World Juniors 2018 Round 2: Karthikeyan, Aravindh, Harsha and Karthik on 2.0/2
After two rounds of the World Junior Championships 2018 we have four Indian players who are on 2.0/2. They are GMs Aravindh Chithambaram, Karthikeyan Murali, Karthik Venkatraman and IM Harsha Bharathakoti. Abhimanyu Puranik, S.L. Narayanan, Nubairshah Shaikh are on 1.5/2. In the girls section we have Sakshi Chitlange, Ivana Maria Furtado and M. Mahalakshmi who are all on 1.5/2. The tournament is heating up and 7th of September will be double rounds. For now we bring you an interview with Karthikeyan Murali on how he was able to outplay his strong IM opponent from the black side of the two-knights Tango.
Performance of Indian players after round 2:
SNo | Name | Rtg | FED | 1 | 2 | Pts. | Rk. | Group | |
4 | GM | Karthikeyan Murali | 2605 | IND | 1 | 1 | 2,0 | 21 | Open |
10 | GM | Aravindh Chithambaram Vr. | 2578 | IND | 1 | 1 | 2,0 | 12 | Open |
13 | GM | Sunilduth Lyna Narayanan | 2573 | IND | 1 | ½ | 1,5 | 31 | Open |
23 | GM | Puranik Abhimanyu | 2524 | IND | 1 | ½ | 1,5 | 28 | Open |
27 | IM | Karthik Venkataraman | 2519 | IND | 1 | 1 | 2,0 | 13 | Open |
40 | IM | Harsha Bharathakoti | 2474 | IND | 1 | 1 | 2,0 | 17 | Open |
50 | IM | Mohammad Nubairshah Shaikh | 2443 | IND | ½ | 1 | 1,5 | 45 | Open |
56 | IM | Raja Harshit | 2419 | IND | 1 | 0 | 1,0 | 71 | Open |
77 | IM | Krishna Teja N | 2356 | IND | 1 | 0 | 1,0 | 58 | Open |
94 | FM | Shailesh Dravid | 2325 | IND | 0 | 1 | 1,0 | 95 | Open |
12 | WIM | Chitlange Sakshi | 2279 | IND | 1 | ½ | 1,5 | 15 | Girls |
21 | WIM | Mahalakshmi M | 2213 | IND | ½ | 1 | 1,5 | 29 | Girls |
32 | WIM | Varshini V | 2173 | IND | 1 | 0 | 1,0 | 39 | Girls |
36 | WIM | Ivana Maria Furtado | 2144 | IND | 1 | ½ | 1,5 | 23 | Girls |
55 | WCM | Isha Sharma | 2012 | IND | 1 | 0 | 1,0 | 38 | Girls |
65 | Meenal Gupta | 1963 | IND | ½ | 0 | 0,5 | 76 | Girls |
7th of September is a double round and rounds three and four would be played on that day.