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Hemant triumphs

NEW DELHI: Hemant Sharma won the Delhi under-16 rapid chess title by aggregating 4.5 points from five rounds.

Among the girls, Preetika Tayal topped a four-way tie for the title with 3.5 points.

The results: Open u-16 rapid (fifth round): Hemant Sharma (4.5) bt Sandeep Singh (3.5); Vaibhav Suri (4) bt Prince Bajaj; Yogesh Gautam (3) lost to Ram Gupta (4); Akshat Agarwal (3.5) bt Nirbhay Nanda (2.5); Harshal Shahi (3) bt Nityakshya Singh (2.5); Vaibhav Khanna (3) bt Kuldeep Kumar (2); Tarun Malhotra (3) bt Hitesh Marwah (2); Jyotish Joy (2.5) drew with Yogesh Rawat (2.5); Hemant Tewatia (2.5) bt Anirudh Singh Negi (1); Bharat Pillai (1) lost to Rohit Sharma (2.5); Rishi Thariani (1) lost to Digvijay Chauhan (2); Vallabh Dhanija (1) bt Karan Mathur (0). Final standing: 1. Hemant Sharma, 2-3. Vaibhav Suri and Ram Gupta, 4-6. Sandeep Singh, Prince Bajaj and Akshat Agarwal, 7-10. Yogesh Gautam, Vaibhav Khanna, Harshal Shahi and Tarun Malhotra. Girls' u-16 rapid (fifth round): Preetika Tayal (3.5) lost to Dhara Gupta (3.5); R. Mathura Vani (2) lost to Nupur Suri (3.5); Mudra Shahi (1) lost to R. Mathura Priya (3); Pallavi Dutta (3.5) bye. Final standing: 1-4. Preetika Tayal, Dhara Gupta, Nupur Suri and Pallavi Dutta.

Open: u-13 (fourth round): Vaibhav Khanna (3) lost to Vaibhav Suri (4); Nirbhay Nanda (3) lost to Prince Bajaj (4); Gautam (3) drew with Ram Gupta ( 3.5); Rishi Thariani (3.5) bt Anirudh Singh Negi (2.5); Harshal Shahi (3) bt Deep Kapoor (2.5); Abir Sinha (3) bt Rahul Pratap Singh (2); Pavit Singh (3) bt Aditya Gupta (2); Prachet Sharma (3) bt Divij Sachdev (2); G. Siddharth (2) lost to Iqbal Singh (3); Simar Pal Singh (3) bt Ishan Sheikh (2); Manan Chandhoke (2.5) drew with G. Swaminathan (2.5); Tushar Anand (2) lost to Mayank Rathee (3); Parth Bhatia (2) lost to Tarun Malhotra (3); Inderdeep Singh (2) drew with Shreyas Lakhtakia (2); Sanchit Gupta (1.5) lost to Sarthak Mahajan (2.5); Varun Puri (2.5) bt Ashitabh Misra (1); Aditya Khuller (2) bt Savar Arora (1); Bharat Pillai (2) bt Shashwat Kishore (1); Dhruv Gupta (2) bt Shubham Tripathi (1); Siddhanth Dhingra (1.5) drew with Dhruv Sachdev (1.5); Swayam Bhatia (1.5) drew with Jay Ashish Seth (1.5); Mankirat S. Khurana (1.5) drew with Varun Mahajan (1.5); Pranav Bassi (1) lost to Utkarsh Makkar (2); Anmol Lal (1.5) bt Anshul Aggarwal (0.5); Arjun Rai Gupta (0.5) lost to Manan Rai (1.5); Avijit Vajpayee (1) bt Pranav Pal Singh (0.5); Jaydeep (0) lost to Bhanu Agarwal (0.5); Jayesh R. Mondal (1) bye. Girls' u-13 (third round): Upasana Mahajan (2.5) drew with Arunima Kalra (2.5); Kesshni Bhasin (2) bt K. Sushmita (1.5); Himani Sharma (2) bt Sonali Mahajan (1); Shyamli Badgaiyan (1) lost to Madhurima Shekhar (2); R. Mathuravani (1.5) bt Soma Samantarai (1); Priyam Chaliha (1) bye.

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