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National Juniors: Karthik, Aakanksha sail into penultimate round

6 years ago

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

Report by I.A Manjunatha Murthy

Top seed GM Karthik Venkataraman of Andhra Pradesh maintained sole-lead with 8 points after nine rounds in the National Junior Championship at KD Jadhav Hall, Indira Gandhi Stadium, New Delhi on Tuesday. Three players who are closely trailing behind the leader with 7.5 points are IM Rakesh Kumar Jena of Odisha, Nitish Belurkar of Goa and Sammed Jaykumar Shete of Maharashtra. While in the girls’ section, Maharastra’s WIM Aakanksha Hagawaneis is in lead with 8 points. Followed by WIM Chitlange Sakshi with 7.5 points.

On the top board, CM Aronyak Ghosh of West Bengal played against GM Karthik Venkataraman of Andhra Pradesh in the ninth round. Aronyak chose London System and he was having a slight better position in the opening.  Karthik displayed firm resistance in the middle game. They agreed for draw on 45th move.

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On second board IM Rakesh Kumar Jena of Odisha played against FM Rajdeep Sarkar of West Bengal. Rakesh played Ruy Lopez opening, the fight was equal till the middle game. According to Rakesh Kumar, “Rajdeep on 25th move miscalculated as a result of that he lost a pawn.” Hereafter Rakesh performed very nicely not allowing any counterplay and forced Rajdeep to surrender on 57th move.

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In the Girls section WIM Aakanksha Hagawane of Maharashtra played against Pandey Srishti of Maharashtra on the top board. Srishti opted Alekhine’s defence and gained upper hand from the beginning. On 28th move, she over looked a move and sacrificed her Knight. Aakanksha accepted the sacrifice and with help of center passer pawn she won the game comfortably on 43rd move. This fortunate victory made Aakanksha sole leader.

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On second board WIM Vantika Agrawal of Delhi played against WIM Chitlange Sakshi of Maharashtra. In this game both played very defensively. On 25th move they agreed for a draw but according to tournament regulations, players have to complete 30 moves before agreeing for draw. The Arbiter insisted them to continue the game. They complied with regulation and soon signed the score-sheet to split the point.

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Pairings

Open

Round 10 on 2018/12/05 at 10.00AM

Bo. No. Name Rtg Pts. Result Pts. Name Rtg No.
1 1 GM Karthik Venkataraman 2527 8 7 FM Wagh Suyog 2240 20
2 15 FM Nitish Belurkar 2310 7½ 7½ Sammed Jaykumar Shete 2368 6
3 27 Aaryan Varshney 2200 7 7½ IM Rakesh Kumar Jena 2394 2
4 12 CM Aronyak Ghosh 2343 7 7 FM Anuj Shrivatri 2357 8
5 3 IM Rahul Srivatshav P 2391 6½ 6½ Ritviz Parab 2309 16
6 5 IM Raghunandan Kaumandur Srihari 2378 6½ 6½ FM Dushyant Sharma 2271 18
7 7 FM Rajdeep Sarkar 2362 6½ 6½ Anustoop Biswas 2222 24
8 19 Saurabh Anand 2246 6½ 6½ Neelash Saha 2351 9
9 10 FM Rathanvel V S 2349 6½ 6½ AGM Rathneesh R 2017 46

Girls

Round 10 on 2018/12/05 at 10.00AM

Bo. No. Name Rtg Pts. Result Pts. Name Rtg No.
1 8 WFM Arpita Mukherjee 2090 7 8 WIM Aakanksha Hagawane 2264 2
2 3 WIM Chitlange Sakshi 2237 7½ 6½ WIM Priyanka Nutakki 2293 1
3 10 WCM Jyothsna L 2060 7 7 WIM Vantika Agrawal 2210 4
4 36 Rindhiya V 1773 6½ 6½ Priyanka K 2207 5
5 6 WFM Makhija Aashna 2197 6½ 6½ WIM Chandreyee Hajra 1963 17
6 7 WCM Mrudul Dehankar 2136 6½ 6½ Eesha Ajay Sarda 1832 28
7 21 WFM Meghna C H 1879 6½ 6½ WFM Dhyana Patel 2002 12
8 29 Pandey Srishti 1825 6½ 6½ Bakshi Rutuja 1981 15
9 26 Toshali V 1859 6 6 Sanskriti Goyal 1971 16
10 19 WFM Tanishka Kotia 1951 6 6 Kavitha P L 1591 50

Photos Courtesy: I.A Jitendra Choudhary

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