Pune: Rakshitta maintains lead, Chouhan falters at MPL 51st National Junior Open (Under-19) and 36th National Junior (Under-19) Girls Chess Championships 2022

Pune, 17th July 2022: Rakshitta Ravi continued her winning streak winning her eighth point after eight rounds to end on the top of the table in the girls’ section at the MPL 51st National Junior Open (Under-19) and 36th National Junior (Under-19) Girls Chess Championships 2022 being organized by Pune District Chess Circle in association with Maharashtra Chess Association Under the aegis of All India Chess Federation and sponsored by AICF’s Official National Championships Sponsor MPL, Amanora and h2e Systems and played at the PYC Hindu Gymkhana, Pune

In the eighth round, WIM Rakshitta Ravi of Tamil Nadu outplayed Velpula Sarayu of Telangana. In the boys’ section West Bengal’s Alekhya Mukhopadhyay upset board leader Vrashank Chouhan of Rajasthan and hand him his first loss in eight games.

Chouhan however continued to lead the table with 7 points while Mukhopadhyay and L Shrihari follow the leader with 6.5 points apiece

Following are the results: 8th round: Boys Open: White and Black:

Alekhya Mukhopadhyay(WB)(6.5pts)beat Vrashank Chouhan(Raj)(7pts);

Arun Kataria (Raj)(5.5pts)lost to Srihari L(Puducherry)(6.5pts);

Aswath S(TN)(6pts) drew with AGM Vignesh B(TN)(6pts);

Ajay Parvathareddy(UP)(6pts) drew with Ritvik Krishnan(Mah)(6pts);

Rishabh Gokhale (Mah)(6.5pts)bt Kartik Kumar Singh(Mah)(5.5pts)

Gaurang Bagwe (Mah)(6pts) bt IM Avinash Ramesh(TN)(5pts);

FM Mohamed Anees M(TN)(6pts) bt Yash Bharadia (Raj)(5pts);

IM Raahul V S(TN)(4.5pts) lost to FM Ayush Sharma(MP)(6pts);

IM Manish Anto Cristiano F(TN)(5.5pts) bt CM Mrithyunjay Mahadevan(TN)(4.5pts);

Mandar Lad (Goa)(5.5pts) bt FM Ayushh Ravikumar(TN)(4.5pts);

CM Mayank Chakraborty(Assam)(5.5pts) bt Dhyey Agarwal(Guj)(4.5pts);

Sathvik Adiga(Kar)(5pts) drew with Hriday Panchal(Delhi)(5pts);

Om Lamkane(Mah)(5pts) drew with Mehta Naitik R(Guj)(5pts);

Girls:

WIM Rakshitta Ravi(TN)(8pts) bt Velpula Sarayu(TS)(6pts);

WIM Bommini Mounika Akshaya(AP)(6.5pts) bt Vakcheri Mohitha(AP)(5.5pts);

WFM Bhagyashree Patil(Mah)(6.5pts) bt Meenatchi Rajam V(TN)(5.5pts);

AFM Shubhi Gupta(UP)(5pts) lost to WFM Jyothsna L(TN)(6pts);

WCM Bristy Mukherjee(WB)(6pts) bt Aditi Kayal(Mah)(5pts);

Rindhiya V(TN)(5.5pts) drew with Charvi Patidar(Raj)(5.5pts);

Tejaswini G(TN)(6pts) bt Sachi Jain(Del)(4.5pts);

Divyabharathi Masanam(TN)(5pts) drew with WCM Sanskruti Wankhade (Mah)(5pts);

Sani Deshpande(Mah)(5.5pts) bt Sudipa Haldar(WB)(4.5pts);

Sai Mahati A(TS)(4.5pts) lost to Dhanashree Khairmode(Mah)(5.5pts).