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Chess
By Manuel Aaron
Ramya Krishna defeated Teodora Traistaru of Romania while darkhorse Kajri Choksi from Gujarat was half a point behind the leaders with a victory over England's Selina Coo. Harika played well against Muzychuk with the black pieces. In a Closed Sicilian, she sacrificed her rook for a bishop and two pawns and an attack when the Ukraine Woman Master made an unusual recapture on the 12th move. Harika's queen knight and bishop toyed with the Queen, rook and bishop of white as the white king had no pawn cover at all. Muzychuk gave back the rook for a bishop and Harika became two pawns up in a queen and rook middle-game. Harika won after 66 moves in an easy rook ending. Ramya displayed exemplary knowledge and flair during the end in her game against Traistaru. After 44 moves of a London System opening, the game reached a bishop versus knight ending where the bishop was considered bad on account of a pair of central pawns being blocked on the same colour as the bishop. However, there were pawns on both wings too and Ramya utilised her bishop and king with good pawn moves to make the king and short-range knight helpless to cope with white's two passed pawns. The Romanian's passed pawn on the b-file was too far from the queening square to pose any danger. Ramya won on the 64th move. In the sixth round, Harika and Ramya meet on the top board in a match between Guntur and Hyderabad! In the girls' under-10 category, P. Lakshmi Sahithi lost against China's Xuewei Liu. After castling long on the white side of a Sicilian, Lakshmi impetuously sacrificed a bishop on b5 for three pawns on the queenside. This voluntarily brought up the black rooks against her castled position and she paid the penalty for being too optimistic in her sacrifice. In this category, Manogna Mandava was half a point behind a trio of joint leaders. In the under-14 girls' division, Krutiga Nadig kept herself near the top with a draw against Georgia's Bela Khotenashvili. It was a game of fluctuating fortunes and Krutiga was eventually lucky. In a match between two Woman International Masters in the under-16 girls' category, Tania Sachdev drew against Natalia Zdebskaya of Armenia. The game ended when the Armenian gave a perpetual check. In another game in this category, Amruta Mokal lost to Eesha Karavade when she pressed too hard for victory. In the boys' under-18 section, Hari Krishna won against Lorenz Drabke of Germany after getting into an inferior position. When faced with a choice of either allowing the game to end in a draw or subjecting himself to an inferior position, Hari chose the latter. Helped by a couple of inaccuracies by Drabke, the players reached a Queen ending where Hari held some advantage but his opponent had a good chance to draw. After the game, Drabke told Hari that he thought the queen ending was an easy draw. But he had not counted on the speed of Hari's passed pawn. After four hours of play, Hari emerged winner. Hari is in a group of eight players with four points each, trailing two leaders with 4.5 points apiece. In the boys' under-10 event, Asian champion Parimarjan Negi was doing well. After drawing his first game, he won four straight games. He and three others are half a point behind the leader. In under-12, the Indian boys who were doing quite well — Aswin Jayaram and Subodh Lakhey — both suffered defeats against higher-rated players. And in the under-14 section, both Deep Sengupta and G. Rohit were on four points. Somak Palit and Deepan Chakravarthy drew their game in the under-16 section after a long fight. The results (round five): Boys: Under-10: Marc Tyler Arnold (U.S.) lost to P. Negi (4.5); Liren Ding (Chn) bt Y. Sandeep (3.5); Jan Krejci (Cze) lost to P.P. Prachura (3); Under-12: Aswin Jayaram (3) lost to Dmitri Andreikine (Rus); David Berczes (Hun) bt Subodh Lakhey (3); Sai Srinivas (2.5) drew with Roman Jezov (TKM); Dusan Bojovic (Yug) lost to C.R.G. Krishna (3); Sarkis Agaian (U.S.) bt Sankalp Modwal (2); Under-14: G. Rohit (4) bt Nikhilesh Kumar (3.5); Evgeny Margolin (Rus) lost to Deep Sengupta (4); Christophe Mergeai (Lux) lost to Namra Pandya (2); Under-16: Somak (3.5) drew with Deepan Chakravarthy (3.5); Under-18: Hari Krishna (4) bt Drabke (Ger); Poobesh 2 lost to Jan Smolen (Svk). Girls: Under-10: Lakshmi Sahithi 3.5 lost to Xuewei Liu (Chn); Tartacuta (MDA) lost to Manogna 4; G. Madanasri 3.5 bt Wing-Yan Yuen (Fra); Under-12: A. Muzychuk (Ukr) lost to Harika 4.5; Ramya Krishna 4.5 bt Traistaru (Rom); Selina Coo (Eng) lost to Kajri Choksi 4; Under-14: K. Nadig 4 drew Kotenashvili (Geo); Saheli Nath 3 lost to Malysheva (Rus); Under-16: Zdebskaja (Arm) drew with Tania Sachdev 4; Amruta Mokal 3 lost to Eesha Karavade 4; Under-18: P. Priya 2.5 bt Laila Viestad (Nor).
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