Bihar U-11 chess: Tanuja takes sole lead

Patna, June 26, 2009
Tanuja Bharti surged into the lead with three points at the end of as many rounds of play in the girls’ section of the Bihar State under-11 chess championships at Patna Youth Hostel here on Friday.
In the boys’ group, Siddhant Gautam and Kumar Gaurav were leading the table with three points each.

At the end of second round, Tanuja Bharti and Shruti Priya were at the top jointly with two points. Tanuja beat Shruti in the third round to take the lead.

In the boys’ group third round play, Kumar Gaurav and Amrit Verma played an engrossing match on the top board. Playing with black Kumar Gaurav outwitted Amrit Verma. On the board two, playing with black, Siddanth Gautam too notched up a facile win over Ashwani Arya.

Results:
Girls’ (after third round): Tanuja Bharti (3) beat Shurti Priya (2); Akanksha (2) beat Janhavi (1); Minakshi Kumari (2) beat Akhauri Sakshi (1) and Akshita Kumari (1) beat Aditi (0).

Boys’ (after third round):
Kumar Gaurav (3) beat Amarit Verma (2); Siddhant Gautam (3) beat Ashwani Arya (2); Saurav Kumar (2.5) beat Jitendra Kumar (2); Akhauri Harshit (2) beat Gaurav Kumar (1.5); Randhir Kumar Singh (2) beat Harshvardhan Singh (1); Kumar Vishel (2) beat Rishi Rishabh (1); Sahil (2) beat Kushagra Divyam (1); Saurav Anand (2) beat Manas (1); Pankaj Kumar (2) beat Tushar Sinha (1); Kumar Mumtaj (2) beat Kumar Sambhav (1); P Parth (1) beat Ashutosh Ranjan (0); Ayush (1) beat Shivam (0); Gaurav Anand (1) beat Utkarsh Sinha (0); Yashwashi (1) beat Harshraj (0); Devashish Kumar (2.5) drew with Amit Ranjan (2.5) and Amit Ranjan (1.5) drew with Shailendra Kumar (1.5).