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Ivana,
Sahajasri, Harika Win World Titles
By Arvind Aaron Press Officer
- AICF
India completed its richest haul of medals in the history of the
World Youth Chess Championship winning five titles (gold), two silver
medals and three bronze medals at Batumi in Georgia on Saturday. They surpassed the
previous best of two titles and three medals achieved in 2000. If two of
our boys excelled on Friday, our girls did better on Saturday when three
of them were crowned world champions. Ivana Furtado (Girls under-8) of Goa,
Ch Sahajasri (Girls under-10) of Karimnagar and
Dronavalli Harika (Girls under-18) of Guntur became world champions. Ivana
Furtado of Goa won the World Under-8 girls title on tie-break after she
pushed Mannepalli Navyavyshnavi (AP) to the silver medal on tie-break.
Both players won and scored 8.5/11.
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Girish |
Chennai's M.Mahalakshmi won the bronze
medal on eight points.
Indian dominance was clear in the World Girls Under-8 section when our
players won the gold, silver and bronze. Also six of our players finished
in the top eight places.
Dronavalli Harika of Guntur won the World Girls Under-18 section when she
downed Atousha Pourkashiyan of Iran with the black pieces in 65 long
moves. She had previously won the World Girls Under-14 title in 2004.
Harika is going in the Koneru Humpy path by winning age group titles one
after the other. She finished on 9/11 ahead of silver medal winner Nargis
Umudova (Aze) 8.5. Mary Ann Gomes of Kolkata won the bronze medal with 7.5
points.
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IVANA |
G.V.Sai Krishna of Vijayawada won the bronze medal on eight points. Except
the second place, the top eight places went to Indians.
As mentioned earlier, Ch Mohineesh of Visakhapatnam won crowned World
Under-8 champion. He drew his final round to end on 10/11. Prince Bajaj
finished second and won a silver medal for India on nine points.
In the
World Under-12 Chamionship, defending champion N.Srinath stood fifth and
in the World Under-14 championship, B.Adhiban made a fine comeback and
tied for the silver medal but was placed fifth with eight points.
Similarly, Pon.N.Krithikha missed the medal in the Girls Under-14 section
when she was placed fifth. Padmini Rout also made a comeback
but tied for the third place in the Girls Under-12 section and finished
fourth.
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CH.Sahaja Sri |
Overall, this showing of ten medals should only make October 28, 2006 the
second best day ever for Indian chess after Viswanathan Anand was crowned
world chess champion on December 24, 2000. India took the lion's share of
the titles winning five out of the twelve available.
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CH.Mohineesh |
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Published on : 30.10.2006
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