Vedant Panesar eyes for top honours – All India Chess Federation

Report by Debasish Barua

Panesar Vedant (MAH) maintain the lead with 7.5 points closely followed by top-seed FM Mitrabha Guha (WB), Krishnater Kushager (MAH) and Vinay Thomas Abraham (Kerala) with 7 points after nine rounds in the National U-17 Open Chess Championship taking place at Gateway Education Campus, Sonipat, Haryana. The championship is being organized by Haryana Chess Association under the aegis of All India Chess Federation.

Board No.1. Mitrabha Guha (WB) drew with Panesar Vadant (MAH) in 51 moves.

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Board No.2. Om Kharola (MAH) lost to Krishnater Kushager (MAH) in 43 moves.

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Board No.3. Rupam Mukherjee (WB) drew with Vaibhav Jayant Raut (MAH) in 60 moves.

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Category Girls:-

At the end of 9th round, Priyanka K and Jyothsna L from Tamil Nadu maintain leads with 7.5 points each. Followed by three players with 6.5 points Tejasvi M (TN), Harshini A (TN) and Bommini Mounika (AP).

Board No.1. Arpita Mukherjee (Bengal) 6 points lost to Priyanka K (TN) 7.5 Points in 39 moves.

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Board No.2. Jyothsna L (TN) beat Sanskriti Goyal (UP) in 39 moves.

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Two more rounds to go.

Pairings

OPEN: Round 10

Bo.	No.	Name	Rtg	Pts.	Result	Pts.		Name	Rtg	No.
1	8	Panesar Vedant	2124	7½		7		Krishnater Kushager	2333	3
2	2	Srijit Paul	2335	6½		7	FM	Mitrabha Guha	2376	1
3	13	Manish Anto Cristiano F	1995	6½		7		Vinay Thomas Abraham	1953	16
4	20	Sambarta Banerjee	1904	6½		6½		Om Kharola	2042	11
5	12	Vaibhav Jayant Raut	1999	6½		6½		Saypuri Srithan	1749	35
6	29	Rupam Mukherjee	1837	6½		6½		Sibi Visal R	1959	15
7	28	Akshit Kumar J	1845	6		6		Pruthu Deshpande	2068	9
8	32	Anup Shankar R	1785	6		6		Harshita Guddanti	1972	14
9	36	Aditya P Melani	1737	6		6		Cheela Naga Sampath	1935	18
10	25	Dubey Sanchay	1862	6		6		Bhavesh Mahajan	1635	52

Girls: Round 10

Bo.	No.		Name	Rtg	Pts.	Result	Pts.		Name	Rtg	No.
1	2		Priyanka K	2163	7½		6½	WFM	Bommini Mounika Akshaya	1787	15
2	17		Tejasvi M	1747	6½		7½	WCM	Jyothsna L	1964	7
3	4	WFM	Tarini Goyal	2072	6		6½	WFM	Harshini A	2160	3
4	13		Srimathi R	1828	6		6	WFM	Arpita Mukherjee	2207	1
5	9	WFM	Tanishka Kotia	1918	6		6	WCM	Mrudul Dehankar	2065	5
6	6		Sanskriti Goyal	1965	6		6		Adane Narayani	1755	16
7	12		Toshali V	1875	6		6		Rindhiya V	1688	20
8	21		Abirama Srinithi G	1663	5½		5½		Bhagyashree Patil	1885	11
9	14	WCM	Jain Nityata	1807	5½		5½		Pagay Shalaka	1474	33
10	22		Kalyani B	1656	5½		5½		Kaur Palkin	1697	19