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VOLUME 23, Number 2

Sailesh Chandra has become Zonal Director, ICCF Zone 4 Africa - Asia

President & Bulletin Editor: Dr. A.Chatterjee, 401 Rutuvij Complex, N/r

Kabir Complex, Makarpura Road, Vadodra-390009, [email protected], +91 8141594459, +91 265 2630392 Vice President: Dr. P.B.Dhanish, Bhaskar Villa, Ramanattukara P.O., Calicut673633, [email protected], +91 9388689963 Secretary-cum-Treasurer: Dr. Alok Saxena, C-102 Mahavir Sadhana Plot 18-E,F,G Sector 14, n/r Palm Beach Rd, Sanpada, Navi Mumbai 400705, [email protected], +91 22 27815447, +91 9819199597 Member: Sailesh Chandra, #003 Block 3. Jain Prakruti, 63 KR Road Jayanagar 7th Block, Bangalore 560081, [email protected], +91 80 26932833, +91 9880612262 Member: Om Prakash, Plot- 212, Lane - 9, Jagannathvihar, Near Fire Station Square, Baramunda, Bhubaneswar, Odisha 751003, [email protected], +91 9437943954, +91 6742550273 Member: Gautam De, Flat 2a, 2nd Floor, 17a East End Park 3rd Road, Kalikapur, Kolkata 700099, [email protected], +91 9474306239, +91 8001194409, +91 7890234735 AICCF Champion: K.V.S.Sastry, [email protected], +919912403644

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Contents Corchegimmic 47 (Solution: p.29) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Management Matters A.Chatterjee and Alok Saxena . . . . . . . . . AICCF Webserver A.Chatterjee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . AICCF Team Leagues 2016 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . AICCF Championship 1513 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . AICCF Championship 1514 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Candidates Tournament, Moscow 2016 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Games Section Mohan Jayaraman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Entertainers from Shams Khan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ChessBase India . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sailesh Chandra Elected Director ICCF Zone 4 Africa/Asia How AICCF Went Forward in the International Scene . . . . . International Section Alok Saxena . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ICCF Ratings As Per List of 01-01-2016 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Corchegimmic 47 Black to move Solve this puzzle without an engine. For the solution turn to page 29.

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Management Matters Dr. Ambar Chatterjee President, Bulletin Editor Dr. Alok Saxena Secretary-cum-Treasurer

Annual General Meeting th

The AGM of AICCF was held on 15 Nov 2015 at the residence of the President (Dr A.Chatterjee, 401 Rutuvij Complex, Makarpura Road, Near Kabir Complex, Vadodra 390009). As already mentioned, major matters are discussed in the Members Forum and Management Forum of AICCF webserver and email. Only members who have any strong reason to appear in person are asked to attend the AGMs. The following are the main happenings in the past 6-months. Highlights, International o o o

Sailesh Chandra elected Director, ICCF Zone 4. A.Chatterjee will assist as Deputy Zonal Director Austraila changes from ICCF Zone 3 (North America-Pacific) to Zone 4 (Africa-Asia) GM Sasikiran, Krishnan attains the ICCF SIM Title

Highlights, National o o o o

Champions League, Team event announced Management clarifies mirroring of moves is disallowed Two webserver crashes. Quickly corrected. Several new features in AICCF server. Some suggestions not yet implemented

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AICCF WEBSERVER Ambar Chatterjee

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n 18 Oct 2015 and again on 21 Jan 2016 there was a crash of the AICCF server. In the first incident, the hard disk of the shared server machine had developed a fault and in the second instance the server had become slow. In both cases our service provider, Qualispace moved us to a new machine and restored our site from their weekly backup.

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Restoring from an older backup is a crash situation for us. Members logging in found themselves in positions where they had already moved earlier and began contacting me. As soon as possible, I disabled logins and started restoring data so that the games could continue normally. The manual restoration of each game is a long process. Since the inception of the AICCF server in 2009 we had 3 crashes previously and in each case it had taken me a long time to get all the games running again. This time, in October 2015, I wrote some scripts to expedite the task. I quickly restored the championships 1514 and 1513 but it took me 12 days before st I could restore all the remaining games. Then, unexpectedly on 21 January 2016 another crash occurred. This time I was already armed with the scripts and I could restore the data in 6 days. Server crashes are rather unwelcome. During those 12 days in October 2015 and 6 days in January 2016, I had to work long hours without rest. The task is repetitive and boring. Now I have begun to think of a better strategy to recover after a server crash. The main problems presently are that it takes too long to restore all the games and some player time control discrepancies arise after restoration.

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Like any computer, web-server computers are subject to malfunction at the level of software or hardware. When a malfunction occurs the computer can be repaired or replaced. Most server companies including Qualispace replace the computer so as to keep their client websites up and running and report over 99% uptime. Unlike ICCF, ours is a shared server. On a shared server there are several hundred or thousands of client websites running on the same hardware. When the machine malfunctions, all these sites are affected and the task of the company is to restore as soon as possible. A chess server is unique, in that it is affected very seriously by back-dated data rather than downtime. For other websites, uptime is the main issue. For us, a downtime is not so bad, but back dated data is a killer. After Qualispace replaces the server machine, they restore the client data from their last backup - which could be upto 1 week old (they take weekly backups). Had the server been in our control, we could disable logins, copy all files to an external hard disk and then setup the new machine. The whole processes would take a short time and there would be no impact to users. Unfortunately, ours is a shared server. When a malfunction occurs, Qualispace takes the data from their most recent backup and copies it on a new machine. They treat the malfunction as an emergency and without taking the time to inform us and without making a fresh backup, they restart with old data. I have discussed with Qualispace and they cannot change their operation procedure. Changing the service provider will not help as any other service provider will have a similar procedure. It is unfortunate that the January 2016 crash came only 3 months since the previous one in October 2015. We have had 5 such occurrences since inception in 2009. A hard-disk crash happened only once (Oct 2015) others were all instances of system problems. ICCF uses backup as their defence against crashes. As they have a dedicated server their only problem would be a total hard-disk crash. ICCF has designated a person to take daily backups. Upto now I did not st take regular backups. But from 1 February I have begun taking daily backups. Using FileZilla, it is possible to copy only the files that have changed, so that the backup takes only about 10-15 minutes. Unfortunately, even a regular backup does not solve the problem. On a chess server, moves are made continuously. Many moves can occur in

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the course of 5 mins. A backup made once a day would still miss many moves made later that day. Having thought about this problem, I have come up with the perfect solution – a single magic restore button available to the Administrator. But I will be able to work on this only later this year. Meantime we have to be happy with daily backups. In case we have another crash before I have created this magic button, the daily backup will help in faster recovery.

NOTIFICATIONS FOR TIME CRITICAL AND SILENCE CRITICAL GAMES IMPLEMENTED In the past I have been asked if it is possible to send a third email reminder when there is only 1 day to make the next move (either due to the silence rule or because of the time control). Recently Vibhor Gupta and Om Prakash lost games in the AICCF Championships because they were not vigilant about the imminent time control. Following Anil Anand’s suggestion in the Members Discussion Forum I have implemented a warning system: (a) If you are left with only 1 day or less to make a move, an alert window will popup when you login to AICCF server. (b) You will also receive an email warning But please be aware that emails are unreliable, login to server is a better way to check your games. In the case of Vibhor Gupta, the server was showing that he had consumed 17 hours (so he had 24-17=7 hours left to make his move). He thought he still had 17 hours left. When he logged in again in the morning, it was too late. If you leave yourself with only hours to make your move there is also a risk of internet connectivity problems. So please don’t get into the habit of making your move in the last hour!

SUGGESTION TO INTRODUCE TIME DOUBLING AFTER 21 DAYS, NOT IMPLEMENTED Anil Anand has also suggested (see Discussion Forum) that we should follow ICCF and count double time when a player is silent for more than

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20 days. We have decided NOT to implement this, unless more members want this. What is time doubling? In ICCF server, when a player's thinking time is 21 days or more, it gets accounted as 20 days plus double the number of days consumed beyond 20 days. So, if a player takes 27 days to respond to a move, it will be accounted as 34 days (20+7x2=34). In short, your clock runs at double speed after 20 days. Positive points: 1. Time doubling is an idea introduced by ICCF after discussion in several ICCF Congresses. In many games, we have both players moving quite fast and the game proceeds at a good pace. Then, one of the players finds that his position has deteriorated and starts to delay his reply as much as is legally possible (within the silence and time limit rules). The aim is to see if his opponent will in the course of time stop making moves due to personal reasons, or perhaps to protect his rating for as long a time as possible. Negative points: 1. This rule is difficult to explain clearly and in simple language. We have members who do not understand English very well and also others who are not very clear even on existing rules. When rules are complicated, many members will be confused. 2. A player in a genuine personal problem situation will be pressed to make his moves faster. It is not wise to make things complicated, so unless many members ask to implement this rule, we will not implement it.

SERVER STABILITY AICCF server has completed nearly 7 years of operation. As Mohan Jayaraman has pointed out, we should avoid thinking about new rules and regulations, as it adds a burden to the developer and creates new issues for stable operation. Let us concentrate instead on further new developments we have in mind, namely ICCF style ratings and human tournaments.

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MIRRORING MOVES IS ILLEGAL There is a way to ensure that you always get a minimum 50% score from two of your games. In Game A, where you have White, make the same move as what your opponent plays against you in Game B, where you are Black. And in Game B play the same move as what the opponent replies in Game A. In effect your opponents would be playing each other and you would be just an intermediary. Quoting from http://en.chessbase.com/post/derren-brown-s-che-trick-once-more-withfeeling

The trick is not new. Alekhine and his twice world championship challenger Bogoljubov are said to have been challenged separately to games of correspondence chess at money odds. In effect the opponent, who had little chess skill, was playing in neither game. He was simply passing on the moves of the players. Since he had received money odds he ended with a net profit whoever won the game. Even beginners know about this trick. To actually use mirroring on AICCF server is something we did not expect, that too from a seasoned player. After we detected mirroring AICCF Management, following ICCF Guidelines scored both the games as lost to the offending player. Mirroring is difficult to detect because of the large number of games running on the server. But after the game is over, it is available on record and mirroring will be detected. This itself should be sufficient to deter players. Additionally, we have decided to use software to detect mirrored games. So all members may please note, mirroring is illegal and mirrored games will be scored as a loss. So kindly do not resort to this type of gimmick!

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Started

AICCF Team Leagues 2016

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n December 2015, member Mamta Bisht suggested to have Team League Tournaments. In the original suggestion there were to be 5 players per team and each team would have players in a rating band, say lower rated, medium rated and higher rated. We decided to go ahead with the idea and an announcement was made. Players could enter by clicking the enrol button from their login page. However, we received only 21 entries. With such a small number of entries, it was not possible to make groupings based on rating. Hence we made 4 teams of 5 players each with the highest rated player playing on Board 1, the next highest on Board 2 and so on. We selected as Team Captains, not the Board 1 player, but a player relatively new or young but experienced. th

The games started from 11 March 2013 (Official start date 18-03-2016) with the following teams: Rohan Team: Alok Saxena, Rohan Saxena (Captain), Shams Khan, Mamta Bisht, Dr. A.Nagaraj Shyam Team: A.Chatterjee, Shyam Challapally (Captain), Rakesh Agrawal, T.Chandran, B.S.Dutt Ankur Team: T.Pavan Kumar, Ankur Singh (Captain), Satyajit Das, Amit Kumar Sharma, V.K.Chaurasia Umesh Team: Aniruddha Dutta Gupta, Anil Anand, Umesh P. Nair (Captain), Jatin Deshpande, Yellapu Pandavakrishna Each player has 2 games against the corresponding player in the other 3 teams (total 6 games for everybody). Games will be played at NORMAL rate of play. Role of team captains: Captains should regularly contact the team members to ensure that they are playing their games without defaulting. Team members may contact

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Captains and tell their experience in playing the games, ask advice to accept or propose a draw. However Captains must never analyse a position or suggest a move - games are to be played by the players themselves. Here is how people reacted: T.Pavan Kumar I am pretty excited to be a part of this Wonderful Initiative. Please confirm my participation for the same. Anil Anand Thanks for initiating this novel idea of Ms. Mamta Bisht. I notice that the teams constituted are a healthy mix of youth and experience, led in majority of cases by a youth team member. Count me in. Aniruddha Dutta Gupta An Interesting Chess Tournament 'AICCF Team League 2016' has just started., I like to take this opportunity to congratulate all the Team captains and wish them best of luck. I'm sure it will be a high quality tournament and my toughest so far.Sadly we are missing participation of some top rated players in this league. We hope to see some interesting games and have more entries for the next such tournament.

“I've never been much of a computer guy at least in terms of playing with computers. Actually until I was about 11 I didn't use a computer for preparing for games at all. I was playing a bit online, was using the chess club mainly. Now, obviously, the computer is an important tool for me preparing for my games.” -Magnus Carlsen From: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/ch ess.html

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Who will be the winners?

AICCF Championship 1513 Cross table as on 15-03-2016: No Name 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Total 1 Om Prakash 0 1 ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 10/14 2 Gautam De 1 0 ½½1 ½½ ½1 1 1 7.5/11 3 K.V.S.Sastry 0 1 ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 1 1 1 ½ ½ ½ 9.5/14 4 R.K. Chauhan ½ ½ ½½½½½ 1 ½ 1 1 7/11 5 Smt. Rashmi S. Somani ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1 1 7.5/12 6 Kalapi B. Trivedi ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 1 8.5/14 7 Sailesh Chandra 1 0 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 1 7.5/13 8 Mohan Jayaraman ½½½½½½½ ½½ ½1 ½ 6.5/12 9 Aayush Somani 0 ½0 ½ ½½½ ½ 1 ½1 5.5/11 10 Vibhor Gupta 0 0 ½½½ ½½ ½½½1 5/11 11 Aniruddha Dutta Gupta 0 ½ 0 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1 5/11 12 Anil Anand 0 0 0 ½½0 0 ½0 ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 5/14 13 Saurabh Das 0 ½0 0 ½½0 ½½ 0 ½ ½ 3.5/12 14 Aleemuddin 0 0 ½0 0 0 0 ½0 0 0 ½½ ½ 2.5/14 15 Rakesh Agrawal 0 0 ½ 0 0 0 0 0 ½½ 1.5/10 Om Prakash has finished all his games with a tally of 10 points. However he has lost two games Gautam De and Sailesh Chandra. The latter was an unfortunate loss on time in a drawn position (in fact Sailesh had offered a draw). Om Prakash writes, “I wanted a win so was trying to find a plan which was nearly impossible. I had been analysing the dead drawn position since 8-9 days to find out a plan. So I thought I will play tomorrow. I forgot to see how much time is remaining.” Gautam De (7.5 from 11 games) has a good chance to win. His pending games are against R.K.Chauhan, Vibhor Gupta and Saurabh Das. If he wins all these 3 games, he emerges clear winner and if he gets 2.5, a tie-break will be necessary. R.K.Chauhan with 3 games remaining (vs. Gautam De, Rashmi Somani and Rakesh Agrawal) can also reach 10 points. Smt. Rashmi Somani has the possibility to reach a score of 9.5. The prize winners will emerge from the present 5 leaders, Om Prakash, Gautam De, K.V.S.Sastry, R.K.Chauhan and Smt. Rashmi Somani. But it is impossible to predict who they will be!

