Volume : 8 Issue : 8 Price Rs. 25 February 2015

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

Winner GM Andrey Baryshpolets (Ukraine)

13th Parsvnath Delhi International Grandmasters Chess Tournament2015,New Delhi

7th Chennai Open International Open Grandmaster Chess Tournament, Chennai

GM Popov Ivan (Russia )Winner

AICF CHRONICLE1

February 2015

Room No. 70,Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium,Chennai - 600 003.Ph : 044-65144966 /Telefax : 044-25382121E-mail : indianchessfed@gmail.comPublisher: V. HariharanEditor : C.G.S. Narayanan

AICF CHRONICLE FEBRUARY 2015

Price: Monthly Rs.25 Annual Rs.300

Inside…… 13th Parsvnath Delhi International Grandmasters Chess Tournament2015,New Delhi… 1Andrey Baryshpolets wins Parsvnath GM Openby IA Dharmendra Kumar

7th Chennai Open International Open GrandmasterChess Tournament,Chennai 8Popov Ivan wins titleby V.Vijayaraghavan IA, Chief Arbiter

6th AIM All India Open FIDE Rated Chess Tournament-2015 13 Sekar is championby FA Anandh Babu VL, Chief Arbiter

Puzzle of the monthby C.G.S. Narayanan 15 St Ann’s All India Fide Rating Chess Tournament 2015,Hyderabad… 16Sai Agni Jeevitesh wins at HyderabadFA Promodraj Moree, Chief Arbiter

4th WBCWS FIDE Rated Chess Tournament, Kolkata…. 18 Sayantan Das wins titleAsit Baran Choudhury, IA,Chief Arbiter

1st Balasore All India FIDE Rating ChessTournament ( Below1800),Balasore 20Tirth Sarkar clinches titleFA Suresh Chandra Sahoo,Chief Arbiter

Selected gamesAnnotated by IM Manuel Aaron 22

Tactics from master gamesby S.Krishnan 41

Test your endgameby C.G.S. Narayanan 42

AICF Calendar 48

A chess writer nonpareil

Aron Nimzowitsch was the most important and influential chess player and writer in the history of chess. He was considered the fo remost hypermodern whose theories flew in the face of established conventions which

dominated the era of stalwarts like Tarrasch, Steinitz, Alekhine and Capablanca. His My System, which has seen many editions, is considered to be one of the most influential chess books of all time. Our own Aaron, Manuel Aaron, once confided in me that he became IM mainly by studying My System. FIDE is celebrating 2015 as the year of Nimzowitsch. As a tribute to this genius we are presenting one of his games which is widely hailed as ‘immortal zugzwang game’ in the centre page of this issue.

O u r c o n g r a t u l a t i o n s t o G r a n d m a s t e r S.P.Sethuraman on his winning the Nord-West Cup in Germany. Reports, final standings and photographs of FIDE rated tournaments including the two popular Grandmasters tournaments conducted last month, Parvsnath Delhi GM Open and Chennai GM Open are featured in this issue. Important decisions taken at the Central Council meeting of the Federation held in Chennai on 4th January 2015 are also presented in this issue.

Vladas Mikenas, Lithuanian Grandmaster is featured in the ‘Masters of the past’ series. Puzzle of this month is a Retro-analytical problem worth the study.

C.G.S.Narayanan

Readers are invited to offer their feedback on the regular features in the AICF Chronicle and are also invited to send interesting articles, annotated games and chess anecdotes to the Editor at ‘www.indianchessfed@gmail.com’ or ‘cgsnarayanan@hotmail.com.

13th edition of Parsvanath Delhi Intl GM Chess Tournament started this year on Jan 09 . First day witnessed 663 players at a time in tournament hall. Category ‘A’ and ‘B’ started together on 09th which concluded on 16th and 12th respectively . A total number of 179 players from 18 countries, including 22 Grandmasters, 27 International Masters and 3 Women Grandmasters were taking part in Cat-‘A’ while in the Category ‘B’ for the players below 1999 international rating attracted a total number of 484 players out of which 440 were rated !

Before the first round of Cat-‘A’, there was a inaugural function attended by Smt.Neelam Pratap Rudy as Chief guest while as guest of Honor , Mr. Bharat Singh Chauhan , CEO, AICF graced the occasion. Other digni-taries present on the dais were Mr. Kapil Saxena, Joint Secretary , AICF & Hon. Sec-retary, MP Chess Association, Mr. Mahendra Dhakal, Hony. Secretary, Sikkim Chess Asso cition, Mr. Vipnesh Bhardwaj,Hon. Secretary, Chandigarh Chess Association , Mr. Rajesh Kumar Hon.Secreatry,Kerla Chess Associa-tion and Organizing secretary Ajeet Kumar Verma.

Grandmaster Andrey Baryshpolets of Ukraine won the 13th Parsvanth International Grand-masters chess tournament defeating Deepan Chakkravarthy in final round.It was a three-way tie for the top spot and Baryshpolets was followed by Ivan Popov of Russia and Alberto David of Italy who finished second and third respectively on eight points out of a possible ten. Of the three, Baryshpolets went home richer by Rs. 300000/- in the Rs.3000000/-

13th Parsvnath Delhi International Grandmasters Chess Tournament2015,New Delhi…

Andrey Baryshpolets wins Parsvnath GM Openby IA Dharmendra Kumar

prize money festival.Deepan Chakravarthy had the consolation of finishing as the best performing Indian as he finished tenth on seven points despite losing the last round game.It was a tough final day as overnight sole leader Mikhail Mozharov of Russia was outdone by David who won a fine game with black pieces. Popov also had to work hard but eventually prevailed over Van Huy Nguyen of Vietnam.Top seed Abhijeet Gupta won his last round game against Himal Gusain to end 11th on seven points. After a slump midway in the tournament Gupta recovered a little to win the last three rounds.As many as five International Master norms were secured in the tournament and the biggest gainer was C R G Krishna who became an International Master on his performance here. The other norms were scored by Aniruddha Desh-pandey, Abhishek Kelkar, M Kunal.

S.Rakesh Gurung of Sikkim won Category ‘B’emerged as Champion, if it is Delhi Open where around 700 players was in action. As top seed of the tournament, he proved and showed his playing strength by scoring 9 out of 10. On the way to title , he lost one and only game against Md.Fasal in 3rd round but thereafter he remarkably won all his games and declare clear winner with 9 point alone .He went home richer by Rupees 1.5 Lakh and must not forget to mentioned that 4th place also goes to Sikkim as Rahul Gurung who scored 8 point but with better buchholz amongst the players in the same score brack-et and pocketed Rs. 75 Thousand. Rakesh was closely followed by Manan Rai of Delhi and Prasad Aurangabadkar of Maharashtra who finished 2nd and 3rd place and earned

AICF CHRONICLE3

February 2015

AICF CHRONICLE2

February 2015

1.2 Lakh and 1 Lakh respectively.In the prize distr ibution ceremony, Ukranian Grandmaster Valeriy Neverov and CEO, AICF Mr.Bharat Singh Chauhan has gave away the prizes to winners in presence of Mr. Kapil Saxena, Joint Secretary, AICF & Hony . Secretary, MP Chess Association, Mr.Rajesh Kumar, Hony.Secretary, Kerla Chess Association and Organizing secretary Ajeet Kumar Verma.Category ‘C’

Vardan Nagpal clinched Category ‘C’ title.A total of 670 players in Category ‘C’ made the temperature of tournament hall higher then usual one outside of hall . Non stop chess show began in full stream when Category ‘C’ on Jan 13th. Back to back round of both the categories was really The ‘C’ category of the festival was won by young talent from Delhi Vardan Nagpal who won a cash prize of Rs. 1.25 Lakhs for his efforts. Interestingly the second place in this section was also won by local youngster Rishabh Jain who won Rs. 100,000/-. 57th seed local champ made 9 point out of 10 round and clear half point ahead from others. 2nd place was decided by tiebreak where 7 players were tied with 8.5 point. With better buchholz score , Rishabh Jain and Mulla Nihalahamad of Maharashtra got silver and bronze respectively .

The prizes to the winners of Category ‘A’ & ‘ C’ were given away by Mr. Ajit M Sharan, Secretary Sports Govt. of India, Air Commodore Mr. G Amar Babu, Air Officer Commanding Air Force Station New Delhi, Group Captain Mr. J Rajendra, Chief Admin-istrative Officer Air Force Station New Delhi, Mr.V Hariharan, Hony. Secretary AICF, Mr.Bharat Singh Chauhan, CEO AICF and Mr.A K Verma, Hony. Secretary Delhi Chess Association.Not just a tournament but

Delhi Chess Association believes in all other aspects of life.

Birthdays of S.L.Narayan and IA Vasanth B H with all the arbiters and organizers.Birth-day of GM Dzhumaev was also celebrated biters.Mr. Bharat Singh Chauhan , CEO, AICF. Delhi Chess Association felicitated IA M.S. Gopakumar for his contribution to Chess. He is associated with DCA for more then a decade and played exemplary role in chess promotion .

Final Ranking:Delhi Open A ( first 124 placings only) Rk. Name FED Pts. 1 GM Baryshpolets Andrey UKR 82 GM Popov Ivan RUS 83 GM David Alberto ITA 84 GM Mozharov Mikhail RUS 7.55 GM Cruz Cristhian PER 7.56 GM Nguyen Duc Hoa VIE 7.57 GM Rombaldoni Axel ITA 7.58 IM Nguyen Van Huy VIE 79 GM Demchenko Anton RUS 710 GM Deepan Chakkravarthy IND 711 GM Gupta Abhijeet IND 712 GM Neelotpal Das IND 713 GM Debashis Das IND 714 GM Kunte Abhijit IND 715 IM S L Narayanan IND 716 IM Karthikeyan P. IND 717 GM Brunello Sabino ITA 718 IM Prasanna Raghuram Rao IND 719 Krishna C.R.G. IND 6.520 IM Narayanan Srinath IND 6.521 IM Satyapragyan S IND 6.522 IM Rathnakaran K. IND 6.523 Gusain Himal IND 6.524 IM Saptarshi Roy IND 6.525 GM Rahman Ziaur 6.526 GM Neverov Valeriy UKR 6.527 Visakh Nr IND 6.528 IM Swapnil S. Dhopade IND 6.529 GM Shyam Sundar M. IND 6.530 GM Gasanov Eldar UKR 6.5

3

7th Chennai Open International Open Grandmaster Chess Tournament, Chennai

(L-R) R.Rajesh, Secretary, Chess Association Kerala,V.Hariharan, Secretary AICF, D.V.Sundar, Vice-President, FIDE,IM Manuel Aaron (inaugurating the Chennai Open 2015) Prof.R.Anantharam, IA, FM R.Praggnananda

(L to R) Mr V Hariharan, Hon. Secretary , AICF, Champion GM Popov Ivan of Russia , Mr Shambhu Kallolikar, IAS, Member Secretary, Sports Development Authority of Tamil Nadu, Mr D V Sundar, Vice President, FIDE

( contd on p.5 )

AICF CHRONICLE5

February 2015

AICF CHRONICLE4

February 20154

(L to R) Mr V Hariharan, General Secretary, Tamil Nadu State Chess Association, Mr T Chandrasekar, Stadium Officer, Nehru Stadium, Dr V R Newbegin Chellappa, General Manager, Sports Development Authority of Tamil Nadu, Category ‘B’ Champion O T Anilkumar, Rotarian R Tamil Selvan, District Rotract Chairman, Rotary District 3230

(L to R )back row: Chief Arbiter S Paul Arokia Raj, Mr V Hariharan, General Secretary, Tamil Nadu State Chess Association, Mr N Rajesh, Secretary, Chess Association Kerala, Mr B Murugavel, Vice President, Tamil Nadu State Chess Association, Mr M Senthilvel, Joint Secretary, Tamil Nadu State Chess Association. (L to R front row) Category "C" prize winners

7th Chennai Open International Open Grandmaster Chess Tournament, Chennai 31 IM Shyam Nikil P. IND 6.532 Abhishek Kelkar IND 633 IM Nitin S. IND 634 Ravi Teja S IND 635 IM Himanshu Sharma IND 636 GM Grover Sahaj IND 637 Krishna Teja N IND 638 IM Chakravarthi Reddy M IND 639 Pradeep Kumar R.A. IND 640 IM Ramnath Bhuvanesh.R IND 641 WGM Swathi Ghate IND 642 Kulkarni Rakesh IND 643 Ajay Krishna S IND 644 IM Shivananda B.S. IND 645 FM Raghunandan KS IND 646 GM Evdokimov Alexander A RUS 647 IM Kathmale Sameer IND 648 IM Sangma Rahul IND 649 IM Cruz Jonathan PER 650 IM Gagare Shardul IND 651 IM Anurag Mhamal IND 652 Pratyusha Bodda IND 653 GM Dzhumaev Marat UZB 654 GM Lazarev Vladimir FRA 655 CM Puranik Abhimanyu IND 656 Harsha Bharathakoti IND 657 Ritviz Parab IND 658 Deshpande Aniruddha IND 5.559 Kunal M. IND 5.560 IM Kulkarni Vikramaditya IND 5.561 IM Murali Krishnan B.T. IND 5.562 Vignesh Nr IND 5.563 Harikrishnan.A.Ra IND 5.564 IM Del Rey Diego ESP 5.565 Shashikant Kutwal IND 5.566 IM Thejkumar M. S. IND 5.567 Navalgund Niranjan IND 5.568 WFM Saranya J IND 5.569 Michelle Catherina P IND 5.570 Dhar Rajib IND 5.571 WFM Vaishali R IND 5.572 Sidhant Mohapatra IND 5.573 Senthil Maran K IND 5.574 Pranav Shetty IND 5.575 IM Sardana Rishi AUS 5.576 FM Praggnanandhaa R IND 5.577 Arvind Shastry IND 5.5

78 Dhananjay IND 5.579 Nishant Malhotra IND 580 Sahoo Utkal Ranjan IND 581 Aradhya Garg IND 582 Nath Rupankar IND 583 Patil Pratik IND 584 Thing Bibek NEP 585 Joshi Govind Ballabh IND 586 Dodeja Pawan IND 587 Kumar Gaurav IND 588 WIM Andrenko Irina UKR 589 Pradip Tiwari IND 590 Gahan M.G. IND 591 Tiwari Arjun IND 592 Lama Himal NEP 593 Bhambure Shantanu IND 594 Harini S. IND 595 IM Gokhale Chandrashekhar IND 596 Mehar Chinna Reddy IND 597 Niraj Saripalli IND 598 Saurabh Anand IND 599 WFM Monnisha Gk IND 5100 Godbole Atharva IND 5101 FM Rakesh Kumar Jena IND 5102 Arjun K. IND 5103 Kulkarni Vinayak IND 5104 Imocha Laishram IND 5105 WFM Varshini V IND 4.5106 Iniyan P IND 4.5107 Madhurima Shekhar IND 4.5108 WFM Mahalakshmi M IND 4.5109 Sumit Grover IND 4.5110 Surendran N. IND 4.5111 Ashwath R. IND 4.5112 Lakshmi Narayanan Mv IND 4.5113 Yohan J. IND 4.5114 Santu Mondal IND 4.5115 IM Rajesh V A V IND 4.5116 Vasli Aref IRI 4.5117 WFM Tarini Goyal IND 4.5118 WGM Safranska Anda FRA 4.5119 Kranti Kumar P. IND 4.5120 Niklesh Kumar Jain IND 4.5121 WFM Arpita Mukherjee IND 4.5122 Upadhyay R IND 4.5123 Adhithya S IND 4.5124 Pranavananda V IND 4

( contd from p.2 )

AICF CHRONICLE7

February 2015

AICF CHRONICLE6

February 2015

Final standings: Delhi Open B( first 91 placings only) Rk. Name Pts. 1 Gurung Rakesh 92 Manan Rai 8.53 Aurangabadkar Prasad 8.54 Gurung Rahul 85 Harshavardhan G B 86 Koireng Leitanthem 87 Sanjay Chhabra 88 Ahirwal Dinesh 89 Aditya Basu 810 Barath Kalyan M 811 Patel Nishrut R 812 Verma Rahul 813 Akshay Anand 7.514 Rahul Ubadhyay 7.515 Raghvendra Kumar Mishra 7.516 Abhishek Jaiswal 7.517 Khalid Amin 7.518 Abhinav Gola 7.519 Bhupendra Kumar 7.520 Subhayan Kundu 7.521 Khusraw 7.522 Vigneshwaran S 7.523 Shaon Chowdhury 7.524 Sankalp Gupta 7.525 Rohan Bharat Joshi 7.526 Sadhwani Raunak 7.527 Doshi Moksh Amitbhai 7.528 Bharat Kumar Reddy Poluri 7.529 Lawaniya Eshan 7.530 Ajay Kumar Rai 7.531 Subramanian Pl 732 Kaushik Shubham 733 Sachin Malik 734 Rupesh Ranjan 735 Rajendra Kumar Bajpai 736 Venkataramana P 737 Kushagra Mohan CM 738 Rishabh Nishad 739 Patil Mayur 740 Shatrughan Kaushik 741 Balaga Ravi Kumar 742 Trivedi Karan R 743 Salonika Saina WCM 744 Ayush Bhai Mehta 7

