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1st Sardar Prakash Singh Memorial Open Fide Rated Chess Tournament organized by Baba Kalinath Chriatable Trust was

held at Gulshan Dhaba, Sonipat from 17-22 April 2017.

This Rupees Five Lakhs prize money event attracted a total number of 327 players which includes two Grandmasters, eight Interna-tional Masters and 260 international rated players from different parts of India and two foreign federations. The event conducted under Swiss system with 10 rounds and the time control was 90 minutes and 30 second increment from move 1.

In a befitting opening ceremony, Shri. Bharat Singh CEO All India Chess Federation inaugu-rated the event in presence of Shri. Naresh Sharma, Secretary the Haryana Chess As-sociation. Grandmaster Swapnil Dhopade of Railways got the top billing. The entire tour-nament saw lots of ups and downs as well as grueling battles over chequered board.

The initial two rounds progressed on expect-ed lines but on third round, 12 year old Delhi Player Aaryan Varshney caused a flutter not only in the tournament but also in chess world by upsetting top seed and Grandmas-ter Swapnil Dhopade with black pieces. In the fifth round, the long awaited moment of Haryana Chess happened as International Master Himanshu Sharma crossed the rating barrier of 2500 to become the 47th Grand-master-elect and first from Haryana. Shock defeat of Dhopade in third round and achievement of Sharma in fifth round

changed the complexion of the entire tour-nament. At the end of penultimate round, Saravana Krishnan P of Tamilnadu emerged as sole leader after beating Fide Master Rakesh Kumar Jena of Odisha. In the final round, Saravana Krishnan signed the peace treaty with Hemant Sharma of Railways but seasoned campaigner International Master Anup Deshmukh of LIC had other ideas as he ensured a thrilling end to the tourna-ment by beating Grandmaster Saptarshi Roy Chowdhury to catch up with leader Saravana Krishnan. A two way tie for the pole position was resolved by buchholz tie break score and better tie break score helped Deshmukh to lift the Sardar Prakash Singh Memorial tro-phy and pocketed a cash prize of Rs. 1 lakh. Saravaran Krishnan satisfied with Rs. 71000 while IM Dinesh Sharma finished at third position to secure Rs. 41000 as cash prize.

K Srikanth of Indian Air Force and Raj Pra-khar of Haryana become best players among Below 1900 and Below 1600 respectively to fetch cash awards of Rs. 25000 and Rs. 21000. Amit Kumar Bansal of Uttar Pradesh and Stuti Bhanot of Haryana secured prizes for Best Unrated and Best Girl respectively.

At a colourful closing ceremony, Smt. Kavita Jain, Cabinet Minister Government of Harya-na and Shri. Mahipal Dhanda, MLA gave away the cash prizes and trophies to the winners along with Shri. Naresh Sharma, Secretary, Haryana Chess Association. Final ranking Rk Name Pts 1 IM Deshmukh Anup 8½ 2 Saravana Krishnan P. 8½

1st Sardar Prakash Singh Memorial Open FIDE Rated Chess Tournament, Sonepet

Anup Deshmukh shines at Sonepatby IA Gopakumar MS, Chief Arbiter

Inside….1st Sardar Prakash Singh Mem.Open FIDE Rated Ty,SonepetAnup Deshmukh shines at Sonepatby IA Gopakumar MS, Chief Arbiter 1

6th BRDCA Intl. Fide Rating Tmt, BangaloreNitin emerges Champion by Promodraj Moree,Chief Arbiter 5’

3rd ADRA FIDE Open Intl. Rating Tmt.,Purulia Rahul Sangma clinches titleby IA Debasish Barua, Chief Arbiter 7

Shree Damodar All India U-1600 Fide Rating Tmt,MargaoTanvi Vasudev Hadkonkar wins titleby Ashesh Keni ,Chief Arbiter 9

11th KCM FIDE Rated Chess Tmt, CoimbatoreKunal wins KCM Openby IA V.Vijayaraghavan, Chief Arbiter 12

6th Keshabananda Das Mem Open Ch’ship, BubaneshwarChakravarthi Reddy wins titleby FA Tapas Kumar Mohanty, Chief Arbiter 14

Ladji Kothari Rapid Fide Rating Tmt, UdaipurArghyadip Das is Championby IA, Tiwari Rade Shyam, Chief Arbiter 16

1st Mahaveer Trophy Open Fide Rating Tmt, HyderabadRama Krishna wins titleby FA S Subba Raju , Chief Arbiter 18

Devnar Foundation for the Blind- AICFB Open FIDE RatedNational Tournament for the blind, Hyderabad, TelanganaAryan B Joshi emerges ChampionIA Manjunatha .M, Chief Arbiter 20

11th ACA Intl. Fide Rated Tmt,CalicutKunal wins at Calicutby IA M. Ephrame IA, Chief Arbiter 22

12th ACA Intl.FIDE rated Tournament (below 1500), Calicut Santhosh Kumar wins at Calicutby M. Ephrame IA, Chief Arbiter 28

65th Tamilnadu State Open FIDE Rated Ch’ships, ErodeAkash Pc Iyer emerges Championby M. Ephrame IA, Chief Arbiter 30

Candor All India Open FIDE Rated Tournament, Bangalore Audi Ameya wins titleby IA Vasanth BH , Chief Arbiter 32

Selected games from 1st S.P.Singh Mem. Tmt, SonipatAnnotated by IM Manuel Aaron 34Tactics from master games by S.Krishnan 42Test your endgame by C.G.S.Narayanan 43Masters of the past-76: Robert Byrne 44AICF Calendar 45

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I t was a pod ium sweep fo r the Indian g i r ls at the Asian Junior Chess Championships at Iran. Goan prodigy WIM Ivana Maria Furtado was crowned the Asian Junior Girls Champion, C.H.Meghna of Kerala won the silver medal and Bidar Rutumbara

of Odisha took the bronze. This is Ivana’s second title triumph after 2012 at Taskent.

Indian Grandmasters were on a roll in a few major events. GM S.P.Sethuraman finished second at the five-nation Brics Masters Rapid held in China, which included three chess super powers- Russia, China and India. GM Baskaran Adhiban was second behind GM Wang Hao and GM Harika finished the best woman player, at the 1st Sharjah Open.IM Thejkumar won the title at the Dhamso International chess festival at Sri lanka. Shriyani Mallya’s bronze in the under-7 category at the World Schools Chess Championship in Romania rounds up the string of Indian successes during April 2017. The reports on these events with photographs are featured in the centre pages.

This issue also presents reports, final standings on the FIDE rated tournaments held last month. IM Manuel Aaron annotates seven selected games from Sardar Prakash Singh Memorial Open FIDE Rated Chess Tournament held at Sonepet. ‘Study of the Year 2014’ , presented elsewhere in this issue, is an effort by World Federation for Chess Composition to draw the attention of players at all levels to the art of end game study.US Grandmaster and renowned author Robert Byrne is featured in the ‘Masters of the past’ series.

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M.Chakravarthi Reddy receiving the prize from the Chief Guest SJ. Sarat Ch. Misra, IPS (Rtd., Ex- Director General of Police, Govt. of Odisha) in the presence of Subhasis Patnaik, Hony. Secretary ,Khordha District Chess Association and Ranjan Mohanty (Vice president of AOCA)

Candor All India Open FIDE Rated Tournament, Bangalore

Audi Ameya, Winner, receiving the prize from Shri.Samik Ghosh, Principal, Candor International School, Bangalore

Devnar Foundation for the Blind- AICFB Open FIDE Rated National Chess Tournament for the blind, Hyderabad, Telangana

Aryan B Joshi receivingtrophy Shri K T RamaRao, Honourable Minister for IT, Municipal administration & Urban Development NRI Affairs, Govt of Telangana

6th Keshabananda Das Memorial All India Open FIDE Rating Championship, Bubaneshwar

3 IM Sharma Dinesh K. 8 4 Hemant Sharma (del) 8 5 Pradeep Kumar R A 8 6 IM Krishna C R G 8 7 FM Srinath Rao S.V. 8 8 Doshi Moksh Amitbhai 8 9 Sumit Grover 8 10 GM Swapnil S. Dhopade 8 11 GM Roy Chowdhury Saptarshi 7½ 12 Joshi Govind Ballabh 7½ 13 Srikanth K. 7½ 14 IM Himanshu Sharma 7½ 15 Sahil Dhawan 7½ 16 Pankaj Sindhu 7½

17 Vinay Raj Bhatt 7½

18 Mahindrakar Indrajeet 7½

19 FM Rakesh Kumar Jena 7

20 Himanshu Ranjan 7

21 Aaryan Varshney 7

22 IM R Balasubramaniam 7

23 Badavath Anand 7

24 Negi Virender Singh 7

25 Rishabh Jain 7

26 Akshay Anand 7

27 Govind Kumar 7

28 Hilal Mondal 7 29 AGM Shubham Shukla 7 30 Sharma Pankaj 7 31 Verma H.S. 7 32 Manush Shah 7 33 Raj Prakhar 7 34 Manoj Trivedi 7 35 Kuldeep Kashyap 7 36 Satinder Sharma 7 37 Singh Arvinder Preet 6½ 38 IM Gokhale Chandrashekhar 6½ 39 Bhanot Stuti 6½ 40 Samant Aditya S 6½ 41 Sachin Malik 6½

42 Punit Indora 6½ 43 Adarsh Tripathi 6½ 44 Sharma P L 6½ 45 Arun Rathi 6½ 46 Negi D.S. 6½ 47 Katiyar Prashant 6½ 48 Pukhraj Singh 6½ 49 Gangan Ashutosh 6½ 50 Gajendra Singh 6½ 51 Kartikey Verma 6½ 52 Sanjay D G 6½ 53 Subhash Srivastava 6½ 54 IM Wazeer Ahmad Khan 6½ 55 Harisurya Bharadwaj G 6½ 56 Sangeen Mandre 6½ 57 Suthar Pradip 6½ 58 Aditya P Melani 6½ 59 Dubey Sanchay 6 60 Rahul Bharadwaj B 6

61 Awadh Chaitanya 6

62 Shubham 6

63 Esshan Wadhawan 6

64 Manoj Kumar 6

65 Rathore Sonakshi 6

66 Alok Sinha 6

67 Arushi Kotwal 6

68 Singh Jagpreet 6

69 Vikrant Jaglan 6

70 J M Baisakh 6

71 Lokesh Hans 6 72 Komal Ashish 6 73 Ashwani Kumar Grover 6 74 Harshit Arya 6 75 Swarnamala B 6 76 Rajendra Singh Rana 6 77 Harminder Singh 6 78 Vivek Kaushal 6 79 Mahabir Parshad Verma 6 80 Sadhu Bhagyesh 6

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1st Mahaveer Trophy All India Open Fide Rating Chess Tournament, Hyderabad

Kandi Ravi (third place) and Winner J Rama Krishna (in the foreground with trophies) with Chief Guest Sri A Narasimha Reddy, Vice-President,AICF and other dignitaries

Inaugural move by Chief Guest Sri Bandaru Dattatreya, Central Minster in the presence of Sri S Sudershan Reddy, Chairman,Mahaveer Institutions.

6 th BRDCA International Fide Rating Chess Tournament was held at Hotel City Centaur, Near Railway Station,

Bangalore, one of the prominent and well known Hotels in the city. The Tournament was organized by Bangalore Rural District Chess Association from 27th April to 1st May 2017. The Tournament attracted 279 players from all over India, including major states like West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Goa, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashta etc, with six International Masters, Nitin S, Praveen Kumar C, R. Balasubramaniam, Murali Krishna B T, Krishna CRG and Hegde Ravi Gopal. Top seed of the event was Nitin S of Tamil Nadu with rating of 2432.

The event was inaugurated on 27th April at 10 am. Chief guest of the event was Mr Ravi Kumar Naik, IPS,Bangalore, Guest of honor Mr Aravind Shastry, Secretary UKCA, Other dignitaries who were present on oc-casion were Mr R Hanumanta, AICF Joint Secretary, International Master Shivanand B S, Mr Mallikarjun MD Hotel City Centaur and Mr Rajashekar N, SP, Assam.

The final round took place at 9 a.m on 1st May. International Master Nitin S of Tamil Nadu defeated Sammed Jaykumar Shete of Maharashtra who was leading in the 8th round, to secure the 1st prize in The 6th BRDCA International FIDE Rating chess tournament which concluded at Hotel City Centaur, Majestic Bangalore. Nitin S secured 8 points out of 9 round and bagged prize money of Rs 80000 and a Glittering Trophy. Senthil Maran K of Tamil Nadu secured sec-ond Prize Rs 50000 with Trophy and third

Prize was bagged by Sammed Jaykumar Shete of Maharashtra Rs 40000 cash with Trophy.

The Prize Distribution Ceremony took place on 1st May 2017 at 2.30 pm for which Chief Guest was Mr Hanumanta R, Joint Secre-taty AICF, other dignitaries present on the occasion were, Mr Nagendra Muralidhar, Vice President UKCA, Mr Raghavendra V, Vice President UKCA, Mr Rajashekar N, SP, Assam, Mr Chidanand A Seretary BRDCA and Promodraj Moree, Chief Arbiter.Final ranking Rk Name Pts 1 IM Nitin S. 8 2 Senthil Maran K 7½ 3 Sammed Jaykumar Shete 7½ 4 Saravana Krishnan P. 7½ 5 Sekar B 7½ 6 IM Praveen Kumar C 7½ 7 Harikrishnan.A.Ra 7 8 Gavi Siddayya 7 9 Sanjay Sindhia Mh 7 10 Gahan M G 7 11 FM Purushothaman T 7 12 Raghavendra V. 7 13 Mythireyan P 7 14 Nikhil M 7 15 IM Krishna C R G 6½ 16 IM Murali Krishnan B T 6½ 17 Sreeshwan Maralakshikari 6½ 18 Subramanian V 6½ 19 IM Hegde Ravi Gopal 6½ 20 Balkishan A. 6½ 21 Dhanush Ragav 6½ 22 Ajay Karthikeyan 6½

6th BRDCA International Fide Rating Chess Tournament, Bangalore

Nitin emerges Championby Promodraj Moree,Chief Arbiter

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23 AGM Sa Kannan 6½ 24 Parthasarathy R 6½ 25 Arun R U 6½ 26 Sooraj M R 6½ 27 Chaithanya Ganesh 6½ 28 Shiva S 6½ 29 Marthandan K U 6 30 IM R Balasubramaniam 6 31 Alan Diviya Raj 6 32 Singh S. Vikramjit 6 33 Vijay Shreeram P 6 34 Shah Rishab 6 35 Susarla Rishith 6 36 Aditya Guhagarkar 6 37 Pranav V 6 38 Shalon Joanne Pais 6 39 AGM Jubin Jimmy 6 40 Arunachalam Shivaa T V 6 41 AGM Sriram Udhayakumar 6 42 AIM Shashank Bhat G S 6 43 Hari Suresh 6 44 Avinash Hari 6 45 Digvijay Sunil 6 46 Shuban Saha 6 47 Benjamin Varghees Issac 6 48 Aryagopal 6 49 Kalur Nikhil 6 50 Neeraj Anirudh K 6 51 Balakowshi D S 6 52 AIM Sushrutha Reddy 6 53 Ravindran R 6 54 Vinay Thomas Abraham 5½ 55 Bright Lee M Sunilkumar 5½ 56 Hari R Chandran 5½ 57 Nitin Shankar Madhu 5½ 58 Keshav Kothari 5½ 59 AGM Chirag Hirinja G J 5½ 60 Nandhini Saripalli 5½ 61 Rahul Bharadwaj B 5½ 62 Roshan Hari 5½ 63 Rohit S 5½

64 M Tulasi Ram Kumar 5½ 65 Sai Divya M 5½ 66 AIM Mohammed Shamil A 5½ 67 Vivekananda L 5½ 68 Tejas Cavale 5½ 69 Muhammed Reja C 5½ 70 Andria L D`souza 5½ 71 Jinan Jomon 5½ 72 Dharani Srinivas K B 5½ 73 Vellarkad N Viswanadhan 5½ 74 Abel Saju Chazhoor 5½ 75 Shivani Madhu 5½ 76 Mano Godwin Gunasekaran 5½ 77 Aravind Matthews A C T 5 78 Sudarshan Bhat 5 79 Dhrikshu K Vasant 5 80 Senthil Kumaran T.H. 5 81 Shreyas M 5 82 Rajeev V M 5 83 AIM Navodith V Bhat 5 84 Prabhakaran K 5 85 Arnav Muralidhar 5 86 Sanath K Jamadagni 5 87 Sreevijay Sunil 5 88 Sarath Chandra K 5 89 Shreyash A Kulkarni 5 90 Arvind Ramnath Iyer 5 91 Anselm Flavian Paul 5 92 Nachiketh Adiga 5 93 Saket Kumar 5 94 Rishabh Kumara 5 95 Bhagyashree G Patil 5 96 Tejes Suresh Kumar 5 97 Madhavan G 5 98 Badri Narayan B 5 99 AIM Aaromal R S 5 100 Hariharan Subramony 5 101 Apoorv Kamble 5 102 Srijan J 5 103 Anjishnu Mondal 5 104 Muthu Paramaguru M 5

3 rd Adra Fide Open International Rating Chess Tmt-2017, organized jointly by SERSA Sports Association & SERSA

Chess Academy was held at MSA Indoor Stadium, Purulia, WB from 11th to 15th April 2017.The tournament was inaugurated on 11th April 2017 by Chief Guest of the function Mr. Anshul Gupta, DRM, Adra Division, SE Railway. Mr. A.K. Chourasia, Sports Officer, SERSA Adra, & IM Atanu Lahiri, Secretary, BCA were also present.

