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Padmini finishes runner-up, Anwesh 3rd
in the National Junior Chess at CHENNAI
Orissa
lived up to its reputation as an
emerging force in Indian chess when
Woman International Master Padmini Rout
became girls’ runner-up and Anwesh
Upadhyaya finished third in boys’
category of the National Junior (u-19)
Chess Championship at the Jawaharlal
Nehru Stadium in Chennai today.
Top seed Padmini beat C H Savetha (TN)
in the 11th and last round to finish
with nine points, while Bhakti Kulkarni
(Goa) took the title with 9.5 points.
Padmini’s loss to Bhakti in the seventh
round proved her costly. She won eight
games and drew the remaining two. Among
other two Orissa girls, Aparajita
Gochhikar finished 13th with seven
points, while Adyasha Patnaik occupied
the 53rd position with 4.5 points.
In the boys’ category, Anwesh,
International Master S P Sethuraman (TN)
and Swapnil Dhopade (MP) tied for the
top spot with 8.5 points each. But when
Buchholz was applied to break deadlock,
Sethuraman claimed the title, keeping
Dhopade and Anwesh in the second and
third positions respectively.
The 11th and last round clash between
overnight joint leaders Dhopade and
Anwesh ended in a drew. Among other
three Orissa boys, Swayams Mishra (7.5),
Utkal Ranjan Sahu (7.5) and Biswajeet
Nayak (6) finished 13th, 15th and 58th
respectively.
Published on
03rd Oct, 2009
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