Date:05/07/2009 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2009/07/05/stories/2009070556641500.htm

Sport - Chess

Aswin, Padmini in sole lead after four rounds

NEW DELHI: Defending champion Aswin Jayaram overpowered fellow International Master N. Srinath to emerge as the sole leader with a perfect score after four rounds of the Asian junior chess championship at Colombo on Saturday.

Drawn game

Homayoon Toufighi of Iran and world under-16 champion B. Adhiban of India drew their match.

In the girls’ section, Padmini Rout defeated Irans Mitra Hejazipour to head the table with four points.

The results (fourth round, involving Indians):

Open: Aswin Jayaram (4) bt N. Srinath (3); Homayoon Toufighi (Iri, 3) drew with B. Adhiban (3).

Pouria Darini (Iri, 2.5) lost to M.R. Lalith Babu (3); P. Karthikeyan (3) bt Chua Zheng Yuan Terry (Sin, 2).

Shreyansh Daklia (2) lost to M. Shyam Sundar (3); Anwesh Upadhyaya (3) bt M.A.N. Danushka (Sri, 2).

K.R.K.C. Subasinghe (Sri, 2) lost to P. Saravana Krishna (3); V. Vishnu Prasanna (2.5) bt Shanaka Munasinghe (Sri, 1.5).

Girls: Padmini Rout (4) bt Mitra Hejazipour (Iri, 3); Kiran Manisha Mohanty (2.5) drew with Minoo Asgarizadeh (3).

S.D. Ranasinghe (Sri, 2) lost to Soumya Swaminathan (3); Dinushki Premanath (Sri, 2.5) drew with R. Preethi (2.5).

S.S.P. Abeywickrama (Sri, 2) lost to N. Raghavi (3); Bhakti Kulkarni (2.5) bt Wang Hsin Jung (Tpe, 1).

P. Uthra (2) bt Navindi Abeywardana (Sri, 1).