Nilesh Shankar emerges sole leader

Patna, October 28, 2010: Nilesh Shankar of Delhi Model Public School emerged as the sole leader in the boys’ U-16 section with five points in as many rounds in the Mastermind inter-school chess championships at the Moinul Haq Stadium here on Thursday.

In the boys’ U-10 section, Rishik Anand of Litera Valley took the sole lead with five points.

Results: Boys’U-16 fifth round: Nilesh Shankar (5) beat Anubhav Sahay (3.5), Anirban Choudhary (4) beat Samir Anand (3), Satyaki (4) beat Shreyans Suyash (3), Suyash Kashyap (3.5) beat Uttam Prakash (3), Mahesh Kumar (3) beat Rakesh Roshan (2), Mark Penj (3) beat Pranav Kumar (2), Vikash Kumar (3) beat Mohit Raj (2), Mohit Sagar (3) beat Anmol Anand (1), Subodh Kumar (2) beat Rahul Rai (1).

Boys’ U-14 fifth round: Ayush Kashyap (4.5) beat Durgesh Samrat (3), Prince Kumar (4) beat Rahul Raj (3), Alok Pridarshi (3.5) beat Subhas Saurav (3), Krishna Prabhat (3) beat Samrat Mittal (2), Ravi (3) beat Shubham Anurag (2), Vishal Kumar Singh (3) beat Ritik Raj (2), Kislay Akash (2.5) beat Kausik Ghosh (1), Kumar Mayank (2) beat Shubham Sharma (1.5), Samrat Dutta (2) beat Sanjay Kumar (1), Sidharth Khanna (4) beat Ayush Anand (4).

Boys’ U-12 fifth round: Kumar Vishesh (4.5) beat Pankaj Kumar (3.5), Kusagra Divyam (4.5) beat Sudhanshu Kumar (3.5), Ashvani Arya (4) beat Ayush Ankit (2.5), Sumesh Thakur (3.5) beat Akash Kaushal (2), Aditya Bhashkar (3) beat Surendra Sinha (2), Tushar Kumar (3) beat Azim Anwar (2), Ishant Sinha (3) beat Vidit Agrawal (2), Mani Shankar (3) beat Sidharth Mittal (2).

Boys U-10 fifth round: Risik Anand (5) beat Kumar Sambhav (4), Kumar Harsh (4.5) beat Saif Ali Khan (4), Aman Harsh (4) beat Shubham Agrawal (3), Amitesh Raj (4) beat Tushar Sinha (3), Vedansh Arya (3) beat Gufran Hussain (3), Keshav Raj (4) beat Utkarsh Nath (3), Mrigyanshu (3.5) draw A Raj Choudhary (3.5), Rahul Kumar (3.5) beat Shivang Aryan (2.5), Prarth Prabhat (3) beat Abhinav (2), Abhinav Prakash (3) beat Syan Patel (2), Aditya Dikshit (3) beat Shaurya Bihari (2), Tanul Tanay (3) beat Harsh Raj (2), Sidharth (3) beat Risav Kumar (1.5).