Date:03/01/2009 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2009/01/03/stories/2009010361071700.htm

Sport - Chess

Lucky win for Prameya

Arvind Aaron

Nagpur: Prameya Garge of Maharashtra scored a lucky win to be among the leaders at the end of the fourth round in the National under-7 chess championships here on Friday.

Prameya and Arush Jain of Delhi had four pawns each and were down to a pawn ending. Arush could have won had he created a passed pawn on the king side. Instead, he allowed white to promote a queen and got checkmated on move 60.

Important results: Round four:

Boys: Mitrabha Guha (Ben) 4 bt Nishit Mohanty (Ori); Anant Desai (Goa) 3 lost to Nitish Belurkar (Goa) 4; Prameya Garge (Mah) 4 bt Arush Jain (Del) 3; J. Ashwin (Kar) 4 bt Pranav Reddy (Kar) 3; Rajaryan Kuvalekar (Goa) 3 lost to Ayush Pattnaik (MP) 4; Saurabh Anand (Bih) 4 bt Dileep Kumar (TN) 3; Siddharth Chundru (AP) 3 lost to Harshit Raja (Mah) 4; Venkat Saurav (AP) 3 lost to R.R. Hirthickkesh (TN) 4.

Girls: Bansi Prathima (AP) 4 bt Khushi Dharewa (MP) 3; Kashish Kaushal (Cha) 3 lost to Anjali Murthy (MP) 4; Arpita Mukherjee (Ben) 3 lost to P. Nithya (AP) 4; S. Gaunkar (Goa) 3 lost to B. Brindhaa (TN) 4; Tarini Goyal (Cha) 4 bt Hanan Rouf (Kar) 3.