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Sahaj Grover prevails

Rakesh Rao

NEW DELHI: The setting was just right for some truly competitive chess for the champions of tomorrow. However, all the efforts from the organisers of the Asian youth chess championship fell well short of providing a smooth take-off for the children's event. The erroneous pairings continued to keep Chief Arbiter Hameed Majid occupied all day without much success.

In short, lack of professionalism in organising events of such magnitude refuses to go away from Indian chess.

Close shave

World under-10 champion Sahaj Grover, seeded eighth in the under-10 section, escaped an almost certain defeat at the hands of Krushna Mishra, who played white. Sahaj, down two pawns in the endgame, was starting at defeat before Mishra's inexperience came to the fore and let the Delhi-boy get away to victory. All other fancied names won with ease.

The results (first round. Indians unless stated):

Boys: (under-8): Ch. Mohineesh bt J. Gireman; K. Vijay Keerthi bt M. Satvik; P. Hemanth Kumar bt Kapil Ghatwai; Karan Jain lost to S. V. Srinath Rao; Shardul A. Gagare bt Igor Karavaev (Trk); (under-10): V. A. V. Rajesh bt Hardik Satra; M. Hridhay lost to Rahini eswar; Vishwanath Prasad bt J. Gautam; G. V. Sai Krishna drew with M. Chinna Reddy; K. Sudharashan Surya lost to D. Yashas; (under-12): P. Sethuraman bt Akash Pawar; Akshat Aggarwal drew with C. Praveen Kumar; N. Sonjoy Singh drew with Islam Amanbaev (Kyr); Anirudha S. Negi lost to Mehdi Hosseni (Iri); Tejash Chanda bt Anurag Sethi; (under-14): Parimarjan Negi bt Gobin Thounaojom; Sourabha Shejwalkar lost to M. R. Lalith Babu; Y. Sandeep bt R. S. Santhosbaala; Antarip Roy lost to Ton That Nhu Tung (Vie); R. Ashwath bt Shreyansh K. Shah.

Girls: Under-8: Aditi Kothari gave a walkover to M. Vyshanvi; Ogulbayrum Orazova (Tkm) lost to B. Prathyusha; C. K. Varsha bt Jemal Ovezdurduueva (Tkm); S. Manasa lost to C. H. Megha; Dhanashree bt Ganbaatar Saikhanzaya (Mgl); Saloni Sachdeva lost to G. Ashwarya; (under-10): Nisha Patkar bt Himani Sharma; Isha Bhave lost to Priyanka Kumar; P. Sujatha lost to J. Akhila; J. Sahari bt S. Abhignya; Agnihotri Ghosh bt J. Saranya; (under-12): V. Bhavna bt B. Taraswinee; D. Madhu drew with V. Chaitnaya; G. Sirisha bt Diotima Dutta Gupta; Filisha Shah drew with S. Gayathri; Shrishti Shetty bt K. Subhashree; (under-14): Ramya Krishna bt Sriya Bhattacharjee; Meghna Kanitkar lost to M. V. P. Lahari; L. Uuganbayar (Mgl) bt Hani Al Shairmaa (Qat); Akansha Narain lost to Bhakti Kulkarni; N. Krithika bt Aysha Ali Alkhulaifi (Qat).

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