The Asian Schools Girls Chess Championship ended Sunday with Indian teams dominating the team competition while individual players from Philippines, Bangladesh and Iran also grabbed titles in the individual championships. Visit chess-results.com for round by round individual and team standings, and to download games.
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Individual Championships
Jerlyn Mae San Diego of the Philippines won the Under-17 division with a convincing 8.5 points out of 9 rounds, a full point ahead of second running WCM Mukherjee Bristy of India with 7.5 points. In third place is WFM Prachiti Chandratreya of India with 7 points.
In the under-15 division Jersey Marticio (photo above) of the Philippines won with 7.5 points followed by Saravanan Nithyashree of India with 7 points and WFM Kai Ni Agnes Chong of Malaysia with 6.5 points who prevailed in the tie break over five other players.
Mallick Mrittika of India won the Under-13 division with a stellar 8.5 points. Three players tied with 7 points each. Jain Sachi of India prevailed in the tie break for second place followed by Kay Yan Eden Pang of Singapore in third. Also finishing with 7 points but with lower tie break score was Aiana Abaeva of Kyrgyzstan.
Rosha Akbari of Iran won the undr-11 division with 8.5 points followed close behind by compatriot Melika Mohammadi with 8 points for second place and Gurvanbaatar Urangoo of Mongolia with 7.5 points for third place.
Khusbu Warsia (photo above) of Bangladesh won the under-9 division with 8 points, prevailing in a tie with Sana Shadanpour of Iran who placed second followed by Enkhmunkh Gegeenee of Mongolia with 7 points for third place.
In the youngest group, Pungavanam Samhita of India won the under-7 with 8 points and better tie break over compatriot A. Charvi also with 8 points in second place and Gaye Thalia Ventura of the Philippines with 7.5 points for third place.
Team Championships
Indian Girls dominated the team competition of the Asian Schools Girls Chess Championships, winning the gold medal in the Under-7, 9, 13, 15 and 17 divisions and ceding only the Under-11 division to a very strong Iranian team.
In the Under-17 division, the India-A team and Philippines finished in a tie with 26 points each but India-A won first place with better tie break of 21 points based on the top three players, half a point ahead of the Philippines which finished second. The India-A team is composed of WCM Mukherjee Bristy, WFM Prachiti Chandratreya, Ankita Sahoo and WCM Kotwal Arushi.
Iran-A got the bronze certificate with 19 points. Actually India-B scored 23.5 points but regulations state that a country can win only one team award.
In the Under-15 division, India-A won convincingly with 24.5 points, ahead of Philippines with 22.5 points for second place and Malaysia in third with 22 points. The U-15 India-A team is composed of Saravanan Nithyashree, Vedanshi Pandey, Tanisha Boramanikar and V. Renganayaki.
India-B surpassed India-A to win the Under-13 division. India-B scored 24.5 points. India-A and Singapore tied with 23 points each but the second place award went to Singapore since a country can win only one team award. Iran-A took third place with 22.5 points. The U-13 India-B team is composed of Mallick Mrittika, Bapu Kutwal Anushka, Mankna Debriya and Upadhyay Aashi.
Iran-A won the Under-11 division with a convincing 27.5 cumulative score, ahead of India-A in second with 22 points and Mongolia in third with 20 points. Actually Iran-B got 23 points and India-B scored 22 points but shared the award with their sister team.
In the Under-9 division, India-A won first place with 24 points followed by Iran-B and Mongolia-A with 23.5 each. Iran-B prevailed in the tie break for second place. The India-A team is composed of Velmurugan Sreekanthika, Shah Hanya, Dongre Anshika and Reya Banker.
Finally in the Under-7 division, India-A absolutely dominated with 29.5 points followed by Iran-A with 20 points for second place and Mongolia-A with 19.5 points for third place. The U7 India-A team is composed of Pungavanam Samhita, A. Charvi, Rishitha Narayanan and Bohara Ira.