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Sai Vs Sahaj Grover |
Sai
Krishna Beats Sahaj Grover, Six Players In Lead
By Arvind Aaron Press Officer
- AICF
The National Under-11 Chess Championship title is wide open after G.V.Sai
Krishna, the National Under-9 champion from Andhra Pradesh defeated former
world under-10 champion Sahaj Grover of Delhi in the ninth round at Sri
Ramachandra Medical college at Porur in Chennai on Nov 9. With two rounds
still to go, there are six players in the lead with 7.5 points from nine
rounds. They include: Sahaj Grover, Sai Krishna, Fenil Shah (Guj),
Srikanth Ajay (TN), Shardul Gagare (Mah)
and Vian D'Cunha (Kar).
Sai Krishna opened with the king pawn and faced the Najdorf Sicilian. He
castled queen side and rolled his king side pawns forward. Sahaj lost his
queen side pawns at will and also a knight to bow to a surprisingly meek
defeat in 49 moves. Sai Krishna turned down a draw offer on the 31st move.
If Sahaj can forget this as one bad day, he is still the favourite since
his progressive tie-break score should be the best.
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B. Pratyusha |
In the other games, Gujarat's Fenil Shah was lucky to survive and make a
draw as Vian D'Cunha blundered his extra pawn to made a draw in 48 moves.
The player with the coolest head should win this tournament. Sahaj is
favourite and Sai Krishna is cool. Srikanth Ajay will be the local
favourite as he is from Tamil Nadu.
Priyanka Kumari of Jharkhand is back in lead and the margin is the same
one point. She has eight points from nine rounds.
She looked good with white but exchanged material after winning a pawn.
Her bigger made opponent, J.Vaishnavi did not have much chances in the 49
move ending before losing.
Tied for the second place on seven points are three players, Srinidhi
Nagarajan (TN), Soumya Srivastav (Mah) and B.Pratyusha (AP).
Priyanka plays Soumya with the black pieces. Unless Soumya does what Sai
Krishna did to Grover in the boys section, the title in the girls section
can even get over with a round to spare.
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Published on : 10.11.2006
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