National Under-15 Chess Championship at Mangalore

By Vasanth BH

The 3rd round of the BSNL sponsored 34th National SUB –JUNIOR AND 25TH SUB – JUNIOR GIRLS CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP 2008 saw the leaders sailing to the top layer. As one would say when the going gets tough, the tough gets going, the seeded players found their rhythm with top seed Prasanna Rao of Maharastra scoring over G.Akash of TN quickly in34 moves.Though the game followed a theoretical path of Sicilian Pelikan variation , Akash’s sacrifice of a bishop in the 26 th move seemed to be a mistake . He could not set a mating attack against his opponents king and facing a mating attack himself Akash resigned in 34 moves. The order of the day seem to be the endgames . On the 2nd board draw between Navalgund of Karnataka and Ramnath Bhuvanesh of TN which was a Queen and Bishop ending with Ramnath having a pawn up but could not be materialised. Aditya Udesh faced some difficulty in the rook and pawn ending against Yashas of Karnataka before scoring a point from 66 moves.
14 players share the lead with 3pts at the end of 3rd round. Prasanna Rao , Aditya Udeshi , Pranav Shetty , Shardul Gagare , Shiven Kosla and Rakesh Kulkarni of Maharastra , Fenil Shah of Gujarat , Priyadarshan , P.Lokesh and Ajay Srikanth of TN , Deepthamsh Reddy and G V Saikrishna of AP , Girish Koushik of Karnataka and Utkal Ranjan Sahoo of Orissa are sharing the lead.

Five share the lead with 3 points from as many round in the girls section.Shalmali Gagare and Rucha Pujari of Maharastra , R.Bharathi of TN, Pallabi Roy of WB and Shika Shah of Gujarat are leading the pack with 3 points. Top seed Shalmali Gagare of Maharastra had a easy win against Sahari of AP in 35 moves on the first board . When things were going smoothly Sahari overenthusiastically sacrificed an exchange on the 22nd move viewing an mating which was thwarted rightly by Shalmali. But Preetika Tayal of Delhi surprised her 2nd seeded opponent Mohanapriya of TN from as early as 3rd move by moving her pawn to d3 square which was quite unusual. Though later it transposed into a sort of Kings Indian Attack, Preetika was determined to draw her higher rated opponent by timely exchange of pieces in 39 moves.

Results Boys section after the third round
Bo. Name IRtg Club Pts Res. Pts Name IRtg Club
1 Prasanna Rao 2311 MAH 3 bt 2 G Akash 2053 TN
2 Navalgund Niranjan 2064 KAR 2½ drew with 2½ Ramnath Bhuvanesh R 2283 TN
3 Udeshi Aditya 2262 MAH 3 bt 2 Yashas D 2040 KAR
4 Ghosh Diptayan 2041 WB 2 lost to 3 Priyadharshan K 2245 TN
5 Harihara Sudan M 2039 TN 2 lost to 3 Shiven Khosla 2206 MAH
6 Sai Krishna G V 2166 AP 3 bt 2 Kaushik S 2035 TN
7 Krishna Prasad K C 2030 TN 2 lost to 3 Girish A Koushik 2161 KAR
8 Rishi Thariani 2008 DEL 2 lost to 3 Kulkarni Rakesh 2146 MAH
9 Patil Pratik 2005 MAH 2 lost to 3 Sahoo Utkal Ranjan 2124 ORI
10 Antonio Viani D'cunha 2117 KAR 2 lost to 3 Deepthamsh Reddy M 1997 AP
11 Balkishan A 1972 KAR 2½ drew with 2½ Das Sayantan 2112 WB
12 Fenil Shah 2111 GUJ 3 bt 2 Ramalingam Karthik 1987 TN
13 Pranav Shetty 2105 MAH 3 bt 2 Ankesh Dubey 1967 MP
14 Mohammed Fawaz 1967 KER 2 lost to 3 Gagare Shardul 2092 MAH
15 Srikanth Ajay 2083 TN 3 bt 2 Sai Prahlad K 1853 TN
16 Sanjid Latheef 1844 KER 2 lost to 3 Lokesh P 2081 TN
17 Debashis Das 2309 ORI 2½ bt 2 Rajasekhar K 1647 AP
18 Stany G A 2302 KAR 2½ bt 1½ Karthik H S 1882 KAR
19 Mehar Chinna Reddy C H 2222 AP 2½ bt 1½ Dinesh Kumaar R 1867 TN
20 Tejas Ravichandran 2156 TN 1½ lost to 2½ Sridhar R 1840 KAR
21 Gahan M G 2113 KAR 2½ bt 1½ Rai Rakshith T 1769 GOA
22 Arjun Satheesh 1685 KER 1½ lost to 2½ Kathmale Sameer 2111 MAH
23 Bavankumar 1984 TN 2½ bt 1½ Nilesh Shankar 0 BIH
24 Yogesh Gautam 1811 HAR 2 drew with 2 Anand Raj S 1977 TN
25 Keerthan Prabhu 0 KAR 1½ lost to 2½ Jaswant G 1934 TN

