She may be one of the younger and lesser-rated players here, but K. Priyanka found herself among the leaders on Saturday. It was her victory over third seed and fellow-Indian Pratyusha Bodda that made her join Russia’s Dinara Dordzhieva and Janelle Mae Frayna of Philippines at the top table at the end of the sixth round of the World junior girls’ chess.
The 15-year-old from Coimbatore has five points, with another six rounds remaining.
In the boys’ event Karthikeyan Murali remained in his pole position.
Important results (sixth round; Indians unless specified): Vladislav Artemiev (Rus) 4.5 drew with Karthikeyan Murali 5; Jeffrey Xiong (USA) 4.5 drew with Xu Yunglun (Chn) 4.5; Grzegorz Nasuta (Pol) 4.5 drew with Aravindh Chithambaram 4.5; Masoud Mosadeghpour (Ira) 4.5 drew with S.L. Narayanan 4.5; Tran Tuan Minh (Vie) 3.5 lost to Kirill Alekseenko (Rus) 4.5; Parham Maghsoodloo (Ira) 4 drew with R. Pragnananda 4; Cristobal Villagra (Ch) 3.5 drew with Erigaisi Arjun 3,5; Shahin Lorparizangeneh (Ira) 3.5 drew with Harsha Bharathakoti 3.5; N.R. Visakh 3.5 drew with Dhulipalla Bala Chandra Prasad 3.5; Syed Khalil Mousavi (Ira) 4 bt Sammed Shete 3; G. Akash 4 bt Srijit Paul 3.
Girls: Dinara Saduakassova (Kaz) 4.5 drew with Dinara Dordzhieva (Rus) 5; Janelle Mae Frayna (Phi) 5 drew with P.V. Nandhidhaa 4.5; Pratyusha Bodda 4 lost to K. Priyanka 5; Karina Ivanova (Rus) 4 drew with Alina Bivol (Rus) 4.5; Paula Rodriguez Rueda (Col) 4.5 bt R. Vaishali 3.5; Harshita Guddanti 3 lost to bt Anna Styazhkina (Rus) 4; Teodora Injac (Srb) 3.5 drew with Parnali S. Dharia 3.5; M. Mahalakshmi 3.5 drew with Gu Tianlu 3.5.
