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Prasanna Rao emerges sole leader

NEW DELHI: Second seed Prasanna Rao emerged as the sole leader in the boys’ under-14 section with 4.5 points when he defeated third seeded and compatriot Anikit Rajpara, while top seed Vidit Gujarati unexpectedly dropped half a point in the fifth round of the Asian youth chess championship in Teheran on Friday.

On a day when the Indian girls fared better than boys, C. H. Mohineesh, Diptayan Ghosh (boys U-10), Ivana Furtado, M. Mahalakshmi (girls U-10), Sonakshi Rathore, Pratyusha Bodda (girls U-12), Padmini Rout, J. Mohana Priya (girls U-14) and P. Uthra (girls U-18) were among the leaders.

The results (involving Indians): Boys U-8 (fourth round): Y. Grahesh (3) lost to Ortik Nigmatov (Uzb, 4); Adrash Srivastava (2) lost to Tran Minh Thang (Vie, 3).

Boys U-10 (fifth round): Sidhant Mahapatra (3.5) lost to C. H. Mohineesh (4); Diptayan (4) bt Reza Asgharzadeh (Iri, 3).

Boys U-12 (fifth round): Nima Javanbakht (Iri, 5) bt Sayantan Das (3); Shiven Khosla (4) bt Oleg Artemenko (Uzb, 3); Girish Koushik (4) bt Le Huu Thai (Vie, 3); Amir Kowsarinia (Iri, 3) lost to Shardul Gagare (4); Praveen Kumar (3) bt Zhokhar Zhanbai (Kgz, 2).

Boys U-14 (fifth round): Roman Golubev (Uzb, 4) drew with Vidit Gujarati (4); Ankit Rajpara (3) lost to Prasanna Rao (4.5); Pouya Idani (Iri, 4) bt Fenil Shah (2.5); Alibek Igambergenov (Kaz, 2) drew with Pravav Shetty (2). :

Boys U-16 (fifth round): Saleh Salem (UAE, 4.5) bt Shyam Sundar (3); S. P. Sethuraman (3.5) drew with S. Nitin (3.5); B. Adhiban (3.5) drew with Ikrom Ilhomzade (Tjk, 3.5); Sina Salehian (Iri, 3) bt K. Priyadarshan (2); Akhila Kavinda (Sri, 2) drew with Antonio Viani D’cunha (1.5).

Boys U-18 (fourth round): Debashis Das (3) drew with Homayoon Taufighi (Iri, 3.5); Saravana Krishnan (3) bt Sokhib Djuraev (Tjk, 2); Pradeep Kumar (1) lost to Asghar Golizadeh (Iri, 2).

Girls U-8 (fourth round): Zhansaya Abdulmalik (Kaz, 3.5) drew with Riya Savant (3); Tejaswini Sagar (3) bt Rezvan Najib (Iri, 2).

Girls U-10 (fifth round): Ivana Furtado (4.5) bt Diana Omurbekova (Kgz, 3); M. Mahalakshmi (4.5) bt Kimiya Ghaziolsharif (Iri, 3); Suhila Muhsen (Irq, 2.5) lost to Sweety Patel (3.5): Sima Seyfikar (Iri, 2) lost to Shoumi Mukherjee (3); Dilara Albekova (Kaz, 2) lost to G. K. Monnisha (3).

Girls U-12 (fifth round): Sonakshi Rathore (4) drew with Dinara Saduakasova (Kaz, 3.5); P.V. Nandhidhaa (3) lost to Sarasadat Khademalsharieh (Iri, 4); Pratyusha Bodda (4) bt M. Navya Vyshnavi (2.5).

Girls U-14 (fourth round): Ghazal Hakimifard (Iri, 2) lost to Padmini Rout (3); Myrzagul Sydykova (Kaz, 2) lost to J. Mohana Priya (3); N. Anusha (2) lost to Sarvinoz Qurbonboyeva (Uzb, 3); Priyanka Kumari (2) drew with Minoo Asgarizadeh (Iri, 2.5).

Girls U-16 (fifth round): Bhakti Kulkarni (4) bt Pon N. Krithika (3.5); Shalmali Gagare (3) bt Mariam Vardkar (Iri, 2).

Girls U-18 (fourth round): P. Uthra (3.5) bt Golnaz Jafari (Iri, 3); R. Preethi (2.5) bt Morvorid Nazriddimova (Tjk, 1.5); Homa Alavi (Iri, 1.5) lost to K. Manasa (2.5).

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