Five emerge joint leaders

Kozhikode, Oct 30 (UNI) Navya Vaishnavi of Andhra Pradesh, P V Nandita of Tamil Nadu, Gireesh Kaushik of Karnataka, Das Sayantan of West Bengal and Shiven Khosla of Maharashtra emerged joint leaders in the tenth and penultimate round of the 21st National Under-11 Girls and Boys Chess Championship here today.

Important results: Girls: Navya Vaishnavi (AP) 8.5 bt Shweta Gole (Mah) 7, Priyardarshini M (Kar) 6 lost to Nandita P V (TN) 8.5, Lasya G (AP) 6.5 lost to Rathore Sonakshi (Raj) 7.5, Nisha N Patkar (Kar) 6.5 drew with Iswarya G (AP) 7, Navya T (AP) 6 lost to Shristi Gautam (Bih) 7, Akshaya N (TN) 6.5 bt Sunyayasakta Satpathy (Ori) 6, Sweety Patel (Guj) 6 drew with Archana S G (Ker) 6, Isha Bhave (Mah) 5.5 lost to Michelle Catherina (TN) 6.5, Meenu Priya (TN) 6.5 bt Bala Kannamma (TN) 5.5, Akansha Gupta (UP) 6 bt Ardra V H (Kar) 5.5.

Boys: Ishwar R (AP) 7 lost to Gireesh Kaushik (Kar) 8, Das Sayantan (WB) 8 bt Gagare Shradul (Mah) 7, Nishvin J (TN) 7 lost to Shiven Khosla (Mah) 8, Kaushik S (TN) 6.5 lost to Majumdar Chandra Sish (WB) 7.5, Prince Bajaj (Dli) 7 drew with Sai Kiran J V (AP) 7, P V S M Praveen Kumar (AP) 7.5 bt Vasantha Ruba Varman (TN) 6.5, Cyrus Pereira (Goa) 6.5 lost to Aubhro Pratim Manna (WB) 6.5, Manusha Shah (Guj) 6.5 drew with Sai Krishna G V (AP) 6.5, Vaibhav Suri (Dli) 7 bt Sheikh Nubair Shah (Mah) 6, Mugil Jyavel (TN) 6 lost to Niraj S (Goa) 7.

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