33rd National Team Chess Championship,...

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33rd National Team Chess Championship, Hyderabad...33rd National Team Chess Championship, Hyderabad...

11th National Women Team Chess Championship, Hyderabad...11th National Women Team Chess Championship, Hyderabad...

Winners PSPBWinners PSPB

Winners Air IndiaWinners Air India

March 2013

'Catch'em young' is the familiar catchphrase for spotting young talent in every sport and chess is no exception. FIDE's mission to promote chess in schools in India gained momentum with

the recent visit of Ali Nihat Yazici, Vice President FIDE and Chairman, CIS Programme. In the centre pages of this issue Ali shares his pleasant experience of his interaction with officials and children during his visit to three cities in India-Pune, Hyderabad and Delhi.

PSPB and Air India won men and women titles respectively in the National team Chess Championship held at Hyderabad. Reports on this event along with a few FIDE rated tournaments, the final standings and photographs are featured in this issue.

Anand won Grencke chess classic in Baden-baden where Caruana finished second but in the four-player all play all league at Zurich Challenge the roles got reversed. Anand beat Kramnik to finish second behind Fabiano Caruana.

A philanthropist and keen chess lover that he undoubtedly is, J.C.D.Prabhakar, President AICF, sponsored a 2 lakh prize money Blitz tournament in Chennai to commemorate 65th birthday of Honourable Chief Minister, Tamilnadu Dr. J.Jayalalitha which drew nearly a mammoth seven hundred entries. The decisions taken at the Central Council meeting held at Chennai on 3rd March 2013 are listed elsewhere in this issue. Among the regular features the 'Puzzle of the month' presents a curious retro on 'Monochromatic chess'

National Team Chess Championship, Hyderabad……..PSPB win men title, Air India the women title 01by R.Srivatsan, Chief Arbiter

Late Narayan Nigalye Memorial All India FIDE Rating Open Rapid Chess Tournament 2013, Ponda…..Chinmay Kulkarni wins title 08

Late Sharad Kunte Memorial FIDE Rating Rapid Chess, Pune…..Tejas Bakre wins 11

The 3rd Homeland International Fide Rated Chess Tournament (Below 1600 rated), Chennai…….Mahesh Kumar wins Homeland FIDE rated 13

Raghav's Foundation 1st International Fide Rating Chess Tournament (Below 2000),Hyderabad…..Venkata Ramana wins title 15

6th North East Chess Championship,Imphal…Santanu retains title of NE Championship 17by IA Dharmendra Kumar,Chief Arbiter

Bhopal International Rating Chess Tournament…Arjun Tiwari Lifts Bhopal Intl. Rating 19

Selected games from Chennai GM Open 2013, Chennai 20Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron

Selected games from National Team Championships, Hyderabad 35

Tactics from master games 38by S.Krishnan

Test your endgame 39by K.Muralimohan, FIDE Instructor

Masters of the past-27 40Howard Staunton

Solutions to ‘Tactics from master games 41

AICF Calendar 48

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National Team Chess Championship, Hyderabad……..

PSPB win men title, Air India the women titleby R.Srivatsan, Chief Arbiter

Shri Ponnala Lakshmaiah, Honorable Minister forInformation Technology & Communicationsinaugurated the 33rd National Team ChessChampionship& 11th National Women Team ChessChampionship at KVBR Stadium, Yousufguda,Hyderabad on 20th February 2013 while Mr. AliNihat Yazici (Turkey) Vice-President Fide; Chairman-Chess in Schools Commission Fide ; Dr. T.R.K Rao,IRTS, Vice-Chairman & Managing Director-SAAP ;Dr. R.S Praveen Kumar, IPS, Secretary, A.P SWEREISociety; Shri G.Vinod, President, Hyderabad CricketAssociation; Shri D.V Sundar, Vice-President, FIDE;Shri Bharat Singh Chauhan, Hon.Secretary, All IndiaChess Federation were the Guests of Honor forthe function, while Shri A.Narasimha Reddy, Vice-President-All India Chess Federation, Chairman BarCouncil of A.P Presided over the function, ShriK.Kanna reddy, Gen.Secretary APCA addressedthe gathering. In open category 43 teamsparticipated while 14 team participated in the womenteam chess championship.

In this event, nine Grandmasters Abhijeet gupta(PSCB), Adhiban(PSCB), Sethuraman(PSCB),Deepsengupta(PSCB), Lalithbabu (PSCB), R.RLaxman (Railways), Tejas Bakre(AIR-INDIA),Satyapragyan (AIR-INDIA), DronavalliHarika(Airports Authority of India) participated inthis mega event. Ten Woman Grand MastersS.Vijayalakshmi(Air-India), Tania Sachdev(Air-India),S.Meenakshi(Air-India), Bhakthi kulakarni(Air-India),Mary Ann Ghomes(Airport Authority of India),Padmini Rout(Airhority of India), NishaMohotha(PSPB), Soumya Swaminathan (PSPB),Swathi ghate (LIC), Kiran Manisha Mohanty(LIC)participated in this prestigious event.

In the Women event Petroleum Sports Control Boarddefeated Cyber Chess Academy by 4-0 as WFMRucha pujari, WGM Soumya swaminathan,Mahalakshmi, Michelle Catherina defeated Ankithagoud, shivani.B, Sabbi Sri Rohitha andVinuthana.K.While LIC Of India defeated 4-0 A.P

Women team as Bindu.K Saritha, Swathi ghate,Kiran Manisha Mohanthy and Manjul Srivastavascored over Siva sai saugandhi, Anushka raj, AkhilaG and Ch. Bhavana.Goa Chess Associationdefeated 4-0 Vanitha (A.P) as Prabhugaonkar,Fernandes Krystal, Thorat Aishwarya and GauriKeshav Scored over T.Shriya, Shivsha, Swetha andShreemaiye.

In the Men's section seeded teams had a smoothsailing in the first round. Top seededed PetroleumSports Promotion Board overwhelmedMadhyapradesh with a 4-0 score on the first table.PSPB fielding an all GM's team with the formerWorld Junior Champion GM Abhijeet Gupta yet toplay a game. Following the suit 2nd seeded IndianRailway A team beat lowly rated Bihar Team with asimilar 4-0 score. 3rd seeded Airport Authority ofIndia (AAI) has fielded young IM's on all the 4boards. AAI had to shell out a half a point on the3rd table Board 2 when IM Stany was held to drawby a determined SSCB's Srikanth. Indian RailwaysB and Air India beat their opponents Raghav'sfoundation and Hyderabad 5 with a 4-0 score. Men'ssection was played in a 9 round format with the2nd round slated to be played at 4.00 pm.Correspondingly the SBH 11th National Team ChessChampionship for Women was played under 7 roundformat with a participation of 14 teams.

On day two Top table first board Cholleti Sahaja sriof A.P RACE hold Woman Grand Master Mary AnnGhomes of Airports authority of India while on thirdboard game Anigani Kavya hold Nimmy George.The top seed in women section, Airport Authorityof India led by the only GM in the women sectionDronavalli Harika, the pride of AP, followed by AirIndia and PSPB respectively. With Harika yet toplay AAI had to concede two draws against theyoung AP RACE. Sahajasri and Anigani Kavya drewagainst WGM Mary Ann Gomes and AG Nimmy.WGM Padmini Rout of AAI had some resistancebefore scoring against Hinduja Reddy of AP Race.

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AAI won 3-1 against the young futures of AP. Theinteresting tie between Air India and LIC, who hadexperienced players on either side ended in favourof the former with a similar 3-1 score. The lonepoint for LIC came from WGM Swathi Ghateoutplaying WGM Bhakthi Kulukarni from the whiteside of the Italian game in 27 moves.

PSPB survived a scare against LIC of India whenGM Abhijeet Gupta of PSPB suffered a defeat atthe hands of IM Anup Deshmukh of LIC on thefirst table. Gupta, playing his first game of thetournament adopted Samish variation against theKings India of Anup and was busy occupying the"a" file. Anup unperturbed by the action andmanoeuvred his knights around White's king andwon an exchange on the 28thmove. A periodicalexchange, simplified Anup's work and Guptaresigned on the 43rd move when his Queen wasabout to get trapped. GM's Adhiban andSethuraman sawthrough their opponents GMSriram Jha and IM Atanu Lahiri respectively towin the match. Meanwhile Indian Railways A beatTamilnadu by 3.5 to 0.5 score with Navin Kannaearning the half a point for the latter. Six teamsare leading with 6 match points at the end of thethird round of the HCA sponsored 33rd NationalMen Team Chess championship

At the end of third round Airports Authority ofIndia and Air India are jointly leading the SBH11th National Women Team Chess Championshiphere at KVBR Indoor Stadium, Hyderabad.In an interesing tussle on the top board betweenAAI and PSPB, the former routed the oil team3.5 to 0.5 with Nisha earning the sole consolationfor PSPB. GM Harika playing her first game ofthe event won comfortably against Rucha Pujarifrom the white side of Catalan opening. In aclosed formation Rucha's b8 knight joined theparty late allowing Harika, the World Chpsemifinalist to promote the "b" pawn. A tacticaldeploy in the end won a knight for the whiteforcing resignation of Rucha in 57 moves.

On the 3rd board a resurgent play in the endgamesaw Padmini Rout to score over SoumyaSwaminathan. From the white side of Caro Kan,

Rout maintained slight edge and a King walk inthe endgame won a successful passer on the bfile. On the 2nd table Air India won with similar3.5 to 0.5 score against Goa Chess Assn withGauri Keshav Hadkonkar splitting the point withWGM Aarthie Ramaswamy. The fourth roundclash of AAI with Air India is expected to producedinteresting games.

Into the 4th day of the HCA sponsored 33rd NationalMen team Chess Championship, top seeded PSPBwas joined by the 9th seeded Tamilnadu B on thetop with 8 match points a piece. Much expectedtough fight between Indian Railways B and PSPBfizzled out to be one sided with latter winning with0.5 - 3.5 margin. On the first board GM Adhibanresponded with Meran Varition of Slav defenceagainst queen pawn opening of IM Thejkumar.Adhiban accepted the piece sacrifice on the 20thmove entering into a complex middle game andsaw through comfortably to the end game andwon in 54 moves.

The surprising result of the day being TamilnaduB upset win over 3rd seeded Airport Authority ofIndia. Pradeep Kumar bishop sacrifice on 27thmove to weaken the king side of IM Stany endedin former's favour in 31 moves. The baton washanded over to Ram S Krishnan who outplayedIM Swayam's Mishra from the white side of NimzoIndian defense in 59 moves.Andhra Bank ofAndhra Pradesh beat All India Reserve Bank team2.5 to 1.5On top Board Matta Vinayakumar beatSukpal singh, on Board 2 FM J.Ramakrishna beatSanjiv kumar while on third board the game wasdran between K.V Subrahman and Sthalekar, onboard 4 Kamalakar lost to Andurkar deepak.

In the corresponding women section Air India beatAirports Authority of India with 2.5 - 1.5 score whenWGM Bhakti Kulkarni propelled with a fine victoryover WGM Mary Ann Gomes, followed by a win byIM Vijayalakshmi who overcame stubborn resistancefrom WGM Padmini Rout in a long game of 106moves. Bharathi's win over WGM Meenakshi cameas a sole consolation for AAI. AP RACE won with afairly wide margin 3.5 to 0.5 against Goa ChessAssn. Pratyusha, Sahajasri and Hinduja won theirgames to stay near the top.

Praveen Kumar (born on 8th June 1985) started playing at the age of six. Hailing from Madurai, in Tamilnadu, he was trained by IM G.B.Prakash when he shifted to Chennai for studies. He got his FIDE rating at the age of twelve and his first success was when he finished runner up in the National Under-8 held at Palakkad in 1993.He won Trivandrum Open rating tournament in 2009 and was a member of the team which won National Cities Championship at Chennai. Though he achieved his first

IM norms at Parsvanth Open, New Delhi in the year 2004 he had to wait for four years for his second norm in the same tournament in 2008 and the third IM norm was achieved at the United Insurance open, Dhaka in 2009.He was awarded IM title in 2010. His highest rating was 2421 in January 2010 list. He studied at Dolphin public School Madurai and holds a masters degree in Commerce from Anna University. He is a fan of Alekhine and Kramnik. His other interests are seeing movies and playing computer games. He is employed with ICF since 2009 as senior clerk. A list of his achievements is given below:National and International open events

Event Place Year Placingnd2 Manali Intern. open Chennai 2010 2st1 ONGC FIDE rated Open Andhra 2010 2st1 Trivandrum Open Rating Trivandrum 2009 1st1 Citadel Intern. Open Chennai 2009 2st1 KPK Thirupur FIDE rating Thirupur 2009 2th8 Adayar Times Chennai 2008 3nd2 Mangalore All India Open Mangalore 2008 2

Adayar times FIDE rated Chennai 2007 3Madurai open championship Madurai 2002 2National Team(Rly team) Gurgoan 2011 4National Cities chess championship Chennai 2007 1(Team)National Under- 8 Palakad 1993 2

Here is one of his favourite wins.Praveen Kumar,Chandrasekar (2338) -

Kamble,Vikramaditya (2458)

2 National Team Goa (8), 03.03.20121.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.g3 c5 4.d5 exd5 5.cxd5 b5 6.e4 Nxe4 7.Qe2 Qe7 8.Bg2 Nd6 9.Be3 Na6 10.Nc3 Rb8 11.a4 bxa4 12.Rxa4 c4 13.Nh3 Rb4 14.Ra2 g6 15.0–0 Bg7 16.Rfa1 0–0 17.Rxa6 Bxa6 18.Rxa6 Nf5 19.d6 Qe5 20.Nf4 Nxe3 21.fxe3 Rfb8 22.Nd1 Rxb2 23.Nxb2 Rxb2 24.Qf3 c3 25.Nd5 (See diagram) Bh6 26.Ra1 c2 27.Rf1 Rb1 28.Ne7+ Kh8 29.Qa8+ 1–0

C. Praveen KumarKNOW YOUR IM

(Position after 25.Nd5)

At the Central Council meeting…..

At the AICF Central Council meeting held on 3rd March 2013 the following significant decisions were taken.1. AICF approved Rs.1000 per player as food expenses to all selected and seeded players in all the age group Nationals for Nationals other than Junior / Sub-Junior / Challenger / Premier. This expenditure will be met by the AICF.

2. The Central Council also accepted Prof. Anantharam's suggestion of change of the Tie-Break for National

Premier/National Women Premier and resolved to implement the following tie – break rules for different formats of National Championships1. Round Robin Championships

Players, organisers, arbiters and officials may be aware that the format for the National Premier Chess Championships has been changed by All India Chess Federation (2013 onwards) from Swiss to Round Robin format. The tie-breaks applied for Swiss system can not be applied to RR, as all the tied players will have common opponents. Hence, it has been decided in the Central Council meeting of the All India Chess Federation, to implement the following tie-breaks for individual Round Robin national championships. They have to be applied in the order given below:1. Direct Encounter2. Sonneborn Berger (sum of scores of opponents whom a player has defeated plus half the sum of the scores of the opponents with whom the player has drawn)3. Number of victories3. Number of wins with Black2. Swiss System Championships

For all national championships, played under Swiss system, the following tie-breaks have to be applied in the order mentioned:1. Buchholz Cut 12. Buchholz Cut 23. Sonneborn Berger4. Buchholz MedianFor unplayed games and byes, it has to be assumed that the player had played against a virtual opponent in that round as per the rules prescribed in FIDE Handbook – C06 – FIDE

Tournament Rules – F. Handling Unplayed Games for Calculation of Buchholz (Congress

2009) (http://www.fide.com/fide/handbook.html?id=20&view=category) 3. Team Championships

For national team events (National Team and National Cities Championships etc.,pairing has to be done based on match points. The order of tie-breaks to be used is:1. Game points scored by the team in the tournament2. Sonneborn Berger (sum of the products of the scores (game or match scores)

made by each opposing team and the score (game or match scores) made against that team)

3. Sum of the match points of the opponent teams4. Sum of the game points of the opponent teams

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In HCA National team chess championship - PSPBare leading the Men's section with 12 match pointsin the HCA sponsored 33rd National TeamChampionship at the end of the 6th round. In atough match between Indian Railways A and thetop seed PSPB the "Oil"ers won by a narrow marginof 1.5 - 2.5. The last game of the day to finishwas the top board game between GM AbhijeetGupta and IM Swapnil Dhopade ended in a drawafter 86 moves with a stalemate position to come.Adhiban and Lalith drew against Arghyadip das andRoy Chowdhury respectively. The lone win camefrom GM Sethuraman against GM Laxman in 44moves of the Bogo Indian defense. Sethu centrepawns were formidable together he combined hismajor pieces well to score a crucial point. In a clashbetween Andhra Bank and West Bengal, AndhraBank won the match with a 2.5 - 1.5 as Vinaykumar of Andhra bank won against Nath Rupankarof West Bengal, J.Ramakrishna (A.B) drew withSantu Mondal (W.B), K.V Subrahmanyam(A.B)beat Battacharya Sekhar while B.V Ramanamurthy(A.B) lost Debasish Mukharjee(W.B).

At the end of the 5th round of SBH sponsored11th National Women team chess championship.Air India took the sole lead with 10 match points.Experienced IM Vijayalakshmi won the crucial pointfor AI by scoring against Soumya Swaminathan ofPSPB in 62 moves. Viji surprised Soumya by optingfor a rare variation where Queen's are exchangedearly and endgame arises early. Soumya allowedthe invasion of black rook on the 30th move whichput her into slightly inferior endgame. AI won thematch with a 2.5 - 1.5 point margin after a wellfought draw on the first board game with RuchaPujari maintaining some initiative and two bishopadvantage against IM Tania Sachdev. The Catalanturned English opening led to small advantage forwhite, but in the end petered out to drawn endingwith Rook and bishops of same colour in 31 moves.On the 2nd table Airports Authority of India weremerciless against Tamilnadu team consisting ofyoungsters by scoring 4-0.

