Date:08/10/2006 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2006/10/08/stories/2006100803971700.htm

Sport - Chess

Tania topples Topel

Yerewan: Women Grandmaster Tania Sachdev outclassed Zehra Topel of Turkey in the fourth round of World Junior girls' chess championship here on Friday.

Grandmaster Deepan Chakravarthy played out a fighting draw against GM Zhao Jun of China in the boys' championship being organised simultaneously.

Draws notwithstanding, the top boards matches took a decisive shape right from the beginning of this round and after a gruelling five hours of play Nikita Vitiugov of Russia and Yuriy Kryvoruchko of Ukraine emerged as joint leaders in the open section maintaining an all win record after four rounds.

In the joint third place is Wang Hao of China and Dmitry Frolyanov of Russia on 3.5 points while Chakravarthy is in the next group of 3 pointers.

Important results (Round 4, Indians unless specified):

World junior boys: Nikita Vitiugov (Rus, 4) bt Daniel Stellwagen (Ned, 3); Yuriy Kryvoruchko (Ukr, 4) bt Wang Yue (Chn, 2.5); Wang Hao (Chn, 3.5) bt Levon Babujian (Arm, 2.5); Amin Bassem (Egy, 3) drew with Levan Pantsulaia (Geo, 3); Deepan Chakkravarthy (2.5) drew with Zhao Jun (Chn, 2.5); Arman Pashikian (Arm, 3) drew with Evgeny Romanov (Rus, 3); Dmitry Frolyanov (Rus, 3.5) bt Dmitry Andreikin (Rus, 2.5); Boris Grachev (Rus, 2.5) drew with David Howell (Eng, 2); Ildar Khairullin (Rus, 2.5) drew with Tomasz Warakomski (Pol, 2.5); Zaven Andriasian (Arm, 2.5) drew with Zhou Jianchao (Chn, 2.5); Deep Sengupta (2) lost to Maxim Rodshtein (Isr, 3); Li Chao (Chn, 2.5) drew with Wen Yang (Chn, 2.5); Melkumyan Hrant (Arm, 2) lost to Anton Filippov (Uzb, 3); Abhijeet Gupta (2.5) bt Robert Andrew Hungaski (Usa, 1.5); Kim Alexey (Kor, 2.5) bt Rahul Sangma (1.5). — PTI