New Delhi: Three round remaining, top seed and World Under-10 girl’s champion Priyanka Nutakki taken the sole lead with seven points after defeating local hope and second seed Vantika Agarwal in the eighth round of the ongoing National Under-11 Girls Chess Championship here at Ludlow Castle Sports Complex on Saturday afternoon.
In an equal position, Vantika overlooked the clock to lose on time and handed over full point to her Andhra Pradesh rival in 40 moves. Overnight leaders Lakshmi of Tamilnadu and Divya Deshmukh of Maharashtra split the point to be at second spot with six and half points while Anwesh Mishra of Odisha joined them by beating other overnight leader Samriddhaa Ghosh of West Bengal in the eighth round encounter.
In the open section, top seed Ram Aravind of Tamilnadu continued with his winning ways and downed Neelash Saha of West Bengal in the eighth round to maintain his clean slate in the event. Playing white side of Kan variation in Sicilian Defence, Ram took only 21 moves to outwit his rival. Ram is now enjoying full point lead over his nearest rival Bhavik Bharambe of Maharashtra, who shocked second seed Saurabh Anand of Bihar in the eighth round match.
Important Results :-
Open Round-8 :- Ram Aravind L N of Tamilnadu (8) beat Neelash Saha of West Bengal (6); Saurabh Anand of Bihar (5.5) lost to Bhavik Bharambe of Maharashtra (7); Sadhu S Adithya of Tamilnadu (6.5) beat Samal Ansuman of Odisha (5.5); Koustav Chatterjee of West Bengal (6.5) beat Prajesh R of Tamilnadu (5.5); Aditya Basu of West Bengal (5.5) lost to Aansh Gupta of Delhi (6.5); Rudraksh Parida of Odisha (5.5) lost to Rahul Srivatshav of Andhra Pradesh (6.5); Subhasis Barik of Odisha (5.5) lost to Praggnanandhaa R of Tamilnadu (6.5); Iniyan P of Tamilnadu (5) lost to Aronyak Ghosh of West Bengal (6.5); Sankarsha Shelke of Maharashtra (5.5) drew with Harshvardhan G B of Tamilnadu (5.5); Barath M of Goa (6) beat Aryan Abhijeet Shah of Maharashtra (5); Nihal Sarin of Kerala (6) beat Anshul Nigam of Jharkhand (5); Ritam Nag of West Bengal (6) beat Lokesh Hans of Haryana (5); Dileep Kumar R of Tamilnadu (5.5) drew with Manoj B Kulkarni of Karnataka (5.5); Pranab Kumar Patra of Orissa (5) drew with Gaurav Rajesh Zagade of Maharashtra (5.5); Erigaisi Arjun of Andhra Pradesh (5.5) beat Sambit Panda of Odisha (4.5)
Girls Round-8 :- Priyanka Nutakki of Andhra Pradesh (7) beat Vantika Agrawal of Delhi (6); Lakshmi C of Tamilnadu (6.5) drew with Divya Deshmukh of Maharashtra (6.5); Samirddhaa Ghosh of West Bengal (6) lost to Anwesha Mishra of Odisha (6.5); Salonika Saina of Odisha (6) beat Shyamshree Sarkar of West Bengal (5); Tejasvi M of Tamilnadu (5.5) drew with Palkin Kaur of Delhi (5.5); Krystal Fernandes of Goa (6) beat Anannya menkudle of Maharahstra (5); Rutvi Shah of Gujarat (5.5) drew with Bommini Mounika Akshaya of Andhra Pradesh (5.5); Kalyani B of Andhra Pradesh (5.5) beat Jishitha D of Andhra Pradesh (5); Meenal Gupta of Jammu & Kashmir (4.5) lost to Riddhi Zantye of Goa (5.5); Garima Gaurav of Bihar (4.5) lost to Adyasa Mahapatra of Odisha (5.5); Nityata Jain of Madhyapradesh (4.5) lost to Niyati Parakh of Chhattisgarh (5.5); Swera Ana Braganca of Goa (4.5) lost to Sanskriti Goyal of Uttar Pradesh (5.5); Sudipa Halder of West Bengal (5.5) beat Arushi Kotwal of Jammu & Kashmir (4.5); Saanya Mahesh of Delhi (5) drew with Kruthika K R of Tamilnadu (5); Pracheta Agarwal of Jharkhand (4) lost to K Anvitha of Andhra Pradesh (5.5).
