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Saranya wins

Arvind Aaron

CHENNAI: J. Saranya of Chennai scored a marathon penultimate round point to win the VIT National Under-13 Chess Championship with a round to spare in Vellore on Friday. Saranya won two pawns in the middlegame and defeated former National U-11 champion Priyanka Kumari of Jharkhand in 82 moves to emerge winner with the 9.5 points from ten rounds.

In the boys’ section, FIDE Master G.V. Sai Krishna of Vijayawada has established a one point lead after a win over top seed FIDE Master Sahaj Grover of Delhi.

Important results (tenth round):

Boys: G.V. Sai Krishna (AP) 9 bt Sahaj Grover (Del) 7.5, Fenil Shah (Guj) 8 drew with Vishnu Sharon (TN) 8, Shiven Khosla (Mah) 8 drew with Girish Koushik (Kar) 7.5, U.R. Sahoo (Ori) 8 bt Rishi Thariani (Del) 7, G. Akash (TN) 7.5 drew with S.S. Manidandan (TN) 7.5, N. Manjunath (Kar) 8 bt R. Eswar (AP) 7.

Girls: J. Saranya (TN) 9.5 bt Priyanka Kumari (Jha) 7.5, Cholleti Sahajasri (AP) 7 lost to P.V. Nandhidhaa (TN) 8, M. Mahalakshmi (TN) 7 lost to Anjana Krishna (Ker) 8, Vanessa D’souza (Kar) 7.5 bt B. Jeyassri (TN) 6.5, Bala Kannamma (TN) 7 drew with Srija Seshadri (TN) 7, Michelle Catherina (TN) 7 drew with Ivana Furtado (Goa) 6.5, B. Prattyusha (AP) 7 bt Navya Vyshnavi (AP) 6.

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