A total of 162 players (126 Rated players) including 3 Grand Master, 3 International masters from Nine states and 2 players from neighboring country Bangladesh took part in the tournament. The tournament was played under swiss system format with nine rounds. International chess set was used and digital chess clocks in every board. The playing hall was a beautiful indoor stadium.

In the 3rd round Suman Basu of SE Railway player beat GM Saptarshi Roy Choudhury . In the fourth round Ratam Nag held Top Seeded GM Diptayan Ghosh and Subhayan Kundu also held GM Sriram Jha. In the final round on the third board Diptayan beat Ar-onyak Ghosh and Koustav Chatterjee beat Laltu Chatterjee on the fourth board.

At the end of final round games IM Rahul Sangma (7.5) of Railways clinched the Championship Title on better die break and got richer by Rs. 150000/-. Where IM Aghyadip Das(7.5)

of Railways placed 2nd position and richer

by Rs. 100000/-. And the third place went to GM Diptayan Ghosh (7.5) of Bengal who was richer by Rs. 60000/.-

The tournament went on smoothly through-out, in all the nine rounds. There were no disputes/protests placed before the Appeals’ Committee. All deputy Arbiters worked hard during the whole tournament. The Organizers provided tea snacks to all participants and also guardians.

In the valedictory ceremony Mr. S.N. Agarwal, General Manager, S.E. Railway, Mr. Anshul Gupta, DRM, Adra Division, SE Railway. Mr. A.K. Chourasia, Sports Officer, SERSA Adra, & IM Atanu Lahiri, Secretary, BCA were present and distributed the prizes to the all prize winners.Final ranking (first 105 placings only) Rk Tle Name Pts 1 IM Sangma Rahul 7½ 2 IM Das Arghyadip 7½ 3 GM Ghosh Diptayan 7½ 4 Gusain Himal 7 5 Arindam Mukherjee 7 6 GM Sriram Jha 7 7 Koustav Chatterjee 7 8 Subhayan Kundu 6½ 9 Anustoop Biswas 6½ 10 Swaraj Palit 6½ 11 Nath Rupankar 6½ 12 Bhattacharya N Shekhar 6½ 13 GM Roy Chowdhury Saptarshi 6½ 14 Meghna C H 6½ 15 Kamal Kishore Debnath 6½

3rd ADRA FIDE Open International Rating Tournament,Purulia,WB

Rahul Sangma clinches titleby IA Debasish Barua, Chief Arbiter

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57 Sumit Barua 5 58 Raja Bose 5 59 Sudipa Haldar 5 60 Supriya Guru 5 61 Ali Md. Kawsar 5 62 Agarwal Rahul 5 63 Mukherjee Sanchit 5 64 Alekhya Mukhopadhyay 5 65 Abhirup Das 5 66 Sinthia Sarkar 5 67 Raunak Datta Nath 5 68 Shounak Mazumder 5 69 Swapnil Sen 4½ 70 Akshath Sinha 4½ 71 Shashi Nand Kumar 4½ 72 Prasenjit Das 4½ 73 Aniket Mondal 4½ 74 Ananya Bothra 4½ 75 Pramit Chanda 4½ 76 Roy Parimal 4½ 77 Dhritabrata Kundu 4½ 78 Soham Pal 4½ 79 Abhinav Dubey 4½ 80 Aayush Bhattacherjee 4½ 81 Mouhurtik Ray 4½ 82 Soumya Sardar 4½ 83 Rahul Mukhi (jhar) 4½ 84 Rishab Debsharma 4½ 85 Mayukh Chatterjee 4½ 86 Shankhodip De 4½ 87 Kumar Sankalp 4½ 88 Arun Kumar 4½ 89 Prateeti Gorai 4½ 90 Sheik Md. Abdul Muttalib 4 91 Rowdrick Saha Talukdar 4 92 Krishna M K Ramanatha 4 93 Rakesh Dubey 4 94 Shaswata Paul 4 95 Srijita Sarkar 4 96 Atreya Nandy 4 97 Dibakar Das 4

S hree Damodar All India U-1600 Fide Rating Chess Tournament-2017 was inaugurated by Ex-Chief Minister of Goa

Shri Digamber Kamat in the presence of Shri Ashesh Keni Vice President ,Goa Chess Asso-ciation,Kishor Bandekar Joint Secretary,AICF, Apurv Bhembre ,Secretary ,Margao Cricket Club Damodar Zamabulikar ,Secretary Sal-cete Taluka Chess Association, Sanjay Kavl-ekar,Senior SAG Coach and others.

Totally 508 players from all over India partic-ipated in the tournament whom among were players from Telangana West Bengal,Maha-rastra,Tamil –Nadu and Goa.This was the largest ever tournament conducted in Goa considering the number of players.259 rated players participated on 25th 26th and 27th April at the Karwarkar Hall, Margao Cricket club premises. The Chief Arbiter of the tour-nament was Ashesh Keni and it was organ-ised by Salcete Taluka Chess Association and Margao Cricket Club.

The Chief Arbiter of the tournament is Fide Arbiter Ashesh Keni ably assisted by with Deputy Sanjay Kavlekar, Jotsna Saripalli ,Vivek Soni,Swapnil Hoble,Gautam Tari, Avinash Malvankar.The hall premises were partly air-conditioned and toilet and park-ing facilities were amply provided. Drinkiing water was also provided Sitting space for parents was also provided.Tanvi Vasudev Hadkonkar (1485)of Goa won the first “Shree Damodar All India U-1600 Fide Rating Chess Tournament-2017” by comprehensively beating Dhanajay Nagargoje (1471)of Ma-harastra in the final round played at the Karwarkar Hall MCC premises Margao. On

the second board Sushant Jadhav beat Ma-yank Chulet (1489)for the third prize whilst Santhosh VR beat Meet Puri for the fourth prize. Anirudh Venkat Ramesh Kumar beat Saiesh Audi on the fourth board to bag the second place .The first three prize winners were richer by Rs.25000/- ,Rs,15000/- and Rs.12000/- respectively. The total prize fund was Rs. 150,000/- along with trophies worth Rs.50000/-.Totally 91 prizes were distrib-uted which included first 30 prizes in open category and age group category prizes.Trophies were given to all winners. There were prizes for best five Rated from 1400 to 1201 best five from 1200 to 1001 and also unrated players. Also prizes for best Woman player,best veteran, age group in u-15,u-13,u-11,u-9,u7 in open ,Goan and Salcete Taluka were given out.

Among the Goans Sairaj Dilip Vernekar of Salcete Taluka stood seventh while Audi Saiesh also of Salcete stood thirteenth in the open section.The Prize distribution fuc-tion was held in the evening with the Chief Guest Apoorv Bhembre Secretary of Margao Cricket Club giving away the prizes along with Shri Adesh Karwarkar ,Patron of STCA ,Shri Ashesh Keni ,Vice President ,Goa Chess Association, Kishor Bandekar, Secretary,-GoaChessAssociation,Sudesh Bhise ,Vice President,Margao Cricket Club,Damodar Zambaulikar ,Secretary STCA ,Sanjay Kav-lekar,Chess Coach Sagar Sakordekar ,Vice President GCA,Ramdas Sawant Treasurer ,GCA Dilip Verneker ,Treasurer ,STCA and others.

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Shree Damodar All India U-1600 Fide Rating Tournament,Margao

Tanvi Vasudev Hadkonkar wins titleby Ashesh Keni ,Chief Arbiter

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phies were distributed.The Prizes were dis-tributed at the Hands of Chief Guest Mr.Vilas Gauns sai, Industrialist,Mr.Prakash Volvotkar (Chairman,Insight),Mr.Ashesh Keni (Presi-dent,STCA), Mr.Damodar Zambaulikar(Sec-retarySTCA),Sanjay Kavlekar(SeniorSAG-coach),Mr.Tanmay Prabhu(Member,Insight). Mr.Damodar Zambaulikar proposed the Vote of thanks and the function was compered by Mrs.Manjita Porob and Mrs.Navita Chari.

The tournament was organised in a good hall.Generator arrangement was made though there was no electricity shutdown.Toilets separate for ladies and gents were provided.In the middle of each round complimentary snacks and tea were provided to each player. Veg and Non.veg nutritious Lunch was ar-ranged at subsidised rates Accomodation was also provided at a temple complex nearby at very low rates.

Final standings Rk Name Pts 1 Tanvi Vasudev Hadkonkar 8½ 2 Anirudh Venkat Ramesh Kumar 8 3 Jadhav Sushant 8 4 Santhosh V R 8 5 Nagargoje Dhananjay 7½ 6 Bhojwani Ravi 7½ 7 Sairaj Dilip Vernekar 7½ 8 Srikanth Myakala 7½ 9 Utkarsh Gupta 7 10 Chulet Mayank L 7 11 Biju Kumar 7 12 Sathya Naarayanan S 7 13 Audi Saiesh 7 14 Giri Abhishek 7 15 Meet Puri 7 16 Arun Prasath P 7 17 Vashishtha Ankesh 7 18 Pankaj Bhat 7

19 Kohad Dipesh 7 20 Gaude Sachin 7 21 Parsekar Anirudh 7 22 Mahajan Vivek 7 23 Bothikar Tegas 7 24 Singh Amarjot 7 25 Yadav Aakashkumar 7 26 Ganpule Utkarsh 7 27 Jayesh T A 6½ 28 S. Jeevanandam 6½ 29 Sanghavi Manoj 6½ 30 Kriti Mayur Patel 6½ 31 Paulson Frenchy 6½ 32 Shibin K Benny 6½ 33 Thorat Sanjay 6½ 34 Shreyas Ghadi 6½ 35 Yuti Mayur Patel 6½ 36 Kayalarasan V 6½ 37 Morajkar Navin 6½ 38 Gurjeet Singh 6½ 39 Ishan Sanjay Pagi 6½ 40 Livingston Solomon 6½ 41 Shirodkar Aayush 6½ 42 Andrew Veda Watson Solomon 6½ 43 Devesh Anand Naik 6½ 44 Krishna Prabhakar 6½ 45 Arun S 6½ 46 Manojan Ravi 6½ 47 Eesh Prabhudesai 6½ 48 Marbhal Avishkar 6½ 49 Rama Rao T V 6½ 50 Advait Rajiv Dhawalikar 6½ 51 Kamalnayan Deshmuk 6½ 52 Sahil Dayanand Desai 6½ 53 Chirag Mudraje 6½ 54 Singh Prakash Vikram 6½ 55 Binu Sebastian 6 56 Bagwe Gaurang 6 57 Dhruv G Kulkarni 6 58 John Paul 6 59 Dhanush Ram M 6

60 Asain L 6 61 Mhadeshwar Nimish Prakash 6 62 Satawase Abhay 6 63 Shetty Murugan 6 64 Padhye Abhijit 6 65 Deepthi Lakshmi K 6 66 Sangle Abhishek 6 67 Ayush Ramchandra Shetkar 6 68 Subramanian T.V. 6 69 Colaco Reuben 6 70 Aryan Khurana 6 71 Priyanka Bhatt 6 72 Shreetu Bhavikbhai Nandi 6 73 Wadia Kiran 6 74 Varshil Yagnik 6 75 Pratik S Borkar 6 76 Neha Srinibash D 6 77 Fadte Rudresh 6 78 Aryan Shamrao Raikar 6 79 Sathiya Narayanan S 6 80 Anil Pradhan 6 81 Anurag Sandesh Adwalpalkar 6 82 Mhadeshwar Sanket 6 83 Khan Faiziya 6 84 Nidhin Kumar S 6 85 Adelkar Shrikrishna 6 86 Veeresh Bharamasagara T 6 87 Jayant Sai 6 88 Sathwik Shivananda P.S 6 89 Polepally Surendar 6 90 Vas Bryan 6 91 Naroji Sanskriti 6 92 Nipanikar Rishab 6 93 Varier Darshan 6 94 Porob Naguesh Rama 6 95 Gouravkumar Nanwani 5½ 96 Swayam Naik 5½ 97 Geetesh Mishra 5½ 98 Prathmesh Dharmadhikari 5½ 99 Nagasri Saikanth 5½ 100 Pushpa Angela V 5½

101 Nishad A 5½ 102 Pethe Suyash 5½ 103 Marasttiwar Yash 5½ 104 Vishwanath Kannam 5½ 105 Gaikwad Vishal 5½ 106 Siddhesh Datta Pednekar 5½ 107 Vijayakumar S 5½ 108 Samhitha Sharma B S 5½ 109 Sanjay Srinivasan R 5½ 110 Abhinav Karthik M 5½ 111 Adalja Samarth 5½ 112 Dhanala Abhinav 5½ 113 Anirudh Ra 5½ 114 Rohan Raju Sathis Kumar 5½ 115 Naik Shvesh S 5½ 116 Kunnekar Vanshri 5½

Puzzle of the monthby C.G.S.Narayanan

In the retro this month white retracts his last move and mates black in

two moves.

Josef HaasI prize, Problem Them Ty 1972

White retracts and mates in two

(solution on page 48)

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M.Kunal of Trichy won the 11th edi-tion of KCM FIDE Open here at Coimbatore on 29th April, 2017.

