Pairings/Results Boys
Round 9 on 2010/07/02 at 1500 hrs
Bo. No. Name FED Rtg Pts. Result Pts. Name FED Rtg No.
1 4 Mohammad Nubairshah Shaikh IND 2050 6½ 0 – 1 7 FM Ghosh Diptayan IND 2133 3
2 10 Rakesh Kumar Nayak IND 1970 7 0 – 1 6½ FM Girish A Koushik IND 2276 1
3 20 Sreyan Bhowmick IND 1877 6½ 1 – 0 6 G Yogesh IND 2002 8
4 6 Aravindh chithambaram Vr IND 2014 6 ½ – ½ 6 Debankan Dhara IND 1873 21
5 14 Ayush Jugele IND 1912 6 ½ – ½ 6 Narayanan S L IND 1964 12
6 27 K Praneeth Surya IND 1831 6 1 – 0 6 Siddarth M IND 1961 13
7 26 Prasannaa S IND 1844 5½ 0 – 1 5½ Karthikeyan Murali IND 2011 7
8 33 Pranav Vijay IND 1797 5½ 0 – 1 5½ Vasantha Ruba Varman IND 1996 9
9 11 Aditya Chakraborty IND 1967 5½ 1 – 0 5½ Satkar Chirag IND 1797 34
10 15 Manush Shah IND 1905 5½ ½ – ½ 5½ Naren swaminathan P IND 1790 39
11 50 Rishi Sardana IND 1753 5½ ½ – ½ 5½ Kumaran B IND 1901 17
12 18 Barath L IND 1892 5½ ½ – ½ 5½ Akhilesh T Rai IND 1787 40
13 23 Tamhankar Viraj IND 1860 5½ ½ – ½ 5½ Krishna Teja N IND 1777 42
14 55 Rakesh Kumar Jena IND 1735 5½ ½ – ½ 5½ Vignesh Nr IND 1848 24
15 25 S Bhat Vaibhav IND 1845 5½ ½ – ½ 5½ Kaushik Bhave IND 1769 46

Pairings/Results Girls
Round 9 on 2010/07/02 at 1500 hrs
Bo. No. Name FED Rtg Pts. Result Pts. Name FED Rtg No.
1 5 WFM Monnisha Gk IND 1808 7 1 – 0 6½ Shvetha V IND 1583 32
2 9 Bakshi Rutuja IND 1729 6½ 1 – 0 6½ Sunyasakta Satpathy IND 1846 1
3 2 Lasya G IND 1839 6 1 – 0 6 Dharani Sree R IND 1672 16
4 6 WFM Srija Seshadri IND 1802 6 0 – 1 6 Varshini V IND 1525 44
5 31 Deodhar vrushali Umesh IND 1587 6 0 – 1 5½ Ashwini U IND 1838 3
6 4 WFM Mahalakshmi M IND 1836 5½ 1 – 0 5½ Varsha c K IND 1640 22
7 8 Shoumi Mukerjee IND 1766 5½ ½ – ½ 5½ Salini R IND 1617 24
8 14 Andria L D`souza IND 1691 5½ 1 – 0 5½ WCM Tarini Goyal IND 1581 33
9 52 Mahika Mor IND 1489 5½ 0 – 1 5½ Parnali S Dharia IND 1658 19
10 7 Meenu Priya Se IND 1774 5 ½ – ½ 5 Aarthi G IND 1602 28
11 10 Meghna C H IND 1717 5 ½ – ½ 5 Manjula R IND 1563 39
12 50 Pritika D IND 1492 5 ½ – ½ 5 Akankhya Kabi IND 1713 11
13 13 Sradhanjali Jena IND 1712 5 1 – 0 5 Kelkar Devika IND 1579 35
14 34 Shiny Das IND 1580 5 0 – 1 5 Gangamma b N IND 1669 17
15 18 Soneji Janhavi IND 1660 5 1 – 0 5 Deekshidha P S IND 0 76

Source: www.chess-results.com

Three players, 2nd seeded IM Vidit Gujarathi, 3rd seeded IM Lallith Babu and 24th seeded Mehar Chinna Reddy are following the leaders with 6.0 points. A draw in the final round on top board should probably ensure Shyam his maiden Asian Junior title because of his superior tie break though we will have to see how things turn out in the end.

An interesting feature in this years event is that there are 3 above top 10 seeded seeded players in the top two tables in the final round which shows the intense competition prevailing in the tournament.

In the Girls section, WFM Vo Thi Kim Phung (Vietnam) and WFM Nakhbayeva Guliskhan (Kaz) are leading the table with 6.5 and as in boys section 3 players are trailing by half point at 6.0 that includes the top seed Padmini Rout from India.

In the Boys Section, India’s Narayanan Srinath and K.Priyadharshan are leading with 3points. In the second spot there are 12 players including the tops 3 seeds.

Chessgurukul girls are doing well with Michelle Catherine with 2 points followed by Dharani Sree in 1.5 points, G.Sushmitha and Hemapriya in 1 point each.

Kokarev Dimitry Elo 2612 of Russia emerged clear winner in the Mayor’s cup with 9 points out of 11 rounds.
Kokarev was in full swing,picking up the lead as early as 7th round and continued to maintain it till the end.
A group of six players tied for the second spot with 8.5 points.