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Early stages

AICCF Championship 1514 Cross table as on 16-03-2016: No Name 1 2 3 4 1 Sailesh Chandra 2 Kalapi B. Trivedi ½ 3 Anil Anand ½ 4 Gautam De 5 Mohan Jayaraman ½ 6 Om Prakash ½ 7 Ramesh ½ ½ ½ ½ 8 Ankur Singh ½ 9 R.K. Chauhan 0 10 Rakesh Agrawal 11 T.Chandran 12 Arghyadip Das 13 Amit Dutta 14 Aniruddha Dutta Gupta 15 Vibhor Gupta 0

5 6 7 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½

8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 1 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½

Total % 1.5 75.0 2.5 62.5 2 50.0 0.5 50.0 1.5 50.0 1.5 50.0 4 50.0 2 50.0 0.5 25.0 0 0.0 0 0.0 0 0.0 0 0.0 0 0.0 0 0.0

The Championship 1514 is in early stages. The only decisive game: (W) Trivedi, Kalapi B. (B) Chauhan, Rakesh Kumar 1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.e3 e6 5.Bd3 Be7 6.O-O O-O 7.Nc3 Nbd7 8.b3 b6 9.Bb2 Bb7 10.Qe2 h6 11.Rad1 Qc7 12.Ne5 dxc4 13.bxc4 Nxe5 14.dxe5 Nd7 15.f4 Nc5 16.Bb1 Rad8 17.Rd4 Ba6 18.Qc2 g6 19.Rf3 Rb8 20.Rg3 Kh8 (See Diagram) 21.Rxg6! fxg6 22.Qxg6 Bd8 23.Qxh6+ Kg8 24.f5 Qg7 25.Qh5 exf5 26.Rd6 Rb7 27.Rg6 Qxg6 28.Qxg6+ Rg7 29.Qh5 Bxc4 30.Ne2 Bg5 31.e6 Bxe3+ 32.Kh1 Nxe6 33.Bxf5 Rd8 34.Bxe6+ Bxe6 35.h4 Bf7 36.Qf5 Bh6 37.Bxg7 Bxg7 38.Nf4 Re8 39.h5 Rd8 40.g4 Rd1+ 41.Kg2 Re1 42.g5 1-0 A strong attacking game by Kalapi Trivedi!

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CANDIDATES TOURNAMENT, MOSCOW 2016

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he Candidates Tournament 2016, is being held at Moscow, Russia th th from 11 to 28 March 2016. The winner of this 8-player 14-round tournament will be the challenger for the World Chess Championship 2016 against Magnus Carlsen. th

At the time of writing (15 March), Vishwanathan Anand disappointed his th fans when he lost the 4 round game against Sergey Karjakin. Anand is rd now in joint 3 position with 2.0/4 while Sergey Karjakin with 3.0 points and Levon Aronian (2.5 points) are the leaders. Sergy Krajakin – Vishwanathan Anand 1.Nf3 d5 2.e3 Nf6 3.c4 e6 4.b3 Be7 5.Bb2 O-O 6.Nc3 c5 7.cd5 Nd5 8.Qc2 Nc6 9.h4!? Novelty

9…b6 10.a3 f5 11.Bb5 Bb7 12.Nd5 ed5 13.d4 Rc8 14.dc5 bc5 15.O-O Bf6 16.Rfd1 Ne7 17.Bf6 Rf6 18.g3 Ba6? 19.Ba6 Ra6 20.Qc3 Rb6 21.Rac1 Qd6 22.Ne5 Rb7 23.Nd3 c4 24.bc4 Rc4 25.Qe5 Qe5 26.Ne5 Rc1 27.Rc1 g6 28.Rc5 Kg7 29.Ra5 Kf6 30.Nd3 Rc7 31.Ra6 Kg7 32.Nf4 Rd7 33.Kf1 Ng8 34.Ne6 Kf7 35.Nd4 Ne7 36.Nb5 Nc8 37.a4 Rb7 38.Rc6 Ne7 39.Ra6 Nc8 40.Rc6 Ne7 41.Rd6 Rb6 42.Rd7 a6 43.Nc3 1-0

In the interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCdJqAb0imI&t=1m25s Sergy Karjakin mentions that 9.h4 was a prepared novelty and where Anand really went wrong was the weak move 18…Ba6 These are early stages. Let us see how the tournament goes. .

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GAMES SECTION Games Editor, Mohan Jayaraman

(W) Sasikiran, Krishnan (B) Straka, Zdenek ICCF USA/VVP/A, Palciauskas Invitational Sec D47: Semi-Slav Meran Notes by Sasikiran, Krishnan 1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.Nc3 e6 5.e3 Nbd7 6.Bd3 dxc4 7.Bxc4 b5 8.Bd3 Bb7 9.a3 Bd6 10.O-O O-O 11.e4 e5 12.Bc2 Following my game against Shirov in ECC 2013, I had analysed this variation in the early half of 2013 and wanted to test its viability in Correspondence Chess. 12…Qc7 13.Kh1 Rad8 14.Qe1 a6!?

14...Rfe8!? was played by Shirov leads to unclear play as well. 15.dxe5 Nxe5 16.Nh4!? The only way to fight for the initiative. 16.Nxe5 Bxe5 17.f4 Bxc3 18.Qxc3 c5 19.e5 Ne4 20.Qe3 f5 unclear Black's strong hold in the centre with queenside majority provides adequate compensation for White's e-passer and two Bishops. 16...Bc5 The top choice of the computer, but it leads to dangerous complications as the Black King comes under attack. 16...Ng6 is a safer alternative trying to exchange White's attacking pieces 17.Nxg6 ( 17.Nf5 Bf4 Exchanges the dark coloured Bishops and after Black achieves c5, he should not have any problems.) 17...hxg6 18.f4 Be7 19.e5 Nd5 20.f5 Bc8! The key defensive idea forcing White to resolve the Kingside tension. 21.fxg6 fxg6 22.Rxf8+ Rxf8 23.Bd2 Bf5 (23...Nb6!? 24.Qg3 Bf5 25.Bb3+ Nc4!?) 24.Bb3 Be6 = Although White's King is a bit safer, Black has covered all the weaknesses and ready for counterplay after Qd7.

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17.f4 Nd3 18.Qg3 Qd7 Nxc1!? 19.Nf5!? g6 (19...Nh5 20.Qg5! Nd3 21.Bxd3 Rxd3 22.Nh6+ Kh8 23.Qxc5 +/-) 20.Raxc1 and the dark squares on the Kingside and the possibility to advance with e5 and f5 provide some initiative. Bd4 21.Nxd4 Rxd4 22.e5 Nh5 23.Qe3 c5 24.Ne2! Rdd8 25.f5 Qd7 26.Be4!? += 19.Nf5 g6 20.Qh4! gxf5 20...Nf2+ 21.Rxf2 Bxf2 22.Nh6+ Kg7 23.Qxf2 Kxh6 24.e5 +/21.Qg5+ Kh8 22.Qxf6+ Kg8 23.Bxd3 Qxd3 24.Be3!

Continuing the fight. The queen sacrifice is hard for the computer to judge. For a human the compensation is obvious, play on dark squares, safer king and bad Bishop on b7. 24…Rd6 24...Qxe3? 25.Rf3! Rd6 26.Qxd6! wins the exchange. 24...Bxe3 25.Rf3 Bd4 26.Qxf5 +25.Qg5+ Rg6 26.Bxc5 Rxg5 27.fxg5 Re8

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27...fxe4?! 28.Rfd1! White is not interested in getting the exchange back. Qc2 29.Rac1 Qxb2 30.Nxe4 Ra8 31.h4! h6 (31...a5 32.h5 b4 (32...h6 33.Nf6+ Kg7 34.Bd4 +/-) 33.h6 +/-) 32.gxh6 Qe5 33.Re1 Rd8 34.Kg1! avoiding checks on the h-file and getting ready to attack the Black King. (34.Rc3 f5!) 34...f6 35.h7+! Kh8 36.Nd6 Qd5 37.Red1 +/28.Rad1 Qc2?! I believe Black was also playing for a win at this point. Qc4 lead to a straight forward draw in the opposite coloured Bishops endgame. 28...Qc4!? 29.Rxf5 Bc8 30.Rd4 Qxc3 (30...Qb3 31.Rf2 leads to similar positions from the game.) (30...Qe6 31.h4!? unclear) 31.bxc3 Bxf5 32.Rd6 Bxe4 33.Bd4 (33.h4 Bd5 34.h5 f6! 35.Rxf6 (35.gxf6 Re5 36.Rd8+ Kf7 37.Rd7+ Kxf6 38.Bd4 Ke6 39.Rxh7 Rg5 40.Rh6+ Kd7 41.Kh2 Bxg2 =) 35...Re5 36.Kh2 Bc4 =) 33...Kf8 34.Kg1 Re6 35.Rd8+ Ke7 36.Ra8 Kd6 37.Rxa6 Bd3 unclear 29.Rf2 Qb3 30.Rd4 Bc8!? 30...fxe4 31.Re2 e3 32.Rb4 Qe6 33.Rxe3 Qc8 (33...Qxe3 34.Bxe3 Rxe3 35.Re4! Rxe4 36.Nxe4 Bc8 37.Kg1 Although it is not clear whether this is sufficient for a win (because of the reduced material), the play is for two results.) 34.Ne4 Kg7 35.h3! and Black still has to solve the problem of Bb7. 31.h4 Clearing the back rank and supporting the g5-pawn. 31…f4

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31...Qe6 32.Rxf5 h6 33.Kh2 a5 34.b4 axb4 35.axb4 Qb3 36.Rf3 Qe6 and the fight goes on. I prefer White here as Black's queenside pawns are fixed and White has chances to improve on the Kingside. 32.e5! Clearing the e4 square for the knight to join the fray. 32…f3 33.Rxf3 Qxb2 34.Ne4 Kg7?! Boxes his own King in a cage with tempo. 34...Qc1+!? 35.Kh2 Kh8 intending to activate the Bishop with Be6-d5. 36.e6 a) 36.Rxf7 Be6 37.Rf3 a5 (37...Bd5 38.Bb4! Qb1 39.Rf4 Bxe4 40.Rdxe4 Qc2 41.Bd6 +=) 38.Bd6 Bd5 39.Rxd5 cxd5 40.Nf6 Re6 41.Nh5 Re8 42.e6 Qe1 43.Bc5 Qxh4+ 44.Rh3 Qg4 45.Nf6 Qf4+ 46.Kh1 Qf1+ 47.Kh2 Qf4+ with a draw.; b) 36.h5 Bg4!? 37.Rf2 Be6 unclear 36...Bxe6 37.Rdd3 Ra8 unclear 35.h5! Again a completely human reaction: including another unit into the attack. 35.Nf6 Qc1+ 36.Kh2 Qxc5 37.Nxe8+ Kf8 38.Rd8 Qxe5+ 39.Kg1 Be6 and White has at best a draw. 35...Be6 36.Kh2 Bd5 36...Qe2? 37.h6+ Kh8 38.Bb4! transferring the Bishop to a1-h8 diagonal Bd5 39.Bc3! Re6 40.g6!! Rxg6 41.Ng3 Rxh6+ 42.Kg1 +37.h6+ Kh8 38.Rf2 Qc1

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38...Qa1? 39.e6!! Rxe6 40.Rxf7 Re8 41.Rd7 +39.e6! Clearing the a1-h8 diagonal. 39…fxe6 40.Bd6 Bxe4 41.Rxe4 Qd1 41...Qxg5 42.Be5+ Kg8 43.Rf3! Qxh6+ 44.Kg3! +- and the threat Rg4+ wins the Black queen. Although Black has three pawns for the extra Bishop, they are disconnected and White will pick up the weaknesses and win with the g-pawn. 42.Be7!! The star move of the game with the intention of creating a passer on the Kingside. 42.Rxe6 Qh5+ 43.Kg1 Qd1+ = 42...Qd7 42...Qh5+ 43.Kg3 e5 44.Rxe5 Qg6 45.Rf6 Qd3+ 46.Rf3 Qg6 47.Kh2! and White avoids the checks and back rank causes Black's downfall. 43.Bf6+ Kg8 44.g6 Qd5 44...hxg6 45.h7+! Qxh7+ 46.Rh4 +/44...e5 45.g7 +/- is similar to the game. 45.Rd4 Qh5+ 46.Rh4 Qc5 46...Qxg6 47.Rh3! +47.Rf1 Controlling the d1-square and ensuring that White will play g7. 47…e5 47…Qd6+ 48.Kg1 Rf8 (48...Qxa3 49.g7 is similar to the game continuation.) 49.g7 Rf7 50.Rd4 Qc5 51.Be5 Rxf1+ (51...Rf5 52.Rxf5 exf5 53.g3! Kf7 54.Kf1 Qxe5 55.Rd7+ Ke8 56.g8=Q+ Kxd7 57.Qxh7+ +-) 52.Kxf1 Qc1+ 53.Kf2 Qb2+ 54.Kg3 Qxa3+

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55.Kg4 Qe7 56.Rf4 Qe8 57.Rf6 Qd8 58.g3! Qd1+ 59.Kh4 Qh1+ 60.Kg5 Qc1+ 61.Bf4 Qc5+ 62.Kg4 +48.g7 Now White plan is to double rooks on the f-file without losing the hpawn and bring the Bishop to the a3-f8 diagonal. If Black manages to move his e-pawn he will have counterplay and hence White will also try to prevent it. 48…Qxa3 48...e4 49.Bb2! The most clear-cut solution. White maintains the a3pawn and prepares to double rooks on the f-file and bring the King to the e-pawn (after the mass exchanges on f8) (49.Rhf4 Qxa3! 50.Be5 e3 51.Kg1 e2 52.Rf8+ Rxf8 53.gxf8=Q+ Qxf8 54.Rxf8+ Kxf8 55.Kf2 Kf7 56.Kxe2 Kg6 57.Bg7 a5 58.Kd3 a4 59.Kd4 Kg5 Although the computer indicates some advantage for White, it looks like a draw to me. (White has to go for the Queenside pawns with his King when Black's King will eliminate White's Kingside pawns.) 49...Rd8 (49…Qd6+ 50.Rhf4 Qxh6+ 51.Kg1 Qd6 52.Rf8+ Rxf8 53.gxf8=Q+ Qxf8 54.Rxf8+ Kxf8 55.Kf2 Ke7 56.Ke3 Kd6 57.Kxe4 Kc5 58.Kd3 +- White will eventually force the Black King to move and create zugzwang.) 50.Bc1 (50.Kh1!?) 50...e3 51.Rhf4 e2 (51...Qd6 52.Kg1 Qxh6 53.Rf8+ Rxf8 54.gxf8=Q+ Qxf8 55.Rxf8+ Kxf8 56.Bxe3 +-) 52.Rf8+ Rxf8 53.gxf8=Q+ Qxf8 54.Rxf8+ Kxf8 55.Bd2 +-) 49.Bg5 Qd6

