The 21st National Under-13 Parsvnath chess championship got off to a rousing start here on Saturday with a record participation of 245 players from across the country, including a total of 102 FIDE-rated players.
The opening day proved to be an easy outing for seeded players in hte opening round.
Results (Round I): Vidit Satosh Gujarathi (Mah) bt Ashitabh Mishra (Delhi); Atul Bhonsle (MP) lt to Prasanna Rao (Mah); Narayanan Srinath (TN) bt Avijit Vajpayee (Del); Avinash Verma (Jha) lt to Ankit R Rajpara (Guj); Fenil Shah (Guj) bt Ayon Roy (WB); Ayush Anand (Bih) lt to K Vijaya Kanth (AP); Pranav Shetty (Mah) bt Bhanu Agarwal (Del); Boopeash (TN) lt to Anurag Mhamal (Goa); Girish Koushik (Kar) beat Chaitanya Hari Singhania (Del); Chaitanya Munjal (Har) lt to Gagare Shardul (Mah); Abhilash Reddy (AP) bt Chetan Chauhan (Har); Darpan Inani (Guj) lt to Sahoo Utkal Ranjan (Ori); Anand Reddy (AP) bt Debangshu Chakrabarti (WB).