Padmini Rout of ODISHA won the bronze medal in the World Junior Girls Chess Championship that concluded at Poland on August 16.
Anna Muzychuk of Slovenia won the event with 11/13 after scoring a final round victory. Russia's Olga Girya won the silver medal with a final round draw to end on 10.5 points.
Padmini who drew higher rated WGM Cori Tello of Peru finished clear third with 10 points. Bhakti Kulkarni of Goa scored three points from the last four rounds to finish fifth with nine points. Bodda Pratyusha finished above her rating expectancy with 6.5 points and 43rd place.
Dmitry Andreikin and Sanan Sjugirov of Russia tied for the first place and won the gold and silver medal in the World Junior. Dariusz Swiercz of Poland took the bronze medal on 9 points.
Indian placings: 11 GM Parimarjan Negi 8.5; 32 IM S.P. Sethuraman 7.5; 35 IM Swapnil Dhopade 7.5; 45 IM Debashis Das 7; 48 Anwesh Upadhyaya 7; 54 Sagar Shah 6.5; 59 IM M.R. Lalith Babu 6.5; 67 Arun Karthik 6.5; 68 IM Ashwin Jayaram 6.5...120 players.
Among the Indian boys, Debashis Das, Anwesh Upadhyaya, Sagar Shah, Arun Karthik played better than expected. The next World Junior, the prestigious 50th edition, will be held at Chennai in 2011.
PERFORMANCE CHART:
Padmini Rout beats Zmarzly Aleksandra (Pol), bt Newrkla Katharina (Aut), bt Rysbayeva Nazerke (Kaz), drew with Ohme Melanie (Ger), bt Abdulla Khayala Mardan (Aze), bt Girya Olga (Rus), lost to Muzychuk Anna (Slo), drew with Muminova Nafisa (Uzb), bt Corke Anya (Eng), drew with Guramishvili Sopiko (Geo), bt Severiukhina Zoja (Rus), bt Melekhina Alisa (USA), drew with Cori Tello Deysi Estela (Per).
Debasish Das beats Van Rensburg Ryan Pierre (RSA), drew with Nyzhnyk Illya (Ukr), bt Ter-Sahakyan Samvel (Arm), lost to Cordova Daza Emilio Arturo (Per), drew with Martinovic Sasa (Cro), lost to Sethuraman Panayappan (Ind), drew with Wieczorek Oskar (Pol), bt Kriebel Tadeas (Cze), drew with Salgado Lopez Ivan (Esp), drew with Arenas Vanegas David (Col), lost to Fodor Tamas Jr (Hun), drew with Dimitrov Radoslav (Bul), bt Narmontas Matas (Ltu).
Anwesh Upadhyaya beats Pierard Florian (Bel), lost to Nabaty Tamir (Isr), drew with Spors Stef (Bel), bt Safarli Eltaj (Aze), bt Andersen Mads (Den), lost to Hovhannisyan Robert (Arm), drew with Piorun Kacper (Pol), drew with Grandelius Nils (Swe), lost to Lalith Babu Musunuri Rohit (Ind), drew with Thavandiran Shiyam (Can), drew with Schiendorfer Emanuel (Sui), drew with Arun Karthik Ravichandran (Ind), bt Kantans Toms (Lat).