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49...e4 50.Rf6 Qc5 a) 50...Qe7 51.Rhf4 b4 52.Rf1 b3 53.R6f5 Qb4 54.Be3 Qb8+ 55.g3 +-; b) 50...e3 51.Rxc6! e2 (51…Qb3 52.Rf4 e2 53.Rcf6 Qa3 54.Rf8+ Rxf8 55.Rxf8+ Qxf8 56.gxf8=Q+ Kxf8 57.Bd2 +-) 52.Re4 +-; 51.Rhf4 e3 52.R4f5 Qb4 53.g3!! stopping the check on h4 and getting to ready to stop the e-pawn with Bd2. 53…e2 54.Bd2 Qe7 55.g4 The decisive plan. Black's pieces are completely tied to the defence of the f8-square and he can only move his pawns. White involves his last unit into the attack. 55…c5 a) 55...a5 56.g5 b4 57.g6 Qxf6 58.gxh7+ Kxh7 59.Rxf6 Rg8 60.Kg2 b3 61.Rxc6 a4 (61...b2 62.Rb6 b1=Q 63.Rxb1 e1=Q 64.Bxe1 Kxh6 65.Bc3 +-) 62.Rb6 Ra8 63.Kf2 a3 64.Rb7! +-; b) 55...b4 56.g5! +-; 56.g5 b4 57.g6 hxg6 58.Rf8+ Rxf8 59.gxf8=Q+ Qxf8 60.h7+ +-) 50.Re4! Stopping the counterplay. 50…Qg6 50...c5 51.Re2 b4 (51...e4+ 52.Bf4 Qd8 53.Ref2 c4 54.Be3 Qd6+ 55.g3 +-) 52.Rd2! Qb6 (52...Qc7 53.Rdf2 Qd6 54.Rf7 e4+ 55.Kg1 b3 56.R7f6 Qd4+ 57.Kh2 Qe5+ 58.g3 Qe7 59.R6f5 Qd6 60.Be3 b2 61.Kg2! +- simply moving away from Qh6+ and creating the threat of Bc5.) 53.Rdf2 Qd6 54.Rf7 e4+ 55.Kg1 b3 56.R7f6 Qd4+ 57.Kh1 +-

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51.Rg4 Qd6 51...a5 52.Rf6 Qd3 (52...Qb1 53.Be3 Qc2 54.Bb6! +-) 53.Rg3 Qd7 54.Rgf3 Qe7 55.R3f5 c5 56.Bc1! wins as the Bishop reaches the a3-f8 diagonal via b2. 52.Rf6 Qd1 53.Re4! Against stopping the e-pawn from moving. 53…Qh5+ 54.Bh4 Rd8 This is required to stop Kh3 followed by g4. 54...a5 55.Kh3! Rd8 56.g4! Rd3+ 57.Kg2 Rd2+ 58.Kf3 +55.g3! Supporting the Bishop and freeing the e4-rook to double on the f-file. 55…a5 56.Re1 Qg4 56...b4 57.Ref1 Qe8 58.g4! b3 (58...c5 59.Bg3 b3 60.Kh3 b2 61.Bxe5 b1=Q 62.Rf8+ Qxf8 63.gxf8=Q+ Rxf8 64.Rxb1 +-) 59.Be1! +57.Rf2 Qh5 58.Kg2! Re8 58...Qxh6 59.Bxd8 Qxg7 60.Rf5 +59.Rf6 Ra8 60.Ref1 Qe8 61.g4! Finally the Bishop will reach the desired a3-f8 diagonal. The rest does not require any commentary. 61…Qe7 62.Bg3 Re8 63.Bxe5 Qxg7 64.hxg7 Rxe5 65.Rf7 a4 66.Rc7 Re8 67.Rf8+ Rxf8 68.gxf8=R+ Kxf8 69.Rxc6 a3 70.Rb6 a2 71.Ra6 Ke7 72.Rxa2 1-0 (W) Jaulneau, Christophe (B) Sasikiran, Krishnan ICCF USA/VVP/A, Palciauskas Invitational Sec E99 King’s Indian Classical Notes by Sasikiran, Krishnan

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1.Nf3 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.d4 O-O 6.Be2 e5 7.O-O Nc6 8.d5 Ne7 9.Ne1 Nd7 10.Be3 f5 11.f3 f4 12.Bf2 g5 13.Rc1 Ng6 14.Nd3 Nf6 15.c5 Rf7 16.Kh1 Bf8 17.Rg1 a6!?

Stopping Nb5 and a fresh idea at that time. Subsequently another game from Russian Corr. Semifinal was played. With Kh1 and Rg1 White has clearly indicated the idea to open the Kingside with g3.Black delays h5 hoping to use this square for the knight. Besides Black has option of playing h6 (to protect g5 if needed 18.b4 18.a4 Be7 I believe this is the critical continuation for the evaluation of the line with a6 and further tests will tell how the line develops. (18...h5 19.g3! and White's initiative was hard to contain on the Kingside. fxg3 20.Rxg3 g4 21.Qd2 1-0 (48) Kazoks,A (2331)-Tienhoven,R (2412) ICCF 2014) 18...Be7!? 19.a3!?

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This seems a bit slow. 19.a4 Qf8 20.c6 Qh6 21.cxb7 Bxb7 22.b5 axb5 23.Nxb5 g4 24.g3! leads to sharp unclear play. 19.g3!? This looks more to the point after Kh1-Rg1.Nevertheless I think it is less effective without the pawn on h5. 24…fxg3 20.hxg3 g4!? unclear 19.Nb2!? 19...Qf8 20.Rf1 This is really hard to understand wasting two tempos. 20.Nb2 Aiming for Nc4 looks more logical. 20...Kh8 20...Qh6 was the computer's top choice. However White has been indecisive and hence I decided to improve the position of my King (clearing the g-file in the process) 21.cxd6 Bxd6 22.b5 22.Nc5 Qh6 23.Ne6 Nf8! 22.Nb2 Qh6 23.Nc4 Bd7 unclear 22...Bxa3! A key pawn to take. Now Black shall place his Bishop on d6 and the queenside is more or less secure.

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23.Rc2 23.Ra1 Bd6 24.bxa6 bxa6 25.Kg1 (25.Nb2 Qh6! and Black is fast already with Rg7 and g4 to follow.) 25...h5 with attack 23...Bd6 24.Nb2? Underestimating Black's play on the Kingside and the decisive error. 24.b6 was essential creating a passed d-pawn. 24…Bd7 25.bxc7 Rc8 unclear 24...axb5! 25.Nxb5 25.Bxb5 g4 with attack 25...g4 26.Qc1 26.Nxd6 cxd6 27.Bb5 (27.Nc4 g3 28.Nb6 Qh6 29.Bg1 Bh3! -+) 27...g3 28.hxg3 Nh5 29.Qe1 Qh6 30.Kg1 fxg3 31.Bxg3 Ngf4 with attack 26.Bg1 Nh4! =+ 26.fxg4 Nxe4 27.Be1 f3! -/+ 26.Qe1 Qh6 27.Qc1 Bd7 28.Nxd6 cxd6 29.Nc4 Ra6 30.Na3 Rg7!? with attack 26...g3! 27.hxg3 27.Bg1 Nh4! 28.Nxd6 cxd6 29.Re1 (29.hxg3 Nh5! -+) 29...Bh3 30.Bf1 Nh5 31.gxh3 Nxf3 with attack 27...Nh5 28.g4 Ng3+ 29.Kg1 Qd8! By threatening Queen to h4 Black forces the exchange on g3 after which the White queen will forced to defend the h-file , away from other pieces. Black's plan will be to co-ordinate the threat of trapping White's queen along with the push of passed b-pawn. 30.Nxd6 cxd6 31.Bxg3 fxg3 32.Qh6 Bd7 33.Rb1 33.Nd3 Bb5! -+ and after the exchange on d3 the Black knight

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will land on f4 creating permanent back rank threats. 33.Rfc1 Rg7 34.Nd3 Bb5! 33...Qb6+! Using the pin on the b-file to transfer the rook to the Kingside. 34.Kh1 Rg8 35.Rbc1 Qd8 35...Nf4!? 36.Nd3 Nf4 37.Nxf4 exf4 38.Qh5 38.e5 Rg6 39.Qh3 Qg5 40.e6 Bxe6 41.dxe6 Rxe6 42.Bc4 d5 43.Bxd5 Qxd5 44.Qh5 Qxh5+ 45.gxh5 Rfe7 46.Rf1 b5 -+ 38.Qh3 h5! 39.e5 dxe5 40.Bd3 Kg7 -+ 38...Rg6! with the simple plan of trapping the White queen with Kg7 and Rh6. 39.Bb5 Kg7 40.Bxd7 Rh6 41.Be6 Rxh5+ 42.gxh5 b5! With the White Bishop cutting off the entry at h3, Black's winning plan is to combine b-passer with back rank mate on the other wing. 43.Rc3 Qh4+ 44.Bh3 Qxh5 45.Rb3 Rb7 46.Rb4 Qe8 47.Rc8 Qe7 48.Rc1 Qd8 49.Rd1 Qa5 50.Rbb1 b4 51.Rf1 b3 52.Be6 Qc3 0-1 (W) De, Gautam (B) Anand, Anil Kumar AICCF Championship 1513 B96: Sicilian Najdorf Notes by Mohan Jayaraman 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 Nc6 6.Bg5 e6 7.f4 a6 8.Nxc6 bxc6 9.e5 h6 10.Bh4 g5 11.fxg5 Nd5 12.Ne4 Qb6 13.c3 dxe5 13...Qxb2 14.Rb1

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13...Rb8 14.g6 fxg6 15.Bf2 15.Qg4 Qe3+ 16.Be2 Nf4 17.Qf3 Qxe2+ 18.Qxe2 Nxe2 19.Kxe2 g5 20.Bg3 Bg7 21.Rhf1 Rf8 22.Nd6+ Ke7 23.Rxf8 Kxf8 24.Rd1 Bd7 25.Bf2 Kg8 26.b4 e4 27.Bc5 e5 28.Ke3 Be6 29.a4 Rd8 30.Rd2 g4 31.Nxe4 Rxd2 32.Kxd2 Bb3 33.a5 Bc4 34.g3 Bf1 35.Nd6 h5 36.Nf5 Kf7 37.c4 Kf6 38.Nd6 Ke6 39.b5 cxb5 40.cxb5 Bf8 41.Ne4 Bh6+ 42.Kc3 Bxb5 43.Bb6 Bf8 44.Bd8 Kf5 45.Nf2 Bh6 46.Bb6 Be2 47.Bc5 Ke6 48.Bb6 Kd5 49.Ba7 e4 50.Bb6 Bf3 0-1 Ziatdinov,RLoginov,V/Tashkent 1987/EXT 2000 15...Qxb2!?

15…c5 seems to be a better choice than the text 16.Rb1 Qxa2 Alternative is : 16...Qa3 17.Qg4 Qe7 (17...Rg8 18.Bc4 Be7 19.O-O h5) 18.Bd3 h5 19.Qxg6+ Qf7 17.Bd3 Be7 18.O-O O-O 19.Ra1 Qb2 20.Qg4 Bg5 20...Nf4 21.Rfb1 h5 +-

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21.Rfb1 Rxf2 The following alternative is no better: 21...Rf4 22.Qh3 Rxf2 23.Rxb2 Rxb2 24.Nxg5 hxg5 25.Qh6 +22.Rxb2 Rxb2 23.Nxg5 Nf4 24.g3 Nxd3 25.Ne4 Kg7 26.Qf3 Ra7 No better is: 26...Nf4 27.gxf4 Ra7 28.Nd6 +27.Qf6+ Kh7 28.Qf8 g5 29.Qxc8 Rab7 30.Nf6+ 30.Rf1 Nf4 31.gxf4 gxf4 32.Nf6+ Kg7 33.Qxe6 h5 34.Nxh5+ Kh7 35.Qxe5 R2b5 36.Qxf4 Rxh5 37.Qe4+ Kg7 38.Qg4+ Kh7 39.Qxh5+ Kg8 40.Rf4 a5 41.Kf2 Rb2+ 42.Kf3 Rb7 43.Qg6+ Rg7 44.Qe8+ Kh7 45.Rh4# 30...Kg6 31.Rf1 Nf4 32.gxf4 exf4 33.Qxe6 1-0 (W) Gupta, Vibhor (B) Mohanty, Om Prakash AICCF Championship 1513 B06: Modern Defence Notes by Om Prakash 1.e4 d6 2.d4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.Be3 a6 5.Qd2 b5 6.f3 Nd7 7.h4 Ngf6 8.O-O-O!? 8.g4 h6 9.a3 c6 10.h5 g5 11.Nge2 a5 12.Ng3 with initiative but nearly equal position. 8...h5!? To counter the assault on the h line. 9.Nh3?! 9.a3 Bb7 10.Qe1 O-O 11.Kb1 Qc8 12.Nh3 += 9...Bb7 10.Ng5 O-O 11.g4 e5 Novelty The thrust to the centre.

