Brazil: The second day of World Youth Chess Championship at Caldas Novas, Brazil produced a mixed day for Indian camp as most of the players produced decisive results in their favour but some unexpected defeats made the day even for the team India.
Top seed in the Under-12 category Aravindh Chithambaram sailed smoothly to the third round with full point his kitty after defeating Andrew Tang of USA in the second round. First round hero Sarang Ponkshe made his intentions clear in the championship as he outwitted Menezes Christoph of Austria rated above 300 elo points in the Open category of Under-16 event. The battle between Indian Players Bala Kannamma and Nandhidha P V produced a decisive result in favour of the later in the girls Under-16 Category. In the girls’ Under-18 category, A Akshya produced a creditable win against her higher rated rival Chumpitaz Ann of Peru.
In a major setback to Indian medal hopes in Girls’ Under-12 category, top seed Ivana Maria Furtado suffered shock defeat by the hands of Zhou Qiyu of Canada while medal prospect in Under-18 category Stany G A had the same fate against lower rated Kozganbay Erken of Kazakhstan.
Second Round Results of Indian Players
Under-8 Girls :- Lakshmi C beat Motahahere Asadi of Iran; Salonika Saina beat Ramirez Jemmily of Colombia; Tanishka Kotia lost to Sabzi Tina; Zhang Taylor of Canada lost to Bommini Mounika Akshaya.
Under-8 Open :- Ritam Nag lost to Muradli Mahammad of Azerbaijan; Sai Krishna S lost to Noritsyn Sergey of Canada; Martinez Navarro Christian Ale of Peru lost to Ram Aravind L N.
Under-10 Girls :- Bansi Prathima beat Nunonca Soto Lucero of Peru; Bidhar Rutumbara beat Korenova Magdalena of Chez Republic; Paredes Andrea of Ecuador lost to WFM Tarini Goyal; Lalla Kriti of South Africa beat Priyanka K.
Under-10 Open :- Rathanvel VS beat Vilca Javier of Peru; Rakesh Kumar Jena beat Jaramillo David of Ecuador; Anand nadir beat Leto Enzo of Argentina; Nitish Belurkar lost to Martin Juian of Germany; Correa Cristhian Mariano of Argentina lost to Mitrabha Guha.
Under-12 Girls:- WFM Ding Kimberly of USA drew with WCM Tejaswini Sagar; Priyamvada Karamcheti beat Ulusoy Nisan of Turkey; Zhou Qiyu of Canada beat WGM Ivana Maria Furtado; Padayachee Keyana Chloe of South Africa lost to WCM Savant Riya.
Under-12 Open :- Karthikeyan Murali beat FM Harshal Shahi; Tang Andrew of USA lost to Aravindh Chithambaram; CM Nguyen Tan Hoang Nam of Vietnam lost to CM Abhimanyu Puranik; Vojdani Siavosh of Iran beat Hetul Shah.
Under-14 Girls :- WFM Monnisha GK beat Gueci Laura of Italy; Lasya G beat Coelho Ramyres Santana of Brazil; WFM Srija Seshadri drew with Shepherd Katherine of England; Virkud Apurava of USA drew with WFM Mahalakshmi M.
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Under-14 Open :- FM Girish A Koushik beat Krsnik Cohar Ivan Vihor of Croatia; Colas Joshua of USA lost to FM Diptyan Ghosh; Ouaret Abdelouhab of Algeria lost to Satvik M.
Under-16 Girls :- Bala Kannamma lost to Nandhidhaa PV; Oliveira Maria Ines of Portugal lost to Pratyusha Bodda; Anjana Krishna S of drew with Movileanu Daniela of Italy.
Under-16 Open :- Pineiro Dario of Argentina drew with IM Shiven Khosla; Sarang Ponkshe beat Menezes Christoph of Austria ; Bianchi Augusto of Argentina lost to Antonio Viani D’cunha.
Under-18 Girls :- WFM Chumpitaz Ann of Peru lost to A Akshaya; WFM Saranya J drew with WIM Papp Petra of Hungary; Meghara Lylia of Algeria lost to Visalatchi R.
Under-18 Open :- GM Grandadam Nicolas of Switzerland drew with Himal Gusain; Kozganbay Erken of Kazakhstan beat Stany G A; Kerigan Demre of Turkey drew with Debashis Das.
