Mumbai's young chess players Aditya Patil and Vedant Karthik, won a silver and bronze medal respectively at the recently-concluded 36th Singapore Chess Championship at Expo Centre Changi in Singapore.

Aditya, a student of Dhirubai Ambani School and a former Asian Schools Games medallist, played with great maturity in the U-9 category to win second spot. The gold went to Yea Hao Loong of Malaysia. Both Aditya and Yea Hao Loong finished their campaigns with 6.5 points each from eight games.