India bags 2 Gold Medals, Federation Silver Medal in World Cadet Chess Championship
Santiago de Compostela (Spain): India won two Gold medals at the World Cadet Chess (B & G) Championship-2018 on Friday.
While IM Gukesh won the yellow medal in the boy’s category, Savitha Shri B clinched the medal in the Girl’s category.
With 10 wins and a loss, Gukesh comfortably won the medal by a huge margin of 1.5 points against Razafindratsima Timothe of France. Likewise, Savitha effortlessly won the U-12 Girls World Cadet Championship with an unbeaten score of 8 wins and 2 draws. Facing the Chigorin defence she comfortably drew her final round in 38 moves against the Russian Zavivaeve Emilia who finished 3rd.
With the two Gold Medals, India stood second for the best performance among Federations while China (with two Golds and a Bronze) and USA (with one each Gold and Silver, 2 Bronze medals) took the first and 3rd place respectively.
In the U-10 Open 1st and 2nd place went to Jin Yueheng of China and Zhao Erick of USA with 9 points each while the 3rd place went to Volkov Maxim of Russia who scored 8.5 points. Indian players Kadam Om Manish scored 7 points while Vishwaksen and Johk V A finished with 5.5 points and 5 points respectively.
In the U-10 Girls, 1st place was grabbed by Edithso Samantha of Indonesia with 9 points while 2nd and 3rd place were taken by Shvedova Alexandra of Russia and Chen Yining of China with 8.5 points. Indian players Anupam M S finished with 7 points while Shnefali A N and Rajanya D scored 6 points each.
In the U-8 Open 1st place went to Chennareddy Yuvraj of USA with a clean score of 10.5 points. The 2nd place was taken by Azadaliyev Jahandar of Azerbaijan with 9 points and Begmuratov Khumoyun of Uzbekistan took the 3rd place with 8.5 points. Indian players Lakshyesh M G scored 7.5 points while Kiaan Agrawal and Mrinmoy Rajkhowa scored 6 points each.Ishaan S K and Shashindra Kumar finished with 5.5 and 5 points respectively.
In the U-8 Girls 1st place went to Zhao Yunquing of China with 9.5 points and 2nd place went to Iudina Veronika of Russia with 9 points while 3rd place went to Qiao Evelyn of USA with 8.5 points. Indian players Arshiya Das and Shreya G H finished with 7 points each, Shriyana Mallya and Swarali H finished with 6 points each while Harini Sri A and Tanishka J finished with 5.5 and 4.5 points respectively.
Aparajita Gochhikar, Candidate Master (CM) and Fide Instructor (FI) of Odisha’s KIIT University, was the Coach of the 23-member Indian Team for the Championship.
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