Brazil: Diptayan Ghosh maintained his joint lead in the Open section of Under-14 category after settling for half point against Bluebaum Matthias of Germany in the sixth round of the ongoing World Youth Chess Championship here at Caldas Novas on Wednesday. While Bommini Mounika Akshaya, who had the joint lead after fifth round matches in the Girls’ Under-8 category suffered her first defeat in the championship against top seed Tran Vuong Mai Khanh of Vietnam and now at joint second spot with five points.
Meanwhile, nine players including national junior champion Aravindh Chithambaram and Karthikeyan Murali are tied at the top of the point table in Under-12 Open category with five points. Chithambaram got better off team mate Abhimanyu Puranik while Karthikeyan held Hungarian Fide Master Gledura Benjamin in the sixth round encounters.
After a setback in the last round, Nandhidhaa PV came back strongly to beat Guimaraes Artemis Pamela of Brazil in the sixth round and now tied for the second spot in Girls’ Under-16 category. In girls’ Under-14 category, the match between Monnisha and Srija Seshadri ended without decisive result and both players are now at second spot in the point table with five points.
Three more rounds remaining in this nine round Swiss system championship which concludes on Saturday.
Sixth Round Results of Indian Players (Indians otherwise stated)
Under-8 Girls :- Bommini Mounika Akshaya (5) lost to WCM Tran Vuong Mai Khanh of Vietnam (6); Lakshmi C (4) lost to Assaubayeva Bibissara of Kazakhstan (5); Salonika Saina (4) lost to Solozhenkina Elizaveta of Russia (5); Tanishka Kotia (4) beat Sade Defne of Turkey (3).
Under-8 Open :- Tan Cenker Eren of Turkey (5.5) beat Ram Arvind L N (4.5); Ritam Nag (4) beat Rojas Steven of Peru (3); Sai Krishna S (3) beat Mollo Jhoan of Bolivia (2.5).
Under-10 Girls :- WFM Li Yunshan of China (5) beat WFM Tarini Goyal (4); Radeva Viktoria of Bulgaria (5) beat Priyanka K (4); Bansi Prathima M (5) beat Kalaiyalahan Akshaya of England (3.5); Bidhar Rutumbara (4) beat Lalla Kriti of South Africa (3).
Under-10 Open :- Rathanvel V S (5) beat Sayadaliev Saidakbar of Uzbekistan (4.5); Rakesh Kumar Jena (5) beat Poghosyan Tigran of Germany (4); Zarubitski Viachaslau of Belarus lost to FM Mitrabha Guha (4.5); Anand Nadar (3.5) beat Knoff Thomas of USA (2.5); CM Nitish Belurkar (3) beat Yoshioka Andre of Brazil (2).
Under-12 Girls :- WCM Savant Riya (4.5) beat CM Vescovi Katherine Lemos of Brazil (3.5); Priyamvada Karamcheti (4) beat Jakab Kincso of Romania ; WFM Nominerdene Davaademberel of Mongolia (3.5) lost to WFM Ivana Maria Furtado (4.5); WCM Tejaswini Sagar (3.5) beat Ebeling Mikaela of Finland (2.5).
Under-12 Open :- FM Gledura Benjamin of Hungary (5) drew with Karthikeyan Murali (5); FM Xiong Jeffrey of USA (4.5) drew with Hetul Shah (4.5); CM Abhimanyu Puranik (4) lost to Aravindh Chithambaram (5); Porta Campos Nicolas of Argentina (4) beat FM Harshal Shahi (3).
Under-14 Girls :- WFM Monnisha G K (5) drew with WFM Srija Seshadri (5); Lasya G (4.5) beat Schwarz Larissa of Germany (3.5); Assaubayeva Diana of Kazakhstan (4.5) beat WFM Mahalakshmi M (3.5).
Under-14 Open :- Diptayan Ghosh (5) drew with FM Bluebaum Matthias of Germany (5); FM Girish A Koushik (4.5) beat Kukhmazov Arsen of Russia (4); FM Velasco Ricardo of Venezuela (3) drew with Satvik M (3).
Under-16 Girls :- Guimaraes Artemis Pamela of Brazil (4) lost to Nandhidhaaa PV (5); Pratyusha Bodda (4) beat Brizzi Milagros Tatiana of Argentina (3); Bala Kannamma P (3) lost to WFM Bea Boglarka of Hungary; Anjana krishan S (3.5) beat Orbezo Rosales Ximena Lucia of Peru (2.5).
Under-16 Open :- IM Kadric Denis of Bosnia & Herzegovina (4) drew with Antonio Viani D’cunha (4); Gusev Nikita of Canada (3) lost to IM Shiven Khosla (4); Sarang Ponkshe (2.5) drew with Moncada Russo Bryan of Ecuador (2.5).
Under-18 Girls :- WFM Saranya J (3) lost to WIM Olasrova Karolina of Czech Republic (4); Palmitessa Chiara of Italy (3) drew with Visalatchi R (3); Meghara Lylia of Algeria (2.5) lost to A Akshaya (3.5).
Under-18 Open :- Stany GA (4.5) beat Stanciu Alexandru Ovidiu of Romania (3.5); IM Mammadov Zaur Fazahir Oglu of Azerbaijan (4.5) drew with IM Debashis Das (4.5); Sakai Hibiki of Japan (2.5) lost to Himal Gusain (3.5).
