AICCF BULLETIN

FEBRUARY, 2012 Volume 19, Number 2

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ALL INDIA CORRESSPONDENCE CHESS FEDERATION Affiliated to: The International Correspondence Chess Federation (ICCF) Regd.: Societies Registration Act 1860 (No. 292, 23/3/94), Mumbai Public Trusts Act 1950 (No. F16611, 30/6/94) Website: www.aiccf.net Webserver: www.aiccf-chess.com THE AICCF MANAGING COMMITEE President Dr. A.B. Surveyor 9, Apna Ghar, Colaba, Mumbai 400 005 e-mail: [email protected] Tel.: +91 22 22 83 12 96

Members Dr. Alok Saxena Mumbai 400 705 e-mail: [email protected], Tel.: +91 22 64 50 31 39

Vice President Dr. A. Chatterjee 11 Sriniketan, Anushakti Nagar, Mumbai 400 094 e-mail: [email protected] Tel.: +91 22 25 50 30 94, +91 99 20 46 77 33 Secretary-cum-Treasurer E.G. Meherhomji Brahmand Phase II, A-6, G-3, Azad Nagar, Sandoz Baug PO, Thane(W) 400 607 e-mail: [email protected] Tel.: +91 22 25 89 69 41

P.S. Dabholkar Thane (East) 400 603, e-mail: [email protected] Tel.: +91 22 25 32 18 52, +91 98 33 99 78 39 Santhosh M. Paul Earalil Market Road, Convent Jn., Ernakulam, Kochi 682 011 e-mail: [email protected]

Current AICCF Champion P.B. Dhanish Calicut e-mail: [email protected] CONTRIBUTORS Major E.G. Meherhomji, A. Chatterjee, A. Saxena, Nagesh J., Mohan Jayaraman, Valsan K. Others Shams Khan, P.G. Mandviwala, V. Malvankar, Sailesh Chandra, V.D. Pandit, D.M. Modak, B. Mohanakrishnan, V.A. Shivdasani, Anil K. Anand, T.V.S.R. Mohan

© All Rights Reserved. Published and circulated by Lalit Kapoor on behalf of AICCF.

Editor Speaks

Contents

Editor Speaks . . . . . . . . . Member Services . . . . . . . From the Secretary’s Desk . . Reader’s Write . . . . . . . . . Auto-Chess-O-Graphy . . . . P.B. Dhanish: Latest SIM . . . . AICCF Championship, 1509 . . AICCF Webserver: Statistics . . Heritage-13: Blindfold Chess . Nigel Short: Not so short . . . Corchegimmic-44 . . . . . . . ICCF Section . . . . . . . . . . Results and New Tournaments. Members List and Ratings . . . Games Section . . . . . . . . .

Editor Lalit Kapoor 12/336, Jatav Nagar, Saharanpur 247 001 e-mail: [email protected], Tel.: +91 98 97 03 89 45

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he most important news is that Sh. P.B. Dhanish becomes third ICCF-IM and second ICCF-SIM of AICCF. We congratulate him for his success in the international scene. After a long gap, you will see Auto-Chess-O-Graphy and Heritage articles in this issue (Thanks to Sh. Valsan K. and Sh. Nagesh J.) Dr. A. Chatterjee tells us something about AICCF Webserver Statistics and Nigel Short in his articles. AICCF Championship 1509 is about to complete as there are very few games left unfinished. We will see our new AICCF Champion in either T. Pawan Kumar or K. Prabhanandan. Dr. A. Saxena is qualified for the final of 11th Afro-Asian Championship. We wish him all the best. This is the first issue which is not going

to be printed. Members have mixed views on this matter. We use colours and graphics moderately this time to compensate it. We have planned to publish results in Crosstable manner also but webserver crash at the times of designing forced us to postpone. Hope, you would enjoy this issue also.

Lalit Kapoor Bulletin Editor Saharanpur

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Member Services

Ratings

` 50/– (Entrance Fee) plus either ` 100/– (for 2 years) or ` 600/– (Life) or ` 1500/– (Donor).

New members start with an initial rating of 800. Thereafter the rating is incremented/decremented according to results. In case of any doubt please get in touch with the Tournament Director and Dr. A. Chatterjee.

Membership Renewal ` 100/– for 2 years.

Payment Method All payments must be sent either by direct bank transfer to: Name of Bank: Union Bank Of India Branch: Sanpada A/C No: 629702010000576 ISFC Code: UBIN0562971 Beneficiary: All India Correspondence Chess Federation or by Draft / Mumbai cheque / MO in favour of All India Correspondence Chess Federation to Sh. E.G. Meherhomji. In case of bank transfer send transaction details by email to:

[email protected] with copy to:

[email protected]

AICCF Tournaments AICCF tournaments are played by Webserver and post. Type-A is 7-player, single game and Type-B is 4-player, double game. There are no fees and one can play in as many tournaments as desired.

Webserver Tournaments To play in a webserver tournament enroll from www.aiccf-chess. com (You may contact Dr. Chatterjee for details).

Postal Tournaments To play in a postal tournament, drop a postcard or send the form on inside back cover to Sh. E.G. Meherhomji.

Tournament Directors Webserver tournaments do not have a TD, however you may contact Dr. A. Chatterjee and/or Mr. Santhosh Paul to resolve any issues. When a postal tournament starts the name of the TD appears on the start list. Contact the TD for claims etc.

Adjudication When the postal tournament you are playing in reaches the adjudication date you MUST send a complete report to the TD similar to the form included in the inside back cover of this bulletin.

Championships The AICCF championships (15-player) are conducted from time to time. Qualified players are the: (a) current champion, (b) players at the top of the Rating Chart and (c) 2 donors. P.B. Dhanish of Calicut is the current AICCF Champion.

ICCF Websites (a) http://www.iccf.com (b) http://www.iccf-webchess.com

ICCF Ratings ICCF ratings are entirely separate from AICCF ratings and are computed in a different way. Note however that games played in the AICCF Championships are also ICCF rated. An ICCF rating is given to a participant after he completes 12 games. This rating is considered provisional. A regular or fixed rating is given only after the completion of 30 games. You can find your ICCF rating at here:

http://www.iccf-webchess.com/RatingList.aspx

Contacts

Bulletin • Submit articles for publication, letters, comments etc. to the editor. • Games for publication (preferably with notes) should be sent by email to Games Editor, Sh. Mohan Jayaraman with copy to editor. If you want to send games by post then send to editor only.

Websites • Website: www.aiccf.net • Webserver: www.aiccf-chess.com

International Section To play in ICCF Tournaments you must become a member of the International Section of AICCF (fees ` 320/– for 2 years or one time donation of ` 1550/–, to be sent to Sh. E.G. Meherhomji). For ICCF tournaments contact Dr. Alok Saxena. One can play by email or webserver (even by post, though this is not common now). The fees for the requested tournament must be sent to Sh. Meherhomji after consulting with Dr. Saxena. Payment can also be made by internet bank transfer. To obtain details send an email to Dr. Saxena or Dr. Chatterjee. There are some ICCF tournaments like the Afro–Asia Zone Tournaments where you can play for FREE. There are Team Tournaments such as the ICCF Olympiad (e-mail, postal or web-server) and Friendly International Tournaments, both of which are ICCF rated. Announcements regarding these are sent to members by e-mail. It is important to send your e-mail address to Dr. Saxena so that he can keep you updated on these team events. ICCF allocates a unique ID number to you when you play in your first ICCF event. You can locate this ID by searching at the ICCF Websites.

Here is a brief list of the persons to be contacted: Dr. Alok Saxena* |International Tournaments • Tournament Director| Dr. Ambar Chatterjee* |Ratings • AICCF Webserver • New Webserver Tournaments| E.G. Meherhomji* |General Enquiries • Fees and Payments • New Postal Tournaments • Tournament Director| P.S. Dabholkar* |Tournament Director| Lalit Kapoor* |Bulletin Editor| Mohan Jayaraman |Games Archivist • Games Editor| e-mail: [email protected] H.P. Chole |Tournament Director| Mail: Vivek Colony, Vidya Nagar, Chandrapur Distt., P.O. Brahmapuri, Maharashtra Santhosh Mathew Paul |Administrator (Webserver)| Mail: Earalil Market Road, Convent Jn., Ernakulam, Kochi 682 011 e-mail: [email protected] * Address on first page

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From the Secretary’s Desk

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he 18th Annual General Meeting (AGM) of AICCF was held on Sunday, 16th October 2011 at the residence of AICCF President. Dr. A.B.Surveyor. A number of issues were discussed and decisions taken. Details on decisions other than routine mattters which may be of interest to all our members are given below: 1. Certificates will be issued to the Winner and 2 runners up in the championship 1509 and future championships. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.

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In 1510 there will be 3 prizes: Rs. 5000/- (winner), Rs. 3000/- (1st runner up) and Rs. 2000/-(2nd runner up). For future championships the prize money would be higher. The Entry fees for the Championship 1511 was decided to be Rs. 500/- for those selected on the basis of Rating and Seeding and Rs. 2000/- for 2 Donor seats. From 1511 onwards, those applying for the 2 Donor seats must have a rating of 800 or more. There is no change in the fee structure for AICCF Membership. There was a suggestion that games played in the AICCF Championship should be visible at the web site with a 5-move delay even while the game is in progress, (as in ICCF World Championships). The AGM decided against this for the present. However members may put up their suggestions in this regard at the AICCF Forum. There were a number of emails List of New Members: received protesting the decision to discontinue printed copies of the bulletin. Members interested # Name Type Place in a hard copy should themselves 505 Vaibhav Prakash Jambhale Life Member Thane print a copy from the website ei506 Mohammed Aleemuddin Life Member Hyderabad ther on their own home printer 507 Prasanna Kumar Mishra Ordinary Member Mumbai or at a cyber cafe, for which the cost is nominal. 508 Om Prakash Mohanty Life Member Bhubaneshwar We welcome the new members.

E.G.Meherhomji Secretary-cum-Treasurer Thane

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Reader’s Write

Regards, V. Malwankar (Mumbai)

Printing of the Bulletin Dear Dr. Chatterjee, That is good to hear, that we have totally done away with the paper option for the journal. Anything which we can do to help with the environment is always appreciated. Thanks. Dear Dr. Chatterjee, “Your article in the bulletin is worth praising in two ways. First you have developed the server as one of the best in world and secondly you have verified it. Congratulations!” Shams Khan (Amroha)

Dear editor, I’ve gone through the AICCF Bulletin and I indeed found it to be good. I would like to look into it in detail as soon as I get the ‘magazine’ and am looking forward to it. I appreciate the hard work that goes into making it intersting and I always await the new bulletin. Best Wishes!! P.G. Mandviwala (Surat)

Dear editor, I remember, we had played a game last year on AICCF (T.No. 7305) and in one of the issues you had promised to publish it, since it was still going on. Alas! I could not continue the game as I had to stop playing CC due to my further studies. I plan to return back next year. If possible, I request you to post that game in one of the issues with your analysis as it was very unbalanced and I am eager to see your analysis. Also, one suggestion from my side (which

Sailesh Chandra (Hydrabad)

Dear editor, I am in receipt of the Aug 2011 issue of “The AICCF Bulletin”. I was sorry to know that henceforth the same would be sent only in soft form to most of the members. But please note that I would like to receive a print copy only. It would not be out of place to discuss here the pros and cons of the two forms: Soft copy:

• One must own a PC with Internet connection. • The electricity is required and its supply has to be regular. In many parts of our country, it is erratic. • One has to take special efforts to switch on the PC and to establish the Internet connection (for which the member has to pay). • You can only sit in one position and read (causing backpain to aged members). • Reading anything on PC strains your eyes more. Print copy:

• You can read the Bulletin at leisure even at odd hours. You can read even

lying down on bed. • You can carry the copy with you to read during travelling or when you are in a queue (for doctor, admission, ticket or whatever) or when you are waiting (for a bus, railway or whatever). • You can proudly show and share the copy with your friends who are interested in the game. • You may preserve the print copy as a bibliophile. In short, access to print copy is unrestricted while that to soft copy puts lot of constraints. I think most of our members have not become so computer savvy as yet. I am sure many members who receive the soft copy would print it on their own (for which the member would have to pay). Instead I suggest efforts should be made to reduce the printing cost. A normal quality paper is thought to suffice the purpose. Even the number of pages may be curtailed down to 64 or even less. I hope the better counsel would prevail. Regards, V.D. Pandit (Mumbai)

Dear Vijay, We have been discussing about discontinuing printed copies of the bulletin since over 2 years. There is a discussion forum about it which you can read at the following link: http://pub22.bravenet.com/forum/static/show.php?user num=1819609228&frmid=478&msgid=687641&cm d=show

Of late there have been a number of emails from members, like you, who are not happy with the decision to stop sending printed copies. Let me explain our decision. First of all please understand that it is not a question of money. AICCF is doing well in terms of finances. We have no problem in covering printing and postage costs. We feel that the money will be better spent on something else. These are times when in every sector we are talking of saving the environment. It is not correct to bring out the bulletin in print in this day and age when net access is swift and

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need not be implemented of course), now that we have a website, we should develop a mobile software (android/other platform) so that players can login and post their moves.

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a) The printed bulletin in one’s own hands is something entirely different from reading it on the screen. b) One can give the bulletin to a friend who can get an idea about AICCF. c) One can read the printed copy while waiting in a Q, travelling in a bus, or in bed. The whole perception on which the arguments are given is wrong. Today one can buy a printer for Rs. 3000/to 5000/- and maintain it with cartridges and paper for say Rs. 200/- per month. This would cover your other printing work, not just printing the bulletin. As soon as the PDF appears on the web, please take a print out and all the above reasons are eliminated. True this is not a green way of doing it. Most of us will not print. A few old fashioned people can print it at their end. In the end the amount of paper conserved is huge. We would be saving the world for our children. This is an absolute necessity in today’s times. Credit card bills, telephone bills, electricity bills have already become paperless in Mumbai (optionally). We get intimation by email and we pay online instead of writing a cheque. A major part of the wastage in printing and circulating bulletins is (a) the envelope goes straight to the dustbin (b) there are very many inactive members for whom the bulletin is a waste. Most members who do not actually have an idea about the mechanics of printing a bulletin suggest (as you have done) that members who want printed copies can pay extra and we should at least send them. We don’t need money. We have plenty of funds. No professional printer agrees to print a small number of copies. In fact even if we print for all our members, most printers find the number too small and need to be persuaded to do the printing. It is impossible to print a small number of copies. When the number of copies is small, it becomes possible to take a direct print out on a computer and make xerox copies. And we shall follow this route for the handful of postal players, who too are a breed fast fading out. On ther hand people who have PC can afford a printer and do the printing themselves. Best regards, Dr. A. Chatterjee (Mumbai)

Dear editor, I was sad to know that AICCF Bulletin [printed copy] can not now be sent to everybody. Given below is a copy of my e-mail showing how much I await the ‘actual’ magazine. But I am also aware that it is costly and also many members may not be even reading it. So, I think the best way would be to recover the price of the magazine from the people who want the magazine even though they have internet access and the rest [who do not have internet access] could avail free copy if desired. I have kept all the copies of Bulletin and cherish it. Long back, I had also requested that winners of the AICCF should be given ‘certificates’ to boost the interest of players. Although, this request of mine appeared in Bulletin [long back], but there was no comment [to the best of my knowledge] of the ‘editor’ about it’s discussion or decision of the management in any Bulletin. Best Wishes!! P.G. Mandivwala (Surat)

Dear Sh. Chatterjee, I skimmed through the pages of the August issue. The thing which I most liked was the heavy analysis of several games and this is a welcome feature indeed! 1) In the AICCF Forum we get similar analysis by Sh. Dhanish, India’s best CC player. 3) There was one feature which I did not quite like and it was the August 2011 issue was the last to be printed and to be sent to all members. Henceforth only active CC players will get the issue -— which does not include me. 4) I agree that the printing is expensive but I suggest that instead of the costly process of printing, cyclostyled copies may be sent to all in future! That way the costs will be reduced. It is one thing to ‘see’ the issue on the screen and quite another to hold it in one’s hand. Besides with the passage of time, the ‘collection’ and quick reference aspect may possibly be delayed if the issues are on the Net only. There is the possibility of one’s data may be lost as I had to replace my hard disck in the past and had to lose all the earlier data.

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5) Last but not the least I was glad to note Sh. P.B. Dhanish has became an IM and hope he gets the GM title soon! Wish him all the best! Yours faithfully, D.M. Modak (Nashik)

Dear Sh. D.M. Modak, 1. Cyclostyling belongs to the stone age as I had already told you when this was discussed in AICCF Forum. There is no cyclostyling facility available anywhere in the world perhaps not even in a village. Making a computer print out and xeroxing it is much cheaper than cyclostyling. The resulting quality is also superior to the bygone days of cyclostyling. Cyclostyling was never eco friendly either. 2. You are having a computer. Then why cant you print out the PDF file yourself? It will cost you about Rs. 10/- to Rs 15/- if you go to a cybecafe and ask them to take a printout for you. And if you do it at home it will cost you less than Rs. 10/- not counting the investment of purchasing a printer. 3. We are stopping the effort of printing, binding and posting. I have repeatedly empashised that it is not for the sake of saving money as AICCF is doing quite well in that regard. It is a worldwide effort to go green, save trees and save the world. Do you not feel that we should save the world for our children and help India to embrace the path of technology in this digital age? India is a world leader in software and computers. As such it is our individual responsibility to show that we are individually techno savvy. Is it too much to ask for you to locate a cybecafe near you who will print the bulletin for you? Or better still, can you not afford to buy a printer for less than Rs. 5,000/- and the required cartridges and paper. 4. We will continue to send a limited number of xerox copies (without cover) and unbound to a few members who are actively playing by post and do not have access to computer facilities. I ask you to give a serious thought to these questions. Best regards, Dr. A. Chatterjee (Mumbai)

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Dear Dr. Chatterjee, I’m happy that AICCF has decided to go green and that starting from the next issue all those with internet access will get the bulletin as a pdf document. Unlike a printed copy its a little hard to search for games since the pages cant be skimmed through. It would be nice if you could add an index at the end with details of the games. It could have details of the players and perhaps the openings (by name or ECO) and the page numbers. This would make it easier to read. I am personally not fond of lengthy variations in annotated games. I feel that it deprives the reader the pleasure of working out the position and may also lead to confusion. Could you conduct a poll among members to see what the majority feels about this? You could then fine tune the annotated games section. I grew up on the games of Capablanca and the great man never gave lengthy variations. Perhaps that explains my bias! In the formative years of AICCF if memory serves me correctly, players from other countries also contributed articles and annotated games. We are playing quite a few friendly matches on the ICCF webserver. Can we not request them to ask their players to annotate some of the games from the matches? If they oblige it would be stimulating. In an earlier mail you had mentioned that you are thinking of creating an chess app for mobile phones. The majority of phones (barring Nokia and one or two others) use android OS. Now java based programs do not run (or run well) on Android phones. Android does offer a link to website where a free converting app can be downloaded and installed. However it has a bug and causes the phone to hang and sometimes even switch off at times. So you will have to create two chess apps (one for Symbian OS and the other for Android OS). And yes, I have no complaints about the bulletin other than the suggestions made. Thank the entire AICCF team for the good work. God bless and a very happy Ganesh Chaturthi to you. Jai Ganesha! B. Mohanakrishnan (Chennai)

Dear Dr. Chatterjee, I received the print copy of the Bulletin (August 2011), and I have to say that it makes a lot of difference to hold the book-

let in your hand and read it, thanks to the excellent quality of the printed version. I would like to continue to receive the hard copy in future too, as I am sure I would not sit up and read the soft copy on the monitor, much less set up a chess board or switch windows, while following a game from the bulletin (soft copy). I am sure many of my ‘older generation’ chess friends would be of the same opinion. It is my humble suggestion that this choice of whether to receive the hard copy of the Bulletin be made optional, and those opting for it can pay nominal extra charges for the print copy at the time of paying the membership fees. With best regards,

instance is in almost each and every tournament!! I try to avoid putting his name when the tournament is to start but if we have to have more number of tournaments started then his name gets included! Best regards, Dr. A.Chatterjee (Mumbai)

AICCF Games Site Dear Friends, A first version of the planned AICCF Games Site is ready. You may try it out at www.aiccf.comule.com or www.aiccf-chess.com/ aiccf_games

V.A. Shivdasani (Pune)

Elo Rating in AICCF 1. Implementing the Elo type rating system I have already considered and wrote to some players already about it. I can implement Elo system rather easily in AICCF server but a few issues are not clear. How to convert the existing ratings to be compatible with the new system? We will have to devise a formula fore it and many players will protest. Still we can discuss and work it out. 2. Rating group methodology is not a problem. I am allocating the tournmaments manually and I wanted to put at least above 900 together and below 900 separetely. But there are not enough players at the moment. An above 900 player will not get a tournament even after 4 months. Meanwhile players like Kalapi Trivedi want to qualify for AICCF Championship. 3. At present we have only a very few active server players and some of them are playing in a very large number of games. Shams Khan for

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This is just a preliminary version. It has a very small database of 20 games and limited features. However your feedback about the site at this early stage will be very useful to me. To begin testing, start by clicking the “Search” button at the end of the search box, without entering any data. You should see a new screen displaying a table of all the 20 games that the test database holds. If you click on any row of the table, the game will be displayed on the right. You can play through the game by clicking the moves, pressing the right, left, up and down arrows of your keyboard, or by means of the navigation buttons appearing below the board. To refine your search, fill up some of the fields in the Search Box.

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AICCF BULLETIN The only tricky part is understanding the two boxes that appear for both White and Black. The upper box is the real data box. Whatever you type here will be used to match the actual name. For example if you wipe out “Anybody” and type “De” for White and Ignore Colours is checked, you should discover 6 games of Gautam De. The alternative is to use the second box appearing under the main White or Black box. This is a drop down list that includes the names of all AICCF members. You can select a name from here as well. For ICCF players or non-AICCF players, this is the only way. E.g. try entering “Sharma”. You will see Khan, Shams vs. Sharma, H.O. where H.O.Sharma is neither ICCF nor AICCF plus games of Manish Sharma (an old member of AICCF). At present the javascript used to display the games is the same as what I wrote for the AICCF webserver. It discards comments and variations. There is no provision to flip the board. Shri Lalit Kapoor pointed out a very nice javascript freely available (at blogspot. com). This is a very elaborate javascript code and I spent a lot of time to try it out. Unfortunately the code contains quite a few errors and I had to finally abandon it. I may take some hints from it to complete my own javascript development. (It is very difficult to debug someone else’s code). I have yet to complete the Administration part which will allow the Games Archivist to add more games to the database. Code to avoid duplicate games will be included at this stage. The next step for me is to include the entire database of 2500+ games provided by Shri Mohan Jayaraman. This will take some time as the EventDate field is sometimes missing (the rest of the data appears correct, although I did encounter at least one game which cannot be played through). After the site is finalised, we may ask Shri Nagesh J. to adapt it to the AICCF website being maintained by him. The PHP and Javascript codes that I have developed can be provided to him. However in that case the code has to be maintaned and further enhancements will have to be done by him (as the password cannot be shared). The present site www.aiccf.comule.com is 100% free, has 1.5 GB diskspace and 100 GB/month bandwith. There are no ads. It is also possible for AICCF to take up another server at QualiSpace (similar to the

present AICCF webserver, for which the cost is quite low). On the other hand if Shri Nagesh is enthusiastic and takes on the responsibility of code maintainence and development, he is welcome to take on the task. Please let me have your opinion about this. I can complete the Administration tools, improved Javascript and full database possibly by 1st January. Please send me your complete feedback. Best regards, Dr. A. Chatterjee (Mumbai)

Dear Dr. Chatterjee, Thanks. I liked the idea of giving away certificates and prize money as decided in AGM. This would motivate more people to try to win the championship instead of just participating and improving ratings. I have the following additional suggestions: 1. If any of the Donor entry participant with rating (below 800) manages to reach top-5 position in the same championship, they should have their entry fees waived. This will not apply for the Winner and 2 runner-ups who are already compensated. 2. To encourage more new players to enter in the AICCF championships, there should be a special prize for any outstanding player who shows a 500+ rating performance. 3. The entry fee should be waived for the top-5 winners of each championship for the next cycle. Hope that you will seriously consider my suggestions. The “Arab Spring” did affect my AICCF 1509 performance but I hope to return in AICCF 1511 championship with a vengeance! Thanks, Anil Anand (Calicut)

AICCF Chp. 1509 Sh. V.D. Pandit asked about the winner of AICCF Chp. 1509. Here Dr. Chatterjee replies: Dear Shri Pandit, The remaining games (except Sunil Somani-Neelakantan scored by adjudication in favour of Somani and to be scored after awaiting any protest) are extended with play to finish. It will be interesting

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to observe the result of Pavan Kumar vs Prabhanandan, the result of which will be the real decider. If Prabhanandan were to draw this and win his remaining games, then he ties with Pavan Kumar. It is expected that in that case Prabhanandan will win on tie break rules. However if Pavan Kumar wins against Prabhanandan then he becomes outright winner and if Prabhanandan wins then he becomes outright winner. The critical game Pavan Kumar vs Prabhanandan is in progress and the adjudication committee is not permitted to make any comment about the present position on the board. Best regards, Dr. A. Chatterjee (Mumbai)

Crash of AICCF webserver Dear Dr. Chatterjee, Life throws up unexpected situations and the server crash on 2 March, 2012 is probably one of them. I appreciate your dedication and efforts. It must have been quite difficult and time consuming restoring the games. Congratulations! Please keep up your efforts. With Best Wishes, T.V.S.R. Mohan (Hydrabad)

Dear Mohan, Thank you so much for your kind and encouraging words. I have stayed up most of the night in order to restore the Championship games. Games in 1509, 1510 were running again from the morning of 4th March. To restore the remaining games will take a long time. So we thought of requesting players to play the same moves they already played earlier. Unfortunately many players complained that they did not have records and started playing different moves. So on 5th March we disabled all tournaments except 1509, 1510. I am now restoring all the tournaments one by one and informing players by email about it. The players’ clocks will be restarted only when the tournament is restarted. Best regards, Dr. A. Chatterjee (Mumbai)

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K. Valsan Kannur, Kerala

Native Place Mother tongue Languages known and spoken

Valsan Kanavath. Valsan is my name and Kanavath is my maternal family name. Kannapuram a village in Kannur Dist of Kerala State where no chess activity was there. Malayalam Malayalam, English, Hindi. I can understand Marathi also.

