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Seventh win for Sabaj Grover

NEW DELHI: Sahaj Grover continued his dream run and demolished Azerbaijan's Ulvi Bajarani to maintain his all-win record after seven rounds of the boys' under-10 section of the World Youth chess championship at Belfort, France, on Monday.

While Grover led the field by 1.5 points, N. Srinath defeated overnight leader Sanan Sjugirov to snatch the lead with 6.5 points in the boys under-12 section.

Seventh round results (involving Indians):

Boys: Under-10: Ulvi Bajarani (5.5) lost to Sahaj Grover (7); Nikita Krayashkin (5) bt K. Harsh (4); Shiven Khosla (5) bt Mukhit Ismailov (4); Rishi Thariani (3.5) drew with Cankut Emiroglu (3.5); Vasanta Varman (4) bt Gigla Bendze (3); Surya Sudharshan (2) lost to Peitro Visentin (3); Kosta Peev (1) bt Suboth Shirodkar (0.5)

Under-12: Sanan Sjugirov (6) lost to N. Srinath (6.5); S.P. Sethuraman (6) bt Sebastian Iermito (5); Ray Robson (5) drew with Parimarjan Negi (5); Michal Matuszewski (4.5) lost to V. A. V. Rajesh (5.5); Tamas Petenyi (5) bt Prasanna Rao (4); Hari Hara Sudhan (2.5) lost to Razik Azad (3.5)

Under-14: Y. Sandeep (5.5) lost to Le Quang Liem (6.5); Nikhil Shyam (4.5) bt Aikhouri Ibrahiem (3.5); Sankalp Modwal (4) bt Jeremie Devallee (3). Under-16: Falko Bindrich (5.5) drew with G. Rohit (5.5); D. Sai Srinivas (4.5) bt Alessandro Bonfede (4.5); K. Vijay Keerthi (3.5) lost to Robert Aloma Vidal (4.5). Under-18: Wen Yang (4) lost to Deep Sengupta (5); Dagur Arngrimsson (3.5) lost to Deepan Chakkravarthy (4.5).

Girls: Under-10: K. Sai Nirupama (5.5) lost to Lach Alexandra (6.5). Under-12: Andrea Vilce (4.5) lost to P. Lakshmi Sahiti (5.5); Margaux Lefevre (3.5) lost to Rucha Pujari (4.5); Katja Jus (2.5) lost to G. Srisha (3.5).

Under-14: Elena Tairova (6.5) bt I. Ramya Krishna (5); Jessika Drobrenski (4) lost to Pon. N. Krithika (5); (under-16): Anya Corke (5) lost to Saheli Nath (6); Valentina Guinina (4) lost to D. Harika (5.5); Mary Ann Gomes (4.5) drew with Mathilde Congiu (4.5). Under-18: Sarah Hoolt (5) bt Soumya Swaminathan (3.5); N. Vinuthna (3.5) lost to Khana Itkis (4.5).

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