Fahad wins silver medal in Blitz Chess

Bangladesh’s Mohammad Fahad Rahman has won silver medal in the Blitz Chess in under-10 category at the World Youth Championships held in the United Arab Emirates.

The youngest FIDE master ended up fifth in the main contest of the same age category.

Fahad beat Mongolia’s Sugar Ganerdene in the last round held at Al Ain city on Saturday.

Fahad emerged fifth from the nearly 200 contestants by scoring 8.5 points in 11 matches.

The US’s Awondar Liang ended up first with 10 points.
After winning three consecutive matches, Fahad lost the fourth.

He lagged behind after a draw in the eighth and ninth rounds, but ended the contest with two victories.

1,773 contestants (8-18 age group) from 121 countries joined the contests.

India topped the list with three gold medals, two silver and three bronze medals.

Fahad also took part in the Blitz Chess in his age category on the sidelines of the main competition.

Five rounds of the contest were held on Tuesday.

By winning the last two rounds on Saturday, the lone representative of Bangladesh won a silver medal, having scored 6.5 points with six wins and a draw.

India has also topped the list in this contest by winning five gold medals.

At first four chess players from Bangladesh were set to take part in the competition.

But Fahad was the only one to make it, as the Bangladesh Chess Federation, suffering from financial constraints, could not send other contestants.

More than 80 chess players joined the contest from neighbouring India.

Fahad was recognised as the youngest FIDE Master at the age of 10.

The grade IV student is also the current national sub-junior champion.

Source: bdnews24.com

FM Fahad keeps on rolling

Bangladeshi FIDE Master Fahad Rahman earned his second victory in the Open Under-10 category of the World Youth Chess Championship held in Al-Ain, UAE, by defeating Ter-Saakin Grigorii of Russia on Thursday.

Fahad secured 2 points from yesterday’s 2nd round match against Russian Ter-Saakin Grigorii and currently leads the Open Under-10 group leader board with 38 players with a point tally of 4.

Earlier, Fahad beat Mohamed Tamer of Egypt in the first round to claim his first two points.

A total of 207 players including 10 FIDE Masters from

A Wonderful Chess Story & History>> The Father Of Chess in the whole age “Bobby Fischer”

The Father Of Chess in the whole age “Bobby Fischer”

              Author: FIDE Master Mohammad Fahad Rahman  

The chess tournament was over and the chess players were all going to the feast. The old grey-bearded chess chess player Bobby Fischer sat on his personal chair outside the Five Star Hotel and watched the chess players  walking past him. He had a colorful chess in his eyes, and suddenly he stopped one of the chess players.

“ There was a self-maker chess player…………………..” the Father of chess in the whole age began, and he spoke so strangely that the chess player ‘ FIDE Master Mohammad Fahad Rahman’ stood still and listened to him. The feast began; the chess player could hear the music and the laughter, but for some chess reason he could not move to join the others. He had to stay and listen to the father of chess Bobby Fischer Story.

The Father of chess told FIDE Master Mohammad Fahad Rahman about his last Tournament in The World.

The most controversial and quite possible the greatest player of all time, Robert J. (‘Bobby’) Fischer dominated his contemporaries and established himself as a living legend before abandoning tournament and match play after winning  the world title from Spassky. Before that he established the highest ever FIDE-Elo Rating of 2780 based on overall result; he won successive candidates matches against Taimanov and Lersen, both world class grandmasters, by 6-0 and 6-0, and, by a crude blunder and a default, he effectively gave Spassky two games start in the world championship before defeating him with some ease.

   Fischer learnt the moves at six, but his biggest break as a young chess player came when his mother decided to settle in Brooklyn. Chess life in New York, with the thriving Manhattan and Marshall clubs and many chess cafes, has proved a stimulating environment for a number of potential US grandmasters and Fischer honed his game with incessant blitz games combined with a study of Soviet literature. The result of his hothouse training, coupled with total neglect of school work in favour of chess, was a unique tournament result: Fischer was men’s champion of the United States at 14.

Probably at the time Fischer did not realize how steep were the remaining steeps to the championship, at that time held by the ageing Botvinnik, when he qualified for the title candidates tournament at the first attempt and became the youngest ever Grand Master at 15. The solid phalanx of Soviets easily outpaced their less inexperienced rival in 1959 and 1962, and Fischer then successfully demanded that the system be changed from a tournament to a series of eliminating knock-out matches between the final eight challengers. It was under this system that he routed his rivals in 1971 and defeated Spassky the following year.

