Ashik vs Neil Regan, FNM, Round 4

Ashik vs NM Annie Wang, US Amatuer Team West, Round 4

Ashik vs NM Ricahrd Koepcke, Ametuer Team West Championship, Round 2

Ashik vs Keyven Reise, Friday Night Marathon, Round 1

Ashik vs James Cohee, 2nd Round, TNM, MIC

Ashik vs NM Romulo Fuentes, Tuesday Night Marathon, June 2014, Round 3

I defeated my first strong opponent in this cycle of Tuesday Night Marathon that started last month in Mechanics Chess Institute, San Francisco. National Master Romulo Fuentes was white against me in 3rd round and so naturally I replied with Sicillian Dragon. Interestingly, we played exactly the same opening a year and half back until my 17th move where I made an improvement. That game I lost despite being a pawn up initially as Romulo is an aggressive player will sacrifice a pawn for initiative without thinking twice. It happened in this game also, but this time I defended preciously.

As a result of this game I and Natalya are jointly leading the tournament with 3 out of 3. So I know ahead of time she is going to be my next opponent!

Ashik vs Richard Newey, Tuesday Night Marathon, June 2014, Round 2

Ashik vs Toktok, Tuesday Night Marathon, MIC, June 2014

Ashik vs Andrw Zhang Hong, Best of the West, Santa Clara Marriott, Round 6

Ashik vs Hovik Manvelyan, Santa Clara Marriott, Round 4

Ashik vs Archit Dasika, Best of the West, Santa Clara Marriott, Round 1

Ashik vs Shafieen Ibrahim, Friday Night Marathon, Round 4

Ashik vs Anirudh Seela, Friday Night Marathon, Spring 2014, Round 1

I started playing Friday Night Marathon last weekend. In the first round I won again Anirudh Seela to whom I lost recently on the same English opening. So it was my turn this time to equal the score and the opening didn't go well for me again. I guess I am a bit vulnerable against 1.c4 . But mixing tactics and strategy I was able to come up with a very double edged, sharp position where I outplayed Anirudh slowly with a nice finishing touch.

Ashik vs Pranav Senthilkumar, Friday Night Marathon, NorCal House of Chess, Round 5

Ashik vs Garrick Su, Ametuer Team West 2014, 6th and Final Round

Ashik vs Ganesh Murugappan, Ameteur Team West 2014, Round 5

Ashik vs Arvind Sankar, Ameteur Team West 2014, Round 3

Can you find black's next move here? I am very proud of executing this move over the board against an opponent of my equal strength! This game has been featured in current CalChess Journal at page 10.




You can replay the full game below.

Carlsen vs Nakamura, Zurich 2014, Round 3

Carlsen miraculously escaped defeat in Nakamura's hand keeping his undefeated record against Nakamura in classical games.

Here is a video of the same -

Ashik vs Martha Gandashvilli, Foxwoods Open, Round 6

Ashik vs Julian Lin, Golden State Open, Concord, Round 6