AICF CHRONICLE the official magazine of the All India Chess Federation Volume : 8 Issue : 11 Price Rs. 25 May 2015 National Rapid & Blitz Chess Championship 2015, Rourkela GM Debashis Das National Rapid Champion IM K.Ratnakaran National Blitz Champion AICF CHRONICLE MAY 2015 From the Editor’s desk 1st Physically Disabled National Individual Chess Championship 2015,Trichy Room No. 70, Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, Chennai - 600 003. It is delightful news for Indian Jennitha and Karthik win titles Ph : 044-65144966 /Telefax : 044-25382121 chess fans that Vishy Anand E-mail : [email protected] IA Anantharam R, Chief Arbiter Publisher: V. Hariharan has broken into 2800 elo yet Editor : C.G.S. Narayanan again after 2011 and has also Physically Disabled National Individual Chess Championship 2015, first of its kind in In- Price: Monthly Rs.25 Annual Rs.300 climbed to the spot in ranking dia was organised by Trichy District Physically Disabled Chess Association at Pavendhar Inside... behind World Champion Magnus Bharathidasan College of Engineering and Technology, Trichy from 16th to 19th April 2015. 1st Physically Disabled National Individual Chess Championship 2015,Trichy Carlsen after a four-year hiatus. His impressive The seven round Swiss format tournament, with a time control of 90 minutes each and 30 Jennitha and Karthik win titles IA Anantharam R, Chief Arbiter 1 performance at the Gashimov Memorial Tourney seconds increment from move 1 was attended by 26 participants from five states – Tamil 2nd ACCF FIDE Rated Open , Calicut… last month outclassing most of the young guns Nadu, AP, Karnataka, Pondicherry and Maharashtra. Fide Master Venkata Krishna Karthik of Shyam Nikhil wins AP was the top seed followed by WIM and women world champion for physically disabled by L.R. Bhuvanaa Sai, IA, Chief Arbiter 2 speaks volumes about the resilience of this five- Karnataka State Open FIDE Rated … person JennithaAnto of the host association.The tournament is of special importance, as Shivananda is Champion time World Champion. the physically disabled players exhibited their prowess. ShaileshNerlikar’s both legs are im- by Vasanth BH, Chief Arbiter 7 mobilised; he cannot even sit and has to play only by lying on the table. He has a rating of Karnataka State U 13 Open FIDE Rated Aditya Kalyani wins title Our women team though missing out on a medal 1565! Many players needed assistants to record the moves and operate the clock. FASaleem Beig,Chief Arbiter 9 finished a creditable fourth at the World Women Maharashtra State Open & Women FIDE Rating Nagpur In the inaugural round, top seed Venkata Krishna Karthik, who defeated a grandmaster Pruthu Deshpande and Tejaswini Sagar win Team Chess Championship at Chengdu,China. and many IMs in Serbia recently was stretched to the full distance by unrated Gunasek- IA Swapnil Bansod,Chief Arbiter 11 Harika Dronavalli and Koneru Humpy bagged aran of TN before emerging victorious. In the second round, Annadurai of TN, rated 1572 National Rapid & Blitz Chess Championship-2015,Rourkela individual silver and bronze medals for their Debashis Das and Ratnakaran win titles was beaten by young Karnataka boy Samarth J Rao, who has to be carried by his father by Rajendra Shidore,IA,Chief Arbiter 14 performances on second and top boards everywhere and could not sit for a long time properly. At the end of fourth round, Karthik 56th Odisha State Senior FIDE Rating,Puri… respectively. Our men team disappointed with a had four points and JennithaAntohad 3.5 points.In the crucial clash between the top two Rakesh Kumar Nayak wins title Suresh Chandra Sahoo, Chief Arbiter 16 lowly ninth placing. Reports on the World team seeds, Jennitha subdued Karthik to surge ahead with 4.5 points, along with SathyaMoorthy Late Motilalji Firodia Memorial FIDE Rating Ahmednagar chess Championships with photographs are of Pondicherry. Jennitha had no difficulty in beating unrated Senthil Kumar in the sixth and Sameer Kathmale is champion featured in the centre pages of this isue. penultimate round, to emerge sole leader with 5.5 points, with Karthik on 5 points. Both by IA Nitin Shenvi,Chief Arbiter 18 Jennitha and Karthik won their final round encounters with their respective opponents; Dr. Hedgewar Fide Rated, New Delhi thus Jennitha winning the women title and Venkata Krishna Karthik, the men title and they Pravin Thipsay wins title Debashis Das won the rapid title and Ratnakaran by IA Dharmendra Kumar,Chief Arbiter 22 received Rs.10000 each. Samarth J Rao and Shailesh Nerlikar scored five points each and the Blitz at the National Rapid and Blitz 1st Thali Yuva Sangh Open FIDE Rating better tiebreak score helped Samarth to finish second in the men section.Senthil Kumar has Sinha Santosh Kumar is