Hitesh Jeswani maintains lead

NAGPUR, AUG 4: Unseeded Hitesh Jeswani (5) of Nagpur maintained his solitary lead in the boys section after the fifth round of the ongoin...

NAGPUR, AUG 4: Unseeded Hitesh Jeswani (5) of Nagpur maintained his solitary lead in the boys section after the fifth round of the ongoing 29th Maharshatra State Sub-junior Chess Championship today.

Top seed Madhuri Patil of Pune (3.5) was leading the girls’ section at the end of fourth round despite a 52-move draw against second seed Anuprita Patil (Sangli).

Jeswani, a student of Mahatma Gandhi Centennial Sindhu Highschool, beat fifth seed Sagar Sadavarte of Mumbai today. He had won the sole lead in the fourth round and then maintained it in the next round too. He had beaten fourth seed Subodha Lakhe.

RESULTS: boys: Hitesh Jeswani (5) bt Sagar Sadawarte (3.5), Omkar Pawardhan (4) dr Guprpreet Maras (3.5), Parag Terwadkar (4) bt Subodh Lakhe (3), Shailesh Makhijani (3.5) dr Sagar Masurekar (3.5), Sohan Phadke (3) bt Anurag Tiwari (2), Ishan Gosawi (2) lost Arjun Tiwari (3), Kamlesh Mutha (3) bt Anshuman Gurankar (2), Nayandeep Kotangale (3) bt Swarom Kanitkar (2).

Girls: Anuprita Patil(3) dr Madhuri Patil (3.5), Shreyashi Parkhi (2) lost Amrita Mokal (3), Rinku Rani (2) lost Rucha Karvande (3), Swapan Iyer (2) bt Anju Rani (1).