Date:19/07/2008 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2008/07/19/stories/2008071955941800.htm

Sport - Chess

Sidhant stuns top seed

NEW DELHI: Third seed Sidhant Mahapatra upstaged top-seeded Iranian Khalil Mousavi Seyed to emerge as the sole leader with a perfect score after three rounds of the boys’ under-10 section in the Asian youth chess championship in Teheran on Thursday.

Y. Grahesh (boys’ under-8), Shiven Khosla, Sayantan Das (boys’ under-12), Ankit Rajpara (boys’ under-14), Ivana Furtado, M. Mahalakshmi (girls’ under-10), Sonakshi Rathore (girls’ under-12), Padmini Rout, J. Mohana Priya, N. Anusha (girls’ under-14) and Pon N. Krithika (girls’ under-16) were the other Indians leaders.

The results (third round, involving Indians): Boys: U-8: Arya Omidi (Iri, 2) lost to Y. Grahesh (3); Alireza Olamaei (Iri, 1) lost to Adarsh Srivastava (2). U-10: Khalil Mousavi Seyed (Iri, 2) lost to Sidhant Mahapatra (3); Nyuyen Ngoc Minh Tri (Vie, 2.5) drew with Diptayan Ghosh (2.5); W.C.I. Paththini (Sri, 1.5) lost to C.H. Mohineesh (2). U-12: Shiven Khosla (3) bt Girish Koushik (2); Amir Kowsarinia (Iri, 2) lost to Sayantan Das (3); Jung Ho Jin (Kor, 1) lost to Shardul Gagare (2); Nimantha Saranapala (Sri, 1) lost to Praveen Kumar (2). U-14: Vidit Gujarati (2.5) drew with Prasanna Rao (2.5); Ankit Rajpara (3) bt Pranav Shetty (1.5); Mukhit Ismailov (Kaz, 1.5) drew with Fenil Shah (1.5).

U-16: B. Adhiban (2.5) drew with S.P. Sethuraman (2.5); S. Nitin (2) drew with Shyam Sundar (2.5); K. Priyadarshan (1.5) drew with Nguyen Van Thanh (Vie, 2); Antonio Viani D’cunha (0) lost to Kaveesha Amarasena (Sri, 1). U-18: Sokhib Djuraev (Tjk, 2) lost to Debashis Das (2.5); Saravana Krishnan (2) bt Adbulwahab Marwan (UAE, 1); Pradeep Kumar (1) bt Amir Maleki (0).

Girls: U-8: Riya Savant (2.5) drew with Mouza Al Mansouri (UAE, 2.5); Tejaswini Sagar (2) bt Kimia Fatehi (Iri, 1). U-10: Kimiya Ghaziolsharif (Iri, 2) lost to Ivana Furtado (3); M. Mahalakshmi (3) bt Vu Thi Dieu Ai (Vie, 2); Sweety Patel (2.5) bt Shoumi Mukherjee (1); Sima Seyfikar (Iri, 1) lost to G.K. Monnisha (2). U-12: Sonakshi Rathore (3) bt Nadia Bagheri Taleghani (Iri, 2); Pratyusha Bodda (2.5) bt Dinara Saduakasova (Kaz, 2); P.V. Nandhidhaa (2) bt Do Hoang Minh Tho (Vie, 1); Marjona Afolayyan (Uzb, 0.5) lost to M. Navya Vyshnavi (1.5).

U-14: J. Mohana Priya (2) drew with N. Anusha (2); Padmini Rout (2) bt Priyanka Kumari (1.5). U-16: Bhakti Kulkarni (2) lost to Hoang Thi Nhu (Vie, 3); Mitra Hejazipour (Iri, 2) lost to Pon N. Krithika (3); Altanolzii Enxtuul (Mgl, 1.5) lost to A. Niji (2); Shalmali Gagare (1.5) drew with Maftuna Mamatqulova (Uzb, 2).

U-18: Nafisa Muminova (Uzb, 2.5) drew with P. Uthra (2.5); K. Manasa (1.5) drew with R. Preethi (1.5).