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Abu Dhabi 2019 Round 7: Deep Sengupta fights back, Karthikeyan Murali falters in French

09/08/2019 -

After suffering an unfortunate loss against Mohammad Amin Tabatabaei in round five, Deep Sengupta has taken charge once again as he registered his second consecutive victory in the seventh round against the strong Turkish Grandmaster Mustafa Yilmaz. On the other hand, Karthikeyan Murali missed an opportunity to punish his opponent Bartosz Socko in a French defense and had to settle for a draw. Playing in the top board, leader Jobava Baadur also drew his game against China's Ni Hua. Thus, maintaining his full point lead over the field with 6.5/7. With only two rounds of the event remaining, there are six players tied to 5.5/7 behind Jobava. Will any one of them be able to catch up with the leader? In this report we bring you photos, analyses, and more from the seventh round of 26th Abu Dhabi Masters 2019!  

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Action packed chess in Akola, Maharashtra

08/08/2019 -

Akola is a city in Vidarbha region in the state of Maharashtra in central India. It is the 3rd largest city in Vidarbha, situated about 290 miles east of the state capital, Mumbai, and 140 miles west of the second capital, Nagpur. This time it is going to organize three rating tournaments. These three tournaments will be organized by PR Chess Academy, Akola and Akola district Chess Association. This is a great boost for the sport of chess in Akola, as from 8th September 2019 to 2nd February 2020 these tournaments will be organized. One of the key members of the organizing team Pravin Hend has sent us the following article, along with an invitation to all the players across India to visit Akola and play in the events.

Abu Dhabi 2019 Round 6: Indians cause triple upsets in the sixth round of Abu Dhabi Festival

08/08/2019 -

The Indian contingent came out with flying colours in the sixth round of 26th Abu Dhabi Festival 2019 as the fifth, sixth, and seventh seeds of the event were all outclassed by Indians! Karthikeyan Murali beat the strong Ukrainian Grandmaster and the seventh seed of the event Andrei Volokitin in a solid positional style. Aryan Chopra crushed the sixth seeded Vladimir Onischuk's Modern defense in a mere thirty-eight moves. And IM Krishna C.R.G shocked the fifth seed Vladimir Akopian by overpowering his Benoni. Elsewhere, Jobava Baadur continued his brilliant streak as he registered his sixth consecutive victory against Parham Maghsoodloo taking a full point lead with 6.0/6 over the entire field. Four players - Nodirbek Yakubboev, Socko Bartosz, Karthikeyan Murali, and Ni Hua - follow him with 5.0/6 points. 

Chess Friendship Band and ChessBase India Pen for all orders placed on 8th August 2019

07/08/2019 -

The Independence Day is coming up and so is the festival of Raksha Bandhan. The Friendship Day just passed a couple of days ago and overall this week is a festive one! In order to celebrate it, on the 8th of August, ChessBase India has a special offer where any order in the ChessBase India shop entitles you to a free Chess Friendship Band and a ChessBase India pen. It doesn't matter if you are buying a software or a book or a t-shirt. As long as you buy it on the 8th of August, we will be couriering the freebies to you on your address. Also with India's 73rd Independence Day just coming up, it would be a good idea to get yourself one of our high quality T-shirts.

11 Indians have qualified for the World Cup 2019

07/08/2019 -

A lot of elite players seeing the talent crop of Indian chess have said that India will be a superpower in the world of chess in the years to come. While, this is definitely true, you can already sense the tremors of the upcoming upheaval. From 9th of September to 4th of October, the World Cup 2019 will be held in Khanty Mansiysk, Russia. It is a 128-player knockout event and two finalists will qualify for the Candidates tournament in 2020. Last time that the event was held in 2017 we had six Indians in the field. This year we have eleven participants. With Vishy Anand leading from the top, and Nihal Sarin getting a FIDE President's wild card nomination, this is going to be a tremendously exciting event for all Indian chess fans to follow!

Resigning a game with grace!

