Top seeds make a smooth start at National Juniors 2019

by Shahid Ahmed - 02/11/2019

49th National Junior open and 34th National Junior girls started smoothly for all top seeds in round 1 at Suncity World School in Gurgaon, Haryana. Exactly a week ago World Junior concluded at the nation's capital New Delhi. Total 172 in open and 115 in girls section are taking part from various states across the country. Three out of the top four seeds in the open section are from Kolkata representing West Bengal. Since the defending champion champion in the open section, GM Karthik Venkataraman has exceeded the age limit, a new champion is guaranteed to be crowned, whereas WIM Sakshi Chitlange is looking forward to defend her National Junior title in her final attempt at the tournament. Photo: IA Jitendra Choudhary

National Junior starts with 287 players

Total 172 in open and 115 in girls are taking part in 49th National Junior open and 34th National Junior girls championship at Suncity World School, Gurgaon, Haryana. Defending champion in the open section GM Karthik Venkataraman has crossed the age barrier so he is unable to participate, however the girl's champion WIM Sakshi Chitlange is defending her title in her final attempt at the National Junior.

AICF Secretary Bharat Singh Chauhan makes the inaugural move | Photo: Jitendra Choudhary

Top seed in the open section IM Koustav Chatterjee | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

Top seed in the open section IM Koustav Chatterjee made a short work of his opponent R S Sharan (1686) of Telangana in just 29 moves.

Top seed among the girls is WIM Priyanka Nutakki | Photo: Niklesh Jain

Playing French Defence with the black pieces against Anjitha Krishnakumar (1384) of Kerala, Priyanka took her time to manoeuvre her pieces an struck tactically at the right time to score full point.

Photo Gallery

Suncity school made a nice structure with chess pieces for the National tournaments | Photo: Jitendra Choudhary

Lighting of the lamp at the inauguration ceremony | Photo: Jitendra Choudhary

Champions' trophies unveiled | Photo: Jitendra Choudhary

Memento presented to AICF Secretary Bharat Singh Chauhan | Photo: Jitendra Choudhary

The tournament is organized by District Chess Association Gurgaon from 1st - 9th November at Suncity World School, Gurgaon.

Round 1 results in Open

Bo.	No.		Name	Rtg	Pts.	Result	Pts.		Name	Rtg	No.
1	1	IM	Koustav Chatterjee	2449	0	1 - 0	0		Sharan R S	1686	91
2	92		Samarth Mittal	1681	0	0 - 1	0	IM	Mitrabha Guha	2443	2
3	3	FM	Anuj Shrivatri	2376	0	1 - 0	0		Krishnan Ritvik	1680	93
4	94		Aashman Gupta	1670	0	0 - 1	0	IM	Rajdeep Sarkar	2362	4
5	5		Harshavardhan G B	2360	0	1 - 0	0		Nirnay Garg	1670	95
6	96		Harshiel Sehgal	1665	0	+ - -	0	IM	Rakesh Kumar Jena	2335	6
7	7	FM	Nitish Belurkar	2325	0	1 - 0	0		Madduri Satya Tejeswar	1665	97
8	98		Adireddy Arjun	1656	0	0 - 1	0	IM	Srijit Paul	2317	8
9	9	FM	Srihari L R	2286	0	1 - 0	0		Sivaa G M	1655	99
10	100		Antony Jesumarian Leslie	1652	0	0 - 1	0		Saurabh Anand	2278	10
11	11	FM	Wagh Suyog	2273	0	1 - 0	0		Sai Raj Gopal K	1645	101
12	102		Chandan Palash N	1634	0	0 - 1	0		Subhayan Kundu	2269	12
13	13	FM	Jeet Jain	2264	0	1 - 0	0		Kartikey Verma	1601	103
14	104		Aditya Rawat	1596	0	0 - 1	0		Sibi Visal R	2238	14
15	15	FM	Aaryan Varshney	2236	0	1 - 0	0		Ajay Santhosh Parvathareddy	1594	105
16	106		Aman Kumar	1587	0	0 - 1	0		Soham Kamotra	2189	16
17	17	CM	Bhavesh Mahajan	2187	0	1 - 0	0		Aryan Garg	1581	107
18	108		Arjun Sidharth S	1571	0	0 - 1	0		Dhananjay S	2180	18
19	19		Gaurav Rajesh Zagade	2173	0	1 - 0	0		Sankalp Arora	1558	109
20	110		Utkarsh Bhatnagar	1557	0	0 - 1	0		Aradhya Garg	2165	20