Family Details

Mother, Wife and two Daughters. Wife and both daughters know chess moves. My elder daughter is her College Girls Champion and my younger daughter who is presently studying in 7th STD stood 1st in Kendriya Vidyalaya Bhopal Region Chess tournament in 2011 with a perfect score of 6/6 and qualified and played in All India KV Chess Championship at Bhopal.

Profession

I am working as a Junior Works Manager at Regional Controllerate of Safety, a Unit under Ordnance Factory Board, Kolkatta.

How I learnt Chess

I learned chess moves very late at the age of 17 by watching games played by classmates when I was doing Diploma in Engineering.

First experience in OTB Tournaments

In 1985 I played my first open chess tournament organized by Jalgaon Jilha Sahakari Dudh Vikas Federation Ltd. Jalgaon. The tournament was played in the evening and my last game was with Mr.Dani. Dani is very popular for slow movement; I am also not bad in keeping nerves. The game ended after 5.00 AM following a battle of more than seven hours and I won the match and stood 6th in that tournament. They gave me a receipt of Rs 21/- to sign and send on receipt of Money Order. But till date I have not received that M.O. and I am keeping that receipt with me! During 80s and 90s I played many open tournaments in and around Jalgaon Dist. and got many prizes including first.

Encouragement from employer

Indian Ordnance Factories gives importance to Sports activity and conducts Inter Factory Chess tournament and best 4 players are send to National Challengers (National B). From 1988 onwards I qualified most of the time for All India Chess tournaments from West Zone till I stopped playing. From 1983 to 2006 I was at Ordnance Factory, Varangaon (Jalgaon Dist.). I got lot of encouragement and support to participate in Ordnance Factory Chess tournament and in Open chess tournaments. My best performance was 5th at Chandigarh in 1992 even without playing first round! From 1998 somehow my interest in chess was dropped and I rarely practiced and participated in chess tournaments. As I started giving coaching to my younger daughter in 2010 I brushed up my chess skills. On encouragement from my head of Unit Dr. P.R Sudhakar, The regional Controller of Safety, I again seriously practiced and participated in Ordnance Factory Central Zone chess tournament and qualified and participated in the All India Ordnance Factory Chess tournament in 2010-11. I also played a couple of local tournaments and played Ist MSV international rating below 2000 in 2011 and I got best unrated player award and got my first ELO rating of 1771. In 2011-12 though I qualified from our area for participating in Central Zone Chess Selection I could not participate due to late communication. I am looking forward to participate in next year’s All India Chess tournament and qualify for the National Challenger (National B).

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I was a member of erstwhile Correspondence Chess Association of India (CCAI), Bikaner. When I joined it was almost inactive! When the AICCF started in 1993, I joined and played many tournaments and qualified for Ist and 2nd AICCF Championship. There was a time I used to eagerly await the arrival of the Postman bearing post cards. But I could not keep that momentum for long due to various engagements and had to withdraw from all tournaments and stopped playing correspondence chess. As the AICCF started web server tournament, I asked one tournament as a sample. Thanks to the web server team, I enjoyed it and asked for more tournaments. By that time I understood that if I can finish maximum number of games by winning or draw by June 2011, I could qualify for the next AICCF Championship. It proved correct and I got an increase of 733 rating points in the July 2011 rating chart and I stood 5th among the active players and also qualified for the AICCF Championship 1510! AICCF has played a great role in improving my opening and analytical skills. It is a great enjoyment playing and communicating with players of different culture and playing strength. I would like to mention here that I like the design of AICCF site much more than ICCF. As on 1st Jan 2011 as per AICCF records I have finished 236 games with 108 wins, 30 draws and 98 losses. This gives a score of 123 and a performance figure of 52.12%. There are 15 games in progress. My present rating (Jan 2012) is 1240. In the list of July 2011 it was 1257 and prior to that it was 524. As the rating graph shows, I had reached a peak rating of 1120 during the postal era. After that, with my withdrawal from tournaments, my rating dropped to 524. It is a tribute to the robust rating system of AICCF and the possibility of playing on the web server, that a player who becomes active again, can recover his rating within a short time.

Playing style

Earlier I was very defensive. I like playing positional games and watching for the chance to attack! By that time, sometimes the opponent also finds a chance!

Favourite opening Drawbacks

Favourite CC player My favourite OTB players My best games in CC

I always open with 1.e4. In OTB play, I am little bit slow and end up in time trouble in the end game and that affects the results. I never give time to analyse my games seriously and that may be the reason for not improving my games further. Sh. EG Meherhomji Garry Kasporov and Vishwanathan Anand I am giving two of my recent victories. 1600 1500 1400 1300 1200 1100 1000 900 800 700 600 500 400

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Performance in AICCF

AICCF Rating graph of K. Valsan

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Gupta, A. Dutta - Valsan,K 7310 AICCF 1.e4 e5 2.f4 [I am really scared of the King’s Gambit] 2...exf4 3.Nf3 g5 4.h4 g4 5.Ne5 Nf6 [F.Alexi - Anand V. - 5...d6 6.Nxg4 Nf6 7.Nxf6+ Qxf6 8.Nc3 Nc6 9.Nd5 Qg6; With Shams Khan saheb, I went on with 5...Qe7 6.d4 d6 7.Nxg4 Qxe4+ 8.Qe2 Qe7³ 0–1 in 102 moves] 6.Bc4 d5 7.exd5 Bd6 8.d4 Nh5 9.Nc3 Qe7 [9...0–0 was better 10.Nxg4 Ng3 11.Rh2 Qe7+ -+] 10.Bb5+ c6 11.dxc6 bxc6 12.Nd5 Qe6 13.Nc7+ Bxc7 14.Bc4 Qf5 15.Bxf7+ Kd8 16.Bxh5 Qxh5 17.Bxf4 Ba6 18.g3 Qf5 19.Kf2 h5 [19...Rf8 was good, but I prefer a safe game!] 20.Qd2 Qe6 21.Rhe1 Nd7 22.Kg1 Rb8 23.b3 Kc8 24.Qc3 Nxe5 25.Bxe5 Bxe5 26.Rxe5 Qd6 27.Rae1 Rd8 28.Rxh5 Kb7 29.Rh7+ Ka8 30.Rhe7 Bc8

31.R1e2 Qxd4+ 32.Qxd4 Rxd4 33.h5 Rd6 34.Rf2 Rb7 35.Re8 Rc7 36.Rh8 Kb7 37.h6 Kb6 [better 37...c5-+] 38.Rff8 Re7 39.Rd8 Re1+ 40.Kf2 Rde6 41.Rd2 Rh1 42.Rdd8 Bb7 43.Rde8 Rexh6 44.Rxh6 Rxh6 45.Ke3 Rh2 46.Kd3 Rg2 47.Re3 Ba6+ 48.Kc3 Be2 0–1 2

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Chauhan, R.K. – Valsan,K 4331 AICCF [T. No.4331 was my first correspondence tournament after a long gap of around 12 years. I took this tournament as a sample.] 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 [Ruy Lopez (Spanish) Morphy Defence. Thanks to AICCF, I practiced and played several games in this variation with both colours. I won many games in Correspondence and in OTB tournaments with this.] 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.0–0 b5 6.Bb3 Bc5 7.a4 Bb7

P.B. Dhanish: Latest SIM

ICCF-IM Certificate of Sh. Dhanish

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[7...Rb8 8.axb5 axb5 9.Nxe5 Nxe5 1–0 Gata Kamsky vs Rustam Kasimdzhanov in FIDE World Cup 2011. In the next game Kamsky played 9.c3 and lost] 8.d3 0–0 9.Nc3 b4 [9...Na5 10.axb5 Nxb3 11.cxb3 axb5² drawn - G.Kasparov vs. A.Shirov (15th Linares 1998)] 10.Nd5 h6 11.Be3 [11.a5 d6= drawn in 37 moves - Vladimir Baklam vs Ivan Zaja (FIDE WCh-2000)] 11...d6 12.Bxc5 dxc5 13.Ne3 Re8 14.a5 Nd4 15.Ba4 Nb5 16.Qd2 Qe7 17.c4 bxc3 18.bxc3 Rad8 19.Qb2 Bc6 20.Nc4 Nd7 21.Rfb1 Qf6 22.Ne3 Qd6 23.Nd5 Rb8 24.Qc2 Nf8 25.Nh4 Qd8 26.Nf5 Ne6 27.Bxb5 Rxb5 28.c4 Rxb1+ 29.Rxb1 Kh7 30.Qd2 Bd7 31.Qb2 c6 32.Nde3 Nf4 33.Nd6 Re6 34.Nb7 Qe7 35.Nf5 Qg5 36.Ng3 Rg6 [36...Nxd3? 37.h4+-] 37.Nxc5 Bh3 38.gxh3 Qh5 39.Kf1 Qxh3+ 40.Ke1 Qxh2 White resigned. If 41. Ne2 Nh3 42. Nd7 or Qd2 42... Qxf2+ 0–1

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hree times AICCF Champion Sh. P.B. Dhanish become 3rd ICCF-IM and 2nd ICCF-SIM of India. We congratulate him for his success. Here, he is seen with our shooting star Sh. Om Prakash Mohanty as named by Sh. Dhanish:

From left: Sh. P.B. Dhanish and Sh. Om Prakash Mohanty.

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AICCF Championship, 1509

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th AICCF CC Championship, 1509 is about to finish as there are only 5 games left. The adjudication date of this championship was 14 February, 2012 but it is extended now. After many leader’s from Vijay Shivdasani to T. Pavan Kumar to Mohan Jayaraman and Rakesh K. Chauhan and then back to T. Pawan Kumar, this Championships saw unclear status of would be champions since start. But now T. Pawan Kumar has an edge over K. Prabhanandan.

K. Prabhanandan is on the 2nd spot (with Mohan Jayaraman, who has finished all his games) trailing by just one point behind the leader at 9.5 but has 2 unfinished games. The first game is K. Prabhanandan vs. T. Pavan Kumar (Pawan’s last one) will decide the champion. And the second is Shalakha S. Somani vs K. Prabhanandan. The cross-table given here below is the current status of this championship. K. Prabhanandan

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When asked by many members about tie breaking system, Dr. A. Chatterjee clarifies:

Accordingly, we have to first apply the FIDE tie breaking rules. Then in the unlikely situation where the tie is still unresolved, we have to apply the rules (b) to (e). The FIDE tie breaking system for Round Robin Tournaments is given in:

As we do not have a playoff, we come to rule 4) namely the Koya System (put forward by P.T.Ummer Koya of India). For this we have to calculate the number of points achieved against all opponents who have scored 50% or more.

http://www.fide.com/fide/handbook. html?id=127&view=article

under clause 7 part (a). There are 6 rules to be applied in order, namely: 1) Direct Encounter

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AICCF Webserver: Statistics

eaders may be curious to know some player statistics on the AICCF Webserver.

How many out there?

During the summer months of May to July 2011 there were an average of 270 games being played on the server at any given moment. During the autumn months of August to October, this number dropped to 229 and it picked up again, reaching 355 during Nov 2011-Jan 2012. Is there a limit to how many games we can be running on the server?

The available bandwidth and diskspace are utilized to only about 3-5%. So we can go upto 8000 games quite easily. After that we can upgrade our web hosting plan if the need arises. How many tournaments are being started on the server?

Webserver tournaments were started in July 2009. Since then the number of tournaments being started in each 6-month period has grown from 3 to 23 as shown in the table below: 6-Month Period

Jan - June 2009

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We do hope to see more new members and a steady growth in the coming years. Most prolific players

B.S.Dutt was playing in 52 webserver games on 15 November, 2011. Hemant Sharma had 41 ongoing games on 15 January, 2012. Other prolific players are Shams Khan (44 unfinished games on 15 November, 2011), Sailesh Chandra (37 ongoing games on 15 December, 2011), Dinesh Saxena (29 pending games as on 15 January, 2012) Fastest Spurt

Crash of AICCF webserver Dear Members, The server crash is a difficult time for all of us. The championship games (1510 and 1509) are 100% restored and are continuing normally. For the games in other tournaments the situation is not good. Going by the emails received from members, it is not a satisfactory solution to ask the players to coninue from positions that are 3 weeks old. Many players have not kept a record and are now sending diffferent moves. With 21 elapsed days some games have been scored as default or else a player may be put in time trouble. Accordingly we have made a new decision. We are going to restore all the games to their exact status of what it was before the crash occurred. This process will take time. In the meantime the clock will be frozen. As soon as a game is re-started the players will be informed by email and their clocks will start again. I will proceed gradually restoring one tournament at a time. In the meantime, your games will not show up in the games list. As soon as a game is restored it will again show up and you will receive an email telling you to continue your game. After some time you will be playing all your games once again! Please be patient as it is going to take a long time to restore all the games. With best regards, A. Chatterjee

In the current Rating Chart (January 2012), player Om Prakash Mohanty (our shooting star as mention by P.B. Dhanish) jumped from 800 to 1132. During this period, Om Prakash finished 24 games, with 19 wins, 5 draws and no loss.

A Ch A. Chatterjee tt j Vice President Mumbai, Maharashtra

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Heritage-13: Blindfold Chess

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hile Chess itself is considered to be a game played by intelligent people, blindfold chess is much more glamorous, almost miraculous. Playing without looking at the board needs tremendous concentration, focus and strong visualization abilities. Blindfold chess was first played quite early on in the history of chess, with perhaps the first game being played by Sa’id bin Jubair in the Middle East. In Europe, playing chess blindfolded became popular as a means of handicapping a chess master when facing a weaker opponent, or of simply displaying one’s superior abilities. The first famous blindfold event in Europe took place when the great French player André Danican Philidor demonstrated his ability to play up to three blindfold games simultaneously in 1783 with great success, with newspapers highlighting his achievement. Paul Morphy held in 1858 a blindfold exhibition against the eight strongest players in Paris with the stunning result of six wins and two draws. As time went by the records for blindfold exhibitions increased. In 1900 Harry Nelson Pillsbury played 20 games simultaneously in Philadelphia. In 1924 at the Alamac Hotel of New York, Alekhine played 26 simultaneous blindfold games against very strong opponents, with the score of +16-5=5 draws. The next year, Réti bettered this record by playing 29 players simultaneously in São Paulo. On July 16, 1934 in Chicago, Alekhine set the new world record by playing 32 blindfold games, with +19-5=5 (Edward Lasker was the referee for this event). George Koltanowski set the world’s blindfold record on 20 September 1937, in Edinburgh, by playing 34 chess games simultaneously while blindfolded, winning +24-10=0, over a period of 13 hours. The record was included in the Guinness Book of Records and was generally accepted as the world record until November 2011. Later Miguel Najdorf claimed to have broken that record, when he played 45 opponents in São Paulo in 1947, with the result of +39-2=4. However The Guinness Book does not acknowledge Najdorf ’s record due to inconsistent conditions.

Nagesh J. Bangalore, Karnataka

George Koltanowski The last increase in the record was claimed by the Hungarian Janos Flesch in Budapest in 1960, playing 52 opponents with +31-18=3. However, this record attempt has been somewhat sullied by the fact that Flesch was permitted to verbally recount the scores of the games in progress. It also took place over a remarkably short period of time, around 5 hours, and included many short games. One other notable blindfold record was set in 1960 by Koltanowski in San Francisco, when he played 56 consecutive blindfold games at a rate of 10 seconds a move. The exhibition lasted 9 hours with the result of +50-6=0. His specialty was conducting a blindfold Knight’s Tour on boards of up to 192 squares.

in Sontheim/Germany by playing 46 opponents simultaneously and blindfolded, with +25-2=19. This form of chess has led to considerable research in psychology, starting with the research of Alfred Binet in 1893, continuing with the work of chess grandmaster and psycho-analyst Reuben Fine in 1965, and culminating in the last two decades with several scientific articles describing experiments on the psychology of blindfold chess. In general, this research shows that what is crucial for blindfold chess are both the knowledge that chess players have acquired and their ability to carry out extraordinary visuo-spatial operations in the mind’s eye with a photographic memory. Today there are Blindfold Chess Tournaments held throughout the year, with the highest profile event being the Melody Amber Tournament, held in Monte Carlo. This event is partly funded by the billionaire Correspondence Chess Champion Joop van Oosterom and attracts many of the world’s chess elite to compete in unique circumstances. Of the modern day players, Vladimir Kramnik, Viswanathan Anand, Alexei Shirov and Alexander Morozevich have proven themselves to be particularly strong at blindfold chess, being alternating winners of the Amber Tournaments between 1996 and 2006. Below is one of Kolanowski’s game from the Blindfold simul. G. Koltanowski – H. Gemmell

Marc Lang Recently a new world’s record was set by the German Marc Lang in November 2011

1.c4 Nf6 2.Nc3 c5 3.Nf3 Nc6 4.d4 cxd4 5.Nxd4 g6 6.e4 d6 7.Be2 Bg7 8.Be3 Nd7 9.O-O O-O 10.Qd2 Nxd4 11.Bxd4 Ne5 12.Rad1 b6 13.f4 Nc6 14.Be3 Qc7 15.Rc1 e6 16.Nb5 Qd7 17.Rfd1 Rd8 18.Nxd6 Qe7 19.c5 e5 20.f5 gxf5 21.exf5 bxc5 22.Bxc5 Qd7 23.Bc4 Rf8 24.Qg5 Qd8 25.Nxf7 1-0

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Nigel Short: Not so short

n 30 January 2007 the name Nigel Short became a well known household chess personality name in India – for the wrong reasons. DNA in their sports supplement published an article by Vijay Tagore in which he asks “Did Veselin Topalov cheat in Corus, in San Luis?” and goes on with an interview of Nigel Short. Background

During September-October 2005, FIDE conducted a championship at San Luis, Argentina. It was a double roundrobin tournament among the 8 highest rated players in the world to decide the FIDE World Chess Champion. Topalov’s performance in the tournament was far above expectation. He secured 6.5/7 in the first half and was content with drawing all his games in the second half to win overall by a clear 1.5 points margin and become the FIDE World Chess Champion. Topalov’s near grand slam score in the first half of this Championship and his performance at the subsequent Corus tournament at Wijk aan Zee led to the speculation that he might have receiving “outside help” in his games. In September-October 2006, the unification World Title match was held between the FIDE World Title holder Veselin Topalov and Classical World Champion, Vladimir Kramnik. Kramnik won, but Topalov and his team claimed that Kramnik was cheating by receiving external help during frequent toilet trips. The whole business was dubbed “toiletgate” by the media. Vijay Tagore’s article in DNASport on 30 January 2007 incorporating Nigel Short’s interview implied (a) that Veselin Topalov (might have) cheated in the Corus and San Luis tournaments (b) that the allegations made by Topalov’s team against Kramnik were merely a cover up of unholy activities carried out by Topalov himself (c) that Nigel Short thinks so. Aftermath

By highlighting controversies and

bringing the word “cheating” into the realm of chess I believe that the journalists have a done a grave injustice to the royal game. The media has the habit of indulging in sensationalism to get noticed. These allegations and controversies have done much damge to the identity of purity associated with the chess community. We are not here just to play chess, and excel in the sport. We are here to explain to the public that chess is a way to inculcate discipline, logic and thought, an image exemplified by the image of Viswanathan Anand. We cannot allow the public to get a negative image.

Did Short later retract the unproven cheating allegations made against Topalov? After the interview, ChessBase published the DNA article on their site. In an effort, which can be regarded as damage control at best, Short contacted Chessbase to complain and also wrote to Topalov’s manager, Silvio Danailov (as appears at Topalov’s website): Dear Silvio, Thank you for your e-mail. The statements attributed to me in quotation marks in the original DNA article in India are entirely accurate. However I am not responsible for the commentary and interpretation of those statements in that newspaper, which were done by the journalist, Vijay Tagore. If you check the original article you will see that I did NOT say that I observed “something sinister in San Luis”. This was Mr Tagore’s interpretation of my comment that I was struck by how close you were sitting to Veselin. I did not say that you signalled to him or that I personally observed anything untoward. My comment merely was intended to demonstrate that, had you wanted to signal, it would have been remarkably easy – which is very far from saying that you did such a thing. I might

add that I telephoned Frederic Freidel last night to complain about falsely attributing the “something sinister in San Luis” quote to me. The quotation marks were removed in the chessbase report after that phone call. I had earlier telephoned Chessbase to complain about falsely attributing the “It is possible that Topalov cheated” remark to me on the German webpage. That was the heading of the DNA piece, and they were not my words. Best regards, Nigel However, fuel to the fire might have been added by a paragraph that the letter apparently also contained, but was deleted: I stand by my remarks about wanting an inquiry. As you are doubtless aware, the chorus of suspicion about the alleged signaling between you and Veselin is very loud indeed and comes from many different quarters. Indeed in my 24 years as a chess professional, I have never heard anything like it before. The allegations are of a very serious nature and it is important, for the sake of chess, that the truth is learned. As you do not have anything to be concerned about, you should welcome this proposal. What was implied, what did Short say in his interview?

Here are some verbatim quotes of the interview without Vijay Tagore’s interpretations in DNA: “It is my understanding that the majority of players in San Luis privately believe that Topalov received signalling from Danailov during play. The essence of these allegations, which I heard personally from disgruntled players in Argentina at the time, was not that Topalov constantly received computer advice but only at critical junctures. Indeed, if one were to cheat, a player of Topalov’s strength would only need two or three computer moves per game to put him at an overwhelming advantage vis-a-vis his opponents.”

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“In San Luis I did observe, indeed I was quite struck by the fact that Danailov sat in close physical proximity to Topalov during play. Furthermore, his not infrequent entering and exiting the hall would have provided facile opportunities for receiving communication from a third party. In fact any half-decent player with a laptop and an analysis engine is likely to be better appraised of the position, upon entering the room, than the GMs seated at the board themselves.” “I believe there is a clear case for setting up an independent committee of decent honorable people to examine the dozens of hours of TV footage from San Luis (the whole event was recorded). Furthermore any evidence available from Mexico and Linares, Wijk aan Zee, etc. should also be examined.” “FIDE Deputy President Yiorgos Makropoulos and Vice-president Zurab Azmaiparashvili spent more time in San Luis at their hotel 16 km away than they did in the tournament hall despite being paid thousands of dollars, plus considerable expenses, to do their job on the Appeal’s Committee. It came as absolutely no surprise to me that these dunderheads would flunk the first crisis that they were presented with i.e. Elista toiletgate. I might add that Azmai is singularly inappropriate for such work having, by his own admission, cheated in winning the 2003 European Championship.” “Those of a cynical mind might view the Danailov/Topalov allegations of Kramnik’s cheating in Elista to be a smokescreen to deflect scrutiny from their own activities.” Who is Nigel Short?

Nigel Short (picture 2004)

Nigel David Short was born on 1 June 1965 in Leigh, a quiet town in the Lancashire County of the United Kingdom. He is recognized as one of the strongest British chess players of the 20th century. Having taken to chess a very young age, he came into the public eye when he defeated Korchnoi in a simultaneous exhibition.

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sational news as the world was at that time desparately searching for the recluse Fischer who seemed to have disappeared from the face of the earth. But the identity of an opponent over the Internet cannot be established. Short’s opponent must indeed have been somebody else and in fact Fischer himself later denied playing these online games. Most Famous Quote

In his onine profile at Chessbase Internet server, Short wrote:

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It is curious that it is far easier to maintain a high ‘manners’ rating if, like Kasparov, you simply don’t speak to anyone. I still have much to learn from the great man...

