Aakanksha inches closer to title, Surprise loss for Karthik

FM Wagh Suyog

National Junior ( U-19 ) Open & Girls Chess Championship 2018

Report by I.A Manjunatha Murthy

Top seed and sole-leader GM Karthik Venkatraman went down to FM Wagh Suyog in the tenth and penultimate round of the National Juniors Chess Championship, organized by Delhi Chess Association, on behalf of All India Chess Federation at KD Jadhav Hall Indira Gandhi Stadium, New Delhi yesterday.

Karthik Venkataraman of Andhra Pradesh played against FM Wagh Suyog of Maharashtra on the top board. Karthik played Larsen attack, he had a better position but unfortunately enough he had overlooked 32. Ne2+ which forced him to exchange his queen for Rook and Bishop. Wagh Suyogh continued a long game accurately and succeeded to defeat the leader. This loss of Karthik opened a chance for four more players to wear the crown of the championship.

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On second board FM Nitesh Belurkar of Goa played against Sammed Jaykumar Shete of Maharashtra. Sammed played Grunfeld defence from the beginning both the players played safely and on 50th move there was no chance of win and both settle to share the points.

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In the Girls section Aakanksha Hagawane of Maharastra emerged as a sole leader by leading half point. Aakanksha played with black pieces against WFM Arpita Mukherjee of West Bengal Arpita had slight advantage in French defence and she fought hard to get the win. But Aakanksha defended the game very calmly on 48th move both signed for peace.

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WIM Aakanksha Hagawane of Maharashtra is in lead with 8.5 points.

Pairings

Open

Round 11 on 2018/12/06 at 10.00AM

Bo.	No.		Name	Rtg	Club/City	Pts.	Result	Pts.		Name	Rtg	Club/City	No.
1	2	IM	Rakesh Kumar Jena	2394	Odi	8		8		Sammed Jaykumar Shete	2368	Mah	6
2	20	FM	Wagh Suyog	2240	Mah	8		8	FM	Nitish Belurkar	2310	Goa	15
3	5	IM	Raghunandan Kaumandur Srihari	2378	Kar	7½		8	GM	Karthik Venkataraman	2527	A P	1
4	35		Panda Sambit	2132	Odi	7½		7½	FM	Rajdeep Sarkar	2362	W B	7
5	8	FM	Anuj Shrivatri	2357	M P	7½		7½		Saurabh Anand	2246	Bih	19
6	16		Ritviz Parab	2309	Goa	7½		7½	CM	Aronyak Ghosh	2343	W B	12
7	14		Pranav V	2311	T N	7½		7½		Aaryan Varshney	2200	Del	27
8	4		Raahul V S	2381	T N	7		7	FM	Pranav Anand	2274	Kar	17
9	34		Mahindrakar Indrajeet	2141	Mah	7		7	FM	Rathanvel V S	2349	T N	10
10	46	AGM	Rathneesh R	2017	T N	7		7	FM	Audi Ameya	2347	Goa	11

Girls

Round 11 on 2018/12/06 at 10.00AM

Bo.	No.		Name	Rtg	Club/City	Pts.	Result	Pts.		Name	Rtg	Club/City	No.
1	2	WIM	Aakanksha Hagawane	2264	Mah	8½		7½	WFM	Meghna C H	1879	Ker	21
2	5		Priyanka K	2207	T N	7½		8	WIM	Chitlange Sakshi	2237	Mah	3
3	4	WIM	Vantika Agrawal	2210	Del	7½		7½	WFM	Arpita Mukherjee	2090	W B	8
4	6	WFM	Makhija Aashna	2197	Mah	7		7½	WCM	Jyothsna L	2060	T N	10
5	1	WIM	Priyanka Nutakki	2293	A P	7		7		Pandey Srishti	1825	Mah	29
6	17	WIM	Chandreyee Hajra	1963	W B	7		7	WCM	Mrudul Dehankar	2136	Mah	7
7	15		Bakshi Rutuja	1981	Mah	7		7		Ghosh Samriddhaa	1870	W B	22
8	28		Eesha Ajay Sarda	1832	Mah	7		7	WFM	Tanishka Kotia	1951	Har	19
9	12	WFM	Dhyana Patel	2002	Guj	6½		7		Toshali V	1859	A P	26
10	30	WFM	Potluri Supreetha	1814	A P	6½		6½	WFM	Harshini A	1986	T N	14