World Junior Championship 2025:Round 10

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Open Category

The top board encounter between GM Grebnev, Aleksey and GM Pranav ended in a peaceful draw in 40 moves.GM Pranav maintains with 8.5/10 rounds and a draw in the final round would ensure his tournament victory.

GM Pranav a draw away from clinching the prestigious tournament.

The top board witnessed a Petroff Défense and white deviated with 9.h3 and he got a slight advantage but his 14 Re1 was inaccurate as it allowed black to simplify with 14…Ned4 after which the game was balanced till the end.

On the 4^th Board IM S Aswath had a heart-breaking loss as he squandered a big advantage on move 36 Re1? Which allowed black to push the pawn to c3 and have sufficient counterplay. White continued ambitiously and played for a win and overstepped with 38 g4?? After which black took advantage and won the game in 50 moves.

Round 10 results of the Open Category

GM	Grebnev, Aleksey	2555	7	½ – ½	8	GM	Pranav, V	2615
IM	Aswath, S	2470	6½	0 – 1	6½	IM	Costa, Leonardo	2503
IM	Srihari, L R	2498	5½	½ – ½	5½	IM	Tadic, Stefan	2417
IM	Rohith, Krishna S	2481	5½	½ – ½	5½	IM	Chasin, Nico	2415
IM	Manish, Anto Cristiano F	2355	5	1 – 0	5	IM	Colbow, Collin	2442
IM	Ilamparthi, A R	2505	4½	0 – 1	4½	FM	Dyachuk, Artem	2293
FM	Nagarkatte, Vedant	2277	4½	½ – ½	4½	GM	Siddharth, Jagadeesh	2496
	Trushko, Andrii	2131	4½	½ – ½	4½	FM	Adireddy, Arjun	2315
AIM	Vihaan, Dumir	2014	3½	½ – ½	3½	FM	Boci, Mateu	2312

Girls’ Category

Round 10 Results of the Indian Girls.

WGM	Rakshitta, Ravi	2365	5½	½ – ½	5½	WIM	Wang, Chuqiao	2227
FM	Pipiras, Filipa Fortuna	2200	5½	½ – ½	5½	WGM	Savitha, Shri B	2332
	Velpula, Sarayu	2315	5	0 – 1	5	WFM	Tarasenka, Aliaksandra	2139
	Mrittika, Mallick	2058	4	1 – 0	4	WCM	Xu, Luna Yuexiu	1903
WFM	Sneha, Halder	2065	3½	1 – 0	3½	WCM	Djerroud, Chahrazad	1914