     The general public will remember Bobby even more for his eccentricities and disputes than for his great play. His match with Reshevsky in 1961 ended in a scandal and a lawsuit, and he quite the 1967 interzonal when in the lead after a dispute about the playing schedule. He was only persuaded to fly to Iceland to meat Spassky when the British financier Jim Slater doubled the £50,000 purse; he was only persuaded not to walk out of the Spassky match by the personal intervention of US Foreign Secretary Henry Kissinger. And finally Fischer gave up his world championship without a fight when FIDE turned down his stipulation that his match with Karpov should be for the first to win ten games, champion retaining his title at 9-9.

           Fischer’s financial demands were incredible. Both the projected match with Karpov and a comeback match with Gligoric in 1979, which also came to nothing, were for a million dollars or more. Despite claims that Fischer’s figures benefited ordinary chess masters, there was an enormous contrast between these sums and those at stake in normal international tournaments.Then there were his increasingly finicky demands relating to light, spectator noise, and associated playing details. It is evident that Fischer finally reached a state where fear of defeat and fear of playing in public dominated his thinking. Indeed, it is difficult to see how anything other than a victorious match with Karpov could enhance his legendary reputation. Perhaps straitened financial circumstances will one day force Fischer to play again, but more likely he will remain along with Morphy nas the only other great master to have given up chess completely at the height of his fame.

      What can the ordinary Player learn from Bobby Fischer?

First, will to win. Fischer’s killer instinct meant that he continued to look for wining opportunities in positions which most masters would long ago have given up as drawn. His reply to a quick draw offer was ‘Of course not’. It was physically difficult to play against him; his deep-set and hypnotic eyes and hawk-like face stared passionately at the board from which he rarely rose to look at other games. Fischer has long arms and fingers which he used to clutch opposing pieces when capturing, in the manner of bird of prey. The will to win enabled him to finish ahead of opponents by record margins and a 100 per cent score was always on the cards. Only Alekhine had a similar fanaticism, but unlike Alekhine Fischer kept his health in good shape as long as he was active player.

     Technically, Fischer had a deep knowledge of the sharp opening lines which he analyzed in depth before his tournaments; in simple positions his strategy was as pure and clear in reaching the objective as was Capablanca’s. He used his opening knowledge especially well with the white pieces where he would typically gain the initiative and space control then use it energetically to drive his opponent into ever deeper defence until resistance cracked. Between 1968 and 1970 he was in virtual retirement but when he emerged at the ‘Match of the century’, where the USSR narrowly defeated a rest of the World team, he at once played a game characteristic of his style at its best.

   Before his death his forehead was white as a lily and his eyes were more lustrous than a gazelle’s. His brows were crescent moons, his cheeks anemones, and his mouth like the crimson ruby on King Solomon’s ring. His teeth were brighter than a string of pearls. We Salute Him.

                                                                                          Never End

Source: FIDE Master Mohammad Fahad Rahman

              

Black is more than OK for Viswanathan Anand

Black is OK is a book by Hungarian Grandmaster Andras Adorjan. But in the World chess championship match here after three rounds, black seems to be getting more than OK with World champion Viswanathan Anand testing World No 1 Magnus Carlsen to the limit. The black draw in 51 moves and four hours in the third game should give Anand enough confidence to stretch his challenger in the remaining games.

The match is tied at 1.5-1.5 with nine games to be played in the next two weeks. Anand will have white on Wednesday.

Anand came five minutes before the game and waited for Carlsen. He had to because he had black. And it was different from the previous two games when the player with white came first. So Carlsen came first in the first game and Anand in the second.

Carlsen repeated his knight opening from the first game paving the way for Reti to surface. The father of the hyper-modern school, Richard Reti popularised this opening in the early 1900s when he told the chess world it was no longer important to take control of the centre with Queen-pawn and King-pawn openings. One could exert pressure on the centre from the flanks as well using the bishops.

Carlsen varied from the first game by mixing the elements of English with his third move. There was slow progress in the first 10 moves and by the time they castled on Kingside, they had consumed equal time on the clock. The critical position in the opening arose on move 10 when Anand placed his knight in the centre.

Carlsen thought for close to five minutes before deciding to exchange the knights in the centre. Former Women’s World champion Susan Polgar felt Carlsen was slightly better in that position because his bishop was active while Anand’s black-squared bishop was cut off from its line by his own pawn in the centre.

However, two moves later, Susan had second thoughts about her assessment as Anand posted his bishop in the centre. The World champion was threatening to create a pawn chain on the Queenside. Carlsen immediately sensed the danger and have his bishop to capture a knight.
Carlsen had to concede the bishop pair to Anand with that decision but then the Norwegian kept an active knight. Anand ‘s black-coloured bishop continued to be blocked by his own pawn.
By move 18, the players had consumed two hours, each taking more or less an hour, and more than the time taken in the first two games. Carlsen was obviously trying to get into a knight versus bishop ending where his piece would have an edge.

