World Junior 2024 R7: Kazybek and Divya are the sole leaders

by Shahid Ahmed - 10/06/2024

IM Divya Deshmukh drew with WIM Mariam Mkrtchyan (ARM) to maintain her sole lead 6/7. Five players including WGM Rakshitta Ravi are trailing by a half point at 5.5/7 each. In the Open event, GM Kazybek Nogerbek (KAZ) defeated IM L M S T De Silva (SRI) to emerge sole leader 6/7. Eight players are in pursuit at 5.5/7 each. In a battle of former World Under-16 vs Under-14 champions, GM Pranav Anand outplayed IM Ilamparthi A R to stay in the fray 5.5/7. IM Sambit Panda showed his fantastic positional understanding to beat GM Shawn Rodrigue-Lemieux (CAN). Pranav will face GM Jose Gabriel Cardoso Cardoso (COL) and Divya will be up against Kseniya Norman in the eighth round. Round 8 starts today from 3 p.m. IST. Photos: Aditya Sur Roy

Pranav Anand and Rakshitta Ravi in the hunt

GM Aditya Samant, IM Mayank Chakraborty and IM Ethan Vaz scored a win each to take their score 5/7. WFM Sachi Jain drew with WIM Xeniya Balabayeva (KAZ). Sneha Halder, WCM Swara Lakshmi S Nair and WFM Rindhiya V defeated Mrittika Mallick, WFM Bhagyashree Patil and Sharanya Gade respectively to move to 5/7 each.

IM Divya Deshmukh won against her coleader WIM Ayan Allahverdiyeva (AZE) to emerge sole leader 5.5/6

IM Rudik Makarian - GM Jose Gabriel Cardoso Cardoso (COL): 0.5-0.5

Kazybek - De Silva

Position after 26.Bd3

With the imminent attack on the kingside looming large, IM L M S T De Silva (SRI, 2364) decided to sacrifice his queen for a rook and bishop 26...Qxc5 27.dxc5 Ne5 28.Qxe6 Nxd3 29.Rb1 Nxc5 30.Qxd5 Black never got enough compensation and eventually lost the game.

GM Kazybek Nogerbek (KAZ) has gained sole lead 6/7

GM Pranav Anand outplayed IM Ilamparthi A R and he is now at 5.5/7

Sambit - Shawn

Position after 17.d5!

IM Sambit Panda (2363) made a nice pawn sacrifice 17.d5! to gain positional advantage. 17...exd5 18.e5 Ne4 19.Nh5 Ne7? 20.f5+- Qc3 21.Bb2 Qd2 22.Qg4 Qe3+ 23.Kh1 Qg5 24.Qxg5 Nxg5 25.Rf4 and White won the game in the next few moves.

IM Sambit Panda scored a fantastic win over GM Shawn-Rodrigue Lemieux (CAN)

IM Aswath S (2352) had a few difficult winning chances against GM Avila Pavas Santiago (COL, 2495).

IM Aswath S - GM Avila Pavas Santiago (COL): 0.5-0.5

WIM Mariam Mkrtchyan (ARM) - IM Divya Deshmukh: 0.5-0.5

WFM Ayaulym Kaldarova (KAZ) - WIM Martyna Wikar (POL): 1-0

WGM Rakshitta Ravi checkmated WIM Ayan Allahverdiyeva (AZE) to move to 5.5/7

Sachi Jain - WIM Xeniya Balabayeva (KAZ): 0.5-0.5

Chief Arbiter - IA Ashot Vardapetyan (ARM) and Deputy Chief Arbiter - IA WFM Margit Brokko (EST)

