Leaders look unstoppable
 
 
All the leaders won their respective games in round seven to keep a clean slate so far in the National Children Chess Championship held at Orient Club , Ahmedabad . T.Gobin (U-9 Boys) , I.Ramya (U-9 Girls) , S. Teja (U-7 Boys) and P.L.Sahiti (U-7 Girls) all look poised for winning the Championship with just two rounds to spare. 
 In the Sicilian Najdorf opening on the Top Board of the U-9 Boys category , T. Gobin (Manipur) pulled up a hard earned victory after 74 moves of battle and moved to 7 points with a one point lead over  P. Ghosh , Y.Sandeep and Navneet Detha who are closely following Gobin on 6 points . All the followers won their respective games against  Nilesh Mukerjee (W.B.) , V. Karthik (T.N.) and G.S.Sreejith (Kerala) to secure the second spot at the end of seventh round.  
In the U-9 Girls category ,  I. Krishna converted her advantage of being a pawn up in the Rook Endgame with accurate play which shows her depth in endgame technique to overcome N.Patvi in 51 moves of the Reti Opening ,  garnering 7 points and having a full point lead. On the second board, D.Meenu employed her favourite French Defence to defeat Mitali Patil in 47 moves to  closely follow Krishna on  the second spot with 6 points.  

In the U-7 Boys category , Top seed Kumar Gaurav (Bihar) bowed out against S.Ravi Teja (A.P.) who is having a great  winning streak . Teja employed the CaroKann defence and gained the upper hand after 24 moves in the middlegame . The game ended in  78 moves and Teja looks poised to win the title. However closely following Teja is M.Fawaz (Kerala) with 6 points who defeated Dhaval Adhav (Mah) in 54 moves of the French Defence. 

In the U-7 Girls section , P. L. Sahithi (A.P.) moved to 7 points with a convincing win over A.Bhat (Kar) in 68 moves of the French Defence opening. On the second board , C.H.Savetha (TN) crushed G.Amirthavali in just 24 moves of the Guico Piano opening.  

  

T O P    B O A R D   R E S U L T S  ( Round 7 )

U-9 BOYS.
 
 
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S. Daklia (5.5)
T. Gobin (6)
0-1
P. Ghosh (5)
Nilesh Mukerjee (5)
1-0
V. Karthik
Y. Sandeep
0-1
N. Detha (5)
G.S.Sreejith (4.5)
1-0
Sankalp Modwal (4.5)
C.R.G.Krishna (4.5)
0-1
 

U-9 GIRLS
 
 
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I. Krishna (6)
N. Pragna Patvi (5)
1-0
Mitali Patil (5)
D. Meenu (5)
0-1
P.K.Jayashree (4.5)
Mrunmayee S. (4.5)
1-0
Bhakti Kulkarni (4)
Priya Ratnam (4)
1-0
P. Uthra
Payal Guha
½ - 1/2
 

U-7 BOYS
 
 
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Kumar Gaurav (5.5) 
S. Ravi Teja (6)
0-1
Dhaval Adhav (5)
M. Fawaz (5)
0-1
Tarun Murli (4.5)
Vishal Thakre (5)
1-0
Bitan Banerjee (4.5)
P. Negi (4.5)
0-1
A. Balakrishnan
K. Priyadarshan
0-1
 

U-7 GIRLS
 
 
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P.L. Sahiti (6)
A. Bhat (5)
1-0
G. Amirthavali (4.5)
C.H.Savetha (5)
0-1
L. Guha (4)
Pallabi Roy (4)
1-0
T. Amrutha
Chaitramukund
1-0
Manasi Kulkarni
P. Priya
0-1