Sunday, April 29, 2007

Ivana Furtado at the World Schools Chess Championships


Ivana Furtado of Goa is seeded 8th at the World Schools Chess Championships being played in Halkidiki, Greece.

First Round - Saturday, 28 April
- beat Ramadani Sarah of Slovenia.

Second Round - Sunday, 29 April
- beat Arina Utkina of Russia.

Third Round - Monday, 30 April
- lost to Vasova Valentinova Mariya of Bulgaria.

Fourth Round - Tuesday, 1 May
- lost to Sweety Patel of India

Fifth Round - Tuesday, 1 May
- beat
Pramateftaki Aspasia of Greece

Sixth Round -
Wednesday, 2 May
- beat Ho En Ying Michelle of Singapore

Seventh Round - Thursday, 3 May
- beat
Meghna C H of India

Eighth Round - Friday, 4 May
- beat
Menzi Nezihe Ezgi of Turkey

Ninth Round - Saturday, 5 May
- lost to
Aleksandra Goryachkina of Russia

After 9 games, Ivana won six and lost three.

She thus, finished 5th in the field of 24 participants in the Under-9 category.

Source - http://www.chess.gr/tourn/2007/GamesFestival07/
Thanks to Sameer Salgaocar for the information.

1 comment:

wizard said...

Ivana is holding our Goan flag flying high in the international sports arena. Congratulations to her!