The Open State Champion of 2016 and top seed of the event was the clear favourite. He scored 7.5 points out of 8 rounds and won the 1st prize fund of Rs.50,000/-. Bharath Kalyan of TN scored 7 points and finished runner up to receive a cash prize of Rs.30000/-. Around 300 players have par-ticipated in this 4 day event. OT Anilkumar of Kerala and Ganesh Babu of TN placed 3rd and 4th respectively. The tournament prize fund of Rs.3,00,000 was distributed in 25 main prizes followed by Rating Categories, Unrated & Special Prizes for districts and others. The members of KCM distributed the prizes.Final ranking Rk Name Pts1 Kunal M. 7½2 Barath Kalyan M 73 Anilkumar O.T. 6½4 Ganesh Babu S 6½5 Manigandan S S 6½6 Marthandan K U 6½7 Avinash Hari 6½8 Aravindaswami T 6½9 Godson Merlin E 6½10 Vijay Shreeram P 611 Hemanth Raam 612 Arunachalam ShivaaT V 613 Rajashakkthivel K K 614 Sree Nithish B 615 Mani Bharathy 616 Nandha Kumar K 617 Dhanasekar K. 6

18 Sathananthan I 619 Nitin Shankar Madhu 620 Karthik P M 621 Sivakumar C. 622 Vinay Thomas Abraham 623 Chujeeth Vignesh A 624 Harshad S 625 Shreyas M 626 Balaji P 627 Kabhilan S 628 Mohith R 629 Muralidharan R. 630 Jayasangar T 631 Prahalad B 632 Senthil Kumaran T.H. 5½33 Gautham Prasanth 5½34 Kiruthika B 5½35 Kathir Balaji K 5½36 Narendran V 5½37 Jinan Jomon 5½38 Thirumurugan R 5½39 Charles J 5½40 Dharani Sree R 5½41 Aravinth Shanmugam S 5½42 Jayaprakash M 5½43 Aasha C R 5½44 Senbabu M B 5½45 Tarun V 5½46 Arjun Kumar S 5½47 Mukhesh C 5½48 Gopinath P 5½49 Jai Aditya D 5½50 Vigneshwaran N. 551 Joy Antony 552 Gopinath Parthasarathy 553 Hari Hara Jagan S A 5

54 Kannan R 555 Nirmal L 556 Yogeshwaran S A 557 Sivaa G M 558 Rishi R 559 Abhishek S 560 Abel Saju Chazhoor 561 Gowri Shankar A 562 Roshan Hari 563 Aishwarya Natarajan 564 Siva Shanmugam S 565 Tarunika P 566 Koushik Muthesh P 567 Anirudh VRamesh Kumar 568 Natarajan M 569 Divyan T 570 Shivani Madhu 571 P Gunasekaran 572 Kathiravan S 573 Devaraja G 574 Sharan Krishnan 575 Anjana Devi G 576 Umeshwaran S A 577 Reshvanth V 578 Priyan R S 579 Soundariya Lakshmi G 580 Arjun Sidharth S 581 Adithya A Chullikkad 582 Nandish V S 583 Midhru Jayan K 584 Gowrichander U 585 Sarveshwaran V 586 Akshaya R.S. 587 Nandakumar S 588 Mathavan T 589 Mohammed Shamil A 4½90 Thoufeeq S 4½91 Shalini J 4½92 Atul Srivatsa 4½93 Aakash G 4½94 Roshan S 4½

95 Ragesh Sarma.M 4½96 Balasubramanian V 4½97 Sivashankar M 4½98 Rajkumar S 4½99 Sivaneshan V 4½100 Jack Samuel 4½101 Jayashri K K 4½102 Shivashankaran R 4½103 Tamilarasan B 4½104 Saravanakumar T S 4½105 Aji Kumar A 4½106 Bhadrinathan A 4½107 Ashok Kumar T D 4½108 Thiruvengadam C 4½109 Gowtham K P 4½110 Neha Srinibash D 4½111 Abinands R 4½112 Lakshmi Narayanan R 4½113 Dhineshwar R S 4½114 Pratyush J 4½115 Joshua Anto A 4½116 Amitha Sureshbabu 4½117 Andrew Veda Watson S 4½118 Naveen Kumar T 4½119 Midhun Kumar M A 4½120 Keerthi Srinath K 4½121 Sarvesh Aadityaa R 4½122 Arunachalam S 4½123 Srihari K R 4½124 Samyuktha B S 4½125 Thamaraiselvan K 4½126 Allen S David 4½127 Abhinav Karthik M 4½128 Ayyappan S 4½129 Nishanth R 4½130 Vaishag P V 4131 Tejaswi R 4132 Arivarasu K P 4133 Kasi Viswanathan N 4134 Rohan Anand 4135 Arul Prakash N 4

11th KCM FIDE Rated Chess Tournament, Coimbatore….

Kunal wins KCM Openby IA V.Vijayaraghavan, Chief Arbiter

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T he 6th Keshabananda Das Memori-al All India Open FIDE Rating Chess Championship - 2017 was inaugurated

on 5th April 2017 at 10.00 am by Subhasis Patnaik, Hony. Secretary, Khordha District Chess Association. This tournament was organized by Khorda District Chess Associ-ation under the Aegis of AICF,FIDE, and All Odisha Chess Association . The tournament was played in a big AC hall of Hotel Empires, with sufficient drinking water and washroom facilities. The organisers arranged a separate waiting place for parents. Organiser provid-ed the accommodation of all the outstation players in the same venue.Hotel Empires is one of the biggest Star Category Hotel in Bhubaneswar. Digital Chess Clocks were provided in all the boards. A total of 259 players from different States took part in this event. Out of these 259 players, 193 players were rated and 66 were unrated. Top seed was Krishna CRG, but he did not participate. In his absence Saravana Krishna P was the top seed with ELO 2347. Chakraborty Reddy M of Telengana with ELO 2189 clinched the Championship Title and became the Champion of 6th Keshabananda Das Memorial All India Open Fide Rating Chess Championship – 2017 and was award-ed a Cash Prize of Rs.50,000/- along with Champions Trophy. He scored 8 points out of 9 rounds. Gm Roy Chowdhury Saptarshi of West Bengal and Muthaiah Al of Tamil-nadu became 2nd and 3rd respectively. The Total prize money of the tournament was Rs.5,00,000/-. Not a single protest/claim was there during that period. Tournament was smoothly conducted by me with the

6th Keshabananda Das Memorial All India Open FIDE Rating Chess Championship, Bubaneshwar

Chakravarthi Reddy wins titleby FA Tapas Kumar Mohanty, Chief Arbiter

help of my Deputy FA Biswanath Banerjee. Other Arbiters were Bhabesh Mohanty and Sontosh Mohapatra.NA Santosh Kumar Mo-hapatra (25093010) gets his FA norm from this tournament.

The closing Ceremony was held in a befitting manner. Mr. Subhasis Patnaik, Hony. Secre-tary ,Khordha District Chess Association, SJ. Sarat Ch. Misra, IPS (Rtd., Ex- Director Gen-eral of Police, Govt. of Odisha), Mr. Ranjan Mohanty (Vice president of AOCA) and many dignitaries were present in this ceremony & gave away the prizes to all the winners. Many players will get their Elo rating and some players got partial rating from this event. I express my thanks to the organizing body i.e Khordha District Chess Association & All Orrissa Chess Association for giving me an opportunity to undertake the responsibility as Chief Arbiter for this event. I express my special thanks to Mr. Subhasis Patnayek , Ho-tel Empires, Mr. V.L.Anandh Babu and all the sponsors for their immense support. Without their support this is not possible for anybody to make this event a grand success. The Press and Media covered the event well and we had very good support from the parents and guardians of the participants.

Final ranking Rk Name Pts 1 IM Chakravarthi Reddy M 8 2 GM Roy Chowdhury Saptarshi 7½ 3 Muthaiah Al 7½ 4 Audi Ameya 7½ 5 Saravana Krishnan P. 7½ 6 CM Bharath Subramaniyam H 7 7 IM Suvrajit Saha 7

8 Dahale Atul 7 9 Arun J 7 10 Sonkalan Bharati 7 11 Koustav Chatterjee 7 12 IM Deshmukh Anup 7 13 FM Rakesh Kumar Jena 7 14 Barath Kalyan M 7 15 Balasubramaniam H 6½ 16 Swaraj Palit 6½ 17 Lokesh N. 6½ 18 Nayak Biswajit 6½ 19 Rakesh Kumar Nayak 6½ 20 Surendran N 6½ 21 Himanshu Ranjan 6½ 22 Dhanush Ragav 6½ 23 Avijit Ghosh 6½ 24 Abhishek Sarkar 6½ 25 Rabindra Kumar Ojha 6 26 Subhasis Barik 6 27 Sa Kannan 6 28 Nikhil M 6 29 Sibi Visal R 6 30 Nayak Sanjeeban 6 31 Sarath Chandra K 6 32 Sahu Rajendra Kumar 6 33 Sounak De (1) 6 34 Shrutarshi Ray 6 35 Smaraki Mohanty 6 36 Vakil Akhtar 6 37 Subash Mathivanan 6 38 Komal Srivatsav Sajja 6 39 Sahoo Ankita 6 40 Rajat Kumar Sahoo 6 41 Naveen Kumar T 6 42 Dikshant Dash 6 43 Sahoo Dasharathi 6 44 Atri Chattopadhyay 6 45 Sahoo Swastik Sourav 6 46 Sahoo Soumya Ranjan 6 47 Rudranarayan 6 48 Ankit Kumar Singh 6

49 Ajit Kumar Saw 6 50 Vijaya Kumar A.V.S. 6 51 Padhi Jyoti Ranjan 6 52 Harshit Ranjan Sahu 6 53 Sudhanshu Ranjan 6 54 Samanta Singh Priyabrata 6 55 Rajesh Kumar Nayak 6 56 Manish Kumar (2006) 5½ 57 Soham Das 5½ 58 CM Shahil Dey 5½ 59 Samal Aditya Ranjan 5½ 60 Kaushik Nath 5½ 61 Durgesh K 5½ 62 Patnaik Shreyash Subham 5½ 63 Lochan Kumar Das 5½ 64 Shanjay K Sathiskumar 5½ 65 Biswal Gitashree 5½ 66 Sandil Nirmal Chandra 5½ 67 Swapnil Priyadarshi 5½ 68 Sai Shravan R 5½ 69 Mehendi Sil 5½ 70 Panda Raj Santosh 5½ 71 Narayan Das 5½ 72 Aasha C R 5½ 73 Behera Biswaranjan 5½ 74 Binayak Rath 5 75 Gugan G 5 76 Mahitosh Dey 5 77 Routray Priyanka 5 78 Barik Jagdish 5 79 Patra Subhendu Kumar 5 80 Aditya Bikram Paul 5 81 Raja Bose 5 82 Sai Siddardha A 5 83 Mishra Siddharth 5 84 Mohanty Aditya Anurakta 5 85 Manoj Kumar Hota 5 86 Shambhu Yadav 5 87 Sanyasi Sethi 5 88 Debargha Daw 5 89 Nayanikaa Muralidharan 5

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T he Ladji Kothari Rapid Fide Rating Chess Tournament was held at Central Public School,Udaipur, Rajasthan from

08/04/2017 to 09/04/2017. The tourna-ment was organized by Ladji Chess School, Udaipur.

Total number of 153 players participated in the tournament, including 84 FIDE rated players. Top players includes GM Sriram Jha, IM Arghyadip Das, IM Dinesh Kumar Sharma and FM Srinath Rao S V. This 9 round event was played under FIDE’s Swiss Rules with a time control of25 minutes each with incre-ment of 5 second from move 1. IM Arghyadip Das of West Bengal with a rating of 2429 started as the top seed for Rs. 3,21,000/- prize money tournament.

The Tournament was won by top seed IM Arghyadip Das who pocketed a cash prize of Rs. 51,000/- along with coveted trophy. Second, Third & Fourth Prizes with trophies were bagged by GM Sriram Jha of LIC, IM Dinesh Kumar Sharma of LIC and FM Srinath Rao S V of Pune respectively.

Prize distribution ceremony was compered by Mr Praveen Kothari (Org. Secy) and was held at Central Public School, Udaipur Rajasthan. Also attractive mementos were awarded to all participants. The tournament was well received by the chess players, as this was the highest prize money tournament in rapid for-mat. There was not a single dispute and the event was completed smoothly. FA, Sandeep Chitkara, and SNA Qmar Abbas were the arbiters of tournament with IA R S Tiwari as Chief Arbiter. The Tournament Director of the

tournament was Mrs Neepa Kothari.Final ranking Rk Name Pts 1 IM Das Arghyadip 8 2 GM Sriram Jha 8 3 IM Sharma Dinesh K 7½ 4 FM Srinath Rao Sv 7½ 5 Shashikant Kutwal 7 6 Devendra Kumar 7 7 Mraduhas Tripathi 7 8 AIM Mandloi Mukesh 7 9 Patel Nishrut R 7 10 Sanjit Dutta 7 11 Dave Kantilal 6½ 12 Ladhe Mohit 6½ 13 Kanwal Om Prakash 6½ 14 Manoj Trivedi 6½ 15 Sonakshi Rathore 6½ 16 Gajendra Singh 6 17 Mahendra Lakhyani 6 18 Darji Giridharilal 6 19 Gulhariya B K 6 20 Sudhakar 6 21 Ankel Gautam 6 22 Chopada Ketan B 6 23 Sadhu N Vishal 6 24 Batham Avinash 6 25 Tarun Sharma 6 26 Singh Vikram 6 27 Nikunj Soni 6 28 Naman Porwal 6 29 Sharma Varun 6 30 Rishabh Jain 6 31 Gaurav Jain 6 32 Sumit Batra 6 33 Sunny Bedi 5½ 34 Nimdia Ridit 5½

Ladji Kothari Rapid Fide Rating Chess Tournament, Udaipur

Arghyadip Das is Champion by IA, Tiwari Rade Shyam, Chief Arbiter

35 Mohan Singh Devat 5½ 36 Shiv Priya Bhardwaj 5½ 37 AGM Sikka Sumit 5½ 38 Sharma Harsh Yogesh 5½ 39 Raval Mayur 5½ 40 Chandwani Prateek 5½ 41 Arora Honi 5½ 42 Kanchiwala Kamal 5 43 Delwar Dharmesh 5 44 Saxena Arpit 5 45 Tekwani Jay Anilbhai 5 46 Chandrajeet Singh Rajawat 5 47 Ankit Payal 5 48 Bharadia Madhav 5 49 Bhavya Gehlot 5 50 Patel Raman Bhai 5 51 Vinay Ramchandani 5 52 Mehul Gupta 5 53 Saxena Ram Kishore 5 54 Mohit Kumar Dalal 5 55 Kukreja Neelam 5 56 Mahesh Bhatnagar 5 57 Chaudhary Pallav 5 58 Shah Mayur 5 59 Mehra Jyoti 5 60 Bhagat Rajesh J 5 61 Rajivade Nilesh 5 62 Aditya Vinay Gupta 5 63 Binwani Tushar 5 64 Godhani Maharth 5 65 Sanjay Kumar Jaiswal 5 66 Ronak Gupta 5 67 Varma Pratik 5 68 Harsh Ramteke 5 69 Lakshya Kholi 5 70 Chinmay Jain 5 71 Bharadia Yash 4½ 72 Hamendra Singh Makwana 4½ 73 Ashray Agarwal 4½ 74 Choudhary Sagar 4½ 75 Kartik Agrawal 4½

76 Yatharth Dangi 4½ 77 Varun Soni 4½ 78 Yashika Singh 4½ 79 Dhruv Kalani 4½ 80 Yogesh Kumar Khare 4 81 Meetali Thadani 4 82 Rohan Batra 4 83 Lethwala Sagar 4 84 Khemraj Gadri 4 85 Aanya Chawat 4 86 Vikas Vyas 4 87 Samrath Singh Chhabra 4 88 Bhavesh Choudhary 4 89 ACM Iyer Arvind 4 90 Mohammad Hyatt Khan 4 91 Cheshta Jain 4 92 Naik Piyush H 4 93 Anurag Singh Tomar 4 94 Praveen Kumar Jelia 4 95 Bhushan Ramawat 4 96 R Hrishikesh Kaushik 4 97 Sneha Dhingra 4 98 Gaurav Shrimali 4 99 Shivam Lodha 4 100 Pranay Chordia 4 101 Lalit Bharadia 4 102 Hemesh Yaturu 4 103 Krishti Jain 4 104 Dhimant Bhadada 4 105 Romil Jain 3½ 106 Granth Kothari 3½ 107 Mayank Sharma 3½ 108 Paarth Mundhra 3½ 109 Prakhar Pathak 3½ 110 Karishma Jain 3½ 111 Anjali Nair 3½ 112 Pragya Jain 3½ 113 Atharv Arora 3½ 114 Krishaa Jodhawat 3 115 Yugant Jain 3 116 Shambhavi Sinha 3

