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Kore shocks Deep Sen

HYDERABAD JAN. 8. Akshayraj Kore shocked Deep Sen Gupta in the 10th round of the Fantoosh National sub-junior chess championship at Sujatha College here today. In the girls' section also, the leader Mary Ann Gomes was defeated by Kiranmonisha Mohan to make it a day of upsets.

Deep with 8 points however continued to hold on to the top spot with a slender half point lead over Abhijeet Gupta.

Kore played a Reti opening against Deep who replied with the Dutch defence. Deep sacrificed a pawn on the 12th move for active play. In the 14th move Kore gained one more pawn with a neat combination and it eventually helped him to win the contest in 53 moves.

In the girls' section Kiranmonisha Mohan opted for a king pawn opening. This was countered by a Scillian Najdorf set up by Mary Ann. However the latter played some weak moves in the opening and this allowed Kiranmonisha to gain space advantage. Therafter Kiranmonisha continued to improve her position and she registered a win in 33 moves. Saheli Nath moved into the second spot along with Kruthika Nadig.

The results:

Boys: Round 9: G. Rohit (6) bt Nikhilesh Kumar (4); Abhijeet Gupta (7) bt Praveen Prasad (5); D. Krishna (4.5) lost to Joydeep Dutta (2); Sai Krishna (2.5) lost to Akshayraj Kore (5.5); Deep Sen Gupta (8) bt Arun Prasad (3.5); Sai Srinivas (5.5) drew with Sunil Rangarajan (4.5); Y. Sandeep (2.5) bt Shah Vishal (2.5).

Round 10: Nikhilesh Kumar (5) bt Shah Vishal (2.5); Sunil Rangarajan (5.5) bt Y. Sandeep (2.5); Arun Prasad (4) drew with Sai Srinivas (6); Akshayraj Kore (6.5) bt Deep Sen Gupta (8); Joydeep Dutta (3) bt Sai Krishna (2.5); Praveen Prasad (6) bt D. Krishna (4.5); G. Rohit (6.5) drew with Abhijeet Gupta (7.5).

Girls: Round 9: Ashwathi Bala (3.5) drew with Anoori Shah (3.5); Saheli Nath (6) bt Sowmya Swaminathan (4.5); Kruthika Nadig (6.5) bt Vinutnha (4.5); Supriya Maji (4) lost to Kiranmonisha Mohan (4.5); Mary Ann Gomes (7.5) bt Mahima Rajamohan (5); K.L. Pranitha (1.5) drew wih Rajadarshini (4); Ishwarya Shobhana (5) beat Anjana Soujanya (3).

Round 10: Anoori Shah (4.5) bt Anjana Soujanya (3); Rajadarshini (5) bt Ishwarya Shobhana (5); Mahima Rajamohan (5) lost to K.L. Pranitha (2.5); Kiranmonisha Mohan (5.5) beat Mary Ann Gomes (7.5); Vinuthna (5) drew with Supriya Maji (4.5); Sowmya Swaminathan (5) drew with Kruthika Nadig (7); Ashwathi Bala (3.5) lost to Saheli Nath (7).

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