As a player he was quite tough to beat and I considered my first win over him (after at least 5 years of trying), as a real achievement. Indeed it was almost a right of passage for young Belconnen players to defeat him, and plenty of players were unable to pass that test.
In the early years of the Belconnen Chess Club he generously donated money for chess clocks, and purchased the club championship trophy, which is still used to this day. Away from the board he was a Statistician, working for the Australian Bureau of Statistics.
While he stopped serious play in recent years he was still proved a challenge to the new generation of ACT players, as shown by this win over future IM Junta Ikeda.
Ramakrishna,Gogulapati (1659) - Ikeda,Junta (1819) [B22]
ACT-ch Canberra (2), 28.07.2004
1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6 3. c3 Nf6 4. e5 Nd5 5. Bc4 Nb6 6. Bb3 d5 7. exd6 Bxd6 8. O-O Nc6 9. d3 Bd7 10. Nbd2 h6 11. Ne4 Qe7 12. Nxd6+ Qxd6 13. Be3 f5 14. d4 c4 15. Bc2 O-O 16. g3 Nd5 17. Qe2 b5 18. Rad1 Be8 19. Nh4 g5 20. Ng2 Nf6 21. f3 Ne7 22. Rde1 Ned5 23. Bd2 Bd7 24. Qf2 a5 25. h4 Nh7 26. Re5 Rf6 27. Ne3 Bc6 28. b3 Nxe3 29. Qxe3 Bd5 30. Qf2 Qe7 31. Rfe1 Qg7 32. Kh2 Rg6 33. g4 gxh4 34. gxf5 Rg3 35. Be4 Bxe4 36. R1xe4 Ng5 37. Bxg5 Qxg5 38. fxe6 Qf6 39. f4 cxb3 40. e7 Re8 41. axb3 Rg7 42. Re6 Qf5 43. Qxh4 h5 44. R6e5 Qg6 45. Qg5 Qc6 46. Qf5 Rg6 47. Re6 Rxe6 48. Rxe6 Qxc3 49. Rg6+ 1-0
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VALE GOGULAPATI RAMAKRISHNA (1953 - 2020)
I read yesterday that this man aren't around us anymore. At my first Australian Open 2001 I met him in the 5. round (2. January 2001) in a sharp - for my standards - and time trouble influenced game. I never met nor saw him after this game.
Hvid: Henrik Mortensen (DK) Sort: Gogulapati Ramakrisna (1765) 1.e4,e6 2.d4,d5 3.Nd2,Nf6 4.e5,Nf6-d7 5.c3,c5 6.f4,Nc6 7.Nd2-f3,Qb6 8.g3,cxd4 9.cxd4,Bb4+ 10.Kf2,f6 11.Kg2,fxe5 12.fxe5,0-0 13.Bd3,g6 14.Bh6!? (Today I would for sure have played this in another way ...) Rf7 15.Ng5,Nd7xe5! 16.Nxf7,Nxf7 17.Bf4,Nxd4 18.Nf3,e5?! 19.Nxe5,Nxe5 20.Bxe5,Bc5 21.Qd2?,Qe6! (AV) 22.Bxd4,Qh3+ 23.Kf2,Bxd4+ 24.Ke1,Bg4 25.Bb5!,Bb6 26.Rf1,a6 27.Qxd5+,Be6 28.Qxb7,Ba5+ 29.Ke2,Bg4+? (Now both players were in time trouble.) 30.Ke3,Qh6+ 31.Rf4,Rd8?/?? 32.Bc4+?/??,Kh8 33.Bd5,Qg5 34.Qf7,Bb6+ 35.Ke4,Bf5+ 36.Kf3,Bc5 37.h4,Qh5+ 38.Kg2,Qe2+ 39.Kh1,Qxb2 40.Re1 (After this move I ran asap to the bathroom for some obvious reasons ... When I returned to the playing hall, I saw my opponent smiling with two arbiters around him. WAS WAR PASSIERT?? Yeah, my opponent had lost on time ...) 1-0. REST IN PEACE.
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