U-20 chess: Kelkar takes lead

Abhishek Kelkar finished on top of the standings at the end of round 9 of the Late Shri Bhalchandra Lele Memorial U20 Rapid Chess Tournament organised by the Buddhibal Kreeda trust and held at the Chatre Hall. He defeated Gaurav Konde who finished second while Chinmay Kulkarni ended the day in third position

Results:Abhijit Kelkar 1 bt Gaurav Konde 0; Chinmay Kulkarni 1 bt Pratik Mulay 0; Ranveer Mohite 1 bt Shantanu Godbole 0; Raja Harshit 1 bt Akshay Patharkar 0; Atharva Mulay 0.5 drew with Nikhil Dixit 0.5; Akanksha Hagawane 0.5 drew with Shantanu Mirashi 0.5. Standings: 1 Kelkar,Abhishek 2 Konde,Gaurav 3 Kulkarni,Chinmay 4 Godbole,Atharva 5 Harshit,Raja 6 Mohite,Ranveer 7 Shenvi,Mohit 8 Gaikwad,Siddhant 9 Inamdar,Sameer 10 Chavan,Abhishek 11 Joshi,Rohan 12 Mulay,Pratik 13 Mirashi,Shantanu 14 Patharkar,Akshay 15 Dixit,Nikhil 16 Madkar,Atharva 17 Godbole,Shantanu 18 Hastin,Vijay 19 Pandhare,Swapnil 20 Aphale,Kanaad 21 Mulay,Atharva 22 Hagawane,Aakanksha 23 Deshpande,Eshaan 24 Suratkar,Ninad 25 Patwardhan,Shashank 26 Sapale,Saloni Bawdekar,Kaustubh 28 Munemane,Ameya 29 Karandikar,Sameer 30 Gulanikar,Anoop 31 Sane,Gargi 32 Hasbanis,Yash 33 Menon,Shubhankar 34 Deshpande,Shubham 35 Deshpande,Sarthak 36 Badge,Pradyna 37 Waghmare,Sushrut 38 Chalak,Durva 39 Shanbhag,Narayan 40 Joshi,Ninad 41 Pawar,Sahil 42 Kotkar,Amit 43 Shrotri,Anand 44 Vaidya,Mihir 45 Kulkarni,Rohan Lakare,Ajay 47 Lakare,Shubham 48 Modak,Siddharth 49 Zanje,Sohan 50 Rathi,Pranav 51 Relekar,Maitrali 52 Jagtap,Pranav 53 Ranade,Aditya 54 Katkar.