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Anirudh Bhat moves ahead

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NEW DELHI: Goa’s Anirudh Bhat snatched the lead with a resounding 37-move victory over Karnataka’s R.U. Anantharam in the seventh round of the Parsvnath National under-9 chess championship at the Bapu Samaj Sewa Kendra here on Saturday.

Top seed Arjun Bharat (Karnataka) drew with second seed Hetul Shah Gujarat in 45 moves on the second board.

Anirudh leads with 6.5 points, half a point ahead of Anantharam, Hetul, Harshal Shahi, M. Aaditya and Aditya Vaidya.

Ivana beats Meghna

In the girls’ section, two-time World under-8 champion and top seed Ivana Furtado ended the winning streak of Kerala’s C.H. Meghna.

Ivana, Meghna, S. Akhila, Shiny Das and Sribrinda Rout share the lead with six points.

The results:

Open: (seventh round): Anirudh Bhat (Goa, 6.5) bt R.U. Anantharam (Kar, 6); Arjun Bharat (Kar, 5.5) drew with Hetul Shah (Guj, 6); Harshal Shahi (Del, 6) bt M. Arvind (TN, 5); Abhimanyu Puranik (Mah, 5) lost to M. Aadityaa (TN, 6); Nachiket Dhonnar (Man, 5) lost to Aditya Vaidya (Guj, 6); Poras Kolgane (Mah, 4.5) lost to Ravindra Muttineni (AP, 5.5); Jrerome Jorge Ebenezer (TN, 5.5) bt Harmeet Thurkan (Har, 4.5); Pavit Singh (Del, 5.5) bt Gaurav Kumar (Bih, 4.5); Abinash Dutta (Asm, 5.5) bt M. Sabhareesh (TN, 4.5); Yashaswat Srivastva (Del, 5.5) bt Adarsh Srivastava (UP. 4.5).

Sixth round: Anantharam bt Arjun; Arvind lost to Bhat; Hetul bt Rishubh Naik; Jayant Chauhan lost to Harshal; Ebenezer drew with Kolgane; Ravindra drew with Pavit; Aadhityaa bt Harikrishanan; Aditya bt Kaustuv Kundu; Aniruddh Aiyengar lost to Puranik; Ankit Sinha drew with Yashaswat.

Girls (seventh round): Ivana Furtado (Goa, 6) bt C.H. Meghna (Ker, 6); Tejaswini Sagar (Mah, 5) lost to S. Akhila (AP, 6); Shiny Das (Tri, 6) bt Shreya Sankalp (Bih, 5); A. S. Saughanthika (TN, 4.5) lost to Sribrinda Rout (Ori, 6); Riya Savant (Goa, 5.5) bt Rutuja Bakshi (Mah, 4.5); R. Manjula (TN, 5) bt Abirami Ravi (TN, 4); K. Niveditha (TN, 5) bt Asmita Das Munsi (Ben, 4); Chandreyee Hazra (Ben, 5) bt P. Preethy (Pon, 4); Gauri Hadkonkar (Goa, 4) lost to K. Rakshana (TN, 5); Pratistha Prasad (Har, 4) lost to Parveen Hilmi (Ker, 5).

Sixth round: Meghna bt Riya; Rakshana lost to Ivana; Abhirami lost to Shiny; Akhila bt G. Rohini; Shreya bt Gauri; Parveen lost to Tejaswini; Sribrinda bt R. Manjula; Rutuja bt K. Vaisalie; Sharvi Goel lost to Saughanthika; Adyasha lost to K. Nivedita.

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