The winners of World Junior and Girls U20 Championship

Wednesday, 24 August 2016 12:13

WGM Saduakkassova Dinara is the World Under 20 Girls champion

GM Artemiev Vladislav wins second place in the World Junior

by IA PAUL AROKIA RAJ S, Deputy Chief Arbiter

WGM Saduakassova Dinara (Kazakhstan) emerged 34th World under 20 girls chess champion after setting a winner’s target of 9.5 points. The Championship was organised by All Odisha Chess Association and KIIT University at Bhubaneswar, India from 7th to 22nd August 2016. Although Saduakassova fumbled away in a winning king and pawn end game and drew against WIM Uuriintuya Uurtasikh (Mongolia) in the final round, lady luck smiled on her as WIM Dordzhieva Dinara (Russia) who was also on the hot pursuit for the title, failed to convert a pawn up in the queen and bishop ending into a win against Parnali S Dharia (India). This draw halted her at 9 points and aided Saduakassova Dinara who was already on 9.5 points to become a straight champion. In a two way tie for the second place WIM Nadhidhaa Pv from the host federation kept the Indian flag fly high by emerging second on a better bucholtz score. She relegated WIM Dordzhieva Dinara (Russia) to the third spot. Earlier Nandhidhaa had scored a most valuable point in the final round against the defending champion WGM Buksa Nataliya (Ukraine) in an amazing king and pawn end game.

However in the 55th World Junior Chess Championship with Xiong Jeffery emerging champion even before the last round, much attention was paid for the other placings. It was the top seed GM Artemiev Vladislav (Russia) who secured the second place with 9.5 points after outwitting GM Aravindh Chithambaram Vr (India) in a tactical middle game. Here too GM Sunilduth Lyna Narayanan from India made the country proud by winning the coveted third place. He outmanovered IM Nasuta Grzegorz (Poland) in a great style to complete the mission on a better tie break score with 9 points after tying with FM XU Yi (China).

In a glittering medal awarding ceremony, his excellency the Governor of Odisha Shri.S.C.Jamir felicitated the winners in the presence of Shri, Bharat Singh Chauhan, CEO, All India Chess Federation and Chairman, Technical Commission, FIDE.

CHAMPIONSHIP BULLETIN (pdf)

RESULTS OPEN

Bo.		White	FED	Pts	Results	Pts		Black	FED
1	GM	Xiong Jeffery	USA	10½	½ - ½	8½	IM	Mosadeghpour Masoud	IRI
2	GM	Artemiev Vladislav	RUS	9½	1 - 0	8	GM	Aravindh Chithambaram .	IND
3	GM	Sunilduth Lyna Narayanan	IND	9	1 - 0	8½	IM	Nasuta Grzegorz	POL
4		Maghsoodloo Parham	IRI	8	0 - 1	9	FM	Xu Yi	CHN
5	GM	Gagare Shardul	IND	7½	0 - 1	8½	IM	Svane Rasmus	GER
6	GM	Karthikeyan Murali	IND	8½	1 - 0	7½	IM	Henriquez Villagra istobal	CHI
7		Xu Yinglun	CHN	8½	1 - 0	7½	IM	Bersamina Paulo	PHI
8	IM	Lorparizangeneh Shahin	IRI	8	½ - ½	7½	IM	Tran Tuan Minh	VIE
9	IM	Akash G	IND	7½	½ - ½	7½	GM	Wagner Dennis	GER
10	IM	Mousavi Seyed Khalil	IRI	7½	½ - ½	7½		Arjun Kalyan	IND
11	IM	Menezes Christoph	AUT	7½	½ - ½	7½		Srijit Paul	IND
12		Ivekovic Bozidar	CRO	8	1 - 0	7	FM	Rajdeep Sarkar	IND
13	GM	Alekseenko Kirill	RUS	7	½ - ½	7	FM	Lokander Martin	SWE
14		Shailesh Dravid	IND	6½	0 - 1	7½	FM	Gholami Aryan	IRI
15		Dhulipalla Bala Chandra Prasad	IND	7	½ - ½	7	IM	Basso Pier Luigi	ITA
16	FM	Rydstrom Tom	SWE	6½	0 - 1	7½	FM	Praggnanandhaa R	IND
17	FM	Martins David Pires Tavares	POR	7½	1 - 0	6½	FM	Karthik Venkataraman	IND
18		Harsha Bharathakoti	IND	6½	0 - 1	7½		Yuan Qingyu	CHN
19	IM	Beukema Stefan	BEL	7	1 - 0	6½	FM	Grandadam Patrik	SUI
20	IM	Krishna Teja N	IND	6	0 - 1	7		Beradze Irakli	GEO
21	CM	Salles Louis	FRA	6	0 - 1	7	IM	Visakh N R	IND
22		Pirverdiyev Agil	AZE	7	1 - 0	6		Papakonstantinou itrios	GRE
23	FM	Nihal Sarin	IND	6½	½ - ½	6½		Tahay Alexis	FRA
24	FM	Viennot Dylan	FRA	6	0 - 1	7	FM	Rakesh Kumar Jena	IND
25	IM	Studer Noel	SUI	6½	1 - 0	5½		Subhayan Kundu	IND
26		Sammed Jaykumar Shete	IND	6½	1 - 0	5½	FM	Tran Minh Thang	VIE
27	FM	Belous Mikhail	UKR	6	½ - ½	6		Sahoo Utkal Ranjan	IND
28	FM	Gajwa Ankit	IND	6½	1 - 0	5½		Fan Huifeng	CHN
29	FM	Ivic Velimir	SRB	5½	0 - 1	6½		Rahul Srivatshav P	IND
30		Barath Kalyan M	IND	5	0 - 1	6	FM	Gheorghiu Calin	ROU
31	CM	Erigaisi Arjun	IND	5	0 - 1	6		Evangelista Paul Robert	PHI
32		Taalaibekov Tagir	KGZ	5½	½ - ½	5½		Yogit S	IND
33	IM	Chakravarthi Reddy M	IND	6	1 - 0	5		Subramaniam Shreyes	MAS
34		Holleland Sigve	NOR	4½	- +	5½		Squella Lavin Carlos elipe	CHI
35		Thogersen Rasmus	DEN	4½	0 - 1	5½		Gandhi Anish	IND
36		Ritviz Parab	IND	5½	1 - 0	4		Avik Sarker	BAN
37		Seppala Joni	FIN	3½	- +	5½		Dassanayake D M G S	SRI
38		Weerasinghe C C	SRI	5½	1 - 0	2½		Hsu Chuan-Chia	TPE
39		Nyamdorj Davaaochir	CAN	5	1 - 0	2½	AIM	Skettos Nicolas	CYP
		Palucha Szymon	ENG	5				Bye

RESULTS GIRLS

Bo.		White	FED	Pts	Results	Pts		Black	FED
1	WGM	Saduakassova Dinara	KAZ	9½	½ - ½	8½	WIM	Uuriintuya Uurtsaikh	MGL
2	WIM	Parnali S Dharia	IND	8½	½ - ½	9	WIM	Dordzhieva Dinara	RUS
3	WIM	Vaishali R	IND	8½	1 - 0	8	WIM	Bivol Alina	RUS
4	WIM	Michelle Catherina P	IND	8	½ - ½	8½	IM	Rodriguez Rueda Paula Andrea	COL
5	WGM	Buksa Nataliya	UKR	7½	0 - 1	9	WIM	Nandhidhaa Pv	IND
6	WIM	Gu Tianlu	CHN	7½	½ - ½	8½	WIM	Frayna Janelle Mae	PHI
7	WIM	Styazhkina Anna	RUS	8	1 - 0	7	WIM	Tokhirjonova Gulrukhbegim	UZB
8	WFM	Injac Teodora	SRB	7	0 - 1	8	WIM	Mahalakshmi M	IND
9		Bala Kannamma P	IND	7	0 - 1	8		Du Yuxin	CHN
10	WFM	Varshini V	IND	7	½ - ½	7½	WFM	Ivanova Karina	RUS
11	WFM	Alinasab Mobina	IRI	7½	1 - 0	6½		Harshita Guddanti	IND
12		Priyanka K	IND	7½	1 - 0	6½	WCM	Salonika Saina	IND
13	WIM	Monnisha G K	IND	6½	0 - 1	7½	WFM	Gomez Barrera Javiera	CHI
14		Soyunlu Narmin	AZE	6½	½ - ½	7	WCM	Chandreyee Hajra	IND
15	WFM	Lasya.G	IND	7	1 - 0	6		Barchuk Irina	UKR
16		Vantika Agrawal	IND	6	½ - ½	6	WIM	Kiolbasa Oliwia	POL
17	WIM	Blagojevic Tijana	MNE	6½	1 - 0	5½		Thomas Anysia	FRA
18		Priyanka Nutakki	IND	5½	0 - 1	6½	WFM	Mendoza Shania Mae	PHI
19	WFM	Srija Seshadri	IND	5½	0 - 1	6½	WIM	Chitlange Sakii	IND
20		Divya Lakshmi R	IND	5½	0 - 1	6	WFM	Visanescu Daria	ROU
21	WCM	Sapale Saloni	IND	5	0 - 1	6	WFM	Yanjinlkham Bayarsaikhan	MGL
22		Hoare Amy B	ENG	5½	½ - ½	5	WFM	Hiebler Laura	AUT
23	WFM	Leonardi Caterina	SLO	5	0 - 1	5		Albekova Dilyara	KAZ
24		Kakulidis Ellen	DEN	4	0 - 1	5½	WFM	Choladze Mariami	GEO
25		Omurbekova Diana	KGZ	5½	1 - 0	4		Gamage Nethmi Nira	SRI
26		Ayinala Shree	USA	4	0 - 1	4		Barbier Astrid	BEL
27		Minaud Emily	FRA	2½	0 - 1	5	WFM	Santeramo Alessia	ITA

FINAL STANDINGS OPEN

Rank		Name	FED	Pts	Res.	BH.	BH.	BL	Vict
1	GM	Xiong Jeffery	USA	10½	0	98	103	6	8
2	GM	Artemiev Vladislav	RUS	9½	0	98	104	6	7
3	GM	Sunilduth Lyna Narayanan	IND	9	½	98½	104	6	6
4	FM	Xu Yi	CHN	9	½	92½	99	7	6
5	GM	Karthikeyan Murali	IND	8½	0	97½	103	6	7
6	IM	Mosadeghpour Masoud	IRI	8½	0	97½	102½	7	5
7		Xu Yinglun	CHN	8½	0	96	102	6	5
8	IM	Nasuta Grzegorz	POL	8½	0	96	101½	7	6
9	IM	Svane Rasmus	GER	8½	0	92	98½	7	6
10	GM	Aravindh Chithambaram Vr.	IND	8	0	99	105	7	5
11		Maghsoodloo Parham	IRI	8	0	97½	102½	6	5
12		Ivekovic Bozidar	CRO	8	0	90½	95½	6	7
13	IM	Lorparizangeneh Shahin	IRI	8	0	83½	88½	6	4
14	IM	Menezes Christoph	AUT	7½	0	90½	95	6	5
15	GM	Gagare Shardul	IND	7½	0	89½	95	6	4
16	FM	Praggnanandhaa R	IND	7½	0	88½	94	6	5
17		Yuan Qingyu	CHN	7½	0	88½	93½	7	6
18		Srijit Paul	IND	7½	0	88	94	7	6
19	IM	Bersamina Paulo	PHI	7½	0	87½	91½	6	5
20	IM	Tran Tuan Minh	VIE	7½	0	87	92	7	5
21	IM	Henriquez Villagra Cristobal	CHI	7½	0	86	91	7	4
22	GM	Wagner Dennis	GER	7½	0	84½	90	6	4
23	IM	Akash G	IND	7½	0	81½	86	6	5
24	IM	Mousavi Seyed Khalil	IRI	7½	0	80	84½	6	5
25		Arjun Kalyan	IND	7½	0	78	81½	7	6
26	FM	Gholami Aryan	IRI	7½	0	74½	79	7	5
27	FM	Martins David Pires Tavares	POR	7½	0	74	78½	6	5
28	FM	Rakesh Kumar Jena	IND	7	0	88½	94½	7	4
29		Beradze Irakli	GEO	7	0	88½	93½	7	5
30	GM	Alekseenko Kirill	RUS	7	0	88	93	6	6
31		Dhulipalla Bala Chandra Prasad	IND	7	0	86½	90	6	4
32	IM	Beukema Stefan	BEL	7	0	85	89½	6	5
33	FM	Rajdeep Sarkar	IND	7	0	84½	88½	7	3
34	IM	Visakh N R	IND	7	0	84	88½	7	4
35	IM	Basso Pier Luigi	ITA	7	0	76	81	6	5
36		Pirverdiyev Agil	AZE	7	0	76	79½	6	6
37	FM	Lokander Martin	SWE	7	0	72	76½	7	4
38		Harsha Bharathakoti	IND	6½	0	91	93	6	2
39	FM	Grandadam Patrik	SUI	6½	0	86½	90	7	4
40		Sammed Jaykumar Shete	IND	6½	0	84	86	6	5
41		Shailesh Dravid	IND	6½	0	82	86½	6	5
42	FM	Nihal Sarin	IND	6½	0	77½	82	6	4
43		Rahul Srivatshav P	IND	6½	0	77	80½	7	5
44	FM	Gajwa Ankit	IND	6½	0	76½	80	6	5
45	FM	Rydstrom Tom	SWE	6½	0	76	80	6	4
46	FM	Karthik Venkataraman	IND	6½	0	75	79	7	5
47	IM	Studer Noel	SUI	6½	0	74½	79	7	5
48		Tahay Alexis	FRA	6½	0	72	76	7	4
49		Papakonstantinou Dimitrios	GRE	6	0	84	89	7	5
50	IM	Chakravarthi Reddy M	IND	6	0	83½	88½	6	3
51	IM	Krishna Teja N	IND	6	0	77½	82	7	6
52	FM	Belous Mikhail	UKR	6	0	77	80½	6	3
53		Sahoo Utkal Ranjan	IND	6	0	76½	81½	7	4
54	FM	Viennot Dylan	FRA	6	0	76½	81	7	5
55	FM	Gheorghiu Calin	ROU	6	0	73	75	7	5
56		Evangelista Paul Robert	PHI	6	0	71	73	6	5
57	CM	Salles Louis	FRA	6	0	71	73	6	4
58		Fan Huifeng	CHN	5½	0	83½	89½	7	3
59		Gandhi Anish	IND	5½	0	80½	84½	6	3
60	FM	Ivic Velimir	SRB	5½	0	80½	82½	7	3
61		Taalaibekov Tagir	KGZ	5½	0	79	82½	6	4
62		Subhayan Kundu	IND	5½	0	75½	77½	7	5
63		Ritviz Parab	IND	5½	0	74	77½	6	4
64	FM	Tran Minh Thang	VIE	5½	0	72½	77	7	4
65		Yogit S	IND	5½	0	71	73	7	5
66		Dassanayake D M G S	SRI	5½	0	70½	74	5	2
67		Squella Lavin Carlos Felipe	CHI	5½	0	66½	68½	6	5
68		Weerasinghe C C	SRI	5½	0	66½	68½	6	3
69	CM	Erigaisi Arjun	IND	5	0	85½	90½	6	2
70		Barath Kalyan M	IND	5	0	78	80	6	4
71		Subramaniam Shreyes	MAS	5	0	69½	74	7	4
72		Palucha Szymon	ENG	5	0	69½	71½	6	3
73		Nyamdorj Davaaochir	CAN	5	0	66½	68½	6	4
74		Thogersen Rasmus	DEN	4½	0	70	72	6	2
75		Holleland Sigve	NOR	4½	0	57½	59½	6	2
76		Avik Sarker	BAN	4	0	62	64	6	2
77		Seppala Joni	FIN	3½	0	59	61	6	1
78		Hsu Chuan-Chia	TPE	2½	1	57½	59½	6	1
79	AIM	Skettos Nicolas	CYP	2½	0	58	60	6	1
80		Yakubboev Nodirbek	UZB	0	0	51	52	0	0

