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Nationla Under - 7 Chess Championship @ Goa
Third round results
Girls : Megna, Ivana continue lead
At the end of third round of the girls section of National U/7 Chess
Championship being held at Don Bosco High School in Panjim the top two
seeds continued their winning form. C.H. Meghna (3) Kerala beat Chandreyee
Hazra (2) of WB while Ivana Furtado (3) of Goa beat Forum Thakkar (2) Guj.
S. Bhargavi (3) of TN surprised the fancied Tejaswini Sagar (2) of Mah.
Four other players share the lead with three points.
Meghna played the black side of Guico Piano opening and got an equal game.
She then won a pawn on the 21st move and the rest was a matter of
technique for her. Forum Thakkar played passively against Ivana’s Queen
Pawn opening and lost a piece on the 10th move. The game ended on the 30th
move.
Others leading included Satoji Devi M (AP), C.R.Varsha (TN), Akhila S.
(AP), N. Shreya Chakraborty (WB).
Goan girls had a mixed day today. Saili Parulekar (1) and Sakshi Prabhu
(1) scored their first points,
Riya Sawant (2), Reema Naik (1), Vidula Dempo (1) lost their games while
Nadia Dias (1.5) drew her game with R. Sribinda (1.5) Orissa.
Boys Section:
Kaustuv Kundu (2.5) of WB drew with Sai Akshay (2.5) of AP on top board
while Abhimanyu Puranik of Mah, Saurav Mohanty of Orissa, R. U. Anantram
of Kar, Saradhara Preet of Guj, Pavit Singh pf Delhi, Shivaram Srivastav
of UP (all three points) continued their winning race. Another eight
players were in the leading pack after end of third round.
In a minor upset Kaustuv Kundu played out a marathon seventy move draw
against top seed Sai akshay. Rochy Kumar tried the Advanced
Variation against the French Defense of Abhimanyu Puranik but lost control
of the important centre squares early in the middle game. He lost an
exchange on the 19th move and resigned after 32 moves. Rishabh Naik (2)of
Goa blundered a piece against Anantram and resigned on 19th move.
Among Goans Snehil Shetty (2) lost to Jeron Ebenazor (3) of TN while
Sumukh Pinge(2) drew his game with Ayush (2) of UP. Aniruddha Bhat (2) win
Navjot Singh (1) of Punjab, Saish Mahale (2) beat Aman Raitya (1) of CHT,
Prnav Mahatme (2) beat Anirudha (1) of KAR & Saish Bandodkar (2) beat
Salim Raja (1) of Assam However Girish Kulkarni, Mathan Lad, Ashish Rebelo
& Devid Velho all one point lost their games.
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Published on 17.11.2006
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