45 Barun Paul 746 Vaibhav Aggarwal 747 Aditya B Kalyani 748 Dileep Tripathi 749 Vaibhav Barahate 750 Mohammed Yonus 751 Kamdar Udit 752 Shiva Pavan Teja Sharma U 753 Bhandari Jitendra Singh 754 Singh Amarjit 755 Mota Pankit 756 Singh Soram Rahul 757 Subhajit Dhar 758 Anirban Basu 759 Tamang Thendup 760 Patil Jitendra 6.561 Smeeru Thakur 6.562 Sudhir Kumar Behera 6.563 Taorem Chitaranjan 6.564 Surya Narayana.M 6.565 Muthu Hareeswaran S 6.566 Anil Shivpuri 6.567 Avdhoot Lendhe 6.568 Binayak Rath 6.569 Mohan Naithani 6.570 Om Kharola 6.571 Abhishek Sarkar 6.572 Katkade Pavan 6.573 Tamim Ahmad 6.574 Vijeet Deliwala 6.575 Om Vinay Vitalkar 6.576 Kumar Sanu 6.577 Harshavardhan B 6.578 Amlan Mahanta 6.579 Raees Ahmed A Q 6.580 Rath Hrusikesh 6.581 Anchit Vyas 6.582 Amini Habibullah 6.583 Agamjot S Kals 6.584 Shami Vipin K. 6.585 Raghav Bagri 6.586 Potluri Saye Srreezza 6.587 Aditya Mittal CM 6.588 Dangmei Bosco 689 Amarasinghe A A C B 690 Suraj Dahiya 691 Aishwin Daniel 6

Parvsnath GMOpen’C”( first 90 placings only) Final standings: Rk. Name Pts. 1 Vardan Nagpal 92 Rishabh Jain 8.53 Mulla Nihalahamad 8.54 Gabbar 8.55 Sachinder 8.56 Sarvaliya Niraj 8.57 Suraj Dahiya 8.58 Harshavardhan B 8.59 Sanchit Anand 810 Das Jitendra Kumar 811 Saikat Nath 812 Suraj Prakash Mina 813 Kadakkavur Anil 814 Anil Prasad 815 Hemanth Eswar G 816 Kalbande Mayur 817 Prraneeth Vuppala 818 Jai Prakash Singh 819 Aan Sikka 820 Muthu Hareeswaran S 7.521 Srihari L R 7.522 Adarsh Tripathi 7.523 Divyanshu Gupta 7.524 Jaiswal Shubham Rajendra 7.525 Rajnish Goyal 7.526 Komal Ashish 7.527 Jaskeerat Singh 7.528 Pukhraj Singh 7.529 Rathi Dhanashree 7.530 Sharmik Rawal 7.531 Thakur Ankur Singh 7.532 Muthukrishnan S 7.533 Jain Kashish Manoj 7.534 Tathagat Pal 7.535 Jha Kishor 7.536 Kunal Kakumanu Prasad 7.537 Vilakshan Mehta 7.538 Aanandha Kumar M S 7.539 Narvekar Pruthviraj 7.540 Dhanush Ragav 7.541 Arun R 7.542 Raghav Juneja 743 Jonny Verma 7

44 Anurag Kuruvada 745 Kawade Avadhut 746 Meenal Gupta 747 Yash Joshi 748 Ankit Payal 749 Manish Anto Cristiano F 750 Tushar Banerjee 751 Bhosale Shriraj 752 Satyanarayana Raju D S 753 Arsh Verma 754 Bala Subramaniyan R 755 Soham Kamotra 756 Shrivastav Hritik 757 Sivakumar S 758 Ankit Saxena 759 Tripathi D P 760 Lakhan Sharma 761 Dushyant Khanduja 762 Vishal Thorat 763 Utkarsh Gupta 764 Harsh Vardhan Gautam 765 Mokashi Rohit 766 Bhat Siddharth K 767 Gaha Narayan 768 Dinesh Bhagat 769 S.A. Surya Kumar 770 Amitesh Kumar Sinha 771 Gaurav Kumar (mah) 772 Deepak Kumar 773 Nivedan Bhardwaj 774 Gaurav Nishad 775 Barde Om 776 Sinha Shivam 777 Sasikumar.S 778 Telang Yashwant 779 Yogesh Solanki 780 Saurabh Mathur 781 Ershad P 782 Lovish Verma 6.583 Patel Sanket S 6.584 Shivam Srivastava 6.585 Sharma Suyash 6.586 Sanjib Mali 6.587 Wanjari Rajendra 6.588 Kalnad Dilip 6.589 Shahnawaz Khan 6.590 Qureshi A S 6.5

AICF CHRONICLE9

February 2015

AICF CHRONICLE8

February 2015

GM Ivan Popov of Russia won the 7th edition of the Chennai Open with a score of 7.5 points. The ten round Swiss format tournament, with a time control of 90 minutes each with an increment of 30 seconds per move was held at Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, Chennai from 30th Decem-ber 2014 to 1st January 2015. The list of parti cipants included 15 Grandmasters, 27 Inter nat iona l Masters, 2 Women Grand masters and Women International Master in a total of 179 players from 12 countries. Ivan Popov of Russia, with a rating of 2622 was the top seeded player of the tournament. The total prize fund of Rs.10 lakh and 50 thousand was distributed in 50 main prizes, in addition to 3.5 lakh rupees for B & C Category Tournaments.

As usual the lower rated Indian players pro-duced many upsets in the inaugural round, mainly Rakesh Kumar Jena of Orissa defeat-ing GM Axel Ramboldini of Italy and Vinoth Kumar of Chennai beating experienced GM DeepanChakkravarthy of Railways. GM elect Swapnil Dhopade of Railways beat overnight joint leader and his team mate IM Rathna-karan in the 5th round to emerge sole leader with 5 points. GM Mikhail Mozharov of Russia joined Swapnil at the top by beating CRG Krishna of Telangana. Swapnil snatched the sole lead again by beating Mozharov in the 7th round to tally 6.5 points. IM Cruz Jona-than of Peru was closely following the leader, half a point behind.

Popov rallied from behind to score a crucial win over Swapnil to be on par with him and Mozharov on 6.5 points each at the end of

8th round. Spate of draws on top boards maintained the status quo after 9 rounds. In the crucial 10th round all the top 6 boards ended without any decisive result leading to a 8 way tie on 7.5 points each for the coveted prizes. Caissa smiled on Ivan Popov who had a better tie break scores to become the champion of the tournament. GM Dzhu-maev Marat of Uzbekistan tried hard for a win, but had to settle for a draw against GM EldarGasanov of Ukraine to finish runner up. The third spot went to GM Mikhail Mozharov and RamnathBhuvanesh edged out Swapnil for the 4th place.

It was a heartening tournament for IM Ram-nath Bhuvanesh and IM Swapnil Dhopade who gained GM norms, Rakesh Kumar Jena for obtaining IM Norm and Pratyusha Bodda for achieving WIM Norm. Sri SambhuKollo-likar, IAS, Member Secretary, SDAT presided over the function and the guest of honor was Shri D V Sundar, Vice President, FIDE

Anilkumar wins Chennai International Open "B" Chess Tournament :- Kera-la player O T Anilkumar won the 7th Chennai Open FIDE Rating Tournament (Category B) with 8.5 points from nine rounds at Nehru Stadium, Chennai here today. Anilkumar shed a lone draw in the third round and won the rest of the games to login a whopping 8.5/9 score, pocketing the winner's purse of Rs. 30000 (Rupees Thirty thousand only).

The second place was shared by Dusthageer Ibrahim M (TN), Toshali V (AP) and Harshini A (TN) at 7.5 points. 372 players played in

7th Chennai Open International Open Grandmaster Chess Tournament,Chennai

Popov Ivan wins titleby V.Vijayaraghavan IA, Chief Arbiter

this nine round Swiss event, including two FIDE title holders.

Total cash prizes for Rs 200000 (Rupees Two Lakhs only) were distributed by Dr V R Newbegin Chellappa, General Manager, Sports Development Authority of Tamil Nadu. Present in the dais were Guest of Honor Rotarian R Tamil Selvan, District Rotract Chairman, Rotary District 3230, Mr T Chan-drasekar, Stadium Officer, Nehru Stadium and Mr V Hariharan, General Secretary, Tamil Nadu State Chess Association.

Dheekshith Kumar wins Chennai Internation-al Open "C" (Under 1600) title With a high score of 8.5 points from nine rounds R Dheek-shith Kuimar won the title in the Chennai International Open "C" (Under 1600) Chess Tournament at Nehru Stadium, Chennai here today. Dheekshith shed a single draw and won the other eight games to finish ahead of the pack. The title win fetched Dheekshith a cash award of Rs 25000 (Rupees twenty five thousand only). Vignesh Kasi PL took the runner up spot with 8.0 points, along with a cash award of Rs 15000 (Rupees fifteen thou-sand only). 386 players participated in this nine round Swiss tournament run parallel to the Chennai International Open Grandmaster tournament. Cash prizes to the tune of Rs. 1.5 lakhs (Rupees One lakh fifty thousand only) were distributed by Mr Rajesh, Secretary, Chess Association Kerala and by Mr B Murugavel, Vice President, Tamil Nadu State Chess Association. Present in the dais were Shri V Hariharan, General Secretary, Tamil Nadu State Chess Association, Mr M Senthilvel, Joint Secretary, Tamil Nadu State Chess Association and Chief Arbiter S Paul Arokia Raj.

Final standings: GM Open - Cat.A( first 138 placings only) Rk Title Name Fed Pts1 GM Popov Ivan Rus 7½2 GM Dzhumaev Marat Uzb 7½3 GM Mozharov Mikhail Rus 7½4 IM Ramnath Bhuvanesh.R Ind 7½5 IM Swapnil S. Dhopade Ind 7½6 IM Ravichandran Siddharth Ind 7½7 GM Gasanov Eldar Ukr 7½8 GM Nguyen Duc Hoa Vie 7½9 GM Cruz Cristhian Per 710 IM Das Sayantan Ind 711 IM Karthikeyan Murali Ind 712 GM Brunello Sabino Ita 713 GM Evdokimov Alexander Rus 714 GM Baryshpolets Andrey Ukr 715 FM Rakesh Kumar Jena Ind 716 GM Neverov Valeriy Ukr 717 GM DeepanChakkravarthyJ. Ind 718 IM Rathnakaran K. Ind 6½19 IM Cruz Jonathan Per 6½20 GM David Alberto Ita 6½21 IM Prasanna R Rao Ind 6½22 K. Praneeth Surya Ind 6½23 IM Sharma Dinesh K. Ind 6½24 IM Navin Kanna T.U. Ind 6½25 IM S L Narayanan Ind 6½26 IM Nguyen Van Huy Vie 6½27 IM Kathmale Sameer Ind 6½28 Harsha Bharathakoti Ind 6½29 IM Rajesh V A V Ind 6½30 Visakh Nr Ind 6½31 GM Rombaldoni Axel Ita 6½32 Mehar Chinna Reddy Ind 6½33 GM Lazarev Vladimir Fra 6½34 Krishna C.R.G. Ind 635 IM Karthikeyan P. Ind 636 Vignesh Nr Ind 637 Gahan M.G. Ind 638 Hemant Sharma (del) Ind 639 Srinath Rao S.V. Ind 640 IM Stany G.A. Ind 641 Ravi Teja S. Ind 642 Kunal M. Ind 643 FM Matta Vinay Kumar Ind 644 Ram S. Krishnan Ind 6

AICF CHRONICLE11

February 2015

AICF CHRONICLE10

February 2015

45 Lokesh P. Ind 646 Surendran N. Ind 647 IM Deshmukh Anup Ind 648 Pradeep Kumar R.A. Ind 649 IM Nitin S. Ind 650 Navalgund Niranjan Ind 651 Phoobalan P. Ind 652 Sahoo Utkal Ranjan Ind 653 Sekar B Ind 654 Abhilash Reddy M.L. Ind 655 IM Shivananda B.S. Ind 5½56 Pratyusha Bodda Ind 5½57 Kumaran B Ind 5½58 GM Laxman R.R. Ind 5½59 Vasli Aref Iran 5½60 FM Maheswaran P. Ind 5½61 IM Narayanan Srinath Ind 5½62 IM Praveen Kumar C. Ind 5½63 Tiwari Arjun Ind 5½64 Pranav Vijay Ind 5½65 WGM Kiran Manisha Mohanty Ind 5½66 Aniruddh Aiyengar Ind 5½67 Nishant Malhotra Ind 5½68 Lokesh N. Ind 5½69 Ajay Krishna S Ind 5½70 Michelle Catherina P Ind 5½71 Subramanian R M Ind 5½72 Abhishek Kelkar Ind 573 Debarshi Mukherjee Ind 574 Bavankumar Ind 575 WFM Saranya J Ind 576 Ashwath R. Ind 577 Harikrishnan.A.Ra Indi 578 Sanjay N. Ind 579 D Bala Chandra Prasad Ind 580 Kumar Gaurav Ind 581 Sa Kannan Ind 582 Ritviz Parab Ind 583 Pranavananda V Ind 584 FM Praggnanandhaa R Ind 585 Saurabh Anand Ind 586 IM Saravanan V. Ind 587 Sidhant Mohapatra Ind 588 WFM Vaishali R Ind 589 WFM Varshini V Ind 590 Lakshmi Narayanan Mv Ind 591 IM Murali Krishnan B.T. Ind 5

92 WGM Safranska Anda Fra 593 Swain Ashirwad Ind 594 FM Vinoth Kumar M. Ind 595 Senthil Maran K Ind 596 Ganesh Babu S. Ind 597 Vignesh B Ind 598 Yashas D. Ind 599 Harini S. Ind 5100 Hirthickkesh Pr Ind 5101 WFM Monnisha Gk Ind 5102 Snehal Bhosale Ind 5103 Patil Pratik Ind 5104 Neelash Saha Ind 5105 Mohammad Ashraf Ind 4½106 CM Rathanvel V S Ind 4½107 IM Shyam Nikil P. Ind 4½108 Nandhidhaa Pv Ind 4½109 Prajesh R Ind 4½110 WFM Pujari Rucha Ind 4½111 Mari Arul S. Ind 4½112 Rajarishi Karthi Ind 4½113 CM Govindasamy Nashlen SA 4½114 WIM Andrenko Irina Ukr 4½115 Dahale Atul Ind 4½116 Roshan Rangarajan. Ind 4½117 Haribalu V. Ind 4½118 Erigaisi Arjun Ind 4½119 Anustoop Biswas Ind 4½120 Rahul Srivatshav P Ind 4½121 Mirashi Shantanu Ind 4½122 WFM Arpita Mukherjee Ind 4½123 Chakravarthi Y.V.K. Ind 4½124 Iyer Vishal Ind 4½125 Lakshmi K Bhushan D Ind 4½126 Eashwar.M Ind 4127 Joshi Govind Ballabh Ind 4128 Sai Vishwesh.C Ind 4129 IM Shetty Rahul Ind 4130 Negi Virender Singh Ind 4131 Jayakumaar S Ind 4132 Sumit Kumar Ind 4133 Jaswant G Ind 4134 Kulkarni Vinayak Ind 4135 Shet Prajwal P Ind 4136 Hemanth Raam Ind 4137 Iniyan P Ind 4138 Chaithanyaa K.G. Ind 4

Final standings:’B':( first 91 placings only)Rank Name Pts1 Anilkumar O.T. 8½2 DusthageerIbrahim M 7½3 Toshali V 7½4 Harshini A 7½5 Raju S 76 Manigandan S S 77 B Abhinav Reddy 78 Sadhu S Adithya 79 Yuvan Bharathi K S 710 Sahu Rajendra Kumar 711 Parthasarathy R 712 Hari Madhavan N B 713 Adethya R 714 Avi Jaiswal 715 Marthandan K U 6½16 Dileep Kumar R 6½17 Barath M 6½18 Harshavardhan G B 6½19 Karthick Narayanan S 6½20 Abir Sinha 6½21 Gopalakrishnan K. 6½22 Karmukilan S 6½23 Priyamvada Karamcheti 6½24 Uttam Sharma 6½25 Aditya S S V 6½26 Malik Jan Mohamed A. 6½27 Arjun Adappa 6½28 Prachet Sharma 6½29 Srinath.V 6½30 Dhanasekar K. 6½31 Raahul V S 6½32 Neil Franclin S 633 Reetish Padhi 634 Niranjan Nadarajan 635 Harshita Guddanti 636 Rahul S 637 Vinay Vijaykumar 638 Visveshwar A 639 Arjun Kalyan 640 Shakthi Vishal J 641 Kasinathan S 642 S Pavan Teja Sharma U 643 Manu D Suthandram R 644 Gowtham K K 6

45 Vijaya Sharathy 646 Sharath E. 647 Aarudhra Ganesh 648 Rohit Ramanan T G 649 Matta Theja Sahithi 650 Ashhwath C 651 Prathish A 652 Adarsh Tripathi 653 Rakshith N D 654 Jai Aditya D 655 Shreyas M 656 Manoj B Kulkarni 657 Girinath B S 658 Balachandar E 659 Nikhil Magizhnan CM 660 Poojakanth M. 661 Bhuvaneshwari.R 662 Murugan M 663 Srihari L R 664 Pranav P 665 Vigneshwaran S 666 Hariharan S Pillai 667 Pranav V 668 Prasant N Nayagam 669 Sudhamahari Dinker 670 Praveen Kumar S 671 Rajeev V.M. 5½72 Salil Kumar D. 5½73 Sanjay Thiruvengadam 5½74 Ajay Karthikeyan 5½75 Varsha C K 5½76 Krithigga K 5½77 Potluri Saye Srreezza 5½78 Gayetri R 5½79 Swaroop M 5½80 Navnitan S V 5½81 Upendra R 5½82 Muthu Hareeswaran S 5½83 Balaji M 5½84 Paul Arokiaraj S. 5½85 Dharani Kumar M S 5½86 MounikaAkshayaWCM 5½87 Arjun B 5½88 Aswin S 5½89 Dnyaneshwar S Gharge 5½90 Dinesh Annamalai 5½91 Ram Kumar G M 5½

