Chandigarh (Sports Desk)

Twenty three players, including local boy Gusain Himal and Mohana Sengupta from West Bengal, were sharing the lead with two points each after round two in the Chandigarh Open FIDE Rathing Chess Championship at Dr. Ambedkar Bhawan, Sector 37A here today.

The tournament was inaugurated by Dr. Anil Raina, Chairperson Chandigarh Chess Association chairperson Dr. Anil Raina inaugurated the tournament in which 124 players from Chandigarh, Punjab, Haryana, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Uttrakhand, Madhya Pradesh, West Bengal, and Maharashtra are competing. Out of this 48 players are internationally rated.

There are a total of 30 prizes to be won which includes special prizes for Under-15 and Under-10.

Points positions after second round.

2 pts: Gusain Himal (Chd), Mohana Sengupta (WB), Goel Pratyaksh (Chd), Bawa Ajay (Chd),
Yitish Kumar Gangwani (Har), Parus Banota (Chd), Levanshu Khullar (Chd), Gurjeet Singh (Pun), Hritik Gupta (Chd), Jivitesh Singh Sethi (UK), Bhavya Batra (Chd), Swastik Singhal (Chd), Rohan Gupta (Chd), Tushita Chopra (Punj), Yuvraj Singh (Chd), Prateek Wadhwa (Chd), Chehal Nikhil (Pun), Damanpal Singh (Pun), Yash Dahiya (Har), Samneet Munde (Chd), Tanish Gupta (Pun), Shishir Lamba (Chd), Madhavansh Mittal (Pun),

1.5 pts: Kumar Deepak (Pun). Aditya Sharma (Chd), Sayyam Narang, Singh Jupinderjit (Chd), Chinmay Jagga (Pun), Shaurya Chopra (Chd), Aryan Arora (Chd), Shaurya Kumaria (Chd), Srajan Saxena (UP), Vayum Goel (Har),
1 pt: Chulet Mayank (Mah), Anmol Rattan (Chd), Bhavya Mahajan (Chd), Priyanka Dhanda (Chd), Surya Jain (Chd), Abeer Arora (Pun), Dev Raj Chehal (Pun), Harnoor Kaur (Pun), Samaira Taneja (Chd), Jasmaira Gumber (UK), Ashna Bansal (Chd), Aaryan Goklaney (Chd), Akshay Garg (Chd), Anubhav Pandey (Chd), Brahmasees Makkar (Pun), Devansh Jindal (Chd), Shayaan Kapur (Chd), Tejinder Singh (Chd), Aaditya Bedi (Chd), Hriday Malik (Chd), Aditya Singla (Chd), Amaira Kahlon (Chd), Ayaan Garg (Chd), Bhaskar Krishnamurthy (Mumbai), Devansh Gupta (Chd).