AICF CHRONICLE the official magazine of the All India Chess Federation Volume : 8 Issue : 10 Price Rs. 25 April 2015 INDIA CHINA SUMMIT CHESS Story on p.23 AICF CHRONICLE APRIL 2015 From the Editor’s desk LIC 2nd International Grandmasters Chess Tournament,Kolkata... Room No. 70, Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, Chennai - 600 003. Planet ‘4538 Vishyanand’ arrives in Ph : 044-65144966 /Telefax : 044-25382121 space! It is exciting news for chess Ganguly wins title E-mail : [email protected] lovers that five-time World Champion by IA R. Anantharam Publisher: V. Hariharan Editor : C.G.S. Narayanan and India’s first chess grandmaster The LIC 2nd International Grandmasters Chess Tournament was organised by Dibyendu Price: Monthly Rs.25 Annual Rs.300 Vishwanathan Anand has been granted Barua Chess Academy at the Indian Council for Cultural Relations, Kolkata from 15th to 25th the honour of having a minor planet March 2015. One hundred and thirty participants from eleven federations included seventy Inside….. named after him. With this privilege, five title holders- 27 GMs, 24 IMs, 4 WGMs, 2 WIMs, 9 FMs, 6 WFMs and 3 CMs. It was a LIC 2nd International Grandmasters Chess Anand joins former world chess champions Alexander nine round Swiss system, with a time control of 90 minutes with 30 seconds increment per Tournament,Kolkata... Ganguly wins title Alekhine and Anatoly Karpov who have had similar move. Much to the joy of players, there was only one round a day. by IA R. Anantharam 1 honour bestowed on them. AICF congratulates the Indian 3rd Bhubaneswar All India Open Former PCA world championship finalist Nigel Short of England was the top seed in the FIDE Rating Chess Championship 2015 chess maestro who incidentally has become the first R.R.Laxman wins title Indian sportsperson to be so honoured. tournament, followed by GM Kokarev Dmitry of Russia and GM Quesada Perez Yuniesky FA Suresh Chandra Sahoo,Chief Arbiter 5 of Cuba. The Indian contingent was spearheaded by grandmasters SS Ganguly, Sandipan 3rd Chess Specific Open FIDE At the India-China summit chess meet at Hyderabad the Chanda and Deep Sengupta – all from Kolkata. World junior champion Lu Shanglei of China rated Tournament 2015… Sahaj Grover wins title second half did not go India’s way. After the sides won led a field of four players from China. An average rating of 2287 for 131 players speaks by IA Gopakumar MS, Chief Arbiter 8 two rounds apiece to be level at the half way stage, the volumes about the strength of the tournament. 1st ADRA FIDE Open International Rating Chess Tournament, Purulia, West Bengal…. second half decisively tilted in favour of the visitors who Joydeep Dutta is champion Hiccups in the first round was no exception to the tournament, especially Cubans found the by IA L.R.Bhuvanaa Sai, CA 12 won the Scheveningen System double round event to going tough on their first visit to India. Fourteen year old Puranik Abhimanyu of Maharashtra 15th Jharkand Senior State FIDE Rating lift Komatireddy Prateek Reddy Trophy. Looking back at Chess Championship 2015,Ranchi….. the event, AICF has really provided the Indian team good shocked fourth seeded Cuban grandmaster Ortiz Suarez Isan Reynaldo (2625), rated 360 Pritam Singh is Champion points above him and third seeded Quesada Perez of Cuba escaped with a draw against Nihar Ranjan Sasmal IA ,Chief Arbiter 14 practicing ground against Olympiad gold medallist prior to thirteen year old Kolkata boy Rajdeep Sarkar, with a similar rating difference. Selected games annotated by the World Team Championship to be held at Armenia in IM Manuel Aaron 16 April. This issue contains, in its centre pages, the report, Prize winning studies from Veteran and former national champion P. Konguvel of PSPB overcame GM Pavel Kotsur of 4th FIDE World Cup in composing 40 photographs and a few selected games from the event. Kazakhstan and Abhishek Kelkar of Maharashtra defeated GM Abdulla Rakib of Bangladesh Tactics from master games in the second round. Another Bangladesh GM Enamul Hossain was a victim to Orissa’s Utkal by S.Krishnan 42 Mariya Muzychuk has become the 15th Women's World Ranjan Sahoo in this round. By the end of third round, Nigel, Ganguly, IM N Srinath of Tamil Test your endgame Chess Champion at Sochi beating Natalia Pogonina of Nadu and Abhishek were leading with three points each. Favourites Nigel and Ganguly had by C.G.S.Narayanan 43 Russia. Indian challenge sadly ended in the semi-finals a perfect four points in four rounds, after