New Delhi: Overnight sole leader Mitrabha Guha of West Bengal maintained his sole lead with seven and half points after the end of eighth round matches of the ongoing National Sub-Junior chess championship here at Indira Gandhi Stadium on Friday.

In the eighth round, playing with black pieces Mitrabha registered a crucial victory over Rahul Srivatshav of Telangana. Rajdeep Sarkar of West Bengal occupying the lone second spot with seven points after defeating second seed Rathanvel VS of Tamilnadu in the eighth round encounter.

Meanwhile in the girls section K Priyanka of Tamilnadu defeated top seed and overnight leader Arpita Mukherjee to make the event wide open. Now a bunch of five players including Arpita and Priyanka are leading the point table with six and half point. Local hope Vantika Agrawal along with Toshali V of Andhra Pradesh and Sanskriti Goyal of Uttar Pradesh are giving company to Arpita and Priyanka at pole position. Vantika defeated Rutvi Shah of Gujarat while Toshali and Sanskirti signed the peace treaty in their eighth round battle.

Three more rounds remaining in this eleven round Swiss system championship.

Important Results

Round-8

Open :- Rahul Srivatshav P of TEL (6) lost to Mitrabha Guha of WB (7.5); Rajdeep Sarkar of WB (7) beat Rathanvel VS of TN (6); Jayakumaar S of TN (6.5) drew with Harikrishnan A Ra of TN (6.5); Rakesh Kumar Jena of ODI (6.5) beat Vatsal Singhania of JHAR (5.5); Moksh Amitbhai Doshi of GUJ (5.5) lost to Gukesh D of AP (6.5); Pruthu Deshpande of MAH (6) drew with Sankalp Gupta of MAH (6); Raghunandan KS of KAR (5.5) drew with Tarun V Kanth of TN (5.5); Iniyan P of TN (6) beat Dileep Kumar R of TN (5); Manu David Suthandram of TN (5.5) drew with Nitish Belurkar of GOA (5.5); Arjun Erigaisi of TEL (6) beat Kushagra Mohan of TEL (5).


Girls :- Arpita Mukherjee of WB (6.5) lost to Priyanka K of TN (6.5); Sanskriti Goyal of UP (6.5) drew Toshali V of AP (6.5); Vantika Agrawal of DEL (6.5) beat Rutvi Shah of GUJ (5.5); Samridhaa Ghosh of WB (6) beat Lakshmi C of TN (5.5); Harshita Guddanti of AP (6) beat Shanya Mishra of DEL (5); Khushi Dharewa of WB (5) lost to Nityata Jain of MP (6); Sneha GPS of TN (5) lost to Tejasvi M of TN (6); Aashna Makhija of MAH (5.5) beat Nanditha V of TEL (5); Jegatha B of TN (4.5) lost to Priyanka Nutakki of AP (5.5); Nivetta of TN (4.5) lost to Abhirami Madabushi of AP (5.5).