Date:21/07/2008 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2008/07/21/stories/2008072156581800.htm

Sport - Chess

Indians lead in five sections

NEW DELHI: Indians took the lead in five sections but the shock losses for B. Adhiban and S.P. Sethuraman served a serious blow to its gold-medal prospects in the boys’ under-16 section of the Asian youth chess championship in Teheran on Saturday.

M. Mahalakshmi (girls under-10), P. Uthra (girls under-18), C. H. Mohineesh (boys under-10), Girish Koushik (boys under-12) and Prasanna Rao (boys under-14) were ahead in their respective sections.

The results (involving Indians): Boys: U-8: Fifth round: Tran Minh Thang (Vie, 4) bt Y. Grahesh (3); Adrash Srivastava (3) bt Munirjon Sharipov (Tjk, 2.5).

Boys: U-10: Sixth round: Diptayan Ghosh (4.5) drew with Khalil Mousavi Seyed (Iri, 4.5); C.H. Mohineesh (5) bt Mohammad Bahmani Amir (Iri, 3.5); Sivash Vojdani (Iri, 3) lost to Sidhant Mahapatra (4.5).

Boys: U-12: Sixth round: Girish Koushik (5) bt Nima Javanbakht (Iri,5); Shardul Gagare (4.5) drew with Shiven Khosla (4.5); Praveen Kumar(4) bt Sayantan Das (3).

Boys: U-14: Sixth round: Prasanna Rao (5.5) bt Roman Golubev (Uzb, 4); Mukhit Ismailov (Kaz, 4) drew with Vidit Gujarati (4.5); Arash Pourhassannedjad (Iri, 3) lost to Ankit Rajpara (4); Fenil Shah (3.5) bt Mehdi Hosseinipour (Iri, 2.5); Jahongir Vakhidov (Uzb, 3.5) bt Pranav Shetty (2).

Boys: U-16: Sixth round: B. Adhiban (3.5) lost to Saleh Salem (UAE, 5.5); Ikrom Ilhomzade (Tjk, 4.5) bt S.P. Sethuraman (3.5); S. Nitin (4.5) bt Assylkhan Karayev (Kaz, 3.5); Shyam Sundar (4) bt Nguyen VanThanh (Vie, 3); Antonio Viani D’cunha (1.5) lost to Amir Azemati (Iri,2).

Boys: U-18: Fifth round: Homayoon Toufighi (Iri, 4.5) bt Saravana Krishnan (3); Debashis Das (3.5) drew with Semetey Tologontegin (Kgz, 3.5); Pouria Darini (Iri, 2.5) bt Pradeep Kumar (1).

Girls: U-8: Fifth round: Riya Savant (3) lost to Tejaswini Sagar (4).

Girls: U-10: Sixth round: Sweety Patel (4.5) bt Ivana Furtado (4.5); Mohadeseh Alijanzadeh (Iri, 3.5) lost to M. Mahalakshmi (5.5); ShoumiMukherjee (4) bt Diana Omurbekova (Kgz, 3); G.K. Monnisha (4) bt VuThi Dieu Ai (Vie, 3).

Girls: U-12: Sixth round: Pratyusha Bodda (4.5) drew with SonakshiRathore (4.5); Nadia Bagheri Taleghani (3.5) bt P.V. Nandhidhaa (3); M. Navya Vyshnavi (2.5) lost to Mohinur Kahramanova (Uzb, 2.5).

Girls: U-14: Fifth round: Padmini Rout (3.5) drew with Sarvinoz Qurbonboyeva (Uzb, 3.5); J. Mohana Priya (3.5) drew with Nguyen ThiMai Hung (3.5); Minoo Asgarizadeh (Iri, 3.5) bt N. Anusha (2); Zahra Azadvari (Iri, 2.5) drew with Priyanka Kumari (2.5).

Girls: U-16: Sixth round: Hoang Thi Nhu (Vie, 4.5) lost to Shalmali Gagare (4); Mitra Hejazipour (4) bt Bhakti Kulkarni (4); Pon N. Krithika (4) drew with Altanoli Enxtuul (Mgl, 3.5); A. Niji (4) bt Maftuna Mamatkulova (Uzb, 3).

Girls: U-18: Fifth round: K. Manasa (2.5) lost to P. Uthra (4.5); Gulruhsor Esonboeva (Uzb, 3) drew with R. Preethi (3).