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Chaos prevails at National children's tourney

By Our Sports Reporter

KOLKATA DEC. 24. The 16th edition of the National children's chess for under-13 and under-11 categories saw chaos and confusion reign supreme in the opening rounds as the premier sub-junior tournament got underway at the Salt Lake Stadium here on Monday.

The meet, which presented a staggering field of above 450 participants in four categories, left the organiser, West Bengal Chess Association, bemused. The first round saw numerous repetitions forcing the All India Chess Federation arbiters withhold the first round results to rework the pairings.

The correct results came to light only prior to the second round on Tuesday. Though having cleared a lot of the mess, the organiser is yet to trace the affiliation of each of the participants as the initial round results came up without naming the State which a player is representing.

The top seeded players took full points and the first two rounds did not see much upsets in the boys' under-13 section, while the under-11 boys' second round appeared to be a mine-field as top seed Akash Das Sarma fell to 74th seeded Meghan Sushil Gupte and the fourth seeded B. Adhiban and fifth seeded Y. Sandeep were held to draws.

In the girls' under-13 section second round, top seeded Mary Ann Gomes was held to draw by 42nd seeded N. Janani Priya. Fourth seeded M. Rajdarshini met the same fate as Gomes while fifth seeded Saheli Nath was beaten by 46th seeded Prachi Nand Kishore.

The results:

Boys under-13 (second round): Abhijeet Gupta 2 bt Ankit Khattar 1; Rahul Sangma 2 bt Anuj Vijay Tawari 1; Arindam Das 1 lost to Akshat Khamparia 2; Arjun P.K. 1 lost to Soumya Thakurta 2; T.R. Shanmuganathan 2 bt Arpan Basu 1; Ashish Kumar 2 bt K. Vijaykeerthi 1; T. Abhay 2 bt Arpan Sarkar 1; Soumitra Majumdar 2 bt Jas Karan Jit Singh 1; M. Subachandran 1.5 drew with Aswin Jayaram 1.5; S. Sri. Prasanth 1.5 drew with Jayendra Singh 1.5.

Boys under-13 (first round): K.V. Prashant Kumar 0 lost to Abhijeet Gupta 1; Tejdeep Abadala 0.5 drew with K.V. Venprakash 0.5; L. Kamli Ameya 0 lost to Rahul Sangma 1; Akshat Khamparia 1 bt Karam Keshav Varadwa 0; L. Srikara Chary 0.5 drew with Dasarai Sai Srinivas 0.5; Soumya Thakurta 1 bt Liru Ramachandran 0; M. Anand 0 lost to T.R. Shanmuganathan 1; K. Vijayakeerthi 1 bt M. Gopikrishna 0; M.R. Lalith Babu 0 lost to T. Abhay 1; Vishal Shah 0 lost to M. Subachandran 1.

Boys under-11 (second round): Akash Das Sarma 1 lost to Meghan Sushil Gupta 2; K. Narayanan 2 bt P.S. Sai Sasank 1; Navneet Sharma 1.5 drew with B. Adhiban 1.5; Y. Sandeep 1.5 drew with Prabuddha Ghosh 1.5; Prachura P.P. 2 bt R. Aditya Vikas 1.

Boys under-11 (first round): N. Sriram 0 lost to Akash Das Sarma 1; S. Kathikeyan 0.5 drew with N. Sunderan 0.5; N.V. Shivu 0 lost to K. Narayanan 1; B. Adhiban 1 bt Naren Nagarajan 0; B. Swakmie 0 lost to Y. Sandeep 1.

Girls under-13 (second round): Mary Ann Gomes 1.5 drew with N. Janani Priya 1.5; Raghavi N. 2 bt Nimalka M. Sequeira 1; P. Sivasankari 1.5 drew with Rajadarshini M. 1.5; Saheli Nath 1 lost to Prachi Nand Kishor 2; Priya Ratnam 1 lost to Anjana N. Sowjanya 2; R.K. Shruke 1.5 drew with Anu Gupta 1.5; Raja Surya G. 2 bt Balgi Nisshata D. 1; C. Khongsit 1 lost to Puja Katiyar 2; D.S. Manasa Priya 1.5 drew with R. Preethi 1.5; Roshni S. 2 bt Dipanwita Deb Barman 1.

Girls under-13 (first round): L. Sudarshana 0 lost to Raghavi 1; M. Rajdarshini 1 bt L.V. Nongkhlaw 0; M. Kayathri 0 lost to Saheli Nath 1; R. Saranya 0.5 drew with M. Soundaram 0.5; Minki Sinha 1 bt Amita Kashikar 0; Anjana N. Sowjanya 1 bt Minu Rajendran 0; N. Janani Priya 1 bt U. Ankita Kini 0; Anu Gupta 1 bt Namrata Desai 0; Nimakala M. Sequeira 1 bt Anupama Rathore 0; Aushi Jain 0 lost to P. Shivasankari 1.

Girls under-11 (second round): Ramya Krishna 2 bt K. Phanichandra 1; Manabi Chouhan 1.5 drew with A. Sithalatchumi 1.5; Akanksha Narain 1 lost to Manasa K. 2; Anita Gupta 1 lost to Mitali Madhukar Pati 2; Barsha Mukherjee 1 lost to N. Pragna Patavi 2.

Girls under-11 (first round): Monica Nishad 0 lost to Ramya Krishna 1; A. Sithalatchumi 1 bt Monogna Mandhava 0; Moumita Mukherjee 0 lost to Akansha Narain 1; Akshta Desai 0 lost to N. Pragna Patavi 1; Nagma Khatoon 0 lost to Anita Gupta 1.

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