Despite a last round defeat for not showing up, Aditya Mittal of Maharashtra won the National Under-7 Championship on higher tie-break score that concluded at Pune on May 9, 2013.
Second seed Arya Bhakta of Bengal scored 9.5 points and finished second after tying for the first place. Samyak of Tamil Nadu finished third after receiving the free final round point from champion Aditya.
M.S. Darsana of Erode in Tamil Nadu won the National Under-7 Girls championship with a 9.5/11 score. She lost to B Aswatha and drew Kaamya Negi and beat the rest. She scored 3.5/4 against the four rated opponents she faced. She started as the 21st seed without a rating!
Final placings (tie-break order):
Open: 1-2. Aditya Mittal (Mah), Arya Bhakta (WB) 9.5/11 each; 3 L Samyak (TN) 9; 4 Samant Aditya (Mah) 8.5; 5-7. Vallabh Kavi (Mah), Nikhil Magizhnan (TN), Sagnik Chakraborty (WB) 8 each…102 players.
Girls: 1 M.S. Darsana (TN) 9.5/11; 2-3. Tanisha Boramanikar (Mah), Sanskruti Wankhade (Mah) 9 each; 4-6. Kaamya Negi (Del), Mahi Amit Doshi (Guj), Bhagyashree Patil (Mah) 8 each…61 players.
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FIDE World Junior U20 Chess Championships – 2026 in Greater Caracas, Venezuela from 17th to 28th November, 2026. 
Certificate of National Under 09 Chess Championship 2026 in Ranchi , Jharkhand from 06-12 July 2026. 
Commonwealth School Chess Championships – 2026 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia from 4th to 12th October 2026. 
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