Girish in joint second after 7 rounds

World Under 10 Champion Girish Kaushik
was in joint second place at the end of the
seventh round in the National Under 11
Chess Championships being played at
Kozhikode.

Shiven Khosla of Maharashtra is in the lead
by a clear point. Girish and 7 others will
try to catch up with him in the remaining four
rounds of the event.

Important results (seventh round):

Boys: Shiven Khosla 6.5 bt P.V.S.M. Praveen Kumar 5; Sayantan Das 5.5 drew with R. Eswar 5.5; Ayush Jugle 4.5 lost to Girish A. Kaushik 5.5; Shardul Gagre 5.5 bt Prabhu Anand 4.5; S. Kaushik 5.5 bt Utkal Ranjan Sahu 4.5; Chandrashish Majumdar 5 drew with J. Nishin 5; Sheikh Nubair Shah 5.5 bt G. Akash 4.5; Vasatha Ruba Varman 4.5 lost to Prince Bajaj 5.5; Ragesh Kumar Naikr 4.5 lost to Vaibhav Suri 5.5; Aubhropratim Manna 5.5 bt Osama Saleem 4.5.

Girls: Michelle Catherina 5 lost to P.V. Nanditha 6.5; G. Aiswarya 6 bt G. Lasya 5; Akanksha Gupta 4.5 lost to Navya Vyshnavi 6; P. Balakannamma 4 lost to Sweety Patel 5; Sonakshi Rathore 5 bt Sreeja Seshadri 4; Sunyasakata Satpathy 5 bt Nisha Patkar 4; Parnali Dharia 4 lost to Shweta Gole 5; S.E. Meenu Priya 4.5 drew with T. Navya 4; N. Akshaya 5 bt T.R. Nandini 4; R. Maduravani 4 drew with Soumy Mukherjee 4.