Sasikiran stays ahead

RESULTS

6th round: S Kidambi 5.5 drew with Tejas Bakre 5, K. Sasikiran 5.5 bt Vikramjit Singh 4, R. Karthik 5 bt Vikas Sharma 4, P Harikrishana 4.5 drew with Rahul Shandilya 4.5, Rishipal Singh 5 bt VR Kamble 4, Neelotpal Dass 4.5 bt Sameer Singh 3.5, Dileep Tripathi 4.5 bt Satyapragyan 3.5, Beenish Bhatia 4.5 bt Ajay Bir Singh 3.5, Naveen Jain 4 drew with B Handique 4, Shashikant Kutwal 4.5 bt Ashish P Thate 3.5, D. Ravishankar 4.5 bt Ismeet Vohra 3.5, Abhey Karnataki 4 b Biby Sebastian 3.

Nisha Mohota in lead

THALASSERY: IWM Nisha Mohota of West Bengal trounced TamilNadu8217;s fourth seeded R Aarthie to maintain her lead with 7 points after the 8th round of the National Junior Girls8217;s Chess Championship here today.

MR Sangeeta of Tamil Nadu posted a brilliant victory over 5th seed Neha Singh of Bihar to emerge second with 6.5 points, while Manasi Dadarkar of Maharashtra is in the third position with 6 points after she won her game against her compatriot Ashwini Pachapurkar.

RESULTS

8th round: Aarthie Ramaswamy 5 lost to Nisha Mohota 7, Neha Singh 5.5 lost to MR Sangeetha 6.5, Manasi Dadarkar 6 bt Aswini Pacharpurkar 5, Chitra Sridhar 5.5 drew Pazha Sivakami 5.5, Eesha Karvade 5.5 bt Sasinas Haritha 4.5, Shraddha Samani 5.5 bt S Cynthia 4.5, Pallavi Shah 5 bt Pannaga Magal 4.5, M Kasthuri 4 lost to Swati Ghate 5, J E Kavitha 5 bt N Sandhya 4, K Preethi 4 lost to Thelma Gopal 5, M Kavana 4.5 drew S Sujatha 4.5, Y Prathibha 4.5 bt Anuprita Patil 4, Mili Sarkar 4.5 bt Manjula James 3.5, M Priyadarshini 3.5 lost to B Sini 4.5, G Ramyashree 3.5 drew Madonna Fullmoon4.