AICF CHRONICLE13

February 2015

AICF CHRONICLE12

February 2015

Final standings: Category C( first 91 placings only) Rank Name Pts1 Dheekshith Kumar R 8½2 Vignesh Kasi P L 83 Atul Srivatsa 7½4 Sumit Samantray 7½5 Ramachandran. V 7½6 Narayanan G K 77 Bala Subramaniyan R 78 Selvamurugan B 79 Vishwak S 710 Lathecka Sai M.A. 711 Murali Krishna 712 Srihari L R 713 Muthukrishnan S 714 Stephen Raj A 715 Nishant Deoram Wanjari 716 Prahalad B 717 Dnyaneshwar S Gharge 718 Rathneesh R 719 Pranav V 720 Rohith Krishna S 6½21 Gopikrishnan S 6½22 Sivasubramanian R 6½23 Deepak K R 6½24 Sasidhar Nb 6½25 Adarsh Tripathi 6½26 Sai Balaji E 6½27 Muthu Hareeswaran S 6½28 Vijay V.S. 6½29 Hirthik Rajan B P 6½30 Krishna K R 6½31 Rakshith J 6½32 Mokashi Rohit 6½33 Ashwath C S 6½34 Subash Anand R 6½35 Bhagyashree Patil 6½36 Benny P C 6½37 Vinoth Kumar M 6½38 Anurag Kuruvada 6½39 Raju G 6½40 Sekar A Muthusamy 641 Kamat Vishal 642 Hariharan S 643 Sreevijay Sunil 644 Dhivyashree J 6

45 Suudhan S 646 Chandra Hass M C J 647 Mogan Raj S 648 Manish Anto Cristiano F 649 Nagalakshmi R 650 Subhransu Sekhar Dash 651 Kalyanaraghavan.V.S 652 Dixit Tharun Raja P 653 Bino Sebastian 654 K Rajaraman 655 Ravi Kumar K.V.K 656 Pranav Hariraja D 657 Komal Srivatsav Sajja 658 Sriram C 659 Vamsi Krishna B 660 Kavi Samrat P 661 Praveen Raj Pushparaj 662 Senthamizh Yazhini S 663 Kumar T V 664 Raja V 665 Thulasingam V 666 Gopinath Parthasarathy 667 Keerthi V 668 Selvamuthu K 669 Rohit S 670 Sivaa G M 671 Adanwale Siddhik 672 Deepika M C 673 Bala Murugan G 674 Shree Krishna Pranama 675 Nitin Shankar Madhu 676 Dhyana Patel 5½77 Deepak Kumar R 5½78 Shriman K 5½79 Gopichand K 5½80 Garima Gaurav 5½81 Srijan J 5½82 Rajeshwar A Sadasivan 5½83 Arputha Jasmine B A 5½84 Vajandar Amogh 5½85 Sukumar.S 5½86 Navaneeth B 5½87 Hiren K G 5½88 Shivashankaran R 5½89 Keerthana Maran T 5½90 Ragesh Sarma.M 5½91 Arjun Kesav Mugilvannan 5½

The 6th AIM All India Open Fide Rated Chess Tournament -2015 was organized by AIM Chess Academy,Namakkal with Park View Academy at Park View Academy, AniyApuram, Namakkal.

The Tournament was started with lighting of Lamp and inaugurated by Mr. S Mani, Correspondent ,Park View Academy at 10:30 am on 22nd January 2015 , in the Pres-ence of Mr.K C Karuppan ,Patron AIM Chess Academy, Dr.P Selvaraj, Correspondent, Selvam Educational Institutes. ChiefGuests were Mr.V Vijayaraghavan, Secretary,Coimbatore district Chess Association and Joint Secretary TNSCA, Dr.V S Ramesh,President,Namakkal District Chess Foundation, Dr.R Arun –Sath-ish Dental Hospital-Namakkal, Mr.M Thurai-raj-Veerakumar Bus Service, Namakkal, Dr.Saravanan S-Harshanna Bio-Gen , Namak-kal, with Mr.Iyyappan SV Secretary-AIM Chess Academy and Mr.V Aathyam Treasurer of AIM Chess Academy. Vote of Thanks was delivered by Mr.S Gnanshekaran-treasurer Namakkal District Chess Foundation.

Soon after the inauguration ceremony Play-ers Meeting took place and l Technical Mat-ters and Appeals Committee were formed.Total Number of Participants was 160 which comprised of 1 IM , 1FM and 124 Rated Players from 5 States and all Districts of Tamilnadu players participated .The event which was spread over five days and ten rounds with a time control of 90 min and 30 sec increment from move No.1. The Total Cash prize of the event was Rs.1,80,000/-(Rupees One lakh Eighty Thousand Only INR)All the Boards provided with DGT Clocks. Time

Control: 90min with 30 seconds increment from move No.1. The tournament was played under Swiss System ,Top Seed of the tourna-ment is Mr.Kunal-2336,from Bishop Heber College ,Trichy. In the beginning stage of the event the players were leading in their points with their seedings. In Round 5 Top Seed Kunal IM Elect was been defeated by P Iniyan -For-mer Under 13 National Champion. In the same Round Second seed IM Balasubramaniam R was been defeated by Sekar B from Chennai.

The Tournament from Round 5 was very tight and tough fight between all the players , Till Round 7 P Iniyan from Salem was sole lead and he was been defeated by IM Balasubra-maniam in Round 8 and jointed with 7 points with Sekar B and Kunal M.

In the last day in Round 9 Kunal M lost his point to IM Balasubramaniam and in Second board Sekar beat Vigneshwaran S of Namak-kal.Till the last round 10 champion of the event could not been decided and there was a tough fight between Ramakrishna J of Andhra Bank and in Second Board Sekar B and Dileep kumar R from Chennai also in a tough fight. Finally Sekar won in second Board and IM Balasubramanian after 4.5 hrs play lost his game to Ramakrishna J from Andhra Bank. Sekar Won the Championship with 9 points lead and Iniyan with Second of 8.5 pts

The team of Arbiters led by Chief Arbiter Mr. Anandh babu VL FA were, FA Prem G, NA A Jahir Hussain, NA Iyyappan SV, NA Aathy-am. The Prizes where given in three slabs specifically (0-1400), (1401-1699) and Main Prizes(1700 and above).

6th AIM All India Open FIDE Rated Chess Tournament-2015

Sekar is championby FA Anandh Babu VL, Chief Arbiter

AICF CHRONICLE15

February 2015

AICF CHRONICLE14

February 2015

Prize Distribution ceremony held on26th January 2015 Chief Guest of the func-tion Lawyer S K Vel, Chairman,Park View Academy,Namakkal, Lawyer C.Thangaraj ,Secretary ,Park View Academy,Namakkal, Mr.M.SenthilVel,President Salem District Chess Association and Joint Secretary, TamilNadu State Chess Association, in the Presence of Ln.M.N Naryanasamy, Sri Sai Surya Poultry Agencies, with S.Naveen,President of AIM Chess Academy, Srinivasa Corpora-tion and Rama Jewellery, Presided with S.V Iyyappan-Secretary AIM Chess Academy and Mr.Aathyam-Treasurer,AIM Chess Academy.All the prizes where distributed at the hands of the Chief Guests Mr.Rama Srini-vasan, Mr.K Nataraj,Sri Ganesh Transport, Mr. Thangaraju,Patron AIM Chess Academy and Mr.S.Sathyanarayanan-Sri Subramniya Jewels Shop.Vote of Thanks delivered by Jc.Er.R.N.Kamala Sekar,RNS Construction.Final standings:Rk. Name Pts. 1 Sekar B 92 Iniyan P 8.53 R Balasubramaniam IM 84 Ramakrishna J. 85 Visveshwar A 86 Kunal M. 7.57 Vigneshwaran S 7.58 Manigandan S S 7.59 Kasi A.L. 7.510 Dileep Kumar R 711 Yuvan Bharathi K S 712 Anandha Venkatesan 713 Karmukilan S 714 Gowtham K K 715 Prasant N Nayagam 716 Prathish A 6.517 Lokesh N. 6.518 Gukesh D 6.519 Arjun B 6.520 Aravindkumar S 6.521 Akash S 6.522 Muthu Hareeswaran S 6.5

23 Manu David Suthandram 6.524 Shyam Sundar M 6.525 Mohamed Anees M 6.526 Nitin Shankar Madhu 6.527 Siddharth Sabharishankar 6.528 Raahul V S 6.529 Sarvesh Kumar A 6.530 Varsha C R 6.531 Navnitan S V 6.532 Krithigga K 6.533 Poojakanth M. 634 Kannan.V 635 Kasthoori Mahalingam K 636 Priyanka K 637 Jagadish P 638 Bharath Subramaniyam H 639 Aasha.C R. 640 Umashankar A 641 Selvamurugan B 642 Vishnu Prasad S 643 Abhinessh S 644 Anand J P 645 Mohammed Shamil A 646 Vignesh N 647 Kabhilan S 648 Inamadar Kartik 649 Sibi Visal R 650 Vinoth Kumar M 651 Kamalraj B 652 Krishna K R 653 Anup Shankar R 5.554 Srihari L R 5.555 Subramanian V 5.556 Rajat Dhruva Ravindra 5.557 Abhilash G 5.558 Pranav Anand 5.559 Sooraj K 5.560 Surya S G 5.561 Manish Anto Cristiano F 5.562 Praveen V 5.563 Nithin A V 5.564 Manish Chandra Kashyap 5.565 Venu Madhav P L 5.566 Sanjai Kumar S. 567 Srimathi R 568 Amith A 569 Arputha Jasmine B A 5

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

The puzzle this month is a retro which needs a closer look. The mate in one for white 1.cxb e.p is staring in the face but can white capture en passant is the question.

( Solution on page 48 )

70 Rakshitta Ravi 571 Ithal H L Rajath 572 Tarun Sivakumar 573 Abirami S 574 Vinoth A 575 Vasudev R 576 Prem Kumar S 577 Yashwanth Raj S 578 Pooja S (2002) 579 Kruthika K R 580 Dhanaviswanathan C T 581 Muthukumar P 582 Sushmit Banerjee 583 Karthick Rajgobal 584 Abdul Hameed 585 S P Krishnamurthy 586 Vidhyth Narain Selvam 587 Sakthi Subash A S 588 Hariprasad S 589 Tamilvelan J 590 Sri Vignesh Ravi 591 Shivani Madhu 592 Subramanian T.V. 4.593 Aravinth Shanmugam S 4.594 Vignesh R 4.595 Eliyaz K L 4.596 Tarunika P 4.597 M Padma Pratibha 4.598 Ebnesar Anto A 4.599 Subash Mathivanan 4.5100 Rajini Kanth D 4.5101 Nicknesar Anto A 4.5102 Ahalya A 4.5103 Hemachandran M 4.5104 Senthil Murugan M 4.5105 Anirudhh M K 4.5106 Tejas Cavale 4.5107 Roshan S 4.5108 Nachiketh Adiga 4109 Sivasubramanian Manoj 4110 Adithyan G 4111 Azath H 4112 Nithish A V 4113 Dhanu Keerthana G 4114 Jagan K S G 4115 Devkarvin V U 4116 Kamali B 4

117 Ramesh V 4118 Poorneshwari S 4119 Karthick Raj S 4120 Naveen K 4121 Santhana Mani S 4122 Nithish Kumar Kanagaraj 4123 Mugelan K Parthasarathy 4124 John De Rose P 4125 Madhu M 4126 Lohith V G 4127 Netesh S S 4128 Shankarasubbu B 3.5129 Keerthi Anand S R 3.5130 Dharshan Venkatachalam 3.5131 Kaushik K 3.5132 Sanjay Muthiah R 3.5133 Gowri Shankar P 3.5134 Hari V P 3135 Jayakumar Thamarai 3136 Vinoth Kumar Anbalagan 3137 Senthil Kumar C 3138 Madheswaran G U 3139 Anunithi S S 3140 Abinivesh Sivakumar 3141 Nirmal N 3142 Shanmugam Pck 3143 Nishanth Nallusamy 3

AICF CHRONICLE17

February 2015

AICF CHRONICLE16

February 2015

St Ann’s Fide Rating Chess Tournament 2015 took place at the St Ann’s College for women, Medhipatnam, Hyderbad. A total of 180 players from various parts of India which included one Grandmaster R.R Lax-man of ICF,two International Master, one fide master, one candidate master and 117 fide rated players. Players from 7 states partici-pated in this event. The event had a prize fund of Rs 2 Lakh with first price of Rs 30,000.

The five day had classical time control event with 9 rounds and top 50 cash prizes and 20 Trophies for the various children’s category. It started on 21st Jan and the tournament was inaugurated by Nagireddy Senior commis-sioner of police, Hyderabad. Sri Narashima Reddy, Vice president AICF was the guest of honor. Mr. S Vijaya Sarathi Ex- Secretary AP Chess Association also graced the occasion. The event was organized for the first time in this college. There was tough contest till the last round. In the last round GM RR Laxman and Bhavan Kumar of Telangana were leading with 7 points each, the game ended in a draw. And on the 2nd board local Talent Sai Agni Jeevitesh defeated IM Stany to tie for the first place, with 3 players on 7.5 each tied for the 1st place. Sai Agni Jeevitesh of Telangana bagged the first place with better tie break score.

The prize Distribution ceremony took place on 25th Jan at 4 pm. The dignitaries who were present as guests of Honour were- Mr A Tirumala Reddy Garu, ICL Organizer, Mr Narasimha Rao Member of Telangana

State Adhoc Committee,Mr K Raghuveer Garu, Principal, Vasavi Education Colleges and K.S.Prasad, Organizing Secretary. Final ranking Rk Name Pts1 Sai Agni Jeevitesh J 7½2 GM Laxman R.R. 7½3 Bavankumar 7½4 Anilkumar O.T. 75 Lakshmi Sandeep Naidu V 76 Kranti Kumar P. 77 Prasannaa.S 78 Raghav Srivathsav V 79 IM Chakravarthi Reddy M 710 CM Kushagra Mohan 711 Shet Prajwal P 712 FM Matta Vinay Kumar 6½13 Lakshmi Krishna Bhushan D 6½14 IM Stany G.A. 6½15 Sharan Rao 6½16 Shreeshan S 6½17 Ram S. Krishnan 618 Ravi Teja S. 619 Murthy V S N 620 Raju M.Y. 621 Melvin Joel V. 622 Khan S 623 Seshu P.V.V 624 Vishwanath Vivek 625 Ramakrishna Perumalla 626 Prateek Srivastava 627 Shiek Fayaz 628 Sachin Pradeep 629 Priyamvada Karamcheti 630 Abdul Azeez S.K. 631 Subhash K V 632 Subuddhi Ramesh Kumar 633 Isha Sharma 634 Anurag Kuruvada 635 Joshi Sunil 6

St Ann’s All India Fide Rating Chess Tournament 2015,Hyderabad…

Sai Agni Jeevitesh wins at HyderabadFA Promodraj Moree, Chief Arbiter

36 Viswanath Sandilya B. 5½37 D. Ashraf Subhani 5½38 Medwin V. John 5½39 Subba Raju S. 5½40 CM Karthik Kumar Pradeep 5½41 Pvs Aravind 5½42 Ravindra P 5½43 Shanmukha Teja P 5½44 WCM Bommini Mounika Akshaya 5½45 Sai Kiran Y 5½46 Kasaram Gananeshwar 5½47 Kandi Ravi 5½48 Srikanth G 5½49 Narasimhamurthy 5½50 Adethya R 551 Sreeshwan Maralakshikari 552 Jishitha D 553 Satyanarayana Raju D S 554 Ravikumar M 555 Bala Chandrudu A 556 Manukonda Arun 557 Vijay Shreeram P 558 Shourya Mupparapu 559 Patil Samiksha 560 Srivastava Pratyush 561 M Tulasi Ram Kumar 562 Praveen Veeramalla 563 Hemanth Eswar G 564 Digvijay Sunil 565 Mohan Sapa 566 Chetana D 567 Muralinadh K. 568 Shreyas P 569 Prraneeth Vuppala 570 Laasya Priya P 571 Nitheesh Pothireddy 572 Kalur Nikhil 573 Varshitha V 574 Sarath Chandra K 575 Raja Ravi Kiran Reddy K 576 Raana Pramodh 577 Srinivas Asapu 578 Kavya Srishti K 4½79 Neeraj Anirudh K 4½80 Meghanshram B V 4½81 Venkata Krishna Tondapu 4½82 Sanjay Bhargawa B 4½

83 Ved Prakash 4½84 Karthik Sai Ch 4½85 Vishwajeeth Reddy Adla 4½86 Sreekanth Oddepalli 4½87 Nanditha V 4½88 Gopalakrishnan Baskaran 4½89 Sreevijay Sunil 4½90 Srihari Padmanabhan 4½91 Konatham Snehil 4½92 Aryagopal 4½93 Rithvik Raja M 4½94 Mahesh G S 4½95 Srujan Keerthan Solletti 4½96 Narasimha Rao Konda 497 Abhinav Ganti 498 Bipin Raj S 499 Davuluri Vihar 4100 Rohith Yadav B R 4101 Biradavolu Asrith 4102 Madhuri Ch 4103 Karunakar Reddy K 4104 Lalit Vishnu Vardhan R 4105 Saypuri Srithan 4106 Saketh Kumar Reddy C 4107 Vysetty Sahithi 4108 Vangala Prashanth 4109 Vathsalya V 4110 Suresh Raju N 4111 Raviteja T V 4112 Muppiri Dheeraj 4113 Sevitha Viju M 4114 Dara Divya 4115 Manaswini Maheshweram 4116 Sujani M 4117 Amudala Shravan Gaud 4118 Pranay Venkatesh 4119 Megh Raj 4120 Shiva Kumar G 4121 Kartikeya Kashyap K B S 4122 HBharadwaj Gundepudi 3½123 Rajinikanth G 3½124 Sree Divya B 3½125 Ranjana Reddy Namireddy 3½126 Vijay Sundar 3½127 Ruthvik Ponnapalli 3½128 Geereddy Saketh Reddy 3½

AICF CHRONICLE19

February 2015

AICF CHRONICLE18

February 2015

4th WBCWS FIDE Rated Chess Tournament, Kolkata….

