Arush, Kartikey, and Vanshika Lead in Bihar State Under-7 Chess Championship

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Patna: Under the auspices of the All Bihar Chess Association, the Bihar State Under-7 Chess Championship is ongoing at the Bihar School of Chess located in the Pataliputra Sports Complex in Patna. At the end of the fourth round today, Arush Kumar and Kartikey Kumar from Patna are jointly leading the boys’ category with four points each, while Vanshika Maheshwari is leading the girls’ category alone.

By winning both of their matches in the third and fourth rounds played today, Arush and Kartikey have reached the top position. In the fifth-round match to be played tomorrow morning, both players will compete against each other. In the fourth-round match played today, Arush from Patna defeated the emerging five-year-old player Krishna from Lakhisarai with white pieces on board number one to win the match. Meanwhile, on board number two, Kartikey from Patna, playing with white pieces, defeated Vishnu Vaibhav from Begusarai to take the lead. Six players are jointly in the second position in the boys’ category with three points each.

In the girls’ category, Vanshika Maheshwari from Patna is leading alone with four points. In her fourth-round match played today, Vanshika defeated Devisha Anand from Patna with white pieces, gaining a one-point lead over her closest competitors. Devisha Anand, along with three other players, Kiara Golecha, Disha Rani, and Swastika Singh, is jointly in the second position with three points each.

On the final day of the competition tomorrow, two rounds will be played in the boys’ category and one round in the girls’ category. The fifth round of the competition will be played tomorrow morning at 9 AM. The main results of the fourth round played today were as follows: