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Anupama Abhyankar-Gokhale
(1969- ) is a chess master from
India. She was awarded the
Women's International Master
(WIM) title in 1985 after taking 1st
place in the Asian Junior Girls'
championship. She won the Indian
Women's Championship five times.
She won the Asian Women's
Championship twice. She married
chess master Raghunandan Gokhale,
chairman of the Mumbai Chess
Association and Anupama's coach.
She works for a petroleum
company.
Abrahamyan — Baginskaite, US
Women's Ch, St Louis 2013 1. e4 e5
2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. O-O Nf6
5. d3 d6 6. c3 O-O7. Nbd2 a6 8. Bb3
h6 9. Re1 Re8 10. Nf1 Ba7 11. Ng3
d5 12. exd5 Na5 13. Nxe5 Nxb3 14.
Qxb3 Ng4 15. d4 Qh4 16. Bf4
Qxh2+ 17. Kf1 Bf5 18. c4 Bxd4 19.
Nf3 1-0
Abramovi? — Chiburdanidze,
Montpelier 1986 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6
3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.O-O b5 6.Bb3
Bb7 7.c3 g6 8.d4 exd4 9.e5 Ne4
10.Re1 Nc5 11.cxd4 Nxb3 12.Qxb3
Nb4 13.Nc3 Nd3 14.Ne4 Bxe4
15.Bg5 Be7 16.Bxe7 Qxe7 17.Rxe4
1-0
Adamski — J. Christiansen,
Copenhagen 2000 1. Nf3 f5 2. g3
Nf6 3. Bg2 e6 4. O-O Be7 5. c4 O-O
6. Nc3 d6 7. d4 Qe8 8.b3 Nc6 9. d5
exd5 10. cxd5 Ne5 11. Nd4 Qh5 12.
f4 Neg4 13. h3 Nh6 14. Qd3 Ne4 15.
g4 fxg4 16. Bxe4 gxh3 17. Bxh7+
Kh8 18. Kh1 Bh4 19. Qg6 1-0
Steinbacher — V. Akopian,
Groningen 1990 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6
3.Nc3 d5 4.cxd5 Nxd5 5.e3 Bg7
6.Bc4 Nxc3 7.bxc3 c5 8.Qf3 O-O
9.Ne2 Qc7 10.Bd5 Nd7 11.Bb3 Nf6
12.e4 cxd4 13.cxd4 Bg4 14.Qg3
Qa5+ 15.Bd2? (15.Qc3) 15...Qxd2+
(16.Kxd2 Nxe4+ and 17...Nxg3) 0-1
Louis-Charles Mahe de La
Bourdonnais (1795-1840) was a
French master and strongest chess
player of his time. He learned chess
in Paris in 1814 while attending
school. He was undisputed
champion of France in the 1820s. In
1834 he played a series of matches
with England's strongest player,
Alexander McDonnell, and won. In
1836 he became editor of the world's
first chess magazine, Le Palamede.
He died of a stroke in London. He
died penniless in London, having
been forced to sell all his
possessions to satisfy creditors. He
was buried in Kensal Green
cemetery and was buried near
McDonnell.
Donner — Bouwmeester,
Amsterdam 1948 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6
3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 d6
6.Be2 e5 7.Nb3 Be7 8.f4 O-O 9.f5
Qb6 10.Bg5 Nxe4 0-1
Neuris Delgado-Ramirez is a
Paraguayan Grandmaster (2002). His
peak rating was 2631 in 2016.
Dus-Chotimirsky — Sharov,
Moscow 1901 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6
3.Bb5 Nf6 4.O-O d6 5.d4 Nd7 6.Nc3
Be7 7.Be3 O-O 8.Qd2 Bf6 9.Ne2
Qe7 10.Ng3 exd4 11.Nxd4 Nxd4
12.Bxd4 Ne5 13.f4 Ng4 14.Be2
Bxd4+ 15.Qxd4 Nxh2 16.Nh5 f5
17.Kxh2 g6 18.Bc4+ 1-0
Gurgenidze — Dzindzichashvili,
Tbilisi 1966 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4
cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 d6 6.Bg5 e6
7.Be2 Be7 8.Nb3 a6 9.Qd2 b5 10.a3
Bb7 11.Rd1 Na5 12.Nxa5 Qxa5
13.e5 b4 14.axb4 Qxe5 15.f4 Qf5
16.g4 Ne4 17.gxf5 Nxd2 18.Kxd2
Bxg5 19.fxg5 Bxh1 20.Rxh1 h6
21.g6 1-0
Kivanc Haznedaroglu1981- ) is a
Turkish Grandmaster (2009). In
2003, he won the Turkish
Championship.
