Second seed Sankalp Gupta handed top seed Kaustav Chatterjee his first defeat and shared the lead with Utsab Chatterjee, Soham Kamotra and Ajay Karthikeyan on seven points after the eighth round of the 44th National under-15 open chess championship at Kalyani on Sunday.
In the girls’ competition, Diya Deshmukh was the sole leader on seven points after eight rounds.
Important results (eighth round): Sankalp Gupta (Mah) 7 bt Kaustav Chatterjee (Ben) 6.5; Ajay Karthikeyan (TN) 7 bt V.S. Raahul (TN) 6; Soham Kamotra (JK) 7 bt Mendonca Leon Luke (Goa) 6; Kushagra Mohan (Tel) 5.5 lost to Utsab Chatterjee (Ben) 7; Aronyak Ghosh (Ben) 6.5 bt D.G. Sanjay (TN) 5.5; G.B. Harshavardhan (TN) 6.5 bt P. Jagdish (Kar) 5.5; M. Mohamed Anees (TN) 5.5 lost to L. Srihari (Pud) 6.5; Moksh Amit Doshi (Guj) 5 lost to Jayachandra Srinivas Vellanki (TN) 6; Aan Sikka (Del) lost to P. Yutesh (TN) 6; Avinesh Ramesh (TN) 5 lost to Shuban Saha (WB) 6 .
