New Delhi: Twelve players including top seed Ram Aravind of Tamilnadu and second seed Saurabh Anand of Bihar are leading with perfect score after third round matches of the ongoing National Under-11 Open Chess Championship at Ludlow Castle Sports Complex here on Tuesday.

Playing with black pieces Ram made short work of team mate Dileep Kumar while Saurabh got better off Anshuman Singh of Madhya Pradesh in the third round encounter. In surprising results in the open section, Akshit Kumar of Andhra Pradesh stunned seventh seed Rudraksh Parida of Orissa while third seed Iniyan P of Tamilnadu and fourth seed Samal Ansuman of Orissa satisfied with half point against lower rated Dipanjan Chowdhury of West Bengal and Aditya B Kalyani of Karnataka respectively in the third round.

Meanwhile in the girl’s category, nine players giving company to top seed World Under-10 girls champion Priyanka Nutakki of Andhra Pradesh at pole position with three points after as many matches. Priyanka defeated Adyasa Mahapatra of Orissa without much struggle while second seed and local hope Vantika Agrawal got walk over against Bommini Mounika Akshaya of Andhra Pradesh as the later turn up for the third round late and forced to give up the match under “Zero Tolerance” rule (“Any player who arrives at the chessboard after the start of the session shall lose the game. Thus the default time is zero seconds”). In a major upset in the girls’ section, sixth seed Riddhi Zantye of Goa suffered a shock defeat from the hands of Jharkhand girl Pracheta Agarwal in the third round.

Earlier in the second round, all the seeded players apart from sixth seed Aansh Gupta of Delhi registered easy victories while Aansh forced to split the point against Shreyas Kulkarani of Karnataka.

Important Results :-
 

Open Round-3 :-

Dileep Kumar of Tamilnadu (2) lost to Ram Aravind L N of Tamilnadu (3); Saurabh Anand (3) beat Anshuman Singh of Madhya Pradesh (2); Dipanjan Chowdhury of West Bengal (2.5) drew with Iniyan P of Tamilnadu (2.5); Samal Ansuman of Orissa (2.5) drew with Aditya B Kalyani of Karantaka (2.5); Prasant N Nayagam of Tamilandu (2) lost to Prajesh R of Tamilnadu (3); Akshit Kumar J of Andhra Pradesh (3) beat Rudrakash Parida of Orissa (2); Praggnanandhaa R of Tamilnadu (2.5) drew with Shuban Saha of West Bengal (2.5); Anshul Nigam of Jharkhand (2.5) drew with Sadhu S Adithya of Tamilnadu (2.5); Rahul Srivatshav of Andhra Pradesh (3) beat Raahul V S of Tamilnadu (2); Aryan Abhijeet Shah of Maharashtra (2) lost to Sankarsha Shelke of Maharashtra (3); Erigaisi Arjun of Andhra Pradesh (3) beat Yutesh P of Tamilnadu (2); Arnavv Jain of Rajasthan (2.5) drew with Koustav Chatterjee of West Bengal (2.5); Sambit Panda of Orissa (2.5) drew with Aditya Basu of West Bengal (2.5); Bhavik Bharambe of Maharashtra (3) beat Devansh Ratti of Maharashtra (2); Nihal Sarin of Kerala (3) beat Prem Krishna N of Kerala (2).
 

Round-2 :-

Ram Aravind beat Samyak Dutta; Doshi Moksh Amitbhai lost to Saurabh Anand; Iniyan P beat Lokesh Hans; Ambarish Sharma lost to Samal Ansuman; Prajesh R beat Upendera R; Shreyas A Kulkarni drew with Aansh Gupta; Rudraksh Parida beat Diyan Kubadia; Alan Diviya Raj lost to Praggnanandhaa R; Sadhu S Adithya beat Alok Sinha; Avanish Anil Shilimkar lost to Rahul Shrivatshav.
 

Girls Round-3 :-

Adyasa Mahapatra of Orissa (2) lost to Priyanka Nutakki of Andhra Pradesh (3); Vantika Agrawal of Delhi (3) w/o against Bommini Mounika Akshaya of Andhra Pradesh (2); Shyamashree Sarkar of West Bengal (2) lost to Lakshmi C of Tamilnadu (3); Anwesha Mishra of Orissa (3) beat Divya Deshmukh of Maharashtra (2); Anandamayi Bajaj of Maharashtra (2) lost to Salonika Saina of Orissa (3); Riddhi Zantye of Goa (2) lost to Pracheta Agarwal of Jharkhand (3); Kruthika K R of Tamilnadu (2) lost to Samriddhaa Ghosh of West Bengal (3); Palkin Kaur of Delhi (3) beat Pooja S of Tamilnadu (2); Sanskriti Goyal of Uttar Pradesh (3) beat Krystal Fernandes of Goa (2); Anannya Menkudle of Maharashtra (3) beat Nityata Jain of Madhya Pradesh (1.5); Reshma C R of Tamilnadu (2) drew with Aashna Makhija of Maharashtra (2); Jesica of Delhi (2.5) beat Vrushti Shah of Gujarat (1.5); Kankuntla Anvitha of Andhra Pradesh (2.5) beat Swera Ana Braganca of Goa (1.5); Taanya S S of Tamilnadu (1.5) lost to Arushi Kotwal of Jammu & Kashmir (2.5); Katlamudi Vinita of Andhra Pradesh (2) drew with Niyati Parakh of Chhattisgarh (2).
 

Round 2 :-

Priyanka Nutakki beat Arputha Jasmine; Bristy Mukherjee lost to Vantika Agrawal; Lakshmi C beat Meenakshi Bhoite; Manya Bagla lost to Anwesha Mishra; Salonika Saina beat Srimathi R; Sudipa Haldar lost to Riddhi Zantye; Samriddhaa Ghosh beat Riya Mishra; Bidisha Roy lost to Palkin Kaur; Krystal Fernandes beat Ashitha K M; Meenal Gupta lost to Adyasa Mahapatra.