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11...b4 12.Na4 hxg4 13.Qxb4 Rb8 14.Qa3 gxf3 15.e5 Ne4 16.h5 Nxg5 17.Bxg5 gxh5 18.Rxh5 Re8 19.Bh6 Bxh6+ 20.Rxh6 e6 21.Qe3 Be4 22.Rh2 Nf8 23.Qxe4 1-0 (23) Sadowski,M (1897)-Kluwe,M (1421) IECG email 2005 12.d5 hxg4 13.h5 = Nxh5 14.fxg4 Nf4! 15.Qh2! Weaker is 15.Bxf4 exf4 16.Nh7 Re8 17.Qxf4 b4 -/+ 15...Re8 16.Qh7+ Less advisable is 16.Bxf4 exf4 17.Qh7+ Kf8 -/+ 16...Kf8 17.Qh4 Kg8 18.Bd3 c5!? 19.dxc6 Bxc6 20.Rdf1 Nf8 21.Kb1 21.Bxf4 exf4 22.Ne2 Re5 -/+ 21...Rb8 22.Nd5 22.Bxf4 exf4 23.Rh2 Qf6 -+ 22...f6 23.Nh7 =+ 23.Nxf4?? fxg5 24.Ne6 gxh4 (24...Rxe6?! 25.Bxg5 Qe8 26.Bh6 --+) 25.Nxd8 Rexd8 26.Rxh4 Ne6 -+ 23.Bxf4?! is easily refuted 23…exf4 24.Nf3 Bxd5 25.exd5 Re3 = 23...g5 24.Qh2 Rb7 24…Nxd5?? the pawn must remain untouched 25.exd5 Bxd5 26.Nxf6+ Bxf6 27.Bxg5 Bxh1 28.Bxf6 (28.Rxf6?! e4 29.Qxh1 Qe7 30.Rg6+ Nxg6 31.Bxe7 Rxe7 32.Bxe4 Rbe8 +/-) 28...Qxf6 29.Rxf6 +25.Nxf8 25.a3 Nxh7 (25...Nxd5?? taking the pawn will bring Black grief 26.exd5 Bxd5 27.Nxf6+ Bxf6 28.Bxg5 +-) 26.Qxh7+ Kf8 = 25...Kxf8 =+ 26.Rhg1? 26.Rd1 =

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26...Bd7 Instead of 26...Nxd5 27.exd5 Bxd5 28.Bxg5 +/26...Bxd5?! 27.exd5 Kf7 28.Be4 = 27.Qd2?! Be6 28.Be2 Qc8 29.Rg3 29.Rh1 a5 =+ (29...Bxg4 30.Nb6 (30.Nxf4 exf4 31.Qxd6+ Kg8 32.Bxg4 Qxg4 33.Qxa6 Rbb8 -/+) 30...Qe6 31.Bxg4 Qxg4 32.Qxd6+ Kg8 33.Qc6 +=) 29...Qc6 -/+ 30.Rd1 a5! with attack Black plans b4. It's time to attack since all defence is complete and king is safe. 31.Bf2 b4 32.b3 Bxd5 33.exd5 Qc7 34.Ba6 Rbb8 35.Qe1 Qd7 35...Kf7 36.c4 =+ 36.Qe4 36.a4 bxa3 37.Qxa5 Ra8 -/+ 36...Ra8 -/+ 37.Be2 Kf7 38.Bd3 Rh8 39.Bc4 Rh4 40.Rdg1 Kg8 41.Be1 Rb8 42.Bd3 a4 43.Bc4 Rxg4 44.Rxg4 f5 45.Qe3 fxg4 46.Qe4 axb3 47.Bxb3 Rf8 48.Bc4 Rf7 49.Kb2 Bf6 50.Kb1 Bd8

51.Be2?? This throws away the game. Now is difficult to defend the position.

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51.Rh1!? -/+ 51...Nxe2 -+ 52.Qxe2 Rf3 53.Qa6? Now its difficult to hold this game after this move. Now its all about playing the pieces to correct places. 53.Bxb4 Bb6 54.Rh1 -+ 53...Kf7 -+ 54.Bxb4 g3 55.Rf1? 55.Qxd6 Qxd6 56.Bxd6 Bb6 -+ 55...Rf4 To make a powerful pawn chain. 56.Bd2 56.a3 Be7 57.Rg1 -+ 56...Bf6 The plan is to play e4 at suitable moment. 57.Rg1 Rf3 58.Be1 e4 58...e4 59.Rxg3 Rxg3 60.Bxg3 Qg4 61.Qa7+ Kg6 -+ 62.Qg1 Qf3 63.Kc1 e3 64.Be1 e2 65.Qg3 Qxg3 66.Bxg3 Bc3! and wins 0-1 (W) Mohanty, Om Prakash (B) Somani, Aayush AICCF Championship 1513 D43 Semi-Slav Defence 1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.Nc3 e6 5.Bg5 h6 6.Bh4 dxc4 7.e4 g5 8.Bg3 b5 9.h4 g4 10.Ne5 Bb4 10...h5 11.Be2 b4 12.Na4 Nxe4 13.O-O Ba6 14.Bf4 Bh6 15.Qc2 Bxf4 16.Qxe4 Bh6 17.Rfd1 Qd5 18.Qc2 Bb5 19.Nc5 b3 20.Qc3 Bg7 21.axb3 cxb3 22.Re1 Bxe2 23.Rxe2 a5 24.Nxf7 Kxf7 25.Nxe6 Pligin,S (2596)-Bergmann,M (2493) Lechenicher SchachServer 2009 Telechess CBM 141 [Morgado,Juan Sebastian] 1-0 (45) 11.Be2

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11.f3 Rg8 ( Qa5 12.Qd2 Rg8 13.Bf4 gxf3 14.gxf3 h5 15.O-O-O Nfd7 16.Bh3 Be7 17.Nxf7 Kxf7 18.Bxb8 Nxb8 19.Qh6 Bf6 20.Qh7+ Bg7 21.d5 cxd5 22.exd5 Qb6 23.dxe6+ Bxe6 24.Bxe6+ Qxe6 25.Qxh5+ Kf8 26.Rd8+ Soberano,J (2499)-Kornilovich,V ICCF corr 1999 1-0) (11...Nh5 12.Bf2 Qa5 13.Qd2 g3 14.Be3 Bb7 15.Rc1 Nd7 16.Nxd7 Kxd7 17.a3 Be7 18.a4 Rad8 19.axb5 cxb5 20.b3 b4 21.Na4 c3 22.Qa2 Qc7 23.Nb2 Ke8 24.Nc4 a6 25.Ra1 f5 26.Qc2 Heller,R-Kahl,F DESC email 2005 0-1 (40)) 12.a3 Ba5 13.Bf2 Bb7 14.Qd2 h5 15.O-O-O Nfd7 16.Nxf7 Kxf7 17.Be2 g3 18.Be3 Nf6 19.Bg5 Qf8 0-1 (19) Iriarte Gomez,E (2215)-Jambrich,J (2291) ICCF email 2012 Inferior is 11.Nxg4 Nxe4 12.Qf3 Nxg3 (12...Qxd4 is much weaker 13.Rd1 Bxc3+ 14.bxc3 Qxc3+ 15.Qxc3 Nxc3 16.Be5 Nxd1 17.Bxh8 +/-) 13.fxg3 Qxd4 -/+ 11...Nxe4 12.O-O Nxc3 13.bxc3 Bxc3 Black forks: a1+d4 14.Bxg4 O-O Bxa1 15.Bh5 Qxd4 16.Bxf7+ Kd8 +/15.Bh5 += f5 16.Rb1 Bxd4 17.Ng6 e5 17...Rf7 18.Be5 Rd7 19.Qe2 += 18.Bxe5 += Bxe5 Decoy: e5 19.Nxe5 Qxd1 20.Rbxd1 c3 21.Rfe1 Be6 22.Ng6 c2 23.Rc1 Rf6 24.Rxc2 Bf7 25.Nf4 Na6 26.Re7 Nb4 27.Rd2 Rf8 28.Rdd7 a6 29.a3 Nd5 30.Nxd5 cxd5

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31.Ra7 d4 32.Red7 f4 33.Bf3 d3 34.Rxd3 Bc4 35.Rdd7 R8f7 36.Rxf7 Bxf7 37.Bb7 Rb6 38.Bc8 b4 39.axb4 Rxb4 40.Rxa6 Kg7 41.Bf5 Rb5 42.Be4 Re5 43.Ra4 Be8 44.Rd4 Ra5 45.Bc2 Ra1+ 46.Kh2 Ra2 47.Rc4 Bb5 48.Rc5 Ba4 49.Bxa4 Rxa4 50.Kh3 Kf6 51.f3 Kg6 52.Kg4 Ra2 53.Rc6+

53.Kxf4?! Rxg2 54.Rd5 Rh2 += 53...Kh7 53...Kg7 54.Kh3 +/- (54.Kxf4 +=3 Rxg2 55.Kf5 h5 +=) 54.Rc7+ +- Kg8 55.Kh3 Ra6 56.Rc4 Rf6 57.Kg4 Rg6+ 58.Kh5 Rxg2 59.Kxh6 Ra2 60.Rxf4 1-0 (W) Mohanty, Om Prakash (B) Anand, Anil Kumar AICCF Championship 1513 C78 Ruy Lopez 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.O-O b5 6.Bb3 Bb7 7.Re1 Bc5 8.c3 d6 9.a4 Bb6 10.d4 O-O 11.Bg5 h6 12.Bh4 Re8 13.axb5 axb5 14.Rxa8 Bxa8 15.d5 Na7

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15...Nb8 16.Bxf6 Qxf6 17.Na3 c6 18.dxc6 Bxc6 19.Bd5 Bd7 20.Qe2 Nc6 21.Qxb5 Rb8 22.Qa4 Bg4 23.Bxc6 Bxf3 24.Qc2 Qg6 25.g3 Qh5 26.Nc4 Qh3 27.Ne3 h5 28.Bb5 Bxe3 29.Bf1 Bxe4 30.Qxe4 Spierenburg,P (2060)-Loeffler,W (2358) ICCF email 2011 1/2-1/2 (43) 16.Na3 16.Bxf6 Qxf6 17.Na3 g5 18.Qe2 Bb7 19.Nc2 Bc8 20.Ne3 Bd7 21.Bc2 b4 22.c4 Nc8 23.Ra1 Ne7 24.Nd2 Kh7 25.Nb3 Rb8 26.Bd3 Nc8 27.Qc2 Qe7 28.Be2 Kg7 29.Nf1 c5 30.dxc6 Be6 Timmerman,G (2710)-Pioch,Z (2590) Norway 1994 1-0 (47) 16...g6 +=6 16...Qe7 17.Nc2 Bb7 18.Ne3 Bc8 19.Nf5 Bxf5 20.exf5 g5 21.fxg6 fxg6 22.Rxe5 1-0 (22) Maeder,KWidenmann,A Germany 1968 17.Qe2 Bb7 18.Nxb5 Nxb5 19.Qxb5 g5 20.Bg3 Qa8 21.Qe2 Ba6 22.Qd2 Nh5 23.Ra1 Qc8 24.Bd1 Bb5 25.Qc2 Qd8 26.c4 Nxg3 27.hxg3 Bd7 28.b4 Qe7 29.Rc1 c5 29...Bd4 30.Qd3 +/30.b5 Ra8 30...g4 31.Nh2 h5 32.Ra1 +/31.Nh2 +- f6 32.Bh5 Qh7 33.Qe2 Kf8 33...Kh8 34.Nf1 +34.Ng4 Kg7 35.Rf1 Ba5? 35...f5 +=2 36.f4 gxf4 37.gxf4 fxg4 38.fxe5 Rf8 +36.Ra1 Bxg4 36...Ra7 +- the only chance to get some counterplay 37.Qxg4 f5 38.exf5 Kf6 39.b6! Deflection: a5

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Qh8 39...Bxb6 40.Rxa8 Deflection Pinning 40.b7 Ra7 41.Qh3 Bb6 42.Rxa7 Bxa7 43.Bd1 h5 43...Qh7 also loses to 44.Qh5 Qxf5 45.Qxh6+ Ke7 46.Ba4 Qb1+ 47.Kh2 +44.Bxh5 Qh7 44...Qh6 45.g4 Qf8 46.Qb3 +45.f4! A decoy move 45…Qxf5 45...exf4 46.g4 Combination 45...gxf4 46.Qh4+ Decoy Discovered attack Double attack 46.Bg4 Qb1+ 47.Kh2 gxf4 48.Qh8+ Kg5 49.Qh4+ Kg6 50.gxf4 exf4 51.Bh5+ 1-0

After 51…Kh7 52.Bf3+ Kg8 53.Qd8+ Kf7 54.Qd7+ Kg8 55.Qe8+ Kg7 56.Qe7+ Kg8 57.Be4 Qb3 58.Qh7+ Kf8 59.Qh6+ Ke7 60.Qg7+ Ke8 61.Bg6+ Kd8 62.Qg8+ Kc7 63.Qc8+ Kb6 64.b8=Q+ Bxb8 65.Qxb8+ Ka5 66.Qxb3 Ka6 67.Qb8 f3 68.gxf3 Ka5 69.Qb5#

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(W) Mohanty, Om Prakash (B) Anand, Anil Kumar T.No. 4495 C52 Evans Gambit Accepted 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.b4 Bxb4 5.c3 Ba5 6.d4 exd4 7.Qb3 Qf6 8.O-O Bb6 9.e5 Qg6 10.cxd4 Na5 11.Qa4 Nxc4 12.Qxc4 Ne7 13.Ba3 Qe6 13...d5 14.exd6 cxd6 15.Re1 Bh3 16.Qb5+ Kd8 17.Nh4 Qf6 18.Nd2 Bd7 19.Qh5 Ng6 20.Ne4 Qxh4 21.Qd5 Ne7 22.Qxf7 Be8 23.Qf3 Qh5 24.Qf4 Qd5 25.Nxd6 Ng6 26.Nxb7+ Kc8 27.Nd6+ Kd8 28.Nb7+ O'Hare,C (2337)-Leroy,J (2386) ICCF email 2007 1/2-1/2 14.Qc1 h6 15.Nc3 c6?? Novelty This seems to be a novelty of the dubious type 15...O-O 16.d5 (16.Bxe7 Qxe7 17.Nd5 Qe6 18.Nxc7 1/2-1/2 (18) Aberbach,A (2213)-Hartl,H (2252) LSS email 2008) 16...Nxd5 17.Nxd5 Qxd5 18.Bxf8 Kxf8 19.a4 (19.Qf4 d6 20.Rfd1 Qc5 21.exd6 cxd6 22.Qxd6+ Qxd6 23.Rxd6 Be6 24.Rd2 Rc8 25.h3 g6 26.Nd4 Bd7 27.Nb3 Bc6 28.Rc1 Re8 29.Nd4 Bd7 30.a3 h5 31.Nc2 Ba4 32.Nb4 Ba5 33.Kh2 Kg7 De Mauro,L (2331)-Evans,S (2332) ICCF corr 2009 1/2-1/2 (34)) 19...Qc6 20.Qf4 Bc5 21.Nd4 g5 0-1 (21) Caillet,S (1857)-Zielinski,S (2069) Lechenicher SchachServer 2011 16.Ne4 O-O 17.Re1 Black has a cramped position. Black's piece can't move: c8 Rd8?? 17...Bd8 += was the only rescuing move

