National Junior Championship-Mitraba Guha leads

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With the tournament nearing the halfway-mark,IM Mitraba Guha has taken the sole lead in the National Junior Chess Championship.

Mitraba Guha of West Bengal defeated Nitish Belurkar of Goa in the 5th round to take the sole lead with a perfect scor of 5.0/5.0.

On the top board,in a complicated struggle, Nitish playing had the advantage but an incorrect decision to take his king out in the open turned the tables and black played well to score a full point.

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On board 2, IM Koustav Chatterjee of West bengal got the better of FM Jeet Jain of Gujarat.

Jeet accepted a pawn sacrifice by Koustav which backfired and gave white a huge kingside attack that Koustav executed well to score a victory.

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On board 3, IM Rajdeep Sarkar of West Bengal defeated Sibi Visal R of Tamil Nadu.

Rajdeep displayed good technique to outplay Sibi in a Rook and opposite colored Bishop Endgame.

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Results of top 10 boards (Round 5)

Bo.	No.		Name	Rtg	Pts.	Result	Pts.		Name	Rtg	No.
1	7	FM	Nitish Belurkar	2325	4	0 – 1	4	IM	Mitrabha Guha	2443	2
2	1	IM	Koustav Chatterjee	2449	3½	1 – 0	4	FM	Jeet Jain	2264	13
3	14		Sibi Visal R	2238	3½	0 – 1	3½	IM	Rajdeep Sarkar	2362	4
4	31		Grahesh Y	2026	3½	0 – 1	3½	IM	Srijit Paul	2317	8
5	15	FM	Aaryan Varshney	2236	3½	1 – 0	3½	FM	Srihari L R	2286	9
6	3	FM	Anuj Shrivatri	2376	3	1 – 0	3½		Shreyash Shuvam Patnaik	1936	42
7	36		Hemanth Raam	1992	3	1 – 0	3		Harshavardhan G B	2360	5
8	39		Ayush Sharma	1975	3	½ – ½	3		Saurabh Anand	2278	10
9	11	FM	Wagh Suyog	2273	3	1 – 0	3		Aaditya Dhingra	1896	46
10	51		Patil Harshal	1880	3	0 – 1	3		Soham Kamotra	2189	16

Pairings of Round 6 (Top 10 Boards)

Round 6 on 2019/11/05 at 0900 HRS

Bo.	No.		Name	Rtg	Pts.	Result	Pts.		Name	Rtg	No.
1	2	IM	Mitrabha Guha	2443	5		4½	FM	Aaryan Varshney	2236	15
2	4	IM	Rajdeep Sarkar	2362	4½		4½	IM	Koustav Chatterjee	2449	1
3	8	IM	Srijit Paul	2317	4½		4	FM	Nitish Belurkar	2325	7
4	28		Kumar Gaurav	2038	4		4	FM	Anuj Shrivatri	2376	3
5	32		Aakash Sharadchandra Dalvi	2017	4		4	FM	Wagh Suyog	2273	11
6	34		Akshit Kumar J	2014	4		4	FM	Jeet Jain	2264	13
7	16		Soham Kamotra	2189	4		4		Mahindrakar Indrajeet	2034	29
8	18		Dhananjay S	2180	4		4		Hemanth Raam	1992	36
9	19		Gaurav Rajesh Zagade	2173	4		4		Avinash Ramesh	1686	90
10	88		Madhavan R Munjanattu	1702	4		3½	FM	Srihari L R	2286	9

Girls Category

The top two boards of the girls section were quick draws.

The third board witnessed an interesting encounter between top seed Arushi Kotwal of Jharkhand and WIM Priyanka Nutakki of Andhra Pradesh.

Priyanka, playing with the black pieces launched a kingside attack and even though white managed to survive,she eventually blundered a bishop and black managed to convert the extra piece into a full point quite easily.

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On board 4, Vishwa Shah of Maharashtra caused an upset by beating her much higher rated opponent and state mate,WIM Sakshi Chitlange.

Sakshi playing with the Black pieces made an incorrect piece sacrifice which was correctly refuted by Vishwa with a counterattack against the king.

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After 5 rounds, there’s a 6-way tie for first place and the future promises to be enterprising.

Results of Round 5 (Top 10 Boards)

Bo.	No.		Name	Rtg	Pts.	Result	Pts.		Name	Rtg	No.
1	11		Toshali V	2057	4	½ – ½	4	WIM	Aakanksha Hagawane	2227	3
2	29	WCM	Chinnam Vyshnavi	1689	4	½ – ½	4	WFM	Bommini Mounika Akshaya	2087	9
3	25	WCM	Arushi Kotwal	1756	3½	0 – 1	3½	WIM	Priyanka Nutakki	2272	1
4	19		Shah Vishwa	1892	3½	1 – 0	3½	WIM	Chitlange Sakshi	2185	5
5	2	WIM	Arpita Mukherjee	2234	3	1 – 0	3	WFM	Greeshma Anand Dhumal	1837	23
6	6	WFM	Pandey Srishti	2140	3	1 – 0	3		Sudipa Haldar	1659	33
7	8	WFM	Salonika Saina	2100	3	1 – 0	3		Divyabharathi Masanam	1743	27
8	10		Priyanka K	2067	3	1 – 0	3		Sinthia Sarkar	1600	37
9	12	WFM	Savitha Shri B	2004	3	0 – 1	3		Vakcheri Mohitha	1451	53
10	26	AGM	Renganayaki V	1756	3	0 – 1	3		Bhagyashree Patil	1970	13

Pairings of Round 6 (Top 10 Boards)

Round 6 on 2019/11/05 at 0900 HRS

Bo.	No.		Name	Rtg	Pts.	Result	Pts.		Name	Rtg	No.
1	1	WIM	Priyanka Nutakki	2272	4½		4½		Toshali V	2057	11
2	3	WIM	Aakanksha Hagawane	2227	4½		4½	WCM	Chinnam Vyshnavi	1689	29
3	9	WFM	Bommini Mounika Akshaya	2087	4½		4½		Shah Vishwa	1892	19
4	13		Bhagyashree Patil	1970	4		4	WIM	Arpita Mukherjee	2234	2
5	15		Ghosh Samriddhaa	1964	4		4	WFM	Pandey Srishti	2140	6
6	16	WFM	Bidhar Rutumbara	1942	4		4	WFM	Salonika Saina	2100	8
7	53		Vakcheri Mohitha	1451	4		4		Priyanka K	2067	10
8	5	WIM	Chitlange Sakshi	2185	3½		4		Meenal Gupta	1879	20
9	7	WCM	Sharma Isha	2139	3½		3½		Rathi Dhanashree	1688	30
10	25	WCM	Arushi Kotwal	1756	3½		3½	WFM	Potluri Supreetha	1968	14