Sayantan Das wins titleAsit Baran Choudhury, IA,Chief Arbiter

St Ann’s Fide Rating Chess Tournament 2015 took place at the St Ann’s College for women, Medhipatnam, Hyderbad. A total of 180 players from various parts of India which included one Grandmaster R.R Lax-man of ICF,two International Master, one fide master, one candidate master and 117 fide rated players. Players from 7 states participated in this event. The event had a prize fund of Rs 2 Lakh with first price of Rs 30,000.

The five day had classical time control event with 9 rounds and top 50 cash prizes and 20 Trophies for the various children’s category. It started on 21st Jan and the tournament was inaugurated by Nagireddy Senior com-missioner of police, Hyderabad. Sri Narashi-ma Reddy, Vice president AICF was the guest of honor. Mr. S Vijaya Sarathi Ex- Secretary AP Chess Association also graced the occa-sion. The event was organized for the first time in this college. There was tough contest till the last round. In the last round GM RR Laxman and Bhavan Kumar of Telangana were leading with 7 points each, the game ended in a draw. And on the 2nd board local Talent Sai Agni Jeevitesh defeated IM Stany to tie for the first place, with 3 players on 7.5 each tied for the 1st place. Sai Agni Jeevitesh of Telangana bagged the first place with better tie break score.

The prize Distribution ceremony took place on 25th Jan at 4 pm. The dignitaries who were present as guests of Honour were- Mr A Tirumala Reddy Garu, ICL Organizer,

Mr Narasimha Rao Member of Telangana State Adhoc Committee,Mr K Raghuveer Garu, Principal, Vasavi Education Colleges and K.S.Prasad, Organizing Secretary. Final ranking Rk Name Pts1 Sai Agni Jeevitesh J 7½2 GM Laxman R.R. 7½3 Bavankumar 7½4 Anilkumar O.T. 75 Lakshmi Sandeep Naidu V 76 Kranti Kumar P. 77 Prasannaa.S 78 Raghav Srivathsav V 79 IM Chakravarthi Reddy M 710 CM Kushagra Mohan 711 Shet Prajwal P 712 FM Matta Vinay Kumar 6½13 Lakshmi Krishna Bhushan D 6½14 IM Stany G.A. 6½15 Sharan Rao 6½16 Shreeshan S 6½17 Ram S. Krishnan 618 Ravi Teja S. 619 Murthy V S N 620 Raju M.Y. 621 Melvin Joel V. 622 Khan S 623 Seshu P.V.V 624 Vishwanath Vivek 625 Ramakrishna Perumalla 626 Prateek Srivastava 627 Shiek Fayaz 628 Sachin Pradeep 629 Priyamvada Karamcheti 630 Abdul Azeez S.K. 631 Subhash K V 632 Subuddhi Ramesh Kumar 633 Isha Sharma 634 Anurag Kuruvada 635 Joshi Sunil 6

36 Viswanath Sandilya B. 5½37 D. Ashraf Subhani 5½38 Medwin V. John 5½39 Subba Raju S. 5½40 CM Karthik Kumar Pradeep 5½41 Pvs Aravind 5½42 Ravindra P 5½43 Shanmukha Teja P 5½44 WCM Bommini Mounika Akshaya 5½45 Sai Kiran Y 5½46 Kasaram Gananeshwar 5½47 Kandi Ravi 5½48 Srikanth G 5½49 Narasimhamurthy 5½50 Adethya R 551 Sreeshwan Maralakshikari 552 Jishitha D 553 Satyanarayana Raju D S 554 Ravikumar M 555 Bala Chandrudu A 556 Manukonda Arun 557 Vijay Shreeram P 558 Shourya Mupparapu 559 Patil Samiksha 560 Srivastava Pratyush 561 M Tulasi Ram Kumar 562 Praveen Veeramalla 563 Hemanth Eswar G 564 Digvijay Sunil 565 Mohan Sapa 566 Chetana D 567 Muralinadh K. 568 Shreyas P 569 Prraneeth Vuppala 570 Laasya Priya P 571 Nitheesh Pothireddy 572 Kalur Nikhil 573 Varshitha V 574 Sarath Chandra K 575 Raja Ravi Kiran Reddy K 576 Raana Pramodh 577 Srinivas Asapu 578 Kavya Srishti K 4½79 Neeraj Anirudh K 4½80 Meghanshram B V 4½81 Venkata Krishna Tondapu 4½82 Sanjay Bhargawa B 4½

83 Ved Prakash 4½84 Karthik Sai Ch 4½85 Vishwajeeth Reddy Adla 4½86 Sreekanth Oddepalli 4½87 Nanditha V 4½88 Gopalakrishnan Baskaran 4½89 Sreevijay Sunil 4½90 Srihari Padmanabhan 4½91 Konatham Snehil 4½92 Aryagopal 4½93 Rithvik Raja M 4½94 Mahesh G S 4½95 Srujan Keerthan Solletti 4½96 Narasimha Rao Konda 497 Abhinav Ganti 498 Bipin Raj S 499 Davuluri Vihar 4100 Rohith Yadav B R 4101 Biradavolu Asrith 4102 Madhuri Ch 4103 Karunakar Reddy K 4104 Lalit Vishnu Vardhan R 4105 Saypuri Srithan 4106 Saketh Kumar Reddy C 4107 Vysetty Sahithi 4108 Vangala Prashanth 4109 Vathsalya V 4110 Suresh Raju N 4111 Raviteja T V 4112 Muppiri Dheeraj 4113 Sevitha Viju M 4114 Dara Divya 4115 Manaswini Maheshweram 4116 Sujani M 4117 Amudala Shravan Gaud 4118 Pranay Venkatesh 4119 Megh Raj 4120 Shiva Kumar G 4121 Kartikeya Kashyap K B S 4122 HBharadwaj Gundepudi 3½123 Rajinikanth G 3½124 Sree Divya B 3½125 Ranjana Reddy Namireddy 3½126 Vijay Sundar 3½127 Ruthvik Ponnapalli 3½128 Geereddy Saketh Reddy 3½129 Karthikeya T 3½

AICF CHRONICLE21

February 2015

AICF CHRONICLE20

February 2015

The 1st Balasore All India FIDE Rating Tour-nament – 2015 (Below1800) was inaugurat-ed by Chief Guest Asit Kumar Panigrahi, IPS, DIG Police, Eastern Range, Guest of honor Sj. Himanshu Dash, Chairman, Modern En-gineering & Management Studies, Balasore; Industrialist, on 23rd Jan at Modern Engineer-ing & Management Studies, Balasore, Odisha, in the presence of Sj. Pradip Kumar Panda, Chattered Accountant; President, Balasore District Chess Association, Sj. Manoranjan Panda, Secretary, BDCA, Balasore.

The total no of 203 participants (from 15 states) had taken part in this event from dif-ferent parts of the Country. Total 136 rated players (including 16 women) were partici-pated. Nine rounds Swiss system league was played with a time control of 60 min. with 30 sec Increment from move no.1.

The total prize fund for above captioned event was ` 2,00,000/- (Rupees Two lacs only) with 108 prizes + many trophies. No doubt this is the cheapest tournament (as en-try fee concerned) on this category in India. The organiser arranged with FREE dormitory Accommodation & FREE food (Breakfast + Lunch + Dinner) to players for entire tourna-ment period.

Tirth Sarkar, 1780 of West Bengal (8.5 points ) and clinched the Championship and awarded a cash prize of ` 30,000/- along with Championship trophy. Odisha born U-12 boy Pranab Kumar Patra, 1653 became Runner-up & bagged ` 20,000/- & Odisha born U-10 boy (Runner-up of U-7 National in 2012) Mahitosh Dey, 1606 stood 3rd with

` 15,000/- in the tournament .In the closing ceremony the Chief guest was Sj. Sanatan Mallick, Collector & District Magistrate, Balasore. Other dignitaries who graced the occasion on the last day were Sj. Himanshu Dash, Chairman, Modern Engi-neering & Management Studies, Balasore; Industrialist; Dr. Choudhury Satyabrata Nanda, Medicine specialist; Sj. Pradip Kumar Panda, Chattered Accountant; President, Bal-asore District Chess Association; Sj. Debashis Chakraborty, Vetran National Chess Player; Sj. Manorajan Panda, Secretary, Balasore District Chess Association. The Press and Media covered the event well and we had considerably support from the parents and guardians of the kid participants.

I take this Opportunity to thank the Balasore District Chess Association and All Odisha Chess Association for making such tourna-ment a Grand success, which will go a long way in creating awareness and popularising Chess in our State & Country & for giving another chance to below 1800 players to show off their talents.

The Chief Arbiter for the Event was FIDE Arbiter Suresh Chandra Sahoo ably assisted by NA Bhabesh Mohanty & NA Sanjay Kumar Mahapatra of Odisha.

Final standings:1 Tirtha Sarkar 8½2 Pranab Kumar Patra 83 Mahitosh Dey 7½4 Patra Subhendu Kumar 7½5 Sandil Nirmal Chandra 76 Das Susobhit 77 Kiran Kumar P J 7

8 M Sanjay Kumar 79 Tayyeb Asif Mohmamad 710 Nayak Satya Sundar 711 Sahoo Soumya Ranjan 6½12 Sahu Thompson 6½13 Deepak Batra 6½14 Kaushik Nath 6½15 Rajat Kumar Sahoo 6½16 Pattnayak Nilsu 6½17 Deo Anurag 6½18 Sahoo Ankush 6½19 Sasikumar N 6½20 S. Jeevanandam 6½21 Niroj Lochan Das 6½22 Katiyar Prashant 6½23 Sukadev Badhai 6½24 Pujjam Bansod 625 Panda Sambit 626 Swain Diptanshu Ranjan 627 Satyajit Sarkar 628 Deepak Singh 629 Sanku Mitra 630 Nayak Sanjeeban 631 Rakesh Kumar Kesherwani 632 Ali Khan Aamir Gulrez 633 Debasish Majumder 634 Apurba Chakraborty 635 Samantaray Aryan Arnav 636 Sayantan Das 637 Mohanty Rajesh 638 Tapas Mandal 639 Basant Khandelwal 640 Panda Bharat 641 Ashok Kumar Jaju 5½42 Saikat Bose 5½43 Lochan Kumar Das 5½44 Shambo Dutta 5½45 Khamari Amarendra 5½46 Bidyut Kr. Mondal 5½47 Bidhu Bhusan Mishra 5½48 Tanuj M. Meshran 5½49 Imran Hussain 5½50 Avinash Baliarsingh 5½51 Sweta Senapaty 5½52 Narayan Das 5½53 Debata Sarthak 5½54 Mallick Subham 5½

55 Dikshant Dash 5½56 Srinath Bhoi 5½57 Gopal Ch Mahapatra 5½58 Manish Kumar (2006) 5½59 Karmakar Ramen 560 Sumanta Pattnaik 561 Sahadeb Mondal 562 Mohapatra Sarat 563 Mishra Abinash 564 Sahu Biswahari 565 Ananta Narayan Mishra 566 Mishra Satya Nandan 567 Shailesh Madne 568 Biswal Gitashree 569 Rudranarayan 570 Mishra Anisha 571 Srimannarayana K S S 572 Sahu Jagabandhu 573 N Srikshetra Sourav 574 Jadhav Pratik 575 Tekam Krunal 576 Ranjit Bhoi 577 Tripathy Bijay Ketan 578 Krishnamoorthi P K 579 Biswajit Mandal 580 Ansar Baksha K 581 Mriganka Bhowmik 582 Durgesh 583 Atanu Panda 584 Sanjib Kumar Mohanta 4½85 Mohanty B Chandra 4½86 C B Surya Bangaru Raju 4½87 Singh Chandan Lal 4½88 Lokesh Kumar 4½89 Gohel Bimal Ramnik 4½90 Goutam Das 4½91 Hillol Debnath 4½92 Kumar Amit 4½93 Murthy P B L N 4½94 Keshab Charan Sahoo 4½95 Patra Diptesh Kumar 4½96 Siddhesh Kamila 4½97 Sinthia Sarkar 4½98 Sahoo Soumya Prakash 4½99 Rajbeer Ahmed 4½100 Panda Abhinandan 4½101 Rajesh Kumar Jaiswal 4½

1st Balasore All India FIDE Rating Chess Tournament ( Below1800),Balasore

Tirtha Sarkar clinches titleFA Suresh Chandra Sahoo,Chief Arbiter

AICF CHRONICLE23

February 2015

AICF CHRONICLE22

February 2015

23

Sethuraman wins Nord-West Cup in Germanyby Arvind Aaron

Selected games from National Premier, Kottayam

Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron Rajesh,V A V (2408) Girinath,P.D.S (2333) [A61]1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 c5 3.d5 e6 4.Nc3 exd5 5.cxd5 d6 6.Nf3 g6 7.Bf4 a6 8.a4 Bg7 9.h3 0–0 10.e3 Qe7 11.Nd2 Nbd7 12.Nc4 Ne8 13.a5 Though this is the logical move here as it cramps black's queen-side, it has not been tried before, players preferring to complete their development with 13 Be2. 13...Ne5 14.Bxe5 [Stronger was: 14.Nb6 Rb8 15.Nxc8 Rxc8 16.Be2 Nf6 17.Qc2 h6 18.0–0] 14...Bxe5 [This was forced. If 14...dxe5? 15.d6 Qd8 16.Nb6 Rb8 17.d7+-] 15.Be2 f5 16.0–0 Bd7 17.Na4 Bg7 18.Nab6 Rd8 19.Rb1 White has a long term plan of targeting the b7 pawn. 19...Nf6 20.Bd3 Bb5 21.Na3

21...Be8? [It would have been best had he exchanged off his bishop instead of preserv-ing it and cramping his own game: 21...Bxd3 22.Qxd3 Ne4 23.Nac4 Rde8 24.f3 Ng3 25.Rfe1 f4 26.b4 cxb4 27.Rxb4 fxe3 28.Nxe3 Qf7 29.Qd2 Bh6 30.Qf2 Qe7=] 22.Bc2 Bf7 23.Qd2

Ne4 24.Bxe4 fxe4 25.b4 cxb4 [With both white knights operating on the queen-side, black should try for play on the king-side where he is better placed. To be considered here is: 25...g5 26.Nac4 cxb4 27.Qxb4 Bh5=] 26.Rxb4 g5 27.Rc4 Bg6 28.Nc2! This knight is headed for e6. 28...g4 29.hxg4 Qh4 30.Nd4 Qxg4?! [This loses the exchange and eventually the game. His best try was: 30...Be5 31.f4! exf3 (31...Bxd4 32.Qxd4 Qxg4 33.Rc7!±) 32.Nxf3 Qg3 33.Nxe5 Rxf1+ 34.Kxf1 Qxe5 35.Rf4!±] 31.Ne6 Be5 [If 31...Qh5 (to avoid the tactic f2-f4 as happens next move) 32.Nxd8 Rxd8 33.f4 Bf5 34.Rc7 Bf6 35.Rxb7 Kh8 36.Rc1 Rg8 37.Nd7 and black's planned counter-attack is still born.] 32.f4!

32...Bf6 [Surprisingly, the en passant capture loses the queen: 32...exf3? (two pawns on the fourth rank vanish simultaneously!) 33.Rxg4] 33.Nxd8 Rxd8 34.f5! Bh5 [Now the game is lost. If 34...Bxf5 35.Qf2 and one of the bishops must exit.] 35.Rf4! Qg5 36.Rcxe4 Be5 37.Qf2! White feels generous as he has a rook and pawn for a bishop. By offering to return the rook for a bishop white takes the sting out of black's counter-play. More importantly he is

National champion Grand Master S.P. Sethuraman of Chennai won the Nord-West Cup 2015 Open at Bad Zwischenahn in Germany on January 25, 2015.In the 189-player event, he tied for first place on six points and had the higher tie-break to win the title. He was the top seed. Ninth seed Shyam Sundar of Chennai finished seventh and seventh seed Lalith Babu of Vijayawada finished ninth half a point behind on 5.5 points.Sethuraman was India’s highest performer in the Tromso Olympiad 2014 in which India won its maiden medal – bronze. Sethuraman is employed with ONGC, India’s largest profit making Government owned company.Bad Zwischenahn is between Groningen (Netherlands) and Hamburg (Germany) in north west Germany. The event had a prize fund of Euro 5,000 of which Sethuraman’s share was Euro 1000. This event ran from January 22-25, 2015.

