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Chess
By Rakesh Rao
S. Satyapragyan (right), who held GM Ferenc Berkes of Hungary, contemplates his next move, in the seventh round of the Junior World chess championship at Panaji on Friday. — Photo: R.V. Moorthy
At the Cidade de Goa beach resort here, last year's runner-up China's Zhao Xue took a step towards finishing one better this time by devastating second-seeded Russian Tatiana Kosintseva in the top-board battle. Zhao Xue is now ahead among the girls with six points. In the boys' category, overnight leaders — Chinese Ni Hua and Armenian Levon Aronian — drew quickly on the top board to reach 5.5 points. As it turned out, none could catch up with the duo once Russian Vladimir Potkin and Chinese top seed Bu Xiangzhi played it safe on the adjacent board. On yet another day when there was not much to make the Indians smile, S. Satyapragyan produced a timely tactic to hold Hungarian Grandmaster Ferenc Berkes. Having earned a creditable draw with third-seeded Russian GM Yakovenko on Thursday, an upbeat Satyapragyan looked better off in today's match which opened with Sicilian Najdorf and got transposed to a regular version of English Attack. The Indian International Master made a draw offer in the middle-game which the World under-18 champion declined. Later, with Berkes' queen and rook menacingly placed on Satyapragyan's back-rank, the latter came up with fine rook sacrifice for a pawn and ensured a draw by perpetual queen-checks. Had Berkes tried any adventurous possibility, Satyapragyan could have well scored his maiden triumph over a GM. But the Hungarian quickly checked out the obvious continuation and offered a draw. The results (seventh round, Indians unless stated): Boys: Ni Hua (Chn) (5.5) drew with Levon Aronian (Arm) (5.5); Vladimir Potkin (Rus) (5) drew with Bu Xiangzhi (Chn) (5); Luke McShane (Eng) (5) drew with P. Hari Krishna (5); Dmitri Yakovenko (Rus) (5) bt Ehsan Ghaem Maghami (Ira) (4.5); Miton Kamil (Pol) (4.5) drew with Radoslaw Wojtaszek (Pol) (4.5); Artyom Timofeev (Rus) (5) bt Jirka Jiri (Cze) (4); Dmitrios Mastrovasilis (Gre) (4.5) drew with Ernesto Inarkiev (Rus) (4.5); S. Satyapragyan (4.5) drew with Ferenc Berkes (Hun) (4.5); Amon Simutowe (Zam) (4.5) drew with Surya Sekhar Ganguly (4.5); Stefan Kristjansson (Ice) (5) bt Sergie Azarov (Blr) (4); Asauskas Henrikas (Lit) (4) lost to Sergey Erenburg (Isr) (5); Stefan Bromberger (Ger) (3.5) lost to David Smerdon (Aus) (5); Sandipan Chanda (4.5) bt Saptarshi Roy Chowdhury (3.5); Neelotpal Das (4.5) bt Veljiko Jeremic (Yug) (3.5); Roman Bar (Isr) (4) drew with Prathamesh Mokal (4); Perez Candelrio (Spa) (4) drew with Preetham Sharma (4); Deepan Chakkravarthy (4) drew with Rustem Sadykov (Kaz) (4); Poobesh Anand (4) drew with Yannick Gozzoli (Fra) (4); Bogdan Vioreanu (Rom) (3) lost to Meylis Annaberdiev (Tkm) (4.5); Steve Geinaert (Bel) (3) lost to Mark Paragua (Phi) (4); Vardhan Darban (Ira) (3) lost to S. Kidambi (4); Pontus Carlsson (Swe) (4) bt Luke Leong (Sin) (3); Dmitry Poliakov (Blr) (3.5) drew with Collins Sam (Ire) (3.5); Lim Yee Weng (Mal) (4) bt Stephen Glinert (Can) (3); Lin Qun (Chn) (4) bt David Kjartansson (Ice) (3); Soumya Ranjan (3.5) drew with G. Rohit (3.5); G. N. Gopal (3) lost to Sayantan Dutta (3.5); Vikramaditya Kamble (2.5) lost to R. Siddharth (3.5); Akash Thakur (3) drew with Nikhilesh Kumar (3); Rahul Sangma (2.5) lost to Rishipal Singh (3.5); Stefan Macak (Svk) (3) drew with Prateek Shriwas (3); Arjun Tiwari (3.5) bt Athula Russel (Sri) (2.5); P. Phoobalan (2.5) lost to Akshayraj Kore (3.5); H. D. Jagadish (3) drew with Arghyadip Das (2.5); Kosmo Santul (Fin) (2) lost to Jonas Eriksson (Swe) (3); Alexandre Vuilleumier (Swi) (2) lost to Sriram Sarja (3); Harald Borchrevink (Nor) (3) bt Edgar Perriera (Por) (2); Wendali Sprenger (Aus) (3) bt T. S. Pradeep (2); R. Naveen (3) bt Byomakesh Nayak (2); Grame Kafka (Sco) (2.5) drew with Himanshu Kumar (2); Swapnil Hoble (2) drew with Pranjal Phukan (2); Sanchit Agarwal (1.5) lost to Gurpreet Singh (2.5); J. S. S. Phanikanth (1.5) drew with Franc Steenkamp (RSA) (2); Wilson Cruz (2.5) bt Nehal Shah (Ken) (0). Girls: Zhao Xue (Chn) (6) bt Tatiana Kosintseva (Rus) (5); Natalia Pogonin (Rus) (5.5) bt Wang Yu (Chn) (4.5); Koneru Humpy (5) drew with Elmira Khasanova (Rus) (4.5); Nadezhda Kosintseva (Rus) (4.5) lost to Ana-Cristina Calotescu (Rom) (5); Makka Ioulia (Gre) (5) bt Ljilja Driljevic (Yug) (4); Sofya Zigangirova (Kaz) (4.5) drew with P. Priya (4.5); Sophie Millet (Fra) (4.5) drew with Marjana Savic (Yug) (4.5); Eesha Karavade (4) drew with Harika Dronavalli (4); Matras Agnieszka (Pol) (4.5) bt Polina Churun (Blr) (3.5); Tania Sachdev (4.5) bt Leonie Helm (Ger) (3.5); Eva Moser (Aut) (4) bt N. Vinuthna (3.5); Anoori Shah (3) lost to Tian Tian (Chn) (4); Y. Pratibha (3.5) drew with M. Priyadarshini (3.5); Chandra Howsa (3) lost to Cindy Tsai (US) (4); M. Kasturi (3.5) drew with Silje Bjerke (Nor) (3.5); Jana Jackova (Cze) (3.5) bt H. Nilavoli (2.5); Tana Holusava (Cze) (3) drew with Nimmy George (3); Ketaki Kulkarni (3.5) bt Nabeela Farheen (2.5); Soumya Swaminathan (2) lost to Sarune Lapinskaite (Lit) (3); C. V. Rajalakshmi (3) bt Linaya Indeevarie (Sri) (2); Jennitha Anto (2.5) drew with Delgado Trujillo (Esp) (2.5); Margarida Coimbra (Por) (2.5) bt Tara Santana (Bra) (2); Maygozel Kurbanova (Tkm) (1) lost to Veronica Breen (2.5); Anuprita Patil (2.5) bye.
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