Nigel Short, age 10 winning against Korchnoi In 1977, when Short was only 12, he entered the British Chess Championship. And at age 14, he tied for 1st place in the British Championship. He became a Grandmaster at age 19. He rose to dominate English chess in the late 80’s, following in the wake of Anthony Miles. He defeated Anatoli Karpov and Jan Timman in Candidates’ matches to earn the right to play Garry Kasparov in the Kasparov-Short World Championship Match (1993). The match was played under the auspices of the PCA (Professional Chess Association), outside of FIDE’s jurisdiction. He lost to Kasparov 7.5-12.5. Short reached his peak ELO rating of 2712 in April 2004. In the April 2005 FIDE rating list, Short was ranked number 28 in the world with an Elo rating of 2673, making him England’s number two behind Michael Adams. Still active, Short now lives in Greece and continues to enjoy international success. He is also a chess columnist, coach and commentator. Among his wins in recent tournaments we can mention his first place in the Hunguest Hotels Super Chess Tournament (2003), the Gibraltar Masters (2004), Commonwealth Chess Championship (Mumbai, 2004), the Politiken Cup (2006), the European Union Individual Championships (2006) and the Bazna King’s Tournament (2008). In 2001 there was a breaking news item in the press that Short had been secretly playing online against former World Champion Bobby Fischer. This was sen-

Famous Game

We end the article by including one of Short’s most remarkable games (played against Timman, in the Tilburg Tournament, 1991). In the diagrammed position, White has a strong attacking position, yet there doesn’t seem to be any obvious way of making inroards towards Black’s King. In this position, Short finds that he can use his King as an attacking piece in the middle game and march to h6! Notes to the game are those provided by Ian Rogers to ChessBase. 1

1-0

B03

Short,Nigel D (2660) Timman,Jan H (2630) [B04] Tilburg Tilburg (4), 1991 [Rogers] 1.e4 Nf6 2.e5 Nd5 3.d4 d6 4.Nf3 g6 5.Bc4 Nb6 6.Bb3 Bg7 7.Qe2 Nc6 8.0–0 0–0 9.h3! [By preventing ...Bg4 White ensures that Black will be unable to lay seige to the e5 pawn, keeping Black’s bishop on g7 permanently out of play.] 9...a5 10.a4 dxe5 11.dxe5 Nd4 12.Nxd4 Qxd4 13.Re1 e6 14.Nd2! Nd5 15.Nf3 Qc5 16.Qe4 Qb4 [Black is trying to prevent the transfer of White’s queen to h4 but Short is prepared to ruin his pawn structure and give up the bishop pair just to gain h4 for his queen.] 17.Bc4! Nb6 18.b3! Nxc4 19.bxc4 Re8

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[Now White is free to pursue his kingside  allows 32.g4! hxg4 (32...Bxd7 33.gxh5) attack without hindrance; 22...Qf8 was    W33.Ng5! Bxd7 34.h5! with a winning Now White has a fine attacking necessary.]  attack. position but the immobility of his knight 23.Bh6 Bh8 24.Rd8! Bb7 25.Rad1 Bg7  on f3 prevents an immediate knockout. w [Against other moves 26.Qe7! (now Short finds a phenomenal idea   However answered by 26...Bxh6) would have been  -to use his king as part of the mating very strong.] V  attack.] 26.R8d7! Rf8    32.Kg3! Rce8 33.Kf4! Bc8 34.Kg5!! [After 26...Bxh6 27.Qxh6 White threat   [34.Kg5!! Bxd7 35.Kh6! Black cannot ens 28.Rxf7!.; 26...Qe4 27.Rxf7!! Timman mate on g7.]     avoid saw this move too late (Anand).] 1–0 27.Bxg7 Kxg7 28.R1d4 Rae8 29.Qf6+  20.Rd1 Qc5 21.Qh4 b6 22.Be3 Qc6?!

[Black must remain passive since 31...Bc8

Kg8 30.h4 h5 31.Kh2 Rc8

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Dr. A. Chatterjee Mumbai

Corchegimmic-44

L

ast time, I had given an anti-engine position where human can lead to the solution easily. Dr. A.B. Surveyor (AICCF President) called me to check the position given in Corchegimmc-43 is right or not. I satisfied his query that the position is right and also gave him a hint.

                                    

Few days later, I got his e-mail: Dear Lalit, It was indeed a fantastic problem. Hats off to you to give such a problem with great intricacies. 1. Qg1+ Kb2 (Qd1 loses to Qxd1 followed by Bxc3 while Kd2 loses to Bxc3+ followed by Qd4 and Kb4#) 2.Qa1+!! Kxa1 (If I had struggled more I would have thought of this sacrifice. If Kxa3 Qxc3+ and mates) 3.Bxc3+ Qb2 4.Kd4 c5+ 5. Kc4 c6 6. Kd3 c4+ 7.Kd4 c5+ 8. Kxc4 Qxc3 (Only move) 9.Kxc3 c4 10.Kc2 c3 11. Kc1 c2 12.Nxc2 # Simply fantastic. Fond regards and Happy New Year, A.B. Surveyor (Mumbai)

Many congratulations to Dr. Surveyor.

This time, I am giving a position which is impossible for engines to solve.

                   
                  Mate in 64!

6n1/2p5/r6p/3Q1b1p/2K5/p1b1p1p1/kp3p2/q4r1n

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ICCF Congress 2012

T

he ICCF Congress 2012 will be held in Rustenburg, South Africa between the 27 October and 3 November 2012 as proposed by Dinand Knol, Delegate of South Africa. It will be held for the first time on the African continent! The event will be held at the Orion Safari Lodge in Rustenburg in the North West Province and will be handled by Mrs Elise Steenkamp who is a FIDE event organiser.

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Background information about the venue and Congress

The venue is located in the foothills of the picturesque Rustenburg Kloof and is less than two hours (130km) away from Johannesburg and Pretoria. The relaxed country setting and central location makes it an ideal conference venue or holiday destination. This resort offers a private game reserve where you are able to get close to a variety of buck and exotic bird species. Trails through the nearby Rustenburg Kloof offer unsurpassed views and for the sportier ones there is tennis, volleyball, mini-golf hiking, abseiling, hot air ballooning, fishing and mountain biking. Golf can be arranged at a number of nearby courses. Transportation from and to the Johannesburg International Airport will be made available. The lodge’s web site is www. oriongroup.co.za/saf-overview.html

South Africa now has Africa’s first and fastest rapid intercity train — the Gautrain — www.gautrain.co.za. It was placed in service a few months ago. It links Johannesburg, Pretoria, and the OR Tambo Airport — that is the Johannesburg International Airport. Since the organizing committee members are all based in the Pretoria area, it would be wise from a practical point of view to take this train from the airport to the Hatfield station in Pretoria. This will eliminate all the usual practical problems one experiences at airports — such as parking and long walking distances. From here, road transport will be made available

by bus - most probably in association with the hotel. The SACCA (South African Correspondence Chess Association) is trying to obtain a sponsor for this service. The cost for the Gautrain between the airport and Hatfield is 125 SA Rand (about 12.5 Euro) one-way. The train station is inside the terminal building and all other facilities that are needed are at the Hatfield station. The road from Johannesburg to Rustenburg is a safe and paved one. The one from

Pretoria is a big national freeway mostly consisting of 4 lanes and is the preferred one. The journey time is about one hour. As pointed out above, there are bus services available, but special one’s for Congress will try to be arranged. Also, please note that the airport in not in Johannesburg, but is situated about 25km to the east in a place called Kempton Park. If enough delegates are interested then a post (or pre) congress tour can be organized, as was the case in India (2004) and Argentina (2005).

ICCF tournament calendar (tentative proposal from ICCF report) ICCF Tournaments

2012 Q1

WC Semi Finals WC Candidates

Q3

2013 Q4

Q1

Q2

2014 Q4

Mar

Mar Jun Sep

Q3

Jun Sep

• •

Sep

18F-20PR •

Olympiads (Postal) 21

•

Lady Olympids 11

2nd Chess 960 World Cup

Q2

Mar Jun

Ladies’ WC Semi Finals 11

World Cup 20 Preliminaries

Q1

Jun

Ladies’ WC Final 10

Olympiads (Server) 20

Q3

Jun

WC Final WC Preliminaries

Q2

• •

Q4

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2012 Q1

Q2

Q3

2013 Q4

Q1

Q2

Q3

2014 Q4

Q1

Q2

Q3

Q4

After the great success of 1st Chess 960 World Cup, ICCF has decided to have permanent Chess 960 Tournaments. • Unrated

•

5th Veteran World Cup - Prelim

•

6th Veteran World Cup - Prelim

•

7th Veteran World Cup - Prelim •

2nd Junior Worl Cup

• Played on the webserver • Preliminary groups of 5 players (double round robin, 8 games for each player)

•

3rd Junior Worl Cup

•

4th Junior Worl Cup •

Champions League 5

•

Champions League 6

• Final groups of 5 players (the winners of 5 preliminaries)

•

5th Webchess Open

• Start-date: as soon as 5 entries have been received • Time: 10 moves / 20 days.

•

6th Webchess Open Dec

7th Inter Zonal Team Tournament

Dec

8th Inter Zonal Team Tournament

The name of each winner of a final round will be published in the “hall of fame”

Zone 1 •

9th EU Team Championship Final •

10th EU Team Championship Semi Finals •

67th EU Team Championship Final

•

68th EU Team Championship Final •

69th EU Team Championship Semi Final

•

70th EU Team Championship Semi Final Bieleckhi Memorial

•

Radosztics Memorial Final

•

Zone 2 •

CADAP 20th Zonal Final

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CADAP 21st Final •

CADAP 26th Zonal Semi Finals

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CADAP 27th Zonal Semi Finals •

CADAP 28th Zonal Preliminaries

•

CADAP 2013 Master Norm

• Zone 4 Jan Jan

Africa/Asia Zonal Ch 16 Preliminaries

Jan

Africa/Asia Zonal Ch 17 Preliminaries Africa/Asia Zonal Ch 11 Final

Jan

New ICCF Tournament Rules ICCF has changed its tournament rules w.e.f 1 January, 2012. Members can download the .pdf of this document from here: http://www.iccf.com/rules/ICCFTournamentRules01-01-2012.pdf

Please see the details how to play Chess 960 at: http://www.iccf.com/content/downloads/CHESS960EVENTS.pdf for a description Our player Mr. Dinesh Saxena is participating in the 1st Chess 960 World Cup preliminaries group 12. In this tournament, the starting positions of the pieces are inter-changed making it very interesting. Mr. Saxena, though lost all his games made a brave attempt. Witold Bielecki Memorial Tournament

•

CADAP 2012 Master Norm

Africa/Asia Zonal Ch 15 Preliminaries

Chess960 Permanent Tournaments

The Polish Correspondence Chess Federation has organized a strong GM tournament (Category XVI) that will start in March (01.03.2012) and the match Friends of Witold versus the rest of the World proves to be very successful with more than 430 entries up to now. Mr. Witold Bielecki was chairman of the Polish Correspondence Chess Federation and Polish delegate to ICCF, correspondence chess player and official since 1964, IM since 1996 and IA since 1978, member and chairman of several ICCF working groups and committees/ commissions (Tournaments, Tournament Rules, Playing Rules, Appeals). Our players Mr. Kumar, Pavan Tumuluri and Mr. Dinesh Saxena have sent their entries for this tournament.

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Know Your Zone Country

This tournament started with the start date of 15th December 2011. This event is organized by Smuts, Iain E. Dr. Alok Saxena has qualified to play in this event based on semi-final results.

Zone

Algeria

4

Cape Verde

4

India

4

South Africa

4

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The start list is given below: #

ICCF ID

1

30107

AUS

County

Jenkinson, Simon W.

Name

2261

2

30083

HKG

IM Henri, James

2222

3

270063

ISR

IM Oren, Itamar

2177

4

887001

CMR

Horchler, Philip

2312

5

490186

TUR

Gurmen, Attila

2363

6

280168

IND

Saxena, Alok

2271

7

30494

AUS

Davidson, Jamie

2162

8

550125

RSA

Fourie, M. J.

2317

9

490221

TUR

Araboga, Mesut

2113

10

490303

TUR

Tugsavul, Ugur

2314

11

30462

AUS

Jones, Brian

2171

12

490113

TUR

Hiçdönmez, Hakan

2267

13

850020

TUN

Mer, Alain

2335

14

875001

MGL

Altanoch, Gendengyn

2253

15

380073

NZL

GM Noble, Mark F.

2565

13th Afro-Asia Zonal Championship Semi-Finals This tournament is likely to start on Valentines day. Our players, Mr. Anil Anand, Mr. K. Prabhanandan and Dr. Alok Saxena have qualified for the same based on the results in preliminary section. 14th Afro-Asia Zonal Championship Preliminaries Group C

Mr. Shams Khan has finished all his games and scored 5.5 points with joint 2nd place in this group. Only one game in this group is pending and will not change his final placing. Group D

Both Mr. T. Pavan Kumar and Mr. Anuj Gupta have scored 5.5 points each and are placed at joint 1st place on points table. Both of them have one game pending against Vatansever, Senol of Turkey. The game which they played with each other is interesting.

Rating

Group E

Mr. R.K. Chauhan has scored 5 points and finished at 3rd place in this group. Group G

Mr. Chintamani Joshi has scored 4 points and has finished with 5th place in his group. Group K

Mr. Sowrrirajan, Kathaperumal has scored one point and finished at 6th place in his group. Group L

Mr. Mohan Turaga has scored 5 points and has finished at 3rd place in his group. Group M

Mr. K.L. Gala has scored 5 points and has finished with 2nd place in his group. Group P

Mr. Anil Kumar Anand has scored 6.5 points and finished at the top of his group.

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15th Afro-Asia Zonal Championship Preliminaries The following players have sent the entries for this tournament. 1. Lalit Kapoor 2. B.S. Dutt 3. Dinesh Saxena 4. E.G. Meherhomji 5. Kalapi B Trivedi 6. Akkaraju Sailesh Chandra 7. T. Mohadasan 8. Hemant Sharma 9. Vijay Shivdasani The start date was 15th January 2012. Bulgarian CC GM Tournament Bulgarian Correspondence Chess Federation is organizing server GM Tournament 70 Years Bulgarian Correspondence chess .The tournament will be 15 participants and 13-14 Category. Tournament not prize fund. Beginning second half of 2012. Our player, Mr. P.B. Dhanish has been invited to participate in this prestigious tournament. Results From Friendly Internationals 1. India-Hongkong

This event is finished with the result of 15-9 in favour of India. 2. India-Australia

India lost narrowly to Australia with final score-line of 15.5-14.5 with last game of K. Prabhanandan vs. M.C. Gross ending in a draw. 3. India-Netherland

India is trailing by 20-41 to Netherland with three games pending. 4. India-Spain

India is well behind Spain with a score of only 7.5 points against 27.5 of Spain. Now only one game is pending (Hernández Irache, Francisco vs Alok Saxena on 2nd board). 5. India-Romania

India is trailing by 4.5-17.5 to Romania. The points table is given below: TD: Demian, Valer-Eugen (IA)

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Kiss of Chess or Mate by Check? Inter-Zonal 2010 Mr. Pervez Mandviwala has scored 2 out of 4 points on board 5 and Dr. Alok Saxena has scored 1.5 out of 3 points on board 7.

India Rating

W

B

W

B

Rating

Iordache, Claudiu

2327

.

.

.

.

2308

Chatterjee, Dr. Ambar

Chitescu, Ioan

2264

.

.

.

.

2259

Saxena, Alok

Bobarnac, Dorin

2208

½

1

0

½

2207

Shivdasani, Vijay A.

Moisa, Lucian

2181

.

.

.

.

2195

Krishnamurthy, Prabhanandan

Nenciulescu, Silviu

2145

1

1

0

0

2162

Nagaraj, Dr. A.

Bucsa, Ioan

2062

½

1

0

½

2065

Khan, Shams

Vasile, Constantin

2056

½

0

1

½

2010

Gupta, Anuj

Craciun, Gheorghe

2055

.

.

.

.

1986

Kumar, Pavan Tumuluri

Mihai, Eleonora Antonia

1967

1

1

0

0

1952

Juneja, Madan Lal

Afloarei, Jenica

1949

1

1

0

0

1889

Akkaraju, Sailesh Chandra

Harangus, Emanuel

1911

½

0

1

½

2065

Khan, Shams

Agachi, Laurentiu-Vasile

1800P

1

1

0

0

1800P

Mohanadasan, T.

Ciubotariu, Marcel

1800P

½

.

.

½

1800P

Mohanakrishnan, B.

Nicolaescu, Nicolae

1800P

.

.

.

.

1800P

Sharma, Hemant

Pantazi, Adrian

1800P

1

1

0

0

1800P

Sowrrirajan, Kathaperumal

Popescu, Bogdan

1800P

1

.

.

0

1800P

Turaga, Mohan

Tudor, Vasile

1665

1

1

0

0

1692

Dutt, Bulusu Someswara 1692

17.5

Name

4.5

ICCF Ratings http://www.iccf-webchess.com/RatingList.aspx ICCF# Ttl

Name

G

R

A/I

G

R

A/I

G

R

A/I

280187

Akkaraju Sailesh Chandra

82

1766

A

ICCF# Ttl 280123

Juneja Madan Lal

Name

33

1904

A

280162

Pandalai N. Gopinathan

24

1504

I

280172

Anand Anil Kumar

63

2189

A

280141

Kamat Nikhil Nishikant

103 1990

A

280071

Pandit Vijay Dwarakanath

44

2131

I

280115 SIM Anil Kumar N. R.

172 1959

I

280180

Khan Shams

118 2066

A

280070

Prabhakar Dr. Krishna

135 2059

I

280080

Bajpai N. K.

50

2102

I

280143

K. Prabhanandan

93

2205

A

280178

Ravi Prakash S. M.

28

2155

A

280127

Chandran M. C.

12

1744

I

280138

Kumar Pavan Tumuluri

100 2189

A

280081

Reddy Mookiah

20

2145

I

280086

Chandran T.

42

2163

I

280097

Lakshminarayana K. V.

15

2342

I

280069

Salgaocar Sameer A.

118 1751

I

280068

Chatterjee Dr. Ambar

177 2297

A

280077

Lhouvum Kammang

135 1906

I

280118 IM Santhosh Matthew Paul

160 2269

A

280087

Chauhan Rakesh Kumar

120 2243

A

280204

Linga VenuGopal

14

1757

A

280116

Satheesan M.

28

2511

I

280067

Chole Vikrant H.

48

2074

I

280208

Malvankar Vikrant

30

1886

A

280168

Saxena Alok

125 2263

A

280122

Choudhuri T. K.

24

2007

I

280104

Mandviwala P.G.

90

2286

A

280093

Saxena Rakesh G. D.

28

2351

I

280120

Dabholkar P. S.

124 1981

A

280124

Meherhomji Eruch G.

53

1787

A

280114

Saxena Vaibhav

44

2303

I

280076

Dalvi Prasad Mangesh

92

2298

I

280062

Mehta Bikram

12

2158

I

280102

Sharma Manish Kumar

15

2227

I

280088

De Gautam

117 2166

A

280212

Meraiya Harshil A.

18

2024

A

280188

Shetty Vishwanath B.

12

2098

I

280176 SIM Dhanish P. B.

92

2587

A

280078

Mohan C. S.

58

2224

I

280133

Shivdasani Vijay A.

90

2209

A

280209

Dutt Bulusu Someswara

33

1655

A

280218

Mohanadasan T.

15

1754

A

280107

Somani Sunil K.

159 2192

A

280179

Dutta Gupta A.

26

2029

A

280219

Mohanakrishnan B.

21

1898

A

280223

Sowrrirajan K.

13

1664

A

280079

Gala Khusal Laxmichand

127 2164

A

280066

Mulla Mehli Behram

19

2206

A

280094

Sukumaran K. C.

65

1847

I

280089

Ganapathi Cdr R.

42

2255

A

280098

Nagaradjane A. G.

143 2365

A

280149

Surveyor Dr. A. B.

14

2262

I

280182

Gupta Aniruddha Dutta

31

2039

A

280205

Nagaraj Dr. A.

46

2054

A

280072

Trehan Anirudh

39

2079

I

280082

Gupta Anuj

22

2047

A

280135

Nagesh J.

34

1906

A

280148

Tyagi Dushyant

42

2190

A

280096

Jadhav Dinesh V.

15

1949

I

280171

Nair Umesh

21

2050

A

280095

Valsan K.

35

2125

A

280169

Jayaraman Mohan

67

2234

A

280103

Neelakantan N.

105 2359

A

280215

Joshi Chintamani G.

24

1972

A

280109

Padhi Prem Prakash

48

I

1702

ICCF# Ttl

Name

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Results and New Tournaments

P

lease check your results and report any discrepancies to Dr. A. Chatterjee. Rating queries should include a table with Tournament Number, Opponent’s Name, Opponent’s Colour, Opponent’s Rating, Result, Points Gained or Lost. In the event of a result not reported, it is necessary to write to the concerned Tournament Director as well. In the period of this report, there was only 0 postal tournament started while on the webserver there were 22 tournaments (14 7-player single-game, 8 4-player double-game). NEW TOURNAMENTS STARTED

Feb’12

4-Player Double-Game Tournaments 4339 Shams Khan, K.V.S.Sastry, Mohan Turaga, Sailesh Chandra (Adj. Date: 24-03-13) 4340 Shams Khan, T.Mohanadasan, Nambiar, Hemant Sharma (Adj. Date: 01-05-13) 4341 Dinesh Saxena, Dutt, Harishankar M., Lakshya Porwal (Adj. Date: 01-05-13) 4342 Om Prakash, T.Mohanadasan, V.K.Chaurasia, Nambiar (Adj. Date: 03-05-13) 4343 Amritha Mohandas, Dutt, Dinesh Saxena, Hemant Sharma (Adj. Date: 22-05-13) 4344 T.Mohanadasan, P.K.Mishra, Shams Khan, Om Prakash (Adj. Date: 22-05-13) 4345 Dinesh Saxena, Dutt, Amritha Mohandas, Hemant Sharma (Adj. Date: 06-06-13) 4346 T.Mohanadasan, Dinesh Saxena, K.Shiva Kumar, Dutt (Adj. Date: 27-06-13)

7-Player Single-Game Tournaments 7333 Dinesh Saxena, A.D.Gupta, Kalapi Trivedi, Vikrant Soni, Vijayendra Kumar, Rohan Saxena, Chatterjee (Adj. Date: 21-01-13) 7334 Shams Khan, Dutt, Lakshya Porwal, Nambiar, Dinesh Saxena, D.V.Jadhav, Kalapi Trivedi (Adj. Date: 08-02-13) 7335 Nambiar, Dutt, Dinesh Saxena, Shams Khan, A.D.Gupta, Dr Nagaraj, Chauhan (Adj. Date: 16-02-13) 7336 Dutt, Nambiar, Shams Khan, Hemant Sharma, K.Shiva Kumar, Trehan, Dinesh Saxena (Adj. Date: 08-03-13) 7337 Dinesh Saxena, Dutt, T.Mohanadasan, Anuj Gupta, Nambiar, Hemant Sharma, Lakshya Porwal (Adj. Date: 24-03-13) 7338 A.D.Gupta, Sailesh Chandra, Dutt, Dinesh Saxena, Amritha Mohandas, Lakshya Porwal, Pandavakrishna (Adj. Date: 27-03-13) 7339 Shams Khan, Dutt, Dinesh Saxena, Nambiar, Vikrant Soni, Aleemuddin, Kalapi Trivedi (Adj. Date: 02-04-13) 7340

P.K.Mishra, Lalit Kapoor, Gala, Chintamani Joshi, D.V.Jadhav, Dr Nagaraj, Sailesh Chandra (Adj. Date: 17-04-13) 7341 Kalapi Trivedi, T.Chandran, D.V.Jadhav, Sailesh Chandra, P.K.Mishra, Chauhan, Om Prakash (Adj. Date: 23-04-13) 7342 S.Venkataraman, Amritha Mohandas, Om Prakash, D.V.Jadhav, Vijayendra Kumar, Trehan, Lalit Kapoor (Adj. Date: 01-05-13) 7343 Harishankar M., Dutt, Shams Khan, Om Prakash, A.D.Gupta, Vijayendra Kumar, Pandavakrishna (Adj. Date: 06-05-13) 7344 Harishankar M., P.K.Mishra, Shams Khan, Pandavakrishna, Om Prakash, Chintamani Joshi, A.D.Gupta (Adj. Date: 06-06-13) 7345 Tervinder Singh, T.Mohanadasan, Lakshya Porwal, Venugopal Linga, T.Chandran, K.Shiva Kumar, Nambiar (Adj. Date: 06-06-13) 7346 Shams Khan, P.K.Mishra, Venugopal Linga, K.V.S.Sastry, Dr Nagaraj, Pandavakrishna, Chintamani Joshi (Adj. Date: 27-06-13)

TOURNAMENT RESULTS ‘1’ means ‘won over’; ‘0’ means ‘lost to’; ‘=’ means ‘drew with’; ‘(both)’ means ‘both the games’; ‘w/d’ means ‘withdrew’; ‘nr’ means ‘no result’; ‘n/s’ means ‘non-starter’.

