India dominates at the Western Asian Rapids 2019

by Satanick Mukhuty - 06/09/2019

The Western Asian Youth and Junior Chess Championship 2019 kicked off yesterday at the Hotel Tivoli Grand Resort in New Delhi with an action-packed seven-round rapid tournament. As expected, India bagged 15 out of the 16 gold medals at stake to commence the event with a dominating statement. The only gold that eluded grasp was in the under-18 open event where it was Mukhammadali Abdurakhmonov of Uzbekistan who clinched the title finishing half a point ahead of the rest of the field. While the host claimed 43 out of the total 48 medals, Uzbekistan was second with a lone gold, followed by Bangladesh and Tajikistan with a silver each. Kazakhstan and Sri Lanka settled for a bronze each. The classical section begins at 9:30 am IST from today and will continue till the 10th of September. The event will wind up with Blitz games on the final day.

The Western Asian Youth and Junior Chess Championship is being played out in sixteen different age categories featuring all three formats - rapid, classical, and blitz. Among the total of 859 players participating, as many as 703 are Indians. The Sri Lankan contingent, with 36 of its participants, makes for the next largest representation in the event followed by Nepal, Bangladesh, and Uzbekistan.

Players from ten different countries are participating in the event | Photo: ChessBase Nepal

The playing hall at the Hotel Tivoli Grand Resort looks impressive | Photo: ChessBase Nepal

One of the biggest attractions of the event is its lucrative offers of norms and titles. For instance, gold medallists of Under-18 categories shall be awarded the title of International Master (IM) or Woman International Master (WIM), and 1st equal players (best three after tie break) shall also get IM/WIM norms. On the other hand, the Silver and Bronze Medal winners shall be awarded the FIDE Master (FM) or Woman FIDE Master (WFM) titles.

A brief opening ceremony preceded the inaugural rapid event which was graced by the presence of AICF secretary Bharath Singh Chauhan | Photo: Puneet Jaiswal

The rapid section of the event was a seven-round swiss following a time control of 10 minutes for the entire game plus 10 seconds increment per move from move one. A pictorial overview of the results in all categories is presented below.

Under-6 Open

R. Nijesh became the Western Asian under-6 champion. You wouldn't suspect, this sleeping fellow had also become the National under-5 runner up held in Tumkur, Karnataka last year! | Photo: Rathinam Anantharam

R. Nijesh, Havish Kovidh Tadavarthy, and Aditya Shripad Joshi finished tied on 5.5/7 but were declared first, second, and third based on tie-break score. The top 10 standings are given below:

Rk.	SNo	Name	sex	FED	Rtg	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3	TB4	TB5	w-we
1	14	Nijesh R		IND	0	5,5	1,5	5	27,5	30,0	23,00
2	8	Havish Kovidh Tadavarthy		IND	0	5,5	1,0	5	24,0	24,5	17,00
3	10	Joshi Aditya Shripad		IND	0	5,5	0,5	5	26,5	29,0	20,75
4	4	Mudil Dharewa		IND	1039	4,5	0,0	4	21,0	21,5	13,00	0,12
5	2	Madhvendra Pratap Sharma		IND	1084	4,0	0,0	4	25,0	27,0	12,50	0,00
6	9	Hridhaan Chawla		IND	0	4,0	0,0	4	24,5	26,5	11,50
7	11	Krishnav Mrinmoy Hazarika		IND	0	4,0	0,0	4	23,5	26,0	12,50
8	12	Mithilesh P		IND	0	4,0	0,0	3	28,5	32,0	17,00
9	7	Darshil Krunal Sutariya		IND	0	4,0	0,0	3	20,0	22,0	9,50
10	1	Kakavand Ramtin		IRI	1109	3,5	0,0	3	21,5	23,5	11,00	0,40

Under-6 Girls

In the girls event Diya Digamber Sawal emerged as the sole victor scoring an astounding 7.0/7 points and finishing a full point ahead of the field. Rammadugu Geethika Sri and Srijita Das finished second and third with 6.0/7 and 5.0/7 respectively.

