+
36.Kh2 Bc7+ 37.g3 Bxb8 and it is black who
wins!] 35...Ba5 36.Nf6+ Kg7 37.Nd5 Rxa2
38.Rxa6 Ra1+ 39.Kh2 Bxc3 [39...Bc7+
40.Nxc7 and the Ra6 is protected by his knight.]
40.Rxa1 Bxa1 41.Kg3 f5 42.Bb1 Be5+
43.f4 Bd4 44.Kf3 Kf7 45.Ba2! A clever move
that wins the c4 pawn. for if 46 c3 Nxc3+ 1–0
Nitin,S (AAI) (2357)
Swapnil,Dhopade (Rly B) (2438)
1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 dxe4 4.Nxe4 Bf5
5.Ng3 Bg6 6.N1e2 e6 7.Nf4 Bd6 8.h4
Qc7 9.Nxg6 hxg6 10.Ne4 Bf4 11.g3 Bxc1
12.Qxc1 Ne7 13.Qe3 [At first sight this looks
illogical, playing the queen to a square where it
would immediately come under attack. But he
has an idea of playing along the a3-f8 diagonal. 13.Qd2 is usually played here.] 13...Nf5
14.Qa3 Qe7
[Black challenges the white queen. He has faith
in the ensuing ending. If 14...Nxd4?! 15.0–0–0
Nf5 16.Bh3 The fight for control over the d6
square intensifies and ends in white's favour.
16...Qe7 17.Qf3 Nd7 18.Bxf5 gxf5 19.Nd6+]
15.Qxe7+ Kxe7 16.0–0–0² Nd7 17.Bg2
Rac8 18.Rhe1 Rhd8 19.c3 b6 20.Re2
Nf6 21.Ng5 Rd6 22.Nf3 c5 23.dxc5 Rxc5
24.Ne5 Nd4!? After a long manoeuvring
phase where no player improved his prospects
significantly, black initiates some tactics into
the game. 25.Rxd4?! [25.Ree1! would have
kept the small advantage that he has.] 25...
Rxd4 26.Nc6+ Rxc6 27.Bxc6 Rc4 28.Bf3
Rc5= 29.Kc2 g5 30.hxg5 Rxg5 31.a4 Rf5
32.Bg2 g5 33.b4 g4 34.Kd3 Nd7 35.Kd4
Kd6 36.Rd2 Re5 37.Kc4+ Kc7 38.Ra2 f5
39.a5?
AICF CHRONICLE
MAY 2015
33
Diagram # With the approach of the time control
on the 40th move, white makes an error, handing over the initiative to black. Any pawn move
was bad for white. He should play 39 Kd1 and it
would be difficult for black to achieve anything.
39...b5+! 40.Kd3 Re1 41.a6?! [This idea is
to isolate black's e5 pawn and attack it later
is faulty. White is still thinking of winning this
game. Better was to strive for equality with:
41.Re2 Ne5+ 42.Kd2 Rxe2+ 43.Kxe2 Nc4
44.Kd3=] 41...Ne5+!µ 42.Kd2 Rg1 43.Bb7
Nc4+ 44.Ke2? [White can put up a better
fight with: 44.Kc2 Re1 45.Kb3 Rd1 46.Re2 e5
47.Kc2±] 44...Rc1! 45.Kd3 e5 46.Re2 Kd6
47.Ra2 [47.Bc8? e4+ 48.Kd4 Rd1+ mates.]
47...e4+ 48.Ke2 [48.Kd4?? Rd1+] 48...Rxc3
Black's victory is certain. 49.Bc8 Rf3! 50.Ra1
e3! A beautiful and clever way to demolish
white's king-side pawns. 51.fxe3
51...Kc7! A fine move, taking advantage
of the smallest tactical possibilities. 52.Bb7
[The only move. 52.Be6?? Rxe3+ wins the
bishop.] 52...Rxg3! Capturing g3 was best as
the e3 pawn cannot run away without causing
greater problems. 53.e4 f4! 54.Rh1 Re3+
55.Kf2 g3+ 56.Kg2 Re2+ 57.Kf3 [57.Kh3 g2
58.Rc1 Rc2! 59.Rb1 Ne5 60.Rg1 f3 61.Kg3 Kb6
34
AICF CHRONICLE
MAY 2015
and black is poised to make the winning push
f3-f2!] 57...Rf2+ 58.Kg4 g2 59.Rh7+ Kd8!
Black's message is clear, for every rook check,
the king is going to move toward the rook on
the h-file. 0–1
Gupta,Abhijeet (PSPB) (2622)
Roy Chowdhury,Saptarshi (Rly B) (2426)
[D56]
1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Bg5 Be7 5.e3
h6 6.Bh4 0–0 7.Nf3 Ne4 8.Bxe7 Qxe7
9.Rc1 c6 10.Qc2 Nxc3 11.Qxc3 Nd7 12.Be2
dxc4 13.Qxc4 [This is new. F.Berkes 2613 vs
D.Korneev 2573 in 2004 went: 13.0–0 b5 14.b3
c5 15.Qa5 cxb3 16.axb3 Bb7 17.Qc7 Rab8
Draw agreed.] 13...e5 14.0–0 Re8 [14...exd4
15.Nxd4 Nb6 16.Qc2 is also equal.] 15.Rfd1
e4= 16.Nd2 Nb6 17.Qc5 Qf6 18.b4
18...Bd7 [Black's pawn on e4 indicates that
black's chances are on the king-side. As white
has already initiated the minority attack on the
queen-side (his a and b- pawns versus the black
a, b and c-pawns, Black is on the horns of a
dilemma. He is yet to develop his queen-side.
