Sasikiran, Harikrishna share lead

KOZHIKODE, SEPT. 28. Sasikiran and P. Harkrishna moved to the joint second position at the end of the eighth round of the World junior chess championship at Yeravan, Armenia.

Both the Indians posted wins and are on 5.5 points. With five rounds remaining, along with five other players, they are now just half-a-point behind the leaders Lazaro Bruzon of Cuba and Kamil Milton of Poland.

Sasikiran, seeded second, beat Varuzhan Akobian of the host country, while Harikrishna got the better of Spas Kozhuharov of Bulgaria.Surya Shekhar Ganguly made it a perfect day for the Indian boys, beating Sweden's Emanuel Berg.

The results (eighth round):

Boys: Lazaro Bruzon (Cub) 6 drew with Levon Aronian (Arm) 5.5; Kamil Miton (Pol) 6 bt Zvaid Izoria (Geo) 5; Karen Asrian (Arm) 5.5 bt Dmitrij Jakovenko 5; Ghaem Maghami (Ira) 5.5 bt Vladimir Malakhov (Rus) 4.5; Krishnan Sasikiran (Ind) 5.5 bt Varuzhan Akobian (Arm) 4.5.

Baadur Jobava (Geo) 5 drew with Alik Gershon (Isr) 5; Spas Kozhuharov (Bul) 4.5 lost to P. Harikrishna (Ind) 5.5; Florian Jenni (Sui) 5.5 bt Peter Acs (Hun) 4.5; Dmitry Svetushkin (Mda) 4 lost to Gabriel Sargissian (Arm) 5.5; Surya Shekhar Ganguly (Ind) 5 bt Emanuel Berg (Swe) 4.

Girls: Lela Javakhishvili (Geo) 5.5 bt Xu Yuanyuan (Chn) 7; Anastasia Sorokina (Blr) 4.5 lost to Wang Yu (Chn) 5.5; Iweta Radziewicz (Pol) 4.5 lost to Olga Zimina (Rus) 5.5; Nisha Mohota (Ind) 4.5 lost to Anna Ushenina (Ukr) 5.5; Lilit Mkrtchian (Arm) 4.5 drew with Jana Jackova (Cze) 4.5; Elisabeth Paehtz (Ger) 5 bt Lilit Galojan (Arm) 4; Narine Gasparian (Arm) 5 bt Darja Kaps (Slo) 4; Sulennis Pina (Cub) 5 bt Sopiko Khukhashvili (Ger) 3.5; Daiva Batyte (Ltu) 3 lost to Aarthie Ramaswamy (Ind) 4.5.

- Our Sports Reporter

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