Arbiters and organizing team

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Replay Round 7 Open games

Replay Round 7 Girls games

Round 7 results in Open

Bo.	No.		Name	FED	Rtg	Pts.	Result	Pts.		Name	FED	Rtg	No.	PGN
1	6	IM	Makarian Rudik	FID	2524	5	½ - ½	5	GM	Cardoso Cardoso Jose Gabriel	COL	2497	11	PGN
2	9	IM	Nogerbek Kazybek	KAZ	2502	5	1 - 0	5	IM	De Silva L M S T	SRI	2364	37	PGN
3	19	IM	Fromm Marius	GER	2465	4½	0 - 1	4½	GM	Grebnev Aleksey	FID	2540	2	PGN
4	3	GM	Pranav Anand	IND	2540	4½	1 - 0	4½	IM	Ilamparthi A R	IND	2446	21	PGN
5	20	IM	Quizon Daniel	PHI	2448	4½	1 - 0	4½	GM	Dudin Gleb	HUN	2532	4	PGN
6	10	GM	Ohanyan Emin	ARM	2501	4½	1 - 0	4½	FM	Pham Tran Gia Phuc	VIE	2444	22	PGN
7	87		Nandish V S	IND	1981	4½	0 - 1	4½	GM	Gharibyan Mamikon	ARM	2492	15	PGN
8	18	GM	Budisavljevic Luka	SRB	2468	4½	1 - 0	4½	GM	Prraneeth Vuppala	IND	2436	23	PGN
9	5	IM	Siddharth Jagadeesh	SGP	2525	4	½ - ½	4½	IM	Stribuk Artiom	FID	2422	25	PGN
10	38	IM	Panda Sambit	IND	2363	4	1 - 0	4	GM	Rodrigue-Lemieux Shawn	CAN	2510	8	PGN

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Standings after Round 7

Rk.	SNo		Name	FED	Rtg	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3	TB4	TB5	Rp	K	rtg+/-
1	9	IM	Nogerbek Kazybek	KAZ	2502	6	0	28	31,5	3	5	2665	10	13
2	11	GM	Cardoso Cardoso Jose Gabriel	COL	2497	5,5	0	27,5	30	3	4	2586	10	9,5
3	3	GM	Pranav Anand	IND	2540	5,5	0	27	30	3	5	2586	10	4,2
4	6	IM	Makarian Rudik	FID	2524	5,5	0	27	29	4	4	2570	10	4,5
5	2	GM	Grebnev Aleksey	FID	2540	5,5	0	26	29,5	4	4	2574	10	3,3
6	20	IM	Quizon Daniel	PHI	2448	5,5	0	26	28,5	3	4	2519	10	7,7
7	10	GM	Ohanyan Emin	ARM	2501	5,5	0	23,5	26,5	3	4	2500	10	1,8
8	18	GM	Budisavljevic Luka	SRB	2468	5,5	0	23	25,5	3	4	2474	10	1,9
9	15	GM	Gharibyan Mamikon	ARM	2492	5,5	0	22	24,5	4	5	2345	10	-6,1
10	24	IM	Mayank Chakraborty	IND	2425	5	0	30,5	34	4	4	2522	10	11,4

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Round 8 pairings

Bo.	No.		Name	FED	Rtg	Pts.	Pts.		Name	FED	Rtg	No.
1	2	GM	Grebnev Aleksey	FID	2540	5½	6	IM	Nogerbek Kazybek	KAZ	2502	9
2	11	GM	Cardoso Cardoso Jose Gabriel	COL	2497	5½	5½	GM	Pranav Anand	IND	2540	3
3	6	IM	Makarian Rudik	FID	2524	5½	5½	GM	Budisavljevic Luka	SRB	2468	18
4	15	GM	Gharibyan Mamikon	ARM	2492	5½	5½	GM	Ohanyan Emin	ARM	2501	10
5	17	GM	Samant Aditya S	IND	2469	5	5½	IM	Quizon Daniel	PHI	2448	20
6	37	IM	De Silva L M S T	SRI	2364	5	5	IM	Koelle Tobias	GER	2470	16
7	24	IM	Mayank Chakraborty	IND	2425	5	5	IM	Vaz Ethan	IND	2420	26
8	25	IM	Stribuk Artiom	FID	2422	5	5	IM	Panda Sambit	IND	2363	38
9	4	GM	Dudin Gleb	HUN	2532	4½	4½	IM	Anuj Shrivatri	IND	2390	30
10	23	GM	Prraneeth Vuppala	IND	2436	4½	4½	IM	Siddharth Jagadeesh	SGP	2525	5