Mary playing the fianchetto setup created a winningRook endgame in 42 moves. On the 2nd boardWGM Padmini Rout occupied the key squares with

her Bishop and Knight and entered into a betterRook and pawn endgame to win the game in 46moves. Meanwhile AP RACE did some proud tothe state by scoring over the experienced LIC ofIndia team by 2.5 - 1.5 margin with Pratyusha andKavya winning against Bindu Saritha and ManjulShrivastava respectively. WGM Kiran Manishascored the lone win for LIC against Hinduja Reddy.

Day 6 report:

PSPB starring all GMs won its 7th straight matchand take the lead with 14 match points. On thetop table. LIC and Indian Railway B team are inthe second spot with 11 points apiece. GM AbhijeetGupta of PSPB beat Sagar Shah of MaharashtraChess Association from the white side of Queen'sIndian defense in 42 moves. Gupta saddled blackwith a isolated pawn on d5 square and laterinvaded the black's king side with Qe8 on 38thmove and ended the hunt 4 moves later. Shah'steam mate Atul Dahale played a better gameagainst GM Adhiban from the white side of NimzoIndian Rubinstein defense. The players agreedfor a draw on the 38th move with Atul holding aslight advantage and an extra pawn. MeanwhileGM Sethuraman's passer pawns on a and c filessaw him thro comfortably against Snehal Bhosale.PSPB won the match with 3-1 score and has sofar won all the matches.

The 2nd table games between the Railways A andB team ended in quick draws, probably aiming atthe finish in the podium. LIC took on Tamilnadu Aon the 3rd table and won with a narrow margin of2.5-1.5. IM's Anup Deshmukh and Atanu Lahiriwon against Vinoth Kumar and Ram S Krishnanrespectively. Shashaank of TN caused a mild flutterwhen he beat IM Dinesh Sharma in 34 moves witha quick attack from the black side of the NimzoIndian defense. Meanwhile AAI struggled a bitagainst Kerala team but ended up with 3-1 score.IM Stany beat Harikrishna in 60 moves after thelatter blundered a pawn from seemingly equalposition. While IM Vishnu won, Nitin and Rajeshhad to split the points against their low ratedopponents. With 2 rounds to go in the men's sectionplenty of action is to be seen. On table 5 Air Indiabeat Andhra Bank 3.5 - 0.5 as Satyapragyan drew

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with M. Vinay kumar of Andhra Bank on Board 1,while Chandrasekhar Gokhale beat FMRamakrishna.J, Rahul Setty beat K.VSubrahmanyam and G.B Joshi beat P.Kamalakar.

At the end of the 6th round for the SBH 11thNational Chess Championship, Air India maintainedthe lead with a 3-1 win against the young AP RACE.On the top board of the first table IM Tania sacrificeda Rook for Knight against Pratyusha Bodda on the15th move to create a stronger passer on the cfile. Tania won two pieces for the rook on the 26 thmove and won pawns at will to force resignation onthe 40th move. The experienced IM Vijayalakshmiopened up the attack with g pawn on the 21stmove from the white side of English opening andwon a piece 2 moves later to win the game in 36moves. Air India has won all the matches so farand move on to 12 moves followed by AAI whoare trailing with 10 match points. AAI won all thegames today against Goa Chess Association.

Petroleum Sports Promotion Board won the HCA33rd National Team Chess Championship with around to spare. PSPB fielding an all GM's team wonall their matches and finished with 18 match pointsfrom 9 matches. Indian Railways B and A teamfinished 2nd and 3rd respectively with 14 and 13match points to their credit. PSPB beat Air India onthe top table in the final round with a 3.5 - 0.5score with sole draw coming from the 2nd boardtruce between GM Adhiban and IM Chandrashekhar

Gokhale. GM Abhijeet Gupta invasion thro the b fileon the 26th move was so swift, his opponentSatyapragyan's counter attack never came to limelight and the game ended in 33 moves whenmaterial loss was inevitable.

LIC of India drew with Railways A on all the boardsof the 2nd table, enabling the sibling Indian RailwayB team to finish runner up who beat Tamilnadu Awith a 3.5 - 0.5 score. Navin Kanna held Thejkumarto a draw but the "Railers" fielding experiencedplayers were too good for the youngsters ofTamilnadu A team. AP's best bet The Empty ledby National A Player Ravi Teja finished 6th by nettingpoints on the top 2 boards against Tamilnadu Bwith Chakravarthi Reddy and Ravi Teja scoringagainst Vinoth Kumar and Pradeep Kumarrespectively. Andhra Bank onsistin of Matta VinayKumar, Ramakrishna lost to Maharashtra ChessAssociation with a narrow margin of 1.5-2.5

In the corresponding women section as expectedAir India completed the formalities with 14 matchpoints by accounting for 3.5 - 0.5 win overTamilnadu. Vaishali 's half a point against WGMBhakthi Kulkarni was a sole consolation, with formerhaving a better position when signing the truce. Onthe 2nd table AAI had a less experienced opponentin AP Women and they romped to the runner upposition with a 4-0 score. AP RACE managed only0.5 - 3.5 score against PSPB with Pratyusha holdingthe experienced WGM Nisha Mohota to a draw.

11th National Women Team Championship 2013:Final rankings

Rk Team Gam. + = - MP Pts. SB 1 Air India 7 7 0 0 14 22 364.50 2 Airports Authority of India 7 6 0 1 12 24 352.25 3 PSPB 7 5 0 2 10 21½ 329.00 4 LIC of India 7 4 0 3 8 17 144.50 5 Tamilnadu 7 4 0 3 8 16½ 213.00 6 AP RACE 7 4 0 3 8 16 242.25 7 Punjab State Chess Association 7 4 0 3 8 13 77.25 8 Gujarat State Chess Association 7 3 1 3 7 14½ 99.50 9 Bihar State 7 3 1 3 7 14 110.50 10 Goa Chess Association 7 3 0 4 6 12 108.25 11 Cyber Chess Academy 7 2 0 5 4 9½ 89.00 12 East Godhavari 7 1 1 5 3 9 51.00 13 AP Women 7 1 1 5 3 6 34.00 14 Vanitha (A P) 7 0 0 7 0 1 6.00

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33rd National Team Chess Championship 2013: Final Ranking

Rk Team Gam. + = - MP Pts. SB. 1 P S P B 9 9 0 0 18 29 607.25 2 Indian Railways - B 9 6 2 1 14 25½ 504.50 3 Indian Railways - A 9 5 3 1 13 24 524.50 4 LIC of India 9 5 3 1 13 23½ 476.00 5 Airports Authority of India 9 6 0 3 12 23 472.25 6 The Empty 9 5 2 2 12 22½ 406.25 7 Air India 9 5 2 2 12 22 431.50 8 Maharashtra Chess Association 9 5 2 2 12 21½ 422.00 9 Kerala State Team 9 5 1 3 11 21½ 365.00 10 Karnataka Silicos 9 5 1 3 11 21½ 349.00 11 Tamilnadu A 9 5 1 3 11 21 397.50 12 Andhra Pradesh - A 9 5 1 3 11 21 361.25 13 Tamilnadu - C 9 4 2 3 10 19½ 385.00 14 Tamilnadu - B 9 5 0 4 10 18½ 358.50 15 Andhra Bank 9 5 0 4 10 18½ 343.50 16 Punjab 9 5 0 4 10 18 301.50 17 Indian Bank 9 3 3 3 9 19 371.50 18 Goa Chess Assoiation 9 3 3 3 9 18½ 319.25 19 VIVA GOA 9 4 1 4 9 18½ 296.00 20 Hamara Chess Academy 9 4 1 4 9 18 318.50 21 Services Sports Control Board 9 3 3 3 9 18 286.25 22 Bihar Chess Team 9 4 1 4 9 18 235.00 23 West Bengal 9 4 1 4 9 17½ 321.75 24 Raghav's Foundation 9 4 1 4 9 17½ 258.75 25 Madhya Pradesh 9 4 1 4 9 17 305.00 26 All India Reserve Bank 9 4 0 5 8 17½ 260.25 27 AP Govt Irrigation Dept 9 3 2 4 8 17½ 185.25 28 Cyber Chess Academy 9 3 2 4 8 17 249.25 29 Maestro Chess Academy 9 4 0 5 8 16 276.25 30 White Squares 9 2 3 4 7 16½ 266.25 31 BSNL 9 3 1 5 7 16½ 212.75 32 Buddhibal Kreeda Trust 9 3 1 5 7 15½ 265.00 33 Gujarat Chess Association 9 2 3 4 7 15½ 244.75 34 White Lotus Team 9 3 1 5 7 15 225.75 35 Hyderabad Strikers 9 3 1 5 7 14½ 233.00 36 Hyderabad 5 9 3 1 5 7 13 201.00 37 V R-ONE 9 2 2 5 6 15½ 157.50 38 Shakti Chess Academy 9 2 2 5 6 15 152.50 39 Andhra Pradesh - B 9 2 2 5 6 15 146.50 40 Warangal AP 9 1 4 4 6 12 149.75 41 Himachal Pradesh 9 1 3 5 5 15½ 166.75 42 Global Chess Academy Juniors 9 1 3 5 5 11½ 89.25 43 Secunderabad Kharkana 9 0 1 8 1 2½ 7.75

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Top seed Chinmay Kulkarni (Maharashtra) scored8.5 pts. from 10 rounds and won the LateNarayan Nigalye Memorial All India FIDE RatingOpen Rapid Chess Tournament 2013 was heldat Farmagudi- Ponda organized by Ponda TalukaChess Association. Sauravh Kherdekar of Railwaysgot 2nd place and Sameer Kathmale ofMaharashtra 3rd place.

Shashikant Kutwal, Raja Harshit, Kiran Panditrao,Varma Shabdhik, Madhusoodhan K.R., AmeyaAudi, Wilson Cruz, Sammed Shete, Rishubh Naik,Kapil Pawse, Sumit Asnodkar, Vikram Mavlankar,Anish Gandhi, Shubham Sawaikar, RavindraNikam, Deeptesh Karmalkar and Nelson Clementgot 4th to 20th place in open category repectively.

Mr. Sandip Nigalye, MD of Raj HousingDevelopment Pvt. Ltd. was the Chief guest ofthe prize distribution function. Also present atthe function were Mohandas Bakhale (Guest ofHonour), Ashesh Keni (President, Goa ChessAssociation), Principal A. K. Kamat, Chief arbiterVasanth B. H., Sagar

Sakordekar, President of Ponda Taluka ChessAssociation and Amogh Namshiker, Secretary ofPonda Taluka Chess Association.

Sandesh Naik, Vatan Kuncolienkar, ShantanuGauns, Jayashree Madkaikar, Archana Tendulkar,Radha Sakordekar and Anand Kurtiker took activepart in organizing this tournament.

Consolation prizes awarded to other playerswere as follows:-

Best Above 50 Suhas B. AsnodkarBest unrated1.Sanjil Hoble, 2. Harsha GaonkarBest Goan player1.Avinash Malvankar 2. Bhimappa Harijan3. Suyan Belurkar

Best Ponda Taluka player1. Shaunak Kuncolienkar, 2. Gaurav Madkaikar3. Sohan NageshkarBest U15 1.Vageesh Tendulkar 2.Sonali KerkarBest U13 1. Rajaryan Kuvelkar2. Vaibhav PednekarBest U11 1. Riddhi Zantye 2.Tushar K.Best U9 1.Gunjal Chopdekar 2.Madhavan G.Best U7 1.Suyash Pai 2. Leon Mendonca

Earlier the tournament was inaugurated at thehands of Chief Guest Shri. Bhaskar Khandeparkar,Chairman G.V.M. at G.V.M.s S.N.J.A. HigherSecondary School, Farmagudi Ponda Goa.

This tournament was organized by Ponda TalukaChess Association. Out of the total 200 playerswho participated in this tournament, 84 playerswere rated including One FIDE Master SauravhKhherdekar. Also present at the inauguration wereAshesh Keni, Arvind Mhamal, Sagar Sakordekar,Principal A. K. Kamat, Chief Arbiter Vasanth B.H.,Amogh Namshiker and Archana Tendulkar.

Goan chess has improved very much during last5 years and the strength of rated players in Goais 160. In next 2 years, strength of rated playersis expected to cross 200 mark. BhaskarKhandeparkar appreciated the efforts of PondaTaluka Chess Association for organizing the FirstRapid Rating chess tournament in Goa. AsheshKeni, President, Goa Chess Associationcongratulated the organizers for professionallyorganizing the event.

This tournament was being held under the guidanceof Chief Arbiter Shri. Vasanth B.H. assisted bySaleem Baig.President of Ponda Taluka ChessAssociation Shri. Sagar Sakordekar said that it wasa good opportunity for Goan players to get therapid rating and for rated players to improve theirrating.Players were very happy with the spacious

Late Narayan Nigalye Memorial All India FIDE Rating OpenRapid Chess Tournament 2013, Ponda…..

Chinmay Kulkarni wins title

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arrangement of the boards in the hall. Vatankuncolienkar, Shantanu Gauns, Sandesh Naik andJayashree Madkaikar took active part in organisingthe tournament.Total prize fund of the tournamentis Rs. 55,000/- cash + trophies.

Two players Chinmay Kulkarni, Shashikant Kutwaland Nitish Belurkar were leading with 5 points eachat the end of 5 rounds. Ravindra Nikam, SameerKathmale, Sauravh Kherdekar and Shabdik Vermaare in joint 2nd place with 4.5 pts.

Final standings (first 130 placings only)Rk. Name City Pt.1 Kulkarni Chinmay MAH 8.52 Sauravh Khherdekar FM MAH 83 Kathmale Sameer MAH 84 Shashikant Kutwal MAH 85 Raja Harshit MAH 86 Kiran Panditrao MAH 87 Varma Shabdhik KAR 7.58 Madhusoodanan K.R. KER 7.59 Audi Ameya GOA 7.510 Cruz Wilson PON 7.511 Sammed Jaykumar Shete MAH 7.512 Naik Rishubh Naresh GOA 7.513 Kapil Pawse GOA 7.514 Sumit Asnodkar GOA 7.515 Vikram Mavlankar MAH 7.516 Gandhi Anish MAH 717 Shubham R Sawaikar PON 718 Nikam Ravindra MAH 719 Karmalkar Deeptesh GOA 720 Nelson Clement KER 721 Sanjil Hoble GOA 722 Malvankar Avinash GOA 723 Vagesh Tendulkar PON 724 Bhimappa Harijan GOA 725 Riddhi Zantye GOA 6.526 Suyan Belurkar GOA 6.527 Rajaryan Kuvelkar GOA 6.528 Kerkar Sonali GOA 6.529 Vasant Vishnu Naik GOA 6.530 Vaibhav NT Pednekar GOA 6.531 Shaunak V.S.Kuncolienkar PON 6.532 Sawant Tatvesh Ramdas GOA 6.533 Tanad Anil Bandodkar GOA 6.534 Nikhilesh M Holla KAR 6.5

35 Gaonkar Harsha KAR 6.536 Mokashi Rohit MAH 6.537 Kamat Brahmanand GOA 6.538 Kudav Bansi Devidas GOA 6.539 Sumukh Pinge GOA 6.540 Nitish Belurkar CM GOA 641 Vinay Kurth Koti KAR 642 Raju N Hegadi KAR 643 Tushar K GOA 644 Abid Ali Mujawar KAR 645 Rajas Chari GOA 646 Madkaikar Gaurav S PON 647 Sahil Shetty GOA 648 Suhas B. Asnodkar GOA 649 Eeshan Gad GOA 650 Wairagade Atharva MAH 651 Nageshkar Sohan S PON 652 Bodke Sharmad S GOA 653 Parsekar Anirudh GOA 654 Pawan Shailesh Vernekar GOA 655 Bir Yogesh Pai PON 656 Pai Vithal PON 657 Pai Vishwesh PON 658 Kenkare S H MAH 659 Kambli Datta GOA 5.560 Kunal Naik GOA 5.561 Shetye Dilesh GOA 5.562 Verenker Disha GOA 5.563 Anish Prabhudessai GOA 5.564 K Shantaram Chopdekar GOA 5.565 Chopdekar Gunjal GOA 5.566 Bhagwat S.M. KAR 5.567 Sadanand M Rawal GOA 5.568 Audi Saiesh GOA 5.569 Naik Reema GOA 5.570 Pai Sunay Pundalik PON 5.571 Madhavan G GOA 5.572 Mandnikar Atreya MAH 5.573 Sakshi Naik Gaonkar GOA 5.574 Baligar Dr Vishwanath KAR 5.575 Kuncolienkar Shivank PON 5.576 Beverly Mendonca GOA 5.577 Telang Mrinal GOA 5.578 Anurag S Adwalpalkar GOA 5.579 Morajkar Navin GOA 5.580 Mahale Renukesh S GOA 5.581 Thorat Sanjay GOA 5.582 Dias Aston PON 5.5

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83 Barde Om GOA 5.584 Shirodkar Sanish GOA 5.585 Avvaru Rama Sirisha GOA 5.586 Sahil Dayanand Desai GOA 5.587 Ashesh Keni GOA 588 Milind Gauns PON 589 Swera Ana Braganza GOA 590 Bhobe Ved GOA 591 Khandeparkar Mohit PON 592 Pranav Prakash Naik GOA 593 Khan Faiziya GOA 594 Raikar Aman Umakant PON 595 Apurva Naik PON 596 Suyash Pai PON 597 Anand Kurtiker PON 598 Leon Mendonca GOA 599 Alaina J J Pereira GOA 5100 Sahakari Virendra PON 5101 Kshaunish Naik GOA 5102 Naik Shvesh S GOA 5103 Chodankar Akash PON 5104 Sharath Shambhag GOA 5105 Ghosarwadkar Pushparaj GOA 5106 Mangesh Sagar Sakordekar PON 5107 Varun R Shastry PON 5108 Talaulikar A Vijay Kumar PON 5109 Fadte Rudresh GOA 5110 Goankar Shambhavi GOA 5111 Sawant Vignesh PON 5112 Dhanavi Ulhas Fondekar GOA 5113 Kamath Nitish PON 5114 Chavan Pankaj PON 5115 Naik Kunal Ramnath PON 4.5116 Bale Ashwin Anand PON 4.5117 Saish Ulhas Fondekar GOA 4.5118 Naik Mayuresh GOA 4.5119 Sakordekar Nandan Sagar PON 4.5120 Mahale Saish Hanuman GOA 4.5121 Prabhu Saurabh PON 4.5122 Naik Vrunda V GOA 4.5123 Dhruv Vinayak Patil GOA 4.5124 Shirodkar Adinath Jayant PON 4.5125 Sanat Borkar GOA 4.5126 Bharadwaj Rahul PON 4.5127 Colaso Vernon GOA 4.5128 Shirodkar Aayush GOA 4.5129 Dias Aston Antonio PON 4.5130 Sumant Kumar L Koyande GOA 4.5

Puzzle of the monthby C.G.S.NarayananIn his book 'Chess mysteries of Sherlock Holmes'Robert Smullyan presents his retros in anentertaining way and here is one with animaginative story spun around it."Today we came across Lord Ashley and his wifeat a game of chess. Lady Ashley is a great chessenthusiast and her skill is at least equal to that ofher husband."Ah, Good morning, Holmes" said Lord Ashley atour approach."We are in the midst of a mostunusual game. No piece has moved from awhite square to a black square nor from ablack square to white square."

