AICF CHRONICLE
July 2016
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Publisher: V. Hariharan
Editor
: C.G.S. Narayanan
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Inside….
43rd National Women Challengers Championship ,Chennai
Vijayalakshmi wins National Women Challengers title
IA Nitin Shenvi, Chief Arbiter
1
11th National ‘A’ Championship for Visually
Challenged,Virar
Kishan Gangolli wins title
M.Manjunath IA, Chief Arbiter
5
National Rapid & Blitz Championship 2016,
Visakhapatnam…
Neelotpal Das and Prantik Roy win titles
N.K.Nandakumar IA, Chief Arbiter
6
9th Mumbai Mayor’s Cup International Open Tmt, Mumbai
Visakh lifts Mayor Cup
IA Vasanth BH, Chief Arbiter
9
10th Anand Chess Academy Calicut
All India Open FiIDE Rating Tmt,Calicut
Vinoth Kumar wins title
M. Ephrame IA, Chief Arbiter
14
Delhi State Open FIDE Rated Championahip,New Delhi
Santu Mondal is the Winner
Gopakumar Sudhakaran IA, Chief Arbiter
17
1st ICON Public School Fide Rated Open Tmt, Vijayawada….
Dhulipalla Bala Chandra Prasad wins
S Subba Raju (FA) , Chief Arbiter
19
1st Karmveer V.T.Randhir FIDE Rating Maharashtra Open,
Shirpur
Anish Gandhi is Champion
Anurag Singh, Chief Arbiter
21
Kasinadhuni Rajya Lalkshmi Mem.Fide Rating Tmt,
Hyderabad
AICF Central Council Meeting/AGM-important decisions 27
Akash Pc Iyer wins title
FA S Subba Raju , Chief Arbiter
29
54th Kerala State Senior Fide Rated Championship
Arjun lifts trophy
M. Ephrame IA, Chief Arbiter
31
54th West Bengal Sate Championship, Kolkata…
Sayantan Das wins title
Debasish Barua, IA, Chief Arbiter
33
All Goa Open FIDE Rating Championship , Quepem
Nitish Belurkar wins championship
Ashesh Keni, Chief Arbiter
34
Selected games from GM Open Bubaneshwar
Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron
36
Tactics from master games
by S.Krishnan
42
Test your endgame
by C.G.S.Narayanan
43
Masters of the past-66 Viktor Korchnoi 44
AICF Calendar 48
From the Editor’s Desk
The five-time World champion who
put India on top of the World chess
map with countless achievements in
the last three decades, Viswanathan
Anand, has been conferred a Honorary
Doctorate by IIT, Kanpur last montha well-deserved honour for this
outstanding sports person. Anand’s passion to win still
continues unabated when he beat the Chinese champion
Wei Yi in the best of four Advanced Chess Tournament
finals at Leon in Spain last month.
At the Eurasian Blitz Cup in Kazakhstan GM Dronavalli
Harika finished 28th in the main prize list which included
the likes of Svidler,Gelfand and Karjakin but finished as
best woman in the field edging out GM Hou Yifan on tie
break. At the 39th Open Internacional de Barbera del
Valles “A” tournament in Spain, GM Murali Karthikeyan
tied for the first place with Chilean IM Cristobal Henriquez
and was placed second on tie break. At the 11th edition
of the Edmonton International Chess Festival GM Surya
Sekhar Ganguly tied on points with Sam Shankland but
finished second on tie break. Reports on the above events
are featured in the centre pages of this issue.
On the home turf, there were four National events organized
during June 2016. Seasoned campaigner Vijayalakshmi
Subbaraman proved her mettle with a facile title victory
at the National Women Challenger held at Chennai.
Kishan Gangolli emerged Champion at the National ‘A’
Championship for the visually challenged organized by
Ameya Chess Club, Virar, Maharashtra. GM Neelotpal Das
and IM Prantik Roy won the Rapid and Blitz titles respectively
at the National Rapid and Blitz Chess Championships held
at Visakhapatnam. Reports, final standings and photographs
of the above Championships along with other FIDE rated
events held during last month are presented in this issue.
C.G.S.Narayanan
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regular features in the AICF Chronicle and are
also invited to send interesting articles, annotated
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