World Youth Chess Championship-Antalya,Turkey   

By D.V.Prasad, International Master

Indians are at joint lead in various Boys & Girls age category sessions at the end of the third round of the World Youth Chess Championship being held at Antalya from 11th November 2009.

Aditya Udeshi played an excellent attacking game in the white side of Guico Piano. He sacrificed a rook and forced a checkmate against highly rated International master Grandelius Nilsi(2540) of Sweden in the top board of Under 16 Boys Section. S.P.Sethuraman also scored a fighting win over Zhou Yang Fan and Vidit Gujrati who beat Ruslan Kurayan are also in joint lead with Aditya Udeshi logging 3 points apiece.


In the Girls under-12 section Lasya Goli scored a thumping win over Radinova Dariya in a Sicilian game playing black. Mahalakshmi played a long Carokann game scoring over Yasim patel with black pieces. Both are in joint lead with 3 points each.


Pratyusha Bodda played a fine technical game to beat WFM Samigullina Diana and shot into the point lead with 3 points in the U-14 girls category. Bansi Prathima also notched up a good win to move to joint lead with 3 points in the U-8 girls category.


Other notable results include Aryan Chopra in the lead with 3 points in the U 8 boys and Vaibhav Suri and Girish Kaushik also notching up creditable wins to move to joint lead with 3 points each in the U-12 boys category. Tejas Ravichandran also kept the Indian hopes high by moving to 3 points in as many rounds in the U-14 boys category.


The accommodation at Sailors Beach hotel is excellent and the choice of food being provided at the hotel is good for vegetarians also. The bulletins are made available next day at 10.AM


Details of our best scorers at the end of third round-Boys

SNo Name Category Points
1 Aryan Chopra U-8 3
2 Harshal Shahi U-10 2.5
3 Karthikeyan Murali U-10 2.5
4 HetulShah U-10 2.5
5 Vaibav Suri U-12 3
6 Girish A Kaushik U-12 3
7 Tejas Ravichandran U-14 3
8 Sahoo Utkal Ranjan U-14 2.5
9 Udeshi Aditya U-16 3
10 Vidit Santhosh Gujarati U-16 3
11 S.P.Sethuraman U-16 3
12 B.Adhiban U-18 2.5


Details of our best scorers at the end of third round-Girls

SNo Name Category Points
1 Bansi Prathima U-8 3
2 Ivana Maria Furtado U-10 2.5
3 Tejaswini Sagar U-10 2.5
4 Lasya Goli U-12 3
5 Mahalakshmi U-12 3
6 Pratyusha Bodda U-14 3
7 P.V.Nandhidhaa U-14 2.5
8 Rucha Pujari U-16 2.5
9 Pon N Krithkha U-18 2
10 Bakti Kulkarni U-18 2

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