KASPAROV speaks

A chess champ's advice: Attack and don't relent
October 12, 2007

NEW YORK -- As a teenage chess prodigy, Garry Kasparov quickly learned to deal with failure.

Twice he clashed with reigning champion Tigran Petrosian, and each time the upstart's aggressive tactics were twisted against him, repelled by "Iron Tigran's" notoriously impenetrable defence.

So on the eve of the their third meeting, the young Mr. Kasparov sought out some advice from the legendary Soviet grandmaster Boris Spassky.

"Squeeze his balls," Mr. Spassky counselled, sidestepping the more delicate intricacies of strategy. "But don't rush into it," he cautioned. "Squeeze one, not both."

The message? Pressure is a good thing, but it must be applied steadily and with purpose.

"If you stay aggressive and things don't work as planned, you at least learn something," Mr. Kasparov told a gathering at the World Business Forum in Manhattan yesterday. "Mistakes of inaction, I believe, are psychologically harder to deal with. We always regret missed opportunities more than misplayed attacks."

Mr. Kasparov, of course, blossomed into one of the chess world's greatest competitors, among other things: consultant, political activist, presidential candidate (although this looks increasingly in doubt), and author, most recently, of How Life Imitates Chess, designed to translate his experiences as a player into a guidebook for decision making in the corporate arena.

It was this latter hat he ostensibly donned yesterday, ready to make what he described as "the case for the offence." In Mr. Kasparov's thinking, attacking is as integral to business or politics as it is to chess; those who win do so not only by forcing their opponents into a retreat, but using their newly held advantage to launch further "assaults." A failure to do this can be fatal, he said, furnishing the Wright Brothers, Wang computers and AltaVista as examples of pioneers who ceded their positions to more aggressive rivals.

"In business it means you will give your competitor a chance to catch up and pass you," he warned. "Consider Apple's strategy with iPod. The Mini was incredibly popular when Apple introduced another line, the Nano. Instead of waiting around and counting their money, they pushed their advantage. In business, the best attack is always pre-emptive. An opponent or competitor who is under pressure is more likely to make a mistake."

Like some of his co-speakers, a group that included former Disney chief Michael Eisner and corporate raider Carl Icahn, Mr. Kasparov's lecture was rich in humour and anecdote, but thinner on actionable ideas.

Chess has long been a favoured metaphor for business types, conjuring as it does notions of a defined battlefield, complex strategy, and the need to marshal resources of various potential.

But business is not played on a two-dimensional board, and the metaphors tend to ring hollow when fastened too tightly to corporate strategy ("As on the chess board, if you don't use your initiative, you will lose it" or "In chess we know that a subtle move on one side of the board can have a decisive effect on the other side of the board.")

Even Mr. Kasparov, in response to a question from a moderator, conceded there was "no relation" between life and chess. The real key to his experiences, he added, was not so much the game, but the conceptual frame of mind he inhabited in order to win: the acceptance of failure, the necessity of absorbing criticism, no matter how painful, and the willingness to perform unflinching self-analysis.

"It's critical to understand why we succeed - not only why we fail," he said. "Nobody wants to look at success - we believe we won, because we're great. It's complacency. A good plan can fail with bad implementation and vice versa."

Mr. Kasparov, who has been a stern and persistent critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, was one of three presidential candidates recently put forward by opposition coalition Other Russia. Yet his candidacy for the December election was blocked this week because Other Russia is not a registered party.

Garry Kasparov on...

Russia's business climate: "It's like a bizarre combination of Adam Smith and Karl Marx. State profits are privatized, while expenses are nationalized."

Emotion in the executive suite: "Emotion is not to be avoided - only to be controlled. Don't whine, don't complain. Instead, plot and conspire."

On perspective: "I was always good at reading what we call in chess the 'demands of the position.' At the end of the day, it's about winning or losing. It's not about displaying your ego."

On striving to win: "Of course it's important to give your best, but no one grows up dreaming about becoming vice-president - at least in the beginning."

On taking the initiative: "When your opponent is retreating, he gradually loses ground, allowing you to extend your lead at his expense. And this leads to a direct attack that cannot be defended against. That's what I call the attacker's advantage."
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Gopal and Deepan in Second position in World Junior