RESULTS GIRLS

Rank		Name		FED	Pts	Res.	BH.	BH.	BL	Vict
1	WGM	Saduakassova Dinara	F	KAZ	9½	0	94	99	6	6
2	WIM	Nandhidhaa Pv	F	IND	9	½	97	102½	7	7
3	WIM	Dordzhieva Dinara	F	RUS	9	½	97	102	6	7
4	IM	Rodriguez Rueda Paula Andrea	F	COL	8½	0	97½	104	7	7
5	WIM	Frayna Janelle Mae	F	PHI	8½	0	95½	101	7	6
6	WIM	Vaishali R	F	IND	8½	0	89	94	6	7
7	WIM	Uuriintuya Uurtsaikh	F	MGL	8½	0	86	91½	7	7
8	WIM	Parnali S Dharia	F	IND	8½	0	84	87½	6	6
9	WIM	Bivol Alina	F	RUS	8	0	99	104½	7	6
10	WIM	Michelle Catherina P	F	IND	8	0	94½	100½	6	6
11	WIM	Mahalakshmi M	F	IND	8	0	88½	92	7	5
12	WIM	Styazhkina Anna	F	RUS	8	0	82½	87½	6	8
13		Du Yuxin	F	CHN	8	0	77	82	7	6
14	WGM	Buksa Nataliya	F	UKR	7½	0	92	97	6	6
15	WFM	Ivanova Karina	F	RUS	7½	0	91½	93½	7	5
16	WIM	Gu Tianlu	F	CHN	7½	0	89½	94½	6	5
17	WFM	Alinasab Mobina	F	IRI	7½	0	88½	94½	6	5
18		Priyanka K	F	IND	7½	0	88	93½	6	7
19	WFM	Gomez Barrera Javiera Belen	F	CHI	7½	0	73	76½	6	6
20	WFM	Injac Teodora	F	SRB	7	0	88	93½	7	4
21	WIM	Tokhirjonova Gulrukhbegim	F	UZB	7	0	86½	91½	7	5
22	WFM	Lasya.G	F	IND	7	0	81½	85	6	5
23	WFM	Varshini V	F	IND	7	0	80½	84	6	5
24		Bala Kannamma P	F	IND	7	0	80	83½	6	5
25	WCM	Chandreyee Hajra	F	IND	7	0	75½	80½	7	5
26	WCM	Salonika Saina	F	IND	6½	0	91	94½	6	4
27		Soyunlu Narmin	F	AZE	6½	0	87	90½	6	5
28	WIM	Monnisha G K	F	IND	6½	0	83	88	6	5
29	WIM	Blagojevic Tijana	F	MNE	6½	0	82½	88	6	4
30		Harshita Guddanti	F	IND	6½	0	82	87	6	4
31	WIM	Chitlange Sakshi	F	IND	6½	0	80½	85½	7	4
32	WFM	Mendoza Shania Mae	F	PHI	6½	0	73½	77	7	6
33		Barchuk Irina	F	UKR	6	0	83½	88½	7	5
34	WFM	Visanescu Daria-Ioana	F	ROU	6	0	80	85	6	3
35	WIM	Kiolbasa Oliwia	F	POL	6	0	76½	81½	6	3
36		Vantika Agrawal	F	IND	6	0	73	76½	7	5
37	WFM	Yanjinlkham Bayarsaikhan	F	MGL	6	0	71½	73½	7	5
38	WFM	Srija Seshadri	F	IND	5½	0	84	89½	6	5
39		Priyanka Nutakki	F	IND	5½	0	79½	84½	6	4
40		Divya Lakshmi R	F	IND	5½	0	76	81	6	5
41		Thomas Anysia	F	FRA	5½	0	69	72½	7	3
42		Hoare Amy B	F	ENG	5½	0	69	72½	6	4
43	WFM	Choladze Mariami	F	GEO	5½	0	68½	70½	7	4
44		Omurbekova Diana	F	KGZ	5½	0	61½	63½	6	4
45	WFM	Santeramo Alessia	F	ITA	5	0	75½	77½	7	3
46	WFM	Hiebler Laura	F	AUT	5	0	72	74	7	4
47	WFM	Leonardi Caterina	F	SLO	5	0	71½	73½	6	4
48	WCM	Sapale Saloni	F	IND	5	0	70	73½	7	2
49		Albekova Dilyara	F	KAZ	5	0	61	63	7	5
50	WIM	Eswaran Ashritha	F	USA	4½	0	81	84½	5	4
51	WIM	Pratyusha Bodda	F	IND	4	0	85	90	4	3
52		Kakulidis Ellen	F	DEN	4	0	70½	72½	6	2
53		Ayinala Shree	F	USA	4	0	68½	70½	6	2
54		Gamage Nethmi Nirasha	F	SRI	4	0	62½	64½	7	3
55		Barbier Astrid	F	BEL	4	0	60½	62½	7	3
56		Minaud Emily	F	FRA	2½	0	58½	62	6	1
57		Hamedi Nia Vesal	F	IRI	0	0	51	52	0	0

Medal winners of open section, standing from Left to Right:

1. GM Artemiev Vladislav (Russia) – SILVER

2. GM Xiong Jeffery (USA) – GOLD

3. GM Sunilduth Lyna Narayanan (India) – BRONZE

Medal winners of girls section, standing from Left to Right:

1. WIM Nandhidhaa Pv (India) – SILVER

2. WGM Saduakassova Dinara (Kazakhstan) – GOLD

3. WIM Dordzhieva Dinara (Russia) - BRONZE

21 August 2016

Xiong Jeffery usurps World Junior Open title with a round to spare

Final round outcome to decide the World Junior Girls champion

by IA PAUL AROKIA RAJ S, Deputy Chief Arbiter

Sixteen year old American GM Xiong Jeffery (USA) annexed the World Junior (under20) open chess championship with a round to spare with 10 points when he struck an impressive 78 move victory over IM Bersamina Paulo (Philippines) in the twelfth and the penultimate round of the 55th World Junior open chess championship organised by All Odisha Chess Association at KIIT University, Bhubaneswar, India. Against Sicilian defence of the champion white preferred a lesser familiar variation of Grand Prix attack. Xion showed lot of grit in the middle game to enjoy a microscopic advantage and later transposed into a winning end game. The game between IM Nasuta Grzegorz (Poland) and GM Artemiev Vladislav (Russia) ended up with a dull note with the players deciding for a draw avoiding risk. Both are now 1.5 points behind the leader. Iran’s Maghsoodloo Parham gave an anxious moments for the Indian GM Aravindh Chithambaram Vr in a enterprising middle game. However in the time scramble Parham played some inferior moves and allowed Aravindh to escape with an equalizer in a theoretically drawn ending. IM Mosadeghpour Masoud (Iran) showered an overwhelming attack over black king Najdorf sicilan. Xu Yinglun (China) could not sustain the pressure and resigned 31 moves. These two players alongwith GM S.L.Narayanan (India), Masoud and FM Xu yi (China) are now on the third spot with 8 points each.

In the girls section the only IM of the championship Rodriuguez RuedaPaula Andrea (Colombia) miserably failed in today’s mission when she walked into an inferior endgame against Saduakassova Dinara (Kazakhstan) in an irregular d4 opening. With the race for the leadership always in a swing , Dinara now leads the table alone with 9 points.It was dreadful day for WIM Frayna Jenelle Mae (Philippines) when she tasted her second consecutive loss with white pieces in catalan opening against WIM Parnali S Dharia (India) after losing an exchange and the queen in quick succession. Half a point behind the leader is Russia’s WIM Dordzhieva Dinara who is also in the contention for the title. Asian Junior girls champion WIM Uuriintuya Uurtasikh (Mangolia) halted the dream run of WIM Nandhidhaa Pv (India) to deliver an emphatic win. WIM Dordzhieva Dinara( Russia) trapped Indian WIM Michelle Catherina’s king in a stylish play to move on to the second spot with 8.5 points. Six players with 8 points are on the third spot awaiting a virtual fight in the final round.

RESULTS OPEN

Bo.		White	FED	Pts	Results	Pts		Black	FED
1	IM	Bersamina Paulo	PHI	7½	0 - 1	10	GM	Xiong Jeffery	USA
2	IM	Nasuta Grzegorz	POL	8½	½ - ½	8½	GM	Artemiev Vladislav	RUS
3		Maghsoodloo Parham	IRI	8	½ - ½	8	GM	Aravindh Chithambaram Vr.	IND
4	IM	Mosadeghpour Masoud	IRI	8	1 - 0	7½		Xu Yinglun	CHN
5	IM	Henriquez Villagra Cristobal	CHI	7½	½ - ½	7½	GM	Gagare Shardul	IND
6	IM	Tran Tuan Minh	VIE	7	0 - 1	8	GM	Sunilduth Lyna Narayanan	IND
7	FM	Xu Yi	CHN	8	1 - 0	7		Ivekovic Bozidar	CRO
8	IM	Svane Rasmus	GER	7½	1 - 0	6½		Dhulipalla Bala Chandra Prasad	IND
9		Yuan Qingyu	CHN	6½	0 - 1	7½	GM	Karthikeyan Murali	IND
10	FM	Karthik Venkataraman	IND	6½	0 - 1	7½	IM	Lorparizangeneh Shahin	IRI
11		Arjun Kalyan	IND	7	½ - ½	7	IM	Menezes Christoph	AUT
12	IM	Basso Pier Luigi	ITA	6½	½ - ½	7	IM	Akash G	IND
13	GM	Wagner Dennis	GER	7	1 - 0	6		Pirverdiyev Agil	AZE
14	FM	Gholami Aryan	IRI	6½	½ - ½	6½	FM	Rydstrom Tom	SWE
15	FM	Rajdeep Sarkar	IND	7	1 - 0	6		Beradze Irakli	GEO
16	IM	Visakh N R	IND	6	0 - 1	7		Srijit Paul	IND
17	FM	Praggnanandhaa R	IND	6½	½ - ½	6½		Harsha Bharathakoti	IND
18	FM	Rakesh Kumar Jena	IND	6	0 - 1	7	IM	Mousavi Seyed Khalil	IRI
19	FM	Grandadam Patrik	SUI	6½	½ - ½	6½	FM	Martins David Pires Tavares	POR
20		Rahul Srivatshav P	IND	5½	0 - 1	6½	GM	Alekseenko Kirill	RUS
21		Shailesh Dravid	IND	6½	1 - 0	5½	IM	Studer Noel	SUI
22		Papakonstantinou Dimitrios	GRE	6	½ - ½	6	IM	Beukema Stefan	BEL
23	FM	Lokander Martin	SWE	6½	1 - 0	5½		Sammed Jaykumar Shete	IND
24		Yogit S	IND	5	0 - 1	6	FM	Nihal Sarin	IND
25	FM	Tran Minh Thang	VIE	5½	½ - ½	5½	FM	Ivic Velimir	SRB
26		Fan Huifeng	CHN	5½	½ - ½	5½	FM	Belous Mikhail	UKR
27	FM	Gheorghiu Calin	ROU	5	0 - 1	6	CM	Salles Louis	FRA
28	IM	Chakravarthi Reddy M	IND	5	0 - 1	6	FM	Viennot Dylan	FRA
29		Tahay Alexis	FRA	6	1 - 0	5	CM	Erigaisi Arjun	IND
30		Taalaibekov Tagir	KGZ	5	0 - 1	6	IM	Krishna Teja N	IND
31		Subramaniam Shreyes	MAS	5	0 - 1	5½	FM	Gajwa Ankit	IND
32		Sahoo Utkal Ranjan	IND	5½	1 - 0	4½		Ritviz Parab	IND
33		Subhayan Kundu	IND	5½	1 - 0	4½		Weerasinghe C C	SRI
34		Dassanayake D M G S	SRI	4½	½ - ½	4½		Holleland Sigve	NOR
35		Evangelista Paul Robert	PHI	5	1 - 0	4		Nyamdorj Davaaochir	CAN
36		Squella Lavin Carlos Felipe	CHI	4½	½ - ½	3½		Seppala Joni	FIN
37		Avik Sarker	BAN	4	1 - 0	4		Palucha Szymon	ENG
38	AIM	Skettos Nicolas	CYP	2½	0 - 1	5		Barath Kalyan M	IND
39		Hsu Chuan-Chia	TPE	2½	0 - 1	4½		Thogersen Rasmus	DEN
		Gandhi Anish	IND	4½	1 - -			Bye

RESULTS GIRLS

Bo.		White	FED	Pts	Results	Pts		Black	FED
1	IM	Rodriguez Rueda Paula Andrea	COL	8	0 - 1	9	WGM	Saduakassova Dinara	KAZ
2	WIM	Frayna Janelle Mae	PHI	8	0 - 1	8	WIM	Parnali S Dharia	IND
3	WIM	Uuriintuya Uurtsaikh	MGL	8	1 - 0	8	WIM	Nandhidhaa Pv	IND
4	WIM	Dordzhieva Dinara	RUS	8½	1 - 0	7½	WIM	Michelle Catherina P	IND
5	WIM	Bivol Alina	RUS	8	½ - ½	7½	WGM	Buksa Nataliya	UKR
6	WIM	Mahalakshmi M	IND	7	½ - ½	7½	WIM	Vaishali R	IND
7	WIM	Tokhirjonova Gulrukhbegim	UZB	7	½ - ½	7	WIM	Gu Tianlu	CHN
8		Du Yuxin	CHN	7	½ - ½	7	WFM	Injac Teodora	SRB
9	WFM	Ivanova Karina	RUS	7	½ - ½	7		Bala Kannamma P	IND
10		Soyunlu Narmin	AZE	6	0 - 1	7	WIM	Styazhkina Anna	RUS
11	WCM	Salonika Saina	IND	6½	½ - ½	6½	WFM	Alinasab Mobina	IRI
12		Harshita Guddanti	IND	6½	½ - ½	6½	WFM	Varshini V	IND
13	WIM	Kiolbasa Oliwia	POL	5½	0 - 1	6½		Priyanka K	IND
14	WFM	Gomez Barrera Javiera Belen	CHI	6½	1 - 0	5½		Priyanka Nutakki	IND
15	WFM	Mendoza Shania Mae	PHI	5½	0 - 1	6½	WIM	Monnisha G K	IND
16	WCM	Chandreyee Hajra	IND	6½	1 - 0	5½	WFM	Srija Seshadri	IND
17	WIM	Chitlange Sakshi	IND	5½	½ - ½	5½	WIM	Blagojevic Tijana	MNE
18		Barchuk Irina	UKR	6	1 - 0	5		Hoare Amy B	ENG
19	WFM	Visanescu Daria-Ioana	ROU	5	0 - 1	6	WFM	Lasya.G	IND
20	WFM	Hiebler Laura	AUT	4½	0 - 1	5½		Divya Lakshmi R	IND
21	WFM	Choladze Mariami	GEO	4½	0 - 1	5½		Vantika Agrawal	IND
22		Thomas Anysia	FRA	5½	1 - 0	4		Kakulidis Ellen	DEN
23		Gamage Nethmi Nirasha	SRI	4	0 - 1	5	WFM	Leonardi Caterina	SLO
24	WFM	Santeramo Alessia	ITA	4	0 - 1	4½		Omurbekova Diana	KGZ
25		Barbier Astrid	BEL	3	0 - 1	5	WCM	Sapale Saloni	IND
26		Albekova Dilyara	KAZ	4	1 - 0	4		Ayinala Shree	USA
27	WFM	Yanjinlkham Bayarsaikhan	MGL	5	1 - 0	2½		Minaud Emily	FRA

The 55th World Junior (Under 20) open champion GM Xiong Jeffery of United States of America

India’s Dhulipalla Bala Chandra Prasad made an eleven game IM norm

WIM Parnali S Dharia (India) handed over second consecutive defeat to WIM Frayna Janelle Mae (Philippines) in the penultimate round

20 August 2016

Open: Jeffery sits pretty, Girls: Keen tussle on the cards

by IA PAUL AROKIA RAJ S, Deputy Chief Arbiter

GM Xiong Jeffery (USA) with 9 points is maintaining his one point lead over his nearest rivals GM Artemiev Vladislav (Russia) and IM Nasuta Grzegorz (Poland). Four others are on the third spot with 7.5 points at the end of the eleventh round of the 55th World Junior Open Chess Championship organised by All Odisha Chess Association and KIIT University, Bhubaneswar, India.The much awaited clash between the top two seeds Jeffery and Artemiev ended in a disappointing note as both safely split the point in a slav game. It is rather a surprise to witness a stalemate draw in top table in a world championship. Two untitled players Xu Yinglun and Maghsoodloo Parham locking their horns on table no.2, exhibited their proficiency in the Rook and pawn ending to reach a stalemate position. Employing anti Sicilian IM Nasuta went all out for a king hunt by a simple exchange sacrifice and finally he cornered Bozidar’s king. In a hyper modern king pawn opening the Philippino’s IM Bersamina Paulo outwitted fellow IM Svane Rasmus (Germany) aftert emerging an exchange up.

In the 34th World Junior Girls championship WIM Frayna Jenelle Mae (Philippines) slipped from the sole lead and also failed to secure her maiden WGM norm when she tasted her first ever defeat in this championship at the hands of IM Rodriguez Rueda Paula Andrea (Colombia). Frayna made a strategical error in the opening by allowing white’s knight at vital b5 square. Rodriguez neatly exploited the weakness and totally ransacked black’s citadel by ploughing through her rook. The leadership issue has once again become complicated with four players namely IM Rodriguez, WGM Saduakassova, WIMs Frayna and Nandhidhaa Pv occupying the top score bracket with 8 points each. Nandhidhaa kept host federation India’s chances in a bright note when she neatly edged out WIM Bivil Alina in a rook and pawn ending arising out of Larsen opening. WGM Saduakassova Dinara (Kazakhstan) proved her mettle in taming WIM Vaishali (India) in a miniature game. WIM Michelle Catherina P employed Ruy Lopez against the defending champion WGM Buksa Nataliya (Ukraine) and skilfully used her knight in gaining space advantage. Finally she proved the theory that king is a fighting piece to achieve a won ending.