Championship Tournaments 1509 Neelakantan 0 G.De, T.Pawan Kumar & Mohan Jayaraman; T.Pawan Kumar 1 Saxena A., Shalaka Somani & G.De; Chauhan 1 Anil Anand, Somani & G.De; Saxena A., Chatterjee & Shalaka Somani 1 Dr Nagaraj; Gala, Dr Nagaraj & Shivdasani = Neelakantan; Prabhanandan = Anil Anand & Somani; Anil Anand 0 G.De & Shivdasani; Dr Nagaraj 0 Prabhanandan & Gala; Prabhanandan & Chatterjee 1 Gala; Shivdasani & Neelakantan = Shalaka Somani; Gala 1 Anil Anand; Somani 1 Shivdasani; Neelakantan 1 Saxena A.; Mohan Jayaraman = Prabhanandan; Sailesh Chandra 0 Anil Anand 1510 Dutt 0 Saxena A., Kalapi Trivedi, Shams Khan & Chauhan; Mohan Jayaraman, T.Pawan Kumar, Shivdasani & Valsan K. 1 Dutt

4-Player Double-Game Tournaments 4310 Meherhomji 0 Wahee 4327 M.R.Morwekar 0(both) H.P.Chole 4330 Anuj Gupta 1 Gala; Gala = Anuj Gupta

4331 Valsan K. = Chauhan 4332 Anuj Gupta = A.D.Gupta 4336 K.Shiva Kumar 1 Mohanakrishnan & T.Mohanadasan; T.Mohanadasan & Mohanakrishnan 1 K.Shiva Kumar; K.Shiva Kumar 1(both) Dutt 4339 K.V.S.Sastry & Shams Khan = Sailesh Chandra; K.V.S.Sastry 1(both) Shams Khan; K.V.S.Sastry =(both) Mohan Turaga; Shams Khan 0(both) Mohan Turaga 4340 Nambiar & T.Mohanadasan 0(both) Shams Khan; T.Mohanadasan 1(both) Nambiar 4341 Dinesh Saxena, Dutt & Lakshya Porwal 1(both) Harishankar M.; Dinesh Saxena 1 Dutt; Lakshya Porwal 1(both) Dinesh Saxena; Dutt 0(both) Lakshya Porwal; Dutt 1 Dinesh Saxena 4342 Om Prakash 1(both) Nambiar & T.Mohanadasan; T.Mohanadasan 1(both) Nambiar 4344 P.K.Mishra 0(both) Shams Khan & Om Prakash; T.Mohanadasan 0(both) Shams Khan & Om Prakash; Shams Khan =(both) Om Prakash

7-Player Single-Game Tournaments 7299 Meherhomji 0 H.P.Chole 7308 H.P.Chole 1 M.R.Morwekar; Barun Das 0 H.P.Chole 7312 Lalit Kapoor = Kalapi Trivedi & A.D.Gupta 7315 Sailesh Chandra 0 Shams Khan & Rohan Saxena; Sailesh Chandra = A.D.Gupta; Valsan K. 1 Sailesh Chandra; A.D.Gupta = Valsan K.; Shams Khan 0 Valsan K.; R.Raman 0 Sailesh Chandra 7316 S.Venkataraman 0 D.V.Jadhav & Shams Khan; N.P.Shukla & Dinesh Saxena 1 S.Venkataraman; S.Venkataraman = T.Mohanadasan; Lakshya Porwal 0 S.Venkataraman 7317 Amritha Mohandas 0 Dutt, Kalapi Trivedi & A.D.Gupta; Dinesh Saxena & R.Raman 1 Amritha Mohandas; Dutt 0 R.Raman; Kalapi Trivedi 1 A.D.Gupta 7318 Vikrant Soni, Chauhan & Rohan Saxena 1 Sailesh Chandra; Hemant Sharma 0 Rohan Saxena & Chauhan; Sailesh Chandra 0 Shams Khan & Kalapi Trivedi; Hemant Sharma = Vikrant Soni; Vikrant Soni 0 Chauhan; Chauhan 1 Shams Khan; Vikrant Soni = Rohan Saxena; Kalapi Trivedi 1 Vikrant Soni

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7319 K.Shiva Kumar 1 D.V.Jadhav & Dinesh Saxena; T.Mohanadasan & Shams Khan 1 K.Shiva Kumar; Nambiar = K.Shiva Kumar; K.Shiva Kumar = R.Raman; R.Raman 1 T.Mohanadasan 7320 Dr Nagaraj = Shams Khan; Vijayendra Kumar 1 D.V.Jadhav; Valsan K. 1 Shams Khan; D.V.Jadhav 0 Dr Nagaraj 7321 A.D.Gupta & Rohan Saxena 1 T.Mohanadasan; T.Mohanadasan 0 Hemant Sharma; A.D.Gupta = Shams Khan 7322 Amritha Mohandas 0 Srinath T., Dinesh Saxena & D.V.Jadhav; Hemant Sharma & Mohanakrishnan 1 Amritha Mohandas; Srinath T. 0 Hemant Sharma 7323 Hemant Sharma 1 T.Mohanadasan & Sailesh Chandra; Sailesh Chandra 1 Dinesh Saxena & D.V.Jadhav; D.V.Jadhav 0 Hemant Sharma; Sailesh Chandra 0 T.Mohanadasan; Shams Khan = Sailesh Chandra; T.Mohanadasan 0 D.V.Jadhav; Dutt 0 Sailesh Chandra 7324 Srinath T. 0 Dutt & T.Mohanadasan; Dutt 0 T.Mohanadasan & D.V.Jadhav; Valsan K. 1 Srinath T.; T.Mohanadasan 0 Valsan K. 7325 K.V.S.Sastry 1 A.D.Gupta & Rohan Saxena; A.D.Gupta = Rohan Saxena & Valsan K.; Rohan Saxena 1 Dr Nagaraj & Srinath T.; Hemant Sharma 0 K.V.S.Sastry; Valsan K. 1 Srinath T.; Srinath T. 0 Hemant Sharma; Dr Nagaraj = Valsan K. 7326 Srinath T. 0 Lakshya Porwal, Shams Khan & Dinesh Saxena; Hemant Sharma 1 Dutt, Srinath T. & T.Mohanadasan; Dutt 0 Lakshya Porwal & T.Mohanadasan; Dinesh Saxena 1 Dutt; T.Mohanadasan 0 Lakshya Porwal; T.Mohanadasan 1 Srinath T.; Lakshya Porwal 0 Shams Khan 7327 Srinath T. 0 T.Mohanadasan, Nambiar & Dinesh Saxena; Dutt 1 Nambiar & Srinath T.; T.Mohanadasan 1 Lakshya Porwal & Dutt; Lakshya Porwal 0 Dutt; Dinesh Saxena 0 T.Mohanadasan; T.Mohanadasan 0 Shams Khan; Nambiar 1 T.Mohanadasan; Dutt 0 Dinesh Saxena; Lakshya Porwal 1 Srinath T.; Shams Khan 1 Lakshya Porwal 7328 Rohan Saxena 0 Valsan K., A.D.Gupta & K.V.S.Sastry; Valsan K. = Kalapi Trivedi & K.V.S.Sastry; Shams Khan = Rohan Saxena & A.D.Gupta; A.D.Gupta = Valsan K. & K.V.S.Sastry; K.V.S.Sastry = Kalapi Trivedi; Kalapi Trivedi 1 Rohan Saxena; K.V.S.Sastry 1 Shams Khan; Dinesh Saxena 0 Rohan Saxena; A.D.Gupta 1 Dinesh Saxena 7329 Dinesh Saxena 1 Srinath T. & Dutt; Srinath T. & Nambiar 1 Harishankar M.; Dutt & Srinath T. 0 Lakshya Porwal; Dutt 1 Srinath T.; Nambiar = Meherhomji; Lakshya Porwal 1 Meherhomji; Meherhomji 0 Dinesh Saxena 7330 Kalapi Trivedi, Lalit Kapoor & Shams Khan 1 T.Mohanadasan; Nambiar 0 Lalit Kapoor & Hemant Sharma; Dinesh Saxena 0 Hemant Sharma & Lalit Kapoor; Kalapi Trivedi & Hemant Sharma = Shams Khan; Lalit Kapoor = Kalapi Trivedi; T.Mohanadasan 0 Nambiar; T.Mohanadasan = Dinesh Saxena; Hemant Sharma 0 Kalapi Trivedi; Lalit Kapoor 1 Shams Khan 7331 Rohan Saxena 1 Dinesh Saxena, Amritha Mohandas & Ashutosh Mishra; Amritha Mohandas 0 Valsan K., Shams Khan & Dutt; Ashutosh Mishra 0 Valsan K. & Shams Khan; Dinesh Saxena 1 Ashutosh Mishra & Amritha Mohandas; Dutt 0 Dinesh Saxena & Rohan Saxena; Valsan K. 1 Dutt & Rohan Saxena; Ashutosh Mishra 1 Amritha Mohandas; Shams Khan = Rohan Saxena; Dutt 1 Ashutosh Mishra; Shams Khan 1 Dutt 7332 Nambiar, Dinesh Saxena & Saxena A. 1 Lakshya Porwal; Nambiar 0 Dinesh Saxena & Saxena A.; Lakshya Porwal 0 Shams Khan & A.D.Gupta; A.D.Gupta 1 Shams Khan & Nambiar;

Dinesh Saxena 0 A.D.Gupta & Kalapi Trivedi; Shams Khan 1 Dinesh Saxena & Nambiar; A.D.Gupta = Saxena A.; Shams Khan 0 Saxena A.; Saxena A. 1 Dinesh Saxena; Saxena A. = Kalapi Trivedi; Kalapi Trivedi = A.D.Gupta; Kalapi Trivedi 1 Shams Khan 7333 Dinesh Saxena 0 Rohan Saxena, A.D.Gupta & Vikrant Soni; Vijayendra Kumar, Chatterjee & Kalapi Trivedi 1 Dinesh Saxena; Vikrant Soni 0 A.D.Gupta & Chatterjee; Vijayendra Kumar 0 Kalapi Trivedi & Rohan Saxena; Rohan Saxena & Kalapi Trivedi 1 Vikrant Soni; Vikrant Soni & A.D.Gupta 1 Vijayendra Kumar; A.D.Gupta & Chatterjee = Kalapi Trivedi; Rohan Saxena = A.D.Gupta; Kalapi Trivedi = Rohan Saxena 7334 Dinesh Saxena 0 Shams Khan, Lakshya Porwal & D.V.Jadhav; Dutt 0 Dinesh Saxena, Kalapi Trivedi & Lakshya Porwal; Shams Khan 1 Nambiar, D.V.Jadhav & Dutt; Lakshya Porwal 1 Nambiar & D.V.Jadhav; Kalapi Trivedi 1 Lakshya Porwal & Dinesh Saxena; D.V.Jadhav 1 Dutt & Nambiar; Nambiar & D.V.Jadhav 0 Kalapi Trivedi; Kalapi Trivedi = Shams Khan; Nambiar 1 Dutt; Nambiar = Dinesh Saxena 7335 Dutt 0 A.D.Gupta, Chauhan & Dinesh Saxena; A.D.Gupta 1 Nambiar, Dinesh Saxena & Dr Nagaraj; Chauhan 1 Dinesh Saxena & Nambiar; Dinesh Saxena 0 Shams Khan & Nambiar; Shams Khan & Nambiar 1 Dutt; Shams Khan 0 Chauhan; Nambiar 0 Shams Khan; Chauhan = A.D.Gupta 7336 Dinesh Saxena, Hemant Sharma & Nambiar 0 K.Shiva Kumar; Trehan, Hemant Sharma & Dutt 1 Nambiar; K.Shiva Kumar, Nambiar & Dinesh Saxena 0 Shams Khan; Shams Khan & Dinesh Saxena 1 Dutt; Nambiar = Dinesh Saxena; Trehan 1 Dinesh Saxena 7337 Dutt 0 Nambiar, Lakshya Porwal & T.Mohanadasan; Lakshya Porwal 1 Dinesh Saxena & Nambiar; Anuj Gupta 1 Nambiar & Dutt; Dinesh Saxena & T.Mohanadasan 0 Anuj Gupta; Lakshya Porwal & Nambiar 0 T.Mohanadasan; T.Mohanadasan 1 Dinesh Saxena; Dinesh Saxena 1 Dutt; Nambiar = Dinesh Saxena 7338 Dutt 0 A.D.Gupta, Dinesh Saxena & Lakshya Porwal; Lakshya Porwal & Dinesh Saxena 0 Pandavakrishna; A.D.Gupta & Lakshya Porwal 1 Dinesh Saxena; Pandavakrishna 1 Dutt; Amritha Mohandas 0 A.D.Gupta; Sailesh Chandra 1 Amritha Mohandas 7339 Kalapi Trivedi, Vikrant Soni & Dutt 1 Dinesh Saxena; Shams Khan 1 Dutt & Nambiar; Dutt 0 Kalapi Trivedi & Vikrant Soni; Nambiar 0 Dutt & Kalapi Trivedi; Dinesh Saxena 0 Shams Khan; Kalapi Trivedi 1 Vikrant Soni; Kalapi Trivedi = Shams Khan; Nambiar = Vikrant Soni; Vikrant Soni 1 Shams Khan; Dinesh Saxena = Nambiar 7340 D.V.Jadhav 1 P.K.Mishra 7341 Om Prakash 1 D.V.Jadhav & P.K.Mishra; P.K.Mishra 0 Kalapi Trivedi & D.V.Jadhav; Chauhan = Om Prakash; D.V.Jadhav 0 Kalapi Trivedi; T.Chandran 0 Om Prakash; Om Prakash = Kalapi Trivedi 7342 Om Prakash 1 Trehan, S.Venkataraman & D.V.Jadhav; S.Venkataraman 0 D.V.Jadhav 7343 Harishankar M. 0 Vijayendra Kumar, Om Prakash & Dutt; Pandavakrishna, Shams Khan & A.D.Gupta 1 Harishankar M.; Dutt 0 Pandavakrishna & Shams Khan; Om Prakash 1 Dutt & Pandavakrishna; Om Prakash = A.D.Gupta; Shams Khan 0 Om Prakash; Pandavakrishna 0 Shams Khan 7344 P.K.Mishra 0 Om Prakash 7345 K.Shiva Kumar 0 Venugopal Linga & T.Mohanadasan; T.Chandran 1 K.Shiva Kumar; T.Mohanadasan 1 Nambiar;

Venugopal Linga 0 T.Mohanadasan 7346 Venugopal Linga 0 Shams Khan

COMPLETED TOURNAMENTS We heartily congratulate the winners (names in brick colour) of the following tournaments: 4330 Anuj Gupta 5, Gala 4.5, T.Mohanadasan 2.5, C.Mohanachandran 0 4331 Chauhan 4, Valsan K. 4, A.D.Gupta 4, K.Sowrrirajan 0 4332 A.D.Gupta 5, Anuj Gupta 5, Tervinder Singh 2, D.V.Jadhav 0 4336 Mohanakrishnan 4.5, K.Shiva Kumar 4, Dutt 2, T.Mohanadasan 1.5 4341 Lakshya Porwal 6, Dinesh Saxena 3, Dutt 3, Harishankar M. 0 7312 Kalapi Trivedi 5.5, Lalit Kapoor 4.5, A.D.Gupta 4.5, Rohan Saxena 3.5, Dutt 2, Tervinder Singh 1, N.J.Dave 0 7315 Valsan K. 5.5, A.D.Gupta 5, Shams Khan 3.5, Rohan Saxena 3.5, Sailesh Chandra 2.5, R.Raman 1, Juneja 0 7316 Shams Khan 5.5, N.P.Shukla 5, D.V.Jadhav 3, Dinesh Saxena 2.5, T.Mohanadasan 2.5, S.Venkataraman 1.5, Lakshya Porwal 1 7317 Kalapi Trivedi 5.5, Valsan K. 5, A.D.Gupta 4.5, R.Raman 2.5, Dinesh Saxena 2.5, Dutt 1, Amritha Mohandas 0 7319 Shams Khan 5.5, T.Mohanadasan 4, K.Shiva Kumar 3, D.V.Jadhav 2.5, Nambiar 2.5, R.Raman 2.5, Dinesh Saxena 1 7322 Shams Khan 5.5, Mohanakrishnan 4.5, Hemant Sharma 4.5, D.V.Jadhav 3, Dinesh Saxena 2.5, Srinath T. 1, Amritha Mohandas 0 7323 Hemant Sharma 5.5, Shams Khan 5, Sailesh Chandra 3.5, D.V.Jadhav 3, T.Mohanadasan 2.5, Dinesh Saxena 1.5, Dutt 0 7324 Valsan K. 6, Nambiar 5, T.Mohanadasan 4, D.V.Jadhav 3, Dutt 2, Srinath T. 1, N.J.Dave 0 7326 Shams Khan 5.5, Hemant Sharma 5, Dinesh Saxena 4, Lakshya Porwal 3.5, T.Mohanadasan 2, Dutt 1, Srinath T. 0 7327 Shams Khan 6, T.Mohanadasan 4, Nambiar 4, Dutt 3, Dinesh Saxena 2.5, Lakshya Porwal 1.5, Srinath T. 0 7328 K.V.S.Sastry 4.5, Valsan K. 4, Kalapi Trivedi 4, A.D.Gupta 4, Shams Khan 3, Rohan Saxena 1.5, Dinesh Saxena 0 7331 Valsan K. 5.5, Shams Khan 5, Rohan Saxena 4.5, Dinesh Saxena 3, Dutt 2, Ashutosh Mishra 1, Amritha Mohandas 0 7332 A.D.Gupta 5, Saxena A. 5, Kalapi Trivedi 5, Shams Khan 3, Dinesh Saxena 2, Nambiar 1, Lakshya Porwal 0

Erratum 1508 Neelakantan = Chatterjee (not reported earlier).

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997

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1383

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990

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88

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1353

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985

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89

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823

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1240

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978

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90

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816

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800

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1227

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1226

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975

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800

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1224

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1215

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1204

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800

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1202

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958

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800

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1201

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55

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954

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800

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1193

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935

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100

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800

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1189

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934

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800

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1142

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108

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800

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1128

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66

Patil Abhijit A.

907

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109

Kulkarni Ajit

800

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110

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1107

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797

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797

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1055

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785

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1052

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1052

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76

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862

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780

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1050

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860

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Pandavakrishna Y.

773

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Chole H.P.

1031

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78

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856

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121

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772

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1031

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856

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122

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771

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1031

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843

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767

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1015

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756

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666

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662

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749

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657

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740

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174

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654

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739

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737

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I

176

Yadav Surendra

140

Saravanan K.S.

736

Life

I

177

141

Kapoor Dr R.K.

732

Life

I

178

#

Name

Rating

Type

A/I

204

Joy P.O.

522

Life

I

205

Umashankar Cpl N.

522

Life

I

206

Theza K.L.Keerthi

513

Ordinary

I

207

Singh Jatinder

504

Life

I

A

208

Choudhari C.L.

500

Life

I

I

209

Deshpande Y.G.

495

Life

I

Life

I

210

Gautam Parvesh

494

Ordinary

I

Life

I

211

Nagesh J.

480

Donor

I

653

Ordinary

I

212

Salathia H.S.

478

Life

I

648

Ordinary

I

213

Rekh Ketan S.

473

Donor

I

Agarwal Amol

647

Ordinary

I

214

Mistry Yezad K.

471

Ordinary

I

Venugopalan C.

646

Life

I

215

Dutt B.S.

462

Life

A

142

Kumar Vijayendra

727

Donor

A

179

Bobby V.S.

643

Life

I

216

Randeria V.S.

459

Life

I

143

Dave Dinesh H.

727

Ordinary

I

180

Raman R.

634

Life

A

217

Anpazhakan S.

448

Life

I

144

Chouhan Hemendra

723

Ordinary

I

181

Devlekar C.R.

632

Life

I

218

Agarwal Avinash

436

Life

I

145

Hardia Chhaya

722

Ordinary

I

182

Senthilnathan S.

628

Life

I

219

Baksha Ansar K.

436

Life

I

146

Thakkar Mudit

720

Life

I

183

Vaidya Piyush H.

627

Life

I

220

Nayak Satya S.

423

Life

I

147

Jaiswal Shesh R.

717

Ordinary

I

184

Chaudhuri T.K.

625

Donor

I

221

Dave Dr N.J.

417

Life

I

148

Hule Yamini M.

708

Life

I

185

Tendulkar Manali

625

Life

I

222

Padhi Prem P.

400

Donor

I

149

Miyani Ketan P.

708

Life

I

186

Juneja Madan Lal

619

Life

I

223

Gupta Vijay Kumar

400

Life

I

150

Kumar Shirish

704

Ordinary

I

187

Avirah M.

615

Ordinary

I

224

Kini Harish

400

Life

I

151

Mishra P.K.

701

Ordinary

A

188

Chandrashekar

611

Life

I

225

Kumar P.R.

400

Life

I

152

Sowrrirajan K.

699

Life

I

189

Prasad Krishna M.

609

Life

I

226

Mukherjee T.K.

400

Life

I

153

Talukdar Gaurav

699

Life

I

190

Venkataraman S.

606

Life

A

227

Nambiar A.V.S.

400

Life

A

154

Rajesh K.

690

Ordinary

I

191

Mishra Ashutosh

601

Life

A

228

Nishanth H.M.

400

Life

I

155

Dagaonkar Nagesh

685

Ordinary

I

192

Vasishta S.

600

Life

I

229

Sirohi Narendra

400

Life

I

156

Hule Subhash M.

682

Life

I

193

Nambiar Vivek

599

Life

I

230

Srinath T.

400

Life

A

157

Ramakrishna P.

681

Ordinary

I

194

Gupta Abhisek

598

Ordinary

I

231

Sundararajan S.

400

Life

I

158

Kumar K.Shiva

679

Life

A

195

Virwani Ajay

597

Ordinary

I

232

Torvekar G.P.

400

Life

I

159

Ramamurthi K.V.S.

677

Ordinary

I

196

Kishore G.P.P.

596

Ordinary

I

233

Harishankar M.

400

Ordinary

A

160

Babu K.

676

Ordinary

I

197

Mehta Bikram

590

Life

I

234

Mohandas Amritha

400

Ordinary

A

161

Upadhyay Upendra

674

Ordinary

I

198

Unni C.S.

585

Life

I

235

Pandalai N.G.

400

Ordinary

I

162

Kulkarni Mahesh G

671

Life

I

199

Semeel V.S.

581

Life

I

236

Samuel V.

400

Ordinary

I

163

Rao Dr D.R.K.S

671

Ordinary

I

200

Kumar Rabindra

577

Life

I

164

Mohan C.S.

668

Life

I

201

Shukla N.P.

567

Life

A

165

Jain Suresh

668

Ordinary

I

202

Pable Kum. Amisha

528

Ordinary

I

166

Joy Kumar Vineet

667

Life

I

203

Nalladaru K.A.

526

Ordinary

I

A: Active Players, I: Inactive Player The player who have started at least one new AICCF tournament or completed one AICCF tournament game including championships in the period of 01-07-2011 to 31-12-2011 are considered active. Next time we will include players with running games also.

Ratings are updated every 1 January and 1 July and remain frozen in the interim period. All new results published in this Bulletin (i.e. actual results received upto 31-12-2011 and valid claims upto 01-12-2011) are rated.

Feb’12

24

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25

Games Section

1

1–0

B92

Chauhan, R.K. – Anand, Anil K. AICCF 1509 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.Be3 e5 7.Nb3 Nc6 8.Be2 Be7 9.0–0 0–0 10.Qd2 a5?! [Normally seen is: 10...Be6 although the text is also played.]

Feb’12

11.Rfd1N a4 12.Nc1 Be6 13.a3 Ng4 14.Bxg4 Bxg4 15.N1e2 Qa5 16.h3 Be6 17.Nd5 Bd8 18.Nec3 Rc8 19.g4 b5 20.Rab1 Rb8 21.b3 axb3 22.Rxb3 Ne7 23.Nxe7+ Bxe7 24.Nd5 Qd8 25.c4 Bxd5 26.cxd5 h5 27.Rdb1 hxg4 28.hxg4 Qc8 [28...Ra8 29.Qd3 Qc8 30.f3 Qa6] 29.f3 Ra8 30.Kg2 Ra4 31.Kg3

[39...Kxf6 40.Qf5#]

    W [43.Ra7 Be7 44.b6 Kf7 45.b7 wins]   1–0        2 1–0 B96    Somani, S.K. – Shivdasani, V.A. AICCF 1509         [Mohan Jayaraman] 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6    5.Nc3 a6 6.Bg5 e6 7.f4 b5 8.e5 dxe5  9.fxe5 Qc7 10.exf6 Qe5+ 11.Be2 Qxg5 40.Rc7+ Kf8 41.Qxh1 Qg6 42.b5 Bd8 43.Ra7

12.0–0 Ra7 13.Qd3 Rd7

19...g6?

[13...Qe5 14.Nb3 Nd7 15.Rad1 gxf6 16.Rfe1 Be7 17.Qh3 Qf4 18.g3 Qc7 19.Qh6 Qb6+ 20.Kf1 f5 21.a4 b4 22.a5 Qc7 23.Na4 f4 24.Qxf4 Qxf4+ 25.gxf4 Bh4 26.Nb6 Ke7 27.Rd4 Bxe1 28.Kxe1 Rc7 29.Nxc8+ Rcxc8 30.Rxb4 Rxc2 31.Nd4 Rc1+ 32.Kd2 Rh1 33.Bxa6 Rxh2+ 34.Be2 Ra8 35.Ke3 Kd6 36.Nf3 Rg2 37.a6 h6 38.Bf1 Rc2 39.Bd3 Rc1 40.Be2 Ra1 41.f5 Rb8 42.Rd4+ Kc7 43.b4 Re8 0–1 Janosi, E-Tsenkov, L/ LSS 2008]

[19...b4 20.Rxb4 (20.Rbd1 g6 21.Nxe6 fxe6 22.f7+ Rxf7 23.Rxf7 Kxf7 24.Ng5+ Kg8 25.Nxe6 Qc6 26.Bf3 Qc3 27.Qf4 Nd7 28.Bxb7 Qe5 29.Qh4 Nf6 30.Bxa6) 20...Nc6 seems better, but White is the one playing for 2 results only (win / draw). (Not: 20...Bxe4 21.fxg7 Bxg7 22.Qxe4 Nc6 23.Rc4 Qb6+ 24.Kh1 Nd8 25.Bh5 Qb7 26.Nxe6 Qxe4 27.Rxe4 Bb2 28.Nc7+ Kf8 29.Nxa6 Kg7 30.Nb4 Ne6 31.a5 Ra8 32.a6 Nc5 33.Re2 Bf6 34.Bf3 1–0 Canizares Cuadra, P-Ribelles Sala, M / ICCF server 2008); Also losing is: 19... h6? 20.Rfc1]

   W                   Qe5 15.Nf3 Qxb2 16.Qe3 Bb7     14.Ne4 17.Rab1    [17.a4 Qb4 18.c4 Bxe4 19.Qxe4 gxf6 20.axb5 Qc5+ 21.Kh1 Bg7 22.Rad1 axb5 31...Qa8?

