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Rohit consolidates position

By Arvind Aaron

Chennai May 21. G. Rohit of Champions Academy, Andhra Pradesh, stretched his lead to a full point after a comfortable round nine victory in the boys under-14 section of the 15th Ramco National under-12 and 14 boys and girls chess championships being played here at the SBOA School on Tuesday.

Rohit won a 39-move Rossolimo attack game with the white pieces against Vipal Subhashi of Bihar to tally eight points from nine games. Two rounds remain to be played in this Rs.1 lakh prize money event organised by the Capa Chess Academy.

In a well-contested section, a one-point lead looks large. Six players are in the second spot with seven points and they include S. Arun Prasad (TN), Purushothaman (CHMP), Akshay Raj Kore (MASC), Sriram Sarja (Kar), Deep Sen Gupta (AICF), Ninad Vijay Puranik (Mah).

Rohit needs a win or two draws to win the title and book a seat in the Indian contingent to Greece this November. A defeat could open up the section.

Kesavananda Krishna trains G. Rohit of Guntur, sponsored by Hero Honda. The leader board remained unchanged in the boys under-12 section with fighting draws recorded in the top four tables. This section is heading for a photo finish with defending champion Vijay Keerthi (Kar), C.R.G. Krishna (AP) and Subodh Lakhey (Mah) running neck and neck with 7.5 points.

Eight players are in the second spot with seven points and it includes the talented nine-year-old Delhi player Parimarjan Negi who won with the white pieces on Tuesday.

Mary Ann Gomes of Goodricke National Academy scored a clinical win over T. Vennela of Champions Academy with the black pieces after winning white's queen with a knight check to move up the table to seven points.

In the same girls under 14 section Kiran Monisha Mohanty of Orissa prevailed over Mugdha Variyar of Maharashtra to join Gomes in the second spot with seven points. Leader, Saheli Nath (7.5 points) of West Bengal was held to a draw by Tamil Nadu's talent, Ishwarya Shobana in a pawn ending and as a result got her lead trimmed to half a point.

In the girls under 12 section, Mitali Patil of Maharashtra put the brakes on Ramya Krishna's winning rhythm by holding her to a draw in a marathon opposite colour bishop ending. Getting a fortress in a dead drawn ending, Mitali claimed a draw with arbiter B. Sakthi Prabhakar of Chennai before which Ramya Krishna herself agreed to it.

Ramya Krishna is on 8.5 points after this result while Praneetha, her state mate is close on her heels with eight points. Three players are in third place with seven points and they include Mitali Patil, V.K. Sindhu and Anjanyaa N. Sowjanyaa.

The results (round nine): boys under-12: Subodh Lakhey (Mah) 7.5 drew with K. Vijay Keerthi (Kar) 7.5, V. Sandheep (AP) 7 drew C.R.G. Krishna (AP) 7.5, Debadittya Sinha Biswas (WB) 7 drew with Akshay Bhor (Mah) 7, P. Saravana Krishnan (TNGR) 7 drew with M. Suraj (Kar) 6.5, Parimarjan Negi (Del) 7 bt N. Srinath (TN) 6, K.H. Sanjoy Singh (Mani) 6 lost to S.P. Sethuraman (TN) 7, Navneet Detha (Raj) 7 bt G.S. Sreejith (Ker) 6, S. Saikrishna (AP) 7 bt Karan Kapoor (Pun) 6, Soumya Thakurta (WB) 6 drew with Sa Kannan (TN) 6.5, C. Sachin (Ker) 6 drew with A. Tejdeep (CAH) 6, D. Sai Srinivas (AP) 6.5 bt B. Adithya (NCA) 5.5, R. Premnath (MONT) 5.5 lost to Souvik Chakraborthy (ACC) 6.5, Rahul Gupta (CGS) 6.5 bt Abhishek Kelkar (Mah) 5.5, Aswin Jayaram (TN) 5.5 lost to R. Ananth (TN) 6.5, K.S. Srikar (UMMR) 6.5 bt Sankalp Modwal (Del) 5.5, M. Shyam Sundar (TN) 6 drew with Nirmal Jyoti Sharma (Assm) 6, S. Karthikeyan (TN) 5.5 lost to Snehal Bhosale (Mah) 6.5, Gobin Luwang (Mani) 6 drew with N. Surendar (TN) 6, R. Arun Karthik (TN) 6.5 bt Arvind Kishore (TN) 5.5, Jain Shrenhik Daklia (CGS) 6.5 bt Salil Sunit Nitsure (Mah) 5.5, K. Narayanan (TN) 6 bt A. Iyan Karukuvel Rajan (TN) 5, Yuzvendari Chehal (Har) 6 bt Mahudeeswaran (TN) 5, Siddartha Das (WB) 5 lost to B. Adhiban (AVC) 6, S. Nitin (TN) 5.5 drew with Al. Palaniappan (TN) 5.5, V. Somesh (AP) 5.5 drew with Shubam Pinge (Goa) 5.5, P.P.Prachura (MASC) 6 bt P.Karthikeyan (Capa) 5, Neeraj Mor (Har) 6 bt Sunil Shetty (NALA) 5.

