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Abhijeet, Mary post contrasting wins

By Our Sports Reporter

KOZHIKODE MAY 23 . Abhijeet Gupta and Mary Ann Gomes, the No. 1 seeds, posted wins in contrasting styles in the opening round of the National sub-junior chess championships at the V.K. Krishna Menon Indoor Stadium here on Friday.

Important results (first round):

Boys: Abhijeet Gupta (Raj) bt Arjun Sarja (Kar); Pince Podder (UP) lost to Deep Sengupta (Jha); Akshayraj Kore (Mah) bt Venprakash (TN); Manmesh D. Naik (Goa) lost to S. Arun Prasad (TN); Rahul Sangma (GNCA, Kolkata) bt Viswas Saralaya (Kings Academy, Andhra); Kunal Gupta (Del) lost to D. Sai Srinivas (AP); Akshat Kamparia (MP) bt Sanket Sagar Dash (Ori); K.R. Dhanulal (Ker) lost to T. Abhay (TN); Vipal Subhashi (Bih) bt R. Mahudeeswaran (Masters Academy, Bangalore); Vineeth P. Kaimal (Ker) lost to G.N. Gopal (Ker); K. Nikilesh Kumar (AP) bt Sumit Mahajan (Pun); Smith B. Thakker (Guj) lost to Praveen Prasad (AP); Prateek R. Sriwas bt Sumit Asonodkar (Goa); Shubham D. Pinge (Goa) drew with Joydeep Dutta (Alekhine Club, Kolkata).

Arun Karthik (Masters) drew with Tonis Thomas (Ker); Vishal V. Thakre (Mah) lost to Soumitra Majumdar (Kar); Sriram Sarja (Kar) bt Jain Shreyansh Daklia (Cht); Sarfraz Ahmed Farooq (UP) lost to Vijay Keerthi (Kar); Aswin Jayaram (TN) bt Mohammed Fawaz (Ker); Pratik Barik (Ori) lost to Debyan Majumdar (Ben); Navin Kannan (TN) bt B. Aditya (Nagpur Academy, Mah); Akshay H. Bhur (Venus Academy, Mumbai) drew with Soumya Thakurta (Ben); Ninad Vijay Puranik (Mah) bt G. Akshay (Kar); Anand Raj (Aaron Academy, Chennai) lost to Indradeep Giri (Ben); Saravana Krishnan (Mount Academy, Chennai) bt Ankit Chauhan (Del); Anurudh Garg (Pun) lost to R. Srinivasan (Del); K. Prasanna (Masters) bt P.K. Arjun (Ker); Ashish Kumar (Jha) lost to Vishal Shah (Mah); C.V. Balaji Raghuram (Chromepet Academy, Chennai) bt N. Aswanth (Chromepet); K. Avinash lost to T. Purushothaman (AP); Y. Sandeep (AP) lost to Badri Narayan (T'Nagar Academy, Chennai).

Chougale Jayankar (Mah) drew with B. Adhiban (TN); K. Narayanan (TN) drew with Damanpreeth Singh Thaker (Pun); Gaurav (Jha) lost to V. Haribalu (Capa Academy, Chennai); G.S. Sreejith (Ker) w/o Gundala Madhukiran (AP); Debadatta Sinha (Ben) w/o P. Herojith (Man); Rohit M. Pawar (Mah) w/o Hidayanayum K. Sharma (Man); Himanshu Sekhar (Bih) lost to Suman Basu (GNCA, Kolkata); G. Balachandar (TN) w/o Laishon R. Singh (Man); Lintu Ramachandran (Ker) lost to Karthikeyan (Capa); Dayal K. Ravi (TN) drew with Linu Ramachandran (Ker); Navneeth Sharma (Del) bt Menhajul Hoda (Bih) Nandi Prasad V. Prabhu (Kings) lost to R.K. Ranjith (T'Nagar); Sankar Majumdar (Ben) bt Neelesh Baban Rao Kasture (Mah); Niraj Saripally (Goa) lost to J.S.S. Phanikanth (AP); Saurav Chakroborti (Ben) bt S. Nishanth (NLC); Parth Shah (Guj) lost to Subodh Lakhey (Nagpur Academy, Mah); Priyadarshan (Chennai Academy, TN) bt Piyush Rawel (Nagpur); Prabudha Ghosh (Ben) lost to T.V.R. Vijayaraghavan (AP); Swapnil S. Dhopade (Mah) bt Pranav Anand Maxwell (Ker).

Girls: Mary Ann Gomes (GNCA) bt Ankitha Kini (Kar); Anu Gupta (Alekhine) lost to Krutika Nadig (Mah); Koneru Chandra Hawsa (AP) bt R. Aparna (Ker); R. Bhanumati (Madras Academy, TN) lost to I. Ramya Krishna (AP); L. Iswarya Shobhana (TN) bt S. Bharati (NLC); Soumya Swaminathan (Venus) w/o Bidyapati (Man); Saheli Nath (Ben) bt Vishnu Priya (Jha); Chayanika Srivastava (UP) lost to N. Raghavi (TN); Rajadarshini (Emanuel Academy, Chennai) bt E.K.A. Aarthi Lakshmi (Mount Academy, Chennai); V. Gayatri (NLC) lost to Kajri Chokshi (Guj); Kiran Monish Mohanthy (Ori) bt Gowry Sevlam (Chromepet); Gundala Madanasree (AP) drew with P. Sivasankari (TN); Suchandra Chatterjee (Alekhine) bt Hetal Chande (Guj); Irol M. Pinto (Kings) lost to P.K. Jayashree (TN).

Anjana N. Sowjanya (Capa) bt Jil Sheth (Guj); C. Jothirmay (AP) lost to R. Saranya (Guj); Dhyani Dave (Guj) bt Karthika Ramesh (Ker); S. Karthika (TN) bt Megha (Kar); V.K. Sindhu (Chennai) w/o B.L. Keerthy (AP); Krithika (Chromepet) lost to Lakshmi Sahiti (Champion Academy, Andhra); Veena Maunika (AP) lost to D.S. Manasa Priya (Madras); Nandini Saripally (Goa) lost to K. Manasa (Kar); S. Harini (TN) bt Neha Joshi (Mah); B. Aruna (Cht) w/o P. Nirupama (Man); Anita Gupta (UP) lost to S.L. Padmaja (AP); Payal Guha (Alekhine) bt Pranali Patil (Mah); Meenu Rajendran (Ker) bt Pooja Kanth (NLC); Prathima Puri (Pun) lost to Swati Priya (Bih); Nayana Rao (AP) lost to G. Pratika (Ori); Pratiksha Barik (Ori) lost to Sreyasi Parkhi (Nagpur); Ankita Gupta (MP) lost to Priya Ratnam (Bih); Priyanka Bapat (MP) lost to Swati Rajpurohit (Raj); Rajasurya (TN) bt Priyanka Kumari (Jha); Rama Kumari (Jha) bt Chinmayee Mishra (Ori); Aathirah (Ker) bt Rashpal Kaur (Chd); Rishu Rathi (Chd) lost to Pallavi Maiya (Kar); Geetha Viswakarma (UP) bt Ritika Gupta (Bih).

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