Wednesday, December 24, 2008

Airtel Chess: Vijay takes sole lead




Patna, December 24
The third day of the 4th Airtel Mastermind inter-school chess championships saw Vijay Kumar with four points taking the sole lead at the end of fifth round in the boys' under-16 section at Rajendra Nagar Government High School hall here on Tuesday.
Rupesh Ranjan with 3.5 points to his credit was at the second spot in the same age group.

Rishi Shankar earned five points in as many rounds to emerge the sole leader in the boys’ under-14 section while Siddhant Gautam with five points surged ahead in the boys’ under-10 age group.

Four players Ayush Anand, Siddhartha Khanna, Ayush Kashyap and Samir Sengar with four points each were at joint second position in the boys’ under-14 category.
In the girls’ under-14 category, Ankita Raj and Srishti Kumari shared the top spot with three points each after the end of third round.

Results:
(fifth round)


Boys’ under-16:
Vijay Kumar (5) beat Nilesh Shankar (3); Rupesh Ranjan (3.5) beat Ganesh Kumar (2); Ashutosh Anand (3) beat Vikas Kumar (2); Sumit Kumar (2) beat Abhinav Raj (1); Guptesh Kumar Singh (2) beat Suraj Kumar (1); Binod Kumar (2) beat Pankaj Pratap (1) and Suman Kumar (2) beat Neeraj Kumar (1).

Boys under-14: Rishi Shankar (5) beat Md Dilshad Ashraf (4); Rahul Raj (4) beat Amit Kumar Maurya (3.5); Sindhu Shekhar (4) beat Tatparya Shankar (3.5); Vikas Kumar Diwedi (4) beat Samir Anand (3); Satyaki (4) beat Vinayak Prasad (3); Sonu Kumar (4) beat Abhishek Kumar (2); Anirvan (3) beat Prabhat (2); Kumar Satyam (3) beat Shubham Sinha (2); Utkarsh Nath (3) beat A Brother (2); Taru Shashwat (3) beat Amul Kumar (2) and Vishal Kumar Raman (3) beat Ashwani Kumar (2).

Boys’ under-10: Siddhant Gautam (5) beat Ashwani Arya (4); Pankaj Kumar (4) beat Shivam Kumar (3); Ramesh Kumar (4) beat Das Kumar (3); Gaurav Anand (4) beat Shwetank Lal (3); Kishan Utkarsh (4) beat Utkarsh Kumar (3) and Vikas Kumar (4) beat Chintu Kumar (2).


Girls: (third round)
Under-10: Usha Arya (3) beat Kanchan Kumari (2); Minakshi Kumari (2) beat Sakshi Arya (1.5) and Farha (2) beat Jasmin Kaur (1).
Under-14: Ankita Raj (3) beat Priyanka Kumari (2), Srishti Kumari (3) beat Kamani Kumari (1); Sukriti (2) beat Priya Kumari (1) and Pragya Raj (2) beat Aditi Aditya (0).
Photo caption: Whizkids contemplating their moves during Airtel Mastermind inter-school chess championships in Patna on Tuesday.
Photo: Aftab Alam

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