RESULTS OPEN

Bo.		White	FED	Pts	Results	Pts		Black	FED
1	GM	Xiong Jeffery	USA	9	½ - ½	8	GM	Artemiev Vladislav	RUS
2		Xu Yinglun	CHN	7½	½ - ½	7½		Maghsoodloo Parham	IRI
3	IM	Nasuta Grzegorz	POL	8	1 - 0	7		Ivekovic Bozidar	CRO
4	IM	Bersamina Paulo	PHI	7½	1 - 0	6½	IM	Svane Rasmus	GER
5	GM	Aravindh Chithambaram Vr.	IND	7½	1 - 0	6½	IM	Menezes Christoph	AUT
6	IM	Lorparizangeneh Shahin	IRI	6½	½ - ½	7	IM	Mosadeghpour Masoud	IRI
7	FM	Praggnanandhaa R	IND	6	0 - 1	7	IM	Henriquez Villagra Cristobal	CHI
8	GM	Sunilduth Lyna Narayanan	IND	7	1 - 0	6	FM	Grandadam Patrik	SUI
9	IM	Akash G	IND	6½	½ - ½	6½	GM	Karthikeyan Murali	IND
10	GM	Gagare Shardul	IND	7	1 - 0	6	IM	Visakh N R	IND
11		Srijit Paul	IND	6	0 - 1	7	IM	Tran Tuan Minh	VIE
12		Beradze Irakli	GEO	6	0 - 1	7	FM	Xu Yi	CHN
13		Dhulipalla Bala Chandra Prasad	IND	6½	½ - ½	6	GM	Wagner Dennis	GER
14	GM	Alekseenko Kirill	RUS	5½	0 - 1	6½	FM	Karthik Venkataraman	IND
15	IM	Beukema Stefan	BEL	5½	0 - 1	6½		Arjun Kalyan	IND
16		Sammed Jaykumar Shete	IND	5½	0 - 1	6½		Yuan Qingyu	CHN
17	FM	Rydstrom Tom	SWE	6	½ - ½	6	FM	Rajdeep Sarkar	IND
18		Harsha Bharathakoti	IND	6	½ - ½	6	FM	Rakesh Kumar Jena	IND
19	IM	Mousavi Seyed Khalil	IRI	6	1 - 0	5½		Papakonstantinou Dimitrios	GRE
20	FM	Gholami Aryan	IRI	6	1 - 0	5	IM	Chakravarthi Reddy M	IND
21	IM	Basso Pier Luigi	ITA	6	1 - 0	5		Yogit S	IND
22	FM	Martins David Pires Tavares	POR	6	1 - 0	5	IM	Krishna Teja N	IND
23	FM	Lokander Martin	SWE	5½	½ - ½	5½		Rahul Srivatshav P	IND
24		Pirverdiyev Agil	AZE	6	1 - 0	5		Taalaibekov Tagir	KGZ
25	CM	Erigaisi Arjun	IND	5	½ - ½	5½		Shailesh Dravid	IND
26	IM	Studer Noel	SUI	5½	1 - 0	4½		Sahoo Utkal Ranjan	IND
27	FM	Nihal Sarin	IND	5	½ - ½	5		Fan Huifeng	CHN
28	FM	Ivic Velimir	SRB	5	½ - ½	5	FM	Gheorghiu Calin	ROU
29		Nyamdorj Davaaochir	CAN	4	0 - 1	5	FM	Tran Minh Thang	VIE
30	FM	Belous Mikhail	UKR	5	1 - 0	4		Dassanayake D M G S	SRI
31		Barath Kalyan M	IND	4	0 - 1	5	FM	Viennot Dylan	FRA
32		Ritviz Parab	IND	4½	½ - ½	4½		Subhayan Kundu	IND
33		Palucha Szymon	ENG	4	0 - 1	5	CM	Salles Louis	FRA
34		Subramaniam Shreyes	MAS	5	1 - 0	4		Squella Lavin Carlos Felipe	CHI
35		Gandhi Anish	IND	3½	0 - 1	5		Tahay Alexis	FRA
36		Thogersen Rasmus	DEN	3½	0 - 1	4½		Weerasinghe C C	SRI
37	FM	Gajwa Ankit	IND	4½	1 - 0	3		Avik Sarker	BAN
38		Holleland Sigve	NOR	4	1 - 0	2½	AIM	Skettos Nicolas	CYP
39		Seppala Joni	FIN	3	1 - 0	2½		Hsu Chuan-Chia	TPE
		Evangelista Paul Robert	PHI	4	1 - -			Bye

RESULTS GIRLS

Bo.		White	FED	Pts	Results	Pts		Black	FED
1	IM	Rodriguez Rueda Paula Andrea	COL	8	1 - 0	8	WIM	Frayna Janelle Mae	PHI
2	WIM	Nandhidhaa Pv	IND	8	1 - 0	7½	WIM	Bivol Alina	RUS
3	WGM	Saduakassova Dinara	KAZ	8	1 - 0	7	WIM	Vaishali R	IND
4	WIM	Michelle Catherina P	IND	7½	1 - 0	7	WGM	Buksa Nataliya	UKR
5	WIM	Dordzhieva Dinara	RUS	7½	1 - 0	6½	WIM	Tokhirjonova Gulrukhbegim	UZB
6		Bala Kannamma P	IND	6½	½ - ½	6½	WFM	Injac Teodora	SRB
7	WIM	Gu Tianlu	CHN	6½	½ - ½	6½	WFM	Ivanova Karina	RUS
8	WIM	Parnali S Dharia	IND	7	1 - 0	6	WFM	Varshini V	IND
9	WFM	Alinasab Mobina	IRI	6	0 - 1	7	WIM	Uuriintuya Uurtsaikh	MGL
10	WCM	Salonika Saina	IND	6	½ - ½	6½	WIM	Mahalakshmi M	IND
11		Priyanka K	IND	5½	0 - 1	6½		Du Yuxin	CHN
12	WFM	Srija Seshadri	IND	5½	½ - ½	6		Harshita Guddanti	IND
13	WFM	Gomez Barrera Javiera Belen	CHI	5½	½ - ½	5½	WIM	Kiolbasa Oliwia	POL
14	WIM	Styazhkina Anna	RUS	5	1 - 0	5		Barchuk Irina	UKR
15	WIM	Blagojevic Tijana	MNE	5	0 - 1	6		Soyunlu Narmin	AZE
16		Priyanka Nutakki	IND	5½	1 - 0	4½		Thomas Anysia	FRA
17	WIM	Eswaran Ashritha	USA	4½	0 - 1	5½	WCM	Chandreyee Hajra	IND
18		Divya Lakshmi R	IND	4½	0 - 1	5½	WFM	Mendoza Shania Mae	PHI
19	WIM	Monnisha G K	IND	5½	1 - 0	4½		Vantika Agrawal	IND
20	WFM	Lasya.G	IND	5	½ - ½	5	WIM	Chitlange Sakshi	IND
21	WFM	Visanescu Daria-Ioana	ROU	5	½ - ½	4½	WFM	Choladze Mariami	GEO
22		Hoare Amy B	ENG	5	1 - 0	4		Ayinala Shree	USA
23	WFM	Yanjinlkham Bayarsaikhan	MGL	4	½ - ½	4	WFM	Santeramo Alessia	ITA
24	WFM	Leonardi Caterina	SLO	4	½ - ½	4	WCM	Sapale Saloni	IND
25		Minaud Emily	FRA	2½	0 - 1	4½	WFM	Hiebler Laura	AUT
26		Kakulidis Ellen	DEN	4	½ - ½	3		Barbier Astrid	BEL
27		Omurbekova Diana	KGZ	3½	1 - 0	3		Albekova Dilyara	KAZ
		Gamage Nethmi Nirasha	SRI	4	1 - -			Bye

Open - Second seed Xiong Jeffery (USA) and Top seed Artemiev Vladislav (Russia) lock their horns

Girls – Fight for the supremacy between IM Rodriguez (Colombia) and WIM Frayna (Philippines)

Nandhidhaa Pv (India) – medal hope for the host federation

19 August 2016

Jeffery stretches lead in open and Mae is the sole leader in Girls

by IA PAUL AROKIA RAJ S, Deputy Chief Arbiter

GM Xiong Jeffery (USA) widened his lead by a full point when he asserted his supremacy over IM Nasuta Grzegorz (Poland) in a masterly knight ending lasting for 67 moves in the 55th World Junior Chess Championship organised by All Odhsha Chess Association held at KIIT University, Bhubaneswar, India. On table no.2 Ivekovic Bozidar (Croatia) and Xu Yinglun (China) signed a peace treaty wihout any fanfare. The top seed of the championship GM Artemiev Vladislav (Russia) is back into the reckoning by scoring a fluent win over Beradze Irakli (Georgia). He handled his opponent in a great style marginalising his black’s pieces on the first rank. This crushing victory helped him to be one point behind Jeffery with 7.5 points. GM Karthikeyan Murali was in a receiving end against world under 16 champion Maghsoodloo Parham (Iran). In a queen and bishop ending Karthikeyan with a pawn down tried hard for an equalizer but in vain.

In the girls section, a draw on the first table helped Frayna Janelle Mae (Philippines) to emerge a sole leader with 8 points. In today’s endeavour against WIM Michelle Catherina P (India), she ruthlessly rolled down her queen bishop pawn forcing black to part with her bishop for the passer. Indian IWM Vaishali R (India) rose upto the occasion when she trounced the WGM norm holder Dordzhieva Dinara in an error free end game. Russia’s Bivol Alina who split the point with IM Rodriguez Rueda (Colombia) is half a point behind the leader.

RESULTS OPEN

Bo.		White	FED	Pts	Results	Pts		Black	FED
1	GM	Xiong Jeffery	USA	8½	1 - 0	7	IM	Nasuta Grzegorz	POL
2		Ivekovic Bozidar	CRO	7	½ - ½	7		Xu Yinglun	CHN
3	GM	Artemiev Vladislav	RUS	7½	1 - 0	6		Beradze Irakli	GEO
4	GM	Karthikeyan Murali	IND	6	0 - 1	7		Maghsoodloo Parham	IRI
5	IM	Svane Rasmus	GER	6½	½ - ½	6½	GM	Aravindh Chithambaram Vr.	IND
6	IM	Menezes Christoph	AUT	6½	1 - 0	5½	GM	Alekseenko Kirill	RUS
7	GM	Wagner Dennis	GER	5½	0 - 1	6½	IM	Bersamina Paulo	PHI
8	IM	Henriquez Villagra Cristobal	CHI	6	½ - ½	6		Srijit Paul	IND
9	IM	Visakh N R	IND	6	½ - ½	6	GM	Sunilduth Lyna Narayanan	IND
10	FM	Grandadam Patrik	SUI	6	½ - ½	6	GM	Gagare Shardul	IND
11	FM	Xu Yi	CHN	6	½ - ½	6	IM	Lorparizangeneh Shahin	IRI
12	IM	Mosadeghpour Masoud	IRI	6½	1 - 0	5½	IM	Beukema Stefan	BEL
13	IM	Tran Tuan Minh	VIE	6	1 - 0	5		Pirverdiyev Agil	AZE
14		Rahul Srivatshav P	IND	5	0 - 1	6	FM	Praggnanandhaa R	IND
15	IM	Mousavi Seyed Khalil	IRI	5	0 - 1	6		Dhulipalla Bala Chandra Prasad	IND
16		Taalaibekov Tagir	KGZ	5	0 - 1	6	IM	Akash G	IND
17	FM	Rajdeep Sarkar	IND	5½	½ - ½	5½		Harsha Bharathakoti	IND
18		Arjun Kalyan	IND	5½	½ - ½	5½		Sammed Jaykumar Shete	IND
19	FM	Rakesh Kumar Jena	IND	5½	½ - ½	5	FM	Gholami Aryan	IRI
20	FM	Karthik Venkataraman	IND	5½	1 - 0	4½	IM	Studer Noel	SUI
21		Yuan Qingyu	CHN	5½	1 - 0	4½	FM	Ivic Velimir	SRB
22	IM	Chakravarthi Reddy M	IND	5	½ - ½	5	FM	Lokander Martin	SWE
23		Papakonstantinou Dimitrios	GRE	5½	1 - 0	4½	CM	Erigaisi Arjun	IND
24		Fan Huifeng	CHN	4½	0 - 1	5½	FM	Rydstrom Tom	SWE
25		Squella Lavin Carlos Felipe	CHI	4	0 - 1	5	IM	Basso Pier Luigi	ITA
26	FM	Martins David Pires Tavares	POR	5	1 - 0	4		Ritviz Parab	IND
27		Shailesh Dravid	IND	5	1 - 0	4	FM	Belous Mikhail	UKR
28	FM	Gheorghiu Calin	ROU	4½	½ - ½	4½		Sahoo Utkal Ranjan	IND
29	IM	Krishna Teja N	IND	5	1 - 0	4		Subramaniam Shreyes	MAS
30		Yogit S	IND	5	1 - 0	4		Barath Kalyan M	IND
31		Subhayan Kundu	IND	4	0 - 1	4½	FM	Nihal Sarin	IND
32	FM	Tran Minh Thang	VIE	4	½ - ½	4		Tahay Alexis	FRA
33	FM	Viennot Dylan	FRA	4	½ - ½	4		Palucha Szymon	ENG
34		Dassanayake D M G S	SRI	4	½ - ½	3½	FM	Gajwa Ankit	IND
35	CM	Salles Louis	FRA	4	1 - 0	3		Evangelista Paul Robert	PHI
36		Weerasinghe C C	SRI	3½	½ - ½	3½		Gandhi Anish	IND
37		Hsu Chuan-Chia	TPE	2½	0 - 1	4		Nyamdorj Davaaochir	CAN
38		Avik Sarker	BAN	3	½ - ½	3		Holleland Sigve	NOR
39	AIM	Skettos Nicolas	CYP	2½	½ - ½	2		Seppala Joni	FIN
		Thogersen Rasmus	DEN	3½	1 - -			Bye

RESULTS GIRLS

Bo.		White	FED	Pts	Results	Pts		Black	FED
1	WIM	Bivol Alina	RUS	7½	½ - ½	7	IM	Rodriguez Rueda Paula Andrea	COL
2	WIM	Frayna Janelle Mae	PHI	8	1 - 0	6½	WIM	Michelle Catherina P	IND
3	WIM	Tokhirjonova Gulrukhbegim	UZB	6½	½ - ½	7	WGM	Saduakassova Dinara	KAZ
4	WIM	Vaishali R	IND	7	1 - 0	6½	WIM	Dordzhieva Dinara	RUS
5	WGM	Buksa Nataliya	UKR	7	1 - 0	6	WIM	Gu Tianlu	CHN
6	WIM	Mahalakshmi M	IND	6	0 - 1	7	WIM	Nandhidhaa Pv	IND
7	WFM	Injac Teodora	SRB	6	½ - ½	6	WFM	Alinasab Mobina	IRI
8	WIM	Uuriintuya Uurtsaikh	MGL	6	1 - 0	5½	WCM	Salonika Saina	IND
9	WFM	Varshini V	IND	6	1 - 0	5	WIM	Styazhkina Anna	RUS
10	WFM	Ivanova Karina	RUS	6	1 - 0	5	WIM	Blagojevic Tijana	MNE
11	WFM	Srija Seshadri	IND	5	0 - 1	6	WIM	Parnali S Dharia	IND
12		Harshita Guddanti	IND	5½	½ - ½	5½		Priyanka K	IND
13	WFM	Mendoza Shania Mae	PHI	4½	0 - 1	6		Bala Kannamma P	IND
14		Du Yuxin	CHN	5½	1 - 0	4½	WFM	Lasya.G	IND
15		Soyunlu Narmin	AZE	5	½ - ½	5	WFM	Gomez Barrera Javiera Belen	CHI
16		Barchuk Irina	UKR	5	1 - 0	4½	WIM	Eswaran Ashritha	USA
17	WIM	Kiolbasa Oliwia	POL	5	1 - 0	4		Hoare Amy B	ENG
18	WIM	Chitlange Sakshi	IND	4½	½ - ½	4½	WIM	Monnisha G K	IND
19	WCM	Chandreyee Hajra	IND	4½	½ - ½	4½	WFM	Visanescu Daria-Ioana	ROU
20		Thomas Anysia	FRA	4½	½ - ½	4½		Divya Lakshmi R	IND
21	WFM	Hiebler Laura	AUT	3½	0 - 1	4½		Priyanka Nutakki	IND
22		Vantika Agrawal	IND	4½	1 - 0	3½	WFM	Yanjinlkham Bayarsaikhan	MGL
23	WFM	Santeramo Alessia	ITA	4	½ - ½	4	WFM	Leonardi Caterina	SLO
24	WCM	Sapale Saloni	IND	4	½ - ½	4		Kakulidis Ellen	DEN
25		Albekova Dilyara	KAZ	3	0 - 1	4	WFM	Choladze Mariami	GEO
26		Ayinala Shree	USA	4	1 - 0	2½		Minaud Emily	FRA
27		Barbier Astrid	BEL	2½	0 - 1	3		Gamage Nethmi Nirasha	SRI
		Omurbekova Diana	KGZ	2½	1 - -			Bye

Dutee Chand (wearing a cap) who represented India in Athletics at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games inaugurated the tenth round. Also seen in the picture are the Tournament Director IM Sekar Chandra Sahu and IA Rathinam Anantharam, Chief Arbiter of the championship.

WGM norm for WIM Dordzhieva Dinara (Russia)

Local hero Rakesh Kumar Jena made his second IM norm

IM norm achievers

WIM norm achievers

18 August 2016

Spate of norms achieved

by IA PAUL AROKIA RAJ S, Deputy Chief Arbiter

The 55th World Junior Open Chess Championship organised by All Odisha Chess Association at KIIT University, Bhubaneswar, India has entered into a tough phase with only two out of total eight participating GMs sitting pretty in the top three slots. By the end of ninth round GM Jeffery Xiong (USA) maintained his half a point lead with 7.5 points over IM Nasuta Grzegorz (Poland). Close on the heels of these two are the top seed GM Artemiev Vladislav (Russia), Ivekovic Bozidar (Croatia) and Xu Yinglun (China) with 6.5 points.