"Ah, a monochromatic game", replied Holmes.Is that what you call it? Well, this is the only typeof game Lady Ashley and I ever play. But thisparticular game, quite aside from beingmonochromatic, has been highly unusual."Holme studied the position."Whose move is it?"he inquired. "It is mine" replied Lord Ashley whowas playing white."Then it is indeed a remarkable game" repliedHolmes."For one thing I perceive a promotionhas been made. For another, a pawn has beencaptured en passant "."Astounding!" said Lady Ashley. I too wasastounded when Holmes explained the solution.And even after hearing the solution, I am stillastounded!.

(Solution on page 42)

MARCH 201311

Late Sharad Kunte Memorial FIDE Rating Rapid Chess,Pune…..

Tejas Bakre winsGM Tejas Bakre of Ahmedabad scored 9 pointsto emerge winner, while Pune player AbhimanyuPuranik Finished second with 81/2 points at theLate Sharad Gopal Kunte Memorial FIDE ratingRapid Chess tournament organized by the theCity based Budhibal Kreeda Trust and sponsoredby SGK Investments which concluded at theManohar Mangal Karyalaya at Erandawane.

Bakre who maintained a clean record after 9rounds received top prize of Rs 15000, whilePuranik got Rs 10000 for his effort, SameerKathmale of Sangli Finished third with 8 points,while Chimay Kulkarni and Aniruddha Deshpandefinished 4th and 5th with 8 points.

In the last match of the top board between Bakre(8) and Soham Phadke (71/2) which ended inRook and Pawn ending Bakre (8 points) had arook and 2 pawns in play, while Phadke had arook on board, Bakre took an initiative to sacrificea pawn and set up the win.

The prizes were given away at the hands ofhands of Prachi Kunte and Abhijit Sharad KunteMD SGK Investments and Mrs Sonali Deshpandeof the Persistant Foundation,, Managing Trusteeof Budhibal Kreeda Trust Prakash Kunte welcomedwhile Nitin Shenvi conducted the proceedings

Following are the other prizes:

Best Veteran GM Wagh 7 points, Best LadiesSupriya Joshi 7 points, Best Under 19 GajananJayde 7 points, Best Under 16 Nikhil Dixit 61/2,Best Under 14 Akshay Nehete 61/2, Best under12 Gaurav Madkaikar 61/2, Best under 10 AryanShah 6, Best under 8 Aditya Samant 5 points,Best Underrated Player Manoj Khilwan

Bakre and Eight others lead after fourth round:

Grand Master Tejas Bakre, IM Shardul Ghagareand Seven Others scored 4 points apiece after thefourth round to lead the tables at the Late SharadGopal Kunte Memorial FIDE rating Rapid Chess

tournament. In the Fourth Round Playing whiteBakre demolished Siddhali Shetye, while IM ShardulGagare playing with black outplayed Senior playerC.S.Unni(3pt); Siddhant Gaikwad also playing blackscored a win over Chinmay Kulkarni(3pt).

Other seven in lead included Railway playerShashikant Kutwal, Sameer Kathmale of Sangli,Aniruddha Deshpande of Pune, Anand Nadar,Soham Dange and Atul DahaleThe tournamentwas inaugurated at the hands of Abhijit Sharadkunte MD SGK Investments and Prachi Kunte,Chairman of PDCC Niranjan Godbole presided overthe function, Managing Trustee of BudhibalKreeda Trust Prakash Kunte welcomed while NitinShenvi conducted the proceedings

Final standings (first 120 placings only)Rk. Name Pts.1 GM Bakre Tejas 92 CM Puranik Abhimanyu 8.53 Kathmale Sameer 84 Kulkarni Chinmay 85 Deshpande Aniruddha 86 Shashikant Kutwal 7.57 Phadke Sohan 7.58 Abhishek Kelkar 7.59 Anand Nadar 7.510 Raja Harshit 7.511 Ponkshe Sarang 7.512 Shenvi Mohit 7.513 FM Ramakrishna J. 7.514 Soham Datar 7.515 Kiran Panditrao 7.516 FM Gagare Shardul 717 Shetye Siddhali 718 Dahale Atul 719 Gaikwad Siddhant 720 Niklesh Kumar Jain 721 Supriya Joshi 722 Gajanan Jayde 723 Godbole Atharva 724 Wagh G.M. 725 Boricha Ketan 7

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26 Sirsat Shekhar V. 727 Dongre Chandrakant 728 Dhiraj Patil 729 Chitrak Naha 6.530 Dixit Nikhil 6.531 M Hemant Kumar 6.532 Shelke Sankarsha 6.533 Bhogal Rupesh 6.534 Unni C. S. 6.535 Shreyas S Nikam 6.536 Gupta Rajesh R.S. 6.537 Mota Pankit 6.538 Sapale Saloni 6.539 Dandekar Amey 6.540 Ganesh Deshpande 6.541 Vaibhav Barahate 6.542 Nehete Akshay S 6.543 Madkaikar Gaurav S 6.544 Bhagwat S.M. 6.545 Wairagade Atharva 6.546 Muchandikar Shrikant 6.547 Rohan Bharat Joshi 6.548 Gaurav Rajesh Zagade 6.549 Joshi Nimita 650 Dange Soham 651 Pruthu Deshpande 652 Munemane Ameya 653 Pandhare Swapnil 654 Amar Jyoti Kakoty 655 P Shashank Milind 656 Khilwan Manoj 657 Dalvi Ayush 658 Aryan Abhijeet Shah 659 Gange Tanmayee 660 Nargundkar Ravindra 661 Tankasale Pranav 662 Desai Jaykumar 663 Ranade Hemant 664 Mokashi Rohit 665 Marathe Omkar 666 Deshpande Sarthak 667 Aphale Kanaad 668 Jain Aum 669 Ghyar Anup 670 Amle Sanjay 671 Ahire Vaibhav 672 Behere Ravi 673 Wagle Aakash Abhay 6

74 Dhruv Vinayak Joshi 675 Gala Devansh 676 Madkar Aditya 677 Ashar Grishma 5.578 Madkar Atharva 5.579 Somani Pravin 5.580 Karmarkar Prakash 5.581 Borse Pankaj 5.582 Karnik Bhavesh 5.583 Kazi Nazir 5.584 Sandesh Mhatre 5.585 Mandnikar Atreya 5.586 Waghmare Sushrut 5.587 Paygude Vikram 5.588 Dhananjay A. Pandit 5.589 Kulkarni Prathamesh 5.590 Bakre Ashutosh 5.591 Patwardhan Mohit 5.592 Kothawade Shreyas 5.593 Shetye Shyam 5.594 Joshi Avani 5.595 Jori Aditi 5.596 Yeolekar Akshay 5.597 Mathur Harshad 5.598 Bharambe Bhavik C 599 Karandikar Sameer 5100 Kawade Avadhut 5101 Dhoot Vinit 5102 Bhat Yogesh 5103 Bhosale Anish 5104 Bhagwat Heramb 5105 Ghate Rajanikant 5106 Jape Shubhankar 5107 Tharayil Sudhir 5108 Joshi Deven 5109 Supnekar Milind 5110 Ojas Mahavir Karnavat 5111 Devdikar Hrishikesh 5112 Jalpesh N Ashar 5113 Menon Madhumita 5114 Kshirsagar Samadhan 5115 Nandu Amar 5116 Kousadikar Radha 5117 Sawant Mansi 5118 Anand Mrugank 5119 Barge Pankaj 5120 Nimbalkar Kulwantsinh 5

MARCH 201313

The 3rd Homeland International Fide Rated Chess Tournament (Below 1600 rated), Chennai

Mahesh Kumar wins Homeland FIDE ratedThe 3rd Homeland International Fide Rated ChessTournament for Below 1600 was organized byKing Chess Foundation from 15 Feb. to 17th Feb.,2013 held at Hall of Chess, JN Stadium, Chennai-3. The event attracted by 416 players fromvarious parts of the country. Out of this 195players were rated. Second seed of thetournament Mr. Mahesh Kumar K.K of Tamil Naduwon the title and he was undefeated in thetournament and finished with 8.5 points out ofpossible 9.He drew the final round with UnniKrishnan T of Kerala, who finished fourth.

The winner of this event got Rs.20,000/- as cashaward and the Winner's Trophy.

The Second and the Third place went to GirinathB.S of Tamil Nadu and Baskar P of Pondicherrywho scored 8 points each and got the trophies withthe cash of Rs.10,000/- & Rs.8,000/- respectively.

Biju K. Rajappan of Kerala came first in the BestUn-rated player and got Rs.1,100/- with thetrophy.Best Veteran Player award goes to K.Dawood of Tamil Nadu got Rs.1,100/- with thetrophy. Malleswari P of TN adjudged as BestWomen player got Rs.1,100/- with the Trophy.In each category (i.e.,U/8, U/10, U/12 & U/14 -B & G) top 10 players received the trophies. Smt& Sri.Manikandaswamy gave away the prizes.Thetournamernt was conducted smoothly by ChiefArbiter V.Ravikumar and his team of Arbiters.Final standingsRk. Name Pts.1 Mahesh Kumar K K 8.52 Girinath B S 83 Baskar P 84 Unnikrishnan T 7.55 Suriya Kumar V K 7.56 Shivshankar Iyer S 7.57 VInayagam m 7.58 Santhosh V R 79 Veeravel Pandian S 7

10 K M K Ramanatha 711 S. Jeevanandam 712 Raahul V S 713 Hussain S K 714 Awadh Chaitanya 715 Abhishek V 716 Khazeber R 717 Gowri Shankar A 718 Varadharajan I. 719 Muhammed Reja C 720 Swaminathan A 721 Upendra R 722 Amitesh Kumar Sinha 723 Pavan Kumar Y 724 Abirami S 6.525 Sanjay Thiruvengadam 6.526 Sai Ganesh S 6.527 Sharath Kumar T P 6.528 Bhaskar N S 6.529 Keerthivasan K 6.530 Pavan C 6.531 Pakkurti Vijay Kumar 6.532 Vinod S 6.533 Roshin Romario 6.534 Arumugam N 6.535 Vijay Shreeram P 6.536 Biju K Rajappan 6.537 Vivek Ramanathan V 6.538 Thiagarajan S 6.539 Bhosale Shriraj 6.540 Rakshith N D 641 Stanley Jones W 642 Sonumon P S 643 Siddharth S 644 Vijay V.S. 645 Vallal A 646 Vishnu Viswanathan P 647 Ashit Kumar Jha 648 Varun V 649 Sharan Sridhar 650 Dawood.K 651 Ramakrishnan T V 652 Karthik Kumar G 653 Thomas Nidhin V V 6

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54 Saravanan S (1971) 655 Pulkit Rathi V 656 Venkatesh K 657 MDavid Suthandram R 658 Raj Kumar R 659 Arvind S 660 Vamsi Krishna B 661 Aswin Kumar B S 662 Balasubramaniam M 663 Shreenath M 664 Kumar T 665 Singh Vimlesh Kumar 666 F Md Bashiruddin 667 Aditya M 668 Bhosale Shruti 669 Sukumar.S 670 Mckenzie Lionel Joseph 671 Aswin S 672 Manjunath D Naik 673 Benny Thomas 674 Selvamuthu K 675 Sai Krishna S 676 Senthamizh Yazhini S 677 Rahul Bharadwaj B 678 Jeevan C 679 Kiran Kumar G 680 Sheshashayan M V 681 Dash S S 682 Lathecka Sai M.A. 5.583 Prajwalesh 5.584 Mohan Ram Sridhar 5.585 Swaminathan.M 5.586 Kharunya C.S. 5.587 Ramesh R 5.588 Rangesh N D 5.589 Balakrishnan S. 5.590 Prasant N Nayagam 5.591 Swarnamala B 5.592 Hariharan V 5.593 Bhagwat S.M. 5.594 Dharshan P 5.595 Bagat Singh P 5.596 Tarun R 5.597 Muraleedharan V K 5.598 Elayaraja N G 5.599 I Ashok Kumar 5.5100 Ebenezer Rajakumar D 5.5101 Sumit Samantray 5.5

102 Vishwak S 5.5103 Shyam Sundar M 5.5104 Hariharan S 5.5105 Kamalanathan R 5.5106 Karpagakumar S V S 5.5107 Gokul U 5.5108 Rajarathinam P D 5.5109 Alagu Subramanian 5.5110 Mohanan A 5.5111 Suresh R 5.5112 Vishweshwaran K 5.5113 Mugunthakumar P.K 5.5114 Girish Kumar S 5.5115 Hasan M 5.5116 Suresh Kumar R 5.5117 Vara Prasad M S S 5.5118 Raju G 5119 Anbarasan S 5120 Kamal G 5121 Suresh Agarwal 5122 Danush Athithya K S T 5123 Rahul Raaj A 5124 Bala Subramaniyan R 5125 Vinod Kumar KV 5126 Jayakumar P K 5127 Abdul Basheer K M 5128 Ashwin Kumaar M 5129 Senthil Kumar V 5130 Vinoth Kumar M 5131 Srinivasan R 5132 Venkat Reddy S 5133 Vishnu Ram M 5134 Muhammed Musthafa 5135 Mugesh B 5136 Harshan H 5137 Alexander P 5138 Selvan M 5139 Ganesh Samarth C A 5140 Gnanasekar A 5141 Eramasubramaniam R 5142 Keerthi V 5143 Sai Ganesh R 5144 Pranav P 5145 Darshana Balakrishnan 5146 Balasubramaniam H 5147 Sivaa G M 5148 Karthik R (1993) 5149 Bhargavan S 5150 Ithal H L Rajath 5

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Raghav's Foundation 1st International Fide Rating Chess Tournament (Below 2000),Hyderabad

Venkata Ramana wins titleRaghav's Foundation 1st International FideRating Chess Tournament (Below 2000) washeld at Hyderabad from 7th to 10th February2013 at Sundarayya Vignana Kendram,Gachibowli X Road, Hyderabad. A total of 245players participated from 9 states. Mr. VenkataRamana P. (1785 rated-A.P.) became theChampion of the Tournament. He won 8 pointsout of 9. Guinness World Record & 6 LimcaWorld Records Holder V.Raghav Srivathsav(1773 A.P.) and Mr. Malla Nukaraju (1982- A.P.)were tied for 2nd place with 7.5 points eachout of 9. But in the Buchholz Mr. Nukarajuwon 2nd place and Master V.Raghav Srivathsavthe 3rd place. Mr. Venkata Ramana increasedhis Rating points 50.7. Mr. Nukaraju increased8.9 rating points and V.Raghav Srivathsavincreased 53.7 rating points in this Tournament.

Innaugural function of the Raghav's Foundation1st International Fide Rating Chess Tournament(Below 2000) held on 7th February 2013 at 10.30a.m. at Venue. Famous Cine Actor, JayabheriGroup of Companies Chairman Mr. Muralimohanattended as Chief Guest. Tourney SponsorerIndian Overseas Bank CRM. Mr. Swaminathanreleased the Chess Tournament Momento andHyderabad International Airport CEO, GMR GroupMr. Vikram Jai Singhani were make the Firstmoves. Tourney Organizing Secretary V.ShyamSundar also address the gathering.

Validictory Function of the Raghav's Foundation 1stInternational Fide Rating Chess Tournament (Below2000) held on 10th February 2013 at 3.00 p.m. atVenue. Indian Badminton Chief Coach Mr.Gopichand attended as Chief Guest and presentedPrizes to Top Three Winners of the Tournamentalong with World Body Building Champion Mr.Mirmohthe Sham, Mr. Appaji, Director General tothe Govt. Of India and V.Shyam Sundar, OrganizingSecretary on the dais. Mirmohthe Sham and Mr.Appaji presented Prizes to the winners of Top 4thto 10th places and other winners.

