Nandita emerges sole leader

Kozhikode, Oct 29 (UNI) P V Nandita of Tamil Nadu emerged sole leader with seven points after holding G Iswarya of Andhra Pradesh (6.5) to a draw in the eighth round of the 21st National Under-11 Girls Chess Championship here today.

In the boys section, Shiven Khosle, Gagare Shardul (both Mah), Gireesh A Kaushik (Kar), Das Sayantan (WB) and R Ishwar (AP) emerged joint leaders with 6.5 points each.

Important results: Girls: Nandita P V Nandita (TN) 7 drew with G Iswarya(AP) 6.5; Manneppalli Navya Vyshnavi (AP) 6.5 drew with Rathore Sonakshi (Raj) 5.5; Sweety Patel (Guj) 5.5 drew with Sunyasakta Satpathy (Ori) 5.5; Shweta Gole (AP) 6 bt N Akshaya (TN) 5; Akansha Gupta (UP) 5 drew with B N Gangamma (Kar) 5; Soumya Shrivastava (Mah) 4.5 lost to Meenu Priya S E (TN) 5.5; T Navya (AP) 5.5 bt Dhariya Parnali (Mah) 4; Nisha N Patkar (Kar) 5 bt Mathuravani (Dli) 4; Shoumi Mukherjee (WB) 4 lost to Shristi Gautam (Bihar) 5.

Boys: Shiven Khosle (Mah) 6.5 lost to Gagare Shardul 6.5; Gireesh A Kaushik (Kar) 6.5 bt Aubhro Pratim Manna (WB) 5.5; Prince Bajaj (Dli) 6 drew with Sheikh Nubair Shah (Mah) 6; Vibhav Suri (Dli) 5.5 lost to Das Sayantan (WB) 6.5; Ishwar R (AP) 6.5 bt Kaushik S (TN) 5.5; Nishvin J (TN) 6 bt Sai Krishna G V (AP) 5; Karma Pandya (Guj) 5 lost to Majumdar Chandra Sish (WB) 6; P V S M Praven Kumar (AP) 6 bt Eshwant Dev Kumar (TN) 5; Mugil Jayavel (TN) 6 bt Samyak Baid (Mah) 5; Sahoo Utkal Ranjan (Ori) 4.5 lost to Vasantha Ruba Varman (TN) 5.5.

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