National Under 11 Championship- Mayank Chakraborty and Anupam Sreekumar are the champions.

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Mayank Chakraborty of Assam scored 9.5/11 to finish half a point ahead of the runner-ups to in the recently concluded National Under 11 Championship. The second and third places went to Ilamparthi A R of Tamil Nadu and Kshatriya Nitin Vekhande of Maharashtra respectively who scored 9.0/11.0 each.

Mayank, with 8.5/11.0 needed a win in the last round to guarantee 1st place and he did that comfortably by playing a good positional game in which the result was never in doubt.

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Mayank Chakraborty of Assam receiving his Champion’s trophy and a cash prize of Rs.27,000 (Photo by Jitendra Choudhary)

The runner-up of the event, Ilamparthi R of Tamil Nadu

Second runner-up of the event, Kshatriya Nitin Vekhande of Maharashtra

Results of Round 11 (Top 10 Boards)

Bo.	No.		Name	Rtg	Pts.	Result	Pts.	Name	Rtg	No.
1	8		Mayank Chakraborty	1849	8½	1 – 0	8	Koustuv Dash	1937	3
2	4		Kshatriya Nitin Vekhande	1916	8	1 – 0	8½	Daakshin Arun	1644	28
3	1		Arhan Chethan Anand	2026	8	½ – ½	7½	Daaevik Wadhawan	1726	14
4	10		Ilamparthi A R	1828	8	1 – 0	7½	Dandekar Anuj	1699	17
5	2	CM	Kadam Om Manish	1982	7½	1 – 0	7½	Chidvilash Sai Surapaneni	1483	51
6	16		John Veny Akkarakaran	1711	7½	0 – 1	7½	Adireddy Arjun	1656	25
7	30		Md Imran	1606	7½	1 – 0	7½	Priansh Das	1671	21
8	6		Bagwe Gaurang	1883	7	1 – 0	7½	Anubhav Singhal	1272	103
9	78		Mukul Rana	1372	7	0 – 1	7	Swayham P Das	1901	5
10	42		Eshan Bhattacharjee	1522	7	0 – 1	7	Shaik Sumer Arsh	1843	9

Final Ranking after 11 Rounds (Top 10 Players)

Rk.	SNo		Name	FED	Rtg	Club/City	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3	TB4	TB5
1	8		Mayank Chakraborty	IND	1849	ASS	9,5	0,0	73,5	79,0	67,25	9
2	10		Ilamparthi A R	IND	1828	TN	9,0	0,0	73,5	78,5	62,50	8
3	4		Kshatriya Nitin Vekhande	IND	1916	MAH	9,0	0,0	69,5	75,0	62,50	9
4	1		Arhan Chethan Anand	IND	2026	KAR	8,5	0,0	78,0	84,0	63,50	7
5	28		Daakshin Arun	IND	1644	TN	8,5	0,0	76,0	81,5	58,75	8
6	25		Adireddy Arjun	IND	1656	TEL	8,5	0,0	74,0	79,0	57,25	8
7	30		Md Imran	IND	1606	AP	8,5	0,0	73,5	78,5	59,50	7
8	2	CM	Kadam Om Manish	IND	1982	MAH	8,5	0,0	72,0	76,0	57,75	7
9	3		Koustuv Dash	IND	1937	ORI	8,0	0,0	78,0	84,5	58,00	7
10	9		Shaik Sumer Arsh	IND	1843	TEL	8,0	0,0	77,0	82,0	57,50	7

Girls Category

The girls category witnessed a stellar performance by top seed Anupam M Sreekumar of Kerala who dominated the event and clinched the title with a round to spare. Her final score of 10.5/11.0 was a full two points ahead of the field. Mrittika Mallick of West Bengal and Arshiya Das of Tripura finished second and third respectively with a score of 8.5/11.0 each.

Anupam’s final round game against Riddhika Kotia of Haryana was an easy one in which she won a pawn early in the game and never let her advantage slip.

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Anupam Sreekumar of Kerala receiving her Champion’s trophy and a cash prize of Rs.27,000

The runner-up of the event, Mrittika Mallick of West Bengal

Second runner-up of the event, Arshiya Das of Tripura

Results of Round 11 (Top 10 Boards)

Bo.	No.		Name	Rtg	Pts.	Result	Pts.		Name	Rtg	No.
1	10		Riddhika Kotia	1397	8	0 – 1	9½		Anupam M Sreekumar	1599	1
2	2		Mrittika Mallick	1539	8	½ – ½	7½		Pragnya H G	1485	5
3	4		Palak Mohapatra	1502	7½	1 – 0	7½	AFM	Sanikommu Manasvi	1363	13
4	15	WCM	Shefali A N	1361	7½	½ – ½	7½		Dakshita Kumawat	1321	23
5	41		Arshiya Das	1238	7½	1 – 0	7		Sneha Halder	1531	3
6	38		Arushi Srichandan	1246	7	1 – 0	7	WCM	Shriyana S Mallya	1427	7
7	8		Sachi Jain	1406	7	1 – 0	7		Sani Deshpande	1358	19
8	18		Rianna Netta B	1358	7	1 – 0	7		Prapti Moulik	1233	42
9	27		Indira Priyadharshini Subbu	1311	7	½ – ½	7		Falak Joni Naik	1344	21
10	6		Anahita Verma	1432	6½	1 – 0	6½		Jagriti Agarwal	1111	74

Final Ranking after 11 Rounds (Top 10 players)

Rk.	SNo		Name	FED	Rtg	Club/City	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3	TB4	TB5
1	1		Anupam M Sreekumar	IND	1599	KER	10,5	0,0	73,5	79,5	75,25	10
2	2		Mrittika Mallick	IND	1539	WES	8,5	0,0	74,5	80,0	59,75	6
3	41		Arshiya Das	IND	1238	TRI	8,5	0,0	71,0	75,0	55,00	7
4	4		Palak Mohapatra	IND	1502	ORI	8,5	0,0	61,5	66,0	50,50	7
5	15	WCM	Shefali A N	IND	1361	KAR	8,0	0,0	74,0	79,0	53,25	6
6	10		Riddhika Kotia	IND	1397	HAR	8,0	0,0	73,0	78,0	53,00	6
7	23		Dakshita Kumawat	IND	1321	RAJ	8,0	0,0	70,5	73,0	51,25	6
8	5		Pragnya H G	IND	1485	TN	8,0	0,0	69,5	75,5	52,75	6
9	8		Sachi Jain	IND	1406	DEL	8,0	0,0	69,0	73,5	52,50	8
10	38		Arushi Srichandan	IND	1246	ORI	8,0	0,0	67,5	72,0	49,00	6