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Wednesday, Dec 14, 2005

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Nirupama ensures India's first gold

Rakesh Rao

GOING PLACES: K. Sai Nirupama is assured of the under-10 gold. — File photo

NEW DELHI: Last year's Asian under-8 girls' champion K. Sai Nirupama has clearly moved to a higher level and she proved it in style by making sure of the under-10 gold with a round to spare in the Parvsnath Asian Youth chess championship at the Indira Gandhi Stadium here on Tuesday.

Nirupama defeated Mongolia's Bayarmaa Bayarjargal in 41 moves following an irregular opening and moved to 7.5 points from eight rounds.

With a 1.5-point lead over Mongolia's S. Tsogtsaihan and Vietnam's Do Hoang Minh Tho, she made sure of India's first gold irrespective of the result of her final round on Wednesday.

However, India's dreams of a possible golden sweep ended when Vietnam's Ton That Nhu Tung benefited from Parimarjan Negi's oversight to not only extricate himself from an inferior position and win but also move closer to the title in the open under-14 section.

Tung, with seven points, enjoys a one-point lead over the field and needs only a draw in the final round to take the gold.

The scores (eighth round, Indians unless stated):

Boys: Under-8: Sayantan Das (6.5) bt S. Kaushik (6); Girish Kauslik (7) bt Bharat Reddy (5.5); Prince Bajaj (6.5) bt G. Harshavardhan Reddy (5.5); G.N. Lohit (5) lost to Le Huu Thai (Vie) (6).

Under-10: Viswanath Prasad Anthagiri (6) lost to V.A.V. Rajesh (7); Fenil Shah (6.5) drew with Utkal Sahoo (6); Sahaj Grover (6) bt Anurag Mhamal (5.5); D. Yashas (5) lost to N. Dheeraj Kumar (6); Y.V.K. Chakravarthy (5.5) drew with Ram Gupta (5.5).

Under-12: Vidit Gujarati (6.5) drew with K. Priyadarshan (6.5); Prasanna Rao (5.5) lost to S.P. Sethuraman (6.5); K. Sanjoy Singh (6) bt Pravav Shetty (5); M. Chenna Reddy (6) bt S. Tejesh Chandra (5); S. Subramanium (5) lost to Debashish Das (6).

Under-14: Ton That Nhu Tung (Vie) (7) bt Parimarjan Negi (5); Porya Dereni (Iri) (6) drew with Anas Nazreen Bakri (Mal) (6); Nikhil Shyam (5.5) drew with B. Adhiban (5.5); S. Nitin (6) bt Jamshid Mustafaev (Uzb) (5); Y. Sandeep (6) bt Sankalp Modwal (5).

Girls: Under-8: G. Aishwarya (6.5) drew with M. Gomini Shreya (5.5); M. Vyshanvi (6.5) bt Ivana Furtado (5.5); B. Prathyusha (6) bt C.K. Varsha (4.5); Shoumi Mukherjee (4.5) lost to Sweety N. Patel (6); Mahika Mor (4) lost to Joanne Shalon (5).

Under-10: K. Sai Nirupama (7.5) bt B. Bayarmaa (Mgl) (5); Priyanka Kumari (6) bt Agnihotri Ghosh (5); S. Tsogtsaihan (Mgl) (5.5) bt J. Saranya (5); Nisha Patkar (4) lost to Do Hoang Minh Tho (Vie) (5.5); J. Akhila (4.5) drew with Anjana Krishnan (4.5).

Under-12: G. Madanasri (6) bt Mitra Hejazipour (Iri) (6); Pallabi Roy (5.5) drew with Padmini Rout (6); Nguyen Thi Mai Hung (Vie) (6) drew with J. Mohana Priya (5.5); Rucha Pujari (5) lost to V. Bhavna (5.5); Shalmali Gagare (5.5) bt Hanieh Khalaji (Iri) (4.5).

Under-14: Ramya Krishna (6) drew with Pon. N. Krithika (5); Mitali Patil (5) lost to Lakshmi Sahiti (6.5); Dhyani Dave (6.5) bt Guliskhan Nakhbayeva (Kaz) (5); L. Uuganbayar (Mgl) (5) lost to Bhakti Kulkarni (6); M.V.P. Lahari (5.5) bt K. Manasa (4.5).

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