Mohona Sengupta (Top) and Sukanya Dutta share the lead in the under-13 category

Calcutta: Raj Goenka held top seed Abhratanu Dutta while overnight joint leaders Mohona Sengupta and Sukanya Dutta decided to play safe and agreed to a quick draw to retain their positions at the top in the under-13 category of the 18th State Age-Group Chess Championship on Sunday.

After the completion of Round IV, Mohona and Sukanya share the lead along with Bitan Banerjee and Satyajit Kundu on 3.5 points.

Raj, playing black, opted for the French Winawer against Abhratanu and equalised easily. Raj, in fact, had more play on the queenside but the game petered out into a draw in an opposite-coloured bishop ending.

Second seed Bitan went for a complicated exchange against Diptanu Das in the centre which could have proved dangerous for him, but the latter mishandled the resulting position and went down tamely.

In the under-11 section, Prantik Roy, Samrat Ghorai and Debarshi Mukherjee lead the field with full 4 points. Debarshi meets Samrat while Prantik plays Chandrashish Majumder in the next round.

In the under-9 category, Prithwi Sinha and Supradip Maity lead the fray with 4 points each. Prithwi outwitted Soumi Mukherjee in a long game which lasted 61 moves. Supradip got the better of Ritika Neogi with the black pieces.

In the under-7 category, Koutav Kundu put it across Swastik Choubey while Suvradipta Das got the better of top seed, Adhip Roy in 24 moves.

IMPORTANT RESULTS

U-7 ? Suvradeepta Das (4) bt Adhip Roy (3); Koustav Kundu (4) bt Swastik Choubey (3); Arka Narayan Ganguly (2) lost to Avigyan Das (4); Poulami Bhattacharya (2) lost to Aritra Dalui(3); Avigyan Mukherjee (3) bt Sudarshan Mitra (2); Chandreyee Hazra (3) bt Sagnik Mitra(2).

U-9 ? Diptayan Ghosh (3.5) drew with Sayan Majumder (3.5); Prithwi Sinha (4) bt Soumi Mukherjee (3); Ritika Neogi (3) lost to Supradip Maity (4); Debarshi Pal (2) lost to Sayantan Das (3); Rudran Chakraborty (2) lost to Aditya Chakraborty (3); Ankit Basak (2) lost to Rounak Basu (3).

U-11 ? Agnihotri Ghosh (3) lost to Prantik Roy (4); Samrat Ghorai (4) bt Swarup Dey Sarkar (3); Anubhav Mandol (2.5) lost to Debarshi Mukherjee (4); Ankan Saha (2) lost to Chandrashish Majumder (3.5); Aritra Acharya (3) bt Rudra Nath Ghosh (2); Rudra Pratap Adhikary (2) lost to Aubhropratim Manna (3).

U-13 ? Mohona Sengupta (3.5) drew with Sukanya Dutta (3.5); Raj Goenka (3) drew with Abhratanu Dutta(3); Bitan Banerjee(3.5) bt Diptanu Das(2.5); Satyajit Kundu (3.5) bt Dhee Sankar (2.5); Shaati Majumder (3) drew with Pallabi Roy (3); Ananya Pal (2.5) drew with Ranit Ghosh(2.5).