The Hindu : Arun, Mary in sole lead

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Monday, May 26, 2003

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Arun, Mary in sole lead

By Our Sports Reporter

KOZHIKODE MAY 25. S. Arun Prasad of Tamil Nadu and Mary Ann Gomes of Goodricke National Chess Academy (GNCA), Kolkata, emerged sole leaders after the fifth round of the National sub-junior chess championships at the V.K. Krishna Menon Indoor Stadium here on Sunday. Both have five points.

With four rounds remaining, the fourth seed Arun is followed half-a-point behind in the boys' event by second-seeded Deep Sengupta of Jharkand, the third seed Akshayraj Kore of Maharashtra and fifth-seeded Rahul Sangma of GNCA.

In the girls' event too, three players, second-seeded Krutika Nadig of Maharashtra, the eighth seed N. Raghavi and P.K. Jayashree, both of Tamil Nadu, are in the joint second position, half-a-point behind the top seed Mary.

Chennai-based Arun, playing in his last sub-junior event, won in 45 moves, with black pieces against D. Sai Srinivas. In a Sicilian Najdorf game, he went a pawn up on the 37th move, and his rival made things easier for him by blundering a knight seven moves later.

Mary, after playing Bird's Opening in her last two games with white, opted for a more common English Opening against Meenu Rajendran of the host. The Kerala girl gave up on the 54th move, an exchange down.

Important results (fifth round): Boys: D. Sai Srinivas (AP) 4 lost to S. Arun Prasad (TN) 5; Akshayraj Kore (Mah) 4.5 bt Vijay Keerthi (Kar) 3.5; Rahul Sangma (GN CA) 4.5 bt Debayn Majumdar (Ben) 3.5; T. Purushothaman (AP) 4 drew with T. Abhay (TN) 4; Deep Sengupta (Jha) 4.5 bt Praveen Prasad (AP) 3.5; Aurobind Khundia (Ori) 4 drew with G.N. Gopal (Ker) 4; K. Nikhilesh Kumar (AP) 4 bt Suman Basu (GNCA) 3; Akshat Kamparia (MP) 3 lost to V. Haribalu (Capa Academy, Chennai) 4; Rohit M. Pawar (Mah) 3 lost to R. Srinivasan (Del) 4; Navin Kanna (TN) 4 bt K.M. Nizam (Ker) 3; K. Prasanna (Masters Academy, Bangalore) 4 bt Swapnil S. Dhopade (Mah) 3; Y. Sandeep (AP) 3 lost to Soumitra B. Mujumdar (Mah) 4; Navneeth Sharma (Del) 3 lost to Vishal V. Shah (Mah) 4; C.V. Raghuram Balaji (Chromepet, Chennai) 3 lost to Vikram Saralaya (Kings, Andhra) 4; G.S. Sreejith (Ker) 3.5 drew with Soumya Thakurta (Ben) 3.5; Pratik Srivas (Nagpur Academy, Maharashtra) 4 bt J.S.S. Phanikanth (AP) 3.

Girls: Mary Ann Gomes (GNCA) 5 bt Meenu Rajendran (Ker) 4; P.K. Jayashree (TN) 4.5 drew with Krutika Nadig (Mah) 4.5; P. Sivasankari (TN) 4 drew with Soumya Swaminathan (Venus Academy, Mumbai) 4; Priya Ratnam (Bih) 3.5 lost to N. Raghavi (TN) 4.5; Veena Maunika (AP) 3 lost to I. Ramya Krishna (AP) 4; Saheli Nath (Ben) 3 lost to Shreyasi Parkhi (Nagpur) 4; Rajasurya (TN) 3 lost to Rajadarshini (Emanuel Academy, Chennai) 4; Kiran Monish Mohanthy (Ori) 4 bt Swati Rajpurohit (Raj) 3; Kirthika (Chromepet) 4 bt Kajri Chokshi (Guj) 3; Anjana N. Sowjanya (Capa) 4 bt R. Varsha (T'Nagar Academy, Chennai) 3; L. Iswarya Shobana (TN) 3 lost to Lakshmi Sahiti (Champion Academy, Andhra) 4; Suchandra Chatterjee (Alekhine Club, Kolakta) 3.5 drew with D.S. Maanasa Priya (Madras Academy, Chennai).

Fourth round: Boys: Abhay drew with Akshay; Arun bt Nikhilesh; Praveen drew with Rahul; Sai bt Rohit; Haribalu lost to Deep; Vijay bt Ravi Aditya; Debayn bt Apoorva; Swapnil drew with Navin; Gopal bt Karthikeyan; Purushothaman bt Vedprakash; Aurobind bt Balachander; Nizam drew with Abhijeet.

Girls: Rajadarshini lost to Mary; Krutika bt Kiran; Ramya lost to Jayashree; Meenu bt Saheli; Soumya bt Madanasree; Raghavi bt Harini; Priya bt Sindhu; Sivasankari bt Shruki; Kajri bt Abirami; Sunita lost to Anjana.

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