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F IDE Master J Rama Krishna of Andhra Bank won the 1st Mahaveer Trophy All India Open Fide Rating Chess Tourna-

ment held here at Mahaveer Institute of Science and Technology, Bandlaguda, Hy-derabad. Rama Krishna scored 9 points from 10 rounds and became champion with clear half point margin, whereas M Chakravarthi Reddy and Kandi Ravi got 8.5 points and due to better tie break Chakravarthi got second place and Ravi was placed third.Winner got prize money of Rs. 25,000/- where as Runner up arun received Rs. 15,000/- and 3rd placed got Rs. 10,000/- Total Rs. 2 Lakh distributed among 50 prize winners.The event attracted 247 participants from Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Mahar-ashtra, Tamilnadu, Pondichery, Gujarat and Andhra Bank.At the inaugural function Chief guest Sri Bandaru Dattatreya, Central Minister and Sri S Sudarshan Reddy, Chairman –Mahaveer Institutions inaugurated the event. In the valedictory function Chief guest Sri A Nar-asimha Reddy, Vice President, AICF distrib-uted trophies and cash prizes to the winners.Final standings: Rk Name Pts 1 Ramakrishna J FM 9 2 Chakravarthi Reddy M IM 8½ 3 Kandi Ravi 8½ 4 Varun V 8 5 Bipin Raj S 8 6 Aditya Varun Gampa 8

7 Sibi Srinivas Eistein Reddy 8

8 Farhaan M 7½ 9 Pati Spandan 7½ 10 Satyanarayana P. 7½ 11 Khan S 7½ 12 Amar C S 7½ 13 Nanditha V 7½ 14 Anurag Kuruvada 7½ 15 Raju M.Y. 7 16 Kushagra Mohan CM 7 17 Chakravarthi S.V.C. 7 18 Sai Krishna S. 7 19 Chilukuri Sai Varshith 7 20 Srinivasa Rao G.V. 7 21 Gopal Shah 7 22 Rohith Yadav B R 7 23 Akira Sowmyanatha Reddy 7 24 Amer Basha Sk 7 25 Karthikeya Kasyap K B S 7 26 Advaita Sharma K 7 27 B Kishan 7 28 Krishna Devarsh P 7 29 Abhiram G 7 30 Bharathakoti Sneha 7 31 Kalur Nikhil 6½ 32 Satyanarayana M 6½ 33 Mallesh Beerla 6½ 34 Murali Mohan Y 6½ 35 Srujan Keerthan Solletti 6½ 36 Madhusudan T 6½ 37 Meghanshram B V 6½ 38 Bharath Bhushan Reddy N 6½ 39 Adireddy Tarun 6½ 40 Shaik Sumer Arsh 6½ 41 Vasistha Ramana Rao K V 6½ 42 Md Bashiq Imrose 6½ 43 Raivath Mallela 6½

1st Mahaveer Trophy All India Open Fide Rating Chess Tournament, Hyderabad

Rama Krishna wins titleby FA S Subba Raju , Chief Arbiter

44 Shaan Rai 6½ 45 Dhanush Reddy A 6½ 46 Praveen Saki 6½ 47 Prraneeth Vuppala CM 6 48 Rama Mohan Rao N 6 49 Adireddy Arjun 6 50 Ojas Mehetre 6 51 Sreevijay Sunil 6 52 Sushma Reddy B 6 53 Juare Deep 6 54 Srinivas Siddanth 6 55 Kapil Surya P 6 56 Aditya Reddy K 6 57 Sai Suhash K V K 6 58 Pranav Mahaadev 6 59 Kheerthi Ganta 6 60 Sevitha Viju M 6 61 Rushyendra Chowdary K 6 62 Sai Atchyut B 6 63 Dalli Shriya Reddy 6 64 Mythri Maddisetty 6 65 Shiva Sai Boddu 6 66 Sri Chandana G 6 67 Makkella Vijaya Bharadwaj 6 68 Vishwa Teja B 6 69 Sai Rishiraj P 6 70 Manaswini Maheshweram 6 71 Yashodarshan Kalmanoor 6 72 Surya Karthikeya Varma 6 73 Hemprakash Barsagade 6 74 Yeswanth Bondalapati 6 75 Varshith Nela 6 76 Tanmayee Reddy 6 77 Digvijay Sunil 5½ 78 Mohan Rao Maddala 5½ 79 Umesh Konduru 5½ 80 Ganesh Sai Siddarth S 5½ 81 Osman Bin Sayeed 5½ 82 Tamilselvan Nedunchezhian 5½ 83 Saketh Kumar Reddy C 5½ 84 Chetan Rao D 5½

85 Devi Vara Prasad Ch 5½ 86 Udaybhaskar Shastri K 5½ 87 Anirudh M 5½ 88 Renuka Kumari B 5½ 89 Bhanu Sai Vengaldas 5½ 90 J Teja Venkata Sai Mohan 5½ 91 Akshat Goverdhan V 5½ 92 Shreya K 5½ 93 Pasupuleti Subhash 5½ 94 Jashwanth V 5½ 95 Ved Prakash 5½ 96 Arnav Pradhan 5½ 97 Nadimpally Tharun Tej 5½ 98 Narahari Geethika Hasini 5 99 Viswak Sen M 5 100 Surisetti Manikanta Rao 5 101 Karyasheel P 5 102 Yagna Priya Polisetty 5 103 Thirupatha Chary Pusala 5 104 Srivatsa Ananth K 5 105 Rajesh Ekkaladevi 5 106 Sai Mahati A 5 107 Sai Vikram A 5 108 Arun Kumar Tadaboina 5 109 Raju Vislavath 5 110 Rithwik Gandikota 5 111 Himesh Empally 5 112 Karthikeya Sairam T 5 113 Pranitha Priya Polisetty 5 114 Sridhara Sriman Manoj 5 115 Sankarshana Goli 5 116 Honmane Suyog 5 117 Harini Narahari 5 118 Vishvas Reddy K 5 119 Nigamaa Sree D 5 120 Shivaiah K 5 121 Ganesh Palla 5 122 Mourya Manyam 5 123 Jai Shankar Sreeyans R 5 124 Shivas Reddy K 5 125 Pranay Reddy B 5

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Devnar-AICFB Open FIDE rated na-tional chess tournament for the blind was held at Devnar foundation for the

Blind school, Hyderabad from 26th to 30th April 2017. This tournament was organized by All India Chess Federation for the Blind in association with Devnar foundation for the blind sponsored by State Bank of IndiaThe total Number of participants were 117 among them 56 are FIDE rated players. Play-ers from 15 states represented. Organizer provided free boarding and lodging to all the participants and escorts. The tournament was conducted in Swiss league format with 9 rounds. At the end of eighth round Aryan B Joshi of Maharashtra lead the race with 7 points. On ninth round at top board Patil Shirish of Mah played against Aryan B Joshi of Mah. Patil Shirish senior player attacked from the beginning but young talent Aryan defended the game calmly. At the end Aryan had better position and offered draw Shirish agreed. Aryan B Joshi scored 7.5 points secured first place, Krishna Udupa of Kar, Yudhajeet De of W B,Samant Milind of Mah,Ashvin Mak-wana K of Guj,Soundarya Kumar Pradhan of Odi,Patil Shirish of Mah scored 7points. On their best tie breaks secured respective places.The total cash prize of Rs.50, 000 was dis-tributed to top 30 players. Chief Guest Sri K T Rama Rao honorable minister for IT, Mu-nicipal administration & Urban Development NRI Affairs Govt of Telangana and Dr. A. Saibaba Goud, MS, Ph.D Padmashri Awar-dee Founder Chairman DFFB, distributed the prizes to prize winners.

Devnar Foundation for the Blind- AICFB Open FIDE Rated

National Chess Tournament for the blind, Hyderabad, Telangana

Aryan B Joshi emerges ChampionIA Manjunatha .M, Chief Arbiter

Rank Name Pts 1 Aryan B Joshi 7½ 2 Krishna Udupa 7 3 Yudhajeet De 7 4 Samant Milind 7 5 Makwana Ashvin K 7 6 Soundarya Kumar Pradhan 7 7 Patil Shirish 7 8 Hariharan Gandhi 6½ 9 Venkat Reddy S 6½ 10 Swapanil Shah 6½ 11 Marimuthu K 6½ 12 Patel Darshan 6½ 13 Deeptyajeet De 6½ 14 Sanjiv Kar 6½ 15 Agesh Kumar A 6½ 16 Shambhu Kumar Roy(vc) 6 17 Somender B L 6 18 Satya Praksah Shrivastava 6 19 Ashok Parekh 6 20 Vignesh R (blind) 6 21 Dipak Kumar Bhoi 6 22 Barot Ashok 6 23 Patel Lav 6 24 Gopi R 6 25 Meghnath Mondal 6 26 Balaraman P 5½ 27 Sathish M 5½ 28 Vijay Yetre 5½ 29 Ramesha A R 5½ 30 Kiran Kumar A Simpi 5½ 31 Aniruddha Khunte 5½ 32 Megha Chakraborty 5½ 33 Akhilesh K. Srivastava 5 34 Muthuraman K. 5

35 Prasanna Kumar M 5 36 Narendra Salavkar 5 37 Chirantan C Mesariya 5 38 Madhukesh Ram 5 39 Chotelal Ramlal Gour 5 40 Tijan Punaram Gawar 5 41 Viral Trivedi 5 42 Vaishali Nrendra Salavkar 5 43 Satish Wahule 5 44 Nagaraj Guntal 5 45 Karthikeyan R Kasaragod 5 46 Rajesh Pilazi Nimbulkar 5 47 Rajan Kunnumpuram 5 48 Harish Sankar Kharat 5 49 Sreemalappagari Harish 5 50 Prathap Reddy B 5 51 Ashish Rokade 5 52 Dharmaraj R 5 53 Ravindra Shirkar (blind) 5 54 Pradeep K K 5 55 Ganesh Sivalingam 5 56 Rahul Navghane 5 57 Devaraj S 5 58 Ajaykumar Y V 5 59 Vasant D Patil 4½ 60 Vijay Arumugham 4½ 61 Dharavath Saleem 4½ 62 Ashish Kumar Dahiya B L 4½ 63 Laxmikant A Simpi 4½ 64 Nagarajan R 4½ 65 Mahesh Sudam Mhabdi 4 66 Jagadish Chhasatia 4 67 Nemai Das 4 68 Amar Kumar Sharma 4 69 Anant Baban Khopkar 4 70 Thota Praveen 4 71 Siddramayya M Hiremath 4 72 Bhangi Jagadish R 4 73 Vajira Vaibhav 4 74 Mehta Piyush 4 75 Kuruva Kubera 4

76 Basalingappa Maraddy 4 77 Pasuvula Prasad 4 78 Chudasama Dharmishtha 4 79 Anil Kumar Malik 4 80 Harish Venkatesh D 4 81 Vadlakoonda Venkatesh 4 82 Harish M Prajapati 4 83 Shahjada Salim 4 84 Khorasiya Khushali 4 85 Uppo Prasad 4 86 Praful Manohar Moon 4 87 Dokula Durgaprasad 4 88 Chandru Sampath 3½ 89 Yasa Narendher Reddy 3½ 90 Akilan S 3½ 91 Vijayakumar Kumbar 3 92 Bora Srinivas Vamshi 3 93 Mohammed Rafiq 3 94 Bhawarlal Prajapat 3 95 Venkateswararao A 3 96 Sanjay S V K 3 97 Aadamelli Ramesh 3 98 Kankurthipudi Rohith 3 99 Yangani Bhanuprakash 3 100 Syed Mushrafuddin 3 101 Pooja Parbate 3 102 Thalari Subhash 3 103 Nagaraju Naick B 3 104 Margam Ganesh 3 105 Mohammed Sameer 3 106 Ankita Shinde 3 107 Galeti Devender Reddy 2½ 108 T Nehru 2½ 109 K Venkatesh 2½ 110 Nagabhushanam G 2 111 Santhosh Kumar V 2 112 Rathod Saikiran 2 113 Raju B 2 114 Jam Jaggili Prudviraj 2 115 Pranil More 1½ 116 Esarapu Gangadhar 1½

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Asian Junior Chess Championships,Shiraz, IranIvana Furtado wins Asian Junior Girls

By Arvind Aaron

Woman International Master Ivana Maria Furtado of Goa won the Asian Junior Chess Championship for girls yet again at Shiraz in Iran on May 10, 2017.Ivana of Rosary Higher Secondary School, Dona Paula in Goa remained undefeated and gained 14 Elo from this event. She won five games and drew four in the nine round Swiss format contest.Ivana, 18, had won the World Under-8 twice in a row in 2006 and 2007. She won the Asian Junior girls in 2012 at Tashkent. Indian girls swept the podium with Meghna and Rutumbara winning the silver and bronze medals.Like Indians dominated the girls section, Iran dominated the Open section taking the top five placings! Indians, IM M.N. Shaikh got the tenth place with 5.5/9, Kumar Gaurav (14th), IM Harsha Bharathakoti (18th) scored 5 each. The chief arbiter was IA Arvin Abrishami of Iran and the event ran from May 3-10, 2017.Final placings: (Open): 1 IM Masoud Mosadeghpour (Iri) 8/9; 2-3. IM Alireza Firouzja (Iri), Arash Tahbaz (Iri) 7 each; 4-7. IM Aryan Gholami, Arash Daghli (both Iri), IM Tran Tuan Minh (Vie), IM Mersad Khodashenas (Iri) 6.5 each…53 players from 8 nations.Final placings (Girls): 1 WIM Ivana Furtado 7/9; 2-C.H. Meghna 6.5; 3-5. WFM Bidhar Ru-tumbara, Alijanzadeh Mohadesh (Iri), Harshita Guddanti 6 each…22 players from five nations.

Sethuraman finishes second at the BRICS Masters RapidAfter an early loss to Yu Yangyi at the start of the tournament S.P.Sethuraman steadied his ship and finished second at this strong BRICS Masters rapid event held in China. Yu Yangyi was the cham-pion. Ganguly was the other Indian participant and in the combined standings India took the bronze.

BRICS is the acronym for an association of five major emerging national economies: Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. The BRICS members are all leading developing or newly industrial-ized countries, but they are distinguished by their large, sometimes fast-growing economies and significant influence on regional affairs. As of 2015, the five BRICS countries represent over 3.6 billion peo-ple, or about 40% of the world population; all five members are in the top 25 of the world by population, and four are in the top 10.

Anand Chess Academy Calicut organized its 11th ACA International Fide Rated Chess Tournament at Gujarathi Hall, Beach Road, Calicut.

The tournament attracted 302 players from Andhrapradesh, Goa, Karnataka, Kerala,Ma-harastra,Pondicherry,Telungana, Tamilnadu and Utterpradesh. Out of which 243 players were FIDE rated. Participation from Canadi-an Chess Federation made the tournament colourful. The tournament was held from 8th April 2017 to 11th April 2017, offering a prize fund of Rs,3,00,000/- . M Kunal from Tamilnadu was the top seed.

In this tournament 89th seeded S Harshad of Tamilnadu held the 2nd seeded IM Kath-male Sameer of Railways in Round two and 46th seeded T Aravindaswami of Tamilnadu beat the 7th seeded M B Muralidharan of Kerala in the same round.

Ram S Krishnan of BSNL, M Vinoth Kumar from Tamilnadu and K Alex Thomas of Kerala scored 5 points at the end of round five. Ram beat Vinoth kumar in the 6th round and took the sole lead with six points as Alex lost to Kunal. Ram was held by R P Senthil Kumaran of Tamilnadu in round seven whereas Kunal beat young Benjamin Varghees Issac of Kerala and joined the lead with Ram. Much expected Kunal and Ram encounter ended in a draw. M Vinoth Kumar, R P Senthilku-mar, IM R Balasubramaniam and Kathmale Sameer also scored 7 points and tied for 1st prize but better tie break helped Kunal win the tournament.

