sports reporterin the two rounds played on opening day of the gh raisoni chess festival consisting of classical, rapid and blitz fide rating chess tournaments, the seeded players sailed through to the third round with full scores. on the
vedant srivastava of thane in open group and bhumika waghale of aurangabad in girls group have taken lead after five rounds with full five point to their credit in the maharashtra state under-9 open and girls selection chess championship being organised by chess association nagpur in association with the gh raisoni sports and cultural foundation and kalpana prakash welfare foundation at gh raisoni institute of engineering and technology, shraddha park.