Under-7 chess: top seed Bethi beaten

round one: Boys: 1-M Aditya (TN) 1 bt G Madhvan (Goa)0; Manan Jain (Maharashtra) 0 lost to 2-Sambit Panda (Orissa) 1; 3-Sanket Chakravarthi (WB) 1 bt Manav Chopra (Maharashtra) 0; Shoubhanik Mujumdar (Orissa) 0 lost to 4-Rajdev Soumil (Orissa) 1; 5-Mohan Kushagra (AP) 1 bt Naitik Mehta (Gujarat) 0; Shaurya Mittal (Maharashtra) 0 lost to 6-Enbok Khyllep (Meghalaya) 1; 7-Nihal Sarin (Kerala) 1 bt Mohit Kamalrach (Ori) 0; Nakul Hanse (Haryana) 0 lost to 8-Ridit Nimdia (Maharashtra) 1; 9-Manpreet Singh (Delhi) 1 bt Adarsha Narayana (Maharashtra) 0; Paresh Nihal (Maharashtra) 1 bt 10-Arnav Nagaria (Delhi) 0.

Girls: 1-Natura Bethi (AP) 0 lost to Khushi Hombal (Haryana) 1; Mananya Patel (Maharashtra) 0 lost to 2-Aditi Iyer (Maharashtra) 1; Aksita Parija (Orissa) 0 lost to 3-Mehendi Sil (WB) 1; Tinaz Misty (Gujarat) 0 lost to 4-Alaina Parera (Goa) 1; 5-Ananya Parikh (Gujarat) 0 lost to Aditi Mohanti (Orissa) 1; Nagavijaya Kirti (AP) 0.5 drew with 6-Ananya Patel (Karnataka) 0.5; 7-Anushka Mohanti (Orissa) 1 bt Vrunda Naik (Goa) 0; Niranjana Aishwarya Dass (Orissa) lost to 8-Arushi Kotwal (J&K) 1.

Perfect start for Aditya

Top seed M Aditya from Tamil Nadu continued his perfect start to the National under-7 chess championship at Bharati Vidyapeeth University with a second-round win,with black pieces,over Dhanush Bharadwaj of West Bengal. The other seeds in the boys’ section had a solid day as well,apart from seventh seed Nihal Sarin of Kerala,who was held to a draw by Jharkhand’s unseeded Utkarsh Kumar.

Among girls,besides Hombal downing girls’ top seed Bethi — Bethi is the only FIDE-rated player among the 64 in the girls’ section — second seed Aditi Iyer suffered an upset at the hands of Delhi’s Jessica.