GM Jeffery quickly obtained an outside passer against Maghsoodloo Parham’s (Iran) Reti opening. In the ensuing rook and pawn end game Jeffery threatened to promote the pawn to queen on one side and on the other side his king mad a brilliant walk to grab opponent’s pawns one by one. GM Karthikeyan Murali (India) could not withstand black’s coordinated attack over his king. To wriggle out of the pressure Karthikeyan had to sacrifice his queen for enemy’s minor pieces. However for IM Nasuta Grzegorz his queen and rook were sufficient enough to corner white’s king. Top seed GM Artemiev Vladislav (Russia) capitalised a opening flaw of IM Beukema Stefan (Belgium) in the Dutch defence by mobilising a deadly attack on the king side to score a point. In the 34th World Junior Girls Championship, the leadership issue is yet to be resolved as two players continued to maintain the lead with 7 points each. Only change is that WIM Bivol Alina (Russia) has now replaced her teammate WIM Dordzhieva Dinara for the top slot after inflicting a neat victory over her. Alina totally ransacked white’s fortress to set a mate in one position when her opponent resigned. Overnight leader WIM Frayna Janelle Mae drew WGM Saduakassoava Dinara (Kazakhstan) to remain in the top score bracket. WIM Michelle Catherina P produced an energetic game against her Indian teammate WIM Nandhidhaa Pv to net a crucial point. The two joint leaders are closely followed by four others with 6.5 points each. It was a great day for the norm seekers in this Global event. Eight players made 9-game IM norms in the open section. They were Maghsoodloo Parham (Iran), Xu Yinglun, Xu Yi (both China), Beradze Irakli (Georgia), Bozidar Ivekovic (Croatia), Harsha Bharathakoti, Srijit Paul and Rakesh Kumar Jena (all from India). In the girls section WIM Dordzhieva Dinara (Russia) made a WGM norm while WFM Alinasab Mobina ( Iran) and Priyanka K (India) obtained WIM norms.

RESULTS OPEN

Bo.		White	FED	Pts	Results	Pts		Black	FED
1		Maghsoodloo Parham	IRI	6	0 - 1	7½	GM	Xiong Jeffery	USA
2	GM	Karthikeyan Murali	IND	6	0 - 1	7	IM	Nasuta Grzegorz	POL
3		Xu Yinglun	CHN	6½	½ - ½	6	IM	Svane Rasmus	GER
4	GM	Artemiev Vladislav	RUS	6½	1 - 0	5½	IM	Beukema Stefan	BEL
5	IM	Menezes Christoph	AUT	5½	0 - 1	6½		Ivekovic Bozidar	CRO
6	GM	Aravindh Chithambaram Vr.	IND	6	1 - 0	5		Arjun Kalyan	IND
7	IM	Lorparizangeneh Shahin	IRI	5½	½ - ½	5½	IM	Henriquez Villagra Cristobal	CHI
8	GM	Sunilduth Lyna Narayanan	IND	5½	½ - ½	5½	FM	Xu Yi	CHN
9	GM	Gagare Shardul	IND	5½	½ - ½	5½	IM	Mosadeghpour Masoud	IRI
10		Beradze Irakli	GEO	6	1 - 0	4½	IM	Studer Noel	SUI
11	GM	Alekseenko Kirill	RUS	5½	1 - 0	4½		Yuan Qingyu	CHN
12	GM	Wagner Dennis	GER	5½	1 - 0	4½		Fan Huifeng	CHN
13		Dhulipalla Bala Chandra Prasad	IND	5	½ - ½	5	IM	Tran Tuan Minh	VIE
14	FM	Grandadam Patrik	SUI	5½	1 - 0	4½	FM	Gholami Aryan	IRI
15	CM	Erigaisi Arjun	IND	4½	0 - 1	5½	IM	Visakh N R	IND
16	FM	Praggnanandhaa R	IND	5	½ - ½	5	FM	Rajdeep Sarkar	IND
17		Harsha Bharathakoti	IND	5	½ - ½	5	IM	Mousavi Seyed Khalil	IRI
18	IM	Bersamina Paulo	PHI	5½	1 - 0	4½		Papakonstantinou Dimitrios	GRE
19	IM	Akash G	IND	5	½ - ½	5	FM	Rakesh Kumar Jena	IND
20		Srijit Paul	IND	5½	1 - 0	4	FM	Martins David Pires Tavares	POR
21	IM	Basso Pier Luigi	ITA	4	0 - 1	5		Rahul Srivatshav P	IND
22		Pirverdiyev Agil	AZE	5	1 - 0	4		Shailesh Dravid	IND
23	FM	Belous Mikhail	UKR	4	0 - 1	5		Taalaibekov Tagir	KGZ
24		Sammed Jaykumar Shete	IND	5	1 - 0	4	FM	Gheorghiu Calin	ROU
25	FM	Rydstrom Tom	SWE	4½	½ - ½	4½	FM	Ivic Velimir	SRB
26		Barath Kalyan M	IND	4	0 - 1	4½	FM	Karthik Venkataraman	IND
27	FM	Lokander Martin	SWE	4½	1 - 0	3½	FM	Tran Minh Thang	VIE
28	FM	Nihal Sarin	IND	3½	0 - 1	4½	IM	Chakravarthi Reddy M	IND
29		Ritviz Parab	IND	4	½ - ½	3½	FM	Viennot Dylan	FRA
30		Gandhi Anish	IND	3	0 - 1	4	IM	Krishna Teja N	IND
31	FM	Gajwa Ankit	IND	3	0 - 1	4		Subhayan Kundu	IND
32		Nyamdorj Davaaochir	CAN	3	0 - 1	4		Yogit S	IND
33		Sahoo Utkal Ranjan	IND	4	1 - 0	3		Weerasinghe C C	SRI
34		Evangelista Paul Robert	PHI	3	0 - 1	4		Squella Lavin Carlos Felipe	CHI
35		Holleland Sigve	NOR	2½	0 - 1	4		Subramaniam Shreyes	MAS
36		Tahay Alexis	FRA	3½	1 - 0	2½		Thogersen Rasmus	DEN
37		Avik Sarker	BAN	2½	0 - 1	3½		Dassanayake D M G S	SRI
38		Palucha Szymon	ENG	3½	1 - 0	1½		Seppala Joni	FIN
39		Hsu Chuan-Chia	TPE	2½	1 - 0	2	AIM	Skettos Nicolas	CYP
	CM	Salles Louis	FRA	3	1 - -			Bye

RESULTS GIRLS

Bo.		White	FED	Pts	Results	Pts		Black	FED
1	WIM	Dordzhieva Dinara	RUS	6½	0 - 1	7	WIM	Bivol Alina	RUS
2	WGM	Saduakassova Dinara	KAZ	6½	½ - ½	7	WIM	Frayna Janelle Mae	PHI
3	WIM	Michelle Catherina P	IND	6½	1 - 0	6	WIM	Nandhidhaa Pv	IND
4	WGM	Buksa Nataliya	UKR	6	½ - ½	6	WIM	Mahalakshmi M	IND
5	WIM	Blagojevic Tijana	MNE	5	0 - 1	6½	IM	Rodriguez Rueda Paula Andrea	COL
6		Harshita Guddanti	IND	5	0 - 1	6	WIM	Tokhirjonova Gulrukhbegim	UZB
7	WIM	Vaishali R	IND	6	1 - 0	5	WFM	Srija Seshadri	IND
8	WCM	Salonika Saina	IND	5½	½ - ½	5½	WFM	Injac Teodora	SRB
9	WIM	Gu Tianlu	CHN	6	1 - 0	5		Priyanka K	IND
10	WFM	Alinasab Mobina	IRI	5½	1 - 0	4½	WFM	Mendoza Shania Mae	PHI
11	WIM	Parnali S Dharia	IND	5	1 - 0	4½		Soyunlu Narmin	AZE
12	WIM	Styazhkina Anna	RUS	5	1 - 0	4	WIM	Chitlange Sakshi	IND
13	WFM	Visanescu Daria-Ioana	ROU	4	0 - 1	5	WIM	Uuriintuya Uurtsaikh	MGL
14		Bala Kannamma P	IND	5	1 - 0	4		Barchuk Irina	UKR
15	WFM	Ivanova Karina	RUS	5	1 - 0	4	WCM	Chandreyee Hajra	IND
16	WFM	Varshini V	IND	5	1 - 0	4		Divya Lakshmi R	IND
17	WIM	Kiolbasa Oliwia	POL	4	½ - ½	4		Thomas Anysia	FRA
18		Priyanka Nutakki	IND	3½	0 - 1	4½		Du Yuxin	CHN
19	WIM	Eswaran Ashritha	USA	4½	1 - 0	3½	WFM	Yanjinlkham Bayarsaikhan	MGL
20	WFM	Gomez Barrera Javiera Belen	CHI	4½	1 - 0	3½	WFM	Hiebler Laura	AUT
21	WFM	Lasya.G	IND	4½	1 - 0	3		Ayinala Shree	USA
22	WIM	Monnisha G K	IND	4	1 - 0	3	WFM	Santeramo Alessia	ITA
23		Hoare Amy B	ENG	4	1 - 0	3		Albekova Dilyara	KAZ
24	WFM	Leonardi Caterina	SLO	3	0 - 1	3½		Vantika Agrawal	IND
25	WFM	Choladze Mariami	GEO	3	½ - ½	3	WCM	Sapale Saloni	IND
26		Kakulidis Ellen	DEN	3	1 - 0	2		Gamage Nethmi Nirasha	SRI
27		Omurbekova Diana	KGZ	1½	0 - 1	2½		Barbier Astrid	BEL
		Minaud Emily	FRA	2½	1 - -			Bye

IM Beukema Stefan (Belgium)

IM Studer Noel (Switzerland)

WFM Visanescu Daria-loana (Romania) and Asian Junior Girls Champion WIM Uuriintuya Uurtsaikh (Mongolia)

WFM Mendoza Shania Mae (Philippines) on the prowl

Iran’s Maghsoodloo Parham achieved an IM norm

16 August 2016

Sole leader in open and Two Share lead in girls

by IA PAUL AROKIA RAJ, Deputy Chief Arbiter

GM Xiong Jeffery (USA) shot into sole lead with 6.5 points after striking a stupendous victory over GM Aravindh Chithambaram Vr. (India) in an enterprising game involving Sicilian defence. Castling on the opposite flanks both players targeted one another’s king by intruding into enemy’s territory. The American GM proved the theory of “survival of the fittest” by prevailing upon black by surrounding his king first, thereby forcing him to surrender the game. GM Karhtikeyan Murali (India), IM Nasuta Grzegorz (Poland), untitled Xu Yinglun (China) and Maghsoodloo Parham (Iran) are the four others sitting pretty on the second spot, with 6 points. World Under 16 champion Maghsoodloo Parham (Iran) who surprised the Indian GM Sunilduth Lyna Narayanan with c3 opening, was in an aggressive mood throughout the game. His lone rook played an havoc on the king side and finally nailed black’s king to the base rank. When white was about to announce a check mate S L Narayanan stopped his clock to indicate his loss. GM Karthikeyan Murali (India) bounced back into the race when his opponent Mosadeghpour Masoud (Iran) walked into a n a simple trap. Five more rounds remain to be played and Tuesday is a rest day for this championship organised by All Odisha Chess Association supported by KIIT University in Bhubaneswar, India.

However in the 34th Wold Junior girls Championship which is running concurrently the end of eighth round has not made any change of guard in the the leadership. With a draw on the top two tables, WIMs Frayna Janelle Mae (Philippines) and Dordzhieva Dinara (Russia) continued to share the top spot with 6.5 points. Half a point behind the leaders are the top two seeds WGM Saduakassova Dinara (Kazakhastan) and WIM Bivol Alina (Russia) alongwith WIM Nandhidhaa Pv. (India). Nandhidhaa settled for a draw with WIM Dordzhieva Dinara in a double edged position. Frayna Janelle Mae and the defending champion Buksa Nataliya (Ukrine) split the point after a long drawn battle in the rook and pawn ending. WGM Saduakassova Dinara’s queen pawn on the sixth rank played a spoiled sport for WCM Salonika Saina (India). When the WGM threatened a double attack with that pawn black resigned. Priyanka K (India) tasted her second successive defeat at the hands of Bivol Alina.

RESULTS OPEN

Bo.		White	FED	Pts	Results	Pts		Black	FED
1	IM	Nasuta Grzegorz	POL	6	½ - ½	6		Xu Yinglun	CHN
2	GM	Xiong Jeffery	USA	6½	1 - 0	5	GM	Aravindh Chithambaram Vr.	IND
3		Maghsoodloo Parham	IRI	6	1 - 0	5	GM	Sunilduth Lyna Narayanan	IND
4	IM	Svane Rasmus	GER	5½	½ - ½	5½	IM	Menezes Christoph	AUT
5	IM	Mosadeghpour Masoud	IRI	5	0 - 1	6	GM	Karthikeyan Murali	IND
6	IM	Mousavi Seyed Khalil	IRI	4½	0 - 1	5½	GM	Artemiev Vladislav	RUS
7		Ivekovic Bozidar	CRO	5½	1 - 0	4½	GM	Alekseenko Kirill	RUS
8	FM	Xu Yi	CHN	5	½ - ½	5	GM	Gagare Shardul	IND
9	IM	Beukema Stefan	BEL	5½	1 - 0	4½	FM	Praggnanandhaa R	IND
10	FM	Rajdeep Sarkar	IND	4½	½ - ½	4½	GM	Wagner Dennis	GER
11	IM	Henriquez Villagra Cristobal	CHI	5	1 - 0	4	FM	Belous Mikhail	UKR
12	FM	Gheorghiu Calin	ROU	4	0 - 1	5	IM	Lorparizangeneh Shahin	IRI
13	IM	Tran Tuan Minh	VIE	4½	½ - ½	4½	FM	Grandadam Patrik	SUI
14	FM	Gholami Aryan	IRI	4½	½ - ½	4½	CM	Erigaisi Arjun	IND
15		Arjun Kalyan	IND	5	1 - 0	4	IM	Basso Pier Luigi	ITA
16	FM	Ivic Velimir	SRB	4	0 - 1	5		Beradze Irakli	GEO
17	IM	Visakh N R	IND	4½	½ - ½	4½		Harsha Bharathakoti	IND
18		Fan Huifeng	CHN	4½	½ - ½	4½	IM	Bersamina Paulo	PHI
19		Papakonstantinou Dimitrios	GRE	4½	½ - ½	4½	IM	Akash G	IND
20		Yuan Qingyu	CHN	4½	½ - ½	4½		Dhulipalla Bala Chandra Prasad	IND
21	IM	Studer Noel	SUI	4½	1 - 0	3½	FM	Tran Minh Thang	VIE
22	FM	Rakesh Kumar Jena	IND	4½	1 - 0	3½	FM	Nihal Sarin	IND
23	IM	Chakravarthi Reddy M	IND	3½	0 - 1	4½		Srijit Paul	IND
24		Shailesh Dravid	IND	4	½ - ½	3½	FM	Lokander Martin	SWE
25	FM	Martins David Pires Tavares	POR	4	1 - 0	3		Sahoo Utkal Ranjan	IND
26		Subhayan Kundu	IND	3	0 - 1	4		Pirverdiyev Agil	AZE
27	FM	Viennot Dylan	FRA	3	0 - 1	4		Sammed Jaykumar Shete	IND
28		Yogit S	IND	3	0 - 1	4	FM	Rydstrom Tom	SWE
29	IM	Krishna Teja N	IND	3	0 - 1	4		Barath Kalyan M	IND
30		Taalaibekov Tagir	KGZ	4	1 - 0	3	FM	Gajwa Ankit	IND
31		Rahul Srivatshav P	IND	4	1 - 0	3		Gandhi Anish	IND
32	FM	Karthik Venkataraman	IND	3½	1 - 0	2½		Palucha Szymon	ENG
33		Thogersen Rasmus	DEN	2½	0 - 1	3½		Ritviz Parab	IND
34		Weerasinghe C C	SRI	3	½ - ½	3		Nyamdorj Davaaochir	CAN
35		Subramaniam Shreyes	MAS	3	1 - 0	2	CM	Salles Louis	FRA
36		Dassanayake D M G S	SRI	2½	½ - ½	2½		Tahay Alexis	FRA
37	AIM	Skettos Nicolas	CYP	2	0 - 1	3		Evangelista Paul Robert	PHI
38		Squella Lavin Carlos Felipe	CHI	3	1 - 0	1½		Hsu Chuan-Chia	TPE
39		Seppala Joni	FIN	1½	0 - 1	2½		Avik Sarker	BAN
		Holleland Sigve	NOR	2½	1 - -			Bye