Girls under-12: Mitali Patil (Mah) 7 drew I.Ramya Krishna (CAH) 8.5, Kiruba Helen Arasu (TN) 6 lost to K.L.Praneetha (TNAP) 8, V.K.Sindhu (TN) 7 bt P.L.Sahiti (AP) 6, Anjanaa N.Sowjanyaa (TN) 7 bt M.Soundaram (TN) 6, L.Sudharsana (TN) 6 drew Kajri Chokshi (Guj) 6, Devangi R.Patankar (Mah) 6.5 bt A.Seetha (TN) 5.5, Bhakti Kulkarni (Goa) 6.5 bt Shruti Ratnakar (Mah) 5.5, P.K.Jayashree (CHRC) 6.5 bt Priya Sandhya (TNGR) 5, Payal Guha (ACC) 5.5 drew S.Harini (AICF) 5.5, Shradha Mohanan (Goa) 5 lost to Dhayani Dave (Guj) 6, Gayathri M.Velu (Mah) 6 bt V.Pragna Patavi (CHMP) 5, M.Khushboo (TNGR) 5.5 drew S.Tulasi (Capa) 5.5, Sriya Bhattacharjee (WB) 6 bt Shalini Srivastava (Jhkd) 5, K.E.R.Ranjitha (TN) 5 lost to Priya Ratnam (Bih) 6, Saba Mhate (Mah) 5.5 drew P.Uthra (TN) 5,5, K.Vaishnavi (TN) 5.5 drew Pon N.Krithikha (MONT) 5, Dipanwita Dav Barman (Assm) 4.5 lost to Ch. Divyashree (AP) 5.5, J.Mohana Priya (TN) 5.5 bt M.Aruthi (TN) 4.5, N.S.Sindhu (Ori) 5 drew D.Tejasri (AP) 5, V.Nisha (Pon) 5 drew D.S.Maanasa Priyaa (TN) 5, Shreyasi Parkhi (NCA) 5.5 bt C.P.Aatirah (Ker) 5, Bishnu Priya Bala (Jhkd) 5 bt M.Manogna (AP) 4, G.Madanashree (AP) 5 bt K.Anusha (TN) 4, S.Athirai (TN) 5 bt G.Vandhana (TN) 4.

Boys under-14: G.Rohit (CHMP) 8 bt Vipal Subhashi (Bih) 6.5, S.Arun Prasad (TN) 7 drew Purushothaman (CHMP) 7, Akshay Raj Kore (MASC) 7 drew Sriram Sarja (Kar) 7, T.U.Navin Kanna (AVAD) 6 lost to Deep Sen Gupta (AICF) 7, Ninad Vijay Puranik (Mah) 7 bt P.Praveen Prasad (AP) 6, Abhijeet Gupta (Raj) 6.5 bt V.Haribalu (TNA) 6, Anshuman Purankar (NCA) 5.5 lost to Joydeep Dutta (ACC) 6.5, Rahul Sangma (GNC) 6.5 bt Raju Singh (Mani) 5.5, R.Shrinivasan (CCAI) 6.5 bt G.N.Gopal (Lak) 5.5, Debayan Majumdar (WB) 5.5 lost to Ved Prakash Sinha (Bih) 6.5, Pratik Shriwas (NCA) 6.5 bt S.Shrivatsh (TN) 5.5, Bharath Raj Kidambi (TN) 6.5 bt Saurav Chakraborti (ACC) 5.5, Sankar Majumder (WB) 5.5 lost to V.Karthik (TN) 6.5, Vishal Shah (VENU) 6 bt Faisal Farooq (J&K) 5, K.Prasanna (TN) 5.5 drew Trialokya Nanda (Assm) 5.5, S.Sakthi Nandhan (TN) 6 bt T.Karthik Anand (TN) 5, Shasang Singh (Assm) 5 lost to Soumitra Majumdar (Mah) 6, Shanmuganathanan (TN) 6 bt S.Narendra Kumar (AACA) 5, S.Ameya Kamli (Mah) 5 lost to Aurovind Khuntia (Ori) 6, T.Abhay (TN) 5 drew R.K.Ranjith (CHRC) 5.5, Aniket Patni (MP) 5 drew Raghul Ghosh (WB) 5, Souparno Ghosh (ACC) 5 drew Prakash V.Rao (Kar) 5, R.Ganesh Kumar (TN) 4.5 lost to Rajib Dhar (Assm) 5.5, Ishan Nadkarni (Mah) 5.5 bt K.Abishek (Capa) 4.5, R.Rajesh (Capa) 5 drew S.Sri Prasanth (TN) 5, Yashas (Vara) 5 drew A.Taibang Nganba (Mani) 5, Vineeth P.Kaimal (Ker) 4.5 lost to M.M.Anand Raj (TN) 5.5, Abinash Dash (Ori) 5 drew Vikram Saralaya (Kar) 5, Tejas Rajendra (Mah) 4.5 lost to C.Vinith (TN) 5.5, J.Ram Kumar (TN) 5.5 bt M.Vinodh (Pon) 4, Kunal Gupta (Del) 4.5 drew C.R.Arun Hariharan (TN) 4.5, Pranjal (Bih) 4.5 drew V.B.Manikandan (NLC) 4.5, Sumit Shaw (ACC) 5 bt R.Parthiban (TN) 4, S.Santhosh (TN) 4.5 drew Satyakam Dash (Ori) 4.5.

