Indian youngsters bag handful of medals
India got a new World champion when Sarbartho Mani won gold in the U-10 open section in Batumi. India swept the category as Oishik Mondal and Kapil Aarit came second and third respectively.
It has been a phenomenal rise for Mani who had previously won gold in Commonwealth and Asian age-group chess too. Mani (1847) recently played alongside his idol Viswanathan Anand, Anna Muzychuk and others to win bronze in rapid for Team Freedom at the World Rapid and Blitz Team Championships in London.
The Kolkata boy drew both his classical games against Mondal (1857) in Stage 2 and then went on to win the next two rapid games (15'+2") each to top the podium while Mondal settled for silver.
CM Aarit Kapil (2078), who recently came close to defeating world No. 1 Magnus Carlsen before settling for a draw in the 'Early Titled Tuesday' online chess tournament, defeated Iman Nabiyev (Kaz, 1716) twice to bag the bronze medal.
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WCM Divi Bijesh (1872) defeated WCM Zhihan Chen (Chn, 1785) in both U-10 classical games to clinch the gold while WCM Sharvaanica AS (1884) picked bronze in the section. WCM Pratitee Bordoloi (1971) fetched the third gold in the U-12 girl's category and Aadya secured the silver.
In Sri Lanka, FM Sourath Biswas finished with 7.5 points out of nine to clinch the gold in the open section. IM Kashish Manoj Jain finished with seven points to secure the bronze.
In the girl's section, WIM Velpula Sarayu bagged seven points out of nine to end up with a bronze medal.
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