National Under 11 Championship-Daakshin Arun and Anupam Sreekumar in the lead

The National U-11 Championship has reached the halfway mark and the players have treated us to some exciting chess.

The tournament was graced by the precense of the President of the United Karnataka Chess Association and member of the TDD Board , Shri. D.P Anantha.

Open Category

After 6 rounds, Daakshin Arun from Tamil Nadu is in the lead with 6.0/9.0.

The top board encounter in Round 6 was between Daakshin Arun 1644)  and Rohith S (1522),both from Tamil Nadu.

Daakshin , playing with the white pieces got an inferior position out of the opening, but a few serious inaccuracies by his opponent handed him a pawn which he managed to convert into a full point.

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On board two, the top seed of the event ,Arhan Chetan Anand (2026) of Karnataka was paired against Ilamaparthi R (1828) of Tamil Nadu.

A serious blunder on move 12 by Ilamparthi ,playing with  the black pieces allowed Arhan to win an exchange and he easily  converted his material advantage into a full point .

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Results of Round 6 (Top 10 Boards)

Round 6 on 2019/11/19 at 0900h

Pairings of Round 7 (Top 10 Boards)

Round 7 on 2019/11/20 at 0900h

Girls Category

In the Girls section, Anupam Sreekumar of Kerala has emerged as the clear leader with 6.0/9.0.

The first board match-up between Anupam Sreekumar (1599) of Kerala and Sneha Halder (1531) of West Bengal was an interesting one.

It was a topsy- turvy game in which Sneha ,playing with the black pieces blundered in a fairly balanced position and allowed White’s pieces to infiltrate into the position.

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Board two witnessed a minor upset in the form of Snehayukta Behera’s ( 1246) of Odisha’s  victory over Rajanya Dutta (1346) of West Bengal.

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Results of Round 6 (Top 10 Boards)

Round 6 on 2019/11/19 at 0900h

Pairings of Round 7 (Top 10 Boards)

Round 7 on 2019/11/20 at 0900h