Indians triumph

SCARBOROUGH (UK), AUG. 7. Indian boys and girls have won the British (under- 9) chess championship. In the boys section Parimarjan Negi won all his games scoring seven out of seven points while in girls category Sathyapriya won the championship scoring five points.

Parimarjan won the championship with one round to spare. The child prodigy from Delhi has proved to be the strongest player in this age group tournament so far. He played 13 rounds in rapid play and remained unbeaten. He won 11 and drew two.

In the crucial round he defeated former Indian under-8 champion C. M. Gaurishankar in 31 moves. Playing with white pieces he faced Sicilian dragon from Gaurishankar and launched solid kingside attack and was rook and knight up by 28th move.

Sathyapriya emerged champion when she defeated E. Goldberg of UK in her final round. Playing with white pieces, she went for a queen pawn ending with two clear passers and checkmated their opponent by queening both of them.

In the boys section the first and second runner-ups were also from India. Gaurishankar with six out of seven points followed Parimarjan in the table. P.P. Prachura was third with 5.5 Points.

- UNI

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