Both the Goans - World Under 8 Champion Ivana Furtado and National Junior
Champion Bhakti Kulkarni - started with victories in the World Youth Chess
Championships which got underway in Antlaya, Turkey.
Commonwealth Under 18 Girls Champion Bhakti (ELO 2112), who is starting as
the 19th seed in the Girls section, defeated unrated Salama Al Khelaifi of
Qatar with the black pieces. She will next be playing Berfu Dincok (ELO
1945) of Turkey in the second round.
Ivana defeated Samantha Revita Glo of the Philippines in the first round.
She will be playing Melek Helin Saim in the second round. Ivana will be
fancying her chances now as both the top seed Valentina Fiesco (ELO 2048) of
Colombia and the third seed Agnieszka Dmochowska (ELO 1463) of Poland lost
in the first round.
In other results, in the Girls Under 14 section, 2nd seeded Padmini Rout
(ELO 2226) was lucky to escape with a draw against Reka Kantor (ELO 1780) of
Slovakia. Reka was a pawn up and had a double Bishop advantage as well, but
could not find the technique to convert her superior position into a
victory.
In the Boys Under 14 Section, topseeded IM S.P. Sethuraman (ELO 2427) had no
problems whatsoever in disposing off Jonathan Tordeur (ELO 1988) of
Switzerland in just 29 moves of an English Attack in a Sicilian Defence
Opening. However, in the Boys Under 12 section, National Champion Fenil Shah
was (ELO 2124) shocked by unrated Iskandar Aripov of Uzbekistan in what can
be considered a major blow to the Indian contingent's chances!
SOURCE: Sameer Salgaocar - President - GSCA
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