AHMEDABAD, DECEMBER 22: Four Indians - P Harikrishna (5.5), K Humpy (6), Abhijit Gupta (5) and Mary Ann Gomes (5) and one Iranian Atousa Pour (5.5) lead their respective fields at the end of sixth round in the Asian Youth Chess Championship, 1999 being played here today. In the under-14 girls, Indian C Delphin and Giang Nguyen Thu of Vietnam shared the lead with five points each.The top-seeded Harikrishna will take on third-seeded fellow countryman MR Venkatesh (5) in the boys u-14 tomorrow, and the winner will get an edge over the other for the title.Harikrishna, playing with white pieces toda, began with Queen-Pawn opening against which Saptarshi Roy opted for Dutch Defence. The game witnessed a tactical battle and the top seed showed who is the boss on move 19..Bc4.In under-12 boys, top seed K Humpy has almost assured herself of the title. She now leads the field with a margin of one point and has already played against all known opponents.Results (6th round)Boys U-14: P Harikrishna(Ind, 5.5) bt Saptarshi Roy (Ind, 3) MR Venkatesh (Ind, 5) bt Elshan Moradiabadi (Lanka, 3.5); Ismagambetov Anour (Kaz, 4) bt Valay Parikh (Ind, 3); Iskakov Aibek (Kaz, 2.5) lost to Kartik Vishwanathan (Ind, 3.5); AM Kamath (Ind, 2) lost to Annaberdyev (Turk, 3.5); Ravi Purohit (Ind, 1.5) lost to S Poobesh Anand (Ind, 3.5); (U-12): K Humpy (Ind, 6) bt Wong Zi Chuank (Malay, 3); Sayanthan Dutta (Ind, 5) bt S Rangrajan (Ind, 3); Kampakyanob (Uzb, 3.5) drew R Siddarth (Ind, 3.5); 4 Deepan Chakraborthy (Ind, 4) bt Omid Norouzi (Iran, 3); Huy Nguyen Heynh (Viet, 4) bt T Damir (Kaz, 2.5); Esenov Annaberdi (Tur, 2.5) drew Seyed Javed Alavi (Iran, 3); Jude Ranga (Lanka, 3) bt Vinaykumar (Ind, 2); (U-10): Abhijit Gupta (Ind, 5) bt Son Truo (Viet, 4); Vijil Pujara (Ind, 4.5) drew G Rohit (Ind, 4.5); K Vijay Keerthi (Ind, 3) lost to Akshat Kamparia (Ind, 4); Chan Litt Bin (Malay, 2.5) lost to T Abhay (Ind, 4); Varun Dattani (Ind, 2.5) lost to Rahul Sangma (Ind, 3.5); M Soumitra (Ind, 2.5) lost to M Ahmed(Bangla, 3.5); Arash Abdollahzadeh (Iran, 2) lost to Akarsh Rai (Ind, 3); Bhavya Shah (Ind, 2) lost to Vishal Shah (Ind, 3); Rohil Bhat (Ind, 3) bt Iskakov Arsen (Kaz, 0).Girls (U-14): C Delphin (Ind, 5) bt Jaya Arunamathi (Ind, 3); Sadi Paridar (Iran, 3) lost to Giang Thu (Viet, 5); Tania Sachdev (Ind, 4.5) bt Panaga Magal (Ind, 2.5); Zeel Patel (Ind, 1.5) lost to T Dinara (Kaz, 3); Anudama Konara (Lanka, 1.5) lost to Waxnoza (Uzb, 3); (U-12): P Priya (Ind, 3.5) lost to Atousa Pour (Iran, 5.5); Eesha Karwade (Ind, 5) bt Segreyva Victorya (Kaz, 3); A Patel (Ind, 3) lost to M Priyadarshini (Ind, 4); Manjri Sowani (Ind, 2.5) lost to Krutika Nadig (Ind, 4); R Mahima (Ind, 3.5) bt B Latha (Ind, 2); Artikova (Uzb, 1) lost to Khallaeba (Turk, 3); (U-10): Mary Ann Gomes (Ind, 5) drew Ngoc Pham Bich (Viet, 4.5); Anoori Shah (Ind, 4) drew Soumya Swaminathan (Ind, 4); Prachi Thite (Ind, 3.5) drew Nina Hematizadeh (Iran, 3.5); Haamra Kulova Yulduz (Uzb, 3) drew Ketki Kulkarni (Ind, 3); SaimaAlmas (Bangla, 2) lost to Sonam Shah (Ind, 3.5).
