Date:23/04/2006 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2006/04/23/stories/2006042309301800.htm

Sport - Chess

Smooth sailing for seeded players

Tirupur: Defending champion Ajay Srikanth of Chennai along with 22 others sailed into the third round of the boys' section in the 19th Tamil Nadu State under-11 chess championship at the Vivekananda HSS campus here on Saturday.

In the girls' section, thirteen players, including top seed J. Vaishnavi of Tiruchi, booked the third round berths with two points apiece.

P. Gopalakrishnan, treasurer of Tirupur Sports and Educational Trust (TSET) and K.C. Palanisamy, treasurer of Vivekananda HSS, inaugurated the championship, which has attracted 120 boys and 63 girls.

Manual Aaron, the general secretary of the State chess association, was the chief guest.

Important results (second round):

Boys: Ajay Srikanth (Chennai) 2 bt Osama Salim 1; Shasank S (Chennai) 2 bt Praveen Kumar (Erode) 1; Manigandan (Madurai) bt Raghavendar (Namakkal) 1.

Ramana Surriyan (Namakkal) 1 lost to R. Ganesh 2; Rishabh Manoj (Cuddalore) 1.5 drew with Ashwath P. Hari (Coimbatore) 1.5.

Ruthraa (Virudhunagar) 1 lost to Abhishek T.K.S. (Tiruchi) 2; Sabari Girivasan (Bloom Academy) 1 lost to Adithyan N (Chennai) 2.

Akash P.C. Iyer 2 bt Sakthivel Pandian (Virudhunagar) 1; Alkondan C (KK Academy) 1 lost to Sanjay S (Madurai) 2; Sarvesh (Erode) 1 lost to Amarnath (TNLY) 2.

Girls: Karishma Rani (Mount CA) 1.5 drew with Reshma Nagaraja (School of Chess); Samyudha Dave (Coimbatore) 1 lost to Vaishnavi (Tiruchi) 2.

Sujitha P (Coimbatore) 1.5 drew with Saranya J (Thiruvalluvar) 1.5; Aarudhra Ganesh (Coimbatore) 1 lost to Seethalakshmi K (Madurai) 2; Shushmitha A.G. (Chennai) 2 bt Abhinaya Swathi C.K. (Coimbatore) 1.

Bavithra Midhuna (TNLY) 1.5 drew with Sinduja V. Emmanuel 1.5; Gayathri S (Karur) 1 lost to Srija Seshadri (NLC) 2.

Srinidhi Sreedhar (Thiruvarur) 1 lost to Harshini Devika (Coimbatore) 2; Casimer (Kanyakumari) 1 lost to Srinidhi Nagarajan (Salem) 2; Meenu Priya (Madurai) 2 bt Surabi (Erode) 1.