Montreal: Ivanchuk Beats Harikrishna For Title On 7/9, 2 Tiviakov 6/9, 3 Harikrishna 5.5/9  * Balaguer: Final GM Norm For Abhijeet Gupta Who Finished Fourth, Undefeated On 7.5/10 * Final IM Norm For Ashwin Jayaram, IM Norm For Soumya, Second IM Norm For Abhishek Das, WIM Norm For Padmini Rout * Neyveli: S.Ganesan, 48, Passed Away At Neyveli On July 21  * Balaguer: Abhijeet Gupta Tied For Third Place With 5.5/7 in Spain * Ottawa: Chanda Ties For Second-Sixth Places With 7.5/10 In Canadian Open, Kunte Ties For Seventh Place With 7/10, Bu Wins Event * Armenia: G N Gopal Of Kerala Makes GM Norm, Ties For First Place In Category 12 Event * Luxembourg: Koneru Humpy Wins Open With 7/9 * Leon: Anand Beats Ponomariov 3-1 In Semifinals & Beats Topalov 3-1 In Finals For Seventh Title At Leon On July 8 * Elista: Anand Retains World No.1 Rank With 2792 Elo On July 1 * Sasikiran Slips To 39th, Harikrishna To 46th * India Has Three Players In Women's Top 20 For First Time * Dortmund 2007: Kramnik Retains Title With 5/7 For Eighth Time * Anand Tied For Second Place On 4/7 * Dindigul: Prathamesh Mokal Wins National B After Five-Way Tie For First Place On 9.5/13
Montreal 2007: World No 46 P.Harikrishna sponsored by Sun Group finished third after playing well at the start. Vassily Ivanchuk of Ukraine won the event with 7/9 with a dashing 3/3 finish at the tape. Tiviakov took second place on 6 and Harikrishna of Hyderabad finished third on 5.5. It was a category 17 event and Harikrishna has made use of this exposure in this event. Harikrishna won four games and lost two and drew three.  WHILE AT CHENNAI VISIT AARON CHESS ACADEMY: The best place to play chess at Chennai is Aaron Chess Academy located at the southern hub of Adyar. It is at Kasturba Nagar and 5 minutes walk from the Kasturba Nagar railway station. It is run by 9-time Indian champion IM Manuel Aaron. Aaron had trained for long in Sharjah Chess Club, UAE and in USA, Sri Lanka etc.
INTERNET RADIO: The Internet Chess Club runs several radio stations on www.chess.fm and the newest inclusion is the Chess.FM India which is hosted by Chess Critic Arvind Aaron. It was inaugurated by Vishy Anand on April 21. The idea of the channel is to shadow Anand and cover events of importance to Indians. Guest interview on July 28: India's first WGM S.Vijayalakshmi.
 Abhijeet Gupta of Bhilwara Becomes GM:  Young Indians achieved plenty at Balaguer in Spain on July 25. Abhijeet Gupta got his final GM Norm, Arun Karthik obtained his maiden GM Norm, IM Norm for Soumya Swaminathan, second IM Norm for Abhishek Das and WIM Norm For Padmini Rout of Orissa. However, Abhijeet Gupta has to wait for the 2500 rating mark to achieve the title.   See the official website.

Interview: World Champion Smyslov

"Unlike Karpov and Kasparov, I worked on my own analysis," said world champion Vassily Smyslov in this interview to Arvind Aaron at Kolkata, first published in Chess Mate. There is no age bar in chess. Full Chat
 
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S.P.Sethuraman Wins:  Chennai's 1993-born S.P.Sethuraman won the FIDE Rated 243-player Tamil Nadu State Championship with 9/11. He tied with Arun Karthik for the title on 9/11 and had the better tie-break score. He is the youngest player to win the Tamil Nadu Championship in the last 55 years. It was organised at Kodaikanal at the Kodaikanal Institute of Technology, in Machur, Kodaikanal from May 23-30.