Gopal and Deepan Chakravarthy in Second position of the World Juniors
Standings after Round 4
Rank SNo. Name Rtg FED Pts RtgØ
1 15 GM Howell David Wei Ling 2527 ENG 3½ 2506
2 3 GM Rodshtein Maxim 2615 ISR 3½ 2505
3 13 IM So Wesley 2531 PHI 3½ 2462
4 9 GM Meier Georg 2558 GER 3½ 2452
5 16 IM Gopal Geetha Narayanan 2520 IND 3 2525
6 12 GM Pashikian Arman 2534 ARM 3 2517
7 1 GM Wang Hao 2643 CHN 3 2511
8 2 GM Stellwagen Daniel 2639 NED 3 2498
9 11 GM Popov Ivan 2539 RUS 3 2491
10 5 GM Jones Gawain C. B. 2567 ENG 3 2485
11 4 GM Laznicka Viktor 2610 CZE 3 2471
12 53 Khamrakulov Dzurabek 2357 UZB 3 2471
13 10 GM Andreikin Dmitry 2555 RUS 3 2466
14 17 IM Romanov Evgeny 2515 RUS 3 2433
15 21 GM Adly Ahmed 2494 EGY 3 2361
16 30 IM Melkumyan Hrant 2469 ARM 3 2348
17 22 GM Deepan Chakkravarthy J. 2492 IND 3 2348
18 31 IM Kaplan Sasha 2466 ISR 2½ 2562
19 34 IM Jojua Davit 2434 GEO 2½ 2548
20 25 IM Grigoryan Avetik 2489 ARM 2½ 2538
21 63 Mamikonian Tigran 2257 ARM 2½ 2512
22 60 Molner Mackenzie 2308 USA 2½ 2506
23 78 Tamazyan Haik 2072 ARM 2½ 2498
24 18 GM Negi Parimarjan 2514 IND 2½ 2471
25 74 Garcia Cardenas Pablo 2149 CHI 2½ 2432
26 36 IM Llaneza Vega Marcos 2426 ESP 2½ 2422
27 7 GM Amin Bassem 2561 EGY 2½ 2422
28 32 IM Margvelashvili Giorgi 2451 GEO 2½ 2421
29 28 IM Sanikidze Tornike 2474 GEO 2½ 2414
30 14 IM Ragger Markus 2528 AUT 2½ 2409
31 8 IM Vovk Yuri 2561 UKR 2½ 2373
32 27 Ashwin Jayaram 2478 IND 2½ 2366
33 19 IM Corrales Jimenez Fidel 2513 CUB 2½ 2361
34 23 IM Banusz Tamas 2491 HUN 2½ 2342
35 43 FM Ter-Sahakyan Samvel 2389 ARM 2 2554
36 45 Abhishek Das 2383 IND 2 2543
37 51 Priborsky Jan 2359 CZE 2 2512
38 52 Alaguzov Maxat 2358 KAZ 2 2499
39 59 FM Arngrimsson Dagur 2323 ISL 2 2466
40 76 Vardanian Haik G. 2118 ARM 2 2450
41 69 Shamieh Mahmoud 2203 LIB 2 2444
42 66 Mijovic Stefan 2228 MNE 2 2433
43 77 Vlashki Nino 2077 BUL 2 2431
44 29 IM Gupta Abhijeet 2470 IND 2 2422
45 72 Javakhadze Zurab 2167 GEO 2 2408
46 24 IM Rohit Gogineni 2491 IND 2 2378
47 37 FM Bulski Krzysztof 2421 POL 2 2363
48 20 IM Feller Sebastien 2513 FRA 2 2342
49 26 IM Brandenburg Daan 2483 NED 2 2342
50 38 IM Ibarra Chami Luis Fernando 2416 MEX 2 2193
51 50 Kalashian David 2361 ARM 1½ 2539
52 54 Pileckis Emilis 2349 LTU 1½ 2535
53 48 FM Benidze Davit 2365 GEO 1½ 2521
54 67 Vandenbussche Thibaut 2205 BEL 1½ 2507
55 62 Kulakov Viacheslav 2261 RUS 1½ 2492
56 40 IM Simonian Hrair 2405 ARM 1½ 2464
57 64 Galic Ivan 2255 CRO 1½ 2462
58 41 FM Bregadze Levan 2394 GEO 1½ 2460
59 33 Nigalidze Gaioz 2440 GEO 1½ 2415
60 75 Gevorkian David 2149 ARM 1½ 2380
61 6 GM Khairullin Ildar 2567 RUS 1½ 2373
62 80 Lovik Lasse Ostebo 2025 NOR 1½ 2351
63 44 Hambardzumian Yuri 2387 ARM 1½ 2320
64 35 IM Hungaski Robert Andrew 2432 USA 1½ 2297
65 46 Hayrapetian Ovik 2374 ARM 1 2529
66 49 Nasri Amin 2364 IRI 1 2524
67 57 Vovk Ilja 2325 EST 1 2497
68 55 FM Fusco Leonardo 2341 ARG 1 2495
