Kanpur: All six flagship players maintain their superiority after the second round in the 12 grandmaster qualify for the state-level chess tournament for the world level on Friday.
According to him to Dilip Srivastava, Secretary, Kanpur Chess Association, including six girls from 14 districts participated in the championship.
A total of six players from Kanpur City themselves took part.
They are Ramuj Mishra, Abhisar Srivastava, Atharva Goenka, Chinmaypal, Ojan Swarnkar Sankalp Gupta, Pranav Rastogi defeated Sankalp Gupta, Shreyansh Raj beat Aditya Agarwal and Ramanj Mishra beat Sanvi Shukla.
After the third round, the top player points are as Shreyas Raj, Shreyas Singh, Ajay Santosh, Parvat Reddy, Rakshit Shekhar, Sanyam Srivastava, Ramanj Mishra (all 3 points).
Aditya Agarwal, Ayush Bisha, Atharva Goenka, Pranav Rastogi, Vidit Bansal, Vidit Bansal, Vidit Atharva Thapliyal, Veer Kapoor, Sankalp Gupta, Rishabh Chaturvedi, Shashwat Tripathi, Chinmay Pal, Deepanjali Sravasatva, Manas Tiwari, Ujjain Swarnkar (all 2 points).