World Juniors Round 6-Shtembuliak and Hakobyan lead

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The 6th round of the World Juniors Chess Championship was a good display of fighting chess by the players.

The first board encounter between  ukranian GM Evgeny Shtembuliak and Indian hope GM Murali Karthikeyan lived up to expectations as the players were in a fighting mood.

Evgeny got a pleasant position out of the opening and had clear ideas of pushing his kingside pawns to create play but Karthikeyan found a very interesting defense and managed to reach a knight endgame where he correctly evaluated the position and went into a drawn king and pawn endgame.

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GM Aram Hakobyan of Armenia continued his good run to beat GM Iniyan P from India on board 2.

Aram played a great attacking game and found some accurate moves to checkmate black’s king in just 29 moves.

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On board 4, Indian prodigy  GM Praggnanandhaa R bounced back after a tough loss in round 5 with a nice win over IM Zhanados Agmanov of Kazakhastan.

Praggnanandhaa won a pawn early in the game and manged to convert it into a full point .

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After 6 rounds,GM Evgeny Shtembuliak and GM Aram Hakobyan are in the joint lead with 4.5 points but Praggnanandhaa and Karthikeyan are not far behind with 4 points each.

Pairings of Round 7 (Top 10 boards)

Round 7 on 2019/10/21 at 15:00 hrs

Girls

In the girls section, WIM Mobina Alinasab of  Iran maintained her lead with another win,this time against  Mongolian WIM Altantuya Boldbaatar .

It was a complicated tactical game where white sacrificed a piece out of the opening but black defended well and held onto the piece and managed to convert it into a win quite easily.

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On board 2,Indian talent WIM Divya Deshmukh held the higher rated greek IM Tsolakidou Stavroula to a draw.

It was a fairly balanced game throughout and the players decided to repeat the position to split the point.

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The fourth board matchup between Indians WIM Rakshitta Ravi and  WGM Vaishali R ended in a draw and the same was the case on board 5,where WIM Arpita Mukherjee held WGM Assaubayeva Bibisara of Kazakhastan to a draw.

After 6 rounds,WIM Alinasab Mobina has held onto the lead with 5.5 points and is being trailed closely by Russian WIM Shuvalova Paulinawith 5 points.WIM Rakshitta Ravi,WGM Vaishali R,WIM Arpita Mukherjee and WIM Divya Deshmukh are the joint leaders among Indian players with 4.5 points each.

Pairings of Round 7 (Top 10 boards)

Round 7 on 2019/10/21 at 15:00 hrs