[31...f6 32.Rc1 Qe8 33.Qe2 Ra8 34.Rxb5 Rxa3 35.Rb7 Rf7 36.Rcc7] 32.Rh1 f6 [32...Rxa3?? 33.Qh2 f5 (33...f6 34.Qh8+ Kf7 35.Qh5+ Kg8 36.Qg6 Rxb3 37.Rh7 Rf7 38.Qh5 g6 39.Qxg6+ Rg7 40.Qxg7#) 34.gxf5+-] 33.Qh2 Qe8 [33...Rc4 34.Bh6 f5 35.gxf5+-] 34.Qh7+ Kf7 35.Rh6 Rg8 36.Rg6 b4 37.axb4 Ra1 38.Rc3 Rh1 39.Rxf6+!! Bxf6

23.cxb5 0–0 24.Rc1 Qb6 ½–½ Simmelink, J-Tsenkov, L / LSS 2008] 17...Qxc2

[17...Qxa2 18.c4 Bxe4 19.fxg7 Bxg7 20.Qxe4 Rd6 21.cxb5 0–0 22.b6 Rc6 23.Rfe1 Qa5 24.b7 Qc5+ 25.Kh1 f5 26.Qa4 Kh8 27.Red1 e5 28.Qh4 Rh6 29.Rdc1 Qd6 30.Qg5 Rg6 31.Qe3 Qe6 32.Rc7 e4 33.Ng5 Qf6 34.h4 h6 35.Qh3 a5 36.Rc8 a4 37.Qh2 1–0 Rubinstein, M-Neacsu, C / LSS 2007] 18.Nfg5 Qc7 19.a4

20.axb5 a5 [Better seems to be: 20...Bh6 21.Rfc1 Qd8 though White still is far superior.] 21.Rbc1 Qe5 22.Nf3 Qxe4 23.Rc8+ Bxc8 [No better is: 23...Rd8 24.Rxd8+ Kxd8 25.Qb6+ Ke8+-] 24.Qxe4 Bb7 25.Qf4 Bd6 26.Ne5 a4 27.Qe3 a3 28.Bc4 Bxe5 [Or: 28...Rc7 29.Kh1 Bc5 does not change much] 29.Qxe5 0–0 30.Qe3 Kh8 31.Qh6 Rg8 32.Bxe6! Bd5 [32...fxe6 33.Qe3 Double attack on a3 and e6 and also threatens f7 (33.f7 pushing the Passed pawn)]

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33.Bxd7 Nxd7 34.Qh3 Be6 35.Qxa3 Rc8 36.Rd1 Nxf6 37.Qb2 Kg7 38.Rf1 Bf5 39.g4! Rc2 40.Qd4 Re2 41.g5 [41.g5 h5 42.gxh6+ Kxh6 43.Rxf5 gxf5 44.Qxf6+ Kh5 45.Qxf5+ Kh6 46.Qf6+ Kh7 47.Qh4+ Kg7 48.Qg4+ wins for White.] 1–0 3

1–0

E27

Chatterjee, Dr. A. – Nagaraj, Dr. A AICCF 1509 [Mohan Jayaraman] 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.f3 d5 5.a3 Bxc3+ 6.bxc3 0–0 7.cxd5 exd5 8.e3 Bf5 9.Ne2 Re8 10.g4 Bc8? [10...Be6 11.Ng3 c5 12.Bd3 Nc6 13.Kf2 (13.0–0; 13.Bd2 Rc8 14.Kf2 Na5 15.Qb1 Nc4 16.Ra2 Nxd2 17.Rxd2 cxd4 18.cxd4 Bxg4 19.Bxh7+ Nxh7 20.fxg4 Qh4 21.Qf5 Nf6 22.Kf3 g6 23.Qf4 Nxg4 24.Re2 Re6 25.Kg2 Nxe3+ 0–1 Raluy Lopez, M-Koslovska, M / Lechenicher SchachServer 2008) 13...Rc8 14.g5 Nd7 15.f4 Nf8 16.f5 Bd7 17.Qh5?! Qa5 18.Ne2 g6 19.Qh6 Bxf5 20.Bxf5 gxf5 21.Nf4 Re6! (21...Qxc3? 22.Nh5) 22.Nxe6 Nxe6 23.Bd2 cxd4 24.exd4 f4! (24...Ncxd4? 25.g6!) 25.Rad1 Ncxd4! 26.cxd4 Rc2 27.Ke1 Rxd2! 28.Rxd2 Qc3! 29.Qf6! (29.Rf1 Qc1+ 30.Ke2 Nxd4+! 31.Rxd4 Qe3+ 32.Kd1 Qxd4+³) 29... Qc1+ 30.Ke2 Qxh1 31.Rc2! Qxh2+ 32.Kd1 Qg1+ 33.Kd2 Qxd4+ 34.Qxd4 Nxd4 35.Rc7 Nb5 36.Rxb7 Nxa3 37.Rxa7 Nc4+ 38.Ke2 Nd6 39.Kf3 Ne4 40.Kxf4 Nc5 41.Ra5 Ne6+ 42.Kf5 Kg7 43.Rxd5 ½–½ Diaconescu, P-Yerhoff, F / corr ICCF 1961; 10...Bxg4 11.fxg4 Nxg4 12.Ra2 Qh4+ 13.Ng3 Nd7 14.Qf3 Ndf6 15.Bd3 Qh3 16.Qg2 Qxg2 17.Rxg2 Nxe3 18.Re2 Nc4 19.Rg1 Rxe2+ 20.Kxe2 Re8+ 21.Kf3 Nb6 22.Bf4 c6 23.Nf5 g6 24.Nd6 Re7 25.Bg5 Re6 26.Nxb7 Ne4 27.Bxe4 dxe4+ 28.Ke2 f5 29.Nc5 Re8 30.a4 Kg7 31.a5 h6 32.Bf4 Nd5 33.Be5+ Kf7 34.c4 Nf6 35.Rb1 Ng4 36.Bd6 g5 37.Rb7+ Kg6 38.h3 Nf6 39.Rxa7 f4 40.Be5 1–0 Echtwelzo - HFlew/www.playchess.de 2004; 10...Nxg4 11.fxg4 Qh4+ 12.Kd2 Be4 13.Rg1 Qxh2 14.Qe1 c5 15.Qg3 Qh6

16.dxc5 Na6 17.g5 Qg6 18.c6 Nc5 19.cxb7 Rab8 20.Nd4 Rxb7 21.Ke1 Rbb8 22.Kf2 Nb3 23.Nxb3 Rxb3 24.Be2 Rxc3 25.Bd2 Rb3 26.Qg4 Qd6 27.Qf4 Qe6 28.Rgc1 Qh3 29.Bf1 Qh5 30.Rc7 Rb2 31.Rd1 Rf8 32.Be2 Qh3 33.Qg3 Qf5+ 34.Ke1 a5 35.Bxa5 Re8 36.Bc3 Rc2 37.Rd2 Rc1+ 38.Bd1 Qg6 39.Kf2 Rf8 40.Qe5 h6 41.Bh5 Qxg5 42.Qxg5 hxg5 43.a4 Rh1 44.Bf3 Bxf3 45.Kxf3 Rh3+ 46.Kg2 Rxe3 47.a5 Ra8 48.Rxd5 f6 49.Rdd7 Rxc3 50.Rxc3 Rxa5 51.Rcc7 Kh7 52.Rxg7+ Kh6 53.Rcf7 Ra4 54.Rg8 Rf4 55.Ra7 Rg4+ 56.Kf3 Rb4 57.Kg3 Rf4 58.Ra6 Kh7 59.Rb8 Kg6 60.Rb2 1–0 Schulz, G-Ruhle, E / corr BdF 2006] 11.h4 Qd6 12.Kf2 c5 13.Nf4 Be6 14.Bd2

51.Rg7+ Kh8 52.Nf6 Rxf6 53.gxf6 g5 54.Kc5 Nd7+ 55.Rxd7 Kg8 56.Rg7+ Kf8 57.h7 d4 58.h8Q#] 42...Ke8 43.Nc7+ [43.dxe5 Rb3 44.Nc7+ Kd8 45.e6 Rxf3 46.e7+ Kxc7 47.e8Q+ Kd6 48.Qxg6+ Kc5 49.Rc7+ Kd4 50.Qxb6+ Ke4 51.Re7+ Kf4 52.h7 d4 53.Qxd4+ Kg3 54.h8Q Rf2+ 55.Qxf2+ Kxf2 56.Qh3 c3 57.Rf7+ Ke2 58.Qe6#] 43...Kd8 [43...Kf8 44.dxe5 Ra4+-] 44.dxe5 d4 45.e6 [45.e6 Rb3 46.e7+ Kxc7 47.e8Q+ Kd6 48.Qxg6+ Kc5 49.Rc7+ Kb5 50.h7 d3+ 51.Kc1 Rc3+ 52.Kd1 Rc1+ 53.Kxc1 d2+ 54.Kxd2 Na4 55.h8Q c3+ 56.Rxc3 Nc5 57.Rxc5+ Kxc5 58.Qc3+ Kd5 59.Qgc6#]

[14.dxc5 Qxc5 15.g5 Nfd7² (15...Qxc3? 16.Bd2 Qe5 17.gxf6 (17.Nxe6?! Rxe6 18.gxf6 d4±) 17...Qxf6 18.Rb1+-) ]

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14...c4 15.g5 Nfd7 16.e4 Nc6 17.e5 Qc7 18.h5 Nf8 19.Be2 b5 20.Qc2 a5 21.h6

4

[21.g6 h6²] 21...g6 22.Qb2 b4 [Much better is: 22...Qb6 23.Ng2 Red8 24.Rhd1 Nd7 25.Nf4 Rab8 26.Bf1 Nf8 27.Ng2 Bh3 28.Ne3 Bxf1 29.Kxf1 b4 30.axb4 axb4 31.Ng4 Kh8] 23.axb4 axb4 24.cxb4 Qb6 25.Rxa8 Rxa8 26.Be3 Qxb4 [26...Nxb4 27.Rb1 Rb8 28.Qc3+-] 27.Qxb4 Nxb4 28.Rb1 Nc2? [Playing 28...Nc6 would have retained equality as per Games Editor 29.Rb6 Ne7 30.Bd2² Is Dr. Chatterjee’s assessment.] 29.Rb2 [29.Nxe6 Nxe6 30.f4 Nexd4 31.Bxd4 Nxd4³]

1–0

A17

K., Prabhanandan – Gala, K. L. AICCF 1509 [Mohan Jayaraman] 1.Nf3 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.Qc2 c5 5.a3 Ba5 6.g3 0–0 7.Bg2 d5 8.Na4 b6 9.0–0 Bb7 10.cxd5 Qxd5 [Not: 10...Nxd5 11.d4±] 11.Nc3 Qh5 12.Nb5 Nc6 13.d3 Rfd8 14.Bf4 a6? [Much better seems: 14...Nd5 15.Nd6 Ba6 16.Qa4 b5] 15.Nd6 Nd4 16.Nxd4 Bxg2 17.Kxg2 Nd5?? [Equality could be maintained with: 17... e5 18.Nf3 exf4]

29...Nxe3 30.Kxe3 Nd7??

18.Nxe6 fxe6 19.Ne4 Nxf4+ 20.gxf4 Qg4+ 21.Kh1 Qxf4 22.Rg1 Qf7 23.Rg3 g6 24.Rag1 Rf8 25.Ng5 Qe8

[The final error which loses the game.]

[25...Qd7 26.f3 Rf5+-]

31.Rb5 Rb8 32.Ra5 Rb3+ 33.Kd2 Nb6 34.Bd1 Rb2+ 35.Kc3 Rb1 36.Nxe6 Rxd1??

26.d4 Rf5

[36...fxe6 37.Kc2 Rb4+-] 37.Nc5+- Rb1 38.Kc2 Rb4 39.Ra7 Kf8 40.e6 fxe6 41.Rxh7 e5 42.Ne6+ [42.dxe5 c3 43.Ne6+ Ke8 44.Nc7+ Kf8 45.e6 Rb2+ 46.Kxc3 Re2 47.Kd4 Kg8 48.Rg7+ Kf8 49.Rf7+ Kg8 50.Ne8 Rxe6

[26...Rf6 27.f3 Rd8 28.Rh3+-] 27.e4 Rf6 28.b4 cxb4 29.Qc7 Rf7 30.Qe5 [30.Qxf7+?! 30.Nxf7 leads to the same thing. 30...Qxf7 31.Nxf7 Kxf7±] 30...Rg7 31.Nxe6 Re7 [31...Raa7 32.d5+-]

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25.Nd4?

[33...b5 34.f5 Bb6+-]

[¹25.Rac1 Rg7 26.Bxd5 Rxf7 27.Bxe6+ Kb7 28.Rxd8μ]

34.f5 Rc8 [34...Bd2 35.Rh3 Rc8 36.Rxg6+ Qxg6 37.fxg6+-] 35.d6 Rd7 [35...Ra7 36.Rh3 Bc3 37.Rxc3 Rxc3 38.Qxc3 Qd7+-] 36.Qd5 Bc3 [36...a1Q 37.Rxa1 Rxd6 38.Qxd6 Qc6 39.Qxc6 Rxc6+-] 37.fxg6 a1Q 38.Nc7+ [38.Nc7+ Kh8 39.Nxe8 Rxe8 40.Rxa1 Bxa1 41.gxh7+-] 1–0 5

0–1

C12

25...e5-+ 26.Bf5+

1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Bg5 Bb4 5.exd5 Qxd5 6.Bxf6 gxf6 7.Qd2 Bxc3 8.Qxc3 [8.bxc3 Nc6 9.f4 b6 10.Nf3 Bb7 11.Bd3 0–0–0 12.0–0 Ne7 13.a4 Qa5 14.Rfb1 a6 15.Kf2 Kb8 16.Qe1 Bxf3 17.Kxf3 Qh5+ 18.g4 Qxh2 19.Qh1 Qd2 20.Qe1 Qxe1 21.Rxe1 h5 22.gxh5 Rxh5 23.Rh1 Rdh8 24.Rxh5 Rxh5 25.Rg1 Rh3+ 26.Kg2 Rh6 27.Kf3 f5 28.Rg7 Nd5 29.Kg3 Nxc3] 8...Nc6 9.Nf3 Bd7 10.0–0–0 Qxa2 11.d5 Ne7 12.Bc4 Qa1+ 13.Kd2 Qa4 14.b3 Qa3 15.Qxf6 0–0–0 16.d6

B21

Neelakantan, N. – Saxena, A. AICCF 1509

26...Nxf5 27.Qxf5+ Kb7 28.Qxe5 Rge8 29.Qg5 [29.Qh5 Re4 30.Kb1 Rxd4 31.Rxd4 Qxd4 32.Ra5 Bxg2 33.Rb5+ Kc6 34.Re5-+]

1.e4 c5 2.d4 cxd4 3.c3 dxc3 4.Nxc3 Nc6 5.Nf3 e6 6.Bc4 a6 7.0–0 Nge7

29...Bxb3+ 30.cxb3 Re2+!! 31.Rd2

[Another direction is 7...Qc7]

[31.Nxe2]

8.Bg5! 8...f6

31...Rxd2+ 32.Qxd2 Qxd2+

[If 8...h6 White often tries 9.Be3!?]

[It is now mate in 4.] [32...Qxd2+ 33.Kb1 Qxd4 34.Kc2 Qd2+ 35.Kb1 Qd1+ 36.Kb2 Rd2#]

9.Be3

6

[Mohan Jayaraman]

1–0

[GM Mikhail Golubev (www.chesstoday. net). AICCF thanks GM Golubev (and GM Baburin) for their permission to use the Notes by GM Mikhail Golubev published in Chess Today (www.chesstoday. net)]

[26.Nf5 Bxe4 (26...Bxf7?! 27.Nxe7+ Kb8 28.Nc6+ Qxc6 29.Bxc6=) 27.Nxe7+ Kb7-+]

33.Kb1 Rxd4 0–1

Neelakantan, N – Kumar, Pavan T. AICCF 1509 Feb’12

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B99

Somani, S.S. – Nagaraj, Dr. A AICCF 1509 [Mohan Jayaraman] 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.Bg5 e6 7.f4 Be7 8.Qf3 Nbd7 9.0–0–0 Qc7 10.g4 b5 11.Bxf6 Nxf6 12.g5 Nd7 13.f5 Nc5 14.f6 gxf6 15.gxf6 Bf8 16.Rg1 h5 17.a3 Bd7? [Much better alternatives are: 17...Rb8; 17...Qb6] 18.Kb1 Rb8 19.b4 Nb7 20.Rg5 Rc8 21.Nd5 exd5 22.exd5 Kd8 23.Qg2 h4

[Safer is] 9...b5 10.Bb3 Ng6 [10...Bb7!?; or 10...Na5 where 11.Bxe6!? dxe6 12.Qxd8+ Kxd8 13.Bb6² is about equal, Messa-Tatai, Italy 1977] 11.Nd5! 11...exd5 [The play is less forced after 11...Rb8!? 12.Rc1! a5! 13.Nf4©] 12.exd5 Nce5 13.d6! 13...Bb7 14.Nxe5 fxe5 15.f4! 15...exf4! [In CT-3926 aburin annotated the game Esserman - Van Wely, US Open 2011 which followed 15...Qf6?N 16.fxe5 Qxe5 17.Bg5 Be7 18.Bf7+ Kd8 19.dxe7+ Nxe7 20.Qd2+- Kc8 21.Rac1+ Nc6 22.Rfd1 Qf5 23.Bf4 Qxf7 24.Qd6 Kd8 25.Rxc6 Bxc6 26.Qxc6 1–0. What I offer below is a deeper analysis of the critical direction which, in my view, is quite curious. When I worked on this game for chess-news.ru I was surprised that I could not find a way to White’s victory or advantage.]

16...Qxd6+ 17.Kc3 Qa3 18.Ra1

[No better or worse is: 23...Qb6 24.Rg8 Rxg8 25.Qxg8 Kc7 26.Qxf7 Nd8 27.Qxf8 Nc6 28.Ne6+ Bxe6 29.Qg7+ Bd7 30.dxc6 Qxc6+-]

[‹18.Qxf7 Rhf8 19.Qxh7 b5μ]

24.c4 Qb6

18...Qc5 19.Kb2

[24...bxc4 25.Rg8 Rxg8 26.Qxg8+-]

16.Re1 fxe3 17.Rxe3+ Be7 18.Qd4! 18...Qc8! After 19.Rae1!?

[19.Qxf7?? Rdf8 20.Qg7 b5-+]

25.Rg8 h3 26.Qf2 Qxd4

[19.Rxe7+!? Nxe7

19...b5 20.Bd3 Rhg8 21.Be4 b4 22.Rhd1 Bc6 23.Qxf7

[26...Kc7 27.Rxh8 bxc4+-]

[23.Rxd8+!? 25.Rf1μ]

[27.Rxd4 Rxg8 28.Rh4 Kc7 29.Bxh3 Bxh3 30.Rxh3 Kb8 31.cxb5 axb5+-]

[‹16.Qxf7 exd5 17.Bd3 Rdf8μ]

Rxd8

24.Bxc6

Nxc6

23...Qc3+μ [‹23...Bxe4 24.Qxe6+ Kb8 25.Qxe4 Qc3+ 26.Ka2=] 24.Ka2 Bd5 [24...Bxe4?! 25.Qxe6+ Kb8 26.Qxe4=]

27.Rxf8+!

27...Rxf8 28.Qxd4 Bf5+ 29.Ka1 Rc7 30.Qb6 Kc8 31.Qxa6 [31.Qxa6 Rd7 32.Qa8+ Kc7 33.Qxf8+-] 1–0

28

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 Qd5 28.Qf4+ g5-+; and 27.Rf7? Qe8!?)   W     W27...g5 28.Re5 Qg6 29.Rxg5=   V               W                                    V             V                  20.Qe3 (After 20.Re1?!, 20...Qc6 21.Bd5 25.Qc2+ (Again, 25.Rxg7+ Kxg7 26.Qg5+     0–0–0! 22.Bxc6 Nxc6 likely favours Kf7 27.Qf5² is just a forced draw.; While Black.) 20...Qd8 21.Re1 a5! (Not 21... 25.Qc3? fails to 25...Qxd6! 26.Qxg7+  And any other result than a draw is highly Rb8? 22.Qc5! Qa5 23.Bf7+! +-; Insufficient is 21...Rc8?! 22.Qd4) 22.Qc5 (The alternative is 22.Qd4 a4!? (22...Qb8= is also sufficient in my opinion) 23.Kh1! Qa5! 24.Rxe7+ Kd8 25.Qxg7 Bxg2+! 26.Qxg2 Ra6 and White probably should play 27.Qb7 Rxd6 28.Rxd7+ Rxd7 29.Qb8+ Ke7 30.Qe5² with a draw.) 22... Qb8!

Kf5; And 25.Qe5? is refuted by 25...Qa7+ 26.Kh1 Bxg2+ 27.Kxg2 Qb7+!! (a very important check, which forces the white king to occupy the g3 square) 28.Kg3 Rhg8 29.h4 h6-+) 25...Kh6

unlikely. More on the Morra GambitECO B21/CT 2011/CT-3935/[Mikhail Golubev (www.chesstoday.net)]; Not dangerous for Black are lines 19.dxe7 Qc6 20.Re2 Qf6 21.Bf7+ Qxf7 22.Rf1 Qd5!? 23.Qxg7 Qc5+ 24.Kh1 Bxg2²; and 19.Rf1 Qc6= where 20.Re2 is answered by 20...Kd8]

     W V 19...Qc6 20.Rf3! Kd8 21.dxe7+ Nxe7     22.Rxe7 Kxe7 23.Qxg7+ Kd8 24.Qxh8+     Kc7    W Golubev (www.chesstoday.net):     [Mikhail   ‘(½–½ Castillo - Stepanov, email 2007)’]           25.Qe5+  [Mikhail Golubev (www.chesstoday.net):     line which is given by Alex) Black can    ‘(a      even try to achieve a forced draw in the pawns ending:’]     26.h4 (After 26.Qc3 good enough is 26... 25...Qd6   Qxd6!? 27.Qxg7+ Kh5=) 26...Qg8!!= [25...d6!? 26.Rf7+ Kb6 27.Qe3+ Qc5   V  28.Qxc5+ dxc5 29.Rxb7+ Kxb7 30.Bd5+  31.Bxa8 Kxa8 32.Kf2 Kb7 33.Ke3 23 Bf7+ (White has a forced draw, draw but   23.Bf7+  WKa7 Kc6 34.Ke4 h5!= Mohan Jayaraman: nothing more, after 23.Rxe7+ Kd8 Maybe Alok Saxena missed the resource 24.Qb6+ Kc8 25.Qc5+ Bc6 26.Qxc6+! V dxc6 27.Be6+ Kd8 28.Rd7²; Black can     h5 leading to a draw.] be happy with 23.Kh1?! Bc6!; and, espe   26.Qxd6+ Kxd6 27.Rf6+ Kc7 28.Bc2 cially, with 23.Rf1? Nd5 24.Bxd5 Qa7-+) 29.g3 h5 30.Bg6 Rh8 31.Kf2 Rh6    Rg8 23...Kxf7! (Not 23...Kf8? 24.Rf1 Nf5  32.Ke3 Bd5 33.Rxa6 Bxa2 34.Kf4 25.Qxf5! Qxd6 26.Bh5+ Ke7 27.Qg5+±)     Bc4 35.Kg5 Rh8 36.Bxh5 d5 37.h4 24.Rxe7+ Kg6 38.Bd1 Rg8+ 39.Rg6 Re8 40.h5  d4 d3 41.h6 d2 42.h7 Rh8 43.Kh6 Bd3    44.Rg7+ Kd6 45.g4 Re8 46.Ra7 Bxh7 47.Kxh7 Re1 48.Ra1 Rg1 49.Kh6 Rh1+  Somehow, Black holds. 27.Qd2+ (27. 50.Kg6 Ke5 51.g5 Re5= also should lead to a draw: 27...