His bishop cannot both attack on the king-side
and defend on the queen-side. Maybe, a little
better was: 18...Qg6 19.Bh5 Qf6 20.b5 cxb5
21.Qxb5 Bd7 22.Qa5 Bc6 with chances of
equality.] 19.b5 cxb5 20.Bxb5 Rac8 21.Qb4
Bxb5 22.Qxb5 Qe6 23.Nb3 f5? [This is only
an attacking gesture and not a serious move to
challenge white's castled position. Better was:
23...a6 24.Qb4 Nd5 25.Qxb7 Nc3 26.Re1 Rb8
27.Nc5 Rxb7 28.Nxe6 Nxa2 29.Rc7! and white's
game is most promising.] 24.h3 Qf7 25.Rc5
Rf8 26.Rxc8 Rxc8 27.d5 The game is still
equal. With this passed pawn advancing down
the board, black has to worry about its 'lust to
expand' by Nimzowitsch. 27...Rd8 28.d6
position. 32...Kh7 33.Qxc4 [33.Nc5! was
stronger.] 33...Qg6
(position after 31…Rd7)
34.g4 Rxb7 35.d7 Rb1+ 36.Kh2 Qf6 Threat:
37...Qe5# 37.Qd5! 1–0
28...f4? [This weakens black's position further without giving him any chances of attack.
He could have played: 28...Nc4 29.d7 Nb6
30.Nc5 Qxa2 31.Nxb7 Qc2 32.Rd6 Qc1+
33.Kh2 (33.Qf1 Qxf1+ 34.Kxf1 Rxd7µ) 33...
Qc7=] 29.Nc5 f3 30.Qb3! after this move, the
black pawn on f3 turns into an additional liability
for black. 30...Nc4 The exchange of the queens
would result in the black pawns on e4, f3 and
b7 becoming very very weak. 31.Nxb7 Rd7
Diagram # 32.Rd4! Enjoying the advantage of
an extra pawn on d6, white nips any attack on
his king-side by the black forces and simplifies.
He wants to exchange off black's queen
which alone can try some tricks on his castled
Thejkumar,M. S (Rly A) (2438) Lahiri,Atanu
(LIC) (2308) [E73]
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.Be2
0–0 6.Bg5 Na6 7.Qd2 e5 8.d5 Nc5 9.f3 a5
10.h4 c6 11.g4 cxd5 12.cxd5 Bd7 13.Nh3
Qb8 [This is new. 13...b5!? 14.Nf2 (14.Bxb5
Bxb5 15.Nxb5 Rb8=) 14...b4 15.Ncd1= was
seen in Pellicer vs Andreu Sin, 2006.] 14.Nf2
b5 15.h5 b4 16.Ncd1 Bb5 17.Ne3 h6? [17...
Bxe2 18.Qxe2 b3 19.Nc4 bxa2 20.Be3 Qb4+
21.Bd2=] 18.Bxf6 Bxf6 19.hxg6 fxg6
AICF CHRONICLE
MAY 2015
35
20.Nf5!! An excellent combination which takes
advantage of the unprotected h6 pawn and
the black queen's need to keep protecting his
bishop on b5. 20...gxf5 21.Qxh6 [21.Bxb5?
Qxb5 22.Qxh6 Rf7 23.gxf5 Bg7 24.Qxd6 Nd3+
25.Nxd3 Qxd3 26.Rh3 Qe3+ 27.Kf1 Rc8] 21...
Ra7? [Black's best which would have left white
with no advantage was: 21...Rf7 22.gxf5 Bg7
23.Rg1 Nd7 24.Bxb5 Qxb5 25.Qxd6 Rc8=]
22.g5
even stop to capture the rook on g5 as he is
going for mate on h8. Black 's best is to give
up his queen: 26...Rfg7 27 Qh8+ Kf7 28 Qxb8
though he would still lose1–0
20.Nf2 Kg7 21.Ng4!± Black is nearly winning.]
18.fxe5 Bxe5 19.Nxe5
Vidit,Gujrathi (PSPB) (2617) Abhilash
Reddy,M.L (2236) [A55]
1.c4 c6 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.Nc3 d6 4.d4 Nbd7
5.e4 e5 6.Be2 Be7 7.0–0 0–0 8.Be3 Re8
9.Qc2 Qc7 10.Rac1 Nf8 11.d5 [Here, 11.h3
is white's favourite move, limiting black's options
by preventing both Bg4 and Ng4.] 11...Rd8?!
dxe5 With his queen-side still remaining nonfunctional, black is losing. His king's only defensive piece is the knight on f8 which will become
white's next target. 20.Qe4 The first move in
creating a queen and bishop battery against
black's castled position. 20...Qd6 [20...Qe7
21.Rce1 Re8 22.Bc3+- and black's pain is growing move by move.] 21.Bd3 Qg6?