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18.Nf6+ 1-0

For if (a) 18…Kf8 19.Qb1 g6 20.Qb4 wins a piece (b) 18…Kh8 19.Ng5 hxg5 20.Qxg5 Ng8 21.Qh4+ (c) 18…gxf6 19.exf6 Qd5 20.Qxh6 and mate follows (W) Anand, Anil Kumar (B) Mohanty, Om Prakash T.No. 4495 C52 Evans Gambit Accepted 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.b4 Bxb4 5.c3 Ba5 6.d4 d6 7.Qb3 Qd7 8.dxe5 Bb6 9.Bb5 a6 10.Ba4 Nge7 Novelty 10…Bc5 11.c4 dxe5 (11...Nge7 12.O-O O-O 13.Ba3 Qe6 14.exd6 Bxd6 15.Bxd6 Qxd6 16.Rd1 Qg6 17.Nbd2 b6 18.Qe3 Rd8 19.Rac1 Bb7 20.Bb3 Na5 21.c5 Nxb3 22.Qxb3 b5 23.a4 Bc6 24.Ne5 Qf6 25.axb5 axb5 26.Nxc6 Miettinen,K (2466)-De Amorim Neto,J (2403) Brazil 1998 0-1 (37)) 12.O-O Qe6 13.Nc3 Nge7 14.Nd5 Qd6 15.Nxe5

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O-O 16.Nxc6 Nxc6 17.Bf4 Qg6 18.Qg3 Qxg3 19.Bxg3 Nd4 20.Bxc7 b5 21.cxb5 axb5 22.Bb3 Bb7 23.Rad1 Ra3 24.Rxd4 Bxd4 25.Bd6 Neumann,U (1561)Rusak,A (1856) Lechenicher SchachServer 2010 1/2-1/2 (31) 10…Ba7 11.c4 dxe5 12.O-O Bd4 13.Nc3 Bxc3 14.Qxc3 f6 15.Rd1 Qe6 16.Qa5 Qf7 17.Qd5 Qd7 18.Ba3 Qxd5 19.cxd5 b5 20.Rac1 Na5 21.Rxc7 bxa4 22.Rdc1 Bd7 23.Bb4 Nb3 24.axb3 axb3 25.Ba3 Pock,M (1309)-Spiridonov,N (1863) IECG email 1999 1-0 (39) 10...Qe6 11.Bxc6+ bxc6 12.O-O Rb8 13.Kh1 dxe5 14.Qxe6+ Bxe6 15.Nxe5 Ne7 16.Ba3 f6 17.Nd3 Bc4 18.Rd1 Rd8 19.Nb2 Kf7 20.Rd2 Be6 21.Bxe7 Kxe7 22.f3 Ba5 23.Rc2 Rd7 24.Na3 Rhd8 25.h4 Chandon,M-Bottlik,I corr 1974 0-1 (74) 11.Ba3 Bc5 12.exd6 Qxd6 13.Bxc6+ Nxc6 14.O-O O-O 15.Rd1 Qe7 16.Bxc5 Qxc5 17.Nbd2 Rd8 18.Nf1 Bg4 19.Qxb7

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19...Qxc3?? may look tempting but Black must resist capturing the pawn 20.Rac1 Qa3 21.Qxc6 Qxa2 22.Rxd8+ Rxd8 23.Qxc7 +20.gxf3 Ne5 20...Qxc3? fails because of 21.Rac1 Qxf3 22.Rxd8+ (22.Qxc6?! is no comparison Qg4+ 23.Kh1 Qf3+ 24.Kg1 Qg4+ 25.Kh1 Qf3+ 26.Kg1 =) 22...Rxd8 23.Qxc6 +21.f4 Nf3+ 22.Kg2 Nh4+ 23.Kg1 Qh5 24.Ne3 24.Rxd8+ Rxd8 25.Ne3 h6 = 24...Re8 24...Rf8 25.Qd5 Qf3 26.e5 Qxf4 27.Qc4 Qg5+ 28.Kh1 =+ 25.e5 25.Rab1!? = is worth looking at 25...Rab8 -/+ 26.Qe4 f5 27.Qd5+ Kh8 28.h3 28.Rd3 Rb5 29.Qd7 Rg8 -/+ 28...Rb6 29.Nf1 Ng6 30.Qf7? 30.Ng3 Qxh3 31.Rd4 -/+ 30...Rf8 -+ 31.Qc4 Qxh3 32.Rd3 Qh4 33.Rd4? 33.Qxc7 +=2 Rb2 34.Rg3 -+ 33...Rb2 34.Ng3 h5 35.e6 Qg4 36.Re1 h4 37.Qd3 c5 38.Rd8 38.Rc4 Ne7 39.Re2 -+ 38...Rxd8 39.Qxd8+ Kh7 40.Qd3 Ne7 0-1 For if 41.c4 Rxa2 -+ Worse is 40...hxg3 41.Qxg3 Qxg3+ 42.fxg3 -+ (W) Mohanty, Om Prakash (B) Gupta, Aniruddha Dutta T.No. 4495 C54 Giuoco Piano

19…Bxf3

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.b4 Bb6 5.a4 a6 6.c3 Nf6 7.d3 d6 8.O-

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O O-O 9.Nbd2 Ne7 10.Bb3 Ng6 11.Nc4 Ba7 12.a5 12.h3 h6 13.Re1 Nh5 14.d4 exd4 15.cxd4 Nhf4 16.Ne3 c6 17.Bc2 d5 18.exd5 Nxd5 19.Nxd5 Qxd5 20.Be4 Qd8 21.b5 Qf6 22.bxc6 bxc6 23.Qc2 Rb8 24.Ba3 Rd8 25.Qxc6 Bxd4 26.Nxd4 Rxd4 Skrobek,R (2555)-Berggreen,A (2435) Poland 1986 Corr Nr. 1 [RR] 1-0 (32) 12...h6 Novelty 12...Be6 13.h3 (13.Bg5 h6 14.Be3 Bxe3 (14...Re8 15.Bxa7 Rxa7 16.Ne3 Qd7 17.Bc2 Raa8 18.d4 c6 19.dxe5 dxe5 20.Qxd7 Nxd7 21.Rfd1 Rad8 22.Nd2 Nf6 23.f3 Rd7 24.Nb3 Rxd1+ 25.Rxd1 Nd7 26.Nf5 Kf8 27.Nd6 Rb8 28.Nc5 Nxc5 29.bxc5 Hanzalik,RBascetta,B (2145) ICCF email 2006 1/2-1/2 (41)) 15.Nxe3 d5 16.exd5 Nxd5 17.Bxd5 Bxd5 18.Re1 Be6 19.Nc2 Qf6 20.d4 Bg4 21.Re3 1-0 (21) Johansson,K (2500)-De Sa,J ICCF email 2003) 13...h6 14.Be3 Bxe3 15.Nxe3 Qd7 16.Re1 Rad8 17.Bc2 Qc8 18.d4 Rfe8 19.Nd2 Nf4 20.Qf3 Bd7 21.Ndc4 Bb5 22.Rab1 Qe6 23.d5 Qc8 24.Nb2 Bd7 25.c4 b5 26.axb6 cxb6 27.Ra1 Achilles,E (2424)Kartal,K ICCF email 2011 1-0 13.Ne3 Nf4 14.Re1 Re8 15.Nf1 Ng6 16.Be3 c6 Prevents intrusion on d5 17.Bxa7 Rxa7 18.Ne3 Ra8 19.Qd2 Qc7 20.Qc2 Ng4 21.d4 Nxe3 22.Rxe3 Nf4 23.g3 Nh3+ 24.Kg2 Bg4 25.Nd2 Rad8 26.f3 Bc8 27.Nc4 Qe7 28.Rae1 Qf6 29.d5 cxd5 30.Nb6 Ng5 30...d4 31.cxd4 exd4 32.Rd3 +/-

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31.Nxd5 Qg6 32.Kh1 Nh3 32...Bh3 +=2!? +/33.Ba4 +- Bd7 34.Bxd7 Rxd7 35.f4 Qg4 36.Qg2 Rdd8 37.Rd3

37…Qc8? Better was 37...Qh5 +38.Qf3 White intends f5 38…h5 38...f5 39.Kg2 +39.f5 Qc4 39...f6 also loses to 40.Kg2 Ng5 41.Qxh5 +40.Rde3 Ng5 41.Qd1 Qc6 41...Qa2 is not much help 42.h4 Nh3 43.R3e2 Nf2+ 44.Kg2 Nxd1 45.Rxa2 Nxc3 46.Nxc3 +42.h4 Nh7 43.Qxh5 Rc8 43...Nf6 otherwise it's curtains at once 44.Nxf6+ gxf6 +44.g4 1-0 After 44…Kh8 45.g5 +(W) Gupta, Aniruddha Dutta (B) Mohanty, Om Prakash AICCF Championship 1513 B06 Modern Defence 1.e4 d6 2.d4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.Be3 Nd7 5.Nf3 a6 6.Qd2 b5 7.Bd3 Bb7 8.a4

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8.O-O c5 9.dxc5 Nxc5 10.b4 Nd7 11.a4 bxa4 12.Rxa4 Ngf6 13.Bh6 O-O 14.Bxg7 Kxg7 15.Ra5 Qc7 16.Rfa1 Rfc8 17.R1a3 Nb6 18.Qe3 Nc4 19.Bxc4 Qxc4 20.R5a4 Nxe4 21.b5 Qxc3 22.Rxc3 Nxc3 Emelyanov,M (2411)-Kroll,O (2346) ICCF email 2005 1/2-1/2 8...Ngf6 9.d5 b4 10.Ne2 Bc8?? Novelty 10...a5 11.Nfd4 O-O 12.f3 Ne5 13.Bb5 e6 14.Nc6 Bxc6 15.dxc6 d5 16.Bd4 Nc4 17.Qd3 e5 18.Bc5 Nd6 19.exd5 Re8 20.Rd1 e4 21.Qb3 exf3 22.Qxf3 Nfe4 23.Bxd6 Nxd6 24.Bd3 Bxb2 25.O-O Goodwin,B (2021)-Josefsson,K (2227) ICCF email 2011 0-1 (54) 10...c5!? = should not be overlooked 11.Ned4? 11.Qxb4! Rb8 12.Qa3 O-O +/11...O-O Black has a cramped position 12.O-O c5 13.dxc6 Nc5 14.Qxb4 Nfxe4 15.a5 Qe8 16.Qb6 16.Bxe4 Nxe4 17.c7 Nf6 += 16...Nxd3 += 17.cxd3 Nf6 18.Bg5 Nd5 19.Qb3 Nc7 20.Rfe1 e5 21.Rac1 Kh8 22.Bd2 f6 Controls g5 23.h3 Consolidates g4 23…Rf7 24.Bb4 Rb8 25.Qa3 d5 26.Bc5 Qg8 27.Nc2 Be6 28.Nb4 g5 29.d4 e4 30.Nd2 g4 31.h4 f5 31...Bf8 32.Bxf8 Qxf8 33.Nc2 = 32.Bb6 Rc8 33.Bxc7 Rfxc7 34.Qc3 34.Nxa6 Rxc6 35.Rxc6 Rxc6 = 34...f4 35.Nb3??

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This gives the opponent counterplay. 35.Nf1 = is the best option White has. 35...g3!! -+ 36.fxg3?? Bf8 37.Nc5 Rg7 38.Nxe6?? White crumbles in face of a dire situation Better was 38.Nxe4 dxe4 39.d5 Bxb4 40.Qxb4 Bxd5 41.Qd4 Bxc6 42.gxf4 -+ 38...Qxe6 -+ 39.Nxd5 Qxd5 40.gxf4 40.Qc2 cannot change destiny 40…e3 41.Rf1 Bd6 -+ 40...Bd6 41.Qe3 Rcg8 42.Rc2 Qh5 43.Rf1 Rg4 44.c7 44.Qxe4 Re8 45.c7 Rxe4 46.c8=Q+ Re8 -+ 44...Bxc7! Deflection: g2.. 45.Qxe4 45.Rxc7 Rxg2+ Mate attack Deflection 45...Bb8 46.Qe7 Qh6 47.h5 47.Qe4 cannot undo what has already been done Rxh4 48.Rc6 Rh1+ 49.Kf2 Qh4+ 50.Ke2 Qg4+ 51.Qf3 Re8+ 52.Kd2 Bxf4+ 53.Kc3

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Qd7 54.Rxh1 Re3+ 55.Qxe3 Qxc6+ 56.Kd3 Bxe3 57.Kxe3 Qxg2 -+ 47...Bd6 48.Qe3 48.Qe2 is also losing to Bxf4 49.Rf3 Rh4 50.Rxf4 Qxf4 51.Qe5+ Qxe5 52.dxe5 Rxh5 -+ 48...Bxf4 49.Rxf4 Qxf4 50.Qxf4 50.Qe5+ doesn't change anything anymore 50…Qxe5 51.dxe5 R8g5 -+ 50...Rxf4 51.Rc4 51.Rc6 hardly improves anything Rxd4 52.Kf2 Ra8 -+ 51...Rfg4 52.Kf2 52.Rc2 No better is Rxd4 53.Kf2 Rd5 -+ 52...Rxg2+ 53.Kf3 53.Ke3 Rxb2 54.Rc6 Rb3+ 55.Ke4 Rg4+ 56.Ke5 Rb5+ 57.d5 Rg5+ 58.Ke4 Rbxd5 59.Rc8+ Kg7 -+ 53...Rxb2 54.Rc6 Re8 55.Rxa6 55.Kg4 Rf2 56.Kg3 -+ 55...Rb3+ 56.Kf4 Rb1 57.Rd6 57.Kg3 Rf1 58.Kh2 -+ 57...Rf1+ 58.Kg5 Rg8+ 59.Kh6 Rh1 60.a6

60…Rg6+! A fitting end to a beautiful game 61.Rxg6 hxg6 62.Kxg6 0-1

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(W) Mohanty, Om Prakash (B) Aleemuddin, Mohammed AICCF Championship 1513 B80 Sicilian Scheveningen 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.Be3 e6 7.f3 b5 8.Qd2 Bb7 9.a3 9.Bd3 Nbd7 10.O-O Be7 11.b4 Rc8 12.Rfb1 Qc7 13.Nde2 O-O 14.a4 bxa4 15.Rxa4 Nb6 16.Raa1 d5 17.b5 a5 18.exd5 Bb4 19.dxe6 Nc4 20.Bxc4 Qxc4 21.Bd4 Rfd8 22.exf7+ Kxf7 23.Ra4 Rxd4 Pessoa,F (2407)-Schulze,M (2336) IECG email 2006 1/2-1/2 (32) 9.Be2 Nc6 10.a4 Nxd4 11.Bxd4 e5 12.Bf2 b4 13.Nd5 Nxd5 14.exd5 Qa5 15.Bc4 Be7 16.O-O O-O 17.Rae1 Rae8 18.f4 Bf6 19.f5 Bc8 20.Be3 g6 21.Rf2 gxf5 22.Bh6 Qc5 23.b3 f4 Sabbatini,G (1967)Petruzzelli,R (2038) ICCF email 2011 1/2-1/2 (67) 9...Nbd7 10.O-O-O Novelty 10.Be2 d5 11.exd5 Nxd5 12.Nxd5 Bxd5 13.O-O Bd6 14.Nf5 Be5 15.Nd4 O-O 16.Rad1 Nf6 17.b3 Rc8 18.Rc1 Qd6 19.c4 Bxh2+ 20.Kh1 bxc4 21.bxc4 Ba8 22.c5 Qg3 23.Bf2 Qe5 24.Be3 Qh5 Cobb,C-Suc,T IECC email 2000 0-1 10...Be7 11.g4 Nb6 12.Kb1 O-O 12...Rc8 13.h4 = 13.h4 Nfd7 14.g5 Ne5 15.Qe1 Nec4 16.Bc1 Qc7 17.b3 Ne5 18.Bb2 Nc6 19.Nxc6 Bxc6 20.h5 Bxg5 21.Qg3 Bh6 22.Rg1 22.Qxd6?! Qxd6 23.Rxd6 Rac8 = 22.Rxd6 is much worse Nc8 23.e5 Nxd6 24.exd6 Qa7 -/+