Kunal of Tamilnadu lifted the winner's trophy and also received Rs.40000/- as cash prize. Ram S Krishnan finished second and received Rs.25000/-.

Rtn. A P Vinoth Kumar, past President of Rota-ry Club of Calicut South distributed the prizes to the winners. Shri. P Venugopalan, Joint Secretary, All India Chess Federation and also the Director of Anand Chess Academy offered his felicitation at the event. Rtn.P Rethish, president Rotary Club of Calicut South wel-comed the gathering and Shri Abdul Rehman gave the vote of thanks. Rk Name Pts 1 Kunal M. 7 2 Ram S. Krishnan 7 3 Vinoth Kumar M FM 7 4 Senthil Kumaran R.P. 7 5 R Balasubramaniam IM 7 6 Kathmale Sameer IM 7 7 Marthandan K U 6½ 8 Ajay Karthikeyan 6½ 9 Hari Suresh 6½ 10 Abhiram Sudheesh 6½ 11 Benjamin Varghees Issac 6 12 Jubin Jimmy 6 13 Vinodh Kumar B. 6 14 Nithin Babu 6 15 Rajarishi Karthi CM 6 16 Sooraj M R 6 17 Joy Lazar M.A. 6 18 Alex Thomas K. 6 19 Subramanian V 6 20 Manigandan S S 6

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In terms of chess three of these five countries - Russia, China and India are real superpow-ers. Brazil has good chess players, while South Africa is an improving nation. Two players from each of these countries took part in this event, making it a ten player round robin rapid tournament. The time control was 25 minutes + 10 seconds increment per move. These were the participants:Brazil: Rafael Leitao and Alexander Fier Russia: Vladimir Potkin and Alexander Motylev India: S.P. Sethuraman and Surya Ganguly China: Yu Yangyi and Li Chao South Africa: Cawdery and Steel. Sethuraman scored 6.5/9 and finished second, while Ganguly with 4.5/9 had to be content with the seventh place.At the team event where the scores of both the players are added together India finished third with 11 points. Russia scored 11.5 and China 12.5. Sethu went back home with not just US$ 6,000 but also two glittering trophies! Says Sethuraman, "This was my best performance in rapid so far. Honoured to play in China again; one of the grandest tournaments I have took part in and the organization was simply amazing with very impressive hospitality and conditions."Final Standings1.Yu Yangyi (2750)7,0/9; 2.Sethuraman (2619)6,5/9; 3.Motylev (2658)6,0/104-5. Li Chao (2720), Potkin (2594) 5,5/9; 6.Leitao (2618)5,0/10; 7.Ganguly (2640)4,5/9;8.Fier (2562)4,0/9;9.Steel (2414)1,5/9;10.Cawdery (2434)0,5/9

World Schools Chess Championships, Iasi,RomaniaShriyani Mallya Wins Bronze

by Arvind Aaron Shriyana S Mallya (Elo 1024) of India won the bronze medal in the Under-7 Girls section of the World Schools Chess Championships that concluded at Iasi in Romania on May 1, 2017.Asian nations led by Mongolia and Uzbekistab won three gold medals each in this record 41-nation event that attracted 576 players.

The organisers received 6000 e-mails and respond-ed to 6000! The low spring time temperature of -1C left the organisers having to postpone the first round.The official website had 120,000 visitors and

270 press releases were sent out! A total of 100 organisers worked at the impressive Palace of Culture in Iasi, Romania.

The event was held in Under-7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17 for Boys and Girls. It is an annual contest and the numbers are growing. The World Youth and Cadet Championships are held annual on the even age groups.Seven of the 15 nations that figured in the medals list were from Asia.

Medal Winning Nations:Gold/Silver/Bronze;;Mongolia3-3-1;Uzbekistan3-0-0;Turkey 2-0-2;Romania 1-1-4;Kazakhstan 1-1-0;Ireland 1-0-0;Moldavia 1-0-0;Azerbaijan 0-3-1; Turkmenistan 0-2-0;USA 0-1-0;Poland 0-1-0; India 0-0-1; Bulgaria 0-0-1; Kyr-gyzstan0-0-1;Sri Lanka 0-0-1

Dhamso International Chess Festival 2017, Ambalangoda,Sri LankaThejkumar wins in Srilanka

Dhamso International Chess Festival 2017 was organized by the Dharmasoka College Old Boys’ Chess Association for the seventh consecutive year on behalf of the CFSL, Asian Chess Federation and the World Chess Federation. Event was held in down south Sri Lanka at beautiful city of Ambalangoda which is a coastal town. DICF 2017 was held from 27th April to 3rd May 2017 where event was held 9 rounds with swiss pairing.

416 Players from 4 federations competed in the Dhamso International Chess Festival 2017 where IM Thej Kumar from India with 2482 was the top seated player. Players from India, Bang-ladesh and Maldives were in the event. Total cash fund was LKR 400,000.00 where first prize was LKR 75,000.00. IM Thej Kumar won the title of DICF 2017 player of the year with winning all the games. He was the only player unbeaten throughout the event. He scored 9/9 points. Twol players tied for the 2nd position but with better tie break Abhishek Das (ELO 2286) secured the 1st Runner up position and A A C B Amarasinghe from Sri Lanka had to satisfied with the 2nd Runner Up position.

WCM Sayuni Gihansa Jayaweera won the women championship with tied with W A Tiumi Yasora. Both scored 7/9 points but with better tie break Sayuni won the championship and Tiumi had to satisfy with 1st Runner Up position. Five players tied for the 2nd Runner up position with 6/9 points. But with better tie break Shalini De Silva secured the 2nd runner up position.Dhamso International Chess Festival 2017 concluded in grand manner with good memories.

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Wang Hao wins the 1st Sharjah OpenAdhiban finished second

Harika the best woman player

In the last round of the 1st Sharjah Open Chess Championship which concluded on March 31,2017 all leaders finished their games in a draw. The two leaders Wang Hao and Yury Kryvoruchko made a solid draw against each other, while both Adhiban and Kravtsiv had more complicated games against Radoslaw Wojtaszek and Arkadij Naiditsch, which eventually finished peacefully as well. It gave a chance for the group of 12 players to catch the leaders on the po-dium but only 2 of them managed to do so - S.P. Sethuraman and Salem Saleh.

The encounter Salem Saleh – Alexander Areshchenko was obviously a key game for the organizers and the local spectators as nothing would have been more desirable than a vic-tory in the last round for their player. The local chess star pleased all his fans by winning hard-fought game against Ukrainian player and shared the 1st place.Wang Hao from China became the winner of the tournament and got a trophy and $15,000. Baskaran Adhiban finished second and Martyn Kravtsiv from Ukraine is on the third place.Harika Dronavalli made a draw against GM Mykhaylo Oleksiyenko in the last round and with 6 points out of 9 became the best women player of the tournament. The closing ceremony took place right after the end of the last round and was attended by Sheikh Saud Bin Abdul Aziz Al Muala, the General Secretary of UAE chess federation Husain Al Shamssi, the General Secretary of Sharjah chess club Omran Allah, the Deputy President of the organizing committee of 1st Sharjah Championship, the Chief Arbiter Sultan al Taher, the Club Executive Manager Rajai Alsusi and other officials. The key game of the eighth round between two leaders Wang Hao and Martyn Kravtsiv fin-ished in a draw relatevely quickly and 12 players, who were half a point behind, got a real chance to join the leaders in case of a victory. Baskaran Adhinban and Yury Kryvoruchko scored important wins and as a result there were four players on top with one round to go. 12 players were half a point behind, including top UAE player Salem Saleh, who defeated GM Deepan Chakkravarthy from India. In the 7th round Wang Hao outplayed the leader of the tournament Baskaran Adhiban to replace him on the top.

Wang Hao and B.Adhiban

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62 Karan J P 5 63 Fathima Abdeen 5 64 Akila Mahendran 5 65 Sachjith M 5 66 Syam Peter 5 67 Yogeshwaran S A 5 68 Sathyanarayanan S. 5 69 Devaraja G 5 70 Jinan Jomon 5 71 Puparambath Abdurahman 5 72 Amal Raj N R 5 73 Adarsh P.B 5 74 Ashish Thomas Alex 5 75 Tarunika P 5 76 Balakowshi D S 5 77 Madhu P P 5 78 Gautham Prasanth 5 79 Pratyush J 5 80 Prabhakaran K 5 81 Ismail.K.P 5 82 Sharsha Backer 5 83 Aravind Matthews A C T 5 84 Unnikrishnan M A 5 85 Roshan Hari 5 86 Aringar Anna V 5 87 Sathwika N 5 88 Swarnamala B 5 89 Eugene M.M. 5 90 Abhijit Chutia 4½ 91 Prem Krishna N 4½ 92 Joy Antony 4½ 93 Prashanth J Naik 4½ 94 Sudheer K B 4½ 95 Jibi Kallingalpadem 4½ 96 Saravanan R 4½ 97 Akhila T M 4½ 98 Victor K.A.D. 4½ 99 Rajan K.N. 4½ 100 Devanand B 4½ 101 Kutty T P C 4½ 102 Murukan M.K. 4½

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Anand Chess Academy Calicut organized its 12th ACA International Fide Rated Chess Tournament at Hotel New Nalanda, Aravind Gosh Road, Calicut.

The tournament attracted 353 players from Andhrapradesh, Chhattisgarh, Goa, Karna-taka, Kerala, Maharastra, Pondicherry,Telun-gana, Tamilnadu, Utterpradesh and West Bengal. Out of which 219 players are FIDE rated. The tournament was held from29th April 2017 to 1st May 2017, offering a prize fund of Rs.2,00,000/- Vashishtha Ankesh from Rajesthan was the top seeded.

Four players viz. C K Santhosh Kumar from Calicut, Abdallah M Nisthar from Kerala, K Gopichand from Tamilnadu and Binu Sebas-tian from Karnataka scored 8 points and tied for the first prize but better tie break score helped the 34th seeded C K Santhosh Kumar from Calicut lift the winner's trophy with a cash prize of Rs. 25000/-. Abdallah M Nisthar from Kerala finished second. Rtn.P Rethish, president Rotary Club of Cali-cut South and former Kerala State Champion O T Anil Kumar from Calicut distributed the prizes to the winners. Shri. P Venugopalan, Joint Secretary, All India Chess Federation and also the Director of Anand Chess Acad-emy felicitated the event. Well known chess player & Chess coach K R Madhusoodhanan of Calicut

welcomed the gathering , Shri Abdul Rehman proposed the vote of thanks.

Final ranking Rk Name Pts 1 Santhosh Kumar C K 8 2 Abdallah M Nisthar 8 3 Gopichand K 8 4 Binu Sebastian 8 5 Venkatesan B 7½ 6 Bala Ganeshan 7½ 7 Rajeevan Puthiya Kunnummal 7½ 8 Manikandan Tayalan 7 9 Rohith N D 7 10 John Veny Akkarakarn 7 11 Bhaskar Teja K V 7 12 Lakshmi Raja Perumal K 7 13 Gopinath P 7 14 Ajmal Ibrahim 7 15 Eswaran P 7 16 Vinodkumar K V 7 17 Manikuttan K P 7 18 Jayakumar P K 7 19 Balaji S 7 20 Phani Krishna C H 7 21 Sukumaran V K 7 22 Vijay M V 7 23 Akhila T M 6½ 24 Devanand B 6½ 25 Benny P C 6½ 26 Bhojwani Ravi 6½ 27 Adhidev K P 6½ 28 Ranjith Kumar K 6½ 29 Devika P 6½ 30 Shriram 6½ 31 Varadharajan I. 6½ 32 Vashishtha Ankesh 6½ 33 Gopinath Parthasarathy 6½ 34 Guru Sabari Thirumalai 6½

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Santhosh Kumar wins at Calicutby M. Ephrame IA, Chief Arbiter

35 Abdurahiman Elangoli 6 36 Manish Sherigar 6 37 Sameer C 6 38 Emayasri S 6 39 Karthik Raj 6 40 Sreyas Payyappat 6 41 Vijayaraghavan G 6 42 Srikanth Myakala 6 43 Raju G 6 44 Mubeen Yaseen Khan 6 45 Priyan R S 6 46 Ratheesh P.K. 6 47 Sanjay Srinivasan R 6 48 Aswin K 6 49 Nykaj A K 6 50 Dinesh Sardar 6 51 Sharan Krishnan 6 52 Veerakumar M 6 53 Ramesh V P 6 54 Varun Sudarshan 6 55 Nagarjun K M 6 56 Chandrashekaramurthy S R 6 57 Swetha K 6 58 Vivek P Thomas 6 59 Iyer Arvind 6 60 Aswanth S Kumar 6 61 Pranav Sajith 6 62 Vijayakumar S 6 63 Dinesh Babu Manakkal 6 64 Shreya S Pillai 6 65 Muralidharan Naniyate 5½ 66 Gagan Bharadwaj K 5½ 67 Vivek P S 5½ 68 Sahadevan M 5½ 69 Zain K Muhammed 5½ 70 Abhinand Manoj 5½ 71 Santo Wilbert 5½ 72 Rathish R 5½ 73 Binni Boyina P Pratap 5½ 74 Varkey M O 5½ 75 Mukunthan Udhayakumar 5½

76 Nihal Nithish 5½ 77 Sathyanarayanan K M 5½ 78 Abdul Basheer K M 5½ 79 Mohamed Nisthar 5½ 80 Cherla Sai Raghava 5½ 81 Nikhil K 5½ 82 Manoranjan Kelad 5½ 83 Nirmal K G 5½ 84 Sathwik Shivananda P.S 5½ 85 Sanal V A 5½ 86 Atul Jayesh 5½ 87 Mahesh A T 5½ 88 Megha K 5½ 89 Mohana Parvathala 5½ 90 Shamil Mohammed 5½ 91 Shahad P V 5½ 92 Mattania Wilfred 5½ 93 Sourav M S 5½ 94 Sanjeev P Sivaraman 5½ 95 Ponnu Durai Thangapandi 5½ 96 Mahima Sherigar 5½ 97 Niran Krishna K A 5½ 98 Farhan M 5½ 99 Zoya Nizar 5½ 100 Sidharth Rajeev 5½ 101 Shanmuga Kumar A 5 102 Prajwal P 5 103 Balu P 5 104 Harshavardhan Anand P 5 105 Anoop kumar K 5 106 Amitha Sureshbabu 5 107 Prasada Rao Ponnapalli 5 108 Bharathi Raja R 5 109 Raghavan V 5 110 Ibrahim E 5 111 Suresh Kumar S 5 112 Aslam C 5 113 Abhijith U 5 114 Rajesh L S 5 115 Nirmal K M 5 116 Ramakrishnan K K 5

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65th Tamilnadu State Open Fide Rated Chess Championship was organized by Erode Dis-trict Chess Circle, Erode. The tournament at-tracted 196 players all over from Tamilnadu. The local star IM elect P Iniyan's Participation made the tournament glamour. Out of 196 players, 154 players are FIDE rated chess players. The tournament was held from23rd April 2017 to 27th April 2017, offering a prize fund of Rs.1,00,000/- . P Iniyan from Erode was the top seed.

Earlier, the tournament was inaugurated by Dr. R Shivakumar I P S the Superintendent of Police Erode District . A chess 'Kavithai' in Tamil was written and released by Dr. R Shi-vakumar IPS, in the inaugural function.Dr. Ramesh the organizing secretary welcomed the gathering.

