Photograph by : Manahara Kaviraj
Invest on the favorite: Chess tour to Bhopal, Bangalore and Delhi
15 July 2020
By T. Kajenthiran
"I feel this is one of my interesting games from the 18th Delhi International Open Category C Event. My opponent was Rudrajain - an unrated player but he made his first 15 moves fast to show me that the moves were well prepared or theoretical. After 15 moves he was overconfident and on the other hand, I was not in a mentally good position due to the experiencing tiredness of traveling, not having the familiar food, and also the unexpected climate. I had not played the previous tournaments up to my best level too. Anyway, I accept that it was not just because of traveling, food, and climate but merely on my bad playmaking a lot of blunders. First, we will go through the post-analysis of the game."
T.Kajenthiran - Rudra Jain
18th Delhi International Open Category C Event (07), 15/01/2020
1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nd2 dxe4 4.Nxe4 Nd7 5.Nf3 Ngf6 6.Bg5 Be7 7.Nxf6+ Nxf6 8.Bd3 0–0 9.Qd2 Re8 [9...b6= is the more natural move.]
10.0–0–0 a5 11.Kb1 [First made the king safe. White is slightly better with active pieces.]
11...a4 12.a3 c6 [12...h6 is better.]
13.h4± [All the minor pieces are focused on Kingside. The next is getting the Rooks or opening the Rook file.]
13...b5 14.Ne5 [a good way to prevent b4 break with threatening Nc6–Nb4.]
14...Qb6 15.c3 [safe human move.]
[15.Rh3+– is a better idea.]
15...Nd5 [15...c5± is better.]
16.g4 [Better is 16.Qe2+– Rf8 17.Qh5 (17.Bxe7 Nxe7 18.g4 Qc7±)]
16...f6 [Double Attack]
What is the best move for White Now?
[Answer 17.Bxh7+! Kxh7 18.Qc2+ f5 19.gxf5 exf5 20.Qe2]
17.Nf3? [This was my choice]
17...fxg5 [He couldn’t find the best move.]
[17...e5!18.Qc2 h6 19.Bh7+ Kh8]
18.Bxh7+!= Kf8! [18...Kxh7? 19.hxg5+ Kg8 20.Qd3±]
19.hxg5 Bd8? [19...Bd6=]
20.Bg6+– Ke7 [20...Bd7 was necessary. 21.Bxe8 Bxe8 22.Rh8+ Ke7]
21.Bxe8 Kxe8 22.Qd3 Nf4? [22...Be7 23.Rh7 Kd7 24.Rxg7 Qd8 25.Ne5+ Kc7]
23.Qh7 Qb7 24.Ne5 Bxg5 25.Qg8+ Ke7 26.Qxg7+ [Double Attack]
26...Kd6 27.Qxg5 [White threatens Nc4+! and mate.]
27...Nd5 28.Nd3 [missed a 2 moves mate. 28.Qd8+ Bd7 29.Nf7#]
28...Bd7 29.Qe5+Ke7 30.Nc5 Qb8 31.Rh7+ Kd8 32.Rxd7+ Ke8 33.Qh8#
"After this game, I continuously won the last 3 rounds with wonderful finishing. I was able to increase 250+ ELO ratings in India by participating in these three tournaments - Bhopal, Bangalore, and Delhi.
I would like to play there again to gain more experience as well as wonderful memories.
I completed my undergraduate degree in civil engineering at the University of Jaffna at the end of 2019. Parallel to an academic career, I went through the mainly games of 3 World Champions; Wilhelm Steinitz, Mikhail Tal, and Vishwanathan Anand. I study endgames and focus on mainly one opening and first improve myself on that.
This is my message if you like to move on the extra mile. If you get exhausted when you throw a stone at a ripped mango and missed at your first shot you will never taste the sweetness of it, likewise, if you do fall the 1st time in either life or game try for the next, even that falls you try again until you take that mango"
About the author
Photograph by Jatheesan Sundarajan
T.Kajenthiran is a Civil Engineer and currently working as a temporary instructor at the University of Jaffna. Globalchess.lk wishes him success in both of his chess and engineering careers.
