Stars break off from chesspack

In girls under-10, Gomes beat Soumya Swaminathan to grab the lead with four points. Humpy, the lone girl in the under-12 boys category, made short work of Sayantan Dutta in a Reti opening symmetric game in just 37 moves. In the under-14 section, top seed P Harikrishna downed the unbeaten local boy and current under-14 National champion Valay Parikh at the top board.

Overnight leader in the under-14 girls category C Delphin reassertedher supremacy scoring her fourth successive victory, this time over third seed Sadi Paridar. The only category where a clear leader is yet to emerge is the girls under-12, where Atousa Pour of Iran and Indian Eesha Karvade are sharing the top spot with 3.5 points each.

Results
Boys (U-14): P Harikrishna (4) bt Valay Parikh (3), MR Venkatesh (3) bt R Naveen (2), Elshan Moradiabadi (3) bt Annaberdyev (2), Kartik Viswanathan (2.5) bt S Poobesh Anand (1.5), Iskakov Aibek (2) draw Ismagambetov Anour (2), Saptarshi Roy (2) bt Byomkesh Nayak (1), AM Kamath (2) bt Himanshu Kumar (0.5), Ravi Purohit (1) draw Prasanga Dissanaike (0.5); (U-12): K Humpy (4) bt Sayantan Dutta (3), Deepan Chakraborty (3) bt S Tangrajan (2), Omid Norouzi (3) bt Huy Nguyen Hinh (2), T Damir (2.5) draw Wong Zi Chung (2.5), Jude Ranga (2) bt B Sriram (1.5), Kampakyanob (2.5) bt Vinaykumar N (1), R Siddarth (20 bt Monil Majmudar (1), Esenov AnnaBerdi (1), Seyeed Javed Alavi (1.5) bt Habib Redwankhan (0); (U-10): SonNguyen Ngoc Truo (4) bt G Rohit (3), K Vijay Keerthi (3) draw Vijil Pujara (3), Abhijit Gupta (3) bt M Soumitra (2), Minhazuddin Ahmed (2.5) bt Varun Dattani (2), Rahul Sangma (2.5) bt Chan Litt Bin (1.5), T Abhay (2) draw Arash Abdollahzadeh (1.5), Akshat Kamparia (2) bt Bhavya Shah (1), Rohil Bhat (2) bt Anand Trivedi (1), Vishal Shah (1.5) bt Akarsh Rai (1), Irusha Tennekoon Pal (1.5) bt Iskakov Arsen Kaz (0).
Girls (U-14): C Delphin (4) bt Sadi Paridar (2), Tania Sachdev (3) bt Jaya Arunamathi (2.5), Giang Nguyen Thu (3) bt Panaga Magal (2), Shraddha Samani (2.5) bt Waxnoza (1), Zeal Patel (1.5) bt Anudama Isani Konara (1.5); (U-12): Atousa Pour (3.5) bt R Mahima (2.5), Eesha Karwade (3.5) bt Krutika Nadig (2), P Priya (3) bt S Vikotrya (2), Manjaree Sowani (2.5) draw Khallaeba (2), Azadeh Patel (2) bt Nilupa Karunatilaka (1), M Priyadarshini (2) bt B Latha (1), Artikova (2) bt Fariya Zaman (0); (U-10): Mary Ann Gomes (4) bt S Swaminathan (2.5), Haamra Kulova Yulduz (2.5) drawAnoori Shah (3), Ngoc Pham Bich (3) bt Noor Shazwani (2), L Natasha (2.5) draw Prachi Thite (2), Ketki Kulkarni (2.5) bt Sonam Shah (1.5), Chandrika Koswatte (1) bt Nina Hematizadeh (1), Dhyani Dave (2) bt Kajari Choksi (1).