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  • Chess: Harikrishna becomes youngest Indian to win World junior event

    Deepika, India
    Dec 1 2004

    Harikrishna becomes youngest Indian to win World junior event

    Kochi, Nov 30 (UNI) Grandmaster Pentyala Harikrishna today became the
    World Junior Chess champion and the second Indian after Viswanathan
    Anand to win the coveted title, when he drew the final round game
    after a long 50-move encounter here.

    Finishing with 10 points, half-point ahead of the rest in the
    71-player field, Harikrishna lifted the title after settling for a
    draw against top seed Ferenc Berkes of Hungary. Armenian Petrosian
    Tigran bagged silver and Zhao Jun of China finished with bronze.

    ''It was my career-best result,'' an elated Harikrishna, who would be
    gaining around 15 Elo points from this event, said. It was his second
    world title. Harikrishna had won the World U-10 championship at
    Menorca, Spain in 1996.

    The girls title was won by top seed Ekaterina Korbut of Russia with
    10.5/13 while Elisabeth Paehtz of Germany, the other overnight
    leader, finished with silver half a point behind the leader, after
    going down to India's Kruttika Nadig.

    IWM Eesha Karavade of India beat Zhang Jilin of China for her second
    13-game WGM norm and bronze medal. She too scored the same 9.5
    points, but had to be satisfied with the third place on better
    progressive rating.

    Harikrishna, who came looking for a victory in the final round,
    opened with 1.g3 and his strategy was clear. The Hyderabad player won
    a pawn on the 18th move but play was clearly headed for an opposite
    colour bishop ending.
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