October 1st – 9th 2017 in Ahmedabad, Gujarat
The 43rd National Under-15 Open & 34th National Under-15 Girls Chess Championship-2017 is currently underway in Rajpath Club, Ahmedabad. A total number of 176 players are taking part in the Open and 110 players are in the Girls fray.
Second-seeded FM Arjun Erigaisi (TEL) and Koustav Chatterjee (WB) share join lead at the end of six rounds. While eight players are closely trailing behind the leaders with 5 points.
Pairings/Results
| Bo. | No. | Name | Rtg | Pts. | Result | Pts. | Name | Rtg | No. | ||
| 1 | 2 | FM | Erigaisi Arjun | 2354 | 4½ | 5 | Moksh Amit Doshi | 2222 | 8 | ||
| 2 | 7 | Koustav Chatterjee | 2222 | 4½ | 4½ | Tarun V Kanth | 1992 | 20 | |||
| 3 | 11 | Dileep Kumar R | 2182 | 4½ | 4½ | CM | Aronyak Ghosh | 2185 | 10 | ||
| 4 | 1 | IM | Iniyan P | 2461 | 4 | 4½ | CM | Raja Rithvik R | 2237 | 6 | |
| 5 | 3 | Saurabh Anand | 2288 | 4 | 4 | Panda Sambit | 1979 | 22 | |||
| 6 | 25 | Alok Sinha | 1924 | 4 | 4 | Anuj Shrivatri | 2244 | 4 | |||
| 7 | 31 | Cheela Naga Sampath | 1873 | 4 | 4 | Sankalp Gupta | 2244 | 5 | |||
| 8 | 13 | Rahul S | 2079 | 4 | 4 | Aditya B Kalyani | 1860 | 32 | |||
| 9 | 37 | Sibi Visal R | 1848 | 4 | 4 | Vatsal Singhania | 2071 | 14 | |||
| 10 | 45 | Debanga Kalita | 1784 | 4 | 4 | Neelash Saha | 2012 | 19 |
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In the Girls Championship, Sankriti Goyal (UP) emerged sole leader by scoring 06/6 points! She is the only undefeated player in the tournament. Her notable victories include a win over top-seeds WFM Salonika Saina (ODI) and WFM Divya Deshmukh (MAH).
After six rounds, eight players are behind the leader with 5 points.
Pairings/Results
| Bo. | No. | Name | Rtg | Pts. | Result | Pts. | Name | Rtg | No. | ||
| 1 | 6 | Meenal Gupta | 1940 | 5 | 6 | Sanskriti Goyal | 1819 | 10 | |||
| 2 | 2 | WFM | Divya Deshmukh | 2051 | 5 | 5 | WFM | Lakshmi C | 1907 | 7 | |
| 3 | 8 | Jain Nityata | 1842 | 5 | 5 | WFM | Salonika Saina | 2041 | 3 | ||
| 4 | 20 | WCM | Dhyana Patel | 1640 | 5 | 5 | Ghosh Samriddhaa | 1984 | 5 | ||
| 5 | 19 | Rindhiya V | 1641 | 4½ | 4½ | Makhija Aashna | 2137 | 1 | |||
| 6 | 21 | Bhagyashree Patil | 1619 | 4½ | 4½ | Kaur Palkin | 1791 | 13 | |||
| 7 | 9 | Tejasvi M | 1823 | 4 | 4½ | WFM | Tanishka Kotia | 1575 | 24 | ||
| 8 | 11 | WFM | Bommini Mounika Akshaya | 1810 | 4 | 4 | Routray Priyanka | 1587 | 23 | ||
| 9 | 12 | Srimathi R | 1799 | 4 | 4 | Garima Gaurav | 1574 | 25 | |||
| 10 | 14 | Eesha Ajay Sarda | 1747 | 4 | 4 | Diya Chowdhury | 1567 | 26 |
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All Photos by I.A Vasanth BH
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