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Diptayan Ghosh, Monnisha Win Titles
By Arvind Aaron
Diptayan Ghosh of Kolkata and G.K. Monnisha of Chennai won the
National Under-13 Chess Titles at Pondicherry on July 4.
Diptayan is trained by Shankar Roy at Alekhine Chess Club and
Monnisha is trained by R.B. Ramesh at Chess Gurukul.
Two players, Diptayan and Karthikeyan of Chennai remained
undefeated in this event which took place at the Arumuga Kalyana
Nilayam in Pondicherry. All the girls lost atleast one game.
Various players in boys and girls led during the eleven rounds
making it one of the interesting contests in many years.
Diptayan and Monnisha had won the National Under-9 at Bangalore
in 2007 and it is strange that they are winning their second
National title also together.
Monnisha was impressive winner, taking the title with a round to
spare. She lost to Lasya and beat the rest and took a last round
draw against Sunyasakta for the trophy. Bakshi Rutuja of
Aurangabad finished second and Mahalakshmi of Chennai was third.
Rakesh Kumar Nayak was third and in the last few years Orissa
chess is making giant leaps in placings and chess activity.
Girish Koushik of Mysore and Sunyasakta Satpathy of Orissa
started as the top seeds but did not win. Girish came close and
needed a win in the final round for the title with white.
Diptayan had equalised. Girish should have tried more since if
he loses he would probably still be second anyway. Defending
champion Lasya played well in patches but failed in crucial
games. Girish lost to National U-11 champion Aravind
Chithambaram and that cost him heavily.
The event was smoothly and successfully conducted by the JCA
Pondicherry MidTown on behalf of the Pondicherry State Chess
Association. Udayan Ghosh of Kolkata was the chief arbiter.
Final placings (tie-break order):
Boys: 1 Diptayan Ghosh (WB) 9.5/11; 2 Girish Koushik (Kar) 9;
3-5. Rakesh Kumar Nayak (Ori), Sreyan Bhowmick (WB), Karthikeyan
Murali (TN) 8.5 each; 6-8. Mohd Nubairshah Shaikh (Mah), Vignesh
Nr (TN),Rakesh Kumar Jena (Ori) 8 each; 9-10 Aravindh
Chithambaram (TN), Praneeth Surya (AP) 7.5 each.
Girls: 1 G.K. Monnisha (TN) 9.5/11; 2-3. Bakshi Rutuja (Mah), M.
Mahalakshmi (TN) 8.5 each; 4-7. Sunyasakta Satpathy (Ori),
Shoumi Mukherjee (WB), B.N. Gangamma (Kar), Parnali Dharia (Mah)
8 each; 8-11. G. Lasya (AP), R. Salini (AP), U. Ashwini,
G. Aarthi (both TN) 7.5 each
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Published on July 05, 2010 |
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