# 22...Bxg5? [Panic. He could get an equal
game with: 22...Bg7! 23.Qh7+ Kf7 24.exf5
Ke8 25.Bxb5+ Qxb5 26.f6 Qb7 27.Ne4 Nxe4
28.fxg7 Qxg7 29.Qh5+ Qf7 30.fxe4 Qxh5
31.Rxh5 Rc7=] 23.Rg1 Rg7 24.Rxg5 Rff7
25.Kd2 Rxg5
26.Rh1!! An amazing move! White does not
36
AICF CHRONICLE
MAY 2015
[If 11...Ng4 12.Bd2 Nf6 13.b4 Bg4 14.h3 Bd7
15.Rfd1²; or, best seems to be to clear his first
rank of pieces and aim for king-side activity with:
11...Ng6 12.Rcd1 c5 13.a3 Bd7] 12.Ne1 c5
13.Nd3 Ng4 14.Bd2 f5 15.f4! Generally, in
the Indian Defences, white's chances lie on the
queen-side and black's on the king-side. But
here, with a black rook on d8 instead of on f8,
white feels that he has better chances on the
king-side. 15...fxe4 16.Nxe4 Diagram # 16...
Nf6 [If 16...Bf5 17.Ng3 Bc8 (17...Bxd3 18.Qxd3
Qd7 19.Nf5! Nf6 20.fxe5 dxe5 21.Bg5 and white
is nearly winning.) 18.Bxg4 Bxg4 19.Rce1! exf4
20.Rxf4 Bc8 21.Rfe4 Ng6 22.Nf4±] 17.Nxf6+
Bxf6 [If 17...gxf6 18.fxe5 dxe5 19.Bh5 Ng6
[21...Ng6 22.Bg5 Rf8 (22...Rd7 23.Rce1 b5
24.cxb5 Bb7 25.Bc4 Bxd5 26.Rd1!) 23.h4!+with a standard winning attack.] 22.Qh4! [22.
Qh4! A double attack! 22...Qd6 23.Rxf8+! Kxf8
(23...Rxf8 24.Qxh7+ Kf7 25.Bg5!) 24.Qxh7+Ke8 25.Bg5! and black cannot cope with the
threat of 26 Bg6+ Kd7 27 Qxg7+ mating.] 1–0
Selected games from Kolkata GM Open
Ganguly,S (2603) - Ortiz Suarez,I (CUB)
(2625) [B92]
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6
5.Nc3 a6 6.Be2 e5 7.Nb3 Be7 8.0–0 0–0
9.Be3 Be6 10.Qd3 Nbd7 11.Nd5 Bxd5
12.exd5 h6 [E.Szalanzy 2370 vs V. Loginov
2540, 1992 went: 12...Ne8 13.Bg4 Ndf6 14.Bf3
g6 15.a4 Ng7 16.a5 Nd7 17.c4 f5 black won
eventually.] 13.c4 a5 14.Rad1 Ne8 This move
had to be played sooner or later as the pawn
structure indicates that the black forces could
achieve activity only after f7-f5. 15.Bg4 a4
16.Nd2 Nc5 17.Qc2
17...Nf6? [A better idea might be to get rid of
his inactive bishop with: 17...Bg5 18.Bxc5 dxc5
19.Rfe1 (19.Ne4 f5 20.Nxc5 fxg4 21.Ne6 Qc8
22.Nxf8 Kxf8 23.Qc3²) 19...Bxd2 20.Rxd2 Qg5
21.Bd7 Nd6 the ideal square for the knight.
22.Rde2 Qf4 23.b4 axb3 24.axb3 Qd4 and if now
25.Rxe5?? Qxe5 26.Rxe5 Ra1+ mates.] 18.Bh3
Qa5 19.Nb1 Nfd7 20.Bd2 Qd8 21.b4 axb3
22.axb3 Bg5 23.b4 Na6 24.Bc3 g6 25.Nd2
f5 26.g3 Bf6 [Better was: 26...e4 27.Rfe1 Bf6
with an equal game.] 27.g4! Bg7! [Indirectly
AICF CHRONICLE
MAY 2015
37
defending his f5 pawn. 27...fxg4 28.Qxg6++-]
28.gxf5 Qh4 [If 28...gxf5 29.Kh1! (29.Bxf5??
Qg5+! this double attack wins.) 29...Qg5 30.Rg1
Qh5 31.Rg3±] 29.Qd3 gxf5 30.Kh1 e4
(Position after 42…Kg6)
Rd4 46.Ba5 Rd1+ 47.Kg2 b6 48.Bxb6 Nb7
49.c5! Nxc5 50.d8Q 1–0
31.Rg1! Nf6 [31...exd3? 32.Rxg7+ Kh8
33.Rxd7+ Rf6 (33...Kg8 34.Rg7+ Kh8 35.Rdg1!
