National U-9 Round 3: Top seeds sail through

32ND NATIONAL (UNDER 9) OPEN & GIRL’S CHESS CHAMPIONSHIPS 2018

Report by IA Paul Arokia Raj

World School under 7 champion Lakshana Subramaniam of Tamil Nadu with black pieces suffered defeat at the hands of Sheifali AN of Karnataka in a long drawn battle. Barring this result there was no much sensational result in the Girls category of ongoing national under 9 chess championship now underway in Ranchi, Jharkhand.

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OPEN

In the open category, top-seeded Ilamparthi A R of Tamil Nadu is sitting pretty with three points at the end of third round joined by a battery of other players.

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3rd ROUND RESULTS

GIRL’s

Bo.	Name	IRtg	State	Pts	Res.	Pts	Name	IRtg	State
1	Shriyana S Mallya	1278	Karnataka	3	1 – 0	2	Saineha R M	1045	Tamil Nadu
2	Panchal Hiya	1267	Gujrat	2	0 – 1	3	Debapriya Manna	1036	Bengal
3	Sneha Halder	1245	Bengal	2	0 – 1	3	Mukherjee Shreya	1036	Maharashtra
4	Shefali A N	1224	Karnataka	3	1 – 0	2	Lakshana Subramanian	1024	Tamil Nadu
5	Dhaaniya T	1018	Pondicherry	3	1 – 0	2	Sani Deshpande	1219	Maharashtra
6	Aanya Agrawal	0	Haryana	2	0 – 1	3	Indira Priyadharshini Subbu	1178	Tamil Nadu
7	Aisha Wadhwani	0	Haryana	2	0 – 1	3	Sanikommu Manasvi	1164	Karnataka
8	GadeSharanya	0	Telangana	2	0 – 1	3	ArushiSrichandan	1132	Odisha
9	Pournami S	1126	Kerala	2.5	½ – ½	2.5	Saara Jain	1016	Jharkhand
10	Pratibha Singh	0	Jharkhand	2	0 – 1	3	Jayashri M	1124	Tamil Nadu
11	Srishanthi G	1090	Telangana	3	1 – 0	2	Kumbhalkar Anisha	0	Maharashtra
12	Sanjana Nagarajan	0	Tamil Nadu	2	1 – 0	2	Aswinika Mani R	1085	Tamil Nadu
13	Aadya Gupta	1068	Delhi	2	0 – 1	3	Patil Disha	0	Maharashtra
14	Shah Hiya	0	Maharashtra	2.5	½ – ½	2.5	Shivika Saraogi	1063	Rajsthan
15	Mehak Mathur	1056	Chhattisgarh	2.5	½ – ½	2.5	Sachi Jain	0	Delhi
16	Nuka Laasya	1047	Andhra Pradesh	3	1 – 0	2	Srija Das	0	Bengal
17	Tirtha Shah	0	Gujrat	3	1 – 0	2	Nikita Nale	1045	Karnataka
18	Laxmi Rakesh	0	Kerala	2	½ – ½	2	SuhaaniLohia	1235	Maharashtra
19	Girija A Pednekar	1207	Goa	1½	0 – 1	2½	Naga Sahithi	0	Andhra Pradesh
20	Jeevika S	0	Pondicherry	1½	0 – 1	2½	Bhat Sannidhi Ramakrishna	0	Maharashtra

Bo.	Name	IRtg	State	Pts	Res.	Pts	Name	IRtg	State
1	Ilamparthi A R	1926	Tamil Nadu	3	1 – 0	2	Vaibhav Kalpaka	1250	Karnataka
2	SadbhavRautela	1670	Uttaranchal	2.5	½ – ½	2.5	ShlokSivanarayan	1227	Gujrat
3	Md Imran	1249	Andhra Pradesh	2	0 – 1	3	Mayank Chakraborty	1655	Assam
4	Bikash Kumar Lenka	1231	Odisha	2	0 – 1	3	Priansh Das	1594	Odisha
5	Kshatriya Nitin Vekhande	1574	Maharashtra	2	0 – 1	3	Ghadge Harsh	1215	Maharashtra
6	BorgaonkarAkshay	1484	Maharashtra	2.5	½ – ½	2.5	SamyakDharewa	1210	Bengal
7	Rupankar Kundu	1225	Bengal	2.5	½ – ½	2.5	Raghu Ram Reddy Seelam	1445	Telengana
8	Panda Hrishikesh	1223	Odisha	2.5	½ – ½	2.5	Tanish Sai Kavuru	1397	Andhra Pradesh
9	Sparsh Bisht	1396	Haryana	2.5	½ – ½	2.5	Sujith R S	1197	Tamil Nadu
10	Satadru Ash	1211	Bengal	2	0 – 1	3	Abhyuday Santhosh	1393	Karnataka
11	Barnil Kumar Das	1379	Assam	3	1 – 0	2	Sawalakhe Jay	1195	Maharashtra
12	Aaryan Pandey	1204	Uttar Pradesh	3	1 – 0	2	Arul Prakash N	1377	Tamil Nadu
13	Dhyey Agarwal	1187	Gujrat	2	0 – 1	3	Adireddy Arjun	1372	Telengana
14	MrinmoyRajkhowa	1347	Assam	3	1 – 0	2	Vedant Mistry	1180	Maharashtra
15	VelavaaRagavesh	1336	Tamil Nadu	3	1 – 0	2	Aarya Satish Chikodi	1169	Karnataka
16	Rajveer Pinkesh Nahar	1330	Maharashtra	3	1 – 0	2	Inban Sivakumar	1167	Tamil Nadu
17	Ankit Ray	1170	Bengal	2	0 – 1	3	Suhaas A	1327	Telengana
18	Daakshin Arun	1326	Tamil Nadu	3	1 – 0	2	Vishvas Chopra	1166	Haryana
19	Parva B Thakkar	1163	Gujrat	2	0 – 1	3	Nirnay Garg	1325	Haryana
20	GaigoreSanskar	1131	Maharashtra	2.5	½ – ½	2.5	Pranav K P	1312	Tamil Nadu

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