New Delhi: Tenth seed Rajdeep Sarkar of West Bengal taken sole lead with eight points after defeating overnight leader and team mate Mitrabha Guha in the ninth round of the ongoing National Sub-Junior Chess Championship at Indira Gandhi Stadium here on Saturday.
Mitrabha along with Tamilnadu duo of Harikrishnan A Ra and Jaya Kumar S are sharing the joint second spot with seven and half points. Harikrishanan beat Fide Master Rakesh Kumar Jena of Odisha while Jayakumaar got better of Gukesh D of Telangana.
Meanwhile in the girl’s section local hope and former world youth medalist Vantika Agrawal took lead after outwitting Andhra Pradesh girl Toshali V in the ninth round encounter. This crucial victory enabled Vantika to take her tally to seven and half points from possible nine and leads by half point over nearest contenders Priyanka K of Tamilnadu, Sanskriti Goyal of Uttar Pradesh, Harshita Guddanti of Andhra Pradesh and top seed Arpita Mukherjee of West Bengal.
Important Results
Round-9
Open :- Mitrabha Guha of WB (7.5) lost to Rajdeep Sarkar of WB (8); Harikrishnan A Ra of TN (7.5) beat Rakesh Kumar Jena of Odisha (6.5); Gukesh D of AP (6.5) lost to Jayakumaar S of TN (7.5); Rathanvel VS of TN (6.5) drew with Saurabh Anand of BIH (6.5); Dushyant Sharma of PUN (6) lost to Iniyan P of TN (7); Sankalp Gupta of MAH (6.5) drew with Rahul Srivatshav P of TEL (6.5); Arjun Erigaisi of TEL (7) beat Neelash Saha of WB (6); Aronyak Ghosh of WB (7) beat Hirthickkesh Pr of TN (6); Tarini Goyal of CHAN (6.5) drew with Pruthu Deshpande of MAH (6.5); Bharath Subramaniyam of TN (5.5) lost to IM Raghunandan K S of KAR (6.5).
Girls :- Toshali of AP (6.5) lost to Vantika Agrawal of DEL (7.5); Priyanka K of TN (7) drew with Sanskriti Goyal of UP (7); Tejasvi M of TN (6.5) drew with Arpita Mukherjee of WB (7); Nityata Jain of MP (6) lost to Harshita Guddanti of AP (7); Priyanka Nutakki of AP (6) drew with Samriddhaa Ghosh of WB (6.5); Lakshmi C of TN (6.5) beat Krithigga K of TN (5.5); Bhagyashree Patil of MAH (6) drew with Aashna Makhija of MAH (6); Abhiramai Madabushi of AP (6.5) beat Sudipa Halder of WB (5.5); Rutvi Shah of GUJ (6.5) beat Archi Agrawal of DEL (5.5); Tanya Pandey of MAH (6) beat Palkin Kaur of DEL (5).
