Girish, Gangamma emerge champs

Koushik defeated Bangalore’s Bharadwaj Akshay in the final round to clinch the boys’ title with 8.5 points. Gangamma drew her final round game with Andria L D’souza of Mangalore to pocket the girls’ crown. Gangamma scored 5.5 points.

Koushik, Akshay, Augustin A, Chirag M Ramesh, Neeraj S Pai, Gangamma and Swathi MR will represent Karnataka in the National under-13 meet at Puducherry.

Final ranking: Boys: Girish A Koushik (Mys, 8.5) 1; Akshay Bharadwaj (Ban, 7) 2; Augustin A (Kod, 7) 3; Chirag M Ramesh (Mys, 7) 4; Neeraj S Pai (Shi, 7) 5; Amogha HA (Mys, 7) 6; Aditya Pai K (Mang, 6.5) 7; Varma Shabdhik (Belthangady, 6.5) 8; Satvik M (Ban, 6.5) 9; Naren N Kumar (Ban, 6.5) 10. Girls: Gangamma BN (Mys, 5.5) 1; Swathi MR (Tum, 4.5) 2; Reesha Shenoy (Man, 4.5) 3; Andria L D`souza (Man, 4.5) 4; Shalon Joanne Pais (Man, 4.5) 5; Sampada HR (Hassan, 4.5) 6; Akshatha R (Shi, 4) 7; Sheetal S (Shi, 4) 8.
Important results (final round): Boys: Akshay lt to Koushik; Amogha H A drew Chirag; Aditya lt to Neeraj; Augustin bt Anantharam R (Man); Satvik bt Parthasarathy R (Ban, 5.5); Naren bt Kaushik H S (Ban, 5.5); Varma bt Adityahrydai Srinivasan (Ban, 5.5); Sharan Rao (Man, 6) drew Vijeth T A (Ban, 6); Pangal Gopalkrishna Nayak (Man, 5.5) lt to Vivekraj; Manas Lakshmiprasad (Ban, 6) bt Dhanush Ravi (Ban, 5); Nikhil R Umesh (Bhad, 6) bt Rahul Gowda D A (Chikk, 5); Amith N Mahesh (Shi, 5.5) drew Dheeraj H (Man, 5.5); Yashaskar Jois (Mys, 5) lt to Shreyas Pandith (Man, 6); Arjun Adappa (Man, 5) lt to Tulsi M (Mys, 6); Ishan Bansal (Ban, 5.5) drew Prakhyath K ( Shi, 5.5); Akash K Shetty (Chikk, 6) bt Tejas Prasad (Mys, 5); Nitin R (Ban, 4.5) lt to Ajay S (Shi, 5.5); Amogh Narayan (Ban, 5.5) bt Naman M Shetty (Man, 4.5). Girls: Gangamma drew Andria L D’souza (Man, 4.5); Shalon Joanne Pais (Man, 4.5) drew Swathi M R (Tumkur, 4.5); Eulalia A J Pereira (Man, 3.5) lt to Reesha Shenoy (Man, 4.5); Sampada H R (Hassan, 4.5) bt Manasa H R (Mys, 3) Sheetal S (Shi, 4) bt Aditi B Rao (Man, 3).