RESULTS GIRLS

Bo.		White	FED	Pts	Results	Pts		Black	FED
1	WIM	Nandhidhaa Pv	IND	6	½ - ½	6½	WIM	Dordzhieva Dinara	RUS
2	WIM	Frayna Janelle Mae	PHI	6½	½ - ½	6	WGM	Buksa Nataliya	UKR
3	WGM	Saduakassova Dinara	KAZ	6	1 - 0	5	WCM	Salonika Saina	IND
4		Priyanka K	IND	5	0 - 1	6	WIM	Bivol Alina	RUS
5	WIM	Michelle Catherina P	IND	5½	½ - ½	5	WIM	Gu Tianlu	CHN
6	IM	Rodriguez Rueda Paula Andrea	COL	5½	1 - 0	4½	WFM	Alinasab Mobina	IRI
7	WFM	Injac Teodora	SRB	5	½ - ½	5	WIM	Vaishali R	IND
8	WIM	Mahalakshmi M	IND	5½	1 - 0	4	WIM	Styazhkina Anna	RUS
9	WIM	Pratyusha Bodda	IND	4	0 - 1	5		Harshita Guddanti	IND
10	WIM	Tokhirjonova Gulrukhbegim	UZB	5	1 - 0	4	WFM	Ivanova Karina	RUS
11	WIM	Blagojevic Tijana	MNE	5	1 - 0	4	WFM	Varshini V	IND
12	WFM	Srija Seshadri	IND	5	1 - 0	3½	WIM	Kiolbasa Oliwia	POL
13		Soyunlu Narmin	AZE	4½	1 - 0	3½	WIM	Eswaran Ashritha	USA
14	WIM	Chitlange Sakshi	IND	4	½ - ½	4	WIM	Parnali S Dharia	IND
15	WFM	Mendoza Shania Mae	PHI	4½	1 - 0	3½	WFM	Lasya.G	IND
16		Barchuk Irina	UKR	4	½ - ½	4	WFM	Visanescu Daria-Ioana	ROU
17	WFM	Yanjinlkham Bayarsaikhan	MGL	3½	½ - ½	3½		Priyanka Nutakki	IND
18	WIM	Uuriintuya Uurtsaikh	MGL	4	1 - 0	3		Hoare Amy B	ENG
19	WCM	Chandreyee Hajra	IND	4	1 - 0	3	WIM	Monnisha G K	IND
20		Divya Lakshmi R	IND	4	1 - 0	3	WFM	Leonardi Caterina	SLO
21		Ayinala Shree	USA	3	0 - 1	4		Bala Kannamma P	IND
22	WFM	Santeramo Alessia	ITA	3	½ - ½	3½		Du Yuxin	CHN
23	WCM	Sapale Saloni	IND	2½	0 - 1	3½	WFM	Hiebler Laura	AUT
24		Thomas Anysia	FRA	3½	1 - 0	2½	WFM	Choladze Mariami	GEO
25		Gamage Nethmi Nirasha	SRI	2	0 - 1	3½	WFM	Gomez Barrera Javiera Belen	CHI
26		Albekova Dilyara	KAZ	3	1 - 0	2		Kakulidis Ellen	DEN
27		Vantika Agrawal	IND	2½	1 - 0	1½		Barbier Astrid	BEL
28		Minaud Emily	FRA	1½	1 - 0	1½		Omurbekova Diana	KGZ

Playing on the top table is IM Nasuta Grzegorz (Poland) and Xu Yinglun (China)

WIM Nandhidhaa Pv (India) is in the second spot

Two IMs Svane Rasmus (Germany) and Menezes Christoph (Austria) ponder over the moves which ended in a draw

IM Rodriguez Rueda Paula Andrea (Colombia) outwitted WFM Alinasab Mobina (Iran)

15 August 2016

GMs shocked in open and Two share lead in girls

by IA PAUL AROKIA RAJ, Deputy Chief Arbiter

GM Karthikeyan Murali (India) met his Waterloo when he blundered away a pawn on move 31 in the Reti opening against the American GM Xiong Jeffery and lost his leadership to three others. Untitled Xu Yinglun (China) went on a rampage against Benoni defence of GM Artemiev Vladislav (Russia) by posting his rook on the seventh rank and targeting f7 pawn. In the eventual Rook and bishop ending he became two pawns up and emerged winner on his 64th move. It was a sad day for one more GM when Alekseenko Kirill from Russia who went down fighting against IM Nasuta Grzegorz (Poland) in a rook and pawn ending. GM Xiong Jeffery (USA), IM Nasuta Grzegorz (Poland) and Xu Yingiun (China) are the three joint leaders on 5.5 points each in this 55th World Juniors Open Chess Championships organised by All Odhisha Chess Association being held at KIIT University, Bhubaneswar, India. Seven players are on the second spot with 5 points each.

WIMs Frayna Janelle Mae (Philippines) and Dordzhieva Dinara (Russia) are once again the joint leaders with 6 points each in the girl’s section. WIM Nadhidhaa Pv is behind the leaders with 5.5 points. The dark horse of the championship Priyanka K (India) went down tamely against Frayna Janelle Mae who employed French defence. Frayna exerted a tremendous pressure on the queenside to force white to give up her rook and the game in the next few moves. In a queen pawn game WIM Dordzhieva Dinara (Russia) nailed black king in the h file using her queen and the bishop. When IM Rodriguez Rueda Paula Andrea (Colombia) realised that the check mate was imminent she resigned in vain.

RESULTS OPEN

Bo.		White	FED	Pts	Results	Pts		Black	FED
1	GM	Karthikeyan Murali	IND	5	0 - 1	5½	GM	Xiong Jeffery	USA
2		Xu Yinglun	CHN	5½	1 - 0	4½	GM	Artemiev Vladislav	RUS
3	GM	Alekseenko Kirill	RUS	4½	0 - 1	5½	IM	Nasuta Grzegorz	POL
4	GM	Sunilduth Lyna Narayanan	IND	5	½ - ½	5	IM	Svane Rasmus	GER
5	GM	Aravindh Chithambaram Vr.	IND	5	½ - ½	5	IM	Mosadeghpour Masoud	IRI
6	IM	Akash G	IND	4	0 - 1	5		Maghsoodloo Parham	IRI
7	GM	Gagare Shardul	IND	4½	½ - ½	4½	IM	Beukema Stefan	BEL
8	FM	Praggnanandhaa R	IND	4½	½ - ½	4½	FM	Xu Yi	CHN
9		Ivekovic Bozidar	CRO	4½	½ - ½	4½	IM	Mousavi Seyed Khalil	IRI
10	IM	Menezes Christoph	AUT	5	1 - 0	4		Yuan Qingyu	CHN
11	GM	Wagner Dennis	GER	4	½ - ½	3½	IM	Visakh N R	IND
12	IM	Bersamina Paulo	PHI	4	½ - ½	4	IM	Henriquez Villagra Cristobal	CHI
13	CM	Erigaisi Arjun	IND	4	½ - ½	4	IM	Lorparizangeneh Shahin	IRI
14		Harsha Bharathakoti	IND	4	½ - ½	4	IM	Tran Tuan Minh	VIE
15		Dhulipalla Bala Chandra Prasad	IND	4	½ - ½	4	FM	Gholami Aryan	IRI
16		Beradze Irakli	GEO	4	½ - ½	4	FM	Grandadam Patrik	SUI
17	FM	Nihal Sarin	IND	3½	½ - ½	4	FM	Ivic Velimir	SRB
18		Srijit Paul	IND	3½	½ - ½	3½	IM	Studer Noel	SUI
19	IM	Basso Pier Luigi	ITA	4	1 - 0	3	IM	Krishna Teja N	IND
20		Pirverdiyev Agil	AZE	3	0 - 1	4		Fan Huifeng	CHN
21	FM	Tran Minh Thang	VIE	3½	½ - ½	3½	IM	Chakravarthi Reddy M	IND
22		Sammed Jaykumar Shete	IND	3	0 - 1	4	FM	Rajdeep Sarkar	IND
23	FM	Belous Mikhail	UKR	4	1 - 0	3		Subhayan Kundu	IND
24	FM	Gajwa Ankit	IND	3	0 - 1	4	FM	Gheorghiu Calin	ROU
25	FM	Viennot Dylan	FRA	3	0 - 1	4		Papakonstantinou Dimitrios	GRE
26		Gandhi Anish	IND	3	0 - 1	4		Arjun Kalyan	IND
27		Sahoo Utkal Ranjan	IND	3	½ - ½	3½	FM	Rakesh Kumar Jena	IND
28		Barath Kalyan M	IND	3	½ - ½	3	FM	Martins David Pires Tavares	POR
29		Ritviz Parab	IND	2½	0 - 1	3½		Shailesh Dravid	IND
30		Squella Lavin Carlos Felipe	CHI	2	0 - 1	3	FM	Lokander Martin	SWE
31	FM	Rydstrom Tom	SWE	3	1 - 0	2		Subramaniam Shreyes	MAS
32		Thogersen Rasmus	DEN	2½	½ - ½	2½	FM	Karthik Venkataraman	IND
33		Tahay Alexis	FRA	2	0 - 1	3		Rahul Srivatshav P	IND
34		Evangelista Paul Robert	PHI	2	0 - 1	3		Yogit S	IND
35	CM	Salles Louis	FRA	2	0 - 1	3		Taalaibekov Tagir	KGZ
36		Palucha Szymon	ENG	2½	1 - 0	2	AIM	Skettos Nicolas	CYP
37		Weerasinghe C C	SRI	2½	1 - 0	1½		Holleland Sigve	NOR
38		Seppala Joni	FIN	1½	0 - 1	2½		Nyamdorj Davaaochir	CAN
39		Avik Sarker	BAN	1½	½ - ½	1½		Hsu Chuan-Chia	TPE
		Dassanayake D M G S	SRI	2	1 - -			Bye

RESULTS GIRLS

Bo.		White	FED	Pts	Results	Pts		Black	FED
1		Priyanka K	IND	5	0 - 1	6	WIM	Frayna Janelle Mae	PHI
2	WIM	Dordzhieva Dinara	RUS	6	1 - 0	4½	IM	Rodriguez Rueda Paula Andrea	COL
3	WIM	Bivol Alina	RUS	5	½ - ½	5	WGM	Saduakassova Dinara	KAZ
4	WIM	Nandhidhaa Pv	IND	5½	1 - 0	4	WIM	Tokhirjonova Gulrukhbegim	UZB
5	WCM	Salonika Saina	IND	5	1 - 0	4	WIM	Pratyusha Bodda	IND
6	WIM	Styazhkina Anna	RUS	4	0 - 1	5	WIM	Michelle Catherina P	IND
7	WGM	Buksa Nataliya	UKR	5	1 - 0	4	WFM	Ivanova Karina	RUS
8	WIM	Vaishali R	IND	4½	1 - 0	3½		Barchuk Irina	UKR
9	WFM	Lasya.G	IND	3½	0 - 1	4½	WFM	Injac Teodora	SRB
10	WIM	Gu Tianlu	CHN	4½	1 - 0	3½	WIM	Chitlange Sakshi	IND
11	WIM	Parnali S Dharia	IND	3½	0 - 1	4½	WIM	Mahalakshmi M	IND
12	WFM	Alinasab Mobina	IRI	4½	1 - 0	3½		Soyunlu Narmin	AZE
13	WIM	Monnisha G K	IND	3	0 - 1	4	WIM	Blagojevic Tijana	MNE
14	WFM	Visanescu Daria-Ioana	ROU	3½	½ - ½	3½	WIM	Eswaran Ashritha	USA
15	WFM	Leonardi Caterina	SLO	3	0 - 1	4		Harshita Guddanti	IND
16	WFM	Varshini V	IND	4	1 - 0	3	WFM	Yanjinlkham Bayarsaikhan	MGL
17		Du Yuxin	CHN	3	0 - 1	4	WFM	Srija Seshadri	IND
18	WIM	Kiolbasa Oliwia	POL	3½	1 - 0	2½	WFM	Santeramo Alessia	ITA
19		Priyanka Nutakki	IND	3	½ - ½	3	WCM	Chandreyee Hajra	IND
20		Bala Kannamma P	IND	3	½ - ½	3	WIM	Uuriintuya Uurtsaikh	MGL
21	WFM	Choladze Mariami	GEO	2½	0 - 1	3½	WFM	Mendoza Shania Mae	PHI
22		Hoare Amy B	ENG	3	½ - ½	2½	WCM	Sapale Saloni	IND
23	WFM	Hiebler Laura	AUT	2½	½ - ½	2½		Thomas Anysia	FRA
24		Ayinala Shree	USA	3	1 - 0	2		Gamage Nethmi Nirasha	SRI
25		Divya Lakshmi R	IND	3	1 - 0	1½		Omurbekova Diana	KGZ
26	WFM	Gomez Barrera Javiera	CHI	2½	1 - 0	1½		Vantika Agrawal	IND
27		Barbier Astrid	BEL	1½	0 - 1	2		Albekova Dilyara	KAZ
28		Kakulidis Ellen	DEN	2	½ - ½	½		Minaud Emily	FRA

WIM Bivol Alina (Russia) held WGM Saduakassova Dinara (Kazakhastan) to a draw

WIM Dordzhieva Dinara (Russia) halted the dream run of Colombian IM Rodriguez Rueda Paula Andrea

Fight between two FMs Praggnanandhaa R (India) and FM Xu Yi (China)

14 August 2016

GM Karthikeyan Murali maintains sole lead in open and Three share lead in girls

by IA PAUL AROKIA RAJ, Deputy Chief Arbiter

The Indian national champion GM Karthikeyan Murali continued to maintain slender half a point lead with five points over nine others when he held the top seed GM Artemiev Vladislav (Russia) in a King’s Indian defence classical variation. With rest of three tables witnessing a draw, GM Karthikeyan Murali remained on the top. Seven more round are on the cards in this 55th World Junior open and 34th World Junior Girls chess championship organised by All Odhisha Chess Association at KIIt University, Bhubaneswar, India. Untitled Xu Yinglun (China) was in great form to obtain a draw against GM Xion Jeffery (USA). M Alekseenko Kirill (Russia) was simply impressive with black pieces against IM Tran Tuan Minh (Vietnam). Playing the Grunfeld defence the GM emerged double exchange up to drag a mating net and cornered the white king. IM Svane Rasmus (Germany) effortlessly grabbed black’s rook for his minor piece in the early middle game and this was sufficient enough for him to garner a full point over Beradze Irakli (Georgia).

In the girl’s section, untitled Priyanka K (India) has caught up the overnight leaders WIMs Frayna Janelle Mae (Philippines) and Dordzhieva Dinara (Russia) to share the lead with 5 points each. Priyanka demonstrated a great skill in queen and pawn ending in taming her teammate WIM Pratyusha Bodda. On the other hand the top two tables ended in a draw without much hiccup. The Colombian IM Rodriguez Rueda Paula Andrea started her campaign with the irregular variation of the queen pawn opening against WIM Vaishali R (India). On the 46th move, the Indian girl was compelled to give up her rook for white’s newly promoted queen after which she slowly started losing the grip and finally the game. The three joint leaders with 5 points are closely followed by four others with 4.5 points each.

RESULTS OPEN

Bo.		White	FED	Pts	Results	Pts		Black	FED
1	GM	Artemiev Vladislav	RUS	4½	½ - ½	5	GM	Karthikeyan Murali	IND
2	GM	Xiong Jeffery	USA	4½	½ - ½	4½		Xu Yinglun	CHN
3	IM	Nasuta Grzegorz	POL	4½	½ - ½	4½	GM	Aravindh Chithambaram Vr.	IND
4	IM	Mosadeghpour Masoud	IRI	4½	½ - ½	4½	GM	Sunilduth Lyna Narayanan	IND
5	IM	Tran Tuan Minh	VIE	3½	0 - 1	4½	GM	Alekseenko Kirill	RUS
6		Maghsoodloo Parham	IRI	4	½ - ½	4	FM	Praggnanandhaa R	IND
7	IM	Svane Rasmus	GER	4½	1 - 0	3½		Beradze Irakli	GEO
8	GM	Gagare Shardul	IND	4	½ - ½	4	IM	Menezes Christoph	AUT
9	IM	Beukema Stefan	BEL	4	½ - ½	3½	GM	Wagner Dennis	GER
10	IM	Henriquez Villagra Cristobal	CHI	3½	½ - ½	3½	CM	Erigaisi Arjun	IND
11	IM	Lorparizangeneh Shahin	IRI	3½	½ - ½	3½		Harsha Bharathakoti	IND
12	IM	Visakh N R	IND	3½	½ - ½	3½		Dhulipalla Bala Chandra Prasad	IND
13	IM	Mousavi Seyed Khalil	IRI	4	1 - 0	3		Sammed Jaykumar Shete	IND
14	FM	Grandadam Patrik	SUI	3½	½ - ½	3½	IM	Bersamina Paulo	PHI
15	IM	Akash G	IND	4	1 - 0	3		Srijit Paul	IND
16	FM	Xu Yi	CHN	4	1 - 0	3	FM	Rakesh Kumar Jena	IND
17		Yuan Qingyu	CHN	4	1 - 0	3		Gandhi Anish	IND
18		Subhayan Kundu	IND	3	0 - 1	4		Ivekovic Bozidar	CRO
19	IM	Studer Noel	SUI	3	½ - ½	3	FM	Belous Mikhail	UKR
20	FM	Gholami Aryan	IRI	3½	1 - 0	2½		Barath Kalyan M	IND
21		Fan Huifeng	CHN	3	½ - ½	3	IM	Basso Pier Luigi	ITA
22	FM	Ivic Velimir	SRB	3½	1 - 0	2½	FM	Martins David Pires Tavares	POR
23	IM	Chakravarthi Reddy M	IND	3	½ - ½	3		Pirverdiyev Agil	AZE
24	FM	Rajdeep Sarkar	IND	3	½ - ½	3	FM	Gajwa Ankit	IND
25		Rahul Srivatshav P	IND	2	0 - 1	3	FM	Nihal Sarin	IND
26		Yogit S	IND	2	0 - 1	3	FM	Tran Minh Thang	VIE
27	FM	Gheorghiu Calin	ROU	3	1 - 0	2		Squella Lavin Carlos Felipe	CHI
28		Taalaibekov Tagir	KGZ	2	0 - 1	3	FM	Viennot Dylan	FRA
29		Papakonstantinou Dimitrios	GRE	3	1 - 0	2	FM	Rydstrom Tom	SWE
30		Arjun Kalyan	IND	3	1 - 0	2		Thogersen Rasmus	DEN
31	IM	Krishna Teja N	IND	3	1 - 0	2		Evangelista Paul Robert	PHI
32		Subramaniam Shreyes	MAS	2	0 - 1	2½		Ritviz Parab	IND
33	FM	Karthik Venkataraman	IND	2	½ - ½	2		Tahay Alexis	FRA
34		Nyamdorj Davaaochir	CAN	1½	0 - 1	2½		Sahoo Utkal Ranjan	IND
35		Shailesh Dravid	IND	2½	1 - 0	1½		Palucha Szymon	ENG
36	FM	Lokander Martin	SWE	2	1 - 0	1		Dassanayake D M G S	SRI
37		Hsu Chuan-Chia	TPE	1	0 - 1	2	CM	Salles Louis	FRA
38		Holleland Sigve	NOR	1½	½ - ½	1½		Seppala Joni	FIN
39	AIM	Skettos Nicolas	CYP	2	1 - 0	1		Avik Sarker	BAN
		Weerasinghe C C	SRI	1½	1 - -			Bye

