New Delhi: Second seed Madhurima Shekhar overcome top seed Nandhidhaa P V to maintain the sole lead with perfect score after fifth round matches of the Under-15 Girls category of ongoing Asian School Chess Championship here at Indira Gandhi Indoor Stadium on Monday. Meanwhile in the Under-15 Open section top seed Fide Master Girish A Koushik failed to produce a decisive result in his favour and signed the peace treaty against his unrated Kyrgyzstan rival Kelsinbek Isakzhanov. But Girish maintain his sole lead in the section with four and half points.
In the Under-13 section, top seed Diptayan Ghosh jumped to sole lead after registering a crucial victory over second seed and national junior champion Aravindh Chithambaram while Aryan Chopra and A Harikrishnan are in joint lead in the Under-11 open section with four and half points. In the fifth round encounter, Aryan beat Matta Besh Vignesh Reddy and Harikrishanan outwitted Delhi lad Aradhya Garg.
Important Results Round -5 (Indians otherwise stated) :-
Under-15 Open
Isakzhanov Kelsinbek of Kyrgyzstan (4) drew with FM Girish A Koushik (4.5); Anish Ganhi (4) beat Ayush Jugele (3); Dhulipala Bala Chandra Prasad (4) beat Walid Anwar (3); Deep Kapoor (3.5) drew with Chirag Satkar (3.5); Tushar Anand (3) lost to Rishi Sardana (3.5).
Under-15 Girls
Madhurima Shekhar (5) beat Nandhidhaa PV (3.5); Aarudhra Ganesh (4) beat Gangamma B N (3); Simranjeet Kaur (3) drew with Matta Theja Sahhethee (3.5); Akhade Vaishnavi (3) drew with Deodhar Vrushali Umesh (3); Goyal Arunima (3) beat Karimi Yeganeh of Iran (2.5).
Under-13 Open
FM Aravindh Chithambaran V R (4) lost to GM Diptayan Ghosh (5); Dixit Nikhil (4.5) drew with Vaisnav M (4); Manan Ravi (4) drew with Pavit Singh (3.5); Shailesh Dravid (4) lost to Sidhant Mohapatra (3); Pavan Karaande (3) lost to FM Harshal Shahi (4).
Under-13 Girls
Meghna C H (3.5) lost to Sunyasakta Satpathy (5); Manjula R (4) beat Divya Garg (3.5); Smaraki Mohanty (4) beat Manasa H R (3); Kesshni Bhasiin (3) lost to Shiny Das (3.5); Deekshidhaa P S (3) drew with Anigani Kavya (3).
Under-11 Open
Matta Besh Vignesh Reddy (4) lost to Aryan Chopra (4.5); Harikrishnan A (4.5) beat Aradhya Garg (3.5); Atharvaa P (4) drew with Barath Kalyan M (4); Herath HMAK (3.5) lost to Siva Mahadevan (4.5); Nishanth V G (3.5) drew with Kumar Gaurav (3.5).
Under-11 Girls
WFM Tarini Goyal (4.5) drew with Khushi Dharewa (4); Sneha N G Sweta (4.5) beat Chitlange Sakshi (3.5); Sweta Senapaty (3) lost to Sonal Mandhana (4); Vaishnavi Thakur (4) beat Musaeva Shakhnazi of Kyrgyzstan (3); Hilmi Parveen (3.5) beat Prabhugaonkar Adittee Aman (3).
Under-9 Open
Iniyan P (5) beat Ram Aravind L N (4); Kouchaki Penchah Jaber (4) lost to Rahul Srivatshav P (5); Subhasis Barik (4) beat Shavdirov Jamal of Uzbekistan (3.5); Kshitij Kadam (3) lost to Saurabh Anand (4); Samal Ansuman (4) beat Tushar K (3).
Under-9 Girls
Samriddhaa Ghosh (5) beat Adyasa Mahapatra (4); Makhija Aashna (4) beat Manya Bagla (3); Choksey Maitri (4) beat Srimathi R (3); Rajashree Rajeev (3) lost to Vantika Agrawal (4); Kaur Palkin (4) beat Askey Roshel Nathasha of Sri Lanka (3).
Under-7 Open
Akilesh Viswaa (4.5) drew with Joy Anmol Rath (4.5); Baibhan Singh (3.5) lost to Abdusattorov Nodirbek of Uzbekistan (4.5); Soumein Rajdev (3) lost to Raja Rithvik R (4); Mehta Naitik R (3.5) drew with Sanket Chakravarty (3.5); Polakhare Aryan (4) beat Mohit Kamal Rath (3).
Under-7 Girls
Mehendi Sil (3.5) lost to Arushi Kotwal (5); Bhagyashree Patil (3) lost to Sayantika Nag (4); Jesica (3) lost to Bristy Mukherjee (4); Jiya Shah (3) lost to David Avril (40; Divya Deshmukh (3) lost to Niranjana Aishwarya Dass (4).
Under-5 Open
Leon Mendonca (4) lost to Rishabh Anand (5); Sumukh M G (4) beat Dhruva H Dassan (3); Jyothis R (3) lost to Suyash pai (4); Solomko Artur (4) beat Raajas Vijay Kumar Mulye (3); Vallabh Kavi (4) beat Dev Shah (3).
Under-5 Girls
Garima Gaurav (5) beat Khayal Shah (3); Prativya Gupta (3) lost to Wankhade Sanskruti (4); Khawaahish Shah (2) lost to Aswatha B (3); Darsana M S (3) beat Yash Jyoti Bir (2); Kaamyaa Negi (3) beat Tanisha Chatterjee (2).