26th seeded P Yutesh from Thiruvalluvar District shocked the top seeded, IM elect-ed P Iniyan of Erode on the 3rd round was the major upset. Harshavardhanan G B and Akash Pc Iyer both from Chennai took the lead with 5 points each at the end of the 5th round. In round six Harshavardhanan lost to Akash Pc Iyer and Akash was in sole lead with six points. In round seven N Lokesh from Krishnagiri held Akash but Akash con-tinued the lead with half a point higher than his nearest rivals. Akash was outplayed by Iniyan on the penultimate round and Iniyan took the lead along with N Lokesh with 7 points. In the final round Iniyan was held by Lokesh. There were five players viz Akash Pc Iyer of Chennai, N Lokesh of Krishnagiri, Pr Hirthickkesh of Cudalore, N Surendran of

Chennai, and P Iniyan of Erode scored 7.5 points and tied for the first prize. But better tie break helped Akash Pc Iyer emerge as the Champion and N Lokesh finished second.

Rtn. MD. S Senguttuvan was the Chief guest for the prize distribution function. Shri. V S Elango M D ALFA Switch Gear (I) Pvt.Ltd distributed the prizes to the winners. Shri. A Sekar D S P , Erode and Mrs. J Beulah Jane Susila are the guest of honours. Rtn Ar. K K Vijayachandhran welcomed the gathering, Dr.Ramesh Secretary, Erode Chess Circle proposed the vote of thanks.

Final ranking Rk Name Pts 1 Akash Pc Iyer 7½ 2 Lokesh N. 7½ 3 Hirthickkesh Pr 7½ 4 Surendran N 7½ 5 Iniyan P 7½ 6 Muthaiah Al 7 7 Hari Madhavan N B 7 8 Tarun V Kanth 7 9 Manigandan S S 6½ 10 Jayakumaar S 6½ 11 Barath Kalyan M 6½ 12 Ram S. Krishnan 6½ 13 Sivakumar C. 6½ 14 Kumar S. 6½ 15 Harshavardhan G B 6 16 Dileep Kumar R 6 17 Kishore Kumar Jaganathan 6 18 Aravindaswami T 6 19 Hemanth Raam 6 20 Sathya Giri V 6

65th Tamilnadu State Open FIDE Rated Championship, Erode

Akash Pc Iyer emerges Champion by M. Ephrame IA, Chief Arbiter

21 Ruban Sanjay M 6 22 Vinod Kumar M. 6 23 Chujeeth Vignesh A 6 24 Mohamed Anees M 6 25 Rathneesh R 6 26 Anandha Venkatesan 6 27 Barath L 6 28 Jayachandra Srinivas V 6 29 Suganthan S 6 30 Gugan G 6 31 Nandha Kumar K 6 32 Muthu Hareeswaran S 6 33 Sai Prasath A S 6 34 Akash S 6 35 Kumaresh A 6 36 Subash Mathivanan 6 37 Ganesh Babu S 5½ 38 Sibi Visal R 5½ 39 Rohith Krishna S 5½ 40 Godson Merlin E 5½ 41 Yutesh P 5½ 42 Arivu Selvan A S 5½ 43 Sa Kannan 5½ 44 Shyam Sundar M 5½ 45 Gokul S 5½ 46 Gokulraj K 5½ 47 Selvabharathy T 5½ 48 Dinesh Kumar Jaganathan 5½ 49 Anup Shankar R 5½ 50 Suriya S V 5½ 51 Mohith R 5½ 52 Raghul Saro S 5½ 53 Thaga Sheriff M 5½ 54 Sachjith M 5½ 55 Hari V P 5½ 56 Anand J P 5 57 Ragesh Sarma.M 5 58 Avinash Ramesh 5 59 Nawin J J 5 60 Sudharsan Gurukrishnan 5 61 Kannan R. 5

62 Shanjay K Sathiskumar 5 63 Vignesh N 5 64 Shyam Kumar M 5 65 Ananda Balaji S 5 66 Tarun V 5 67 Arul Suresha G A 5 68 Midhun Kumar M A 5 69 Yukash Ram E 5 70 Arnav Maheshwari 5 71 Manikandan Rangan 5 72 Surya Prakash J 5 73 Sathish Chandra G 5 74 Dharshan Venkatachalam 5 75 Thiyagarajan Tamilselvi 5 76 Honnesh Sankaran 5 77 Rajagopal A 5 78 Nandakumar S 5 79 Arjun Kumar S 5 80 Darsana M S 5 81 Ilamparthi A R 5 82 Bharath Venugopal 5 83 Rajiv A 5 84 Sam Jebadurai 5 85 Arul Anandh S P K 5 86 Akash P 5 87 Ram Kailash Pl 4½ 88 Praveen K B 4½ 89 Praveen Narayan S 4½ 90 Niteesh Lingeswaran 4½ 91 Aakash G 4½ 92 Deenadayalan M P 4½ 93 Sivashankar M 4½ 94 Sabhesan R 4½ 95 Logesh S 4½ 96 Sarvesh Hinduja S A 4½ 97 Sharan Krishnan 4½ 98 Naveen Kumar T 4½ 99 Krishnakumar Ramanathan 4½ 100 Krishan A 4½ 101 Aravinthan Loganathan 4½ 102 Jawahar K S 4½

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Audi Ameya of Goa won the Candor All India Open FIDE Rated Tournament at Bangalore. 5 lakh prize money event was organized by Bangalore Chess Academy along with title sponsor Candor International School, Bangalore from 14th to 18 th April 2017 at Candor International School, BegurKoppa Road, Near E-City Phase I, off Bannergatta Road, Bangalore

Shri.Samik Ghosh, Principal, Candor Inter-national School inaugurated the tourna-ment by lighting the lamp. Mr Sridhar C, Dean Administration, Candor International School, welcomed the players and wished them. Vedant Goswami, Director,Bangalore Chess Academy and Ms Pavitra D, Business Development Manager, Candor International School were the other dignitaries on the dais.

The nine round swiss league format tour-nament attracted 467 players from Andra Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Goa, Gujrat, Harya-na, Kerala, Maharastra, Orissa, Pondichery, Orissa,Telangana, Tamilnadu, UP and West Bengal.

Sanjay N of Income Tax Bangalore was top seed with ELO rating 2366followed by IM Mu-rali Krishnan BT (2241) of Tamilnadu, Lokesh N (2225) of Tamilnadu, Pranav Shetty(2222) of Maharastra, NassirWajih (2187) of Delhi, IM Ravi Gopal Hegde (2168) of Karnataka. There were total of 290 rated players.

Top seed N Sanjay withdrawn from the tournament after 6th round. In the eight-round,Audi Amey of Goa defeated IM Ravigo-pal Hegde and Manigandan SS of Tamilnadu

defeated Gopal KN of Andra Bank to lead the contender list. In the final round Audi Amey defeated Manigandan SS and emerged as sole leader to clinch the title.

The prize distribution was simple one and prizes were distributed by Shri.Samik Ghosh, Principal, Candor International School, Sridhar C, Dean Administration, Candor International School and Vedant Goswami, Director, Bangalore Chess Academy

Final ranking Rk Name Pts 1 Audi Ameya 8½ 2 FM Ramakrishna J. 8 3 IM Hegde Ravi Gopal 7½ 4 Wajih Nassir 7½ 5 Manigandan S S 7½ 6 Soni Krishan 7½ 7 Anilkumar O.T. 7½ 8 Lokesh N. 7½ 9 Ajay Karthikeyan 7 10 Karthik P M 7 11 AGM Rathneesh R 7 12 Balkishan A 7 13 Saket Kumar 7 14 Satkar Chirag 7 15 Srihari L 7 16 CM Gopal K N 7 17 Pranav Shetty 7 18 Mohamed Anees M 7 19 Sanjay Sindhia Mh 7 20 Deodhar Vrushali Umesh 7 21 IM Murali Krishnan B T 7 22 Shyam Prasad Reddy K 7 23 Jagadish P 6½

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Audi Ameya wins titleby IA Vasanth BH , Chief Arbiter

24 Gavi Siddayya 6½ 25 Ajay Kumar Rai 6½ 26 Alan Diviya Raj 6½ 27 Harsh Suresh 6½ 28 Himanshu Moudgil 6½ 29 Hari Madhavan N B 6½ 30 Vignesh Kasi P L 6½ 31 Madhavan G 6½ 32 Atul Srivatsa 6½ 33 Prashanth J Naik 6½ 34 Sanjana Raghunath 6½ 35 Avinash Hari 6½ 36 Aravind P V S 6½ 37 Surya Prakash J 6½ 38 AGM Vignesh N 6½ 39 AIM Shashank Bhat G S 6½ 40 Ramachandra Bhat 6½ 41 Subramanian V 6½ 42 Harshavardhan V Ravindhra 6½ 43 AGM Sriram Udhayakumar 6½ 44 Aravind Matthews A C T 6½ 45 Shanjay Krishnaa S 6½ 46 Sai Aravindh Sridhar 6½ 47 AGM Chirag Hirinja G J 6 48 Digvijay Sunil 6 49 Nisha N. Patkar 6 50 Vijay Shreeram P 6 51 AFM Aruna Dinakara 6 52 Aasha C R 6 53 Abhisek Mohanty 6 54 Thaarak Charen Saravankumar 6 55 Jinan Jomon 6 56 Sriram B 6 57 Sarath Chandra K 6 58 Keshav Kothari 6 59 Rakesh Kumar Sinha 6 60 Gautham Prasanth 6 61 Gokulraj K 6 62 Chaithanya Ganesh 6 63 Abhinessh S 6 64 Raghavendra G 6

65 Thakre Ajinkya 6 66 Dilip Kumar Pedda 6 67 Venu Madhav P L 6 68 AIM Pankaj Bhat 6 69 Sathananthan I 6 70 Shyaam M 6 71 Badrinarayanan N 6 72 Sathya Naarayanan S 6 73 Sudarshan Bhat 6 74 Audi Saiesh 6 75 Hari Charan Sai Kalluri 6 76 Muthu P 6 77 Varun Agrawal 6 78 Devaraja G 6 79 Ithal H L Rajath 6 80 AIM Sushrutha Reddy 6 81 ACM Anirudh V Ramesh Kumar 6 82 Sathwika N 6 83 Samith Reddy I 6 84 AFM Abhinav Karthik M 6 85 Vedanth Reddy 6 86 Yashwant Annamalai 6 87 Arun R U 5½ 88 Tejas Cavale 5½ 89 Dharani Srinivas K B 5½ 90 Kaushik G Iyer 5½ 91 Dixit Tharun Raja P 5½ 92 Sreevijay Sunil 5½ 93 Roshan Hari 5½ 94 Manthan Kashyap Datta 5½ 95 Sanath K Jamadagni 5½ 96 Sivashankar M 5½ 97 Prabhakaran K 5½ 98 Sairaj Dilip Vernekar 5½ 99 Nachiketh Adiga 5½ 100 Chandran T 5½101 Sukrutha Bharadwaj H K 5½ 102 Apoorv Kamble 5½ 103 Praveen Kumar G 5½ 104 Anupam M Sreekumar 5½ 105 Iniyan Sivakumar 5½

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Selected games from 1st S.P.Singh Mem. Tournament, SonipatAnnotated by IM Manuel Aaron

Krishna,C R G (2393)Govind Kumar (2012)

25.b4! This move, pushing the knight to b7, leads to a winning position for white as black is weak on the white squares. 25...Nb7 26.Bxe6+! Rxe6 27.Qc8+ Kf7 the best in this situation. 28.Qxb7+ Re7 29.Qa8 [A shade better was: 29.Qc8 a5 30.Qh3 Rc7 31.Qxh7 axb4 32.axb4 Rxc1+ 33.Bxc1 Bxb4 34.Bh6 Bf8 35.Nh4±] 29...Nc7 30.Qc6! [Capturing the pawn was bad: 30.Qxa7 Qe2! 31.Qxb6 Qxb2 32.Rc6 Qe2 33.Nh4 Nd5! 34.Qa6 Qg4 35.Ng2 Bb8] 30...Qxc6 31.Rxc6 Ke6 32.Kf1 Kd7 33.Rc2 a5 34.bxa5 bxa5 35.Ne1 Re8 36.Nf3? [Though white is a pawn up, it is on d4, block-ing his own bishop and the black knight's occupation of d5 would be compensation for his pawn minus. 36.Nd3 Rb8 37.Ke2 Rb3 38.Nc1 Rb8 39.h4±] 36...Rb8?! [36...Re7! not allowing the white king to enter the centre would have made it very difficult for white to realize his pawn up advantage, especially as black would establish a strong blockade with his knight on the d5 square.] 37.Nd2 Nd5 38.Ke2 White now proceeds to build up a

position from which he could win the game. 38...Nb6? [Better was 38...a4 fixing white's pawn on a3 and retaining his knight on d4, its powerful, central square.] 39.Bc1 Re8+ [Better 39...Nd5 ] 40.Kd3 a4 41.Nc4

Diagram # [Still stronger was: 41.Ne4! Bf8 42.g4 Rc8 43.Nc5+ Bxc5 44.dxc5+-] 41...Nxc4 [Too late now is: 41...Nd5 42.Nxd6 Kxd6 43.Rc4 Ra8 44.g4 g6 45.Bd2+- and black has the unpleasant task of defend-ing his a4 pawn for the remainder of the game.] 42.Rxc4± Ra8 43.d5! g6 44.Bb2 f5 45.f4 [45.Bc1! Be7 46.Rc6 Rb8 47.Bf4 Rb3+ 48.Kc4 Bxa3 49.Rc7+ Kd8 50.d6!+-] 45...h5 46.Rc6 Ra5 [46...Rb8?? 47.Rxd6+! Kxd6 48.Be5++-] 47.Kc4 Ra8 48.Be5! Bxa3 49.Rc7+! Kd8 50.Rh7! (threat 51 Rh8 skew-ering the Ra8) 50...Bf8 [If 50...Rc8+ 51.Kb5 Rc2 52.Kxa4 Bc5 53.Rc7!+-] 51.d6! Bxd6 [If 51...a3 52.Bf6+ Kc8 (52...Ke8 53.d7#) 53.d7+ Kb7 54.d8Q+] 52.Rh8+ 1–0

Pradeep Kumar,R A (TN) (2316) Hemant Sharma,(Del) (2375) 1.Nf3 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.g3 Bg7 4.Bg2 0–0 5.0–0 d5 6.d4 dxc4 7.Ne5 c5 8.dxc5 Qc7 9.c6N [9.Nxc4 Qxc5 10.Nba3 has been usu-ally played here.] 9...Nxc6 10.Nxc6 bxc6 11.Qc2 [If 11.Qa4 Be6 12.Nc3 Rfd8 13.Bxc6 Bd7 14.Bxd7 Rxd7 15.Bf4 Qc5=] 11...Rb8

12.Qxc4 Be6 13.Qc2 Nd5 14.Rd1 [14.a3 or 14 Nd2 were better choices to lead to equality.] 14...Nb4 15.Qa4 Nxa2 16.Bf4 Be5 17.Rxa2 Bxf4 18.Ra3 [18.gxf4 Bb3 19.Qxa7 Qxa7 20.Rxa7 Bxd1–+] 18...Bd6 19.Rc3

19...Rxb2 So quickly in the game, white is two pawns down! Not all the tricks in his experience could retrieve the game from this point. 20.Nd2 [If 20.Rxc6 Qb8! 21.Nd2 Bd7!–+] 20...Rfb8 21.Nc4 Rb1 22.Rdc1 c5 23.Be4 Rxc1+ 24.Rxc1 Rb4 25.Qa6 Qc8 26.Qa2 White avoids the exchange of queens to keep alive his chances of saving the game. 26...a5 27.Bd3 a4 28.Qa3 Qb7 29.f3 h5! 30.Qc3 Qd5! Black is controlling the game beautifully giving no chances of a counter-at-tack to white. 31.Kg2 Qd4 32.Qc2 [White cannot find any relief in exchanges: 32.Qxd4 cxd4 33.Nxd6 exd6 34.Ra1 g5 35.h4 gxh4 36.gxh4 Kg7 37.Kg3 Kf6 38.Kf4 Bc4 39.Ke4 d5+! 40.Kxd4 Bxd3+ 41.Kxd3 Rxh4 and white is menaced by two rook pawns in the rook ending.] 32...h4 33.e3 Qf6 34.Qe2 [34.Nxd6?? Rb2–+] 34...Rb3 Diagram # [Another interesting way to win was: 34...h3+! 35.Kf2 Bxc4 36.Rxc4 Qa1 37.Qf1 Rb2+ 38.Be2 Qxf1+ 39.Kxf1 a3! 40.Ra4 Bxg3! 41.hxg3 (41.Rxa3 Rb1+ wins.) 41...Rb1+ 42.Kf2 h2! wins.]