Complete results

Round 1 results in Girls

Bo.	No.		Name	Rtg	Pts.	Result	Pts.		Name	Rtg	No.
1	60		Anjitha Krishnakumar	1384	0	0 - 1	0	WIM	Priyanka Nutakki	2272	1
2	2	WIM	Arpita Mukherjee	2234	0	1 - 0	0		Vedika Agarwal	1372	61
3	62		Advika Singh	1363	0	0 - 1	0	WIM	Aakanksha Hagawane	2227	3
4	4	WFM	Makhija Aashna	2191	0	1 - 0	0		Shreya Arvind Rathi	1297	63
5	64		Adiba Ullah	1294	0	0 - 1	0	WIM	Chitlange Sakshi	2185	5
6	6	WFM	Pandey Srishti	2140	0	1 - 0	0		Yashika Singh	1280	65
7	66		Nayan Megha K A	1279	0	0 - 1	0	WCM	Sharma Isha	2139	7
8	8	WFM	Salonika Saina	2100	0	1 - 0	0		Wadhwa Maneya	1277	67
9	68		Juhi Bajaj	1267	0	0 - 1	0	WFM	Bommini Mounika Akshaya	2087	9
10	10		Priyanka K	2067	0	1 - 0	0		Elakshi Srivastava	1266	69
11	70		Thakkar Riya Bharat	1252	0	0 - 1	0		Toshali V	2057	11
12	12	WFM	Savitha Shri B	2004	0	1 - 0	0		Tushita Chopra	1236	71
13	72		Harshvi Matalia	1219	0	0 - 1	0		Bhagyashree Patil	1970	13
14	14	WFM	Potluri Supreetha	1968	0	1 - 0	0		Riya Tewari	1211	73
15	74		Sara Prakash	1204	0	0 - 1	0		Ghosh Samriddhaa	1964	15
16	16	WFM	Bidhar Rutumbara	1942	0	1 - 0	0		Gurjar Aarya	1202	75
17	76		Chatterjee Anantyoya	1186	0	0 - 1	0	WFM	Jain Nityata	1927	17
18	18	WFM	Tanishka Kotia	1909	0	1 - 0	0		Mandakani Mishra	1180	77
19	78		Gurmanya Kaur	1171	0	0 - 1	0		Shah Vishwa	1892	19
20	20		Meenal Gupta	1879	0	1 - 0	0		Athira A J	1170	79

Complete results

Round 2 Open pairings

Bo.	No.		Name	Rtg	Pts.	Result	Pts.		Name	Rtg	No.
1	50		Dubey Sanchay	1880	1		1	IM	Koustav Chatterjee	2449	1
2	2	IM	Mitrabha Guha	2443	1		1		Saypuri Srithan	1881	49
3	52		Dere Pushkar	1876	1		1	FM	Anuj Shrivatri	2376	3
4	4	IM	Rajdeep Sarkar	2362	1		1		Patil Harshal	1880	51
5	54		Aditya P Melani	1866	1		1		Harshavardhan G B	2360	5
6	56		Mayank Chakraborty	1849	1		1	FM	Nitish Belurkar	2325	7
7	8	IM	Srijit Paul	2317	1		1		Samal Ansuman	1876	53
8	58		Mohit Kumar Soni	1844	1		1	FM	Srihari L R	2286	9
9	10		Saurabh Anand	2278	1		1		Sreekar J S S	1850	55
10	60		Phatak Aanjaneya	1816	1		1	FM	Wagh Suyog	2273	11
11	12		Subhayan Kundu	2269	1		1		Aniruddh Chatterjee	1815	61
12	62		Aadit Bhatia	1814	1		1	FM	Jeet Jain	2264	13
13	14		Sibi Visal R	2238	1		1	AIM	Kaushik G Iyer	1806	63
14	64		Shubh Kapur	1796	1		1	FM	Aaryan Varshney	2236	15
15	16		Soham Kamotra	2189	1		1		Kanishk S K	1789	65
16	66	AFM	Pawar Harshit	1787	1		1	CM	Bhavesh Mahajan	2187	17
17	18		Dhananjay S	2180	1		1		Vishwa Bala Kumaran M	1784	67
18	68		Jaiveer Mahendru	1769	1		1		Gaurav Rajesh Zagade	2173	19
19	20		Aradhya Garg	2165	1		1		Garv Gaur	1764	69
20	22		Abinandhan R	2089	1		1		Sudarshan Bhat	1764	71

Complete pairings

Round 2 Girls pairings

Bo.	No.		Name	Rtg	Pts.	Result	Pts.		Name	Rtg	No.
1	1	WIM	Priyanka Nutakki	2272	1		1		Senthamizh Yazhini S	1678	32
2	31		Swara Lakshmi S Nair	1684	1		1	WIM	Arpita Mukherjee	2234	2
3	3	WIM	Aakanksha Hagawane	2227	1		1		Kiruthika B	1645	34
4	33		Sudipa Haldar	1659	1		1	WFM	Makhija Aashna	2191	4
5	5	WIM	Chitlange Sakshi	2185	1		1		Shah Vrushti	1614	36
6	35		Marium Fatima	1619	1		1	WFM	Pandey Srishti	2140	6
7	7	WCM	Sharma Isha	2139	1		1		Panda Miracle	1589	38
8	37		Sinthia Sarkar	1600	1		1	WFM	Salonika Saina	2100	8
9	9	WFM	Bommini Mounika Akshaya	2087	1		1		Rebecca Jesumarian	1568	40
10	39		Jegatha B	1585	1		1		Priyanka K	2067	10
11	11		Toshali V	2057	1		1		Azal Nasir	1556	42
12	43		Cera Dagaria	1554	1		1	WFM	Savitha Shri B	2004	12
13	13		Bhagyashree Patil	1970	1		1		Mudaliar Nandini	1541	44
14	45		Bharathakoti Sneha	1514	1		1	WFM	Potluri Supreetha	1968	14
15	15		Ghosh Samriddhaa	1964	1		1		Poornima Gupta	1508	46
16	47		Harshini B	1507	1		1	WFM	Bidhar Rutumbara	1942	16
17	17	WFM	Jain Nityata	1927	1		1		Tina C	1494	48
18	49		Tanisha Chatterjee	1476	1		1	WFM	Tanishka Kotia	1909	18
19	19		Shah Vishwa	1892	1		1		Tanisha A R Som	1475	50
20	51		Kaamyaa Negi	1463	1		1		Meenal Gupta	1879	20

Complete pairings

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