Nimzowitsch’s ‘Immortal zugzwang game’Aron Nimzowitsch (7 November 1886 – 16 March 1935) was a Russian-born, Danish leading chess master and a very influential chess writer. He was the foremost figure amongst the hypermoderns.Born in part of the Russian Empire, the Jewish German-speaking Nimzowitsch came from a wealthy family, where he learned chess from his father, who was a merchant. In 1904, he travelled to Berlin to study philosophy, but set aside his studies soon and began a career as a professional chess player that same year. He won his first international tournament at Munich 1906. Then, he tied for first with Alexander Alekhine at St. Petersburg 1913/14 (the eighth All-Russian Masters' Tournament).One of Nimzowitsch's most famous games is his celebrated immortal zugzwang game against Sämisch at Copenhagen 1923.

Another game on this theme is his win over Paul Johner at Dresden 1926. When in form, Nimzowitsch was very dangerous with the black pieces, scoring many fine wins over top players.Nimzowitsch is considered one of the most important players and writers in chess history. His works influenced numerous other players, including Savielly Tartakower, Milan Vidmar, Richard Réti, Akiba Rubinstein, Bent Larsen and Tigran Petrosian, and his influence is still felt today.He wrote three books on chess strategy: Mein System (My System), 1925, Die Praxis meines

( contd on p.27 )

AICF CHRONICLE25

February 2015

AICF CHRONICLE24

February 2015

24

Position after 20...fxe4

25

Systems (The Practice of My System), 1929, commonly known as Chess Praxis, and Die Blockade (The Blockade), 1925, though much in the latter book is generally held to be a rehash of material already presented in Mein System. Mein System is considered to be one of the most influential chess books of all time.It sets out Nimzowitsch's most important ideas, while his second most influential work, Chess Praxis, elaborates upon these ideas, adds a few new ones, and has immense value as a stimulating collection of Nimzowitsch's own games accompanied by his idiosyncratic, hyperbolic commentary which is often as entertaining as instructive.The Immortal Zugzwang Game is a chess game between Friedrich Sämisch and Aron Nimzowitsch, played in Copenhagen 1923. It gained its name because the final position is sometimes considered a rare instance of zugzwang occurring in the middlegame.White: Friedrich Sämisch Black: Aron Nimzowitsch Opening: Queen's Indian Defense (ECO E17) 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 b6 4. g3 Bb7 5. Bg2 Be7 6. Nc3 0-0 7. 0-0 d5 8. Ne5 c6 Safeguards the position. 9. cxd5?! cxd5 10. Bf4 a6 Protects the outpost station c4, i.e., by ...a6 and ...b5. 11. Rc1 b5 12. Qb3 Nc6 The ghost! With noiseless steps he presses on towards c4.

13. Nxc6 Samisch sacrifices two tempi (exchange of the tempo-eating Knight on e5 for the Knight which is almost undeveloped) merely to be rid of the ghost. 13... Bxc6 14. h3? Qd7 15. Kh2 Nh5 I could have supplied him with as yet a second ghost by ...Qe7 and ...Knight–d7–b6–c4, but I wished to turn my attention to the King's side. [Ed: The author likely meant ...Qb7, as e7 has a bishop on it.] 16. Bd2 f5! 17. Qd1 b4! 18. Nb1 Bb5 19. Rg1 Bd6 20. e4 fxe4! - all this for This sacrifice, which has a quite surprising effect, is based upon the following sober calculation: two Pawns and the seventh rank and an enemy Queen's wing which cannot be disentangled only one piece!21. Qxh5 Rxf2 22. Qg5 Raf8 23. Kh1 R8f5 24. Qe3 Bd3 25. Rce1 h6!! A brilliant move which announces the Zugzwang. White has

not a move left. If, e.g., Kh2 or g4, then R5f3. Black can now make waiting moves with his King, and White must, willy-nilly, eventually throw himself upon the sword. 0-1

Important decisions at the AICF Central Council meetingon 4th January 2015

AICF Central Council Meeting was held on 04.01.2015. Here are the important decisions taken during that meeting.1. The AICF Central Council accepts the recommendations of the High Power Committee to solve Assam problem. The following decisions were taken:a. Fresh Elections to be held for the All Assam Chess Association before 31st March 2015.b. All the district associations which existed and affiliated to All Assam Chess Association as on 31st March, 2014 to be allowed to continue as members of the General Body of All Assam

Chess Association. The list of the members to be approved by the AICF.c. The last date for submitting the Annual Subscription to be 01st March 2015. (Those already paid to be exempted)d. The date of election to be 29th March, 2015.e. Meeting notice to be issued on or before 07th March, 2015.f. The list of members to accompany the election meeting noticeg. The last date for filing nominations 04.00

PM on 18th March, 2015.h. The last date for withdrawal 04.00 PM on 20th March, 2015.i. The list of candidates to be announced at 05.00 PM on 20th March, 2015.j. Mr.Arindam Barua, Chairman North East Committee, to nominate the Election Officer in consultation with Hon. Secretary, AICF and the AICF will depute an observer. In case Mr.Arindam Barua decides to contest, the AICF will name the Election Officer.k. It was also decided to allow the existing office bearers (elected on 23rd August, 2014) to continue to serve the All Assam Chess Association till the elections.2. To organise India – China Summit Clash 2015 at Hyderabad from 01st to 10th March, 2015.3. Since adverse reports have been filed by the Chief Arbiter of the World Youth Chess Championship held at Durban, South Africa against FA Jyothi Ganesh Inaganti and FA Amarnath Inaganti, it was decided that till such time the above two arbiters improve their knowledge they will not be posted as Chief Arbiters in any tournament.4. The Central Council decided that the rating restricted tournaments could be organised within three months after organising the open tournament which should be organised first. No postponement under any circumstances will be given. All other Rules governing such tournaments remain the same.5. A committee with Mr.Kishor Bandekar (Goa) as Chairman is formed to implement uniform financial regulations for all state associations.6. The Central Council decided that all State Associations should bear the cost of travelling of their selected / seeded players while representing their states in various Nationals.7. To conduct Arbiters’ refresher course to all the Arbiters who are likely to serve

AICF CHRONICLE27

February 2015

AICF CHRONICLE26

February 2015

26

Position after 26.f4

threatening 38 Qh4 exchanging queens and winning simply. 37...Kh8 38.Qh4 Bxf4 39.Rxf4 Qxh4 40.Rxh4 Bf7 41.Rc4! This rook is bound for c7 from where it is going to dominate and paralyse black's game in conjunction with his firmly established knight on b6. And black cannot do anything about this threat. 41...Kg7 42.Kf2 Kf6 43.e4 Re8 44.Kf3! The king is a fighting piece in the endgame and it must be used as such. From f3, the king protects e4 and also prevents possible black incursion on the king-side, especially along the g-file. 44...Rg8 45.Rc7 Preventing the black king from moving forward as he cannot abandon his bishop. 45...Rg7?!

[A clever move which conceals a trap. How-ever, now his bishop gets pinned against the rook. Perhaps, 45...h6 and then 46...Bh5 could have prolonged the game.] 46.Kf2! [You have to be vigilant at all times, even when the scent of victory is very strong. If here 46.Rxb7?? Bh5+ 47.Kf2 Rxb7–+] 46...Rg4 [If 46...Ke5 47.Rxb7 h5 (47...Kxe4 48.f6!) 48.Nc4+ Kxe4 49.Rxf7!!+-] 47.Nc4 Bh5 [47...Rxe4? 48.Rxf7+ Kxf7 49.Nxd6+–+] 48.Rxh7 Rxe4 49.Nxd6 Re2+ 50.Kf1 Bg4 51.Rh4! Rd2

52.Ne4+ Finally, black falls to a knight fork. 1–0Karthikeyan,P (2400) Swayams,Mishra (2491) [C11]1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.e5 Nfd7 5.f4 c5 6.Nf3 Nc6 7.Be3 Be7 8.Qd2 0–0 9.dxc5 Bxc5 10.0–0–0 Qb6 11.Bg1!? [The usual move here is 11.Bxc5 Nxc5 12.Bd3 with a faint advantage for white.] 11...Bxg1 12.Rxg1 Nc5

13.Qe1 [With his Rg1 supported only by his Nf3, white cannot be straightaway aggressive: 13.g4 Ne4! 14.Qe1 (14.Nxe4 dxe4 15.Nd4 Rd8³) 14...Nxc3 15.Qxc3 Bd7=] 13...Bd7 14.Kb1 Rac8 [14...Rfc8 was better as it would provide an immediate escape square for his king if white embarks on a Bxh7+ sacrifice continuation which is generally available in such positions.] 15.Bd3 Nxd3 [If 15...Nb4 16.Bxh7+! Kxh7 17.Qh4+ Kg8 18.Ng5 Rfd8 19.Qh7+ Kf8 20.Qh8+ Ke7 21.Qxg7 Be8] 16.Rxd3! Nb4 17.Rd4 Rc7= 18.f5 Rfc8 [If 18...exf5 19.a3! Nxc2 (19...Na6 20.Nxd5+-) 20.Kxc2 Rfc8±] 19.Qh4 Diagram # 19...Nd3?! [Black goes for a spectacular continuation which is harmless for white. He could take the initiative with the backward movement of his

as Chief Arbiters and Deputy Chief Arbiters in 2015. Attendance to this course will be compulsory.8. To conduct Arbiters’ Workshop for all the Chief Arbiters and Deputy Chief Arbiters who are nominated for the National Championships during 2015.9. It was decided to implement Payment Gateway to help Registration of players faster.10. It was decided to allow players in the “above restricted” tournaments, if at any time their career rating is above the stipulation. For example if the tournament is for players with ELO 1800 above, the player is eligible if at any time he/she had crossed ELO 1800 even if their current rating is below 1800.

Carlsen wins Grenke Classic Carlsen missed a chance to convert against Bacrot in the seventh round and had to settle for a tiebreak match to determine the winner against Naiditsch... though both were lucky that Caruana did not join them as he missed a win against Baramidze! In the match Carlsen won the first, Naidtisch retaliated, and after two draws The World Champion triumphed in the Armageddon. With the tournament ending with a tie at the top between Naiditsch and Carlsen a tiebreak match was needed. Things started off well for the World Champion as he was able to score a victory in the first game .However Naiditsch was able to strike back, saving his skin! The game was full of errors but at the end the German triumphed, forcing another two games. Those were drawn, forcing another tiebreak... and Armageddon game to determine the winner of the tournament. With this victory Carlsen

wins another tournament, and another excellent recovery after losing to Naiditsch himself in round three.

Carlsen,Magnus (2865)Naiditsch,Arkadij (2706) [E11]

3rd GRENKE Classic TB Baden Baden GER (1), 08.02.20151.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 Bb4+ 4.Nbd2 b6 5.a3 Bxd2+ 6.Qxd2 0–0 7.e3 Bb7 8.b4 a5 9.Bb2 axb4 10.axb4 Ne4 11.Qc2 Rxa1+ 12.Bxa1 Qe7 13.c5 f5 14.Be2 Nc6 15.Bc3 bxc5 16.dxc5 Ra8 17.0–0 Nxc3 18.Qxc3 Qf6 19.Qd2 Rd8 20.b5 Ne5 21.Nxe5 Qxe5 22.c6! Using the pin on the d-file White kills the bishop on b7. 22...Bc8 23.Rd1 d5 24.Qd4 Qxd4 25.exd4 Kf8 26.f4 Black's position is simply sad. The bishop on c8 has absolutely no moves. White simply has to march his forces forward. 26...Ke7 27.Ra1 g6 28.Kf2 Kd6 29.Ra3 Rf8 30.h4 Ke7 31.h5 Rg8 32.hxg6 hxg6 33.Rh3 g5 34.fxg5 Kd6 35.Rh6 Ke7 36.Bf3 e5 37.Rh7+ Kd6 38.dxe5+ Kc5 39.Rxc7 Kxb5 40.Bxd5 1–0

Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron( contd from p.27 )

AICF CHRONICLE29

February 2015

AICF CHRONICLE28

February 2015

knight with: 19...Nc6! 20.Rdd1 Na5 21.Qd4 (21.fxe6? Nc4 22.exf7+ Kf8 23.Qe7+ Kxe7 24.Nxd5+ Kxf7 25.Nxb6 Nxb6 26.Nd4 Ke7 and black should win with careful play.) 21...Rc5³ and black's attack is slowly becoming ominous.]

(Position after 19.Qh4)20.Rxd3! Rxc3 21.Rxc3 Rxc3 22.Rd1² Rc8 [If 22...exf5? 23.Qe7! (23.Rxd5?? Rxf3! black wins.) 23...Ba4 24.e6 Qxe6 25.Qd8+! and the Rc3 is captured.] 23.f6! A natural move creating mating threats. 23...Qc5 24.Nd4! g6 Black is ready to defend his castled position with ...Qf8, but in such cramped positions the superior side can somehow find a win-ning breakthrough. 25.Rd3!+- b5 26.Rc3!? [This was not necessary. Either 26.Rh3 or 26 c3 would also have led to victory.] 26...Qf8 27.Rh3 h5

28.g4! Qh6 29.gxh5! Qd2? [This capitulates quickly. 29...Qxh5 30.Qxh5 gxh5 31.Rxh5 b4 would have slowed down white's winning process.] 30.a3! g5 31.Rg3! A mating attack with a queen and rook is always magnificent, when you have the queen and rook! 31...Kf8 32.Rxg5 White's threat is non-stop check mate with 33 Rg8+!! Kxg8 34 Qg4+ Kf8 35 Qg7+ Ke8 36 Qg8# 1–0Grover,Sahaj (2505)Laxman,R.R (2408) [C65]1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 Nf6 4.d3 d6 5.0–0 Be7 6.c3 0–0 7.Re1 Bd7 8.a4 Kh8 9.a5! This is an unusual move with a deep strategical idea. 9...Ng8?! [This move declares that he is going to play f7-f5 which is cleverly fore-stalled by white. Better was: 9...a6 10.Bc4 Be6 11.Nbd2 Rb8 was only slightly better for white.] 10.a6! b6 11.d4 [Perhaps stronger was: 11.Qa4 Nb8 12.Bxd7 Qxd7 13.d4 Qxa4 14.Rxa4 Nd7 15.Be3²] 11...Nxd4 12.Nxd4 exd4 13.Bxd7 Qxd7 14.cxd4 d5 15.e5 [If 15.exd5 Nf6 16.Nc3 Bb4 17.Bd2 Bxc3 18.bxc3 b5 19.Qb3 Nxd5 20.c4 bxc4 21.Qxc4 Rab8 and the chances are almost equal.] 15...c5 16.Nc3 Rfd8 17.Bf4 Rac8 18.Qa4?

[An inaccuracy. Best was: 18.Qd2 cxd4

19.Ne2 Qg4 20.Rad1=] 18...Qf5? [Black misses a promising attacking variation: 18...cxd4 19.Qxd7 Rxd7 20.Nb5 d3 21.b3 (this is to prevent 21...Rc4. If 21.Red1 Rc4 22.Bg3 h5 23.Rxd3 h4 24.e6 fxe6 25.Bb8 Rd8 26.Bxa7 Ra8 27.Bxb6? Rxa6!) 21...d4 22.Re4 Rc3! 23.Nxc3 dxc3 24.Kf1 b5 and black has a strong game.] 19.dxc5 Rxc5 20.Bg3 Rc4 [Better was to trouble the Bg3 with: 20...h5!? 21.h4 Rc4= 22.Qa2 Bxh4 23.Bxh4 Rxh4 24.Nxd5 Nh6³] 21.Qa2 Rc5 22.Qb3 h5 23.h3 h4 24.Bh2 Nh6 25.Rad1 Qe6 26.Ne2 Rc4 [If 26...Qc8 27.Qf3 (the white queen moves over to the king-side enfeebled by the withdrawal of the black queen) 27...Qf5 (27...Qxa6? 28.Bf4! and black's king-side crumbles.) 28.Bf4! g5 29.Qh5! Kh7 30.Be3] 27.Nf4

27...Qf5 [Excellent positional play develops after: 27...Qc6 28.e6! Re4 29.Qc3! Qxc3 (29...Rc4 30.Qf3 Re4 31.Rf1! and the threat of 32 Rxd5 is acute.) 30.bxc3 Rxe1+ 31.Rxe1 Kg8 (31...fxe6?? 32.Ng6+ wins the bishop.) 32.Rd1±] 28.Rxd5! With this move white of-fers his two minor pieces for rook and pawn, no doubt after careful evaluation. 28...Rxf4 29.Rxd8+ Bxd8 30.Bxf4 Qxf4 31.Qd5!± One must remember that the queen is most pow-

erful when placed in the centre of the board. 31...Be7 32.Qa8+ Ng8 33.Qxa7 Bc5! 34.Rf1 Qa4 [Black can try some aggressive defence and test whether white gets rattled: 34...Bd4 35.Qb7 Bxe5 36.Rd1 and 36...Qh2+ would lead to nothing but defeat.] 35.b4 Bd4 [If 35...Qxb4 36.Qxf7 b5 37.a7 Qe4 38.Qh5+ Nh6 39.Qe8+ Kh7 40.a8Q] 36.b5 Bxe5 [If 36...Qxb5 37.Qb7 and the a-pawn promotes to queen.] 37.Qxf7! The queen must make way for the a-pawn to advance and at the same time prevent mating and drawing threats by the black queen. 37...Nf6 38.a7 Kh7 39.Qb7!

