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Parimarjan Negi fails to survive day of surprises

Rakesh Rao

NEW DELHI: The pressure of expectation proved too much for young Parimarjan Negi. This immensely gifted top seed in the boys under-14 section crashed to a surprise loss at the hands of far lesser-rated Iranian Porya Dereni in the third round to complete a day of upset results in the Parsvnath Asian youth chess championship at the Indira Gandhi Indoor Stadium here on Friday.

Before Negi lost his way, second seed Lalith Babu surrendered to Meghan Gupte in the second round. In boys' under-12, Ankit Rajpara held fancied Sethuraman in the second round. In the evening, World under-10 boys champion Sahaj Grover had to split the point.

Among the girls, under-12 champion Rucha Pujari went down to G. Sirisha in the second round while defending champion in the girls under-14 section, the lanky Ramya Krishna was upstaged by Mitali Patkar.

The results (third round, Indians unless stated): Girls (under-8): Ivana Furtado (2) lost to B. Prthayusha (3); N. Vyshanvi (2.5) drew with G. Aishwarya (2.5); G. Thenammai (2) lost to M. Gomini Shreya (3); C. K. Varsha (1.5) drew with Shoumi Mukherjee (2.5); Joanne Shalon (2)

bt C. H. Meghna (2). (under-10): Nisha Patkar (2.5) drew with Krushna Mishra (2.5); K. Sai Nirupama (3) bt Priyanka Kumari (2); Do Hong Minh Tho (Vie) (1.5) lost to T. Saikhanchimeg (Mgl) (3); Nistha (2) drew with Aishwarya (2); J. Saranya (1.5) lost to Sri Sahaja (2.5). (under-12): V. Bhavna (2.5) drew with G. Madanari (2.5); G. Sirisha (2) lost to Sri Harika (3); Shrishti

Shetty (2) lost to Nguyen Thia Mai Hung (Vie) (3); Padmini Rout (3) bt J. Mohana Priya (1.5); Pallabi Roy (2.5) bt D. Madhu (1.5); (under-14): Dhyani Dave (3) bt Bhakti Kulkarni (2); N. Krithika (2) lost to Mitali Patil (3); Dhara Gupta (3) bt K. Tejashwi (2); Y. Niharika (2) lost to Lakshmi Sahiti (3); L. Uuganbayar (Mgl) (2.5) bt P. Akshathaa (1.5).

Boys (under-8): G. Harhavardhan Reddy (3) bt S. V. Srinath Rao (2); Sayantan Das (3) bt G. N. Lohlit (2); Ashwath P. Hari (3) bt N. S. Shaikh (2); S. Kaushik (3) bt J. P. Sokhanvarian (Iri) (2); Bharat Kumar Reddy (3) bt Aayush Jugele (2); (under-10) V. A. V. Rajesh (3) bt Sravan Kumar (2); Anurag Mhamal (2.5) drew with Rahini Eswar (2.5); V. P. Anthagiri (3) bt Megh P. Patel (2); Sai Krishna (2.5)drew with Samrat Ghorai (2.5); K. Harsh (2.5) drew with Sahaj Grover (2.5); (under-12): Prasanna Rao (3) bt Debashish Das (2); K. Priyadarshan (2.5) drew with P. Kranti Kumar (2.5); Pranav Shetty (3) bt V.Gujarathi (2); Aditya Udeshi (2.5) drew with Bitan

Banerjee (2.5); Aditya Singh (2) lost to S. Ravi Teja (3); (under-14): Parimarjan Negi (2) lost to Porya Dereni (Iri) (3); Y. Sandeep (3) bt S. Nitin (2); Shreyash Daklia (2) lost to Ton That Nhu Tung (Vie) (3); R. Ashwath (2.5) drew with Anwesh Upadhyay (2.5); Meghan Gupte (2) lost to Anas Nazreen Bakri (Mal) (3).

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