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Sahaj Grover |
Sahaj Grover Wrests Sole Lead
By Arvind Aaron Press Officer
- AICF
Former world under-10 champion Sahaj Grover of Delhi moved to an expected
place at the top by inflicting a defeat on Yashas D of Karnataka in the
seventh round of the National Under-11 Championship that is on at Sri
Ramachandra Medical College in Chennai on Nov 8.
Grover is on full seven points and could go all the way in the same steam
till the eleventh and final round.
In the second place is Vian D'Cunha of
Karnataka who is on 6.5 points after punishing Dheeraj Kumar's poor
opening. Vian won two pawns with white and grinded a win over the Andhra
player in 57 moves.
The third position in the boys group is crowded with five players on six
points. Fenil Shah of Gujarat beat Vaibhav Suri of Delhi after king hunt
that lasted 31 moves. He was threatening a deadly double check mate when
Suri resigned. Along with Fenil Shah there are four others including
G.V.Sai Krishna, Niraj Saripalli, Y.V.K.Chakravarthy and Yashas in the
shared third spot.
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Srinidhi Nagarajan |
Tamil Nadu's Srinidhi Nagarajan brought life
into the girls section by beating overnight leader Priyanka Kumari of
Jharkhand with an easy to spot combination on the 15th turn. This
discovered double attack on the queen gave Srinidhi an exchange and later
it became a full rook when the Jharkhand girl resigned on the 26th
move.
Srinidhi and Priyanka Kumari are in joint lead with six points from seven
rounds. Michelle Catherina, Dharani Sree and J.Vaishnavi (TN) and
Mahaswetha (Ass)
are in the joint third place with 5.5 points.
Mahaswetha of Assan won a pawn but lacked the courage to take that risk in
the minor piece ending and she took a draw against Michelle Catherina.
Four rounds are still to go and the closing ceremony will be on Nov 11 at
4 p.m.
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Published on : 09.11.2006
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