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Katerina Nemcova defeats Mary Ann Gomes

Antalya: Mary Ann Gomes was defeated in the under-18 girls’ category in the seventh round of the World Youth chess championship here on Saturday.

She got into a bad position against Czech Woman International Master Katerina Nemcova, ran into deep time trouble and lost the game.

Now Mary is in joint lead with Nemcova. The somewhat favourable point for Mary is that the two players on the second table drew their game.

In the under-8 girls, Ivana Furtado won and could be in contention for a medal as she is on 5.5 points.

Important Indian results (round 7):

Boys: U-8: Jerome Ebenezer 5 lost to Harshal Shahi 6; U-10: T.S.Wang (Chn) 7 bt Prince Bajaj 5.5; Ch. Mohineesh 4.5 lost to Shardul Gagare 5.5; Girish Koushik 4 lost to N. Steinberg (Isr). U-12: Fenil Shah 4.5 bt K.Tyutyunnikov (Rus); U-14: Prasanna Rao lost to Vidit Gujrathi 6; Haridas Pascua (Phi) bt Mehar Chinna Reddy 4.5; U.L. Samarakone (Sri) drew with Pranav Shetty 3.5; Guo Yun Sun (Chn) lost to N. Srinath 4; Nils Nijs (Bel) lost to Atishay Ajmera 4. U-18: G. Rohit 4 drew with Yury Borsuk; M.R. Lalith Babu 4 bt Emanuel Schiendorfer (Swz).

Girls: U-8: Anastasia Siallenchyk (Ukr) lost to Ivana Furtado 5.5; U-10: Olga Hincu (MDA) bt U. Ashwini 3.5; G. Aishwarya 4.5 bt Katsiaryna Pratsko (Blr); M. Mahalakshmi 4.5 bt Rebecca Giblon (Can). U-12: Priyanka Kumari 5.5 drew with Maha Eid (Fra); Radha Jain (Eng) drew J. Vaishnavi 4.5.

U-14: Ivona Purgan (Cro) bt Mohana Priya 4.5; Padmini Rout 4 drew with Cansu Soylemez (Tur); Lela Ugulava (Geo) drew with NLV Anusha 4.5. U-16: Bakthi Kulkarni 5 bt Valerie Forgues (Fra); M. Krasnodebska (Pol) drew with Pon Krithika 4.5; P. Uthra 3.5 drew with Courtney Jamison (USA); U-18: Mary Ann Gomes 6 lost to Katerina Nemcova (Cze).

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