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22...f6 23.Qxd6 Not 23.Rxd6 Nc8 24.Rxe6 Qxg3 25.Rxg3 Bd7 = 23...Qxd6 24.Rxd6 Be3 25.Bh3!! 25.Rxc6?! Bxg1 26.Bh3 e5 = 25...Bxg1 26.Bxe6+ Kh8 27.Rxc6 Rab8 28.h6 Bh2 29.hxg7+ Kxg7 30.Ne2 Na8 31.Bg4 31.Rxa6?! Nc7 32.Ra7 Ra8 33.Rxa8 Rxa8 = 31...Rb6 32.Rc5 Bd6 33.Rg5+ Kh8 34.Rh5 Rb7 35.Nd4 Nc7 36.Nf5 36.Bf5 Ne8 37.f4 Re7 +/36...Be5 37.Ne7 Bxb2 38.Ng6+ Kg7 39.Nxf8 Bxa3 40.Nd7 Bb4 41.Bf5 h6 42.Rh2 Bc3 43.Rg2+ Kf7 44.e5 Bxe5 45.Bg6+ Ke7 46.Be4 Kxd7 47.Bxb7 Ke6 48.Rg6 Bf4 49.Rg4 Kf5 50.Bc8+ Ke5 51.b4 f5 52.Rg8 Bd2 53.Rf8 f4 53...Bxb4!? 54.Rxf5+ Kd4 +/54.Rf7 +- Nd5 55.Kb2 Nxb4 55...Bxb4 56.Rf5+ Kd4 57.Bb7 +56.Re7+ +- Kd4 57.Re2 Bc3+ 58.Kb3 Nd5 59.Bxa6

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Black prepares the advance b4.a blunder in a bad position. Better was 59...b4 60.Re4+ Kc5 +60.Bb7 b4 60...Bg7 doesn't change the outcome of the game 61.Re6 Ne3 62.c3 +61.Bxd5 Kxd5 62.Re4 Bd2 63.Re7 Bc3 64.Rf7 Kd4 64...Ke6 no good, but what else? 65.Rh7 Bd2 +65.Rxf4+ Ke3 65...Ke5 66.Rh4 Bd2 +66.Rh4 Kxf3 67.Rxh6 1-0 (W) Khan, Shams (B) Saxena, Alok T.No. 7406 B45 Sicilian Four Knights Shams Khan writes: An extraordinary win - I have won a marathon game against Dr. Alok Saxena! It deserves to be given a place in the next Bulletin! 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.Nc3 Nc6 4.d4 cxd4 5.Nxd4 Nf6 6.a3 Be7 7.Bf4 This move tries to get a grip on Black's weak dark squares e5, d6 and c7.More commonly played lines are: 7.Be3, 7.f4, 7.Be2 7...O-O 8.e5 8.Ndb5 should be answered by d5! and Black stands better 8...Nd5 Equally good was 8...Ne8 9.Nxc6 bxc6 10.Be2 f6 = 9.Nxd5 exd5 10.Be2 d6 11.exd6 Bxd6 12.Bxd6 Qxd6 13.O-O Bd7 14.Bf3 Ne5 15.c3 Rfe8 16.Qb3 Bc6 The position is equal. Black's isolated d5 pawn and the

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consequent weak d4 square are compensated by his well-placed queen and knight, 17.Be2 Nd7 18.Qc2 Nc5 19.Bf3 Re5 20.c4 Ne4 21.Rad1 Rae8 22.Rfe1 Both players have regrouped their forces. Additionally White has also attacked the centre by 20.c4 Ng5 23.Rxe5 Qxe5 Unfortunately the Zwischenzwug 23...Nxf3+ does not work as 24.Nxf3 protects the Rook at e5. 24.Be2 Ne6 25.Nxc6 bxc6 At last White exchanges off his well-placed Knight for Black's relatively immobile Bishop which was serving only to protect Black's d5 pawn. 26.Bf1 d4 The previously isolated d-pawn is transformed into a passed pawn. However White is better placed in view of his light squared Bishop. 27.b4 c5 28.g3 Rb8 29.Qd2 Qd6 30.Rb1 Qa6 31.Qd3 g6 32.h4 h5 33.Bg2 Qd6 34.Qd2 Kg7 35.Be4 The outpost at d5 was to be preferred 35.Bd5 35...Rb6 36.b5 Rb8 37.a4

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37…g5!? White has made progress in advancing his Queenside pawn majority and Black's d-passer with central grip are controlled. Rather than wait passively, Black initiates an attack on the Kingside. 38.hxg5!? h4 39.Kg2 The best choice. 39.gxh4 loses Rh8 40.Qd3 Rxh4 -+ 39.Qd3 allows Black to Queen his d-pawn and forces White to take a perpetual check. Rh8 40.a5 hxg3 41.Qxg3 Nf4 42.Qg4 d3 43.Qf5 Ne2+ 44.Kf1 Nc3 45.Rb2 d2 46.Rxd2 Qxd2 47.Qe5+ Kg8 48.Qe8+ with perpetual check 39.Rb3 Qe5 40.Bg2 hxg3 41.Rxg3 Nf4 42.Bf3 Rh8 43.Rg4 Ng6 = 39...hxg3 40.fxg3 Qe5 41.Re1 Nxg5 42.Bb1 42.Bd5 This outpost was still stronger. 42...Qf6 43.Qf4 Rh8 44.Qxf6+ Kxf6 45.Rf1+ Engines are showing +1.13 indicating a win for White in this position. Ke7 46.Rf5 Ne6 47.a5 Again 47.Be4 aiming for Bd4 was stronger. 47...Rd8 48.Bd3 Rc8 49.Be4 +At last White places his Bishop on the all important long diagonal from where his Queenside pawns will be supported. Ng7 50.Rf1 Ne8 51.Re1 Kf6 Unfortunately 51...Kd6 is not possible 52.Bd5 f6 53.Re6+ 52.Kf3 Rd8 53.b6 axb6 54.axb6 Rb8 55.b7 Nd6 56.Bd5 Nxc4 Of course not 56...Nxb7? 57.Rb1

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56...Rxb7 57.Bxb7 Nxb7 58.Ke4 is a comfortable win for White. 57.Bxc4 Rxb7 58.Kf4 The rest is a matter of technique. Rb4 59.Rc1 Ke7 60.Ke4 Ra4 61.g4 Kf6 62.Be2 Ra3 63.Kf4 d3 64.Bd1 d2 65.Rc2 Rd3 66.Rxc5 Kg6 67.Rf5 Rd8 68.Rg5+ Kf6 69.Ra5 Kg6 70.Kf3 Kh6 71.Ra7 Kg6 72.Bc2+ Kh6 73.Ra6+ f6 74.Bd1 Kg6 75.Ra1 Kh6 76.Kf4 Rd6 77.Bf3 Rd4+ 78.Kf5 Kg7 79.Rb1 Kf8 80.Rd1 Kg7 81.Be4 Kf7 82.Kf4 Ke6 83.Ke3 Ke5 84.Bf5 1-0

ENTERTAINERS FROM SHAMS KHAN Shams Khan never ceases to entertain us with miniature games. He submitted 9 miniature games played in the last 6-months! They are easy games played against beginner level opponents. Here are 2 of them. The Afro-Asian Premil 18 has barely started, and already here is a Shams Khan win with a Greek Gift sacrifice: Afro-Asian Prelim 18 Secn H White "Khan, Shams" Black "Mills, Terence" 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.e5 c5 4.c3 Bd7 5.Nf3 a6 6.Bd3 cxd4 7.cxd4 Bb4+ 8.Nc3 Nc6 9.a3 Bxc3+ 10.bxc3 Nge7 11.O-O O-O 12.Bxh7+ Kxh7 13.Ng5+ Kg8 14.Qh5 1-0

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T No: 4538 White "Khan, Shams" Black "Yellapu Pandavakrishna" 1.e4 e5 2.f4 exf4 3.Nf3 g5 4.h4 g4 5.Ne5 h5 6.Bc4 Nh6 7.d4 d6 8.Nd3 Be7 9.Bxf4 Bxh4+ 10.g3 Bg5 11.Qd2 Nc6 12.Bxg5 Qd7 13.Bf6 Rh7 14.Rxh5 Ne7 15.Rxh6 Rxh6 16.Qxh6 Ng8 17.Qh8 Kf8 18.Qg7+ Ke8 19.Qg8#

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ChessBase comes to India

ChessBase India

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new website (http://chessbase.in), ChessBase India started from 13 Nov 2015 – an excellent initiative on the part of ChessBase GmBh Germany. On this site you will find good coverage of chess events in India, thanks to ChessBase India founders Sagar Shah and Amruta Mokal. ChessBase products have a special price when ordered in India. Sailesh Chandra has contacted ChessBase on behalf of AICCF and ICCF Zone-4 to continue marketing cooperation between ICCF and ChessBase (being pursued by ICCF Marketing Director, Andrew Delearney). Here are the ideas being pursued by Sailesh Chandra: 1. ChessBase can sponsor the national championships of various countries in zone 4 (For example the winner in the Indian National Championships can get a small Chess Base Voucher). 2. ChessBase India can offer free or discounted Life Membership to AICCF+ICCF for anyone buying their product or AICCF can offer ChessBase vouchers for anyone who joins AICCF+ICCF. This could be used and promoted at various FIDE rated tournaments in India. The participants would be buying Chess Base products and also joining ICCF and AICCF. 3. ChessBase India is asking for blog writers. Sailesh Chandra will offer to write a weekly blog promoting ICCF Zone 4 and AICCF.

“Half the variations which are calculated in a tournament game turn out to be completely superfluous. Unfortunately, no one knows in advance which half” -Jan Tinman

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ICCF News

Sailesh Chandra Elected Director ICCF Zone 4 Africa/Asia

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eaders will be familiar with Sailesh Chandra as AICCF Management Committee member. Now he assumes an added responsibility. He has been elected to the Executive Board of the International Correspondence Chess Federation. This is the first time in the history of ICCF that someone from India is elected to its executive board. This landmark achievement is part of the long road AICCF followed to make a mark in the international scene. The starting point came when the Bulletin Editor at that time, Shri V.D.Pandit began correspondence with ICCF leading to affiliation in 1997. The high points: 1993: AICCF Founded 1996: First Friendly International Matches Postal: India vs. Scotland, India vs. Sweden, India vs. Poland and India vs. England 1997: AICCF affiliated to ICCF: 01-07-1998: 7 AICCF players make it to ICCF Rating List They were A.G.Nagaradjane, P.M.Dalvi, R.K.Chauhan, Dr. A.Chatterjee, V.D.Pandit, S.A.Salgaocar and Valsan, K. st 2000: AICCF Team in 1 Email Olympiad 23-03-2009: First Friendly International Match on ICCF Webserver India vs. Canada. India lost 3.5-10.5 ICCF titles awarded to AICCF Players: Anil Kumar, N. R.: IM (2001), SIM (2002) Santhosh, Matthew Paul: IM (2002) Dhanish, P. B.: IM (2011), SIM (2011), GM (2014) Sasikiran, Krishnan: IM (2015), SIM (2016) 31-10-2004: ICCF Congress hosted in India Hotel Retreat, Mumbai 2003: India contributes to ICCF Webserver Software Major Javascript codes written by A.Chatterjee AICCF Delegates attending ICCF Congress overseas: 03-09-2001 Rimini H.J.Samtani (financial support from ICCF) 05-10-2002 Seixal N.R. Anil Kumar 11-10-2003 Ostrava N.R. Anil Kumar 14-10-2006 Dresden Dr. Ambar Chatterjee 11-10-2014 Sydney

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16-08-2015 Cardiff 2014: Proposal from India accepted in ICCF Congress: Proposal for automation on ICCF server, Sydney 2014 presented by Dr. A.Chatterjee accepted Participation in forthcoming ICCF Congress: 14-08-2016 Bremen Sailesh Chandra and Dr. A.Chatterjee EVENTS LEADING UPTO THE NOMINATION OF SAILESH CHANDRA FOR ZONAL DIRECTOR The ICCF Congress 2015, Cardiff saw 2 proposals that in our opinion could have been detrimental to the popularization of CC in Asia and Africa: ICCF 2015-009 Eliminate Zone 4 Subsidy ICCF 2015-015 ICCF Zonal Realignment In ICCF 2015-009 it was mentioned that free tournaments on ICCF server being offered to Zone 4 had not helped develop the zone. There were only 3 countries in the Zone (South Africa, India, Cape Verde) and there had been no increase in activity. The proposal suggested to do away free tournaments in the Zone. ICCF 2015-015 proposed that there were very countries in Africa/Asia affiliated to ICCF and these countries could be moved to other zones. Zone 4 could be dissolved. Fortunately, both motions were defeated. The main argument we made was that these actions would quell the little development of CC that was taking place in Africa/Asia and perhaps bring the activity to a complete halt. However, we were told that these actions would be reconsidered if development in Africa-Asia in the near future (in terms of more affiliated countries) did not take place soon. Discussions with the serving Zonal Director, Everdinand Knol revealed that it was very hard to make further progress in the Zone. Countries in the region have limited resources and to work towards forming national federations affiliated to ICCF seems to be a very difficult task. However Brian Jones (Australia) pointed out that many countries in the Asia – Pacific region could be considered, especially countries like Indonesia, Philippines. We mentioned Algeria, Mongolia, Pakistan. There appeared to be a need to see if India could contribute to motivating developing countries in the region to take up CC. The Zonal Director, Everdinand Knol was completing his term. From there stemmed the idea of fielding a candidate for the next Zonal Director from India.

