National Junior Championship- Aradhya Garg and Shrishti Pandey emerge victorious

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Aradhya Garg of Delhi who didn’t have a great start and was on 3.0/5.0 scored an impressive 6 wins in a row to clinch the title with a score of 9.0/11.0. Mitrabha Guha and Kaustav Chaterjee, both from West Bengal finished second and third, respectively.

This is Aradhya’s second national title and the first since his victory in the U-17 National Championship 2014.

Aradhya Garg (Photo by Jitendra Choudhary)

Aradhya faced the tournament leader IM Kaustav Cahterjee of West Bengal, who only needed a draw in the last round to win the title. Aradhya played an impressive game and outplayed Kaustav to clich the title.

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Aradhya collecting his Trophy and cash prize of Rs. 25,00. (photo by Jitendra Choudhary)

The second place went to IM Mitrabha Guha of West Bengal who beat Srihari L of Tamil Nadu in the last round.He finished the tournament with the same score as Aradhya, 9.0/11 but finished second due to a worse tie-break score.

Mitrabha Guha (photo by Jitendra Choudhary)

Srihari lost a piece due to a missed tactic and Mitrabha never let go of his advantage and won the game.

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Third place went to Kaustav Chaterjee of West Bengal.

Koustav Chatterjee (Photo by Jitendra Choudhary)

Results of Round 11 (Top 10 Boards)

Bo.	No.		Name	Rtg	Pts.	Result	Pts.		Name	Rtg	No.
1	1	IM	Koustav Chatterjee	2449	8½	0 – 1	8		Aradhya Garg	2165	20
2	9	FM	Srihari L R	2286	7½	0 – 1	8	IM	Mitrabha Guha	2443	2
3	8	IM	Srijit Paul	2317	7½	1 – 0	7½		Dere Pushkar	1876	52
4	15	FM	Aaryan Varshney	2236	7½	1 – 0	7½		Avinash Ramesh	1686	90
5	14		Sibi Visal R	2238	7	½ – ½	7½		Soham Kamotra	2189	16
6	3	FM	Anuj Shrivatri	2376	7	1 – 0	7		Gaurav Rajesh Zagade	2173	19
7	5		Harshavardhan G B	2360	7	1 – 0	7		Kumar Gaurav	2038	28
8	23		Barath Kalyan M	2069	7	0 – 1	7		Saurabh Anand	2278	10
9	36		Hemanth Raam	1992	7	0 – 1	7	FM	Jeet Jain	2264	13
10	37		Selvamurugan B	1979	7	1 – 0	7	CM	Bhavesh Mahajan	2187	17

Final Ranking (Top 20 Players)

Rk.	SNo		Name	FED	Rtg	Club/City	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3
1	20		Aradhya Garg	IND	2165	Del	9,0	1,0	67,0	72,0
2	2	IM	Mitrabha Guha	IND	2443	Wes	9,0	0,0	74,5	80,0
3	1	IM	Koustav Chatterjee	IND	2449	Wes	8,5	0,0	75,5	80,5
4	15	FM	Aaryan Varshney	IND	2236	Del	8,5	0,0	74,0	79,0
5	8	IM	Srijit Paul	IND	2317	Wes	8,5	0,0	73,5	78,5
6	13	FM	Jeet Jain	IND	2264	Guj	8,0	0,0	71,0	76,5
7	10		Saurabh Anand	IND	2278	Bih	8,0	0,0	71,0	76,0
8	16		Soham Kamotra	IND	2189	JK	8,0	0,0	70,0	75,5
9	3	FM	Anuj Shrivatri	IND	2376	MP	8,0	0,0	68,0	74,0
10	5		Harshavardhan G B	IND	2360	TN	8,0	0,0	67,5	72,0
11	37		Selvamurugan B	IND	1979	TN	8,0	0,0	61,5	66,0
12	9	FM	Srihari L R	IND	2286	TN	7,5	0,0	72,0	77,0
13	52		Dere Pushkar	IND	1876	Mah	7,5	0,0	68,5	73,5
14	32		Aakash Sharadchandra Dalvi	IND	2017	Mah	7,5	0,0	68,5	73,0
15	90		Avinash Ramesh	IND	1686	TN	7,5	0,0	68,0	71,0
16	34		Akshit Kumar J	IND	2014	AP	7,5	0,0	66,5	71,5
17	29		Mahindrakar Indrajeet	IND	2034	Mah	7,5	0,0	66,5	71,0
18	14		Sibi Visal R	IND	2238	TN	7,5	0,0	64,5	69,5
19	46		Aaditya Dhingra	IND	1896	Har	7,5	0,0	58,0	62,5
20	36		Hemanth Raam	IND	1992	TN	7,0	0,0	72,0	77,0

Girls Category

The girls category witnessed and amazing comeback by WFM Shrishti Pandey of Maharashtra who scored 6 points out of the last 7 rounds and finished with 9.0/11.0 to clinch the title.

