36th National Under-9 Open and Girls Round 10-11: Advik Amit Agrawal wins Open, Samhita Pungavanam wins in Girls

Maharashtra and Telangana take pole position

Advik Amit Agrawal (1368, MAH) and Samhita Pungavanam (1345, TEL) scored comfortable wins in the final round to become the National Under-9 Open and Girls champions respectively, both scoring 10/11 points!

Advik played a very clean game with the White pieces to take down Sarvesh E (1222, TN) in the final 11th round. One mistake from Sarvesh in the middlegame was enough - Advik managed to win a pawn, and went on to win the game comfortably.

With this win, Amit Advik Agrawal (1378, MAH) had now become the National Under-9 Open Champion 2023 with 10/11 points! Advik revealed in the post-tournament interview that his coach is Satyam Warude from Pune.

In the girls category, Samhita Pungavanam (1345, TEL) finished her event with a bang. In the final round, she took down the tournament top seed Sharvaanica AS (1430, TN) with the White pieces! Seizing the initiative right from the opening, Sharvaanica got into big trouble very soon and Samhita won comfortably.

With this win, Samhita became the National Under-9 Girls Champion 2023! She won a beautiful trophy and a cash prize of Rs. 50,000. In the post-game interview, Samhita revealed her coach's name - Saket Pedagandham from King's Chess Academy. She also talks about her love for endgame studies!

Rahul Ramakrishnan (1531, PUD) scored a strong win against Abhinav Anand (1395, KAR) with the Black pieces in the final round. This win propelled Rahul Ramakrishnan to take 2nd position in the Open category! The wins in the penultimate and final round were key for Rahul to become the runners-up with 9.5/11 points.

Pooja Shree R (1249, TN) defeated Aaradhya Das (1198, TRI) in the final round! With this win, she took 2nd place in the final standings in the Girls category. Pooja took 2nd place in the National Under-8 Girls last year, this year she's 2nd in National Under-9 Girls!

In the open section, Jai Prakash Vanum (1287, AP) secured 3rd position with 9/11 points. He was one of the two players who managed to draw against the tournament winner Advik Amit Agrawal!

In the girls category, Divi Bijesh (1170, KER) took 3rd place with 8.5/11 points. Divi played a marathon game in the final round to take down Kiyana Parihar (1233, RAJ)! She is also the only player in the tournament who managed to defeat the winner, Samhita Pungavanam.

Photo Gallery

For more Round 10, Round 11 , and prize distribution ceremony photos, please click at the respective links.

Replay Open Round 10-11 games

Replay Girls Round 10-11 games

Open Round 11 results

Details

Final Standings after Round 11

Details

Girls Round 11 results

Details

Final Standings after Round 11

Details

Related news:

	36th National Under 9 Open and Girls Round 8-9: Advik and Samhita take sole lead @ 07/11/2023 by Himank Ghosh (en)
	36th National Under-9 Open and Girls Round 6-7: Advik Amit Agrawal goes 7/7 @ 06/11/2023 by Himank Ghosh (en)
	36th National Under-9 Open and Girls Round 4-5: Venkata and Advik lead in Open, Samhita and Pooja in Girls @ 05/11/2023 by Himank Ghosh (en)
	36th National Under-9 Open and Girls: Chirag topples top seed, Sharvaanica on 3/3 @ 03/11/2023 by Himank Ghosh (en)