Rishabh, Sanchita win online chess championship

TNN | Apr 7, 2020, 04:07 IST

Kanpur: Rishabh Nishad and Sanchita Yadav won the men and women group titles respectively of the online chess championship held here on Monday. Rishabh of Kanpur collected 28 points from 11 rounds while Sanchita of Allahabad earned 17 points in 11 rounds. Around 29 players took part in the event.
Anupam Datta and and Sakshi Verma won the boys and girls group events respectively in the student online blitz championships. As many as 50 players took part in the event which was played in 10 rounds.
Results: Men-1. Rishabh Nishad (28 pts), 2. Sarthak Dutta ( Vns-24 pts), 3.Chandal Mandal (Delhi-23 pts), 4. Dinesh Sharma (IM-22 pts), 5. Sunny Mathew (Knp-22 pts), 6. Ashish (Rae Bareli-22 pts), 7. Mazsd Iqbal (Knp-21 pts). Women-1. Sanchita Yadav (Allahabad-17 pts),2. Sumuhi Shukla (Knp-16pts).
Student event boys: 1. Anupam, 2. Utkarsh Jha, 3. Shivansh Sharma Girls-1. Sakshi Verma, 2, Tanya Verma 3. Ananya Srivastava