Easy wins for seeded players in mastermind chess

Patna, October 26, 2010: Seeded players recorded easy wins in the Mastermind prize-money inter-school chess championships at the Moinul Haq Stadium here on Tuesday.

Arunish Sinha, Arab, Abhinav Khanna, Ritik Kumar and Rishik Anand chalked out comprehensive wins in the first round of under-10 boys’ group while Kamni Kumari, Kumari Srishti, Arti, Minakshi Kumari, Manya Diptam and Usha Arya won their respective matches in their age groups of the girls’ section.

Earlier, Bihar State Sports Authority director-cum-secretary Ajay Kumar Singh inaugurated the championship. OP Singh, vice-principal, Patna Central School was the special guest in the inaugural function. Niraj Kumar Pappu, general secretary, Acharya Sudarshan Sports and Cultural Foundation welcomed the guests.

Results:

Boys’ under-10 (first round): Arab (1) bt Rahul Kumar (0); Arunish Sinha (1) bt Rahul Kumar Ranjan (0); Abhinav Khanna (1) bt Rishabh Kumar (0); Rishik Anand (1) bt Abhinav Prakash (0); Ritik Kumar (1) bt Abhinav Anand (0); Saif Ali Khan (1) bt Aditya Dikshit (0); Aditya Singh (1) bt S Patel (0); Samir K Kumar (1) bt Aditya Sinha (0); Aman Harsh (1) bt Satya Prakash (0) and Amitesh Raj (0) bt Saurav Kumar (0).

Boys’ under-12 (first round): Akash Raj (1) bt Piyush Shukla (0); Aditya Bhashkar (1) bt Ritesh Kumar (0); Ritesh Raj (1) bt Azim Anwar (0); Ashwani Arya (1) bt Shubham Ranjan (0); Ayush Ankit (1) bt Siddharth Kishan (0); Ishant Sinha (1) bt bt Siddharth Mittal (0); Sudhanshu Kumar (1) bt Jaiprakash (0).

Boys’ under-14 (first round): Ayush Anand (1) bt Ravi (0); Siddharth Khanna (1) bt Ritik Raj (0); Rohit Rao (1) bt Akash Kumar Nirala (0); Alok Priyadarshi (1) bt Samarth Mitrtal (0) and Sanjay Kumar (1) bt Kaushik Ghosh (0).

Boys’ under-16: (first round): Nilesh Shankar (1) bt Rahul Roy (0); Rakesh Raushan (1) bt Aditya Verma, Uttam Prakash (1) bt Mohit Sagar (0) and Vikas Kumar (1) bt Pranav Kumar (0).