Date:16/11/2008 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2008/11/16/stories/2008111657331600.htm

Sport - Chess

Salim holds Khosla

Arvind Aaron

Chennai: Osama Salim of Chennai held second seed Shiven Khosla of Mumbai to a draw in the third round of the VIT University National under-13 chess championship being played at Vellore.

In the girls’ section, top seed J. Saranya of Chennai checkmated her teammate Mahalakshmi in 45 moves.

Earlier, in the morning session, top seed and FIDE Master Sahaj Grover of Delhi was held to a draw by K. Suresh of Tamil Nadu on the top board.

S.L. Narayanan of Kerala shocked FIDE Master G.V. Sai Krishna of Vijayawada in this round.

Important results (round three):

Boys: Osama Salim (TN) 2.5 drew with Shiven Khosla (Mah) 2.5, V. Varun (AP) 2 lost to Girish Koushik (Kar) 3, S. Kumar (TN) 2 lost to Anurag Mhamal (Goa) 3, Vaibhav Suri (Del) 3 bt M. Kathirvel (Pon) 2, Jude Antony Paul (Ker) 2 lost to Utkal Ranjan Sahoo (Ori) 3, Antonio Viani D’Cunha (Kar) 3 bt M. Siddharth (TN) 2.

Girls: J. Saranya (TN) 3 bt M. Mahalakshmi (TN) 2, Cholleti Sahajasri (AP) 3 bt B. Jeyassri (TN) 2, P. Balakannamma (TN) 2 lost to Bodda Pratyusha (AP) 3, S. Anjana Krishna (Ker) 3 bt Manepalli Navyavaishnavi (AP) 2, G.K. Monisha (TN) 2 lost to J. Vaishanavi (TN) 3.

Round two: Boys: K. Suresh (TN) drew with Sahaj Grover (Del), S.L.Narayanan (Ker) bt G.V. Sai Krishna (AP), S. Shreeshan (Kar) drew with Tejas Ravichandran (TN).

Girls: Priyanka Kumari (Jha) drew with Krushna Mishra, Arna Sarkar bt Sonakshi Rathore (Raj), Arunima Kalra (Del) lost to Ivana Furtado (Goa).