National U-9 Open and Girls Chess Championship Begins in Jharkhand

Report by IA Paul Arokia Raj

A record number of 274 players in Open and 151 in girls are vying for the top honours in the 32nd National Under -9 Open and Girls chess championship, 2018 which kicked off yesterday in Ranchi the capital of Jharkhand. All the top seeds had a smooth sail in the inaugural round. Earlier in a glittering ceremony Shri. Manish Rajan, I.A.S. Secretary, Sports, Arts and Culture, Government of Jharkhand flagged off the event by making a formal move in the chess board.

Top seed in the open category is Ilamparthi A R of Tamil Nadu. He is Silver medalist in the Asian Under 8 2016. The top seed in Girls category is WCM Shriyana S Mallya of Karnataka. She is the Gold medalist in the under 8 Commonwealth championship. In the first round, they had relatively easy victories against their respective opponents.

GIRL’s

Round 1 on 2018/09/15 at 02.40 P.M.

Bo.	Name	State	Pts	Res.	Pts	Name	State
1	Shriyana S Mallya	Karnataka	0	1 – 0	0	Gupta Oas	Chhattisgarh
2	Harshita Agrawal	Telangana	0	0 – 1	0	Palak Mohapatra	Odisha
3	Panchal Hiya	Gujrat	0	1 – 0	0	Ishani Chattopadhyay	Bengal
4	Jain Khyati	Maharashtra	0	0 – 1	0	Bhavya Narapuram	Madhya Pradesh
5	Sneha Halder	Bengal	0	1 – 0	0	Janani K	Karnataka
6	Jeevika S	Pondicherry	0	½ – ½	0	Suhaani Lohia	Maharashtra
7	Shefali A N	Karnataka	0	1 – 0	0	Kayal Valarmathi K S	Pondicherry
8	Krishna Tulsi	Jharkhand	0	0 – 1	0	Sani Deshpande	Maharashtra
9	Girija A Pednekar	Goa	0	1 – 0	0	Krishnan Trisha	Maharashtra
10	Kritika Ranjan	Bihar	0	0 – 1	0	Indira Priyadharshini Subbu	Tamil Nadu
11	Hasmitha Jt	Tamil Nadu	0	1 – 0	0	Kritika Thakur	Himachal Pradesh
12	Krutika Kalicharan Shirodkar	Maharashtra	0	0 – 1	0	Sanikommu Manasvi	Karnataka
13	Kolagatla Alana Meenakshi	Andhra Pradesh	0	0 – 1	0	Kumbhalkar Anisha	Maharashtra
14	Lakshmi Sameeraja Ravula	Telangana	0	0 – 1	0	Shresthi Gupta	Punjab
15	Ikshita Barman	Assam	0	½ – ½	0	Laxmi Rakesh	Kerala
16	Likhitha Mamidi	Andhra Pradesh	0	0 – 1	0	Arushi Srichandan	Odisha
17	Pournami S	Kerala	0	1 – 0	0	Loganethra Mani R	Tamil Nadu
18	Mahadev Rushita Haju	Telangana	0	0 – 1	0	Jayashri M	Tamil Nadu
19	Prerana Ghosh	Bengal	0	1 – 0	0	Mohammad Tabassum	Andhra Pradesh
20	Mrigakshi Mazumder	Bengal	0	0 – 1	0	Devaki Nandana	Andhra Pradesh

OPEN

Round 1 on 2018/09/15 at 02.40 P.M.

Bo.	Name	State	Pts	Res.	Pts	Name	State
1	Ilamparthi A R	Tamil Nadu	0	1 – 0	0	Archit Mittal	Jharkhand
2	Skandhaj Kotha	Goa	0	0 – 1	0	Aakash G	Tamil Nadu
3	Sadbhav Rautela	Uttaranchal	0	1 – 0	0	Anuj Siddharth A	Telengana
4	Sourish Debnath	Tripura	0	0 – 1	0	Mayank Chakraborty	Assam
5	Daaevik Wadhawan	Delhi	0	½ – ½	0	Prince Chirag Gandhi	Gujrat
6	Anirudh Satish	Maharashtra	0	0 – 1	0	Priansh Das	Odisha
7	Kshatriya Nitin Vekhande	Maharashtra	0	1 – 0	0	Shreyansh Hota	Odisha
8	Jain Hitansh	Maharashtra	0	0 – 1	0	CM Bhagat Kush	Maharashtra
9	Bharadia Yash	Rajasthan	0	½ – ½	0	Rishan Debnath	Bengal
10	Pradyumna Kanukollu	Telengana	0	0 – 1	0	Apoorv Kamble	Karnataka
11	Borgaonkar Akshay	Maharashtra	0	1 – 0	0	Aadish Shah	Gujrat
12	Aaditya Singla	Chandigarh	0	0 – 1	0	Raghu Ram Reddy Seelam	Telengana
13	Abhinav Raj	Delhi	0	1 – 0	0	Aarav Mehta	Bengal
14	Aarav Sharma	Bengal	0	0 – 1	0	Tanish Sai Kavuru	Andhra Pradesh
15	Sparsh Bisht	Haryana	0	1 – 0	0	Aarush Rajesh	Karnataka
16	Aarush Reddy V	Telengana	0	0 – 1	0	Abhyuday Santhosh	Karnataka
17	Barnil Kumar Das	Assam	0	1 – 0	0	Aatmaj Sharma	Himachal Pradesh
18	Aatreya Saha	Bengal	0	0 – 1	0	Arul Prakash N	Tamil Nadu
19	Aryan Mohapatra	Odisha	0	½ – ½	0	Aayush Bhojak	Rajasthan
20	Abhiraj De	Bengal	0	0 – 1	0	Adireddy Arjun	Telengana