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The manifest prepared by Sailesh Chandra while contesting the post was as follows: Profile and Statement in support of the candidature of Akkaraju Sailesh Chandra for the election of Zone 4 Director Sailesh lives in Bangalore in India with his wife and five year old child Lohit "Nanduji". Professionally he has an experience of 23 years. While he has been playing chess for the last 35 years, he has been involved with All India Correspondence Chess Federation (AICCF) and the International Correspondence Chess Federation (ICCF) for the last eight years. Sailesh's educational background is in Civil Engineering. In addition he has completed his long duration program in International Business from Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, Operations Management from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi and Environment management from the Indian Institute of Science Bangalore. Finally he also is an alumnus of Accelerated Development Program of the Wharton Business School, University of Pennsylvania. Personal Statement I am an avid chess player, FIDE rated in standard, rapid and blitz games, and I am rated 2189 in ICCF, currently playing in the 15th ICCF AfroAsian Semi Finals. (Akkaraju, Sailesh Chandra, ICCF Id 280187). My best th result has been winning the 16 ICCF preliminary tournament with a score of 6/6. So essentially I have played complete games which have lasted less than a minute to games lasting more than two years. While Vishwanathan Anand is the pride of India, my favorite players are Tigran Petrosian, Vladimir Kramnik, Ulf Anderson, Karl Schlecter, Vasilly Smyslov and Anatoly Karpov. Aspirationally, it is safety first for me; I would rather draw a hundred games, than lose one. I also am an avid solver and an enthusiastic promoter of solving and composing in India. I am a volunteer chess teacher and I know that Dr. Tarrasch's statement Chess, like love, like music, has the power to make people happy is true. Moreover I strongly believe that chess is not an end in itself. Playing Chess is strongly related to better scholastic performance among students according to various researches performed. Even in elderly, playing chess has been scientifically proven to help fight diseases like Dementia. The biggest problem in zone 4, I see is membership which is directly related to individual finances of people. I have worked with various visionaries in my life and I am proud to say Dr. Ambar Chatterjee is one of them. He has created a free webserver for unlimited tournaments which we would replicate on the zonal level. Our goal is to have many

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federations join zone 4. I know from personal experience that playing Correspondence Chess makes you a better OTB player, because very often you study a position deeply or ask yourself why an engine or tablebase is coming up with a particular plan of continuing. So we will be reaching out to various FIDE organizations as well. We have one FIDE grandmaster and one international master playing in the current AICCF National Championships. Thanks to the leadership of Dr. Ambar Chatterjee and Dr. Alok Saxena we have several FIDE Grandmasters and International Masters as members of AICCF. Dr. Ambar Chatterjee has agreed to be the deputy zonal director if I am elected zonal director. Personal Statement of Dr. Ambar Chatterjee I am President of All India Correspondence Chess Federation and have earlier been Vice-President and Bulletin Editor. I am a scientist in my professional life, now retired from active work, but still involved in guiding research and teaching. I started playing CC at age 13 and have been playing for 50 years. I wrote the software for a CC webserver for AICCF and have been running the Indian server since 9 years. I also participated (with Martin Bennedick and Ian Macintosh) in the development of the ICCF webserver. I believe that many countries in Africa and Asia cannot afford to pay high fees for entering events on the ICCF server. At Cardiff, India did not support the proposals of (a) terminating free entries for Zone 4 players and (b) dissolving Zone 4 on the grounds that the subsidies have not led to any growth of CC in Africa-Asia. Instead, we hope that a lot can be done to gather support for more member nations for ICCF. I can offer a free server at the Zonal level which nations could use for their events leading upto their National Championship (ICCF allows the National Championship to be hosted for free on the ICCF server). I stand behind Sailesh Chandra’s nomination as Zonal Director. The full backing and support of the strong Indian Federation will be behind Mr. Sailesh Chandra. I agree to be the Deputy Zonal Director in case Mr. Sailesh is elected. RESULT OF THE ICCF ELECTION FOR DIRECTOR ZONE 4 th

The voting was completed on 24 October 2015 and Sailesh Chandra was elected as Director ICCF Zone 4. AFTER THE ELECTION A number of ideas to spread information about CC and help other countries to form a national federation affiliated to ICCF were put forward by Sailesh Chandra. Austin Lockwood, Eric Ruch, Andrew Delearny,

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Brian Jones, Everdinand Knol, Alok Saxena and Ambar Chatterjee participated in the discussions. Brian Jones of Australia, expressed his desire to shift Australia from Zone 3 to Zone 4. This was voted and accepted by ICCF. This means that the big efforts being put in by Brian to spread the word about ICCF in Malaysia and Indonesia are now integrated in Zone 4. It was soon realized that reaching the smaller nations in the zone is going to be a difficult task. Our correspondence shows that countries like Algeria, Mongolia, Pakistan and Bangladesh have people participating as direct entry (mostly in the free events of the zone), but to get these people together to form a national federation is not going to be easy. We have some ideas in this direction and we are going to execute them in the following years. Here are some specific things: 1. Starting from this issue, we will be sending printed copies of the AICCF Bulletin to ICCF direct entrants from countries in Zone 4 who do not have a Federation. 2. The AICCF Bulletin will include articles by Sailesh Chandra and A.Chatterjee about Correspondence Chess in Africa-Asia-Australia. Our friends from countries without a National Federation will thus get a lot of information about correspondence chess. 3. We will create a free CC server for all the nations of the Zone with separate sections for each country where unlimited CC games can be played for free. Thus nations who do not have a federation will still have a common web-site where they will get together to play and discuss. Through this site we will attempt to identify persons in these countries who can prepare a newsletter and gradually work towards having enough persons to affiliate to iCCF and start a National Championship on ICCF server. 4. We will put up a proposal to ICCF to consider that tournament fees, direct entry fees and affiliation fees should be based on the GDP per capita of the country. This will result in substantially lower fees for the developing countries of the zone. START OF ZONAL TOURNAMENTS th

The 18 AA Champ preliminaries got started on 22-02-2016 with a record number of entries and 17 sections. The tournament was organized and started by Everdinand Knol who continues his good work even after his

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term has ended. Dinand continues to support the activities of the Zone and is in constant touch with Sailesh Chandra. The second ICCF Interzonal Individual Tournament will start from 15 June 2016. Players from the AA Zone with ratings between 2200 and 2375 can enter either through their national delegates or the zonal director. PROPOSALS BEING PREAPRED FOR THE ICCF CONGRESS, BREMEN We are preparing two proposals to be put before the ICCF Congress 2016 at Bremen. In the first proposal we will suggest that ICCF tournament fees as well as affiliation fees should be based on the GDP per capita of the country. We hope that this will bring ICCF within reach of many more players from developing countries, especially in Zone 4. The second proposal concerns ICCF playing rules. In any ICCF Congress there are a large number of proposals for rule changes put forward by delegates from member countries. For example in the ICCF Congress, Cardiff, there were 11 proposals (2015-004, 2015-005, 2015-014, 2015021, 2015-022, 2015-030, 2015-031, 2015-034, 2015-037, 2015-038 and 2015-039) which were directly related to server playing rules and some more proposals indirectly connected. These rule changes are often connected with each other and in some cases with those suggested or implemented in the past year. ICCF rules are already needlessly complicated and ICCF rule documents, till recently, were not being updated regularly. If new rules are introduced, it takes the players and Tournament Directors some time to understand them. Implementation of new rules adds considerable cost to the server development budget. We suggest that proposals for rule changes be consolidated over 2 years and then discussed together to iron out any inconsistencies. The implementation cost would also come down. There would then be enough time to update the ICCF rule documents and a Webserver Guide document presently non-existent. Most importantly, players and administrators would get enough time to assimilate the rule changes.

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From 1997

HOW AICCF Went Forward in the International Scene CC in India and AICCF in particular started in a small way. In May 1997, the then AICCF Bulletin Editor, Shri V.D.Pandit published an appeal which we reprint here. Perhaps this may inspire other countries who do not yet have a National CC Federation affiliated to ICCF. REPRINTED FROM THE AICCF BULLETIN FEBRUARY 1997

Help AICCF for a quantum leap into the international scene With the enthusiasm of sincere members like you, CC in the country is going ahead by leaps and bounds. In the years to come, we are hopeful, of increasing the number of members and also the standard of play. CC enjoys worldwide popularity. Countries like Germany, England, Scotland, Sweden, Poland, USA, Russia, Netherlands are very active in CC. Nor is CC restricted by the national boundaries; it is played internationally as well. International CC is governed by the International CC Fedration (ICCF). The ICCF conducts regular CC tournaments, World Championships and Olympiads. It also awards the titles of CCGM and ICCM and maintains Ratings. But we do not have Indian players on the International scene. If this is allowed to continue, we may never see an Indian CCGM or ICCM. However, we do not lack talent. Many of our players seem good enough to obtain ratings above 2200. Given a chance to play regularly, can an international title be far behind? Some of the reasons for why Indian representation at international CC is almost non-existent are: lack of awareness, opportunities and support and the costs involved.

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But things can change. We have at hand an invitation from ICCF to become its member. Receiving such an invitation is both an honour and a recognition of the work being done by AICCF to promote CC. Accepting the invitation will open the roads for international CC to our members. The decision to take the membership of ICCF rests with all of us. Playing international CC involves the cost of correspondence and the annual membership fees (30 Swiss francs per 100 members; one SF = Rs. 30/-). Some of us would still be interested despite the high cost is evident from the response to the Friendly Internationals with Scotland, Sweden, Poland and England. If we are going to join ICCF, we need the support from our well-settled and benevolent members. On the basis of the response estimated, we feel any one member will have to contribute Rs. 250/- for one year. We, therefore, request those of you who arte interested to help AICCF in this regard, to send Rs. 250/- by M.O., cheque/draft drawn in favour of All India Correspondence Chess Federation to the Secretary (for outstation cheque, add Rs. 10/-) or you may choose to donate Rs. 2,500/- only once. At the same time, we welcome any suggestion you might have on this subject. We look forward to your help. * * * * * * N.B.: The money so received may be just enough to pay the ICCF membership fees. Any player wishing to play in ICCF tournament will be required to pay separately the tournament entry fee as levied by ICCF. (World Individual 7-player Tournament = 4 SF; 9-player tournament = 6 SF; World Thematic Tournament = 5 SF; etc.. one SF = Rs. 30/-)

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International Section Dr. Alok Saxena

ICCF STATUS (based on minutes of the last ICCF Congress)

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or the first time in ICCF history, a player survey has been conducted beginning in 2014 and the results have demonstrated that a large majority of players are satisfied with the services provided by ICCF including the ICCF webserver. The ICCF statutes have been modernized; ICCF has been officially registered in Switzerland; and has opened a working office in France to comply with the nonprofit status of ICCF. The ICCF website and server have been unified and a new modern design has been implemented. The server has been globalized and is now available in many languages (globalization effort). Games can be played on many modern devices including tablets and smartphones. The games played on the server start to benefit from the modern technologies that are now available (automation of Tournament Director Decisions, use of endgame Table Bases etc.). The server continues its development. There are now

almost than 10,000 registered correspondence chess players and the number of webserver tournaments started every year is steadily increasing. In 2014, a record number of entries (2,275) have been processed through the Direct Entry office, an increase of more the 25% with respect to 2013 and more than double since 2009. In the same time, the number of active players has increased by more than 25% (players having at least one game in progress) and the number of registered players by more than 75%. ICCF Zones and National Federations are organizing many different kinds of tournaments. In the survey, a large majority of players have shown their appreciation of large available choice of tournaments, but little has been done so far to take advantage of the possibilities offered by the new time controls (e.g. Fisher clock) that are now supported by the server (The promotional league is one example of tournament with no leave available). For tournaments played in successive stages, the timely conclusions of the preliminary and semi-final sections

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is a must and promoting results on the board rather than by adjudication will be highly appreciated by the players. GRANDMASTER NORMS PER PLAYER An All Time GM Norm list is maintained on the ICCF webserver and can be found under “About ICCF” – “ICCF Titles” – “All Time GM Norm List”. Once GM title is confirmed this list is automatically updated and all GM norms are registered automatically also. Of course, all GM norms can also be found under the Player Details of every individual player. ICCF SERVER ICCF server has been transferred from domainbox.de to Melbourne Server Hosting in Manchester, England. Melbourne offers a fully managed hosting service, which has released Martin Bennedik from his previous server management tasks; this has freed him up to spend more of the time he is contracted to ICCF on development. Server availability since the move to Melbourne has been excellent; the company actively monitors the server for problems round the clock and responds to urgent support requests within a few minutes day or night. It was felt that the extended periods of unavailability we occasionally experienced with the previous hosting company are now a thing of the past.

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A persistent problem with the server in the past has been email deliverability; a number of solutions to this issue have been evaluated and tested over the course of the past year. The eventual solution was to install software on the server, which digitally ‘signs’ all email. Since this software was installed and configured, the number of complaints to the helpdesk about undelivered email has reduced to almost nothing. HELPDESK UPDATE Approximately 250 help desk questions were fielded for last one year, which represented an increase of about 100 questions over the previous year. The majority of questions came immediately after major changes to the Webserver (large update in winter). The next largest group were questions related to rule changes (particularly the use of Tablebases). There was an increase in the number of questions relating to setting results on the webserver, and many questions related to personal details of players (changing passwords, changing names, etc.). There seems to be a lack of understanding as to what the individual player can do himself vs. what ICCF should do. Questions were generally answered within a day if not within a few hours, with coverage from both Europe and North America.

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SOCIAL MEDIA The ICCF Facebook page continues to have discussion on various issues. It tends to be the same dozen or so contributors involved in debates. This group has over 1,000 members but many who do not have an ICCF profile. The group does have some good discussions but it is still an unofficial group. TWITTER Tweets inform of messages placed on the ICCF front page. PROMOTIONAL GAMES ON THE ICCF FRINT PAGE The feature games were given a better look with players photographs now included next to the board. Another enhancement was to have the ability to increase the number of games featured and for a choice of which of these games to view. Games currently show between ICCF World Champion, Ron Langeveld and GM Matthias Kribben; ICCF World Champion, Pertti Lehikoinen and FIDE GM S.P. Sethuraman; and finally between GM Auvo Kujala and FIDE GM Krishnan Sasikiran. FIDE GMs playing ICCF top players is always of interest. (Editor’s note: Both FIDE GMs are from AICCF) ICCF PLAYER PHOTOGRAPHS This feature brought in last year has now been improved and enhanced in order that players can

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now upload their photograph themselves instead of via the delegate. This has led to far more players doing so than the previous system. ICCF have been offering a bi-monthly prize of fifty euros to spend in the New in Chess shop for a randomly selected player who already has his photograph on his profile. Draw prize winners have been announced on iccf.com. This has proved to be popular incentive. When a new tournament starts, it is a nice personalisation to see whom one is playing. ICCF ZONE-4 REPORT 2015 (Prior to Sailesh Chandra taking over as Director) The zonal team consists of the following officials: Zonal Director (ZD) and Tournament Organiser (TO): SIM Everdinand Knol of South Africa. Deputy Zonal Director (DZD) and webmaster: Sailesh Chandra of India. Tournament Directors (TD): Dr. Ambar Chatterjee of India, Francisco Carapinha of Cape Verde. Dr. Alok Saxena of India. SIM Dr. Michael Millstone (IA) of USA. WEBSITE Our DZD, Sailesh Chandra has established a website for our zone. It is a small but promising beginning and we will support him with the development of it in the future. We thank him for his efforts and wish him the best of luck.