69 65 Momeni Ebrahim 2249 IRI 1 2442
70 71 Zvarik Martin 2187 SVK 1 2393
71 42 Arun Karthik R. 2391 IND 1 2368
72 58 FM Kjartansson Gudmundur 2324 ISL 1 2266
73 39 IM Gerzhoy Leonid 2415 ISR 1 2227
74 56 Pancevski Filip 2340 MKD ½ 2531
75 68 Alvarez Ramirez Miguel Angel 2204 MEX ½ 2420
76 70 Ter-Karapetian Alexi 2187 GEO ½ 2409
77 61 Hovhannisyan Robert 2273 ARM ½ 2365
78 47 FM Nithander Victor 2367 SWE ½ 2300
79 73 Suttor Vincent 2164 AUS 0 2385
80 79 Zemouli Issam 2067 ALG 0 2369

Pairing of the National SubJunior Girls

Round 6 on 2007/10/06 at 9.00 a.m
Bo. Name IRtg Club Pts Res. Pts Name IRtg Club
1 Devangi Patankar 2021 MAHA 4½ 4½ WFM Pon N Krithika 2140 TN
2 Gagare Shalmali 1988 MAHA 4½ 4½ Roy Pallabi 2032 WB
3 Sriharika Y G 1896 AP 4 4 Nlv Anusha 2010 AP
4 Mohana Priya J 1988 TN 4 4 Niji A 1925 KERALA
5 WFM Kotepalli Sai Nirupama 1977 AP 4 4 Shristi J Shetty 1916 KAR
6 Khushboo M 1754 TN 4 3½ Savetha C H 1968 TN
7 Sahari J 1836 AP 3½ 3½ Sathya Priya S V 1888 TN
8 Shaati Majumder 1877 WB 3½ 3½ Sujitha P 1725 TN
9 Rathore Sonakshi 1956 RAJ 3 3½ Vaishnavi J 1800 TN
10 Bharathi R 2017 TN 3 3 Anjana Krishna S 1802 KERALA
11 Pavitra Jagtap 1842 KAR 3 3 Sree Lakshmi V 1951 AP
12 Gupta Nishtha 1830 RAJ 3 3 Aatirah C P 1912 KERALA
13 Mohana Sengupta 1904 WB 3 3 Nivedhitha J G 1750 TN
14 Sneha Karekar 1830 KAR 3 3 Jagadambal M 1896 TN
15 Visalatchi R 1892 TN 3 3 Pratyusha Bodda 1736 AP
16 Taraswiniee B 1753 PONDY 3 3 Nandhini Saripalli 1876 GOA
17 Janani J 1862 TN 3 3 Nandhidhaa P V 1729 TN
18 Diotima Dutta Gupta 1670 WB 3 3 Supriya Joshi 1848 MAHA
19 A Akshaya 1847 TN 3 3 Soumya Shrivastava 0 MAHA
20 Nisha N Patkar 1914 KAR 2½ 2½ Ankita Singh 0 CHATTISGARH
21 Bhuvaneshwari.r 0 TN 2½ 2½ Agnihotri Ghosh 1888 WB
22 Diksha Chavan 0 GOA 2½ 2½ Krushna Mishra 1703 ORISSA
23 Karthikeyini.R 0 TN 2½ 2½ Suneha Acharyya 1699 WB
24 Sampada Barve 0 GOA 2½ 2½ Vini Mary Thomas 1634 AP
25 Sushmitha.G 0 TN 2½ 2½ Deshpande Aafrin 0 MAHA
26 Sukanya Dutta 1990 WB 2 2 Arthi.B 0 TN
27 Saranya J 1922 TN 2 2 Aishwarya.R 0 TN
28 Gupta Astha 1800 RAJ 2 2 Ankita Gandhi 0 CHATTISGARH
29 Akhade Vaishnavi 0 MAHA 2 2 Anushya S 1786 TN
30 Radhika.G 0 TN 2 2 Janu V 1744 TN
31 Mahalakshmi M 1710 TN 2 2 Deepam 0 BIHAR
32 Ashwini U 1702 TN 2 2 Janis Maria Fredrick 0 PONDY
33 Sowmia A 1679 TN 2 2 Isha Bhave 0 MAHA
34 Pallavi 0 BIHAR 2 2 Sowjhanya S 1671 TN
35 Priya V S S 1492 AP 2 2 Navya Vyshnavi.M 0 AP
36 Sukanya Chari 0 GOA 1½ 1½ Abirami.R 0 TN
37 Alka Raj 0 KERALA 1½ 1½ Priyanga.G 0 PONDY
38 Kanchana Dhevi .A 0 PONDY 1½ 1½ Supriya Shanbhaga 0 GOA
39 Subhashree Indira Priyadarshini 0 ORISSA 1½ 1½ Kanika Saxena 0 DELHI
40 Nibriti Simran 0 BIHAR 1½ 1½ Yamini.V 0 PONDY
41 Ira Solanki 0 GUJRAT 1 1 Preethy.P 0 PONDY
42 Nivedha.L 0 TN 1 1 Jeyassri.B 0 TN
43 Madhurima Shekhar 0 DELHI 1 1 Ramalakshmi 0 TN
44 Shristi Gautham 0 BIHAR 1 ½ Jigna Joshi 0 GUJRAT
Simantini Shasani 0 ORISSA ½ Bye 0

