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Friday, 07 October 2011 01:21 |
 New Delhi (06 Oct 11): Overnight sole leader Karthikeyan Murali maintained his sole lead with six and half points after signing the peace treaty with second seed Sidhant Mohapatra of Orissa in the seventh round of the ongoing 25th National Under-13 Open Chess Championship at Kulachi Hansraj Model School on Thursday.
Playing safe in Kan variation of Sicilian Defence, Murali and Mohapatra agreed to split the point after just 17 moves. Tamilnadu players Visakh N R, Pranav Vijay, Harsha Bharathakoti of Andhrapradesh and Debankan Dhara of West Bengal are giving company to Mohapatra in the joint second spot with a drift of half point from the leader.
In the seventh round encounters, Viaskh beat Nikhil Dixit of Maharahstra while Bharathkoti shocked third seed Mohammad Nubairshah Shaikh. Pranav Vijay and Debankan Dhara got better off Krishna Teja of Andhrapradesh and Vignesh N R of Tamilnadu respectively. Top seed Arvindh Chithambaram suffered another setback to his title hopes as he satisfied with half point against Abhimanyu Puranik of Maharashtra in the seventh round.
Meanwhile in the girls’ category, top seed Ivana Maria Furtado of Goa and defending champion Monnisha G K of Tamilnadu sharing the pole position with six points. Playing white side of Volga Gambit game, World Under-12 silver medalist Ivana defeated U Ashwini of Tamilnadu without much struggle in 33 moves while Monnisha overcame her state mate Vaishali R in 77 moves arrived out of Hungarian defence.
Six players including World Under-12 bronze medalist M Mahalakshmi of Tamilnadu, who beat overnight joint leader Shoumi Mukjerjee of West Bengal are in joint second spot with five and half points.
Important Results :
Round-7 Open : Sidhant Mohapatra of Orissa (6) drew with Kathikeyan Murali of Tamilnadu (6.5); Arvindh Chithambaram V R of Tamilnadu (5.5) drew with Abhimanyu Puranik of Maharashtra (5.5); Mohammad Nubairshah Shaik of Maharahstra (5) lost to Harsha Bharathakoti of Andhrapradesh (6); Visakh N R of Tamilnadu (6) beat Nikhil Dixit of Maharashtra (5); Krishna Teja N of Andhrapradesh (5) lost to Pranav Vijay of Tamilnadu (6); Debankan Dhara of West Bengal (6) beat Vignesh N R of Tamilnadu (5); Raghav Srivathsav of Andhrapradesh (5.5) drew with Harshal Shahi of Delhi (5.5); Rohan Ahuja of Goa (5.5) beat Hetul Shah of Gujarat (4.5); Akshay Bharadwaj of Karnataka (4.5) lost to Pranavananda V of Andhrapradesh (5.5); Kaustuv Kundu of West Bengal (5) drew with Pavit Singh of Delhi (5); Grahesh Y of Andhrapradesh (5.5) beat Kumaran B of Tamilnadu (4.5); Naren Swaminathan P of Tamilnadu (5.5) beat Anatharam R U of Karnataka (4.5); Ritviz Parab of Goa (5) drew with Nishant Kumar of Jharkhand (5); Sai Vishwesh of Tamilnadu (5) beat Kushagra Sharma of Rajasthan (4); Athul Krishna S of Kerala (4.5) drew with Saptorshi Gupta of West Bengal (4.5).
Round-7 Girls : Ivana Maria Furtado (6) beat Ashwini U of Tamilnadu (5); Vaishali R of Tamilnadu (5) lost to Monnisha G K of Tamilnadu (6); Mahalakshmi M of Tamilnadu (5.5) beat Shoumi Mukerjee of West Bengal (5); Sunyasakta Satpathy of Orissa (4.5) lost to Shiny Das of Tripura (5.5); Rutuja Bakshi of Maharashtra (5.5) beat Meghna C H of Kerala (4.5); Hilmi Parveen of Kerala (5.5) beat Varshini V of Tamilnadu (4.5); Anigani Kavya of Andhrapradesh (5.5) beat Divya Lakshmi R of Tamilnadu (4.5); Smaraki Mohanty of Orissa (4) lost to Divya Garg of Maharashtra (5); Megha Gupta of Gujarat (5) beat Kesshni Bhasiin of Delhi (4); Dharani Sree R of Tamilnadu (5) beat Kratica Shekhwat of Rajasthan (4); Gange Tanmayee of Maharashtra (5) beat Dhanshree Pandit of Maharashtra (4); Chitlange Sakshi of Maharashtra (4) lost to Manjula R of Tamilnadu (5); Deekshidha P S of Tamilnadu (5) beat Manasa H R of Karnataka (4); Vishwa Shah of Maharahstra (3.5) lost to Priyamvadha Karamcheti of Andhrapradesh (4.5); Akankhya Kabi of Orissa (4.5) beat Shweta Priyadharshini of Uttarpradesh (3.5).
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M.S.Gopakumar
Joint Secretary(Admn), Delhi Chess Association
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