Brazil: A strong 45-member Indian team started the championship campaign in style, as 42 players secured full point from first round outing in the World Youth Chess Championships-2011, which got off to a rousing start here at Caldas Novas, Brazil on Friday evening.
A total number of 1120 players from 80 countries are participating in fourteen different categories of this prestigious event.
Top seeds in Under-12 categories Aravidndh Chithambaram and Ivana Furtado sailed smoothly to the second round with comforatble victoroies over Porta Campos Nicolas of Argentina and Nunes Agatha Hruba of Brazil respectively.
In a surprise result in Under-16 Open category Maharashtra youngster Sarang Ponkshe shocked higher rated Russin Fide Master Terentjev Vladislavi in the first round battle. But in a minor setback, medal prospect in Under-14 category Girish Koushik satisfied with half point against his lower rated Polish rival Ulanovski Karol.
Indian Players Results in First Round
Under-18 Open :- Stany G A beat Bezerra Natacio Goncalves of Brazil; IM Debashis Das beat Sakai Hibiki of Japan; Himal Gusain beat Heinechen John of Paraguay;
Under-18 Girls :- Visalatchi R lost to WIM Kazimova Narmin of Azerbaijan; WFM Saranya J beat Ambanwela Lumbini of Sri Lanka; A Akshya beat Mustafa Fagina of Bolivia
Under-16 Open :- IM Shiven Khosla beat Benavente Vazquez Juan Jose of Mexico; Antonio Vian D’cunha beat Flores Mendoza Guillermo of Peru; Sarang Ponkshe beat FM Terentjev Vladislav of Russia.
Under-16 Girls :- Nandhidhaa PV beat Bauer Valentina of Austria; Pratyusha Bodda beat Huber Elke Carola of Austria; De Lima Larissa Alves of Brazil lost to Bala Kannama; Fang Tina Fang of Canada lost to Anjana Krishna;
Under-14 Open :-FM Girish Kosuhik drew with Ulanovski Karol of Poland; FM Diptyan Ghosh beat Abe Mahiro of Japan; M Satvik lost to Asgarizadeh Ahmad of Iran
Under-14 Girls :- Perez Dalila of Paraguay lost to WFM Monnisha G K; Paspuel Melissa of Ecuador lost to Lasya G; WFM Mahalakshmi M beat Clavijo Indira of Peru; Roasales Murilo Cristina of Ecuador lost to Srija Sheshadri.
Under-12 Open :- Aravindh Chithabaram beat Porta Campos Nicolas of Argentina; Lopex Bruno of Bolivia lost to Karthikeyan Murali; CM Abhimanyu Puranik beat Tennakoon T T M D C T of Sri Lanka; Hetul Shah beat Espinoza Robels Diego of Peru; FM Harshal Shahi beat Marais Franco of South Africa
Under-12 Girls :- WFM Ivana Maria Furtado of Nunes Agatha Hruba of Brazil ; Valeva Ana of Bulgaria given walk over to Savant Riya; Bonvini Adriana Tonhati of Brazil lost to Priyamvada Karamcheti; WCM Tejaswini Sagar beat Chaparro Riquelme Gabriela Nat of Paraguay
Under-10 Open :- FM Mitrabha Guha drew with Denner Duan of South Africa; Osorio Felipe Manojo de Souza of Brazil lost to Rathanvel V S; Schmidt Guilhermo Machado Lourieiro of Brazil lost to Rakesh Kumar Jena; Burke John M of USA lost to Anand Nadar; Wang Michael of USA lost to CM Nitish Belurkar
Under-10 Girls :- Halim Farhana of Australia lost to Bansi Prathima; Schender Jana of Germany lost to Bidhar Rutumbara; WFM Tarini Goyal beat Stroganova Karina of Russia; Priyanka K beat Davis Katherine of USA
Under-8 Open :- Morozli Grigorijs of Latvia lost to Ram Arvind L N; Alfaro Johan Kevin of Peru lost to Ritam Nag; Corvera Choi Kemos of Mexico lost Sai Krishna S
Under-8 Girls :- Valencia Manrique Luciana Xime of Peru lost to Lakshmi C; Perez V maria Jose of Colombia lost Salonia Saina; Raccanello Mariaana of Italy lost to Tanishka Kotia; Bommini Mounika Akashya beat Toconas Agustina Celeste of Argentina.
