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Girish, Bharathi in lead

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MANGALORE: Eleven-year-old Girish Koushik of Karnataka defeated Pranav Shetty of Maharashtra to emerge the sole leader, with 8.5 points, in the boys’ section at the end of the 10th round in the BSNL sub-junior chess championship here on Wednesday.

Girish the current u-11 National champion won in 53 moves. On the top board, Akash of Tamil Nadu drew with second seed Debasish Das of Orissa in a 37-move game.

In the girls’ section, Shalmali Gagare of Maharashtra drew with Shikha Shah of Gujarat to take the sole lead. Shalmali’s draw led to R. Bharathi of Tamil Nadu replacing her as the sole leader. Bharathi defeated Savetha, also of Tamil Nadu, in 24 moves.

Important results (10th round):

Boys: G Akash (7.5) drew with Debashis Das (8); Girish Koushik (8.5) bt Pranav Shetty (7); Rakesh Kulkarni (7) lost to Aditya Udeshi (8); Priyadharshan (8) bt Shiven Khosla (7); Das Sayantan (6.5) lost to Prasanna Rao (7.5); Anand Raj (7) drew with Mehar Chinna Reddy (7); Gagare Shardul (7) drew with Tejas Ravichandran (7); Deepthamsh Reddy (7) drew with Himal Gusain (7); Gahan (7.5) bt Srikanth Ajay (6.5); Stany (7) bt Diptayan Ghosh (6.5); Ramnath Bhuvanesh (7) bt Mohammed Fawaz (6); Sahoo Utkal Ranjan (7) bt Bavankumar (6); Sanjid Latheef (6) lost to Antonio Viani D’cunha (7); Yashas (6.5) drew with Fenil Shah (6.5); Sai Krishna (5.5) lost to Balkishan (7); Abhilash Reddy (6.5) bt Saikat Mullick (5.5); Sameer Kathmale (6.5) bt Amir Asim (5.5); Karthik (5.5) lost to Lokesh (6.5), Niranjan Navalgund (6.5) bt Surya Narayana (5.5); Harihara Sudan (5.5) lost to Jadhav Rohit (6.5); Kaushik (6.5) bt Shreeshan (5.5); Rishi Thariani (6.5) bt Varma Shabdhik (5.5); Mohammad Ashraf (6.5) bt Patil Pratik (5.5); Atishay Ajmera (6.5) bt Yohan (5.5), Karthikeyan (6) drew with Inani Darpan (6).

Girls: Shalmali Gagare (7.5) drew with Shikha Shah (7); Savetha (6.5) lost to R. Bharathi (8), Shristi Shetty (7) drew with Rucha Pujari (7.5), Saranya (7) bt Preetika Tayal (6); Pallabi Roy (7) bt Akshaya (6); Sahari (6.5) drew with Teenu Thomas (6.5); Sonia Deshmukh (6.5) drew with Sonakshi Rathore (6); Sukanya Dutta (6.5) bt Soumya Shrivastava (5.5); Jeyassri (6) drew with Aparajita Gochhikar (6); Supriya Joshi (5.5) lost to Vanessa D`souza (6.5); Priyamvada Karmcheti (6.5) bt Janani (5.5); Nandhidhaa (6) bt Nithya (5.5); Mohana Priya (6) bt Andria L D`souza (5); Aarthysri (6) bt Nisha Patkar (5); Priya Sandhya (6) bt Bhuvaneshwari (5); Priya (5) lost to Arthi (6); Diotima Dutta Gupta (6) bt Abinaya Sen (5); Nivedhitha (5.5) bt Prathipa (4.5), Krushna Mishra (5) drew with Anku Kumari (5); Shalon Joanne Pais (4.5) lost to Trishla (5.5), Limaye Gayatri (5.5) bt Savant Apoorva (4.5); Chrisel Ann Pais (4.5) lost to Arunima Kalra (5.5); Visalatchi (5) bt Midhuna (4); Sampada (4) lost to Pansare Saee (5); Shristi Gautam (4.5) drew with Surabhi Kumari (4.5).

Corrections and Clarifications

A BSNL sub-junior chess championship report "Girish, Bharathi in lead" ("Sport", Karnataka editions, December 4, 2008) incorrectly said that in the girls' section, Shalmali Gagare of Maharashtra drew with Shikha Shah of Gujarat to take the sole lead. She was placed second behind R. Bharathi of Tamil Nadu, the eventual winner, at the end of 10 rounds.

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