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Fenil Shah, Priyanka Kumari Win Titles
By Arvind Aaron Press Officer
- AICF
Fenil Shah of Gujarat and Priyanka Kumari of Jharkhand won the National
Under-11 Chess Championship that concluded at the Sri Ramachandra Medical
College on Nov 11. Fenil Shah benefited from Shiven Khosla's upset win
over top seed and former world under-10 champion Sahaj Grover.
Fenil Shah needed a draw for his title after Sahaj lost. Fenil's opponent,
Sai Krishna required a victory for the title. In a bishop and pawn ending,
neither player had the advantage and they drew after repetition of moves.
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Fenil Shah, the chubby boy with a red cap underwent the medical test and
doctor certified that he was indeed under-11. He had previously won
British Championships in the same age group. Winning the more difficult
Indian Under-11 title gives him and his coaches (Manthan Chokshi,
G.B.Joshi) greater recognition now.
Y.V.K.Chakravarthy was defending when Viani overlooked a knight fork and
lost his queen. Chakravarthy finished second and Shiven Khosla took the
third place. Shiven Khosla is a student of Dhirubhai Ambani International
School in Mumbai. He beat the two established players, Sai Krishna and
Sahaj Grover to deserve the third place.
Priyanka Kumari of Jharkhand who won the tournament with a round to spare
lost the final round by blundering a bishop. Michelle Catherina (Chennai)
and J.Vaishnavi (Trichy) took the second and third place. Cash prizes
totalling Rs.70,000 was distributed in the evening. The top three players
from both sections will represent India in the world Under-12 Chess
Championship to be held at Turkey in 2007.
Final placings:
Boys (in tie-break order): 1-3 Fenil Shah (Guj), Y.V.K.Chakravarthy (AP),
Shiven Khosla (Mah) 9/11 each, 4-7 Sahaj Grover (Del), G.V.Sai Krishna
(AP), Shardul Gagare (Mah), Abhilash Reddy (AP) 8.5 each, 8-15 Viani
D'Cunha (Kar), Niraj Saripalli (Goa), Anurag Mhamal (Goa), Vishwanathan
Prasad (AP), D.S.Shashaank (TN), S.Sridev (TN), Samrat Ghorai (Ben),
Vishnu Sharon (TN) 8 each.
Girls (in tie-break order): 1 Priyanka Kumari (Jha) 9/11, 2-3 Michelle
Catherina, J.Vaishnavi (both TN) 8.5 each, 4-6 B.Pratyusha (AP), Deepika
Kukchpudi (AP), Agnihothri Ghosh (Ben) 8 each, 7-11 N.Srinidhi (TN),
J.Akhila (AP), Vanessa D'Souza (Kar), Krushna Mishra (Ori), Anjana
Krishnan (Ker) 7.5 each.
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Published on : 11.11.2006
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