Lucknow: The 8th round of the Dr. K.L. Garg Memorial National Junior U-19 Chess Championship witnessed an upset when Maharashtra’s 2ndseed and FIDE Master Pujari Rucha settled for a draw with 5th seed Michelle Catherina P of Goa at Bora Institute of the Management Sciences here Monday.
An interesting game was played on table 8, where 18 seed Gireman Ja of Tamil Nadu beat Delhi’s 11th seed and Candidate Master Prince Bajaj to lead the table. 8th seed Lokesh P. Of Tamil Nadu settled for a draw with lower ratted player Kerala’s 23rd seed Yohan J in another key match of the day.
3rd seed IM Prasanna Raghuram Rao of Maharashtra beat 26th seed Madhya Pradesh’s Gajwa Ankit in the eighth round. West Bengal’s 4th seed FM Das Sayantan beat 13th seed Visakh Nr of Tamil Nadu. 5th seed FM Aravindh Chithambaram Vr. of Tamil Nadu defeated his state mate 24th seed Harihara Sudan M.
3rd seed WFM Saranya J of Tamil Nadu beat 18th seed Shristi J. Shetty from Karnataka in the other match of the day.
UP’s 70th seed Ayush Panday beat Andhra Pradesh’s 55th seed Raghav Srivathsav V. UP’s 59th Ayushi Jaiswal beat 54th seed Anamika Rani Vaishnav of Chhattisgarh. UP’s 68th seed Shivani beat 65th seed Parul Mukesh Kumar of Himachal Pradesh and easily entered in the ninth round of the Championship.