Raghav's Foundation is a Trust formed witheminent personalities as Trustees. Trustformed to develop chess career of V.RaghavSrivathsav, Guinness World Record & 6 LimcaWorld Records Holder, and his s isterV.Vathsalya, decided to conduct this event asits annual event. Trust provided Free Lunch tothe players but parents also utilised this facility.We conducted this Tourney in goodatmosphere. We followed minute to minuteshedule as we decided in the players meeting.Parents and players cooperated with organizers.Final standings (first 130 placings only)Rk. Name Pts.1 Venkataramana P 82 Malla Nooka Raju 7.53 Raghav Srivathsav V 7.54 Kranti Kumar P. 7.55 Saurabh Anand 76 Sai Agni Jeevitesh J 77 Sumit Grover 78 Iyappan P 79 D. Ashraf Subhani 710 Kumar Gaurav 711 Godavarthi Chiranjeevi 712 Vishwanath Prasad 713 Dalal Ashutosh 714 Joshi Abhijeet 715 Surya Narayana.M 6.516 Kulkarni Vinayak 6.517 Anand Naik B 6.518 Dangmei Bosco 6.519 Duvvala Suresh 6.520 Mohapatra G.C. 6.521 Rajashekar B 6.522 Darshan V P S 6.523 Mohammed Fawaz 6.524 Khan S 625 Bharat Kumar Reddy Poluri 626 Syed Muhammad Hussain 627 Raju K.S.R.M. 628 Harsh Mangesh Ghag 629 Ajeesh Antony 630 Sandip Dey 6

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31 Himanshu Chabda 632 Toshali V 633 Krishna Karthik N 634 K Ashleesh 635 Subhash Kumar M 636 Perumallu K. 637 Rupesh Ranjan 638 Adethya R 639 Rohith Svs 640 Mohd Khaja Abdul Latheef S 641 Bala Srinivasa Rao Ganji 642 Prabhat Koutha 643 Kandi Ravi 644 Ramchandar Rao D 645 Sonkalan Bharati 646 Durga Prasad V 647 Harshita Guddanti 648 Ravikumar M 649 Anigani Kavya 650 Dalai Khitindra Prateem 651 Mahender Marri 652 Md Anwar 653 Hamirwasia Vivek 654 Cheela Naga Sampath 655 Satyanarayana M 5.556 Ajith M.P. 5.557 Yashaskara Jois K.R 5.558 Balaguru T 5.559 Mandula Rajeev 5.560 Shaik Sydulu 5.561 Rama Anjaneyulu R V S S 5.562 Naga Shashank D 5.563 Avi Jaiswal 5.564 Jatin S N 5.565 M Tulasi Ram Kumar 5.566 Raja Srinivas T 5.567 Pathak Anshu Kr 5.568 Srikar Yerrabati 5.569 Rishiraj K 5.570 Karthik Kumar Pradeep 5.571 Shiek Fayaz 572 Raja Rithvik R 573 D.K. Chopra 574 Ravi Kumar K 575 Satyajit Sarkar 576 Harshavardhan Reddy G 577 Sunil Vaidya 578 Chitlange Sakshi 579 Pavan Kumar Y 580 Salman K 5

81 Praveen Veeramalla 582 Gurromkonda Tarosh 583 Doshi Moksh Amitbhai 584 Katiyar Prashant 585 Akshay Sharma 586 Satyanarayana Raju D S 587 My Aditya 588 Arrun S. 589 Bharsakale, Rahul 590 Nicy Vennela M 591 Anand K V 592 Prasanna Arpita Ch. 593 Srinivas Ch 594 Garima Gaurav 595 Vignesh 596 Durga Prasad P V 597 Govardhan Mitra P 598 Waheed M A 599 Bharath Bhushan Reddy N 5100 Vishwanath Vivek 5101 Goguloth Malsur 5102 Nazeer Basha G 5103 Naveen R 5104 Imran Hussain 5105 Vijay Kumar Meesala 5106 Vilok V Gadwal 5107 Saumitra Verma 4.5108 Venkat Reddy S 4.5109 Chattopadhyay D 4.5110 Ashutosh Kumar 4.5111 Diwakar V U 4.5112 Vibhav Gadwal 4.5113 Shakeel Ahmed 4.5114 Shaik Riyaz 4.5115 Lalakasyap Satakarni 4.5116 Harisurya B Gundepudi 4.5117 Jena Sanjkeet 4.5118 Bheri Yaswanth 4.5119 N B Rao 4.5120 Manas Khadke 4.5121 Yella Manikanta 4.5122 Sabbi Sree Rohitha 4.5123 Srikanth Kharrn 4.5124 Gopal Reddy B 4.5125 Kampani Shiv 4.5126 Makhija Aashna 4.5127 Mahendar B 4.5128 Rajarshi A 4.5129 Sasikanth R 4.5130 Deepak C 4.5

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6th North East Chess Championship,Imphal….

Santanu retains title of NE Championshipby IA Dharmendra Kumar,Chief Arbiter

6th edition of North east Championship wasorganized at Imphal, Manipur by Imphal westdistrict chess association on behalf of ManipurChess Association from February 28 t0 March 7,2013. Venue was beautiful sports complex ofImphal known as Kuhmanlampak (Kangshang).

In the morning of 28 February, managers meetingheld in presence of all the managers of concerningstate, Chief Arbiter Dharmendra Kumar andMr.R.Ralte, President of North-East Chess forumand discussed and decided the important technicalthings and regulations for the championship.

In the afternoon it was a grand inauguralceremony followed by beautiful cultural programperformed by local Manipuri artiste. Dr.N.Dwijamani Singh, President of Pioneer ChessAcademy & well known social worker inauguratedthe event by playing a game with Mr.BaldevSharma, President of Imphal west district chessassociation in presence of Mrs. S.Nirmalata Devi,District youth affair &sports officer. As it wasdecided in managers meeting, total no. of roundwas 10 for 137 players including 56 Fide ratedfrom all eight state of North -East. Notable wasthe participation of young players. 28 playersbelonged to U-15 age group ! Their presencewas indication of chess popularity in North-East.

Tournament hall, accommodation for players andofficials and food arrangement within the campuswere excellent. It was much convenient for playersto arrive on time and maintain the "Zero tolerance".Month of February was so pleasant andcomfortable for players and officials. Schedule wasnot hectic at all as 3 days double round and 4 dayssingle. 5th February was rest day and a sight seenprogram was conducted by the organizer to veryfamous Loktak lake of Manipur and some othertourist places. In all, everybody enjoyed their stayat Imphal. The motto of game to spread friendshipand love among the people was succeeded.

Santanu Borpatra Gohain of Assam retained histitle of NE Championship 2nd time in a row. Startedas 4th seed but finished first !! Promising one,santanu, started slow as he scored 3.5 in first 5game but 2nd half proved full of score and helpedhim to lift the trophy as he scored 5/5 !! 2ndplace went to Chakrilombi Singh of Manipur whotied up with santanu as they both had samescore 8.5/10 and but Buchholz decided the winnerand runner. About the organization, player- turnedorganizer L. Atembi and his team tried his bestto balance the organization from every angle.Their effort to resolve every discomfort of playersand accompanying persons deservesappreciation. Although this event was organizedby them at very short notice it was up tomark.Tournament was conducted smoothly asthere were no dispute or protest and the decorumof tournament hall was absolutely maintained bythe arbiters. Chief Arbiter was ably assisted byarbiters from north -eastern states namelyMahendra Dhakal (Sikkim), TH BijuSingh(Meghalaya), Manik Datta(Assam), WikiyeSumi(Nagaland) and Y.Dhanbir Singh(Manipur).

Final standings: (first 120 placings only)Rk. Name Club Pts.1 Santanu Borpatra Gohain Asm 8½2 Chakrilombi Singh A. Man 8½3 Naorem Shantikumar Man 84 Imtiaz Islam Bora Asm 7½5 Premjit Singh S. Man 7½6 Baruah Utpal Asm 7½7 Khumukcham S Singh Man 7½8 Yengkhom Pritam K Singh Man 79 Apollosana M Rajkumar Man 710 Singh Soram Rahul Asm 711 Singh Ningthoujam Kishan Man 712 Lulwang Thounaojam G Man 713 Gurumayum Inao Sharma Man 714 Rijied Katrai Meg 715 Kevilekho Zumvu Nag 716 Dupit Tabu Ap 717 Gurung Rakesh Sik 7

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18 Bangkim Singh Man 719 Biswajit Nag Tri 720 Sunachand Meetei Th. Man 6½21 Ningthem Oinam Man 6½22 Manoj Barua Asm 6½23 Potsangbam J Singh Man 6½24 Dangmei Bosco Man 6½25 Heikrujam Jacky Singh Man 6½26 Sushmita Lama Sik 6½27 Bipul Das Asm 6½28 Lalnunsanga Miz 6½29 Dharmeswar Pegu Asm 630 Singh Asem Romeo Man 631 Lallianmanga Miz 632 EShashikanta Singh Man 633 Tamang Thendup Sik 634 Thangchungnunga Miz 635 Shakespear L. Man 636 Shiny Das Tri 637 Arambam Binit Singh Man 638 M Konjengbam Kunjabi Man 639 Pramod Bargohain Asm 640 Singh Sinam Lawrence Man 641 Wairokpam Bheem Singh Man 642 Ropfuvilie Nagi Nag 643 Ningombam Herojit Meitei Man 5½44 Singh Bhogen Rk Man 5½45 Tokuho Awomi Nag 5½46 Sukhavi Achumi Nag 5½47 Mahesh Power Yurembam Man 5½48 Singh Arjun M Man 5½49 Sutnga H.D. Meg 5½50 Yumkhaibam S Singh Man 5½51 Gopeshwor Singh Man 5½52 H. Ibochouba Singh Man 5½53 Jayanta Chutia Asm 5½54 Konsam Jiban Singh Man 5½55 Delta S Man 5½56 Khoirom Somorjit Singh Man 5½57 Meitei Deenesh Kh Man 5½58 Lepcha Johna Sik 5½59 Gurung Rohit Sik 560 Devi Moirangthem Danei Man 561 Pratik Debnath Tri 562 Pahlira Miz 563 Gurung Rahul Sik 564 Sudhirsana Singh R.K. Man 565 M Rana Singh Man 566 Poudel Yemu Meg 567 Gurung Pushpa Sik 568 Sharma Durga Prasad Sik 569 Kshetrimayum M Singh Man 5

70 Raluk Dui Ap 571 Ningthoujam Boboycha Man 572 Thokchom Samson Singh Man 573 Ningthoujam R Singh Man 574 Pradhan Bhuwan Prakash Sik 575 Vanlalchhanchhuaha Miz 576 Taba Anam Ap 577 Richard Mairembam Miz 578 Abemu N Man 579 Yumkhaibam Yaisina Devi Man 580 Davis Zoremsiama Miz 4½81 Singh Th. Nabachandra Man 4½82 Khangembam Premchandra Man 4½83 Meitei H Jogendra Man 4½84 Tamar Nilling Ap 4½85 Joram Ago Ap 4½86 Ronald Soibam Man 4½87 Pranisha Gurung Sik 4½88 Nobleman Wanniang Meg 4½89 Binoy Singha Tri 4½90 Tapi Shah Ap 4½91 Lalrinmawia Miz 4½92 Sayantika Nag Tri 4½93 Gojendro Keisham Man 494 Devjit Khanikar Asm 495 Souradip Deb Tri 496 Lalfakzuala Miz 497 Maibam O Khuman Man 498 Jairaj Thapa Sik 499 Gilleon Khanglah Ropmay Meg 4100 Lalremruata Miz 4101 Disha Roy Tri 4102 Chhetri Priya Sik 4103 J. Lalrammawia Miz 4104 Tamin Nampi Giasing Ap 4105 Khaidem Kabi Singh Man 4106 Hongsha K Meg 4107 Dilip Kumar Roy Tri 4108 Rai Ganesh Meg 4109 Rai Sejal Sik 4110 L.H. Zothanmawii Miz 4111 Kekjap Riba Ap 3½112 N Goutam Singh Man 3½113 Jetaban Borthakur Asm 3½114 Rai Chitiz Sik 3½115 Singh Mohan Prasad Sik 3½116 Atom Alex Man 3½117 Tilotama Sougaijam Man 3½118 Haradhan Ch. Roy Tri 3½119 MongyambaLeishangthem Man 3120 Sanajoba R K Man 3

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Bhopal International Rating Chess Tournament….

Arjun Tiwari Lifts Bhopal Intl. RatingArjun Tiwari of Railways stunned the severalrenowned players and lifted the title of the BhopalInternational Rating Chess Tournament thatconcluded on 30.12.2013 at T.T. Nagar StadiumBhopal, Madhya Pradesh.

The tournament recognised by FIDE & AICF wasbeing organised under the ageis of sports & youthwelfare department mp and Academy of ChessEducation Bhopal.Arjun won the 9th tound anddrew in the last roundpocketing a total of 8.5points won Rs.one lac. IM Rahul Sangma 8 pointsstood second won rs-60000/-,FM V.Vinod of TN.8point secured 3rd Rs-30000/-AkaSH Thakur mah.8 point 4th Rs-20000/-,Rupankaar nath wb 8points Rs/-15000/-,Vikramjeet Singh MAN 8 pointsRs12000/ 5th,IM Sapatrishi roy 8 point 6th Rs-10000/,IM Himanshu Sharma 7th 8000/,ImAkshatKhamparia 8th 8000/Total Cash Prize ofRs.Four lac was given.

From left-Nikleh Jain Tresurer, MP Chess, KapilSaxena Hon.Sec MP Chess,A S Singdeopatron,Dr Shilendra Shrivastava (IPS) directorSports mp.D.K.Khara chief genrel managerState Bank Of India (sponsor of first prize),RKNaidu Regional Director SAI,Dharmendra KumarIA with prize winner.

Final standings:Rk. Name Club Pts.1 Tiwari Arjun RLY 8½2 IM Sangma Rahul DEL 83 FM Vinoth Kumar M. TN 84 FM Thakur Akash MAH 85 Nath Rupankar WB 86 Singh S. Vikramjit MAN 87 IM Saptarshi Roy WB 7½8 IM Himanshu Sharma HAR 7½9 IM Akshat Khamparia MP 7½

10 Prasannaa.S TN 7½11 Ram S. Krishnan TN 712 Majumdar Shankar WB 713 FM Sauravh khherdekar MAH 714 Abhishek Das JHAR 715 Santu Mondal WB 716 Rajarishi Karthi TN 717 Amardeep Tiwari MAH 718 Gajwa Ankit MP 719 Dave Kantilal RAJ 720 Niklesh Kumar Jain MP 721 Karan Manish Jain UP 722 M Chandrasish WB 6½23 FM Dutta Joydeep WB 6½24 Joshi Abhijeet MAH 6½25 Alahakoon Isuru 6½26 Mukund G. Bhatt GUJ 6½27 Peiris T S S 6½28 Sudarshan Malga MP 6½29 Chakrabarti Tamal WB 6½30 Aaniq Kamani MP 6½31 Divya Garg MAH 6½32 Sahil Tickoo HAR 633 Suraj Choudhary MP 634 Jitiya Sanjay D GUJ 635 Mukesh Kumar Saxena MP 636 Kavisha S Shah GUJ 637 Karthik K KER 638 Jayesh M TN 639 Narayan Rai MP 640 Awadh Chaitanya MP 6

This is the essential element that cannot bemeasured by any analysis or device, and I believeit's at the heart of success in all things: the power ofintuition and the ability to harness and use it like amaster. - by Garry Kasparov

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Selected games fromChennai GM Open 2013, ChennaiAnnotated by IM Manuel Aaron

Aleksandrov,Aleksei (2607)Swapnil Dhopade (2474) [A59]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 c5 3.d5 b5 4.cxb5 a65.bxa6 g6 6.Nc3 Bxa6 7.e4 Bxf18.Kxf1 d6 9.g3 Bg7 10.Kg2 0–0 11.Nf3Nbd7 12.h3 Qa5 13.Re1 Rfb8 14.e5dxe5 15.Nxe5 Nxe5 16.Rxe5 Rb717.Qe2 Raa7 18.Qf3N [Boensch (2540)- Khalifman (2655) 1997 went: 18.Bg5 h619.Bxf6 Bxf6 20.Re3 Bd4 21.Rd3 Qb422.Rd2 Bxc3 Draw] 18...Ne8 19.Re2 Nd620.g4 Nc4 21.Qd3 Qb4 22.Qg3 Rd723.Re4 Bd4 24.Bh6 Plans for white aredifficult to come by in this position. The textoffers a pawn but places his bishop in theopponent’s castled position. 24...Qb7[Accepting the pawn would lead toimmediate defeat: 24...Nxb2? 25.Rxd4!cxd4 (25...Qxd4?? 26.Qb8+ mates.)26.Qe5 f6 27.Qe6+ Kh8 28.Qf7 and 29Bg7 mates.] 25.Rd1

25...Nd6? [25...f6!= would have givenblack a solid fortress where white could notpenetrate despite his well-posted bishop onh6.] 26.Re2? [White misses 26.Rxe7!Rxe7 27.Qxd6 Qd7 28.Qxd7 Raxd7 29.Kf3White’s knight and two pawns are adequate

compensation for the sacrificed rook.]26...Ne8 27.Kg1 Nf6 28.a4 Nxd5 [If28...Ra8 29.Nb5 Rxa4 30.Nxd4 Rxd431.Rxd4 cxd4 32.Qe5 Qb6 33.g5]29.Rxd4! Nxc3

[Black loses by force after: 29...cxd430.Qe5 Nf6 (30...f6 31.Qe6+ Kh8 32.Qf7mates.) 31.Qxf6!] 30.Rxd7 [White missesthe brilliant back rank combination:30.Rxe7!! which terminates the gameimmediately.] 30...Nxe2+ 31.Kh2

Black seems to be totally lost. But....31...Qh1+!! A very spectacular movewhich turns the table and wins for black.this move drags the king into a vulnerablesquare whence the white queen could becaptured by check without loss of time.32.Kxh1 Nxg3+ 33.fxg3 Rxd7 34.Be3the bishop is now no match for the rook.

