National Under-11 (Open & Girls) Chess Championship-2013: Ram and Priyanka move Closer to Title

New Delhi: With one round remaining, top seeds Ram Aravind of Tamil Nadu in Open and Priyanka Nutakki of Andhra Pradesh in Girls’ maintained their sole lead with nine points and moved closer towards the titles at the ongoing National Under-11 Chess Championship here at Ludlow Castle Sports Complex on Monday.

In the penultimate round, playing white side of closed variation of Ruy Lopez game, Ram missed the opportunity to extend his lead to full point as he miscalculated the end position to settle for a draw against team mate Praggnandhaa R in 59 moves. Rahul Srivatshav of Andhra Pradesh closely following the leader with a drift of half point as he defeated Bhavik Bharambe of Maharashtra in the tenth round encounter. Barath M of Goa defeated Rudrakash Parida of Odisha to occupy third spot along with Bhavik with eight points.

Meanwhile, in the girls’ section, top seed Priyanka Nutakki of Andhra Pradesh defeated Anwesha Mishra of Odisha to take her point tally to nine from possible ten to maintain full point lead over second placed Vantika Agrawal of Delhi, who beat Riddhi Zantye of Goa in the penultimate round. Krystal Fernandes of Goa along with Tamil Nadu duo Lakshmi and Tejasvi are at third spot with seven and half points. Krystal beat Palkin Kaur of Delhi while Tejasvi and Lakshmi outwitted Salonika Saina of Odisha and Bommini Mounika Akshaya of Andhra Pradesh respectively in the tenth round.

In the final round tomorrow morning, Ram paired against Barath while Rahul takes on second seed Saurabh Anand of Bihar while in girl’s section Priyanka and Vantika will fight it out against Lakshmi and Krystal respectively.

Important Results :- Open Round-10 :- Ram Aravind L N of Tamilnadu (9) drew with Praggnanandhaa R of Tamilnadu (7.5); Rahul Srivatshav of Andhra Pradesh (8.5) beat Bhavik Bharambe of Maharashtra (8); Aronyak Ghosh of West Bengal (7.5) drew with Aansh Gupta of Delhi (7.5); Rudraksh Parida of Odisha (6.5) lost to Barath M of Goa (8); Ritam Nag of West Bengal (6.5) lost to Saurabh Anand of Bihar (7.5); Sadhu S Adithya of Tamilnadu (7.5) beat Ayush Pattanaik of Madhya Pradesh (6.5); Sankarsha Shelke of Maharashtra (6.5) lost to Vatsal Singhania of Jharkhand (7.5); Koustav Chatterjee of West Bengal (7) drew with Subhasis Barik of Odisha (7); Aditya Basu of West Bengal (6.5) lost to Neelash Saha of West Bengal (7.5); Iniyan P of Tamilnadu (7) beat Aryan Abhijeet Shah of Maharashtra (6); Raahul V S of Tamilnadu (6) lost to Samal Ansuman of Odisha (7); Aditya B Kalyani of Karnataka (6) lost to Prajesh R of Tamilnadu (7); Shuban Saha of West Bengal (6.5) drew with Nihal Sarin of Kerala (6.5); Pranab Kumar Patra of Odisha (7) beat Samyak Dutta of West Bengal (6); Tarun V Kanth of Tamilnadu (6.5) drew with Anshul Nigam of Jharkhand (6.5)

Girls Round-10 :-

Priyanka Nutakki of Andhra Pradesh (9) beat Anwesha Mishra of Odisha (7); Vantika Agrawal of Delhi (8) beat Riddhi Zantye of Goa (6.5); Tejasvi M of Tamilnadu (7.5) beat Salonika Saina of Odisha (7); Lakshmi C of Tamilnadu (7.5) beat Bommini Mounika Akshaya of Odisha (6.5); Krystal Fernandes of Goa (7.5) beat Palkin Kaur of Delhi (6.5); Samriddhaa Ghosh of West Bengal (7) beat Divya Deshmukh of Maharashtra (6.5); Meenakshi Bhoite of Maharashtra (6) lost to Adyasa Mahapatra of Odisha (7); Shyamshree Sarkar of West Bengal (7) beat Anannya Menkudle of Maharashtra (6); Rutvi Shah of Gujarat (7) beat Jishitha D of Andhra Pradesh (6); Kalyani B of Andhra Pradesh (6.5) beat Meenal Gupta of Jammu & Kashmir (5.5); Garima Gaurav of Bihar (5.5) lost to Arushi Kotwal of Jammu & Kashmir (6.5); K Anvitha of Andhra Pradesh (6) drew with Krutika K R of Tamilnadu (6); Tanya Pandey of Maharashtra (6) drew with Niyati Parakh of Chhattisgarh (6); Bristy Mukherjee of West Bengal (6) drew with Kiruthika B of Tamilnadu (6); Arputha Jasmine of Tamilnadu (5.5) lost to Sanskriti Goyal of Uttar Pradesh (6.5).