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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