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34...c4 35.a5 Rd3 36.Bb6 [36.a6? Rxe337.a7 Re1+ 38.Kg2 Ra1–+] 36...Rd1+37.Kg2 Rd2+ 38.Kf3 Rxb2 39.Ke4 c340.Kd3 c2 41.Kd2 Ra2 Black will gladlyexchange his c-pawn for white’s a-pawnas he can easily win on the king-side.42.Kc1 e5 43.g5 e4 44.h4 Kf8 45.Be3Ke7 46.a6 Ke6 47.a7 Kd5 48.g4 Kc449.Kd2 [49.a8Q Rxa8 50.Kxc2 Ra2+51.Kd1 Kd3 and black wins.] 49...Kb350.Bd4 Ra4 51.Kc1 White is mated after51...Rxd4 52 a8Q Rd1# 0–1

Kuderinov,K (2432)Lu Shanglei (2526) [D45]

1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.Nc3 e65.e3 Nbd7 6.Qc2 Bd6 7.Bd3 0–0 8.0–0 dxc4 9.Bxc4 b5 10.Be2 Bb7 11.e4e5 12.dxe5 Nxe5 13.Bg5 h6 14.Bh4Ng6 15.Bg3 [This is new. 15.Rad1 Qe716.Bxf6 Qxf6 17.e5 Bxe5 18.Ne4 Qe719.Nxe5 Nxe5 20.f4 Nc4 21.Bxc4 bxc422.Rfe1= Z Takac - S Savchenko 1996]15...Bxg3 16.hxg3 Re8 17.Rad1 Qa518.a3 a6 19.Nh4 [19.b4? Qb6(19...Qxa3! 20.Rb1 threat Rb3 trapping thequeen.) 20.Rd6 Rac8] 19...Nxh4 20.gxh4Qc7 Despite his muzzled bishop, black isbetter as he has plans of advancing c6-c5.21.g3 [If 21.Nd5 Nxd5 22.exd5 Qe5!23.dxc6 Bxc6 24.Qxc6 Qxe2³] 21...Re722.Bf3 Rae8 23.Bg2 Qb8 24.b4 Nd7[Black could unmask his bishop now with:24...c5 25.bxc5 Nxe4 26.Rfe1 Nxc327.Rxe7 Rxe7=] 25.Ne2 c5 26.bxc5 Qc727.c6 Bxc6! Black easily gets around thepin on the c-file. 28.Nd4 Ne5!

29.Nxc6 [29.f4? Nc4³] 29...Qxc630.Qxc6 Nxc6 31.f4 Na5 32.e5 [Whitecould have tried 32.Rd6 Re6 33.Rxe6Rxe6 34.e5 Nc4 35.Bd5 Re7 36.Rc1 Rc7though many alternatives in between leadonly to equality.] 32...Nc4 33.Rd3 h534.Bd5 Rc7 35.Rc1 Kf8 36.a4 Rd8!37.axb5 axb5

38.Be4 [White can win a pawn with 38.Rb1Rb8 39.Rdb3 Rc5 40.Bxc4 Rxc4 41.Rxb5Rc1+ 42.Rxc1 Rxb5 43.Rc7 Rb2 but it isextremely hard to win the game as can;be seen, 44.Kf1 g6 45.Rd7 Ke8 46.Rd6Ke7 47.Rf6 (white threatens f4-f5)47...Rb5! 48.Kg2 Rc5 49.Kh3 Rd5 50.Rc6Rd2 and if now 51.g4? Rd3+=] 38...Rb839.Rb3 g6 40.Bd5 Rc5 41.Bf3 [41.Bxc4Rbc8=] 41...Nd2 42.Rxc5 Nxb3 43.Rc7Nd4 44.Bd5 Ne6 45.Ra7 b4 46.Bb3=Rc8 47.Kg2? [A crucial error which allows

My games with the 9th world champion (TigranPetrosian)broadened my understanding of chess. Hadit not been for these two defeats, I would possibly nothave reached the top in chess. - by Garry Kasparov

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the black pawn to move one step closerto queening. Best was: 47.Bxe6 fxe648.Rb7 Rc4 leads to a draw as the passedpawn is blocked on b4, not on b3 ashappens two moves later.] 47...Rc348.Bxe6 Now this move does not savewhite. 48...fxe6 49.Rb7 b3

Black is better because of his advancedpassed pawn and the weakness of white’sg3 pawn. As the white rook must stayon the b-file to prevent the black pawnfrom advancing, black has a clear plan -to march his king towards the white rookwith Kf8-e8-d8-c8.

50.Kh3 Ke8 51.Rg7 [If 51.Kh2 Kd852.Kh3 Kc8 53.Rb4 Kc7 The black kingwill now shepherd his b-pawn to queen.]51...Kd8 52.Rb7 [It is a simple win forblack after: 52.Rxg6? b2 53.Rg8+ Kc754.Rg7+ Kc6] 52...Kc8 53.Rb6 Kc754.Rb5 Kc6 55.Rb8 Kd5 56.Rb5+Ke4 57.Rb6 Kf3 threatening 58...Kf2and 59...Rxg3+ 58.Rxe6 [58.Rb7 Kf259.Kh2 Rxg3–+] 58...Rc1! Doubleattack, threatening both 59... Rh1# and59....b2. 0–1

Kayumov,Dmitry (Uzb) (2415)Lalith Babu,MR (2541) [B06]

1.e4 g6 2.d4 Bg7 3.Nc3 c6 4.Nf3 d65.Be3 Nf6 6.Qd2 Bg4 7.Bh6 Bxh68.Qxh6 Bxf3 9.gxf3 Nbd7 10.0–0–0Qa5 11.Qe3 0–0–0 12.Kb1 e6= This isa new position and both players are on theirown and have to use their judgment.13.Ne2 [White plans to relocate his knighton b3. 13.h3 for f2-f4 and also 13 Rg1 forRg5 are possibilities.] 13...d5 14.Nc1Rhe8 15.Nb3 Qb6 16.c4 Kb8 17.c5 Qc718.e5 Nh5 19.f4 [White could have tried19.Qh6 Rh8 20.f4 with chances for bothsides.] 19...f6 20.Be2 Ng7 21.h4 Rg822.Bg4 Rdf8 Black threatens the openingof the f-file with advantage. 23.Nc1 Qd824.Nd3 Qe7 25.Kc2 White plans a queen-side attack with b2-b4. For such a purpose,25 Ka1 would have been better. 25...Rh826.Kc3 Kc8 27.b4 b6 28.Rb1 Kb7 29.f3[29.Kd2 planning 30 b5 was better.]29...Rf7 30.h5?! fxe5 31.hxg6? [Betterwas: 31.fxe5 gxh5 32.Bxh5 Nf5 33.Qf2Rg7 34.Bg4] 31...exf4 32.Nxf4 Rf633.Rxh7 Rg8 34.Re1 Nf8

35.Rh6? [With his rook on the 7th rankthis was the time to strike. White can winwith: 35.Bxe6! Nfxe6 36.Nxe6 Rxg637.cxb6 Kxb6 (37...axb6?? 38.Nc5+ winthe queen.) 38.Nc5 Qxe3+ 39.Rxe3 Rg3

Nowadays games immediately appear on the Internetand thus the life of novelties is measured in hours.Modern professionals do not have the right to beforgetful - it is 'life threatening'. - by Garry Kasparov

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Ali Nihat Yazici, Chairman, FIDE CIS visits India

Ali Nihat Yazici, FIDE Vice president and Chairman FIDE CiS Commission, strongly believes that the Indian players have got tremendous potential and the country, along with China will be the potential leaders of world chess. Mr.Ali who was on his first visit to India, was impressed with the infrastructure available here and said he would like to see Goa hosting the Chess Olympiad in 2018 or 2020. He also praised the All India Chess Federation (AICF) saying, “They are one of the best corporate federations in FIDE. What they need to do is generate more members and raise funds. That's why we are here. We would like to share the information with them “.

Pune, Maharashtra

Mr. Ali Nihat Yazici visited Pune on 17th and 18th February 2013 to promote and exchange ideas about Chess in School Program. He was accompanied by Mr. Ravindra Dongre, Treasurer of AICF, Chairman of Maharashtra Chess Association (MCA) and FIDE CiS Commission Member. They were welcomed in Pune by GM Abhijit Kunte, Commissioner of MCA-CIS.

A function was arranged where Mr. Ali was the Guest of Honor on 17th February 2013 at the English Learning Institute of Symbiosis (ELTIS). He was accompanied by Mr. Ravindra Dongre, GM Abhijit Kunte, Dr. Satish Thigale, Director of MCA-CIS and FIDE CiS Commission Member, Mr. Girish Chitale, Director of MCA-CIS and Mr. Ram Jadhavrao, Vice President of Pune District Chess Circle (PDCC). The function was attended by the members of MCA, MCA-Chess in School and PDCC.

Presentations about the 'Chess in School program of MCA' and the 'Problems faced during the Chess in School Program in Maharashtra' were given by Mr. Girish Chitale and Dr. Satish Thigale respectively. After Presentation of MCA, Mr. Ali spoke about the 'Chess in School Experience of FIDE' and 'Expectations from the Affiliates'. All the members were enthralled and learned a lot from the dynamic speech of Mr. Ali. An 'Open Discussion Forum' took place where Mr. Ali answered the doubts and questions of the members.

On 18th February 2013, Mr. Ali along with Mr. Dongre and GM Abhijit Kunte visited Jnana Prabodhini School and were welcomed by Mr. Milind Naik, Principal of Jnana Prabodhini Prashala. The Chess in School program is being run in this school. Mr. Ali spoke to the students and shared his experiences of Chess in School with them.

Mr.Ali Nihat Yazici being felicitated in a traditional way with a shawl, a Puneri Pagadi and a citation(L-R): Prof. Dr. Satish Thigale, Mr.Ram Jadhavrao, Mr.Ravindra Dongre, Treasurer, AICF, GM Abhijit Kunte and Mr.Girish Chitale.

Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh

On 19th February early morning A l i v is i ted Suchitra Academy where chess included in the curriculum. The Director of the school Mr. Praveen Raju has organised a special meeting with children. Honestly two questions were very popular! Chess in School a n d W o r l d C h e s s Championship Match in India!! Ali visited Cyber Chess Academy of IM Lanka Ravi. We have spent a lot of time in Academy, I had a chance to lose a few matches versus great talents of Cyber Chess Academy. The Sport Director of AP State Mr. T.R.K.Rao, promised to do anything possible to promote chess in the state The President of AP Chess Association Mr. A.Narasimha Reddy,Chairman of the Bar Council and a great chess lover welcomed Mr.Ali. Then we moved on to the meeting with chess people from Hyderabad, APCA. All Indian Chess Federation has made a fantastic presentation.

Ali writes: “Here let me mention AICF situation in the world chess.The number of Indians in the FIDE rating base is ever climbing. In February 2013, the number in the rating list is a massive figure of 29550. Which federations are above and below India? France 33374 and Spain 30222 are above and Germany 25945 and Russia 25224 are below. What are these numbers? The FIDE rating file is an

indicator of things that are brewing. It simply indicates activity.The larger the number of players, greater the possibility to create champions.The World Youth Chess Championship success is also another healthy indicator of things that happen in Indian chess.These numbers are so high due to the good ground set by the All India Chess Federation for the players to excel in this sport. The activity of the All India Chess

(L-R) A. Narasimha Rao, IM Lanka Ravi, Kanna Reddy, Secretary, AP Chess Association, D.V.Sundar, Vice President FIDE, Mr.Rao, Sport and Youth Director, AP State, Mr.Ali Nihat Yazici, Vice President FIDE and CIS Chairman, A.Narasimha Reddy, President, AP Chess Association, Bharat Singh, Secretary AICF and IA Major K.Shivaprasad

Roses in my hands, roses in my arms!

Federation since 2005 has been player friendly and it is a role model organisation for other nations to follow.

India has made biggest success by getting the 4th place in 40th Chess Olympiad with their women team. AICF does have 31 GMs, 77 IMs, 8 WGMs and 19 WIMs. It is very clear with this management India will fight fort the medals in both sections (Open and Women) in Tromso 2014. On 20th February at the Opening ceremony of National Team Chess Championships the Chef Guest was Honourable Minister for I.T. & Communications Mr. Ponnala Lakshmaiah. Before the Opening Ceremony we had a chance to talk about Indian CIS Project, and I have got a promise from Hon'ble Minister to give all necessary support”.

New Delhi

Mr.Ali writes “When Bharat and I arrived in Delhi, as usual there were flowers waiting for us at the terminal. We were met by IM Vishal Sareen and Mr. Ak Verma (General Secretary of Delhi Chess Association). After a short rest in the hotel it was the time to meet Delhi Chess People at the dinner which was attended by many journalists. I have to mention that the media attention during my visit to India was not less than what you may have seen in Russia, Azerbaijan or Armenia.After an introduction to the meeting, AICF made an official presentation, and I made a similar one on behalf of FIDE.

On 1st February 2013 at around 11 am we met Sports and Youth Minister of India, Mr.Jitendra Singh, who is a young and sophisticated Minister. The meeting went for 30 minutes, we were accompanied by the permanent secretary of Sport and Youth Ministry. The main subjects as you may guess were CIS in India and World championship match. For me it looks like India may host the next world chess championship match between WCC GM Anand and his challenger. Let's wait and see. But for me the most important achievement was to get the support of Hon'ble Minister for CIS project. We got an open cheque and a large support there and we promised to prepare the AICF Master Plan very soon. In two months we will make a presentation to the minister with all the details”.

Here I should mention the heroes of AICF, one by one:

Mr.DV Sundar (FIDE Vice President) is the leader of AICF. Sundar is a very good friend, a retired person with experience and one of the most honest people I've ever met! Under

Shri.Jitendra Singh, Hon'ble Minister of Sports and Youth, Government of India in conversation with Mr.Ali Nihat Yazici, Vice President FIDE and CIS Chairman and Bharat Singh, Secretary AICF.

his leadership, Indian Chess has made a huge success. As I mentioned in the previous articles, the most difficult task he managed during his leadership was to create such a great team of AICF.

The next one is Mr.Bharat Singh. A huge guy with a huge heart. I know Bharat for many years due to FIDE meetings and GAs. Bharat is a civil engineer and has his own private company. His charisma and modesty makes him a very nice person. With his great experience and love of chess, he has made big achievements not only in India but also in his state of Delhi!

The third but not the least is Mr.R.M.Dongre from Mumbai. Dongre is also a councillor of FIDE CIS Commission and the main person for chess in schools in India. He also has his private company and another engineer working as volunteer for AICF and MCA. I am very proud to have him in my team in FIDE CIS Commission.This Indian Troika, with many more guys behind them, makes the difference, I guess!”.

Caruana wins Zurich chess Challenge Anand finishes second

World champion Viswanathan Anand defeated former world champion Vladimir Kramnik of Russia to finish second in the Zurich Chess Challenge that concluded in Switzerland on March 1, 2013.

In the four-player double all-play-all, Italy's Fabiano Caruana defeated Anand and Gelfand in the second cycle to win with four points from six games. After the first cycle, all six games had ended in draws. Three decisive games happened in the event, all in the second cycle. A draw would have been sufficient to win the tournament, but Fabiano wanted more! In a quiet Catalan, he

maintained the two bishops and managed to win a pawn after Gelfand´s dubious 21…e5. In the resulting endgame, he kept the pressure high until black eventually caved in.

Anand who lost to Caruana, bounced back in the final round by defeating Kramnik to take the second place. In a solid Berlin-Ruy Lopez, Vladimir Kramnik launched an usual pawn attack on the queenside. The position remained balanced until the Russian committed the blunder of the tournament. Instead, he could have drawn quite easily with 20…Nxh3! 21.gxh3 Qd7 and a perpetual. Vishy Anand obviously seized the opportunity and moved up to second place. Anand who sacrificed a rook for knight and lost his way against Caruana earlier, prevailed this time with a similar sacrifice. He won two pieces for a rook and won with ease.

Anand plays in the strongest event of all time at Norway from May 7, 2013. Anand had a push performance as far as his rating goes from this Zurich event.

Final placings 1 Fabiano Caruana (Ita) 4/6; 2 Viswanathan Anand (Ind) 3; 3-4. Boris Gelfand (Isr), Vladimir Kramnik (Rus) 2.5 each.