Rf6 36.Bxf5) 34.Bxf5 Kg8 35.Rg1+ Kf8 36.Bxf6
Qxf6 37.Be6 Qg5 38.Ne4 Qxg1+ 39.Kxg1
and white mates with 40 Nf6 and 41 Rf7#]
32.Qg3 Qxg3 33.Rxg3 Nh5 34.Rxg7+ Nxg7
35.Rg1 Rf7 Another brilliant move, exploiting the mess into which the black forces have
sunk. 36.Nxe4! Nxb4 [If 36...fxe4 37.Be6 Kf8
38.Bxf7 Ne8 39.Bh5 b5 40.Rg4!+-] 37.Nxd6
Ra3 38.Bxb4 Rxh3 39.Nxf7 Kxf7 40.Re1
Rh4 [An interesting piece of play emerges after:
40...b5 41.c5! Rb3 42.d6! Rxb4 43.Re7+! Kf6
44.Rxg7! white's two connected passed pawns
win. 44...Kxg7 45.c6! Rd4 46.c7! Rc4 47.d7!]
41.Re7+ Kf6 42.Rc7! This defends his vital
c4 pawn and simultaneously threatens to win
the rook with 43 Be7+ 42...Kg6 Diagram #
43.d6! Ne6 44.Re7 [Also winning was: 44.d7
Rd4 45.Rxb7 Nd8 46.Rb6+ Kf7 47.Rxh6
Rxd7 48.Rh7+ Ke6 49.Rxd7 Kxd7 50.h4
black cannot cope with white's two extra passed
pawns on c4 and h4.] 44...Nd8 45.d7
38
AICF CHRONICLE
MAY 2015
Sengupta,D (2567) Stupak,K (BLR) (2567) [C16]
1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.e5 Qd7 5.a3
Bxc3+ 6.bxc3 b6 7.Qg4 f5 8.Qg3 Ba6
9.Bxa6 Nxa6 10.Ne2 Qf7 11.Qd3 Nb8 12.c4
Ne7 13.cxd5 exd5 14.h4 [14.0–0 would be
normal here. But obviously white wants a lot
of excitement.] 14...Nbc6 15.h5 Nd8 black
wants to set up a classical blockade with his
knight on e6. 16.Bg5 Ne6 17.Bxe7 Kxe7
[17...Qxe7? 18.Qxf5±] 18.a4 a5 19.Qa3+!
White is making sure that the black rooks do
not connect with each other. 19...Ke8 20.Rb1
Qd7 21.Rb5 Qc6 22.Kd2 Qc4
23.Qa1!? [This is a deep strategic move. Looking solid is: 23.c3 but white is deprived of using
the c3 square for his rook to infiltrate the black
position.] 23...Rd8 This is a necessary move
as it would free the queen from the defence
of his d5 pawn. 24.Rhb1 f4 25.R1b3 This
looks like a move to prevent f4-f3, but in
fact it threatens to trap the black queen with
26 Rc3! 25...Qc6 26.Qh1 Qc4! Attacking a4
and forcing the white queen to get back to
a1. 27.Qa1 again threatening to trap the
queen. 27...Qc6 28.Rc3 Qd7 29.Rd3 Qc6
30.Qa2 Qc4 31.Qa3 [Not 31.Qxc4? dxc4
32.Rh3 Nxd4 33.Nxd4 Rxd4+ 34.Kc3 Re4
and black has a clear advantage.] 31...Qc6
32.Qb3 Qc4 33.Qa3 Qc6! 34.Rc3 Qd7 35.Rf3
Rf8 36.Qd3 Threatening Qxh7. You have to
keep on harrassing your opponent so that
he finally misses a trick and crumbles. 36...
Qf7! Black sets up his own counter, offering
the h7 pawn as bait. 37.Qb3 [White wants to
trade his h-pawn for black’s d5. Not 37.Qxh7??
Ng5 forks queen and rook.] 37...Qd7 38.Rd3
Planning 39 Nc3 winning the d5 pawn. 38...
Rf5 unable to defend d5, black counter-attacks
on the king-side. 39.Nc3 c5! A good tactical
defence. 40.dxc5 Nxc5
41.Rxc5 bxc5 42.Nxd5 Qc6 [The only
move to avert immediate defeat. 42...Rxe5??
43.Nxf4! (with the winning threat of 44
Qg8+ winning material, and if now) 43...
Qf7 44.Rxd8+ Kxd8 45.Qxf7+-] 43.Nf6+!
Ke7 [If 43...gxf6 44.Qg8+ Ke7 45.Qxd8+
wins.; or, if 43...Rxf6 44.Qg8+ Rf8 45.Rxd8+
Kxd8 46.Qxf8+ Qe8 47.Qxe8+! Kxe8 48.Kd3
and the white king captures the f4 pawn.]