07/08/2019 -

Wei Yi, currently rated 2727, is world no.27. He is one of the finest chess players in the world with a fine tactical acumen and an ability to play fearless chess. Known as the best chess prodigy, Wei Yi became the youngest GM in the world to not just cross the 2600 Elo mark but also 2700! He has created many brilliancies in his chess career, the most famous one being Wei Yi vs Bruzon Batista in 2015. However, in the fifth round of the Belt and Road International 2019, he was at the receiving end of some brilliant play by Surya Sekhar Ganguly. Wei Yi made an opening error and was completely lost after move no.9. Credit goes to Ganguly for making the next seven moves with great precision and all that Wei Yi could do was resign the game. But here lies the point of the entire article. Instead of just resigning the game, Wei Yi played a small practical joke, gave up his queen in a funny way and even after the event was sport enough to laugh at his own mistake! Check out the Chinese prodigy's great sportsman spirit.

Ganguly wins Belt and Road 2019 and US$50,000!

07/08/2019 -

It has been action-packed last few weeks for Indian Chess. First it was Sandipan Chanda's dominating performance in Leiden Open, then Vidit's scintillating win in Biel and Praggnanandhaa's unbeaten streak in Xtracon. The breakthroughs only get better and bigger as today Surya Sekhar Ganguly wins the super strong Belt and Road Hunan International Open, bagging home the first prize of a whopping 50,000 US Dollar! How big exactly is this amount? Well, just to put things into perspective, this is even more than what Maxime Vachier-Lagrave recently won (US $37,500) by securing first place at the Paris Grand Chess Tour 2019! Finishing ahead of six strong 2700+ Grandmasters with a score of 7.0/9, this is certainly the greatest tournament victory of Ganguly's chess career and arguably one of the greatest in Indian Chess. So how did he do it? We had covered Ganguly's rounds 1-5 in a previous article, in this we explore the champion's journey in last four. 

Cancer Survivor Champions at 10th World Children's Winners Games

06/08/2019 -

The Tenth World Children Winners Games took place from 4th-7th July 2019 in Moscow, Russia. Each year childhood survivors from all over the world are invited to participate in various sporting competitive events like Track, Chess, Football, Table Tennis, Swimming and Shooting where they go on to search for and gain their self-worth. This year, 16 countries had participated. Since 2014 Tata hospital is invited to participate in it, all the 10 children from India participated in this event were sent through Tata Memorial Hospital. Nidhi and Devanshi won the gold medals in their respective age category, Priti and Hritik won silver medal, Atharva and Tanush got bronze medal for the same. Photo: FA Kedar Palsule

Abu Dhabi 2019 Round 5: Deep Sengupta's regret and Karthikeyan's cake walk!

06/08/2019 -

Keeping opponent's retaliations in check while enjoying a dominant position is one of many tricky things in chess that even masters falter at. In the fifth round of 26th Abu Dhabi Chess Festival India's Deep Sengupta was up against the strong Iranian talent Mohammad Amin Tabatabaei. He made a convincing case out of the opening and into the middlegame but ultimately it was his opponent's counterplay that got the better of him. Elsewhere, Karthikeyan Murali registered an effortless win as his Spanish adversary Miguel Santos Ruiz made one mistake after another, and Praggnanandhaa too had an easy time holding his higher-rated rival Mustafa Yilmaz to a draw. After five rounds of the event Jobava Baadur is still on the sole lead with an unbeaten 5.0/5, while Karthikeyan single-handedly leads the Indian contingent with a commendable 4.0/5.  