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Contd. from page 2240.Kb3 The black king is in a mating net.White will now try to get one of his tworooks to b7 to mate. White is winning.]35...Qc7 36.Nd3 Nxg6 37.Qg5 Ne838.Bxe6 Rg7 39.Bc8+ [White can go forthe throat with: 39.b5! bxc5 40.bxc6+ Kb841.Qxd5 cxd4+ 42.Qxd4 Re7 43.Nc5+-]39...Qxc8 40.Rxe8 Qf5 41.Qxf5 Rxf542.Re3 After enjoying a tremendouswinning position, white now has to get backto defending his extra pawn. 42...Ne743.a4 Rff7 44.b5? [44.Rhe6! Nf545.R3e5 Nh4 46.f4 would have preservedhis advantage.] 44...Nf5 45.bxc6+ Kc746.cxb6+ axb6 47.Rhe6 Nxe3 Thegame is now equal. 48.Rxe3 Kd6 49.Kb4Rg1 50.Kb5 Rb1+ 51.Nb4 Rf4!³52.Rd3 Rb2‡

White is in Zugwang. Any move by whitewould lose him material. 53.Rc3!? [Theonly move that does not immediately losematerial would lead to a mating attack alongthe a- and b-files by the black rooks: 53.a5bxa5 54.Kxa5 Rf8! 55.Rc3 (55.c7 Kxc756.Rc3+ Kd7 57.Na6 Ra8 58.Ra3 Rbb8(58...Kc6 59.Rc3+ Kb7?? 60.Rc7#!)59.Rc3 Rb7 threat .. .Rba7) 55...Ra8+56.Kb5 Rb8+ 57.Ka5 Rb1–+] 53...Rxd454.c7 Rbxb4+ 55.Ka6 Rxa4+ 56.Kb7[56.Kxb6?? Rdb4#] 56...Rac4! 57.c8QRxc8 58.Rxc8 b5! 59.Kb6 b4 60.Rd8+!Ke7 61.Rb8 Kd6

62.Ka5? [White misses the draw with62.Rd8+ Ke5 63.Re8+ Kf4 64.Kc5 Rd165.Kxb4 Kxf3 66.Kc3= The white king getsunder the passed pawn.] 62...Rd163.Rxb4 Kc5! 64.Rb5+ Kc4 65.Rb4+Kc5 66.Rb5+ Kd4 67.Kb6? [Morestubborn would be: 67.Rb3 Kc4 68.Rb4+Kc3 69.Kb5 Ra1 70.f4 Ra8–+] 67...Rc168.f4 Ke4 69.Rc5! Rf1 [69...Rxc5?70.Kxc5 d4 71.f5! d3 72.f6 draw.] 70.Kc6d4 71.Rd5 d3 72.Kc5 Ke3 73.f5 d2 Themany errors that both players made in thisgame could be attributed to the fast rateof play at which modern chesstournaments are played. 0–1

Kumaran,B (2222) AravindhChithambaram,VR (2342) [D02]

1.Nf3 d5 2.d4 Nf6 3.c4 e6 4.g3 Bb4+5.Bd2 Be7 6.cxd5 exd5 7.Bg2 0–08.0–0 c6 9.Nc3 Re8 10.Qc2 Nbd711.Bf4 Nf8 12.Rad1 Bd6 13.Bxd6Qxd6= The game is equal with a faint edgefor black. 14.Rfe1 Ng6 15.Nd2 [15.e4Nxe4 16.Nxe4 dxe4 17.Rxe4 Rxe418.Qxe4 Be6 19.a3 Rd8 Black’s forces arewell posted.] 15...Bg4 16.Bf3? [Toopassive! Better was: 16.h3 Be6 17.e4 Qb418.e5 Nd7 19.Nf1 Ne7 20.Ne3] 16...Qd717.Na4 Bf5! 18.Qb3 Threat 19 Nc5.18...b6 19.Nc3 White realises that hisgame lacks prospects and plans to free

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himself by playing e2-e4. And black stopshim. 19...Bg4! 20.Na4? [This knight goesnowhere from a4. Better was: 20.Bg2 Re7and black gets a good game by doublinghis rooks along the e-file.] 20...Re721.Rc1 [Better was to acknowledge hisstrategical error and bring back his knightto c3: 21.Nc3 Bxf3 22.Nxf3 Rae8 23.Rc1Qg4] 21...Rae8 22.Qc2 Re6 23.Red1[Though it flies against the principle of notexchanging off your fianchettoed bishop inthe castled position, best here was:23.Bxg4 Nxg4 24.Nf3 Nf6 25.Nc3 whenwhite’s disadvantage is only minimal.]23...h5 [Such aggressive moves comenaturally to young players. Sometimes theycreate a weakness in their own camp, orsometimes, as here, they give theopponent a chance to wriggle out of a badcorner. Better was: 23...Bxf3 24.exf3 Re225.Nc3 R2e7µ] 24.Nf1? [Better was:24.Bxg4 Nxg4 25.Nc3 h4 26.Nf3 whenblack has to work afresh for an advantage.]24...h4 [Better was: 24...Bxf3 25.exf3 h426.Nc3 hxg3 27.hxg3 Nh7! or 27...R6e7with a clear advantage for black. Black hascomplete control over the open e-file andthe weakened castled position of the whiteking to exploit.] 25.Ne3?

[Putting the cart before the horse. Thoughno longer so good, white should still try:25.Bxg4 Nxg4 26.Nc3 Rf6 27.f3 Ne3

28.Nxe3 Rxe3 29.Kf2 Re7] 25...Bh3!26.Ng2? [Fianchettoing his knight was nosolution to his discomfiture. Temporarily, thisknight could remain on e3. Again 26.Nc3offered saving chances for white.] 26...Ne427.Bxe4? [Yet again, white’s best was:27.Nc3 ] 27...Rxe4 28.Nc3 With the knightback in the game, white’s prospectsbrighten. 28...Bxg2 29.Kxg2 Rg4? [Atypical aggressive move of a young talent.But it should lead nowhere with correct playby white! Better was the quiet withdrawalkeeping all options with him. 29...R4e7 ]30.e3!= hxg3 31.hxg3 Nh4+ 32.Kf1?

[Missing equality. Best was 32.Kh2= Re633.Rh1! Rh6 34.Kg1=] 32...Nf3? [Blackcan win with the startling: 32...Rxe3!33.Nxd5 (33.fxe3? Rxg3µ) 33...Rexg334.Qxc6 Rg1+µ] 33.Kg2 Nh4+ 34.Kf1Nf5 [Again, black can win with: 34...Rxe3!!] 35.Ne2 Rg6! Black defends his c6 andthreatens ...Rxe3! 36.Rd3 Rh6! 37.Ng1[If 37.Ke1 Nd6! so that if 38.Qxc6 Rh1+39.Kd2 Ne4+ 40.Kc2 Qxc6+ wins.]37...Qe6 38.Rc3 Rh2! 39.Qd3

By the time a player becomes a Grandmaster, almostall of his training time is dedicated to work on thisfirst phase. The opening is the only phase that holdsout the potential for true creativity and doingsomething entirely new. - by Garry Kasparov

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[The significance of black’s earlier move38...Rh2 is seen in the variation: 39.Rxc6Nxe3+! 40.fxe3 Rxc2 41.R1xc2 Qxe3–+;White is so concerned about his king andqueen being forked by the knight that hedoes not move his queen to a better square:39.Qd1 c5 40.dxc5 bxc5 41.g4 and he canfight on, though his prospects are very grim.The move 39 Qd3 leads to an immediatecollapse.] 39...Nxg3+!! 40.Ke1 [If 40.fxg3Qf6+ 41.Ke1 Qf2+ 42.Kd1 Qxg1+ mates.]40...Ne4 41.R3c2 Qg4! 0–1

Gahan,M (2224)Ratnakaran,K (2434) [C00]

1.e4 e6 2.b3 c5 3.Bb2 Nc6 4.Nf3 d55.exd5 exd5 6.Bb5 Qe7+ 7.Qe2 a6?[Spending a move to inflict doubled pawnson himself was not quite judicious. Hess vSawatzki, 1992 went: 7...Qxe2+ 8.Kxe2f6! 9.Re1 Bd6 10.Kf1+ Nge7= andeventually 0–1] 8.Bxc6+ bxc6 9.Nc3Qxe2+ Had he played this on the 7thmove a lot of problems could have beenavoided. 10.Kxe2 f6 11.Na4 Rb8[Natural here is: 11...Bg4 12.h3 Bh513.Ba3 c4 14.Bc5!² (14.Nb6 Rd8=)14...Kf7 15.bxc4 dxc4 16.Rhb1] 12.Ba3Rb5 13.d4! [Not 13.c4? dxc4 14.bxc4 Ra515.Nb6 Rxa3 16.Nxc8 Kd8 17.Na7 withchances for black. 17...Kc7 18.Rhb1]13...c4 14.Bxf8 Kxf8 15.Nc5± with thisknight on c5, white has a clear advantage.

15...Ne7 16.bxc4 [16.Kd2 threateningKc3 and the c4 pawn was stronger.]16...dxc4 17.Nd2 Nf5

[A fascinating alternative was: 17...Nd518.Nxc4 Rb4 19.Nd6 Bg4+ 20.Kd3 Nf4+21.Ke4 Ne2 22.c4 Ke7 23.a3 Rb2 24.Ncb7Bc8 25.Nxc8+ Rxc8 when white is onlyslightly better.] 18.c3 Nd6 19.a4 Rb220.Rhb1 Rc2 21.Rb6! white has seen farahead. 21...Rxc3 [Black is blind to the tacticthat is coming up. Better would have beento postpone this capture in favour of placinghis pieces on the best squares, taking tacticsinto account. 21...Ke7 22.Rxc6 Rd8 23.Ra3Rc1 and though black is not out of dangerhe can still try to wriggle out.] 22.Rxc6 Ke7

23.Rxd6! This is what white had plannedand black had missed. 23...Rc2 [If23...Kxd6 24.Nde4+ Kd5 25.Nxc3+ Kxd426.N3e4+-] 24.Rc6 c3 Black hopes to get

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back his lost piece with this pin, but it fails.25.Nce4! Bf5 26.Nxc3 Rd8 27.d5 Kf8[27...Rxd5?? 28.Nxd5+ is check!] 28.Nd1Bd3+ [If 28...Rxd5 29.Rxc2 Bxc2 30.Ne3Bd3+ 31.Kf3 and black is a knight downfor no compensation.] 29.Ke1 [Even afterthe second best 29.Kxd3?! Rxc6 30.Ne3white is still winning.] 29...Rxd5 30.Rxc2Bxc2 31.Ne3 Re5 32.Ndc4 Re6

With an extra piece white wins easily. Allhe has to do is play carefully, activate hisking and rook to win this game. Theremaining moves are given without muchcomment. 33.Kd2 Be4 34.Kc3 g535.Rd1 Ke7 36.a5 h5 37.f3 Bg6 38.g4hxg4 39.fxg4 Be4 40.Rd2 Rc6 41.Kd4Bh1 42.Rd1 Bf3 43.Rf1 Be2 44.Re1Bxc4 45.Nxc4+ Kf7 46.Kd5 Rc747.Re6?! Rxc4! His last try. 48.Rxf6+!Kxf6 49.Kxc4 Ke5 50.Kc5 Kf4 51.Kb6Kxg4 52.Kxa6 Kh3 53.Kb6 g4 54.a6Kxh2 55.a7 g3 56.a8Q g2 57.Qh8+Kg3 58.Qe5+ Kf2 59.Qf4+ 1–0

Praveen Kumar,C1 (2305)Aleksandrov,A (2607) [E04]

1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.g3 dxc45.Bg2 a6 6.0–0 Nc6 7.Bg5 Be7 8.e3[Rotariu G vs Suta M, 1973: 8.Nbd2 Nxd49.Nxd4 Qxd4 10.Qc2 Qg4 11.Bf4 Nd512.Be5 eventually 0–1] 8...Nd5 9.Bxe7

Ncxe7 10.Qe2 b5 11.b3 cxb3 12.axb30–0 13.Rc1 c6 14.Ne5 Qb6 15.Qc2 Ra7

16.Nd3 [A fascinating variation which,when correctly played, leads to equality is:16.Nxc6 Nxc6 17.Bxd5 (17.Qxc6? Rc718.Qxb6 Rxc1+ (this tactic is known asthe Intermezzo) 19.Bf1 Nxb6) 17...Nb418.Qxc8! Nxd5 19.Rc6 Rc7! 20.Qxf8+Kxf8 21.Rxb6 Rc1+ 22.Kg2 Nxb6 23.Rxa6Rxb1 24.Rxb6 Rxb3=] 16...a5 17.Nc5 Ascompensation for his pawn minus, whitehas a good outpost for his knight on c5,17...Bd7 18.e4 Nb4 19.Qd2 Rd820.Qe3 Be8 21.Qc3 Ng6 22.Nd2 Nf823.e5 f5 24.exf6 gxf6 25.Nde4 Nd526.Qf3 Kg7 27.h4 h5 [27...Re7 to over-protect his e6 pawn even before whiteplays Bg2-h3 merited consideration.]28.Bh3 Re7 29.Kh1 Qc7 30.Na6 Qa731.Nac5 Bg6 32.Rg1! Qc7

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33.Rae1 [If 33.Rad1 e5 34.Rd2 exd435.Rxd4 f5 36.Bxf5? Qe5µ it is a doubleattack.; Or, if 33.g4 hxg4 34.Bxg4 f5µ35.Nxe6+ Nxe6 36.Bxf5 Ndf4 37.Bxg6Nxd4 38.Qg4 Rf8 and the chances areequal in this very wild position.] 33...Rde834.Nd3 Rf7 35.Nf4 Nxf4 36.gxf4 f5!This blocks out all dangers to his king.37.Nc5 Qd8 38.Qxc6 [38.Qxh5 looksvery dangerous for black but he emergeswith a slightly better position after38...Qxd4] 38...Qxh4 39.Rg3 Qd8 [If39...Ree7 40.Nd3 Kh7 41.Qxb5 Rb742.Qxa5 Rxb3 43.Qa8²] 40.Qxb5 Ree741.Qd3 Kh7 42.Rge3 Material is level,but white’s forces are more actively placedthan white’s. 42...Rg7

[The black forces are confined to the topright quarter of the board. If 42...Qd643.Re5 Nd7 44.Nxd7 Qxd7 45.Qe3 Rf646.d5! Bf7 and white has a clearadvantage.] 43.Bg2 Be8 44.d5 exd545.Qxf5+ Bg6 46.Qxd5 Rxe3 [If46...Qxd5 47.Bxd5 Rc7 48.Ne6±]47.Qxd8 Rxe1+ 48.Kh2 White has tworooks for his queen and pawn. This istheoretically equal, but again, white’sforces are more active and, as in life,activity is everything in chess . 48...Re849.Qxa5 Rf7 50.Qa4 Ree7 51.Qd4Ne6 52.Nxe6 Rxe6 53.b4 Ref654.Kg3 h4+ 55.Kg4 Rf5 56.f3

56...Rg7? [A strange miscalculation.Probably black thought that white has onlyone move - to play Kxh4 - which would lethim play on. After the obvious 56...Bh5+!57.Kh3 Rxf4 58.Qd6 Bxf3= the gameshould end in a draw.] 57.Kh3! [If 57.Kxh4Rh5+ 58.Kg3 Bb1+ 59.Kf2 Rh2 andsuddenly, it is black who has theupperhand!] 57...Rgf7 58.Kg4 Rh5?[58...Bh5+ 59.Kh3 Rxf4 is a draw.] 59.Kh3Bf5+ 60.Kh2 Rd7 61.Qe3 h3 62.Bf1Bg6 63.b5! This is the only pawn that couldbe pushed and it is good enough.63...Rhd5 64.Bxh3! Rg7 [Now black’sposition is beyond saving. If 64...Rd365.Qe5 Rd2+ 66.Kg3 Rg7 67.Bg4+-]65.f5 Bxf5 66.Bxf5+ Rxf5 67.Qe4 Kg668.b6 Kf6 69.Qh4+ [69.b7?? Rh5+mates.] 69...Kg6 70.Kg3 Rb7 71.Qd4Rff7 72.f4 Kh7 73.Kh4 Kg8 74.f5 Rh7+[74...Rxf5? 75.Qg4++-] 75.Kg3 Rbg7+76.Kf3 Rh3+ 77.Ke2 Rg2+ 78.Kf1Rgh2 79.Qd5+ Kh7 80.b7 Rh1+81.Kg2 R3h2+ 82.Kg3 Rh3+ 83.Kg4Rh4+ 84.Kg5 Rh5+ 85.Kf6 Rh6+86.Kf7 Rb1 87.f6 Rb6 After 88 Qd3+Kh8 89 Qd8+ a rook is lost. 1–0

Padmini Rout (2288)Kayumov,Dmitry (Uzb) (2415) [C95]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4Nf6 5.0–0 Be7 6.Re1 b5 7.Bb3 d68.c3 0–0 9.h3 Nb8 10.d4 Nbd7

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11.Nbd2 Bb7 12.Bc2 Re8 13.Nf1 Bf814.Ng3 c6 15.Be3 Qc7 16.Nd2 [Thisis new. Adams-Morozevich, 2007 went:16.a4 Rad8 17.Qc1 h6 18.b3 Qb819.Rb1 Qc8 20.b4 drawn.] 16...d5! Ageneral rule is that when black is ableto play ...d5 without suffering anyser ious d isadvantage in an e2-d4open ing, he equa l i ses the game.17.dxe5 Nxe5= 18.f4 Nc4 19.Nxc4dxc4 20.e5 Nd5 21.Qf3 [Abandoningthe g1–a7 dark diagonal to preserve thebishop with 21.Bd2 is unthinkable asb lack immediate ly ga ins a s l ightadvantage with 21...Rad8] 21...Nxe322.Qxe3 c5 23.Rad1 Rad8 24.Be4Bxe4 25.Nxe4 h6

Thanks to the knight on e4, white has aslight edge in this position. 26.Nf2 Fromthis f2 square the knight plays anextraordinary role in the further course ofthe game. 26...Be7 27.g3 Rxd1 28.Rxd1Rd8 [Also 28...Qa5 29.a3 Rd8=]29.Rxd8+ Qxd8 30.h4 Qd5 31.Kf1 Theknight keeps the black queen away fromthe key squares - h1, h3, d1, d3. 31...Bf832.Ke2 Qg2? [Black is looking for a winand takes his queen into a dubioussituation. Better was 32...Qe6 and wait forwhite to reveal her plans for furtherprogress.] 33.e6! Be7 34.exf7+ Kxf7

35.Qf3! Qh2 Because of his doubled c-pawns black avoids the exchange of queensafter which he will be practically a pawndown on the king-side in an ending whichis probably lost. 36.Qd5+ Kf8 37.Kf3!this vastly reduces the black queen’smobility. To get back into play he will haveto move to g1 and c1. 37...g5? 38.Qf5+Kg7 39.Qe6 Bf8 40.fxg5 hxg5 41.Qe5+Kf7 42.Qxg5 Qg1 43.Qd5+ Ke8Diagram # 44.Qd1! With two extraconnected passed pawns on the king-side,it makes sense to exchange off queens andwin without any excitement. If now 44...Qh2, then 45 Qh1! forcing exchange ofqueens. She can of course win more pawnswith 44 Qe6+ but that would let the blackqueen escape from the prison and startgiving harassing checks. 1–0

(Position after 43….Ke8)

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Karthikeyan Murali (2352) VasanthaRuba Varman (2045) [B47]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4Nc6 5.Nc3 Qc7 6.Be2 a6 7.0–0 Nf68.Be3 Bb4 9.Na4 Bd6 10.g3 0–011.c4 Nxe4 12.Bf3 Nf6 13.c5 Be714.Re1 [Usual here is: 14.Rc1 ] 14...d615.cxd6 Bxd6 16.Rc1 Bd7

17.Nb6!? Rad8 [Black does not wish tochallenge the calculations of the former U–12 World Champion and takes anapparently safe way. If 17...Qxb6 18.Nxc6Qxb2 19.Bd4 Qxa2 20.Re2 Qa3 21.Rc3Bxc6 22.Rxa3 Bxa3 23.Bxc6 bxc6 24.Bxf6gxf6 25.Rd2= Black has enoughcompensation for the queen, but white’squeen and rook seem to have greatpotential for causing havoc to the blackforces.] 18.Nxd7 Qxd7 19.Nxc6 bxc620.Bxc6 Qe7 21.Qa4! Rb8 22.Re2Black’s a6 pawn is defenceless. 22...h623.Qxa6 Ng4 24.Ba7! Qg5?

