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Navya and Nanditha in lead

KOZHIKODE: Navya Vyshnavi and P.V. Nanditha, with 8.5 points each, maintained the joint lead at the end of the 10th and penultimate round in the girls’ event of the National under-11 chess championship here on Tuesday.

In the boys’ section, Girish A. Kaushik, Sayantan Das and Shiven Khosle are leading the table with eight points apiece going into Wednesday’s final round.

Important results:

10th round: Boys: R. Eswar 7 lost to Girish A. Kaushik 8; Sayantan Das 8 bt Shardul Gagare 7; J. Nishvin 7 lost to Shiven Khosle 8; S. Kaushik 6.5 lost to Chandrashish Majumdar 7.5; Prince Bajaj 7 drew with J.V. Sai Kiran 7; P.V.S.M. Praveen Kumar 7.5 bt Vasantha Ruba Varman 6.5; Cyrus Pereira 6.5 lost to Aubhropratim Manna 7.5; Manush Shah 6.5 drew with G.V. Saikrishna 6.5; Vaibhav Suri 7 bt Sheikh Nubair Shah 6; Mugil Jayavel 6 lost to Niraj 7.

Girls: Navya Vyshnavi 8.5 bt Shweta Gole 7; M. Priyadarshini 6 lost to P.V. Nanditha 8.5; G. Lasya 6.5 lost to Sonakshi Rathore 7.5; Nisha Patkar 6.5 drew with G. Aiswarya 7; T. Navya 6 lost to Srishti Gautam 7; N. Akshay 6.5 bt Sunyasakta Satpathy 6; Sweety Patel 6 drew with S.G. Archana 6; Isha Bhave 5.5 lost to Michelle Catherina 6.5; S.E. Meenu Priya 6.5 bt P. Balakannamma 5.5; Akanksha Gupta 6 bt V.H. Ardra 5.5. — Principal Correspondent

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