A day of unrated prodigies in national U-7 chess | Nagpur News

Top seed Udhriti Bhattacharya (right) makes a move in the U-7 National chess championship

Nagpur: The second day of the U-7 National Chess Championship belonged to the unrated prodigies. While the top two seeded masters in both the open and girls group kept their slate clean by winning all four rounds, unrated players, including Gujarat’s Naksh Somani, Shivansh Gowda of Karnataka, Punjab’s Myra Rathore, Sreeja Ghanekar from Goa and Tamil Nadu’s Alankrithaashri D, made their mark with stunning victories on Wednesday.At the end of the fourth round, 12 players in the open section and eight girls shared the top position, collecting four points each.The biggest upset in the open group was recorded by Tamil Nadu ‘s Kridhay A. Defending well with his black pieces, Kridhay surprised Maharashtra’s fifth seed Aksh Shrivastava, while Shivansh utilised his opening advantage with the white pieces well to stun eighth-seeded and 1531 Elo Ivaan Dubey of Maharashtra.In the girls’ fourth round, Punjab’s Myra shocked Tamil Nadu’s 1476 Elo Navya R, as Goa’s unrated Sreeja surprised Assam’s 1433-ranked Dia Baisnab to share the lead.Results (Round 4)Open: Virabhadra Brahma (3) lost to Vislavath Lavik Ram (4), Athish Ganesan (3) lost to Sathwik Bhat (4), Vasudev Vishnu (3) lost to Shivansh Basu (4), Aksh Shrivastava (3) lost to Kridhay A (4), Pratyush Kumar (3) lost to Rudra Pratap (4), Shivansh Gowda (4) bt Ivaan Dubey (3), Joshua Magnus Katarapu (4) bt Brahmadev D (3), Vivaan Kadam (4) bt Aadarsh Rastogi (3), Kritin Singh (3) lost to Katuru Viyaan Krishna (4), Naksh Somani (4) bt Prajwal Pandey (3), Nimalan Dharanipathy (4) bt Riddhesh Kulkarni (3), Suhrit Karri (3) lost to Kshiv Chakave (3).Girls: Udhriti Bhattacharya (4) bt Aahi Meshram (3), Aaditri Majumdar (4) bt Aditi Korde (3), Navya R (3) lost to Myra Rathore (4), Ekanshi Chandel (3) lost to Aaradhya Rajaneesh (4), Dia Baisnab (3) lost to Sreeja Ghanekar (4), Aabha Deshmukh (3) lost to Liyaa Krishnan (4), Rayanika Shivaram (4) bt Vridhi Aggarwal (3), Rinayra Verma (4) bt Manasvi Adde (2.5).