Debasish Das,Ashwin Jayaram,Himanshu Sharma and Abhijit Kunte scored 8 points to share the best Indian performance.
Young Rakesh Kulkarni made his maiden IM norm over coming 2 grandmasters in the event.
M.Siddarth of Chessgurukul scored a creditable 6 points with a win over WGM Gara Ticia in round 2.

Photo Courtesy – Alexandra Kostinuk’s Blog

While in the Boys section Karthikeyan Murali won the tournament with 9 points. Aravindh Chidambaram and Nr.Vignesh finished second and third with 8.5 points.
Pranav Vijaya and Prasannaa of Chessgurukul finished eighth and nineth with 8 points each.

The top 6 girls and top 2 boys are selected to represent Tamilnadu state in the upcoming National U-13 championship at Pondicherry.

While in the Boys section Karthikeyan murali won the title.The second and third spot was taken by Aravind Chidambaram of Madurai and Nr.Vignesh.

WFM Mahalakshmi and U.Ashwinin of Chessgurukul are in lead with 7.5 points after the ninth round in the tamilnadu state U13 girls chess championship. Divyalakshmi and Monnisha share the second spot along with Srija Sheshadri with 7 points.

In the boys section Pranav Vijay and S.Prasannaa of Chessgurukul are in second spot with 7 points,along with 4 others. While Aravindh Chidambaram of Madurai and Akash pc Iyer of Chennai are leading with 7.5points.

WFM Swati Mohota of Kolkotta won the Womens fide rating tournament held in Sangli which concluded recently. The Sangli tournament as it is called by most chess players in India, is the only regular fide rated open tournament for Women in India,this being the tenth year. The tournament also sports the highest prize money  for women in India, the winner gets a  purse of Rs. 21000. The tournament was very exciting with the top two seeds Swati Mahota and Amurutha Mokal involved in a good fight for the title.

Till round Six everything went well for both players while on the seventh round Amrutha was held to a draw by VVS Priya,while Swati Mohota sailed smoothly. On the eighth round however Amurutha caught up with a win while Swati was held to a draw by experienced Arpi Shah of Gujarath.

The last and crucial ninth round was a nail biting finish. Swati went on to win the last round, While Arpi Shah again played an important role by holding Amurutha Mokal to a draw. Thanks to Arpi, Swati Mohota won the tournamnet by a half point margin. This tournamnet has been very lucky for the Mohota sisters.Swathi’s younger sister WGM Nisha Mohota has won this event a couple of times and now the tradition continues with Swati.

Final Ranking after 9 Rounds

Source: www.chess-results.com

On the top board Maheswaran and Arunkarthik split points,while M.Vinothkumar came up scoring against Narayanan.K of Madhurai to join the leaders at 8 points.Four Players are in second spot with 7.5 points each.

With one more round to go, the champion of this prestigious event is still a suspense.In the last round, Vinothkumar is meeting Arunkarthik and Maheswaran is meeting experienced Syed Anwar.

Rank after Round 10

Indian icon Viswanathan Anand retained his world championship title, with a black magic victory in the 12th and final game against Veselin Topalov, at Sofia here today. The win gives Anand an unbeatable 6.5 – 5.5 lead against Bulgarian in the 2.000.000 Euros prize money event. Anand won his first world title at Tehran, Iran in 2000, followed it with two more successful title triumphs at Mexico City 2007 and Bonn in 2008.

The Queens Gambit Declined line, had little to offer in the middle game, until Topalo slipped with a colossal mistake – 32. f x e4 – that did him in. That pawn capture, started a flood of attack on the kingside, resulting in loss of queen for a rook and knight. The ensuing ending where Topalov’s pieces lacked harmony, Anand wrapped up the crucial point, in 56 moves.

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Veselin Topalov – Viswanathan Anand

1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. Nc3 Be7 5. Bg5 h6 6. Bh4 O-O 7. e3 Ne4 8. Bxe7 Qxe7 9. Rc1 c6 10. Be2 Nxc3 11. Rxc3 dxc4 12. Bxc4 Nd7 13. O-O b6 14. Bd3 c5 15. Be4 Rb8 16. Qc2 Nf6 17. dxc5 Nxe4 18. Qxe4 bxc5 19. Qc2 Bb7 20. Nd2 Rfd8 21. f3 Ba6 22. Rf2 Rd7 23. g3 Rbd8 24. Kg2 Bd3 25. Qc1 Ba6 26. Ra3 Bb7 27. Nb3 Rc7 28. Na5 Ba8 29. Nc4 e5 30. e4 f5 31. exf5 e4 32. fxe4 Qxe4+ 33. Kh3 Rd4 34. Ne3 Qe8 35. g4 h5 36. Kh4 g5+ 37. fxg6 Qxg6 38. Qf1 Rxg4+ 39. Kh3 Re7 40. Rf8+ Kg7 41. Nf5+ Kh7 42. Rg3 Rxg3+ 43. hxg3 Qg4+ 44. Kh2 Re2+ 45. Kg1 Rg2+ 46. Qxg2 Bxg2 47. Kxg2 Qe2+ 48. Kh3 c4 49. a4 a5 50. Rf6 Kg8 51. Nh6+ Kg7 52. Rb6 Qe4 53. Kh2 Kh7 54. Rd6 Qe5 55. Nf7 Qxb2+ 56. Kh3 Qg7 0-1