Shrishti was leading the tournament by a full point coming into the last round and drew her final game against WFM Bommini Mounika Akshaya to secure first place.

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Shrishti Pandey collecting her trophy and cash prize of Rs.25,000

Second Prize went to WIM Arpita Mukherjee of West Bengal who made a quick draw against WFM Potluri Supreetha in the last round.She scored 8.0/11.0.

Arpita Mukherjee collecting her Trophy and cash prize of Rs.18,000

Third prize went to WIM Aakanksha Hagawane of Maharashtra who also scored 8.0/11.0.

Aakanskha Hagawane collecting her trophy and cash prize of Rs.15,000

Results of Round 11 (Top 10 Boards)

Bo.	No.		Name	Rtg	Pts.	Result	Pts.		Name	Rtg	No.
1	9	WFM	Bommini Mounika Akshaya	2087	7½	½ – ½	8½	WFM	Pandey Srishti	2140	6
2	3	WIM	Aakanksha Hagawane	2227	7½	½ – ½	7½	WFM	Jain Nityata	1927	17
3	10		Priyanka K	2067	7½	½ – ½	7½	WIM	Chitlange Sakshi	2185	5
4	14	WFM	Potluri Supreetha	1968	7½	½ – ½	7½	WIM	Arpita Mukherjee	2234	2
5	8	WFM	Salonika Saina	2100	7	1 – 0	7	WIM	Priyanka Nutakki	2272	1
6	7	WCM	Sharma Isha	2139	7	0 – 1	7		Bhagyashree Patil	1970	13
7	12	WFM	Savitha Shri B	2004	6½	1 – 0	7	WFM	Greeshma Anand Dhumal	1837	23
8	4	WFM	Makhija Aashna	2191	6½	0 – 1	6½		Divyabharathi Masanam	1743	27
9	11		Toshali V	2057	6½	1 – 0	6½		Kiruthika B	1645	34
10	15		Ghosh Samriddhaa	1964	6½	½ – ½	6½	WCM	Arushi Kotwal	1756	25

Final Ranking (Top 20 Players)

Rk.	SNo		Name	FED	Rtg	Club/City	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3
1	6	WFM	Pandey Srishti	IND	2140	Mah	9,0	0,0	73,0	78,5
2	2	WIM	Arpita Mukherjee	IND	2234	WB	8,0	0,0	74,5	80,0
3	3	WIM	Aakanksha Hagawane	IND	2227	Mah	8,0	0,0	74,0	79,0
4	9	WFM	Bommini Mounika Akshaya	IND	2087	AP	8,0	0,0	73,0	79,0
5	5	WIM	Chitlange Sakshi	IND	2185	Mah	8,0	0,0	71,5	75,5
6	8	WFM	Salonika Saina	IND	2100	Odi	8,0	0,0	71,0	76,5
7	17	WFM	Jain Nityata	IND	1927	MP	8,0	0,0	70,0	75,0
8	13		Bhagyashree Patil	IND	1970	Mah	8,0	0,0	69,0	74,0
9	10		Priyanka K	IND	2067	TN	8,0	0,0	68,0	73,5
10	14	WFM	Potluri Supreetha	IND	1968	AP	8,0	0,0	64,0	69,5
11	11		Toshali V	IND	2057	AP	7,5	0,0	72,5	77,5
12	22		Poorna Sri M.K	IND	1848	TN	7,5	0,0	67,0	72,0
13	20		Meenal Gupta	IND	1879	JK	7,5	0,0	65,0	69,5
14	26	AGM	Renganayaki V	IND	1756	Kar	7,5	0,0	64,5	69,0
15	12	WFM	Savitha Shri B	IND	2004	TN	7,5	0,0	63,5	67,0
16	27		Divyabharathi Masanam	IND	1743	TN	7,5	0,0	61,5	65,5
17	1	WIM	Priyanka Nutakki	IND	2272	AP	7,0	0,0	73,5	79,0
18	25	WCM	Arushi Kotwal	IND	1756	JK	7,0	0,0	69,5	74,5
19	16	WFM	Bidhar Rutumbara	IND	1942	Odi	7,0	0,0	69,0	74,0
20	19		Shah Vishwa	IND	1892	Mah	7,0	0,0	69,0	74,0