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Sengupta shocks Berkes

By Stan Rayan

Eesha Karavade, who surprised fifth-seeded Alina Motoc on Thursday. — Photo: Mahesh Harilal

KOCHI, NOV. 25. While Indian Deep Sengupta pushed the top-seeded Ferenc Berkes deeper into the abyss of despair, a young Chinese and a small Malaysian celebrated memorable landmarks at the World junior chess championship at the Casino Hotel here on Thursday.

Sengupta, a former World under-12 champion, pulled off a fighting 43-move victory over Hungarian Berkes with white and in the girls' section, sixth-seeded Pune youngster Eesha Karavade upset Romanian Alina Motoc who is perched one rung above her.

And despite P. Harikrishna holding on to his lead, the Indians had a mixed day at the championships with Koneru Humpy, N.Vinuthna and Saheli Nath all losing their games.

China's junior national champion Zhao Jun, who shifted from Chinese chess to the Western version a few years ago, completed the formalities for this Grandmaster title with a 35-move draw in the Queen's Indian Defence against Russian GM Alekseev Evgeny Vladimirovich.

The day belonged to Sengupta. His early f3 against the Sicilian resulted in the game heading for a sharp battle with the top-seeded Berkes. At one point, Sengupta had two knights and three pawns for black's two rooks. "He missed some chances but in the end, my pawns were far advanced," said Sengupta.

Important results (ninth round, Indians unless stated): Boys: P.Harikrishna (7.5) drew with Erwin l'Ami (Ned, 6), Evgeny Alekseev (Rus, 6.5) drew with Zhao Jun (Chn, 7), Tigran L.Petrosian (Arm, 6.5) lost to Yunieski Quezada Perez (Cub, 6.5), Yuri Drozdovsky (Ukr, 6.5) bt Koneru Humpy (5.5), Deep Sengupta (6.5) bt Ferenc Berkes (Hun, 5), Radoslaw Wojtaszek (Pol, 5.5) drew with Elshan Moradiabadi (Iri, 5.5), Zhe Quan (Chn, 6) bt Mark Paragua (Phi, 5), Timur Gareyev (Uzb, 6) bt Leandro Perdomo (Arg, 5), Jan Smeets (Ned, 6) bt David Smerdon (Aus, 5), M.R.Venkatesh (5) lost to Dasari Sai Srinivas (6), Jianu Vlad-Cristian (Rom, 6) bt Mateusz Bartel (Pol, 4.5), Tikkanen Hans (Swe, 4.5) lost to Artem Iljin (Rus, 5.5), Grigor Grigorov (Bul, 5) drew Pablo Lafuente (Arg, 5), Giampaolo Bucchicchio (Ita, 4.5) lost to Deepan Chakravarthy (5.5), Poobesh Anand (5) drew Balind Nadj Hadjesi (SCG, 5), Arghyadip Das (4.5) lost to Oliver Barbosa (Phi, 5.5).

Girls: J.E.Kavitha (5.5) lost to Ekaterina Korbut (Rus, 7), Elisabeth Paehtz (Ger, 7) bt N.Vinuthna (5.5), Anna Ushenina (Ukr, 7) bt Saheli Nath (5.5), Alina Motoc (Rom, 5) lost to Eesha Karavade (6.5), Tania Sachdev (5.5) drew Zhang Jilin (Chn, 5.5), Dana Aketayeva (Kaz, 5.5) bt Marlies Bensdorp (Ned, 4.5), Joanna Majdan (Pol, 5.5) bt Shaeshteh Ghader Pour (Iri, 4.5), Siti Zulaikha (Mas, 5) drew N.Raghavi (5), Anastasiya Gutsko (Ukr, 5) bt I.Ramya Krishna (Ind, 4), Kruttika Nadig (5) bt Anuprita Patil (Ind, 4), Aleksandra Mijovic (SCG, 4) lost to Jennifer R Perez (Cub, 5), Paloma C.Gutierrez (Esp, 4) lost to Koneru Chandra Hawsa (4.5).

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