Parikshit Upadhyaya (left) and Nilotpal Misra concentrate on their moves during a fourth round game on Thursday. Picture by UB Photos

Guwahati, April 20: Giant killer Swapnil Das Kashyap of Maharishi Vidya Mandir shared the Pawn Group (under-11) lead with top seed Krishnashish Gogoi of Srimanta Sankar Academy and third seed Bhaskar Jyoti Neog of Axam Jatiya Vidyalaya in the ongoing P.C. Borooah Children?s Chess Championship here today. Each of them had three points.

Natasha Dutta of Disneyland School and Ravi Kant Tiwari of Happy Montessory School trailed close behind with 2.5 points each.

Krishnashish Gogoi survived a major scare from Sudesna Sarma of Happy Montessory School after he blundered away his knight on the 22nd move. However, Sudesna returned the favour on the 35th move, allowing Krishnashish to queen a pawn. Krishnashish won the game on the 49th move.

Bhaskar outsmarted Arpan Phukan of Faculty School with white pieces on the second board. Swapnil persisted with his giant-killing spree, accounting for fifth seed Raktim Deka of Maharishi Vidya Mandir. Raktim blundered away his queen against a bishop on the 14th move and Swapnil took the advantage to checkmate his opponent on the 32nd move. Natasha Dutta beat Adarsh Pratim Bordoloi of Maria?s Public School while Ravi Kant Tiwari outsmarted Param Shivam Kalita of Sarla Birla Gyan Jyoti.

In the Bishop Group (under-15), second seed Parikshit Upadhyaya of Maharishi Vidya Mandir continued with his untrammelled run to share the lead with third seed Kh. Jintu Singha of Dispur Government High School, fourth seed Nilotpal Misra of Maria?s Public School and Kushal Bagadia of Don Bosco School. They have three points per head after the third round.

Parikshit beat Indraneel Talukdar of Axam Jatiya Vidyalaya with black pieces, Jintu won against Bedanta Choudhury of Maharishi Vidya Mandir and Nilotpal tamed Uttaron Baruah of Maharishi Vidya Mandir. Kushal Bagadia upset fifth seed Adrit Phukan, also of Maharishi Vidya Mandir.