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Tania scores win, among leaders

NEW DELHI: Whiz-kid Parimarjan Negi continued to delight by proving equal to sixth seeded Chinese Grandmaster Wang Yue and Madurai boy Poobesh Anand held 12th seeded Dutch International Master Erwin L'ami on a day of mixed fortunes for India following the second round of the World junior chess championships at Istanbul on Thursday.

On a day when the girls' top seed and 2003 champion Georgia's Nana Dzagnidze crashed to a shock defeat at the hands of untitled Chinese Liu Pei, Tania Sachdev overpowered her Iranian friend Atousa Pourkashiyan to be among the 10 leaders.

After holding second seeded Russian Evgeny Aleeksev in the opening round, Negi came up with a fighting draw with black pieces against Wang Yue.

The results (second round, Indians unless stated): Boys: Levon Babujian (Arm, 1) lost to Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (Aze, 2); Tornike Sanikidze (Geo, 1.5) drew with Vugar Gashimov (Aze, 1.5); Radoslaw Wojtaszek (Pol, 2) bt Vasily Papin (Rus, 2); Deep Sengupta (1) lost to Evgeny Tomashevsky (Rus, 2); Tomi Nyback (Fin, 1.5) drew with Matthieu Cornette (Fra, 1.5); Other results involving Indians): Borki Predojevic (Bih, 2) bt G. Rohit (1); Erwin L'ami (Ned, 1.5) drew with S. Poobesh Anand (1.5); Wang Yue (Chn, 1) drew with Parimarjan Negi (1); Faut Uzun (Tur, 0) lost to G. N. Gopal (1); Leon de Bruyn (RSA, 0) lost to Akshat Khamparia (1).

Girls: Liu Pei (Chn, 2) bt Nana Dzagnidze (Geo, 1); Anna Ushenina (Ukr, 1) lost to Bela Khotenashvili (Geo, 2); Karina Szczepkowska (Pol, 1) lost to Mongontu Bathuyag (Mgl, 2); Siranush Andriasian (Arm,1) lost to Natalia Zdebskaja (Ukr, 2); Irina Vasilevich (Rus, 1.5) drew with Vera Nebolsina (Rus, 1.5); (Other results involving Indians): Tania Sachdev (2) bt Atousa Pourkashiyan (Iri, 1); Eesha Karavade (1) lost to Ciobanu Camelia (Rom, 2); Kruttika Nadig (1) lost to Gu Xiaobing (Chn, 2); D. Harika (1.5) bt Evgenia Meshcheriakova (Rus, 0.5); Ozturk Kubra (Tur, 0) lost to N. Raghavi (1).

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