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Shakhriyar, Elisabeth win; Harika third

NEW DELHI: D. Harika drew with eventual champion Germany's Elisabeth Paehtz to tie for the third spot with two others in the World junior chess championship in Istanbul on Tuesday.

Harika who shared the second spot after her 12th round victory over Georgia's Maka Purtselade, finished with nine points, behind Elisabeth (10) and China's Gu Xiaobing (9.5).

Later, Azerbaijan's Turkan Mamdjarova and Poland's Beata Kadziolka won their matches to match Harika's tally. Harika now awaits the tiebreak scores to know whether the bronze medal comes her way.

In the boys' section, Azerbaijan's Shakhriyar Mamedyarov tallied 10.5 points to regain the title won in 2003. With this superlative performance, Mamedyarov became the first two-time winner of the event.

The results (Indians unless stated):

Boys (13th round): Jan Smeets (Ned, 8.5) drew with Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (Aze, 10.5); Ferenc Berkes (Hun, 9.5) bt Tomi Nyback (Fin, 8.5); Radoslaw Wojtaszek (Pol, 8) lost to Evgeny Alekseev (Rus, 9); Erwin L'ami (Ned, 8) lost to Vugar Gashimov (Aze, 9).

(12th round): Mamedyarov drew with Nyback; Alekseev drew with Berkes; Wang Yue (Chn, 8) drew with Erwin; Wojtaszek drew with Daniel Stellwagen (Ned, 7.5); Gashimov bt Bartel Mateusz (Pol, 7).

Other results involving Indians (13th round): Bartlomiej Heberla (Pol, 7) lost to Deep Sengupta (8); Parimarjan Negi (6.5) drew with Vlad-Victor Barnaure (Rom, 6.5); (12th round): Deep drew with Ildar Khairullin (Rus, 7); Igor Kurnosov (Rus, 7.5) bt S. Poobesh Anand (6.5); G. N. Gopal (6) drew with Elshan Moradiabadi (Iri, 6); Maenhout Thibaut (Bel, 5.5) lost to G. Rohit (6.5); El Debs Felip De Cresce (Bra, 6) drew with Parimarjan Negi (6); Akshat Khamparia (6) bt Leandro Perdomo (Arg, 5).

Girls (13th round): Elisabeth Paehtz (Ger, 10) drew with D. Harika (9); Irina Vasilevich (Rus, 8.5) lost to Turkan Mamedjarova (Aze, 9); Natalija Pogonina (Rus, 8.5) lost to Nana Dzagnidze (Geo, 8.5); Gu Xiaobing (Chn, 9.5) bt Tania Sachdev (7.5); Beata Kadziolka (Pol, 9) bt Siranush Andriasian (Arm. 7.5); (12th round): Turkan lost to Elisabeth; Irina drew with Natalija; Jolanta Zawadzka (Pol, 7.5) drew with Gu Xiaobing; Harika bt Maka Purtseladze (Geo, 7); Nana drew with Beata.

Other results involving Indians (13th round): Karina Szczepkowska (Pol, 8) bt Eesha Karavade (7); (12th round): Tania bt Anna Sharevich (Blr, 6.5); Alina Motoc (Rom, 7) drew with Kruttika Nadig (7); Eesha drew with Natalia Zdebskaja (Ukr, 7); N. Raghavi (4.5) bye.

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