Naveen maintains supremacy in chess

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, August 5

Naveen Bansal continued to be at sole lead at the end of sixth round in the ongoing 28th Chandigarh Chess Championship, at Dr. Ambedkar Bhawan, Sector 37, today. Bansal is leading the event with 5½ points and is closely followed by Tarini Goyal, who ended the day on five points. The championship was being organised by Chandigarh Chess Association to select a team of four players to represent Chandigarh in the forthcoming National Challenger Chess Championship to be held at Gujarat, from August 13 to 23. Prateek Wadhwa, Levanshu Khullar, Vipan Negi, Nitin and Rahul finished the day at joint third. 

Points Position 

5½ Points: Naveen Bansal
5points: Tarini Goyal 
4½ Points: Prateek Wadhwa, Levanshu Khullar, Vipan Negi, Nitin Rathore, Rahul Arora
4 Points: Tejas Nagpal, Saurabh Sharma, Aditya Malhotra, Abhinandan Vohra,  Shaunak Chaudhary
3½ Points:  CShubham, Arnav Kushwaha, Parus Banota, Vaibhav Rawat
3 Points: Kakara Aaryaman, Lovish , Nissim Aggarwal, Shaurya Chopra, Ishaan Narang, Nirmit G Naik, Precious Bansal
2½ Points: Piyush Baryah, Rohit Roy Chaudhary, Anmol Rattan.
2 Points: CManav Gupta, Aaryan Gupta, Gaurika Gupta, Abhishek Kumar,Birranjeev Garcha.