Anhat, Agaaz share lead on opening day

Tribune News Service 

Chandigarh, August 12

Anhat Singh, Agaaz Bansal and Arnav Kushwaha scored three points each to share the lead on the opening day of the Chandigarh U-15 Open Chess Championship at New Public School, Sector 18, here today. 

Aditya Malhotra, Jaspreet Singh, Parus Banota, Ishaan Narang and Manav Gupta were placed second at the close of the third round with a total of 2½  points each. 

In the girls’ U-15 category, Vishruti and Aanshita Jain shared the lead after the duo ended the third round at three points each. 

A total of 62 boys and girls are participating in the championship, which is being organised by the Chandigarh Chess Association. 

The top four players in both boys and girls’ categories will be selected to represent Chandigarh in the national championship to be held in Gujarat from October 1 to 9.

Points’ position  

Open 2 points Manobhav Sethi, Punya Garg, Adamya Gupta, Anmol Rattan, Rohan Gupta,  Goel Pratyaksh Goel, Shishir Lamba, Ankit Sharma, Kalabhart Kumar, Shivom Sood, Hriday, Parmanyu Garg, Krish Gupta, Ajay Kumar Yadav, Vedant Joshi, Prabal Saini 1½ points Shaunak Chaudhary, Aryan Arora  1 point Hitesh Bhardwaj, Harsh Yakhmi, Adhiraj Chopra, Madhav Gautam, Akhil Goyal, Arvinbir, Kunwar Preet, Rudra Jai Singh, Aditya Sharma, Lavish, Aaryan Goklaney, Ayush Sharma, Geetansh Goel, Rhythm, Aaditya Garg, Shaurya Khosla ½ point Ayush Lakhotia, Jaivir Chopra, Piyush Sharma