Chess champs Kush Bhagat, Anugraha Jaisingh and Suhaani Lohia

Candidate Master Kush Bhagat of Mumbai added another feather to his hat, by winning the gold medal in the boys' U-9 category of the recently concluded 7th All India National Schools chess championship at Bhubaneswar's KIIT campus. The American School of Bombay student and a trainee at the South Mumbai Chess Academy (SMCA) competed against senior players and scored 7.5 points in the nine-round format to lift his maiden U-9 National schools title.