Konde leads Khare Chess tourney

Gaurav Konde secured 6.5 points and ended up top of the leader board at the end of the eighth round of the Ashok Khare Memorial chess tournament being held at the Club of Maharashtra hall on Tuesday.

Konde,who has a rating of 2134,beat Pinak Jedhe (1580) to reach the top of the standings. Both Ketan Khaire and Shailesh Jaiswar shared the second spot after beating their respective

opponents Hrushikesh Salvekar and Kiran Panditrao.

Results:

Kiran Panditrao 2134 (5.5) 0 – 1 Shailesh Jaiswar 2060 (5); Gaurav Konde 2091 (5.5) 1 -0 Pinak Jedhe 1580 (5); Ketan R Khaire 2130 (5) 1- 0 Hrishikesh Salvekar 2016 (5); Vikrant Mavlankar 1994 (4.5) 0-1 Sunil Vaidya 1888 (4); Ashutosh Singh 1962 (4) 0- 1 Sarang Ponkshe 1742 (4) ;Ravindra Nargundkar1861 (4) 1 -0 Sanat Mharolkar 1619 (4)

Kaushik Bhave 1756 (4) 0 -1 Pavan Katkade 1929 (3.5); Atharva Mulay 1578 (3.5) 1 – 0 Pradip Late 1760 (3.5) Ranveer Mohite 1669 (3) 1 – 0 Jitendra Walimbe (3); Ishan Ballal (3) 0 – 1 Isha Bhave 1512 (3); Snehal Mahajan 1786 (2.5) 0 – 1 Atharva Madkar (3)

Ajinkya Joshi 1542 (2.5) .5 – .5 Abhimanyu Puranik 1736 (2.5); Vivek Pardeshi (2) 0 – 1 Prakash Karmarkar 1884 (2.5); Shridev Nilve 1632 (1) – – + Ardhendu Mandal 1810 (2.5).

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