Dev Shah and Savitha Shri clinch titles in National Under-11 Championship

Maharastra’s Dev Shah and Tamil Nadu’s Savitha Shri have clinched the open and girls’ category respectively at the end of the eleventh and final round of the 32nd National under-11 chess championship. The event was held at Chettinad Public School, Managiri, Karaikudi, Tamilnadu from 28th July to 5th August 2018. A total of 243 players participated in the Open category and 159 players participated in the Girls section.

Shahil Dey of Assam scored 9 points along with Dev Shah, Mahendra Teja Mekala of Andhra Pradesh and A. R Illamparthi of Tamilnadu. However, based on tie-break Dev Shah clinched the championship after the final round draw against Shahi Dey.

In the girls’ category, B. Savitha Shri and R. Tejaswi both from Tamil Nadu were tied at 9.5 points but a better tie-break score helped the former emerge champion. While Sinthia Sarkar of West Bengal settled for third place.

With this performance, the top three finishers of both categories booked their place in the Indian team for the Asian and World Under 12 chess championship 2019.

Open: Final Ranking

Rk.	SNo	Name	RtgI	Club/City	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3	TB4	TB5	K	rtg+/-
1	1	Dev Shah	2184	MAH	9,0	0,0	77,5	83,5	67,50	7	40	-37,6
2	13	Mahendra Teja Mekala	1664	AP	9,0	0,0	76,0	81,5	65,00	7	40	93,2
3	2	Shahil Dey	1978	ASM	9,0	0,0	74,0	79,0	62,50	8	40	-9,2
4	3	Ilamparthi A R	1965	TN	9,0	0,0	72,5	78,0	62,25	8	40	-38,8
5	32	Ananmay Sharma	1523	GUJ	8,5	0,0	72,5	77,5	56,00	7	40	158,0
6	27	Akshit Jha	1543	MAH	8,5	0,0	69,5	74,0	54,75	7	40	60,8
7	54	Swayham P Das	1425	GUJ	8,0	0,0	75,5	80,5	56,00	6	40	170,0
8	8	Souhardo Basak	1765	WB	8,0	0,0	73,0	78,0	54,25	7	40	-26,8
9	5	Tanmay Jain	1868	PUN	8,0	0,0	72,0	77,5	53,25	7	40	-58,8
10	28	Alekhya Mukhopadhyay	1543	WB	8,0	0,0	70,5	76,0	52,25	7	40	30,8

Girls: Final Ranking

Rk.	SNo	Name	sex	RtgI	Club/City	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3	TB4	TB5	K	rtg+/-
1	1	Savitha Shri B	w	1742	TN	9,5	1,0	76,0	81,0	69,00	8	40	-21,6
2	7	Tejaswi R	w	1393	TN	9,5	0,0	75,0	80,0	66,50	9	40	108,8
3	14	Sinthia Sarkar	w	1315	WB	8,0	0,0	75,0	79,0	54,50	6	40	62,0
4	18	Harshavardhini M.S.	w	1276	PUD	8,0	0,0	73,5	77,5	51,75	7	40	80,0
5	3	Ratnapriya K	w	1465	TN	8,0	0,0	71,5	76,0	53,00	7	40	-35,2
6	6	Anupam M Sreekumar	w	1417	KER	8,0	0,0	71,5	76,0	50,75	7	40	-0,4
7	15	Sindhusree K	w	1305	TN	8,0	0,0	70,0	75,0	50,00	8	40	36,0
8	30	Sai Mahati A	w	1232	TEL	8,0	0,0	70,0	73,5	50,25	7	40	78,4
9	12	Mohitha V	w	1322	AP	8,0	0,0	67,0	71,5	49,50	7	40	10,8
10	10	Kheerthi Ganta	w	1373	TEL	8,0	0,0	63,0	67,5	47,25	6	40	-22,8