World Youth Chess Championships 2009  - By K.Visweswaran & D.V.Prasad

Antalya, Turkey November 12-23

Shreyans Daklia , the unassuming lad from Chattisgarh gave the first booster to the Indian launch pad at the World Youth chess championships 2009. Taking GM Ter-Sahakyan Samvel  of Armenia on the 4th board, Shreyans scored a resounding 46 move victory over.   Responding to the Grandmaster’s Sicilian with the Rosolimo system, Shreyans kept increasing his space control. In n vague attempt to obtain some freedom for his pieces and maybe create some counter play, Black let go a pawn.  However his worst was yet to come  when Shreyans orchestered his pieces for a King side attack while Black Queen was huddled on the other corner.  Finally White’s domination was so powerful  that he threatened Black with mate without even a single sacrifice. The Armenian Grandmaster resigned a few moves before we could have the pleasure of a seeing a Single rook mate. Four official coaches  GM R B Ramesh, IM D V Prasad, IM K Murugan, WGM R Aarthie are supporting 56-player Indian contingent apart from an almost equal number of accompanying persons and personal trainers which includes  RV Gokhale, GB Joshi, K Visweswaran, Argyadip Das, Akash Thakur and others. Prof. Anantharam & Nandakumar are officiating in the championship as Deputy Arbiter and section Arbiter respectively.

Here is the game:

Daklia,Shreyans (2236) - Ter Sahakyan,Samvel (2512)

 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.Bb5+ Nd7 4.c3 Ngf6 5.Qe2 a6 6.Ba4 e6 7.0–0 Be7 8.d4 b5 9.Bc2 Bb7 10.Rd1 0–0 11.Nbd2 cxd4 12.cxd4 Re8 13.Nf1 Rc8 14.Ng3 Bf8 15.a4 b4 16.a5 Rc7 17.Bd3 Qa8 18.Bd2 d5 19.e5 Ne4 20.Bxe4 dxe4 21.Ng5 Be7 22.N5xe4 Rc2 23.Rab1 Rec8 24.Qg4 g6 25.Bg5 Bf8 26.h4 Bd5 27.Rd3 Bc4 28.Rf3 Rc6 29.h5 Qe8 30.Re1 Rxb2 31.Bc1 Rb1 32.hxg6 fxg6 33.Nh5 Bg7 34.Nxg7 Kxg7 35.Bh6+ Kxh6 36.Rxb1 Qe7 37.Nf6 Kg7 38.Qh4 Kh8 39.Rh3 Nxf6 40.exf6 Qc7 41.Qh6 Qf7 42.Rxb4 Bb5 43.Qf4 Rc8 44.Rbb3 Rf8 45.Qh6 Rg8 46.Qxh7+ Black Resigned in view of mate after  46...Qxh7 47.Rxh7+ Kxh7 48.Rh3# 1–0

Round 1 Results involving Indians:

 Girls

Under-8

Bansi Prathima beat Elene Kostava

Arpita Mukerjee beat Liu Jianxin

U10

Jitka Janska lost to Ivana Furtado

Meghna CH Lost to Nominnerdene

Margareth Olde Lost to Tejaswini Sagar

Riya Sawant lost to Thanh Phuong Thao Pham

Mihaela Blazeka Lost to Shiny Das

U12

Arunima Goyal drew with WFM Aleksandra Goryachkina

Elise Bellaiche Drew with Ashwini U

Camilia Bt Johari Lost to Mahalakshmi M

Srija Seshadri beat Alaize Dall Orsoletta

Lasya Goli beat Monica Jansen

U14

Saranya J Lost to Katrina Korban

PV Nandhidhaa drew with Denitza Dragieva

 Arpi Azizbekyan Lost to Bodda Pratyusha

S Anjana Krishna lost to Ekaterina Beshukova

U16

Padmini Rout beat  Kaya Emel

Mariam Sulamanidze Beat R Bharathi

Rucha Pujari beat Dea Chakveatadze

Divvya Sethumanthavan Lost to Shrishti J Shetty

U18

Iroda Ibragimova Lost to Pon N Krithika

Open

Under-8

Mitrabha Guha lost to Moein Mohammed Larki

Aryan Chopra beat Dogukan Kucuk

Kadir Akin lost to Nitish Belurkar

U10

Eric Joel lost to Lost to Murali Karthikeyan

Joni Gogokhia Lost to Hetul Shah

Harshal Shahi beat Maksims Makukins

U12

Vaibhav Suri beat Ioannis Kalogeris

Fernando Novoa Lost to Das Sayantan

Girish A Koushik beat Vikas Marijus

Ryszard Eggink Drew with Cyrus Pereira

U14

Tejas Ravichandran beat San Pedro Morales Marco

Sai Krishna GV drew with Mustafa Yilmaz

Lee Kah Meng Elgin Lost to  Sahoo Utkal Ranjan

Nihal Majunath beat Halil Sehtiogullari

U16

Vidit Santosh Gujarathi beat Kerigan Demre

Bakberdi Lost to SP Sethuram

Debashis Das beat Havas Janko

K Priyadarshan beat Jonathan Tordeur

Aditya Udeshi beat Sumant Subramaniam

Prasanna Rao beat Mohammed Nadar

Zhou Yang-fan beat Jitendria Vels

U18

Shreyan Daklia beat GM Samvel Ter-Sahakyan

Pradeep Kumar Raghu drew with IM Robert Hovhannisyan

 Adhiban Baskaran beat Jure Plaskan

Azamat Ulkhanov lost to Shyam Nikhil P

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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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