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Negi, Sethuraman continue to lead

NEW DELHI DEC. 28. Parimarjan Negi and S.P. Sethuraman continued to lead the field with 8.5 points each after the 10th and penultimate round of the National under-10 chess championship at the Bapu Samaj Sewa Kendra here on Sunday.

Negi drew with Tejesh Chandra and Sethuraman held the top seed Y. Sandeep. Since Negi has a better tie-break score, he will take the title even if he ties for it on Monday.

Among the girls, Devangi Patankar regained the lead after beating S.V. Sathya Priya in the eighth and penultimate round. On the top board, Bhakti Kulkarni drew with G. Madansri.

The results:

Boys: 10th round: Y. Sandeep (8) drew with S.P. Sethuraman (8.5); S. Tejesh Chandra (7.5) drew with Parimarjan Negi (8.5); Biten Banerjee (7.5) bt P. Prachura (7); Shubham Pinge (7.5) bt A. Balkishan (6.5); Debashish Das (6.5) lost to S. Nitin (7.5); R. Aditya Vikas (6.5) lost to G.A. Stany (7.5); Mandar Rode (7) bt Sandipan Chatterjee (6); S. Karthikeyan (6.5) drew with K. Jaswant (6.5); Aditya Singh (6) lost to B. Adhiban (7); Navneet Sharma (7) bt Ankan Modak (6); M. Shyam Sunder (6) lost to Archit Mokshi (7); Vishal Thakre (7) bt M. Rajesh (6); Abhratanu Dutta (7) bt V. Nikhil Shah (6); Mohit Hingorani (5.5) lost to Ved Prakash (7); Rishab Mishra (5.5) lost to M. Surendran (6.5).

Girls: Eighth round: Bhakti Kulkarni (6) drew with G. Madanasri (6.5); S.V. Sathya Priya (5.5) lost to Devangi Patankar (7); S.L. Padmaja (5.5) drew with Pon. N. Krithikha (5.5); Y. Niharika (5) lost to Divyasree Ch. (6); V. Chaitnya (5.5) drew with D. Tejasri (5.5); Pallabi Roy (5.5) drew with P. Lakshmi Sahiti (5); C.P. Aatirah (5) drew with Rani Pammi (5); K.E.R. Ranjitha (5.5) bt Pavithra Jagtap (4.5); S. Priyanka (4.5) lost to Macrina Lobo (5.5); Shalini Srivastava (5.5) bt Iora M. Pinto (4.5); Bishnu Priya Bala (4) lost to Surbhi Munot (5); Saranya Banerjee (5) bt Rama Kumari (4); R. Bharati (4) lost to R. Visala (5); Akshata R. Bhat (4) lost to Priya Sandhya (5).

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