Girls under-14: Saheli Nath (WB) 7.5 drew L.Ishwarya Shobana (TN) 6.5, T.Vennela (AP) 6 lost to Mary Ann Gomes (GNC) 7, Kiran Monisha Mohanty (Ori) 7 bt Mugdha S.Variyar (Mah) 5.5, Meenu Rajendran (Ker) 5.5 lost to M.Rajadarshini (TN) 6.5, Banashree Banik (WB) 5.5 lost to J.Megha (Kar) 6.5, N.Raghavi (TN) 6.5 bt Anoori Shah (Guj) 5, Soumya Swaminathan (Mah) 5.5 drew Abhisikta Patnaik (Ori) 5.5, Purva S.Variyar (Mah) 5 lost to Kruttika Nadig (VENU) 6, P.Sivasankari (TNA) 5.5 drew R.Varsha (TN) 5.5, Janani Priya (CHRC) 4.5 lost to K.Nayana (AP) 5.5, R.K.Shruke (AACA) 5.5 bt Radha Rani Ray (Ori) 4.5, J.Rajasurya (ECC) 5.5 bt Nishitha Balgi (Mah) 4.5, E.K.A.Aarthi Lakshmi (AVAD) 5.5 bt H.P.Pallavi Maiya (Kar) 4.5, M.Padmashree (CHC) 5 bt K.Radhika (Capa) 4.5, Durga Bhavani (AP) 4 lost to Suchandra Chattopadyay (ACC) 5, S.Ramya (Pon) 5 bt B.Shenbaga Priya (Capa) 4, M.Namitha (Kar) 4 lost to V.Sindhu Bhairavi (Pon) 5, R.Sharanya (MOUN) 5 bt S.Bharathi (NLC) 4, Prachi Thite (Mah) 5 bt M.Abirami (TN) 3.5, Gayatri Balu (Lak) 4 drew Teenu Josia (Ker) 4, V.Tejasvi (TN) 4 drew Amita Kashikar (NCA) 4, G.Apoorva (TN) 4 drew G.Pratheeka (Kar) 4, S.Sushma (NALA) 4 drew Priyanka Ved (Mah) 4, V.J.Niranjana Bharathi (TN) 4 bt Geetha Sruthi (TNA) 3, T.Vishnu Priya (TN) 3 lost to V.Jyotsna (TNA) 4, Uma Maheshwari (Pon) 3.5 drew B.Kalashree (Kar) 3.5, K.Mrunalini (MASC) 3 lost to Sneha Shekhar Ghatpande (Mah) 4, B.L.Keerthi (AP) 3 drew B.D.Impana (Kar) 3, Amisha Pable (MP) 3 drew Swati Shivam Jha (UP) 3, C.A.Soumyashree (Kar) 3 bt L.Anitha (Mah) 2.5, Neha Bharadwaj (Har) 2 drew Goli Sandhya (AP) 3, D.Vidhya (TN) 3.5 - bye.

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