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Fenil, Padmini impress

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NEW DELHI: Defying age and law of averages, 11-year-old Fenil Shah stole the thunder by staying undefeated against fancied rivals even as favourite Abhijeet Gupta, second seed G. Rohit and B. Adhiban won in contrasting ways to form the leaders' pack after four rounds of the Parsvnath National junior (under-19) chess championship here on Friday.

Fenil, who has a rating of 2063, held Soumitra Majumdar (2192) and fifth seed Jharkhand's Rahul Sangma (2312).

Among the girls, R. Preethi held back second seed Kruttika Nadig on the top board while Saheli Nath, defending champion Soumya Swaminathan and Supriya Maji maintained their winning run to lead with perfect scores.

Asian under-12 girls' champion Padmini Rout, who made her maiden WIM norm at the same venue in January, scalped a far more experienced Ishwarya Shobana to reach 3.5 points.

The results:

Boys: Fourth round: Akshat Khamparia (3) lost to Abhijeet Gupta (4); G. Rohit (4) bt Aswin Jayaram (3); R. Premnath (3.5) drew with D. Harika (3.5); B. Adhiban (4) bt Gurpreet Singh Maras (3); G. N. Gopal (3.5) bt Bitan Banerjee (3); Fenil Shah (3) drew with Rahul Sangma (3); Nikhil Shyam (3.5) bt Shreyansh Jain Daklia (2.5); R. Ashwath (3) drew with Ibrahim Dusthageer (3); Hemant Sharma (2.5) lost to Soumitra Majumdar (3.5); T. Purushothaman (3) bt Aniruddha Deshpande (2); Utkal Ranjan Sahoo (2) lost to S.P. Sethuraman (3); R. Siddharth (3) bt Sumit Grover (2).

Third round: Abhijeet Gupta bt S. Nitin; Avi Bagdi lost to G. Rohit; D. Harika bt V. Haribalu; Shreyansh Jain Daklia drew with G. N. Gopal; Anwesh Upadhyay lost to B. Adhiban; Ibrahim Dusthageer drew with Nikhil Shyam; Akshat Khamparia bt Joydeep Dutta; Aniruddha Deshpande drew with R. Ashwath; Aswin Jayaram bt Kranthi Kumar; Bitan Banerjee bt T. Purushotthaman; R. Premnath bt Vedprakash Sinha; Fenil Shah drew with Soumitra Majumdar.

Girls: Fourth round: Kruttika Nadig (3.5) drew with R. Preethi (3.5); Mahima Rajmohan (3) lost to Saheli Nath (4); Soumya Swaminathan (4) bt P. Uthra (3); P. K. Jayashree (3) lost to Supriya Maji (4); Kiran Mohanty (3) drew with P. Priya (2.5); Iswarya Shobana (2) lost to Padmini Rout (3); Dhara Gupta (2) lost to Mary Ann Gomes (3); M. Rajadarshini (3) bt Shaati Majumdar (2); Pallavi Dutta (2) lost to P. Lakshmi Sahiti (3); P. Sivasankari (2.5) drew with J. Sahari (2.5); Amrita Sinha (2.5) drew with Tejaswini Reddy (2.5).

Third round: Lakshmi Sahiti lost to Kruttika Nadig; Saheli Nath bt P. Sivasankari; Padmini Rout drew with Kiran Mohanty; P. Priya lost to Mahima Rajmohan; Tejaswini Reddy lost to Soumya Swaminathan; Supriya Maji bt Mohana Priya; P. Uthra bt Iswarya Shobana; M. Rajdarshini lost to P. K. Jayashree; Shweta lost to R. Preethi; Mary Ann Gomes bt Chandana Priya Reddy.

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