[24...Rbc8 was better.] 25.f4!+- Bxf426.gxf4! Qxf4 27.Rf1 Qd6 28.Bxb8Rxb8 29.Qa7! f5 30.Qd7 Qc5+ 31.Kh1Kh8 32.Qxe6 1–0

Rahman,Zia (2526)Singh,DP (2257) [A40]

1.d4 b6 2.e4 Bb7 3.Bd3 g6 4.Nf3 Bg75.c3 d6 6.0–0 Nd7 7.Re1 e6 8.Nbd2Ne7 9.a4 a6 10.Nf1 [This is new. Theidea of taking this knight to c4 is usual.10.Qe2 0–0 11.Nc4 d5 12.exd5 Nxd513.Bg5²] 10...c5 11.Bg5! With both ofblack’s central pawns not having advancedtwo squares, and the two black knights one7 and d7, White does not have seriousproblems in finding a plan. 11...h6 12.Bf4cxd4 [12...e5! would have given white onlya minimal advantage.] 13.cxd4 Nf614.Ng3 g5? [Black should castle now whenwhite has no serious threat: 14...0–015.Rc1 Nc6 16.Bd2 Qe7] 15.Be3 g416.Nh4 h5 17.d5!

When your house is on fire, you can't be botheredwith the neighbors. Or, as we say in chess, if yourKing is under attack, don't worry about losing a pawnon the queenside. - by Garry Kasparov

Enormous self-belief, intuition, the ability to take arisk at a critical moment and go in for a verydangerous play with counter-chances for theopponent - it is precisely these qualities thatdistinguish great players. - by Garry Kasparov

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White wants black to move his e-pawnso that he could use the fr square for hisknights. 17...Nexd5?! [17...Nfg818.dxe6 fxe6 19.e5 Bxe5 20.Bg6+ Kd721.Be4 Kc7] 18.exd5 Nxd5 19.Nhf5Bxb2 20.Bd4 Bxa1 21.Bxa1 Kd7 [Hewill be mated in one move if 21...0–0??22.Nh6#] 22.Bc4 Rc8 23.Bxd5 Bxd524.Ne4 Kc7 [If 24...exf5 25.Nf6+ Kc726.Nxd5+ Kb8 27.Bxh8 Qxh8 28.Nxb6white wins.] 25.Nexd6 Rf8

[If 25...exf5 26.Qxd5 Qxd6 27.Be5 winsthe queen.] 26.Be5! Threatening adangerous discovered check and forcing theking to move back to the centre. 26...Kd727.Nxc8 Kxc8 28.Nd6+! Kd7 29.Ne4!Aiming to destroy the Bd5 which is the onlydefending piece of the black king strandedin the centre. 29...f6

30.Bb2! White has many dangerousthreats like 31 Nc3, 31 Qd3 and 31 Ba3.1–0

Phoobalan,P (2328)Ramakrishna,J (2224) [E12]

1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 e6 3.c4 b6 4.a3 Bb75.Nc3 d5 6.cxd5 Nxd5 7.Qc2 Nxc38.bxc3 c5 9.e4 Nc6 10.Be3 Rc8 11.Qa4cxd4 12.cxd4 Be7 13.Ba6 Bxa614.Qxa6 0–0 15.0–0 Na5 16.a4 [DVPrasad v TS Ravi, 2000 went: 16.Rfd1 Qc717.d5 exd5 18.exd5 Rfd8 19.Rac1 Qb720.Qxb7 Nxb7 21.Rxc8 Rxc8=] 16...Nc417.Bf4 Bd6= 18.Bg5 Qd7 19.Rfc1 Na520.h4 h6 21.Be3 f5 22.exf5 Rxc1+23.Rxc1 Rxf5 24.Qc8+ Qxc8 25.Rxc8+Rf8 26.Rc2 As white controls the onlyopen file on the board his chances are veryslightly better. 26...Rf7 27.Bd2 Nb728.Rc8+ Rf8 29.Rc6 Rd8 30.Kf1 Kf731.Ke2 Ke7 32.Rc2 Kd7 33.h5! Withthis he fixes black’s king-side pawns ondark squares, the same colour as hisbishop. In the future, his bishop would beable to exploit these pawns. 33...Rc834.Rxc8 Kxc8 Black has managed toexchange off rooks but white has theadvantage as black’s g- and h-pawns havebecome liabilities. 35.Bc3 Nd8

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36.d5! Bf8! 37.Ne5! Be7 [If 37...exd538.Ng6 Bd6 39.Bxg7 Nf7 40.Nh4 Be541.Bxe5 Nxe5 42.Nf5 Nf7 43.Kd3 Kd744.Kd4 Kc6 45.g4 and white is winning.]38.Ng4! Bf8 39.Ne5 Be7 40.Nc6 Nxc641.dxc6 Bf6 42.Bxf6 gxf6 43.g4 e5

[If 43...Kc7 44.f4 Kxc6 45.g5 and the h-pawn queens.] 44.Kd3! White hascalculated this pawn ending to a nicety.44...Kc7 45.Ke4 a6 46.Kf5 b5 47.axb5axb5 48.Kxf6 b4 49.g5! hxg5 50.h6 b351.h7 b2 52.h8Q b1Q 53.Qe8! Thewhite king is beautifully shielded by theblack pawns from harassing queen checks.53...Qe1 [After 53...Qd3 54.Qd7+ Qxd755.cxd7 Kxd7 56.Kxe5 the white kingcaptures the last black pawn and easilyqueens his f-pawn.] 54.Qd7+ [54.Qxe5+also wins absoloutely, but after manymoves.] 54...Kb6 55.Qb7+ Ka5 [If

55...Kc5 56.c7 Qxf2+ 57.Ke7! black hasno checks and white queens his c-pawn.]56.Qa7+! Kb5 57.c7 Qh1 58.Qb8+!Ka5 59.c8Q Qh6+

The white king now easily evades perpetualchecks. 60.Ke7 Qh7+ 61.Kd8 Qg8+62.Kc7 Qc4+ 63.Kd8 Qg8+ 64.Kd7!Qf7+ [If 64...Qd5+ 65.Ke7 and black hasno checks.] 65.Kd6 Qg6+ 66.Qe6!Qd3+ 67.Qd5+ 1–0

Selected games from National TeamChess Championships, Hyderabad

Laxman,R R (2443)Ravi Teja,S (2265)

1.d4 c5 2.d5 f5 This variation has acquiredthe fancy name, “Schmid Benoni” in recentyears. But it was regularly played by RentalaSubrahmanyam (1908–1982) of Andhrain the 1950s and 1960s. Rentala alsoplayed the white pieces 1 f4 and 2 c4! 3.g3Nf6 4.Bg2 g6 5.c4 d6 6.Nc3 Bg7 7.Nh3Nbd7 8.Nf4 [Iljushin, A vs Beznosikov, V2003 went: 8.0–0 0–0 9.Qc2 Ne5 10.b3Rb8 11.Bb2 a6 12.a4 Bd7 13.Nf4eventually drawn.] 8...Ne5 9.b3 [Betterwas: 9.Ne6 Bxe6 10.dxe6 Qc8 11.Nd5Nc6] 9...0–0 10.Qc2 a6 11.a4 Bd712.0–0 Qe8 13.Bd2

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[Better was to stall black’s b7-b5 with13.a5 Qd8 14.Bb2 b5 15.axb6 Qxb616.Na4 Qc7 17.Bxe5 dxe5 18.d6 exd619.Nd5 Nxd5 20.Bxd5+ with advantagefor white.] 13...Rb8 14.Rae1 Kh815.h4?! [It was best for white to challengeblack’s best placed piece, the knight on e5with: 15.Nd3 ] 15...h6 16.e4 g5!17.Nd3 [Too late now would be: 17.Ne6Bxe6 18.dxe6 fxe4 19.Nxe4 gxh4 20.Nxf6Rxf6 21.f4 Nc6 with a clear advantage toblack.] 17...Nfg4 18.Nxe5? [Thoughblack would be still better, preferable herewas: 18.Nc1 gxh4 19.f3 Nf6] 18...Bxe519.exf5 [19.hxg5?? Qh5 black mates inthree moves.] 19...gxh4 20.Ne4 Qh5!Black is now winning with the threat ofh4xg3 and Qh2#. 21.f3 hxg3! 22.Bh3Qxh3 23.Bc3 Nf2!

After 23...Nf2 24.Bxe5+ dxe5 25.Rxf2gxf2+ 26.Nxf2 (26.Kxf2 Qh2+ skewersthe queen.; 26.Qxf2 Rg8+) 26...Rg8+27.Ng4 Qxf3 black wins.] 0–1

Abhijeet,Gupta (2612)Satyapragyan,Swayangsu (2472)

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 Bb4+ 4.Nbd2b6 5.a3 Bxd2+ 6.Bxd2 Bb7 7.g3 d68.Bg2 Nbd7 9.0–0 0–0 10.Bc3 [White iswilling to part with his dark square bishop.Tukmakov-Gipslis, 1970 was eventuallydrawn after: 10.Qc2 Qe7 11.Bc3 c512.dxc5 dxc5 13.Rfd1 Rfd8 14.Rd2 Nf8=(14...Ne4? 15.Ng5!) ] 10...Qe7 11.d5 Ne4[If 11...exd5 12.Nd4 c5 13.Nf5 Qe614.Ne3=] 12.Rc1 Nxc3 13.Rxc3 e5=14.Nd2 f5 This is black’s first move in hisstrategy to attack on the king-side. 15.Qc2An elastic move, clearing the first rank tobe able to play his king rook to a1 or b1and at the same time keeping an eye onblack’s king-side play. 15...a5 The idea isto advance a5-a4 and cripple white’s queen-side pawns. 16.b4 this was forced, toprevent a5-a4. 16...Kh8 Black takes iteasy, content that white’s c4-c5 would losehim a pawn and 17 bxa5 Rxa5 would begood for himself. 17.Rb1 Qf7

My opponent is Short and the match will be short. -Garry's quip before his 1993 PCA World Championshipmatch with Nigel Short - by Garry Kasparov

Any experienced player knows how a changein the character of the play influences yourpsychological mood. - by Garry Kasparov


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18.Nb3 [Premature would be: 18.c5axb4 19.axb4 (19.c6 bxc3 20.cxb7 Rxa321.Nc4 Ra7–+) 19...dxc5 20.bxc5 Bxd521.cxb6 cxb6 22.Bxd5 Qxd5 23.Rc7Qe6µ] 18...axb4 19.axb4 Ra3 20.Rd1Over-protecting d5 as he is planning thepuh c4-c5. 20...Nb8 [Played under thewrong belief that ....Na6 next will forcewhite to advance his b-pawn and suffera disadvantage. Better were: 20...Rfa8taking control of the only open file onthe board and 20 Qh4 for an initiative onthe king’s flank were both equal.] 21.c5Na6 [Better was to avoid his bishop beingburied in c8 and move: 21...Ba6 22.Rc1Qg6=] 22.Qb2 Ra4 23.c6 Bc8 24.b5Though the computer evaluation for sucha position is = we know from quite a fewgames from chess history that thisposition is bad for black. After controllingthe open a-f i le, White sometimessacrifices a piece on d6 or b6 to turn hisc-pawn into a passed pawn withdangerous consequences for black.24...Nc5 25.Nxc5 bxc5 26.Ra3! Rb427.Rb3 27...Rg4 [Black tries to take hisrook to the king-side for his threatenedattack. The trouble with this idea is thatif the attack does not happen, then therook is misplaced on g6 or h6 and takestime to get back into active play. Betterwas: 27...Rxb3 28.Qxb3 f4 29.Ra1 Bg430.f3 Bc8]

(Position after 27.Rb3)

28.b6 [Also good was: 28.Bf3 Ra4 29.b6cxb6 30.Rxb6] 28...cxb6 29.Rxb6 f4!30.Rb8 Rg6 [If 30...fxg3 31.fxg3 Rg6(31...Qf2+ 32.Kh1 and white nowthreatens the winning 33 Rf1!) 32.Rf1 Rf633.Rxf6 Qxf6 34.e4 Qg5 35.Rb3 Qg436.Qc2 and the position is good for whiteas he has taken care of all of black’sthreats and now has an advanced passedpawn on c6.] 31.Ra1 h5

32.Qb7!! Qf5 [32...Bxb7 33.Rxf8+ Qxf834.cxb7 and the threat of 35 Ra8 wins.Note that the black rook on g6 is out ofplay.] 33.Qb1!! [33.Qb1 Qxb1+ 34.Raxb1Rgf6 35.Ra1 Kg8 36.Raa8 Bf5 37.c7 andthe threat of 38 c8Q! wins a bishop.] 1–0


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Tactics from master gamesby S.Krishnan

White to play and win White to play and win

Black to play and win White to play and win

White to play and win White to play and winSolutions on page 41

1. 2.

3. 4.

5. 6.

Black to play and win White to play and win

Black to play and win Black to play and win

White to play and win Black to play and win

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Test your endgameK.Muralimohan, FIDE Instructor

Solutions on page 41

1. 2.

3. 4.

5. 6.

V & M Platov 1914 A.Sobey 1995

F.Prokop 1923 E.Markov 1935

J.Berger 1890 C.Heller 1873

White to play and win in all the six endings above

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Howard Staunton (1810 - 22 June 1874) was an English chess masterwho is generally regarded as having been the world's strongest player from1843 to 1851, largely as a result of his 1843 victory over Saint-Amant. Hewas the principal organiser of the first international chess tournament in1851, which made England the world's leading chess centre and causedAdolf Anderssen to be recognised as the world's strongest player.

From 1840 onwards he became a leading chess commentator, andwon matches against top players of the 1840s. In 1847 he entered aparallel career as a Shakespearean scholar. Ill health and his two writingcareers led him to give up competitive chess after 1851. Moderncommentators consider Staunton's understanding of positional play to

have been far ahead of his contemporaries. His chess articles and books were widely read andencouraged the development of chess in the United Kingdom, and his Chess-Player's Handbook(1847) was a reference for decades. The chess openings the English Opening and StauntonGambit were named for his advocacy of them. Several modern commentators regard Stauntonas de facto World Champion after his match victory over Saint-Amant, although that title did notyet formally exist. In 1845 Staunton began a chess column for the Illustrated London News,which became the most influential chess column in the world and which he continued for the restof his life. Most of his later life was occupied in writing about Shakespeare. When he died suddenlyof heart disease, on 22 June 1874, he was at his desk writing one of these papers. At the sametime he was also working on his last chess book, Chess: Theory and Practice, which waspublished posthumously in 1876.

Twentieth-century opinions of Staunton's play varied enormously. Savielly Tartakower wrote,"A remarkable feature of Staunton's play is the number of ultra-modern ideas with which hewas familiar, e.g. the restricted centre, the fianchetto development, bilateral work, the theoryof the local engagement, etc., and, last but not least, the English Opening (sometimes calledthe Staunton Opening)." Garry Kasparov considered Staunton "by the early 1840s... superiorto all his rivals". Bobby Fischer opined that "Staunton was the most profound opening analystof all time. He was more theorist than player, but nonetheless he was the strongest player ofhis day... In addition, he understood all of the positional concepts which modern players holddear, and thus - with Steinitz - must be considered the first modern player."

Although he introduced the English Opening, it has been called "really a twentieth-centuryinvention" that only became fully respectable after future World Champion Mikhail Botvinnikbegan playing it in the 1930s. Similarly, although he was an early champion of the SicilianDefense, which is today the most popular opening, and the most successful response to1.e4, he seems to have had little influence on how the Staunton introduced the StauntonGambit against the Dutch Defense (1.d4 f5 2.e4!?). Although it was once a feared attackingline, it has been out of favor since the mid-1920s, and is thought to "offer White equality atbest". Staunton also analyzed a different gambit approach to the Dutch, 2.h3 followed by g4.Staunton also advocated the Ponziani Opening 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.c3, which was oftencalled "Staunton's Opening".

