Sub-Juniors 01-06: Sanskriti surprises in the Girls' section; three lead among the Boys

by Priyadarshan Banjan - 23/11/2016

The Delhi Chess Association is hosting the National Sub-junior Championship 2016 at the Indra Gandhi Indoor Stadium from 28th to 28th November 2016. Three players share the lead in the boys' section while two girls lead in the other section. We bring you an illustrated report.

Sub-Juniors 01-06: Sanskriti surprises in the Girls' section; three lead among the Boys

Delhi has been organizing several tournaments of importance since the last couple of years. One thing has remained constant — quality. This was probably the first time in recorded history that we saw a women's national premier tournament being organized in a far better manner than the men's event. And this feat was possible because the Delhi Chess Association organized the women's event this time, while the men's event in Lucknow is struggling to stay afloat.

The Indira Gandhi Indoor Stadium is hosting the National Sub-Junior Championship 2016 from 20th to 28th November 2016.

FM V.S. Rathanvel (2381) of Tamil Nadu suffered a minor setback when he was held to a draw by Odisha's Manish Kumar (1495). He then won five consecutive games to share the lead with 5.5/6. [Photo: Sa Kannan]

Iniyan P. (2370) had been leading with 5.0/5 but lost to Rathanvel in the sixth round to fall behind.

Rahul Shrivastav (2325) beat young talent Gukesh D. to join Rathanvel at the top with 5.5/6.

FM Mitrabha Guha (2250) had a similar tale — he beat Arjun Erigaisi (2300) to tie at the top with Rathanvel and Shrivastav.

Aged just nine, CM Gukesh D. has a gigantic 2252 for a rating. A fresh future awaits him. In this event, he is on 4.5/6.

Pairings for Round 07:

Bo.	No.		Name	Rtg	Club/City	Pts.	Result	Pts.		Name	Rtg	Club/City	No.
1	2	FM	Rathanvel V S	2381	TN	5½		5½		Rahul Srivatshav P	2325	TEL	4
2	12	FM	Mitrabha Guha	2250	WB	5½		5		Iniyan P	2370	TN	3
3	30		Pruthu Deshpande	1991	MAH	5		5	FM	Rakesh Kumar Jena	2310	ODI	5
4	6		Harikrishnan.A.Ra	2310	TN	5		5		Neelash Saha	2061	WB	25
5	10	FM	Rajdeep Sarkar	2274	WB	5		5		Mehta Naitik R	1839	GUJ	50
6	14		Jayakumaar S	2186	TN	5		5		Shakthi Vishal J	1856	TN	48
7	29		Dileep Kumar R	1991	TN	4½		4½	IM	Raghunandan Kaumandur Srihari	2444	KAR	1
8	8	FM	Nitish Belurkar	2300	GOA	4½		4½	CM	Bharath Subramaniyam H	1984	TN	31
9	34		Abhishek T M	1966	KER	4½		4½	CM	Erigaisi Arjun	2300	TEL	9
10	11	CM	Gukesh D	2252	AP	4½		4½		Panesar Vedant	1882	MAH	42

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In the girls' section, with 5.5/6, WFM Arpita Mukherjee (2108) is jointly leading with...

...Uttar Pradesh's Sanskriti Goyal (1696), who clearly is the surprise of the event so far with +104 in rating.

Arpita and Sanskriti drew their top board battle in the sixth round.

Pairings for Round 07:

Bo.	No.		Name	Rtg	Club/City	Pts.	Result	Pts.		Name	Rtg	Club/City	No.
1	5		Harshita Guddanti	1979	AP	5		5½	WFM	Arpita Mukherjee	2108	WB	1
2	17		Sanskriti Goyal	1696	UP	5½		5		Vantika Agrawal	2051	DEL	3
3	11		Toshali V	1752	AP	5		4½	WFM	Bommini Mounika Akshaya	1729	AP	13
4	4		Priyanka K	2046	TN	4½		4½		Archi Agrawal	1575	DEL	29
5	6	WFM	Lakshmi C	1905	TN	4½		4½		Garima Gaurav	1517	BIH	34

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