Date:06/08/2008 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2008/08/06/stories/2008080662012300.htm

Sport - Chess

Harika maintains her winning run

NEW DELHI: Top seed D. Harika defeated young teammate Padmini Rout to maintain her winning run and share the lead with two others after three rounds of the girls’ section in the World junior chess championship at the Turkish town of Gaziantep on Monday.

Four other Indian girls — Kruttika Nadig, Mary Ann Gomes, Soumya Swaminathan and R. Preethi — won their games.

In the open section, Deep Sengupta pulled off a creditable draw against Slovenian Grandmaster Luka Lenic while Akshayraj Kore held a second GM in as many days after facing Vietnam’s Le Quang Liem.

The results (involving Indians):

Open: Third round: Amin Bassem (Egy, 3) bt Parimarjan Negi (2); Luka Lenic (Slo, 2) drew with Deep Sengupta (2); Akshayraj Kore (2) drew with Le Quang Liem (Vie, 2); Abhijeet Gupta (2.5) bt Israel Capsi (Isr, 1.5); S. Arun Prasad (2.5) bt Drazen Dragicevic (Swe, 1.5); Dmitry Andreikin (Rus, 2) bt P. Karthikeyan (1); Sahaj Grover (1) lost to G. N. Gopal (2); Markus Ragger (Aut, 2) bt Vishnu Prasanna (1); Pavel Vavric (Mda, 1) lost to Ashwin Jayaram (2). Girls: Third round: D. Harika (3) bt Padmini Rout (2); Kruttika Nadig (2.5) bt Katerina Nemcova (Cze, 1.5); Mary Ann Gomes (2.5) bt Nazi Paikidze (Geo, 1.5); Sarolta Toth (Hun, 1) lost to Soumya Swaminathan (2); Sarah Hegarty (Eng, 1) lost to R. Preethi (2).

Badalona International: Fourth round: P. Magesh Chandran (4) bt Jonathan Alonso Mayano (Esp, 3); Marcelo Panelo (Arg, 3.5) drew with P. Konguvel (3.5); S. Kidambi (3.5) bt Carlo Giovanni Vittorino (Col, 3); (third round): Alejandro Rios (Col) lost to Magesh; Richard Pile (Fra) drew with Kidambi; Konguvel bt Frank Buchenau (Ger). Second round: Magesh bt Povilas Lasinskas (Ltu); Kidambi bt Josue Exposito Amaro (Esp); Nicanor Camino Carrio (Esp) lost to Konguvel; (first round): Jose Gutierrez Anso (Esp) lost to Magesh; Gustavo Pizzocaro Gomez (Bra) lost to Kidambi; Konguvel bt Jaume Gausch Sariol (Esp).

Kavala International: Sixth round: Momchil Nikolov (Bul, 4) drew with S. Satyapragyan (4); Saptarshi Roy Chowdhury (3) lost to Andrei Deviatkin (Rus, 4); V. Saravanan (3) lost to Ruud Janssen (Ned, 4); Prathamesh Mokal (3.5) bt Miroljub Jevtic (Srb, 2.5).