The All India Public Sector Chess Tournament 2016 was held from 14-18 March 2016, hosted by Indian Oil Corporation Ltd. at Mysuru. Almost all of India's top players are employed by the Petroleum companies and they were present to represent their teams in this six-team round-robin contest. IM N. Srinath bring you his personal account cum report from this tournament.
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There are days when things go completely wrong, and for Vishy Anand 23rd of March was one such day. Caruana guessed correctly the opening that he would play, had a very interesting novelty prepared and followed it up with some excellent moves. Almost until the last move was made, Fabiano played with utmost accuracy. Anand's stoic face at the press conference said the story. He was beaten even without having a chance to fight. It was a one sided battle. But as is true with every chess game, there is always a lot to be learnt. Analysis by IM Sagar Shah
Robert Frost once famously said that if he had learnt anything about life, it is that it goes on. People around the world die in a number beyond our imagination but people are born in even greater numbers -- the cycle will continue without waiting for you and me. But often, when you really want to help somebody, save a life, it is more a question of the will to help by joining hands than anything else. Mangesh Parab, a chess playing friend like we are, was diagnosed with cancer in 2004, and three operations later, he is free of his brain tumour, but with one last detail to attend to -- chemotherapy for a year. A physical battle with the emperor of maladies has failed to break the man, although he lies on the battlefield awaiting his comrades' help. He is fast running out of resources, and now the only way he can continue a year's treatment is with our help. An appeal from a fellow chess lover.
Central India is all set to host its biggest Open tournament when the SYNA International School hosts the SYNA Open 2016 at Katni in Madhya Pradesh. The tournament carries, for a reasonable entry fee, features that are only enviable and comparable to the best of chess tournaments in the country. Read this heartfelt invitation by the man behind the event, Niklesh Kumar Jain.
Vishy Anand played a fine game to get the better of Armenian number one Levon Aronian. The Berlin had been posing certain problems to Anand in this tournament, so he switched to the Guico Piano with the aim of getting a fresh non theoretical position. As it turned out White got a small edge out of the opening which increased due to a few careless moves by Aronian. Vishy's endgame play was a piece of art, mixing objectively strong moves with subtle psychology. The result was a near to flawless Capablanca/Smyslov like endgame victory. Detailed analysis by IM Sagar Shah.
Topalov didn't expect that Vishy would play the same opening system with Nbd7 and Bb4 again, after the Indian ace had played it against Anish. But Anand showed that he had faith on this system and the work he had done on it. The result was a completely fine game for Vishy right out of the opening. He even started getting ambitious and pressed the Bulgarian for a while in the endgame, but the advantage was just too minute. In the end the players agreed to a draw and Vishy maintains his third spot. Detailed analysis by IM Sagar Shah from Moscow.
With more than 230 participants and many top grandmasters the Reykjavik Open can boast of a strong field. The Harpa Hall, where the tournament was played, was another attraction. But the thing that attracted the world most was the summer smile of GM Abhijeet Gupta and IM Tania Sachdev in the inconsistent cold of the Icelandic capital. In this first part of our in-depth round-up, we bring you an illustrated report with the comments of Abhijeet himself.
In a completely unexplored line, Anand with his team of seconds and powerful engines dug deep. They found new ideas which were impossible for Anish to deal on the board. Being the pragmatist that he is Anish took the safe way out, rather than testing Vishy's home preparation. The result was a quick draw in 31 moves. Here's the game with some detailed explanation by IM Sagar Shah.
With more than 230 participants and many top grandmasters the Reykjavik Open can boast of a strong field. The Harpa Hall, where the tournament was played, was another attraction. But the thing that attracted the world most was the summer smile of GM Abhijeet Gupta and IM Tania Sachdev in the cold of the Icelandic capital. Express Report.
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The 13th edition of the Aeroflot Open 2016 is being held in Moscow, Russia from the 29th of February to 10th of March 2016. The tournament ended in a close finish at the top with both Boris Gelfand and Evgeny Najer scoring 6.5/9, with the latter taking first place on tiebreak. The Indians were playing in sizable numbers in all three groups and we bring you an illustrated report of Group B and C.
After Vishy lost his fourth round game against Karjakin, it seemed as if this tournament was not going to be nothing special. But his detractors just don't learn from their past experience! It's true and he proved it once again - It's impossible to write Vishy off! In the sixth round of the Candidates 2016, Anand played a sublime attacking game to dispatch Peter Svidler in just 24 moves. What makes this even more amazing is the fact that Peter was so well prepared in this tournament and in some of the games he played theory until the 24th move mark! But he couldn't withstand the roar of the Madras Tiger. We have indepth analysis for you by IM Sagar Shah from Moscow!
Nakamura is considered one of the best blitz players of our generation. The same was said about Vishy Anand a few years ago. As far as psychological advantage was concerned Nakamura held the edge as he had beaten Vishy Anand in their two previous classical encounters. But Anand has years of experience of playing in such top level events and he also had the white pieces. Everyone looked forward to the battle. However, thanks to the super solid Berlin Defence the game ended in a draw in 28 moves! We have detailed analysis for you:
The 13th edition of the Aeroflot Open 2016 is being held in Moscow, Russia from the 29th of February to 10th of March 2016. The tournament ended in a close finish at the top with both Boris Gelfand and Evgeny Najer scoring 6.5/9, with the latter taking first place on tiebreak. The Indians were playing in sizable numbers and our best performer was GM Krishnan Sasikiran who scored 5.5/9. An illustrated report of Group A and Aeroflot Blitz.
In 1986, with a rating of 2405, Vishy Anand shot ahead of all his compatriots at the end of the 23rd National A. This India number one post he preserved right until the 15th of March 2016, until that fateful game in which he lost against Sergey Karjakin. Pentala Harikrishna who has been hovering around the 2760 Elo mark for quite some time now, finally made the leap and became India number one based on the live Elo rankings.