Nilesh, Anirban share lead in Mastermind inter-school chess

Patna, October 27, 2010: Nilesh Shankar and Anirban Choudhary shared the lead with three points each at the end of third round in the boys’ under-16 group of the Mastermind prize-money inter-school chess championships at the Moinul Haq Stadium here.

Results: Boys U-10 third round: Ritik Anand (3) bt Arab (2), Saif Ali Khan (3) bt Aman Harsh (2); Tushar Sinha (3) bt Harsh Raj (2), Keshav Raj (3) bt Shurya Bihari (2), Kumar Shambhav (3) bt Shubham Agarawal (2), Utkashat Nath (3) bt Mrigyanshu (2), Kumar Harsh (2.5) bt Arunish Sinha (1), Shivang Aryan (2.5) bt Aditya Dixit (1), Abhinav Khanna (2) bt Ritik Kumar (1); Shiddarth (2) bt Aditya Singh (1), Sayan Patel (2) bt Aditya Sinha (1), Amitesh Raj (2) bt Samir Kumar (1).

Boys U-12 third round: Kushagrah Divyam (3) bt Utkarsh Singh (2), Roshan Kumar (2.5) bt Aaksh Raj (1), Aditya Bhashkar (2) bt Siddharth Mittal (1), Shubham Ranjan (2) bt Azim Anwar (1), Ayush Ankit (2) bt Sumit Kumar Singh (1), Pankaj Kumar (2.5) & Ashwani Arya (2.5), Kumar Vishesh (2.5) & Shudhanshu Kumar (2.5) played draw.

Boys U-14 third round: Ayush Kashyap (3) bt Alok Priyadarshi (2), Ayush Anand (3) bt Subhash Sourabh (2), Siddharth Khanna (3) bt Durgesh Shamarat (2), Rithik Raj (2) bt Kishlaya Aaksh (1), Rohit Rau (2) bt Krishna Prabhat (1), Samarth Mittal (2) bt Kumar Mayank (1), Prince Kumar (2) bt Sanjay Kumar (1), Rahul Raj (2) bt Vishal (1).

Boys U-16 third round: Nilesh Shankar (3) bt Uttam Prakash (2), Anirban Choudhary (3) bt Vikash Kumar (2), Suyash Kashyap (2.5) bt Rakesh Roshan (2), Anubhav Shahay (2.5) bt Mahesh Kumar (1), Satyaki (2) bt Markyeg (1), Shriyash Shuesh (2) bt Mohit Raj (1), Pranav Kumar (2) bt Vishal Singh (1), Samir Anand (2) bt Subodh Kumar (1).