New Delhi: Delhi youngster Manan Rai stunned former Commonwealth Gold medalist Sidhant Mohapatra in the Under-13 open category of ongoing Asian School Chess Championship here at Indira Gandhi Stadium on Sunday. Playing with white pieces in Sicilian defence game, Manan maneuvered his bishop and king in the end game to good effect to garner full point against his fancied rival in 47 moves.
In other sections, as expected the seeded players sailed smoothly to the fourth round by registering comfortable victories in the third round. Top seed in Under-15 open section Girish Koushik got better Anish Gandhi while Dipatayan Ghosh and Aravindh Chithambaram defeated Raghav Srivathsav and Visheshwar respectively in Under-13 Open section.
Fourth round matches of this nine round swiss system championship is under progress at the time of report.
Important Results Round -3 (Indians otherwise stated) :-
Under-15 Open
Gandhi Anish (0) lost to FM Girish A Koushik (3); Rishi Sardana (2.5) drew with Chirag Satkar (2.5); Tushar Anand (3) beat Ayush Jugele (2); Dhulipala Bala Chandra Prasad (2.5) drew with Isakzhanov Kelsinbek of Kyrgyzstan (2.5); Saksham Dewan (2.5) beat Rishideep Bordoloi (1.5).
Under-15 Girls
Madhurima Shekhar (3) beat Aarudhra Ganesh (2); Gangamma B N (3) beat Karimi Yeganeh of Iran (2); Arunima Goyal (2) lost to Nandhdhaa P V (2.5); Simranjeet Kaur (2) drew with Deodhar Vrushali Umesh (1.5); Akhade Vaishnavi (2) beat Vaibhavi Thakur (1).
Under-13 Open
Raghav Srivathsav (2) lost to FM Diptayan Ghosh (3); FM Aravindh Chithambaram V R (3) beat Visveshwar A (2); Manan Rai (3) beat Sidhant Mohapatra (2); Prasad Aurangabadkar (2.5) drew with FM Harshal Shahi (2.5); Nikhil Dixit (3) beat Shailesh Dravid (2).
Under-13 Girls
Kesshni Bhasiin (2) lost to Sunyasakta Satpathy (3); Omurbekova Diana of Kyrgyzstan (2.5) drew with Meghna C H (2.5); Manjula R (3) beat Maram Al Zadjali of UAE (2); Shiny Das (2.5) beat Shweta Priyadharshini (2); Vignashree T (1.5) lost to Divya Garg (2.5).
Under-11 Open
Aryan Chopra (3) beat Navnitan S V (2); Harikrishnan A (3) beat Swayam Bhatia (2); Rajabi Yazdi Khashayar (2) lost to Prathish A (3); Barath Kalyan (2.5) drew with Adarsh Shrivastava (2.5); Siva Mahadevan (3) beat Manas O T (2).
Under-11 Girls
Sonal Mandhana (3) beat Hilmi Parveen (2); WFM Tarini Goyal (3) beat Vishwa Shah (2); Chitlange Sakshi (2.5) drew with Bhosale Shruti (2.5); Khushi Dharewa (2.5) drew with Harshita Guddanti (2.5); Harshini A (2) lost to Vaisalie K (2.5).
Under-9 Open
Bhosale Shriraj (2) lost to Ram Aravind L N (3); Kouchaki Penchah Jaber of Iran (3) beat Cheela Naga Sampath (2); Thilakarathne GMH of Sri Lanka (3) beat Saurabh Anand (2); Subhasis Barik (2) lost to Aditya SSV (3); Kshitij Kadam (2) lost to Iniyan P (3).
Under-9 Girls
Srimathi R (2) lost to Adyasa Mahapatra (3); Bommini Mounika Akshaya (2) lost to Ghosh Samriddhaa (3); Choksey Maitri (3) beat Vantika Agrawal (2); Rajashree Rajeev (2.5) drew with Fernandes Krystal (2.5); Beverly Mendonca (1.5) lost to Tejasvi M (2.5).
Under-7 Open
Polakhare Aryan (2) lost to Raja Rithvik R (3); Atharva M Parulekar (2) lost to Joy Anmol Rath (3); Soumein Rajdev (2.5) drew with Abdusattorov Nodirbek of Uzbekistan (2.5); Akhilesh Vishwas (3) beat Adit Heerak Basu (2); Mehta Naitik R (2) lost to Baibhab Singh (3).
Under-7 Girls
Niranjana Aishwarya Dass (2) lost to Arushi Kotwal (3); Bhagyashree Patil (3) beat Mirlankyzy Azaliia of Kyrgyzstan (2); Sayantika Nag (2) lost to Divya Deshmukh (3); Jiya Shah (2) lost to Mehendi Sil (2.5); Alaina J J Pereira (1) lost to Samarasinghe Sithumi of Sri Lanka (2).
Under-5 Open
Solomko Artur of Kyrgyzstan (2) lost to Leon Mendonca (3); Narine Anirudh S (2) lost to Sumukh M G (3); Rajas nanda (2) lost to Suyash pai (3); Rishabh Anand (3) beat Vallabh Kavi (2); Kanishk Anil Israni (2) beat Akshar Garg (1).
Under-5 Girls
Prativya Gupta (3) beat Aswatha B (2); Wankhade Sanskruti (2) lost to Garima Gaurav (3); Darsana M S (2) beat Shitika Raj (1); Kaamya Negi (2) beat Yash Jyoti Bir (1); Tanisha Chatterjee (1) lost to Khayal Shah (1).
