NAGPUR: Vedika Pal kept the Nagpur flag flying high at the national level chess championship which concluded in Bhubaneswar, Odisha. Of the 36 medals on offer in the 10th National School Chess Championship, the nine-year-old Vedika became the only city master to register a podium finish.
In the U-9 girls' group, the fifth seed clinched a bronze medal to confirm her place in the Indian team for the forthcoming Asian school chess championship.