Pune's Soumya Swaminathan is the sole leader in the
World Junior Girls Chess Championship. She wrested sole
lead defeating Iozefina Paulet of Romania in the tenth
round to take her tally to eight points, In the eleventh
round, she drew fifth seed Zoja Severiukhina of Russia
to keep the half points lead with 8.5/11.
The good news for Soumya is that the Turkish girl and
Russian girl who share the second-third places with
eight points face each other. A win on Monday can also
help her establish a bigger lead. Soumya faces Deysi
Cori Tello of Peru in the twelfth round at Argentina.
Only two rounds remain to be played.
Among the other Indians, Kiran Manisha Mohanty is on 7.5
points and Padmini Rout is on 6.5 points. Kiran has
medal chances. Top seed Mary Ann Gomes is still below.
If Soumya goes on to win this event, she will become the
third Indian girl after Koneru Humpy (2002) and
Dronavalli Harika (2008) to win this prestigious event.
Three Indian boys have won this event already:
Viswanathan Anand (1987), Pentala Harikrishna (2004) and
Abhijeet Gupta (2008).
Indian boys have already lost out on the title race this
time. Top seed Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (Elo 2718) of
France and Sergei Zhigalko of Belarus are leading with
9/11. P. Karthikeyan of Chennai and M.R. Lalith Babu of
Andhra are in the tied 16th place with 6.5 points. B.
Adhiban and Shyam Sundar are a half point behind on six
points.
This event is happening at Puerto Madryn in Argentina.
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all the rating tournaments should be registered 30 days in
advance. We therefore request all the organizers / State chess
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