Express: Karthik Venkatraman and Sakshi Chitlange win National Juniors 2018

by Jitendra Choudhary - 06/12/2018

The National Juniors 2018 came to an end in New Delhi from 28th November to 6th of December 2018. Top three players from both open and girls section will represent India at the World Juniors to be held next year in India! The winner in the open section was Karthik Venkatraman, the top seed, and the only GM in the tournament. In the girls section Sakshi Chitlange won the event by a half point margin ahead of Aakanksha Hagawane and Vantika Agarwal. In the open section Rakesh Kumar Jena and Nitish Belurkar finished second and third respectively. Express report by Jitendra Choudhary from the venue.

Karthik and Sakshi Chitlange are the champions! | Photo: Jitendra Choudhary

Karthik Venkatraman, the only GM participant in the event, won the tournament | Photo: Jitendra Choudhary

Sakshi Chitlange won the girls section | Photo: Jitendra Choudhary

The first place was won by Karthik Venkatraman (left) second by Rakesh Kumar Jena (centre) and third by Nitish Belurkar (right) | Photo: Jitendra Choudhary

The top three spots in girls went to 1st: Sakshi Chitlange (left), 2nd: Aakanksha Hagawane (centre) and 3rd: Vantika Agarwal (right) | Photo: Jitendra Choudhary

Top three in open and top three in girls section | Photo: Jitendra Choudhary

Final Rankings after round 11 in Open:

Rk.	SNo		Name	Typ	sex	Gr	FED	Rtg	RtgI	RtgN	Club/City	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3	TB4	TB5	Rp	w-we	K	rtg+/-
1	1	GM	Karthik Venkataraman	U19			IND	2527	2527	0	A P	9,0	0,0	76,0	80,0	63,25	8	2455	0,23	10	2,3
2	2	IM	Rakesh Kumar Jena	U17			IND	2394	2394	0	Odi	8,5	0,0	75,5	81,0	60,75	7	2397	0,91	10	9,1
3	15	FM	Nitish Belurkar	U17			IND	2310	2310	0	Goa	8,5	0,0	75,0	79,5	58,75	7	2411	1,73	20	34,6
4	6		Sammed Jaykumar Shete	U19			IND	2368	2368	0	Mah	8,5	0,0	74,5	80,0	59,00	7	2365	0,83	20	16,6
5	12	CM	Aronyak Ghosh	U15			IND	2343	2343	0	W B	8,5	0,0	73,0	78,5	58,50	6	2310	0,63	20	12,6
6	7	FM	Rajdeep Sarkar	U17			IND	2362	2362	0	W B	8,5	0,0	72,0	77,5	57,75	7	2324	0,37	10	3,7
7	14		Pranav V	U13			IND	2311	2311	0	T N	8,5	0,0	69,5	75,0	56,75	8	2267	0,22	20	4,4
8	20	FM	Wagh Suyog	U19			IND	2240	2240	0	Mah	8,5	0,0	65,0	70,0	53,50	7	2136	0,01	20	0,2
9	8	FM	Anuj Shrivatri	U15			IND	2357	2357	0	M P	8,0	0,0	70,5	76,5	54,75	5	2262	-0,37	20	-7,4
10	19		Saurabh Anand	U17		Nati	IND	2246	2246	0	Bih	8,0	0,0	64,5	69,5	50,50	6	2097	-0,63	20	-12,6
11	4		Raahul V S	U15			IND	2381	2381	0	T N	8,0	0,0	64,5	69,0	47,00	7	2154	-1,24	20	-24,8
12	11	FM	Audi Ameya	U19			IND	2347	2347	0	Goa	8,0	0,0	64,0	68,5	50,25	7	2059	-1,54	10	-15,4
13	3	IM	Rahul Srivatshav P	U17			IND	2391	2391	0	Tel	7,5	0,0	77,5	84,0	55,75	7	2297	-0,24	10	-2,4
14	27		Aaryan Varshney	U13		Nati	IND	2200	2200	0	Del	7,5	0,0	75,0	80,5	52,75	5	2234	1,27	20	25,4
15	13		Kaustuv Kundu	U19			IND	2337	2337	0	W B	7,5	0,0	74,0	78,5	50,75	6	2213	-0,59	20	-11,8
16	35		Panda Sambit	U15		Nati	IND	2132	2132	0	Odi	7,5	0,0	73,0	77,5	48,50	6	2229	2,14	40	85,6
17	16		Ritviz Parab	U19			IND	2309	2309	0	Goa	7,5	0,0	71,0	76,5	49,00	7	2176	-0,40	20	-8,0
18	23		Pranavananda V	U19			IND	2230	2230	0	A P	7,5	0,0	70,5	75,5	48,50	7	2148	0,22	20	4,4
19	10	FM	Rathanvel V S	U17			IND	2349	2349	0	T N	7,5	0,0	68,5	72,5	47,50	5	2197	-1,11	20	-22,2
20	9		Neelash Saha	U17			IND	2351	2351	0	W B	7,5	0,0	68,0	72,5	47,25	5	2102	-1,91	20	-38,2

