Chennai’s Velammal Matriculation Higher Secondary School bagged the lion’s share of medals in the 1st National School Chess Championship held at the Ludlow Castle Sports Complex in the capital.
Velammal made a clean sweep in the Under-17 and Under-15 team championships and topped the Under-13 and Under-9 categories.
In the individual championship also most of the medals were bagged by the Velammal students.
In all, over 600 school children participated in the 14 various individual categories ranging from U-5 to U-17.
Host city Delhi had something to cheer about in the Under-5 category where Garv Rai of Modern School, Vasant Vihar, won the gold medal.
Amongst other aspirants from the city, Nishant Malhotra of Bal Bharti School, Dwarka, took silver in the Under-17 open category, as did Manan Rai of Amity International School secured the same medal in the Under-13 section, Sarthak Mahajan (Under-15) and Aansh Gupta (Under-11).
Manpreet Singh, Harshal Shahi, Aarchi Agarwal and Abir Sinha won bronze medals in their respective categories.