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Journalism of Courage
Oropesa Spain, october 24 : Deep Sen Gupta and Koneru Humpy bagged the gold medal in the boys under-12 and girls under-14 categories respectively in the World Youth chess festival.
However, Harika missed a golden opportunity and had to be content with a silver.
Deep had a higher progressive tie break score over Brkic Ante of Croatia when they entered the last round with 8 points each. Deep played a marvelous last round game against Kjartansson to win convincingly. However Brkic was held to a draw by Rauf Mamedev of Azerbaijan. Thus Deep, who hails from Chakradharpur in Bihar, won the World U-12 boys championship.
He is the fifth Indian to win a World chess title after Anand World junior 1987, Harikrishna World U-10, 1996, Humpy World U-10, 1997, U-12 1998 and Aarthie Ramaswamy World U-18 girls 1999.
