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Ivana assured of gold

NEW DELHI: Goa’s growing talent Ivana Furtado made sure of the under-8 title after taking an unbeatable 1.5-point lead following the eighth and penultimate round of the Asian Youth chess championship at Al-Ain, United Arab Emirates on Tuesday.

Meanwhile, Rising Stars maintained its one-point lead after a 2.5-2.5 result against Experience in the sixth round of the NH tournament at Amsterdam.

The results: Asian Youth championship (involving Indians): Eighth round: Boys U-14: Mehar Chinna Reddy (4.5) lost to Salem Saleh (UAE, 6); S. P. Sethuraman (6.5) bt Saeed Ishaq (UAE, 4.5); Nazar Ospanov (Kaz, 5) drew with Prasanna Rao (6); Daniel Chan Yi-Ren (Sin, 6) bt Pranav Shetty (4.5); Islomjon Amanbaev (Kgz, 4.5) drew with Vidit Gujarati (4.5); Jon Christer Aplin (Sin, 4.5) drew with Ankit Rajpara (4.5).

U-12: Sahaj Grover (5.5) lost to Amir Kowsarinia (Iri, 6.5); Puya Idani (Iri, 5) drew with Utkal Sahoo (5.5); Amro El Jawich (Lib, 4) lost to G.V. Sai Krishna (6); Fenil Shah (5.5) bt Saleh Mirzaei (Iri, 4.5); Shiven Khosla (5) bt Erla n Seitaliev (Kgz, 4).

U-8: Revanth Reddy (7) lost to Mohammadreza Asgahrzadeh (6); Shivam Srivastav (5.5) lost to Buyanzaya Davvasuren (Mgl, 5.5).

Girls: U-14: Ghazal Hakimifard (Iri, 6) bt J. Mohana Priya (5); Shalmali Gagare (5) bt Hanieh Khalaji (Iri, 4); Padmini Rout (5) bt Aijarkyn Shagyz Kyzy (Kgz, 3.5); Y.G. Sriharika (4.5) lost Reem Safar (Qat, 4).

U-12: Saikhanchimeg Tsogtsaikhan (Mgl, 5) lost to Priyanka Kumari (6.5); Ch. Sahajasri (4.5) lost to Nguyen Ngoc Thanh Tra (Vie, 6.5); J. Vaishnavi (5) bt Aizhan Aiymubai Kyzy (Kgz, 4); P. Catherine Michelle (3.5) lost to Mohinur Kahra manova (Uzb, 4.5).

U-8: Vu Thi Dieu Uyen (Vie, 5.5) lost to Ivana Furtado (7); C. H. Meghna (5.5) bt Kusara Ragini De Silva (Sri, 4); Zhansaya Abdulmalik (Kaz, 5) bt P. Preethy (4).

NH tournament (sixth round): Rising Stars (15.5) drew with Experience (14.5) 2.5-2.5 (Parimarjan Negi lost to Alexander Beliavsky; Jan Smeets drew with Predrag Nikolic; Daniel Stellwagen lost to Alexander Khalifman; Ivan Cheparinov bt Artur Jussupow; Sergey Karjakin bt Ljubomir Ljubojevic).

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