Results of Girls section after round three
Bo. Name IRtg Club Pts Res. Pts Name IRtg Club
1 Gagare Shalmali 2110 MAH 3 bt 2 Sahari J 1872 AP
2 Preetika Tayal 1864 DEL 2½ drew with 2½ Mohana Priya J 2073 TN
3 Rathore Sonakshi 1855 RAJ 2 lost to 3 Bharathi R 2031 TN
4 Pujari Rucha 2022 MAH 3 bt 2 A Akshaya 1832 TN
5 Nisha N Patkar 1849 KAR 2 lost to 3 Roy Pallabi 2018 WB
6 Shristi J Shetty 1959 KAR 2½ drew with 2½ Vanessa D`souza 1811 KAR
7 Nandhidhaa P V 1823 TN 2 lost to 3 Shikha Shah 1885 GUJ
8 Jeyassri B 1733 TN 1½ lost to 2½ Sukanya Dutta 1949 WB
9 Savetha C H 1933 TN 2½ bt 1½ Krushna Mishra 1664 ORI
10 Teenu Thomas 1875 KER 2½ bt 1½ Visalatchi R 1933 TN
11 Aparajita Gochhikar 1918 ORI 2 drew with 2 Diotima Dutta Gupta 1682 WB
12 Saranya J 2040 TN 2 bt 1½ Shristi Gautam 1635 BIH
13 Arunima Kalra 1519 DEL 2 bt 1 Priya Sandhya P 1821 TN
14 Deshmukh Sonia 1811 MAH 2 bt 1 Priya V S S 1530 AP
15 Janani J 1807 TN 2 bt 1 Limaye gayatri 1495 MAH
16 Prathipa L 1443 TN 1 lost to 2 Supriya Joshi 1771 MAH
17 Soumya Shrivastava 1746 MAH 2 bt 1 Aishwarya R 0 TN
18 Chrisel Ann Pais 0 KAR 1 lost to 2 S Aarthysri 1738 TN
19 Nivedhitha J G 1716 TN 2 bt 1 Anku Kumari 0 BIH
20 Pansare Saee 1698 MAH 2 bt 1 Prerna Saini 0 PUN
21 Raksha K 0 KAR 1 lost to 2 Birla ananyashree 1691 MAH
22 Arthi B 1690 TN 2 bt 1 Priyamvada Karmcheti 0 AP
23 Andria L D`souza 1664 KAR 2 bt 1 Rajashree B 0 PON
24 Bhuvaneshwari R 1650 TN 2 bt 1 Rikhita Er 0 CHATT
25 Surabhi Kumari 0 BIH 1 lost to 2 Shalon Joanne Pais 1624 KAR

 

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