But then contrary to white’s expectations, Anand got a minor breakthrough on move 22. The bishops came into play forcing Carlsen’s Queen right back into a corner next to the King and Grandmasters present in the hall started giving Anand the edge in the endgame
Anand offered a draw after 40 moves but Carlsen did not agree. Finally, when the game was drawn after more exchanges, only the bishops remained on the board.

Carlsen said he made a couple of errors but he did not think they were decisive. He felt there was always some way out but he admitted he was nervous and had to make the accurate moves to get the draw. “I missed some simple things,” he said.

Anand defended his decision to go for the opposite-coloured bishop ending. “We are still in the match. I am making some impressions,’ he observed.

To a question whether the presence of former World champion Garry Kasparov in Chennai made for fighting chess, anand said he had not seen him (Kasparov) anywhere. In fact, he was reportedly not allowed to enter the press room. Reacting to this, Carlsen said. “I don’t wan’t to get into politics. He is a legend, he deserves to be treated with respect.”

Game 3 Analysis By FM. Mohammad Fahad Rahman

White: Carlsen, Magnus (NOR)
Black: Anand, Viswanathan (IND)
Date: Tue Nov 12 2013
Result: ½-½

 [A07: Reti Opening: New York and Capablanca Systems]

1.Nf3 d5 2.g3 g6 3.c4 dxc4 4.Qa4+ Nc6 5.Bg2 Bg7 6.Nc3 e5 7.Qxc4 Nge7 8.0–0 0–0 9.d3 h6 10.Bd2 Nd4N 11.Nxd4 exd4 12.Ne4 c6 13.Bb4 [13.Qc1 Nf5=] 13...Be6 [Black threatens to win material: Be6xc4] 14.Qc1 Bd5 15.a4 [15.Qc5 Nc8³] 15...b6 16.Bxe7 Qxe7 17.a5 Rab8 18.Re1 Rfc8 19.axb6 axb6 20.Qf4 Rd8 21.h4 Kh7 22.Nd2 Be5 23.Qg4 h5 24.Qh3 Be6 25.Qh1 c5 26.Ne4 Kg7 27.Ng5 b5 [Black prepares the advance c4] 28.e3 dxe3 29.Rxe3 Bd4 30.Re2 c4 31.Nxe6+ fxe6 32.Be4 cxd3 33.Rd2 Qb4 34.Rad1 Bxb2 35.Qf3 Bf6 36.Rxd3 Rxd3 37.Rxd3 Rd8 38.Rxd8 Bxd8 39.Bd3 Qd4 40.Bxb5 Qf6 41.Qb7+ Be7 42.Kg2 g5 43.hxg5 Qxg5 44.Bc4 h4 45.Qc7 hxg3 46.Qxg3 e5 47.Kf3 Qxg3+ 48.fxg3 Bc5 49.Ke4 Bd4 50.Kf5 Bf2 51.Kxe5 Bxg3+

Analysis By: FIDE Master Mohammad Fahad Rahman

3rd Rupahali Sarees Premier Division Chess League-2013 Final Result

In The History Of Bangladesh The Youngest Prodigy FIDE Master & In the History Of  The World The Youngest National Sub-Junior Champion ( 8 Years 2 Months 29 Days)  Mohammad Fahad Rahman  Photo Session After 3^rd Rupahali Sarees Premier Division Chess League-2013  Between GM Volkov Sergey (RUS) & GM Amonatov Farrukh (TJK) In Bangladesh Chess Federation On 2013.

 

Final Ranking crosstable

Rk.		Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	TB1	TB2	TB3	TB4
1		Dhaka Mohammedan Sporting Club Ltd.	*	3½	3½	3½	4	4	4	4	4	16	30.5	0	113.50
2		Bangladesh Navy Chess Team	½	*	3½	3	4	4	4	4	4	14	27.0	0	86.50
3		Leonine Chess Club	½	½	*	2½	2½	3	4	4	3	12	20.0	0	66.50
4		Titas Club	½	1	1½	*	4	2	4	4	4	9	21.0	0	39.50
5		Gopalganj Chess Club	0	0	1½	0	*	3	3	2	3½	7	13.0	0	28.00
6		Access Group Chess Club	0	0	1	2	1	*	2	2½	3½	6	12.0	0	26.25
7		Pritam-Prism Chess Club Narayanganj	0	0	0	0	1	2	*	2½	4	5	9.5	0	17.00
8		Sreejan Chess Club	0	0	0	0	2	1½	1½	*	4	3	9.0	0	8.50
9		Faith Chess Club	0	0	1	0	½	½	0	0	*	0	2.0	0	0.00