Chess: Madkar gains lead

Atharva Madkar took the sole lead in the penultimate round of the JDCA Under-13 Chess Championship yesterday,narrowly edging out Ranveer Mohite,with whom he had shared the lead at the end of the previous round. Mohite was in a winning position,but overlooked a back rank checkmate opportunity,which Madkar capitalized on to subdue the threat to his lead,said a press note.

Madkar ended the sixth round at 5.5 points,while Mohite was left behind at 4.5. Nikhil Dixit beat Mihir Vaidya to take his tally to 5,leapfrogging Mohite into second place. Harshad Hagawane won the battle of the siblings,beating his sister Aakansha to join her at 4 points,the note said.

Results:

1) Atharva Madkar(5.5) beat Ranveer Mohite (4.5)

2) Nikhil Dixit (5) beat Mihir Vaidya (4)

3) Harshad Hagawane (4) beat Aakanksha Hagawane (4)

4)Shubham Deshpande (4) beat Aditya Madkar (3.5)

5) Atharva Paralikar (4) beat Mithil Bochgire (3)

6) Pranav Burli (4) beat Hastin Vijay (3)

7) Himansh Gawade (4) beat Shantanu Godbole (3)

8) Gaurav Hagawane (4) beat Aniket Murumkar (2.5) (Walkover)

9) Aditi Jori(3) beat Vaibhavi Mulay (2)

10) Ninad Barde (3) beat Kapilesh Joshi (2)

11) Sarthak Deshpande (3) beat Saiarya Katkar (2)

12)Sahil Mahajan (3) beat Isha Gujarathi (2).