RESULTS GIRLS

Bo.		White	FED	Pts	Results	Pts		Black	FED
1	WGM	Saduakassova Dinara	KAZ	4½	½ - ½	5	WIM	Dordzhieva Dinara	RUS
2	WIM	Frayna Janelle Mae	PHI	5	½ - ½	4½	WIM	Nandhidhaa Pv	IND
3	WIM	Pratyusha Bodda	IND	4	0 - 1	5		Priyanka K	IND
4	WFM	Ivanova Karina	RUS	4	½ - ½	4½	WIM	Bivol Alina	RUS
5	IM	Rodriguez Rueda Paula Andrea	COL	4½	1 - 0	3½	WIM	Vaishali R	IND
6	WIM	Michelle Catherina P	IND	4	½ - ½	4	WCM	Salonika Saina	IND
7	WIM	Eswaran Ashritha	USA	3	0 - 1	4	WIM	Tokhirjonova Gulrukhbegim	UZB
8		Harshita Guddanti	IND	3	0 - 1	4	WIM	Styazhkina Anna	RUS
9	WFM	Leonardi Caterina	SLO	3	0 - 1	4	WGM	Buksa Nataliya	UKR
10	WFM	Injac Teodora	SRB	3½	½ - ½	3½	WIM	Parnali S Dharia	IND
11	WIM	Mahalakshmi M	IND	3½	½ - ½	3½	WIM	Gu Tianlu	CHN
12	WIM	Blagojevic Tijana	MNE	3	½ - ½	3½	WFM	Alinasab Mobina	IRI
13	WIM	Chitlange Sakshi	IND	3½	1 - 0	2½	WIM	Kiolbasa Oliwia	POL
14	WIM	Uuriintuya Uurtsaikh	MGL	2½	0 - 1	3½		Soyunlu Narmin	AZE
15	WCM	Chandreyee Hajra	IND	2½	0 - 1	3½		Barchuk Irina	UKR
16	WFM	Santeramo Alessia	ITA	2½	0 - 1	3½	WFM	Lasya.G	IND
17	WIM	Monnisha G K	IND	3	½ - ½	3	WFM	Visanescu Daria-Ioana	ROU
18	WFM	Srija Seshadri	IND	3	1 - 0	2½		Bala Kannamma P	IND
19	WCM	Sapale Saloni	IND	2	0 - 1	3	WFM	Varshini V	IND
20	WFM	Yanjinlkham Bayarsaikhan	MGL	3	1 - 0	2	WFM	Hiebler Laura	AUT
21		Du Yuxin	CHN	3	1 - 0	2		Divya Lakshmi R	IND
22		Vantika Agrawal	IND	1½	0 - 1	2½		Priyanka Nutakki	IND
23	WFM	Mendoza Shania Mae	PHI	2½	1 - 0	1½		Kakulidis Ellen	DEN
24		Omurbekova Diana	KGZ	1½	0 - 1	2½	WFM	Choladze Mariami	GEO
25		Thomas Anysia	FRA	2	½ - ½	2		Ayinala Shree	USA
26		Barbier Astrid	BEL	1½	0 - 1	2½		Hoare Amy B	ENG
27		Albekova Dilyara	KAZ	1	0 - 1	1½	WFM	Gomez Barrera Javiera Belen	CHI
28		Gamage Nethmi Nirasha	SRI	2	1 - 0	0		Minaud Emily	FRA

Leading the race is the Indian national champion GM Karthikeyan Murali

The top table tussle between WGM Saduakassova Dinara (Kazakhastan) and Dordzhieva Dinara (Russia)

WFM Leonardi Caterina (Slovenia) is engrossed in a deep thought

Untitled Xu Yinglun (China) held GM Xiong Jeffery (USA) to a draw

13 August 2016

GM Karthikeyan Murali emerges as the sole leader in open

by IA PAUL AROKIA RAJ, Deputy Chief Arbiter

GM Karthikeyan Murali (India) is the first ever sole leader of the championship with 4.5 points in the boy’s section when he inflicted a 37 move over victory IM Svane Rasmus (Georgia). Facing the advanced variation of Caro Kann defense GM Karthikeyan Murali (India) trapped black Queen on the 30th move to clinch the issue in his favour. GM Lyna Sunilduth Narayanan (India) and GM Xiong Jeffery (USA) could not make a headway in a minor piece ending arising out of Grunfield defense and so the players settled for a draw after completing stipulated number of 30 moves. In an interesting encounter between the top seed GM Artemiev Vladislav (Russia) and IM Mosadeghpour Masoud the latter survived some anxious moments before the game ended in a draw.GM Aravindh Chithambaram Vr. emerged as a winner in when his teammate Akashs G overstepped the time limit in his chess clock.

In the girl’s section WIMs Frayna Janelle Mae (Philippines) and Dordzhieva Dinara (Russia) continued to lead the table jointly with 4.5 points each after their fight for the supremacy ended in a draw. The two Indian WIMS Nandhidhaa Pv and Pratyusha Bodda too split the point to stay behind the leaders. Handling Sicilian dragon variation with black pieces WGM Saduakassova Dinara (Kazakhstan) improved her position move by move to obtain two connected passed pawns on the Queenside. This forced WIM Eswaran Ashritha (USA) to lose her knight and ultimately the game too. Untitled Priyanka K (India) rose up to the occasion when she stunned the defending champion WGM Buksa Nataliya (Ukraine) by delivering a check mate in 106 moves and Priyanka is now sitting pretty on the second spot.

RESULTS OPEN

Bo.		White	FED	Pts	Results	Pts		Black	FED
1	GM	Artemiev Vladislav	RUS	4	½ - ½	4	IM	Mosadeghpour Masoud	IRI
2	GM	Sunilduth Lyna Narayanan	IND	4	½ - ½	4	GM	Xiong Jeffery	USA
3	GM	Karthikeyan Murali	IND	4½	1 - 0	3½	IM	Svane Rasmus	GER
4		Beradze Irakli	GEO	3½	½ - ½	3½		Maghsoodloo Parham	IRI
5	GM	Aravindh Chithambaram Vr.	IND	4	1 - 0	3	IM	Akash G	IND
6		Xu Yinglun	CHN	4	1 - 0	3	IM	Visakh N R	IND
7	FM	Praggnanandhaa R	IND	3½	½ - ½	3½	GM	Gagare Shardul	IND
8	FM	Rakesh Kumar Jena	IND	3	0 - 1	4	IM	Nasuta Grzegorz	POL
9	GM	Alekseenko Kirill	RUS	3½	1 - 0	3		Gandhi Anish	IND
10		Harsha Bharathakoti	IND	3	½ - ½	3	IM	Henriquez Villagra Cristobal	CHI
11	IM	Lorparizangeneh Shahin	IRI	3	½ - ½	3		Yuan Qingyu	CHN
12	FM	Gajwa Ankit	IND	2½	0 - 1	3½	IM	Tran Tuan Minh	VIE
13	CM	Erigaisi Arjun	IND	3	½ - ½	3	IM	Mousavi Seyed Khalil	IRI
14	IM	Menezes Christoph	AUT	3½	1 - 0	2½	FM	Rajdeep Sarkar	IND
15	IM	Beukema Stefan	BEL	3½	1 - 0	2½		Barath Kalyan M	IND
16		Sammed Jaykumar Shete	IND	3	½ - ½	3	FM	Xu Yi	CHN
17	GM	Wagner Dennis	GER	3	1 - 0	2	IM	Krishna Teja N	IND
18	IM	Bersamina Paulo	PHI	3	1 - 0	2		Rahul Srivatshav P	IND
19		Pirverdiyev Agil	AZE	2½	½ - ½	2½	FM	Ivic Velimir	SRB
20		Ivekovic Bozidar	CRO	3	1 - 0	2		Yogit S	IND
21	FM	Belous Mikhail	UKR	2½	½ - ½	2½	IM	Chakravarthi Reddy M	IND
22		Dhulipalla Bala Chandra Prasad	IND	3	1 - 0	2	FM	Gheorghiu Calin	ROU
23		Srijit Paul	IND	3	1 - 0	2	FM	Viennot Dylan	FRA
24		Evangelista Paul Robert	PHI	2	0 - 1	3	FM	Grandadam Patrik	SUI
25	FM	Rydstrom Tom	SWE	2	0 - 1	3		Subhayan Kundu	IND
26	IM	Basso Pier Luigi	ITA	2½	1 - 0	2		Papakonstantinou Dimitrios	GRE
27		Palucha Szymon	ENG	1½	0 - 1	2½	IM	Studer Noel	SUI
28		Ritviz Parab	IND	1½	0 - 1	2½	FM	Gholami Aryan	IRI
29	FM	Martins David Pires Tavares	POR	2½	1 - 0	1½		Shailesh Dravid	IND
30	FM	Nihal Sarin	IND	2	½ - ½	2		Subramaniam Shreyes	MAS
31		Sahoo Utkal Ranjan	IND	1½	0 - 1	2½		Fan Huifeng	CHN
32	FM	Tran Minh Thang	VIE	2	1 - 0	1		Holleland Sigve	NOR
33		Nyamdorj Davaaochir	CAN	1½	½ - ½	1½	FM	Karthik Venkataraman	IND
34		Avik Sarker	BAN	1	0 - 1	2		Arjun Kalyan	IND
35		Dassanayake D M G S	SRI	1	0 - 1	2		Squella Lavin Carlos Felipe	CHI
36		Seppala Joni	FIN	1	0 - 1	2		Taalaibekov Tagir	KGZ
37	AIM	Skettos Nicolas	CYP	1	0 - 1	2		Thogersen Rasmus	DEN
38	CM	Salles Louis	FRA	1	½ - ½	1	FM	Lokander Martin	SWE
39		Tahay Alexis	FRA	1½	1 - 0	½		Weerasinghe C C	SRI
		Hsu Chuan-Chia	TPE	0	1 - -			Bye

RESULTS GIRLS

Bo.		White	FED	Pts	Results	Pts		Black	FED
1	WIM	Dordzhieva Dinara	RUS	4½	½ - ½	4½	WIM	Frayna Janelle Mae	PHI
2	WIM	Nandhidhaa Pv	IND	4	½ - ½	4	WIM	Pratyusha Bodda	IND
3	WIM	Eswaran Ashritha	USA	3	0 - 1	4	WGM	Saduakassova Dinara	KAZ
4	WIM	Bivol Alina	RUS	4	1 - 0	3	WFM	Injac Teodora	SRB
5	WIM	Vaishali R	IND	3½	½ - ½	3½	WIM	Michelle Catherina P	IND
6		Priyanka K	IND	4	1 - 0	3	WGM	Buksa Nataliya	UKR
7	WIM	Parnali S Dharia	IND	3	½ - ½	3½	WFM	Ivanova Karina	RUS
8		Soyunlu Narmin	AZE	2½	0 - 1	3½	IM	Rodriguez Rueda Paula Andrea	COL
9	WFM	Alinasab Mobina	IRI	3	½ - ½	3	WIM	Mahalakshmi M	IND
10	WCM	Salonika Saina	IND	3½	1 - 0	2½	WCM	Chandreyee Hajra	IND
11	WIM	Tokhirjonova Gulrukhbegim	UZB	3	1 - 0	2	WFM	Srija Seshadri	IND
12	WIM	Kiolbasa Oliwia	POL	2½	½ - ½	2½	WIM	Monnisha G K	IND
13	WIM	Styazhkina Anna	RUS	3	1 - 0	2	WCM	Sapale Saloni	IND
14	WFM	Visanescu Daria-Ioana	ROU	2½	½ - ½	2½	WIM	Blagojevic Tijana	MNE
15	WIM	Gu Tianlu	CHN	3	1 - 0	2	WFM	Yanjinlkham Bayarsaikhan	MGL
16	WFM	Lasya.G	IND	2½	½ - ½	2½	WIM	Uuriintuya Uurtsaikh	MGL
17		Divya Lakshmi R	IND	2	0 - 1	3		Harshita Guddanti	IND
18	WFM	Varshini V	IND	2	0 - 1	3	WFM	Leonardi Caterina	SLO
19		Barchuk Irina	UKR	2½	1 - 0	2		Du Yuxin	CHN
20		Priyanka Nutakki	IND	1½	0 - 1	2½	WIM	Chitlange Sakshi	IND
21		Hoare Amy B	ENG	1½	0 - 1	2½	WFM	Santeramo Alessia	ITA
22		Bala Kannamma P	IND	2½	1 - 0	1½		Kakulidis Ellen	DEN
23	WFM	Hiebler Laura	AUT	2	1 - 0	1½		Ayinala Shree	USA
24		Thomas Anysia	FRA	1½	½ - ½	1½	WFM	Mendoza Shania Mae	PHI
25	WFM	Choladze Mariami	GEO	1½	½ - ½	1½		Barbier Astrid	BEL
26		Gamage Nethmi Nirasha	SRI	1	0 - 1	1½		Vantika Agrawal	IND
27	WFM	Gomez Barrera Javiera Belen	CHI	½	0 - 1	1½		Omurbekova Diana	KGZ
28		Minaud Emily	FRA	0	0 - 1	1		Albekova Dilyara	KAZ

GM Sunilduth Lyna Narayanan (India) and GM Xiong Jeffery (USA) signed a peace treaty

WIMs Dordzhieva Dinara (Russia) and Frayna Janelle Mae (Philippines) the joint leaders after five rounds

12 August 2016

Joint Leaders in Open and Two Leaders in Girls emerge

By IA PAUL AROKIA RAJ Deputy Chief Arbiter

With the overnight leaders GM Sunilduth Lyna Narayanan (India) and GM Artemiev Vladislav splitting the point after a scintillating fight, four more more players GM Xiong Jeffery (USA), GM Karthikeyan Murali (India) IM Mosadeghpour Masoud (Iran) and IM Svane Rasmus (Germany) have caught up the leaders with 3.5 points to make the open section a six share lead issue. Although GM Sunilduth Lyna Narayanan (India) and GM Artemiev Vladislav tried to outwit each other the accuracy in their moves did thwart all their attempts. After a gruelling 78 moves the leaders signed peace treaty when the position was heading for a theoretically drawn Rook and pawn ending. The biggest upset of the day was IM Mosadeghpour Masoud’s emphatic victory over GM Alekseenko Kirill (Russia).The Iranian IM countered black’s Sicilian defense with Mora Gambit. After early exchange of Queens white demonstrated the power of the rook and minor pieces to trap black king. GM Xiong Jeffery employed Reti opening against Yuan Qingyu (China) and made a brilliant promotion of pawn to Queen right in the middle game. The combined onslaught of two Queens was unbearable for black that he resigned. IM Svane Rasmus’ win over Harsha Bharathakoti (India) was a food for thought on end game study for the spectators.

The number of leaders in the Girls Section has been cut down to two with WIM Frayna Janelle Mae (Philipinnes) and Dordzhieva Dinara (Russia) defeating their opponents WIM Bivol Alina (Russia) and Buksa Nataliya respectively to sit pretty with four points.Close on the heels of the joint leaders are two Indian WIMs Pratyusha Bodda and Nandhidhaa Pv. In a game involving d4 opening later transposing into modern Benoni, Frayna Janelle Mae pounced on the black king by rip opening the ‘h’ file. By offering a discovered check with Rook on move 39 she forced WIM Bivol Alina (Russia) to resign the game. WIM Dordzhieva Dinara (Russia) cleverly grabbed Buksa Nataliya’s pawns in the latter part of the middle game. When she emerged two pawns up in Rook and bishop end game the defending champion accepted her defeat.