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For more information, please visit the site at https://iccfafroasia.wordpress.com Tournaments The following tournaments were started during the past year: The TO for all these events is SIM Everdinand Knol: On 16 January 2015: th The 13 Africa/Asia Zonal Championship Final – TD SIM Dr Michael Millstone (IA). On 17 February 2015: th The 15 Africa/Asia Zonal Championship Semi Final: TD Section A – Dr. Ambar Chatterjee. TD Section B – Francisco Carapinha. TD Section C – Dr. Alok Saxena. The following tournaments are still in progress: th The 17 Africa/Asia Zonal Championship Preliminary Sections A to D – TD Francisco Carapinha. th The 17 Africa/Asia Zonal Championship Preliminary Sections E to H – TD Dr. Alok Saxena. th The 17 Africa/Asia Zonal Championship Preliminary Sections I and J – TD Dr. Ambar Chatterjee. The following tournaments have been completed during this year:

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th The 12 Africa/Asia Zonal Championship Final which was won by GM Mark F Noble from New Zealand. th The 14 Africa/Asia Zonal Championship Semi Finals. th The 16 Africa/Asia Zonal Championship Preliminaries. This zone intends to start the following tournaments during the coming year – the format will depend on the amount of entries received. th The 6 Africa Continental Championship. th The 6 Asia Continental Championship. The interest in the two above mentioned continental championships is not very encouraging and the matter will receive attention. th The 14 Africa/Asia Zonal Championship Final. th The 16 Africa/Asia Zonal Championship Semi Finals. th The 18 Africa/Asia Zonal Championship Preliminaries. There was a proposal for moving Australia to Zone 4. The proposal was voted by Executive Board members and the vote is now closed and the results are the following: For: 5, Against: 3, Abstention: 2 Therefore the proposal was adopted and Australia has moved to zone 4 on 1/2/2016.

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The player Krishnan Sasikiran with ICCF ID 280330 has achieved enough norms to receive the title of ICCF Senior International Master. This title is now pending and subject to confirmation of the results of the final norm by the tournament director, and of the title by the qualifications commissioner. Congratulations Mr. Sasikiran. India-USA Friendly International match The event is now completed and India has reduced the margin since the last update due to Mr. Vibhor Gupta winning both his games and Mr. Mandviwala scoring 1½ from possible 2 on board 3 and consequently India lost narrowly 14-16 to USA by 14-16. In this event, Mr. Anuj Gupta defaulted both his games. Had he played with more responsibility India may have levelled the score See https://www.iccf.com/event?id=433 37 for more details about this event. One of the games on board 3 from this event is given below: (W) White, David V. (B) Mandviwala, Pervez Godrez IND-USA 2014 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.Be3 e5 7.Nb3 Be6 8.f3 Be7 9.Qd2 O-O 10.O-O-O Nbd7 11.g4 Qc7 12.g5 Nh5 13.Nd5 Bxd5 14.Qxd5 b5 15.Qd2 Nb6 16.Kb1 Nc4 17.Qf2 a5 18.c3 Rab8 19.Nc1 Rb7 20.h4 Ng3 21.Qxg3 Nxe3 22.Re1 Nxf1 23.Rhxf1 b4 24.cxb4 Rxb4

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25.Nd3 Rd4 26.Rc1 Qb7 27.Rc3 a4 28.Qg2 Qb5 29.Qe2 f6 30.gxf6 Bxf6 31.h5 Bd8 32.Rd1 h6 33.a3 Ba5 34.Rcc1 Kh7

35.f4 exf4 36.Nxf4 Qxe2 37.Nxe2 Rxe4 38.Rd5 Ra8 39.Nc3 Rh4 40.Nb5 Bd8 41.Nxd6 Bg5 42.Rcc5 Rb8 43.Ra5 Rh1+ 44.Ka2 Rxh5 45.Nc4 Rh4 46.Rxa4 Bf6 47.Rd2 h5 48.Rc2 Rc8 49.Kb3 Rf4 50.Rb4 h4 0-1 A fine attacking game by Pervez Mandviwala concluding with an endgame victory. India wins Friendly International against Scheming Mind India won the match 32-28 Mr Mohan Turaga was unable to continue his games due to health reasons and was replaced by Dr. A.Chatterjee. One of these games was drawn and in the other Dr. Chatterjee continued patiently but could not avoid eventual loss.

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Final results (see https://www.iccf.com/event?id=44900 ) : SchemingMind

W B W B

India

1 Vivante-Sowter, John

½ ½ ½ ½ Chatterjee, Dr. Ambar

2 Schaller, Thorsten

½ ½ ½ ½ Chatterjee, Dr. Ambar

3 Reyes Maldonado, C. J.

½ 1

4 Lefebvre, Alain 2266

1 ½ ½ 0

5 Hollands, George

½ ½ ½ ½ Saxena, Alok

6 Cousins, Robert

½ ½ ½ ½ Saxena, Alok

7 Laine, Jari

½ ½ ½ ½ Prakash, Om

8 Schiller, Wilfried

½ 0

9 Pinchon, François

½ ½ ½ ½ A. Sailesh Chandra

0 ½ Turaga, Mohan Chatterjee, Dr. Ambar Turaga, Mohan

1 ½ Prakash, Om

10 Farkas, Lajos

½ 0

1 ½ A. Sailesh Chandra

11 Duchardt, Alexandre

1

0

12 Price, Brennan

½ ½ ½ ½ Anand, Anil Kumar

13 Kjeldsen, Karsten

½ ½ ½ ½ Mohanakrishnan, B.

14 Parente, António

½ ½ ½ ½ Mohanakrishnan, B.

15 Kruger, Michael

1

1

0

0 Chandran, T.

16 Cook, Phil

1

1

0

0 Chandran, T.

17 Bañón Cifuentes, Enrique

1

1

0

0 Khan, Shams

18 Grummitt, William

½ 0

1 ½ Khan, Shams

19 Hamer, John

1

1

0

0 Gupta, Vibhor

20 Ikonomopoulos, Ilias

1

0

1

0 Gupta, Vibhor

21 Flato, Andreas

0

0

1

1 Gupta, Aniruddha Dutta

22 Crevani, Mirta

0 ½ ½ 1 Gupta, Aniruddha Dutta

23 Druś, Michał

½ 0

1 ½ Vijayan, Dhanesh

24 West, Robert

0

1

1

0

0 Anand, Anil Kumar

1 Vijayan, Dhanesh

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25 Huff, David C.

½ 0

1 ½ Agrawal, Rakesh

26 Kraut, Manfred

0

0

1

1 Agrawal, Rakesh

27 Saint Louis, Peter

0

0

1

1 Shetty, Karthik

28 Holt, Frank

0

1

0

1 Shetty, Karthik

29 Claxton, Tom

0

0

1

1 Naik, Uday

30 Agar, Gary

1

0

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0 Naik, Uday

Total The game started by Mohan Turaga with A. Chatterjee substituting is given below: [Event "IND-SchM 2014"] [Date "2014.07.25"] [White "Chatterjee, Dr. Ambar"] [Black "Lefebvre, Alain"] [Result "1/2-1/2"] [Board "4"] 1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.e3 Nf6 4.Nf3 Bf5 5.Nc3 e6 6.Nh4 Bg6 7.Nxg6 hxg6 8.a3 Nbd7 9.c5 a5 10.Bd2 Qc7 11.g3 b6 12.b4 Be7 13.Bd3 e5 14.O-O e4 15.Be2 g5 16.Rb1 axb4 17.axb4 O-O 18.f3 exf3 19.Bxf3 bxc5 20.bxc5 Rfe8 21.Qe2 Nf8 22.Nd1 Ne6 23.Nf2 g6 24.Qd3 Ra2 25.Ra1 Rea8 26.Bc3 Rxa1 27.Rxa1 Rxa1+ 28.Bxa1 Qb7 29.Bc3 Bd8 30.Qc2 Qa8 31.Bd2 Ng7 32.Qb1 Qc8 33.Qd3 Kf8 34.Bc3 Qb8 35.Be1 Qa7 36.Kg2 Nf5 37.Qb3 ½ - ½ India-Finland Friendly International match India is maintaining the lead 19-15 in this event. FIDE GM Mr.

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Sasikiran (2682) has drawn both his games on top board with GM Mr. Auovo Kujala (2636). Please refer https://www.iccf.com/event?id=502 45 for more details about this event. India-Wales International match

Friendly

India is still trailing 15-25 mainly due to default by our players (Anindya Bhattacharya, Karthik Shetty, Saurabh Das and Dhanesh Vijayan) as mentioned in last report. I once again request players not to register for an event if they don’t have time. All the games on top eight boards are drawn except board six which is still going on. See https://www.iccf.com/event?id=525 32 for more details about this event. India-Ukraine International match

Friendly th

This event started on 15 July, 2015 with very strong team from

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Ukraine. India is trailing 8.5-21.5 in this event. Interzonal IT/1 1st Interzonal Individual Tournament Mr. Mohan Jayaraman Dr. Alok Saxena and Mr. Mohan Turga are playing in Group G, E and B respectively with scores of 4/8,3/7 and 4/8 respectively. Shabla20, 20 Years Harmonia – Shabla: Mr. P.B.Dhanish has th scored 6.5/12 and is placed 4 . The tournament was organized by BCCF to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Chess club "Harmonia" - Shabla with active participation of the Municipality of Shabla and IM Vinchev, Simeon. WCCC35CT01: Mr. P.B. Dhanish is playing in this event started on th 20 sept., 2015. This event is organized by Tani, Gian-Maria. USA/2015/A, 2015 USA Invitational - Section A: Mr. K. Sasikiran is playing in this event where the First prize is US $ 1000. He has scored 5.5/12 with two th games remaining and is placed 5 at present. The leader of this event has achieved GM norm. MT-Vinchev/2, Marian Vinchev Memorial 2: This tournament is organized by BCCF with active partnership of IM Vinchev, Simeon and sponsorship of “Balkanpharma AD” -Troyan, part of Actavis group, and the Municipality of Troyan. Mr. K Sasikiran has scored 5 out th of 10 and is placed 4 and has achieved a norm for SIM title.

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USA/VVP/A, Palciauskas Invitational Section A: Mr K, Sasikiran has scored 7 out 12 and nd is placed 2 with a good chance of winning this tournament. The first prize is US $ 800-. Mr. Sasikiran has also achieved a norm for SIM title in this event. CT21/pr36: Mr. Om Prakash has scored 3/3 in this event started on st 1 Oct., 2015. CT21/pr60: Mr. Pervez Mandviwala has scored 1/1 in this event. LIPEAD40/sf G 2, LIPEAD-40 Semifinal Group 2 Mr. Pervez Manviwala has completed all his games with score of 7/16 and th finished with 13 place. The event is almost over with only two games pending. th

Inter Zonal 8 Pervez Mandviwala, Om Prakash Mohanty, Mohan Turaga, Alok Saxena are playing on Board 3, 4, 6, 7 respectively with scores of 0.5/2, 3/6, 3.5/8, 2/3 respectively. S-Open/5-sf08, 5th Webchess Open Tournament Semi final 08 Mr. Pervez Mandviwala has scored th 4/8 and is placed 8 so far.

“The Passed Pawn is a criminal, who should be kept under lock and key. Mild measures, such as police surveillance, are not sufficient.” -Aaron Nimzovich

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ICCF Ratings as per list of 1-1-2016 ICCF ID 280187 280172 280086 280068 280087 280088 280176 280209 280179 280082 280276 280169 280180 280143 280138 280104 280219 280205 280171 280103 280243 280330 280168 280114 280133 280107 280174 280224 280095 280256

Title

GM

SIM

Name Akkaraju, Sailesh Chandra Anand, Anil Kumar Chandran, T. Chatterjee, Dr. Ambar Chauhan, Rakesh Kumar De, Gautam Dhanish, P. B. Dutt, Bulusu Someswara Gupta, Aniruddha Dutta Gupta, Anuj Gupta, Vibhor Jayaraman, Mohan Khan, Shams Krishnamurthy, Prabhanandan Kumar, Pavan Tumuluri Mandviwala, Pervez Godrez Mohanakrishnan, B. Nagaraj, Dr. A. Nair, Umesh Neelakantan, N. Prakash, Om Sasikiran, Krishnan Saxena, Alok Saxena, Vaibhav Shivdasani, Vijay Somani, Sunil K. Trivedi, Kalapi B. Turaga, Mohan Valsan, K. Vijayan, Dhanesh

Games 183 119 72 230 257 153 125 91 64 55 63 123 212 142 162 173 108 72 31 138 75 31 259 46 156 185 96 59 72 37

Rating 2210 2142 1967 2257 2197 2262 2596 1514 1946 2148 2064 2272 2075 2232 2353 2308 2001 1931 1994 2227 2346 2584 2254 2297 2146 2206 2190 2259 2167 1705

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Top 25 active players in the AICCF Rating list of March 2016 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13

Vibhor Gupta Sastry, K. V. S. Om Prakash Vaibhav Saxena Sasikiran, Krishnan Kalapi B. Trivedi Deep Sengupta R.K. Chauhan Abhijeet Gupta Alok Saxena Sandipan Chanda Gautam De A. Sailesh Chandra

1504 1426 1360 1356 1356 1338 1302 1290 1290 1283 1280 1278 1278

14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25

Dr. A.Chatterjee T.Pavan Kumar K.Prabhanandan Arghyadip Das Shalaka Somani Mohan Jayaraman A. Dutta Gupta Ramesh, R.B. Dr. Sunil Somani Rohan Saxena Shyam Challapally Ankur Singh

1275 1271 1268 1267 1261 1255 1242 1237 1218 1207 1204 1185

AICCF Champions 1501 1502 1503 1504 1505 1506

A.G.Nagradjane K.Lhouvum N.R. Anil Kumar N.R. Anil Kumar Sunil K. Somani P.B.Dhanish

1507 1508 1509 1510 1511 1512

P.B.Dhanish P.B.Dhanish T.Pavan Kumar T.Pavan Kumar Om Prakash K.V.S.Sastry

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