44.Rxd8 Rxe5 [If 44...Kxd8 45.Qd3+ Ke7
46.Qxf5 gxf6 47.Qxh7+ Ke6 48.exf6+-]
45.Rd7+ Kxf6 46.Qf7+ Kg5 47.Qxg7+
Kh4 48.Rd3 Rg5 [To prevent the mate
with 49 Rh3, if 48...Rd5 49.Qe7+ (49.g3+
Kh3 50.gxf4+ Rxd3+ 51.cxd3 Kh2 52.Qxh7
Qxa4 53.Qe4 Qa2+ 54.Ke3 and white would
win.) 49...Kg4 50.Qxh7 wins.] 49.Rh3+ Kg4
50.f3+ Kf5 51.Qxh7+ Ke5 52.Qe7+! simplifying to a won rook ending. 52...Kf5 53.Qe4+!
Qxe4 54.fxe4+ Kxe4
55.Rh2!! A totally unexpected move that
wins without any problems. Soon, black will
be in zugzwang trying to hold the h-pawn.
55...Rd5+ 56.Ke2 Rd7 57.h6 Rh7 58.Rh4
c4 59.c3 [59.g3!] 59...Kf5 60.Kf3 Kg5
61.Rh1 [61.Rh1 Kf5 62.Rh5+ Kg6 63.Kg4!]
1–0
AICF CHRONICLE
MAY 2015
39
Kostenko,Petr (Kaz) (2466)
Roy,Pr (2300) [A15]
1.c4 Nf6 2.g3 g6 3.Bg2 Bg7 4.Nc3 0–0 5.e4
d6 6.Nge2 Nc6 7.d3 e5 8.0–0 Ne8 9.Be3
f5 10.Qd2 Nf6 11.Nd5 Be6 [The immediate
11...Ne7 has been seen in practice.] 12.Rac1
Qd7 13.f3
[This is not at all an impressive move. Better
was: 13.Nxf6+ Bxf6 14.f4=] 13...Ne7 14.Bg5
c6 15.Nxf6+ Bxf6 16.Bxf6 Rxf6 17.f4 fxe4
[It was better to play the natural developing
move in this position and wait for white's further
plans. So, 17...Raf8= ] 18.dxe4 Raf8= 19.b3
Bg4 20.Nc3 Bh3 21.Ne2 By reversing his
move, the Kazakh GM admits that his opening
has not gone as planned or desired. 21...Bg4
22.Rce1 Bxe2 23.Rxe2 Qe6 24.Ref2 Kg7
25.Qa5 a6 26.a4 R8f7 27.Qb4 exf4 28.gxf4
40
AICF CHRONICLE
MAY 2015
Tactics from master games
Here, the white pawns on e4 and f4 could be
termed hanging pawns though that term is used
for c- and d-pawns (for both white and black)
when they do not have pawns on the adjacent
b- and e-files. Here the white pawns are weak
as will be seen soon. 28...Qg4 29.c5 [It was
better to wait for black to reveal his plans and
play: 29.a5 ; or just defend the threatened
pawn with 29.Qd2= and wait for black's next
move was advisable.; However, not 29.Qxb7?
Nd5! 30.h3 (30.Qxc6 Nxf4 31.Rxf4 Rxf4 32.Rxf4
Qxf4µ) 30...Qxg2+ 31.Kxg2 Ne3+! 32.Kf3
Rxb7 33.Kxe3 Rxb3+µ] 29...d5 30.e5 Re6
31.Qxb7 Nf5 32.Qxa6 Suddenly black is two
pawns down, but the venom in his pieces has
not lessened! 32...Ne3 33.h3 Qg3 34.Qc8
Ree7 35.Qxc6 Nxf1 36.Rxf1= Qxb3 37.e6?
S.Krishnan
1
3
[White's best was to draw with: 37.Bxd5 Qe3+
38.Kg2 Rxf4 39.Rxf4 Qxf4 40.e6 Qd2+ 41.Kf3
with draw by perpetual check.] 37...Qe3+
38.Kh2 Rxe6 39.Qxd5 Rxf4! 40.Ra1 Rd4
41.Qb7+ Re7 42.Qb2
[This is hardly a pin. 42.Qb8 would not have
led to a sudden, total collapse.] 42...Qe5+!
This check unpins the rook and wherever the
king goes, the rook would go Rd1+ and capture
Qxb2. 0–1
5
White to play and win
White to play and win
White to play and win
2
4
6
White to play and win
White to play and win
White to play and win
(solutions on p. 44 )
AICF CHRONICLE
MAY 2015
41
Test your endgame
by C.G.S.Narayanan
Gorgiev 1967
1.
Kuznetsov&Kralin 1965-66
Neidze 1966
4.
Harold Lommer 1966
5.
Ludek Pachman
G.Kasparyan 1962-64
2.
3.
Masters of the past-52 Visas Kivi 1965
6.
White to play and win in all the six endings above
Luděk Pachman (German: Ludek Pachmann, May 11, 1924, Bělá
pod Bezdězem, today Czech Republic – March 6, 2003, Passau,
Germany) was a Czechoslovak-German chess grandmaster, chess
writer, and political activist. In 1972 he emigrated to West Germany.
He lived the remainder of his life there, and resumed his chess career with considerable success, including playing in the Interzonal
in 1976 and winning the West German Championship in 1978.
