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Jayashree shocks Mary

Special Correspondent

NEW DELHI: Tamil Nadu girl P.K. Jayashree stunned top seed Mary Ann Gomes in the second round of the Parsvnath National junior (under-19) chess championship here on Thursday.

Mary, a two-time National women's runner-up and a member of the Indian Olympiad squad in Turin in June, failed to handle a calculated kingside offensive and surrendered in 39 moves.

The results:

Boys: Second round: Swayams Mishra (1) lost to Abhijeet Gupta (2); G. Rohit (2) bt Dheeraj Kumar (1); N. Surendran (1) lost to D. Harika (2); G.N. Gopal (2) bt R.K. Ranjith (1); Hemant Sharma (1.5) drew with Rahul Sangma (1.5); B. Adhiban (2) bt Swapnil Dhopade (1); Fenil Shah (2) bt S.P. Sethuraman (1); Shyam Nikhil (2) bt Sagar Shah (1); Sahaj Grover (1.5) drew with Abhishek Das (1.5); R. Siddharth (1) lost to Bitan Banerjee (2).

First round: Abhijeet Gupta bt Ram Gupta; Soumya Sharma lost to G. Rohit; D. Harika bt Abhisek Jaiswal; Aditya Vikram lost to Gopal; Sangma bt Pandotra; Ajmal lost to Adhiban; Sethuraman bt Aggarwal; Amar Vansh lost to Shyam Nikhil; Abhishek bt Ameek Malhotra; Amit lost to R. Siddharth.

Girls: Second round: P.K. Jayashree (2) bt Mary Ann Gomes (1); K. Nayana (1) lost to Saheli Nath (2); Kiran Mohanty (2) bt K. Tejaswi (1); Devangi Patankar (1) lost to P. Priya (2); Soumya Swaminathan (2) bt Aswathy Balagopalan (1); Sneha Ghatpade (1) lost to Supriya Maji (2); Sukanya Dutta (1) lost to M. Rajadharshini (2); R. Preethi (2) bt G. Apurva (1); Shaati Majumdar (1) lost to P. Lakshmi Sahiti (2); P. Sivasankari (2) bt Pallavi Dutta (1).

First round: Mary Ann bt Aditi Sharma; Aishwarya lost to Kruttika Nadig; Saheli Nath bt Amita Kashikar; Amrita Sinha lost to Kiran Mohanty; P. Priya bt Anuja Bobatkar; Ashi Gupta lost to Soumya Swaminathan; Supriya Maji bt Binapani Chetia; Deepika Mahajan lost to Ishwarya Shobana; M. Rajadarshini bt Diotima Dutta Gupta; Divya Goyal lost to R. Preethi.

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