National Under-11: Shreyash and Savitha Shri share lead

Shreyash Shuvam Patnaik of Odisha emerged on top with 7.5 points after eight rounds of the Chettinad Public School 32nd National Under 11 Chess Championships, organised by the CP School, Karaikudi.

Ananmay Sharma of Gujarat and Shahil Day, the second seed from Assam are closely on the heels with 7 points to their credit. In the girls’ category, Tejaswi of Tamil Nadu was brought down to earth by her teammate and the top seed Savitha Shri. The duo, along with Sinthia Sarkar of West Bengal, who defeated another Tamil Nadu girl K Sinthusree. B Rianna Netta of Tamil Nadu is on the second spot with 6.5 points, because of her win over MS Harshavardhini of Pudhucherry.

Against Colaco Reuben of Goa, Shreyash built up a good position right from the beginning. Once he won an exchange, Shreyas was unstoppable and went on to win the game comfortably in 47 moves. In the Taimanov variation of Sicilian defence, Shahil Dey was not comfortable with the position during the middle game. But, once when the queens were exchanged, Shahil gained the upper hand and grabbed a point. In the Slav defence, Ananmay Sharma of Gujarat, the co-leader in the earlier round had to satisfy with half a point against Mahendra Teja Mekala of AP.

Savitha committed a few mistakes in the opening of the four pawns variation of the Kings Indian Defence game with the leader Tejaswi, which gave a clear advantage to the latter. But after a series of mistakes from both players, Savitha managed to get a better position. Savitha’s two connected pawns raced to the eighth rank, paving a win for her. In a similar fashion, fortune fluctuated between Sindhusree and Sinthia Sarkar due to their errors and the latter had the last laugh after thirty-three moves, to subdue Sindhusree.

Open: Results

Round 8 on 2018/08/02 at 09.30 AM

Bo.	No.	Name	Rtg	Club/City	Pts.	Result	Pts.	Name	Rtg	Club/City	No.
1	21	Shreyash Shuvam Patnaik	1561	ODI	6½	1 – 0	6	Colaco Reuben	1530	GOA	30
2	13	Mahendra Teja Mekala	1664	AP	6	½ – ½	6½	Ananmay Sharma	1523	GUJ	32
3	7	Chilukuri Sai Varshith	1816	AP	6	½ – ½	6	Dev Shah	2184	MAH	1
4	8	Souhardo Basak	1765	WB	5½	0 – 1	6	Shahil Dey	1978	ASM	2
5	3	Ilamparthi A R	1965	TN	5½	½ – ½	5½	Swayham P Das	1425	GUJ	54
6	17	Arhan Chethan Anand	1599	KAR	5½	1 – 0	5½	Bharadia Yash	1421	RAJ	56
7	37	Adithya A Chullikkad	1499	KER	5½	1 – 0	5½	Arora Honi	1596	RAJ	18
8	27	Akshit Jha	1543	MAH	5½	1 – 0	5½	Ayush J Yajaman	1355	KAR	73
9	25	Jain Adi	1556	GUJ	5	0 – 1	5	Tanmay Jain	1868	PUN	5
10	31	Mayank Chakraborty	1529	ASM	5	½ – ½	5	Arnav Maheshwari	1860	TN	6

Girls: Results

Round 8 on 2018/08/02 at 09.30 AM

Bo.	No.	Name	Rtg	Club/City	Pts.	Result	Pts.		Name	Rtg	Club/City	No.
1	7	Tejaswi R	1393	TN	7	0 – 1	6		Savitha Shri B	1742	TN	1
2	15	Sindhusree K	1305	TN	6	0 – 1	6		Sinthia Sarkar	1315	WB	14
3	16	Rout Yashita	1303	ODI	5½	½ – ½	5½		Anupam M Sreekumar	1417	KER	6
4	29	Rianna Netta B	1236	TN	5½	1 – 0	5½		Harshavardhini M.S.	1276	PUD	18
5	37	Arushi Srichandan	1185	ODI	5	0 – 1	5		Sagar Siya	1522	GUJ	2
6	38	Pasapula Teja Sree	1183	AP	5	0 – 1	5		Ratnapriya K	1465	TN	3
7	45	Harsha Y	1157	TN	5	½ – ½	5	WCM	Patel Riddhi R	1439	GUJ	4
8	67	Roy Aanya	1078	MAH	5	1 – 0	5		Mohitha V	1322	AP	12
9	19	Naik Sayuri	1263	GOA	5	1 – 0	5		Tejasvee Naresh Singh	1137	RAJ	52
10	25	Cera Dagaria	1245	MP	5	0 – 1	5	WCM	Shriyana S Mallya	0	KAR	92