Ajay Karthikeyan and Divya Deshmukh are National Sub-Junior 2018 Champions

Ajay Karthikeyan's first and Divya Deshmukh's second championship title at National Sub-Junior 2018

When we reached out to Ajay's coach, Srinivasa Rangan, this is what he had to say, "We are naturally happy and delighted. The interesting thing is he played a game in ACL (Academy Chess League) a day before he played a crucial game against top seed VS Rahul. He lost the ACL game because of a mouse slip but that kind of triggered him to do well in nationals after that. He won that game against VS Rahul"

Utsab Chatterjee continued his fantastic run, remained undefeated and finished at 8.5/11. Due to a better tie-break score, he clinched 2nd position. He also gained 55 ELO Rating points. Srihari L of Pondicherry also had a wonderful tournament as he gained a whopping 131 ELO Rating points, scored 8.5/11 and finished at 5th position.

Divya was worse out of the opening Vienna Game. Later she managed to equalize, however Poorna made a strong attack on her opponent's weakness which netted her the full point. Poorna Sri M K of Tamil Nadu finished at 8.5/11 and secured 4th position

When we reached out to Divya's parents, this is what they had to say, "We are very happy for Divya's title. I feel repeating the feat is creditable !! Divya has recently got WIM title as well. We hope she continues to work hard and keeps the learning process on."

Lakshmi C of Tamil Nadu gave her opponent Akshaya Bommini Mounika of Andhra Pradesh, one more chance later in the game where she could have equalized, but it was not Akshaya's day.

Despite suffering a loss in the fourth round, Meenatchi Rajam V of Tamil Nadu bounced back and finished at 8.5/11 to secure 3rd position. She also gained 148 ELO Rating points.

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Total 240 players in the open category and 136 players in the girls category participated from over 20 different states across the country in 44th National Sub-Junior Open and 35th National Sub-Junior girls respectively. The tournament was organized by Bengal Chess Association from 17th to 25th July 2018 at JIS College of Engineering, Nadia, West Bengal.

Final round results in the open category

Round 11 on 2018/07/25 at 10:00AM

Final round results in the girls category

Round 11 on 2018/07/25 at 10.00 AM

Bo.	No.		Name	Gr	Rtg	Pts.	Result	Pts.		Name	Gr	Rtg	No.
1	1	WFM	Divya Deshmukh		2203	9	0 - 1	7½		Poorna Sri M.K		1715	15
2	3	WCM	Mrudul Dehankar		2093	7½	½ - ½	7½	WFM	Salonika Saina		2113	2
3	7		Eesha Ajay Sarda		1830	7½	½ - ½	7½	WCM	Jyothsna L		1923	5
4	8	WFM	Lakshmi C		1805	7½	1 - 0	7½	WFM	Bommini Mounika Akshaya		1734	12
5	29		Meenatchi Rajam V		1560	7½	1 - 0	7		Mehendi Sil		1601	22
6	4	WCM	Jain Nityata		1945	7	0 - 1	7		Sudipa Haldar		1589	24
7	18		Arushi Kotwal		1662	7	½ - ½	7	WCM	Bristy Mukherjee		1768	9
8	6		Bhagyashree Patil		1836	6½	1 - 0	6½		Diya Chowdhury		1571	28
9	13		Adane Narayani		1726	6½	½ - ½	6½		Kritika Pal		1546	30
10	40		Nayanikaa Muralidharan		1451	6½	½ - ½	6½		Routray Priyanka		1683	16

Final Ranking in open category

Final Ranking in girls category

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