Final Rankings after round 11 in girls:

Rk.	SNo		Name	Typ	sex	Gr	FED	Rtg	Club/City	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3	TB4	TB5
1	3	WIM	Chitlange Sakshi	F19	w		IND	2237	Mah	9,0	0,0	74,0	79,5	63,25	7
2	2	WIM	Aakanksha Hagawane	F19	w		IND	2264	Mah	8,5	0,0	78,0	84,0	63,50	7
3	4	WIM	Vantika Agrawal	F17	w		IND	2210	Del	8,5	0,0	73,5	79,0	58,75	7
4	21	WFM	Meghna C H	F19	w		IND	1879	Ker	8,5	0,0	65,0	70,0	54,25	6
5	7	WCM	Mrudul Dehankar	F15	w		IND	2136	Mah	8,0	0,0	70,0	75,0	52,50	7
6	1	WIM	Priyanka Nutakki	F17	w		IND	2293	A P	8,0	0,0	70,0	74,0	51,50	7
7	6	WFM	Makhija Aashna	F17	w		IND	2197	Mah	8,0	0,0	68,0	73,5	52,25	6
8	26		Toshali V	F17	w		IND	1859	A P	8,0	0,0	64,5	69,0	49,50	7
9	10	WCM	Jyothsna L	F15	w		IND	2060	T N	7,5	0,0	76,5	81,5	53,50	5
10	15		Bakshi Rutuja	F19	w		IND	1981	Mah	7,5	0,0	74,0	79,5	51,50	6
11	5		Priyanka K	F17	w		IND	2207	T N	7,5	0,0	74,0	79,0	51,25	6
12	8	WFM	Arpita Mukherjee	F17	w		IND	2090	W B	7,5	0,0	73,5	77,5	48,25	6
13	19	WFM	Tanishka Kotia	F15	w		IND	1951	Har	7,5	0,0	70,5	75,5	49,00	5
14	22		Ghosh Samriddhaa	F17	w		IND	1870	W B	7,5	0,0	66,5	71,5	45,00	6
15	28		Eesha Ajay Sarda	F15	w		IND	1832	Mah	7,5	0,0	65,5	70,5	45,75	5
16	38		Savitha Shri B	F11	w	Nati	IND	1745	T N	7,5	0,0	63,0	66,0	41,50	6
17	31		Adane Narayani	F15	w	Nati	IND	1806	Mah	7,5	0,0	62,5	66,5	42,00	6
18	29		Pandey Srishti	F17	w		IND	1825	Mah	7,0	0,0	71,5	76,0	44,00	6
19	17	WIM	Chandreyee Hajra	F19	w		IND	1963	W B	7,0	0,0	69,0	74,5	46,00	5
20	20	WCM	Jain Nityata	F15	w		IND	1891	M P	7,0	0,0	69,0	73,5	44,50	6

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