National U-17 Championship Begins

6 years ago

Sonipat: The 29th National Under-17 Open & Girls Chess Championships-2018” is currently being held at Gateway Education Campus, Sonipat, Haryana from September 3 to 11. The championship is being organized by Haryana Chess Association under the aegis of All India Chess Federation. About 200 players are in the fray, which carries a total cash prize of ₹2,50,000.

The top seeds for this year are West Bengal’s FM Mitrabha Guha and WFM Arpita Mukherjee in the Open and girls category respectively. The Open section has one FIDE Master, while the girls category features five Women FIDE Masters, and four women Candidate Masters.

Top-seed FM Mitrabha Guha (WB) is having a smooth run in the Open section. He has amassed 4.0/4 points to jointly share the lead with Paesar Vedant (MAH) and Vinay Thomas Abraham (KER) who also scored 4 points respectively.

Second round proved to be a shocker for third-seed Krishnater Kushager (MAH) when he went down to Soham Dey (WB). Whereas, second-seed Srijit Paul had to be content with a draw against lower rated Aditya Melani (GUJ).

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In the girls section, WFM Harishini A (TN) emerged sole leader after four rounds. Trailing behind by half-point are K Priyanka (TN) and WCM Jyothsna L (TN).

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Top-seed WFM Arpita Mukherjee started the championship on a high note after winning first and second rounds. However, Toshali V. (AP) put a pause on the winning streak and held Arpita to a draw. Followed by another draw against Srishti Pandey (MAH) in the fourth round.

The Fifth round is currently underway.

Pairings

Open: Round 5

Bo.	No.	Name	Rtg	Pts.	Result	Pts.		Name	Rtg	No.
1	16	Vinay Thomas Abraham	1953	4		4	FM	Mitrabha Guha	2376	1
2	6	Gaurav Rajesh Zagade	2177	3½		4		Panesar Vedant	2124	8
3	54	Tuhin Kashyap	1616	3½		3½		Harshita Guddanti	1972	14
4	17	Aakash Sharadchandra Dalvi	1947	3½		3½		Sreekar J S S	1538	64
5	22	Arjun C Krishnamachari	1901	3½		3½		Cheela Naga Sampath	1935	18
6	4	Tarun V Kanth	2258	3		3		Manish Anto Cristiano F	1995	13
7	21	Punit Indora	1902	3		3		Vatsal Singhania	2225	5
8	7	Shyam Prasad Reddy K	2148	3		3		Dubey Sanchay	1862	25
9	9	Pruthu Deshpande	2068	3		3		Deota Snehil S	1851	27
10	29	Rupam Mukherjee	1837	3		3		Manu David Suthandram R	2044	10

Pairings

Girls: Round 5

Bo.	No.		Name	Rtg	Pts.	Result	Pts.		Name	Rtg	No.
1	3	WFM	Harshini A	2160	4		3½		Priyanka K	2163	2
2	7	WCM	Jyothsna L	1964	3½		3	WFM	Tarini Goyal	2072	4
3	1	WFM	Arpita Mukherjee	2207	3		3	WCM	Jain Nityata	1807	14
4	5	WCM	Mrudul Dehankar	2065	3		3		Adane Narayani	1755	16
5	17		Tejasvi M	1747	3		3		Sanskriti Goyal	1965	6
6	18		Benasir M	1736	3		3		Pandey Srishti	1958	8
7	32		Mistry Tinaz Dinkoo	1478	3		3		Ghosh Samriddhaa	1904	10
8	11		Bhagyashree Patil	1885	3		3		Kaur Palkin	1697	19
9	22		Kalyani B	1656	3		3		Toshali V	1875	12
10	9	WFM	Tanishka Kotia	1918	2½		3		Garima Gaurav	1615	23