Date:06/10/2006 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2006/10/06/stories/2006100602642100.htm

Sport - Chess

Deep upsets Baramidze

Yerevan (Armenia): International Master Deep Sengupta scored an upset victory over German Grandmaster David Baramidze, while compatriot Deepan Chakkravarthy also won his game over a lower-rated Richard Pile of France on a fruitful day for the Indians in the second round of the World junior chess championship here.

After two rounds, Sengupta and GM Deepan share the top spot with 10 other players with two points each.

Important results (round two, Indians unless specified):

World Junior: Boys: Zaven Andriasian (Arm, 1.5) drew with Wang Yue (Chn, 1.5); Wang Hao (Chn, 2) bt Tomasz Warakomski (Pol, 1); Daan Brandenburg (Ned, 1) lost to Levan Pantsulaia (Geo, 2); Nikita Vitiugov (Rus, 2) bt Wen Yang (Chn, 1); Deep Sengupta (2) bt David Baramidze (Ger, 1); Yuriy Kryvoruchko (Ukr, 2) bt Avetik Grigoryan (Arm, 1); Davit Zarkua (Geo, 1) lost to Daniel Stellwagen (Ned, 2); Armen Tonoian (Rus, 1.5) drew with Zhao Jun (Chn, 1.5); Deepan Chakravarthy (2) bt Richard Pile (Fra, 1); Amin Bassem (Egy, 1.5) bt Rahul Sangma (0.5); Abhijeet Gupta (1) bt Vytautas Vaznonis (Ltu., 0).

Girls: Atousa Pourkashiyan (Iri, 1) lost to Hou Yifan (Chn, 2); Shen Yang (Chn, 2) bt Eesha Karavade (1); Hoang Thi Bao Tram (Vie, 1) lost to Liana Aghabekian (Arm, 2); Melia Salome (Geo, 1) lost to Tatev Abrahamyan (US, 2); Tania Sachdev (2) bt Mary Ann Gomes (1); D. Harika (1.5) drew with Olga Dolgova (Rus, 1.5); Zehra Topel (Tur, 1) lost to Beata Kadziolka (Pol, 2); Zhang Jilin (Chn, 2) bt Elena Tairova (Rus, 1); Kruttika Nadig (1) lost to Bianca Muhren (Ned, 2); Anna Hairapetian (Arm, 1) bt Soumya Swaminathan (0); Ana Butskhrikidze (Geo, 0.5) drew with P. Priya (Ind, 0.5). — Agencies