Ganguly, Venkatesh end up as losers

Tuesday, May 27 1997

Ganguly, Venkatesh end up as losers

Ryan Rozario

Coimbatore, May 26: It was a day of surprises in the ongoing National Children's Chess Championship organised by the Coimbatore District Chess Association at the PSG Tech auditorium here.

MR Venkatesh of Tamil Nadu, who won a marathon battle on Friday against Valay Parikh of Gujarat, was brought down to the floor by Arghyadip Das of Karnataka, the only Fide-rated player in the tournament, in 61 moves in the under-12 boys category, while third seed Prathamesh S. Mokal of Maharashtra subdued a fighting Suryasekhar Ganguly in under 94 moves in the under-14 section. Both players now top the table in their respective groups with five and half points (5.5) each at the end of six rounds.

RESULTS (fifth rounds)

Boys under-14: Suryasekhar Ganguly 4.5 lost to Prathamesh S. Mokal 5.5; RR Laxman (TN) 5 bt Pradip Gosh (WB) 4.5; Homarghya Homeroy 4 lost to P Mahesh Chandran (TN) 5; S Shah Shovan (Mah) 4.5 drew with Sanjoy Halder (GNCA) 4.5; Sandipan Chanda (GNCA) 4.5 bt Pranau Akolkar (Mah) 3.5; Binu Balak (Ker) 3.5 lost to P Sandesh (AP) 4.5; P Harikrishna (AP) 4.5 bt P Umesh Krishnan 3.5; JM Utarid (Kar) 4.5 bt Bichu Joseph (Ker) 3.5; Subira Garodia (Guj) 4.5 bt V Aravindh (TN) 3.5; Vijay Venkatesan (TN) 4 bt RC Murali (Pon).

Under-12: Arghyadip Das (GNCA) 5.5 bt MR Venkatesh 5; G Thang Khiew (Megh) 4.5 drew with SM Dikshit 4.5; J Deepan Chakravarthi (TN) 5 bt Sourabh Deshpande 4; P Kumaresh (TN) 4.5 drew with R Naveen (TN) 4.5; R Siddharth (TN) 4.5 drew with Soham Das (WB) 4.5; Kumardip Chakraborthy 5 bt V Srinivas (TN) 4; Shubham Das (WB) 4 drew with Bharath Gupta (Raj) 4.5; Valay Parikh (Guj) 4.5 bt Indranil Khodave 3.5; B Ramesh (AP) 4 drew with Surprakash Bir 4; Saptarshi Roy (GNCA) 4.5 bt Sayan Mondal (WB) 3.5.

Girls (u-14): M Kavana (Kar) 3.5 lost to JE Kavitha (TN) 5.5; CV Rajalakshmi (TN) 5.5 bt Neenu A George (Tal) 3.5; TV Sindhuja (TN) 3 lost to Malwicka Singh (Bih) 3.5; Priyanka Maity (WB) 2.5 lost to Chitra Sridhar (Kar) 4; Manjula V James (TN) 3.5 bt K Nishamathi (TN) 2.5; S Beulah Alagammal 2.5 lost to G Soumya (Mah) 3.5; Smita Paswan (Bih) 2.5 lost to M Renuka (TN) 3.5; P Sumathi (TN) 3.5 bt Sanitha Sathian (Ker) 2.5; Benju Shah (Guj) 2.5 lost to BV Deepthi (AP) 3; J Aashrita (TN) 2.5 drew with TS Subhashini 2.5.

Under-12: Sharaddha Samani (Mah) 5.5 bt Baisakhi Das (WB) 4.5; Tania Sachdeva (Del) 5 bt Ananya Sarkar (GNCA) 4.5; S Nabeela Faraheen (TN) 4 lost to Anuradha (Har) 5; N Vinuthna (AP) 5 bt K Humpy (AP) 4; Suma Sarkar (Bih) 4 lost to P Malarselvi (TN) 5; K Charanya (TN) 4.5 bt Nimmy A George (Ker) 3.5; Amritha Mokal (Mah) 4 drew with A Deepa (Kar) 4.