Sneha Halder victorious at Smart Girl Assam

05/08/2019 -

Commonwealth under-10 gold medalist Sneha Halder of West Bengal won Smart Girl All India open in Assam. Both Sneha and top seed of the tournament Tanisha A R Som of Assam scored 7.0/8. Sneha became champion due to a better tie-break score. Total 76 players participated from five different states across the nation. Smart Girl is an AICF project where 15 different states are given ₹50000 each to conduct a girls only FIDE Rated tournament, they just have to ensure a minimum of 50 girls participation in the tournament. Photo: Ravi Kant Tiwari

A tournament in the memory of the man who created India's first WGM

05/08/2019 -

AS Subbaraman is a man towards whom Indian chess would always be indebted. He was the man who decided to leave the well-trodden paths and motivated his daughters to become chess champions. He made them believe that sky was the limit and the result was there for all to see. Two WGMs were created from the Subbaraman family with S. Vijayalakshmi becoming India's first WGM and S. Meenakshi following thereafter. Viji was also twice Olympiad medal winner and an Arjuna awardee. AS Subbaraman's contribution towards Viji's growth and indirectly Indian women's chess growth has been mammoth. "He was my first and only coach", says Viji. AS Subbaraman passed away 12 years ago in 2007. In order to remember this brilliant mind, Queens Chess Academy will be holding a rating blitz tournament on the 15th of August 2019 at IIT-Madras. The total prize fund is Rs.1,50,000 and the first prize is Rs.35,000. In this article you get to know more about this event. 

Abu Dhabi 2019 Round 4: How Karthikeyan's pawn grab could cost him the game!

05/08/2019 -

It could have been a big blow to the Indian contingent in round four of the 26th Abu Dhabi Masters as Karthikeyan Murali made a reckless pawn grab and found himself in a lost position against Tahbaz Arash of Iran. Fortunately, the latter failed to find the most critical continuation which allowed the Indian Grandmaster to turn the tables and come out victorious in the end. After four rounds of the event Georgian Grandmaster Jobava Baadur has emerged as the sole leader with a score of 4.0/4. Six Indians led by Deep Sengupta share 3.0/4 each. In this report we bring you photos, analysis, and more.

Attacking Monday Mornings with Sohan Phadke Part III - Closing the doors

05/08/2019 -

Does this sound familiar to you? You are trying to attack your opponent's king, you have got all your pieces around him. You sacrifice material and now the mate is on cards. However, you start calculating variations and you realize that in most of your lines your opponent's king is running away. You still go ahead with it with the hope that you will find at least a perpetual check, but the king runs to the other side of the board and hides in safety! Nothing is more frustrating that letting a nice attacking opportunity go by! Well, if this is a common issue you face in your games, then "Attacking Monday Mornings with FM Sohan Phadke Part III - Closing the Doors" is just for you. Have a look at this article and improve your attacking technique.

13-year-old Suhan Deshpande wins Below 1600 FIDE Rated at Nagpur

04/08/2019 -

13-year-old Suhan Deshpande of Nagpur, Maharashtra won Below 1600 FIDE Rated by scoring an unbeaten 8.0/9. Ajinkya Nichat and Prathmesh Dharmadhikari also finished with the same score, however due to a better tie-break score Suhan clinched the championship and won ₹51000 cash along with a trophy. Suhan gained 127 Elo rating points and Ajinkya gained 119. Total 398 players participated from 3 federations - India, Ghana and Netherlands. Players from 14 different states participated in this 3-day Rating tournament. Photo: IA Swapnil Bansod

Abu Dhabi 2019 R02+03: A day of epic survivals and impossible reversals!

04/08/2019 -

Chess is a difficult game, from time to time even the strongest of players lose their way in its fathomless depths! Day two of 26th Abu Dhabi Masters had double rounds and saw quite a few encounters of dizzying ups and downs. In the second round Raunak Sadhwani escaped a sure loss by the skin of his teeth as his opponent Andrey Esipenko missed his footing in what was a decisive attack. Elsewhere, in the same round, IM Akash Pc Iyer gave the newly crowned Biel Master champion M.amin Tabatabaei a massive scare before himself blundering into a draw. But the most topsy-turvy battle of the day was in store for the next round, between the 13-year-old talent Pranav V. and Grandmaster Venkatesh M.R. In this report we bring to you all the excitements.

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