Leaders keep lead

AHMEDABAD, DEC. 29. Thursday's leaders, including unseeded Thounaojam Gobind of Manipur in Under-9 boys, second seeded I. Ramya Krishna in Under-9 girls, third seeded S. Ravi Teja in Under-7 boys and P.L. Sahiti in Under-7 girls, all three from Andhra Pradesh, maintained their lead in their respective categories with an identical score of seven points each at the end of the seventh round in the 14th National children chess championship at the Orient Club here on Friday.

Important results: under-9 boys: shreyans Daklia (MP) (5.5) lost to Thounaojam Gobind (Man) (7), Prabuddha Ghosh (WB) (6) bt Nilesh Mukerjee (WB) (5), V.Karthik (TN) (5) lost to Y. Sandeep (AP) (6), Navneet Detha (Raj) (6) bt G.S. Sreejith (Ker) (4.5), Sankalp Modwal (Del) (4.5) lost to C.R.G. Krishna (AP) (5.5), Arijit Ghosh (WB) (4.5) lost to Yuzvendra S. (Har) (5.5), S. Nitin (TN) (5.5) bt J.J. Vale Prasadh (TN) (4.5).

Under-9 girls: I.Ramya Krishna (AP) (7) bt N. Pragna Patvi (AP) (5), Mitali Patil (Mah) (5) lost to D. Meenu (AP) (6), P.K. Jayashree (TN) (5.5) bt Mrunmayee S (Mah) (4.5), Bhakti Kulkarni (Goa) (5) bt Priya Ratnam (Bih) (4), P. Uthra (tn) (4.5) drew with Payal Guha (WB) (4.5), Shruti Ratnakar (Mah) (5) bt Kiruba H Arasu (TN) (4), Sonam Shah (Guj) (5) bt Lakshmi Praneetha (AP) (4), Dhyani Dave (Guj) (4.5) drew with Gayathri M Velu (Mah) (4.5).

Under-7 boys: Kumar Gaurav (Bih) (5.5) lost to S. Ravi Teja (AP) (7), Dhaval Adhav (Mah) (5) lost to Mohd Fawaz (Ker) (6), Tarun Murli (Ecc) (5.5) bt Vishal Thakre (Mah) (4.5), Bitan Banerjee (WB) (4.5) lost to P. Negi (Del) (5.5), A. Balkishan (Kar) (4.5) lost to K. Priyadarshani (TN) (5.5), Aditya Udeshi (Mah) (5) drew with Anirban Pati (Bih) (5).

Under-7 girls: P.L. Sahiti (AP) (7) bt Akshatha Bhat (Kar) (5), Amirthavalli G. (TN) (4.5) lost to C.H. Savetha (TN) (6), Lopamudra Guha (WB) (5) bt Pallabi Roy (WB) (4), T. Amrutha Varshini (AP) (5) bt Chaitramukund (Mah) (4), Manasi Kulkarni (Mah) (4) lost to P. Priya (TN) (5), G. Madan Shree (AP) (5) bt Anuja N Borkar (Mah) (4).

- UNI

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