Pachman's first chess championship came in 1940, when he became
champion of the nearby village of Cista (population 900). The first
break in his chess career came in 1943, when he was invited to
an international tournament in Prague. World Champion Alekhine
dominated the event, with Keres taking second place. Pachman
finished ninth in the nineteen-player tournament. Alekhine paid
him a compliment in an article in the "Frankfurter Zeitung" and from the fifth round
on, invited him every evening to analyze games and opening variations. "I don't have
to tell you how a beginner from a village chess club felt at that time", Pachman wrote.
Pachman went on to become one of the world's leading players. He won fifteen international tournaments, but considered sharing second place in Havana 1963, with Mikhail
Tal and Efim Geller, behind Viktor Korchnoi, his best tournament result. Pachman won
the Czechoslovak championship seven times between 1946 and 1966. He became the
champion of West Germany in 1978. He played in six Interzonal tournaments between
Saltsjöbaden 1948 and Manila 1976. He represented Czechoslovakia in eight consecutive Chess Olympiads from 1952 through 1966, usually playing first board.
The most successful year of his career was 1959. After winning the Czechoslovakian
championship he went on a South American tour, winning tournaments in Mar del Plata
(tied with Miguel Najdorf), Santiago, Chile (tied with Borislav Ivkov) and Lima, Peru
(again tied with Ivkov). On this tour he beat the 16-year-old Bobby Fischer twice. Pachman made an even lifetime score against Fischer, +2 −2 =4.
Pachman was also a prolific author, publishing eighty books in five languages. In the
1950s, he became the world's leading opening expert with the publication of his fourvolume opus, Theory of Modern Chess. Pachman considered Modern Chess Strategy,
published in 1959, to be his best book. His book Checkmate in Prague recounts his
treatment at the hands of the Communist authorities.
Ludek Pachman - Oleg Neikirch [D41]
Portoroz Interzonal Portoroz SVN (13), 27.08.1958
1.c4 Nf6 2.Nc3 e6 3.Nf3 d5 4.d4 c5 5.cxd5 Nxd5 6.e3 Nc6 7.Bc4 Nxc3 8.bxc3 Be7
9.0–0 0–0 10.Qe2 b6 11.Rd1 cxd4 12.exd4 Na5 13.Bd3 Bb7 14.Bf4 Qd5 15.Rab1 Rac8
16.Rb5 Qd8 17.Ng5 Bxg5 18.Bxg5 Qd6 19.Bf6 Qf4 20.Be5 Qg5 21.f4 Qe7 22.Bxh7+
Kxh7 23.Qh5+ Kg8 24.Bxg7 f5 25.Be5 Nc4 26.Qg6+ 1–0
Courtesy:Wikepedia
(Solution on page 44)
42
AICF CHRONICLE
MAY 2015
AICF CHRONICLE
MAY 2015
43
Solutions to ‘Tactics from master
games’ on page 41
1. Gao,Rui (2533) - Shen,Victor C (2401)
[C99]
White to play. 64.Qh6+! Kg8 [64...Bxh6
65.Ng5+ Kh8 66.Rh7#] 65.Qh8+ Bxh8
66.Nh6# 1–0
2. Semcesen,D (2471) - Norberg,J (2305)
[A41]
Position after 24th move.White to play. 25.Qxc5!
dxc5 26.Rxd8 Nc8 27.R1d7+ Kh6 28.Rh8
[28.Rh8 f5 (28...Kg5 29.Rhxh7 f5 (29...Rb6
30.h4+ Kg4 31.f3#) 30.Rdf7 fxe4 31.Nbc3 idea
32.Ne4+ 31...Rf6 32.Nxe4+ Kf5 33.N2g3+ Kg4
34.h3+ Kf4 35.Rxf6#) 29.Rhxh7+ Kg5 30.h4+
Kf6 (30...Kg4 31.f3#) 31.Rdf7+ Ke6 32.Nec3 idea
33.Nd5-34.Rf6#] 1–0
3.Muzychuk,Mariya(2526) Koneru,Humpy
(2581) [C45]
Position after 25th move. White to play. 26.Qd2!
Rf8 [26...Rxd2 27.Re8#; 26...Rb8 27.Bd5+ Bxd5
28.Qxd5+ Kh8 (28...Kf8 29.Qf7#) 29.Nf7+ Kh7
(29...Kg8 30.Nd8+ Kh8 31.Qh5+ Kg8 32.Re8#)
30.Qh5+ Kg8 31.Nh6+ gxh6 32.Qg6+ Kh8
33.Qxf6+ Kg8 34.Kh1 Idea 35.Rg1+] 27.Bd5+!
Bxd5 28.Qxd5+ Kh8 29.Qf7! [29.Qf7 fxg5
30.Qxf8+ Kh7 31.Qf5+ mates in three] 1–0
4.Zvjaginsev,Vadim(2658) Bok,Benjamin
(2587) [C44]
Aeroflot Open A 2015 Moscow RUS (3.11),
29.03.2015
Position after 21st move. White to play. 22.Nb6!
axb6 23.axb6 Na6 [23...Rxa1 24.bxc7+-]
24.dxc6! [24.bxc7 also wins] 24...bxc6 [24...
