Date:28/11/2008 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2008/11/28/stories/2008112852331700.htm

Sport - Chess

Top seeds struggle at sub-junior National

MANGALORE: Third seed J. Saranya of Tamil Nadu, the current under-13 National champion, suffered a shock defeat at the hands of Vanessa D’Souza of Mangalore in the BSNL sub-junior National chess championship here on Thursday.

In the boys section, top seed Prasanna Rao of Maharashtra faced stiff resistance from Akash P.C. Iyer of Tamil Nadu.

The results (round 2): Girls: P. Priya Sandhya (1) lost to Gagare Shalmali (2), J. Mohana Priya (2) bt Deshmukh Sonia (1), Vanessa D’Souza (2) bt J. Saranya (1), R. Bharathi (2) bt J. Janani (1), Supriya Joshi (1) lost to Rucha Pujari (2), Pallabi Roy (2) bt Soumya Shrivastava (1), S. Aarthysri (1) lost to Shristi J. Shetty (2), Diotima Dutta Gupta (1.5) drew with C.H. Savetha (1.5), R. Visalatchi (1.5) drew with B. Jeyassri (1.5), Krushna Mishra (1.5) drew with Aparajita Gochhikar (1.5), Shikha Shah (2) bt J.G. Nivedhitha (1), Shristi Gautam (1.5) drew with Teenu Thomas (1.5), J. Sahari (2) bt Saee Pansare (1), B. Rajashree (1) lost to Preetika Tayal (2).

Boys: Akash P.C. Iyer (1) lost to Prasanna Rao (2), G. Jaswant (1.5) drew with G.A. Stany (1.5), Ramnath Bhuvanesh (2) bt Darpan Inani (1), Rupesh Ranjan (1) lost to Aditya Udeshi (2), H.S. Karthik (1.5) drew with Mehar Chinna Reddy (1.5), Shiven Khosla (2) bt Saikat Mullick (1), Shankar Rishi (1) lost to G.V. Sai Krishna (2), Girish A. Koushik (2) bt Amir Asim (1), R. Dinesh Kumaar (1.5) drew with Tejas Ravichandran (1.5), Rakesh Kulkarni (2) bt M. Surya Narayana (1), K. Sai Prahlad (2) bt Himal Gussain (1), Utkal Ranjan Sahoo (2) bt Rohit Jadhav (1), Manush Shah (1) lost to Antonio Viani D’Cunha (2). — Special Correspondent