Sasikiran Second In Sofia:  K.Sasikiran scored half a point from the last three games to let Topalov win the M-Tel Masters at Sofia for the third time. Sasikiran slipped from a one point lead to take second place with 5/10. Sasi would gain 10 Elo from the event. 3-5 Mamedyarov, Nisipeanu, Kamsky 5 each, 6 Adams 4.5. Overall, Sasi bt Adams, Mamedyarov 1.5-0.5, drew Kamsky, Nisipeanu 1-1 and lost 0-2 to Topalov.  See

Anand Honoured:  The 60th year celebration of the Tamil Nadu State Chess Association took place in Chennai on April 26. Cash prizes totalling Rs.4.50 lakhs were distributed to TN players for performances in 2005 and 2006. I wish Anand all the best to win the World Title later this year, said TNSCA President P.R.Venketrama Raja while felicitating the World No.1. IM M.Aaron read the list of achievements of TNSCA in these years. Pic

Anand Top's FIDE Rating List: After FIDE took the Morelia/Linares Tournament for ratings, it became clear that Anand moved to No 1 with 2786. Topalov slid down to 2772 and shares the second place with Kramnik. Harika jumped several places to take the 13th place in the world among women. Kore became IM and India has 47 IMs..SEE 

FIDE RATES LINARES: Anand is the No.1 ranked player in the chess world in the April 2007 rating list. Anand's achievement completes the dream of a young Chennai chess player who started playing chess in 1975. His resume has it all now. Congrats Anand. If you did not know, Anand won the World Chess title in 2000 at Tehran. Click for a 15-sec 351k video file of that memorable event in Iran shot by Arvind Aaron..

The 5th Parsvnath International Open, Delhi:  India's biggest open tournament got underway at the changed venue, Indira Gandhi Indoor Stadium in Delhi from Jan 15. Alexey Dreev of Russia won the event with 8.5/10 by remaining undefeated. Gogineni Rohit beat Ganguly, Barua and  Iuldachev for his maiden GM norm and second place.  It  was organised by the Delhi Chess Assn.  See 

 
AICF Officials. Here is the picture of the officials who run AICF.  N.Srinivasan, President is fourth from left (sitting) and D.V.Sundar is third from right (sitting) 86k pic.
IM B Adhiban of Chennai who won the Asian U-16 at Tashkent on July 8 is featured on the cover page of July 2007. Other coverages includes: Mokal wins National B, Kramnik wins Dortmund, Ivanchuk takes Aerosvit, Thipsay wins Mangalore FIDE Rating, and Vishnu Prasanna (TN) wins CUSAT FIDE Rated Open plus usual features. Nunn's Chess Openings Free! Until September 10, 2007, you may subscribe to Chess Mate for 6-years paying Rs.1484 and get the complete single volume chess opening book Nunn's Chess Openings with 544 pages (like BCO) absolutely free of cost. Your gift is waiting for you only until Sep 10, 2007 and you have to rush for it.  Bestseller comes free now! Call 044-24450587 or SMS 9840053199.  E-mail us at chessaides@hotmail.com
CHESS HEADLINES FOR CHESS MATE IN JULY 2007

Elista: Viswanathan Anand retains World No.1 ranking as on July 1 Leon: Viswanathan Anand beats Ponomariov, Topalov 3-1 To Win Rapid Title For Seventh Time Dortmund: Vladimir Kramnik Wins Dortmund Title For Eighth Time Foros: Vassily Ivanchuk Wins Aerosvit Super Category, Krishnan Sasikiran Ties For 11th Place Philadelphia: Sandipan Chanda Ties For First Place In World Open, Sort, Spain: GM Norms For Ashwin Jayaram of Chennai and Tania Sachdev of Delhi, WIM Norm For Soumya Swaminathan of Pune Differdange, Luxembourg: Koneru Humpy Wins 88-Player Open Title With 7/9 Tashkent: B.Adhiban Wins Asian U-16 Title and final IM Norm, Indians take half the medals Armenia: G N Gopal of Kerala makes shares first place with 5.5/9 in category 12 Lake Sevan Tournament, Makes GM Norm Ahmedabad: Matta Vinay Kumar of Andhra Bank wins National U-25 title Mangalore: P.M.Thipsay wins FIDE Rated Title After A Comeback Chennai: S.P.Sethuraman becomes youngest IM by getting 2400 rating at Dindigul Elista: Maxim Sorokin Passed Away On July 2, 2007