Rxc6 25.Bxc6 bxc6 26.Rfb1!+-] 25.Rxa6
[25.Rxa6 Rcc8 (25...Rac8 26.bxc7; 25...Rxa6
44
AICF CHRONICLE
MAY 2015
26.bxc7+-) 26.b7 Rab8 27.bxc8Q++-] 1–0
5.Khismatullin,Denis(2650)
Mamedov,Rauf (2658) [E73]
Aeroflot Open A 2015 Moscow RUS (9.7),
04.04.2015
Position after 25th move.White to play. 26.Bf6+!
Kg8 [26...Kxf6 27.Rf3+ [%cal Gc2a4]]
27.Qd2 [27.Qd2 g5 (27...Kh7 28.Qxh6+! Kxh6
29.Rh3+ Rh5 30.Bxh5 gxh5 (30...Kh7 31.Bg4+
Kg8 32.Rh8#) 31.Bg7+ Kh7 32.Rxh5+ Kg8
33.Rh8#) 28.Rh3+- Nh7 29.Bxe5 dxe5 30.Rxh6
wins] 1–0
6. Pap,M (2459) - Buiza Prieto,Eihartze
(2107) [B22]
38th San Sebastian Open Donostia ESP (5.8),
31.03.2015
Position after 19th move. White to play. 20.Nd5!
exd5? [20...fxg5 21.Nxc7 gxf4 22.Nxe8+-]
21.Bxd5+ Kh8 22.Nf7+ Kg8 23.Nd8+ Kh8
[23...Ne6 24.Nxe6 Qd7 25.exf6 Bf8 26.f7+ Wins;
23...Be6 24.Nxe6+-] 24.exf6 Qxf4 [24...Bd6
25.Rxe8+ Wins] 25.Bg7# 1–0
Solutions to ‘Test your endgame’ on page 42
1.Gorgiev,I Pr,Shakmati 1967
1.e7 Bxe7 2.Re6+ Kd2 3.Rxe7 Rxf7 4.Rxf7 e1Q
5.Rd7+ Kc3 6.Rc7+ Kb3 7.Kc6+ Kc4 8.Kb7+
Kb5 9.Ka8+ Ka6 10.Ra7#
2.G.Kasparyan, 1963-64
1.Nf6+ Kf7 2.Nxg4 Ne6+ 3.Kf5 Be1 4.Ne5+
Ke7 5.Nc6+ Kd6 6.c4 Bc3 7.Na7 Nd4+ 8.Ke4
Nxb3 9.Nb5+ Kc5 10.Bf8+ Kxc4 11.Na3#
3.Kuznecov and Kralin,4 Pr,65-66
1.Bf3 a1Q 2.a8Q h1Q+ 3.Bxh1 Qxa1 4.Re1+
Kh2 5.Be4 Qa1 6.Rb1 wins
4.Neidze,2 Pl.Isenegger Mem.Ty, 1966
1.h8Q Bf5+ 2.Kg2 Be4+ 3.Kf1 Bd3+ 4.Ke1
Bb4+ 5.Nc3 Rxh8 6.Bc7#
Karnataka State Open FIDE Rated Chess Championship 2015, Bangalore…
Achuthananda Reddy makes the inaugural move against K.S.Raghunandan
Sanjay N (Runner-up),IM Shivananda B.S (Champion), Arvind_Shastry(third) and
Prachura P.P(fourth)
45
St. JOSEPH’S
Maharashtra State Open & Women FIDE Rating
Tournament 2015,Nagpur
5th INTERNATIONAL FIDE RATING CHESS TOURNAMENT
AICF Approval No: 115575/TN/2015 & TNSCA Approval No:R08 /15-16
Organised by Mount Chess Academy
Under the aegis of
All India Chess Federation
Tamil Nadu State Chess Association & Kanchi Dist Chess Association
Sponsored by St.Joseph’s group of Institutions
from 03rd July to 07th July 2015
Prize Money: 2 Lakhs
Venue : St
Inauguration: (L to R) IA Swapnil Bansod, Chief Arbiter, Shri. Dilip Pagay, Secretary MCA, Dr. P C Pawar,
Principal Dr. Ambedkar College & Institute of Research and Managment, Shri. Manoj Itkelwar, Vice
President MCA, Shri. K K Barat, Secretery NDCA.
Joseph’s College of Engineering,
Old Mahabalipuram Road (OMR), Sholinganallur, Chennai
Entry fees can pay by online through:-www.paychessentry.com
1st Thali Yuva Sangh Open FIDE Rating Chess Tournament – 2015
Last date for entry: 26.6.2015. NO SPOT ENTRIES ALLOWED
Free boarding to be provided to all participants
Unfurnished lodging will be given to outstation participants.