Pairings of the National Subjunior Boys

Round 6 on 2007/10/06 at 9.00 a.m
Bo. Name IRtg Club Pts Res. Pts Name IRtg Club
1 Adhiban B 2422 TN 4½ 4½ FM Nitin S 2321 TN
2 FM Prasanna Rao 2228 MAHA 4½ 4 Udeshi Aditya 2355 MAHA
3 Bitan Banerjee 2149 WB 4 4 Sethuraman S P 2427 TN
4 Lalith Babu M R 2350 AP 4 4 Stany G A 2097 KAR
5 FM Priyadharshan K 2298 TN 4 4 Antonio Viani D'cunha 1988 KAR
6 Fenil Shah 2124 GUJRAT 4 4 Debashis Das 2286 ORISSA
7 Ramnath Bhuvanesh R 2115 TN 4 4 IM Shyam Sundar M 2241 TN
8 Abhratanu Dutta 2023 WB 4 4 Swayams Mishra 2187 ORISSA
9 FM Narayanan Srinath 2201 TN 3½ 4 FM Girish A Koushik 2086 KAR
10 Hemant Sharma 2193 DEL 3½ 3½ Navalgund Niranjan 2012 KAR
11 Lokesh P 2012 TN 3½ 3½ Kulkarni Rakesh 2119 MAHA
12 Das Sayantan 1982 WB 3½ 3½ K Vijaya Kanth 2110 AP
13 Yashas D 1966 KAR 3½ 3½ Chatterjee Sandipan 2075 WB
14 Harihara Sudan M 1948 TN 3½ 3½ Sri Harsha Lingala 2052 AP
15 Srikanth Ajay 2028 TN 3½ 3½ Avinash Singh 1945 CHHATTIS
16 Ritwan Sauntra 1929 JK 3½ 3½ Santhosh Kumar G 2024 TN
17 Shantanil Simlai 1877 WB 3½ 3½ G Akash 2013 TN
18 Ankit R Rajpara 2134 GUJRAT 3 3½ Shashaank D S 1935 TN
19 Mohineesh C H 1925 AP 3 3 Diptanu Das 2137 WB
20 Atishay Ajmera 1903 RAJ 3 3 Surendran N 2126 TN
21 Tejas Chandra S 2105 AP 3 3 Jitendria Vel S 1919 TN
22 Anurag Mhamal 2092 GOA 3 3 Sai Manivannan N R 1926 TN
23 Gusain Himal 2085 CHANDIGARH 3 3 Srinath Rao S V 1899 CHHATTIS
24 Abhinav Nr 1856 TN 3 3 Satyajit Kundu 2085 WB
25 Gagare Shardul 2080 MAHA 3 3 Shaik Abdul Azeez 1915 AP
26 Sumit Kumar Jha 1840 TN 3 3 Kumar Gaurav 2080 BIHAR
27 Ramalingam Karthik 1836 TN 3 3 Praveen Kumar 2064 BIHAR
28 Imtiaz Islam Bora 2043 ASSAM 3 3 Raju S 1872 TN
29 Nayak Biswajit 2024 ORISSA 3 3 Dubey Ankesh 1894 MP
30 Kaushlendra Kumar 1993 BIHAR 3 3 Rajkumar N 1835 TN
31 Satra Pravesh 1703 MAHA 3 3 Tejas Ravichandran 1980 TN
32 Vishnu Sharon R 1943 TN 3 3 Eshwanth Dev Kumar J 1801 TN
33 Bindumadhavan Krishnaprasad 1413 MAHA 3 3 Mullick Saikat 1934 WB
34 Bharathyraja.K 0 PONDY 3 2½ Abhilash Reddy M L 2069 AP
35 Muthu Alagappan M 1968 TN 2½ 2½ Sai Prahlad K 1834 TN
36 Mukesh M 1739 TN 2½ 2½ Kathirvel M 1906 PONDY
37 Darshan V P S 1897 KAR 2½ 2½ Vishnu Prasad A S 1722 KERALA
38 Vaibhav Khanna 1893 DELHI 2½ 2½ Lokknath S 1709 TN
39 Abhijith .R 0 KERALA 2½ 2½ Dinesh Kumaar R 1883 TN
40 Jaswant G 1872 TN 2½ 2½ Vinod Kumar B 1706 PONDY
41 Akshay Khator 0 CHHATTIS 2½ 2½ Keegan Furtado 1870 GOA
42 Kawaljeet Singh Maras 0 MAHA 2½ 2½ Johnson Sahoo 1869 ORISSA
43 V Vijai 1858 PONDY 2½ 2½ Sivanesan.S 0 PONDY
44 Karma Pandya 1852 GUJRAT 2½ 2½ Subham 0 BIHAR
45 Sanjay Mishra 0 ORISSA 2½ 2 Ganesh.P 1931 TN
46 Darpan Inani 0 GUJRAT 2 2 Santhosbaala R S 1919 TN
47 Hardik Joshi 0 GUJRAT 2 2 Agasti Tari 1875 GOA
48 Ganesh R 1829 TN 2 2 Kaushik Bhave 0 MAHA
49 Vasantha Ruba Varman 1814 TN 2 2 Mohammad Ashraf 0 ORISSA
50 Rajat Rajkhowa 0 ASSAM 2 2 Ram Gupta 1809 DELHI
51 Mohandeep Gogoi 0 ASSAM 2 2 Mugil Jayavel 1802 TN
52 Prakash Yadav 0 MP 2 2 Pranav Zantye 1795 GOA
53 Satbir 0 CHANDIGARH 2 2 Sanjeev V 1782 TN
54 S.Badrinath 0 PONDY 2 2 Jaitheerth K 1676 KERALA
55 Abhishek Nayal 0 JK 2 2 Sanjeev.S.S 0 TN
56 Amalan.S.A 0 TN 2 2 Susanta Kumar Bhoi 0 ORISSA
57 Patil Pratik 1947 MAHA 1½ 1½ Adithya Prasanna 0 PONDY
58 Indrajit Handique 0 ASSAM 1½ 1½ Madhan N 1851 TN
59 Kamal Shankar K.S 0 TN 1½ 1½ Subhajyoti Saha 1639 WB
60 Ravindra Teja.M 0 AP 1½ 1½ Saikat Dutta 1555 JHARKHAND
61 Rohan Mourya 0 MP 1½ 1½ Adithyan.P.S 0 KERALA
62 Sai Kiran.S 0 TN 1½ 1½ Anchit Vyas 0 MP
63 Aniruddhan.T.A 0 TN 1½ 1½ Sirish 0 CHANDIGARH
64 Hariharan R 1813 PONDY 1 1½ Suraj.L 0 MANIPUR
65 Manisana .H 0 MANIPUR 1 1 Alex Fernadus 0 TN
66 Pintu Kumar Keshri 0 JHARKHAND 1 1 Ankit Singh 0 CHHATTIS
67 Aseem Bihari Sharan 0 JHARKHAND 1 1 Pradip.M 0 MANIPUR
68 Chandrakant 0 JHARKHAND 1 1 Sashi Kumar 0 BIHAR
69 Gitin Oberoi 0 CHANDIGARH 1 1 Sunil Dev.S 0 PONDY
70 Harivallabha R 0 TN 1 1 Yaish.M 0 MANIPUR
71 Ramanathan RM 0 TN 1 ½ Vishwanath Jeyaraman 0 TN
72 Vimal Adhithya Chozhan 0 TN ½ 0 Bala.Mukilan 0 TN
73 Clinton Kaniamuthan 0 TN 0 0 Narayanan.M.R 0 TN

