Four players share lead after seventh round in Hyderabad

Top seeds Jval Saurin Patel and Madhvendra Pratap Singh lost their seventh-round games at the National Sub-Junior Chess Championship in Hyderabad. Four players shared the open-section lead with 6.5 points, while Prishita Gupta led the girls’ section

Hyderabad: In a day of upsets, several higher-rated players, including top two seeds Jval Saurin Patel of Gujarat and Madhvendra Pratap Singh of Madhya Pradesh, lost their seventh-round games at the 52nd National Sub-Junior Chess Championship organised by the Telangana State Chess Association here.

Badole Shaunak of Maharashtra, Parambrata Sarkar of West Bengal, S Madhesh Kumar of Puducherry and Christy George of Kerala shared the lead with 6.5 points each.

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In the girls’ section, FM Prishita Gupta of Delhi emerged as the sole leader with 6.5 points after defeating Shanmathi Sree of Tamil Nadu. There were several draws on the next five boards.

Sai Vijaysinh Patil of Maharashtra and Archita Agarwal of Uttar Pradesh were joint second with six points each.