Aditi, Ved Prakash maintain lead

Patna, April 30, 2010: Upbeat Aditi Arya continued her upward march with 3.5 points at the end of fourth round’s play in the girls’ section of the APWAD inter-school mastermind chess tournament at the Moinul Haq Stadium here on Friday.

Ved Prakash too maintained his lead with five points after the end of fifth round in the boys’ under-15 group. In the boys’ under-12 age group, Ashwani Arya with five points shot into the lead after end of the fifth round in the boys’ under-12 section.

Results: Boys’ under-16 (after fifth round): Ved Prakash (5) bt Vikas Kumar Dewvedi (3); Prabhat Kumar (4) bt Sonu Kumar (3); Nilesh Shankar (3.5) bt Rakesh Kumar (2.5); Anirban Choudhary (3.5) bt Kumar Satyam (2.5); Tatparya Shankar (3) bt Satyaki (2); Abhishek (3) bt Amit Kumar (2); Prakhar Raj (3) bt Shreyansh Suyash (2) and Shivendu (2.5) bt Manish Kumar (1).

Boys’ under-14 (after fifth round): Samir Sengar (4.5) drew with Siddhartha Khanna (4); Ayush Anand (4.5) bt Subhash Suyash (3); Ayush Kashyap (4) bt Vicky Kumar (3); Alok Priyadarshi (4) bt Durgesh (3); Prince Kumar (4) bt Arunesh (3); Kumar Mayank (4) bt Shivam Keshari (2.5); SV Bansal (3) bt Kislay (2); KM Jha (3) bt Samir Kumar (2);Nikhil Saurav (3) bt Yashwant Kumar (2) and Rahul Raj (3) bt Shubham Ranjan (2).

Boys’ under-12: (after fifth round): Ashwani Arya (5) bt Utkarsh (4); Pankaj Kumar (4.5) bt Nikhil Nandan (3); Randhir Kumar (4) bt AA Anwar (3); Ishan Karunesh (4) bt Pushkar Anand Singh (3); Manishankar (4) bt Kumar Vishesh (2.5); Sumesh Thakur (3) bt Abhishek (2); Tushar (3) bt Ayush (2); Raushan Kumar (3) bt Akashdeep (2) and Vidhit (3) bt Sachin Ranjan (2).

Boys’ under-10 (after fifth round): Kumar Harsh (5) bt Risik Anand (4); Veer Sharma (5) bt Kumar Sambhabh (3); Shivang (4) bt Mohit Raj (3); Rishi Rishabh (4) bt Utkarsh Nath (3); Ritesh Raj (4) bt Tanul Tanay (3) and Ashish Kumar (3.5) bt Adya Kumar (2.5).

Girls (after fourth round): Aditi Arya (3.5) drew with Sweety (3); Kamani Kumari (3) bt Kumari Sirishti (2); Aditi Aditya (3) bt Arti Kumari (1.5); Apurva (2) bt Sunidhi Kumari (1) and Swati bt Riya Sakshi (1).

Photo caption: Ved Prakash plays against Vikas Kumar Dewvedi in APWAD inter-school mastermind chess championships in Patna on April 30, 2010.

Photo: Aftab Alam Siddiqui