Telangana’s Samhita earns silver in National Under-8 chess

Hyderabad: Telangana’s promising chess player Samhita Pungavanam ended in a blaze of glory in the National Under-8 Open & Girls Online Chess Championship when she won a silver medal. By this impressive performance and the second finish helped the seven-year-old Samhita earn a berth in the the Asian Youth Under-8 Chess Championship, slated to be […]

Hyderabad: Telangana’s promising chess player Samhita Pungavanam ended in a blaze of glory in the National Under-8 Open & Girls Online Chess Championship when she won a silver medal.

By this impressive performance and the second finish helped the seven-year-old Samhita earn a berth in the the Asian Youth Under-8 Chess Championship, slated to be held from October 21 to 24.

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The Telangana player aggregated nine points from 11 rounds, after losing to her sixth and eighth round opponents. It has been a creditable achievement to emerge second best in a field that had 145 competitors, most of whom were aged higher.

Incidentally, Samhita has won the gold in the Asian Under-7 category and silver in the Under-7 Nationals.

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