Agaaz, Vishruti finish on top

Tribune News Service 

Chandigarh, August 13 

Agaaz Bansal of St. Kabir School, Sector 26, amassed 5½ points to top the U-15 open category on the concluding day of the Chandigarh Chess Championship held at New Public School, Sector 18, here today.  

The girls’ U-15 title went to Vishruti of Bhavan Vidayala, Sector 27.  She scored a total of four points to lead the category.  

Ananya Bansal, Aanshita Jain and Mitali Saini shared the second position at three points each, while Precious Bansal scored 2½ points to claim the third spot. 

In the open category, Arnav Kushwaha of Delhi Public School, Sector 40, who also scored 5½ points finished second, followed by Aditya Malhotra of St. John’s School, Sector 26, at third position with 5 points.    

Meanwhile, Agaaz, Arnav, Aditya Malhotra of St. John’s School and Strawberry Field  School’s Anhat Singh, from the U-15 open category, and Vishruti, Ananya of St. Kabir School, Sector 26, Aanshita and Mitali, both of St. Xavier’s School, Sector 44, have been selected to represent Chandigarh at the Nationals, scheduled to be held at Gujarat from October 1 to 9.

Points’ position  

Open 5½ points Agaaz Bansal, Arnav Kushwaha 5 points Aditya Malhotra 4½ points Anhat Singh, Parus Banota, Manav Gupta,  Rohan Gupta, 4 points Anmol Rattan,  Jaspreet Singh, Ajay Kumar Yadav, Shishir Lamba, Vedant Joshi, Shivom Sood 3½ points Manobhav Sethi, Punya Garg, Goel Pratyaksh, Ishaan Narang, Krish Gupta, Shaunak Chaudhary 3 points Kumar Kalabhart, Adamya Gupta, Aryan Arora, Adhiraj Chopra, Prabal Saini, Akhil Goyal, Ayush Sharma, Harsh Yakhmi, Parmanyu Garg, Rudra Jai Singh, Aaryan Goklaney, Aaditya Garg 2½ points Hriday, Ankit Sharma, Aditya Sharma, Harshit Garg, Ayush Lakhotia, 2 points Arvinbir, Hitesh Bhardwaj, Lavish, Geetansh Goel, Rhythm, Akshaj Sharma, Shaurya Khosla, 1½ points Kunwar Preet, Piyush Sharma, Akshit Sharma 1 point Madhav Gautam, Jaivir Chopra, Aarav Kashik         

Girls’ U-15 4 points Vishruti 3 points Ananya Bansal, Aanshita Jain, Saini Mitali 2½ points Precious Bansal 2 points Riya, Gia Chopra, Akshita Sharma 1½ points Aarushi Vats, Arshiya Khosla, Gaurika Gupta 1 point Divyanshi Jindal, Avisya Seengal