Rk.	SNo	Name	sex	FED	Rtg	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3	TB4	TB5	w-we
1	2	Diya Digamber Sawal	w	IND	0	7,0	0,0	7	25,0	27,5	27,50
2	7	Rammadugu Geethika Sri	w	IND	0	6,0	0,0	6	26,0	27,5	20,50
3	11	Srijita Das	w	IND	0	5,0	0,0	5	26,5	27,0	14,00
4	6	Pal Vedika	w	IND	0	4,0	0,0	4	26,5	27,0	9,00
5	10	Sharabidinova Aliia	w	KGZ	0	4,0	0,0	4	23,0	23,5	8,00
6	9	Samhita Pungavanam	w	IND	0	4,0	0,0	4	22,0	22,5	8,00
7	3	Khayalvizhi Kamesh	w	IND	0	4,0	0,0	3	28,0	30,5	13,50
8	13	Yati Agarwal	w	IND	0	3,0	0,0	2	24,5	27,0	8,00
9	8	Saanvi Aggarwal	w	IND	0	3,0	0,0	2	24,5	26,0	6,50
10	12	Srinika S	w	IND	0	3,0	0,0	2	19,0	20,5	6,50
11	4	Loganethra Mani R	w	IND	0	3,0	0,0	2	16,5	17,0	4,00
12	1	Arisha Hossain Tuba	w	BAN	1331	2,0	0,0	1	20,0	20,5	2,00	0,00
13	5	Nihhirra Chamoli	w	IND	0	1,0	0,0	0	21,5	23,0	2,00

Under-8 Open

In under-8 open Ethan Vaz dominated the field and finished clear first with 6.5/7 points | Photo: Amit Sharma

Ethan was closely followed by Rosh Jain who finished half a point behind with 6.0/7 points. Aaryaveer Agrawal and Nimay Agrawal finished third and fourth respectively with 5.0/7 each.

Rk.	SNo	Name	sex	FED	Rtg	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3	TB4	TB5	w-we
1	4	Vaz Ethan		IND	1251	6,5	0,0	6	28,0	31,0	28,75	1,96
2	8	Rosh Jain		IND	1176	6,0	0,0	6	28,0	31,0	24,50	2,06
3	17	Aaryaveer Agarwal		IND	0	5,0	0,0	4	25,5	29,0	19,00
4	16	Nimay Agrawal		IND	1025	5,0	0,0	4	25,0	27,5	17,75	3,17
5	6	Alybakov Nail		KGZ	1188	4,5	0,0	4	28,5	31,5	18,25	-0,14
6	2	Ishaan Singh Khanuja		IND	1285	4,5	0,0	4	28,0	31,0	16,50	0,06
7	11	Yuvanesh A		IND	1137	4,0	0,0	4	26,5	27,0	11,00	-0,35
8	9	Verma Vivaan		IND	1160	4,0	0,0	4	24,5	27,0	12,50	-0,67
9	13	Rishabh Kumar		IND	1098	4,0	0,0	4	23,0	25,0	10,50	-0,59
10	19	Amartya Kumar		IND	0	4,0	0,0	4	21,0	21,5	8,00

Under-8 Girls

Kolagatla Alana Meenakshi became the under-8 girls champion scoring an impressive 6.5/7 | Photo:West Godavari District Chess Association

Warsia Khusbu of Bangladesh bagged the silver medal in this category with 6.0/7. The top 10 standings are given below:

