Khalwadekars shine

MUMBAI, October 29: Khalwadekar brothers, Akash and Ambar in the under-10 section and Amar Kamath in the open category lead the field wit...

MUMBAI, October 29: Khalwadekar brothers, Akash and Ambar in the under-10 section and Amar Kamath in the open category lead the field with six wins from six rounds in the Bournvita Inter-Schools Chess Tournament being conducted by the Kalina Recreation Centre and Sports Club and Mumbai Chess Association at the Don Bosco School, Matunga here today.

Akash defeated Entrants Division champion, Niharika Thakkar in the second board while Ambar won in the third board over Sachin Bedekar. On the top board, Rohil Bhat and Aditya Vora drew their games to share the second spot (5.5 points).

In the open category, Sagar Masurekar, Raj Parakh, Vaibhav Saxena and Devendra Sathe share the second spot with 5.5 points each.

Results (sixth round)

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Open category: Sagar Masurekar (5.5) drew with Raj Parakh (5.5); Amar Kamath (6) bt Sameer Thakkar (5); Chaitanya Vaidya (4.5) lost to Vaibhav Saxena (5.5); Devendra Sathe (5.5) beat Amogh Kulkarni (4.5); Ameya Karandikar (4) lost to Amit Kamath (5); Srinivasan Ramkumar(5) beat Anand Subramanium (4); Gaurav Higne (4) lost to R Chandrashekar (5); Nikhil Bhat (5) bt Anuj Pandit (4); Tanvi Thakur (4) lost to Archin Awate (5); V Ram Mohan (4) lost to Sagar Sadavarte (5).

Under-10: Rohil Bhat (5.5) drew with Aditya Vora (5.5); Akash Khalwadekar (6) bt Niharika Thakkar (5); Sachin Bedekar (4.5) lost to Ambar Khalwadekar (6); Nadeem Abdulla (4) lost to Varun Dattani (5); Ashay Awate (5) bt Sudarshan Lamture (4); Akshay Bhor (4.5) drew with Trichi Chawla (4.5); Vishal Shah (5) bt Aniruddh Unni (4); Kashi Kishore Shah (4.5) drew with KP Nimidev (4.5); Rohan Nagare (5) bt Sahil majumdar (4); Sachin Kamath (5) bt Akarsh Rai (4).

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