National Chess Championship: Five players leading with six and a half points. Kanpur News – Times of India

KANPUR: The MPL 58th Senior National Chess Championship at Ganga Club is heading towards an exciting end as five players are now leading the points table with six and a half points, with just three rounds remaining in the Rs 30 lakh prize money event. Huh. Sponsored by Uttar Pradesh Chess Sports Association and MPL Sports Foundation.
Tamil Nadu Grandmaster P Inian overcame top seed B Adhiban, while international master P Pranav defeated veteran campaigner Grandmaster Deep Sengupta to top the points table with Erigasi Arjun and Gukesh D to beat defending champion Arvind Chitambaram, who defeated Railway Man. . Sayantan Das In the crucial eighth round match on Tuesday morning.
Overnight the joint leaders – Grandmaster Arjun Arigasi and D Gukesh – signed a peace treaty with Visakh NR and Lalit Babu MR respectively, which enabled Inyan, Pranav and Aravind to capture the leaders with opposite victories.
In other important bouts, Grandmaster Mitrabha Guha and Aryan Chopra agreed to share points while Commonwealth Champion Abhijit Gupta defeated Nitin S of Railways. Mitrabha, Aryan and Abhijeet along with Lalit Babu MR, Visakh MR are now trailing the leaders with a drift of half a point. dreamy Dhopode and Aditya Mittal. Swapnil got IM. better than Shreejit Paul While Adia of West Bengal won over Srihari LR of Tamil Nadu in a fight of 64 category.
Earlier, Prof Vinay Kumar Pathak, vice-chancellor of Chhatrapati Shahuji Maharaj Kanpur University, inaugurated the eighth round of proceedings in presence of Sanjay KapoorAll India Chess Federation President Dr.
In the ninth round, which is now in progress at the time of filing the report, Pranav Arjun is up against Arrigasi, while Gukesh is pitted against Inian P and Arvind is pitted against Swapnil Dhopde.