AICF CHRONICLE the official magazine of the All India Chess Federation Volume : 8 Issue : 9 Price Rs. 25 March 2015 35th National Team Chess Championship & 13th National Women Team Chess Championship, Goa PSPB MEN AND WOMEN TRIUMPH Story on page 1 AICF CHRONICLE MARCH 2015 From the Editor’s desk Room No. 70, Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, Viswanathan Anand won the classical Chennai - 600 003. Ph : 044-65144966 /Telefax : 044-25382121 event in the fourth edition of Zurich E-mail : [email protected] Chess Challenge.The tournament Publisher: V. Hariharan Editor : C.G.S. Narayanan with six of the top flight Grandmasters vying for the title ended in an exciting Price: Monthly Rs.25 Annual Rs.300 fashion. After five rounds of classic Inside….. and five rounds of rapid chess, the two contenders with 35th National Team Chess Championship & 13th National Team Women Chess Championship, Goa equal overall points, Vishy Anand and Nakamura, played PSPB is Champion by M.Ephrame IA,CA 1 out a nine-minute nerve-racking ‘Armageddon’ game 4th National Schools Chess Championship,Goa which decided the issue in the latter’s favour. That the Maharashtra dominates National Schools by IA Vasanth BH,CA 6 ‘Chennai tiger’ has regained his form should gladden the 1st Deltin FIDE Rapid Rating Ty, Goa hearts of his fans who eagerly look forward to Anand’s IM Swayams Mishra wins title performance at the Gashimov memorial next month by IA Swapnil Bansod, CA 8 3rd Kanyakumari FIDE Rated Open, Nagercoil where his arch-rival, Magnus Carlsen, will be taking part. Hrithickkesh wins title The report on Zurich CC and the ‘Armageddon’ game are by IA L.R.Bhuvanaa Sai, CA 11 featured in the centre pages. 1st Assam downtown FIDE Rated Ty, Guwahati Dhanabir Singh emerges winner For the first time the Asian giants, China and India,gold by IA Debasish Barua,CA 13 and bronze medallists at the last Olympiad, had a face 1st Rotary Intel.District 3212 FIDE Rated Open for visually challenged,Nagercoil off in an eight round Scheveningen match on four boards Deepyajeet De wins title at Hyderabad. As this goes to press China, which surged by IA M.Ephrame, CA 15 Selected games annotated by ahead decisively in the second half, beat India 18-14 to IM Manuel Aaron 17 take the winner’s purse and trophy. The games from this Problem World event will be presented in a future issue. Plachutta interference by C.G.S.Narayanan 40 Study of the year 2013 41 PSPB triumphed at the National Team Chess Tactics from master games Championships held in Goa winning both Men and by S.Krishnan 42 Test your endgame Women team titles. Maharashtra players dominated iIn by C.G.S.Narayanan 43 the 4th National Schools Chess Championship held Masters of the past-50 in Goa. Reports and final placing of these two events Viktor Knorre 44 together with a brief report on the Refresher course for AICF Calendar 48 Arbiters organized by AICF and hosted by All Odisha Chess Association in Bubaneshwar are featured in this Readers are invited to offer their issue. The selected games annotated by IM Manuel Aaron feedback on the regular features in the this month are from National Premier and Chennai Open AICF Chronicle and are also invited to send interesting articles, annotated GM Tournaments. games and chess anecdotes to the Editor at ‘[email protected]’ or ‘[email protected]. C.G.S.Narayanan 35th National Teams Chess Championship, Goa PSPB is Champion by M.Ephrame IA, Chief Arbiter Top seeded PSPB, won the title with a round spare in 35th National Chess Championship at Caritas Holiday Home Goa, PSPB collected 18 possible match points in nine rounds and won the Winner’s trophy pocketing a cash prize of twenty five thousand rupees. Similarly PSPB woman team also won the title in their respective section with 13 Mach points in seven rounds. The chief guest of the function Shri. Sudhanshu Jha, Commissioner of Income tax gave away the prizes in presence of D V Sundar, FIDE vice president, K. Ramachari, DGM, Air- ports Authority of India, Kishor Bandekar, Secretary GCA, V Hariharan, Secretary AICF, Fr. Maverick Fernandes, Director Caritas , Goa, M Ephrame, Chief Arbiter, Sagar Sacordekar, VP , GCA , Mahesh Candolkar and Sanjay Belurkar, Secretary of TTCA. Kishor Bandekar, Secretary Goa chess Association, welcomed the gathering and Sagar Sacordekar, VP , GCA proposed the vote of thanks. Earlier, the 35th National Open Team Chess Championship and 13th National team women Chess Championship got underway at Caritas Holiday Home, Goa, from 20th February 2015. The event attracted 43 teams in Open section and 12 teams in women section. There