Brazil: Karthikeyan Murali outwitted team mate and top seed Aravindh Chithambaram in the penultimate round to share the lead with Hungarian Fide Master Gledura Benjamin with seven points in the Under-12 Open category of the ongoing World Youth Chess Championship here at Caldas Novas on Friday. Karthikeyan have superior tie-break score than his Hungarian joint leader and the Indian camp is hoping for gold medal finish from this Tamilnadu teenager when he takes on Ravi Haria of England in the final round tomorrow.
Meanwhile overnight leader in the Under-14 Open section, Diptayan Ghosh slipped to second position after settling for half point against Duda Jan-Krzysztof of Poland. With just one round remaining, other medal contenders in the Indian camp are Ram Aravind in Under-8 Open, Rathanvel V S in Under-10 Open, Debashis Das, Stany in Under-18 Open, Nandhidhaa, Prathyusha Bodda in Under-16 Girls’ and Srija Seshadri in Under-14 Girls’ category.
Eigth Round Results of Indian Players (Indians otherwise stated)
Under-8 Girls :- Lakshmi C (5.5) drew with Solozhenkina Elizaveta of Russia (5.5); Bai Xue of China (6) beat Bommini Mounika Akshaya (5); Salonika Saina (5.5) drew with Peycheva Gergana of Bulgaria (5); Tanishka Kotia (4) lost to Yang Pou Kuan of Macau (5).
Under-8 Open :- Peng David T of USA (5.5) lost to Ram Aravind L N (6.5); Ritam Nag (4.5) lost to Baasansuren Erdence of Mongolia (5.5); Sai Krishna S (4) beat Lkhagvasanj Bilgun of Mongolia (3).
Under-10 Girls :- Bansi Prathima (5) lost WCM Serikbay Assel of Kazakhstan (6); Bidhar Rutumbara (6) beat WCM Shuvalova Polina of Russia (5.5); WFM Wang Annie of USA (6) beat WFM Tarini Goyal (5); Nunonca Soto Lucero of Peru (4.5) drew with Priyanka K (4.5).
Under-10 Open :- Rathanvel V S (6.5) drew with Li Ruifeng of USA (6.5); Sandoval Mercado Carlos of Mexico (4.5) lost to FM Mitrabha Guha (5.5); The De Juan of Malaysia (5) lost to Rakesh Kumar Jena (6); Szymnowski Igor of Poland (5.5) beat Anand Nadar (4.5); CM Nitish Belurkar (5) beat Yoshioka Hugo of Brazil (4).
Under-12 Girls :- WFM Ivana Maria Furtado (5.5) lost to WFM Vasenina Anna of Russia (7); WCM Savant Riya (5.5) beat Castillo Martinex Paola of Peru (4.5); Priyamvada Karamcheti (4.5) drew with Verstraeten Iris of Beligium (4.5); WCM Tejaswini Sagar (5) beat WCM Darling Tiffany Charne of South Africa (4).
Under-12 Open :- Karthikeyan Murali (7) beat Aravindh Chithambaram (5.5);Tari Aryan of Norway (6) beat CM Abhimanyu Puranik (5); Hetul Shah (6) drew with Khanin Semen of Russia (6); Modi Saching (4) lost to FM Harshal Shahi (5).
Under-14 Girls :- WFM Monnisha G K (5) lost to Coelho Ramyres Santana of Brazil (6); Lasya G (5.5) lost to WGM Goryachkina Aleksandra (8); Ganbaatar Saikhanzaya of Mongolia (5) drew with WFM Mahalakshmi M (5); WFM Tlale Tshepang of South Africa (5) lost to WFM Srija Seshadri (6).
Under-14 Open :- FM Diptayan Ghosh (6.5) drew with FM Duda Jan-Krzysztof of Poland (6.5); FM Girish A Koushik (5.5) lost to FM Cuellar Diego of Peru (6.5); Markoja Boris of Slovenia (4) drew with Satvik M (4.5).
Under-16 Girls :- WFM Osmannodja Filiz of Germany (5) lost to Pratyusha Bodda (6); Sviridova Vlada of Russia (5) lost to Nandhidhaa PV (6); Bala Kannamma P (4) lost to Smirnova Ekaterina of Russia (5); Anjana Krishna S (5) beat Aflalo Sophie of France (4).
Under-16 Open :- Hernandez Sanhez Jairo Andres of Colombia (5.5) drew with Antonio Viani D’cunha (5.5); Marques Joao Paulo Casemiro of Brazil (5) beat IM Shiven Khosla (4); Sarang Ponkshe (4.5) beat FM Barros Raul Junior of Colombia (3.5).
Under-18 Girls :- WFM Saranya J (4) lost to WIM Hejazipour Mitra of Iran (5); Sanal Suna of Turkey (3.5) lost to A Akshaya (4.5); Shyngys Kyzy Aijarkyn of Kyrgyzstan (3) lost to Visalatchi R (4).
Under-18 Open :- IM Debashis Das (6.5) beat Laceste Loren Brigham of Canada (5); IM Zhou Yang-Fan of England (5.5) lost to Stany G A (6.5); Himal Gusain (5.5) beat FM Vlasak Lukas (4.5).