RESULTS OPEN

Bo.		White	FED	Pts	Results	Pts		Black	FED
1	GM	Sunilduth Lyna Narayanan	IND	3 ½	½ - ½	3 ½	GM	Artemiev Vladislav	RUS
2	GM	Xiong Jeffery	USA	3½	1 - 0	2½		Yuan Qingyu	CHN
3	IM	Mosadeghpour Masoud	IRI	3½	1 - 0	2½	GM	Alekseenko Kirill	RUS
4		Svane Rasmus	GER	3½	1 - 0	2½		Harsha Bharathakoti	IND
5	IM	Visakh N R	IND	3	½ - ½	3	GM	Aravindh Chithambaram Vr.	IND
6	FM	Xu Yi	CHN	2½	0 - 1	3½	GM	Karthikeyan Murali	IND
7		Gandhi Anish	IND	3	½ - ½	3		Beradze Irakli	GEO
8		Maghsoodloo Parham	IRI	3	1 - 0	2		Ivekovic Bozidar	CRO
9	FM	Viennot Dylan	FRA	2	0 - 1	3		Xu Yinglun	CHN
10	GM	Gagare Shardul	IND	3	1 - 0	2	FM	Belous Mikhail	UKR
11	FM	Rajdeep Sarkar	IND	2½	½ - ½	2½	IM	Lorparizangeneh Shahin	IRI
12	IM	Tran Tuan Minh	VIE	2½	½ - ½	2½	CM	Erigaisi Arjun	IND
13	IM	Nasuta Grzegorz	POL	3	1 - 0	2		Srijit Paul	IND
14	FM	Grandadam Patrik	SUI	2	0 - 1	3	FM	Praggnanandhaa R	IND
15		Barath Kalyan M	IND	2½	½ - ½	2½	IM	Menezes Christoph	AUT
16	FM	Rakesh Kumar Jena	IND	3	1 - 0	2	IM	Bersamina Paulo	PHI
17	IM	Akash G	IND	3	1 - 0	2		Evangelista Paul Robert	PHI
18	IM	Chakravarthi Reddy M	IND	2	½ - ½	2	GM	Wagner Dennis	GER
19	IM	Henriquez Villagra Cristobal	CHI	2½	1 - 0	1½	FM	Nihal Sarin	IND
20	IM	Studer Noel	SUI	1½	0 - 1	2½		Sammed Jaykumar Shete	IND
21	FM	Gholami Aryan	IRI	1½	0 - 1	2½	FM	Gajwa Ankit	IND
22	IM	Mousavi Seyed Khalil	IRI	2½	1 - 0	1½		Palucha Szymon	ENG
23		Shailesh Dravid	IND	1½	0 - 1	2½	IM	Beukema Stefan	BEL
24	FM	Gheorghiu Calin	ROU	2	1 - 0	1½		Ritviz Parab	IND
25		Fan Huifeng	CHN	1½	½ - ½	1½	FM	Martins David Pires Tavares	POR
26		Squella Lavin Carlos Felipe	CHI	1	0 - 1	2		Pirverdiyev Agil	AZE
27		Subhayan Kundu	IND	2	1 - 0	1	FM	Tran Minh Thang	VIE
28		Taalaibekov Tagir	KGZ	1	0 - 1	2	FM	Rydstrom Tom	SWE
29		Papakonstantinou Dimitrios	GRE	2	1 - 0	1	FM	Karthik Venkataraman	IND
30	IM	Krishna Teja N	IND	2	1 - 0	1		Nyamdorj Davaaochir	CAN
31		Rahul Srivatshav P	IND	2	1 - 0	1		Seppala Joni	FIN
32		Thogersen Rasmus	DEN	1	0 - 1	2		Dhulipalla Bala Chandra Prasad	IND
33	FM	Ivic Velimir	SRB	2	1 - 0	1		Dassanayake D M G S	SRI
34		Yogit S	IND	2	1 - 0	1	IM	Skettos Nicolas	CYP
35		Subramaniam Shreyes	MAS	1½	½ - ½	1½		Sahoo Utkal Ranjan	IND
36		Weerasinghe C C	SRI	½	0 - 1	1½	IM	Basso Pier Luigi	ITA
37		Arjun Kalyan	IND	1	1 - 0	½	CM	Salles Louis	FRA
38	FM	Lokander Martin	SWE	½	½ - ½	½		Tahay Alexis	FRA
39		Holleland Sigve	NOR	1	1 - 0	0		Hsu Chuan-Chia	TPE
		Avik Sarker	BAN	1	1 - -			Bye

RESULTS GIRLS

Bo.		White	FED	Pts	Results	Pts		Black	FED
1	WIM	Frayna Janelle Mae	PHI	4	1 - 0	3	WIM	Bivol Alina	RUS
2	WGM	Buksa Nataliya	UKR	3	0 - 1	4	WIM	Dordzhieva Dinara	RUS
3	WIM	Pratyusha Bodda	IND	3½	1 - 0	2½	WIM	Parnali S Dharia	IND
4	IM	Rodriguez Rueda Paula	COL	2½	0 - 1	3½	WIM	Nandhidhaa Pv	IND
5	WGM	Saduakassova Dinara	KAZ	3	1 - 0	2	WIM	Gu Tianlu	CHN
6	WIM	Michelle Catherina P	IND	3	1 - 0	2	WIM	Kiolbasa Oliwia	POL
7	WFM	Ivanova Karina	RUS	3	1 - 0	2	WIM	Styazhkina Anna	RUS
8	WIM	Monnisha G K	IND	2	0 - 1	3	WIM	Vaishali R	IND
9	WIM	Blagojevic Tijana	MNE	2	0 - 1	3	WIM	Eswaran Ashritha	USA
10	WFM	Injac Teodora	SRB	3	1 - 0	2		Divya Lakshmi R	IND
11		Priyanka Nutakki	IND	1½	0 - 1	3		Priyanka K	IND
12	WCM	Sapale Saloni	IND	2	½ - ½	2	WIM	Tokhirjonova Gulrukhbegim	UZB
13	WIM	Chitlange Sakshi	IND	1½	0 - 1	2½	WFM	Alinasab Mobina	IRI
14		Harshita Guddanti	IND	2	½ - ½	2	WFM	Lasya.G	IND
15		Barchuk Irina	UKR	1½	0 - 1	2½		Soyunlu Narmin	AZE
16	WFM	Santeramo Alessia	ITA	1½	0 - 1	2½	WCM	Chandreyee Hajra	IND
17		Kakulidis Ellen	DEN	1½	0 - 1	2½	WCM	Salonika Saina	IND
18		Du Yuxin	CHN	2	½ - ½	2	WFM	Varshini V	IND
19		Ayinala Shree	USA	1½	0 - 1	2½	WIM	Mahalakshmi M	IND
20	WIM	Uuriintuya Uurtsaikh	MGL	2	1 - 0	1	WFM	Choladze Mariami	GEO
21	WFM	Mendoza Shania Mae	PHI	1	0 - 1	2	WFM	Visanescu Daria-Ioana	ROU
22	WFM	Leonardi Caterina	SLO	2	1 - 0	1	WFM	Hiebler Laura	AUT
23	WFM	Srija Seshadri	IND	2	1 - 0	1		Thomas Anysia	FRA
24	WFM	Yanjinlkham Bayarsaikhan	MGL	2	1 - 0	½	WFM	Gomez Barrera Javiera Belen	CHI
25		Bala Kannamma P	IND	1½	1 - 0	½		Vantika Agrawal	IND
26		Hoare Amy B	ENG	1½	1 - 0	½		Omurbekova Diana	KGZ
27		Minaud Emily	FRA	0	0 - 1	1		Barbier Astrid	BEL
28		Albekova Dilyara	KAZ	0	0 - 1	1		Gamage Nethmi Nirasha	SRI

IM Svane Rasmus (Germany) is preparing himself against Harsha Bharathakoti (India)

GM Xiong Jeffery (USA) is pitted against Yuan Qingyu (China)

WIM Frayna Janelle Mae (Philippens) versus WIM Bivol Alina (Russia)

Defending champion Buksa Nataliya (Uraine) contemplating her move against WIM Dordzhiev Dinara (Russia)

11 August 2016

Two emerge leaders in Open and Four in Girls

By IA PAUL AROKIA RAJ S, Dy. Chief Arbiter

The end of third round could not resolve the leadership issue with two GMs Lyna Sunilduth Narayanan (India) and Artimiev Vladislav (Russia) taking up the joint lead with three points each in the Open Section. In the girls section too the leaders are more in number with the defending champion WGM Buksa Nataliya (Ukraine), Frayna Janelle Mae (Philipinnes), Bivol Aliana and Dordzhieva Dinara (both Russia) jointly leading the table with 3 points each. Ten more rounds remain in both the sections of the world Junior championships 2016 now in progress at the KIIT University, Bhubaneswar, India.

Top seed GM Artemieve Vladislav faced Nimzo Indian defense of IM Tran Tuan Minh of Vietnam. The GM saddled his Queen, Rook and Knight on the Kingside to threaten a checkmate and forced black to resign in a prolonged battle. In an decisive game involving Untitled Ivekovic Bozidar of Croatia and GM S.L. Narayanan, the latter employing Tartakovar variation of QGD, posted a poisoned pawn at b2 square to deliver a brilliant victory. Beradze Irakli (Georgia), IM N.R.Vishak (India) and FM Xu Yi (China) held their respective GM opponents to a draw.

WIM Michelle Catherina (India) could not withstand the onslaught of white’s knight in the ending and gave up the fight against fellow WIM Bivol Alina (Russia). WIM Dordzheiva after winning Russian WFM Ivanoa Karina’s Queen in a tactical combination, targeted black’s defenceless king with Queen and bishop to score a full point. WIM Frayana Janelle Mae handled black side meticulously to announce an Arabian mate against WIM Eswaran Ashritha and so her opponent resigned. WGM Buksa Nataliya employed Ruy Lopez opening against WIM Monnisha G K of India and checkmated her in 31 moves by a fine manoeuvring of Rook and Knight.

RESULTS BOYS

		White	FED	Pts	Results	Pts		Black	FED
1	GM	Artemiev Vladislav	RUS	3	1 - 0	2	IM	Tran Tuan Minh	VIE
2		Beradze Irakli	GEO	2½	½ - ½	2½	GM	Xiong Jeffery	USA
3	GM	Alekseenko Kirill	RUS	2½	½ - ½	2½	IM	Visakh N R	IND
4	GM	Aravindh Chithambaram Vr.	IND	2½	½ - ½	2½	FM	Xu Yi	CHN
5		Ivekovic Bozidar	CRO	2	0 - 1	3	GM	Sunilduth Lyna Narayanan	IND
6	IM	Bersamina Paulo	PHI	2	½ - ½	2		Maghsoodloo Parham	IRI
7	FM	Nihal Sarin	IND	1½	0 - 1	2½	IM	Svane Rasmus	GER
8		Yuan Qingyu	CHN	2½	1 - 0	1½	IM	Henriquez Villagra Cristobal	CHI
9		Xu Yinglun	CHN	2	½ - ½	2	FM	Rajdeep Sarkar	IND
10	GM	Karthikeyan Murali	IND	2½	1 - 0	1½	IM	Chakravarthi Reddy M	IND
11		Harsha Bharathakoti	IND	2½	1 - 0	1½	FM	Gholami Aryan	IRI
12	FM	Belous Mikhail	UKR	2	½ - ½	2	IM	Nasuta Grzegorz	POL
13	FM	Gajwa Ankit	IND	1½	0 - 1	2½	IM	Mosadeghpour Masoud	IRI
14		Gandhi Anish	IND	2½	1 - 0	1½	IM	Mousavi Seyed Khalil	IRI
15	GM	Wagner Dennis	GER	1½	½ - ½	2	FM	Rakesh Kumar Jena	IND
16	FM	Karthik Venkataraman	IND	1	0 - 1	2	GM	Gagare Shardul	IND
17	IM	Lorparizangeneh Shahin	IRI	2	1 - 0	1	IM	Krishna Teja N	IND
18		Dhulipalla Bala Chandra Prasad	IND	1	0 - 1	2	FM	Praggnanandhaa R	IND
19	IM	Menezes Christoph	AUT	2	1 - 0	1	FM	Ivic Velimir	SRB
20		Sahoo Utkal Ranjan	IND	1	0 - 1	2	IM	Akash G	IND
21		Sammed Jaykumar Shete	IND	1½	½ - ½	1½	IM	Beukema Stefan	BEL
22		Srijit Paul	IND	2	1 - 0	1		Pirverdiyev Agil	AZE
23	FM	Tran Minh Thang	VIE	1	0 - 1	2		Barath Kalyan M	IND
24		Evangelista Paul Robert	PHI	2	1 - 0	1	FM	Gheorghiu Calin	ROU
25		Nyamdorj Davaaochir	CAN	1	0 - 1	2	FM	Viennot Dylan	FRA
26	CM	Erigaisi Arjun	IND	2	1 - 0	1		Subramaniam Shreyes	MAS
27		Seppala Joni	FIN	1	0 - 1	2	FM	Grandadam Patrik	SUI
28	CM	Salles Louis	FRA	½	0 - 1	1½	IM	Studer Noel	SUI
29	IM	Basso Pier Luigi	ITA	½	0 - 1	1½		Shailesh Dravid	IND
30	FM	Martins David Pires Tavares	POR	1	½ - ½	1		Taalaibekov Tagir	KGZ
31	FM	Rydstrom Tom	SWE	1	½ - ½	1		Thogersen Rasmus	DEN
32		Dassanayake D M G S	SRI	1	½ - ½	1		Rahul Srivatshav P	IND
33		Ritviz Parab	IND	1½	1 - 0	½		Weerasinghe C C	SRI
34		Palucha Szymon	ENG	1½	1 - 0	0	FM	Lokander Martin	SWE
35		Papakonstantinou Dimitrios	GRE	1	1 - 0	0		Arjun Kalyan	IND
36		Holleland Sigve	NOR	0	0 - 1	1		Yogit S	IND
37		Tahay Alexis	FRA	0	0 - 1	1		Fan Huifeng	CHN
38		Squella Lavin Carlos Felipe	CHI	1	1 - 0	0		Avik Sarker	BAN
39		Hsu Chuan-Chia	TPE	0	0 - 1	1		Subhayan Kundu	IND
	AIM	Skettos Nicolas	CYP	0	1 - -			bye

RESULTS GIRLS

Bo.		White	FED	Pts	Results	Pts		Black	FED
1	WIM	Bivol Alina	RUS	3	1 - 0	2	WIM	Michelle Catherina P	IND
2	WIM	Dordzhieva Dinara	RUS	3	1 - 0	2	WFM	Ivanova Karina	RUS
3	WIM	Eswaran Ashritha	USA	2	0 - 1	3	WIM	Frayna Janelle Mae	PHI
4	WGM	Buksa Nataliya	UKR	3	1 - 0	2	WIM	Monnisha G K	IND
5	WIM	Nandhidhaa Pv	IND	2½	½ - ½	2	WGM	Saduakassova Dinara	KAZ
6	WFM	Alinasab Mobina	IRI	1½	0 - 1	2½	WIM	Pratyusha Bodda	IND
7	WIM	Mahalakshmi M	IND	1½	0 - 1	2½	IM	Rodriguez Rueda Paula Andrea	COL
8	WIM	Kiolbasa Oliwia	POL	2	½ - ½	2	WIM	Blagojevic Tijana	MNE
9	WIM	Parnali S Dharia	IND	2½	1 - 0	1½		Harshita Guddanti	IND
10	WIM	Styazhkina Anna	RUS	2	1 - 0	1½		Priyanka Nutakki	IND
11	WIM	Vaishali R	IND	2	1 - 0	1		Thomas Anysia	FRA
12	WFM	Visanescu Daria-Ioana	ROU	1	0 - 1	2	WFM	Injac Teodora	SRB
13	WIM	Gu Tianlu	CHN	2	1 - 0	1	WFM	Leonardi Caterina	SLO
14		Priyanka K	IND	2	1 - 0	1	WIM	Uuriintuya Uurtsaikh	MGL
15	WIM	Chitlange Sakshi	IND	1½	½ - ½	1½	WFM	Santeramo Alessia	ITA
16	WCM	Salonika Saina	IND	1½	½ - ½	1½		Du Yuxin	CHN
17	WCM	Chandreyee Hajra	IND	1½	½ - ½	1½	WFM	Varshini V	IND
18		Divya Lakshmi R	IND	2	1 - 0	1	WFM	Srija Seshadri	IND
19		Soyunlu Narmin	AZE	1½	½ - ½	1½		Ayinala Shree	USA
20	WIM	Tokhirjonova Gulrukhbegim	UZB	1½	1 - 0	½		Hoare Amy B	ENG
21		Vantika Agrawal	IND	½	0 - 1	1½		Barchuk Irina	UKR
22	WFM	Lasya.G	IND	1½	1 - 0	½		Bala Kannamma P	IND
23		Omurbekova Diana	KGZ	½	0 - 1	1½	WCM	Sapale Saloni	IND
24	WFM	Gomez Barrera Javiera Belen	CHI	½	- - +	½		Kakulidis Ellen	DEN
25		Barbier Astrid	BEL	0	0 - 1	1	WFM	Mendoza Shania Mae	PHI
26	WFM	Hiebler Laura	AUT	1	1 - 0	0		Albekova Dilyara	KAZ
27	WFM	Choladze Mariami	GEO	1	1 - 0	0		Minaud Emily	FRA
28		Gamage Nethmi Nirasha	SRI	0	0 - 1	1	WFM	Yanjinlkham Bayarsaikhan	MGL

WIM Bivol Alina (Russia) vs. WIM Michelle Catherina (India)

Playing White is FM Nihal Sarin

Playing Left to right : IM Visakh N R-India , FM Xu Yi –China

Defending Champion WGM Buksa Nataliya (Ukraine)

10 August 2016

Chinese dominate in Round Two

Day two of the the World Junior 2016 Open Chess Championship now being held in Bhubaneswar, witnessed a chinese day out when the 30th seed XI Yi(China) trounced the fifth seed GM Wagner Dennis of Germany while Untitled Yuvan Qingyu also from China caused a mild flutter when he held the 6th seed IM Suvane Rasmus of Germany.Another GM to taste a defeat today was Shardul Gagre of India at the hands of Bozidar Ivekovic of Gerogia.Young FM Nihal Sareen from India obtained a creditable draw against 9th seed Xu Yinguin of China. Barring these upsets all the top seeds had a smooth sailing in the second round.

