Diptayan Ghosh (under-14), Aravindh Chithambaram and M. Karthikeyan (both under-12) continued to be among the leaders with five points each while six other Indians were joint second in their respective categories after the sixth round of the World Youth chess championship at Caldas Novas, Brazil, on Wednesday.
V.S. Rathanvel, Rakesh Kumar Jena (boys' under-10), B. N. Akshaya (girls' under-8), B. Prathima (girls' under-10), G.K. Monnisha and Srija Seshadari (both girls' under-14) shared the second spot.
Three more rounds remain in the premier competition that concludes on Saturday.
The results (sixth round, involving Indians):
Open: Under-18: G.A. Stany (4.5) bt Alexandru Ovidiu Stanciu (Rom, 3.5); Zaur Mammadov (Aze, 4.5) drew with Debashis Das (4.5); Hibiki Sakai (Jap, 2.5) lost to Himal Gusain (3.5).
Under-16: Denis Kadric (BIH, 4) drew with Antonio Viani D'Cunha (4); Nikita Gusev (Can, 3) lost to Shiven Khosla (4); Sarang Ponkshe (2.5) drew with Bryan Moncada (Ecu, 2.5).
Under-14: Diptayan Ghosh (5) drew with Matthias Bluebaum (Ger, 5); Girish Koushik (4.5) bt Arsen Kukhmazov (Rus, 4); Ricardo Velasco Ricardo (Ven, 3) drew with M. Satvik (3).
Under-12: Benjamin Gledura (Hun, 5) drew with M. Karthikeyan (5); Jeffrey Xiong (USA, 4.5) drew with Hetul Shah (4.5); Abhimanyu Puranik (4) lost to Aravindh Chithambaram (5); Nicolas Porta (Arg, 4) bt Harshal Shahi (3).
Under-10: V.S. Rathanvel (5) bt Saidakbar Sayadaliev (Uzb, 4.5); Rakesh Kumar Jena (5) bt Tigran Poghosyan (Ger, 4); Viachaslau Zarubitski (Bel, 3.5) lost to Mitrabha Guha (4.5); Anand Nadar (3.5) bt Thomas Knoff (USA, 2.5); Nitish Belurkar (3) bt Andre Yoshioka (Bra, 2).
Under-8: Cenker Eren Tan (Tur, 5.5) bt Ram Arvind (4.5); Ritam Nag (4) bt Steven Rojas (Per, 3); Sai Krishna (3) bt Jhoan Mollo (Bol, 2.5).
Girls: Under-18: J. Saranya (3) lost to Karolina Olasrova (Cze, 4); Chiara Palmitessa (Ita, 3) drew with R. Visalatchi (3); Lylia Meghara (Alg, 2.5) lost to A Akshaya (3.5).
Under-16: Pamela Guimaraes (Bra, 4) lost to P.V. Nandhidhaaa (5); Pratyusha Bodda (4) bt Tatiana Brizzi (Arg, 3); K. Bala (3) lost to Bea Boglarka (Hun, 4); Anjana Krishan (3.5) bt Lucia Orbezo (Per, 2.5).
Under-14: G.K. Monnisha (5) drew with Srija Seshadri (5); G. Lasya (4.5) bt Larissa Schwarz (Ger, 3.5); Diana Assaubayeva (Kaz, 4.5) bt M. Mahalakshmi (3.5).
Under-12: Riya Savant (4.5) bt Katherine Vescovi (Bra, 3.5); K. Priyamvada (4) bt Kincso Jakab (Rom, 3); Davaademberel Nominerdene (Mgl, 3.5) lost to Ivana Furtado (4.5); Tejaswini Sagar (3.5) bt Mikaela Ebeling (Fin, 2.5).
Under-10: Li Yunshan (Chn, 5) bt Tarini Goyal (4); Viktoria Radeva (Bul, 5) bt K. Priyanka (4); B. Prathima (5) bt K. Akshaya (Eng, 3.5); B. Rutumbara (4) bt Kriti Lalla (RSA, 3).
Under-8: B.M. Akshaya (5) lost to Tran Vuong Mai Khanh (Vie, 6); C. Lakshmi (4) lost to Bibissara Assaubayeva (Kaz, 5); Saina Salonika (4) lost to Elizaveta Solozhenkina (Rus, 5); Tanishka Kotia (4) bt Defne Sade Defne (Tur, 3).
