Nice finish by the kids from Karnataka

All the leading participants from Karnataka won their
last round games to finish well in the
National Subjunior Chess Championships
which concluded here at Chennai today.

Pick of the lot was Antonio Viani D'Cunha (ELO 1988) who
beat Under 11 National Champion Fenil Shah (ELO 2124)
in a Closed Sicilian game. Although D'Cunha was seeded
43rd at the start of the event he finished 8th which is a
tremendous performance from him.

World Under 10 Champion and FIDE Master Girish Kaushik
(ELO 2086) beat Ajay Srikanth (ELO 2028) of Tamil Nadu
to finish on 7.5 points and in 14th place after having been seeded
25th initially.

G.A. Stany (ELO 2097) and Niranjan Navalgund (ELO 2012)
won their last round games as well and finished 25th and
53rd respectively. A speical mention must also be made of
Shristi J. Shetty (ELO 1916) who beat J. Sahari (ELO 1836)
of Andhra Pradesh to finish with 7 points and in 13th place
in the Girls section.

To conclude, this was a wonderful performance by the
Karnataka youngsters and more bright performances
can be expected from them in the days to come!


Antonio Viani D'cunha (1988) - Fenil Shah (2124)
1.e4 c5 2.Nc3 e6 3.f4 d5 4.Bb5+ Bd7 5.Bxd7+ Qxd7 6.d3 Nf6 7.e5 Ng8
8.Nf3 Nc6 9.0-0 Be7 10.Ne2 h5 11.c3 Nh6 12.Bd2 Nf5 13.a3 c4 14.Ng3
Nxg3 15.hxg3 Bc5+ 16.d4 Be7 17.Nh2 g6 18.g4 hxg4 19.Nxg4 Na5 20.Kf2
0-0-0 21.Be3 Rh5 22.g3 Rdh8 23.Kg2 Nb3 24.Rb1 Qd8 25.Qf3 Qg8 26.Rh1
Qh7 27.Nf2 Rh2+ 28.Rxh2 Qxh2+ 29.Kf1 Rg8 30.Ke2 Qh7 31.Rh1 Qg7 32.g4
Rh8 33.Rh3 Rh4 34.Rxh4 Bxh4 35.Qh3 Bd8 36.g5 Kd7 37.Qh6 Qg8 38.Ng4 Na5
39.Nf6+ Bxf6 40.gxf6 Nc6 41.Qg7 Qe8 42.Kf3 Nd8 43.Kg4 Kc6 44.Kg5 a6
45.Kh6 Kd7 46.Kh7 Nc6 47.Qh6 Nd8 48.Kg7 Nc6 49.Qh8 Kd8 50.f5 gxf5
51.Qh5 Ne7 52.fxe7+ Kxe7 53.Bg5+ 1-0

Girish A Koushik (2086) - Srikanth Ajay (2028)
1.d4 d5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.c4 dxc4 4.Nc3 a6 5.e4 b5 6.e5 Nd5 7.a4 e6 8.axb5
Nb6 9.Qc2 Bb7 10.Be3 Qd7 11.bxa6 Rxa6 12.Rxa6 Nxa6 13.Be2 Nb4 14.Qb1
N4d5 15.0-0 Be7 16.Ne4 h6 17.Nfd2 Nxe3 18.fxe3 Bd5 19.Rc1 Qc6 20.Bf3
Qb7 21.Nxc4 Nxc4 22.Rxc4 0-0 23.Qc2 Qa6 24.Rxc7 Bd8 25.Rc3 Bxe4
26.Bxe4 Bg5 27.g3 h5 28.Kg2 Bh6 29.Bf3 g6 30.Be4 Kg7 31.Qf2 Bg5 32.Rc7
Qb6 33.Rb7 Qa5 34.h4 Bd8 35.b4 Qa4 36.b5 Kg8 37.Qc2 Qa5 38.Bxg6 Qe1
Lost On Time. 1-0

Raju S (1872) - Stany G A (2097)
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 e5 6.Ndb5 d6 7.Bg5 a6
8.Na3 b5 9.Bxf6 gxf6 10.Nd5 f5 11.c3 Bg7 12.exf5 Bxf5 13.Qf3 Be6
14.Nf4 d5 15.Nxe6 fxe6 16.Qh5+ Ke7 17.Nc2 e4 18.a3 Qe8 19.Qh3 Qg6
20.Be2 Qg5 21.Rd1 Raf8 22.0-0 Ne5 23.Kh1 Ng6 24.Qg3 Qxg3 25.hxg3 h5
26.Rde1 h4 27.g4 Nf4 28.Nb4 Ra8 29.a4 bxa4 30.Bxa6 a3 31.Bb7 Raf8
32.bxa3 Bxc3 33.Nc6+ Kd6 34.Rb1 Nd3 35.Kg1 Nc5 36.Rfc1 d4 37.Rxc3 dxc3
38.Na5 Rb8 39.Rb6+ Ke7 40.Nc6+ Kf6 41.g5+ Kg7 0-1

Shristi J Shetty (1916) - Sahari J (1836)
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d3 Nc6 4.g3 g6 5.Bg2 Bg7 6.0-0 e5 7.Nbd2 Nge7 8.c3
0-0 9.h3 h6 10.Nh2 Kh7 11.Nc4 Be6 12.Ne3 Qd7 13.g4 g5 14.Nf5 Ng6
15.Nf3 Nce7 16.d4 Rad8 17.Nxg7 Bc4 18.Nh5 f6 19.Re1 Qe8 20.Ng3 Be6
21.Nf5 Bxf5 22.exf5 Nf4 23.Bxf4 gxf4 24.Nh4 Rg8 25.Ng6 Nxg6 26.fxg6+
Kh8 27.Be4 Rg7 28.Qd2 Re7 29.Bf5 Kg7 30.Rad1 b6 31.dxc5 bxc5 32.b4
cxb4 33.cxb4 Qa4 34.Rc1 Qa3 35.Kg2 d5 36.Rc5 Qa4 37.Rxd5 Rxd5 38.Qxd5
Qxb4 39.Rc1 Qb7 40.Qxb7 Rxb7 41.a4 Re7 42.a5 e4 43.a6 e3 44.fxe3 fxe3
45.Kf1 Kg8 46.Rc8+ Kg7 47.Rb8 e2+ 48.Ke1 Re3 49.Rb7+ Kg8 50.Rxa7 Rxh3
51.Kxe2 white won in 84 moves 1-0