Dortmund 2007: The 35th Chess Meeting is on at Dortmund from June 23 at the Civic Theatre. World No.1 Anand and  Kramnik start as favourites. Other six players are: S Mamedyarov (Aze), A Naiditch (Ger), P Leko (Hun), B Gelfand (Isr), E Alekseev (Rus) and M Carlsen (Nor). Kramnik drew Anand, Anand drew Leko, Gelfand drew Anand, Anand bt Naiditch. Mamedyarod drew Anand. See Anand games  Official site LIVE GAMES

Ivanchuk Wins:  Experienced Vassily Ivanchuk, 38,  of Ukraine won the Category 18 Aerosvit Tournament at Foros in Ukraine. He scored 7.5/11 and remained undefeated in the 12-player all-play-all that concluded on June 29. Sasikiran lost to Van Wely with white and tied for the 11-12th places with 4/11. His rating performance was 2593 and so he will be losing Elo. See games here.

IM Prathamesh Sunil Mokal Wins:  The 45th PSNA National B Chess Championship concluded at  Dindigul in Tamil Nadu on June 20. Prathamesh Mokal of Pune who wrested lead early with 7/7 won the event with a better tie-break score. He tied for the first place with four others: 2-5 B.Adhiban (TN), Ratnakaran (Rly), M.R.Venkatesh (PSPB), S.Kidambi (PSPB) 9.5/13. WGM Nisha Mohota was among the 11 new qualifiers. The other 10 were: B.Adhiban, Akshat Khamparia, M.R.Lalith Babu, Preetham Sharma, Shashikant Kutwal, Vidit Gujrathi, S.P.Sethuraman, Arun Karthik, R.Ashwath, Mehar Chinna Reddy.  The youngest qualifier is Mehar (12) and oldest is Sudhakar Babu (42). The top 30 qualify for the National A at Chennai in November. The coverage for the event is at www.mountchess.com
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Vijayalakshmi Earns Final GM Norm:  A brilliant 4/4 start and a 6.5/9 score gave S.Vijayalakshmi of Indian Airlines, Delhi her final GM norm and her open title at Curto, Italy some 50 kms east of Turin on May 1. She recorded a rating performance of 2602. Her earlier norms came at Paris 2005 and Kavala (Greece) 2006. She has to reach 2500 rating to get the GM title She is on 2424 now. 

The 44th National A, Valsad:  Surya S Ganguly of Indian Oil, Kolkata won the National A with 9/13 for the fourth straight time. 45 Players played in this Swiss. Deepan Chakkaravarthy was second. Four new players entered the top six. Arun Prasad of Salem, Gogineni Rohit, Suvrajit Saha and G.N.Gopal.  For the complete games in PGN and crosstable. See  Official placings  See 

Anand In Monte Carlo: Having recently won the Linares Title for the second time, Anand is on a high and is expected to be No.1 in the World when the April 1, 2007 rating list is released. The 16th Amber Blindfold and Rapid Chess Tournament is on at Monaco from March 17-29 (Mar 21, 26 are free days). It is a 12-player double all-play-all with one blind and rapid game. See games live in their website at www.amberchess.com 

Anand Regains Linares Title With 8.5/14:  Needing a draw for the title, Anand played the Queen's Indian defence and drew Ivanchuk in a rook and bishop ending after 31 moves. Anand scored 8.5/14 and won the prestigious event held in Mexico and Spain on March 10. Anand had won this event in 1998. Anand beat Carlsen 2-0, Morozevich, Leko 1.5-0.5, drew Ivanchuk, Topalov and Svidler 1-1 and lost 0.5-1.5 to Aronian.  games 

Tigran Petrosian Wins Kolkata Open: Tigran Petrosian of Armenia won the International Open at Kolkata on March 6 with 8/10. Darmen Sadvakasov and Sergey Tiviakov took the second-third places with 7.5 points. Sriram Jha and G.N.Gopal made 9-game GM Norms and tied for the fourth place. Petrosian picked up USD 4,500 in prize money. This event took place at the Gorky Sadan in Kolkata.    SEE

 

 
 
 
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