Kanpur: Harshit Singh from GB Nagar won the Under-16 group championship online to make the Grand Master Series Online Chess Championship on Saturday.
He gets a maximum of 5 points.
Played with white pieces, Harshit adopted the variety of Sicilian Alipin and in the 13th movement, he transferred the knight from A3 Square.
In the 16th movement, he placed the knight on D 5 to strengthen the position.
Then in the 42nd victory he examined King Goel Ekansh.
On another board, Parth Bhatnagar defeated Keshav Singhal, Ojaswa Saxena Beat Nandan Singhal, Vandit Beat Beat Sanvi Shukla, Suvan Dev Beat Shreyansh Alarisariya Pachauri, Deepanjali Dutta defeated Deepanjali Srivastava and on board nine Siddharth Rathore and Aahsan Alsisariya shared points.
Harshit Singh (GB Nagar), Parth Bhatnagar (Agra) and Ekansh Goel (Ghaziabad) have qualified for the knockout phase that will begin from February 3.
TNN
Harshit won the chess championship under 16