Rk.	SNo	Name	sex	FED	Rtg	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3	TB4	TB5	w-we
1	5	Kolagatla Alana Meenakshi	w	IND	1096	6,5	0,0	6	25,5	28,0	25,75	2,07
2	1	Warsia Khusbu	w	BAN	1237	6,0	0,0	6	27,0	31,0	24,50	0,15
3	4	Aggarwal Tashna	w	IND	1110	5,0	0,0	5	21,0	23,0	15,00	0,74
4	22	Vishaleni U	w	SRI	0	4,5	0,0	4	27,5	30,5	17,25
5	7	Aadhya Jain	w	IND	1018	4,0	0,0	4	29,5	31,5	14,00	-0,98
6	8	Prishita Gupta	w	IND	1016	4,0	0,0	4	28,5	30,5	13,00	0,19
7	21	Vachi Aggarwal	w	IND	0	4,0	0,0	4	27,5	30,5	16,00
8	2	Arhashirsha Biswas	w	IND	1167	4,0	0,0	4	26,5	29,5	13,00	-1,00
9	17	Samaira Jain	w	IND	0	4,0	0,0	4	24,5	27,5	15,00
10	6	Anaishaa Pinkesh Nahar	w	IND	1024	4,0	0,0	4	20,5	22,5	10,50	-0,51

Under-10 Open

In under-10 open it was Daaevik Wadhawan who came out on the top with 6.0/7 points. He was followed by Wanjari Krupal and Daakshin Arun who finished second and third with 5.5/7 and 5.0/7 respectively.

Rk.	SNo	Name	sex	FED	Rtg	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3	TB4	TB5	w-we
1	5	Daaevik Wadhawan		IND	1562	6,0	0,0	5	29,5	29,5	24,25	0,87
2	31	Wanjari Krupal		IND	1075	5,5	0,0	5	25,5	28,0	21,00	4,30
3	8	Daakshin Arun		IND	1441	5,0	0,0	5	25,0	27,5	16,50	0,36
4	2	Aakash G		IND	1655	5,0	0,0	5	24,0	26,5	19,00	-0,76
5	7	Arshpreet Singh		IND	1478	5,0	0,0	4	28,5	31,5	21,00	1,43
6	1	Md Imran		IND	1666	5,0	0,0	4	27,0	30,0	21,00	-0,33
7	4	Mayank Chakraborty		IND	1613	5,0	0,0	4	26,5	29,0	18,00	-0,24
8	16	Raghu Ram Reddy Seelam		IND	1304	5,0	0,0	4	23,0	25,5	16,25	1,96
9	28	Agarwal Mukund H		IND	1124	4,5	0,5	4	22,5	25,5	15,75	2,91
10	9	Sparsh Bisht		IND	1431	4,5	0,5	3	23,5	26,0	15,25	-0,79

Under-10 Girls

Winners were Sachi Jain and Hiya Panchal who both finished with 6.5/7 and were declared first and second respectively based on tie-break.

Rk.	SNo	Name	sex	FED	Rtg	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3	TB4	TB5	w-we
1	4	Sachi Jain	w	IND	1282	6,5	0,5	6	28,5	31,5	28,25	1,90
2	7	Panchal Hiya	w	IND	1175	6,5	0,5	6	26,0	29,0	26,00	2,95
3	11	Kukreja Suguna	w	IND	1148	5,0	0,0	5	27,0	29,0	16,50	0,96
4	2	Sani Deshpande	w	IND	1404	4,5	0,0	4	24,5	26,5	14,50	-1,02
5	3	Srishanthi G	w	IND	1289	4,5	0,0	4	24,0	26,5	12,50	-0,38
6	18	Arshiya Das	w	IND	1058	4,0	0,0	4	29,5	32,0	14,50	1,83
7	8	Imomkuzieva Nilufarkhon	w	UZB	1174	4,0	0,0	4	21,5	23,0	11,00	-0,01
8	1	Palak Mohapatra	w	IND	1406	4,0	0,0	4	19,5	21,0	11,00	-1,63
9	21	Sherali Pattnaik	w	IND	1024	4,0	0,0	3	23,0	25,0	12,00	1,26
10	9	Aanya Agrawal	w	IND	1155	4,0	0,0	3	21,0	23,5	11,50	0,22

Under-12 Open

Gaurang Bagwe emerged as the champion finishing full point ahead of the field with 6.5/7 | Photo: Amruta Mokal

Sahib Singh became the runners up with 5.5/7. The top 10 standings is given below:

