Meanwhile, the race for the top honours in the boys under-9 section hots up as experienced Subodh Lakhe and Ninad Sancheti share the leaderboard with seven points from eight rounds.
Important Results
Boys U-7 (Rd 8th): Archit Mokashi (7) lost to Ajinkya Karan Rajas (6.5); Abhishek Kelkar (6.5) bt Abdulla Nadeem (5.5); Parag Kelkar (6) bt Shainesh Aher (5); Dhanvir Metha (6) bt Sudarshan Lamture (5).
Girls U-7 (Rd 6th): Chaitra Wable (2.5) lost to Devangi Patankar (6); Siddhali Shetye (5) bt Gauri Chavan (3.5); Madhura Salunke (3.5) bt Anuja Borkas (3).
Boys U-9 (Rd 8): Aashish Gandhi (5) lost to Subodh Lakhe (7); Nanad Sancheti (7) bt Gaurav Konde (5); Sameer Mujumdar (5.5) drew with Chinmay Kulkarni (5); Salil Nitsure (5) drew with Akshay Bhor (5.5); Anuj Tiwari (4.5) lost to Meghan Gupte (5.5).
Girls U-9 (Rd 6): Shreyasi Parkhi (5) bt Mrunmai Bhagwat (4); Girija Kadlaskar (3.5) lost to Mohita Agarwal (5); Shruti Ratnakar (3) lost to Sayali Phadke (4).