registering convincing victories over Petr Kostenko Masters of the past-51 when IM Dronavalli Harika, performing at her career best, of Kazakhstan and IM N. Sinath. Lionel Adalbert Kieseritzky 44 went down fighting in the tie-break games. Earlier in the AICF Calendar 48 quarterfinals Champion accounted for the top seeded While the two leaders drew in the clash between them, GM elect Swapnil Dhopade subdued Indian GM Koneru Humpy in the rapid tie-break. Report Kovalev Vladislav of Belarus to join them at the top in the fifth round. Ganguly defeated on this event is also carried in the centre pages. Lionel Swapnil and Nigel beat second seed Dmitry to keep the lead between them, after six rounds. Adalbert Kieseritzky is featured in the ‘Masters of the Lu Shanglei joined the duo at the top, by beating IM Shardul Gagare, as Nigel and Ganguly Readers are invited to offer their past’ series. Selected games from Chennai Open and were held by Stupak Kirill of Belarus and Wang Chen of China respectively.Ganguly survived feedback on the regular features in the a scare from Lu Shanglei to split the point and Nigel forced Sandipan Chanda to a draw by AICF Chronicle and are also invited to National Team Chess Championships annotated by IM send interesting articles, annotated Manuel Aaron are also presented in this issue. repetition of moves, enabling the trio to keep the overnight lead at the end of the eighth games and chess anecdotes to the Editor and penultimate round. at ‘[email protected]’ or ‘[email protected]. Nigel had to be content with a draw against Lu, but Ganguly outwitted Ortiz Suarez of Cuba C.G.S.Narayanan to be crowned an outright winner of the prestigious tournament, held in his home town. A I C F CHRONICLE 1 APRIL 2015 He received a cash prize of three lakh rupess 35 GM Oral Tomas CZE 5½ Workshop for Arbiters of National Championships 2015 for his efforts. Nigel, with a higher tiebreak 36 Kunal M. IND 5½ finished runner up, followed by Lu Shanglei 37 Roy Prantik IND 5½ Prof. R. Anantharam IA 38 IM Swapnil S. Dhopade IND 5 and 4th and 5th places were won by Kolka- The Workshop for chief arbiters and deputy chief arbiters of National Chess Championships tans Deep Sengupta and Sandipan. 39 GM Shyam Sundar M. IND 5 40 GM Sriram Jha IND 5 2015 was organized by All India Chess Federation at Hotel Royal Regency, Chennai on 11th Ms. Usha Uthup, popular singer was the chief 41 IM Satyapragyan Swayangsu IND 5 April 2015. Thirty four arbiters attended the one day workshop with zeal and enthusiasm. Mr. guest for the closing ceremony in the august 42 WGM Swathi Ghate IND 5 CGS Narayanan, Fide Master for Chess Composition and Editor AICF Chronicle, inaugurated the presence of India’s second grandmaster Diby- 43 CM Puranik Abhimanyu IND 5 Workshop in the morning. In his inaugural address, he elaborated the Arbiter’s responsibilities, endu Barua and a host of other dignitaries. 44 IM Chakravarthi Reddy M IND 5 when they send a report to AICF, about tournaments in which they serve as chief arbiters. Final ranking 45 Gusain Himal IND 5 Rk Name FED Pts 46 Abhishek Kelkar IND 5 47 IM Vijayalakshmi S IND 5 1 GM Ganguly Surya Shekhar IND 7½ 48 IM Shyam Nikil P. IND 5 2 GM Short Nigel D ENG 7 49 FM Raghunandan K S IND 5 3 GM Lu Shanglei CHN 7 50 GM Hossain Enamul BAN 5 4 GM Sengupta Deep IND 7 51 IM Mohota Nisha IND 5 5 GM Sandipan Chanda IND 7 52 IM Murali Krishnan B.T. IND 5 6 IM Wang Chen CHN 6½ 53 FM Rakesh Kumar Jena IND 5 7 GM Gopal G.N. IND 6½ 54 Abhishek Das IND 5 8 GM Quesada Perez Yuniesky CUB 6½ 55 GM Bakre Tejas IND 5 9 GM Kokarev Dmitry RUS 6½ 56 Saravana Krishnan P. IND 5 10 Xu Yinglun CHN 6 57 Gurung Rakesh IND 5 11 GM Stupak Kirill BLR 6 58 GM Roy Chowdhury Saptarshi IND 5 12 IM Narayanan Srinath IND 6 59 Singh S. Vikramjit IND 5 13 GM Laxman R.R. IND 6 60 WFM Vaishali R IND 5 14 GM Ortiz S Isan Reynaldo CUB 6 61 GM Kostenko Petr KAZ 4½ 15 IM Rathnakaran K. IND 6 62 Sahoo Utkal Ranjan IND 4½ Arbiters who attended the course 16 GM Kovalev Vladislav BLR 6 63 Navalgund Niranjan IND 4½ Mr. V. Hariharan, Secretary, All India Chess Federation discussed in detail about the importance 17 GM Rahman Ziaur BAN 6 64 Patil Pratik IND 4½ of fide id to a player, the arbiter’ role in creating fide ids, their duty to check ids in tournaments 18 GM Lalith Babu M.R. IND 6 65 IM Girinath P.D.S. IND 4½ etc. He also explained the new fide rules in getting e-mail ids from new players and also about 19 Vignesh Nr IND 6 66 GM Abdulla Al-Rakib BAN 4½ the eradication of double ids of players.