35.Rc2 hxg3 36.hxg3 Diagram

36...Qh8! 37.Nxd6 Qh3+! 38.Kf2 Qh2+ 39.Ke1 [39.Kf1 Rb1+ wins.] 39...Qxg3+ [After 39...Qxg3+ 40.Kd1 Rb1+ 41.Kd2 Qxd6 white is absolutely lost with dangerous threats all over the board.] 0–1

Gokhale,Chandrashekhar (2205) Mahin-drakarIndrajeet (1901) Chandrashekhar Gokhale is an experienced 43-year old International Master. And In-drajeet Mahindrakar is an unknown 17 year old. But in this game the roles are reversed and Mahindrakar plays like an experienced, confident Master! 1.Nf3 d5 2.g3 c5 3.Bg2 Nc6 4.d3 e5 5.Nbd2 Be6 6.e4 d4 7.Nc4 f6 The Opening is like a reversed King's In-dian Samisch Attack. 8.a4 Qd7 9.b3 Nge7 Diagram #

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Black has a space advantage and White has the problem of developing his Bc1. 10.Ng1?! [Apparently white fears an attack down the h-file with h7-h5-h4 combined with ....Bh3. By making two moves in the opening with the same knight and pulling it back to its original square white indicates that he wants to play f2-f4 in tune with the existing pawn forma-tion. However, it turns out that white has an entirely different, time consuming positional idea. Better was 10.a5 which gave black only a minimal advantage.] 10...g5 11.h3 Ng6 12.Bf3 0–0–0 Ignoring white's ponderous play, black goes for rapid development of his pieces. 13.Bg4 The idea is to exchange off his light-square bishop which is considered a 'bad bishop' as it is hemmed in by his own central pawns. His other bishop which runs on dark squares is considered 'good' as the pawns are 'fixed' on light squares. But over-all this can only be a general consideration, and the student must judge a bishop more by its activity and practical reach rather than by merely the colour of the squares. 13...Kb8 This ensures that the queens do not get exchanged along the h3-c8 diagonal. 14.Qf3 Nb4! 15.Na3? [This pulling back of the knight for defence is an error. Of course if 15.Qxf6? Bxg4 16.hxg4 Nxc2+ 17.Kd1 Nxa1–+; however, white can get an equal

game with: 15.Kd1! Be7 16.Bd2 Nc6=] 15...Be7 16.Bf5 Bxf5 Diagram #

17.exf5? [This leads to immediate trouble. The exchange of queens leads to equality: 17.Qxf5 Qxf5 18.exf5 Nf8 19.Bd2 Nd5 20.Ne2 Rg8 21.Nc4 h6 22.h4 Nd7=] 17...e4! 18.dxe4 Ne5 19.Qe2 [If 19.Qd1 c4 20.Kf1 (20.bxc4 d3 21.Kf1 Qc6–+) 20...d3 21.c3µ] 19...d3! 20.cxd3 Qd4 21.Rb1 Nbxd3+ 22.Kf1

22...Nxf2!! 23.Bb2 [23.Qxf2 Qxe4 with dual threats 24.... Rd1+ and 24...Qxh1.] 23...Nxh1! 24.Bxd4 Nxg3+ 25.Kf2 Nxe2 26.Bxe5+ fxe5 27.Nxe2 [If 27.Kxe2 (to prevent the black rooks invasion of d2 and d3,) 27...g4! 28.hxg4 Rhg8–+] 27...Rd3 28.Nc4 Bf6 29.Kg2 h5 30.b4 cxb4 31.Rxb4 Rc8! 32.a5 Be7 33.Ra4 Bf6 34.Rb4 g4 35.hxg4 hxg4 36.a6 b6!

37.Nxb6 White's last hurrah! 37...axb6! 38.Rxb6+ Ka7 39.Rxf6 Rc2! 40.Kf1 Rd1+! 41.Kf2 Rdd2! Very simple! 0–1

Swapnil,S. Dhopade (2545) Aary-an,Varshney (1826) [D37]Chess in India is getting younger and young-er. Aaryan Varshney is an unknown 12-year old who defeats his grandmaster opponent who is rated 700 points above him, without any problem. This sort of thing is happening almost in every tournament, every day! 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 d5 4.Nc3 Be7 5.Bf4 0–0 6.e3 Nbd7 7.Qc2 dxc4 8.Bxc4 a6 9.a4N 9 Be2 and 9 0–0–0 have been seen in this position. 9...c5 10.dxc5 Bxc5 11.0–0 Qe7

Diagram # 12.Bg5?! [On general principles, one should not move the same piece twice in the opening before moving other pieces

once. Better was: 12.Rfd1 b6 13.Ne4 Nxe4 14.Qxe4 Ra7 15.Bg5 Nf6²] 12...h6 13.Bh4 b6 14.Ne4 Bb7 15.Nxf6+ Nxf6 16.Ne5 [the previous commentary applies to this move as well. 16.Rfd1 Rfd8 17.Qe2 Bd6 18.Rac1 e5 19.h3 e4 20.Nd4=] 16...Qc7 A courageous move allowing the dangerous shattering of his castled position. 17.Bxf6 gxf6 18.Ng4 Kg7 19.Qc3 Be7 Diagram #

Unnoticed, a black threat has emerged 20...h5! trapping the Ng4. 20.f3 (forced.) 20...Rac8 21.Rac1 Rfd8 22.Qe1 h5 [After 22...f5 23.Qc3+ f6 24.Nf2 Rd6 25.Rc2 Rc6 black's advantage is gathering speed.] 23.Nf2 Bd6 24.h3 It is difficult to say whose castled position is worse, white's or black's! 24...Bh2+ 25.Kh1 Bg3 26.Rc3 Qd7 27.a5 [Better was: 27.b3 b5 28.axb5 axb5 29.Rd3 Qe8 30.Rxd8 Rxd8 31.Be2 Qd7] 27...Qd2 28.Kg1 b5 29.Bb3 Qxb2 30.Rxc8 Bxc8 Diagram # 31.Nd3?! with this move white averts immediate collapse. But now he faces slow but certain defeat against black's two bishops. 31...Bxe1 32.Nxb2 Bxa5 White has no prospects of survival as he is two clear passed pawns down against two active bishops.

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33.Rd1 Rxd1+ 34.Bxd1 Bc3 35.Nd3 a5 36.Kf2 a4 37.Ke2 Bb7 38.e4 Bc6 39.Nc1 b4 40.Kd3 Bb5+ 41.Kc2 Bd4 42.Nd3 b3+ 43.Kd2 Bc4 44.Nb4 a3 0–1

Roy Chowdhury,Saptarshi (2345) Deshmukh,Anup (2228) [B50]Anup Deshmukh, born 1967, won this tour-nament. He is one of the active veteran International Masters of the country and a much sought after chess trainer. Here, he defeats one of the young crop of India's latest Grandmasters. 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.c3 Nf6 4.Be2 Nbd7 5.d3 b6 6.0–0 Bb7 7.Nbd2 Qc7 8.Re1 g6 9.Nf1N [The Grandmaster treats this like a variation in the Ruy Lopez! 9.Bf1 Bg7 10.Nc4 0–0! 11.Bf4 Nh5 12.Bg5 led to a draw in just another 3 moves in R.Gaerths 2285 vs J. Shulz 2210, Berlin, 2001] 9...Bg7 10.Ng3 0–0 11.Bf1 Ne5 12.a4 Nxf3+ 13.Qxf3 Nd7 14.Qd1 e5 15.a5 d5 16.a6 Bc6 17.b4 d4 18.c4 [Better was: 18.cxd4 cxd4 19.Qb3= with a faint edge for black.] 18...cxb4 19.Bd2 Rfe8 20.Bxb4 Bf8 21.Bd2 Nc5 22.Be2 Bd7 23.Rf1 Bd6! Making the project of f2-f4 harder. 24.Bb4 Ne6 25.Bxd6 Qxd6 26.Bg4 b5! An excellent move that isolates white's advanced pawn on a6 and eventually threatens to capture it. 27.Bxe6 Rxe6 28.Qd2 bxc4 29.dxc4 Bc8³

30.Ra4 Rb8 [If 30...Bxa6 31.Rfa1! Bc8 32.Rxa7] 31.Rfa1 Qc7 32.h4 Qe7 33.h5 Reb6 A study in contrast! While the black rooks are doubled along the only open file on the board, the white rooks are defensively doubled behind their a6 pawn, trying to save it. 34.Qc1 Qf6 35.hxg6 hxg6 36.R4a2 (Black was threatening the invasion 36....Rb2.) 36...Kg7 37.c5

Diagram # 37...Rc6 Now black has two targets, the pawns on a6 and c5. 38.Ra3 [If 38.Ra5 Rb3 39.Ne2 Bxa6 40.Qc2 Rb5 41.Rxb5 Bxb5 42.Ng3 (42.Rxa7?? d3–+) 42...a6–+] 38...Bg4 39.Ra5 [If 39.f3 Bc8 40.Ra5 Rb3 41.R1a3 Rbb6 42.Qa1 Rxa6µ] 39...Qh4 40.Nf1 Be2 41.f3 Bxf1 with this knight off the board, black's attacking prospects improve. 42.Qxf1 Rh8 43.Qe1 Qf4 44.Qc1 Qh2+ 45.Kf2 Qh4+ 46.Kg1 Rf6 threatening ....Rxf3 at the opportune moment. 47.R5a3 g5 48.Qe1 Qh2+ 49.Kf2 g4µ 50.Qg1 Qf4 [50...g3+ 51.Ke2 Rc8 and black should win as the white forces are overloaded with the defence of their c-pawn and their king-side.] 51.Qc1 g3+ 52.Ke2 Rh2! 53.Qxf4 Rxg2+ 54.Kd3 Rxf4 55.Kc4 Diagram

55...Rf6?! [The best way to win was: 55...Rc2+ 56.Kd5 Kf6 57.Kd6 Rh4 58.c6 g2 59.Rd1 Rh8 60.Kd7 Kg5 61.Rg1 f5 62.exf5 Kxf5–+] 56.Kd5 Rc2³ 57.Rg1 Rg6 58.Kxe5 Rxc5+ 59.Kxd4 Rc2 Material is level but black has better chances with his advanced passed pawn on g3. 60.Ke3 g2 61.Raa1 Kf8 62.Ra5 Ke7 63.Raa1 Kd6 64.Rad1+ Kc6 65.Ra1 White unwittingly creates a prison for his own king and loses. Better, though eventually losing would be: [65.Rb1] 65...Rb2 66.f4? [If 66.Kf4 Kb5–+ Black will safely capture the a6 pawn and win with his a-pawn.] 66...Rg3+ 67.Kd4 f6 Diagram #

[Or 67...Kd6 68.Rac1 Rd2+ 69.Kc4 Rf2 70.Rcd1+ Ke6–+] 68.e5? [The game is far from over. White could still fight with: 68.Rac1+ Kb5 69.Rc5+ Kxa6 70.Rc6+

Kb5 71.Rxf6] 68...Rb4# And suddenly, it is Mate!! 0–1

Verma,H.S (1767) Pradeep,Kumar R A (2316)

17.e5?! An enterprising move in an unstable position. 17...dxe5? [17...Nxe5! 18.Nxe5 Qxe5 19.Bxh5 Rxf1+ 20.Qxf1 gxh5 21.Re1 Qd4+³] 18.Nd4! exd4 19.Rxf6 Nxf6= For his queen, black has a rook, knight and pawn. It is about equal but white's prospects are better. The natural skills of the player now come into play and decide the final outcome. 20.Bf3! Ne5 21.Ne4 Nfd7 22.Bg4 Rb6² 23.b4 Nxg4 24.hxg4 cxb4 25.Rxb4 Bb7 26.Rxd4+- Bd5 27.g5 Rc6 28.Qb1 Rf5 black defends his b5 pawn with an ambush idea. 29.Qb4 [29.Qxb5? Bxe4 and black wins.] 29...Rc2 30.Qe7 Rf7 31.Qd8+ Kg7 Diagram #

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Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron32.Rxd5! exd5 33.Nd6 Rc1+ 34.Kh2 Rcf1 35.Ne8+ Kh8 36.Nf6+ Nf8 37.Qxd5 Kg7 38.Qxb5 [White is not quite sure of his vic-tory and goes pawn hunting when it is not necessary. The win is staring him in the face: 38.Ne8+ Kh8 (38...Kg8? 39.Nd6) 39.Qe5+ Kg8 40.Nf6+ Kh8 41.Ng4+ Rg7 42.Qe8! and the threat of 43 Nf6 is decisive.] 38...h6 Black uses the chance to make his king a little more comfortable with this move. But it should not be enough! 39.Qb2 hxg5 40.Ne4+ Kh6 41.Qd2 [From d2, the queen has no control over h8. Stronger was: 41.a4! Ra7 42.Nf2! Rxa4 43.Qe2! Rh4+ 44.Kg3 Rc1 45.Ng4+ Kh5 (45...Kg7 46.Qe7+ wins.) 46.Nf6+ Kh6 47.Qe7+-] 41...Ne6 42.d4? [Black's prayers are answered! And he has a win on hand. White could have won with: 42.Qa2! Nf8 43.a4! and black has no way to improve his position or gain material.] 42...R7f4 43.Qd3 Diagram

43...Rh4+ 44.Kg3 Rf8 Black has a clear cut plan - to play his knight to h5 mating. 45.d5 Nf4 46.d6 Nh5# 0–1

Ramnathan,Balasubramaniam,ICF (2164) Himanshu,Sharma (Rly) (2493)Himanshu Sharma, born 1983, has been Har-yana's only International Master since 2006. Like most good chess players from North

India where traces of Indian style chess are still seen, he is strong in the middle-game. Logic and clarity of thought mark his games. He already has three GM norms and has been waiting for his Rating to touch 2500 to claim his GM title and become Haryana's first Grandmaster. During this tournament it crossed 2500! His opponent, Ramanathan Balasubramaniam, 46, is a chess lover and an IM since 2005, who works for the Integral Coach Factory in Chennai.

