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Thursday, May 18, 2006

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Sankalp Modwal bags a double

NEW DELHI: Favourite Sankalp Modwal won the boys under-17 title and made sure of the under-15 crown with a round to spare while Mathura Priya (under-13), Preetika Sayal (under-15) and Dhara Gupta (under-17) emerged champions among the girls in the Delhi State age-group chess championship at the Bapu Samaj Sewa Kendra here.

The results: Boys (sixth round): U-13: Prince Bajaj (6) bt Akshat Aggarwal (5); Ram Gupta (5.5) bt Rishi Thariani (4); Aditya Gupta (4) lost to Vaibhav Khanna (5); Vaibhav Suri (5) bt Jhujhar Singh (4); Aman Jakhar (4.5) drew with Harshal Shahi (4.5).

U-15: Rishi Thariani (5) lost to Sankalp Modwal (6); Navneet Sharma (5) bt Vaibhav Suri (4); Prince Bajaj (5) bt Rishabh Jain (4); Vinayak Bansal (4) lost to Sandeep Singh (4.5); Anshul Chawla (3.5) lost to Akshat Aggarwal (4.5).

U-17: Sankalp Modwal (5) w.o. Hemant Sharma (4); Rishi Thariani (4) drew with V. Sandheep (4); Vaibhav Khanna (3) lost to Navneet Sharma (4); Sandeep Singh (4) bt Akshat Aggarwal (3); Sahil Arora (3) lost to Hitesh Marwah (3.5).

Girls: U-13: Preetika Tayal (4.5) bt Ashi Gupta (4.5); M. Sravya (3) lost to R. Mathura Priya (4.5); Mahima Gupta (2) lost to R. Mathura Vani (4); Upasana Mahajan (3) bt Kanika Saxena (2).

U-15: Preetika Tayal (4.5) drew with Purnima Jakhar (3.5); M. Sravya (3.5) drew with R. Mathura Priya (3.5); Himani Sharma (2.5) lost to Pallavi Dutta (3.5); Ashi Gupta (2) lost to Bhavya Khattar (3.5).

U-17: Dhara Gupta (4.5) bt Bhavya Khattar (1.5); Purnima Jakhar (1) bt Preetika Tayal (3.5); Himani Sharma (3) bt Pallavi Dutta (2.5); M. Sravya (3.5) bt Upasana Mahajan (1); Kanika Saxena (3) bt Ashi Gupta (1.5).

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