the winner Championships held at the steel city,Rourkela. IA I G Parmar,Chief Arbiter 30 secured rating in this tournament, and two others opened their account. The credit goes to Selected games from National Team Chess Report on this National along with FIDE rated Samarth, who has earned about 115 rating points in this tournament. Championships,Goa & Kolkata GM Open tournaments held in April 2015 are presented annotated by IM Manuel Aaron 32 Tactics from master games in this issue. Selected games are from National Mr.V. Hariharan, General Secretary of TN State Chess Association and Secretary of AICF By Srinivas Krishnan 41 Team Chess Championship and Kolkata GM distributed the prizes in the august presence of Dr.Arun MBBS., Managing Trustee, Pavendar AICF Calendar 48 Bharathidasan Institutions and President of Tamil Nadu Physically Disabled Chess Associa- Open annotated by IM Manuel Aaron. GM Ludek tion. Earlier on the first day, Dr.Arun inaugurated the tournament, in the presence of Mrs. Pachman is featured in the ‘Masters of the past’ Uma Arun, Director of PBI and Mrs. MP Aamenabi, Vice President, TNPDCA. Readers are invited to offer their feedback on the regular series. features in the AICF Chronicle and are also invited to Final placings: send interesting articles, annotated games and chess 1. Jennitha Anto K., 2.Venkata Krishna Karthik K , 3.Samarth J Rao, 4.Nerlikar Shailesh, anecdotes to the Editor at ‘www.indianchessfed@gmail. com’ or ‘[email protected]. 5. Sathya Moorthy, 6.Yesu Babuk, 7. Manikandan Rajangam, 8.Jahir Hussain.A, C.G.S.Narayanan 9. Senthil Kumar Sundaram, 10. Uday Kumar Tummagunta. A I C F CHRONICLE 1 MAY 2015 2nd ACCF FIDE Rated Open Chess Tournament, Calicut… 1st Physically Disabled National Individual Championship 2015,Trichy Shyam Nikhil wins by L.R. Bhuvanaa Sai, IA, Chief Arbiter The 2nd ACCF FIDE Rated Open Chess Tour- helped Maheswaran to finish 2nd place and nament was inaugurated by Shri Purushan received 15,000 cash award with trophy. Kadalundi, MLA,Kerala against the interna- Ram S Krishnan of BSNL beat Gavi Siddaya tional master Shyam Nikhil of Tamilnadu at of Karnataka and finished 3rd spot with 7.5 New Nalanda hotel on 3rd April at 11 am. points and received 10,000 cash award with Mr. Nirmal Das secretary of ACCF delivered trophy. T.J Suresh Kumar, treasurer, Chess Welcome Address in the presence of the Association Kerala distributed the prizes to chief guest shri Kamal Varadhu, president of the winners. press club and Shri Preman, the president of Final standings: Anand Chess and Cultural Forum. With the Rk Name Pts total prize fund of 1, 63,500 this event at- 1 Shyam Nikil P IM 8 2 Maheswaran P FM 7½ tracted 331 participants from 2 federations, 3 Ram S. Krishnan 7½ (India and England) 8 states, union terri- 4 Lakshmi Narayanan Mv 7½ tory (Pondicherry), special units like BSNL, 5 Praveen Kumar C IM 7½ Champion Venkata Krishna Karthik receives prize from Mr. V. Hariharan,Secretary, AICF ICF and LIC which includes 3 International 6 Visveshwar A 7½ Masters, a Fide master, a women fide master 7 Subramanian Pl 7 and 2 candidate masters. 8 Prakashram R 7 9 Arjun Satheesh 7 Top seed players sailed smoothly to the 10 Kunal M. 7 2nd round. In 2nd round 15 years old boy 11 Mohammed Dilshad 7 Narendran of TN drew with IM Ramanathan 12 Phoobalan P. 7 Balasubramanian. 11 players shared their 13 Iniyan P 7 lead with full points at the end of 4th round. 14 Anilkumar O.T. 7 During 7thround 7 players led the top tables 15 Jos Paul Davis 7 16 Chandar Raju 6½ with 5.5 points each. After this round IM 17 Akhilan E M 6½ Shyam Nikhil took sole lead and maintained 18 Prasannaa.S 6½ in the next round also. At the end of pen- 19 Arjun K. 6½ ultimate round Shyam, IM Praveen Kumar 20 Varma Shabdhik 6½ and Phoobalan of ICF and Fide Master Ma- 21 Athul Krishna S 6½ heswaran of TN were the joint leaders with 22 Sreekumar P. 6½ 7 points each. In final round Shyam Nikhil 23 RBalasubramaniam IM 6½ beat Phooblan of ICF and won the 2nd ACCF 24 Raju O A 6½ Open fide rating chess tournament title with 25 Subramanian R M 6½ 8 points. The champion bagged Rs. 25,000 26 Arjun Kalyan 6½ cash award with trophy. Praveen Kumar of 27 Arjun Adappa 6½ ICF and Maheswaran of TN drew with each 28 Gavi Siddayya 6½ Women champion WIM Jennitha Anto receives the trophy from Mr.V. Hariharan,Secretary, AICF other with 7.5 points each. Better tie break 29 Santoshkashyap Hg 6½ A I C F CHRONICLE 3 2 MAY 2015 Dr. Hedgewar Fide Rated Chess Tournament, New Delhi 30 Gukesh D 6½ 77 Jayakrishnan P 5½ 31 Sanjay S Pillai 6½ 78 Nitin Shankar Madhu 5½ 32 Balasubramanian A. 6½ 79 Akash K A 5½ 33 Bindu Saritha K WFM 6½ 80 Abhiram Sudheesh 5½ 34 Dheekshith Kumar R 6½ 81 Eswar Theagarajan 5½ 35 Vincent Dave 6½ 82 Panaiappan S 5½ 36 Mohanan U.C.