Md Imran Ali

Calcutta: Debanjan Das of Jadavpur Vidyapith shocked second seed Rajib Dhar, the Guwahati leg winner, in the seventh round of The Telegraph Schools’ Chess Championship at Gorky Sadan on Thursday.

Minhazuddin Ahmed Sagar of Bangladesh, meanwhile, emerged the sole leader with seven points at the end of this round.

Eleven-year-old Bitan Banerjee continued his impressive run as he held Soumya Thakurta, the seventh seed, of St James School in a game of fluctuating fortunes.

On the fourth board, Mohammad Imran Ali of Bangladesh beat Sourav Chakraborti of St James in just 24 moves.

Padmini Rout of Orissa held 10th seed Souvik Chakraborty of Narmada HS in 27 moves.

TOP BOARD RESULTS

Minhazuddin Ahmed Sagar (7) bt Jain Shrenhik Daklia (6); Soumya Thakurta (6.5) drew with Bitan Banerjee (6); Debanjan Das (6) bt Rajib Dhar (5); Sourav Chakraborti (5) lost to Mohammad Imran Ali (6); Padmini Rout (5.5) drew with Souvik Chakraborty (5.5); Suman Basu (6) bt Arifa Khatun Moni (5); Debasish Das (6) bt Swayms Mishra (5); Sk. Shahid Ahmed (6) bt Samrat Ghorai (5); Trailokya Nanda (6) bt Ashish Kumar (5); Menhajul Hoda (5) lost to Sandipan Chatterjee (6); Debayan Majumdar (5) drew with Subhransu Mohan Satpathy (5.5) ; Amritesh Ray (4.5) lost to Debaditta Sinha Biswas (5.5), Kh. Sanjoy Singh (5.5) bt Sannidhya Narayan (4.5); V. Sandheep (4.5) lost to Abhratanu Dutta (5.5); S Gayathri [4.5] lost to Saurav Anand [5.5].