37.Rc1 white is anticipating 38.....Nd4! threatening c2. 37...Re6 The first move in his try to win this game. 38.Rxe6 Kxe6 39.g4? [If white tries to challenge black's threatened Nd4 without playing g3-g4 he would still get an inferior position: 39.Nf3 g4 40.hxg4 hxg4 41.Ng1 Nd4 42.Ne2 Nxe2 43.Re1 c4 44.Rxe2+ Kd6µ] 39...hxg4 40.hxg4 Ke5 The black king is very active and threatens to invade the white position through d4 or f4. 41.Nf1 Kd4 42.Ne3 Temporarily prevent-ing ....Kc3 by an attack on d4. 42...Rd7! 43.Re1 Kc3 44.Re2 conceals an interesting trap! 44...Kb2 [If black plays the 'natural' 44...Nd4? 45.Nd1#! is an unexpected mate!] 45.f3 Nd4 46.Rf2 Diagram #

46...Nxb3!! 47.Nxd5!? [This is a very in-teresting counter-attack trying to retrieve his sinking game. If 47.cxb3+ Kxb3 48.f4 Kxa4 and black's wave of pawns on the queen-side should win with careful play.; 47.cxb3+ Kxb3 48.f4 Kxa4 and the wave of black pawns on the queen-side should win for black.] 47...Rxd5! Black willingly accepts the challenge knowing fully well what he is letting himself in for. He has calculated this endgame well. 48.c4+ White has counted on this frightening discovered check to win the game but black is unfazed. 48...Kc3 49.cxd5 Nd4 50.d6 b3 51.d7 Nc6 52.f4 b2 53.Rxb2 Kxb2 Diagram #

The rest is simple. 54.Kf3 Kb3 55.fxg5 fxg5 56.Ke4 Kxa4 57.Kf5 Kb5 58.Kxg5 a4 59.Kh6 a3 60.g5 a2 61.g6 a1Q 62.g7 Qf6+ 63.Kh7 Qh4+ 64.Kg6 Qg4+ 0–1

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The black pawns are weak, but White must rescue his bishop first.1.Bf5 d4 !2.Nxh5+ The threat was 2...Bh2+ winning the knight. Bad is 2.Bxe4? Bxe4 3.Sxe4 dxc3! 4.Sxc3 Sxh3 with an easily won ending for Black.2…Kh63.Bd2 !3.Bxd4? Sf3+ 4.Kd5 Sxd4 wins.3…Kxh53...e3 4.Bxd3 exd2 5.Be2 Sxh3 6.Sf6! draws.4.Bg4+Kg64...Kh4? 5.Be1+ Bf2 6.Bxf2 mate!5.Bf5+Kh5 !5...Kh6 6.h4, and now 6...e3 7.Bxe3 dxe3 8.hxg5+ Kxg5 9.Bxd3, or 6...Be3 7.hxg5+ Kxg5 8.Bxe4draw.6.Bg4+Kh6 !7.h4Be3 !7...e3 8.hxg5+ Kxg5 9.Kxd4 exd2+ 10.Kxd3 draws.8.hxg5+Now the most logical move seems to be 9.Bxe3+? dxe3 10.Bd1, but af-ter 10...Bb1! 11.Be2 Bc2! the white bishop does not have a free square on h1-d5 diag-onal, and White loses because of zugzwang: 12.Kd4 Kf4.8…Kxg59.Be2 !! Jackpot! Now there are two echoing lines:9…Bxe29…Bxd210.Bxd3exd311.Kxd410.Bxe3+dxe311.Kxe4

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Tactics from master games by S.Krishnan

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

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

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

(solutions on p.47) _

Test your endgame by C.G.S.Narayanan

Kuznekov &Kralin 1965-66 Bondarenko & Kuznekov1967

1. 2.

Kalandadze 1965 Nadareisveli 1965

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Kuznecov 1967 Neidze1967

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

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11th ACA International Fide Rated Chess Tournament,Calicut

11th KCM FIDE Rated Open Chess Tournament,Coimbatore

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(L-R).M Ephrame( chief Arbiter ,. Rtn P Rethish President Rotary Club of Calicut South,. Rtn A p Vinoth Kumar Past president Rotary Club of Calicut South,. Shr. P Venugopalan AICf Joint Secretary, M Kunal (winner), Shri Abdul Rehman , Shri.O T anilkumar ,Shri Madhu Soodhanan, Shri P M Shaji (Arbiter)

(LtoR) Kunal receiving the trophy from Mr Senthil Chinnasamy (3rd from right), President, KCM

Masters of the past-76 Robert Byrne

Robert Eugene Byrne (April 20, 1928 – April 12, 2013) was an American chess Grandmaster and chess author. He won the U.S. Championship in 1972, and was a World Chess Championship Candidate in 1974. Byrne represented the United States nine times in Chess Olympiads from 1952 to 1976 and won seven medals. He was the chess columnist from 1972 to 2006 for the New York Times, which ran his final column (a recounting of his 1952 victory over David Bronstein) on November 12, 2006. Byrne worked as a university professor for many years, before becoming a chess professional in the early 1970s.

Robert Byrne's first Master event was Ventnor City 1945, where he scored a respectable 4/9 to place 8th; the winner was Weaver Adams. He tied 1st–2nd in the Premier Reserves section at the U.S. Open Chess Championship, Pittsburgh 1946. Byrne became an International Master based on his results at the 1952 Chess Olympiad at Helsinki (bronze medal on third board). In that same year he graduated from Yale University. He went on to become a professor of philosophy at Indiana University, and his academic career left him little time for chess. He did represent the U.S. in team matches against the Soviet Union at New York 1954.Byrne did not play in his first U.S. Chess Championship until age 30 in 1958–59, placing tied 9–10th with 4/11; the winner was Bobby Fischer. But Byrne improved dramatically the next year in the same event to place 2nd with 8/11, ahead of Reshevsky and Pal Benko, as Fischer won again. In 1960, Byrne increased his serious play, winning the U.S. Open Chess Championship at St. Louis, and taking a silver medal on third board at the Olympiad in Leipzig.

In 1964, Byrne's third-place finish at the Buenos Aires tournament (behind Paul Keres and World Champion Tigran Petrosian), with 11½/17, made him an International Grandmaster.Byrne lost his first-round Candidates' match to former world champion Boris Spassky by 1½–4½ at San Juan, Puerto Rico 1974.As a 1974 Candidate, Byrne was seeded direct-ly to the 1976 Biel Interzonal, where he performed very strongly, but missed a playoff berth by only half a point.

When he became the columnist for the Times in 1972, he became less active as a play-er. He did, nevertheless, win tournaments at Torremolinos (1976–77), Harare (1983), and Lagos (1993). He has also been a frequent contributor to Chess Life magazine, the publication of the United States Chess Federation. He has chaired USCF's committee on masters' affairs and been one of its vice presidents. Byrne was inducted into the U.S. Chess Hall of Fame in 1994.He made original contributions in several opening systems. He was the first to play 6.Be3 against the Najdorf Variation of the Sicilian Defense (1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.Be3); this system has been named for him and has been very popular since the mid-1980s. He developed the Byrne Variation against the King's Indian Defense in the Saemisch Variation, with a quick queenside expansion by Black. He used the Dutch Defense with success when that opening was rarely seen at the top level.. He retired from writing his chess column at age 78.Byrne died in 2013 at his home in Ossining, New York from Parkinson’s disease.

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6th BRDCA International Fide Rating Chess Tournament, Bangalore

Left to Right. Mr Ravi Kumar Naik, IPS,Bangalore, IM Shivananda B S, Mr Chidananda A, Tournament Director and BRDCA Secretary , Mr Rajashekar N, SP, Assam and Mr Hanumanta R, Joint Secretary AICF

(L-R) Senthil Maran K (Runner-up) IM S.Nitin (Winner) and Sammed Jayakumar Shete(Third)

Solutions to ‘Tactics from master games’ on page 42

1. Chirila,Cristian (2522) Sukandar,Irene (2423) [A22]2017 Winter Chess Classic 2017 White to play 23.Rf6!!+– Qxd3 [23...Bxh3 24.Rxh6 gxh6 25.Nf6+ Kh8 26.Nxd5+]24.Bxe6 Qxe3+ 25.Rf2 fxe6 26.Nf6+ Kh8 [26...gxf6 27.Qg6+ Bg7 28.Bxf6 Wins]27.Qg6 Qd3 28.Ne4 Qe3 29.Kg2 [Threatening 29.Rxf8]29...Kg8 30.Nf6+1–0

2. Tokhirjonova,Gulrukhbegim (2297) - Torre,Eugenio (2481) 7th HD Bank Cup 2017 Ho Chi Minh City VIE (1.22), 12.03.2017White to play31.f6! [This is best and sim-ple][Also winning is 31.g6 fxg6 32.fxg6 Qg8 33.gxh7 Qg4 (33...Qxh7 34.Rxf8+ Rxf8 35.Rxf8+ Nxf8 36.Qxf8+ Qg8 37.Qh6+ Qh7 38.Qxd6) 34.Rxf8+ Rxf8 35.Rxf8++– Nxf8 36.Qxf8+ Kxh7 37.Qf7+ Qg7 38.Qxg7+ Kxg7 39.Bxb6]31...Rg8 32.Qxh7+!]1–0

3. Tueckmantel,R (2156) - Englert,F (2377) [A27]33rd ChessOrg Open Bad Woerishofen GER (3.5), 12.03.2017Black to play 30...Nxh3! 31.gxh3 [31.Ng3 Qg5–+; 31.Bxe5 Nf4+ 32.Kg1 Nxe2+ 33.Kf2 fxe5 34.Qxe2 Rf7+ 35.Ke1 Qxe2+ 36.Kxe2 Rxf1 37.Kxf1–+]31...Qxh3+ 32.Kg1 Ng4 33.Nf4 [33.Nd4 Qxf1+ 34.Kxf1 Ne3+ 35.Ke2 Nxc2 36.Nxc2 Ra2–+]33...Qxf1+! [33...Qxf1+ 34.Kxf1 Ne3+–+]0–1

4.Wang Hao (2683) - Sethuraman,S (2629) [C88]1st Sharjah Masters 2017 Sharjah UAE (3.1), 25.03.2017White to play 24.Nd6! [24.Nd6 Rxg4 25.Nf7+ Kg8 26.Rxg4+ Kf8 27.Nxd8+–; 24.Qxg8+ Qxg8 25.Rxg8+ Kxg8 26.Nb6+ Kf8 27.Nxa8 Also wins] 1–0

5. Vedder,R (2213) - Jens,J (2386) [C88]Dutch League 2016–17 Netherlands NED (8.6), 01.04.2017Black to play 20...Qg4! 21.Rxe8+ [21.f3 Bxf3 22.Rxe8+ (22.Qxf3 Rxe1+–+) 22...Rxe8 23.Qxf3 Re1+ 24.Kf2 Bh4+ 25.g3 Rf1+ Wins]21...Rxe8 22.f3 [22.Qf1 Re1 23.f3 (23.Qxe1 Qxg2#; 23.g3 Qh3) 23...Bxf3 Wins]22...Bxf3! 23.Qxf3 Re1+ 24.Kf2 Bh4+ 25.g3 Rf1+ 0–1

6.Benoit,Rodrigo (2114) - Saralegui,M (2111) [D34]ch-URU 2017 Montevideo URU (7.5), 31.03.2017White to play 25.Rb1! Qc5 [25...Qxb1 26.Nxe7+ Kf8 27.Nxc8+–; 25.. .Qa3 26.Qxb7+–]26.Rb5! Qa3 27.Qg4! [27.Qxb7+–]27...g6 [27...Bg5 28.Nxh6+ Bxh6 29.Qxc8++–]28.Nxe7+1–0

Solution to ‘Test your endgame’on page 431.Kuznecov & Kralin 1965-661.Bf3 a1Q 2.a8Q h1Q+ 3.Bxh1 Qxa8 4.Re1+ Kh2 5.Be4 Qa1 6.Rb12.Bondarenko & Kuznecov 19671.Ne6 Nc6 2.a7 Bf3+ 3.Kg1 Nd8 4.Nxd8 h4 5.a8Q Bxa8 6.Nb7 h3 7.d8N 3.Kalandadze 19651.Rf6+ Nf2+ 2.Rxf2+ Rxf2 3.Bd3+ Kg1 4.Bh2+ Kh1 5.Be4 Re2 6.Bd5 Rd2 7.Bc6 Rc2 8.Bb7 Rb2 9.Ba8 4.Nadareisveli 19651.Ba4 Ng4 2.Bd1 Nf2 3.Bb3+ Kg6 4.a6 Ng4 5.a7 Kh5 6.a8R g6 7.Ra1 d1Q 8.Rxd1 5.Kuznecov 19671.Ng6+ hxg6 2.h7 Kxh7 3.g5 fxg5 4.Rc1 6.Neidze 19671.Ke2 d1Q+ 2.Kxd1 exf2 3.Ke2 Rxg8 4.hxg8B fxg1N+ 5.Ke3 Nxh3 6.Be6 Ng5 7.Bg4

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3rd ADRA FIDE Open Intl. Rating Tournament,Purulia, West Bengal

2nd Reliance Home Maharashtra State Open

(L-R) Vihang Kulkarni Organiser, Dronacharya Awardee Raghunandan Gokhale, Dr. Vinod Ghosalkar President Dahisar Sports Foundation, Winner IM Sameer Kathmale, And Nitin Warde.

AICF Calendar May 2017

Odisha Open 2017 Bhubaneswar May-26 to Jun-0228th Cusat FIDE Rating Kochi May-27 to May-302nd Telangana All India below 2000 Khammam May-30 to Jun-04Mayor Cup 2017 Maharashtra Jun-04 to Jun-11Chess In Lakecity Summer Cup Rating below 1600 Udaipur Jun-13 to Jun-15World Team Championship Khanty-Mansiysk Jun-16 to Jun-28National Under – 13 -2017 Punjab Jun-21 to Jun-294th Trichy all India FIDE Rating Open Trichy Jun-23 to Jun-26Late Ramesh Vinayak Rao Kotwal Mem. Open Rapid Gondia Jun-24 to Jun-25Commonwealth Chess Championship New Delhi Jul-02 to Jul-10National Under-25 A&N islands Jul-13 to Jul-2012 KCM FIDE Rated below 1600 Coimbatore Jul-14 to Jul-16Asian Schools Chess & Blitz Jul-20 to Jul-30National Women Challenger 2017 Karnataka Jul-21 to Jul-291st Dhakshinamoorthy Mem. Rapid Pammal Jul-22 to Jul-231st Champions FIDE Rating 2017 Salem Jul-27 to Jul-301st ICA- MCA FIDE Rating chess for below 1600 Dindigul Jul-29 to Jul-31National Rapid & Blitz 2017 WB Aug-01 to Aug-04Western Asian Youth 2017 Aug-01 to Aug-07National Cities 2017 HP Aug-06 to Aug-10Chess Beacon 1st Open FIDE Rated Chess tmt Jaipur Aug-12 to Aug-16Athens of the East 1st FIDE Rating Madurai Aug-12 to Aug-151st Sri Raghavenndra Open FIDE rated open Chennai Aug-12 to Aug-1555th National Challenger 2017 Gujarat Aug-13 to Aug-23World Cadet U 8,10,12 Aug-21 to Aug-315th NL Pandiyar memorial Open FIDE Rated Udaipur Aug-24 to Aug-29Asian Cities 2017 Bhubaneshwar Aug-25 to Sep-02

Solution to puzzle of the month on page 11: WBf1 has been captured at home and wBa4 is a promotee. Retract -1. Rb3xBb1 and now Bl. O-O-O is forbidden. Indeed, Bl. cannot retract -1 ... b2-b1=B+ or -1 ... c2xb1=B+ or -1 ... Rf5xb5+ (too many captures) so that what has been played is -1 ...Rf5-b5+ -2. b5xa6+. There, the wBa4 promotion took place on a8, forbidding Bl. O-O-O.Forward mate is then 1. Kxg7 ~ 2. Rf8#.(Other attempts at breaking Bl. O-O-O fail: -1. Bf2xBe1?? and Bl. can still O-O-O; -1. Kh7xPg6?? leads to an illegal position.)

(L-R) Diptayan Ghosh 3rd, A.K.Chourasia_Org. Secretary, D.Barua_Chief Arbiter, Rahul Sangma Champion, Arghyadip Das(Runner-up), S.N. Agarwal,_General Manager,SE Railway

Shree Damodar All India U-1600 Fide Rating Tournament, Margao

(L-R) Dilip Vernekar,Damodar Zambaulikar,Kishor Bandekar,Ashesh Keni,Adesh Karwarkar,Sudesh Bhise and Sanjay Kavlekar with top three prize winners with trophies-Anirudh Venkat Ramesh Kumar (Runner-up) Tanvi Vasudev Hadkonkar (Winner) and Jadhav Sushant (Third)

Ex-Chief Minister of Goa Shri Digamber Kamat makes the inaugural move in the presence of,Kishor Bandekar Joint Secretary,AICF, Shri Ashesh Keni Vice President Goa Chess Association, Apurv Bhembre ,Secretary ,Margao Cricket Club Damodar Zamabulikar ,Secretary Salcete Taluka Chess Association, Sanjay Kavlekar,Senior SAG Coach