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National Under–7 Chess Championship for
Boys & Girls
14 to 21 November 2006
Final Round
November 21, 2006
C.H Meghna in
Girls & Revanth Reddy in Boys – Champions
G.V. Revanth Reddy of Andhra Pradesh and C.H. Meghna
of Kerala emerged champions in the boys and girls sections respectively at
the end of the 11th and final round of the National Under 7
Chess Championship held at Don Bosco High School, Panjim today.
The Chief Guest for Prize Distribution function was
Minister for Sports and Youth Affairs
Mr. Pandurang Madkaikar. In his speech he stated that since Ivana Furtado
had won the World Championship The Government wants to give all
encouragement to chess. He made it a point to ask Ivana to sit on
the dais. Also present were
Fr. Wilfred Fernandes Administrator of Don Bosco’s,
Mrs Sonali Salgaocar, Chief Arbiter Shri. K. Murli Mohan, Deputy Arbiter
Shri Dattaram Pinge. GSCA Secretary Shri Suhas Asnodkar welcome and
thanked gathering.
Girls
Section
C. H. Meghna of Kerala played the Guico Piano against
Rutuja Bakshi (7) of MAH and took advantage when her opponent allowed her
to simplify into a winning pawn ending. Thus she was able to justify her
top seeding as the only rated player. Preethy
P of Pondicherry was runner up while C.R. Varsha of TN was third.
On the second board Meghna’s closest rival C. R.
Varsha (8) of TN blundered an exchange on move 15 against Preethy P (8.5)
of Pondicherry and was not able to recover although the game stretched on
for 69 moves.
On third board Goa’s Ivana Furtado’s (7.5)
poor form continued when even though she was exchange up against
Tejusvini P (8) of AP she blundered and lost.
In other
important games Madhumita M (8) of AP beat Chandreyee Hazra (7.5) of WB.
Akhila S
(7.5) of AP beat Senapati Puja (6.5) of KAR.
Shreya
Chakraborty (7) of WB beat Abhirami R (6) of TN
Pattnaik
Adhyasha (6) of Orrisa lost to Bharkavi S(7) of TN
Tejasvini
Sagar (6) of MAH lost to Choudhary Shreya (7) of MAH.
Points of Goan Girls after tenth round :
Ivana Furtado (7.5), Sakshi Prabhu (6) Nadia Dias (5.5), Riya
Sawant (5), Reema Naik(5) Gauri Hadkonkar (4.5),
Ramya A D (4), Vidula Dempo (4) & Saili Parulekar (3)
Prize List for Girls is as follows
State
Score Progressive
1.
Meghna C. H.
Kerala 9
57.0
2.
Preethy P
Pondicherry
8.5
48.5
3.
Varsha C. R.
Tamil Nadu
8
53.0
4.
Madhumita M
Andhra Pradesh
8
52.0
5.
Tejashvini P
Andhra Pradesh
8 48.0
6.
Ivana Furtado
Goa
7.5
52.5
7.
Akhila S
Andhra Pradesh
7.5
48.5
8.Chandreyee Hazra West Bengal
7.5
45.5
9. Tulsi M.
Karnataka
7.5
42.0
10. Rutuja
Bakshi
Maharastra
7
48.0
Boys
Section :
Revanth Reddy (9.5) of AP beat Sriniwas Venkatraman
(8) of MAH to emerge a clear half point ahead of the rest of the field.
His nearest rivals Sai Akshay Y (9) of AP and Shivam Srivastav (9) of UP
both drew their games.
Revanth Reddy faced the Nimzo Indian Defense against
Sriniwas and an equal position resulted. But Sriniwas lost his
concentration and gifted a Rook and the Championship to the lad from
Andhra.
Playing on first board Akshay lost a pawn in the
Giuco Piano Opening but Jerome Ebenezer (8.5) of TN could not take
advantage as the game drifted into a drawn Queen ending.
On the Third board
Shivam Srivastav playing the black side of Kings Indian Defense against
Yeshwant N. S. (8.5) of AP reached a Bishop Vs Knight endgame where he was
forced to agree for a draw.
In other
important games Aryan Singh (7) lost to Anantharam R. U. (8.5) of KAR
Saradhara
Preet (8.5) of Guj beat Jain Jeet (7) of Guj
Arjun Bharat
(8) of KAR beat Hetul Shah (7) of Guj
Rahul D (7)
of TN lost to Bidyananda S (8) of Maniopur
Grahesh Y (7)
of AP lost to Kartikeyan M (8) of TN
Rohit Narayan
(7) of AP lost to Kapil Ghatwal (8) of MAH
Harshal Shahi
(6.5) of Delhi lost Sai Akhil R (8) of AP
Points of Goan
Boys after tenth round :
Snehil Shetty (6.5), Anirudh Bhat (6.5), David Velho(6), Tatvesh
Sawant(5), Rishubh Naik(5), Saish Mahale (5), Sumukh Pinge (5), Ashis
Rebelo(4.5), Manthan Lad (4), Saish Bandodkar(4), Ritviz Parab (4), Pranav
Mahatme (3) & Girish Kulkarni (3).
Prize List for Boys is as follows
State
Score
Progressive
1.
Revanth Reddy
Andhra Pradesh
9
60.5
2.
Shivam Srivastav
Uttar Pradesh 9
57.5
3.
Sai Akshay Y
Andhra Pradesh
9
57.0
4.
Jerome Ebenezer
Tamil Nadu
8.5
56.0
5.
Yeshwant N S N
Andhra Pradesh
8.5
54.5
6.
Saradhara Preet
Gujarat
8.5
50.0
7.
Anantharam R U
Karnataka 8.5
51.0
8.
Bidyananda S
Manipur
8
52.0
9.
Srinivas Venkatraman
Maharastra` 8
49.5
10. Arjun
Bharat
Karnataka
8
48.0
Prizes were also given to top three boys and
girls from Goa.
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Published on 22.11.2006
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