National Junior (U-19) Open & Girls Championship underway in New Delhi

7 years ago

The National Junior (Under-19) Open and Girls’ Chess Championship organized by Delhi Chess Association, on behalf of All India Chess Federation, supported by Sports Authority of India & Ministry of Youth Affairs, commenced at the KD Jadhav Hall, Indira Gandhi Stadium, New Delhi on Wednesday. Altogether 382 boys and girls representing 26 states are taking part in the competition that concludes on 6th of December.

After five rounds, three players including top-seeded GM Karthik Venkatraman of Andhra Pradesh, IM Rakesh Kumar Jena of Odisha, IM Rahul Srivatshav P of Telangana share the top place in Open category.

In the Girls category, Maharastra’s WIM Aakanksha Hagawane and WIM Chitlange Sakshi share the joint lead with 5 points apiece.

Results

Open

Bo.	No.		Name	Rtg	Pts.	Result	Pts.		Name	Rtg	No.
1	6		Sammed Jaykumar Shete	2368	4	0 – 1	4	GM	Karthik Venkataraman	2527	1
2	2	IM	Rakesh Kumar Jena	2394	4	1 – 0	4		Kaustuv Kundu	2337	13
3	14		Pranav V	2311	4	0 – 1	4	IM	Rahul Srivatshav P	2391	3
4	16		Ritviz Parab	2309	3½	0 – 1	3½	FM	Rajdeep Sarkar	2362	7
5	8	FM	Anuj Shrivatri	2357	3½	½ – ½	3½		Aaryan Varshney	2200	27
6	10	FM	Rathanvel V S	2349	3½	1 – 0	3½		Dhananjay S	2180	29
7	12	CM	Aronyak Ghosh	2343	3½	1 – 0	3½		Barath Kalyan M	2067	40
8	34		Mahindrakar Indrajeet	2141	3½	0 – 1	3½	FM	Nitish Belurkar	2310	15
9	4		Raahul V S	2381	3	1 – 0	3		Vaibhav Jayant Raut	2005	49
10	46	AGM	Rathneesh R	2017	3	½ – ½	3	IM	Raghunandan Kaumandur Srihari	2378	5

Girls

Bo.	No.		Name	Rtg	Pts.	Result	Pts.		Name	Rtg	No.
1	2	WIM	Aakanksha Hagawane	2264	4	1 – 0	4	WCM	Mrudul Dehankar	2136	7
2	8	WFM	Arpita Mukherjee	2090	4	0 – 1	4	WIM	Chitlange Sakshi	2237	3
3	10	WCM	Jyothsna L	2060	3½	1 – 0	3½	WIM	Priyanka Nutakki	2293	1
4	4	WIM	Vantika Agrawal	2210	3½	1 – 0	3½		Shivika Rohilla	1780	35
5	5		Priyanka K	2207	3½	0 – 1	3½		Pandey Srishti	1825	29
6	18	WCM	Ananya Suresh	1961	3½	½ – ½	3½	WFM	Makhija Aashna	2197	6
7	16		Sanskriti Goyal	1971	3	½ – ½	3½		Shah Vishwa	1706	39
8	11		Potluri Saye Srreezza	2041	3	0 – 1	3		Harivardhini I	1794	33
9	36		Rindhiya V	1773	3	0 – 1	3		Bakshi Rutuja	1981	15
10	38		Savitha Shri B	1745	3	½ – ½	3	WIM	Chandreyee Hajra	1963	17