Upsets ruled the roost on the first two days of the Asian Junior Chess Championship, and it was no different on the third day.
Vishnu Prasanna upsets Iranian Alavi Sayed Javed, jumps into joint lead
MUMBAI: Upsets ruled the roost on the first two days of the Asian Junior Chess Championship, and it was no different on the third day as third seed Alavi Sayed Javed from Iran went down to Vishnu Prasanna of India at Goregaon Sports Complex here on Friday.
Playing with black pieces, Prasanna sealed the victory in 47 moves. The 18-year-old from Chennai was pretty happy with his effort.
“This is my second international tournament and I’m pleased with my effort so far in the tourney,” said Prasanna.
Concerning his victory over the third seed, Prasanna said, “The game was balanced till the 14th move, but he committed mistakes in the following two moves, which tilted the advantage in my favour.
Thereafter I stuck to the basics, as I knew I had my pieces in winning position.” The 14th seed Prasanna leads the field with three points along with Snehal Bhosale and T Purushothaman, who got the better of Grandmaster Parimarjan Negi in the second round.
Purushothaman continued his giant killing run with an easy win over IM SP Sethuraman.
Six other players are tied for second place with 2.5 points in their kitties.
Meanwhile, in the girls segment, Mary Ann Gomes emerged as the sole leader by defeating Soumya Swaminathan. Gomes leads the field with three points followed by Atousa Pourkashiyan (Iran), Kruttika Nadig and Padmini Rout, who were tied for the second spot with 2.5 points apiece.
Results (3rd round): Boys: Alavi Sayed Javad (Iran - 2) lost to Vishnu Prasanna (3), Karthikeyan P (2.5) drew with Deep Sengupta (2.5), SP Sethuraman (2) lost to T Purushothaman (3), Aditya Udeshi (2) lost to Snehal Bhosale (3), Shyam Sundar (2.5) drew with MR Lalith Babu (2.5 ), Rakesh Kulkarni (2) lost to S Nitin (2.5), Bitan Banerjee (1.5) lost to B Adhiban (2.5), Parimarjan Negi (2) bt Nikhil Kamat (1), Abhishek Kelkar (1) lost to Ashwin Jayaram (2), Shreyans Shah (1.5) drew with Akshat Khamparia ( 1.5); Girls: Soumya Swaminathan (2) lost to Mary Ann Gomes (3), Atousa Pourkashiyan (Iran - 2.5) bt P Priya (1.5), Kruttika Nadig ( 2.5) bt Kiran Mohanty (1.5), Padmini Rout (2.5) bt Mitali Patil (1.5), P Sivasankari (1) lost to S Harini (2), S Liza (Bangladesh - 2) bt P Uthra (1). —All from India unless specified
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