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Nationla Under - 7 Chess Championship @ Goa
Report 5th round
Ivana sole leader in Girls section & Shivram & Ebenezer
share lead in boys.
In the girls section in National under 7 Chess Chamoionship being held at
Don Bosco High School in Panjim World under 8 champion Ivana Furtado (5)
became the sole leader after the 5th round in the girls section while
Shivram Srivastav (5) of UP and Jerome Ebenezer (5) of TN share the lead.
Girls Section :
Ivana Furtado showed why she is the world champion in her age groop when
she convincingly beat the top seed and only rated player in the tournament
C.H.Mehana (4) of Kerala. Playing against the Semi Slav Defense Ivana left
her King in the centre and stormed Meghna’s King side with her pawns.
After opening up the Rook file her heavy pieces besieged the King and
checkmate came on the 46th move.
On 2nd board Sarojini Devi (4.5) of AP used the system devised by the
famous Andhra coach Shembu against Rutuja Bakshi(4.5) of MAH. The was
drawn after 78 moves.
In other important games Shiny Das of Tripura (3.5) lost to Varsha C.R.
(4) of TN while Akhila S (4) beat Forum Thakkar (3) of Guj. Bhargavi S (3)
of TN lost to Shreya Chakraborty (4)of WB . Chandreyee Hazra (4) of WB
beat Tejasvini Sagar (3) of Mah.
Among Goan girls Riya Sawant(3) beat Mithila A.(2) of TN and Nadia Dias
(2.5) played a sparkling attack against the Sicilian Defense of Jytri
(1.5) of AP to win in 27 moves. However Reema Naik (2), Sailee Parulekar
(2) & Sakshi Prabhu lost their games.
Boys Section :
Shivram Srivastav (5) played the Tarrash Veriation against the French
Defense of Abhimanyu Puranik(4) of MAH. He gained the control of the
Queens side files and then squeezed the win in the end game.
Jerome Ebenezer (5) played the Three Knights Defense against fellow
Tamilian Vignesh B(4) and won after a battle full of tactics.
On board 3 Revath Reddy (4.5) and Yeshwant N.S. (4.5) both from AP agreed
for a draw wherein white was full piece up!
On 4th board other Saradhara Preet (3.5) of Guj played the Rui Lopez
Exchange Variation against Sai Akshay (4.5), however he allowed his
central pawns to get doubled and weak. Sai created a passed pawn on the
King’s side which won him the game.
Among other top games Anantharam R.U. (3.5) of Kar lost to Shah Hetul
(4.5) of Guj. Aritra Dalvi (4) of WB beat Srinivas Venkatraman (3.5) of
Mah, Rocky Kumar (4) of Orrisa beat Adithya (3) of TN, Saurab Mohanty(4)
of Orrisa beat Anish Sai (3) of AP, Arjun Bharat (4) of Kar beat Kabyaneel
Talukdar (3)of Assam, Bhanja Mritunjay (3) of Orrisa lost to Kartikeyan(4)
of TN.
Among Goan players Snehil Shetty (4) beat Jain Jeet (3) of Guj but Rishubh
Naik (3) lost to Dhonnar Nachiket (4) of Mah. Tatvesh Sawant (3) beat
Anshuman Das (2) of Orrisa & Anirudha Bhat(3) beat Sumukh Pinge both of
Goa(2). Pranav Mahatme (2)& Manthan Lad (2) lost their 5th round games.
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Published on 17.11.2006
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