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Harshal and Meghna win titles

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LITTLE CHAMPIONS: C.H. Meghna (Kerala) and Harshal Shahi (Delhi) winners of the Parsvnath National under-9 chess championship.

NEW DELHI: Local favourite Harshal Shahi and Kerala’s C.H. Meghna did the needful in the 11th and final round to claim the honours in the Parsvnath National under-9 chess championship at the Bapu Samaj Sewa Kendra here on Tuesday.

Harshal defeated Tamil Nadu’s Jerome Jorge Ebenezer to tally 10 points from 11 rounds. The bespectacled Harshal needed only a draw to take the title but declined Ebenezer draw-offer to win in 47 moves. He finished one-point clear of Gujarat’s Jeet Jain.

Among the girls, Meghna accepted a draw-offer from Tamil Nadu’s K. Niveditha to reach nine points. Top seed Goa’s Ivana Furtado matched Meghna’s aggregate by beating teammate Riya Savant. Meghna was adjudged the champion due to her superior tiebreak score.

The results (11th round):

Open: Harshal Shahi (Del, 9) bt Jerome Jorge Ebenezer (TN, 8.5); Hetul Shah (Guj, 8.5) drew with Nachiket Dhonnar (Mah, 8.5); Jeet Jain (Guj, 9) bt Arjun Bhagat (Kar, 7.5); Pavit Singh (Del, 8) drew with Aditya Vaidya (Guj, 8); Anirudh Bhat (Goa, 8) drew with Adarsh Shrivastava (UP, 7.5); Poras Kolgane (Mah, 8) bt C. Saivishvesh (TN, 7.5); Murali Karthikeyan (TN, 8) bt Sreyan Bhowmick (Ben, 7); Roloue Kapoor (Mah, 7) lost to R. U. Anantharam (Kar, 8); M. Sabhareesh (TN, 8) bt Ankit Sinha (Ben, 7); Ritviz Parab (Goa, 7) lost to Aravindh Chithambaram (TN, 8); Abhimanyu Puranik (Mah, 8) bt Suvradeepta Das (Ben, 7); Abinash Dutta (Asm, 7.5) bt Muhammad Hussain (Ori, 6.5); Sai Akshay (AP, 7.5) bt Mihir Desai (6.5); Sharan Rao (Kar, 7) drew with Devang Bisani (MP, 7); Hritik Bhansali (Mah, 7.5) bt Gaurav Kumar (Bih, 6.5).

Standings: 1. Harshal, 2. Jeet, 3-5. Hetul, Jerome, Nachiket, 6-10. Anirudh, Anantharam, Aditya, Pavit and Abhimanyu.

Girls: C.H. Meghna (Ker, 9) drew with K. Niveditha (TN, 8); Ivana Furtado (Goa, 9) bt Riya Savant (Goa, 7.5); R. Manjula (TN, 7.5) lost to Parveen Hilmi (Ker, 8); Chadreyee Hazra (Ben, 8) bt Kartika Shekhawat (Raj, 7); Gauri Hadkonkar (Goa, 7) bt Shiny Das (Tri, 8); Ekisha Basu (Mah, 6.5) lost to A. S. Saughanthika (TN, 7.5); S. Priyanka (AP, 6.5) lost to Tejaswini Sagar (Mah, 7.5); Rutuja Bakshi (Mah, 7.5) bt K. Rakshana (TN, 7.5); P. Preethy (Pon, 7) bt Abirami Ravi (TN, 6); Shreya Sankalp (Bih, 6) lost to Prathima Bansi (AP, 7); Sonal Mandhana (Mah, 7) bt M. C. Deepika (TN, 6); M. Tulsi (Kar, 7) bt Khushita Shah (Guj, 6); Pooja Senapati (Kar, 7) bt Sribrinda Rout (Ori, 6); K. Vaisalie (TN, 6.5) bt Kritika Choudhary (Bih, 5.5); S. Samantha (TN, 6.5) bt P. Varsini (TN, 5.5).

Standings: 1-2. Meghna, Ivana, 3-6. Shiny, Parveen, Niveditha, Chandreyee, 7-10. Manjula, Rivya, Tejaswini and Rutuja.

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