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Hemant stuns Sahaj, joins Sankalp in lead

NEW DELHI: Hemant Sharma surprised Sahaj Grover to join Sankalp Modwal at five points in the under-17 section after five rounds of the LNJ Bhilwara students' chess tournament at the Botwinnik Chess Academy here.

In the under-10 section, Vaibhav Khanna and Aditya Vikram maintained their all-win record to stay ahead of the field.

The results:

Under-10 (fifth round): Vaibhav Khanna (5) bt Abir Sinha (4); Aditya Vikram (5) bt Yogesh Gautam (4); Harshal Sahi (3) lost to Aditya Mittal (4.5); Meharjot S. Kala (4.5) bt Aganjot S. Kala (3.5); Praneet Singla (3) lost to Aman Chawla (4); Somya Sharma (4) bt Anmol Lall (3); Rahul Chowdhary (4) bt Chiatanya Munjal (3); Sarthak Arora (3) lost to Himani Sharma (4); Yashank Ahuja (3) lost to Jai Gautam (4); Mahima Gupta (3.5) drew with Vaibhav Suri (3.5);

Fourth round: Abir bt Somya Sharma; Suri lost to Adiya Vikram; Aganjot lost to Khanna; Yogesh bt Sarthak; Chaitanya lost to Meharjot; Mittal bt Akshay Singh; Chawla bt Mayank Bhutani; Anmol bt Mudra Sahoo; Arun Soin lost to Praneet; Dhruv Jain lost to Chowdhary.

Under-17 (fifth round): Sankalp Modwal (5) bt V. Sandheep (4); Sahaj Grover (4) lost to Hemant Sharma (5); Dhara Gupta (4) drew with Kunal Gupta (4); Akanksha Narain (3) lost to Keshav Sharma (4.5); Poornima Jakhad (3) lost to Rishi Thariani (4); Sachin Tokus (3.5) drew with Akshay Razdan (3.5); Sagar Gera (3) lost to Ankit Khattar (4); Bhavya Khattar (4) bt Sahil Sankhia (3); Sandeep Singh (4) bt Hemant Tewatia (3); Nitya Ahuja (4) bt Soumya (3); (fourth round): Rishi lost to Sankalp; Hemant bt Akanksha; Ankit lost to Sahaj; Sandheep bt Sandeep; Kunal bt Bhavya; Keshav bt Sidharth Bhatia; Navneet Sharma lost to Dhara; Abhimanyu Singhal lost to Poornima; Akshay bt Prabhat Kumar; Chinmay Sahoo drew with Preetika Sayal. — Special Correspondent

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