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Aswin Jayaram ambushes Abhijeet, shares lead

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NEW DELHI: Tamil Nadu lad Aswin Jayaram turned down a draw-offer and went on to pull the rug from under the feet of overnight leader Abhijeet Gupta during a sensational ninth and penultimate round of the Parsvnath National junior chess championship here on Tuesday.

With Aswin joining Abhijeet in the lead at 7.5 points and four other players trailing by half a point, the battles for the two qualifying spots for this season's National `A' championship promise a lot on Wednesday.

The Bapu Samaj Sewa Kendra witnessed some violent battles on the leading boards with the top seed Abhijeet finding little solace in the fact that second seed G. Rohit and third seed D. Harika also ended up on the losing side.

Among the girls, Soumya Swaminathan defeated Lakshmi Sahiti to share the lead with Mary Ann Gomes and Padmini Rout at 6.5 points from eight rounds.

The results: Open (ninth round):

Abhijeet Gupta (7.5) lost to Aswin Jayaram (7.5); S.P. Sethuraman (7) bt G. Rohit (6); D. Harika (6) lost to Abhishek Das (7); G.N. Gopal (7) bt Fenil Shah (7); Akshat Khamparia (6) lost to B. Adhiban (7); Arun Karthik (6.5) bt R. Siddharth (5.5); Gurpreet Singh Maras (6) drew with R. Ashwath (6); Kranthi Kumar (5.5) lost to T. Purushothaman (6.5); Vipul Subhashi (6) drew with S. Nitin (6); Bitan Banerjee (5.5) lost to R. Premnath (6.5); Soumitra Majumdar (6.5) bt Vinay Raj Bhatt (5.5); Rahul Ved (5.5) lost to Sahaj Grover (6.5); Rahul Sangma (5.5) drew with Aniruddha Deshpande (5.5); Rahul Manohar (5) lost to V. Haribalu (6); Sumit Grover (5.5) drew with Joydeep Dutta (5.5); Prince Bajaj (5) lost to Shreyansh Daklia (6); Utkal Ranjan Sahoo (5) lost to P. Karthikeyan (6); Anwesh Upadhyaya (5.5) drew with N. Surendran (5.5); Ibrahim Dusthageer (5.5) drew with Hemant Sharma (5.5); Shyam Nikhil (5.5) bt Swapnil Dhopade (5).

Girls (eighth round):

Padmini Rout (6.5) drew with Mary Ann Gomes (6.5); Soumya Swaminathan (6.5) bt Lakshmi Sahiti (5.5); Kiran Mohanty (6) drew with M. Rajadarshini (5.5); Kruttika Nadig (6) bt P. Uthra (5); K. Tejaswi (5) lost to P. Sivasankari (6); Mahima Rajmohan (6) bt Aswathy Balagopalan (5); Saheli Nath (5) drew with Ketaki Kulkarni (5); Mohana Priya (4.5) lost to P. Priya (5.5); Devangi Patankar (5.5) bt Supriya Maji (4.5); Iswarya Shobana (5.5) bt G. Apurva (4.5); Tejaswini Reddy (5.5) bt Shaati Majumdar (4.5); R. Preethi (5) bt Ashi Gupta (4); Chandana Priya Reddy (4.5) drew with Nishad Monika (4.5); K. Nayana (5) bt Minki Sinha (4); Sukanya Dutta (5) bt Mohana Sengupta (4); Sneha Ghatpande (4.5) drew with Preetika Tayal (4.5); Thelma Gopal (5) bt Pallavi Dutta (4); Priyanka Ved (3.5) lost to P. K. Jayashree (4.5); Dhara Gupta (4.5) bt M. N. Vyshnavi (3.5); S. Saritha (3.5) lost to J. Sahari (4.5); Amita Kashikar (4.5) bt Shweta (3.5); Aditi Sharma (3) lost to Sonakshi Rathore (4.5).

Final round (leading pairings):

Boys: Adhiban - Abhijeet; Aswin - Gopal; Abhishek - Sethuraman; Purushothaman - Majumdar; Grover - Karthik.

Girls: Padmini - Soumya; Mary - Kruttika; Sivasankari - Kiran; Lakshmi - Mahima; Priya - Tejaswini; Rajadarshini - Iswarya; Devangi - Preethi.

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