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Girish
Koushik Leads By Two Points
By Arvind Aaron
Girish Koushik
of Mysore leads the World Under-10 Chess Championship by two full points
after he won an eighth round game against second seed Irakli Beradze of
Georgia, late on Wednesday evening at Batumi in Georgia. Three rounds
remain to be played in the World Youth Chess Championship.
Girish won all his eight games so far. India is hoping for a sweep of the
podium in this section. Six of the seven players who are tied for the
second place behind Girish are from India. The Boys Under-10 section is
India's pet section. India first won this section at Menorca 1996 when
P.Harikrishna did it. Sahaj Grover won it last year at Belfort.
Ch. Mohineesh of Visakhapatnam and Ivana Furtado of Goa are leading the
Open under-8 and Girls under-8 sections by slender half point margins.
Overall, the eighth round was not pleasant for the Indians as we lost sole
lead in the Girls Under-18 section and also the shared lead in the Open
under-12 section.
Boys Group
Open Under-18: G.Rohit and S.Arun Prasad played a draw between them to
move to five points and share the seventh place. They will have to win all
their remaining three games to win a medal.
Open Under-16: Aswin Jayaram is tied for the twelfth place on five points.
Sai Srinivas (4.5) and S.P.Sethuraman (4) are behind and have lost medal
chances.
Open Under-14: B.Adhiban of Chennai played a draw with lower rated
Federico Perez of Argentina to reach 5.5 points where he shares the eighth
place.
Open Under-12: Defending champion N.Srinath slipped from joint lead to
joint second place as he made a draw in Wednesday's evening round. Illya
Nyzhnyk of Ukraine moved into sole lead with seven points from eight
games.
Open Under-10: Girish Koushik won yet again to reach eight points from
eight games and stretch his lead to two full points. Girish beat second
seed Irakli Beradze of Georgia who is rated 90 Elo than him. In the second
place on six points are seven players and six of them are from India:
Sayantan Das, Komiri Vijaya Kanth, R.Eswar, G.V.Sai Krishna,
Y.V.K.Chakravarthi, Abhilash Reddy. A further half point below on 5.5 are
Mugil Jayavel and Shiven Khosla.
Open Under-8: Ch Mohineesh played a draw with the black pieces and this
allowed his lead to reduce from one point to half point. He leads with 7.5
out of eight games. Prince Bajaj is tied for the third-fourth places in
this section with 6.5 points.
Girls Group
Girls Under-18: India suffered a double blow when our players lost in the
top two boards with the white pieces. Top seed WGM Diana Arutyunova of
Ukraine beat Dronavalli Harika. This helped Nargiz Umudova of Azerbaijan
to lead with 6.5 points. Second seed Harika's first defeat leaves her at
joint second-third place with six points. Mary Ann Gomes who also lost is
tied for the fourth to eighth places with 5.5 points.
Girls Under-16: Indians have lost the chance of a medal in this section
with I.Ramya Krishna on 4.5/8 and others little behind.
Girls Under-14: India's best bet and seed four, Lakshmi Sahithi is tied
for the fourth place with 5.5 points from eight games. Lakshmi has a freak
chance to pull down the leader and top seed Mariya Muzychuk of Ukraine as
they meet in Thursday's round nine.
Girls Under-12: Padmini Rout won the evening round on Wednesday to move to
joint second place with six points from eight games. Danelia Mariam
(7.5/8) of Georgia leads this section by a 1.5-point margin. Padmini,
Asian champion and top seed faces her on Thursday and should win to keep
the title chances open.
Girls Under-10: India is back in business in this section after our
National Under-9 champion Ch Sahajasri beat Zhai Mo of China with the
black pieces to move to the joint second place on 6.5 points. Another
Indian to share the second spot is Sai Nirupama who beat Shamatava Ana of
Georgia. Filiz Osmanodja of Germany is leading this section with seven
points.
Girls Under-8: Ivana Furtado won her fifth game in a row to keep her
slender half point lead with seven points from eight games. In the second
place is Mannepalli Navyavyshnavi with 6.5 points. Tied for the
third-fourth place is Sweety Patel of Surat with 6 points. U.Ashwini and
M.Mahalakshmi are tied for the fifth place with 5.5 points.
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Published on : 26.10.2006
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