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Vaibhav, Arunima triumph

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NEW DELHI: Vaibhav Suri of Raghubir Junior Modern School won the Delhi under-13 chess title at the Amity International School, Saket, here on Tuesday.

Suri and Prince Bajaj were tied at six points after seven rounds but the former was adjudged the winner on superior tie-break score.

In the girls' section, the spin of the coin favoured Arunima Kalra, who was declared the champion after she tied with Upasana Mahajan for the title following identical tiebreak scores.

The results: Open: U-13 (seventh round): Prince Bajaj (6) bt Rishi Thariani (5.5); Vaibhav Suri (6) bt Ram Gupta (4.5); Deep Kapoor (4.5) lost to Vaibhav Khanna (5.5); Anirudh Singh Negi (5.5) bt Prachet Sharma (4.5); Tarun Malhotra (4) lost to Abir Sinha (5); Iqbal Singh (4.5) drew with Sarthak Mahajan (4.5); Pavit Singh (4.5) drew with Shreyas Lakhtakia (4.5); Rahul Pratap Singh (5) bt Simar Pal Singh (4); Manan Rai (3.5) lost to Harshal Shahi (4.5); G. Swaminathan (4.5) bt Anmol Lal (3.5); Mankirat S. Khurana ( 4.5) bt Inderdeep Singh (3.5); Manan Chandhok (3.5) lost to Mayank Rathee ( 4.5); Nirbhay Nanda (4) bt Parth Bhatia (3); G. Siddharth (4) bt Avijit Vajpayee (3); Gautam (4) bt Dhruv Gupta (3); Divij Sachdev (3) lost to Tushar Anand (4); Jay Ashish Seth (2.5) lost to Varun Puri (4); Aditya Gupta (2.5) lost to Sanchit Gupta (3.5); Swayam Bhatia (2.5) lost to Anshul Aggarwal (3.5); Ishan Sheikh (3) bt Siddhanth Dhingra (2.5); Shubham Tripathi (3) bt Aditya Khuller (2); Utkarsh Makkar (2.5) drew with Bhanu Agarwal (2.5); Bharat Pillai (2) lost to Jayesh R. Mondal (3); Jaydeep (2) lost to Shashwat Kishore (3); Varun Mahajan (2) lost to Ashitabh Misra (2.5); Pranav Pal Singh (2) drew with Dhruv Sachdev (2); Pranav Bassi (2) bt Savar Arora (1); Arjun Rai Gupta (1.5) bye.

Final standing: 1-2. Vaibhav Suri and Prince Bajaj; 3-5. Rishi Thariani, Vaibhav Khanna and Anirudh Singh Negi; 6-7. Abir Sinha and Rahul Pratap Singh.

Girls: U-13 (fourth round): Arunima Kalra (3.5) bt Himani Sharma (2); Upasana Mahajan (3.5) bt Kesshni Bhasiin (2); Madhurima Shekhar (2) lost to R. Mathura Vani (2.5); K. Sushmitha (1.5) received a walkover from Priyam Chaliha (1); Sonali Mahajan (2) bt Shyamli Badgaiyan (1); Soma Samantarai (2) bye.

Final standing: 1-2. Arunima Kalra and Upasana Mahajan; 3-7. R.

Mathuravani, Madhurima Shekhar, Himani Sharma, Kesshni Bhasiin and Soma Samantrai.

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