[All notes and comments upto move 25

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C56

Kumar, Pavan T. – Somani, S.S. AICCF 1509 [Mohan Jayaraman] 1.Nf3 d5 2.d4 Nf6 3.c4 e6 4.Nc3 Be7 5.Bg5 0–0 6.e3 h6 7.Bh4 Ne4 8.Bxe7 Qxe7 9.Rc1 c6 10.Bd3 Nxc3 11.Rxc3 dxc4 12.Bxc4 Nd7 13.0–0 b6 14.Bd3 c5 15.Be4 Rb8 16.Bc6 Bb7 [Dhanish: 16...Bb7 maybe a new move, but transposes. 16...Rd8 17.Qc2 cxd4 18.exd4 Qd6 19.Rc1 Nf6 20.Qa4 a5 ½–½ (41) Azmaiparashvili, Zurab (2655) - Korneev, Oleg (2649) / 11. HIT Open A (7), NovaGoricaSLO2006]

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17.Bxb7 Rxb7 18.Qc2 a5 19.a3 Re8 20.Rb1 [Dhanish: 20.Rb1 Novelty? The ChessOK opening tree (http://www.chessok. com/?page_id=352) gives a) 20.Rd1 1–0, Karpov Anatoly (RUS) - Jussupow Artur (GER), Dortmund (Germany), 1997 and b) 29.dxc5 ½–½, Lysyj Igor (RUS) - Lputian Smbat G (ARM), Sochi (Russia), 2007] 20...e5 21.dxc5 Nxc5 22.b4 axb4 23.axb4 Nd7 24.h3 Nf6 25.Rc6 Nd5 26.Qe4 Nf6??

[Dhanish: Perhaps 32...Red8 would have prolonged the agony.] [32...Re6 33.b5 Rd6 34.Nxd6 Qxd6 35.Qxh5±]

king side. White should do something fast on the Queen’s side before black attack starts rolling. Games Editor recommends: 13...a5 14.Na4=]

33.Qxh5 Re5 34.Qg4+ Kh8??

14.a4

[34...Kh7 35.Rd1 Rce8+-]

[14.a3 Qe8 15.Nh2 Nf6=]

35.Rd1+- Rce8 36.Qh4+ Kg8 37.Nh6+ Kg7 38.Ng4 R5e6 39.Qh6+ Kg8 40.Nxf6+ Rxf6 41.Qxf6 Re6 42.Qg5+ Qg7 43.Rd8+ Kh7 44.Qh5+ Rh6 45.Qf5+

14...a5

[45.Qf5+ Rg6 46.Rd6+-]

15.bxa5 Bxa5 16.Nb5 Bxd2

1–0

[A much better try would have been to complicate things with 16...c6 17.Bxa5 Rxa5 18.dxc6 bxc6 19.Nc3 f4 20.e4]

9

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A50

Gupta, Anuj (2010) – Vasile, Constantin (2056) Romania 30.04.2011

India

2011

ICCF,

27.Rxf6 gxf6 28.Nh4 Rbb8 29.Nf5 Qf8 30.Rc1 h5 31.Qh4 Rbc8 32.Rf1 e4

[probably a6 was less provocative, now the battlefront moves to queen’s side and black never has time to start his king side attack]

17.Nxd2 Nf6 18.Rfb1 c6 [Comes too late] 19.Nc3 Qa5

[Anuj Gupta]

[The queen is prone to attack here, c7 seems a better square]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 Nc6

20.Rb2 Kh8

[Kevitz - Trajkovich defence . I had never played this opening before, so was happy to see this played]

[Trying to get off the d5-g8 diagnoal, so that he can capture on d5]

3.Nc3

21.dxc6 bxc6 22.Nb3 Qa7 23.a5 Be6

3...e5 4.d5 Ne7 5.Qc2

[Black is content playing passively, it was important to stop the a pawn from advancing]

[This variation has not been tried much.]

24.a6 Rfb8

5...Ng6

[24...Rab8!?=]

[Not sure if this is the best move , in view of White’s next 6.h4 Bc5 7.h5 Ne7 8.Nf3 Possible is 8.h6, I was a little wary of playing this as I found this pawn weak in some v variations I tried out, finally decided to stick with simple development]

25.c5!

[3.Nf3 is other main option]

            8...Ng4 9.e3 d6 10.Be2     [Games Editor: Equally good alternative    is: 10.Bd3 Bd7²]   10...h6 [Decides to prevent the disturbing h pawn    thrust from white]   11.b4 [Gaining space] [Invites White to sacrifice the exchange with 27.Rxf6!, after which White seems to be clearly better. Necessary was 26...Rd7 (Dhanish)]

29

[The turning point of the game. The lines are opened] 25...dxc5 26.Na4 Nd7 [One variation to show how hopelessly black is lost here 26...Bxb3 27.Rxb3 Rb4 28.Rab1! Rxa4 (28...Rab8 29.Qxc5 Qxc5 30.Nxc5 Rxb3 31.Rxb3 Ra8 (31... Rxb3 32.Na6) 32.Rb7 Nc8 33.Ne6 Nd5 34.Nxg7+-) 29.Rb7 Rxa6 30.Bxa6! Qxa6 31.Rxe7 e4 32.Qxc5 +-] 27.Na5 Rxb2

[Cannot move off this diagonal as e3 is under attack]

[Perhaps last chance was 27...c4, but its a losing battle anyway as shown by this variation: 28.Nxc4 Qxa6 29.Rxb8+ Rxb8 30.Nxe5 Qc8 31.Nxd7 Qxd7 32.Nc5 Qd6 33.Nxe6 Qxe6 34.Ra7 and black is lacking good moves]

13...f5

28.Qxb2 e4 29.Bf1

[Clearly black seems to be better on the

[playing a waiting move to force black to

11...Bb6 12.0–0 0–0 13.Bd2

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reveal his intentions. White has all the time in the world] 29...Kh7 [Playing a waiting move himself. Black doesnt have time for 29...Bf7 and Bxh5, e.g. 29...Bf7 30.Qa3 Bxh5 31.Rb1 (threatening Rb7) Rb8 32.Rxb8+ Nxb8 33.Nxc5. Black’s pieces are lying loose and no clue where to go, while White’s are well coordinated] 30.Qc1 c4 [No more appealing is 30...Rb8 31.Nb7 (the idea of Qc1) Bf7 32.Naxc5 Nxc5 33.Qxc5 Rxb7 34.axb7 Qxc5 35.b8Q Bxh5 36.Ra8 +-] 31.Nxc4 Qxa6?? [Loses instantly. Though the torture continues with e.g. 31...Qc7 32.Qa3 c5 33.Nc3 Nc6 34.Nb5 Qb8 35.Qa4 Kh8 36.Be2 Kh7 37.Nc3 Qc7 38.Qd1! +-] 32.Ncb6 Qa7 33.Nxa8 Qxa8 34.Nc5 [Black didnt like the prospect of long winded defensive struggle. A likely continuation could be 34...Qg8 35.Ra7 Nxc5 36.Rxe7 Nd3 37.Qxc6 Bf7 38.g4 Qf8 39.Qd7 Kg8 40.gxf5 Bxh5 41.Qe6+ Bf7 42.Qxe4 Nc5 43.Qe5 +- I liked winning this game, because I was initially defending it, and suddenly in a few moves, my advantage became overwhelming without any real bad moves on part of black. (See the transition from move 24 to 26).] 1–0

42.Nf3 Bc4 43.Rfe2 Bxd3 44.Rxd3 h6 45.Qd8 Rc8 46.Qb6 R8c6 47.Qxb4 Nf6 48.Ne5 Rc8 49.Qd6 Re8 50.Rc3 Rxc3+ 51.bxc3 g5 52.fxg5 hxg5 53.h5 Ne4 54.Qc6 Qe7 55.Kg2 Rd8 56.c4 Qf6 57.Ng6 Rb8 58.cxd5 Rb2 59.Rxb2 Qxb2+ 60.Kf3 Nd2+ 61.Ke3 Nf1+ 62.Ke4 Qe2+ 63.Kd4 Qe3+ 64.Kc4 Qe4+ 65.Kc5 Qxd5+ 66.Qxd5 exd5 67.Kxd5 Ne3+ 68.Ke4 Nxg4 69.Kf5 Nf2 70.Kxg5 Ne4+ 71.Kf4 ½–½ Good, G-Verdugo Barba, O/ ICCF server 2006] 11...fxe5 12.Ng5 Nf6 13.Qc2 g6 14.Bxg6 Qe7 15.Nxh7 Nxh7 16.Rd3 Rf4 17.Rg3 Nf6 18.Ne4 Kf8 19.a3 Ba5 20.Nxf6 Qxf6 21.Be3 Bb6 22.Bh7 Ne7 23.Rc1 [23.Bd3!?μ]

0–1

B21

Neelakantan, N. – De, Gautam AICCF 1509 [Mohan Jayaraman] 1.e4 c5 2.d4 cxd4 3.c3 dxc3 4.Nxc3 Nc6 5.Nf3 e6 6.Bc4 Bb4 7.0–0 Nf6 8.Qe2 0–0 9.e5 Ne8 10.Bd3 f6 11.Rd1? [11.Qe4 g6 12.Bh6 Rf7 13.Rac1 fxe5 14.Nxe5 Nxe5 15.Qxe5 d5 16.Qd4 Be7 17.Bf4 Bf6 18.Be5 Bxe5 19.Qxe5 Qd6 20.Qg5 Bd7 21.Rfe1 Rc8 22.Rc2 Rc5 23.Re5 Nf6 24.h3 Nh5 25.g3 Ng7 26.f4 Rc8 27.Rd2 b5 28.a3 a5 29.Kh2 b4 30.axb4 axb4 31.Ne2 Qb6 32.Ng1 Rc1 33.Nf3 Ba4 34.Ree2 Qc5 35.Rf2 Rc7 36.g4 Qd6 37.h4 Qe7 38.Qh6 Bd1 39.Ne5 Ne8 40.Kh3 Qg7 41.Qg5 Bb3

10...Rg8 [10...f5 11.Be2 h5 12.Qb3 Na5 13.Qa4+ Nc6 14.0–0–0 Rc8 15.Kb1 Qa5 16.Qc2 Nb4 17.Qb3 b5 18.a3 Nc6 19.Nd5 Bxd5 20.cxd5 Ne7 21.g3 Bg7 22.e4 Qb6 23.Rhf1 Kf8 24.Nc4 Qc7 25.Ne3 fxe4 26.Qb4 f5 27.Rc1 Qd7 28.Rxc8+ Qxc8 29.f3 exf3 30.Rxf3 Rh6 31.Bd3 f4 32.gxf4 Rf6 33.Qe4 exf4 34.Ng2 Ng6 ½–½ Kratochvil, J-Eldridge, M/ICCF server 2008] 11.Nd5 f5 12.g3 Rc8 13.Be2 Bg7 14.0–0 Ne7 15.e4 Kf8 16.Nxe7 Kxe7 17.Qb3 b5?! [Much better is: 17...Qd7 trying to connect rooks and get the King to safety on K side.] 18.exf5 Bxf5 19.Qe3 Be6

23...d5-+ 24.Bxb6 Rc4

[Again better was: 19...Qd7 with same objective as mentioned earlier]

[24...axb6?! 25.Qc7 Ke8 26.Bd3μ] 25.Qxc4 dxc4 26.Be3 Bd7 27.Bg5

20.cxb5 axb5 21.a4 b4 22.a5 d5 23.a6 e4 24.Ra4 Qd6 25.a7 Ra8

[27.Rxc4 Bc6 28.h3 Rd8-+] 27...Qh8 28.Rh3 30.Bxc6

[No better is: 25...Bxb2 26.Rd1 Qc6 27.Rxb4 Bc3²]

28...Bc6 29.Bb1 Qg8 30.Rg3 Qg7 31.Bd2 Qh8 32.Rh3 Qf6 33.Rh5

26.Ra6+- Qc7 27.Nb3 Bxb2 28.Bb5 Qc3 29.Bc6 Qxe3 30.fxe3 d4 31.Bxa8 Rxa8 32.Rb1 Bc4 33.Rc6

[28.Be4 Nf5 bxc6-+]

29.Rg4

Bc6

[33.Re1 Nf5 34.Bb4+ Kf7 35.Rh7+ Kg8-+] 33...Nf5 34.Bg5 [34.Bxf5 exf5 35.h4 Kf7 36.Rh7+ Kg8-+] 34...Qg6 35.g4 Qg8 36.gxf5

10

[last book move]

[36.h4 Be8 37.Rh6 Nxh6 38.Bxh6+ Kf7-+] 36...exf5 37.Kf1 Qg6 38.Rh8+ Kf7 39.Rxa8 Qxg5 [39...Qxg5 40.Rd1 Qg2+ 41.Ke1 Qg1+ 42.Kd2 Qxf2+ 43.Kc1 Qe3+ 44.Rd2 c3-+] 0–1 11

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A31

Kumar, Pavan T. – De, Gautam AICCF 1509 [Mohan Jayaraman] 1.Nf3 Nf6 2.c4 c5 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 e5 5.Nb5 d6 6.Bg5 Nc6 7.Nd2 a6 8.Bxf6 gxf6 9.Nc3 Be6 10.e3

[Not: 33.Rxb2?! Bxa6 34.Nxd4 Bb7=] 33...Bxb3 34.Rxb2 Bd5 35.Ra6 b3 36.exd4 e3 37.Re2 Kd7 38.Rxe3 b2 39.Rb6 Rxa7 40.Kf2 Ra4 41.Re5 Be6 42.Rxb2 Rxd4 43.Rh5 1–0 12

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B74

Chauhan, Rakesh Kumar - De, Gautam AICCF 1509 [Mohan Jayaraman] 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 g6 6.Be2 Bg7 7.0–0 0–0 8.Be3 Nc6 9.Nb3 Be6 10.f4 Rc8 11.Kh1 Na5 [The text seems sufficient but theory prefers: 11...Qd7 12.Qd2 Ng4 13.Bg1 Bxc3 14.bxc3 (14.Qxc3 Nf6 15.Bd3 Ne5 16.Qb4 Nxd3 17.cxd3 Bxb3 18.Qxb3 b6 19.f5 Rc6 20.Qd1 e5 21.fxg6 fxg6 22.Qb3+ Kg7 23.a4 Rf7 24.a5 bxa5 25.Rxa5 a6 26.Raa1 h6 27.Qa4 Qb7 28.b4 d5 29.d4 Qb5 30.Qxb5 axb5 31.dxe5 Nxe4 32.Rfd1 (32.Rxf7+ Kxf7)) 14...Nf6

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AICCF BULLETIN 15.Bd3 Qc7 16.Bf2 d5 17.f5 dxe4 18.Bg3 Qd8 19.fxe6 exd3 20.exf7+ Rxf7 21.cxd3 Qd7 22.Bf4 Rcf8 23.Bh6 Rd8 24.d4 Qd5 25.Rae1 Qc4 26.Rf3 Ne4 27.Qe3 Nd6 28.Rxf7 Qxf7 29.Qe6 Qxe6 30.Rxe6 Ne8 31.Re1 b5 32.g3 Kf7 33.Bd2 Rd5 34.Nc5 h5 35.Ne6 Nf6 36.Ng5+] 12.e5 [Dhanish: 12.e5 is not a common move, recommended in the books is: 12.f5 Bc4 13.Bd3 a6 14.Qe1 Bxd3 (14...Nxb3 15.axb3 Bxd3 16.cxd3 d5 17.Ra4 dxe4 18.dxe4 Ng4 19.Bg5 h6 20.Bh4 Bxc3 21.bxc3 Qc7 22.e5 Nxe5 23.c4 Ng4 24.Bg3 Qc6 25.Ra1 g5 26.Rd1 Rfe8 27.h4 gxh4 28.Bxh4 h5 29.Bg5 f6 30.Bc1 Red8 31.Qh4 Rxd1 32.Rxd1 Kg7 33.Rd4 Rh8 34.Qe1 e5 35.fxe6 Re8 36.Bd2) 15.cxd3 Nxb3 16.axb3 d5] 12...Ne8 13.Bxa7 Nc6??

23.Qe1 Nd2 24.Ne4 [Bad is: 24.Bxe6?? Nxf1 25.Rc1 Qxe5 26.Qxe5 Bxe5]

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14.Be3 dxe5 15.Nc5 Nd6 16.Nxe6 fxe6 17.a4 Nf5 18.Bg1 Qa5 19.Bc4 Ncd4 20.Ba2 Kh8 21.fxe5 Rcd8 22.Rb1 Nb3

hxg6 15.h4 c5 16.Qg3 Nb6 17.Bb5 Qc8 18.h5 Qe6

    W [Not: 24...Bxe5?? 25.Nxd2 Bf6 26.Nf3   Qxa4 27.Bb3; Also worse is: 24...Qxe5  25.Nxd2 Qxe1 26.Rbxe1 Rxd2 27.g4]    25.Nxd2 Qxa2 26.Qe2 Kg8 27.c3 Ra8    28.Rfd1 Rac8 29.Re1 Ra8 30.Ne4 Bxe5      31.Nc5 Bd6 [31...Bf6]     32.Nxb7   [Dhanish: After 32.Nxb7, White simplyy    pushes his passed pawns to a win.]  32...e5 33.Nc5 Ra5 34.b4 Qxe2 35.Rxe2 24...Qxa4

Ra3 36.Ne4 Bb8 37.c4 Nd4 38.Rd2 h5 39.Bxd4 exd4 40.Rxd4 Re3 41.Ng5 Bf4 42.Nh3 Be5 43.Rdd1 Rc3 44.Rdc1 Rxc1+ 45.Rxc1 Rb8 46.b5 h4 47.Nf2 Bd4 48.Ne4 Kf7 49.Ng5+ Kf6 50.Nf3 e5 51.Nxh4 Rc8 52.Nf3 Bb6 53.Nd2 Rd8 54.Ne4+ Kf5 55.Re1 Rd4 56.g4+! Kf4

    W      [56...Kxg4 57.c5 leads to win] Bd8 58.Nd6 Be7 59.b6 Bxd6     57.c5 60.cxd6 Rxd6 61.Rb1 Rd8 62.b7 Rb8     63.Rb4+ Kf3    [Also losing is: 63...e4 64.Kg2 Kxg4 Kg5 66.Re7+-] 65.Rxe4+ 64.Kg1 g5 65.h4! gxh4 66.g5 e4 67.g6 V 
h3 68.g7 h2+ 69.Kxh2 e3 70.Kg1 Rg8 71.Kf1 Rxg7 72.Rf4+! Kxf4 73.b8Q+ [Dhanish: 13...Nc6 appears to be a novelty, but of the dubious type. 13...Nxb3 14.axb3 dxe5 15.Qxd8 Rxd8 16.fxe5 (16.Bc5 Nd6 17.fxe5 Bxe5 18.Bf3 Kg7 19.Rfe1 f6 20.Nd5 Bxb2 21.Nf4 Bf7 22.Rab1 e5 23.Nxg6 hxg6 24.Rxb2 Rfe8 25.g4 e4 26.Be2 Be6 27.Kg2 Nf7 28.Be3 Ne5 29.h3 Ra8 30.Rd1 Rec8 31.c4 Ra3 32.g5 fxg5 33.Bxg5 Bf5 34.Be7 Raa8 35.Rd6 Nd3 36.Rd2) 16...Bxe5 17.Bc5 (17.Bf3) 17...Nd6 18.Bf3 Kg7 19.Rae1 f6 20.Bb6 Rc8 21.Rf2 Bd7 22.g4 Nf7 23.Ba5 Bc6 24.Bxc6 bxc6 25.Kg2 Rb8 26.Ne4 Rb5 27.b4 Rd5 28.Bb6 Rb8 29.Bc5 Rd7 30.c3 Ra8 31.Nd2 g5 32.Nc4 Rh8 33.Rd2 Rxd2+ 34.Nxd2 h5 35.gxh5 Rxh5 36.Nf3]

31

[It is now a tablebase win for White.]

73...Ke4 74.Qa8+ Kf5 75.Qf8+ Kg6 76.Ke2 Rf7 77.Qg8+ Kf6 78.Kxe3 Ra7 79.Qd5 Rh7 80.Kf4 Rh4+ 81.Kf3 Rh1 82.Qd4+ Kf5 83.Kg3 Rh6 84.Qf4+ Kg6 85.Kg4 Kg7 86.Qd4+ Kf7 87.Qd7+ Kg6 88.Qf5+ 1–0 ½–½

[Much better seems: 19.a4 Rfd8 20.hxg6 Qxg6 21.Qxg6 fxg6 22.a5 with winning chances as compared to the game continuation.] 19...Rfc8 20.Bxb6 Qxb6 21.hxg6 Qxg6 [Text is forced as: 21...fxg6?? 22.Qh3 Rxc3 23.bxc3 Qxb5 24.Qh7+ Kf8 25.Rdf1+ Ke8 26.Qxg7 leads to a loss.] 22.Qxg6 fxg6 23.Bd7 Rd8 24.Be6+ Kf8 25.Bd5 Bxd5 26.Nxd5 Rd7 27.c4 Rad8 28.Rhf1+ Ke8 29.Kc2 e6 30.Nf6+ Bxf6 31.Rxd7 Kxd7 32.Rxf6 a5 33.Rxg6 Kd6 34.b3 Rf8 35.Kc3 Rf1 36.Rg8 Rc1+ 37.Kd2 Rb1 38.g4 e4 39.g5 Ke5 40.g6 Rb2+ 41.Ke3 Rxa2 42.Ra8 Kf6 43.Kxe4 Rb2 [Worse is: 43...Kxg6 44.b4 Ra4 45.bxa5 Rxc4+ 46.Ke5 winning for White] 44.c5 Rxb3 45.g7 Kxg7 46.Ke5 Rc3 47.Kd6 Kf6 48.Rf8+ Kg7 49.Ra8 Kf6 50.Rf8+ Kg7 51.Rf2 [Avoiding the repetition but De plays accurately to get the draw.] 51...e5 52.c6 a4 53.c7 e4 54.Re2 a3 55.Re3!?

[It is tablebase mate in 12.]

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19.Bxc5

B71

Shivdasani, V.A. – De, Gautam AICCF 1509 [Mohan Jayaraman] 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 g6 6.f4 Nc6 7.Nxc6 bxc6 8.e5 Nd7 9.Qf3 Bb7 10.Be3 dxe5 11.0–0–0 Qc7 12.Bc4 Bg7 13.f5 0–0 14.fxg6

[Trying a swindle (55...Rxe3??? 56.c8Q) but it will not work in CC] 55...Rc2 56.Rxa3 Kf6 57.Ra4 e3 58.Rf4+ ½–½

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B21

Neelakantan, N – Jayaraman, Mohan AICCF 1509 [Mohan Jayaraman] 1.e4 c5 2.d4 cxd4 3.c3 [Neelakantan continues with his pet Smith Morra Gambit in 1509 (2 losses —one this game and the other to De annotated elsewhere) after having lost to Gautam De and drawn with Mohan Jayaraman in 1508. He has since avoided the Smith Morra in 1510.] 3...dxc3 4.Nxc3 Nc6 5.Nf3 d6 6.Bc4 a6 [6...e6 7.0–0 Nf6 8.Qe2 Qc7 9.Rd1 a6 10.Be3 Be7 11.Rac1 0–0 12.Na4 Nd7 13.Bb3 b5 14.Nc3 Qb7 15.Nd5 exd5 16.Bxd5 Ndb8 17.Nd4 Bd7 18.Nf5 Bxf5 19.exf5 a5 20.Qg4 Kh8 21.Bd4 f6 22.Rd3 Bd8 23.Qg6 h6 24.Rh3 1–0 Hofmann, J-Stoffel, M / Bad Woerishofen 2001/ CBM 081 ext] 7.0–0 Nf6 8.Bf4 e6 9.Qe2 Qc7 10.Rac1 Be7 11.Rfd1 0–0 12.Bb3 Nh5 [12...Bd7 13.e5 dxe5 14.Nxe5 Qc8 15.Ne4 Nxe4 16.Nxd7 Nf6 17.Nb6 Qe8 18.Nxa8 Qxa8 19.Bg5 h6 20.Bh4 Rd8 21.Rc3 Nd4 22.Qf1 Nxb3 23.Rxb3 Rxd1 24.Qxd1 b5 25.Qf3 Qxf3 26.Rxf3 a5 27.Kf1 SteeveWhatever/www.playchess.de 2005/1–0 (55); 12...Qb8 13.h3 (13.Nd5 exd5 14.exd5 Ne5 15.Nxe5 dxe5 16.Bxe5 Bd6 17.Bxf6 gxf6 18.Qh5 Bf4 19.Rxc8 Qxc8 20.d6 Kh8 21.g3 Rg8 22.Qxf7 Rf8 23.d7 Qd8 24.Qe6 Be5 25.Rd5 b5 26.Bc2 Ra7 27.Bf5 Rc7 Kim, S-Zhukov, V / corr 1968/ 1–0 (35)) 13...Ne5 14.Nd4 Bd7 15.Bh2 b5 16.f4 Nc6 17.Nf3 b4 18.Nb1 Na5 19.Bc2 b3 20.axb3 Nxb3 21.Bxb3 Qxb3 22.Nc3 Rfc8 23.Bg3 Rab8 24.Rb1 d5 25.exd5 Bc5+ 26.Kh2 exd5 27.Bh4 Bb5 28.Nxb5 Qxb5 29.Qxb5 Rxb5 30.Bxf6 gxf6 31.Nd4 Bxd4 32.Rxd4 a5 33.Ra1 Rxb2 34.Rxa5 Rcc2 35.h4 Rxg2+ 36.Kh3 Rh2+ 37.Kg4 Rbg2+ 38.Kf3 Rg1 39.f5 h5 40.Rdxd5 Rc1 41.Kg3 Rb2 42.Ra8+ Kg7 43.Rd3 Rb4 44.Kg2 Rg4+ 45.Rg3 Rxg3+ 46.Kxg3 Rc5 47.Kf4 Rc3 48.Ra1 Rh3 49.Ra6 Rxh4+ 50.Kf3 Rh1 51.Kg2 Rc1 52.Kf3 Rf1+ 53.Ke4 Rf2 54.Ra1 Kh6 55.Rg1 Rc2 56.Rg8 Rc4+ 57.Kf3 h4 58.Rg1 Rc3+ 59.Kf4 Rc8 0–1 Boschma, B-Mason, I/ICCF webserver 2004; 12...

