Two in Open and Three in Girls share lead after six rounds

6 years ago

33rd VMRDA national under-13 Open & Gilrs Chess Championship, 2019

Report by IA S.Paul Arokia Raj, Chief Arbiter

World under 10 Bronze medalist V.Pranav (Tamil Nadu) and FM Jubin Jimmy (Kerala) in open and Top seed Velpulu Sarayu (Telangana), Kirti Mayur Patel (Maharashtra) and Yash Jyoti Bir (West Bengal) in girls are jointly leading the table at the end of the sixth round of the 33rd VMRDA national under -13 chess championship now in progress at VMRDA Children’s arena ,Visakhapatnam.

While the leaders in the open are sitting pretty with 6 points each, the three leaders in the girls are having 5.5 points each. On the top table, Second seed V. Pranav inflicted a defeat over Manish Kumar (Orissa) in a miniature game of king pawn opening. When Pranav was about to trap black’s bishop on his 23rd move his opponent resigned in vain.

Nikhil Magizhan was in the receiving end against Kerala’s Jubin Jimmy‘ s caro kann defence. Jubin Jimmy demonstrated a great skill in the end game to trap Nikhil’s king to score full point. Velpula Sarayu settled for a draw against third seed Boramanikar Tanisha S Maharastra) in an irregular Queen pawn opening to stay at 5.5 points while Kriti Mayur Patel (Maharastra) and Yash Jyoti Bir (West Bengal) defeated Ananya Arumbakkam (Karnataka) and Kheerthi Gangta (Telengana) respectively to join the top seed in the lead.Inportant Results of Round 6:

Open

1	Pranav V	6	1 – 0	5		Manish Kumar (2006)
2	Nikhil Magizhnan	5	0 – 1	6	Jubin Jimmy
3	Harshad S	5½	1 – 0	5	Aaditya Dhingra
4	Jain Adi	5½	1 – 0	4½	Chilukuri Sai Varshith
5	Bhavyay Gupta	4	0 – 1	5	Pranesh M
6	Shreyash Shuvam Patnaik	4	0 – 1	5	Bharadia Yash
7	Madhavan R Munjanattu	4	0 – 1	5	Aditya Varun Gampa
8	Sai Raj Gopal K	4	0 – 1	5	Aditya Bikram Paul
9	Arhan Chethan Anand	4½	½ – ½	4½-	Rohith Yadav B R
10	Vinay R Jumani	4	0 – 1	5	Prithvvi Singh
11	Koustuv Dash	4	1 – 0	4	Adireddy Arjun
12	Sadbhav Rautela	4	0 – 1	5	Adireddy Tarun
13	Paarth P Salvi	4	0 – 1	5	Shaik Sumer Arsh
14	Sreekar J S S	5	1 – 0	4	Arjun Sidharth S
15	Krishnan Ritvik	4½	1 – 0	4	Parth Kuntal Raval

Girls

1	Velpula Sarayu	TEL	5½	½ – ½	5	Boramanikar Tanisha S	MAH
2	Ananya Arumbakkam	KAR	4½	0 – 1	5½	Yash Jyoti Bir	WB
3	Kheerthi Ganta	TEL	4½	0 – 1	5½	Kriti Mayur Patel	MAH
4	Mohitha V	AP	4½	½ – ½	4½	Wankhade Sanskruti	MAH
5	Jena Suhana	Orissa	4	0 – 1	5	Renganayaki V	KAR
6	Anushka Gupta	WB	4½	½ – ½	4½	Prasiddhi Bhat	KAR
7	Jahnavi Sri Lalita Mareddy	TEL	4	0 – 1	5	Yashavishree N	TN
8	Adra P	KER	4	0 – 1	5	Panda Miracle	Orissa
9	Agrawal Aanya	GUJ	5	1 – 0	4	Sai Mahati A	TEL
10	Mahi Amit Doshi	GUJ	4	½ – ½	4½	Tejaswi R	TN
11	Harshavardhini M.S.	PON	4½	1 – 0	3½	Yachna Singh	UP
12	Anya Seth Syed	KAR	4	½ – ½	4	Ratnapriya K	TN
13	Dolisiyas Dash	Orissa	4	½ – ½	4	Rout Yashita	Orissa
14	Cera Dagaria	MP	4½	1 – 0	3½	Winee Thengal	Assam
15	Jethwani Himani	MAH	3½	0 – 1	4½	Hemakshi Chauhan	Haryana