Rk.	SNo		Name	sex	FED	Rtg	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3	TB4	TB5	w-we
1	8		Bagwe Gaurang		IND	1473	6,5	0,0	6	25,0	27,0	24,25	2,39
2	2		Sahib Singh		IND	1698	5,5	0,0	5	27,0	30,0	23,75	0,16
3	3		Shaik Sumer Arsh		IND	1695	5,0	1,0	5	29,5	33,0	21,00	-0,80
4	19		Md Bashiq Imrose		IND	1176	5,0	0,0	5	25,5	27,5	17,00	3,38
5	9		Swayham P Das		IND	1403	4,5	0,5	4	25,5	28,0	15,75	0,59
6	18		Mrithyunjay Mahadevan		IND	1215	4,5	0,5	4	24,5	25,5	12,75	1,90
7	21		Pavan Anand S		IND	1130	4,0	0,0	4	25,0	27,5	13,50	2,49
8	15		Prathamesh Santosh Gawade		IND	1310	4,0	0,0	4	25,0	27,5	11,00	0,25
9	11		Adalja Vanssh A		IND	1355	4,0	0,0	4	23,5	24,0	9,50	-0,19
10	4	CM	Manon Reja Neer		BAN	1645	4,0	0,0	3	26,0	29,0	14,25	-1,72

Under-12 Girls

Tejaswini G emerged victorious in the under-12 girls section scoring an unbeaten 6.0/7 | Photo: Amit Sharma

Rk.	SNo		Name	sex	FED	Rtg	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3	TB4	TB5	w-we
1	3		Tejaswini G	w	IND	1462	6,0	0,0	5	24,5	27,0	23,50	1,00
2	2		Ratnapriya K	w	IND	1591	5,5	0,0	5	27,5	31,5	23,00	-0,18
3	4		Cera Dagaria	w	IND	1457	5,5	0,0	5	25,5	29,0	22,00	0,19
4	27		Rout Yashita	w	IND	1077	5,0	0,0	4	29,0	31,5	20,50	3,81
5	11		Dolisiyas Dash	w	IND	1366	4,5	0,0	4	27,0	29,0	15,50	0,31
6	5		Vakcheri Mohitha	w	IND	1409	4,5	0,0	4	20,5	20,5	12,50	-0,20
7	12		Sai Mahati A	w	IND	1346	4,0	0,0	4	26,5	28,5	12,50	-0,05
8	6		Mythri Maddisetty	w	IND	1401	4,0	0,0	4	25,0	28,0	14,50	-0,54
9	14		Tejasvee Naresh Singh	w	IND	1245	4,0	0,0	4	23,5	25,5	11,50	0,61
10	16	WCM	Pallie Ehsha Mishela	w	SRI	1218	4,0	0,0	4	22,5	24,5	9,50	0,93

Under-14 Open

Abinandhan R became sole winner with 6.0/7. Three players - Aditya Varun Gampa, Nikhil Magizhnan, and Devesh Anand Naik - scored 5.0/7 each and finished second, third, fourth respectively.

Rk.	SNo		Name	sex	FED	Rtg	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3	TB4	TB5	w-we
1	5		Abinandhan R		IND	1718	6,0	0,0	5	24,5	26,5	23,00	1,41
2	14		Aditya Varun Gampa		IND	1426	5,0	0,0	4	26,5	30,0	20,50	3,84
3	3	CM	Nikhil Magizhnan		IND	1855	5,0	0,0	4	25,5	27,5	17,25	-0,47
4	15		Devesh Anand Naik		IND	1426	5,0	0,0	3	25,0	27,5	17,25	2,52
5	8		Jain Kashish Manoj		IND	1559	4,5	0,0	3	24,5	27,0	16,00	0,90
6	2		Ayush Sharma		IND	1959	4,0	0,0	4	22,5	24,5	11,00	-2,44
7	18		Gokhale Rishabh Chandrashekhar		IND	1408	4,0	0,0	4	20,0	22,5	12,50	1,55
8	1		Bhavesh Mahajan		IND	2004	4,0	0,0	3	28,0	30,5	15,00	-2,14
9	6		Sharipov Davron		UZB	1627	4,0	0,0	3	21,5	23,5	11,75	-1,12
10	12		Srikrishnan P		IND	1521	4,0	0,0	3	19,5	22,0	11,75	0,83

