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Meghna in sole lead

NEW DELHI: Karnataka’s Arjun Bharat and R.U. Anantharam, along with Tamil Nadu’s M. Arvind, maintained their all-win sequence to share the lead after five rounds of the Parsvnath National under-9 chess championship here on Friday.

In the girls’ section, Kerala’s C.H. Meghna emerged the sole leader with five points following her top-board victory over Goa’s Gauri Hadkonkar.

The results (fifth round): Open: Arjun Bharat (Kar, 5) bt M. Aadhityaa (TN, 4); Anirudh Bhat (Goa, 4.5) drew with Hetul Shah (Guj, 4.5); Harshal Shahi (Del, 4) lost to R. U. Anantharam (Kar, 5); Poras Kolgane (Mah, 4) lost to M. Arvind (TN, 5); Pavit Singh (Del, 4) drew with Nachiket Dhonnar (Mah, 4); Abhimanyu Puranik (Mah, 4) drew with Ankit Sinha (Ben, 4); M. Karthikeyan (TN, 3) lost to Jerome Jorge Ebenezer (TN, 4); Jeet Jain (Guj, 3) lost to Rishubh Naik (Goa, 4); Kaustav Kundu (Ben, 4) bt M. Jayesh (TN, 3); Sai Akshay (AP, 4) drew with Harmeet Thurkan (Har, 3.5). Girls: Gauri Hadkonkar (Goa, 4) lost to C. H. Meghna (Ker, 5); Riya Savant (Goa, 4.5) bt R. Manjula (4); Shiny Das (Tri, 4) drew with S. Akhila (AP, 4); Ivana Furtado (Goa, 4) bt P. Preethy (Pon, 3); K. Niveditha (TN, 3) lost to Ravi Abirami (TN, 4); G. Rohini (TN, 3) bt Advasha Pattnaik (Ori, 3); Akankshya Nayak (Ori, 3) lost to K. Rakshana (TN, 4); Bipasha Patra (Ben, 3) lost to Shreya Sankalp (Bih, 4); Sovna Jena (Ori, 3) lost to Parveen Hilmi (Ker, 4); Tejaswini Sagar (Mah, 4) bt Kesshni Bhasiin (Del, 3).

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