Smooth start to National Under Nine
The twentyfirst edition of the prestigious National Under 9 Chess Championship for Boys and Girls respectively got off to a smooth start on Friday at St. Joseph's PU College campus in Bangalore. 212 boys and 93 girls are playing in this event.
In the Boys section, the seeded players had a no difficulties. However, the seventh board saw a minor upset when Hemant Kumar (ELO 1886) of AP was held to draw by unrated M. Karthikeyan of Tamil Nadu in the second round. On the top board in third round, top seed Diptayan Ghosh (ELO 2006) of West Bengal had an easy outing against Ashwath of AP in an Italian game opening. White blundered a piece on 16th move to lose easily against highly rated Diptayan. Ghosh next plays Aswath P. Hari (ELO 1704) of Tamil Nadu in the fourth round.
On the second board, Chetan Basu played an inaccurate Marshall Attack variation with black pieces to lose 2 pawns by just move 19. White only had to open up Black's kingside to post a crushing win. Chinmay Routray won easily against S. Kumar in an irregular Sicilian defence. Kumar lost an exchange on move 25 to hand over the win to Chinmay.
Karnataka's top rated players in this category - Akshay Bharadwaj (ELO 1923), M. Satvik (ELO 1914), Shabdik Verma and R.V. Anantharam are playing according to the expectations. Akshay Bharadwaj posted an impressive win against Daniel Rajan of TN on the fifth board. Satwik also finished the game in style on board 6 against Hetul Shah of Gujarat. Totally 18 players are sharing the lead in Boys' section with 3 points.
In the girls section second seeded Shoumi Mukherjee (ELO 1766) of West Bengal played a wonderful game against Bansi Prathima of AP to post a win on the top board In a major upset, Dharani sree of TN defeated FIDE rated and National Under 7 Champion Meghana C H (ELO 1716) of Kerala on the second board. M. Mahalakshmi (ELO 1710) of TN also had an easy win on the third board. She defeated Kavya SS of Tamil Nadu. Amongst the Karnataka girls, Andrea D'souza drew her game against Sunya Sakta Satpathy of Orissa. Totally, 8 players are in the lead with 3 points each before the start of the 4th round.
In the Boys section, the seeded players had a no difficulties. However, the seventh board saw a minor upset when Hemant Kumar (ELO 1886) of AP was held to draw by unrated M. Karthikeyan of Tamil Nadu in the second round. On the top board in third round, top seed Diptayan Ghosh (ELO 2006) of West Bengal had an easy outing against Ashwath of AP in an Italian game opening. White blundered a piece on 16th move to lose easily against highly rated Diptayan. Ghosh next plays Aswath P. Hari (ELO 1704) of Tamil Nadu in the fourth round.
On the second board, Chetan Basu played an inaccurate Marshall Attack variation with black pieces to lose 2 pawns by just move 19. White only had to open up Black's kingside to post a crushing win. Chinmay Routray won easily against S. Kumar in an irregular Sicilian defence. Kumar lost an exchange on move 25 to hand over the win to Chinmay.
Karnataka's top rated players in this category - Akshay Bharadwaj (ELO 1923), M. Satvik (ELO 1914), Shabdik Verma and R.V. Anantharam are playing according to the expectations. Akshay Bharadwaj posted an impressive win against Daniel Rajan of TN on the fifth board. Satwik also finished the game in style on board 6 against Hetul Shah of Gujarat. Totally 18 players are sharing the lead in Boys' section with 3 points.
In the girls section second seeded Shoumi Mukherjee (ELO 1766) of West Bengal played a wonderful game against Bansi Prathima of AP to post a win on the top board In a major upset, Dharani sree of TN defeated FIDE rated and National Under 7 Champion Meghana C H (ELO 1716) of Kerala on the second board. M. Mahalakshmi (ELO 1710) of TN also had an easy win on the third board. She defeated Kavya SS of Tamil Nadu. Amongst the Karnataka girls, Andrea D'souza drew her game against Sunya Sakta Satpathy of Orissa. Totally, 8 players are in the lead with 3 points each before the start of the 4th round.
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