Rd8 13.Rd3 Bd7 14.Nd5 exd5 15.exd5 Bf5 16.Re3 Nh5 17.Bg5 Bxg5 18.Nxg5 Nf4 19.Qf3 Nd4 20.Rxc7 Nxf3+ 21.Nxf3 Rdc8 22.Rxb7 a5 23.g3 Rc1+ 24.Re1 Rxe1+ 25.Nxe1 Re8 26.Nc2 Bxc2 27.gxf4 Fjpv-GoodKnight/www. playchess.de 2004/½–½ (39); 12...h6 13.h3=] 13.Be3 Nf6 [13...b5 1–0 Hofmann, J-Stoffel, M/Bad Woerishofen 2001/CBM 081 ext (see notes to 6th move)] 14.Na4 Nd7 15.Nd4N [www.chessok.com gives: 15.a3 b5 16.Nc3 ½–½, Stradej Vlastimil (CZE) Hanzluvka Peter (SVK), Tatranske Zruby (Slovakia), 2004; 15.Bf4 b5 16.Nc3 Nc5 17.Nd5 exd5 18.Rxc5 Nd4 19.Nxd4 Qxc5 20.Bxd5 Bd7 21.Bxa8 Rxa8 22.Qd2 Rd8 23.Rc1 Qb6 24.Ne2 b4 25.Be3 Qb7 26.f3 a5 27.Nf4 Rc8 28.Rd1 Bb5 29.b3 Qc6 30.Nd5 Bd8 31.Qd4 Qa6 32.Nf4 Be7 33.Nd5 Bd8 34.Bc1 Rc2 35.Bb2 f6 36.h4 Re2 37.Rc1 Qb7 38.Kh1 Ba6 39.Nf4 Bb6 40.Qxd6 Rxb2 41.Rc6 Rb1+ 42.Kh2 Bg1+ 43.Kg3 1–0 Lank, J-Shnaiderman, L/ICCF-US 1998] 15...Nxd4 [Or: 15...Rb8 16.h3] 16.Bxd4 [16.Rxc7? Nxe2+ 17.Kf1 Bd8 is advantageous to Black; another option is: 16.Rxd4 Qa5] 16...Qd8 17.e5 d5 18.Qe3 [Or: 18.Nc3 Nb8] 18...b5 19.Nb6 Rb8 20.Nxc8 Rxc8 21.f4 h6 22.Rc2 Rxc2μ 23.Bxc2 Qc7 24.Rc1 Qb7 25.Qc3 Bd8 26.Qd3 g6 27.h4 h5 28.g4?? [White jettisons another pawn to try to get at the Black King, which misfires. Till now White could hope to hold the position but after this blunder he is totally lost.]

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B78

Chauhan, R.K. – Somani, S.K. AICCF 1509 [Mohan Jayaraman] 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 g6 6.Be3 Bg7 7.f3 Nc6 8.Qd2 0–0 9.Bc4 Bd7 10.0–0–0 Rb8 11.Bb3 Na5 12.Bh6 Bxh6 13.Qxh6 b5 14.Nd5 e5 15.Nf5 Nxb3+ 16.axb3 Bxf5 17.exf5 Nxd5 18.Rxd5 Rb6 19.Rhd1 Qe7 20.f4 Rc6 [20...Rc8 21.fxe5 dxe5 22.Qe3 Re8 23.g4 Qf6 24.Rf1 e4 25.Rf4 Qh4 26.Rd2 h5 27.gxh5 Qxh5 28.fxg6 Rxg6 29.Kb1 Qe5 30.Rd1 b4 31.Rd7 Qg5 32.Rdxf7 Qg1+ 33.Qxg1 Rxg1+ 34.Rf1 Rxf1+ 35.Rxf1 Kg7 36.c4 Rh8 37.c5 Rc8 38.Rf5 e3 39.Kc1 Kg6 40.Re5 Kf6 41.Rxe3 Rxc5+ 42.Kd2 Rh5 43.h3 Kf5 44.Ke2 Rh4 45.Kd3 Kf6 46.Rg3 Ke5 47.Rg4 Rxh3+ 48.Kc4 Kd6 ½–½ Kalchev, J-Bauer, M/ ICCF server 2007] 21.R1d3 Rfc8 22.c3 exf4 23.Qxf4 [Not: 23.Rxb5?? Qe1+ 24.Kc2 Qe2+ 25.Rd2 Qxb5 26.Qxf4 Rb8-+] 23...Qe1+ 24.Kc2 Re8 25.f6 Ra6 26.Rd1 [Not: 26.Rxb5 Ra1 27.c4 h6 since Qxh6 loses to Re2+; Also losing is: 26.Rxd6 Ra1 27.Rd1 Re2+ 28.R6d2 Qxd1+ 29.Kd3 Rxd2+ 30.Qxd2 Qf1+ 31.Ke3 Re1+ 32.Qxe1 Qxe1+ 33.Kd4 Qf2+ 34.Kd3 Qxb2 35.b4 Qxg2 36.h4 Qh3+ 37.Kd2 Qxh4 38.Ke2 Qc4+ 39.Kf2 h5 40.Kf3 Qd3+ 41.Kf4 h4 42.Ke5 h3 43.Kf4 h2 44.Kg4 h1Q 45.Kf4 Qde4+ 46.Kg3 Qef3#] 26...Re2+ 27.Kb1 Qf2 28.Qxf2 Rxf2 29.Rxb5 Rxf6 30.Rb8+ Kg7 31.Rd2 Rb6 32.Ra8 a6 33.b4 h5 34.Kc2 h4 35.g3 hxg3 36.hxg3 Kh6 37.Rd5 Rb5 38.Rd4 Rb6 39.Kb3 Re6 40.Ka4 Rc6

28...hxg4 29.h5 Bb6 30.hxg6 f5 31.exf6 Nxf6 32.Re1 Ne4 33.Qe3 Bxd4 34.Qxd4 Rxf4 35.Bxe4 Qc7 36.Qd1?!

[Maybe Black should prefer: 40...f5 41.Ka5 d5 42.Rxd5 Rbc6]

[36.Kg2 Rxe4 37.Rxe4 Qc2+ 38.Kg3 Qxe4 39.Qa7 Qd3+ 40.Kh4 Qxg6 41.Qxa6-+ will only prolong the game.]

[White intends b5]

36...dxe4 37.Re2 e3! 38.b3 Rf3 39.Rg2 Qc5 40.Re2 Qd5 41.Qe1 Rh3 42.Rg2 Qh5 0–1

41.Rd8 f5 42.c4 42...Kg5 43.b5 axb5+ 44.cxb5 Rb6 [Maybe better is: 44...Rc2 45.b3 Ra2+ 46.Kb4 d5 47.R8xd5 Rg2±] 45.Ka5+- d5 46.R4xd5 Rf6

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AICCF BULLETIN [46...Kg4 47.Ra8 Rb7 48.Ra6+-] 47.Rc8 Rb7 48.Rc6 Rf8 49.b6 Ra8+ 50.Kb5 Re7

than the game. I was more worried about 13...Qh4, but it seems white is ok after 14.dxc5 Qe4+ 15.Be2 Nf4 16.f3)]

[50...Rab8+-]

14.Qxa1

33

[Only move] 35.Bb6 [And this also wins back the exchange] 35...Nxc4 36.Bxd8 Kf7 37.Bg5

[White turns a pawn up in the end]   W37...Ke6 38.Rd3 Nce3? should have kept the fight up with   [Black 1–0 38...Rc8. Trying to create some pressure   on the white king, he forsakes his a pawn, 16 1–0 D37 w will prove to be his undoing in the     which end.] Gupta, Anuj – Gala, K.L.    39.Ra3 Rb8 AICCF 4330     [Black is falling straight into the trap [Anuj Gupta] w will finally unfold on move 48.]   which 1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.Nc3 Nbd7   40.Rxa6+ Kf5 41.Nd6+ Kg4? 5.Bf4 here Ke6 or Kg6 was better. Now [Wanted to try something new] [Even black king is pushed to a corner] 51.Rc7

[A fine endgame win by R.K. Chauhan 51.Rc7 Re6 52.b7+-]

5...dxc4 6.e4

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[Other main option being e3, but it seemed too quiet for my taste] 6...Bb4 7.Nd2

14...cxd4 15.Qxd4 f6 16.f4 Ne7 17.Qe4 Ra7 18.Qe3 [The queen has moved from d4 to e3 without wasting a tempo, and now threatening the e6 pawn.]

[This line is off beat, so wanted to explore it]

18...Ra8

7...c5 8.Bd6

[18...Rb7 19.Bxe7 Kxe7 20.Qa3+ Kf7 21.Nd6+]

[only move, I tried 7.Nd2 thinking of this] 8...b5 [8...Bxc3 9.bxc3 cxd4 10.e5 dxc3 11.Nxc4 b5 12.exf6 bxc4 13.fxg7 Rg8 14.Bxc4 Qg5 15.0–0 Bb7 16.g3 Qf5 17.f3 Rc8 18.Qa4 Rxg7 19.Bb5 f6 20.Rab1 Kd8 21.Rbc1 Bxf3 22.Bb4 Qe4 23.Rce1 Qd5 24.Ba5+ Nb6 25.Qa3 Qc5+ 26.Qxc5 Rxc5 27.Rxf3 Rxb5 28.Bxc3 Kd7 29.Bxf6 Rf7 30.Kf2 Nd5 31.Bd4 Rxf3+ 32.Kxf3 Ra5 33.Re2 Ra4 34.Rd2 a6 35.Be5 h5 36.Bd4 ½–½ Bednarik, R - Hladecek, M/ ICCF email 2005]

42.h3+ Kh5 [42...Kg3 43.Ne4#] 43.a4 Rb1+ 44.Kf2 Rb2+ 45.Kf3 Rxg2? [Finally into the trap] 46.Nf5

 19.Bd3      [Threatening Be4]      19...Bb7 20.exf6 Nxf6 21.Qxe6 Bd5     22.Qe5 Kf7 23.0–0 Nc6 24.Qg5 h6     25.Qg3 [25.Qg6+ Kg8 26.Be5 Qe8 does not lead     to anything for White]   
 25...Kg8      [25...Re8 26.Bg6+ gets back the      exchange] 26.Rc1 Qd7 27.Bc5 Rd8 28.Nb6 Qf7 

9.e5 Nd5 10.Nxb5!? a6 11.Na3 c3 12.bxc3 Bxc3

[28...Qg4 fails of course to 29.Qxg4 Nxg4 30.Nxd5 and 31.Bc4]

46...Rxg5 47.fxg5 Nxf5 48.Ke4 Nde7 49.a5 Kxg5 50.Re6!

29.Nxd5 Nxd5 30.Rf1 h5 31.Ne4

[zugzwang for black]

[12...Bxa3 13.Nc4 Nxc3 14.Qf3²]

[Threatening Nd6]

50...Nc8 51.Ke5 Nfe7 52.a6 g6

13.Nac4!

31...h4 32.Qf3

[What else, black can just stand and stare]

[Of course, the basis on which I attempted 10.Nb5]

[I didnt like Qf2 as it exposes my white bishop to attack by the black rook]

53.Rf6 Nd5 54.Rc6 Ndb6 55.Ke4!

13...Bxa1

32...Qh5 33.Bc4 Qxf3

[Should not have taken the bait, from now on Black’s game is too passive. Better line could be: 13...Bxd4 14.Rc1 Bb7 15.Qg4 g6 16.Bd3 Nb4 17.Bb1 Bd5 where white seems better, but black seems better off

[Finally black manages to exchange off the dangerous white queen, keeping his exchange up]

55...Kh6 56.a7 Nxa7 57.Rxb6 Nc8 58.Re6!

34.Rxf3 Na5

[Zugzwang again!]

[Hopeless knight, cannot escape!] 58...Kg5 59.Ke5 Na7 60.Ra6 Nc8 [60...Nb5 61.Ra5 Nc3 62.Kd4+ followed

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by Kxc3]

[16.Bxg5 Rg8 17.f4 Nf3+ 18.gxf3 Qxf4 19.Qxf4 Nxf4 and Black regains the piece with clear advantage]

61.Ke6 [The Knight is now trapped] 61...Kf4 62.Kd7 Kg3 63.Ra3+ Kf4 64.Kxc8 g5 65.Kd7 Ke5 66.Ra4 Kf6 67.Ra5 g4 68.hxg4 [This game was memorable for me, as I tried an opening novelty (I am not sure about this as I dont have complete database, but at least for me 8.Bd6 was a novelty), and got a very good study-like endgame to finish off.] 1–0 0–1

E12

Mohanadasan, T. – Gupta, Anuj AICCF 7337 [Anuj Gupta] 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 b6 [Queen’s Indian Defense] 4.a3 Bb7 5.Nc3 g6 [This is not a typical move I believe, but I wanted to experiment away from the main lines 6.Qc2 c5 Black can keep on developing normally with Bg7, O-O etc; but I felt a little overwhelmed with White’s center with the soon to come e4 and f4, so thought of undermining it before doing anything else.] 7.dxc5 bxc5 8.Bf4 Nh5 9.Bg5 Be7 10.Bh6 [This looks very bad for black, but isn’t really so if you look at the variations instead of just looking broadly at the board position] 10...Bxf3 [This is a common move in QI, where Black takes this Knight at the appropriate moment in many variations] 11.exf3 Nc6 12.Qd2 [This had to be done sooner or later] 12...Nd4 13.Rb1 Rb8 14.Bd3 Qc7 15.0–0? [Should have tried Nb5 or Ne2] 15...g5!! [This was not possible without the white king castled] 16.b4

[17.Qe3 was better] 17...Kf7 18.Qe3 Qxc5 19.h4 gxh4 20.Rfd1 Nc6 21.Rxb8 Rxb8 22.Be2 Rb3 23.Qxc5 Bxc5

[65...g4 66.Ra4+]

17

16...f5 17.bxc5

[The game has been won here, rest is just the technique] 24.Nb1 Kg6 25.Bd2 Ng3 26.Bf1 Nxf1 27.Kxf1 h3 28.Bf4 hxg2+ 29.Kxg2 a5 30.Kf1 Rxf3 31.Bg3 Rb3 32.a4 Rb4 33.Bc7 Rxa4 34.Rxd7 Rxc4 35.Rd1 Rc2 36.Nd2 a4 0–1 18

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E05

Dhanish, P.B. (2575) – Karacsony, Dr. Zsolt (2578) MT-Sutarsic (SLO) ICCF [P.B.Dhanish] [SIM Karacsony, Zsolt of Romania is only 32 years old, and works in University of Miskolc as Assistant Professor in Mathematics. The game started as a peaceful Catalan.] 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.g3 d5 4.Bg2 Be7 5.Nf3 0–0 6.0–0 dxc4 7.Qc2 a6 8.Qxc4 b5 9.Qc2 Bb7 10.Bf4 Nc6 11.Nc3 Nb4 12.Qd2 c5 [The ChessOK opening tree http://www. chessok.com/?page_id=352 gives only 13.a3 and 13.Rfd1] 13.dxc5 Bxc5 14.Qxd8 [I decided to exchange queens, since nowadays that’s the only way to outplay engines. 14.Rad1 Qb6 15.Bd6 Bxd6 16.Qxd6 Nc6 17.Qf4 Rad8 18.Rxd8 (18.a3 h6 19.h3 Ne7 20.Ne5 Bxg2 21.Kxg2 Ned5 22.Nxd5 Rxd5 23.Rxd5 Nxd5 24.Qf3 Qc7 25.Nd3 Rc8 26.Rc1 Qb8 27.Rc5 Rxc5 28.Nxc5 Qa7 29.Nb3 a5 30.e3 a4 31.Nd4 Qc5 32.Qe2 b4 33.axb4 Nxb4 34.Qd2 Qd5+ 35.Kh2 Nc6 36.Qc3 Nxd4 37.exd4 g5 38.Qb4 Qf3 39.Kg1 Qd1+ 40.Kg2 Kg7 41.Qc3 Kg6 42.g4 h5 43.gxh5+ Kxh5 44.Qb4 Kg6 45.Qc3 Kh5 46.Qc7 Kg6 47.Qc3 Qe2 48.Qc6 Qd1 49.Qc3 f6 50.Qc4 Qb3 51.Qxb3 axb3 52.Kf3 Kh5 53.Kg3 Kh6 54.Kg2 Kg7 55.Kg3 Kg6 ½–½ Liebert, H - Myagmarsuren, L/

Halle 2004/EXT 2005) 18...Rxd8 19.Rd1 Rxd1+ 20.Nxd1 Qd8 ½–½(25) Nierobisz, Jim (2371) - Myers, David R (2411) / 1st Webchess Open Tournament - Final, ICCF 2009); 14.Rac1 Rc8 15.a3 Nbd5 16.Nxd5 Qxd5 17.b4 Bb6 18.Qxd5 Nxd5 19.Be5 Rfd8 20.Bd4 h6 21.e3 Kf8 22.h3 Ba8 23.Rfd1 Bxd4 24.Nxd4 Nb6 25.Bxa8 Rxa8 26.Rc6 Nc4 27.Ra1 Rdc8 28.a4 e5 29.Rxc8+ Rxc8 30.Nf5 Rd8 31.g4 Nb2 32.axb5 axb5 33.Ra7 Nd3 34.Rb7 Nxb4 35.Rxb5 Nd5 36.Kg2 e4 37.Kg3 Nf6 38.Rb4 Kg8 39.Rb6 Kf8 40.Kh4 Nd5 41.Ra6 Nc7 42.Ra4 Rd2 43.Kg3 g6 44.Nxh6 Kg7 45.g5 f5 46.Ra7 Rd7 47.h4 Re7 48.Rb7 Kh7 49.h5 Kg7 50.Kh4 Kh7 51.Rb8 Re8 52.Rxe8 Nxe8 53.Nf7 gxh5 54.Kxh5 Ng7+ 55.Kh4 Kg6 56.Ne5+ Kh7 57.Nc6 Kg6 58.Nd4 Kh7 59.Ne2 Kg6 60.Nf4+ Kh7 61.Kg3 Kg8 62.g6 Ne8 63.Nh5 Ng7 64.Nf6+ Kf8 65.Kf4 Ke7 66.Kg5 1–0 Taksrud, V-Johansson, J/ ICCF server 2008] 14...Rfxd8 [14...Raxd8 15.a3 Nbd5 16.Be5 Nxc3 17.Bxc3 Nd5 18.Be5 f6 19.Bd4 Bd6 20.e4 Ne7 21.Rfe1 Bc7 22.Bc5 Rfe8 23.e5 Bxf3 24.Bxe7 Rxe7 25.exf6 gxf6 26.Bxf3 Rd2 27.Re2 Rxe2 28.Bxe2 Be5 29.Ra2 Rc7 ½–½ Salcedo Mederos, P-Hernandez, I/ corr 1993] 15.a4 Ne4 16.Nxe4 Bxe4 17.Rfc1 Nc2 18.Nd2 Nxa1 19.Bxe4 Rac8 20.Rxa1 e5 21.Bf5 exf4 22.Bxc8 Rxc8 23.axb5 axb5 24.gxf4 Bf8 [White is temporarily a pawn up, but he cannot retain it. However, Black misplays the ending] 25.Nf3 Rc2 26.e3 Rxb2 27.Ra8 b4 28.Kg2 g6 29.Ne5 Rd2 30.Rb8 f5 31.h4 Rd1 32.Nf3 Rc1 33.Nd4 Kf7 34.Rb7+ Kg8 35.Rb8 Kf7 [This move was accompanied by a draw offer, which was declined.] 36.h5 gxh5 37.Rb5 h4 38.Rxf5+ Ke8 39.Rb5 Rd1? [Necessary was 39...Kd7. Now Black goes rapidly downhill] 40.Rb8+ Kf7 41.Rb7+ Ke8 42.f5 Bc5 43.Ne6 Be7 44.e4 Rd3 45.f4 Rd2+ 46.Kg1 Rd1+ 47.Kf2 h3 48.Kg3 Rd3+ 49.Kh2 Bh4 50.Ng7+ Kd8 51.Nh5 b3 52.f6 1–0

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D37

Mandviwala, P.G. (2252) – Legemaat, Gert (2363) Netherlands - India ICCF

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[Pervez Godrej Mandviwala] 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 d5 4.Nf3 Be7 5.Bf4 0–0 6.e3 c5 7.dxc5 Bxc5 8.Bd3 Nc6 9.0–0 Qe7 10.Rc1 Rd8 11.cxd5 exd5 12.h3 Be6 13.Na4 Bd6 14.Bxd6 Rxd6 15.Nc5 Rad8 16.Qa4 d4 17.Rfe1 a6 18.Nxe6 fxe6 19.Nxd4 Nxd4 20.exd4 Rxd4 21.Bc4 Nd5 22.Qa5 Re8 23.Bb3 Qd6 24.Rcd1 Rxd1 25.Rxd1 Rd8 26.Re1 Kf7 27.Qd2 Qe7 28.Qe2 g6 29.h4 This is a good move. 29...h5 30.g3 Qf6 31.Kg2 Rd7 32.Rd1 Nb6 33.Rxd7+ Nxd7 34.Bc2 Nb6 35.Be4 Nd5 36.Qd3 Kg7 37.b3 Qf7 38.Qd4+ Qf6 39.Qa7 Qf7 40.a3 Kg8 41.b4 Kh7 42.Bf3 Qg7 43.Qc5 Qd7 44.Qf8 Nc3 45.Qf6 Nd5 46.Qe5 Kg8 47.Qg5 Kf7 48.Be4 Ne7 49.Qh6 Qc8 50.Qe3 Kg7 51.Qb6 Nd5 52.Qc5

20

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B78

Somani, S.S. – Somani, S.K. AICCF 1509 [Mohan Jayaraman] 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 g6 6.Be3 Bg7 7.f3 Nc6 8.Bc4 0–0 9.Qd2 Bd7 10.0–0–0 Rc8 11.Bb3 Ne5 12.Kb1 Nc4 13.Bxc4 Rxc4 14.g4 b5 [The same position as in Mohan Jayaraman - Dr. A. Nagaraj in 1509 has been reached. I played b3 which is clearly superior (almost winning for White) to the move chosen. Strange!!!] 15.h4 b4 16.Nce2 Qc7 17.Bh6 Bxh6 18.Qxh6 e5 19.h5 exd4 20.g5 Ng4 21.fxg4 Ba4 22.b3 Rxc2 23.hxg6 [Book is: 23.Nxd4 Bxb3 24.axb3 Qc3 25.Nxc2 Qxb3+ 26.Kc1 Rc8=] 23...fxg6 24.Rdf1 Rc8 25.Nxd4 Bc6 26.Ne6 Qe7 27.Kxc2 Bb5+ 28.Kd2 Bxf1 29.Ng7 Qxg7 30.Qxg7+ Kxg7 31.Rxf1 Rc5 32.Rf6 Rxg5 33.Rxd6 Rxg4 34.Rd7+ Kf6 35.Ke3

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7.Nc3 Nc6 8.0–0 Qxb2 9.Nb5 c4 10.Rb1 Qxa2N [Novelty? 10...Qxc2 11.Qxc2 Bxc2 12.Rb2 Ba4 13.Nc7+ Kd7 14.Nxa8 b5 15.Bd1 Ba3 1–0(45) Gueci, Alberto (2257) - Santana Peate, Guillermo (2528) / WC15/SF06 (?), ICCF 2009 ); 10...Qxc2 11.Qxc2 Bxc2 12.Rb2 Ba4 13.Nc7+ Kd7 14.Nxa8 b5 15.Rfb1 b4 ½–½(64) Pommrich, Rainer (2280) - Morley, Paul (2198) / WS/M/263 (?), ICCF 2010 )] 11.Nc7+ Kd8 12.Ra1 [This seems to lose a tempo. 12.Nxa8 seems better] 12...Qxc2 13.Qxc2 Bxc2 14.Nxa8 Nge7 15.Ra2 [Perhaps 15.Rb1 was better. Now slowly Black activates his pieces, after which White has nothing to show for compensation.]

52...Qd8 53.Qd4+ Qf6 54.Qd3 Qf7 55.Qf3 Qd7

[It is strange that White wins with this move when Black should be the one playing for 2 results (win or draw). Much worse is: 35.Rxa7 h5 36.Ke3 h4μ]

15...Be4 16.Ng5 Bg6 17.h4 h5 18.Bd1 Kc8 19.Bc2 Bxc2 20.Rxc2 Nd8 21.Rb2 f6 22.Nf3 Kb8 23.Nb6 axb6 24.Rxb6 Nc8 25.Rb2 b6 26.Rfb1 Kb7 27.Bf4 Nc6 28.Re2 f5 29.Be3 Bb4 30.Kf1 Ba5 31.Ra2 Re8 32.Ne1 f4 33.Bxf4 Bc3 34.Nf3 34.g3

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[May have been necessary]

[Correctly chosen by my opponent because 55...Qf3 leads to a loss for Black.]

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[52.Bxd5 exd5 53.Qd4+ Kh7 54.Qxd5 wins the pawn and is favoured by my ‘computer’ but I analyze that it most probably draws.]