are 9 GM,7 WGM, 25 IM which include 3 in women section. Top seeded Petroleum Sports Promo- tion has fielded 4 GMs and one GM elect Karthikeyam Murali with the average of 2616 FIDE ratings. Air India occupied the top seeded with 3 WGMs and 2 IMs in women section. There are 205 players in Open section and 57 players in women section. Adding glamour to this All India Chess Federation has fielded AICF team for the second time in National team chess championship. The total prize fund of the event was two Lakhs, out of which, Rs. 25000/- was reserved to the winner in the Open Section and Rs. 20000/- in Women section. The tournament was declared open after lighting the traditional lamp by Panjim MLA, Sidharth Kuncalienkar in the presence of K. Ramachari, DGM, Goa, Airports Authority of India, V. Hariharan, Secretary and Ravindra Dongre, Treasurer , All India Chess Federation, Kishore Bandekar, Joint Secretary AICF and Secretary GCA, Sagar Sacordekar, Vice President, North, GCA, Ephrame, Chief Arbiter, Mahesh Candolkar, President and Sanjay Belurkar, Secretary, Tiswadi Taluka Chess Association. All speakers complimented Goa Chess for taking up many national tournaments. Panjim MLA, Sidharth Kuncalienkar, inaugurated the event by mak- ing the customary first move. In round four of open section the 4th seeded Airport Authority of India lost to the top seeded PSPB, the second seeded Railway 'A' beat Air India and the 9th seeded MCA Maharashtra lost in the hands of 3rd seeded Railway 'B'. At the end of the fourth round three teams scored with eight match points. In round 5 , the PSPB beat Railway 'A' where as Railway 'B' A I C F CHRONICLE 1 MARCH 2015 drew with Air India this helped PSPB to took the sole lead with 10 match points. The PSPB continued their winning strike in round 6 also this time Railway 'B' lost in the hands of PSPB and PSPB collected 12 match points at the end of round six and took the sole lead, 2 points ahead of the nearest rival. In round seven the PSPB once again showed their spectacular performance beating The Empty Reloaded team from Andra Pradesh and continued the lead with 14 points. In round eight PSPB beat Air India and virtually won the championship with a round spare. PSPB has no difficult to beat MCA Maharashtra in the final round. PSPB col - lected 18 match points in 9 rounds and won the championship by 4 match points ahead of the nearest Railway 'A' team which finished second with 14 match points. In the women section, at the end of round three the 3rd seeded PSPB was the sole leader with 6 match points by beating 5th seeded Bihar 'A'. In round four Tamilnadu went down to PSPB and PSPB maintain the lead at the end in the same round. In round five the encounter between the PSPB and the top seeded Air India was a well fought draw, PSPB continued the sole lead at the end of round five also. PSPB has no difficult to beat LIC in round 6 and maintained the lead with 11 points which is one point ahead of the nearest rival Air India. In the final round unbeaten PSPB once again showed the spectacular form by beating the local Goa 'B' team and won the championship with 13 points. Air India scored 12 points finished the runner up. A physically challenged player Nerlikar Shailesh from Chess Winners participated in this tournament which was highly appreciated.He was unable to even sit and play. Lying on the table he played all his games. Having the Fide rating 1568 he scored 3 points out of nine in this championship. Shri. Kishor Bandekar, the General Secretary Goa Chess Association awarded him a cash prize for his enthusiasm. 35th National Team Chess Championship- 2015 Final ranking Rank Team Gam. + = - MP Pts. SBFIDE 1 Petroleum Sports Promotion Board 9 9 0 0 18 32 691.25 2 Railways - A 9 6 2 1 14 25 514.50 3 Railways - B 9 5 3 1 13 25 534.50 4 Airport Authority of India 9 5 3 1 13 24 494.25 5 Tamil Nadu State 9 5 2 2 12 24½ 441.75 6 Air India 9 5 2 2 12 22 460.00 7 Chess Is Life, Maharashtra 9 5 2 2 12 21½ 437.00 8 Tamil Nadu State - B 9 5 2 2 12 21 375.25 9 MCA Senior, Maharashtra 9 6 0 3 12 20 380.50 10 Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited 9 4 3 2 11 21½ 400.75 11 Life Insurance Corporation 9 5 1 3 11 21 411.75 12 Gujarath State 9 5 1 3 11 21 334.50 13 Bihar State - A 9 4 2 3 10 20½ 375.75 14 Fischer Fans Maharashtra 9 4 2 3 10 20½ 310.75 ( contd on p.5 ) A I C F CHRONICLE 2 MARCH 2015 3rd Kanyakumari International FIDE Rated Open Chess Tournament – 2015 CA Kulathooran Pillai(right) inaugurates against Mr.Satheesh(left) correspondent, Moderator Gnanadason Poly Technic College,Nagercoil in the presence of (left to right) Mrs.