New Delhi: With one round remaining, Jammu & Kashmir girl Arushi Kotwal assured the title in the Under-7 Girls category of the ongoing Asian School Chess Championship here at Indira Gandhi Stadium on Wednesday. In the penultimate round, Arushi defeated Divya Deshmukh to take her tally to eight points from as many matches and have a clear two point lead over her nearest rivals. In the final round tomorrow, Arushi is paired against Vrunda Naik and the outcome of result will not affect her title.
Meanwhile in the Under-15 Open section, top seed Girish Koushik signed the peace treaty with second seed Rishi Sardana and have the company of Anish Gandhi at top of point table. Anish beat Dhulipala Bala Chandra Prasad in the eighth round. In the girls section of this age category, second seed Delhi girl Madhurima Shekhar settled for half point against Arunima Goyal in the eighth round and have half point lead over top seed Nandhidhaa P V.
In the Under-13 Open section, top seed Diptayan Ghosh maintained his perfect run in the championship and have full point lead over his nearest rival national junior champion Aravindh Chithambaram. A draw in the final round against third seed Sidhant Mohapatra will pave the path for his title. In the Under-7 Open category, Abdusattorov Nodirbek of Uzbekistan is leading with seven and half points and apart from this category, Indian players are dominating the proceedings in all other categories.
The ninth and final round of the championship will be played on Thursday and closing ceremony scheduled at 1600 hrs.
Important Results Round -8 (Indians otherwise stated) :-
Under-15 Open
Rishi Sardana (5) drew with FM Girish A Koushik (6.5); Anish Gandhi (6.5) beat Dhulipala Bala Chandra Prasad (5); Satkar Chirag (6) beat Isakzhanov Kelsinbek of Kyrgyz (5); Deep Kapoor (5.5) beat Ayush Garg (4.5); Yap Wan Lin of Malaysia (5.5) beat Tushar Anand (4.5).
Under-15 Girls
Arunima Goyal (4.5) drew with Madhurima Shekhar (7); Nandhidhaa P V (6.5) beat Matta Theja Sahhethhe (5); Gangamma B N (4.5) lost to Akhade Vaishnavi (5); Yashoda Maladkar (4) lost to Deodhar Vrushali Umesh (5.5); Vaibhavi Thakur (4.5) drew with Aarudhra Ganesh (4.5).
Under-13 Open
Shailesh Dravid (5.5) lost to FM Ghosh Diptayan (8); Dixit Nikhil (5.5) lost to FM Aravindh Chitharmbaram V R (7); Sidhant Mohapatra (6) beat Majed Al-Rashidy of UAE (5); Krishna Teja (6) Taalaibekiv Tagir of Krgyzstan (5); Satvik M (5.5) drew with Ritviz Parab (5.5).
Under-13 Girls
Shiny Das (5.5) lost to Smaraki Mohanty (6.5); Manasa B R (5) lost to Manjula R (6); Shoumi Mukerjee (4.5) lost to Shweta Priyadarshini (6); Meghna C H (5.5) beat Bhagya Jayesh (4.5); Meghna Upadhyay (4) lost to Ranasinghe Thinithi Sahanika of Sri Lanka (5.5).
Under-11 Open
Aradhya Garg (6.5) beat Siva Mahadevan (6.5); Abhishek A (6.5) beat Matta Besh Vignesh Reddy (5.5); Barath Kalyan M (6.5) beat Pruthu Deshpande (5.5); Aryan Chopra (6) beat Atharvaa P (5.5); Harikrishnan A (5) lost to Navnitan S V (6).
Under-11 Girls
Harishita Guddanti (5.5) lost to WFM Tarini Goyal (6.5); Musaeva Shakhnazi of Kyrgyzstan (5) lost to Khushi Dharewa (6.5); Vaisalie K (6) beat Sneha N G (5.5); Chitlange Sakhsi (5.5) drew with Shah Vishwa (5.5); Hilmi Parveen (5.5) beat Vaishnavi Thakur (4.5).
Under-9 Open
Iniyan P (8) beat Cheela Naga Sampath (5.5); Ram Aravind L N (7) beat Rahul Srivatshav P (6); Barath M (6) beat Kouchaki Penchah Jaber of Iran (5); Saurabh Anand (5.5) drew with Samal Ansuman (5.5); Aansh Gupta (6) beat Subhasis Barik (5).
Under-9 Girls
Vantika Agrawal (7) beat Adyasa Mahapatra (5.5); Askey Roshell Nathasha of Sri Lanka (5) lost to Samriddhaa Ghosh (7); Tejasvi M (6) beat Kaur Palkin (5); Swera Ana Braganza (6) beat Rajashree Rajeev (4.5); Makhija Aashna (4.5) lost to Bommini Mounika Akshya (5.5).
Under-7 Open
Raja Rithvik R (5) lost to Abdusattorov Nodirbek of Uzbekistan (7.5); Joy Anmol Rath (5.5) lost to Kushagra Mohan (7); Lye Lik Zang of Malaysia (6) beat Akilesh Viswaa (5.5); Mohit Kamal Rath (5) lost to Aryan Ranjan (6); Shah Aryan (6) beat Manpreet Singh (5).
Under-7 Girls
Arushi Kotwal (8) beat Divya Deshmukh (5); Niranjana Aishwarya Dass B (5) lost to Bhagyashree Patil (6); Bristy Mukherjee (6) beat Sayantika Nag (5); Mehendi Sil (5.5) beat Mrudual Dehankar (4.5); Samarasinghe Sithumi of Sri Lanka (5) beat David Avril R (4).
Under-5 Open
Solomko Artur of Kyrgyzstan (6) lost to Suyash Pai (7); Jyothis R (5) lost to Sumukh M G (6); Pranesh M (5) lost to Vallabh kavi (6); Al Taher Khaled Tarek (4.5) lost to Aum N Desai (5); Devansh Ajay Sarda (5) beat Prajval Vikas Koli (4).
Under-5 Girls
Tanisha Chatterjee (4) lost to Darsana M S (6); Wankhade Sanskruti (6) beat Khawaahish Shah (4); Shitika Raj (4) lost to Kaamyaa Negi (5); Khayal Shah (3) lost to Prathivya Gupta (5); Aswatha B (4) beat Srenethra R K (1.5).
