Adhiban wins title, becomes 2nd youngest champion - Hindustan Times
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Adhiban wins title, becomes 2nd youngest champion

Hindustan Times | By, Mumbai
Dec 13, 2009 10:42 PM IST

Even as other parents left for the day, Mrs Leela Baskaran was pacing the table tennis hall at the Goregaon Sports Club, reports B Shrikant.

Even as other parents left for the day, Mrs Leela Baskaran was pacing the table tennis hall at the Goregaon Sports Club. She would repeatedly cast a glance on the top board where her son Adhiban was engaged in a battle with former world junior champion Abhijeet Gupta in the 12th and penultimate round of the 47th Premier National Chess Championship.

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Sriram Jha, in second position overnight, had lost to SP Sethuraman to finish with eight points. Adhiban was fighting to avoid a similar fate, as it would have left him with 8.5 points and complicated his final round.

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The former u-16 world champion however, capitalised on Gupta’s poor play and won the title with a round to spare, becoming the second youngest national champion after Viswanathan Anand.

The victory took Adhiban to 9.5 points and gave him an unbeatable one-and-half points lead over the second placed Sriram Jha, Sethuraman and Vidit Gujrathi of Maharashtra.

“It is nice to win the National Championship in this manner. I am happy with the standard of my game as I won five games in a row,” said Adhiban said.

Gujrathi played out a draw with S Kidambi while Abhijit Kunte maintained his chances of finishing in top three by beating top seed GN Gopal.

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    B Shrikant anchors the Mumbai sports desk. A journalist for more than two decades, he covers hockey, chess, athletics, basketball and volleyball.

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