56.Qd3 Qf7 57.b5 axb5 58.Qxb5 Kh7 59.a4 Qe7 60.Qd3 Qf7?? [My opponent rightly commented that he thought his 60th move 60...Qf7 was a blunder and 60...Kh6 would have given him drawing chances. I replied that Yes!! I too smiled when I saw his 60th move because it was the exchange of Queens that I was after and he should have realized it at least after my 55th move. But anyway I had very good winning chances even from my 53rd move and that he had slightly relaxed seeing the ‘repetition’ of moves and that is when we all falter.] 61.Qf3 Kg7 62.Qxf7+ Kxf7 63.a5 Kf6 64.Kf1 g5 65.hxg5+ Kxg5 66.Bxd5 exd5 67.f3 1–0

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B12

Pauwels, Christophe (2551) – Dhanish, P. B (2575) MT-Sutarsic (SLO) ICCF [Dhanish P.B.] [Win against GM Pauwels, Christophe of Belgium http://www.iccf-webchess.com/ MakeAMove.aspx?id=297384. He is 38 years old, working as quality controller in an IT company in Brussels.] 1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.e5 Bf5 4.Nf3 e6 5.Be2 [The positional Short variation] 5...c5 6.Be3 Qb6 [Entering very sharp waters. 6...cxd4 7.Nxd4 Ne7 8.c4 Nbc6 9.Nc3 Nxd4 10.Bxd4 dxc4 11.Qa4+ Nc6 12.Rd1 Bd3 13.Bxd3 cxd3 14.Rxd3 Bc5 15.Ne4 Bxd4 ½–½ (27) Topalov, Veselin (2796) Anand, Viswanathan (2791) / 18. Amber Blindfold (9), Nice FRA 2009)]

34...Nxd4 35.Nxd4 Bxd4 36.Rd1 Bc5 37.Be3 Bxe3 38.fxe3 Ne7 39.Ke1 Rf8 40.Rb2 Rf5 41.Rdb1 Nc8 42.Rf2 Rxe5 43.g4 [White gets desperate.] 43...Rxe3+ 44.Re2 Rh3 45.Kd2 c3+ 46.Kc2 Ne7 47.Rb3 Nc6 48.Rd2 d4 49.gxh5 Ka6 50.Rg2 Ka5 0–1 22

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Kumar, Pavan T. – Alok, Saxena AICCF 1509 [Notes And Analysis (unless otherwise mentioned) By T. Pavan Kumar. Additional Comments are by The Games Editor. This is the game of 1509. A brilliant endgame win by Pavan Kumar. - Games Editor] 1.Nf3 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 d5 4.d4 Be7 5.Bg5 h6 6.Bh4 Nbd7 7.e3 0–0 8.Rc1 a6 9.cxd5 exd5 10.Bd3 c6 11.0–0 Ne4 [Relevant: 11...Re8 12.Bg3 Nf8 13.Ne5 c5 14.dxc5 Bxc5 15.Bb1 Bd6 16.Nf3

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Bg4 17.Bh4 g5 18.Bg3 Ne6 19.Kh1 Bxg3 20.fxg3 Bh5 21.Qd2 Bg6 22.Ne5 Bxb1 23.Rxb1 d4 24.exd4 Qxd4 25.Qxd4 Nxd4 26.Rbe1 Re6 ½–½ Bu Xiangzhi (2588)-Seirawan, Y (2626)/Beijing 2003/ CBM 098]

become apparent after White’s 23rd move. This is one of the rare games where I had to change my strategy every few moves so as not to let my ‘subtle’ advantage slip away.]

12.Bxe7 Qxe7 13.Qc2 Re8 14.Na4!?

[The exchange of Queens is always a very important decision that has to be taken. In his classic work ‘Learn From The Legends: Chess Champions At Their Best’, at the beginning of the chapter on “Tal’s Super Rooks”, the author Mihail Marin writes thus: “The presence of the Queens can change the character of the position dramatically. The Minor Pieces feel safer with a “big brother” (or sister!) around, but on the other hand; the Queen and Rook tandem is able to display an irresistible force when attacking the Enemy King.” p.120]

[White is consistently avoiding exchanges in the game. - Games Editor. 14.Rce1 Nf8 15.Nd2 Nxd2 16.Qxd2 Be6 17.f4 f6 18.Rf3 f5 19.Qc2 Qh4 20.Ref1 Qf6 21.Ne2 Re7 22.Qd2 Bf7 23.Rg3 Rae8 24.Bc2 Nd7 25.Qd3 Nb6 26.b3 Nc8 27.Qxf5 Qxf5 28.Bxf5 Nd6 29.Bb1 Rxe3 30.Rxe3 Rxe3 31.Kf2 Re8 32.Nc3 g5 33.fxg5 hxg5 34.Re1 Rxe1 35.Kxe1 a5 36.Kd2 Kg7 37.Na4 Bg6 38.Bxg6 Kxg6 39.Nc5 Kf5 40.Ke3 Kg4 41.Kd3 Kf4 42.a4 Kf5 43.b4 b6 44.Nd7 Nc4 45.bxa5 bxa5 46.Nb8 Nb2+ 47.Ke3 Nc4+ 48.Ke2 Ke4 49.Nxc6 Nb2 50.Nxa5 Nxa4 51.Nc6 Nc3+ 52.Kf2 Nb5 53.Ne7 Nxd4 54.Nxd5 Kxd5 55.Kg3 ½–½ Anand, V (2765) Illescas Cordoba, M (2635)/Leon 1997/ CBM 060] 14...Ng5 15.Nd2N [Predecessor: 15.Qd1 Nxf3+ 16.Qxf3 Nb6 17.Nc5 ½–½ Kramnik, V (2590)Eingorn, V (2590)/Debrecen 1992/ EU-chT] 15...Nf6 16.Rfe1 Qc7 17.Qc5 Bg4 18.f3 Bh5?! [Positionally, an Inferior Move! Two important reasons why this move falls woefully short of the requirements of the situation: [A] While the text move ...Bh5 does appear to be a ‘normal’ retreating move and is the move recommended by most engines, however, in this position, it doesn’t fit in the overall scheme of things. White’s strategy is simple: He plans to exchange Queens and position his Rooks and Knights on the Queenside pawns, s-lo-w-l-y piling up pressure till Black cracks under pressure. However, this is by no means easy as Black has several defensive resources at his disposal. [B] 18...Nd7! was necessary to prevent White’s next move 19.Qb6! As is evident from the position on board, White has a ‘good’ Bishop against Black’s ‘bad’ Bishop. The main drawback behind 18...Bh5 will

19.Qb6!

19...Qxb6™ [Here 19...Qe7 is also possible but then, Black would have been reduced to passive defense. It’ll take Black quite some time to re-group his pieces and shift them from the King-side (where they are doingg nothing) to the Queen-side to aid in the defense of the pawns.]

21...Ne6 [Good! This move prevents White’s Knight from hopping onto the crucial c5-square! This Knight holds the key to Black’s position. However, from a purely positional point of view, I would have preferred ...Bg6 in this position - exchanging Black’s passive light-squared Bishop in return for White’s active counterpart.] 22.Bf5 [The Silicon Monster prefers 22.Na5 here, clamping down Black’s position further by restricting the Queenside pawns from moving anywhere, thereby forcing Black’s Rook to take up defensive duties. However, the text move is the strongest reply in this position, as White needs to get rid of Black’s strong Knight on the e6-square first before turning his attention to the Queenside. Now, it becomes clear as to why Black should have played ...Bg6 first instead of Ne6.] 22...Bg6™

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   W       20.Nxb6   [The Queen is the strongest piece and iff  it is exchanged, the direct attack on the      King usually vanishes (although occasion  ally a Rook can be a fine substitute!). This  exchange has to be considered carefully.    In the game, it was in White’s favour to  V V  exchange Queens, as the “big sister” would work well with the Black Minor Pieces  against the White King. White forestalled this and the focus shifted to the Queenside instead.] 20...Rad8 21.Nb3 [Over the course of the next few moves, both the Knights start weaving an intricate web ...confusing to the untrained eye and yet very-very subtle! One might be tempted to conclude that the White Knights’ have wasted several tempi but...also, White Knight is eyeing two important pivotal outposts in the Black camp - the a5 and c5 squares! Once the Knights are stationed at their respective posts, Black’s position would slowly become more restricted.]

[Black’s only move now to try and exchange light-squared Bishops thereby eliminating his own primary weakness in this position. Any other move here would simply pass on the advantage to White.] 23.Bxe6!

[Ah! Just what I have been waiting for!! Even though several engines suggest swapping off both the light squared bishops here, positionally, it would be a blunder as one of the techniques of good chess skill is to exploit (Take advantage of ) the opponent’s weaknesses...!! Here, since it’s apparent that my opponent’s lightsquared Bishop is weak and he would love to get rid of it at the earliest opportunity,

AICCF BULLETIN White has no choice except to prolong Black’s agony by keeping the ‘bad’ bishop on board at least for a few move moves. Chess players are often termed selfish - for a good reason! We take advantage of our opponents by attacking their weaknesses: We ‘pin’ them down and ‘skewer’ them, ruthlessly subjecting them to ‘discovered attacks’ and ‘back-rank mates’.] 23...Rxe6™ 24.Na4!? [The Knight Dance Begins!! The Better Moves in this position - though Knights’ moves - are Na5 and Nc5. So, what then, is this Knight doing on a4?] 24...Rc8 25.Rc3 [What is going on here? Why is the Rook on c3? Does White want to double Rooks on the semi-open c-file? Where are the Knights headed? What is White’s plan here? Too Many Questions...!!]

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25...Kh7?! [Aha! Black’s King has found a safe haven on h7 - safe from all sorts of attacks! But does Black have time to indulge in moves like this when ‘something’ is brewing on the Queenside? Nothing seems to be happening there. White seems to be interested only in shuffling and re-grouping his pieces. As is so often the case, appearances can often be deceptive, as Black finds out over the course of the next few moves. Whoever said Chess is a Complex Struggle obviously knew what he was talking about !! ...Ne8 may have been a better option, bringing his horsey over to the Queenside to bolster the pawns and freeing at least one of the Rooks from sentry-duty in the future.] 26.Nb6!? [Ooh La La !! The next few moves are ‘very subtle’ and readers may be forgiven for dismissing White’s to-and-fro Knight movements as merely wasting valuable tempi. As a former World Champion remarked, “Every Move in Chess must have a purpose behind it and if the move is so subtle so as to deceive the opponent into dismissing it as a weak move, that means, your purpose is accomplished!”] 26...Rd8 27.Na4!? [An Interesting Move!! Engines’ Primary Recommendation rests in favour of the Stronger and More Obvious Move - Na5!

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Why then, did White retreat his Knight back to where it originated from?]

repair.]

27...Re7 28.Na5

[This move appears to be a mistake. Why over-defend a pawn when there is no attack in sight? Also, it takes the Rook away from defending the crucial b2 square - thus allowing the passive Black Bishop to make a come-back into the game by gaining a tempo with an attack on the White Rook on b3. As mentioned earlier, some of the moves in this game are very subtle and cannot be understood by a mere cursory glance at the position!]

[Again?? But now, this move is justified for a reason!] 28...Rc8™ [This Rook move is forced. Any other alternative here would slowly put White in the driver’s seat.] 29.Rec1 [White’s last remaining piece also gets ready to join the battle. But the main question is where will the c3-Rook be positioned? It cannot go to c5 as apart from an unpleasant b6, Black can also drive away the Rook by means of ...Nd7 developing the Knight with a Tempo! c2 and b3 ‘appear’ to be ruled out ...But as we have seen earlier, appearances can often be deceptive, especially in the battlefield! White has a cunning trap up his sleeve which is definitely way beyond what any Chess Engine can possibly think of. He has prepared a ‘well-covered manhole’ but it is so subtle that it’s easy to trip - and fall headlong into it.] 29...Ne8™

32.Re1!?

32...Nb5 [Though there seems to be nothing wrong with this move, yet, positionally, ...Bf5 seems to be a better alternative than the move actually played in the game. The Bishop’s scope on the b1–h7 diagonal is rather limited as it’s just biting on granite - just standing there doing nothing. ...Bf5 does seem to be a better option re-routing it to the Queenside where it can defend the crucial b-pawn. It’s always better to defend pawns with Minor Pieces and let the Major Pieces take part in the Offensive.] 33.Kf2!!

[Black finally realizes it’s better to develop the Knight now than procrastinate anyy more. Again, the only move in this position, with other alternatives being slightlyy worse than the text move.]

      W W   30.Rb3!? [This innocent looking move is the Keyy     to White’s position. It ‘appears’ absolutelyy      harmless right now but there’s more than a    drop of venom in it...!]    30...Nd6™ [Again, A Forced Reply! ...Rcc7 can also   V   be chosen but Black played it anywayy  albeit with a one-move-delay.] 31.Nc5 [A Three-Pronged-Attack on the hapless b7-pawn which forces Black’s reply. Notice how Black’s replies over the last few moves have been rather of a forced nature! Black is forced to make the only moves to avoid slipping into an inferior position.] 31...Rcc7™ [Any other move weakens Black’s position and further deteriorates it - even beyond

Surprisingly following Black’s plan but White has planned long term to be able to see this as winning for him! - Games Editor. The Double Exclamation Mark is purely for Aesthetical Value as the King Move is purely Psychological in nature. Its purpose is to ‘induce’ Black into penetrating into the White position by means of the ‘supposedly obvious move’ which is exactly the move chosen by Black...!! All the engines suggest the more obvious

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33.Rc1 instead of the text move.]

cated 2N v R Endgame.]

33...Bc2

39.Kxe2

[BINGO!! Black falls into the well-concealed ditch ...Black can be forgiven for thinking of his position to be superior here. The position was so equal that it was necessary to cause a dynamic imbalance of the position by means of this Hypothetical Exchange Sacrifice!]

[We now reach a Classic 2N Vs R Endgame which is tricky for White. The Key here is to co-ordinate both the Knights while at the same time keeping an eye on Black’s dangerous Queenside pawns otherwise White runs the risk of getting steamL rolled! In his Classic Work SCHOOL OF CHESS EXCELLENCE - I, Markk Dvoretsky comments: (1) If the Rookk penetrates into the opponent’s position [OR] (2) If he can create a passed pawn that restricts the minor pieces, THEN, the Rook can prove no weaker than the two minor pieces.]

34.a4! [In view of the intricate maneuvering over the last few moves, it’s surprising how the position comes alive all of a sudden.] 34...Bxb3 [Black is an exchange-up here! 34...b6 was an option but after the retreat of one of the Knights, ...Bxb3 would have to be played anyway. So, it would have been only a transposition of moves.] 35.axb5™ b6 [Black has to choose between ...b6 and ...cxb5 and he chooses the former. He delays the immediate ...cxb5 by just one more move. Again, these two moves merely transpose into one another, as can be seen in this game.] 36.Naxb3™ [THIS is THE Only Move which ensures White keeps his attack going. Any other move here would simply pass on the advantage to Black who would be able to convert his two-pawn advantage in the endgame.] 36...cxb5™ [Again, Difficult to Believe, but this is Black’s Only Move to survive! 36...bxc5?? This move is a Blunder because of 37.b6 Rb7 (37...cxd4 38.bxc7 dxe3+ 39.Rxe3 Rxc7 40.Nc5+-) 38.dxc5 Rxb6 39.cxb6 Rb7 40.Nc5 (40.Nc1) 40...Rxb6 41.Nd3+-] 37.Nd3™ [This is completely forced, in view of Black’s coming Rook Check!] 37...Rc2+ 38.Re2 [The exchange of a pair of Rooks is inevitable.] 38...Rxe2+ [Black is only too happy to trade Rooks thereby simplifying down to a compli-

An Important point to be kept in mind is to NEVER EVER Rush in the endgame. I remember having consumed an entire month for this position alone and my analysis ran into almost 40 pages of my long note book!!] 41...b4!

        W                   39...a5™  
 [It’s quite a well known fact that Knights  often have problems against the Rookk      pawn. So, this is one issue which I need to  resolve in this game.] 40.Nd2 [The idea behind this move is to give a gentle push to the e-pawn! After Black exchanges his d-pawn for White’s e-pawn, White retakes with the f-pawn thereby securing two passed pawns in the centre on the d and e files - d4 and e4. If White is able to achieve this, he can definitely hope to bring home the full point.] 40...f5 [Black responds aggressively - in the most direct fashion! This aggressive pawn push stops the e-pawn from advancing further. The Real Weaknesses of Chess Engines is severely exposed here as none of the engines are able to ‘find’ this move! The Top Choices for most Silicon Monsters are ...Rc7/Rd7/Kg8/b4 etc. The engines unanimously prefer ...Rc7 here with an equal position.] 41.Ne5!!ƒ [I have to find stable squares for my Knights and prevent Black’s counter-play. Again, Engines expect me to roll my pawns forward on the King-side with moves like h3, h4 and g4. I had a strong urge to play an immediate e4 here instead of the text move but a long, careful and deep analysis in the resulting positions suggested that I would be better off if I first cut-off the Rook’s access to the key e4 square before going ahead with my central pawn push.

[Now, Black starts finding moves with Laser-like Accuracy! He now has to find the ‘only moves’ which will enable him to prolong the game (and his agony!). Black’s passed pawns on the Queenside divert White’s forces. It is in exactly this kind of position that the Knights are bad - open with pawns on both sides of the board. Also, Knights HATE Rook’s pawns!!] 42.b3!!

[Again, Probably The Only Move !! I analyzed the positions arising out of an immediate e4 for almost 20 days with my analysis running into another 25 pages but at the end of my research for the best move, I came to the conclusion that following mass exchanges in the centre along with the fact that the Rook would be constantly ‘watching over’ my passed pawn, the game would end in a draw - with best play from both sides !! Disappointed with the outcome of the variations resulting from e4, I analyzed for almost a fortnight with the move b3. Out of all the other possibilities, this is the only move which offered me maximum chances of an advantage and also, probably a win with enough persistence and perseverance ...along with a little co-operation from my Strong Opponent whose endgame skills are also very good!] 42...Ra7!

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AICCF BULLETIN [Black has a Rook and Pawn for the 2 Knights. He will try to create a passed pawn at the right time by hurling forward the pawns on the a and b files. I still remember how anxious I was after havingg sent my move because no matter what, I was totally convinced that my illustrious opponent would almost always be able to find the EXACT moves required to survive this endgame. And that’s precisely how our game turned out....! I was desperate to win this game as my chances of winning the AICCF 1509 Championship rested solelyy on 2 games - against Dr. Alok Saxena (this game) and another against Mr. Prabhanandan (which is still in progress)!!]

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43.e4™ƒ [FINALLY - AT LAST !! This timely pawn push is crucial as it has to be made at the right moment. Had I rushed hastily with this move earlier, this game would have definitely ended in a draw!! Black must have felt that opening up the position was in his favour as he has the Rook while White has 2 Knights and so, would like to keep the position closed!] 43...fxe4™ 44.fxe4™ dxe4™ 45.Nxe4™ƒ b5 [Here, Black has to choose from ...a4, b5 and Ra8. Other moves are harmless and only increase White’s advantage. I was expecting him to push his a-pawn but he seems to have analyzed this position to a great depth before sending his move. I just had a cursory glance at the position and conjectured that I should have no problems after either ...a4 or ...b5.] 46.Nc6™ [The rest of the game shows how dangerous 2 Knights can be when playing on one side of the board only!] 46...Ra8™ [Black is forced to find the only moves to survive.] 47.Kd3™ [White has secured a KEY Passed Pawn in the centre and this becomes the Pivotal Point in securing a lasting advantage till the end of the game.] 47...a4™

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[White’s long-term trump is the passed     pawn in the centre!]    51...Ra8™ is just in time to prevent the unwel   [Black come visitor from Queening! The rest of    the game is purely, a matter of technique!]   52.d7™ Kg6 53.Nc5™ Rd8™ 
  54.Ke4™+   [Diagonal opposition!] 55.Kd5™ Ke7 56.Kc6™ h5     54...Kf6 [Black makes one last desperate effort to try and create some counterplay, but...] 50.Nxa2™ Rxa2™ 51.d6™

48.d5

57.h4™

[Again showing mastery in the endgame overriding engine recommendation of Nxb4. - Games Editor. White now has a Winning Position thanks to his Central Passer ...Passed Pawns MUST Be Pushed Forward! Here, I had to choose between 2 critical moves: d5 and Nxb4. I chose the former as I wanted to queen my pawn as soon as possible before Black’s King ‘decides’ to catch up with me. My chances of winning would have been even more complicated (and also nearly impossible!) if Black’s Monarch was as active as my own!!]

[Black resigns!! The sacrifice by White and the subsequent endgame mastery shown - over-riding engine recommendations at various points - display a great understanding from Pavan Kumar. - Games Editor. I thoroughly enjoyed every moment of this wonderful game. My ongoing game against Mr. Prabhanandan is also fantastically lopsided and I look forward to sharing that game with our readers soon - as soon as that ‘deciding’ encounter is finished!!]

48...a3 [Black’s options lay in a3 and Kg6.] 49.Nxb4™ [White will now have to sacrifice his Knight for the 2 Black pawns. Owing to the superior and centralized position of his active King, an unopposed passed pawn and an aggressive Knight, White is able to march forward relentlessly in search of that elusive victory!] 49...a2 [I was surprised at this pawn push as I believe ...Kg6 or ...Kg8 would have been more appropriate in trying to stop my passed pawn. My Knight on the b-file cannot move as it has to prevent Black’s pawn from reaching the dreaded a2-square. So, I was pleasantly surprised at his choice of move. Since I was already winning this endgame, I didn’t bother to check the resultant positions in greater depth...]

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B78

Press, Shaun – De, Gautam Australia - India ICCF [Gautam De and Mohan Jayaraman] 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 g6 6.Be3 Bg7 7.f3 0–0 8.Bc4 Bd7 9.Qd2 Nc6 10.0–0–0 Rb8 [De: Not very surprising, Dragon players often switch over to this ‘Chinese Dragon’ variation after being bored from continuous facing Yugoslav attack.] 11.Bb3 [11.h4 b5 12.Ncxb5 Na5 13.Na3 Nxc4 14.Nxc4 Qc7 15.b3 Rfc8 De: with sufficient compensation for the pawn in Gautam De - S K Somani, 1508 annotated earlier in the bulletin by our earlier games editor Anil Anand] 11...Na5 12.Kb1 b5 13.h4 Nc4 [De: It seems Black stands ahead of white in launching attack on opponent’s king

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26.f4  W   [De: better is 26.Rb1] 14.Bxc4 bxc4 15.Ka1 [15.g4 Qb6 16.b3 Qc7 17.Bg5 cxb3    26...Nc5 27.f5 Bc8 28.fxg6 Unclear (De)]     15...h5 16.Rb1 Qa5 17.Bh6 Rb6N         [17...Bxh6 18.Qxh6 Rb6 19.g4 hxg4    20.Qe3 Rfb8 21.h5 g5 22.fxg4 Nxg4     23.Qd2 f6 24.Nf3 Ra6 25.Rhg1 Rb4      W   26.a3 Be6 27.e5 dxe5 28.Nxg5 Bf5 29.Nge4 Kh7 30.Qe2 Nh6 31.Rg3 Be6 V     32.Rg6 Nf5 33.Qg4 Nh4 34.Ng5+ fxg5 

      35.Qxg5 Nxg6 36.Qxg6+ Kh8 37.Rg1  1–0 Carlsen, M - Radjabov, T/Bilbao      24.Qe3?? 2008] V  18.Bxg7 Kxg7 19.Qg5 e5 20.Nde2 Rh8 [Games Editor: Hard to believe but    Engines indicate this to be the critical 

[Temporarily defending the position (De). error!! 24.Rb1 Rab6 25.Nc1 Nd7 26.Qe3  De: 20...Rfb8 21.g4=] Nc5; De: 24.Rxd6 Rxd6 25.Rxd6 Qb4 21.Rhd1 Ra6 22.Rd2 Rb8 23.Rbd1 [Counter-attack on d6 is not a good idea better was 23.Rdd1 (De)] 23...Be6

on b2 (De)]

26.Qxf6+ Kh7 (26...Kxf6 27.Nd5+ followed by Nxb4.) 27.b3 Qxd6μ] 24...Rbb6 25.g3 Nd7 [Knight approaches towards the center to participate in the attack. In fact, this piece plays a vital role at c5 to create a lethal discovered attack following a rook-sacrifice

28...Rxb2 29.Kxb2 Qb6+ 30.Ka1 Nb3+ 31.cxb3 Qxe3 32.bxc4

[32.Nd5 Qxe4 33.Nc7 Rc6 34.Ne8+ Kxg6 35.Nxd6 Qe3 36.Nxc8 Rxc8-+] 32...fxg6 33.Rb2 [33.Rd3 Qc5 34.Rd5 Qa3-+] 33...Rc6 0–1

All the games are annotated by Games Editor: Sh Mohan Jayaraman, if not mentioned otherwise.

Explanation of symbols annotated in the Games: Symbol

Meaning

Symbol

Meaning

N

Novelty

²

White is better

± (or +-)

White is superior

³

Black is better

μ (or -+)

Black is superior

÷

Unclear

??

Blunder

°

With Compensation

!

Good Move

¹

Better is

!!

Brilliant Move

ƒ

With Initiative

?

Bad Move

‚

With Attack

!?

Interesting Move

„

With counterplay

?!

Dubious Move

þ

Passed Pawn

‡

Zugzwang

™

Only Move

Mohan Jayaraman Games Editor Cochin

Feb’12

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