Nijat and Atousa share lead

Azerbaijan's Aghayev Nijat and Iran's Pourkashiyan Atousa shared the lead with four points at the end of the fourth round of the Dubai Open juniors chess championship.

Deep Sen Gupta of India, Noroozi Omid of Azerbaijan, Walid Aziz Jawad (Iraq), Safarli Eltaj (Iran) are in the second spot with 3.5 points.

Nijat scored a fine win over Saeed Ishaq in 36 moves. While Atousa was fortunate to claim the full point when his opponent blundered in king and pawn ending.

Results (round four):

Noroozi, Omid (3.5) drew Sengupta, Deep (3.5); Pourkashiyan, Atousa(4) bt Abdullahzadeh, Arash(3); Saeed Ishaq (2.5) lost to Aghayev Nijat (4); Azemat Amir (2.5) lost to Safarli Eltaj (3.5); Walid Aziz Jawad (3.5) bt Walid Yousof (2.5); Al Sulaiti,Ghanem (3) bt Ahmed Abbas Khoori (2.5); Ahmed Ishaq (3) bt Ayaat Mahdi (2); Majid Ahmed Obaid (2) lost to Ibrahim Mohammed Kho(3); Salem Abdul Rahman (2) lost to Marwan AbdulWahab (3); Abdul Rahman Ahmed (2.5) drew Modwal, Sankalp (2.5); Ahmed Abdul Karim (2) lost to Mohammed AbdulRahim (3); Mohammed Hasan Abdul(2 ) lost to Hamad Abdulrazzaq (3); Rashid Al-Dahery (2) lost to Rashid Zainal (3); Yehya M. Saleh (3) bt Khademi, Mohammed (2); Khalid Ahmed Mohamme(2) lost to Vic, Neil Villanueva(3); Raouf Abdou (2.5) bt AbdulRahim Mohammed (1.5); Hamad Saleh (2) drew Omar Abdul Wahab (2); Saeed Yousof (1.5) lost to Hasanov Shahriar (2.5); Abdullah Idrees (1) lost to Mohammed Nasir (2.5); Abdul Aziz Kurmostaji (2) bt Mohammed Masoud Abdu (1); AbdulAziz Yousof (1) lost to Omar Salem (2); Mohammed Issa (2) bt Abdul Rahman Mohammed (1); Afraa Abdullah (1) lost to Sanchit, Chauhan (2); Ali Obaid (2) bt Wafaa, Fakhrow (1); Mohsim Saleh AlHamed(2) bt Aysha Fouad (1); Razipoor Shhrab (2) bt Mansoor Abbas Khoori(1); Zayed Ali Al Hamed (2) bt Shayma Ahmed (1); Samer Monzer Ali (2) bt Maryam Mansoor Hadi (1); Wafaa Al Ghasra (1) lost to Ahmed Mohsin (1.5); Marwa Fouad (0) lost to AbdulAziz Ibrahim (1); Shaima Taref (0) lost to AbdulAziz Omar (1); Somaya Mohammed (1) bt Alyaa Ali Mohammed (0); Omer Abdullah (1) bt Nouf Ahmed AlHamadi (0).