7 Players Share Lead in National Subjuniors

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33rd NATIONAL SUB JUNIOR OPEN CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP 2007

Round 4 on 2007/10/05 at 9.00 a.m
Bo. Name IRtg Club Pts Res. Pts Name IRtg Club
1 Anurag Mhamal 2092 GOA 3 3 FM Nitin S 2321 TN
2 FM Priyadharshan K 2298 TN 3 3 Fenil Shah 2124 GUJRAT
3 FM Prasanna Rao 2228 MAHA 3 3 Antonio Viani D'cunha 1988 KAR
4 Chatterjee Sandipan 2075 WB 3 2½ Debashis Das 2286 ORISSA
5 Gusain Himal 2085 CHANDIGARH 2½ 2½ Adhiban B 2422 TN
6 Gagare Shardul 2080 MAHA 2½ 2½ IM Shyam Sundar M 2241 TN
7 Srikanth Ajay 2028 TN 2½ 2½ FM Narayanan Srinath 2201 TN
8 Hemant Sharma 2193 DEL 2½ 2½ Kumar Gaurav 2080 BIHAR
9 Bitan Banerjee 2149 WB 2½ 2½ Sri Harsha Lingala 2052 AP
10 Nayak Biswajit 2024 ORISSA 2½ 2½ Surendran N 2126 TN
11 Abhratanu Dutta 2023 WB 2½ 2½ Kulkarni Rakesh 2119 MAHA
12 Atishay Ajmera 1903 RAJ 2½ 2½ K Vijaya Kanth 2110 AP
13 Lokesh P 2012 TN 2½ 2½ FM Girish A Koushik 2086 KAR
14 Sethuraman S P 2427 TN 2 2½ Santhosh Kumar G 2024 TN
15 Vishnu Sharon R 1943 TN 2 2 Udeshi Aditya 2355 MAHA
16 Lalith Babu M R 2350 AP 2 2 Ganesh.P 1931 TN
17 Mullick Saikat 1934 WB 2 2 Swayams Mishra 2187 ORISSA
18 Ritwan Sauntra 1929 JK 2 2 Diptanu Das 2137 WB
19 Ankit R Rajpara 2134 GUJRAT 2 2 Sai Manivannan N R 1926 TN
20 Ramnath Bhuvanesh R 2115 TN 2 2 Santhosbaala R S 1919 TN
21 Tejas Chandra S 2105 AP 2 2 Shaik Abdul Azeez 1915 AP
22 Mohineesh C H 1925 AP 2 2 Stany G A 2097 KAR
23 Kathirvel M 1906 PONDY 2 2 Satyajit Kundu 2085 WB
24 Darshan V P S 1897 KAR 2 2 Abhilash Reddy M L 2069 AP
25 Praveen Kumar 2064 BIHAR 2 2 Srinath Rao S V 1899 CHHATTIS
26 Imtiaz Islam Bora 2043 ASSAM 2 2 Dubey Ankesh 1894 MP
27 Jaswant G 1872 TN 2 2 G Akash 2013 TN
28 Keegan Furtado 1870 GOA 2 2 Navalgund Niranjan 2012 KAR
29 Das Sayantan 1982 WB 2 2 Agasti Tari 1875 GOA
30 Pranav Zantye 1795 GOA 2 2 Tejas Ravichandran 1980 TN
31 Sanjay Mishra 0 ORISSA 2 2 Yashas D 1966 KAR
32 Harihara Sudan M 1948 TN 2 2 Johnson Sahoo 1869 ORISSA
33 Kaushlendra Kumar 1993 BIHAR 1½ 1½ Vishnu Prasad A S 1722 KERALA
34 Muthu Alagappan M 1968 TN 1½ 1½ Vinod Kumar B 1706 PONDY
35 Mukesh M 1739 TN 1½ 1½ Avinash Singh 1945 CHHATTIS
36 Subhajyoti Saha 1639 WB 1½ 1½ Shashaank D S 1935 TN
37 Aniruddhan.T.A 0 TN 1½ 1½ Jitendria Vel S 1919 TN
38 Vaibhav Khanna 1893 DELHI 1½ 1½ Abhijith .R 0 KERALA
39 Akshay Khator 0 CHHATTIS 1½ 1½ Dinesh Kumaar R 1883 TN
40 Shantanil Simlai 1877 WB 1½ 1½ Adithyan.P.S 0 KERALA
41 Bharathyraja.K 0 PONDY 1½ 1½ Raju S 1872 TN
42 V Vijai 1858 PONDY 1½ 1½ Subham 0 BIHAR
43 Rohan Mourya 0 MP 1½ 1½ Eshwanth Dev Kumar J 1801 TN
44 Sivanesan.S 0 PONDY 1½ 1 Patil Pratik 1947 MAHA
45 Abhinav Nr 1856 TN 1 1 Aseem Bihari Sharan 0 JHARKHAND
46 Karma Pandya 1852 GUJRAT 1 1 Athithiya Prasanna.N 0 PONDY
47 Sumit Kumar Jha 1840 TN 1 1 Kamal Shankar K.S 0 TN
48 Ramalingam Karthik 1836 TN 1 1 Gitin Oberoi 0 CHANDIGARH
49 Rajkumar N 1835 TN 1 1 Kaushik Bhave 0 MAHA
50 Kawaljeet Singh Maras 0 MAHA 1 1 Sai Prahlad K 1834 TN
51 Ganesh R 1829 TN 1 1 Manisana .H 0 MANIPUR
52 Mohandeep Gogoi 0 ASSAM 1 1 Vasantha Ruba Varman 1814 TN
53 Hariharan R 1813 PONDY 1 1 Mohd.Ashraf 0 ORISSA
54 Prakash Yadav 0 MP 1 1 Ram Gupta 1809 DELHI
55 Mugil Jayavel 1802 TN 1 1 Rajat Rajkhowa 0 ASSAM
56 Ramanathan RM 0 TN 1 1 Sanjeev V 1782 TN
57 Satra Pravesh 1703 MAHA 1 1 S.Badrinath 0 PONDY
58 Sashi Kumar 0 BIHAR 1 1 Jaitheerth K 1676 KERALA
59 Bindumadhavan Krishnaprasad 1413 MAHA 1 1 Sanjeev.S.S 0 TN
60 Abhishek Nayal 0 JK 1 1 Suraj.L 0 MANIPUR
61 Amalan.S.A 0 TN 1 1 Satbir 0 CHANDIGARH
62 Susanta Kumar Bhoi 0 ORISSA 1 1 Ankit Singh 0 CHHATTIS
63 Sai Kiran.S 0 TN ½ ½ Madhan N 1851 TN
64 Lokknath S 1709 TN ½ ½ Viswanath Jayaraman 0 TN
65 Vimal Adhithya Chozhan 0 TN ½ ½ Saikat Dutta 1555 JHARKHAND
66 Sunil Dev.S 0 PONDY ½ ½ Anchit Vyas 0 MP
67 Alex Fernadus 0 TN 0 ½ Ravindra Teja.M 0 AP
68 Indrajit Handique 0 ASSAM 0 0 Bala.Mukilan 0 TN
69 Narayanan.M.R 0 TN 0 0 Chandrakanth 0 JHARKHAND
70 Clinton Kaniamuthan 0 TN 0 0 Pradip.M 0 MANIPUR
71 Pintu Kumar Keshri 0 JHARKHAND 0 0 Darpan Inani 0 GUJRAT
72 Yaish.M 0 MANIPUR 0 0 Hardik Joshi 0 GUJRAT
73 Harivallabha R 0 TN 0 0 Sirish 0 CHANDIGARH

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Free to non-members on ICC will be Mig's podcast on his spin of the days play along with a daily video diary from Macauley in Mexico. Do not miss the free 15-min Game of the Day video from one of ICC commentary team. As a special feature, we have round by round instructive analysis of GM Viswanathan Anand's games by GM R B Ramesh.
For members, there will be daily live commentary and board analyses with US Chess Journalist of the Year, Mig Greengard, and he'll be joined each day on the show by one of our crack GM commentary team of Joel Benjamin, Larry Christiansen, Jon Speelman, John Fedorowicz, Gregory Kaidanov and Nick De Firmian. Macauley Peterson will also have interviews and the latest news direct from the Mexico City press center. And for each round during the show, the famed New In Chess trivia contest will see a lucky winner receive a one-year subscription to the best chess magazine in the world.

ChessFM India, the exclusive India channel of Internet Chess Club's www.chess.fm was inaugurated during the Anand Charity Simul for Vidyasagar charity organisation. The previous Saturday show guests include various chess personalties, former World Junior champion GM Harikrishna, World's youngest Grandmaster Parimarjan Negi, Grandmaster Sandipan Chanda, Indian Women champion WGM Tania Sachdev, GM Dibyendu Barua, WGM Dronavalli Harika, IM Prathamesh, WGM S Vijayalakshmi, IM GN Gopal, WIM Kiran Manisha Mohanty, IM D V Prasad, R V Gokhale.

ChessFM India is a free service and apart from the Saturday weekly show, has broadcasts Grandmaster commentary and analysis of popular Chess tournaments such M Tel Super category tournament, Bulgaria and the Sparkassen Chess Festival, Dortmund and the recently concluded Mainz Rapid won by GM Viswanathan Anand.


For futher information on ChessFM India & ICC:

K Visweswaran, India Representative,

The Internet Chess Club, Inc. www.chessclub.com

email: IccIndia@chessclub.com Ph: +91-9444934036 .