Heidenfeld — Driman,
Johannesburg 1942 1.e4 e5 2.Nc3
Nf6 3.f4 d5 4.fxe5 Nxe4 5.Nf3 Bg4
6.Qe2 Bxf3 7.Qxf3 Nxc3 8.bxc3 c6
9.d4 Nd7 10.Bd3 Be7 11.O-O O-O
12.Qh3 g6 13.Bh6 Re8 14.Rxf7
Nxe5 15.Rg7+ Kh8 16.dxe5 1-0
Gilberto HernAndez-Guerrero
(1970- ) is a Grandmaster (1995)
from Mexico. He has won the
Mexican Championship three times.
He is married to WGM Claudia
Amura of Argentina. His peak rating
was 2572 in 2000.
Belkin — Kasimdzhanov,
Uzbekistan 1993 1.c4 e6 2.Nc3 d5
3.d4 c6 4.Nf3 Nf6 5.Bg5 h6 6.Bxf6
Qxf6 7.e3 Nd7 8.Qc2 Qd8 9.cxd5
cxd5 10.Bd3 Be7 11.O-O O-O
12.Rac1 a6 13.Rfd1 b5 14.e4 Bb7
15.exd5 b4 16.dxe6 bxc3 17.exd7
cxb2 18.Qxb2 Bxf3 19.gxf3 Bd6
20.Qb7 Qh4 21.Qxa8 Qxh2+ 22.Kf1
Qh3+ 23.Ke2 Rxa8 0-1
McCormick-Kaufman, Nebraska
1975 1.e4 c5 2.c3 Nf6 3.e3 Nd5 4.d4
cxd4 5.Qxd4 e6 6.Nf3 Nc6 7.Qe4 d6
8.Nbd2 Bd7 9.Bd3 dxe5 10.Bb1 f5
11.Qe2 e4 12.Nd4 Nxd4 13.cxd4
Nf4 14.Qf1 Rc8 15.Nb3 Rxc1+
16.Nxc1 Bb4+ 17.Kd1 Ba4+ 18.b3
Qxd4+ 0-1
Koltanowski - Dunkelblum,Antwerp
1923 1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 dxe4
4.Nxe4 Bf5 5.Bd3 Qxd4 6.Nf3 Qd8
7.Qe2 Nf6 8.Nxf6+ gxf6 9.Bxf5
Qa5+ 10.Bd2 Qxf5 11.O-O-O Qe6
12.Qd3 Qxa2 13.Qd8+ Kxd8
14.Ba5+ Kc8 15.Rd8 mate 1-0
A. Onischuk — Kovacevic,
Leningrad 1991 1.c4 e5 2.Nc3 Nc6
3.Nf3 g6 4.d4 exd4 5.Nd5 h6
6.Nxd4 Bg7 7.Nb5 Kf8 8.Nbxc7
Rb8 9.Nb5 a6 10.Nbc3 Nf6 11.Bf4
Ra8 12.Bc7 1-0
A. Petroff-Schimanski, Warsaw
1847 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.exd5 exd5
4.c4 Bb4+ 5.Nc3 Ne7 6.Nf3 Bg4
7.Be2 dxc4 8.O-O Bxf3 9.Bxf3 c6
10.Qe2 Qxd4 11.Rd1 Qf6 12.Ne4
Qe6 13.a3 Ba5 14.Bg4 Qg6 15.Bf5
Nxf5 16.Nf6+ (16...Kf8 17.Qe8
mate) 1-0
In 2009, Venkatraman
Ramakrishman (1952- ) shared the
Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his
work on the structure and function of
the ribosome. He was on his college
chess team. (Source: nobelprize.org
and Dr. Venkatraman Ramakrishnan,
by Arun Anand)
S. P. Sethuraman (1993- ) is an
Indian Grandmaster (2011). In 2009,
he won the World Under-16 Chess
Championship. In 2016, he won the
Asian Championshio. His peak ratng
was 2658 in 2016.
