Gritty Aansh holds Ram

Top seed Ram Arvind’s winning run came to a halt after Aansh Gupta forced him into a draw in the ninth round of the National Under-11 Open Chess Championship at Ludlow Castle Sports Complex on Sunday.

Important results (round 9): Open: Aansh Gupta (7) drew with Ram Aravind LN (8.5); Bhavik Bharambe (8) bt Sadhu S Adithya (6.5); Praggnanandhaa R (7) drew with Aronyak Ghoshl (7); Rahul Shrivastav (7.5) bt Koustav Chatterjee (6.5); Barath M (7) bt Nihal Sarin (6); Neelash Sahal (6.5) drew with Ritam Nag (6.5); Saurabh Anand (6.5) bt Harshavardhan GB (5.5); Samal Ansuman (6) drew with Dileep Kumar (6); Prajesh R(6) drew with Raahul VS (6); Rudraksh Parida (6.5) bt Yutesh P (5.5); Sankarsha Shelke (6.5) bt Akshit Kumar J(5.5); Vatsal Singhania (6.5) bt Erigaisi Arjun (5.5).

Girls: Priyanka Nutakki (8) bt Divya Deshmukh (6.5); Salonika Saina (7) bt Lakshmi C (6.5); Anwesha Mishra (7) drew with Krystal Fernandes (6.5); Vantika Agrawal (7) bt Samriddhaa Ghosh (6); Riddhi Zantye (6.5) bt Kalyani B (5.5); Palkin Kaur (6.5) bt Sudipa Halder (5.5); Adyasa Mahapatra (6) drew with Rutvi Shah (6); Tejasvi M (6.5) bt Parakh Niyati (5.5); Bommini Mounika Akshaya (6.5) bt K Anvitha (5.5); lhayamshree Sarkar (6) bt Sanskriti Goyal (5.5); Meenakshi Bhoite (6) bt Aashna Makhija (5); Jishitha D (6) bt Saanya Mahesh (5).