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In Short
Top seeds fall in round 7 of the 52nd National Sub-Junior Chess Championship in Telangana, leaving Prishita Gupta as the sole leader in the girls' category.
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Badole Shaunak and Jval Saurin Patel
Upsets dominated the 52nd National Sub-Junior Chess Championship, organised by the Telangana State Chess Association, as several top-rated players suffered defeats.
Gujarat’s top seed Jval Saurin Patel and Madhya Pradesh’s second seed Madhvendra Pratap Singh were among the prominent players to lose their seventh-round games. Badole Shaunak of Maharashtra, Parambrata Sarkar of West Bengal, S Madhesh Kumar of Puducherry and Christy George of Kerala shared the lead with 6.5 points in the open category.
In the girls’ section, Delhi’s FM Prishita Gupta emerged as the sole leader with 6.5 points after defeating Tamil Nadu’s Shanmathi Sree. A series of draws on the next five boards kept the standings tight.
Maharashtra’s Sai Vijaysinh Patil and Uttar Pradesh’s Archita Agarwal were joint second with six points each.
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