Pratykash, Precious, Preet win chess titles

Chandigarh, April 23 

Pratykash Goel of Kendriya Vidyalaya won the Open Under-13 category title with five and a half points in the Chandigarh State Chess Championship at St Xavier’s School, Sector 44, here today.

Precious Bansal of Vivek High School, Sector 38, won the girls’ Under-13 title with two and a half points. Luckshiet of Saupins School, Sector 32, finished atop in the open Under-7 category with two points. Preet Ahluwalia of Bhavan Vidyalaya won the girls’ Under-7 title with three points. A total of 49 boys and girls participated in this championship.

Goel, Anhat Singh, Precious and Riya have been selected to represent the city in the Under-13 (open and girls) National Championship, while Luckshiet, Vardan Vivek Garg, Preet and Aradhya Gupta have been selected to play in the Under-7 Nationals. The National Championship is scheduled to be held at Pondicherry (Under-7) from September 18 to 26 and in Gujarat (Under-13) from July 22 to 30. —TNS

RESULTS

Open U-13 

5 points: Anhat Singh, Arnav Khushwaha, Agaaz Bansal 

4½ Points: Shishir Lamba, Rohan Gupta 

4 points: Aditya Malhotra, Jaspreet Singh,Akshay Dhody, Ishaan Narang,Ajay Kumar Yadav, Bhavya Batra, Harsh Yakhmi 

3½ Points: Shivom, Vedant Joshi, Anmol Rattan, Kumar Kalabhart, Shaunak Chaudhary 

3 Points: Amey Goyal, Aayush Raj Kapoor, Sikander Bansal, Samarthya Bindlish, Rudra Jai Singh, Akshun Punchhi, Shaurya Chopra, Aaryan Gupta, Divyank Bhatt 

2½ Points:  Prateek Bawa, Akhil Goyal, Precious Bansal, Dev Handa, Aahan, Gurjai Maulik 

Girls U-13 

1st: Precious Bansal, 2nd: Riya 

Open and girls U-7

1st: Luckshiet, 2nd: Vardhan Vivek Garg 

Girls U-7 

1st: Preet Ahluwalia, 2nd: Aradhya Gupta