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Padmini Rout keeps winning

Vung Tau (Vietnam): Padmini Rout leads the World under-14 girls chess championship with full five points at the end of the fifth round of the World youth championship here.

In the boys’ under-10 section, Diptayan Ghosh and Arjun Bharat are among the six leaders with 4.5 each.

In the under-16 section, B. Adhiban and Debashis Das lead with 4.5 points each. Though Vidit Gujrati was held to a draw in the under-14 section, he continues to be a joint leader.

Last round leaders Sunyasaktha Satpathy, Sayantan Das and Bhakti Kulkarni were defeated.

Debashis sprang a big surprise by beating his more famous compatriot, IM S.P. Sethuraman of Chennai. With the black pieces, Das controlled the queen-side where both had castled and won through a mating attack.

The new rule that players who are not in their seats at the scheduled start would automatically lose their game was put to the test in the encounter between Derekshani Dorsa of Iran and Ivana Furtado.

The Iranian came well ahead of time, wrote her name on the score sheet and then, disappeared. At the time of start, she was not in her seat.

The Indian claim for a win by default was negated by the Vietnamese Chief Arbiter Ms Nguyen Thi Anh Thu, who said that the girl had already come to the board.

Ivana played and won the game.

The Indians who have 3.5 points or more: Abhimanyu Patnaik, Jay Shah, M.Sabhareesh, Mitraba Guha, Arjun Bharat, Diptayan Ghosh, Sayantan Das, Girish Koushik, Prince Bajaj, Shiven Khosla, N.Srinath, Priyadarshan, S.P. Sethuraman, M. Shyam Sundar,P. Karthikeyan, Bansi Pratima, Tejaswini Sagar, Sunyasaktha Satpathy, Shoumi Mukherjee, M. Mahalakshmi, Ivana Furtado, Navya Vyshnavi, B. Pratyusha, Sonakshi Rathore, Mohana Priya, Teenu Thomas, Bhakti Kulkarni, Pon Krithika and R. Preethi.

Important results of Indians (fifth round): Boys: Under-10: Duda Jan-Krzystof (Pol) 4.5 drew Wang Yi Ye (Chn) 4.5; Diptayan Ghosh 4.5 bt Dang Vu Khos (Vie); Arjun Bharat 4.5 bt Kamal Wahab (Tur). Under-12: Darwin Yang (USA) 5 bt Sayantan Das 4; Girish Koushik 4 drew Le Tuan Minh (Vie) 4; Prince Bajaj 3.5 drew with Shiven Khosla 4.

Under-14: Dariusz Swiercz (Pol) 4 drew with Vidit Gujrathi 4.5; N. Srinath 3.5 bt Ghaziolsharif Kaveh (Iri). Under-16: K. Priyadarshan 4 drew A. Shimanov (Rus) 4; S.P. Sethuraman 3.5 lost to Debashis Das 4.5; Julian Jorczik (Ger) lost to B. Adhiban 4.5. Under-18: GM Nguyen Ngoc Truong (Vie) 4.5 bt P. Karthikeyan 3.5. Girls: Under-8: Reva Shree Singh (USA) lost to Bansi Pratima 4. Under-10: Li Zhuoling (Chn) 5 bt Sunyasaktha Satpathy 4; A. Goryachkina (Rus) drew with Shoumi Mukherjee 4; Nino Komericki (Geo) lost to M. Mahalakshmi 4; Dorsa Derakshani (Iri) 3 lost to Ivana Furtado 3.5. Under-14: Padmini Rout 5 bt Meri Arabidze (Geo) 3.5. Under-16: Petra Papp (Hun 4.5 bt Bhakti Kulkarni 4.

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