National Subjunior- Boys & Girls. Top 10 board pairings

Round 3 on 2007/10/04 at 9.00 a.m
Bo. Name IRtg Club Pts Res. Pts Name IRtg Club
1 Udeshi Aditya 2355 MAHA 2 2 Chatterjee Sandipan 2075 WB
2 FM Nitin S 2321 TN 2 2 Imtiaz Islam Bora 2043 ASSAM
3 Satyajit Kundu 2085 WB 2 2 FM Priyadharshan K 2298 TN
4 Debashis Das 2286 ORISSA 2 2 Srikanth Ajay 2028 TN
5 IM Shyam Sundar M 2241 TN 2 2 Nayak Biswajit 2024 ORISSA
6 Abhilash Reddy M L 2069 AP 2 2 FM Prasanna Rao 2228 MAHA
7 FM Narayanan Srinath 2201 TN 2 2 Abhratanu Dutta 2023 WB
8 Sri Harsha Lingala 2052 AP 2 2 Hemant Sharma 2193 DEL
9 Santhosh Kumar G 2024 TN 2 2 Bitan Banerjee 2149 WB
10 Surendran N 2126 TN 2 2 Lokesh P 2012 TN

Girls :
1 Shristi J Shetty 1916 KAR 2 2 WFM Pon N Krithika 2140 TN
2 Kanuri Tejaswi 2039 AP 2 2 Mohana Sengupta 1904 WB
3 Jagadambal M 1896 TN 2 2 Bharathi R 2017 TN
4 Sriharika Y G 1896 AP 2 2 Sukanya Dutta 1990 WB
5 Gagare Shalmali 1988 MAHA 2 2 Sahari J 1836 AP
6 Khushboo M 1754 TN 2 2 Mohana Priya J 1988 TN
7 Niji A 1925 KERALA 2 2 Gupta Astha 1800 RAJ
8 Pratyusha Bodda 1736 AP 2 2 Saranya J 1922 TN
9 Roy Pallabi 2032 WB 1½ 2 Nandhidhaa P V 1729 TN
10 Devangi Patankar 2021 MAHA 1½ 1½ Diotima Dutta Gupta 1670 WB

Also visit TNCA website for more information

Next year comes soon

Hours after winning the World Chess Championship, Viswanathan Anand, an Indian grandmaster, sat in his hotel in Mexico City on Saturday and groped for words to explain how he felt.


“You can imagine,” he said by telephone. “I don’t know how on an emotional level it affects me.”
Mr. Anand’s victory was not a surprise — he is ranked No.1 in the world — but it was a milestone. He is the first Asian to be the undisputed champion and only the second player from outside Eastern Europe in the last 60 years. (The other was the American Bobby Fischer, who held the title from 1972 to 1975.)
Mr. Anand will not have a lot of time to rest on his laurels. Under rules of the World Chess Federation, the organizers of the championship, he will have to play a match early next year against the Russian Vladimir Kramnik, the previous champion.
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KING OF CHESS -ANAND SHADOWED BY CRICKET?

King of chess
Business Standard / New Delhi October 03, 2007
After 14 days of hard work in Mexico City, chess maestro Viswanathan Anand is entitled to a certain satisfaction. He has been crowned world champion (and received the attached prize money, $390,000, or over Rs 1.5 crore). Across 121 years, only 17 men have won this title — of them, Anand is the only one born and bred outside Europe and the former USSR. In most of the 160-odd nations where this ancient game is played seriously, this achievement would confer automatic superstar status. Sadly, in his country of origin, where chess was invented, Anand’s achievement is overshadowed in the public consciousness by the performance of the national cricket team. In contrast to the cricketers, Anand won without fuss and bother. He entered Mexico as the top seed and duly dominated a field, which consisted of eight of the world’s best players, emerging the undefeated champion. Uniquely, the 37-year-old is the only one to have won the world title under two different formats, and he also holds the world rapid title.

To play tournament chess at any level requires natural talent, strong will, good nerves, physical fitness and the acquisition of a huge body of knowledge about the ways in which the pieces interact across the 64 squares. While the other qualities may be genetic, acquiring the theory requires hard work. The game is taught in schools across much of Western Europe and across all the former Soviet republics by top-class practitioners. It is an amazing act of self-pedagogy for somebody to consistently beat the best products off those assembly lines. It is roughly equivalent to learning a foreign language with enough fluency to write in it and win a Nobel.

Anand’s feats have inspired an entire generation of talented Indian players. The “Indian chess revolution”, if it may be so described, has produced a string of teenagers (Harikrishna, Humpy, Negi, Sachdeva) who compete and win at the highest levels. Sadly, most of this activity has taken place off the public radar and been driven by the efforts of a few dedicated souls.

Chess has many positive externalities. It helps practitioners learn the discipline and self-control required to calculate a mass of possibilities and make quick decisions against a ticking clock. It is a terrific training ground for visuo-spatial pattern recognition. Last but not least, some of the thorniest problems in mathematics and computer science revolve around the game and programming computers to play it well. Thus, it has obvious synergies with information technology and training — the fact that Anand is the NIIT brand ambassador is recognition of this.
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Watchout the Goans!!

Four more Goans - Agasti Tari, Brahmanand Kamat,
M. Harikrishnan and Rakshith Rai - made it to the FIDE rating list
which was released on October 1, 2007. This reflects the
growing popularity of chess with the youngsters in Goa
as they are now performing well in the Open tournaments
and earning a name for themselves and the State.

Goan chess also celebrated the success of Anurag Mhamal
and Umang Kaisary whose ratings improved by 33 points and
67 points respectively. Whereas Umang dazzled in Mangalore
with a 2093 performance, Anurag essayed a brilliant 2203 performance
in the National 'B' conducted at Dindigul, Tamil Nadu.

Among the active players the gap between Woman FIDE Master
Bhakti Kulkarni and Anurag Mhamal has narrowed to just
20 points though it must be mentioned that Bhakti will be gaining
61 ELO points for her performance in the National Junior Championship
which will be reflected in the January 2008 rating list.

Some of the important ratings are as follows -


J. Venkata Ramana 2168
Mandar Tahmankar 2141
Bhakti Kulkarni 2112
Swapnil Hobble 2105
Anurag Mhamal 2092
Suhas Asnodkar 2031
Shubham Pinge 2012
Sumit Asnodkar 1999
P.M. Kantak 1990
Niraj Saripalli 1967
Standrik Colaso 1957
Sanjay Kavlekar 1947
Celianne Carvalho 1926
A. Malwankar 1914
Umang Kaisary 1889
Prasanna Swamy 1884
Nandhini Saripalli 1876
Keegan Furtado 1870
Shradha Mohanan 1857
Cyrus Perreira 1845
V. Siva Swamy 1820
Pranav Zantye 1795
Anuradha Chavan 1766
Chinmay Patil 1725

New entrants
Agasti Tari 1875
Brahmanand Kamat 1747
M. Harikrishnan 1730
Rakshith Rai 1656

Recent top rating performances by Goan players

1. Commonwealth, November 2006 - 2328 Bhakti Kulkarni (9 games)
2. National Junior Girls 2007 - 2220 Bhakti Kulkarni (10 games)
3. National B 2006 - 2203 Anurag Mhamal (12 games)
4. Sangli, May 2007 - 2176 Anurag Mhamal (8 games)
5. Rochess, December 2006 - 2162 Anurag Mhamal (7 games)
6. Sangli, December 2006 - 2157 Anurag Mhamal (8 games)
6. Mangalore 2007 - 2093 Umang Kaisary (7 games)

Advanced Electronic Chess Game

Want to take a break from the monotony of work and exercise those brain muscles (without using any of those Brain Training games)? The Advanced Robotic Chess Game could be a pretty interesting candidate.

