Date:24/11/2007 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2007/11/24/stories/2007112457602100.htm

Sport

Mary Ann Gomes beats Maria Ignacz, maintains her one-point-lead

Manuel Aaron

Antalya: The Kolkata girl Mary Ann Gomes maintained her one point lead at the end of the sixth round of the Under-18 girls section in the World Youth chess championship now half way through at Antalya in Turkey.

Mary is followed by three other girls on five points each.

Mary defeated Maria Ignacz of Hungary, a one-time rival of Harika.

In all other categories Indians are in second or third places and must do well in the remaining rounds to get medals.

Important results (Round 6, Indians):

U-8 boys: Harshal Shahi 5 bt Volkan Sevgi; Hetul Shah 4 lost to Jerome Ebenezer 5;

O.K. Guven (Tur) bt Arjun Bharat 3; Meg-Wei Ho (Tpe) lost to G.V.Revanth Reddy 4; M.R. Asgharzadeeh (Iran) lost to Shivam Srivastav 4.

U-8 girls: Z. Abdumalik (Kaz) bt C.H. Meghna 4.5; Ivana Furtado 4.5 drew Anastasya Ponamarchuk (Rus); P. Preethi 3 lost to Agnieszka Dmochowska (Pol); C.R. Varsha 2.5 lost to Evan Xiang (USA).

U-10 boys: Prince Bajaj 5.5 bt CH Mohineesh 4.5; Vaibhav Suri 4.5 lost to Brian Luo (USA); Shardul Gagare 4.5 bt Oleg Artmenko (Uzb); Varun Krishnan (USA) lost to Girish Koushik 4.

U-10 girls: U. Ashwini 3.5 lost to Kinga Pastuszko (Pol); Yesim Patel (Tur) bt G. Aishwarya 3.5; Simoneta Ivanova (Bul) lost to M. Mahalakshmi 4.

U-12 boys: G.V. Saikrishna 4.5 lost to Chao Han (Chn); Shiven Khosla 4 lost to Benjamin Bok (Ned); Kamil Tomsia (Pol) lost to Sahaj Grover 4.5; Pouya Idani (Iran) bt U.K. Sahoo 3.5; Pierre Barbot (Fra) drew Fenil Shah 3.5.

U-12 girls: Veronika Lezhepekova (Rus) lost to Priyanka Kumari 5; J. Vaishnavi 4 drew Myriam Roy (Can); T. Saruul (Mon) lost to B. Pratyusha 4; Mohinur Kahramanova (Uzb) drew Michelle Catherina 3.

U-14 boys: Sanan Sjugirov (Rus) drew S.P. Sethuraman 5; Vidit Gujrathi 5 bt Patrick Zelbel (Ger); Antonios Pavlidis (Grc) lost to Prasanna Rao 5; Mehar Chinna Reddy 4.5 bt Nagy Gabor (Hun); Pranav Shetty 3 lost to Angel Arribas (Esp); N. Srinath 3 lost to Georgi Nikolashvili (Geo); Atishay Ajmera 3 bt Danny Savoisky.

U-14 girls: Mohana Priya 4.5 drew Diana Baciu (Mda); Alena Kushka (Rus) lost to Shalmali Gagare 4.5; D. Batkovskyte (Ltu) drew Padmini Rout 3.5; NLV Anusha 4 bt Ann Chumpitaz (Per); Y. Orlova (Can) lost to K. Sai Nirupama 3.5.

U-16 boys: B. Adhiban 4 drew Hagen Poetsch (Aut); R. Ashwath 4 bt Aleksi Savchenko; Stefan Mazur (Svk) lost to S. Nitin 3.5; Dara Akdag (Den) lost to V.A.V. Rajesh 3.5.

U-16 girls: Panru Li (Chn) drew Bakthi Kulkarni 4; Mitali Patil 3.5 lost to Gulishka Nakbayeva (Kaz); Pon Krithika 4 bt Amira Hamza (Alg); Andrea Adam (Rom) drew P. Uthra 3.

U-18 boys: G. Rohit 3.5 drew M. Zaslavsky; Sai Srinivas 4 bt Matan Sheskin (Isr); Eric Malmi (Fin) lost to M.R. Lalith Babu 3.

U-18 girls: Maria Ignacz (Hun) lost to Mary Ann Gomes 6; Petra Kruljac (Cro) lost to Kiran Mohanty 4; Martine Middelveld (Ned) lost to R. Preethi 4.