Kindly inform before 26th June regarding accommodation requirement
Please Contact:
Mr.V.Ravichandran, Organising Secretary,
Ph: 09444210914 & 09043690467
Mr M Muthukumar, Secretary,
Kanchi Dist Chess Assn 9444045289
Mr.H Santhanam, Joint Secretary,
KDCA & Mount Chess Academy: 09840583157
Sitting:(L-R) Joy Chauhan, Sinha Santoshkumar, Thanki Hemal & Mraduhas Tripathi
Standing: (L-R) Sanjay Dugar, Dipak Vyas, Virendra Manhot, Rajesh Trivedi, Bhavesh Patel, IG Parmar46
For details of entry fee and prize money visit
www.aicf.in
AICF CHRONICLE
MAY 2015
47
AICF Calendar May 2015
2nd Imperia Structures FIDE Rated Tmt
1st SCS All India FIDE Rated Grandmaster Tournament ,Odisha
8th Mumbai Mayor trophy GM Ty, Mumbai
National Under-9 Championship
2nd Mineral Chess Academy FIDE Rating Ty
Maharashtra Chess League
1st Medha All India Open FIDE Rating
National Cities Team Championship
PCA All India FIDE Rating Ty
1st N.L.Pandiyar Mem.Lake city FIDE Rating
Commonwealth Chess Late Ramesh Vinayakrao Kotwal Mem.Rapid
National Women Challenger National Under 11 Boys&Girls
GM Chess Tournament
National Junior Boys & Girls Championships
All India Open FIDE Rating
Laxmikant ItkelwarMem.U-15 Open &Girls
Asian Continental Championship
8th Modern FIDE FRating for School children
1st Ratanlal Kedia Mem.FIDE Rated Open
Asian Youth U-8.10,12,14,16,18 Chess
1st KCA FIDE rating
3rd Window Open below 1600
National Challenger Chess
National Under-7 Boys&Girls
World Youth Under-16 Olympiad
Tariff for advertisement :
Back Cover (Colour)
Inside Cover (Colour)
Full Page Inside (Colour)
Full Page Inside (Black & White)
Half Page Inside (Black & White)
16May15-20May15
17 May 15-21May15
24 May15-31 May15
02 Jun15- 09 Jun 15
11 Jun15-19 Jun15
11 Jun 15-15 Jun15
11 Jun15-15 Jun 15
12 Jun 15-15 Jun15
14 Jun15-18Jun15
16Jun15-20 Jun15
21Jun15-24 Jun15
2 Jun15- 30 Jun 15
27Jun15-28Jun 15
02 Jul15-11 Jul15
13 Jul15-21Jul15
13 Jul15-20 Jul15
23 Jul15-31 Jul15
25Jun15-29Jun15
01Aug15-05Aug15
01Aug15-13Aug15
01Aug15-05Aug15
02Aug15-06Jun15
03Aug15-11Aug15
12Aug15-16Aug15
15Aug15-17Jun15
16Aug15-27Aug15
17Aug15-25Aug15
19Aug15-29Aug15
JNStadium,Delhi
Sivakasi,TN
Bubaneshwar
Mumbai
Gujarat
Vadodhara
Pune
Pallakollu, AP
Margao, Goa
Nagpur
Udaipur
Delhi
Maharashtra
Delhi
Puducherry
Hyderabad,AP
Tamilnadu
Nasik, Maharashtra
Nagpur
Al Ain, UAE
Nanganallur, Chennai
Siliguri,Assam
Seoul, South Korea
Kanchipuram
Kerala
Nagpur
Chennai
Mongolia
Monthly (in Rs.)
Annual (in Rs.)
15,000
15,000
7,000
5,000
3,000
1,20,000
1,00,000
60,000
45,000
30,000
Solution to puzzle of the month on page 13: In spite of White and Black’s symmetrical arrangement in the final position, the play leading to it is non-symmetrical. 1.Nf3 e5 2.Nxe5 Qe7 3.Ng6
Qxe2+ 4.Qxe2+ Ne7 5.Qxe7+ Bxe7 6.Nf8 Bxf8
48
AICF CHRONICLE
MAY 2015
56th Odisha State Senior FIDE Rating Chess Championship,Puri…
Debashis Das, Diptayan Ghosh, Neelotpal Das, with Chief Guest GS Pradhan CEO,SAIL,RSP
Debashis Das with Chief Guest Gouri Shankar Prasad,CEO,Sail,RSP
(L-RBack)1st Rakesh, 3rd Baivab, 2nd FM Rakesh, th FM Soumyaranjan, (L-R) Subhash Ch Sahoo,
Secy, DCAP, Vivek Tibarewal, Secy, AOCA, Pradyumna Mishra, Vice President, DCAP, Ramesh Ch
Mohapatra, Sponsor
2nd ACCF FIDE Rated Open Chess Tournament, Calicut…
Winner Shyam Nikhil receives award from TJ Suresh Kumar,Treasurer,Chess Association
Kerala
49
National Rapid & Blitz Chess Championship-2015,Rourkela
Guest PK Pradhan with GM Debashis
Das,MInati Mohapatra, DGM(sports),SAIL,RSP
is in the centre
Debashis Das with Chief Guest Gouri
Shankar Prasad,CEO,Sail,RSP
Blitz champion K_Ratnakaran with GOH
Sri PK Pradhan & Mohapatra DGM(Sports)
SAIL