Shamkovich — Shaposhnikov,
Rostov on Don 1954 1.c4 e6 2.Nf3
d5 3.d4 Nf6 4.Nc3 Be7 5.Qc2 O-O
6.Bg5 Ne4 7.Bxe7 Qxe7 8.Rc1 Nxc3
9.Qxc3 c6 10.g3 Nd7 11.Bg2 dxc4
12.O-O b5 13.b3 cxb3 14.Qxc6 Rb8
15.axb3 Qb4 16.Qc7 Rb6 17.Ne5
Nxe5 18.dxe5 g6 19.Qxa7 Ra6
20.Qb8 1-0
Sam Shankland (1991- ) is an
American Grandmaster (2011). He
has won the Californis State
Championship 4 times. In 2010, he
won the US Junior Championship.
His peak rating was 2679 in 2016.
He had a degree on Economics.
Norman-Hansen — Vidmar,
Harsting 1926 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e5
3.dxe5 Ng4 4.e4 Nxe5 5.f4 Nec6
6.Be3 Bb4+ 7.Nd2 Qe7 8.Qf3 d6
9.Bd3 Nd7 10.Ne2 Nde5 11.fxe5
Nxe5 12.Qg3 Nxd3+ 0-1
B. Wood — Znosko-Borovsky,
Netherlands 1947 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6
3.Nc3 d5 4.Nf3 Bg7 5.Qb3 c6
6.cxd5 Nxd5 7.e4 Nb6 8.Be3 O-O
9.Rd1 Be6 10.Qc2 Bc4 11.h4 Bxf1
12.Kxf1 N8d7 13.h5 Nc4 14.Bc1 e5
15.hxg6 hxg6 16.Qd3 Ncb6 17.Nxe5
Nxe5 18.Qh3 f5 19.dxe5 Qc8
20.Qh7+ Kf7 21.Rd6 Rg8 22.Bh6
Nd7 23.e6+ Ke7 24.Rxd7+ Kxe6
25.Rxg7 1-0
Moskalenko — Yermolinsky,
Odessa 1981 1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 g6 3.c4
Bg7 4.Nc3 d5 5.Qb3 dxc4 6.Qxc4
O-O 7.e4 a6 8.h4 b5 9.Qb3 c5 10.e5
Ng4 11.Qd5 cxd4 12.Qxa8 dxc3
13.Qxb8 cxb2 14.Bxb2 Qa5+
15.Nd2 Nxf2 0-1
Zagorovsky — Nielsen,
Correspondence 1965 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3
Nc6 3.Bb5 Bc5 4.c3 f5 5.exf5 e4
6.d4 exf3 7.dxc5 Qe7+ 8.Be3 fxg2
9.Rg1 Nf6 10.Qf3 d5 11.cxd6 Qxd6
12.Nd2 Bd7 13.Qxg2 Qe5 14.Bxc6
bxc6 15.Qxg7 O-O-O 16.O-O-O
Bxf5 17.Bd4 Qd5 18.Qxf6 Rhf8
19.Qe7 Rf7 20.Qa3 h6 21.Qa6+ 1-0
Viacheslav Vladimirovich
Zakhartsov (1968- ) is a Russian
Grandmaster (2007).
Mansfield — Znosko-Borovsky,
Tenby 1928 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6
3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.O-O Bc5 6.c3
Ba7 7.d4 Nxe4 8.d5 Ne7 9.Nxe5 O-
O 10.Bc2 d6 11.Nxf7 Nxf2
12.Bxh7+ Kxh7 13.Qh5+ Kg8 0-1
Alexander Volodymyrovych
Zubarev (1979- ) is a Ukrainian
Grandmaster (2002). His peak rating
was 2608 in 2011.
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