Pune Boy Samant In Lead At BKT All India Open Fide Rating Chess Tournament
The 15 year old Pune based player Samant a 10th standard student of Abhinav English Medium School ,playing with white pieces opened with Kings Pawn to score a win in 34 moves against overnight board leader Anadkat Kartavya from Gujarat. International Master and top seeded Vikramaditya Kulkarni and FM Sauravh Khherdekar are joint second with 7 points apiece
Following are the results: Eighth Round: White and Black:
FM Aditya Samant(Mah)(7.5Pts)bt Anadkat Kartavya(Guj)(6.5pts);
Piyush Narsikar(Mah)(6pts) lost to IM Vikramaditya Kulkarni(RLY)(7pts);
Vishrut Parekh(Mah)(6pts) lost to FM Sauravh Khherdekar(Mah)(7pts);
WGM Swati Ghate(Mah)(6pts) drew with Akshay Borgaonkar(Mah)(6.5pts);
Jaiveer Mahendru(Mah)(6pts) drew with Gaurav Bakliwal(Mah)(6pts);
Karan Trivedi(Guj)(6pts) drew with Sourabh Mhamane(6pts);
Ankit Chudasama(Guj)(6.5pts) bt Riyan Shah(Mah)(5.5pts);
Vijay Chauhan(5pts) lost to Ishan Nadkarni(6pts);
Viresh Sharnarthi(Mah)(5pts) lost to Siddhant Tamhankar(Mah)(6pts);
Chinmay Kelaskar(Mah)(5.5pts) drew with Aarav Lakhani(5.5pts);
Nilay Kulkarni(Mah)(5pts) lost to Om Lamkane(Mah)(6pts);
Priyanshu Patil(Mah)(6pts) bt Ankesh Vashishtha(5pts);
Devam Makwana(Guj)(6pts) bt Swara Lakshami Nair(5pts).
