Sports & Allied News
JAMMU, Dec 14:
Grandmasters, Aravindh Chithambaram, Vaibhav Suri, Sangupta Deep and International Master (IM), Stany maintained the joint lead of 6.5 points at the end of eighth round in the National Open Senior Chess Championship underway, here today.
As many as six players are following at the second spot with six points in respective accounts. They are GM Anurag Mhamal, GM Tejas Bakre, GM Abhijeet Gupta, GM Deepan Chakraborty, GM Vishnu Prasanna, GM Praveen Thipsay and IM Nitiin.
Pertinent to mention here that 162 players from 27 states and eight other special units of the country, including Air India, Railways, Services and Petroleum Sports Promotion Board (SPPB) ar participating in this 13 round competition. The participants included 50 titled players.
Since all the states are allowed to field a four-member team, J&K had an exception with eight participants. While State top seed, Soham Kamotra has earned 4.5 points out of seven rounds while another promising player, Sumit Grover and Ajit Singh have four points each in their accounts.
Other participants from J&K are Khalid Amin, SP Sharma, Ashutosh Jamwal, Surinder and Ankush Bhardwaj.
Earlier, during the day, special guest, Director Sports and Physical Education, University of Jammu (JU), Dr. Daud Iqbal Baba interacted with the participants before the start of round eight.
The Results: Top Boards: GM Vishnu Prasanna of Tamil Nadu drew with GM Aravindh Chithambaram; IM Stany of AAI beat GM Anurag Mhamal of Goa; GM Vaibhav Suri of PSPB beat GM Swapnil S Dhopade of RSPB; GM Sengupta Deep of PSPB beat G B Harshavardhan of Tamil Nadu; GM Gupta Abhijeet of PSPB beat Sammed Jayakumar Shete; GM Deepan Chakkravarthy of RSPB beat IM Rajesh of Tamil Nadu; IM Karthikeyan of RSPB drew with Viani Antonio Dcunha of Karnataka; GM Thipsay Praveen of Maharashtra beat IM Vignesh of Tamil Nadu; IM Rahul Srivatshav of Telangana lost to IM Nitin of RSPB; IM Rathnakaran of RSPB drew with IM Akash of Tamil Nadu; Ritviz Parnab of Goa lost to GM Bakre Tejas of Air India; FM Navalgund Niranjan of Karnataka drew with GM Neelotpal Das of PSPB; GM Sundararajan Kidambi of Tamil Nadu beat Mahindrakar Indrajeet of Maharashtra; Sankalp Gupta of Maharashtra drew with GM Karthikeyan Murali of PSPB; IM Navin Kanna of DASCB drew with GM Chanda Sandipan of West Bengal; IM Girinath of RSPB lost to GM Karthik Venkataraman of Andhra Pradesh; IM Konguvel Ponnuswamy lost to IM Krishna of RSPB; IM Swayams Mishra of Air India drew with IM Saravana Krishnan of Tamil Nadu; IM Shyaam Nikhil of RSPB drew with FM Dushyant Sharma of Punjab; GM Laxman of RSPB drew with GM Roy Chowdhury Saptarshi of RSPB.