39...Qf4! Black's only attempt left to save the game. 40.Re1 Qd2 41.Rb1 Qd3 [This short-ens his agony. But, if 41...Qf4 42.Qf3! Qh2+ 43.Kf1 Qh1+ 44.Ke2 Qxb1 45.Qd3+ and wins.] 42.Rf1! Now the black queen cannot get back to f4 in one move to threaten mate on h2. 1–0Grover,Sahaj (2505)Sethuraman,S.P (2622) [C86]1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.0–0 Be7 6.Qe2 This is known as the Worrel attack and is generally used against players who might themselves play the Marshall Attack. 6...b5 7.Bb3 0–0 8.c3 d5 9.d3 Bb7 10.Nbd2

Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron

AICF CHRONICLE31

February 2015

AICF CHRONICLE30

February 2015

Re8 11.Re1 Bf8 12.a3 h6 13.exd5 Na5 14.Ba2 Bxd5 15.Bb1 [A 2001 game went: 15.c4 e4 16.cxd5 exf3 17.Qd1 Rxe1+ 18.Qxe1 fxg2 19.Ne4 Nb7 20.Bf4 Nxd5 and eventually black won in Van der Vorm, 2356, vs F. Cuijpers. 2474.]

15...c5 16.b4 Nc6 17.Ne4 Nxe4 18.dxe4 Bc4 19.Qe3 [19.Qb2=] 19...a5 [Better was: 19...cxb4 20.axb4 a5 21.bxa5 Nxa5] 20.bxc5 a4 21.Nd2 Na5

22.Bc2 [Worse would be the obvious 22.Ba2 Bxa2 23.Rxa2 Qc7 24.Qe2 Qxc5 25.Rc2 Red8µ the white forces lack both develop-ment and co-ordination.] 22...Qc7 23.Rb1 Bxc5 24.Qg3 Qc6!? A multi-purpose move. Black defends b5 and simultaneously prepares against white's further Bxh6 threat. 25.Nf3 Qf6 26.Nh4 Nb3! With white's threats on the king-side adequately provided against, black

turns his attention to the queen-side. He is now threatening ....Nxc1 and Bxa3 winning a pawn. 27.Bb2 Rad8 28.Rbd1 Na5 29.Nf5 Bb3! 30.Bxb3 axb3 31.c4 Diagram #

[This is a violent attempt to break out of the shackles that black has imposed on him and hit at black's central e5 pawn. But a more patient approach was also doomed for failure: 31.Bc1 (threat Bxh6) 31...Kh7! 32.Qg4 (32.Be3 Bxa3 33.Rxd8 Rxd8 34.Bb6 Ra8µ) 32...Nc4 33.Qe2 Rxd1 34.Rxd1 Rd8 35.Rxd8 (35.Rf1 b2 36.Be3 Bxe3 37.fxe3 Rd2 38.Qg4 Rc2–+) 35...Qxd8 36.h4 Bxa3 37.Bxa3 Nxa3 38.Ne3 Nc4! 39.Nd1 (39.Nxc4 bxc4 40.Qxc4 b2) 39...Qxh4 black wins.] 31...bxc4 32.Rxd8 Rxd8 33.Bxe5 Qg5! Black's connected passed pawns are more than adequate for the loss of the g7 pawn. 34.Bxg7 Qxg3 35.hxg3 Rd2! Throwing the opponent on the defensive is the first step to victory in such situations. 36.Rf1 b2 37.Kh2 [If' 37.Bc3? Rxf2! 38.Rb1 Rxf5+ 39.Kh2 Rh5#] 37...Rxf2 38.Rb1 Rxf5 Black wants to simplify quickly. 39.exf5 Kxg7! 40.Rxb2 c3 41.Rb5 Be3! If 42 Rxa5 c2 and the pawn queens. 0–1Sethuraman,S.P (2622) Laxman,R.R (2408) [E32]1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.Qc2 0–0 5.Nf3 d6 6.Bd2 Re8 7.a3 Bxc3 8.Bxc3 d5 [8...

Nbd7 9.0–0–0 Qe7 10.e3 d5 led to a draw in A.Scheffner 2315 vs J.Stadtmann in 1997.] 9.e3 c6 10.Bd3 b6 11.Ne5 Bb7 12.f3 Nbd7 13.0–0–0 Nf8 [If 13...dxc4 14.Bxc4 Qc7 15.Nxd7 Qxd7 16.e4²] 14.Kb1 N6d7 [The best continuation here was the natural 14...c5 striking at white's centre and trying to open the queen-side where black has castled.] 15.h4 Though the position is equal and black does not have any weaknesses that could be exploited, white's greater board room on the king-side promises good scope for attacking play. 15...f6?! [15...c5 was still black's best bet.] 16.Nxd7 Qxd7 17.Bb4! White threatens the knight that is defending h7 and thereby provokes black to weaken the pawn structure around his king. 17...f5 18.g4 [Also playable was: 18.e4 dxe4 19.fxe4 c5 (19...Qxd4? 20.Bxf8 Kxf8 21.exf5 c5 22.Rhf1 white has a winning attack.) 20.dxc5 bxc5 21.Bxc5 Qc6 22.Be3 fxe4 23.Be2 Red8 24.h5±] 18...a5 19.Bxf8 It was best to ex-change off this knight which could become the black king's best defensive aide. 19...Rxf8 20.Rhg1 Ba6 [After 20...dxc4 21.Bxc4 Ba6 22.Bb3 Kh8 23.h5 fxg4 24.h6 g6 25.fxg4 white would be able to exploit the precarious position of black's king sooner or later.] 21.gxf5 exf5 [Better was: 21...dxc4 22.Bxc4 Bxc4 23.Qxc4 Rxf5 24.f4 Raf8 Black can hold this position with careful play.] 22.Rg5! g6 [Black's posi-tion has gradually become worse. If now 22...h6 23.Rxf5 Rae8 24.Rxf8+ Rxf8 25.f4 Qe7 26.Qb3± and if now 26...Qxe3?? 27.Bh7+ wins the queen.] 23.h5! dxc4 (See diagram) 24.Be2?! [White misses an opportunity to win in style: 24.hxg6!! cxd3 (24...h6 25.Bxf5 Qd6 26.Rh5+-) 25.gxh7+ Kh8 26.Qh2! (threat

27 Qe5+ winning) 26...Rae8 27.Rdg1 mat-ing with a discovered check.] 24...Kg7 [The desperate defence 24...Rae8 would also lose. 25.hxg6 h6 26.Rh5 Rxe3 27.Rxh6 Rfe8 28.Rdh1 Qd5 29.Rh8+ Kg7 30.Rxe8 Rxe8 31.Qd2! and white would be mating soon.]

(Position after 23….dxc4)

25.hxg6 h6 26.Rh5 Rf6 [If 26...Kxg6 27.Rg1+!! Kf6 (27...Kxh5?? 28.f4+ Kh4 29.Bf1 for unavoidable 30 Qh2#) 28.Rxh6+ Ke7 29.Rg7+ Rf7 30.Rxf7+ Kxf7 31.Rh7+ wins.] 27.e4 Raf8 28.Rdh1 Rxg6 29.exf5 Rgf6 30.Qc1!? [If 30.Qd2?! Qd6 (30...c3 31.bxc3 Bxe2 32.Qxe2±) 31.R1h4 b5 with counter chances for black.] 30...Qd6 31.Rg1+ Kh7 [If 31...Kf7 32.Bxc4+ Bxc4 33.Qxc4+ Qd5 34.Qa6+- White has a winning attack.] 32.Qg5! Qd7 Diagram #

Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron

AICF CHRONICLE33

February 2015

AICF CHRONICLE32

February 2015

33.Bd1! With black's major pieces tied up to defend the king-side white conceives a clever plan to bring his bishop to c2. Once it is on c2, he woluld play the surprising Rxh6 and if black recaptures, Rxh6, then would follow the deadly discovered check f5-f6 winning on the spot. 33...Qf7 34.Rgh1? [The interrogation mark is for missing the planned winning move 34 Bc2! Probably in the heat of the battle white thought that his opponent's ...Qf7 de-fended against the developing threat. Hardly! He should continue: 34.Bc2 Rg8 35.Rxh6+! Rxh6 36.f6+ Rgg6 (36...Kh8?? 37.Qxh6+ mates.) 37.f4! and the threat of 38 Qxh6+!! Kxh6 39 Rh1# is winning.] 34...Qg7 Black has had a reprieve from quick defeat. But it is just around the corner. 35.Qf4 Bc8 36.Bc2 Kg8 37.R1h4! [The idea of this move is to pin the queen with 38 Rg4. The straightforward smash on h6 seems stronger: 37.Rxh6 Rxh6 (37...Bxf5 38.Bxf5 Rxf5 39.Qh2! threatening 40 Rh8+ winning.) 38.Rxh6 Bxf5 39.Bxf5 Rxf5 40.Qb8+ Rf8 41.Qd6 and white should win.] 37...Rg6

Black relieves the pressure on his position with this witty move which gives up both rooks for the queen. The relief is temporary as the white rooks have an easy time rampaging the king-

side and forcing mate. 38.fxg6 Rxf4 39.Rxf4 Be6 40.Re5! Qc7 41.Rfe4! Bd7™ 42.Re7 Qd6 43.Rf7 c5 44.Ree7 Bc6 45.g7 The threat is 46 Rf8+ Kh7 47 g8Q# 1–0Sengupta,Deep (2566)Grover,Sahaj (2505) [B96]1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 Nf6 4.Nc3 cxd4 5.Nxd4 a6 6.Bg5 e6 7.f4 h6 8.Bh4 Qb6 9.Qd3 Qxb2 10.Rb1 Qa3 11.f5 [The deeply researched move here is 11.e5 ] 11...Be7 12.fxe6

12...Bxe6? [Better was 12...fxe6! 13.e5! dxe5 14.Qg6+ Kf8 15.Nde2 Nc6 16.Rd1 Nd4 17.Rd2 Bd7 when black is poised to beat back white's attack and win in this complicated position where only pawns have been exchanged.] 13.Nxe6 fxe6 14.e5 dxe5 15.Bxf6 gxf6 [Bet-ter was: 15...Bxf6 16.Qg6+ Kd8 17.Qd3+ Kc8 18.Qc4+ Nc6 19.Qxe6+ Kd8 20.Nd5 (20.Qd5+ Kc7 21.Qf7+ Be7 22.Nd5+ Kb8³ when it seems that black's troubles seem to be over while it is white's turn to face an attack.) 20...Re8 21.Qf7 Be7 22.Nxe7 Qxe7 23.Rxb7 Qxf7 24.Rxf7 Rb8 25.Kf2 Rb1 26.g3 Re7³] 16.Be2 e4 17.Bh5+ Kf8 18.Qh3! Diagram # 18...Bb4? [This is a grievous error, letting white capture on e6 with his queen and setting up many threats. Better was to develop his knight as

the white king has not yet castled into safety: 18...Nd7 19.0–0 Nc5! 20.Rbe1 Qb4 21.Bg6! Kg7 22.Bxe4 Rad8 23.Qg3+

(Position after 18.Qh3)Kf8 Black has a pawn more, but he has to play with great caution as white's development is superior.] 19.0–0!

White is winning after this. 19...Qxc3 [Black has no defence against white's threatened Qxe6. If 19...Ke7 20.Rxf6!! (another way to win, though not so spectacular, was: 20.Qg3! Qxc3 21.Qg7+ Kd6 22.Qxh8 Kc7 23.Qxf6 and black's position crumbles.) 20...Kxf6 21.Qh4+ Ke5 (21...Kg7 22.Qg3+! Kf8 23.Rf1+ Ke7 24.Qc7+! Nd7 25.Rf7+ mates.) 22.Qg3+ Kd4 23.Rd1+ Kc4 24.Be2+ Kc5 25.Qd6#] 20.Qxe6 1–0

If in a battle, I seize a bit of debatable land with a handful

of soldiers, without having done anything to prevent an enemy bombardment of the position, would it ever occur to me to speak of a conquest of the terrain in question? Obviously not. Then why should I do so in chess?

- Aron Nimzowitsch

When I today ask myself whence I got the moral

courage, for it takes moral courage to make a move (or form a plan) running counter to all tradition, I think I may say in answer, that it was only my intense preoccupation with the problem of the blockade which helped me to do so.

- Aron Nimzowitsch

Chess strategy as such today is still in its diapers, despite

Tarrasch's statement 'We live today in a beautiful time of progress in all fields'. Not even the slightest attempt has been made to explore and formulate the laws of chess strategy. - 1925

- Aron Nimzowitsch

Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron

AICF CHRONICLE35

February 2015

AICF CHRONICLE34

February 2015

Selected games from Asian Youth Chess, New Delhi

Annotated by IM Manuel AaronVaishali,R(2118) Tejaswini,Sagar (1950) [A01]1.b3 d5 2.Bb2 Bg4 3.f3 Bh5 4.d4 [This is new. A 1990 game went: 4.e3 Nd7 5.c4 e6 6.cxd5 exd5 7.Be2 Bg6= M.Lauren 2285 vs G.Osterman 2305 which was drawn.] 4...e6 5.e3 Bd6 6.Qd2 Nf6 7.Nh3 Nbd7 8.c4 dxc4 9.Bxc4 Bg6 10.0–0 0–0 11.e4 e5 12.Ba3 Bxa3 [12...Nb6 would be a shade better for black.] 13.Nxa3 Nb6 14.Rfd1 exd4 15.Qxd4 Qe7 [Not 15...Qxd4+?! 16.Rxd4 Rfd8 17.Rad1 and black's control of the only open d-file is going to be a big setback for black.] 16.Nc2 Rad8 17.Qe3 Nxc4 18.bxc4 a6 [18...c5=] 19.Nf4 Qe5 20.Rab1 b6 21.Nb4! Rxd1+ 22.Rxd1 Qa5 23.a3! Qa4

24.Rc1!± White correctly anticipates that she would be playing Nbd5 sometime and there-fore, the occupation of the only open d-file was of little significance. She is going to pressure the c-file. Admirable positional judgment! 24...Rd8 25.Nbd5 Nxd5 26.cxd5 Qd7 27.Qc3 White's control over the c6 square would gradually lead to her victory as the c7 pawn is

sitting on a sem-open file. 27...Rc8 28.Qc6! Qxc6 29.Rxc6 Kf8 30.h4 h6 31.d6!+- An excellent move taking advantage of the pinned c7 pawn. 31...Ke8 32.dxc7 Bh7 [Black loses quickly after: 32...Kd7 33.Rxb6 Kxc7 34.Nd5+ Kd8 35.Rxa6+-] 33.Nd5 Kd7 34.Rxb6 f5 35.e5! Bg8 36.Rd6+! Ke8 37.e6! a5

38.e7! [This is the spectacular way to win the game. The prosaic way to win was: 38.Rd7 Bxe6 39.Re7+ Kf8 40.Rxe6+-; The 'Tigran Petrosian way' to win was the quiet: 38.Kf2!! which soon inflicts Zugzwang on black - for if 38...Ra8 39 Nb6 wins. Or, if she moves the pawns on the king-side she will soon run out of moves, and would eventually have to move the bishop or king allowing still greater dam-age.] 38...Bxd5 39.Rd8+! Kxe7 40.Rxc8 Kd7 41.Rd8+! 1–0

Priyanka,K (1868) - Ananya,Suresh (1924) [B42]1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 a6 5.Bd3 Nf6 6.0–0 Qc7 7.Qe2 d6 8.c4 Nbd7 9.Be3 Be7 10.Nc3 0–0 11.f4 b6 12.Rac1 Nc5 13.b4 [White wants to attack without stopping to retain her two bishops. A positional game ensues when white stops to pull back her Bd3 as follows: 13.Bb1 Bb7 14.Bf2 Ncd7

15.b3 Rac8 16.Qf3 Rfe8 17.Qh3 Nf8 18.f5 e5 19.Nde2² and white eventually won in H.Weigel vs G Drebes, 1997] 13...Nxd3 14.Qxd3 Bb7 15.f5

