All-win start by Orissa players at Natl u-17 chess

Orissa started its campaign on a fly note with all six of players posting wins in the opening round of the 20th National Under-17 Chess Championship at Chakradharpur in Jharkhand today. Orissa results (Round 1): Girls: Aparajita Gochhikar bt Madhu Arora (Uttk): Sunyasakta Satpathy bt Shohini Ganguly (WB), Smaraki Mohanty bt Rama Kumari (Jhar). Boys: Anwesh Upadhyaya bt N Krishna Teja (AP), Swayams Mishra bt Saikat Dutta (Jhar), Biswajeet Nayak bt Keikrujam Jacky Singh (Man). Pairings (Round-2): Girls: A Gochhikar vs J Saranya (TN), S Satpathy vs CH Savetha (TN), S Mohanty vs Mohana Sengupta (WB). Boys: A Upadhyaya vs Pratik Patil (Mah), S Mishra vs V Varun (AP), B Nayak vs S Nitin (TN).

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