Date:06/05/2006 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2006/05/06/stories/2006050613491800.htm

Sport - Chess

Three share under-7 title

NEW DELHI: Sharvi Goel, Vanshika Aggarwal and Niharika Joshi shared the girls' under-7 title after aggregating three points each from five rounds in the Delhi State age-group chess championship here.

In the boys' under-11 section, Vaibhav Khanna surprised top seed and the only FIDE rated player in the field Rishi Thariani in the second round.

Other results (second round): Boys (under-7): Harshal Shahi (2) bt Chaitanyayadav (1); Sarthak Arora (1) lost to Bharat Gupta (2); Manan Rai (2) bt Swayam Bhatia (1); Aditya Jain (1) lost to Kartik Arora (2); G. Sidharth (2) bt Anish Jain (1); Arham Baid (2) bt Shrey Aggarwal (1). (Under-9): Prince Bajaj (2) bt Pavit Singh (1); Aditya Vikram (2) bt Ayush (1); Rishabh (1) lost to Soumya Sharma (2); Abhinav Gola (1) lost to Vaibhav Suri (2); Saksham Arora (2) bt Tushar Anand (1); Deven Raj Anand (2) bt Anmol Lal (1); Ayush Bahri (1) lost to Yashank Ahuja (2); Agamjot Singh (1) lost to Sarthak Gupta (2); Chaitanya Yadav (1) lost to Manan Chandhok (2); Karan Jain (1) lost to Vedant Kedia (2); Sarthak Mahajan (2) bt Taha Saad (1); Shrey Aggarwal (1) lost to Bharat Gupta (2).

(Under-11): Viabhav Khanna (2) bt Rishi Thariani (1); Prince Bajaj (2) bt Abhinav Gola (1); Karan Jain (1) lost to Aditya Vikram (2); Ram Gupta (2) beat Simarpal Singh (1); Anish Jain (1) lost to Nirbhay Nanda (2); J. Gautam (2) bt Gandharv Kumar (1); Utkrisht (1) lost to Abir Sinha (2); Aman Jakhar (2) bt Yashashwat (1); Nirwan Baranya (2) bt Parth Bhatia (1); Saksham Arora (2) bt Shourya Khanna (1).

Girls (under-9): Lavanya Virmani (1) lost to Saloni Sachdeva (2); Mudra Shahi (2) bt Gressha Mehra (1); Muskan Narang (1) lost to R. Mathura Vani (2); Bani Kochhar (1) bt Zeenat (0); Aditi Gupta (1) bt Ashna Jain (0); Sania Hussain (1) bye.

(Under-11): Mahima Gupta (2) bt Saloni Sachdeva (1); Himani Sharma (2) bt Priyam Chalia (1); Arunima Kalra (2) bt Vaishali (1); Neha Sharma (0) lost to Sarah Hussain (1); R. Mathura Vani (1) bt Gressha Mehta (0); Ashna Aggarwal (1) bye.