15...e5?! [The easy way out for black ap-pears to be to block the position. But better was to counter-attack: 15...Rfc8 16.fxe6 fxe6 or, 17.a3! Or (17.Nxe6 Qxc4 18.Qxc4 Rxc4 19.Nd5 Bxd5 20.exd5 Rxc1 (20...b5³) 21.Rxc1 Nxd5 22.Nc7 Nxc7 23.Rxc7=) 17...Qxc4 18.Qd2 e5 19.Nd5 the queen has no escape. 19...Bxd5 20.Rxc4 Bxc4 21.Nf5 Bf8 22.Nxd6 Bxd6 23.Qxd6 Nxe4=] 16.Nd5 Qd8 [After 16...Bxd5 17.cxd5 white has a tremendous positional advantage thanks to her control of the c-file, the weakness of black's c6 and b6 squares and black's bad bishop on e7.] 17.Nb3 Nxd5 18.cxd5 Bc8 An incomprehensible move at first sight, this has the plan of relo-cating this bishop to a more effective square at b5. 19.Qc2 Bd7 20.Qf2 Rb8 21.Nd2 Bb5 22.Rfd1 Bg5 [The idea is to exchange off her bad, 'locked-in' bishop at e7 for white's good bishop. The preliminary 22...Bh4 does not make a significant change: 23.Qf3 (23.g3 Bg5 24.Rc3) 23...Bg5 24.Rc3²] 23.Nc4 Bxe3 24.Qxe3 f6 Black had to worry about the

threat of f5-f6 at some point of time and fore-stalls it. 25.Qb3 Qd7 26.Nb2! threatening 27 a4 trapping the bishop. 26...Qd8 27.a4 Be8 28.b5 a5? [Exchanging pawns on b5 would give black an object of attack for her bishop. Af-ter this blocking of the postion, the bishop has nothing to attack and the knight becomes more powerful. Better was: 28...axb5 29.axb5 Rc8 30.Rxc8 Qxc8 31.Nd3 g6 32.Rc1 Qd7 33.fxg6 hxg6=] 29.Qa3 Threat 30 Nc4 targeting d6. 29...Rf7 Now black has to manoeuvre her pieces within her own cramped territory. [29...Rc8 30.Nc4 (Not 30.Rxc8?! Qxc8 31.Qxd6 Qc2! 32.Qa3 Bh5 33.Re1 Rc8³) 30...Rc5 31.Ne3 Bh5 32.Rxc5 dxc5 33.Rd2 with a strong position for white.] 30.Rd3 Kf8 [The game has become very unpleasant for black. If now, 30...Rc7 31.Rxc7 Qxc7 32.Rc3 Qd8 33.Rc4 Rc8 34.Qe3 and black's b6 pawn is her biggest liability.] 31.Rdc3 Ra7 Probably for lack of time or for lack of any worthwhile plan in this dismal po-sition black moves her rook along her second rank. This is tantamount to resigning. White has lots of time to prepare her break-through into black's heart. 32.Nc4 Rd7 33.Ne3 Ra7

34.Rc6!! Ke7 [Black cannot accept the exchange sacrifice as it leads to quick de-

Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron

AICF CHRONICLE37

February 2015

AICF CHRONICLE36

February 2015

molition: 34...Bxc6 35.dxc6+- for if 35...Re7 36.Rd1] 35.Nc4 Rd7 Black brings her third defending unit for her besieged d6 as there are three forces attacking it. Now white must shift her focus to another black weakness which could not be held. 36.Qe3! Rc7 [If black abandons her d6 pawn in favour of her b6, then her game will end in a spectacular collapse: 36...Rdb7 37.Rxd6 Bd7 38.Qh3! With the black forces massed uselessly on the queen-side, white attacks along the sparsely defended king-side. 38...h6

(If 38...Qg8 39.Re6+ Bxe6 40.Qa3+! Kd8 41.fxe6 and the end is near for black.) 39.Nxe5!! fxe5 (after 39...Kxd6 40.Qa3+ Kxe5 41.Rc4! leads to an unpreventable, pretty mate, 42 Qg3#!) 40.Rxh6! gxh6 41.f6+! Kf7 42.Qh5+ Kxf6 43.Qxh6+ Ke7 44.Qg7+ Ke8 45.Qg6+ Kf8 46.Rf1+ Ke7 47.d6#] 37.Rxc7+ Qxc7 38.Nxe5! Qb7 39.Nc6+ Bxc6 40.Rxc6 Black has given back the exchange and a pawn. Yet the vicious white grip on her position remains. 40...Qd7 41.Kf2 [Stronger was: 41.Qg3! Probably she played this quiet move to catch her breath after the excitement of completing the 40th move in a winning position.] 41...Qd8 42.Qg3 g6 43.fxg6 hxg6 44.Qxg6 Qh8 45.Rc7+ Kd8 46.Rh7! Qf8 47.Qf5! [47.Qf5

Qe8 to prevent Qd7#. 48.Qxf6+ Kc8 49.Qc3+! Kd8 50.Qc7# A delightful finish!] 1–0

Mendoza,Shania Mae (Phi) (1907) Varshini,V (Ind) (2015) [B90]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.Bc4 e6 7.Bb3 Be7 8.g4 h6 9.Be3 Nc6 10.Rg1 Na5 11.Qe2 b5 12.f3 Nxb3 [A short violent game in this variation went: 12...Qc7 This move is standard in most Sicilian games. 13.h4 (13.0–0–0 b4 14.Na4 Bd7) 13...Nxb3 14.axb3 b4! 15.Na4 d5! 16.g5 hxg5 17.hxg5 Rh2 18.Qd3 Nh5 19.exd5 Nf4 20.Bxf4 Qxf4 21.Ne2 Qh4+ 22.Kd1 Bb7 23.g6 Rd8µ 24.gxf7+ Kf8 25.Nd4 Rxd5 26.c3 Bf6 27.Nxe6+ Kxf7 28.Nd4 Qf4! preparing the final assault. 29.Nb6 Rxd4! 30.cxd4 Bxf3+ 0–1 Jan Michalek 2320 - M.Orsag 2385, Brno 1991.] 13.axb3 Bb7 14.0–0–0 Nd7 15.Kb1 Qc7 [If 15...b4 16.Na2 a5 17.h4 d5 18.exd5 Bxd5 19.Nf5! g6 20.Bd4 f6 21.Nxe7 Qxe7 22.g5²] 16.Bf2 Nf6 17.h4 g6 18.Qd2 h5 19.g5 Nd7= 20.Bg3 0–0 Slowly the game has been turning in favour of black and it inspires white to seize the initiative with an unsound sacrifice. 21.Ndxb5?! axb5 22.Nxb5 Qb6 23.Bxd6 Bxd6 24.Nxd6 Qa6 25.c4–+ Bc6 26.Kc2 Rab8?! [26...Nc5 27.Ra1 Qb6 28.Qc3 Nxb3 29.Rxa8 Rxa8 30.Rf1 Rb8–+ black does not have enough for her bishop minus.] 27.Qe3 Qa5 28.Qc3 Qb6 [28...Rb4! threatening to triple her major forces along the b-file would have guaranteed black the win.] 29.b4! This is apparently a mistake, giving away one of the three pawns which she has got for her sacrificed bishop. But it is an ingenious, deeply thought out attempt to take the game away

from black. And she succeeds. 29...Qxb4 [Bet-ter was: 29...Rfd8 30.Rg2 Qc7 31.Rgd2 (31.b5 Nc5 32.Rgd2 Be8³) 31...Nb6 32.b5 Be8=] 30.Qxb4 Rxb4= 31.Kc3 Rfb8 32.Nb5!

Probably black had missed this 'interference' move? This is a special tactic to ensnare a rook which is protected by another rook on an open file. 32...Ra4?! [Black misses a good tactical opportunity to stay alive in the game with: 32...Rxc4+! 33.Kxc4 Bxb5+ 34.Kc3 Ne5 35.f4 Nf3 36.Rg2 (36.Rh1 Rc8+ 37.Kb4 Bc6 38.e5 Bd5–+ Black has a dominating position.) 36...Bc6! (the h4 pawn will not run away!) 37.Re2 Kf8 38.Rd6 Rc8! 39.Kb4 Ke7 40.Rd1 Nxh4 and black is winning.] 33.b3 Ra6= 34.Nd4 Nf8? [This backward move causes black serious difficulty. Better was: 34...Nc5 keeping the balance.] 35.Ra1 Rxa1 36.Rxa1 Be8 37.f4 Nd7 38.b4 [Half of successful chess strategy is denying your opponent's pieces active play. As black has indicated with her last move her intention of playing e6-e5, best was to make it difficult with: 38.Ra5 when white's two-pawn compensation for the bishop would amount to more. I recall V.Anand's advice to the Indian World Junior aspirants in a Training camp in Madras in 1993 to find the opponents' plan and,

even if it is bad, dont allow it!] 38...e5? [The preliminary 38...Kf8 was to be considered. But white's space advantage is turning the posi-tion in white's way.] 39.Nc6! Rb6 40.Nxe5 Nxe5 41.fxe5± Rb7 42.Ra8 [This is a waste of time as the black king anyway gets to e7. 42.b5!± would have further cramped black's bishop. In all likelihood, white feared the sac-rifice: 42...Bxb5 but 43.cxb5 Rxb5 44.Ra8+ Kg7 45.Re8!±] 42...Kf8 43.Ra6 Ke7 44.Rd6 Bd7 45.Rd5 [Now 45.b5 Bxb5! 46.cxb5 Rxb5 47.Kd4 Rb4+ would lead to a draw.] 45...Bc6 46.Rd4 [White wants to play b4-b5 only when black could not sacrifice her bishop for two pawns. Exciting play could result from 46.c5!? Ra7 47.Rd6 Bxe4 48.c6 Ra1 49.Kd4 Bg2 50.b5 Rc1 51.Rf6 Rc2=] 46...Ra7 47.b5 Bd7 48.Kb4

48...Ke6?! [This move really does not threaten the e5 pawn because her Bd7 is a big liability. Also, the king was best kept at e7 so that it could go to d8 and add to the defence of her queen-side against the threatened pawn rush on that sector. Moreover, it was best to place her rook at the rear of the white forces in this ending: 48...Ra1 49.Kc5 Ra4 (the greedy 49...Rh1? (would not get the h4 pawn) 50.b6! Rb1 51.Rd2 Rb3 52.Ra2±) 50.b6 Ra5+ 51.Kb4

Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron

AICF CHRONICLE39

February 2015

AICF CHRONICLE38

February 2015

Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron Annotated by IM Manuel AaronRa4+ 52.Kb3 Ra1 white will have trouble dvancing her queen-side passed pawns.] 49.Rd5 Ra1 50.Kc5 Ke7 51.b6 Ra5+ 52.Kd4 Ra8 [Now too late would be 52...Ra1 because of 53.b7! Rb1 54.Rb5! Bxb5 55.b8Q+-] 53.Rd6 Rc8 54.c5+- Ra8 [54...Bc6? 55.Rxc6! Rxc6 56.b7! queens.] 55.c6 Be6 56.b7 Rb8 57.Rxe6+! destroying the bishop which is guarding the c8 square. 57...Kxe6 58.c7! Rxb7 59.c8Q+ Rd7+ 60.Kc5 Ke7 61.Qh8 Rc7+ 62.Kd4 [62.Kd5!] 62...Rc6 63.Kd5! Ra6

64.Qf6+?! [Though 64.Qb8! wins easily enough, white simplifies into a simple pawn up king and pawn ending which she is sure of winning.] 64...Rxf6 65.exf6+ Kd7 66.e5 Ke8 67.e6 [67.Kc6 Kd8 68.Kd6 Ke8 69.Kc7 was sure and simple.] 67...Kf8 68.exf7! [68.e7+ also wins, but she has to be careful not to stalemate her opponent. 68...Ke8 69.Kc5 (69.Kc6 is stale mate!) 69...Kd7 70.Kb6 Ke8 71.Kb7 Kd7 72.e8Q+ Kxe8 73.Kc7 Kf8 74.Kd7 Kg8 75.Ke7 Kh7 76.Kxf7 white wins.] 68...Kxf7 69.Kd6 Kf8 70.f7! [Also 70.Ke6 Ke8 71.f7+ Kf8 72.Kd6 (72.Kf6? is another stalemate!) 72...Kxf7 73.Kd7 Kf8 74.Ke6 Kg7 75.Ke7 Kg8 76.Kf6 Kh7 77.Kf7 and white wins.] 70...Kxf7 71.Kd7 Kg7 72.Ke7 Kh7 73.Kf7

Kh8 74.Kxg6 Kg8 75.Kh6! White has played the pawn ending impeccably. 1–0Karimov,Alisher (TJK) (2129)Wanigasinghe,Nipuna Nandika (SL) (1376) [B01]1.e4 d5 2.exd5 Qxd5 3.Nc3 Qa5 4.d4 Nf6 The Centre Counter defence has practically disappeared from top level chess. But it makes it appearance regularly in continental chess. 5.Bc4 Bg4 6.f3 Bf5 7.Nge2 c6 8.Bf4 Nbd7 9.0–0 [This is new here. Usually played here is 9.Qd2 keeping the option of castling on either side.] 9...Bg6 10.a3 e6 11.b4 Qb6 [Better was: 11...Qh5 as the queen is immune for further chasing by the black forces.] 12.Na4 Qd8 13.Nc5 Qc8 [Black is drifting. Better was: 13...Nxc5 14.bxc5 Nd5=] 14.Re1 Be7 15.Nc3 Nxc5 16.dxc5 0–0= Black has suc-cessfully developed his queen-bishop, but finds it difficult to get his queen into play. 17.Qe2

17...Bd8?! [Black makes heavy weather of his game and goes into needless contortions to get his pieces working. With 17...b5 18.Bd3 Bxd3 19.cxd3 Qd7 black could achieve a very comfortable position.] 18.Be5 Nd5 19.Bxd5 [White could establish a slight advantage with 19.Ne4! a5 20.Nd6 Qd7 21.Bxd5 exd5 22.c4²] 19...cxd5= 20.Rad1 Bc7? [Just because he

has played 17...Bd8, he does not have to fol-low up with this move, especially when a good opportunity to equalise was available with: 20...a5 21.Nb5 axb4 22.axb4 Ra2=] 21.Bxc7 Qxc7 22.Nb5 Qc6 23.c4

23...Rfd8?! [This gives white a clear advan-tage. Better was to face the problem head on with 23...b6 24.cxd5 exd5 25.Nd4 Qa4 26.Nb5 bxc5 27.bxc5 Rab8 28.Nd6 when white has only a slight advantage.] 24.Nd6 b6 [Bet-ter was: 24...dxc4 25.Qxc4 b6 26.Qa6 Kf8²] 25.cxd5! exd5 26.Qa6! f6? Black had suc-cessfully developed his light square bishop. But with white cleverly shifting his focus of play to the queen-side, this bishop feels out of place on g6 and wishes to get back to the queen-side. But with this move, he creates a fatal weakness on e6 which white exploits with glee. 27.Re7!

27...Be8 28.Qe2! Target 29 Qe6+ enter-ing black's fortress. 28...bxc5 [If 28...Bd7 then comes the devastating 29.Rxg7+!! Kxg7 30.Qe7+ Kg8 (or, 30...Kg6 31.Qf7+ Kg5 32.Qg7+ mates.; or, 30...Kh8 31.Qxf6+ Kg8 32.Qg5+ Kf8 33.Rd4 etc.) 31.Qf7+ Kh8 32.Qxf6+ Kg8 33.Qg5+ Kf8 34.Rd4!! mating quickly.] 29.Qe6+ Kh8 30.Nf7+ Bxf7 [If 30...Kg8 31.Nh6+ Kh8 32.Qg8#] 31.Qxc6 1–0

Mosadeghpour,Masoud (Iran) (2335) - Chakravarthi Reddy,M (Ind) (2282) [C01]

1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.exd5 exd5 The exchange variation in the French Defence leads to easy, absolute equality because of which it is very rarely seen in practice. If a decisive result does occur from such openings, it is because of considerable differences in playing strengths of the players and their will powers. 4.Nf3 Nc6?! [Black must play with circumspection, denying white any chance of getting a good game. This move allows the white bishop to be developed aggressively. Better was: 4...Bd6 5.c4 dxc4 6.Bxc4 Nf6 7.Qe2+ Be7 8.0–0 0–0=] 5.Bb5! Bd6 6.0–0 White's idea is to castle quickly and initiate aggressive action in the centre. 6...Nge7 7.c4 dxc4 8.Bxc4 0–0 9.Be3 Bg4 10.h3 Bh5 11.g4 Advancing one's pawns in the castled position is fraught with risk if the opponent plays imaginative, aggressive chess. 11...Bg6 12.Nc3 Nb4 [12...Na5 exchanging off white's light squared bishop was a wee bit better for black.] 13.Nh4?! [Best for white was: 13.a3 Nc2 14.Rc1 Nxe3 15.fxe3=] 13...c6 [Better was to try to conserve his light-sq Better was to try to preserve his light-square bishop with: 13...Bc2 14.Qd2 Nc8 15.Bg5

AICF CHRONICLE41

February 2015

AICF CHRONICLE40

February 2015

Be7 16.Bxe7 Qxe7 17.Nf3 Nb6 18.Rae1 Qf6] 14.Bg5 Bc2 15.Qf3 h6 16.Be3 b5! 17.Bb3 [17.Be2 Re8 18.Nf5 Nxf5 19.gxf5 Nd5 20.Nxd5 cxd5 21.Bxb5 Be4 22.Qe2 Re7 and black has an excellent game thanks to his bishops being placed better than white's.] 17...Bxb3 18.axb3 Having achieved a superior position against the Iranian, black over estimates his chances and hits upon an unwise plan giving up a pawn and exposing his own king in the process. 18...f5? [Much better was: 18...Bc7 19.Qg2 Re8 20.g5 h5 21.Rfc1 a5µ and black has positional supe-riority.] 19.Nxf5 Nxf5 20.gxf5 Bc7 [Stronger was: 20...Qd7 21.Ne4 Be7 22.Qg3 Kh8 23.Nc5 Qxf5 and black is fine.] 21.Kh1 Qd6 22.Qg2 Rxf5 23.Rg1

23...g5?! [This move leading to the black king remaining without any pawn cover was to be avoided. Better was: 23...Rf7 24.Nxb5! Qe6 25.Nxc7 Rxc7 26.Bf4 Rf7 27.Be5 Nd3!=] 24.h4 Raf8? [This abandonment of the a7 pawn turns out to be the decisive mistake in this game. Bet-ter was: 24...Qg6 25.Qh3 Nd3 26.hxg5 hxg5 27.Qxf5! Qxf5 28.Rxg5+ Qxg5 29.Bxg5 Nxf2+ 30.Kg2 Nd3 and black's chances in this ending are preferable.] 25.hxg5 Qg6 26.Qh3 [26.gxh6?? Rh5+ mates.] 26...hxg5

27.Bxg5! Kf7 [If 27...Rxg5 28.Rxg5 Qxg5 29.Rg1 Qxg1+ 30.Kxg1 and white wins.] 28.Rxa7! The blow comes from the queen-side! 28...Rc8 29.Ne4 Ke6 [29...Nd3 30.Qxf5+ (30.Rg3 Nxf2+ 31.Nxf2 Ke6 32.Nd3 Bxg3 33.Re7+ Kd5 34.Nb4+ Kxd4 35.Be3#) 30...Qxf5 31.Nd6+ Ke6 32.Nxf5 Kxf5 33.Be3+-] 30.Bf4 The black king, along with its queen, is caught in multiple cross-fires. 30...Qxg1+ This is forced. 31.Kxg1 Bxf4 32.Nc5+ Kf6 33.Rf7+!! 1–0

(position after 33.Rf7!)

Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron

43

First restrain, next blockade, lastly destroy.

- Aron Nimzowitsch

AICF CHRONICLE43

February 2015JANUARY 2015

AICF CHRONICLE42

Solutions to ‘Tactics from master games’ on page 41 1. Kramnik,V (2769) Nakamura,Hi (2775) [E92]6th London Classic 2014 London ENG White to play. 39.Rg8+! Ke7 [39...Kxg8 40.Nh6++-] 40.Bg5+ Bf6 [40...Nf6 41.Qxc7+ Qd7 42.Rg7++-] 41.Qe2+ [41.Qe2+ Ne5 (41...Kf7 42.Nh6#) 42.Bxf6++-] 1–02. Volokitin,And (2626) - Jaracz,P (2503) [B54]European Rapid 2014 White to play. 29.Qxg6! fxg6 [29...Qxd4+ 30.Rxd4 fxg6 31.Rxf8+ Kxf8 32.h7+-] 30.Rxf8+ Kxf8 31.h7 Qe2 [31...Bf6 32.h8Q+ (32.Bxf6? Qc5+ 33.Bd4 Qh5= 34.Rc1 Bb7! 35.Rc7 Qd1+ 36.Kh2 a) 36.Kf2? Qxd4+–+; b) 36.Kg2 Bxe4+ 37.Kg3 Qd3+ 38.Kh2 (38.Kg4 Bf5+–+ 39.Kf4; 38.Kh4 g5+!–+) 38...Qd2+=; 36...Qh5+=) 32...Ke7 33.e5 Bxe5 34.Qh4+–+] 32.h8Q+ Kf7 33.Qxg7+ Ke8 34.Rf1 1–03. Arkell,K (2460) - Jones,Steven A (2114) [E11]MSI Academy Final Open London ENG White to play. 18.Rc7! Qd6 [18...Qf6 19.Nxe6] 19.Nxe6 Qxe6 20.Rxg7+! [20.Rxg7+ Kxg7 (20...Kh8 21.Rxb7+-) 21.Qg5++-] 4. B lanco Ronqui l lo ,H (2440) Rakhmanov,Ale (2636) [E15]ITT Caracas 2014 Caracas VEN (1.2), Black to play. 40...Qg5! [%csl Rd2] 41.Rxa2 [41.exd6+ Kh7 42.Qg4 Qxd2 43.Qxg3 Rf2–+; 41.e6+ Kh7 42.Rb8 Rh1+] 41...Rh1+! Rh2][41...Rh1+ 42.Bxh1 Nf1#] 5. Codenotti,M (2345) Antic,De (2484) [C03]28th Belgrade Trophy 2014 Belgrade White to play. 29.Nf6+! gxf6 30.gxf6 Bd3 [30...Qf8 31.Qg5+ Kh8 32.Rxh7+ Kxh7 33.Rh1+ Wins] 31.Qg5+ Bg6 32.Rxh7! [32.Rxh7 Kxh7 (32...Rxc3 33.Rh8+ (=33.Rch1) 33.Rh1+ Kg8 34.Qh6 Wins] 1–0

6. Khachiyan,Melikset (2538)- Brown, Michael W (2319) [C85]50th American Open Orange (4), Black to play. 22...Rxe5! 23.fxe5 Bxe5 24.Qxe5 Ng4 [24...Ng4 25.Qg3 Qxh2+ 26.Qxh2 Nf2#] Solutions to ‘Test your endgame’ on page 42 1. Ilkka Saren, Fourth Place ,Nordiska Masterskap 19681.Qe8+ Qd8 2.Qe6+ Kb8 3.Qc6 Qg8+ 4.Kb4 Qg4+ 5.Ka5 Qc8 6.Na6+ Ka7 7.Nc7 Qb7 8.Nb5+ Kb8 9.Qd6+ Ka8 10.Qe6 Kb8 11.Qe5+ Ka8 12.Qh8+ Qb8 13.Qa1 Qh2 14.Kb6+ Kb8 15.Qd4 Qh6+ 16.Nd6 Qh2 17.Qb4 Qc2 18.Nc4 Qg6+ 19.Ka5 Kc7 20.Qe7+ Kc6 21.Ne5+ wins2. Werner Issler, Third Prize ,New States-man,1970 1.Kf7 Be2 2.Ke7 Bh5 3.Be8 g4 4.BxB g3 5.Bf3 KxB 6.f7 g2 7.f8Q wins3. Attila Koranyi, I Pr, Magyar Sakkszovet-seg 1968 1.Nf7 Ba1 2.Bf8 Kg6 3.Nd8 Bb2 4.Nc6 Kh7 5.Kh4 Kg6 6.Kg4 Bf6 7.Kf3 Bg5 8.Ne5+ Kh7 9.Ng4 Kg6 10.Ke4 Bc1 11.Kd5 Bd2 12.Ke6 Bc1 13.Bg7 Bd2 14.Ne5+ Kh7 15.Nf7 Kg6 16.Ke7 Kh7 17.Kf6 Bc3+ 18.Ne5 Bd2 19.Nd7 Bh6: 20.Nf8+ Kg8 21.BxB wins4. V. Bron, I Prize,Themes 64, 1968 1.g7 Rh4+ 2.Kd3 Rg4 3.Ne3 Rg5 4.Bd4+ Ke6 5.Ke4 Kf7 6.Nf5 Kg8 7.Bf6 Rg1 8.Ke5 Rg2 9.Ke6 Rg1 10.Ke7 Re1+ 11.Kd7 Kh7 12.Bb2 Re2 13.Bc3 Rg2 14.Ke7 Kg8 15.Ke8 Rg1 16.Be5 Rg2 17.Bd4 Rg5 18.Nh5+ Kh7 19.Kf8 KxN 20.Be3 wins5. Hildebrand,I Prize, Lommer JT 19691.Nf1+Bb3 2.Rc3: BxN+ 3.Kd2 Nf7,Ne6 4.Ra3,Rh3 wins6. Raikkonen,3 Pl,Breider JT 1968 1.Bd7 Bg1 2.Bd8 Bh2 3.Bb6 Bd6 4.Ke4 Kg4 5.Kd5 Kf8 6.Ke6 Kg5 7.Bc7 Kg4 8.Bd8 Kf4 9.Ba5 Kg4 10.Bd2 Kf3 11.Kf7 Bd6 12.Kg7: Ke4 13.Kf6 Be5+ 14.Ke6 wins 43

February 2015

AICF CHRONICLE44

Masters of the past-49 Vladas Mikenas

Vladas Mikėnas (17April1910 – 3 November 1992) was a Lithuanian International Master of chess, an Honorary Grand-master, and a journalist. Vladas Mikėnas played for Lithuania at first board in five official and one unofficial Chess Olympiads between 1931 and 1939.In 1930, he won the Estonian Championship in Tallinn (3rd EST-ch). In 1931, he tied for 2nd–5th at the first Baltic Cham-pionship inKlaipėda, which was won by Isakas Vistaneckis. In the same year, Mikenas emigrated from Estonia to Lithuania. In 1934, he won a match against Povilas Vaitonis (6:2). In 1935, he took 10th in Łódź (Savielly Tartakower won), and drew a match with Vistaneckis (8:8). In 1936, he won the Lithuanian Championship. In 1937, he won a match against Vaitonis (5.5:4.5). In 1937, he took 10th in Kemeri; despite

his lowly placing, he defeated Alexander Alekhine. In 1937/38, he took 6th at Hast-ings (Samuel Reshevsky won).In 1938, he won a match against Vaitonis (9:3). In 1939, he took 4th in Kemeri–Riga (Salo Flohr won). In September 1939, he took 3rd in Rosario (Vladimirs Petrovs won). He played several times in Lithuanian SSR championships in Vilnius. He won the 14th LTU-ch in 1947, won in 1948, took 3rd in 1949, took 6th in 1951, tied for 2nd–4th in 1952, took 6th in 1953, took 2nd in 1954, took 3rd in 1955, took 2nd in 1957, tied for 2nd-4thin 1958, took 3rd in 1959, tied for 3rd–4th in 1960, won in 1961, took 2nd in 1963, won in 1964, shared 1st in 1965, tied for 2nd–3rd in 1967, and tied for 1st–2nd in 1968. Meanwhile, in 1954, he won, ahead of Ratmir Kholmov, Vistaneckis and Viacheslav Ragozin, in Vilnius (Quadrangular). In 1955, he tied for 3rd–6th in Pärnu (Keres won). In 1959, he took 2nd, behind Boris Spassky, in Riga. In 1960, he took 10th in Pärnu (Baltic Rep. ch, Keres won), and shared 4th at Leningrad (Mark Taimanov won). In 1964, he tied 2nd–3rd, behind Iivo Nei, in Pärnu (Baltic Rep. ch). In 1965, he won in Palanga (Baltic Rep. ch). In 1971, he won in Lublin, Poland.Mikenas was awarded the International Master title in 1950 (the year the title was instituted). He was awarded the Honorary Grandmaster title in 1987.He was the arbiter of the World Championship match between Anatoly Karpov and Garry Kasp-arov in 1985.The Mikenas Variation of the Modern Benoni, a sharp attacking line (1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 c5 3.d5 e6 4.Nc3 exd5 5.cxd5 d6 6.e4 g6 7.f4 Bg7 8.e5), is named after him. He also developed the Flohr-Mikenas Variation of the English Opening; the variation runs 1.c4 Nf6 2.Nc3 e6 3.e4.

Courtesy:Wikepedia

45

4th WBCWS FIDE Rated Chess Tournament, Kolkata….

1st Balasore All India FIDE Rating Chess Tournament ( Below1800),Balasore

Shri. Himanshu Dash, Chairman, Modern Engineering & Management Studies lighting the lamp. Others from left to right are Manoranjan Panda, Secy BDCA, Pradip Kumar Panda, President, BDCA, Chief Guest Asit Kumar Panigrahi, IPS, DIG Police

Champion Tirth Sarkar WB, Runner-up Pranab Kumar Patra, Odisha and Mahitosh Dey, Odisha (Third )

(L-R) Sayantan Das, Champion, N. Srinath, Runner up, Atanu Lahiri, BCA Secretary, Santu Mondal, third,A.B. Choudhury,Chief Arbiter

46

Prize winners J. Sai Agni Jeevitesh (Winner, sixth from right) GM R.R.Laxman(Runner-up) and Bavankumar (Third) with Prof.V.Satyanarayana, Director of Physical Education, Osmania University, Major K.A.Shivaprasad, President,Hyderabad Chess Association, Dr.S.Amrutha, Principal, St.Ann’s College for Women, Chief Co-ordinator A.Narasimha Rao and Organizing Secretary .

St Ann’s All India Fide Rating Chess Tournament 2015,Hyderabad…

Shri.Narasimha Reddy, Vice-President, AICF lighting the lamp at the inaugural function

AICF CHRONICLE47

JANUARY 2015

2ND INTERNATIONAL GRANDMASTERS TOURNAMENT, KOLKATA

(For rating 2000 and above)(Organised by All Sport Management &

Dibyendu Barua Chess Academy)Under the aegis of

All India Chess Federation &Bengal Chess Association

AICF event code: 105543/WB/2015Date:

15th March to 24th March 2015Venue:

Indian Council for Cultural Relations9A Ho Chi Minh Srani,Kolkata-71

Total Prize Fund: Rs.10,00,000Entries may be sent favouring

‘Dibyendu Barua Chess Academy’Payable at Kolkata at the following address:Dibyendu Barua Chess Academy

FD-437, Sector 3, Salt Lake,Kolkata 700 106

Contact person:Mr.Neeraj Kumar Mishra

Phone: 94711 90041Email: igms.kolkata@gmail.com

TAriff for ADverTiseMeNT :

Back Cover (Colour)Inside Cover (Colour)Full Page Inside (Colour)Full Page Inside (Black & White)Half Page Inside (Black & White)

Monthly (in Rs.)

15,00015,000 7,000 5,000 3,000

Annual (in Rs.)

1,20,0001,00,000

60,000 45,000 30,000

JANUARY 2015

AICF CHRONICLE48

AICF Calendar February 2015National Team Open &Women Championship 20 Feb15-26 Feb15 Goa1st Deltin All India Open Rapid 28 Feb15- 01 Mar15 GoaRotary FIDE Rating for the blind 28 Feb15-03 Mar15 Nagercoil,TN Grandmasters Tournament, Kolkata 15 Mar15-24 Mar 15 KolkataAditya Birla Mem.Jharkand Sr.State FIDE rated 21 Mar15-24 Mar15 Ranchi3rd Chess Specific Open FIDE Rated 25Mar15-29Mar15 India Gate,Delhi3rd Bubaneshwar All India FIDE rated 25 Mar15-29Mar15 Bubaneshwar,Odisha2nd ACCF FIDE rated 03Apr15-07Apr15 Kozhikode,KeralaNational Rapid &Blitz Chess Championship 25 Apr15-29 Apr15 OdishaDr.Hedgewar Open FIDE Rated Open 26 Apr15-02May15 Daryaganj,Delhi6th KCM FIDE rated Open 29Apr15-03May15 Coimbatore,TNDon Bosco Birth Bicentenary FIDE Rated 01May15-05May15 Irinjalakuda,KeralaBhopal FIDE Rating Chess Tournament 04May15-09May15 Bhopal, MP3rd KPK Open FIDE Rating Tmt 06May15-10 May15 Tirupur,TN2nd Imperia Structures FIDE Rated Tmt 16May15-20May15 JNStadium,Delhi1st SCS All India FIDE Rated 17 May 15-21May15 Sivakasi,TNGrandmaster Tournament ,Odisha 24 May15-31 May15 BubaneshwarGrandmaster Tournament, Mumbai 02 Jun15- 09 Jun 15 MumbaiNational Under-9 Championship 11 Jun15-19 Jun15 Gujarat Commonwealth Chess 22 Jun15- 30 Jun 15 DelhiNatioinal Women Challenger 02 Jul15-11 Jul15 DelhiNastional Under 11 Boys&Girls 13 Jul15-21Jul15 PuducherryGM Chess Tournament 13 Jul15-20 Jul15 Hyderabad,AP

Solution to puzzle of the month on page 22: Last move of black could not have been b7-b5 as then WBa8 must have been a promoted one. There is only one missing WP and there is also already a promoted WB at h2.So BPb7 must have vacated well before to allow Ba8.It is black’s turn to move now 1…b4 after which white mates with Qa6!

49

13th Parsvnath Delhi International Grandmasters Chess Tournament2015,New Delhi…

CEO All India Chess Federation Shri. Bharat Singh inaugurating the event by lighting the lamp. Also seen Shri. AK Verma, Secretary Delhi Chess Association; Shri. R Rajesh, Secretary Chess Association Kerala; Shri. Mahendra Dhakal, Secretary Sikkim Chess Association; Shri. Vipnesh Bhardwaj, Secretary Chandigarh Chess Association; Shri. Kapil Saxena, Secretary Madhya Pradesh State Level Chess Association and Grandmaster Abhijit Kunte.

Category A winner Grandmaster Andrey Baryshpolets of Ukraine receiving trophy and winner’s cheque. Also seen Shri. V Hariharan, Secretary All India Chess Federation; Shri. Bharat Singh, CEO All India Chess Federation, Group Captain J Rajendra VSM, Chief Administrative Officer Air Force Station New Delhi; Shri. Ajit M Sharan, Secretary Sports Government of India; Air Commodore G Amar Babu, Air Officer Commanding Air Force Station New Delhi and Shri. AK Verma, Secretary Delhi Chess Association.

13th Parsvnath Delhi International Grandmasters Chess Tournament2015,New Delhi…

Category B winner Rakesh Gurung of Sikkim receiving trophy and winner’s cheque. Also seen Shri. R Rajesh, Secretary Chess Association Kerala; Shri. Kapil Saxena, Secretary Madhya Pradesh State Level Chess Association; Grandmaster Valeriy Nevrov of Ukraine; Shri. Bharat Singh, CEO All India Chess Federation; Shri. AK Verma, Secretary Delhi Chess Association.

Category C winner Vardan Nagpal of Delhi receiving trophy and winner’s cheque. Also seen Shri. V Hariharan, Secretary All India Chess Federation; Shri. Bharat Singh, CEO All India Chess Federation, Group Captain J Rajendra VSM, Chief Administrative Officer Air Force Station New Delhi; Shri. Ajit M Sharan, Secretary Sports Government of India; Air Commodore G Amar Babu, Air Officer Commanding Air Force Station New Delhi and Shri. AK Verma, Secretary Delhi Chess Association.