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Upset win for Saravanakrishnan

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SIVAKASI: P. Saravanakrishnan of Tamil Nadu caused major upset of the day in round three of the Sri Kaliswari College National junior chess championships, defeating former world under-12 championship silver medallist, G. Rohit in just 24 moves here on Tuesday.

Four players were leading in the boys' section with three points each, while Koneru Chandrahawsa of Andhra Pradesh and H. Sowmya of Tamil Nadu share the lead with three points apiece in the girls' section.

The results (TN unless mentioned): Boys: (round 3): P. Maheswarn 2.5 drew with Deepan Chakravarthy 2.5; G. Rohit (AP) 2 lost to P. Saravanakrishnan 3; P. Karthikeyan 2 lost to Sengupta Deep (Jha) 3; S. Arun Prasad 3 bt Vipal Subashi (Bih) 2; S. Nitin 2.5 drew with Saptarishi Roy 2.5 (WB); T. Abhay 2.5 drew with Bagdi Avi (MP) 2.5; V. Haribalu 2 lost to Rohan Vijay Sandilya (Jha) 3; Akshat Kamparia (MP) 2.5 drew with Saurav Roop (Bih) 2.5; Dhar Rajib (Asm) 1.5 lost to G.N. Gopal (Ker) 2.5; Rahul M. Ved (Mah) 2 drew with T. Purushotaman (AP) 2; K. Narayanan 1.5 lost to Abhisek Das (Jha) 2.5; G. Santosh Kumar 1.5 lost to Tanmoy Pattanayak (WB) 2.5; S.A. Kannan 1.5 lost to Aswin Jayaraman 2.5 ; T.U. Navin Khanna 2.5 bt R. Pawashe Aniket (Kar) 1.5; Vikram Saralaya (Kar) 2.5 bt Sannidhya Narayan (MP) 1.5; M. Shyam Sundar 2 drew with C.R. Arun Hariharan 2; Sangma Rahul (Bih) 2 bt M. Kathiravan (Pon) 1; Somak Palit (WB) 2 bt Aswath P. Hari 1; Soumitra Majumdar (Mah) 2 bt Abhinav (Pun) 1; K.V. Ven Prakash 2 bt Ankesh Dube (MP) 1; Anuj Varma (Pun) 1 lost to R.K. Ranjith 2; G. Aswin 1 lost to D. Krishna 2; Venkat Sundaram 1 lost to Anurudh Garg (Pun) 2; Girish A. Koushik (Kar) 1.5 drew with Halsagar S. Chincholimath (Kar) 1.5; Deshpande Aniruddha (Mah) 2 bt M. Giriselvam 1; Himanshu Basin (Pun) 2 bt N. Lokesh 1; A. Kedarnath 1.5 drew with Vijay Kumar (Bih) 1.5; J. Arun 1.5 drew with A. Nagarjuna 1.5; N. Vignesh 2 bt N. Rajkumar 1; Varun Vij (Pun) 1 lost to Raunak Tongia (MP) 2; Akshay Jain (MP) 2 bt Sai Vasava Dutta (AP) 1; Ravi (Pun) 1.5 drew with E. Sharath 1.5; Ashish Kumar (Jha) 1 lost to Subhansu Mohan Satpaty (Ori) 2; Nandan Buragohain (Asm) 2 bt Tralakya Doley (Asm) 1; Saikat Chakrabarthy (Asm) 1.5 drew with N.U. Sriram 1.5; Sumit (Pun) 1.5 drew with S. Sriprasanth 1.5; Neeraj Khera (Pun) 1.5 drew with S.R. Harikrishna (Ker) 1.5; Sane Akshay (Mah) 1 drew with Ujjwal (Pun)1; Amravansh (Pun) 1.5 bt Rajinder Kumar (Chd) 0.5; K.K. Jayadevan (Ker) 0 lost K.A. Haja Mohideen 1; Rajkumar Mishra (MP) 0 lost to Manish Sharma (Jha) 1; Biswajit Bharatwaj (Asm) 1 bt Rahul Shetye (Goa) 0; R. Ganesh 1 bt Sidhi Mayekar (Goa) 0; R. Ram 0 lost to Mehanjul Hoda (Bih) 1; Adharsh P. Nishwant lost to Vignesh (Ker) 1; R. Sreeram 0 lost to Amar Sen 1; Vinit Bansal (Pun) 1 bt K. Bharathiraja (Pon) 0; Visu Vasanth 0 lost to Eshwant Dev Kumar 1; Gajendra Karekar 0 lost to B. Vinod Kumar (Pon) 1.

Girls: Kiran Monisha Mohanty (Ori) 2 lost to Koneru Chandrahawsa (AP) 3; Supriya Maji (WB) 2.5 drew with P. Priya 2.5; Amrutha Mokal (Mah) 2 lost to H. Soumya 3; Baisakhi Das (WB) 2.5 drew with A.G. Nimmy (Ker) 2.5; Mary Ann Gomes (WB) 2.5 drew with R. Preethi 2.5; A. Sithalatchumi 1.5 lost to Soumiya Swaminathan (Mah) 2.5; L. Iswarya Shobana 1.5 lost to P. Uthra 2.5; M. Rajadharshini 2 drew with S. Athirai 2; Mahima Rajmohan 2.5 bt B. Thivya (Pon); P. Sivasankari 2 bt Nandhini Devi 1.5; J. Rajasurya 2 bt R. Nandhuja 1; Sonia (Pun) 1 lost to Meenu Rajendran (Ker) 2; S. Harini 2 bt Neha Tolani (MP) 1; Ashwathy Balagopalan (Ker) 2 bt Pallavi Bharatwaj (Kar) 1; Kiruba Helen Arasu 2 bt Soniya Tolani (MP) 1; Sowmya Shanbag 1 lost to G. Apurva 2; P. Sujitha 2 bt Supriya Shanbag (Goa) 1; Aparajita Gochikar (Ori) 2 bt Teenu Thomas (Ker) 1; Karuna (Pun) 1 lost to R. Visaltchi 2; Lakshmi Shri (Bih) 1 lost to R. Yasotha 2; Shalini Srivatsava (Jha) 1.5 bt Aarti (Pun) 0.5; M. Aruthi 1.5 drew with A. Sowmia 1.5; Nagachandrika (AP) 1.5 bt Sanghamitra Hardique (Asm) 0.5; Afreen Deshpande (Mah) bt Moniya Tolani (MP) 0; Anupam Kumari (Pun) 0 lost to Neha Patankar (Mah) 1; Manju Devi (Asm) 1 bt Deepika 0.

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