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Six share lead

NEW DELHI: Six players shared the lead with eight points before the 11th and final round of the open event in the 23rd National under-13 chess championship on Friday.

In the girls’ section, G. Lasya of Andhra Pradesh enjoyed the sole lead, half a point ahead of the top seed Cholleti Sahajasri and Rutuja Bakshi, as she stunned the second seed P.V. Nandhidhaa in the penultimate round.

The results (tenth round):

Open: Girish A. Koushik (Kar) 8 drew with Vaibhav Suri (Del) 8; Karma Pandya (Guj) 8 drew with Shardul Gagare (Mah) 8; Akash Iyer (TN) 7 lost to Utkal Ranjan Sahoo (Ori) 8; Debankan Dhara (WB) 7 lost to G. Akash (TN) 8; Shiven Khosla (Mah) 7.5 bt Rakesh Kumar Nayak (Ori) 6.5; Vasantha Ruba Varman (TN) 6.5 lost to Syantan Das (WB) 7.5.

Prince Bajaj (Del) 7.5 bt Eshwanth Dev Kumar (TN) 6.5; K.G. Chaithanyaa (TN) 7 drew with S. Kaushik (TN) 7; Ashutosh Mohapatra (Ori) 7.5 bt Chandrasish Majumdar (WB) 6.5; Karthikeyan Murali (TN) 6.5 lost to V. Varun (AP) 6.5.

Girls: G. Lasya (AP) 8.5 bt P.V. Nandhidhaa (TN) 7.5; Meenu Priya (TN) lost to Cholleti Sahajasri (AP) 8; Rutuja Bakshi (Mah) 8 bt N. Nisha Patkar (7); G.K. Monnisha (TN) 6.5 lost to Sonakshi Rathore (7.5); Bala Kannamma (TN) 7.5 bt N. Akshaya (TN) 6.5. Madhurima Shekhar (Del) 6.5 drew with Michelle Catherina (TN) 6.5; Parnali S. Dharia (Mah) 6 lost to Shweta Gole (Mah) 7; Soneji Jahnavi (Mah) 7; bt Soumya Shrivastava (Mah) 6; Sohini Ganguly (WB) 6 lost to Ashwini U (TN) 7; Uma Bharathi (TN) 6.5 bt Aakansha (Bih) 6.

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