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Tania beats Muhren; in joint lead

YERAVAN: Riding high on her brilliant form, Women Grandmaster Tania Sachdev crashed through the defences of Women International Master Bianca Muhren of Holland and jumped into joint lead at the World junior girls' chess championship here on Monday.

It turned out to be another excellent day for Tania, who now shares the lead with WGM Melia Salome of Georgia and Mongolian Mongontuul Bathuyag on 5.5 points.

In the boys' section, GM Deepan Chakravarthy came up with a thumping win over IM Boris Grachev.

Important results (Round seven, Indians unless specified):

Boys: Deepan Chakravarthy (5) bt Boris Grachev (Rus, 4); Zhou Jianchao (Chn, 5) bt Abhijeet Gupta (4); Roman Kozlov (Kaz, 3) lost to Deep Sengupta (4); Rahul Sangma (2.5) lost to Davit Zarkua (Geo, 3.5); Yuriy Kryvoruchko (Ukr, 6) drew with Arman Pashikian (Arm, 5); Wang Yue (Chn, 5) drew with Nikita Vitiugov (Rus, 5.5); Levan Pantsulaia (Geo, 5.5) bt Evgeny Romanov (Rus, 4.5); Daniel Stellwagen (Ned, 5) drew with Meier Georg (Ger, 5); Dmitry Frolyanov (Rus, 5.5) bt Anton Filippov (Uzb, 4.5); Li Chao (Chn, 5) bt Wang Hao (Chn, 4); Ildar Khairullin (Rus, 5) bt Amin Bassem (Egy, 4); Tomasz Warakomski (Pol, 4.5) bt Le Quang Liem (Vie, 3.5); Roman Nechepurenko (Rus, 4.5) bt Kim Alexey (Kor, 3.5); David Howell (Eng, 4.5) bt Nasri Amin (Iri, 3.5); Wang Li (Chn, 4) drew with David Baramidze (Ger, 3.5).

Girls: Tania Sachdev (5.5) bt Bianca Muhren (Ned, 4.5); Mikadze Miranda (Geo, 4.5) drew with D. Harika (4.5); Olga Dolgova (Rus, 3.5) lost to Kruttika Nadig (4.5); P. Priya (3) lost to Beata Kadziolka (Pol, 4); Marine Ghazaryan (Arm, 1.5) lost to Soumya Swaminathan (2.5); Mongontuul Bathuyag (Mgl, 5.5) lost to Melia Salome (Geo, 5.5); Zhang Jilin (Chn, 5) drew with Tatev Abrahamyan (USA, 4.5); Hou Yifan (Chn, 5) bt Hoang Thi Bao Tram (Vie, 4); Jennifer Perez Rodriguez (Cub, 4) lost to Shen Yang (Chn, 4); Atousa Pourkashian (Iri, 4) drew with Eesha Karavade (4.5); Elena Tairova (Rus, 4) drew with Yulduz Hamrakulova (Uzb, 4); Lusine Alaverdyan (Arm, 3.5) lost to Anna Rudolf (Hun, 4.5); Iva Videnova (Bul, 4) drew with Mary Ann Gomes (4); Maka Purtseladze (Geo, 4.5) bt Nune Darbinian (Arm, 3.5); Zehra Topel (Tur, 4) bt Anahit Kharatyan (Arm, 3.5). — PTI

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