Top seed Ivana Furtado suffered an early setback in her quest for the World under-12 title as she lost the second round to Canada's Zhou Qiyu in the World Youth chess championship at Caldas Novas, Brazil, on Saturday.
The results (involving Indians):
Second round: Open: Under-18: Nicolas Grandadam (Swi, 1.5) drew with Himal Gusain (1.5); Erken Kozganbay (Kaz, 2) bt G.A. Stany (1); Demre Kerigan (Tur, 1.5) drew with Debashis Das (1.5). Under-16: Dario Pineiro (Arg, 1.5) drew with Shiven Khosla (1.5); Sarang Ponkshe (2) bt Christoph Menezes (Aus, 1) Augusto Bianchi (Arg, 1) lost to Antonio Viani D'Cunha (2).
Under-14: Girish Koushik (1.5) bt Krsnik Vihor (Cro, 0.5); Colas Joshua (USA, 1) lost to Diptyan Ghosh (2); Abdelouhab Ouaret (Alg. 0) lost to M. Satvik (1). Under-12: M. Karthikeyan (2) bt Harshal Shahi (1); Andrew Tang (USA, 1) lost to Aravindh Chithambaram (2); Nguyen Tan Hoang Nam (Vie, 1) lost to Abhimanyu Puranik (2); Siavosh Vojdani (Iri, 2) bt Hetul Shah (1). Under-10: V.S. Rathanvel (2) bt Javier Vilca (Per, 1); Rakesh Kumar Jena (2) bt David Jaramillo (Ecu, 1); Anand Nadir (2) bt Enzo Leto (Arg, 1); Nitish Belurkar (0) lost to Julian Martin (Ger, 1); Cristhian Correa (Arg, 0.5) lost to Mitrabha Guha (1.5). Under-8: Ritam Nag (1) lost to Muradli Mahammad (Aze, 2); S. Sai Krishna (2) lost to Sergey Noritsyn (Can, 2) Christian Martinez (Per, 1) lost to Ram Aravind (2).
Girls: Under-18: Ann Chumpitaz (Per. 1) lost to A. Akshaya (2); J. Saranya (1.5) drew with Petra Papp (Hun, 1.5); Lylia Meghara (Alg, 0) lost to R. Visalatchi (1).
Under-16: K. Bala (1) lost to P.V. Nandhidhaa (2); Oliveira Maria Ines (Por, 1) lost to Pratyusha Bodda (2); Anjana Krishna (1.5) drew with Daniala Movileanu (Ita, 1.5). Under-14: G.K. Monnisha (2) bt Laura Gueci (Ita, 1); G. Lasya (2) bt Coelho Ramyres Santana (Bra, 1); Srija Seshadri (1.5) drew with Katherine Shepherd (Eng, 1.5); Apurva Virkud (USA, 1 .5) drew with M. Mahalakshmi (1.5). Under-12: Kimberly Ding (USA, 1.5) drew with Tejaswini Sagar (1.5); K. Priyamvada (2) bt Nisar Ulusoy (Tur, 1) Zhou Qiyu (Can, 2) bt Ivana Furtado (1); Padayachee Keyana Chloe (RSA, 1) lost to Riya Savant (2). Under-10: B. Prathima (2) bt Nunonca Soto Lucero (Per, 1); B. Rutumbara (2) bt Magdalena Korenova (Cze, 1); Andrea Paredes (Ecu, 1) lost to Tarini Goyal (2); Lalla Kriti (RSA, 2) bt K. Priyanka (1).
Under-8: C. Lakshmi (2) bt Asadi Motahahere (Iri, 1); Tanishka Kotia (1) lost to Tina Sabzi (Iri, 2); Zhang Taylor (Can, 1) lost to B.M. Akshaya (2).
