Babujian holds Deepan

Hindu, India
Oct 7 2006

Yerevan: Local hopeful International Master Levon Babujian held
Grandmaster Deepan Chakravarthy to a draw in the third round of the
World Junior chess championship here on Thursday.

Woman Grandmaster Dronavalli Harika saved the blushes for the Indian
contingent on an otherwise ordinary day with a fine technical victory
over Liana Aghabekian of Armenia in the girls’ championship being
organised simultaneously.

It turned out to be a bad day for overnight joint leader Deep Sengupta
who could not hold on to his own against Grandmaster Daniel stellwagen
of Germany in the open while Tania Sachdev who was also jointly
leading the girls’ section fell prey to an optical blunder against
American Tatev Abrahamyan.

In the open section Yuriy Kryvoruchko of Ukraine, Nikita Vitiugov
and Stellwagen share the lead with 3 points from as many games. In
the girls’ section, Chinese duo of Hou Yifan and Shen Yang are at
the top of the tables along with Abrahamyan.

Deepan Chakravrthy is in joint fourth spot on 2.5 while it is a
similar case for Harika who is also on 2.5 points.

The results (Indians unless specified): Daniel Stellwagen (Ned, 3)
bt Deep Sengupta (2); Levon Babujian (Arm, 2.5) drew with Deepan
Chakkravarthy (2.5); Wang Yue (Chn, 2.5) bt Armen Tonoian (Rus, 1.5);
Boris Grachev (Rus, 2) drew with Zaven Andriasian (Arm, 2); Anton
Filippov (Uzb, 2) drew with Ildar Khairullin (Rus, 1.5); Zhao Jun
(Chn, 2.5) bt Ong Kezli (Swe, 1.5); Eduard-Andrei Valeanu (Rom, 1.5)
drew with Abhijeet Gupta (1.5); Rahul Sangma (1.5) bt Niek Chernih
(Aus, 0.5)

Girls: Hou Yifan (Chn, 3) bt Beata Kadziolka (Pol, 2); Bianca Muhren
(Ned, 2) lost to Shen Yang (Chn, 3); Tatev Abrahamyan (US, 3) bt Tania
Sachdev (2); Mongontuul Bathuyag (Mgl, 2.5) drew with Zhang Jilin
(Chn, 2.5); Liana Aghabekian (Arm, 2) lost to D Harika (2.5); Maka
Purtseladze (Geo, 2.5) bt Mikadze Miranda (Geo, 1.5); Dana Aketaeva
(Kaz, 2) drew with Yulduz Hamrakulova (Uzb, 2); Olga Dolgova (Rus,
2.5) bt Alexandra Savurko (Blr, 1.5); Elena Tairova (Rus, 2) bt
Kruttika Nadig (1); Eesha Karavade (1.5) drew with Nune Darbinian
(Arm, 1.5); Mary Ann Gomes (2) bt Mona Khaled (Egy, 1); Priya (1.5)
bt Frisk Ellinor (Swe, 1.5); Soumya Swaminathan (0.5) drew with Zarkua
Elisabed (Geo, 1). – PTI