The Hindu : Vinuthna is sole leader

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Sunday, Feb 15, 2004

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Vinuthna is sole leader

By Our Sports Reporter

HYDERABAD, FEB. 14. N. Vinuthna of Andhra Pradesh emerged sole leader with 6.5 points at the end of the seventh round of the National junior chess championship for boys and girls (under-18 years) being held at Gowtham Model School here today.

On the second board, Vinuthna opted for the Ruy-Lopez opening against R. Gomathey to get equality with black pieces on the 10th move. Later, to the delight of the local girl, Gomathey played a weak 20th move, which badly weakened her position. Never Vinuthna quickly forced an exchange and wrapped up the game in 58 moves.

In the boys' section, Arun Prasad outplayed T. Abbay in 24 moves to be the sole leader with six points from seven rounds.

The results (7th round):

Boys: Nikhilesh Kumar (5.5) drew with Deepan Chakravarthy (5.5); Arun Prasad (6) bt T. Abbay (5); P. Tanmoy (4.5) lost to S. Krishnan (5.5); Soumitra Mujumdar (4) lost to Venkat Sundaram (5); M.M. Anand Raj (5) bt Vedprakash Sinha (4); Rahul Manohar (4.5) drew with Arun Karthik (4.5); C.R.G. Krishna (5) bt Muthu Alagappan (4); K.V. Venprakash (4) lost to Rajib Dhar (5); Ramakrishna (4) lost to Somak Palit (4.5) Rahul Sangma (4.5) bt M.M. Justine (3.5); Vaidya Chaitanya (4.5) bt N. Himanshu Kumar (3.5); M.M. Eugene (4) bt K.Phani Bhushan (3); V. Somesh (4) bt Aditya Vikas (3); Neeraj Khera (4) bt V.S. Sanjeev (3); Balakumar (4) bt Sravan Kumar (3); Jalpan Bhatta (3.5) drew with Swayam S. Mishra (3.5); Muhammed Hussain (3) lost to Ashutosh Shukla (4).

Girls: L. Sudarshana (5.5) drew with M. Rajadarshini (6); N. Vinuthna (6.5) bt R. Gomathey (4.5); R. Preethi (5.5) bt Kiran Manisha Mohanty (4.5); Ramyakrishna (5.5) bt Shireesha (4); Suchandra Chatterjee (4) lost to P. Priya (5): Nabeela Farheen (4) lost to S. Amrutha Mokal (5); Ketaki Kulkarni (5) bt Y. Niharika (4); R.K. Shruke (3.5) lost to Prachi N. Thite (4.5); R. Aparna (3.5) lost to K. Nayana (4.5); V. Chatainya (4) drew with Lakshmi Praneetha (4); D. Tejasri (4) drew with Tejaswi Kanuri (4); N. Pragna Patavi (4) bt Jil Sheth (3); Lakshmi Sahiti (4) bt Krishna Manjusha (3); Lalitha Raghavendran (3) lost to Kiruba H. Arasu (4); P. Akshataa (3.5) drew with S.L. Padmaja (3.5); S. Rohini (4) bt K.U. Amrutha (3); Priyanka Kumari (3) lost to V. Bhavana (4).

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