New Delhi: Continuing his winning streak, overnight sole leader Chennai lad Ram Aravind extended his lead to full point after defeating Prajesh R in the seventh round of the ongoing National Under-11 Open Chess Championship here on Friday.
Playing white side of Queen Pawn opening, Ram not shown any mercy to his state mate rival and secured the full point in just 35 moves and took his point tally to seven from as many rounds. Neelash Saha of West Bengal and Bhavik Bharambe of Maharshtra are at second spot of the point table with six points after beating Iniyan P of Tamilnadu and Sankarsha Shelke of Maharashtra respectively in the seventh round encounter.
After an eventful seventh round matches, the girl’s section got wide open with five players are now share the lead with six points. Playing safe, overnight sole leader Lakshmi of Tamilnadu signed the peace treaty with Anwesha Mishra of Odisha after 48 moves to be at the top while top seed and World Under-10 Girls champion Priyanka Nutakki joined her after beating team mate Bommini Mounika Akshaya in the seventh round battle.
Local hope second seed Vantika Agrawal came back strongly after her last round debacle as she crushed Odisha girl Salonika Saina in just 22 moves while Samriddhaa Ghosh of West Bengal and Divya Deshmukh of Maharashtra defeated Goan girls Krystal Fernandes and Swera Ana Braganca respectively to give company to the leaders.
In the crucial eighth round tomorrow, Priyanka takes on Vantika while Lakshmi paired against Divya and Samriddhaa fight it out against Anwesha Mishra.
Important Results :-
Open Round-7 :-
Prajesh R of Tamilnadu (5.5) lost to Ram Aravind L N of Tamilnadu (7); Neelash Saha of West Bengal (6) beat Iniyan P of Tamilnadu (5); Bhavik Bharambe of Maharashtra (6) beat Sankarsha Shelke of Maharashtra (5); Subhasis Barik of Odisha (5.5) drew with Aditya Basu of West Bengal (5.5); Aronyak Ghosh of West Bengal (5.5) drew with Koustav Chatterjee of West Bengal (5.5); Saurabh Anand of Bihar (5.5) beat Erigaisi Arjun of Andhra Pradesh (4.5); Samal Ansuman of Odisha (5.5) beat Pranab Kumar Patra of Odisha (4.4); Aansh Gupta of Delhi (5.5) beat Tarun V Kanth (4.5); Ayush Pattanaik of Madhya Pradesh (4.5) lost to Rudraksh Parida of Orissa (5.5); Praggnanandhaa R of Tamilnadu (5.5) beat Dipanjan Chowdhury of West Bengal (4.5); Akshit Kumar J of Andhra Pradesh (4.5) lost to Sadhu S Adithya of Tamilnadu (5.5); Rahul Srivatshav of Andhra Pradesh (5.5) beat Upendra R of Tamilnadu (4.5); Aryan Sonowal of Assam (4.5) lost to Ritam Nag of West Bengal (5); Ambarish Sharma of West Bengal (4) lost to Barath M of Goa (5); Nihal Sarin of Kerala (5) beat Alan Diviya Raj of Tamilnadu (4).
Girls Round-7 :-
Anwesha Mishra of Odisha (5.5) drew with Lakshmi C of Tamilnadu (6); Bommini Mounika Akshaya of Andhra Pradesh (5) lost to Priyanka Nutakki of Andhra Pradesh (6); Vantika Agrawal of Delhi (6) beat Salonika Saina of Odisha (5); Samriddhaa Ghosh (6) beat Krystal Fernandes of Goa (5); Divya Deshmukh of Maharashtra (6) beat Swera Ana Braganca of Goa (4.5); Riddhi Zantye of Goa (4.5) drew with Tejasvi M of Tamilnadu (5); Palkin Kaur of Delhi (5) beat Pracheta Agarwal of Jharkhand (4); Adyasa Mahapatra of Odisha (4.5) drew with Sudipa Halder of West Bengal (4.5); Shyashree Sarkar of West Bengal (5) beat Tanishka Kotia of Haryana (4); Anannya Menkudle of Maharashtra (5) beat Aashna Makhija of Maharashtra (4); Arushi Kotwal of Jammu & Kashmir (4.5) drew with Kalyani B of Andhra Pradesh (4.5); Jishitha D of Andhra Pradesh (5) beat Lasya Mayuka N of Andhra Pradesh (4); Srimathi R of Tamilnadu (4) lost to Rutvi Shah of Gujarat (5); Shruti Kakar of Delhi (4) lost to Nityata Jain of Madhya Pradesh (4.5); Jesica of Delhi (3.5) lost to Garima Gaurav of Bihar (4.5).
