Top seeds make a smooth start at National Juniors 2019
49th National Junior open and 34th National Junior girls started smoothly for all top seeds in round 1 at Suncity World School in Gurgaon, Haryana. Exactly a week ago World Junior concluded at the nation's capital New Delhi. Total 172 in open and 115 in girls section are taking part from various states across the country. Three out of the top four seeds in the open section are from Kolkata representing West Bengal. Since the defending champion champion in the open section, GM Karthik Venkataraman has exceeded the age limit, a new champion is guaranteed to be crowned, whereas WIM Sakshi Chitlange is looking forward to defend her National Junior title in her final attempt at the tournament. Photo: IA Jitendra Choudhary
National Junior starts with 287 players
Total 172 in open and 115 in girls are taking part in 49th National Junior open and 34th National Junior girls championship at Suncity World School, Gurgaon, Haryana. Defending champion in the open section GM Karthik Venkataraman has crossed the age barrier so he is unable to participate, however the girl's champion WIM Sakshi Chitlange is defending her title in her final attempt at the National Junior.
Top seed in the open section IM Koustav Chatterjee made a short work of his opponent R S Sharan (1686) of Telangana in just 29 moves.
Playing French Defence with the black pieces against Anjitha Krishnakumar (1384) of Kerala, Priyanka took her time to manoeuvre her pieces an struck tactically at the right time to score full point.
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The tournament is organized by District Chess Association Gurgaon from 1st - 9th November at Suncity World School, Gurgaon.
Round 1 results in Open
Round 1 results in Girls
Round 2 Open pairings
Bo. | No. | Name | Rtg | Pts. | Result | Pts. | Name | Rtg | No. | ||
1 | 50 | Dubey Sanchay | 1880 | 1 | 1 | IM | Koustav Chatterjee | 2449 | 1 | ||
2 | 2 | IM | Mitrabha Guha | 2443 | 1 | 1 | Saypuri Srithan | 1881 | 49 | ||
3 | 52 | Dere Pushkar | 1876 | 1 | 1 | FM | Anuj Shrivatri | 2376 | 3 | ||
4 | 4 | IM | Rajdeep Sarkar | 2362 | 1 | 1 | Patil Harshal | 1880 | 51 | ||
5 | 54 | Aditya P Melani | 1866 | 1 | 1 | Harshavardhan G B | 2360 | 5 | |||
6 | 56 | Mayank Chakraborty | 1849 | 1 | 1 | FM | Nitish Belurkar | 2325 | 7 | ||
7 | 8 | IM | Srijit Paul | 2317 | 1 | 1 | Samal Ansuman | 1876 | 53 | ||
8 | 58 | Mohit Kumar Soni | 1844 | 1 | 1 | FM | Srihari L R | 2286 | 9 | ||
9 | 10 | Saurabh Anand | 2278 | 1 | 1 | Sreekar J S S | 1850 | 55 | |||
10 | 60 | Phatak Aanjaneya | 1816 | 1 | 1 | FM | Wagh Suyog | 2273 | 11 | ||
11 | 12 | Subhayan Kundu | 2269 | 1 | 1 | Aniruddh Chatterjee | 1815 | 61 | |||
12 | 62 | Aadit Bhatia | 1814 | 1 | 1 | FM | Jeet Jain | 2264 | 13 | ||
13 | 14 | Sibi Visal R | 2238 | 1 | 1 | AIM | Kaushik G Iyer | 1806 | 63 | ||
14 | 64 | Shubh Kapur | 1796 | 1 | 1 | FM | Aaryan Varshney | 2236 | 15 | ||
15 | 16 | Soham Kamotra | 2189 | 1 | 1 | Kanishk S K | 1789 | 65 | |||
16 | 66 | AFM | Pawar Harshit | 1787 | 1 | 1 | CM | Bhavesh Mahajan | 2187 | 17 | |
17 | 18 | Dhananjay S | 2180 | 1 | 1 | Vishwa Bala Kumaran M | 1784 | 67 | |||
18 | 68 | Jaiveer Mahendru | 1769 | 1 | 1 | Gaurav Rajesh Zagade | 2173 | 19 | |||
19 | 20 | Aradhya Garg | 2165 | 1 | 1 | Garv Gaur | 1764 | 69 | |||
20 | 22 | Abinandhan R | 2089 | 1 | 1 | Sudarshan Bhat | 1764 | 71 |
Round 2 Girls pairings
Bo. | No. | Name | Rtg | Pts. | Result | Pts. | Name | Rtg | No. | ||
1 | 1 | WIM | Priyanka Nutakki | 2272 | 1 | 1 | Senthamizh Yazhini S | 1678 | 32 | ||
2 | 31 | Swara Lakshmi S Nair | 1684 | 1 | 1 | WIM | Arpita Mukherjee | 2234 | 2 | ||
3 | 3 | WIM | Aakanksha Hagawane | 2227 | 1 | 1 | Kiruthika B | 1645 | 34 | ||
4 | 33 | Sudipa Haldar | 1659 | 1 | 1 | WFM | Makhija Aashna | 2191 | 4 | ||
5 | 5 | WIM | Chitlange Sakshi | 2185 | 1 | 1 | Shah Vrushti | 1614 | 36 | ||
6 | 35 | Marium Fatima | 1619 | 1 | 1 | WFM | Pandey Srishti | 2140 | 6 | ||
7 | 7 | WCM | Sharma Isha | 2139 | 1 | 1 | Panda Miracle | 1589 | 38 | ||
8 | 37 | Sinthia Sarkar | 1600 | 1 | 1 | WFM | Salonika Saina | 2100 | 8 | ||
9 | 9 | WFM | Bommini Mounika Akshaya | 2087 | 1 | 1 | Rebecca Jesumarian | 1568 | 40 | ||
10 | 39 | Jegatha B | 1585 | 1 | 1 | Priyanka K | 2067 | 10 | |||
11 | 11 | Toshali V | 2057 | 1 | 1 | Azal Nasir | 1556 | 42 | |||
12 | 43 | Cera Dagaria | 1554 | 1 | 1 | WFM | Savitha Shri B | 2004 | 12 | ||
13 | 13 | Bhagyashree Patil | 1970 | 1 | 1 | Mudaliar Nandini | 1541 | 44 | |||
14 | 45 | Bharathakoti Sneha | 1514 | 1 | 1 | WFM | Potluri Supreetha | 1968 | 14 | ||
15 | 15 | Ghosh Samriddhaa | 1964 | 1 | 1 | Poornima Gupta | 1508 | 46 | |||
16 | 47 | Harshini B | 1507 | 1 | 1 | WFM | Bidhar Rutumbara | 1942 | 16 | ||
17 | 17 | WFM | Jain Nityata | 1927 | 1 | 1 | Tina C | 1494 | 48 | ||
18 | 49 | Tanisha Chatterjee | 1476 | 1 | 1 | WFM | Tanishka Kotia | 1909 | 18 | ||
19 | 19 | Shah Vishwa | 1892 | 1 | 1 | Tanisha A R Som | 1475 | 50 | |||
20 | 51 | Kaamyaa Negi | 1463 | 1 | 1 | Meenal Gupta | 1879 | 20 |