Courtesy : Wikepedia

Masters of the past-27 Howard Staunton

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Solutions to ‘Tactics from master games’on p38

1 Anand,Viswanathan (2775)Adams,Michael (2710) [A29]4th London Chess Classic London ENG(6.3),07.12.2012Position after white’s 41st move. Black toplay. 41...Qd1!!–+ 42.Qh6 [Or 42.Bxe6Ra1 43.Bxf7+ Kg7! Wins; 42.Bf1 Bh3+43.Kxh3 Qxf1+ 44.Kh2 Rxf2+]42...Bh3+! [42...Bh3+ 43.Kxh3 (43.Kh2Rxf2+ 44.Kxh3 Qh1#) 43...Qh1#] 0–1

2. Radjabov,Teimour (2793)Morozevich,Alexander (2748) [D35]SportAccord Blitz Men 2012 Beijing CHN(7.8), 16.12.2012Position after 28th move.White to play.29.Nxf6+! gxf6 30.Qg6+ Kf8 [30...Qg731.Qxe8++-] 31.Bxf6+- Qc7 [31...Qd732.Qxh6+ Kf7 33.Qg7+ Ke6 34.Qg4+ Kd635.Be5+ Rxe5 36.dxe5+ Kc7 37.Qxb4+-] 32.Qxh6+ Kg8 33.Qh8+ [33.Qh8+ Kf734.Qg7+ Ke6 35.Qxc7+-] 1–0

3. Hou Yifan (2606) Cmilyte,Viktorija (2524) [B77]SportAccord Blitz Women 2012 BeijingCHN (7.7), 16.12.2012Position after White’s 23rd move. Black toplay. 23...Nxd5! 24.Rxd5 [24.Rd3 Bxc325.bxc3 Nb4+–+] 24...Rxb2+!–+25.Kd1 [25.Kxb2 Bxc3+ 26.Kc2 Bxe1+–+] 25...Rxc3 26.Rxe7 Bh6 27.Ke1Rxg2 28.Re2 [28.Bd1 Rc1! 29.Re4 a)29.Rxd6 Rg1+ 30.Ke2 Rb1 31.Red7(31.Bc2 Rg2+–+; 31.Ba4 Rge1+ 32.Kd3Rxe7–+) 31...Rb2+ 32.Kd3 Rxd1+–+; b)29.Rd4 Bg5 30.Kf1 Rxh2–+; 29...Rxh2–+] 28...Rc1+ 29.Rd1 Rg1+ 0–1

4. Murshed,Niaz (2464) Short,Nigel D(2692) [A43]World Cities Team GpA Al-Ain UAE (2.1),23.12.2012

Position after White’s 28th move. Black toplay. 28...Qxh3! 29.Bxf6 [29.Qe2 Ng430.Qf3 Rxa2–+] 29...gxf6! [29...gxf630.Qxf6 Qh2+! 31.Kf1 (31.Kxh2 Ng4+–+) 31...Qh1+ 32.Ke2 Rxa2+ 33.Rxa2Rxa2+ 34.Rd2 (34.Kd3 Qb1+ 35.Kd4(35.Kc3 Qb2+ 36.Kd3 Qxf6–+) 35...Rd2+36.Kc5 Rxd7–+) 34...Rxd2+ 35.Kxd2Qd5+ 36.Kc3 Ng4–+] 0–1

5. Hausrath,Daniel (2483)Schiffer,Kai-Uwe (2300) [A07]Groningen Open A Groningen NED (2.9),22.12.2012Position after 24th move. White to play.25.Bb6! Be7 [25...axb6 26.a7 Rxa727.Rxa7+-] 26.Ra5 Bxf6 27.Bxc7+Kxc7 28.exf6+- 1–0

6. Van Kampen,Robin (2570)Ernst,Sipke (2562) [C97]Groningen Open A Groningen NED (6.1),27.12.2012Position after White’s 49th move. Black toplay. 49...Re2+! 50.Kxe2 [50.Kf3 Qxg2+51.Kf4 Re4#] 50...Qxg2+ 51.Ke3Rxh3+ 52.Kd4 [52.Kf4 Rh4+ 53.Ke3Re4#] 52...Rh4+ 53.Ke3 Re4# 0–1

Solutions to ‘Test your endgame’ on page 39

V. & M. PlatovSbornik etyudov, 19141 Bc1+/i Kg6/ii 2 d6/iii cxd6 3 Bf4/ivc4 4 Bxd6 and wins.i) White improves the position of hisbishop and at the same time forestalls themove 1...g5+. If he begins with 1 d6?,Black counters with 1...g5+ and 2...cxd6.ii) 1...Kh7 2 Bg5/v Kg8 3 Bd8 Kf7/vi 4Bxc7 Ke7 5 b6 Kd7 6 Bh2 Kc8 7 d6 wins.1...Nxc1 2 d6/vii cxd6 3 b6 wins.iii) 2 Bf4? Nxf4 3 d6 Nc6 wins.iv) 3 b6? Is no good in view of thecontinuation 3...Ne5 4 Bf4 Nd 5 b7 d5 etc.

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v) 2 d6? cxd6 3 Bf4 Nxf4 4 b6 Ng6+ wins.vi) 3...Nf4 4 d6 cxd6 5 b6 Ng6+ 6 Kxh5Ne5 7 b7 Nc6 8 Be7 d5 9 Bxc5 wins.vii) 2 b6? cxb6 3 d6 Ne2 4 d7 g5+ 5 Kh3Nf4+ wins.

A. Sobey 2nd Comm.“Schakend Nederland” 19951.Re7 Nf6 2.Rf7 Ne4 3.Ke3 Bg8/i4.Rg7/ii Bd5 5.Kd4 Ba8 6.Rg6 Nd2/iii7.Rb6 Ka5 8.Rb2 Nf3 9.Kc5 wins.i) 3...Bg6 4.Rg7 Bf5 5.Ne7 Nd6 6.Rg5ii) 4.Rf5? Ka6 5.Ne7 Bb3 6.Kd4 Kb6 7.Nd5Bxd5 or 4.Rb7? Kc5 5.Rc7 Kd5 6.Ne7 Kd67.Ra7 Nf6 8.Nxg8 Nxg8iii) 6...Nf2 7.Rb6 Ka5 8.Rb2 or 6...Ka57.Nb6 Bb7 8.Nc4 Ka49.Rb6 Ba8 10.Ra6or 6...Kb4 7.Ra6 Bb7 8.Rb6

F. Prokop, Prager Presse, 19231 Qc6+ Kd8 2 Nd5 Qg3+ 3 Kf8 Qe5 4Nf6 Qe7+ 5 Kg8 Qa7 6 Nd5 Qb8 7 Qe6Qa7 8 Qd6+ Qd7 9 Qf6+ and wins.

E.Markov 19351st commendation Lebedkin MemorialTourney

1.g7 Rgl 2.g8Q Rxg8+ 3.Bxg8 Na64.Bc4 Nc5 5.Nc3 Kg2 6.Kc7 Kf3 7.Kc6Ne4 8.Bd5 Ke3 9.Nxe4 wins.

J. Berger“Theorie & Praxis” 18901 Kc5/i Ke7/ii 2 Kc6 Kxe8 3 a6 Bf2 4b5 g4 5 b6 g3 6 a7 g2 7 a8Q+ Ke7 8Qa3+ Ke8 9 b7 and wins.i) 1 a6 Bf2.ii) 1...g4 2 Kc6 g3 3 Bd7+ Ke7 4 Bh3 Kd85 a6 Bf2 6 b5 and wins.C. Heller 1873

1 d7 c1Q 2 d8Q Qxc6 3 Ng6+ Ke4 4Qh4+ Ke3 5 Qe1+ Kd4 6 Qg1+ andwins.

Solution to ‘Puzzle of the Month’ on page 10

In monochromatic chess the only way the blackking could have escaped from its home square isby castling on the king's side(only then the BRh8would land on the same coloured square on f8)and then coming out via h7.This means thatBlack's last move was not with pawn at h5 fromeither h7 or g6, because then it would havehemmed in the black king. Therefore black's lastmove was with the black king coming from b3.Itjust moved out of check from the white queen.How did the queen give this check? Not by havingmoved from c2,d3 or d5, where it would havechecked the king. The only possibility is that theblack king has just captured a White rook on a2which previously moved from c2, discoveringcheck from the king. So before the last move,there was white rook on a2.Now in amonochromatic game an original white rook cannever get to an even numbered row, since it canmove forward or backward only an even numberof squares at a time. Therefore the white rookjust captured on a2 is a promoted one, whichmeans a white pawn from a white square haspromoted.For a pawn to reach the eighth squarein a monochromatic game it must make aminimum of four captures(assuming it movestwo squares on its first move, rather than makinga capture, otherwise it must make six captures.)However it could have captured only three pieces,namely the pawn from b7, the bishop from c8and the rook from a8.All other missing black piecesare from black squares (except of course theBN at g8 which never moved) Therefore thepromoting white pawn must have captured on ablack square! The only way this can happen isby making capture en passant.More specificallywhat must have happened was this: Thepromoting white pawn came from a2 or c2,moved two squares on it first move, thencaptured a piece on b5 and then made a captureen passant on a6 or c6, then another captureon b7, and then its final capture on a8 or c8.

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MUZAFFARPUR FIDE RATING CHESSTOURNAMENT 2013

(Below 2200)

Event Code:-78686/BIH/2013

Organised byMuzaffarpur Chess Club

Under the guidance ofALL BIHAR CHESS ASSOCIATION

On behalf ofALL INDIA CHESS FEDERATION

Date: 10th April to 14th April 2013

Venue:

Farm Villa Utsav Parisar, NH 28, Khabra, Muzaffarpur

Inauguration :- 10th April 2013 at 11:00 hrsPrize Distribution:14th April 2013 at 16.00 hrs

Total cash prizes: Rs.2,50,000

Entries may be sent by DD in favour of 'Muzaffarpur Chess Club'payable at Muzaffarpur.Address for sending entry fee is:The Director, Muzaffarpur Chess Club AT+PO, Khabra

Muzaffarpur- 843146

Contact numbersAbhash Kumar (Director, MCC) 9334095041

Kishore Banerjee (Member, MCC) 9771413401Manoj Kr. Verma "Sankalp" (Secretary, CDCA) 8804385234

A.K. Sinha (Secretary, ABCA) 9905045924VinayKumar 9097986007

For details of prize money and entry fee visitwww.aicf.in

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3rd MDCA All India OpenFIDE Rating Chess Tournament

AICF Event code: 77035/KAR/2013

Organised byMysore District Chess Association®

Under the auspices ofUnited Karnataka Chess Association

Recognized by AICF

Date: 15th April to 19th April 2013

Venue:

Institution of EngineersVisweswariah Auditorium

Inauguration: 15th April 2013 10.00 a.mPrize Distribution: 19th April 2013 p.m

Entry fee by DD drawn in favour ofMysore District Chess Association payable

at Mysore to be sent toNagendra Muralidhar (Secretary)

#1242, 1st Main, 1st Cross,K.M.Puram, 570004

Contact numbersNagendra Muralidhar 81238 19220

Arunachala H.S 94481 65258Prof.K.R.Premaleela 98867 66713

B.C.Nachappa 92411 13004Raviprakash 94486 09229Manojkumar 94808 50106

Biddappa M.M 94496 21911


State level lightning chess tournament organized inth

celebration of 65 birthday of Hon'ble Chief Minister of Tamilnadu

(sponsored by J.C.D.Prabhakar, President AICF and organized by TNSCA)

Shri Saidai Duraisamy, Hon'ble Worshipful Mayor, Chennai Corporation, Tmt. B. Valarmathi, Hon'ble Minister for Social Welfare and Nutritious Noon Meal Programme, N.R. Visakh (Winner:Men) JCD Prabhakar, MLA., and President, AICF, D.V. Sundar, Vice President, FIDE

JCD Prabhakar, MLA., and President, AICF, Shri Saidai Duraisamy, Hon'ble Worshipful Mayor, Chennai Corporation, Tmt. B. Valarmathi, Hon'ble Minister for Social Welfare and Nutritious Noon Meal Programme, IM S. Vijayalakshmi (Winner:Women) D.V. Sundar, Vice President, FIDE

Players in action! Bharath Singh and R.M.Dongre play as President AICF watches.

J.C.D.Prabhakar, President AICF addressing the gathering. (L-R) K.Muralimohan, Secretary TNSCA, D.V.Sundar, Vice President FIDE, N.Balaganaga, MP,Bharath Singh Chauhan, Secretary AICF and R.M.Dongre,Treasurer AICF

Shri.N.Balaganga, MP inaugurating the tournament making the first move against a young participant

Shri.N.Balaganga, MP lighting the traditional 'kuthuvilakku'

Left to Right:- Ashesh Keni (President, Goa Chess Association), Chief Guest Sandip Nigalye (M.D., Raj Housing Development), Sagar Sakordekar (President, Ponda Taluka Chess Association) and Mohandas Bakhale (Guest of Honour), Winner Chinmay Kulkarni

Standing Left to Right:- Arvind Mhamal (Secretary, Goa Chess Association), Amogh Namshiker (Secretary, Ponda Taluka Chess Association), Shantanu Gauns (Member, Ponda Taluka Chess Association), Sagar Sakordekar (President, Ponda Taluka Chess Association), Ashesh Keni (President, Goa Chess Association), Avdhut Kamat (Principal, GVM HSS) and Vasanth B.H.(Chief Arbiter)

Late Narayan Nigalye Memorial All India FIDE Rating Open Rapid Chess Tournament 2013, Ponda…..

Late Narayan Nigalye Memorial All India FIDE Rating Open Rapid Chess Tournament 2013, Ponda…..

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Shri. Jagannathji Shinde Trophy OpenInternational Chess Tournament

Sponsored by Maharashtra State Chemist and Druggist Association &

Solapur District Chemist and Druggist Association

Organized by Shri.Ramajagdish Bahuddeshiya Mahila Utkarsh Samstha

Under the auspices Solapur District Chess Association,SMCA, MCA on behalf of All India Chess Federation

Date: 11th to 15th April 2013

Venue:

Kiledar Mangal KaryalayaAasara Chowk, Hotgi Road, Solapur

Total prizes: Rs.1,80,000

Entry fee may be sent by DD/Multicity cheque before 31st Marchfavouring Shri.Ramajagdish Bahuddeshiya Mahila Utkarsh

Samstha c/o Sharad Naik, Secretary, payable at Solapur to:51/C, Indiranagar Vijapur Road,Solapur 413004

For details contactBhagyadaya Lalurkar 94204 59184Viswanath Khandekar 98503 35357

Madhav 99230 32231S.S.Joshi 97667 50607

Amal Kulkarni 99602 13845


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AICF Calendar(confirmed dates are in bold print)

March 2013

Asian Junior U-20 Championship 2013 Mar 31 - 07 Apr Sharjah,UAEAACA Intl.FIDE Rated (below 2200) Apr 02- 06 Apr AssamIndore Open 2013 Intl Rated(for MP players) Apr 08- 12 Apr Indore,MPMaharashtra Open FIDE Rated Apr 10- 14 Apr Mumbai, MAHMuzaffarpur FIDE Rated Apr 10- 14 Apr Muzaffarpur,BiharShri Jaganathji Shinde Trophy FIDE rated Apr 11 -15 Apr Solapur, MAHSunita Singh Memorial FIDE Rating Apr 13 - 18 Apr Indore, MP3rd Bhola Infratech All India School Ty Apr 13 - 17 Apr Bubaneshwar2nd All India WBCWA FIDE rated Rapid Ty Apr 13 - 14 Apr Kolkata, WB3rd MDCA All India FIDE Rated Apr 15 - 19 Apr Mysore5th Jugal Kishore Newatia Mem.Ty(below 2200) Apr 18 - 23 Apr Guwahati,AssamDelhi State Open FIDE Rated Apr 20 - 25 Apr New Delhi4th FIDE Rated Tournament(below 1600) Apr 20 - 22 Apr Kottayam,KeralaMaharashtra Chess League Apr 21 - 28 Apr Pune, MAHWorld Amateur Championship Apr 21 - 30 Apr Lasi, RomaniaJain FIDE Rated Tournament Apr 21 - 25 Apr Ahmednagar,MAH6th Thrissur Intl.FIDE Rated Apr 24 - 28 Apr Thrissur,KeralaMaharashtra Chess League Apr 24 - 30 Apr Pune, MAH1st One Goal Chess Academy Rapid FIDE rated Apr 27 - 28 Apr SecunderabadMastermind 3rd FIDE rated below 1800 Apr 28 - 01 May CalicutNational Under-7 Boys & Girls Ch'ship May 01- 09 May Pune, MaharashtraNational Under-17 Boys & Girls Ch'ship May 01- 09 May AssamSou Meenatai Shirgaokar FIDE Rated May 01- 05 May MaharashtraShri Babukaka Shrigaokar FIDE Rated Open May 06 -12 May MaharashtraWorld Schools Individual Championship May 06 -15 May Halkidiki, Greece24th Cusat Intl.Rating Tournament May 09 -13 May KeralaSri Prakash FIDE Rated (below 2000) May 09 - 13 May Tuni, APFun Point (under 2000) FIDE Rating May 14 - 18 May Ahmedabad,GujaratSri Viswasanthi Intl.FIDE rated(below 2300) May15 - 18 May Vuyyuru, AP5th BCA Intl.FIDE Rating (below 2000) May 15 - 18May Kolkata, WBBrain Power Open Blitz FIDE Rated May 18 - 18 May Ahmedabad, Gujarat5th KIIT Intl.Chess Festival May 20 - 27 May BubaneshwarWorld Rapid and Blitz May 22 - 05 Jun Khanty-Mansyisk6th Mayor Cup Intl.Open May 29 - 06 Jun Mumbai, MAH

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6th North East Chess Championship,Imphal….

Manipuri artiste performing during opening ceremony

Dr. N.Dwijamani Singh, President of Pioneer Chess Academy & well known social worker inaugurated the event by playing a game with Mr.Baldev Sharma, President of Imphal west district chess

(From left) : L.Imocha ,Senior player and Mentor of the organisation ,first runner up Chakrilombi Singh A. of Manipur, Winner Santanu Borpatra Gohain of Assam, Chief guest Mr.P.Dhankumar , IPS, Chairman, Board of secondory education , Manipur , Chief Arbiter Mr.Dharmendra Kumar , 2nd runner up Naorem ShantiKumar of Manipur and Mr.L.Atambi ,Org.Secretary.

National Team Chess Championship, Hyderabad……..

Bhopal International Rating Chess Tournament….

Shri Ponnala Lakshmaiah, Honorable Minister for Information Technology & Communications makes the inaugural move against IM Dronavalli Harika.A.Narasimha Reddy,President AP Chess Association, Mr. Ali Nihat Yazici (Turkey) Vice-President FIDE& CIS Chairman, Bharat Singh Chauhan, Hon.Secretary,AICF, Shri G.Vinod, President, Hyderabad Cricket Association, Shri D.V Sundar, Vice-President, FIDE, Dr. T.R.K Rao, IRTS, Vice-Chairman & Managing Director-SAAP look on.

(L-R) Nikleh Jain Tresurar MP Chess.Kapil Saxena Hon. Secretary, MP Chess, A S Singdeo patron,Dr Shilendra Shrivastava (IPS) director Sports MP D.K.Khara chief genrel manager State Bank Of India (sponsrur of first prize)RK Naidu Regional Director SAI,, Arjun Tiwari, Winner, Dharmendra Kumar IA

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