Swara excels in national school chess championship

 

 

 

NAGPUR’S budding chess player Swara Gandhi finished a creditable fifth in the recently conducted 10th National School’s Under-7 Girls Chess Championship organised by Odisha Chess Association at Bhubaneshwar. In the competition, Swara who started as the 44th seed, scored 6.5 out of 9 points to finish at fifth position. Swara defeated D Charvi of Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Anisha Acharya and Aditi Moharana of Odisha, Vonti Sri Guuruvarshini of Andhra Pradesh, Navya Vishal Sadhu of Gujrat and Ankita Raj of Bihar. She drew against Krithi Kothandapani of Tamil Nadu and lost to Arnica Dash of Odisha and Kiyana Parihar of Rajasthan, informs a press release. Swara is a Nagpur District Under-7 girls Champion. She is a student of BVM, Ashti and trains under Bhushan Shriwas at Vidarbha Chess Academy.