This is the advanced electronic chess game that allows you to play against a robotic opponent that automatically recognizes and counters the movement of your chess pieces using the touch-sensitive chessboard. You can play against the computer or it can play itself, yet it provides beginners and experienced players appropriate challenges by offering 120 levels of play (16 levels of analysis), and gives instruction and counsel using voice prompts, while its LCD screen shows piece-movement text messages for additional help without audio commentary. The computer has an estimated U.S. Chess Federation Class A skill rating of 1900, and it will never accept an illegal move, and rates your skill after every match; a coaching and teaching mode provide hints and allows you to reconsider moves.

At $249.95 each, it certainly requires some thought before purchasing one. Casual chess players will probably avoid this, but the more serious aficionados would definitely love such a challenge!

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INNOVATIVE CM INAGURATES CHESS PARK

Honorable Chief Minister Sri Kumaraswami and Honorable Deputy Chief Minister Sri Yadiyurappa played symbolic chess moves on the board to inaugurate 'Mini Chess Park' in City's Tagore Park.

After the inauguration Chief Minister in his address praised the efforts to start Chess Park to popularize the intellectual game among public and wished all the success. District In charge Minister Sri Nagaraja Shetty; D.K District Deputy Commissioner Sri Maheshwara Rao; Sri Srinivas Nayak Indaje, Vice President, CADK; Sri Prasanna Rao, Secretary, CADK; Sri Deric Pinto, Administrator, Derik's Chess School were also present on the occasion.

After the inauguration young upcoming talents of the district- Adith jagadish, Nihal Manjunath, Anantharam R U, Sharan rao, Andrea D'souza and other players played chess games to enthrall the public.

D.K District Administration in association with Combined D.K District Chess Association (CADK) and Derik's Chess School has planned to arrange for the Mini Chess Park in Tagore Park to encourage public to learn and play this intellectual game and also planned to provide opportunities to talented players to display their skills.

As per the vision of Deputy Commissioner concrete chess boards will be constructed for the public to play chess. Also there will be weekend training sessions by Derik's Chess School exclusively for the public. The 'Mini Chess Park' will be first of its kind in India.

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Computers and Poker

When the chips are down, computers can now beat humans at most cerebral and mechanical activities. They can fly planes, drive cars, arrange timetables, make lists and retrieve information better, more accurately and faster than we mere mortals. At chequers (draughts), computers have a program that cannot lose, and, at best, can be tied. Deep Blue, a supercomputer-based chess-playing software system, can trounce the world champion at chess. But humans still have one ace in the hole. And that is poker.

At an interspecies match at the University of Alberta, two professional high-rollers beat a gambling computer with the unusual nom de cartes of Polaris. They mocked their mechanical opponent’s play as “sick”, when the machine made an extraordinary or unusual action. They were playing Texas Hold ’Em heads-up limit poker. So the computer science professors are going back to their keyboards to try new algorithms and strategies. And even the ranks of nongamblers, who do not know their blue chips from the ace up their sleeves, can scarce forbear to up the ante.

For poker calls for two human qualities that cannot be reproduced mechanically: bluff and imagination. A poker face beats a computer screen every time. You can program your computer for different opponents or styles of play called “bots” in the trade, but you cannot prepare it for the forgotten factor of human orneriness. Statisticians said that if you gave a zillion chimpanzees a zillion keyboards, they would end up by tapping out the works of Shakespeare. Because of the internet we now know that this is not true. The failure of computers to call our bluff is conclusive evidence that we are still on the winning team. More in

Khet Laser Game!

The Khet Laser game is an amazing board game that is like playing chess in a pyramid with lasers against a pharaoh (and we are not trying to send you to lu lu land here), chess is great but in this day an age when video games rule you need a board game with a twist and this is just what Khet is.

The Khet Laser game is said to be the first board game to incorporate laser technology and add to that the strategy and head bending fun then you have the ultimate mix.

If you love board games and gadgets then you will love this game as most of the pieces have a mirrored side to them to aid in the object of the game.
Which is to maneuver your pieces around the board so that when you ‘fire’ the laser from your corner, it bounces around the pieces on the board and ultimately ’strikes’ and lights up your opponents ‘Pharoh’ piece.

Khet Laser Game Features

• Suitable for ages 9 years+
• Suitable for two players
• Contains two Class I lasers (of course do not intently stare into the laser beams).
• The pieces have 2, 1 or no mirrored sides
• Egyptian themed playing pieces; the Sacred Pharaoh, Djed column, Pyramid and Obelisk
• An Egyptian themed game with pyramids and lasers

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Harrypotters chess board!

Which house will you choose?
A Uniquely striking Harry Potter Hogwarts House Quidditch Chess set with the choice of playing the four Hogwarts houses. Choose your favorite Hogwarts house team, play Hufflepuss verses Slytherin, or Gryffindor verses Ravenclaw, or in any given combination.

All playing pieces for each house is included with each piece intricately die-cast and enameled in house colors, and stores neatly inside the game board. The superb quality game board itself is made of hardwood with 24k gold plated accents and measures 12 inches x 12 inches x 3 inches.

FIVE BEST CHESS MOVIES

Critic Robert Basalla recommends five movies that feature chess less foolishly than most:

"Searching for Bobby Fischer." Basalla's favorite of many 1990s chess films hams up its true-life sources, but makes few outright blunders and captures the game's mystique.

"The Seventh Seal." Death plays black in Ingmar Bergman's often-parodied 1956 classic.

"The Luzhin Defence." A 2000 version of a Vladimir Nabokov novel about a eccentric chess player. (Is there any other kind?) "Dangerous Moves." This 1985 Oscar-winner from Switzerland shows the drama and strain of a championship showdown, but mistakes include English subtitles describing different moves than the dialogue.

"Knight Moves." Players fall faster than pawns in this 1993 killer thriller.

Shun this: "No Name on the Bullet." A player castles with his queen. Without a hint of humor, his opponent responds, "You play an interesting game."

