Karthikeyan get Gold and Ram get silver
India's Karthikeyan Murali wins the gold medal in the under-12 open collection in the World Youth Chess Championship at Caldas Novas (Brazil) on Sunday morning. India bag five medals in the championship including the gold, silver and three bronze.
The other medal winners for India are TN lad Ram Arvind, who won the silver in the under-8 group while Debashis Das, Rathanvel and Salonika Saina added bronze in the under-18 open, under-10 open and under-8 girl’s category correspondingly.
In the ninth and final round, Karthikeyan draw with Ravi Haria of England and joined for the top spot along with Gledura Benjamin of Hungary. But better tiebreak score helped Karthikeyan in his gold bars quest.
In the under-8 open category, Ram Aravind was unsuccessful not to win the gold as he beaten ultimate gold medal winner Liang Awonder of USA in the final round.
However, the American had a better tie-break score and was sitting pretty after the last but one round.
In under-18 open sort Debashis Das took a draw next to gold medal winner, Grandmaster Ter-Sahakyan Samvel of Armenia to resolve for the bronze medal.
Rathanvel drew his final-round game next to Fide master Tabatabaei M Amin of Iran to bag the bronze medal while Salonika Saina beat Ismayilzada Zeynab of Azerbaijan to come to an end third in her category.
Diptayan Ghosh, who has been determining well for a medal, missed it hardly in the under-14 category by final fourth as he lost his final round game next to Cuellar Diego of Peru.
Lakshmi C and Stany G A had an alike experience in the under-8 girls and under-18 open categories correspondingly as they came fourth.
How Indians finished in Brazil:
Under-8 girls: Salonika Saina (3rd), Lakshmi C (4th), Bommini Mounika Akshaya (19th), Tanishka Kotia (34th)
Under-8 open: Ram Aravind L N (2nd), Ritam Nag (41st), Sai Krishna S (52nd) Under- 10 girls: Bidhur Rutumbara (8th), Bansi Prathima M (12th), Tarini Goyal (13th), Priyanka K (21st)
Under-10 open: Rathanvel V S (3rd), Rakesh Kumar Jena (5th), Mitrabha Guha (11th), Nitish Belurkar (24th), Anand Nadar (31st)
Under-12 girls: Ivana Maria Furtado (13th),Riya Savant (14th), Priyamvada Karamcheti (24th), Tejaswini Sagar (28th)
Under-12 open: Karthikeayn Murali (1st), Aravindh Chithambaram V R (10th), Abhimanyu Puranik (14th), Hetul Shah (15th), Harshal Shahi (22nd)
Under-14 girls: Srija Seshadri (8th), Mahalakshmi M (9th), Lasya G (16th), Monnisha G K (24th)
Under-14 open: Girish A Koushik (12th), Diptayan Ghosh (4th), Satvik M (50th)
Under-16 girls: Pratyusha Bodda (5th), Nandhidhaa P V (8th), Anjana Krishna (26th), Bala Kannamma (38th)
Under-16 open: Antonio Viani D'cunha (7th), Shiven Khosla (35th), Sarang Ponkshe (53rd)
Under-18 girls: A Akshaya (18th), Saranya J (32nd), Visalatch R (37th)
Under-18 open: Debashis Das (3rd), Stany G A (4th), Himal Gusain (15th)
