Three Indians Lead with full score in World Youth Chess Championship

World Youth Chess Championships 2018—Greece

Report by IM Chandrashekhar Gokhale

There were two rounds scheduled on 22nd October at the 2018 World Youth Chess Championships. The 2nd round was at 10 AM and 3rd round began at 5 PM. It was a mixed day for all Indians in all categories.

Sankalp Gupta, playing Under 16 Open group, won all three games and leading with other 4 players from Belarus, Uzbekistan, Norway and Armenia. Sankalp with white pieces played against Gavrilescu David Romania third seed of the group played a combinational game and won a pawn in early stage of the game. He later converted with a fluent technique to pocket the full point.

Saina Salonika made a quick win over higher-rated WFM Getman Tatyana of Russia in just 2 hours. She now shares the lead with five other players.

Sakshi Chitlange won both games of the day against Nass Haraof Norway and Hng Mei-En Emmanuelle of Singapore respectively. In the fourth round, Sakshi will be fighting against the top seed of the event WIM Shuvalova Polina (2421) of Russia.

In other groups, FM Kushagra Mohan held the top seed to a draw. In Under 14 girls section lone WIM Divya Deshmukh of India suffered a defeat in hands of WFM Kamalidenova Meruert of Kazaksthan.

Results Round-3

Under-14 Open

1	26	CM	Kushagra Mohan	2283	2	½ – ½	2	FM	Kacharava Nikolozi	2373	5
6	40	AGM	Srihari L R	2170	2	0 – 1	2	FM	Nogerbek Kazybek	2316	13
15	77		Egorov Mikhail	1941	1½	½ – ½	1½	IM	Raja Rithvik R	2421	3

Under-14 Girls

1	1	WFM	Nurgali Nazerke	2263	2	½ – ½	2	WFM	Dhyana Patel	2002	16
3	18	WFM	Kamalidenova Meruert	1999	2	1 – 0	2	WIM	Divya Deshmukh	2180	4
4	5	WCM	Song Yuxin	2178	2	1 – 0	2	WCM	Mrudul Dehankar	1996	20
7	11	WCM	Jyothsna L	2060	2	1 – 0	2		Hrebenshchykova Yelyzaveta	1968	26

Under-16 Open

3	28		Sankalp Gupta	2352	2	1 – 0	2	FM	Gavrilescu David	2481	3
5	30		Koustav Chatterjee	2344	2	0 – 1	2	IM	Sargsyan Shant	2463	5
28	36	FM	Golikov Daniil	2319	1	1 – 0	1		Vatsal Singhania	2128	73
48	83		Triantos Konstantinos	2002	½	1 – 0	½		Garvit Kumar Kalra	1620	110

Under-16 Girls

3	21	WFM	Salonika Saina	2093	2	1 – 0	2	WFM	Getman Tatyana	2195	6
7	1	WGM	Maltsevskaya Aleksandra	2290	1½	1 – 0	2		Shanya Mishra	1924	44
8	5	WFM	Makhija Aashna	2197	1½	1 – 0	1½		Nestorovic Katarina	2015	34
18	11	WFM	Serikbay Assel	2166	1	1 – 0	1		Tejasvi M	1869	52
22	59		Zhang Cindy	1790	1	0 – 1	1		Meenal Gupta	2065	26
29	69		Ge Eva	1701	1	0 – 1	1		Sanskriti Goyal	1971	40
42	67		Plaza Reino Mercedes	1727	0	1 – 0	0		Sagar Siya	1310	86

Under-18 Open

22	30		FM	Mitrabha Guha	2352	1	½ – ½	1		Lindbol Aleksander	2166		62
33	48		FM	Martinez Fernandez Adrian	2277	1	1 – 0	1		Manu David Suthandram R	1970		83

Under-18 Girls

1	1	WIM	Shuvalova Polina	2421	2	1 – 0	2	WFM	Arpita Mukherjee	2147	20
4	9	WIM	Kiolbasa Oliwia	2254	2	1 – 0	2	WIM	Tejaswini Sagar	2139	22
5	31		Hng Mei-En Emmanuelle	2020	2	0 – 1	2	WIM	Chitlange Sakshi	2237	12
6	41		Prakapuk Vera	1949	2	0 – 1	2		Priyanka K	2207	14
12	11	WFM	Antolak Julia	2240	1½	½ – ½	1½	WFM	Tarini Goyal	2026	30