Going to the seventh round of ongoing National Sub-Juniors Championship, two players Koustav Chatterjee and FM Arjun Erigaisi emerged as leaders with 5.5 points. It was rather a peaceful round as games ended in a draw on top 3 boards with the leaders maintaining their positions.
Pairings/Results
| Bo. | No. | Name | Rtg | Pts. | Result | Pts. | Name | Rtg | No. | ||
| 1 | 8 | Moksh Amit Doshi | 2222 | 6½ | 7 | Koustav Chatterjee | 2222 | 7 | |||
| 2 | 9 | CM | Kushagra Mohan | 2215 | 6½ | 6½ | FM | Erigaisi Arjun | 2354 | 2 | |
| 3 | 10 | CM | Aronyak Ghosh | 2185 | 6½ | 6½ | Raahul V S | 2153 | 12 | ||
| 4 | 19 | Neelash Saha | 2012 | 6 | 6 | IM | Iniyan P | 2461 | 1 | ||
| 5 | 30 | Saksham Rautela | 1877 | 6 | 6 | Saurabh Anand | 2288 | 3 | |||
| 6 | 5 | Sankalp Gupta | 2244 | 6 | 6 | Rahul S | 2079 | 13 | |||
| 7 | 6 | CM | Raja Rithvik R | 2237 | 6 | 6 | Banerjee Ashutosh | 1802 | 41 | ||
| 8 | 44 | Manish Anto Cristiano F | 1789 | 6 | 6 | Dileep Kumar R | 2182 | 11 | |||
| 9 | 4 | Anuj Shrivatri | 2244 | 5½ | 5½ | Shyam Prasad Reddy K | 1853 | 35 | |||
| 10 | 28 | Dhanush Ragav | 1884 | 5½ | 5½ | Mehta Naitik R | 2039 | 17 |
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Sanskriti Goyal had a dream-run in the Girls Championship. She scored 07/7 points, cruising over all her opponents. Until the 8th round where she was stopped by Nityata Jain (MP). However, Sanskriti’s standing remains unaffected by the loss as she continues to lead the tournament.
Pairings/Results
| Bo. | No. | Name | Rtg | Pts. | Result | Pts. | Name | Rtg | No. | ||
| 1 | 1 | Makhija Aashna | 2137 | 6 | 7 | Sanskriti Goyal | 1819 | 10 | |||
| 2 | 2 | WFM | Divya Deshmukh | 2051 | 6½ | 6½ | WFM | Salonika Saina | 2041 | 3 | |
| 3 | 8 | Jain Nityata | 1842 | 6½ | 6½ | Ghosh Samriddhaa | 1984 | 5 | |||
| 4 | 7 | WFM | Lakshmi C | 1907 | 6 | 6 | WFM | Tanishka Kotia | 1575 | 24 | |
| 5 | 25 | Garima Gaurav | 1574 | 6 | 6 | WFM | Bommini Mounika Akshaya | 1810 | 11 | ||
| 6 | 27 | Sudipa Haldar | 1560 | 6 | 6 | Rajashree Rajeev | 1676 | 17 | |||
| 7 | 4 | Shanya Mishra | 2000 | 5½ | 5½ | Kaur Palkin | 1791 | 13 | |||
| 8 | 21 | Bhagyashree Patil | 1619 | 5½ | 5½ | Tejasvi M | 1823 | 9 | |||
| 9 | 12 | Srimathi R | 1799 | 5 | 5½ | Mishra Riya | 1543 | 29 | |||
| 10 | 14 | Eesha Ajay Sarda | 1747 | 5 | 5 | Madhani Shilpee | 1499 | 37 |
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