XXIII National
Under-13 (Open & Girls) Chess
Championship 2009
Girish and Shardul share lead
By Gopa Kumar
New Delhi (16 Dec 09) :- Former World Under-10 Champion
Karnataka’s Girish A Koushik and Fide Master Shardul
Gagare of Maharashtra with 7 points are in joint lead
after eighth round matches in the 23rd National Under-13
Chess Championship here at Bapu Samaj Sewa Kendra on
Wednesday. Opting for English Opening, Shardul defeated
fifth seed and last year runner up Utkal Ranjan Shaoo of
Orissa in 45 moves. Continuing his fine form in the
championship, Girish overcame S Kaushik of Tamilnadu in
41 moves. Karma Pandya of Gujarat, Eshwanth Dev Kumar of
Tamilnadu along with local lads Vaibhav Suri and Price
Bajaj are closely following the leaders with a drift of
half points.
Mean while in the girls section, with seven points in
the kitty, Andhrapradesh girl G Lasya emerged as sole
leader as she defeated N Akshya of Tamilnadu in the
eighth round encounter. Over night joint leaders second
seed PV Nandhidhaa of Tamilnadu and Nisha N Patkar of
Karnataka are agreed to split the points after just 10
moves. Nandhidhaa and Nisha along with Bala Kannamma of
Tamilndau are now in the joint second spot with 6.5
points.
Important Results (Open) Round-8 :- Girish A Koushik of
Karnataka (7) beat Kaushik S of Tamilnadu (6); Shardul
Gagare of Maharashtra (7) beat Utkal Ranjan Shaoo of
Orissa (6); Vaibhav Suri (6.5) beat Chandrasish Majumdar
of West Bengal (5.5); Sayantan Das of West Bengal (5.5)
lost to Eshwanth Dev Kumar of Tamilnadu (6.5); Karma
Pandya of Gujarat (6.5) beat Niraj Saripalli of Goa
(5.5); Vasantha Ruba Varman of Tamilandu (5.5) lost to
Prince Bajaj of Delhi (6.5); G Akash of Tamilnadu (6)
drew with Nishvin J of Tamilnadu (6); Akash PC Iyer of
Tamilnadu (6) drew with Varun V of Andhrapradesh (6);
Shiven Khosla of Maharashtra (6) beat Chaithanyaa KG of
Tamilandu (5.5); Abir Sinha of Delhi (5.5) drew with
Sumit Kumar of West Bengal (5.5).
Important Results (Girls) Round-8 :- Nisha N Patkar of
Karnataka (6.5) drew with Nandhidhaa PV of Tamilnadu
(6.5); Lasya G of Andhrapradesh (7) beat Akshaya N of
Tamilnadu (5.5); Bala Kannamma of Tamilnadu (6.5) beat
Sonakshi Rathore of Rajasthan (5.5); Dharani Sree of
Tamilnadu (5) lost to Cholleti Sahajasri of
Andhrapradesh (6); Michelle Catherina of Tamilnadu (6)
beat Nivedhitha M of Tamilnadu (5); Rutuja Bakshi of
Maharshtra (6) beat Soumya Shrivastava of Maharashtra
(5); Sohini Ganguly of West Bengal (6) beat Aarthi G of
Tamilnadu (5); Monnisha GK of Tamilnadu (5.5) beat
Srinidhi Sridharan of Tamilnadu (4.5); Uma Bharathi of
Tamilnadu (5.5) beat Tarini Goyal of Chandigarh (4.5)
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