To buy: "Chess in the Movies" (listed for $34.95 plus shipping), see www.amazon.com or www.uscf.org, or contact author Robert Basalla, swgcfwip@core.com.

Does Folic Acid Help Memory?

Extra Folic Acid May Help Memory!

High-dose folic acid pills - providing as much of the nutrient as 2.5 pounds of strawberries - might help slow the cognitive decline of aging.

So says a Dutch study that’s the first to show a vitamin could really improve memory.

The research, unveiled Monday at a meeting of Alzheimer’s researchers, adds to mounting evidence that a diet higher in folate is important for a variety of health effects. It’s already proven to reduce birth defects, and research suggests it helps ward off heart disease and strokes, too.

The new study doesn’t show folic acid could prevent Alzheimer’s - the people who tested the vitamin didn’t have symptoms of that disease.

But as people age, some decline in memory and other brain functions is inevitable. Taking 800 micrograms of folic acid a day slowed that brain drain, reported lead researcher Jane Durga of Wageningen University in the Netherlands.

In the study, 818 cognitively healthy people ages 50 to 75 swallowed either folic acid or a dummy pill for three years.

On memory tests, the supplement users had scores comparable to people 5.5 years younger, Durga said. On tests of cognitive speed, the folic acid helped users perform as well as people 1.9 years younger.

That’s significant brain protection, with a supplement that’s already well-known to be safe, said Johns Hopkins University neuroscientist Marilyn Albert, who chairs the Alzheimer’s Association’s science advisory council.

"I think I would take folic acid, assuming my doctor said it was OK," Albert said. "We know Alzheimer’s disease, the pathology, begins many, many years before the symptoms. We ought to be thinking about the health of our brain the same way we think about the health of our heart."

Indeed, there’s enough research now suggesting that there are ways to gird the brain against age-related memory loss and Alzheimer’s that the association has begun offering classes to teach people the techniques.

Exercise your brain. Using it in unusual ways increases blood flow and helps the brain wire new connections. That’s important to build up what’s called cognitive reserve, an ability to adapt to or withstand the damage of Alzheimer’s a little longer.

In youth, that means good education. Later in life, do puzzles, learn to play chess, take classes.

_Stay socially stimulated. Declining social interaction with age predicts declining cognitive function.

_Exercise your body. Bad memory is linked to heart disease and diabetes because clogged arteries slow blood flow in the brain.

Experts recommend going for the triple-whammy of something mentally, physically and socially stimulating all at once: Coach your child’s ball team. Take a dance class. Strategize a round of golf.

Diet’s also important. While Alzheimer’s researchers have long recommended a heart-healthy diet as good for the brain, Monday’s folic acid study is the first to test the advice directly.

Previous studies have shown that people with low folate levels in their blood are more at risk for both heart disease and diminished cognitive function.

Durga said it’s not clear how folic acid might work to protect the brain. Some studies suggest folate lowers inflammation; others suggest it may play a role in expression of dementia-related genes.

Folate is found in such foods as oranges and strawberries, dark-green leafy vegetables and beans. In the United States, it also is added to cereal and flour products. The recommended daily dose here is 400 micrograms; doctors advise women of childbearing age to take a supplement to ensure they get that much.

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Akshaye Khanna - Bollywood's new chess master

Once prolific Bengali filmmaker Satyajit Roy had made a film "Shatranj Ke Khiladi" in which Sanjeev Kumar and Sayeed Jafrey played nawabs addicted to the game of chess. But in reality Bollywood has its own 'shatranj ke khiladi' -- Akshaye Khanna.


He is currently shooting for Abbas Mastan's next project "Race" with Saif Ali Khan in Yash Raj Studio, where once during a break Akshaye pulled everybody from cast to crew to play chess with him.
The director duo was also not spared by his addiction.
On the sets of "Naqaab" too, in Dubai, he played chess every day with the unit members of the film and defeated all of them with his fast moves.
Abbas-Mastan's "Naqaab" is also a thriller where everybody plays a game with each other.
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It would be very nice if our celebrities play exhibition matches to popularise this game among masses!!

Singapore chess title to Antonio

PATTAYA, Thailand—Filipino Grandmaster Rogelio “Joey” Antonio, the country’s highest-rated chess player, added yet another feather in his cap and brought another honor to the country following a successful campaign in the First Thomson CC Championship held June 9 and 10 at the Thomson Community Club, Thomson Road, Singapore.

Antonio, who flew here from Singapore to coach the national age-group champions currently seeing action in the 8th Asean Age-Group Championship at the Jamthien Thani Hotel here, scored five wins and two draws to clinch the championship in the seven-round, Swiss system tournament sponsored by the Jenjosh Group.

The two-day event drew more than a hundred participants, including five Filipinos, four of them based in Singapore.

Antonio, 45, a sergeant in the HHSG Unit of the Army led by commanding general, Lt. Gen. Romeo Tolentino, and whose stint here was supported by the Philippine Sports Commission, headed by chairman William “Butch” Ramirez, actually finished tied with fellow Filipino and newly minted International Master Julio Catalino Sadorra, but emerged the winner via a superior tiebreak.

report by Arman Armero
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Chess Joke

"So I was having dinner with Garry Kasporov - Problem was, we had a checkered tablecloth and it took him two hours to pass the salt!"

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Qlink or Rudraksh ! Which one to wear ?

Recently there was a famous news item in one of the most popular chess websites that Grand Master Alexandar Shabalov won the US Championship with a ‘Q link’ an energy generating device and pocketed US $ 12,000/- equal to 5,52,000/- Rupees. According to the Q link website ‘Q-Link is the most advanced personal energy system available today. It further goes as:- A quarter century of frontier research has given birth to the Q-Link, a sleek pendant that tunes your being for optimal living: More energy, less stress, greater focus, and enhanced well being. No matter what you do, the Q-Link simply helps you feel better and gives you a creative edge by helping harmonizing your mind and body.

USCF official website reports Alexandar Shabalov saying “I never wore it before. I wore it here every game – and I won the tournament,"

If, Q link had changed the course of Alexandar Shabalov’s chess games, our Tamil Box office hit ‘Arunachalam’ movie revolved around Super Star Rajanikanth’s fortunes with a ‘Rudraksh bringing him millions of Rupees!

Now that hundreds are playing in National B Chess Championship at Dindigul from today, may be the fortune can change (provided tournament authorities don’t ban wearing any links!)for those with a Rudraksh or a Q link!

Hey guys playing in National B! - are you listening?

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Wait for a day and you are presented with wild Chess Gupchups!