XXIII National
Under-13 (Open & Girls) Chess
Championship 2009
Michelle Catherina on sole lead
By Gopa Kumar
New Delhi (14 Dec 09) :- Fourth seed Michelle Catherina
of Tamilnadu take sole lead with five points from as
many rounds in the girls section of ongoing 23rd
National Under-13 (Open & Girls) Chess Championship at
Bapu Samaj Seva Kendra, Panchkuian Road here on Monday.
Playing black side of Ruy Lopez game, Catherina stunned
second seed and state mate Nandhidhaa P V in 65 moves.
Tamilnadu girls Meenu Priya and Bala Kannamma along with
Lasya of Andhra Pradesh are now on second spot with four
and half points.
Meanwhile in the open section, continuing his winning
form, former World Under-12 champion Sayantan Das of
West Bengal defeated Karma Pandya of Gujarat in the
fifth round encounter. Sayantan have the company of
Girish A Koushik of Karnataka and Utkal Ranjan Shaoo of
Orissa at the top of the point table with perfect scores
after fifth round matches. Girish overcame Chandrashish
Majumdar of West Bengal while Sahoo got better of G
Akash of Tamilnadu in the fifth round.
Important Results (Open) Round-5 :- Sayantan Das of West
Bengal (5) beat Karma Pandya of Gujarat (4); Chandrasish
Majumdar of West Bengal (4) lost to Girish A Koushik of
Karnataka (5) ; Utkal Ranjan Sahoo of Orissa (5) beat G
Akash of Tamilnadu (4); Vaibhav Suri of Delhi (4.5) beat
Mugil Jayavel of Tamilnadu (4); Osama Salim of Tamilnadu
(4) drew with Shardul Gagare of Maharashtra (4); Manush
Shah of Gujarat (4) drew with Akash PC Iyer of Tamilnadu
(4); Nishvin J of Tamilnadu (4) drew with Akshay
Bharadwaj of Karnataka (4); K Praneeth Surya of Andhra
Pradesh (3) lost to Shiven Khosla of Maharashtra (4);
Prince Bajaj of Delhi (4) beat Ayush Garg of Rajasthan
(3); Kaushik S of Tamilnadu (4) beat Anshuman K of
Tamilnadu (3)
Important Results (Girls) Round-5 :- Nandhidhaa P V of
Tamilnadu (4) lost to Michelle Catherina of Tamilnadu
(5); Lasya G of Andhra Pradesh (4.5) beat Monnisha GK of
Tamilnadu (3.5); Soumya Shrivatava of Maharashtra (3.5)
lost to Bala Kannamma of Tamilnadu (4.5); Akankhya Kabi
of Orissa (3) lost to Meenu Priya of Tamilnadu (4.5);
Cholleti Sahajasri of Andhra Pradesh (4) beat Meghna
Upadhyay of Madhya Pradesh (3); Sradhanjali Jena of
Orissa (3.5) drew with Sonakshi Rathore of Rajasthan
(3.5); Shweta Gole of Maharashtra (4) beat Akhade
Vaishnavi of Maharashtra (3); Deodhar Vrushali Umesh of
Maharashtra (3) lost to Nisha N Patkar of Karnataka (4)
; Parnali S Dharia of Maharashtra (3) lost to Shvetha V
of Tamilnadu (4); Dharani Sree of Tamilnadu (3.5) drew
with Akshaya N of Tamilandu (3.5).
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