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Wednesday, Dec 29, 2004

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Sahaj in the van

AHMEDABAD, DEC. 28 . Thirteenth seed Sahaj Grover of Delhi routed 11th seed Viani Antonio of Karnataka to become sole leader with seven points at the end of seventh round in the Under-9 boys' National chess championship at the Karnavati Club here on Tuesday. Sahaj is followed by seven players — Viani Antonio, Megh Patel, Karma Pandya, Fennil Shah, V. Rajesh, Gottipati Vijaya and Subham Lakudkar — with six points each.

Important results: Boys: Sahaj Grover (Delhi) (7) bt Viani Antonio (Kar) (6); Gottipati Vijaya (6) bt Ajay Srinath (TN) (5); Subham Lakudkar (Mah) (6) bt Yashas D (Kar) (4.5); Anurag Mhamal (Goa) (5.5) bt Gurrala Nikhileshwar (AP) (4.5); A. Vishwanath Prasad (AP) (5.5) bt Asim Mehta (4.5); L. Mahindra Venkat (AP) (5.5) bt Chandrashis Mazumdar (ACC) (4.5); Vishawjeet Kirane (Mah) (4.5) lost to Mehar Chinnareddy (AP) (5.5); K. Murali Krishna (AP) (5.5) bt S.K. Abdul Azeez (4.5); S. Shashank (TN) (5.5) bt Aditya Narayan Das (4).

Girls: A.R. Priya (AP) (5.5) drew with C.H. Sahajasri (AP) (6.5); Soumya Shrivastava (Mah) (5) lost to Tejaswini Reddy (AP) (6); Agnihotri Ghosh (ACC) (5) lost to K. Vyshali (AP) (6); J. Vaishnavi (TN) (5) lost to K. Sai Nirupama (AP) (6); Chandana Reddy (AP) (5) bt Sonakshi Rathore (Raj) (4.5); Srinidhi Nagarajan (TN) (5) bt Anjana Krishna (Kerala) (4); Anvesh Agrahari (Chhattisgarh) (4) lost to Priyanka Kumari (Jhar) (5); G. Abhinaya (TN) (4) lost to S. Sindhuja (TN) (5); J. Saranya (TN) (5) bt R. Geetika (AP) (4); K. Swathi (TN) (4) lost to V. Aishwarya (TN) (5); Kumari Niketa (Jhar) (4) lost to V. Niranjiny (TN) (5); N.L.V. Anusha (AP) (4) lost to Y. Sai Laxmi (AP) (5). — UNI

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