Under-14 Girls

Shivika Rohilla scored 6.0/7 and became the champion | Photo: Amit Sharma

Rk.	SNo	Name	sex	FED	Rtg	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3	TB4	TB5	w-we
1	13	Shivika Rohilla	w	IND	1363	6,0	0,0	6	24,0	26,0	20,50	2,16
2	23	Abrorova Sabrina	w	TJK	1222	5,5	1,0	5	28,5	32,0	23,75	4,01
3	6	Velpula Sarayu	w	IND	1511	5,5	0,0	5	30,0	34,5	26,50	1,13
4	9	Femil Chelladurai	w	IND	1430	5,0	2,0	4	27,0	29,5	20,75	1,73
5	17	Stuti Aishwary	w	IND	1305	5,0	0,0	5	25,5	28,0	17,00	1,34
6	12	Mahi Amit Doshi	w	IND	1364	5,0	0,0	5	24,0	26,5	17,00	1,90
7	1	Bhagyashree Patil	w	IND	1725	4,5	0,0	4	29,5	33,0	19,75	-1,57
8	5	Shrija K M	w	IND	1511	4,5	0,0	4	28,5	31,5	18,25	-0,56
9	10	Boramanikar Tanisha S	w	IND	1419	4,5	0,0	4	24,5	26,0	13,75	0,85
10	24	Tina C	w	IND	1205	4,5	0,0	4	22,0	24,0	12,75	2,52

Under-16 Open

Jayachandra Srinivas Vellanki became the champion with 5.5/7. Mohamed Anees M also scored 5.5/7 but had to settle for the second place based on tie-break.

Rk.	SNo		Name	sex	FED	Rtg	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3	TB4	TB5	w-we
1	12		Jayachandra Srinivas Vellanki		IND	1467	5,5	0,5	5	26,0	28,0	20,25	2,57
2	8		Mohamed Anees M		IND	1567	5,5	0,5	5	23,0	25,5	18,75	1,51
3	2	FM	Abdilkhair Abilmansur		KAZ	1986	5,0	0,0	5	27,5	30,0	19,50	-1,31
4	4		Esshan Wadhawan		IND	1808	5,0	0,0	5	23,5	26,5	17,50	-0,22
5	5	FM	Ajay Karthikeyan		IND	1760	5,0	0,0	4	25,0	28,0	19,25	0,68
6	13		Atri Chattopadhyay		IND	1456	4,0	0,0	4	24,0	24,5	10,00	1,71
7	9	FM	Nanayakkara J A K Saranath		SRI	1562	4,0	0,0	3	24,0	26,0	12,00	0,37
8	1		Soham Kamotra		IND	2148	4,0	0,0	3	23,5	26,5	13,25	-2,47
9	7		Antony Jesumarian Leslie		IND	1590	4,0	0,0	3	21,5	22,0	9,50	0,14
10	15		Shejal Sahil Sanjay		IND	1411	3,5	0,0	2	24,0	26,5	11,00	0,78

Under-16 Girls

Bristy Mukherjee became the sole champion scoring 6.0/7 points | Photo: Sagar Shah

