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Anwesh Upadhyaya and Swayams Mishra give
DOUBLE DELIGHT to Orissa in National
U-17 at Chakradharpur
CHAKRADHARPUR (Jharkhand): Orissa’s rise
as a growing power in chess got a
further fillip when fourth seed Anwesh
Upadhyaya pipped Statemate Swayams
Mishra to claim the title in the 20th
National (under-17) chess championship
at the South West Institute, here on
Wednesday.
Superior tie-break score
Upadhyaya and Mishra tied for the title
after scoring nine points from 11
rounds. Superior tie-break score helped
overnight leader Upadhyaya take the
title.
This is the first time that two Orissa
boys have tied for a National title,
creditably in a field that had three
leading seeds from Tamil Nadu.
In the final round, overnight leader
Upadhyaya drew with Andhra’s Mehar
Chinna Reddy while seventh-seeded Mishra
surprised second seed Tamil Nadu’s K.
Priyadharshan.
Leading results (11th round):
Open: Anwesh Upadhyaya (9) drew with
Mehar Chinna Reddy (7); Bitan Banerjee
(7) drew with S. Nitin (8.5); Swayams
Mishra (9) bt K. Priyadharshan (6.5).
Sameer Kathmale (6.5) lost to G.A. Stany
(8); Himal Gusain (6.5) drew with Shyam
Nikhil (7); Rakesh Kulkarni (6.5) drew
with Biswajit Nayak (6.5); Saurabh
Mandal (6) lost to Debashish Dutta (7);
N. Lokesh (7) bt Pratik Patil (6);
Deepak Katiyar (6.5) bt Rishi Thariani
(6).
Girls: J. Saranya (10) drew with
Siddhali Shetye (7); Sunyasakta Satpathy
(6.5) lost to Bhakti Kulkarni (9); J.
Mohana Priya (6.5) drew with Priyanka
Kumari (8).
Devangi Patankar (6.5) drew with R.
Bharathi (7.5); Sonakshi Rathore (6.5)
drew with Soukhin Pramanik (6.5); N.
Hema Priya (5.5) lost to C.H. Savetha
(6.5).
G. Amirthavalli (5.5) lost to Shristi
Shetty (6.5); A. Akshaya (5.5) lost to
Supriya Joshi (6.5); Sonia Deshmukh
(5.5) lost to Aparajita Gochchikar
(6.5); Surbhi Munot (6) drew with M.
Poojakanth (5.5).
Standings (top-10):
Open: 1-2. Anwesh, Swayams (9 points
each); 3. Nitin (8.5), 4. Stany (8),
5-9. Lokesh, Mehar, Debashish, Shyam,
Bitan (7 each), 10. Sameer (6.5).
Girls: 1. Saranya (10), 2. Bhakti (9),
3. Priyanka (8), 4. Bharathi (7.5), 5.
Siddhali (7), 6-10. Devangi, Sonakshi,
Shristi, Savetha and Supriya (6.5 each).
Published on
22nd Oct, 2009
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