Karnav Rastogi of RN Podar School and Kartikey Kumar of Trinity International School won the boys  U-16 and U-8 titles in the MSSA inter-school chess tournament at St Sebastian High School (Chembur) on Saturday. Karnav got the better of Ridhan Bhandari of Arya Vidya Mandir in the final round. “The game started with the Italian opening and then somehow I was threatening squares like D4 and D5. I was expecting my opponent to play D4 at some point but the D4 move never came and I used it to my advantage with D5.

Kartikey Kumar