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Indians ensure three gold medals

NEW DELHI: Indians made sure of an unprecedented three gold medals in the World Youth chess championship with Girish Koushik (under-10) and Ch Mohineesh (under-8) winning with a round to spare.

D. Harika, due to superior tiebreak score, is set to win the under-18 section by at least matching the final-round score of joint leader Nargiz Umudova of Azerbaijan.

The results (Indians unless stated): 10th round: Open Under-8: Sanal Vahap (Tur, 7) lost to Ch Mohineesh (9.5); Noe Tutisani (Geo, 7) lost to Prince Bajaj (8.5); Lohit Neela (6.5) drew with Valentin Valev (Bul, 6.5); Miraldil Zeynalli (Aze, 6) drew with M. Satvik (6); Harsha Vardan Reddy (6.5) bt Nicholas Nip (5.5); Soumya Sharma (6) bt Sviatoslav Diatlov (Ukr, 5); Bharat Roshik (5.5) bt Luka Licheli (Geo, 4.5). Under-10: Girish Koushik (9) drew with Y.V.K. Chakravarthi (7.5); Sayantan Das (6.5) lost to Irakli Beradze (Geo, 7.5); G. V. Sai Krishna (7) drew with Shiven Khosla (7); R. Eswar (7) drew with Wei Yuyang (Chn, 7); Abhilash Reddy (7) bt Kacper Drozdowski (Pol, 6.5); Jayavel Mugil (5.5) lost to Gigla Benidze (Geo, 6.5); Nima Javanbakht (Iri, 6) drew with Vigram (6); Kharma Pandya (6) bt Richard Leu (Can, 5); G. Hambartsumyan (Arm, 4) lost to Vasantha Varman (5); Davit Diasamidze (Geo, 4) drew with Sudharshan Surya (4). Under-12: Nijat Abasov (Aze, 8) bt N. Srinath (7); Robson Roy (USA, 7.5) bt Sahaj Grover (6.5); V.A.V. Rajesh (6.5) lost to Jorge Cori (Per, 7.5); Ulvi Bajarani (Aze, 7.5) bt Fenil Shah (6.5); Adith Jagadish (6) lost to Nika Volkov (Geo, 7); L. Sri Harsha (7) bt Daniel Naroditsky (USA, 6); Prasanna Rao (6.5) bt Daniel Svoysky (Isr, 5.5); Toms Kantans (Lat, 5.5) lost to Vidit Gujarati (6.5); Vishwanath Prasasd (5.5) lost to Liu Guanchu (Chn, 6.5); Zaur Mammadov (Aze, 5.5) bt Harihara Sudan (4.5); Martin Pagerka (Svk, 4.5) lost to Harsh Karnati (5.5); Ilia Aumbulidze (Geo, 3.5) drew with Antonio Furtado (3.5); Zhang Chenye (Chn, 4) bt Anand Reddy (3); Tuomas Laato (Fin, 2.5) drew with Suresh Nani (2.5).

Under-14: Levan Bregadze (Geo, 8) drew with B. Adhiban (7); K. Priyadarshan (6) bt Bahruz Rzayev (Aze, 5); Sh Koohestani (Iri, 6) bt Y. Sandeep (5); S. Nitin (5) bt Amirreza Pourramezanli (Iri, 4.5).Under-16: S.P. Sethuraman (6) bt Milan Pacher (Svk, 5); Aswin Jayaram (6) bt Matiss Mustaps (Lat, 5); D. Sai Srinivas (5.5) bt Mohammad Hossein Shamsi (Iri, 4.5). Under-18: S. Arun Prasad (5.5) drew with Joel Banawa (USA, 5.5); Tebriz Idrisov (Aze, 5) lost to G. Rohit (6).

Girls: Under-8: M. Mahalakshmi (7.5) bt M. Navyavyshnavi (7.5); Ivana Furtado (7.5) drew with Iulija Osmak (Ukr, 7); Veronika Aniper (Ukr, 6) lost to Shoumi Mukherjee (7); U. Ashwini (6) lost to Sweety Patel (7); Shreya Gomini (5) lost to Nezihe Ezgi Menzi (Tur, 6).Under-10: K. Sai Nirupama (7.5) lost to Ch Sahajasri (8.5); Stefana Milutinovic (Srb, 6.5) drew with B. Pratyusha (6.5); Kimia Moradi (Iri, 5) drew with Uma Bharathi (4.5); Melisa Birgelir (Tur, 4) lost to Niththa Gupta (5); Dimitra Androni (4) lost to K. Deepika (5); M. Priyadarshini (4) lost to Ganbaatar Saikhanzaya (Mgl, 5); G. Aiswarya (4.5) bt Leanne Naidoo (4).

Under-12: Padmini Rout (7) bt Lena Kazniatsova (USA, 6); J. Mohana Priya (6.5) bt Triin Narva (Est, 5.5); G. Sirisha (5) bt Lika Kobeshavnidze (Geo, 4). Under-14: Pon N. Krithika (6.5) drew with Klaudia Kulon (Pol, 8); P. Lakshmi Sahiti (6.5) lost to Nazi Paikidze (Geo, 8); Anu Bayar (Mgl, 5) lost to Bhakti Kulkarni (6); Devangi Patankar (5.5) bt Ieva Zalimaite (Ltu, 5); Astghik Meseljyan (Arm, 50 drew with Pallabi Roy (5). Under-16: Nazerke Rysbayeva (Kaz, 5.5) lost to I. Ramya Krishna (6.5); Anya Corke (Hkg, 5.5) drew with Dhyani Dave (5.5); V. Priyadarshini (0.5) lost to Jessica Kinder (Aus, 4).

Under-18: D. Harika (8) bt An Zhixiao (Chn, 6); Teona Gurchumalidze (Geo, 6) lost to Mary Ann Gomes (7).

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