National Sub-Juniors 01-06: Arjun, Koustav share lead; Sankriti stays undefeated

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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.

FM Arjun Erigaisi (left) of Telangana shares lead with West Bengal’s Koustav Chatterjee.

Koustav Chatterjee (WB) defeated Tarun V Kanth (TN)

On the third board, Dileep Kumar R (TN) and CM Aronyak Ghosh (WB) drew their games.

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.

Round six witnessed a clash among the leaders on board 1, Sankriti caused upset by defeating WFM Divya Deshmukh (MAH).

WFM Salonika Saina (ODI) got better of WFM Bommini Mounika Akshaya (AP).

Samriddhaa Ghosh (WB) scored a victory over Eesha Ajay Sarda (MAH) on board 3.

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