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Round 7 results in Girls

Bo.	No.		Name	FED	Rtg	Pts.	Result	Pts.		Name	FED	Rtg	No.	PGN
1	2	WIM	Mkrtchyan Mariam	ARM	2300	5	½ - ½	5½	IM	Divya Deshmukh	IND	2456	1	PGN
2	12		Norman Kseniya	FID	2134	5	½ - ½	5		Abdinova Narmin	AZE	2121	15	PGN
3	18	WFM	Kaldarova Ayaulym	KAZ	2100	4½	1 - 0	4½	WIM	Wikar Martyna	POL	2272	5	PGN
4	6	WGM	Rakshitta Ravi	IND	2271	4½	1 - 0	4½	WIM	Allahverdiyeva Ayan	AZE	2133	13	PGN
5	14	WFM	Sachi Jain	IND	2124	4½	½ - ½	4½	WIM	Balabayeva Xeniya	KAZ	2246	7	PGN
6	8	WIM	Hryzlova Sofiia	SUI	2246	4½	½ - ½	4½	WFM	Zhurova Anna	FID	2239	9	PGN
7	69		Kashthuri Bhai R	IND	1765	4½	0 - 1	4	WGM	Krasteva Beloslava	BUL	2289	3	PGN
8	16	WFM	Grozdanovic Anastasia	SRB	2108	4	0 - 1	4	WCM	Agajanova Meryem	TKM	1955	37	PGN
9	36		Sneha Halder	IND	1958	4	1 - 0	4		Mrittika Mallick	IND	2076	21	PGN
10	25	WCM	Swara Lakshmi S Nair	IND	2051	4	1 - 0	4	WFM	Bhagyashree Patil	IND	1929	40	PGN

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Standings after Round 7

Rk.	SNo		Name	sex	FED	Rtg	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3	TB4	TB5	Rp	K	rtg+/-
1	1	IM	Divya Deshmukh	w	IND	2456	6	0	29,5	32	4	5	2407	10	-0,3
2	2	WIM	Mkrtchyan Mariam	w	ARM	2300	5,5	0	28,5	32	3	4	2265	20	2,4
3	15		Abdinova Narmin	w	AZE	2121	5,5	0	27,5	31	4	5	2247	40	52,8
4	12		Norman Kseniya	w	FID	2134	5,5	0	27	30,5	3	4	2237	40	40,4
5	6	WGM	Rakshitta Ravi	w	IND	2271	5,5	0	25	28	3	5	2196	20	-8,2
6	18	WFM	Kaldarova Ayaulym	w	KAZ	2100	5,5	0	23	25,5	3	5	2084	40	3,2
7	7	WIM	Balabayeva Xeniya	w	KAZ	2246	5	0	29,5	32	4	3	2117	20	-14,2
8	8	WIM	Hryzlova Sofiia	w	SUI	2246	5	0	28	31	3	4	2236	20	3,4
9	34	WFM	Rindhiya V	w	IND	1965	5	0	28	30,5	3	4	2181	20	39,2
10	3	WGM	Krasteva Beloslava	w	BUL	2289	5	0	27,5	30,5	4	4	2067	20	-23,2

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Round 8 pairings

Bo.	No.		Name	FED	Rtg	Pts.	Pts.		Name	FED	Rtg	No.
1	1	IM	Divya Deshmukh	IND	2456	6	5½		Norman Kseniya	FID	2134	12
2	15		Abdinova Narmin	AZE	2121	5½	5½	WIM	Mkrtchyan Mariam	ARM	2300	2
3	18	WFM	Kaldarova Ayaulym	KAZ	2100	5½	5½	WGM	Rakshitta Ravi	IND	2271	6
4	3	WGM	Krasteva Beloslava	BUL	2289	5	5		Sneha Halder	IND	1958	36
5	7	WIM	Balabayeva Xeniya	KAZ	2246	5	5	WCM	Swara Lakshmi S Nair	IND	2051	25
6	37	WCM	Agajanova Meryem	TKM	1955	5	5	WIM	Hryzlova Sofiia	SUI	2246	8
7	9	WFM	Zhurova Anna	FID	2239	5	5	WFM	Rindhiya V	IND	1965	34
8	30	WFM	Shohradova Lala	TKM	2000	5	5	WFM	Sachi Jain	IND	2124	14
9	5	WIM	Wikar Martyna	POL	2272	4½	4½		Dakshita Kumawat	IND	1928	43
10	13	WIM	Allahverdiyeva Ayan	AZE	2133	4½	4½	WCM	Arshiya Das	IND	1919	44

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