The other two contenders for the title, TS Ravi of Indian Oil and P Mitrakanth settled for a 14-move draw. Vishweshwaran seemed to have a good position after Chanda played the Sicilian Scheviniengen variation. But the man from Tamil Nadu traded his rook and a pawn for Chanda's queen. That seemed to tilt the scales in favour of Chanda who squeezed out the fight from Vishweshwaran by constantly pressuring the queen. In the end game, Chanda had a rook, two bishops and a knight for Vishweshwaran's queen, a bishop and knight. He resigned after 40 moves.

It was the first title for the ninth standard student of Better School, Calcutta. He had won the national titles in the under-10 category in 1993 at Pallakad, Kerala and the under-14 crown in 97 in TamilNadu. He was richer by Rs 21,000.

Another youngster impressing with her performance was Swati Ghate. She scored 7.5 points and today held International Master Sharad Tilak to a draw. This comes close on the heels of her two victories in the last two rounds. Swati won the women's prize of Rs 3,000.

Soundarajan Kidambi, who also finished with 7.5 points like Ghate, takes home the best junior prize and with it Rs 3,000.

RESULTS

TS Ravi 8.5 drew with P Mitrakanth 8.5; K Vishweshwaran 8 lost to Sandipan Chanda 9; Roktim Bandopadhyay 8 drew with GB Prakash 8; Pankaj Joshi 8 drew with N Sudhakar Babu 8; Arun Vaidya 7.5 drew with Arun Vaidya 7.5; Jayant Gokhale 7.5 drew with Sacchidanand Soman 7.5; Swati Ghate 7.5 drew with Sharad Tilak 7.5; Enamul Hussain 8 bt Shakwat Hussain Pall 7; Avinash Awate 7 lost to Gurpreet Pal Singh 8; S Ganeshan 7 drew with Nasir Wajih 7; Atanu Lahiri 7.5 bt Prathamesh Mokal 6.5; C Natarajan 6.5 lost to Soundarajan Kidambi 7.5; Deepanjan Das 7 drew with Manthan Choksi 7;Rahul Shetty 6.5 drew with Arif Ali 6.5; Ali Amjad 6 lost to N Sanjay 7; Ebenezer Joseph 6 lost to Amitkumar Medda 7; Shantanu Lahiri 6.5 drew with R Madhusoodan 6.5; Saheli Dhar 6.5 drew with Saptarshi Roy Choudhary 6.5.