Aadhya, Avijit clinch U-15 titles in Chess Championship

Kanpur: Aadhya Mishra of BNSD Niketan and Avijit Gurha of VSEC, Panki, won the girls’ and boys’ Under-15 titles, respectively, at the one-day Kanpur Rapid Chess Championship organised by Sharma Chess Academy here on Sunday.

As many as 131 city players participated in the five-round event. The meet was inaugurated by ACP Kanpur Anand Kumar Ojha and school chairman Ashish Bajpai.

Chief guest international master, Dinesh Sharma, along with principal Punam Shukla and Dilip Srivastava, secretary of the Chess Association, presented trophies and certificates to the top three winners in each category.

Results:

U-15 Girls:

Aadhya Mishra (4.5 pts)

Prisha Awasthi (DPS Kalyanpur, 3.5 pts)

Yashasvi Sahu (Skomiya Academy, 3 pts)

U-15 Boys:

Avijit Gurha (5 pts)

Atharva Sonwani (VSEC, 4 pts)

Vinayak Sahu (GPM Saraswati Vidya Mandir, 4 pts)

U-13 Girls:

Samridhi Verma (DSEC, 4 pts)

Ridhima Gupta (VSEC-H2, 3 pts)

Paridhi Yadav (DPS Kalyanpur, 2 pts)

U-13 Boys:

Aarav Kumar Singh (Chintels, 4.5 pts)

Aditya Yadav (Pt DDUS Vidyalaya, 4.5 pts)

Shikhar Katiyar (Chintels, 4 pts)

U-11 Girls:

Sanvi Omar (Billabong High School, 4 pts)

Drisha Agarwal (Scholars’ Home, 3 pts)

Shreya Dixit (VSEC H2, 3 pts)

U-11 Boys:

Shivansh Rathore (Allen House, Panki, 4.5 pts)

Drisha Agarwal (Scholars’ Home, 3 pts)

Shreya Dixit (VSEC H2, 3 pts)

U-9 Girls:

Shanvi Rajput (Mariampur, 2 pts)

Bandgi Suri (Scholars’ Home, 1 pt)

Khyati Gupta (Chintels, 1 pt)

U-9 Boys:

Atharva Sharma (KFA, 4 pts)

Abhishek Raj Chaudhary (JK Kids, 3 pts)

Trijal Misra (SSD, 3 pts)

U-7:

Kavya Mishra (Skomiya Academy, 4 pts)

Alaukik Anand Gupta (Scholars’ Home, 4 pts)

Shivansh Sahu (KE Education, 3 pts)