New Delhi: In a major upset, top seed and World Under-10 Girl’s champion Priyanka Nuttakki of Andhra Pradesh suffered a shock defeat by the hands of seventh seed West Bengal girl Samriddhaa Ghosh in the fourth round of the ongoing National Under-11 Girls Chess Championship at Ludlow Castle Sports Complex here on today.
Samriddhaa was a class act on Wednesday morning with her black pieces against Priyanka in a queen pawn open game as she put enormous pressure on the King side of her top seed rival in the middle game to post an emphatic victory in 44 moves. Samriddhaa along with second seed Vantika Agrawal of Delhi, C Lakshmi of Tamilnadu, Odisha duo Anwesha Mishra and Salonika Saina are now sharing the lead with four points in the girl’s category. Vantika has shown her end game supremacy to overpower team mate Palkin Kaur while Lakshmi got better off Sanskriti Goyal of Uttar Pradesh in the fourth round encounter. Anwesha and Salonika beat Pracheta Agarwal of Jharkhand and Anannya Menkudle of Maharashtra respectively to join the leaders pack.
Meanwhile in the open section which is being held simultaneously, Kerala lad Nihal Sarin held second seed Saurabh Anand of Bihar to a creditable draw in a Slav Defence game which lasted 70 moves. Top seed and World Under-10 bronze medalist Ram Aravind of Tamilnadu faced a tough fight from his Maharashtra rival Bhavik Bharambe in Ruy Lopez game but managed to garner full point after 70 moves to take the joint lead along with team mate Prajesh R, Sankarsha Shelke of Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh duo Rahul Srivatshav and Erigaisi Arjun.
Fifth round matches are now in progress at the time of report.
Important Results :-
Open Round-4 :-
Ram Aravind L N of Tamilnadu (4) beat Bhavik Bharambe of Maharashtra (3); Nihal Sarin of Kerala (3.5) drew with Saurabh Anand of Bihar (3.5); Prajesh R of Tamilnadu (4) beat Akshit Kumar J of Andhra Pradesh (3); Ritam Nag of West Bengal (3) lost to Rahul Srivatshav of Andhra Pradesh (4); Sankarsha Shelke of Maharashtra (4) beat Shakthi Vishal J of Tamilnadu (3); Aditya SSV of Andhra Pradesh (3) lost to Erigaisi Arjun of Andhra Pradesh (4); Iniyan P of Tamilnadu (3) drew with Harshvardhan G B of Tamilnadu (3); Amitansu Priyadarsan of Odisha (2.5) lost to Samal Ansuman of Odisha (3.5); Harsh Bhatt (3) drew with Aansh Gupta of Delhi (3); Aditya B Kalyani of Karnataka (2.5) lost to Praggnanandhaa R of Tamilnadu (3.5); Sadhu S Adithya of Tamilnadu (3.5) beat Dipanjan Chowdhury of West Bengal (2.5); Barath M of Goa (3) drew with Anshul Nigam of Jharkhand (3); Shuban Saha of West Bengal (2.5) lost to Subhasis Barik of Odisha (3.5); Koustav Chatterjee of West Bengal (3.5) beat Sambit Panda of Odisha (2.5); Aditya Basu of West Bengal (3.5) beat Arnavv Jain of Rajasthan (2.5).
Girls Round-4 :-
Priyanka Nutakki of Andhra Pradesh (3) lost to Samriddhaa Ghosh of West Bengal (4); Vantika Agrawal of Delhi (4) beat Palkin Kaur of Delhi (3); Lakshmi C of Tamilnadu (4) beat Sanskriti Goyal of Uttar Pradesh (3); Pracheta Agarwal (3) lost to Anwesha Mishra of Odisha (4); Salonika Saina of Odisha (4) beat Anannya Menkudle of Maharashtra (3); Arushi Kotwal of Jammu & Kashmir (3.5) beat Jesica of Delhi (2.5); Riddhi Zantye of Goa (3) beat K Anvitha of Andhra Pradesh (2.5); Krystal Fernandes of Goa (3) beat Srimathi R of Tamilnadu (2); Riya Mishra of Uttar Pradesh (2) lost to Adyasa Mahapatra of Odisha (3); Tejasvi M of Tamilnadu (2.5) drew with Ashitha K M of Kerala (2.5); Bidisha Roya of Jharkhand (2) lost to Bommini Mounika Akshaya of Andhra Pradesh (3); Garima Gaurav of Bihar (2) lost to Shyamshree Sarkar of West Bengal (3); Aashna Makhija of Maharashtra (2) lost to Kiruthika B of Tamilnadu (3); Divya Deshmukh of Maharashtra (3) beat Reshma C R of Tamilnadu (2); Kalyani B of Andhra Pradesh (3) beat Kaamya Negi of Delhi (2).
