{"id":97,"date":"2011-10-07T14:41:06","date_gmt":"2011-10-07T14:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=97"},"modified":"2011-10-07T14:41:06","modified_gmt":"2011-10-07T14:41:06","slug":"monnisha-takes-sole-lead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=97","title":{"rendered":"Monnisha takes sole lead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>New Delhi: <\/strong>Defending champion G K Monnisha of Tamilnadu beat  Hilmi Parveen of Kerala in the eighth round to take sole lead with seven  points in the girls category of ongoing National Under-13 championship  here at Kulachi Hansraj Model School on Friday.<\/p>\n<p> Meanwhile in the Open section, all the top three boards produced  decisive results and overnight sole leader Karthikeyan Murali maintained  his lead after beating team mate Visakh N R on the top board.\u00a0 This  crucial victory enabled Murali to maintain his half point lead over  nearest contenders Sidhant Mohapatra of Orissa and state mate Pranav  Vijay.\u00a0 Mohapatra defeated Harsha Bharathakoti of Andhra Pradesh while  Pranav outwitted Debankan Dhara of West Bengal.<\/p>\n<p> Playing white side of Sicilian Najdorf game, Murali not granted any  chance to his state mate rival to seal the match in 45 moves. Mohapatra  employed unusual lines in the Sicilian defence to overcome Bharathakoti  in 44 moves with black pieces and Pranav taken only 31 moves in Queen\u2019s  Gambit accepted game to garner full point against his West Bengal  rival.\u00a0 In the ninth round on Saturday Murali takes on Pranav while  Sidhant paired against Y Grahesh of Andhra Pradesh, who beat local hope  Harshal Shahi in the eighth round battle.<\/p>\n<p> Playing with white pieces, Monnisha displayed a finely crafted middle  game in Scandinavian defence to overcome her Kerala rival in 56 moves  while top seed and overnight joint leader Ivana Maria Furtado failed to  produce a decisive result in her favour against Tripura rival Shiny Das  in a Tarrasch variation of French Defence game and signed the peace  treaty in 50 moves. This crucial results in the eighth round enabled  Monnisha to take the slender half point lead over Ivana.\u00a0 Ivana is  occupying the lone second spot in the point table with six and half  points.<\/p>\n<p> <strong>Important Results :<br \/> <\/strong><br \/> Round-8 Open : Karthikeyan Murali of Tamilandu (7.5) beat Visakh N R of  Tamilnadu (6); Harsha Bharathakoti of Andhra Pradesh (6) lost to Sidhant  Mohapatra of Orissa (7); Pranav Vijay of Tamilnadu (7) beat Debankan  Dhara of West Bengal (6); Rohan Ahuja of Goa (6) drew with Aravindh  Chithambaram of Tamilnadu (6); Pranavanda V of Andhra Pradesh (6) drew  with Naren Swaminathan of Tamilnadu (6); Harshal Shahi of Delhi (5.5)  lost to Grahesh Y of Andhra Pradesh (6.5); Abhimanyu Puranik of  Maharashtra (6) drew with Raghav Srivathsav of Andhra Pradesh (6); Pavit  Singh of Delhi (5.5) drew with Mohammad Nubairshah Shaikh of  Maharahstra (5.5); Anirudh V Bhat of Goa (5) lost to Sai Vishwesh C of  Tamilnadu (6); Kaustuv Kundu of West Bengal (5) lost to Chandar Raju of  Kerala (6); Vignesh N R of Tamilnadu (6) beat Ritviz Parab of Goa (5);  Adethya R of Tamilnadu (5) lost to Krishna Teja N of Andhra Pradesh (6);  Nishant Kumar of Jharkhand (5) lost to Ravindra Teja Muttineni of  Andhra Pradesh (6); Nikhil Dixit of Maharashtra (6) beat Anand Nadar of  Maharashtra (5); Manu M of Kerala (5) lost to Satvik M of Karnataka (6).<\/p>\n<p> Round-8 Girls :\u00a0 Shiny Das of Tripura (6) drew with Ivana Maria Furtado  of Goa (6.5); Monnisha G K of Tamilnadu (7) beat Hilmi Parveen of Kerala  (5.5); Rutja Bakshi of Maharashtra (6) drew with Mahalakshmi M of  Tamilnadu (6); Shoumi Mukerjee of West Bengal (6) beat Anigani Kavya of  Andhra Pradesh (5.5); Vaishali R of Tamilnadu (6) beat Deekshidha P S of  Tamilnadu (5); Manjula R of Tamilnadu (5) lost to Ashwini U of  Tamilnadu (6); Divya Garg of Maharashtra (5) lost to Megha Gupta of  Gujarat (6); Gange Tanmayee of Maharashtra (5.5) drew with Dharani Sree R  of Tamilnadu (5.5); Tarini Goyal of Chandigarh (5.5) beat Sunyasakta  Satpathy of Orissa (4.5); Varshini V of Tamilnadu (5) drew with  Chandreyee Hajra of West Bengal (5); Priyamvada Karamcheti of Andhra  Pradesh (5.5) beat Asmita Das Munshi of West Bengal (4.5); Divya Lakshmi  R of Tamilnadu (4.5) lost to Nishi Mahalaxmi Iyer of West Bengal (5.5);  Meghna C H of Kerala (4.5) lost to Akankhya Kabi of Orissa (5.5);  Saughanthika A S of Tamilnadu (4) lost to Smaraki Mohanty of Orissa (5);  Kavisha S Shah of Gujrat (4.5) drew with Varsha C K of Tamilnadu (4.5).<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>New Delhi: <\/strong>Defending champion G K Monnisha of Tamilnadu beat  Hilmi Parveen of Kerala in the eighth round to take sole lead with seven  points in the girls category of ongoing National Under-13 championship  here at Kulachi Hansraj Model School on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-chess-chess"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Monnisha takes sole lead - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; 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