Rk.	SNo		Name	sex	FED	Rtg	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3	TB4	TB5	w-we
1	3	WCM	Bristy Mukherjee	w	IND	1569	6,0	0,0	5	26,0	29,0	24,75	1,52
2	9	WCM	Chinnam Vyshnavi	w	IND	1424	5,5	0,0	5	24,5	26,0	18,00	1,64
3	8		Dahampriya H K T Dewnethmie	w	SRI	1448	5,0	0,0	5	25,0	26,5	17,00	0,89
4	7		Mishra Riya	w	IND	1479	5,0	0,0	5	22,0	24,5	15,50	0,66
5	6		Shreetu Bhavikbhai Nandi	w	IND	1480	5,0	0,0	4	27,5	30,5	21,50	1,02
6	5	WCM	Arushi Kotwal	w	IND	1486	4,0	0,0	4	26,5	29,5	14,00	0,04
7	1		Ahmed Walijah	w	BAN	1744	4,0	0,0	4	26,5	29,0	14,50	-1,80
8	2		Sahoo Ankita	w	IND	1623	4,0	0,0	4	25,0	27,5	14,50	-0,97
9	10		Epa W Buthmi J	w	SRI	1377	4,0	0,0	4	22,0	22,5	9,50	0,04
10	16		Shreya Shree Bansal	w	IND	1206	4,0	0,0	4	20,5	22,0	8,00	1,58

Under-18 Open

Abdurakhmonov Mukhammadali of Sri Lanka stunned everybody by bagging the gold medal in this category scoring 5.5/7. Srijit Paul and Arjun Gupta took the silver and Bronze respectively with 5.0/7.

Rk.	SNo		Name	sex	FED	Rtg	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3	TB4	TB5	w-we
1	3	FM	Abdurakhmonov Mukhammadali		UZB	1933	5,5	0,0	5	24,5	27,5	20,50	0,72
2	4		Srijit Paul		IND	1924	5,0	0,5	3	27,0	30,0	20,50	0,39
3	15		Arjun Gupta		IND	1644	5,0	0,5	3	25,5	28,5	20,00	2,73
4	7	FM	Thilakarathne G M H		SRI	1868	4,5	1,0	4	27,0	29,5	16,50	0,06
5	9	FM	Vatsal Singhania		IND	1763	4,5	0,0	4	27,0	29,0	17,50	1,05
6	14		Vaibhav Jayant Raut		IND	1657	4,0	0,0	3	24,0	24,5	10,75	1,43
7	13		Gaurav Rajesh Zagade		IND	1675	4,0	0,0	3	23,5	25,5	12,50	1,49
8	6		Dubey Sanchay		IND	1908	4,0	0,0	3	22,0	24,0	11,50	-1,32
9	1		Harisurya Bharadwaj Gundepudi		IND	2043	4,0	0,0	3	16,0	16,5	7,00	-2,01
10	2		Sibi Visal R		IND	2005	4,0	0,0	2	21,5	23,5	13,25	-0,76

Under-18 Girls

Priyanka K became the champion with 6.5/7 and took a full point lead over Jyothsna L who came second | Photo: Amit Sharma

Rk.	SNo		Name	sex	FED	Rtg	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3	TB4	TB5	w-we
1	3		Priyanka K	w	IND	1778	6,5	0,0	6	26,0	29,0	26,25	1,60
2	5	WCM	Jyothsna L	w	IND	1749	5,5	0,0	4	25,5	27,0	19,75	1,32
3	1		Pandey Srishti	w	IND	1988	5,0	0,0	5	25,0	28,0	18,00	-1,31
4	8		Ghosh Samriddhaa	w	IND	1582	4,5	0,0	4	28,0	30,0	16,25	1,58
5	2		Toshali V	w	IND	1815	4,5	0,0	4	25,5	27,0	14,75	-1,08
6	16		Rindhiya V	w	IND	1424	4,0	0,0	4	27,5	29,5	13,50	2,56
7	9	WCM	Mrudul Dehankar	w	IND	1578	4,0	0,0	4	26,0	27,5	12,00	0,41
8	7		Khusainova Ozoda	w	UZB	1606	4,0	0,0	4	19,5	21,0	7,50	-0,45
9	4		Shriya R Revankar	w	IND	1751	4,0	0,0	3	18,5	20,5	10,50	-1,66
10	6	WFM	Sanskriti Goyal	w	IND	1636	3,5	1,0	3	27,0	29,0	11,25	-0,79

Under-20 Open

Top seed Sankalp Gupta became the champion in the under-20 open section scoring 6.0/7 points | Photo: Amit Sharma

Rk.	SNo		Name	sex	FED	Rtg	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3	TB4	TB5	w-we
1	1		Sankalp Gupta		IND	2246	6,0	0,0	5	24,5	27,5	23,25	0,92
2	10	IM	Rahul Srivatshav P		IND	2027	5,5	0,5	5	23,5	24,0	16,75	0,00
3	7	FM	Anuj Shrivatri		IND	2064	5,5	0,5	4	27,0	30,0	23,00	1,57
4	11		Aradhya Garg		IND	2022	5,0	0,0	4	22,0	24,0	16,25	-0,33
5	2	FM	Abdisalimov Abdimalik		UZB	2223	4,5	0,0	4	26,0	28,5	15,25	-0,95
6	12		Pattnayak Nilsu		IND	1993	4,5	0,0	4	26,0	26,5	13,50	0,35
7	14	FM	Rajdeep Sarkar		IND	1970	4,5	0,0	4	25,5	28,5	16,75	0,75
8	3		Raahul V S		IND	2189	4,5	0,0	4	25,5	28,0	15,50	-0,86
9	27	FM	De Silva L M S T		SRI	1635	4,5	0,0	4	23,0	25,0	15,75	2,58
10	8		Sammed Jaykumar Shete		IND	2061	4,5	0,0	3	27,5	30,0	18,00	0,09

Under-20 Girls

Aakanksha Hagawane pulled off a stunning performance by scoring an astounding 7.0/7 and finishing two points ahead of the rest of the field | Photo: Amit Sharma

12-year-old Savitha Shri B also competed in the under-20 girls event and finished third with an impressive 5.0/7 points | Photo: Amit Sharma

Rk.	SNo		Name	sex	FED	Rtg	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3	TB4	TB5	w-we
1	3	WIM	Aakanksha Hagawane	w	IND	1822	7,0	0,0	7	25,5	28,0	28,00	2,41
2	1		Bakshi Rutuja	w	IND	1932	5,0	1,0	5	28,5	31,5	20,00	-0,41
3	12	WFM	Savitha Shri B	w	IND	1639	5,0	0,0	5	27,0	29,0	17,00	2,60
4	7	WIM	Chitlange Sakshi	w	IND	1712	4,5	0,0	4	24,5	27,0	13,25	0,69
5	6	WIM	Vantika Agrawal	w	IND	1727	4,5	0,0	4	19,5	20,0	11,00	0,10
6	9		Shah Vishwa	w	IND	1662	4,0	0,0	4	26,5	28,5	11,50	0,90
7	5	WCM	Sultanbek Zeinep	w	KAZ	1771	4,0	0,0	4	26,5	27,0	10,00	-0,26
8	4	WFM	Jain Nityata	w	IND	1803	4,0	0,0	4	21,5	24,0	12,50	-0,90
9	15	WFM	Bommini Mounika Akshaya	w	IND	1552	3,5	0,0	3	25,0	27,0	11,25	0,96
10	10	WFM	Potluri Supreetha	w	IND	1656	3,5	0,0	3	23,5	24,0	8,75	-0,26

Final medals tally

CATEGORY	GOLD	SILVER	BRONZE
U6O	INDIA	INDIA	INDIA
U8O	INDIA	INDIA	INDIA
U10O	INDIA	INDIA	INDIA
U12O	INDIA	INDIA	INDIA
U14O	INDIA	INDIA	INDIA
U16O	INDIA	INDIA	KAZAKHSTAN
U18O	UZBEKISTAN	INDIA	INDIA
U20O	INDIA	INDIA	INDIA
U6G	INDIA	INDIA	INDIA
U8G	INDIA	BANGLADESH	INDIA
U10G	INDIA	INDIA	INDIA
U12G	INDIA	INDIA	INDIA
U14G	INDIA	TAJIKISTAN	INDIA
U16G	INDIA	INDIA	SRI LANKA
U18G	INDIA	INDIA	INDIA
U20G	INDIA	INDIA	INDIA

We are grateful to Chief Arbiter IA Gopakumar Sudhakaran for sending us all the relevant information and photographs from the event.

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