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Harshal Shahi in lead

NEW DELHI: Harshal Shahi scored an important victory over second seed Hetul Shah to emerge as the sole leader after the 10th and penultimate round of the Parsvnath National under-9 chess championship at the Bapu Samaj Sewa Kendra here on Monday.

Harshal’s 47-move victory in Ruy Lopez raised his tally to nine points. He is half-a-point ahead of Tamil Nadu’s Jerome Jorge Ebenezer. The boys will meet in the final round to decide the winner.

Among the girls, overnight leader Kerala’s C.H. Meghna drew with Tamil Nadu’s R. Manjula to stay ahead of the field. She has 8.5 points and needs only a draw in the final round to take the title.

The results (10th round):

Open: Harshal Shahi (Del, 9) bt Hetul Shah (Guj, 8); Jerome Jorge Ebenezer (TN, 8.5) bt Anirudh V. Bhat (Goa, 7.5); Arjun Bharat (Kar, 7.5) lost to Nachiket Dhonnar (Mah, 8); R.U. Anantharam (Kar, 7) lost to Jeet Jain (Guj, 8); Mihir Desai (Mah, 7.5) lost to Pavit Singh (Del, 7.5); C. Saivishvesh (TN, 7.5) bt Abinash Dutta (Asm, 6.5); Adrash Shrivastava (U.P., 7.5) bt S. Sriram (TN, 6.5); Aditya Vaidya (Guj, 7.5) bt Y. Sai Akshay (AP, 6.5); Manan Rai (Del, 6) lost to Murali Karthikeyan (TN, 7); Rishubh Naik (Goa, 6) lost to Abhimanyu Puranik (Mah, 7); Kushagra Sharma (Raj, 6) lost to Poras Kolgane (7); Harmeet Thurkan (Har, 6) lost to Raloue Kapoor (Mah, 7); M. Aadhityaa (TN, 6) lost to Ritviz Parab (Goa, 7); Aniruddh Aiyengar (TN, 6) lost to M. Sabhareesh (TN, 7); Ankit Sinha (Ben, 7) bt Saeesh Bandodkar (Goa, 6); V. Aravindh (TN, 7) bt G. Siddharth (Del, 6); Suvradeepta Das (Ben, 7) bt G. Kailash (TN, 5.5); M. Jayesh (TN, 5.5) lost to Sharan Rao (Kar, 6.5); Devang Bisani (MP, 6.5) bt Parva Ajmera (Guj, 5.5).

Girls: C.H. Meghna (Ker, 8.5) drew with R. Manjula (TN, 7.5); Parveen Hilmi (Ker, 7) lost to Ivana Furtado (Goa, 8); K. Niveditha (TN, 7.5) bt Kratika Shekhawat (Raj, 7); Tejaswini Sagar (Mah, 6.5) lost to Riya Savant (Goa, 7.5); Abirami Ravi (TN, 6) lost to Gauri Hadkonkar (Goa, 7); Shreya Sankalp (Bih, 6) lost to Chandreyee Hazra (Ben, 7); Pooja Senapati (Ori, 6) lost to Shiny Das (Tri, 7); Srirbrinda Rout (Ori, 6) lost to Ekisha Basu (Mah, 6.5); Kritika Choudhary (Bih, 5.5) lost to Rutuja Bakshi (Mah, 6.5); P. Varsini (TN, 5.5) lost to S. Priyanka (AP, 6.5); K. Rakshana (TN, 6.5) bt K. Vaisalie (TN, 5.5); A.S. Saughanthika (TN, 6.5) bt Akankshya Nayak (Ori, 5); Anjali Manoj ((Ker, 5) lost to M. Tulsi (Kar, 6); Bansi Prathima (AP, 6) bt G. Rohini (TN, 5); Khushita Shah (Guj, 6) bt Bipasha Patra (Ben, 5); Sonal Mandhana (Mah, 6) bt C.R. Varsha (TN, 5); M.C. Deepika (TN, 6) bt Pratistha Prasad (Jha, 5); P. Preethy (Pon, 6) bt Kavana Prabhu (Kar, 5); Adyasha Pattnaik (Ori, 5) drew with K. Nagadrithi (TN, 5); Sharvi Goel (Del, 5) drew with Kesshini Bhasiin (Del, 5).

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