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International Master Wesley So saw his unblemished run
come to a screeching halt after losing in 79 moves to GM
Ahmed Adly of Egypt in the seventh round of the World
Juniors and Girls Chess Championships Tuesday at the T.
Petrosian Chess House in Yerevan, Armenia.
Woman
National Master Aices Salvador salvaged what could have
been a bleak round for the
Philippines
as she downed Nune Darbinyan of the host country for her
third straight victory in the girls’ division.
The
defeat stripped So, 14, the leadership he held since the
beginning of the tournament of the tough 80-man,13-round
Swiss System tournament for woodpushers under 20 years
old
By
failing to improve his aggregate of 5.0 points, So,
whose campaign is supported by the Philippine Sports
Commission (PSC) and the National Chess Federation of
the Philippines (NCFP), dropped into a tie for third to
11th places.
Adly,
the No. 21 seed, assumed the top spot with 6.0 out of a
possible 7.0 points. He is followed by No. 4 GM Viktor
Laznicka of the Czech Republic, who trounced No. 28
Jayaram Ashwin of
India
to hike his total to 5.5.
So will
face top seed GM Wang Hao of China in Round Eight. Wang,
who was the cochampion in the recently concluded sixth
Asian Individual Chess Championship in Cebu, drew with
No. 25 IM Avetik Grigoryan of
Armenia
to raise his total to 5.0.
Besides
So, Hao and Grigoryan, the other 5.0-pointers are No. 2
GM Daniel Stellwagen of the Netherlands, No. 3 GM Maxim
Rodshtein of Israel, No. 9 GM Georg Meier of Germany,
No. 11 Ivan Popov of Russia, No. 16 IM G. N. Gopal and
No. 18 Parimarjan Negi of India.
Salvador’s
triumph, her fourth against three setbacks, pushed the
17-year-old collegiate standout up to 4.0 points,
catapulting her into a tie for 15th to 26th places.
Salvador
is two-and-a-half points behind WIM Vera Nebolsina of
Russia,
who continues to stay alone at pole despite a truce with
IM Dronavilli Harika of India, snapping her six-game
winning streak.
Salvador,
the 49th seed, next faces No. 15 WIM Swaminathan Soumya
of India. |
