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World Junior Chess Championship: Ashwath Stuns Top Seed Abhimanyu Mishra

For Abhimanyu, the youngest Grandmaster ever in the world, this was 🦋the second defeat after his first round loss and the top seed no🧜w has a lot of catching up to do

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Abhim༒anyu Mishra was defeated in the 4th round of World Junior Chess Championship. Photo: GRENKEChess/X
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The talented S. Ashwath stole the show while handling top seed Abhimanyu Mishra of the United States a defeat in the fourth round of the on-going World Junior Chess championship in Gandhinagar on Wednesday. (More Sports News)

It was a finely crafted game by Ashwath who got an early openi🐭ng initiat🐼ive out of a Siclian Najdorf with white.

Ashwath made his forces dance to his tune in the middle game that had a lot of complications and eventually invaded the queen side of his rival wi❀th his queen and both rooks to force the tie in his favour.

For Abhimanyu, the youngest Grandmaster ever in 🌄the world, this was the second defeat after his first round loss and the꧑ top seed now has a lot of catching up to do.

Meanwhile Jose Gabriel Cordoso of Columbia emerged the sole leader with four points from as many games defeating Gleb Dudin of Hungary with ﷺblack piece📖s.

It was an intense ꦉgame wherein the Columbian player got through thanks to a well calculated attack on the opponent’s king.

Mayank Chakraborty and A R Ilamparthy are behind the leader on 3.5 points. The highest rated Indian Pranav Anand also kept himself in contention defeating 🤪compatriot Manish Anton Cristiano.

In the girls' section, Divya Deshmukh los🐼t her lead position as she was held to a draw by Sofia Hryzlova of S🐎witzerland.

Narmin Abdinova of Azer🌼baijan emerged as the sole leader defeating Liya Kurmangaliyeva of Kazakhstan.

The Indian challenge here comes fr꧋om Divya, R Kashturi Bhai and V Rindhiya who are all on 3.5 points each from their four games.

Important and Indian results (Round 4): (Iꦆndians u🐼nless specified): Open: Dudin Gleb (Hun, 3) lost to Cardoso Jose Gabriel (Col, 4); Mayank Chakraborty (3.5) drew with

Nogerbek Kazybek (Kaz, 3.5); Anuj Shrivatri (3) drew with Siddharth꧂ Jagadeesh (Sgp, 3); Davtyan Arsen (Arm, 3) drew with Jan Sub🔯elj (Slo, 3); Avinash Ramesh (3) drew

with Luka Budisavljevic (S♐rb, 3); Harishit Pawar (3) drew with Quizon Daniel (Phi, 3); A R Ilamparthi (3.5) beat Rybka Simon (Svk, 2.5); Prraneeth Vuppala (3) drew with

Ayush Sharma (3); S Ashwath (3) beat Abhimanyu Mishra (USA, 2); Manish Anto Cristiano (2) lost to Pranav Anand (3); Avila Pavas Santiago (Col, 2) lost to Adireddy Arjun (3); L R Srihari (2.5) drew with S Harshad (2.5); Aditya Samant (3) beat Smirnov Mark (Kaz, 2); Alekhya Mukhopadhyay (2) lost to L Srihari (3); Wafa Hamed (Egy, 2) lost to Kalyani Sirin (3); Apoorv Kamble (2) lost to V S Nandish (3); Nainys Zanas (Ltu, 2) lost to Sambit Panda (3); Sanket Cha꧃kravarty (3) beat Sri Charan Sandipagu (2);

Girls: Divya Deshmukh (3.5) drew with Sofia Hryzlova (Sui, 3.5); Na𓄧rmin Abdinova (Aze, 4) beat Liya Kurmangaliyeva (Kaz, 3); Xeniya Balabayeva (Kaz, 3.5) drew with V Rindhiya (3.5); Beloslava Krasteva (Bul, 3.5) beat Devindya Gunawardhana (Sri, 2.5); Bhagyashree Patil (2.5) lost to Norman Kseniya (Fid, 3.5); Kashthuri Bhai (3.5) beat Kaldarova Ayaulym (Kaz, 2.5); Wikar Martyna (Pol, 3) beat Yashvi Jain (2.5); Khairmode Dhanashree (2) lost to Rakshitta Ravi (3); Mrittika Mallick (3) beat Ishvi Aggarwal (2); Singgih Diajeng Theresa (Ina, 2) lost to G Tejaswini (3); Bhat Sannidh i Ramakrishna (2) lost to Sneha Halder (3) ; Sulyok Eszter (Hun, 1,5) lost to Chinnam Vyshnavi (3); Swara Lakshmi S Nair (2.5) beat Rejepova Jahan (Tkm, 1.5); B Kirthika (1.5) lost to Sherali Pattnaik ✨(2.5); Varshita Jain (1.5) lost to S Kanishka (2.5); Natura Bethi (1.5) lost to Anupam M Sreekumar (2.5); S Padmini (1.5) lost to Ashita Jain (2.5).