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IM Raja Rithvik R

World Youth Chess Championships 2018

Report by Puneet Jaiswal

In the fifth round of World Youth Chess Championship 2018 at Greece many Indians players performed well against their formidable opponents.

U-18 Girls

WIM Tejaswini Sagar won with black pieces in the Italian opening against FM Garcia Martin Marta of Spain to remain at the top. Russian girls WIM Shuvalova Polina and WGM Obolentseva Alexandra are on first and second spot with 5 and 4.5 respectively. Tejaswini is sharing the third spot along with three others with 4 points each.

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U-18 Open

FM Mitrabha Guha with 3.5 is on 19th spot and other Indian Manu David Suthandram R has managed 2.5 points at the end of this round

U-16 Open

Sankalp Gupta moved to joint second spot by defeating Netherlands IM Vrolijk Liamin in the Vienna Opening: Mieses Variation. In this section he Armenian IM Sargsyan Shant emerged as sole leader with cent percent score ahead of group of 15 players.

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U-16 Girls

WFM Saina Salonika mishandled the winning minor piece ending against Yurasova Daria of Russia in the Modern Attack in Petroff Defence. She remain at joint third spot with three others with 4 points whereas the leader WFM Srdanovic Jovana of Serbia with 5 points maintained her half point lead over WFM Beydullayeva Govehar of Azerbaijan.

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U-14 open

AGM Srihari L.R defeated Turkish FM Tanriverdi Enes with white pieces in the King’s Knight variation of the English opening he has 4 points whereas IM Raja Rithvik conceded third draw Czopor Maciej of Poland to take his tally to 3.5 points.

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U-14 girls

WIM Divya Deshmukh had a comfortable win against Guillo Longares Cecilia of Spain in Nimzowitch Variation of Bogo-Indian Defence, after 13th move Divya trapped her opponent’s knight. She emerged victorious in a resulting endgame.

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WCM Jyothsna L drew with white pieces against WCM Garifullina Leya of Russia in the Colle System.WCM Mridul Dehankar defeated WFM Galvan Cipriani Viviana of Spain in Larsen Opening all three has four points each and shairing joint third position behind Ning Kaiyu of China (5pts) and WFM Nurgali Nazerke of Kazakistan (4.5pts)

Results

Under-14 Open

7	32			Czopor Maciej	2219	3	½ – ½	3	IM	Raja Rithvik R	2421		3
11	40		AGM	Srihari L R	2170	3	1 – 0	3	FM	Tanriverdi Enes	2317		11
15	26		CM	Kushagra Mohan	2283	3	½ – ½	3		Lopez Varela Pablo	2172		39

Under-14 Girls

4	11		WCM	Jyothsna L	2060	3½	½ – ½	3½	WCM	Garifullina Leya	2106		8
5	19			Guillo Longares Cecilia	1998	3	0 – 1	3	WIM	Divya Deshmukh	2180		4
6	7		WFM	Galvan Cipriani Viviana	2109	3	0 – 1	3	WCM	Mrudul Dehankar	1996		20
13	39			Moracchini Margaux	1838	2½	0 – 1	2½	WFM	Dhyana Patel	2002		16

Under-16 Open

8	28			Sankalp Gupta	2352	3	1 – 0	3	IM	Vrolijk Liam	2437		9
28	30			Koustav Chatterjee	2344	2	½ – ½	2	FM	Beukes Dante M	2155		69
30	34		FM	Morgunov Daniel	2328	2	½ – ½	2		Vatsal Singhania	2128		73
45	81			Rodriguez Izquierdo Luis	2038	1½	½ – ½	1½		Garvit Kumar Kalra	1620		110

Under-16 Girls

4	21		WFM	Salonika Saina	2093	3½	½ – ½	3		Yurasova Daria	2193		7
8	11		WFM	Serikbay Assel	2166	3	1 – 0	3		Meenal Gupta	2065		26
11	5		WFM	Makhija Aashna	2197	2½	1 – 0	2½		Sosa Suarez Carla Cristina	2025		31
15	18		WFM	Grigorieva Yulia	2112	2½	1 – 0	2½		Shanya Mishra	1924		44
17	29			Gombocz Zsofia	2038	2½	1 – 0	2½		Sanskriti Goyal	1971		40
21	27			Aubert Estee	2064	2	1 – 0	2		Tejasvi M	1869		52
42	77			Servin-Demarrais Helena	1540	½	0 – 1	1		Sagar Siya	1310		86

Under-18 Open

17	30		FM	Mitrabha Guha	2352	2½	1 – 0	2½		Kadianis Georgios	1928		85
31	50		FM	Alexiadis Hristos	2263	2	½ – ½	2		Manu David Suthandram R	1970		83

Under-18 Girls

2	5		WGM	Obolentseva Alexandra	2298	3½	1 – 0	3½		Priyanka K	2207		14
3	3		FM	Garcia Martin Marta	2329	3	0 – 1	3	WIM	Tejaswini Sagar	2139		22
6	9		WIM	Kiolbasa Oliwia	2254	3	½ – ½	3	WFM	Tarini Goyal	2026		30
7	27		WFM	Redondo Benavente Ana	2055	3	½ – ½	3	WIM	Chitlange Sakshi	2237		12
14	51			Nistor Valentina	1881	2½	0 – 1	2½	WFM	Arpita Mukherjee	2147		20

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