In the World Junior Girls 2016 event the Top seed WGM Sadduakassova Dinara of Kazakastan had to concede a draw against WFM Alinasab Mobina of Iran in a long drawn battle.Untitled Harshit Guddanti of India came out with a creditable draw against the 6th seed WIM Koilbasa Oliwia.Less rated WIM G.K.Monisha continued her winning form against WIM Gu Tinalu of China seeded 14th.

RESULTS OPEN

Bo.	Title	White	FED	Pts	Results	Pts	Title	Black	FED
1	FM	Praggnanandhaa R	IND	1	lost to	2	GM	Artemiev Vladislav	RUS
2	GM	Xiong Jeffery	USA	2	beat	1	IM	Menezes Christoph	AUT
3	IM	Beukema Stefan	BEL	1	lost to	2	GM	Alekseenko Kirill	RUS
4	FM	Xu Yi	CHN	2	beat	1	GM	Wagner Dennis	GER
5	IM	Svane Rasmus	GER	1½	drew with	1½		Yuan Qingyu	CHN
6		Pirverdiyev Agil	AZE	1	lost to	2	GM	Aravindh Chithambaram Vr.	IND
7	FM	Nihal Sarin	IND	1½	drew with	1½		Xu Yinglun	CHN
8	GM	Sunilduth Lyna Narayanan	IND	2	beat	1	FM	Tran Minh Thang	VIE
9		Harsha Bharathakoti	IND	1½	drew with	1½	GM	Karthikeyan Murali	IND
10	GM	Gagare Shardul	IND	1	lost to	2		Ivekovic Bozidar	CRO
11	FM	Gheorghiu Calin	ROU	1	lost to	2	IM	Tran Tuan Minh	VIE
12	FM	Gholami Aryan	IRI	1½	drew with	1½	FM	Belous Mikhail	UKR
13		Sahoo Utkal Ranjan	IND	1	lost to	2		Beradze Irakli	GEO
14	IM	Mosadeghpour Masoud	IRI	1½	drew with	1½		Gandhi Anish	IND
15		Barath Kalyan M	IND	1	lost to	2	IM	Visakh N R	IND
16		Maghsoodloo Parham	IRI	1½	beat	1		Nyamdorj Davaaochir	CAN
17	IM	Henriquez Villagra Cristobal	CHI	1½	beat	½	FM	Rydstrom Tom	SWE
18	IM	Studer Noel	SUI	½	lost to	1½	FM	Gajwa Ankit	IND
19	FM	Rakesh Kumar Jena	IND	1½	beat	½	IM	Basso Pier Luigi	ITA
20	IM	Nasuta Grzegorz	POL	1½	beat	½		Ritviz Parab	IND
21	IM	Mousavi Seyed Khalil	IRI	1½	beat	½		Shailesh Dravid	IND
22	IM	Bersamina Paulo	PHI	1½	beat	½		Taalaibekov Tagir	KGZ
23	IM	Chakravarthi Reddy M	IND	1½	beat	½	FM	Martins David Pires Tavares	POR
24	FM	Rajdeep Sarkar	IND	1½	beat	½		Thogersen Rasmus	DEN
25	IM	Akash G	IND	1	beat	½		Dassanayake D M G S	SRI
26		Fan Huifeng	CHN	0	lost to	1	IM	Lorparizangeneh Shahin	IRI
27	FM	Lokander Martin	SWE	0	lost to	1		Srijit Paul	IND
28	FM	Viennot Dylan	FRA	1	beat	0		Squella Lavin Carlos Felipe	CHI
29		Subhayan Kundu	IND	0	lost to	1	CM	Erigaisi Arjun	IND
30	FM	Grandadam Patrik	SUI	1	beat	0		Papakonstantinou Dimitrios	GRE
31	FM	Karthik Venkataraman	IND	1	beat	0		Holleland Sigve	NOR
32		Evangelista Paul Robert	PHI	1	beat	0		Arjun Kalyan	IND
33	IM	Krishna Teja N	IND	1	beat	0		Tahay Alexis	FRA
34		Rahul Srivatshav P	IND	½	drew with	½		Palucha Szymon	ENG
35		Avik Sarker	BAN	0	lost to	1		Dhulipalla Bala Chandra Prasad	IND
36	FM	Ivic Velimir	SRB	1	beat	0		Hsu Chuan-Chia	TPE
37		Subramaniam Shreyes	MAS	1	beat	0		Yogit S	IND
38		Sammed Jaykumar Shete	IND	1	beat	0	AIM	Skettos Nicolas	CYP
39		Weerasinghe C C	SRI	½	drew with	½	CM	Salles Louis	FRA
		Seppala Joni	FIN	0	1 - -			Bye

RESULTS GIRLS

Bo.	Title	White	FED	Pts	Results	Pts	Title	Black	FED
1	WGM	Saduakassova Dinara	KAZ	1½	drew with	1½	WFM	Alinasab Mobina	IRI
2	WIM	Uuriintuya Uurtsaikh	MGL	1	lost to	2	WIM	Bivol Alina	RUS
3		Harshita Guddanti	IND	1½	drew with	1½	WIM	Kiolbasa Oliwia	POL
4	WIM	Styazhkina Anna	RUS	1	lost to	2	WIM	Nandhidhaa Pv	IND
5	WFM	Santeramo Alessia	ITA	1	lost to	2	WIM	Dordzhieva Dinara	RUS
6	WIM	Frayna Janelle Mae	PHI	2	beat	1	WCM	Salonika Saina	IND
7	WFM	Ivanova Karina	RUS	2	beat	1	WIM	Vaishali R	IND
8	WFM	Varshini V	IND	1	lost to	2	WGM	Buksa Nataliya	UKR
9	WIM	Monnisha G K	IND	2	beat	1	WIM	Gu Tianlu	CHN
10		Ayinala Shree	USA	1	lost to	2	WIM	Eswaran Ashritha	USA
11	WIM	Michelle Catherina P	IND	2	beat	1		Priyanka K	IND
12	WIM	Pratyusha Bodda	IND	1½	beat	1	WCM	Chandreyee Hajra	IND
13	IM	Rodriguez Rueda Paula	COL	1½	beat	½	WFM	Gomez Barrera Javiera Belen	CHI
14	WIM	Blagojevic Tijana	MNE	1½	beat	½	WFM	Lasya.G	IND
15		Priyanka Nutakki	IND	1½	beat	½		Omurbekova Diana	KGZ
16		Barchuk Irina	UKR	½	lost to	1½	WIM	Parnali S Dharia	IND
17		Kakulidis Ellen	DEN	½	lost to	1½	WIM	Mahalakshmi M	IND
18	WFM	Injac Teodora	SRB	1	beat	½		Hoare Amy B	ENG
19		Bala Kannamma P	IND	½	drew with	½	WIM	Tokhirjonova Gulrukhbegim	UZB
20	WFM	Mendoza Shania Mae	PHI	0	lost to	1	WIM	Chitlange Sakshi	IND
21		Du Yuxin	CHN	1	beat	0	WFM	Hiebler Laura	AUT
22	WFM	Srija Seshadri	IND	1	beat	0	WFM	Yanjinlkham Bayarsaikhan	MGL
23	WCM	Sapale Saloni	IND	½	drew with	½		Vantika Agrawal	IND
24		Divya Lakshmi R	IND	1	beat	0	WFM	Choladze Mariami	GEO
25		Soyunlu Narmin	AZE	1	beat	0		Barbier Astrid	BEL
26		Albekova Dilyara	KAZ	0	lost to	1	WFM	Visanescu Daria-Ioana	ROU
27	WFM	Leonardi Caterina	SLO	1	beat	0		Minaud Emily	FRA
28		Thomas Anysia	FRA	1	beat	0		Gamage Nethmi Nirasha	SRI

9 August 2016

World Junior Chess Championship 2016

Odisha's Utkal and Tamil Nadu's Monnisha cause upsets

The World Junior Chess Championship 2016 got off to a rollicking start at the KIIT University on Monday. 137 players from 42 different countries are participating in this in this prestigious tournament spanning 13 rounds.

Mr. Bharat Singh Chauhan Chairman Technical Commission FIDE makes the first move of the tournament
Mr. Bharat Singh Chauhan, Chairman, FIDETechnical Commission makes the first move of the tournament

Top seed GM Artiemev Vladislav of Russia defeated FM Viennot Dylan of France

Russian GM Vladislav Artemiev and American GM Jeffrey Xiong are the top two seeds of this mega junior event. Artemiev faced no difficulties in dispatching his French opponent FM Dylan Viennot, nor did Xiong, who defeated India’s CM Arjun Erigaisi. The third seed GM Kirill Aleksenko of Russia won with relative ease as well, against Swiss FM Patrik Grandadam. Fourth seed Iran’s Parham Maghsoodloo was slightly worse, but managed to come back into the game and was winning, but a late blunder meant that his opponent Swedish FM Tom Rydstrom enforced a stalemate, thus earning an upset draw.

Utkalranjan Sahoo upset IM Lorparizangeneh Shahin of Iran

GM Aravindh Chithambaram of Inida managed to win against IM Krishna Teja

Indians had a day of ‘swing and miss’ as a handful of them had a better position against their opponents, but did not manage to convert. The leader of the Indian challenge GM Aravindh Chithambaram was completely losing his game against country-mate IM Krishna Teja N. Nevertheless, he did not give up and kept pushing, and eventually swindled his opponent, winning the game after being two pawns down at one point. Odisha’s leading light Utkal Ranjan Sahoo, the 53rd seed, caused a big upset by beating 13th seeded Iran’s IM Shahin Lorparizangeneh in a nice fashion. Indian talents Ankit Gajwa, Ritviz Parab, Chakravarthi Reddy and Shailesh Dravid earned draws against their higher rated opponents.

GK Monnisha of India defeated fourth seeded WIM Tokhirjonova Gulrukhbegim of Uzbekistan

In the girls section Saduakassova Dinara of Kazhakstan right defeated Hiebler Laura of Austria

In the girls' section, the top seed WGM Dinara Saduakassova of Kazakhstan and the second seed Russian WIM Alina Bivol won their games, but the third seed Indian WIM Pratusha Bodda was held by country-mate WIM Mahalakshmi M. On the fourth board, WIM G.K. Monnisha, the 32nd seed, beat Uzbek WIM Gulrukhbegim Tokhirjonova.

A view of the Girls section

Earlier, in a befitting opening ceremony, Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik flagged off the mega-tournament by wishing for a brighter future for the state in sports and culture, which chess so significantly brings forward. Mr. Bharat Singh Chauhan, CEO of All India Chess Federation, inaugurated the event with the customary first move.

Round 1 Results

BOYS

Artemiev Vladislav	RUS	1	beat	0	Viennot Dylan	FRA
Erigaisi Arjun	IND	0	lost to	1	Xiong Jeffery	USA
Alekseenko Kirill	RUS	1	beat	0	Grandadam Patrik	SUI
Rydstrom Tom	SWE	0.5	drew with	0.5	Maghsoodloo Parham	IRI
Wagner Dennis	GER	1	beat	0.5	Karthik Venkataraman	IND
Arjun Kalyan	IND	0	lost to	0.5	Svane Rasmus	GER
Aravindh Chithambaram Vr.	IND	1	beat	0.5	Krishna Teja N	IND
Gajwa Ankit	IND	0.5	drew with	0.5	Henriquez Villagra Cristobal	CHI
Xu Yinglun	CHN	1	beat	0.5	Rahul Srivatshav P	IND
Dhulipalla Bala Chandra Prasad	IND	0	lost to	0.5	Sunilduth Lyna Narayanan	IND
Karthikeyan Murali	IND	1	beat	0.5	Ivic Velimir	SRB
Yogit S	IND	0	lost to	0.5	Gagare Shardul	IND
Lorparizangeneh Shahin	IRI	0	lost to	1	Sahoo Utkal Ranjan	IND
Ritviz Parab	IND	0.5	drew with	0.5	Studer Noel	SUI
Tran Tuan Minh	VIE	1	beat	0	Sammed Jaykumar Shete	IND
Salles Louis	FRA	0	lost to	1	Gholami Aryan	IRI
Basso Pier Luigi	ITA	0.5	drew with	0.5	Chakravarthi Reddy M	IND
Shailesh Dravid	IND	0.5	drew with	0.5	Nasuta Grzegorz	POL
Beradze Irakli	GEO	1	beat	0	Fan Huifeng	CHN
Srijit Paul	IND	0	lost to	1	Mosadeghpour Masoud	IRI
Visakh N R	IND	1	beat	0	Squella Lavin Carlos Felipe	CHI
Praggnanandhaa R	IND	1	beat	0	Subhayan Kundu	IND
Taalaibekov Tagir	KGZ	0.5	drew with	0.5	Mousavi Seyed Khalil	IRI
Menezes Christoph	AUT	1	beat	0	Papakonstantinou Dimitrios	GRE
Thogersen Rasmus	DEN	0.5	drew with	0.5	Bersamina Paulo	PHI
Martins David Pires Tavares	POR	0.5	drew with	0.5	Rakesh Kumar Jena	IND
Gandhi Anish	IND	1	beat	0	Akash G	IND
Beukema Stefan	BEL	1	beat	0	Holleland Sigve	NOR
Tahay Alexis	FRA	0	lost to	1	Xu Yi	CHN
Yuan Qingyu	CHN	1	beat	0	Evangelista Paul Robert	PHI
Nyamdorj Davaaochir	CAN	1	beat	0	Lokander Martin	SWE
Pirverdiyev Agil	AZE	1	beat	0	Avik Sarker	BAN
Palucha Szymon	ENG	0	lost to	1	Nihal Sarin	IND
Tran Minh Thang	VIE	1	beat	0	Subramaniam Shreyes	MAS
Dassanayake D M G S	SRI	0.5	drew with	0.5	Rajdeep Sarkar	IND
Ivekovic Bozidar	CRO	1	beat	0	Weerasinghe C C	SRI
Hsu Chuan-Chia	TPE	0	lost to	1	Harsha Bharathakoti	IND
Belous Mikhail	UKR	1	beat	0	Seppala Joni	FIN
Skettos Nicolas	CYP	0	lost to	1	Gheorghiu Calin	ROU

GIRLS

Hiebler Laura	AUT	0	lost to	1	Saduakassova Dinara	KAZ
Bivol Alina	RUS	1	beat	0	Srija Seshadri	IND
Mahalakshmi M	IND	0.5	drew with	0.5	Pratyusha Bodda	IND
Tokhirjonova Gulrukhbegim	UZB	0	lost to	1	Monnisha G K	IND
Lasya.G	IND	0.5	drew with	0.5	Rodriguez Rueda Paula Andrea	COL
Kiolbasa Oliwia	POL	1	beat	0.5	Sapale Saloni	IND
Choladze Mariami	GEO	0	lost to	1	Styazhkina Anna	RUS
Dordzhieva Dinara	RUS	1	beat	0.5	Soyunlu Narmin	AZE
Visanescu Daria-Ioana	ROU	0	lost to	1	Frayna Janelle Mae	PHI
Vaishali R	IND	1	beat	0	Leonardi Caterina	SLO
Gomez Barrera Javiera Belen	CHI	0.5	drew with	0.5	Blagojevic Tijana	MNE
Buksa Nataliya	UKR	1	beat	0	Thomas Anysia	FRA
Priyanka K	IND	1	beat	0	Injac Teodora	SRB
Gu Tianlu	CHN	1	beat	0	Bala Kannamma P	IND
Hoare Amy B	ENG	0.5	drew with	0.5	Priyanka Nutakki	IND
Eswaran Ashritha	USA	1	beat	0	Chitlange Sakshi	IND
Yanjinlkham Bayarsaikhan	MGL	0	lost to	1	Michelle Catherina P	IND
Parnali S Dharia	IND	0.5	drew with	0.5	Kakulidis Ellen	DEN
Vantika Agrawal	IND	0	lost to	1	Uuriintuya Uurtsaikh	MGL
Alinasab Mobina	IRI	1	beat	0	Du Yuxin	CHN
Chandreyee Hajra	IND	1	beat	0	Mendoza Shania Mae	PHI
Omurbekova Diana	KGZ	0.5	drew with	0.5	Barchuk Irina	UKR
Nandhidhaa Pv	IND	1	beat	0	Divya Lakshmi R	IND
Barbier Astrid	BEL	0	lost to	1	Santeramo Alessia	ITA
Salonika Saina	IND	1	beat	0	Albekova Dilyara	KAZ
Minaud Emily	FRA	0	lost to	1	Ivanova Karina	RUS
Varshini V	IND	1	beat	0	Gamage Nethmi Nirasha	SRI

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