New Delhi: Top seed Girish Koushik defeated Dhulipala Bala Chandra Prasad to maintain his sole lead in the Under-15 Open Category of the ongoing ONGC 7th Asian School Chess Championship-2011 here at Indira Gandhi Stadium on Tuesday. Meanwhile in the Under-15 Girls category, overnight sole leader Madhurima Shekhar kept her lead intact after settling for half point against Matta Theja Sahhethhe in the sixth round encounter.
In the Under-13 Open section, top seed Diptayan Ghosh leading the table with perfect score after sixth round matches and enjoys a full point lead over his nearest rivals. In the sixth round, he outwitted Nikhil Dixit while Iniyan P and Samriddhaa Ghosh are leading in the Under-9 Open and Girls categories respectively with perfect scores.
The seventh round matches are now underway at the time of report.
Important Results Round -6 (Indians otherwise stated) :-
Under-15 Open
FM Girish A Koushik (5.5) beat Dhulipala Bala Chandra Prasad (4); Anish Gandhi (5) beat Isakzhanov Kelsinbek of Kyrgyzstan (4); Rishi Sardana (4) drew with Deep Kapoor (4); Walid Anwar (3) lost to Chirag Satkar (4.5); Meherjot S Kals (3.5) drew with Yap Wan Lin of Malaysia (4).
Under-15 Girls
Matta Theja Sahhethhe (4) drew with Madhurima Shekhar (5.5); Nandhidhaa P V (4.5) beat Aarudhra Ganesh (4); Deodhar Vrushali Umesh (3.5) drew with Gangamma B N (3.5); Vaibhavi Thakur (3) lost to Goyal Arunima (4); Yashoda Maladkar (4) beat Simranjeet Kaur (3).
Under-13 Open
FM Diptayan Ghosh (6) beat Nikhil Dixit (4.5); Vaisnav M (4) lost to FM Aravindh Chithambaram V R (5); Harshal Shahi (4.5) drew with R V Adith (4);Taalaibekov Tagir of Kyrgyzstan (5) beat Ritviz Parab (4); Majed Al-Rashidy of UAE (5) beat Manan Rai (4).
Under-13 Girls
Sunyasakta Satpathy (5.5) drew with Smaraki Mohanty (4.5); Bhagya jayesh (3.5) lost to Manjula R (5); Shiny Das (4.5) beat Chandreyee Hajra (3.5); Divya Gargh (3.5) lost to Meghna C H (3.5); Anigani Kavya (3) lost to Kesshni Bhassiin (4).
Under-11 Open
Aryan Chopra (5) drew with Harikrishnan A (5); Prathish A (4) lost to Siva Mahadevan (5.5); Manas O T (4.5) drew with Atharvaa P (4.5); Barath Kalyan M (4.5) drew with Matta Besh Vignesh Reddy (4.5); FM Mitrabha Guha (4.5) beat Rajabi Yazdi Khashayar of Iran (4).
Under-11 Girls
Sneha N G (5) drew with WFM Tarini Goyal (5); Khushi Dharewa (5) beat Sonal Mandhana (4); Shah Vishwa (4) drew with Vaishnavi Thakur (4.5); Harshita Guddanti (4.5) beat Hilmi Parveen (3.5); Chitlange Sakshi (4.5) beat Dakshinya TRS (3.5)
Under-9 Open
Rahul Srivatshav P (5) lost to Iniyan P (6); Ram Aravind L N (5) beat Thilakarathne G M H of Sri Lanka (4); Aansh Gupta (4) lost to Kouchaki Penchah Jaber (5); Saurabh Anand (5) beat Subhasis Barik (4); Aditya SSV (4) lost to Samal Ansuman (5)
Under-9 Girls
Mahija Aashna (4) lost to Samriddhaa Ghosh (6); Adyasa Mahapatra (5) beat Palkin Kaur (4); Vantika Agarwal (5) beat Tanishka Kotia (4); Tejasvi M (4.5) beat Choksey Maitri (4); Arya Ranjan (3.5) drew with Rajashree Rajeev (3.5).
Under-7 Open
Abdusattorov Nodirbek (5.5) beat Akilesh Visawaa (4.5); Joy Anmol Rath (5.5) beat Polakhare Aryan (4); Kushagra Mohan (5) beat Manpreet Singh (4); Raja Rithvik R (5) beat Sambit Panda (3.5); Hridhik Bhai (4.5) beat Sanket Chakravarty (3.5).
Under-7 Girls
Arushi Kotwal (6) beat Bristy Mukherjee (4); Sayantika Nag (4) lost to Niranjana Aishwarya Dass B (5); David Avril R (4) lost to Mehendi SIl (4.5); Aditi P Iyer (3.5) lost to Bhagyashree Pati (4); Srijita Sarkar (4) beat Alaina J J Pereira (3).
Under-5 Open
Rishabh Anand (5) given walk over to Solomko Artur (5); Leon Mendonca (4) lost to Vallabh Kavi (5); Suyash Pai (5) beat Sumukh M G (4); Raajas Vijay Kumar Mulye (4) beat Atharv Shukla (3); Pajval Vikas Koli (4) beat Dharmakari Kiran Chandra (3).
Under-5 Girls
Aswatha B (3) lost to Garima Gaurav (6); Wankhade Sanskruti (4) lost to Darsana M S (4); Khayal Shah (3) lost to Kaamyaa Negi (4); Tanisha Chatterjee (3) beat Prativya Gupta (3); Srenethra R K (1.5) lost to Khawaahish Shah (3).
