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Kanpur: Five girls and nine boys are jointly leading with two points each after two rounds in the state-level under-9 chess championship being played at Har Milap Mission School Barra.The five girls are Sanskriti Yadav (Prayagraj), Tushita Gupta (Agra),Deepanjali Srivastava (Gorakhpur), Sanvi Omar (Kanpur) and Ananya Singh Chauhan (Varanasi).The boys leading with two points after three rounds are Shivay Singh (Varanasi), Parva Chaudhary (Mathura ), Mohd Ismail Siddiqui (Prayagraj), Mohd Haider (Prayagraj), Advik Maheshwari (Kanpur) and Siddhant Parihar (Unnao).Earlier in the morning, chief guest Sanjay Kapoor, president All India Chess Federation inaugurated the two-day meet by lighting the lamp. To encourage the participants, Kapoor joined them in a photo session. Amarjeet Bhatia, manager of the host school, welcomed him and presented a bouquet while Shyam Sundar Bhatia and SK Sarraf presented him a shawl and Meenu Gosai, principal of the school, presented him a memento. As many as 72 children, including 20 girls, are participating in this two-day event. In the boys group, there are 6 international FIDE rated and among girls 2 FIDE rated. The boys will have to play six rounds while the girls event will be of five rounds, said Dilip Srivastava, secretary, Kanpur Chess Association.The winners will receive cash prizes of Rs 15,000 and trophies. Top two boys and girls will represent the state team in the national championship, he added.We also published the following articles recently

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