NEW DELHI: Kesshni Bhasin of Modern School (Vasant Vihar) defeated Vanshika Aggarwal in the fourth round to win the girls' under-9 title in the Amity Delhi State chess championship at the Amity International School, Saket, here.

Kesshni (4 points) and Vanshika (3) will represent Delhi in the National girls' (under-9) championship.

In the open under-9 section, Soumya Sharma defeated second-seeded Harshal Shahi, the country's youngest rated player, in the fourth round to join top-seeded Prince Bajaj in the lead at four points.

The results:

Girls under-9 (fourth round): Kesshni Bhasin (4) bt Vanshika Aggarwal (3); Abhilasha Mittal (3) bt Sharvi Goyal (2); Bani Kochar (2) lost to Devasri Lal (3); Niharika Joshi (2) bt Ananya Bagla (1); Priyansha Kalra (2) bt Stuti Dewan (1); Aamna Munjal (1) bye.

Third round: Vanshika bt Abhilasha; Stuti lost to Keeshnis; Ananya lost to Sharvi; Devasri bt Priyashna; Aamna lost to Bani; Niharika bye.

Second round: Abhilasha bt Devasri; Kesshni bt Ananya; Bani lost to Vanshika; Priyashna bt Aamna; Sharvi bt Niharika; Stuti bye.

First round: Aamna lost to Kesshni; Niharika lost to Abhilasha; Ananya bt Priyashna; Sharvi lost to Bani; Devasri bt Stuti; Vanshika bye.

Open under-9 (fourth round): Agamjot Kals (3) lost to Prince Bajaj (4); Harshal Shahi (3) lost to Soumya Sharma (4); Bharat Gupta (3.5) bt Utkarsh Khaneja (3); Arman Puri (2) lost to Manan Rai (3); Pavit Singh (3) bt Arsh Verma (2); Aryan Bhatia (2) lost to Parth Bhatia (3); G. Siddharth (2) lost to Sarthak Arora (3); Himmaj Soni (2) lost to Shrey Aggarwal (3); Vineet (2) lost to Inderdeep Singh (3); Swayam Bhatia (2) lost to Jayant Chouhan (3); Sarthak Bansal (1.5) lost to Harmeet Thukran (2); Rishabh Lugani (2) bt Angad Singh (1); Rohan Gupta (2) bt Chirag Gupta (1); Jasmeet Nagrath (2) bt Shaurya Khanna (1); Samarth Srivastav (1) lost to Karan Jain (2); Saransh Gupta (1) lost to Milind Umesh (2); Yatin Agarwal (1) lost to Mrigaank Agarwal (2); Ashwin Prabhu (0.5) lost to Tarun Malhotra (2); Jushan Kalra (1.5) bt Rushil Vohra (0.5); Sharmik Rawal (0) lost to Yashaswat Srivastava (1.5); Tushar (0.5) drew with Siddhant Dutta (0.5).

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