XXIII National
Under-13 (Open & Girls) Chess
Championship 2009
National Under-13 Chess
Championship heading for an exciting finish
By Gopa Kumar
New Delhi (18 Dec 09) :- 23rd National Under-13 Open
Chess Championship is interestingly poised at the end of
penultimate round as six players with 8 points are
leading the point table and targeting the pole position
finish here at Bapu Samaj Sewa Kendra on Friday. Former
world Under-10 Champion Girish A Koushik escaped from
the claws of defeat against top seed and local hope
Vaibhav Suri on the top board. Vaibhav, enjoyed the
advantage through out the game but failed to capitalize
the same for a decisive result and satisfied with half
points after 48 moves. Meanwhile other overnight leaders
Karma Pandya of Gujarat and Shardul Gagare of
Maharashtra signed the peace treaty after 50 moves. Both
these result helped last year runner up Utkal Ranjan
Sahoo of Orissa and G Akash of Tamilnadu to join the top
of point table as they over came Akash PC Iyer of
Tamilnadu and Debankan Dhara of West Bengal
respectively. In the final round tomorrow, Vaibhav Suri
will take on Shardul Gagare while Girish Kosuhik and
Utkan Ranjan Sahoo have to face G Akash and Karma Pandya
respectively.
Meanwhile in the girls section, Lasya G of Andhrapradesh
enjoying the sole lead with a slender half point lead
over top seed and state mate Cholleti Sahajasri and
Rutuja Bakshi of Maharashtra. In the crucial tenth round
encounter, Lasya seeded eleventh stunned second seed
Nandhidhaa PV of Tamilnadu while Sahajasri beat Meenu
Priya of Tamilnadu. Rutuja got better off Nisha N Patkar
of Karnataka to join Sahajasri at joined second spot.
Important Results (Open) Round-10 :- Girish A Koushik of
Karnataka (8) drew with Vaibhav Suri of Delhi (8); Karma
Pandya (8) drew with Shardul Gagare of Maharashtra (8);
Akash PC Iyer of Tamilnadu (7) lost to Utkal Ranjan
Shaoo of Orissa (8); Debankan Dhara of West Bengal (7)
lost to G Akash of Tamilnadu (8); Shiven Khosla of
Maharashtra (7.5) beat Rakesh Kumar Nayak of Orissa
(6.5); Vasantha Ruba Varman of Tamilnadu (6.5) lost to
Sayantan Das of West Bengal (7.5); Prince Bajaj of Delhi
(7.5) beat Eshwanth Dev Kumar of Tamilandu (6.5);
Chaithanyaa KG of Tamilnadu (7) drew with Kaushik S of
Tamilandu (7); Ashutosh Mohapatra of Orissa (7.5) beat
Chandrasish Majumdar of West Bengal (6.5); Karthikeyan
Murali of Tamilnadu (6.5) lost to Varun V of
Andhrapradesh (6.5).
Important Results (Girls) Round-10 :- Lasya G of
Andhrapradesh (8.5) beat Nandhidhaa PV of Tamilnadu
(7.5); Meenu Priya of Tamilnadu (7) lost to Cholleti
Sahajasri of Andhrapradesh (8); Rutuja Bakshi of
Maharashtra (8) beat Nisha N Patkar (7); Monnisha GK of
Tamilnadu (6.5) lost to Sonakshi Rathore (7.5); Bala
Kannamma of Tamilnadu (7.5) beat Akshaya N of Tamilnadu
(6.5); Madhurima Shekhar of Delhi (6.5) drew with
Michelle Catherina of Tamilandu (6.5); Parnali S Dharia
of Maharashtra (6) lost to Shweta Gole of Maharashtra
(7); Soneji Janhavi of Maharashtra (7) beat Soumya
Shrivastava of Maharashtra (6); Sohini Ganguly (6) lost
to Ashwini U of Tamilnadu (7); Uma Bharathi of Tamilnadu
(6.5) beat Aakasha of Bihar (6).
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