Date:28/10/2007 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2007/10/28/stories/2007102861531700.htm

Sport - Chess

Nanditha, Shiven in lead

KOZHIKODE: Shiven Khosle and P.V. Nanditha emerged as the sole leaders in the boys’ and girls’ sections respectively, at the end of the sixth round of the National under-11 chess championship, here on Saturday.

Important results (sixth round): Boys: Vaibhav Suri 4.5 lost to Shiven Khosle 5.5; Girish A. Kaushik 4.5 drew with Sayantan Das 5; R. Eswar 5 bt G.V. Saikrishna 4; Osama Saleem 4.5 drew with Shardul Gagre 4.5; Utkal Ranjan Sahu 4.5 drew with Aubhropratim Manna 4.5; Ayush Jugle 4.5 drew with Chanrashish Majumdar 4.5; G. Akash 4.5 drew with Rakesh Kumar Naik 4.5; Prince Bajaj 4.5 drew with S. Kaushik 4.5; P.V.S.M. Praveen Kumar 5 bt Samyak Vaid 4.

Girls: P.V. Nanditha 5.5 bt Navy Vyshnavi 5; S.E. Meenu Priya 4 lost to Michelle Catherina 5; T. Navya 4 lost to G. Aiswarya 5; G. Lasya 5 bt Sunyasakata Satpathy 4; Sweety Patel 4 drew with N. Akshaya 4; Shweta Gole 4 drew with Sonakshi Rathore 4; Nisha Patkar 4 drew with P. Balakannamma 4; G. Radhika 3.5 lost to Akanksha Gupta 4.5; Soumy Mukherjee 3.5 drew with Joanne Pais 3.5; P. Sujitha 3.5 drew with B.N. Gangamma 3.5. — Principal Correspondent