Ilamparthi stays atop

Pondicherry: Tamil Nadu’s Ilamparthi AR continued to lead the points table in the boy’s category of the 30th National U-7 chess championship in Pondicherry on Sunday. Illamparthi has nine points from as many rounds while Priyansh Das (Odisha), Daaewik Wadhawan (Delhi) and Advait Patil (Maharastra) are joint second with 7.5 points.

Telangana State’s Aadireddy Arjun and Sai Rishiraj are joint fifth with six points. In the girl’s category, Shefali AN of Karnataka beat Saineha RM of Tamil Nadu to remain in joint lead with Sneha Halder on West Bengal. Sneha defeated Suhaani Lohia of Maharashtra in the ninth round.

Results (Round-9): Boys: Ilamparthi (TN,9) bt Aryan Mohapatra (Odisha,7), Priansh Das (Odisha,7.5) bt Kshatriya Nitin Vekhande (Mah,7), Adireddy Arjun (TS,6) lost to Advait Prashant Patil(Mah,7), Ganesh Sai Siddarth (TS,5.5) lost to Pranav K(TN,6.5), Rohith Karthikeshwar (TS,5) lost to Iyer Aarav (Mah,6), Sai Rishiraj P(TS,6) bt Rishikesh(Kerala,5), Aarav Nambiar T (TS,4.5) lost to Maaz Iqubal(UP,5.5), Shubh Kalangutkar (Goa,5)

drew with Abhiraaj Arora (TS,5), Arith Agarwal (Delhi,4.5) lost to Suhaas A(TS,5.5), Shorya Mohta (Chattisgarh,4) lost to Luksh Jain (TS,5), Deepesh (Pondicherry, 4.5) bt Raghu Ram Reddy Seelam(TS,3.5); Girls: Shefali AN (Kar,8) bt Saineha R M (TN,7),

Sneha Halder (WB,8) bt Suhaani Lohia (Mah, 6.5), Lakshana R (TN,6.5) lost to Sarvani Cheedella (AP,7.5), Doyal Naidu (AP,7) bt Anishka Pandey (Odisha,6), Reddy Rimitha R (TS,6) bt Shriya Patil (Goa,5.5), Sanjana Nagarajan (TN,6) bt Jangam Abigna (TS,5),Annika Reddy (TS,4) bt Namokshethaa(TN,3)