Aditya Mittal with a tally of 5.5 points grabbed the lead at the end of the sixth round of the IIFL Wealth Mumbai International Junior Chess Tournament 2016, being played at Mount Litera School International, Bandra (East), Mumbai.
Aditya Mittal
In a closely contested game, Mittal overcame the challenge from B. Sriram to pick up the full point. Both, Mittal and Sriram were engaged in a tense battle initially, before the former managed to snatch a slight one piece advantage in the middle game. Mittal capitalized on that advantage and went on to checkmate his rival on the 37th move.
Meanwhile, Grandmaster Swapnill S Dhopade and Gusain Himal emerged joint leaders with 6.5 points each after the seventh round of the IIFL Wealth Mumbai International Open Chess Tournament 2016.
On the top board, Swapnil beat tournament leader Stany GA, while Gusain Himal defeated Vinay Kumar Matta on the second board. Stany, despite the loss, remained in the hunt as he has 6 points, half a point shy of the leaders.
Results (Round 6) – IIFL Wealth Mumbai Junior (Indians unless specified): Om Kharola (5) drew with D Gukesh (5), Aditya Mittal (5.5) bt B Sriram (4.5), Jeet Shah (4) lost to Aan Sikka (5), Aditya Savalkar (4.5) bt Gurav Sanmil (3.5), Ananya Rishi Gupta (3.5) lost to Vignesh Kasi P L (4.5), Vansh Aggarwal (4) drew with Chhabra Aakash (4), Adane Narayani (4.5) bt Kabir Belgikar (3), Alok Sinha (4) bt Shah Vrisha Parag (3), Yutesh P (4) bt Bagwe Gaurang (3), Mrudul Dehankar (4) bt Samyukta Banthia (3), Rishabh Chandrasekhar Gokhale (3.5) drew with Arya Ranjan (3.5).
IIFL Wealth Mumbai International Results (Round 7): Swapnil S Dhopade (6.5) bt Stany G A (6), Matta Vinay Kumar (5) lost to Gusain Himal (6.5), Ravi Teja S (5.5) bt Gukesh D (5), Gagare Shardul (5) drew with Abhishek Das (5), Nitin S (5) drew with Chakravarthi Reddy M (5), Krishna Teja N (5) drew with Himanshu Sharma (5), Muthaiah A L (5.5) bt Harikrishnan A Ra (4.5), Sharma Dinesh K (5) bt Kothari Swapnil (4), Manush Shah (4.5) drew with Kulkarni Vikramaditya (4.5), Parnali S Dharia (5) bt Deshmukh Anup (4).