CHANDIGARH, July 12: Navin Jain edged out Nitin by half-a-point to win the title in the Chandigarh state under-18 chess tournament which concluded at St Xavier's School, Sector 44 premises here today. Navin scored 6.5 point at the end of the seventh round while Nitin got 6 point followed closely by Kanwar Sandeep Singh who had 5.5 point.The point position at the end of the seventh round: Navin Jain (6.5 point); Nitin (6 point); Kanwar Sandeep Singh (5.5 point); Chiranjeev Singh, Chetan Vikas, Amandeep Singh Sandhu, Rahul Bhatia, Tarun Mittal, Varun Khullar, Dheeraj Kumar (5 point); Anu Aggarwal, Gaurav Jaswal, Saurabh Thakral (4.5 point); Paman Gujral, Mandeep Singh, Bhavjeet Singh, Sudeep Rawat, Chander Vikas, Preeti, Jatinder Kaur, Shiwinder Virdi, Ripudaman (4 point); Gaurav Thakral, Preeteshwar Singh, Abhishek Kumar (3.5 point); Simranjeet Kaur, Rohit, Hemant Mudgil, Gaginder Singh Dhasiwal, Mohit Rai, Varun Rawat, Shweta, Nishant Seth, Siddharth Datta, Aaftaab (3 point); Harsimran Singh, Rupali, Jinia Nath, Ravi Gupta, Suparana Bhatia, Anmol Razdan, Virender Kumar (2 point); Varun Bhatia and Vikramjit Singh (1.5 point).
