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Nationla Under - 7 Chess Championship @ Goa
The National U-7 Chess
Championship for boys and girls started today at Don Bosco Oratory Hall,
Panjim here today with 140 boys in the open section and 65 girls in the
girls section. At the end of the first round 69 boys and 33 girls are in
the joint lead with one point in their respective sections.
In the first round today
under-8 world champion Ivana Furtado (1) of Goa scored her first point
while top seed C. H. Megna (1) of Kerala beat Maithreai D (0) of Andhra
Pradesh. Incidently Megna is the only FIDE rated player in this tournament
and hence is seeded above world champion Ivana.
In the boys section Sai
Akshay (1) of Andhra Pradesh beat Goa’s Girish Kulkarni (0) while Abhay P.
Singh of Punjab lost to Orissa’s Rocky Kumar (1) on the top two boards.
Earlier the tournament
was inaugurated by Executive Director of Sports Authority of Goa Mr. V.
M. Prabhudesai. In his speech Mr. Prabhudesai announced that the
Government would be releasing a grant of Rupees 5 lakhs for the conduct of
the tournament. He stated that the success of Ivana Furtado & Bhakti
Kulkarni has created an enormous chess wave in Goa and that parents
should take advantage of the opportunities being offered through this
intellectual game. Fr. Wilfred Fernandes Administrator of Don Bosco’s said
he hoped that many more great players would emerged from this
championship. Mr. Sameer Salgaocar Vice President AICF, President GSCA &
Mr. Suhas Asnodkar Secretary GSCA also spoke.
In todays games Megna
C.H. was given quite a tough fight by Maitreya in a Rui Lopez opening that
went on for 67 moves. Other fancied players like C.R. Varsha of TN, K
Nivedita of TN & Akhila S of AP also scored easy wins.
Amoung the boys Divyam
Kushagra(0) of Bihar tried the Reti opening against Abhimanyu Puranik (1)
of MAH. However the Maharastra boy gained the positional advantage and
scored the full point on the 60th move.
Goa’s Pinge, Velho
& Riya Sawant Impress
Amoung the local players
Goa’s Sumukh Pinge (1) played well against Queens Pawn Opening of Anirudh
of KAR and checkmated him on the 38th move. David Velho (1) won
his opponents Queen on the 5th move itself and wrapped up the
game on the 23rd move.
Snehil Shetty and Rishubh
Naik also are on one point. However Saish Mahale, Pranav Mahatme, Girish
Kulkarni, Ritvik Parab lost to their outstation opponents.
Amoung the local Girls
Riya Sawant won her game while Reema Naik, Nadia Dias, Vidula Dempo &
Gauri Hadkonkar lost their games.
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Published on 17.11.2006
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