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Prince Bajaj wins two rapid titles

NEW DELHI: World under-8 silver medallist, Prince Bajaj, lived up to the expectations by winning the Delhi State under-14 and 12 rapid chess titles at the Amity International School, Saket, here.

Prince, the third seed, headed a three-way tie in the u-14 section on a superior tie-breaker score. Vaibhav Suri and Ram Gupta took the next two spots.

Earlier, in the u-12 section, too, Prince enjoyed better progressive score than Suri.

In the girls' u-14, Arunima Kalra and R. Mathura Priya were declared joint-winners after a round-robin competition.

The results: Open: Under-14: Fifth round: Vaibhav Suri (4.5) drew with Prince Bajaj (4.5); Parth Bhatia (3) lost to Rishi Thariani (4); Jhujhar Singh (3) lost to Vaibhav Khanna (4); Jotish Roy (3) lost to Yogesh Gautam (4); Tarun Malhotra (2.5) lost to Rishabh Jain (4); Iqbal Singh (3) drew with Neetyakshaya Singh (3); Nirbhay Nanda (3) bt Swayam Bhatia (2); Anirudh Singh Negi (3) bt V. Arjun (2); Siddharth Gupta (3) bt Jayesh R. Mondal (2); Vasu Sharma (3) bt Mayank Rathee (2); Shreyas Lakhtakiya (3) bt Varun Puri (2); Tushar Anand (3) bt Utkarsh Makkar (1.5); Dhruv Gupta (1.5) lost to Divij Sachdev (2); Bharat Pillay (2) bt Shlok Singh (1); Sarthak Mahajan (1.5) drew with Sarth Khare (1.5). Final standing: 1-2. Prince Bajaj and Vaibhav Suri; 3-6. Rishi Thariani, Vaibhav Khanna, Yogesh Gautam and Rishabh Jain.

Open: U-12: Seventh round: Vaibhav Suri (6) drew with Prince Bajaj (6); Ram Gupta (6) bt Pavit Singh (4.5); Harshal Shahi (4) lost to Rishi Thariani (5.5); G. Siddharth (4) lost to Vaibhav Khanna (5); Tarun Malhotra (4.5) drew with Shubham Bhaskar (4.5); Anmol Lal (4) lost to Deep Kapoor (5); Bharat Gupta (4) lost to Sarthak Arora (5); Manan Chandok (3.5) lost to Iqbal Singh (5); Simarpal (3.5) lost to Tushar Anand (4.5); Divij Sachdev (3) lost to Parth Bhatia (4.5); Nirbhay Nanda (4) bt Saksham Arora (3); Gautam (3) lost to Anshul Aggarwal (4); Shaswat Kishore (3) lost to G. Swaminathan (4); Sarthak Mahajan (4) bt Swayam Bhatia (3); Arsh Verma (2.5) lost to Parth Arora (3.5); Ashitabh Mishra (3.5) bt Siddhant Dhingra (2.5); Shabad Singh (2.5) lost to Harsh Sharma (3.5); Vinayak Seth (3.5) bt Savar Arora (2.5); Aryaman Sethi (2.5) drew with Shlok Singh (2.5); Avyakt Sethi (2) lost to Mankirat Singh (3); Bhanu Aggarwal (2) lost to Jayesh R. Mondal (3); Aditya Rai Khullar (2.5) bt Sparsh Chawla (1.5); Rishab Mahajan (2) bye. Final standing: 1-3. Prince Bajaj, Vaibhav Suri and Ram Gupta; 4. Rishi Thariani; 5-8. Vaibhav Khanna, Iqbal Singh, Deep Kapoor and Sarthak Arora.

Girls: U-14: Fifth round: R. Mathura Vani (3) bt Madhurima Shekhar (1); Upasana Mahajan (2) lost to Arunima Kalra (4.5); R. Mathura Priya (4.5) bye. Final standing: 1-2. Arunima Kalra and R. Mathura Priya; 3. R. Mathura Vani.

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